desire to know something of the history of the personages whose good works they are commemorating, and whose example they, of course, are excited to follow."

Opportunity is also taken to introduce articles of various descriptions, which comprise useful matter, to be met with

ders full of beef and pork, the barrels full of beer, the oven full of Christmas pies, the pocket stored with money, the masters and mistresses full of charity, and the young men and maids full of play.'-(Poor Robin, for December 1757.)

We know not how better to conclude

in no concise form, but in a variety of this article than by wishing that this deworks only, on the shelves of a well-scription of the present month, and this furnished library. As all have not that accommodation, this moderate-sized volume may in a considerable degree serve as a substitute.

No true Briton can peruse the history of our forefathers' manners without finding in it considerable amusement; with something to regret, as well as something not to be regretted: this, with the regular principles of Astronomy, Geography, &c. adds much to the interest of the work. In this department Mr. Douce is aid under contribution pretty freely: a better authority could not be followed.

We must, however, caution the compiler to recollect that correctness is the life and soul of his work in the following article he should have consulted CALMET. There is no city mentioned to which the words "the same city," can be referred and if Galilee, which is the only country mentioned, be intended,

how came Bramins there?

Thomas, surnamed Didymus, or the Twin, was a Jew, and in all probability a Galilean. There are but few passages in the gospel concerning him. Thomas is said to have suffered martyrdom in the same city, being killed by the lances of some people instigated by the Bramins.

The month of December is thus introduced :

December was called winter monat by the Saxons, but after they were converted to Christianity it received the name of heligh monat, or holy month.

close of the present year, may be com-' pletely realised, with all hearty and honest wishes for the signal happiness and prosperity of A.D, 1815.

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ARCHITECTURE.

Proposals are in circulation for publishing in imperial folio, dedicated with permission to the Hon. the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs; Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings, Public and Private, including the Plans and Details of the New executed in various Parts of England, &c.

Custom-House, London: with Descriptions. By David Laing, Architect and Surveyor to the Board of Customs. This Work, containing not fewer than Fifty Plates, will be engraved by the best Artists, and printed on Imperial Paper, making a handsome volume in large folio, price 41. 4s. in boards. No money is required till the Work is delivered, which will be in June, 1816. Gentlemen inclined to honor this Work with their patronage, are requested to send their names and address to Mr. Taylor's Architectural Library. A List of Subscribers will be printed.

BIOGRAPHY.

'Now comes December, which after JaThe Rev. A. Macauley, Vicar of Rothnuary for new-years gifts, February for pan-ley in Leicestershire, is prepairng a Life of cakes and valentines, March for leeks for Melancthon, connected with the History of the Welchmen, April for fools, May for Lutheranism, and the Protestant Reformation milkmaids and their garlands, June for green in Europe, during the 16th Century. pease, mackerel, beans and bacon, and what not (this is a plentiful time), July for hay in the country, and August for corn, September for oysters, October for brewing good beer, and November for drinking it. After all these are past, some for working, but all Proposals are circulated for publishing by for eating and drinking, after all comes De- subscription, in 2 vols. crown 8vo. with an cember, with the barns full of corn, the lar-engraved Portrait, Christian Experience

A new Edition of Ritson's Biographia Poetica, with very considerable Additions, and a few occasional Specimens, is preparing for the Press.

ciety, whose names might with propriety have been recorded. The preface at tempts an apology for such petty omissions; it might possibly be accepted as satisfactory by the auditors; but we, disappointed in what we had anticipated, desire to be excused from giving this Sermon a character.

Animated Nature; or, Elements of the Natural History of Animals, for the use of Schools. By the Rev. W. Bingley, A.M. &c. 12mo. price 6s. Darton and Harvey, London, 1811.

These hints, improved, we suppose would add greatly to the usefulness of Mr. B's. volume, where it is calculated to be principally useful-among the youth in schools.

The Builder's Assistant, and Complete
Ready Reckoner; comprising a new
System of Duodecimal Arithmetic,
or Cross Multiplication, &c. By T.
Lovell, Building-surveyor. Price 6s.
Baldwin, London.

This seems to be a useful little book, principally, as we conjecture, to workmen, whose calculations are sometimes made in haste, and whose estimates are not always so correct as they might be, and as they would be, did they allow themselves more time. At the present moment, when the nation, as to some things, may be said to be neither at peace nor at war, the prices of most articles in the building branch are unsettled; and it is expected that most will be lower than they are. In this expectation we have hitherto concurred,and have accordingly ordered various repairs and re

postponed for a while; but when the works are resumed, we doubt not of finding Mr. Lovell's volume, a very useful assistant in calculating the probable cost, and reckoning the real expences.

