Among other interesting new works announced by Mr Murray of Albemarle Street, we observe,-Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher, by Sir Humphry Davy. A Memoir of the Life and Public Services of the late Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. The Book of Psalms, newly translated from the Hebrew, and with Explanatory Notes, by W. French, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and G. Skinner, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati. The Life of Julius Cæsar, by the Author of the Life of Alexander the Great. Financial Reform, by Sir Henry Parnell. The Kirby Letters, a Family Tour from Yorkshire to Penzance. Principles of Geology, by C. Leyell, F.R.S. The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, comprising a great part of his early Correspondence, by Dr Paris. The Mirror of the Graces, or the English Lady's Costume, is announced for early publication, by a Lady of Distinction. Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, by Eliza Flower, are announced. Anecdotal Reminiscences of distinguished Literary and Political Characters, with Autographs, is announced by Mr Leigh Cliffe. The Poetry of the Magyars, with an account of the Language and Literature of Hungary, by Dr Bowring, is in the press. A poem entitled the Reproof of Brutus is announced, which will contain appeals, on the state of the country, to Mr Peel, Sir F. Burdett, Messrs Hume, Horton, and Sadler, the Archbishop of Canterbury, &c. Among other novelties, a complete edition of the poetical works of the Rev. George Croly is preparing for publication. Mr Croly deservedly holds a very high rank among our living poets. TIME'S TELESCOPE -We are requested by the editor of the first sixteen volumes of this work to state, that he is in no way connected with the forthcoming volume for 1830. JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES.-Mr Knowles is delivering his Leetures on Dramatic Literature with great success at Manchester. It is stated in one of the Manchester papers, that his observations on various points are calculated to produce as strong an effect on the judgment of his audience, as the beautiful readings and recitations with which his Lectures are interspersed produce on their feelings. LADIES' TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.-The New York Observer informs us, that the ladies of a town ́in Ohio have formed themselves into a Temperance Society, and adopted the following constitution: "We, the subscribers, having witnessed and heard of many cases of misery and ruin, in consequence of the free use of ardent spirits, and desirous to prevent, if possible, so great evils, have resolved--1. We will wholly abstain from the use of ardent spirits on all occasions, except when prescribed by a temperate physician. 2. We will discountenance all addresses in any of the male sex, with a view to matrimony, if they shall be known to drink ardent spirits, either periodically, or on any public occasion. 2. We, as mothers, daughters, and sisters, will use our influence to prevent the connexion of our friends with a man who shall habitually drink any kind of ardent spirits." We leave our readers to draw their own inference in regard to these reformadoes (as the Baron of Bradwardine sayeth); but we should merely like to know what w. re the characters of the ladies before the above resolutions were entered into. To say the least, it looks a leetle suspicious. A KNOWING EDITOR.-În La Belle Assemblée for December, the editor of that fashionable work thus displays his acquaintance with the state of affairs in the literary world :—" We certaioly anticipated the extinction this year of some of the mob of the annual pretenders. Whether the Keepsake is amongst the dead and forgotten, we have not been informed; we only know we have not seen it; if gone— peace to its manes! The Landscape Annual, about which so much fuss was made, has not yet appeared; and, for aught we know, will not be published at ali (!)" All the world of course knows, with the exception of this editor, that both the works he mentions have been printed, published, and reviewed nearly six weeks ago. Does the editor of La Belle Assemblée live at Timbuctoo? Theatrical Gossip.