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LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

BOOKS IN THI PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.

Part I. of a Catalogue Raisount of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Fle-

mish, and French Painters. By John Smith, picture-dealer, Great Marlborough-street. A second edition of Mr. Derwent Conway's Solitary Walks through Many Lands. A Personal Narrative of a Jo urney through Norway, &e. by the same Author, is

to form an early volume of Constable's Miscellany.

It is now said that the first volume of the historical work by Sir James Mackintosh, so long expected, will appear in the early part of the ensuing season. Sir James bas been induced to prepare, for the Cabinet Cycloptedia, a Popular History of England, forming three volumes of that publication. Miss Isabel Hill, the authoress of the Poet's Child, Constance, &e. is about to publish a volume of Holyday dreams, or Light Reading in Poetry and Prose. The Natural History of several new and beautiful Living Objects for the Microscope, with the Phenomena presented by them under observation, &e. illustrated by co- loured engravings, from drawings of the actual Living Subjects, by C. It. Goring, M.D. and Andrew Pritchard, will shortly appear in Parts.

A second edition of an Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone, made during the year 1819, by John Hughes, A.M., of -Oriel College, Oxford, and illustrated by views from the drawings of De \Vint. Mr. Valpy is publishing a series of School and College Greek Classics, with Eng- lish notes, in a duodecimo form. The Medea and Hecuba of Euripides, as well as the Otdipus of Sophocles, are ready ; and Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, &c., are to follow in succession.

The Voyage round the World performed by Captain Duperrey in La Coquille, during the years 1S22, 1823. 1524, and 1825, is now in a course of publication at

Paris. This work will be in four divisions, Zoological ; Botanical ; the History of the Voyage; Ilydrographical and Physical. .

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Winstanley on the Arts, &c. Svo. bds. . . . 0 5 0 Jennings' Paris, Part I. 4to. 5s. ; India paper, 10s.

Treatise on Surveying and Plan Drawing, Svo. bds. . 0 10 6 Lady's Library, Part I. sd. . . . . 0 2

Flowers of Anecdote and Wit, 16mo. bds. . . .. 05 0

Old Ways amid New Ways, folio, 6s. sci. ; coloured, 12s. sd. Westall's Great Britain, Part I .4to. 5s.; India paper, 10s.

Q's First Spelling Book,12nto. 2s. 6d. ; coloured, 3s. 6d. bds.

Tales of Passion,-tirthe Anther of Gilbert Earle, 3 vols. post Svo. bds. II Ni g

The Living and the Dead, Second series, post 8vo. bds. . 0 Pratt's Laws relating to Friendly Societies, 12mo. bds. . . 0 4 0 Lingard's England, Vol. VII. 4to. bds. . . • . 1 15 0

Tales, by the Author of Antidote to Miseries, 12mo. bds. . • 0

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Henshaw's Psalm and Hymn Tunes, for Horne's Manna!, sewed 0 6 0 1116moires du Marechal Suchet, Vol. I. See. sewed . 0 10 6 A Second Judgment of Babylon the Great, 2 vols. post Svo. bds. I 1 0