Mr. Bingley is, perhaps, the most capable of our writers on a subject like this before us. He has long been in the habit of studying Natural History, as a science, not in books only, but from nature at large. True it is, that the habits of creatures can only be known in the country where they are native; the form may be seen in our shows and menageries; the manners are debased by imprisonment and domestication, of which most, if not all, are capable, to a certain degree. This volume, there-buildings on our extensive estates to be fore, needs no passport to general adoption it combines a very extensive subject into one body, and presents the whole at a moderate price. In his next edition Mr. B. will do well to explain,for the purpose of simplifying, many of his leading terms, which are now left difficult-not to the naturalist, but to the school-boy. On what principles, for instance, are Fishes arranged?- Who knows what apodal means? A lad who enquires of his Greek Dictionary will find it signify without feet: "who ever thought that fishes had fect," says he. Will he be less than frightened at the terribly-sounding appellation "Chondropterygious fish?" Those parts (feet, bills) This volume contains a good deal of of birds, whence distinctions are taken, information, useful and pleasant. Though should also be particularly explained.-saints'-days and holidays are but little How many children do not know the difference, which requires but a moment's attention, when pointed out, between a moth and a butterfly: remark the antennæ of this-tufted, of the other -pointed; the discovery is made, in a manner to be fixed on the memory,

Time's Telescope for 1815; or a complete Guide to the Almanack, containing an explanation of Saint's-days and Holidays, &c. Astronomical occur rences in every month; Naturalists' Diary, &c. &c. 12mo. price 9s. Sherwood and Co. London.

regarded among us at present, and indeed have been reduced in number, by Act of Parliament, as they have, in conequence, by the increase of commerces, yet there are many persons beside the clergy whose leisure allows them to keep these festivals in mind. Such cannot but

desire to know something of the history of the personages whose good works they are commemorating, and whose example they, of course, are excited to follow.

ders full of beef and pork, the barrels full
of beer, the oven full of Christmas pies, the
pocket stored with money, the masters and
mistresses full of charity, and the young men
December 1757.)
and maids full of play.'-(Poor Robin, for

We know not how better to conclude

Opportunity is also taken to introduce articles of various descriptions, which comprise useful matter, to be met with in no concise form, but in a variety of this article than by wishing that this deworks only, on the shelves of a well-scription of the present month, and this furnished library. As all have not that close of the present year, may be comaccommodation, this moderate-sized vo- pletely realised, with all hearty and honlume may in a considerable degree serve est wishes for the signal happiness and as a substitute. prosperity of A.D, 1815.

No true Briton can peruse the history of our forefathers' manners without finding in it considerable amusement; with something to regret, as well as something not to be regretted: this, with the regular principles of Astronomy, Geography, &c. adds much to the interest of the work. In this department Mr. Douce is laid under contribution pretty freely a better authority could not be followed.

We must, however, caution the compiler to recollect that correctness is the life and soul of his work: in the following article he should have consulted CALMET. There is no city mentioned to which the words "the same city," can be referred and if Galilee, which is the only country mentioned, be intended, how came Bramins there?

Thomas, surnamed Didymus, or the Twin, was a Jew, and in all probability a Galilean. There are but few passages in the gospel concerning him. Thomas is said to have suffered martyrdom in the same city, being killed by the lances of some people instigated by the Bramins.

The month of December is thus introduced:

December was called winter monat by the Saxons, but after they were converted to Christianity it received the name of heligh monat, or holy month."

LITERARY REGISTER.

Authors, Editors, and Publishers, are particularly requested to forward to the Literary Panorama Office, post-puid, the titles, prices, and other particulars of works in hand, or published, for insertion in this department of the work.

WORKS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION.

ARCHITECTURE.

Proposals are in circulation for publish ing in imperial folio, dedicated with permis sion to the Hon. the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs; Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings, Public and Private, executed in various Parts of England, &c. including the Plans and Details of the New Custom-House, London: with Descriptions. By David Laing, Architect and Surveyor to the Board of Customs. This Work, conengraved by the best Artists, and printed on taining not fewer than Fifty Plates, will be in large folio, price 41. 4s. in boards. No Imperial Paper, making a handsome volume money is required till the Work is delivered, which will be in June, 1816. Gentlemen inclined to honor this Work with their pa and address to Mr. Taylor's Architectural tronage, are requested to send their names Library. A List of Subscribers will be printed.

BIOGRAPHY.

