followed by crowned heads and persons of high rank throughout Europe. Dr. SPURZHEIM, the colleague of Dr. GALL in his Lectures on Craniology, is now in London, and about to commence a course of Lectures on that novel subject. He purposes also to publish, a View of the Doctrines of Gall; and to illustrate the work with numerous en gravings, made from drawings of the skulls of criminals, and others in Germany and France. The subject merits notice, but its deductions appear to us to have been made with those over-sanguine feelings that usually characterize new discoveries. Dr. S. is an Austrian, and enjoys considerable reputation at Vienna as a man of learning and science. The Personal Travels of M. DE HUMBOLDT to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the years 17991804; with a Picturesque Atlas, Maps, Plans, &c. translated into English by Helen Maria Williams, will appear in few weeks. a LORD LAUDERDALE is preparing a pamphlet on the Corn Laws; a subject which no person is qualified to treat with greater ability. Early in April will be published, the Travels to the Source of the Missouri River, and across the American Contiment, to the Pacific Ocean, performed by order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806, by Captains Lewis and Clarke, They departed from St. Louis on the Mississippi, in May 1804, and ascended the Missouri, by computation 3843 miles, by July 1805. They then proceeded on horseback across the range of mountains which separates the castern and western waters, sixty miles of their journey being over snow. In September they embarked on a river running to the westward, and in November reached the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the great river Columbia. They began their return in March 1806, and arrived at St. Louis in November following, having thus, in the course of little more than two years, completed a Jaborious and important expedition of 3000 miles. Mr. J. H. MERIVALE has in the press, Orlando in Roncesvalles, a poem, with wood-cut vignettes. An annual Oration has been instituted for the 14th of every February, at the Royal College of Surgeons, commemorative of the character and pursuits of the late JouN HUNTER. Dr. Baillie, and Sir E. Home, have each contributed 500l. towards its support. The first Oration was delivered by Sir E. HOME. * Early in the present month a meeting took place at the London Tavern of many of those benevolent persons whose plans and exertions in the cause of bu manity, for many years past, have tended to remove from the nation part of the disgrace of twenty years offensive war, which has cost six millions of lives, and covered the world with desolation and mourning. The object of the meeting was to effect a reform or change in the treatment of INSANITY. Hitherto the insane have been subject to a severe and harsh treatment; and the strong principle of FEAR, sternly and indiscriminately applied, has been almost the only means adopted of correcting the wanderings of reason, or the diseased ebullitions of passion. It has, however, been ascertained by an experiment made in a lunatic asylum called the RETREAT, at York, that better effects have resulted from a system, the prevailing feature of which is kindness, and even certain de grees of indulgence: and a laudable desire to extend the same system to the metropolis, led to this meeting at the Lon don Tavern. The institution there proposed, and the design of which was zealously adopted by the meeting, is intended to be founded near London, for the accommodation of 400 patients of every class, upon terms suited to the poor as well as to the rich. A space of not less than forty acres is to be allotted to the building, for garden ground and other purposes, either of pleasure or profit. Ts expences to be defrayed by a subscription of 1000 shareholders at 1001. each It was stated at the meeting, that an intelligent physician estimates the number of insane persons, in and near London, at 6000; and that nearly half the number of patients admitted into the hospitals are every year dismissed as incurable. In the RETREAT, at YORK, where the mild treatment has been acted upon for many years, the ratio is 16 out of 82, old or hopeless cases, which have been discharged cured; in St. Luke's but 18 out of 323; and in Bethlem but 1 out of 78. These facts are unerring proofs of the public duty of supporting the new system. Mr. ADOLPHUS's long-announced Political State of the British Empire, will consist of a General View of the Do * We propose to give a full account of this establishment in our next. mestie 30 1814.] Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. mestic and Foreign Possessions of the The Culloden Papers will consist of As a compliment due to a life which has been devoted to the cause of science, the trustees of the British Museum have placed a bronze bust of SIR JOSEPH BANKS on the great stair-case of that noble building. The bust is the entire work of the HON. MRS. DAMER, and does credit to her acknowledged talents in this important branch of art. It was presented by her to the Museum, and the conspicuous disposition of it is creditable to all the parties. MR. ARTHUR CLIFFORD, Editor of Sadler's State Papers, and of the Tixall Poetry, has in the press a new work, en titled, Tixall Letters, or the Correspondence of the Aston Family and their Friends during the 17th Century. This work, which will form two volumes, will appear early in June. LORD THURLOW is preparing for publication, the Doge's Daughter, a Poem, in two cantos, with several translations of Anacreon and Horace. A work of considerable interest is announced, in royal octavo, under the title of Archaica; which is to contain a reprint of scarce old English Tracts, with Prefaces and Notes, Critical and Biographical. Great care will be exercised in the selection of these Tracts, which will be chosen out of such as illustrate the character of our ancient literature; the manners and customs of the times, and the taste of the people at the period of their publication; of such as are frequently referred to by historians and critics. Among these are many of the Tracts of Robert Greene, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Nash, John Lilly, and Nicholas Breton. MONTHLY MAG. No. 253. 253 Mere pamphlets of a temporary or local nature, only remarkable for their scarcity, will not have a place in the collection. The first Tract proposed to be printed is Robert Greene's Philomela; or Lady Fitzwater's Nightingale; an interesting prototype of our modern novels. is Another work of analogous character announced under the title of Heliconia; containing a reprint of the most scarce and curious of our old English Poetry, first published in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; with Notes, Biographical and Illustrative, by Thomas Park, F.S.A. and other gentlemen conversant in that branch of literature. It will be handsomely printed in royal quarto. The following rare works are in forwardness for the Heliconia. 1. A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions, garnished and decked with divers dayntie devises, right, delicate, and delightfull, to recreate eche modest minde withall. 2. A Handefull of Pleasant Delites, containing sundrie new sonets and delectable histories in divers kindes of meeter: newly devised to the newest tunes, &c. by Clement Robinson and others, 1584. most rare and refined Workes of Noblemen, 3. The Phoenix Nest, built up with the woorthy Knightes, gallant Gentlemen, Masters of Arts, and brave Schollars. 4. England's Parnassus; or the choycest, flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisous: descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groves, seas, springs, rivers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasant and profitable. Imprinted at London for N. L. C. B. and T. H. 1600. Muses. Imprinted at London, by F.K. 5. Belvedere, or the Garden of the for Hugh Astley, dwelling at Saint Magnus Corner, 1600. 6. The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinall. Divided into three parts: his Aspiring, Triumph, and Death. By Thomas Storer, student of Christ Church in Oxford. At London, printed by Thomas Dawson, 1599. The impression of the Archaica and Heliconia is to be limited to two hundred copies. VISCOUNT DILLON has in the press a 4to. volume, entitled, Tactica; being the System of War of the Grecians, according to Elian, with the notes of commentators, explanatory plates, and a preliminary discourse. Mr. NICHOLS's Continuation of his Li terary Anecdotes, to the year 1800, from the very numerous additions with which 2 L he he has been favoured by various corre spondents, will extend to two volumes: one of which will appear early in May. It appears, by a statement in the Apothecaries' Repository, that Moon, the maniac, said to be cured at Sion Vale, is now an outrageous maniac in a madhouse at Devizes. He describes his treatment as consisting, in one day having a stream of cold water poured on bis head, while his body was immersed in hot water; and on the next day reversing the heat of the fluids. A work is announced, by subscription, entitled Roman Costume, from the latter period of the Republic to the close of the Empire in the East; by a Graduate of the University of Oxford, and F.S.A. The valuable discovery of Paintings and Bronzes, by the excavations at Herculaneum, afford authentic originals for the dress at the beginning of the Empire. The Column of Trajan presents many specimens in the commencement of the following century, as does that of Antonine for the middle of it. The Arch of Severus begins the succeeding one; that of Constantine the next; and the Column of Theodosius the middle of the following one. Other pieces of sculpture, dyptics, and coins, fill up the intermediate times, and extend it to the end of the Empire of the West. That assiduous collector, Du Cange, and others, lend their able assistance towards the pursuit of Costume in the Eastern Empire; and its latter periods have survived the rayages of time in illuminations on vellum, illustrating the literary productions of the age. The correct colours of the Roman dress are to be found, not only by a reference to the notices of their authors, but in the Herculaneum paintings, tessellated pavements, and Greek manuscripts. The first volume is in the press of the History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, containing the Hundreds of Cashio