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literary intelligence.

We can promise the public another
evidence of the rapid improvement
in elegant typography in this coun-
try, from Mr. Bradford's edition of
“the Letters of Junius, with Notes
and Illustrations, Historical, Politi-
cal, Biographical, and Critical, by
Robert Heron, Esq.” He purpo-
ses making it equal in all respects
to the London edition, and promis-
es to publish it in January.

Mr. Samuel Lewis has drafted a
Map of Louisiana from Spanish
and French Maps, and compared
with the account of that country,
laid before congress by the Presi-
dent: it is now in the hands of the
engraver, and will be publised by
Conrad, & Co. in February.

Messrs. Birch and Small have
published the fourth volume of the
Domestic Encyclopædia, with addi-
tions by Dr. Mease. The same
gentlemen have issued proposals for
an edition of Gibbon's History of
the decline and fall of the Roman
Empire, which, if they print with
the same neatness and accuracy as
they have Rusell's Ancient and
Modern History, and Willich's
Encyclopædia, will doubtless meet
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magnitude of the underdertaking
deserves.

Mr. Woodward has published,
Burden's Village Sermons, of fifty-
two plain and short discourses on
the principal doctrines of the Gos-
pel; and William's new translation
and commentaries on the Songs of
Solomon.

Conrad & Co. have printed and
published, an elegant edition of
Don Quixote, Smollett's translation,
with plates, by Lawson, Tanner,
and Seymour, from drawings by
Stothart.

Pinkerton's Geography will be
published in March next.

Mr. Cary has announced the ac-
complishment of his attempt to
keep the Quarto Bible standing,
and offers for sale eighteen different
priced Quarto Bibles. He says,
“he trusts it will be borne in mind,
and operate in his favour, that his
is the first attempt that has ever
been made to keep the Quarto Bible
complete standing. The paper,
type, printing, engravings, and
binding, are all American, and af-
ford a comfortable support to a
large number of artists, in the dif-
ferent branches connected with
this business. Without any vain
boast of his own manufacture, he
invites a fair comparison with the
productions of European competi-
tors, and no longer hopes for patron-
age than he shall be found to merit
a continuance of what has been so
liberally afforded him.”

Dr. Barton is preparing for the
press, a second part of his collec-
tions for an essay towards a Mate-
ria Medica of the United States.

The first volume of the Life of
General Washington, is in the
press.

Conrad, & Co. will complete
their edition of “Select British Clas-
sics,” in all the month of January;
we are informed it is their intention
to publish the Prefaces, Historical
and Biographical, by Alexander
Chalmers, A. M. in two or three
supplementary volumes.

Arrangements are making for
the publishing an elegant edition of

Poems, by Peter Bayley, jun. Esq.
These poems have been read by the
editor, who ranks them at least as
high, in poetical merit, as the Plea-
sures of Memory, or the Pleasures
of Hope, by Rogers and Campbell.

We are informed that a Narra-
tive Poem, built upon the early suf-
ferings of the Christians, and in-
tended to illustrate the influence of
Christianity on the manners of na-
tions, may shortly be expected from
a pen, with which the public are
already acquainted.

The Rev. Mr. Miller, one of
the Ministers of the Presbyterian
Church, in the city of New York,
has been for some time past en-
gaged in writing a Review of the
Progress of Literature, of Art and
Science, &c. during the last century.
We are happy to hear that he has
nearly brought his labours to a
close, and that in the course of two
months we may expect to receive
from his hand, two large octavo
volumes, full of the most useful and
interesting information.

The London prints mention, that
Hayley is adding to his Biography
of Cowper, a third volume, con-
taining Letters of that great and
amiable Poet, which have not, hi-
therto, been published.

Holcroft's Travels in France, are
published in the most splendid stile.