Blackwood's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2/Works Preparing for Publication
WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.
Dr Drake, the elegant author of the Literary Hours, has a new work in the press, entitled, Shakespeare and his Times; including the biography of the poet, criticisms on his genius and writings, a disquisition on the object of his sonnets, a new chronology of his plays, and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature, of his age.
Mr John Bell has in the press a new work, in royal octavo, entitled, The Consulting Surgeon.
Dr J. A. Paris is preparing a Descriptive Catalogue of the Geological Specimens deposited in the Museum of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall; interspersed with observations tending to shew the economical application of geology to the agricultural, mining, and commercial interests of the county of Cornwall.
Mr Parkinson, of Hoxton, intends to publish, in the course of May, an Essay on the Disease called the Shaking Palsy.
Sir William Adams has in the press an Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent failure of the Operations of extracting and depressing the Cataract, and the description of an improved series of operations.
Dr Coote is printing the History of Europe, from the Peace of Amiens in 1802 to the Peace of Paris in 1815.
A History of Whitby, with a Statistical Survey of the Vicinity to the distance of twenty-five miles, by the Rev. George Young; with the assistance of some papers left by the late Mr R. Winter, and some materials furnished by Mr John Bird; is in the press, and will be published early in July.
Shortly will be published, an Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations; including a comparison of the ancients and moderns, in regard to their intellectual and social state; by by Mr John Bigland.
A Poem will speedily be published, by the Right Hon. Sir Wm Drummond, under the title of Odin. This poem is connected with the most interesting era of the northern mythology, and refers principally to the origin of the Gothic empire, which the author, availing himself of the privilege of the poet, and offering besides some probable conjectures, supposes to have been founded by Pharnaces.
The third part of Neale's Illustrated History of Westminster Abbey will be published the 1st of July.
A new edition of Philidor on Chess is nearly ready, with considerable improvements, and an original portrait of the author.
The fifth edition is nearly ready for publication of "the Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers, St Barnabas, St Ignatius, St Clement, St Polycarp, Shepherd of Hermas, and Martyrdoms of St Ignatius and St Polycarp;" translated and published, with a preliminary discourse, by William, late Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Rev. Henry Rutter has in the press a Key to the Old Testament, or a summary View of its several Books, pointing out the persons, events, and ordinances, that were figurative of Christ and his Church; with a more minute detail of the Psalms and the Prophetic Writings.
An Essay is printing, on Capacity and Genius; endeavouring to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind, and that no genius, whether individual or national, is innate, but solely produced by, and dependent on, circumstances; followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Ghosts, and other Appearances supposed to be supernatural.
Speedily will be published, in foolscap 8vo, Evening Hours, a collection of original poems.
Speedily will be published, a Medicochirurgical and Biographieal Chart of Medical Science, from Hippocrates to the present time. It exhibits, in a condensed form, the progress and present state of that Science, with Short Notices of the most eminent Authors in this and other countries.
Mr Bagster has been engaged for some time in printing a Polyglott Bible, in one 4to volume. He proceeds with the care which so important a work demands;—the First Part, containing the Pentateuch, is now ready for delivery. It had been considered a desideratum in literature, for a Student to have a Polyglott Bible, containing the original texts and the versions used by the ancient churches, in a portable form, and at a moderate price; and the present minor Polyglott Bible, it is expected, will fully answer these wishes. Another class of readers will be gratified, by the above work being printed in four small pocket volumes, each language a complete volume, possessing this peculiar excellence, that by the pages of each volume agreeing with every other, any two languages may be interleaved together; and thus united in one volume, will not exceed the thickness of the common Pocket Bible. A fuller display of the whole work is exhibited in a Prospectus of 32 pages, which is delivered gratis; and which also details the nature of a supplementary volume, entitled "Scripture Harmony;" being a Concordance of parallel passages, agreeing page with page with the pocket volumes.
Mr Thomas Taylor is engaged in writing a Treatise on Infinite Series, in which he professes, by a notation somewhat analogous to that of decimals, to have discovered expressions, which, when expanded, will give infinite series, not to be obtained by any other method at present known. One among these is an expression, the expansion of which produces the series 1⅓+⅓1/7+1/91/11 invented by Leibnitz, and which is equal to the area of a circle whose diameter is 1. Another expression, when expanded, gives the series 1+¼+1/9+1/16+1/25 &c. equal to the sixth part of the square of the circumference when the diameter is one.
Mr Ackerman will shortly publish the first number of a series of Incidents of English Bravery during the late Campaigns on the Continent, printed by the lithographic process, from drawings by A. Atkinson; which will form six monthly numbers.
The author of the amusing Tour of Dr Syntax, is engaged upon a new poetical work, entitled The Dance of Life, which will be accompanied with 21 engravings from Rowlandson.
The First Volume of the Elgin Marbles, with an Historical and Topographical Account of Athens, illustrated by about 40 plates, drawn from the original sculptures, and etched by the Rev. F. J. Burrow, will speedily appear.
Dr Brown of St Germains, Cornwall, is preparing for the press a work on the Irrigation of Land, which he will treat in a perfectly novel manner.
The Rev. Edward Cooper has in the press, in a 12mo volume, Letters addressed to a serious and humble Inquirer after Divine Truth, with a peculiar aspect to the circumstances of the present times.
Mr Merrick has nearly ready for the press, a Translation of a Treatise on the General Principles of Chemical Analysis, in 1 volume 8vo.
Dr Wilson Phillips is about to publish an Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of the Vital Functions, with some Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Internal Diseases.
Mr Thomas Gurton of Alcester is about to publish a Midland Flora, which will comprise descriptions of Plants indigenous to the central counties of England; it will be illustrated by plates engraved by Mr James Sowerby.
Mr Kendall has in the press, a Proposal for establishing in London a New Philanthropical and Patriotic Institution, to be called the Patriotic Metropolitan Colonial Institution, for assisting New Settlers in his Majesty's Colonies, and for encouraging New Branches of Colonial Trade; with a Postscript on the Benefits to be derived from establishing Free Drawing Schools, and Schools of the Mathematics, and on other means of advancing the National Industry and Population.
Mr William Mackenzie has in the press, the Swiss Patriots, a new Poem; also, a new edition, with additions, of the Sorrows of Seduction, and other Poems.
The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue; revised by the Rev. John Muckersy, West Calder, 18mo.
A Short Introduction to Arithmetic; by John Christison, house-governor of Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, 18mo.