and Dacorum, compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories, by ROBERT CLUTTERBUCK, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A. It will be embellished with views of antiquities, &c. The REV. THOS. DUDLEY FOSBROOKE, M.A. F.A.S. Author of British Monachism, proposes to publish a cheap Explanatory Commentary on the New Testament, price only half.a-crown; comTM plete, though concise, from Whitby, Ham mond, and other writers; compiled for general circulation, introduction into schools, and gratuitous distribution. The governor and directors of Greenwich Hospital have recently ordered certain trials to be made of the improvements made by Mr. ADAMS, the Exeter oculist, in treating the various species of cataract and the Egyptian ophthalmia. It appears from the report of the medical officers of the establishment, and a personal examination by the directors of the patients who were placed under the care of Mr. Adams, that his modes of treatment have been invariably attended with most complete success. The proportion of eyes totally destroyed by the former modes of operating, appear to have been in the proportion of one half; whereas, in thirty-one eyes operated upon by Mr. Adams, there was only one case of failure, A Description of the Collection of Antient Marbles in the British Museum, with engravings, is prlating in 4to. In our last Number we gave place to report founded on respectable authority, stating that the Courier and Statesman Newspapers were to be disposed of, and we accompanied that report with some observations tending to prove the advantage which a ministerial journal pos sesses over an independent one. . We have, however, authority now to state, that there was no truth in the report as far as regarded the Statesman, the proprie tor of which journal is still persevering in the same political career that has always marked his conduct. MATTHEW MONTAGU, Esq. is preparing a third portion, or volumes V. and VI. of the Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Monta❤ gu, and some of her correspondents. Mr. JOHN CRAIG will speedily publish, the Elements of Political Science, in three octavo volumés. Dr. W. BURNEY, of Gosport, an nounces an improved edition of Fal coner's Universal Dictionary of the Marine. It is to be illustrated with a variety of Modern Designs of Shipping, together with separate Views of their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging; and followed by a Vocabulary of the French Sea Terms and Phrases, collected from the works of French writers. The Rev. Mr. KETT, author of the Elements of General Knowledge, &c. has in the press, a work to be entitled "The Flowers of Wit," or a select collection of Bon Mots, with Biographical and 1814.] Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. and Critical Remarks; to which are DR. BENJAMIN HEYNE, who has been for several years in the confidential service of the East India Company, is about to publish a work, entitled, Tracts Statistical and Historical on India. The author's situation enabled him to examine many sources of information from which he would otherwise have been excluded. MR. JOHN DUNLOP has completed the History of Fiction, in 3 vols. being a critical account and analysis of the most celebrated prose works of fiction, from the earliest Greek romances to the novels of the present age. On the 2d of April will appear, Historical Sketches of Politics and Public Men for the Year 1813-14. DR. HENRY HERBERT SOUTHEY has nearly ready for publication, a volume of Observations on Pulmonary Consumption. Mrs. GRANT, author of The Highlanders and other poems, is printing, Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a poem, in two parts. Mr. SAUREY is preparing for publica tion, the Morbid Anatomy of the Brain in Mania and Hydrophobia; with the Pathology of the two Diseases, and Expe riments to ascertain the presence of Wa ter in the Ventricles and Pericardium; collected from the papers of the late Dr. Andrew Marshall, lecturer on Anatomy, with a biographical sketch of his life. Speedily will be published, in 3 vols. 8vo. specimens of the Classic Poets, in a chronological series from Homer to Tryphiodorus, translated into English verse, and illustrated with biographical and critical notices, by CHARLES ABRAHAM ELTON, Esq. Author of a Translation of Hesiod. The Rev. JOHN FREDERICK USKO, Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Konigsberg, and Rector of Orsett, Essex, has advertised his intention to publish, by subscription, a Grammar of the Arabic Language, accompanied by a Praxis of the First Three Chapters of Genesis; with an Analysis of the Words, and a Vocabulary, in which the primary signification of each word is investigated and compared with 255 the Hebrew. It is designed for the use MAJOR LANDMANN'S Historical, Mili- Mr. WILLIAM BERRY, late of the College of Arms, London, proposes to publish the History of the Island of Guernsey, (part of the Ancient Duchy of Normandy,) from the remotest period of Antiquity to the Year 1813. It will be illustrated with thirty plates, and will be printed in quarto, containing an ac count of the Island, its Government, Privileges, Customs, &c. with particulars of the neighbouring Islands; compiled