tius, in four octavo volumes, is || dium of the whole of the system of printing at Glasgow, with the ad- war of the ancient Greeks, accorddition of a table of the various read-ing to Elian; with the notes of ings of five ancient editions, in the library of Earl Spencer, including the editio princeps of Ferrandus; also the marginal annotations of Bentley, as they exist in MS. in his copy of Lucretius, now in the British Museum. Bingham, corrected and revised, and other supplementary notes and criticisms; illustrated with a variety of plates: to which is prefixed, an Essay upon the Decay of Political Institutions. Mr. John Mawe, author of TraMr. Brown, schoolmaster at Sur-vels through the Diamond and fleet, near Spalding, will shortly Gold District of Brazil, will shortly publish a second part of his Arith-publish, in an octavo volume, a metical Questions, for the use of vil- Treatise on Diamonds and Precious lage schools. Sir Robert Ker Porter is preparing a Narrative of the last Campaign in Russia, with plans, &c. of the general movements of both armies during their advance and retreat. Stones, including their history, and some account of the best modes of cutting and polishing them. Speedily will be published, The Life of the Author of the Letters of Junius. The niece of the late Rev. James Wilmot, D.D. and Fellow Trinity College, Oxford, announces that she has in her possession certain manuscripts, which incontestibly prove, that the Letters of Junius were written by Dr, Wil A historical View of the Philip-of pine Islands, translated from the Spanish of Martinez de Zuniga, by John Mavor, jun. merchant, will shortly appear in two octavo volumes, with appropriate maps. Sir Wm. Betham, Deputy Usher King of Arms, and W. M. Mason, Esq. are preparing a Historical and Topographical History of Ireland, with the lives of eminent persons, and genealogies of the most considerable families. mot. Mr. Belfour intends to publish, early in the next month, an edition of Ray's Collection of English Pro|| verbs, with such alterations as, it is presumed, will render the book more acceptable to general readers. Dr. Montucci is persevering in A new edition, with considerable his engagements, in Prussia, notadditions, of Mr. Robert Wood-withstanding the war, and expects house's Trigonometry is printing at the Cambridge university press. Mr. Henry Alexander, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, will shortly publish, a Comparative View of the different Modes of Operating for Cataract. to complete his Chinese Dictionary, in the summer of 1815. He has engraved 24,000 characters, and proceeded as far as letter K, in the course of five years. The Rev. John Homfray proposes to publish, by subscription, a new The Hon. Colonel Dillon's edi-edition of Willis's History of the tion of Elian is in the press, and Mitred and Parliamentary At will be soon published, under the bies, and Conventual and Cathedral title of Tactica, being a compenChurches. No, LV. Vol. X. F Capt. Laskey has at press, a Sci- ||-the library of the late Right Hon. Lord Heathfield;-the splendid library of the late Sir Charles Talbot, Bart. of Chart Park, Surrey; and likewise his fine cabinet of minerals and fossils;-also a very choice and select collection of books on botany, imported from Holland, containing all the scarce and valuable publications on that subject. entific Description of the Rarities in that magnificent Collection, the Hunterian Museum, now deposited in the college of Glasgow. It is intended to comprise the rare, curious, and valuable articles in every department of art, science, and literature, contained in that great repository. This work is expected to appear early in July. Mrs. Opie will speedily publish, in three duodecimo volumes, Tales for all Classes. It is well known that the vapours of oxigenated muriatic gas have been employed to correct the bad air of hospitals and other infecti Miss Hutton has nearly ready for publication, The Miser Mar-ous places: but this remedy often ried, a novel, in three volumes. A self-taught rustic poet, in the neighbourhood of Spalding, is printing a collection of original verses, under the title of Rural Rhymes. The Rev. Dr. Cox, master of Gainsborough school, has in the press, The Wanderings of Woe, a pcem. acts prejudicially on patients who are suffering under catarrhal complaints, as it irritates the membranes of the bronchiæ. A French apothecary has lately made known, what he thinks a mode of employing this acid superior to that generally practised. His manner is, to prepare the oxigenated muriatic acid in a liquid state, by means already well known. A slight pressure is sufficient to enable water to as much charge itself with this gas Mr. Brewster, author of The Meditations of a Recluse, has in the press, Meditations for Penitents, and for those engaged in the import-as is convenient. To reduce this ant Duty of Self-Examination. A Course of Sermons, for