5 SEPTEMBER 1829, Page 13

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

BOOES IN Tun PRESS AND PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.

Mr. P. P. Thorns (who was many years resident at Macao) has ready for the press a History of China, translated from the Chinese: and to he published by subscription in one 4tovolume. The History commences with the earliest records of that nation ,accord- ing to their own chronology 3000 years before Christ), and eon:rib's every important event connected with Chinese annals up to A.D. :M0.-The Venetian Bracelet, the Lost Pletad, and other Poems, by L. E. L.--An Account of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Town of Greenock : with numerous embellishments.--A German and Ko fish Comparative Dictionary, meant to hold out to the beginner encouragement and facility to the acquisition of the German language.-The Musical Bijou for 1830, edited by F. H. Burney, will be published by Goulding and Co. on the 1st uf October.

BOORS PUBLISIIED Dunce!: THE WEEK.

Dioore's Lalla Rookh, lath edition, fcp. 14s. inis.-31M-mall'. QIIPPI.1011S, and Im- proved edition, 12mo. 5s. bd.-Guldsmith's Grammar of Geography, new edition. leinio. 6i. sheep.-Gwilt's Anglo-Saxon Grammar, aver. Gs. Lels.-Morrison's Mercantile

Teacher's Assistant, 12mo. Cs. sheep.-Bonington's by Harding, No. I. 4to. 12s. ; proofs, Ms.-Platt on Covenants, Sco. 1/. Cs. bils.-Selby's Ornithology, Second Series, No. VII. folio, plain, I/. Ils.6d.; coloured, Cl. Os.