'Now comes December, which after January for new-years gifts, February for pan-ley in Leicestershire, is prepairng a Life of The Rev. A. Macauley, Vicar of Rothcakes and valentines, March for leeks for Melancthon, connected with the History of the Welchmen, April for fools, May for Lutheranism, and the Protestant Reformation milkmaids and their garlands, June for green in Europe, during the 16th Century. pease, mackerel, beans and bacon, and what not (this is a plentiful time), July for hay in the country, and August for corn, September for oysters, October for brewing good beer, and November for drinking it. After ing for the Press. all these are past, some for working, but all Proposals are circulated for publishing by for eating and drinking, after all comes De- subscription, in 2 vols. crown 8vo. with an cember, with the barns full of corn, the lar-engraved Portrait, Christian Experience

A new Edition of Ritson's Biographia Poetica, with very considerable Additions, and a few occasional Specimens, is prepar

In a few days will be published, in 1 vol. 8vo. with large Maps, Plans, &c, a Circumstantial Account of the Campaign in Russia, embellished with Plans of the Battles of Moscow and Malo-Jaroslavitz. By Eugene Labaume, Captain of the Royal Geographical Engineers, Ex-officer of the Ordnance of Prince Eugene, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and of the Iron Crown. Author of an Abridged History of the Republic of Venice.

Le Clerc, Mortimer, R. A. Paye, F. S. A. | Drawn from unpublished Documents and Poussin, Singleton, and Vandyke. This secret Papers. In 6 vols. 8vo. Work will be a desirable medium between the very expensive works of art, and those confined and inferior productions which oftentimes cramp and vitiate the taste, rather than assist its progress. Price 10s. 6d. Messrs. Longman and Co. are preparing for publication, a Series of Illustrations for the Lord of the Isles, a Poem, by Walter Scott, Esq. from the Designs of Richard Westall, Esq. R.A. which will be engraved in the first style of excellence by the best Engravers. Twenty-five copies will be taken off on India Paper. A very limited number of Proofs will be printed in 4to.

Preparing, and speedily will appear, a Translation of the Memoirs on the Campaign of the year 1796, written by His Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles of Austria; to which will be added, an introductory Preface of the Life, Character, and

Preparing for publication, a Collection of Scripture Prints, from the Paintings of eminent Masters, engraved in the line manner by Freeman, intended to illustrate Bi-Military Career of that illustrious Personbles, Common-Prayer Books, and all Works of Scripture History; on 8vo paper 11. 1s. or on 4to paper 11. 5s.

GEOGRAPHY.

A General History of Swisserland, as divided into Nineteen Cantons, with a Description of the Scenery, Manners, Customs, Laws, &c. of the Inhabitants, and coloured Figures of the Costume, is preparing for publication.

GEOLOGY.

age. This Work of the Archduke had already been finished by him several years ago, but owing to political motives, the manuscript thereof, remained hitherto confined to his desk, and is only now, on the changes of the situation of Europe, suffered to be printed.

MEDICINE, AND CHIRURGERY:

On the 1st of January will appear, Fasciculus I. of a Series of Engravings of Cutaneous Diseases, illustrative of all the principal Genera and Species, described in the practical Synopsis of the Classification of Dr. Willan, published by Dr. Bateman.

Mr. Bakewell is preparing for the press, a second edition of his Introduction to Geology, which will be considerably en- Speedily will be published, An Essay on larged, particularly by information acquired those Venereal Diseases which have been during the Author's recent examination of confounded with Syphilis, and the Sympdifferent parts of England, and the eastern toms which exclusively arise from that Poicoast of Ireland. This edition will also son; illustrated by Drawings of the Cutacontain the most important Geological Dis-neous Eruptions of true Syphilis, and the coveries and Observations which have been resembling Diseases. Part II. By Richard made on the Continent of Europe, and in Carmichael, M.R.I.A. various parts of the Globe, since the publication of the former, and is intended to comprise a view of the progress and present state of the science.

HISTORY.

Sharon Turner, Esq. has nearly ready for publication, in a 4to. volume, the History of England from the Norman Conquest, to the Reign of Edward III. after the manner of the History of the Anglo-Saxons.

The Rev. W. Anderson's Historical Sketches of Russia, with particular reference to the House of Romanoffe, the reigning Family, may be expected early in the ensuing month.

The Rev. Archdeacon Coxe has just completed a new Edition of Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon, from the accession of Philip the Fifth, to the Death of Charles the Third, 1700-1788.

MATHEMATICS.

Mr. Wm. Anderson has in the press, a Description of the Cyclometer, a new invented Machine for dividing a Circle inte any Number of equal Parts, &c.

MISCELLANIES.

Speedily will be published, in 4to. illustrated by Engravings, a Theory on the Classification of Beauty and Deformity, and their Correspondence with Physiognomonic Expression. By Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, author of a Tour to la Grande Chartreuse and Alet.

Mr. Arthur Taylor has in the press, in an 8vo. vol. a Historical Treatise of the Unction and Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, with an Appendix of curious Documents.

Mr. Norris has in the press, a second Edi