every Sunday in the Year, is preparing for publication, and the first volume is now in the press. practice, weaken the gas with a sufficient quantity of water; and sprinkle the room by means of a watering-pot, which gives out only a thin stream of drops of the fluid. The warmth of the apartment speedily converts the sprink ries with it that portion of oxigenated muriatic acid which it holds. in solution; and in this form its action is so mild, as to induce patients themselves to desire it. Cer • Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby will submit the following libraries for public sale during the present sea-led drops into vapour, which carson:-The law library of the late James Chetham, Esq.;-The very extensive miscellaneous and law library of the late John Sidney, Esq. of Hunton, Kent;-the very valuable library of the late Rev.tainly this mode of administration Isaac Gossett, D. D. F. R. S. ;—the allows the free use of judgment as valuable library of William White, to the quantity and power proper Esq. of Highbury-place, Islington; " to each and every part of the room; been involved and rolled together? Strange it is, that a substance, apparently a stone, should be susceptible of softness, suppleness, pliaucy, of being drawn out and woven into cloth, or made into papercloth equally fine and strong as the texture of linen or silk, but, proof against damage and destruction by fire. Mr. Hofinan, optician at Leip-. sic, has constructed thermometers, the scale of which is marked on slate, instead of being marked on glass, as usual. He finds them less affected by the extremes of the. less in one place, more in another. It also offers an absolute command of the strength of the ingredients, according to the indications of time and place, of weather, diseases, &c. Madame Perpenti, of Como, in Italy, has lately directed her efforts to the manufacture of asbestos. Soe first separated the mineral into thread, as fine as she could accomplish, then beat it, soaked it alternately in oil and water; at length she succeeded in giving the thread a considerable degree of suppleness. The oil, however, relaxed the fibre too much; and she found that repeated soaking in water suf-seasons: the colour of the material ficiently answered the purpose. Still the staple was short; and when carded, it was fecble and unequal: it was unsuitable to spinning or weaving; but by means of gum, it was capable of being formed into paper. This amianthus was obtained from the Valteline. In the course of her experiments, Madame Perpenti remarked, that certain threads serves as a ground colour of blackish blue, by which the glass is relieved, and the state of the mercury, with its variations, more accurately distinguished. The material has the advantage of being cheap and durable. Some of our readers may profit by the hint. MUSICAL REVIEW. Vol. I. No. IV. IT is with real pleasure we introduce to our readers the 4th number, of this unrivalled work, the plan of which has been sufficiently de-. tailed in a recent critique of our's, to enable us to confine our present observations to a brief sketch of the contents of the portion now before us. In this number, Mr. L. introduces the major and minor contained in the mass were much Lanza's ELEMENTS OF SINGING, longer than the mass itself. By patience and address, she continued to separate these without breaking them. She drew out threads of extreme thinness and beauty, fit for the most delicate works; equal in fineness to silk, and several feet in length. They appeared to be agglomerated in a single mass, not unlike the web of the silk-worm in the cocoon. This particularity will induce the naturalist to wish for fur-scale, and then proceeds to the solther intelligence of the origin of this singular substance. What have these threads been different from the mass in which they are imbedded? What were those operations of nature, by which they have feggios of the leaps or distances, in the regular succession of thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths, and octaves: all these vocal exercises are supported by very select accompaniments. The important chapter of embellishments, including appoggiaturas, graces, turns, and shakes, is treated copiously, and with great clearness. Indeed, as far as the work extends, system, precision, and perspicuity form a leading feature in it; and we are confident, if (what we make no doubt will be the case) the author proceeds in his labour in the manner in which he has set out, the success of his Elements of Singing will not beconfined to England alone, since, with the necessary adaptation, the be the best Robin Adair of the many she had seen. "Why, my Delia, will you languish," Mozart's favourite Duetto in Clemenza di Tito, arranged for one Voice, by Joseph de Michele, of Doncaster. Pr. 1s. 6d. The same, for two or three Voices, by Ditto. Pr. 2s. "Say, would you use that very pow'r," Mozart's favourite Duo, "Deh