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LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

BOOKS IM THE PRESS, OR PREPARINO FOR PUBLICATION. Observations upon the Condition of Negro Slavery in the Islaud of Santa Cruz, and some Remarks upon Plantation Affairs ; with a Notice of the Danish West India Islands. —The MS. note-books of the Rev. Gilbert White, the author of the Natural History of Selbourne, containing many curious observations not hitherto published, are at present in the possession of Mr. Murray, of Albemarle Street, who will issue in a few days a cheap and elegant edition of that work.—Views of Bath and its Environs, in a popular form, are announced by Mr. Worsley, an artist, of that city.—The author of Reginald Trevor has a new novel in the press, entitled Laurence Mertsun, or a Summer iu Wales. —The translation of the Books of Confucius, by the principal of the Anglo-Chinese College, the Rev. David Collie, was, by last accounts from the Straits, expected to he out in March.—A Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, by Mrs. A. T. Thompson, authoress of the Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth.—Don T. de Trueba, author of the Castilian,

&c., is writing, for Constable's Miscellany, the Life of Cortes, including the History of the Conquest of Mexico. BOOKS PUBLISHED DURING THE WEEK.

Coxe's Pelham, '2. vols. imperial 4to. 101. 10s. bds. ; 2 vols. 4to. 51.5s. bds.—Stafford on Ulcers, 8vo. 5s. bds.—Hurwitz' Hebrew Elements, 8vo. 5s. 6d. bds.—Latrobe': Sketch of Switzerland, Svo. 12s. bds.—Knight on the Parables, 8vo. 12s. bds.—Gombert's Catechism of French Grammar, 18mo. 9d.—Hind's Catechist's Manual, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.—Five Tights of St. Alban's, 3 vols. post 8vo. 1/. 8s. 6d. bds.—Hall's North America, 3 vols. post 8vo. 11. lls. 6d. bds.—Horatius, 12mo. 6s. bds.—The Concise Arithmetician, 18mo. sheep, 2s. 6d.—Dzigley's Village Nightingale, l2mo. 6s. bds.—Blanchard's Les Jeunes Enfans, 18mo. 3s.—Contes pour les Enfans, thmo. 25. 6d.—Everest's Journey through Norway, &c. 8vo. 14s. bds.—Richardson's Zoology of Northern British America, 4to. IL Ils. bds.—Blunt's Nine Lectures, l2mo. 4s. 6d. bds.