man body to the furface of the water, or till it becomes vilible: a fecond drag at fuch time might be applied to any part of the body, fo as to fecure a firm hold." The belt drag cofts 11. 1s. the fecond 12s. MR. SEBASTIAN GRANDI has obtained the filver medal and twenty guineas for Colours and Materials for Painting, and for a preparation of Grounds or Panels for Painters. This gentleman affumes, from various experiments, that he has difcovered the manner of preparing either Canvafs, Copper, or Pannel in the old Venetian tyle; and alfo a method of purifying oils for painters' ufe agreeably to the practice of the ancient masters. He fays he has been enabled to produce Crayons, of a quality greatly fuperior to any in ufe, and which are fixed, fo as to prevent their rubbing off the paper when ufed, and which may alfo be applied in water or in oil. We fhall give an instance of each. The pannels and canvafs grounds are prepared by laying on them a compofition inade from theep's trotters calcined and wheaten flour in equal proportions. The grounds thus prepared do not crack, they may be painted on upon, almoft immediately, and from their absorbent quality the bufinefs may be proceeded upon with dispatch. Oil is purified by bone-afhes made into a pafte with water, this is to be heated red-hot, and immersed in the oil, after which a fmall quantity of hone-afh is to be added; and, when it is clear, it is fit for ufe. Crayons are formed of 1lb. of powdered bone-afhes, mixed with three ounces of fpermaceti, and colouring matters as much as may be required. They are to be ground together, and then rolled up in proper form and dried on a board. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN APRIL. As the Lift of New Publications, contained in the Monthly Magazine, is the ONLY COMPLETE LIST PUBLISHED, and confequently the only one that can be useful to the Public for Purposes of general Reference, it is requested, that Authors and Publishers will continue to communicate Notices of their Works, (Poft paid), and they will always be faithfully inferted, FREE of EXPENCE, ANTIQUITIES. THE Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain; by John Britain, F. S. A. Part 8, 4to. 10s. od.; fine, 16s. ARCHITECTURE. Obfervations on English Architecture, Military, and Civil; compared with fimilar buildings on the Continent, including a critical Itinerary of Oxford and Cambridge, &c. with Chronological Tables, and Dimensions of Cathedral and Conventual Churches; by the Rev James Dallaway, M. B. F. S. A. 8vo. 12s. boards. BIOGRAPHY. An Account of the Life and Writings of Hugh Blair, D. D. F. R. S. one of the Mihifters of the High Church, and Profeffor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the Univerfity of Edinburgh; by the late john Hill, L. L. D. 8vo. 6s. boards. An Account of the Life and Writings of David Hume, efq.; by Thomas Ritchie. 8vo. 10s. 6d. boards. The Lift Years of the Reign of Louis XVI. by Francis Hue, 8vo. 10s. 6d boards. The Life and Writings of Mr. Tanner, of Exeter, by Dr. Hawker, D. D. with Mr. T.'s Portrait. Bro. 56. DRAMA. Nicholas Gypfum, with Notes and Preface ; by the Author. 2s. 6d. EDUCATION. The Young Lady's Pocket Library; or, Paẹ rental Monitor. 8vo. 6s. boards. Maral Tales, for Young People; by Mrs. Hurry. 4s. The Book of Monofyllables; or, an Introduction to the Childs Monitor, or Parental Inftruction, in Two Parts. 1s. 6d. bound. The Young Naval Here; or, Hints to Parents and Guardians, on educating Young, Gentlemen for the Navy. 2s. 6d. A New General Pronouncing Dictionary; by William Enfield, M. A. 4. bound. 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ROBINSON, mafter of the Free Grammar-School at Ravenftonedale, has juft completed a copious work on the Literature, Manners, Cuftoms, Religion, Warfare, Laws, &c. &c. of the Greeks, intended for the ufe of fchools; and including the refults of the various differtations which have been written on those fubjects tince the time of Potter. The work of Mr. R., which will be found an indifpenfable companion in reading the Greek Claflies, will be published under the title of Archæologia Græca. copies for a pound, an abbreviated Account of his newly invented Method of inftructing the Children of the Poor. Perhaps one of the most interesting fpectacles to be feen at prefent in or near London is the Free School of this benevolent man, fituated about two hundred yards from the Obelifh, in St. George's Fields. In this School nearly one thoufand poor children are rapidly taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, by one after, on the plan of Mr. Lancafier, for a total expence not exceeding three hindred pounds per annum. The leading principle of this well regulated and orderly Establishment is, that the fenior claffes teach the junior, and that emulation through every class is excited by rewards and promotion. The methods of teaching arc alfo much fimplified-for example, the children learn to read and write the alphabet at the faune tinue, by forming the letters