from the Manuscripts of the late Henry Budd, esq. In the course of the spring will be published, Researches into the History and Invention of Playing Cards, with Incidental Illustrations of Ancient Man ners, and of the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood; embellished with eighteen engravings, among which will be fac-similes of Ancient Cards. A new edition is printing, in six volumes octavo, of Burnet's History of the Reformation. Mr. GOUGH, of Manchester, says, that he kept a monthly account of the temperature of a well, for the years 1795 and 1798, the perpendicular depth of which was 20 feet; and the annual variation of its temperature fell a little short of 4°. But he says, the temperature of the ground, at the depth of 20 feet, is at the highest in October, when a thermometer exposed to the atmosphere makes the monthly mean coincide with that of the year on the contrary, the subterra nean temperature does not arrive at a minimum before the end of March; which is three months later than the coldest weather above-ground. Mr. OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST is preparing for the press, a Selection of Old Plays, to be published in fifteen octavo volumes, with Biographical Notices and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. This work, founded on Dodsley's Old Plays, as edited by Mr. Isaac Reed, will be enriched by the accession of a very valuable collection which has been forming during the last fifteen years, with a view to this particular purpose. In this collection there are many Dramas, perfect ly unique and interesting, equally from their extreme rarity and literary merit. A careful collation of the various editions, where they exist, will be scrupu lously resorted to, in order that the necessary illustration may not be unaccompanied by that which is by far the most important object-namely, a correct Text. A novel will shortly appear, entitled, The Vista, or Faint Glimpses of Men and Manners, from the pen of ALBANY HA-> MILTON, Esq. Letters from Edinburgh are in the press, containing a detailed account of the present state of society and manners in the northern metropolis, sketches of eminent living characters, &c. MR. STEVENSON, surgeon-oculist, has in the press, nearly ready for publication, a greatly enlarged edition of his Treatise on Cataract, containing, besides many new practical remarks, some important pathological observations, hitherto unno ticed in the science of optics. The REV. INGRAM COBBIN has select ed and translated select discourses from the most eminent French divines, with biographical notices of the authors, which he proposes to publish under the title of The French Preacher. MR. VERRAL, Author of "The Pleasures of Possession," is on the point of publishing a volume of Poems, including a tragedy and another dramatic piece, both of which have been rejected by the theatres. On the 1st of May will be published, Part I. (to be completed in four parts), the Principles of Practical Perspective, or Scenographic Projection; containing various roles for delineating designs on plane surfaces, and taking views from na ture, by the most easy and simple methods; by RICHARD BROWN, Architect and Drawing-Master. MR. BUSBY, Architect, is preparing for the press, a Succinct Statement of the important Advantages of his Practice of preparing Models for intended Buildings, in preference to Plans, Elevations, and Sections. The thirty-fifth number of the Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries, will be published on the 1st of May. Dr. BURNETT, late physician to the Mediterranean fleet, has in the press, an Account of the Mediterranean Fever, and the History of Fever from 1810 to 1813, and of the Gibraltar and Cartha gena Fevers. Mrs. M. A. SELLON is about to publish a poem, entitled, Individuality, or the Causes of Reciprocal Misapprehension. MISS ISABELLA LICK BARROW, of Kendal, announces, by subscription, a volume of Poetical Effusions. Dr. BADHAM, physician to the Duke of Sussex, is preparing an Essay on those Diseases of the Chest which have their seat in the Mucous Membrane, Larynx, or Bronchiæ. A collection is announced of Pieces of Ancient Poetry, from unpublished MSS. and scarce Books. Among other poems here collected will be found some very singular old Ballads, including one on the Death of Sir Thomas Overbury. FRANCE. Count RUMFORD, who, as a philosopher and friend of man, rises on a par with his illustrious countryman Franklin, has lately been engaged in a new series of experiments, on the draft of carriages with broad and narrow wheels. It is commonly considered that broad wheels, by presenting a greater surface of friction, require a greater draft; but among other applications of philosophy to common life, during the French revolution, it was ordered that all loaded carriages on the roads of France should have road wheels. The consequence is, that the roads of France are now the best in the world; and it is found that as they are never cut up by narrow wheels, so broad wheels require less draft than narrow ones, and are now preferred all over France, by carriers of every de-. scription, as less liable to wear out, and as requiring but one fourth of the num beg |