-To show that there is no slight diversity of opinion regarding the merits of Miss F. Kemble, a friend to whom we expressly applied for a verdict concerning her, thus writes on the subject:-"Fanny Kemble I saw (in company with a judicious friend) play Juliet. We agreed in thinking it a most audacious humbug. The name of Kemble and the newspaper trumpery led the miserable Cockneys. The newspapers, one and all, I know, and a precious knot they are. Take it as an infallible rule, that their ecstasies are the agonies of truth and taste." We hope this is a little trop fort. Of the performances of the Adelphi elephant, which we shrewdly suspect is little better than a large humbug, also, the Court Journal furnishes the following account:-" The drama which introduces this enlightened foreigner to an English audience, is modestly composed, so that there may be no jealousy between the Elephant and the author, the whole merit being left to the quadruped-who presents posies to the ladies of the harem-car ries a letter from a distressed damsel to her lover - incarcerates a whole body of traitors-and, when two hostile armics are a the point of joining issue, majestically walks between them, ani does as much as to say, Put up your swords,' which they ready do. The sagacious arbitrator of war must have his banquet after such a toilsome exhaustion of the animal system and of the mer faculties, and he accordingly rings his bell, for dish after dish, and bottle after bottle, which, with his napkin under his chin, he em sumes with evident satisfaction. Next he dances what may be wel called a pas seul, for one leg most reluctantly follows the other, leaving it seul for no short period. Finally, when the legitimate and the usurper are crossing blades, the Elephant majestically enters, takes the crown from the head of the latter, like a good and loyal gentleman,' places it on the head of the rightful sovereign, whom he lifts in the air, bearing him out of danger; and afterwards he car ries the rightful King and his mistress upon his back in grand procession, a living sign of the Elephant and Castle. In fact, the Elephant is well introduced, and between the narrow scenes be loola of an enormous bulk. In certain lights, his skin seeins of a dark mouse-colour, and instead of the unpleasant appearance of the hard encrusted testaceous hide, it looks from above as if it had a fine coat of down. The house, this week, has been filled to overflowing, and with really good company."-On the recent occasion of Mr Vas denhoff's benefit at Liverpool, he received a substantial proof of the high estimation in which he is held by the patrons of the drama ther The house was crowded in every part; so great was the pressure a the pit, that numbers received back their money, and retired. The receipts amounted to L.275.-There has been a terrible row at Manchester between De Begnis and the Manager of the Theatre-Roya The latter, however, has made good his point, and prevented the Italians from performing operas in the minor theatre, which le looked upon as an infringement of his patent. They now give only concerts.-Master Burke, who has called himself ten years of t for the last fifteen, is playing at Carlisle.-Alexander has opened the Theatre-Royal, Glasgow, with applause, but with a very indifferent company. We regret to learn that Mr Macready is still in bad health, having been threatened with the return of an alarining enn stitutional complaint.-" The Youthful Days of Shakspeare," a new drama, which has been successful at Covent-Garden, is to be produced here next week; also the Christmas pantomime. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. We regret that, notwithstanding our double Number, we have been obliged to omit this week several articles by esteemed Corre spondents, which are in types, and will appear speedily. Our table is covered with new books, all of which we shall over take in our next, and succeeding numbers, We shall be glad to hear again from "Astolpho" at his convenience. The Memoir of the late Mr Hacket of Inveramsay may be forwarded to us at any time that is most agreeable. The Stanzas by "G. B." of Stonehaven, and W. S. M." of Thurso, shall have a place.-Of many other poetical favours we can at present only acknowledge the receipt. Our list includes—" Medical Advice," and an "Epitaph," by "J. D." of Leith,-" Epitaph on a Lady of Quality at Bath,"-" Song," by "C. W."-" A Poetical Epistle to the Editor,"-" A Poem, consisting of forty-one stanzas of ottava rima, written in pencil,"-" The Vision," by E P.," and "Woman," by "W." Of the Poems transmitted to us from West-Houses, we shall in a week or two insert, with a few alterations, that entitled "The Witch Dance." The others will be returned. Our opinion upon the longer poem alluded to is at the author's service. ERRATA IN OUR LAST NUMBER-In Mr Tennant's Remarks on the Psalms, for "paraphrases," read periphrasis; for " plethargy," read plethory; for "disturbed the image," read distorted the imagt: and for "concerned to accompany," read conceived to accompasy In 3 vols. post 8vo, GERALDINE of DESMOND; or, IRELAND in the DAYS of ELIZABETH. An Historical Romance. "The work will take its station among the best historical ro mances that have been written."-Cheltenham Chronicle. "One of the finest and purest impersonations which the Genius of Fiction, working upon the pages of history, has yet produced.' "Geraldine of Desmond is, in our opinion, a work of the highest merit."