prendi," adapted for one l'oice, by Ditto. Pr. 1s. work may be rendered eminently The same, for two or three Voices, by Ditto. Pr. 1s. 6d. Round Love's Elysian Bowers,' arranged from Mozart, by Ditto. Pr. Is. 6d. The same, for two Voices, by Ditto. Pr. 2s. Mr. De Michele's idea to adapt English words to Mozart's music, and to arrange the same air for one, as well as for more voices, is praise useful to foreign students. The celebrated Melody of Robin Adair, arranged for the PianoForte, as a Rondo, and respect-" fully dedicated to Miss Susan Martin, by T. Howell. Pr. 2s. 6d. The author has not made out any strong title in justification of his adding to the innumerable Robin Adairs with which the musical market is already overstocked. In the different ideas which are put together without sufficient connec-worthy. The works of such a master tion, we discover very little of the characteristics of a rondo. The maggiore, p, 5, l. 2, closes without cadence; in the minore we find nothing above the standard of common-place formulas. The alle gretto, alla polacca, ought, as a fresh movement, not to set out with a derivation of the chord of the seventh (D, 5 b, 6 b); and descents like p. 7, bars 6, 7, 8, and again, bars 23, 24, are entitled to any thing but commendation. Yet, with all these objections against this publication, such is the strange diversity of taste, an accomplished lady, who executed it admirably in our presence, declared this to cannot be too much multiplied, and we sincerely wish the plan may be continued. The three airs before us are easy, both for the voice and the instrument. Mr. De Michele's accompaniments we could have wished somewhat less plain, and less deviating from the richness of Mozart's score; but, on considering that what we miss, may be a recommendation with the major portion of vocal amateurs, to whom this very simplicity renders the publication more accessible, we wave our objection the more readily, as, upon the whole, the general effect of the harmony is faithfully preserved. The English texts, first-rate poetical genius, are respectable, and tally very well with the melodies; the addition of a second stanza to each would have been desirable. although not the production of a || ceived in a good taste, and devised fancifully and with considerable skill. The second part of var. 2, in which the right hand has two parts, is very clever. Var. 5, with crossed hands, has likewise our entire approbation; and the running bass of the 6th var. is, upon the "Emily's Bower," a Ballad, dedicated to Lady Lismore; the words by H. Bryson, S. T. C. D. the Mu-whole, commendable, although the sic by Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc. Pr. 1s. 6d. progress of the left-hand passages has, in one or two instances, given Dr. Cooke's beautiful Glee for four Voices, entitled an Epitaph on a Dormouse, adapted in a new Manner, invented to accommodate Singers unacquainted with the Tenor Cliff; to which is prefixed an Explanation of the Invention introduced by a few Strictures on the present System of Musical Education, by T. D. Worgan, Professor of Music. Pr. 2s. Barring our objection to the im-rise to objectionable successions. perfect resolution occurring in the third bar of the symphony, this little air is very pleasing. The melody is simply tasteful, and the accompaniment neat and effective. A Duet from the celebrated Danish Opera, Hiemcomstem, or "Welcome Home," arranged for two Performers on the Piano-Forte, and respectfully inscribed to Miss Kortright and Miss Maria Kortright, by J. W. Holder, Mus. Bac. Oxon. Pr. 2s. 6d. This is a very agreeable little duet; the composition is of the superior order, the different ideas are select and melodious, and the arrangement does Mr. Holder much credit. As both parts are very easy, we recommend it strenuously to beginners. If we are not mistaken, the piece is not originally of Danish growth; but is taken from a French opera, L'Opéra Comique, by Della Maria, a young man, whose few compositions prove the great loss music has sustained by his early death. The favourite Welch Air of " Nos These variations deserve the epishet of respectable; they are con Mr. W.'s contrivance may be briefly explained as follows:-Instead of the tenor cliff, he adopts a mixed cliff, of the treble (G) cliff and bass (F) cliff, both generally known. This new cliff is indicated by a new sign, made up of the signs of the two substitutary cliffs, and all that is to be observed, are the stems of the notes: when they go upwards, the sound corresponds with the treble cliff-when downwards, with the bass cliff; and of the semibreves and breves which have no stem, the former are represented by two bound ininims, and the latter by two bound semibreves; observing in the last case, that when the tie is above the note, its sound is that of the same note in the treble cliff-when below, it is considered as a bass note. The sole inconvenience, viz. that of |