-Caledonian Mercury. "We have not perused a production of modern days in which we have been more deeply interested or more greatly surprised.”— SACRED HISTORY, in the form of Letters, ad- Morning Journal. dressed to the Pupils of the Edinburgh Sessional School. By the Author of the Account of that Institution, &c. Part I. comprising the Period from the Creation to the death of Moses. JOHN WARDLAW Edinburgh; WILLIAM COLLINS, Glasgow; JAMES DUNCAN, and WHITTAKER, TREACHER, and ARNOT, London; and JAMES M. LECKIE, Dublin. ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, being the SEVENTH, including the recent Supplement to that Work: with Preliminary Dissertations on the History of the Sciences. By the late Professors STEWART and PLAYFAIR, and by the Right Hon. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH and Professor LESLIE. Illustrated by a new set of Engravings on Steel. To be published in Monthly Parts, and completed in Twenty Volumes quarto. Edited by Professor M. NAPIER. MODE AND TERMS OF PUBLICATION. I. By augmenting the contents of the page, but without decreasing the size of the type, the work, while much improved in appearance, will be comprised, notwithstanding the great extension of its matter, in Twenty Quarto Volumes, handsomely printed on paper of a superior quality, twenty volumes of the present being nearly equal to twenty-four of the former Editions. Each volume will consist of 800 pages, containing a much greater quantity of matter than any similar publication; and the Proprietors hold themselves distinctly pledged to the Public, that the work shall not, on any account, exceed Twenty-One Volumes: their present confident belief, at the same time, being that it will be completed in Twenty. HENRY COLBURN and RICHARD BENTLEY, London; and BELL and BRADFUTE, 6, Bank Street, Edinburgh. This day, 3 vols. small 8vo, BERTHA'S VISIT to her UNCLE in ENG LAND; comprising a variety of interesting information for Young Persons. A great variety of information is here pleasantly collected; and though we are very far from wishing to see any young ladies of our acquaintance either chemists, botanists, or geologists, yet such slight knowledge as, without dabbling in science and hard words, does away with the prejudices of complete ignorance, may gracefully be made subjects of female acquirements. "We must add, that BERTHA'S VISIT will be a most agreeable Christmas present to our young friends."-Literary Gazette. JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street, London. On the 1st of January, 1830, will be published, By WESTLEY and DAVIS, 10, Stationer's Court, THE BRITISH MAGAZINE; a Monthly Jour nal of Literature, Science, and Art; being a continuation of "The Spirit and Manners of the Age." 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It will also be so formed, that it may be separated into two complete sheets, each having its own department of information, and, therefore, capable of accommodating two readers at once, and, in fact, answering the purpose of two Newspapers. An Index and Title-page will be annually published: thus enabling the subscribers to bind up their papers, which will form, at the close of the year, a volume of peculiar interest, from the great variety of topics embraced in its pages. Orders received by all Booksellers, News-Agents, Postmasters, and A DICTIONARY of MEDICINE, for POPULAR at the Office, 139, Fleet Street, London. USE; containing an Account of Diseases, and their Treatment, with Directions for administering Medicines; the Regulation of Diet and Regimen; and the Management of the Diseases of Women and Children. By ALEXANDER MACAULAY, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and PhysicianAccoucheur to the Edinburgh New Town Dispensary. "The observations on climate, diet, regimen, and the management of infants, are interesting and judicious,-they comprise all the best established information on the subject. To parents, and those who have the superintendance of children, this work must be a useful guide; in all respects, indeed, the Dictionary of Dr Macaulay is calculated to gratify rational curiosity, to enlighten the minds of the public in general on medical subjects, and to dffuse correct notions on many topics which are too often disguised in technicalities, or debased by superstition. It is, above all, an excellent antidote to every species of quackery and empiricism."—Edinburgh Medical Journal, No. 96. "We have seen nothing of the kind more opposed to quackery, or better adapted for consultation."-Literary Gazette. "We know not a safer manual of medicine in our language.”— Scots Times. Decidedly the most useful book of the kind which has yet becn offered to the public."-Caledonian Mercury. 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