in fand with their fingers, as each letter is fucceflively called by the monitor; they afterwards learn to read and write monofyllables in the fame manner, and the precifion and rapidity with which the malleft children perform thefe operations is very furpriz ing, and highly interefting. Aided by this plan, the children of the poor may, without exception, be initiated in the Mr. JoHNES, of Haford, to whom the first rudiments of knowledge; and we public are under obligation for so fplencongratulate the country on the profpect did an edition of Froiffart, is now enof its fpeedy adoption by the Legila-gaged in a Tranflation of the Chronicles ture, on the introduction of Mr. Whit- of Monftrelet, which includes the period bread. from 1400 to 1467, and defcribe the particulars of the conquefts of Henry the Vth., and of the fubfequent expulion of the English from France. Sir JoHN CARR will publifh, early in May, the Account of his recent Excurtion Holland, and along the Rhine, to Mr. BELSHAM is about to publish a Colleétion of State-Papers, Official Letters, and other Documents, illuftrative of Englifh Hiflory, from the Revolution to the Peace of Amiens. Thefe Papers extend to two volumics, and are fo printed as either to be fold feparately, or in conneetion with the various volumes of his Hiftory, to which the Papers respectively appertain. This work, together with the Hitory of Mr. Hume, forms now a regular and refpectable feries of English hiftory from the carlieft records to our own times-a ferees which has hitherto been among the principal defiderata of Englith Literature. The fame gentleman is about to publifh a Tranflation of the Memoirs of Joinville, who was contemporary with Louis the IXth., and accompanied that Monarch in his famous expedition into Egypt. It is to be hoped that the recent deftruction of this gentleman's beautiful villa, at Hafod, will not diminith his ardour in his interefting literary purfuits. Mr. SMART's new Tranflation of Gil Blas, accompanied by ONE HUNDRED engravings, will be ready in a few days. Mr. RAYMOND, author of the Life of Dermody, is preparing a complete edition of the Poetical Works of that wonderful, but unfortunate youth. A Catalague Raifonnée is in the prefs, of the Library of the late Sultaun Tippoo Saib, which, after his death, was conveyed entire from Seringapatam to the College at Calcutta. It confifted of upwards of 2000 manufcripts, in the Arabic, Perfian, and Hindooftanee languages, many of them highly curious. contains (fays Mr. Wilfon) two para graphs, which prof fs to convey informa tion upon the art of Stereotype printing, and upon the improvements introduced by Lord Stanhope in the conftruction of printing preffes. In this statement there are several takes, calculated to mislead the public mind. It is due from me, not to the Bookjellers of London particularly, but to the Bookfellers, and to the PRINTERS too, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the Mafters of public Schools and private-Seminaries, to the Governors of Inftitutions for the gratuitous circulation of books, to all perfons interested in the faithful and economical education of youth of both fexes, and in general to the whole literary world,—it is due from me to bring forward fomething more than bare affertion upon the present occafion; to state what really are the advantages peculiar to Stereotype Printing, which I prefume I am rather better qualified to do than are those perfons who know nothing of the fubject. The advantages ariling from an application of the Stereotype invention to the manufacture of books, are not confined to any particular departinent of the printing business. In every department of expenditure they are as felf-evident as profitable, and need only to be mentioned to be well underAmong the other abfurdities of the ad- ftood. In the first place, the wear of movemirers of black letter, and of the literary able types, in Stereotyping, does not expetits-maitres who give enormous prices ceed 51. per cent. of the heavy expence for ufeless books, a "modern antique" is incurred by the old method of printing. announced in a fac-fimile reprint of the 2dly. The expenditure upon compo first folio edition of the Works of Shakel-fition and reading is nearly the fame by peare, in which it is childishly boafted that the type and paper are exactly to correfpond with that of the mufty original! Mr. WooL announces a fecond quarto on the subject of the Life and Writings of Dr. Jofeph Warton. Mr. GIFFORD, the tranflator of Juvenal, and editor of Maflinger, is engaged in an edition of the works of Ben Jonion. The new edition of the Bible, with annotations by Dr. GREGORY, and fuperb engravings from the works of the great Mafters, will not make its appearance till the 1ft. day of January, 1808. Mr. WILSON, the proprietor of the Stereotype Office, in Duke-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, having favoured us with fome particulars relative to the art of Stereotype printing, in contradiction to the statement made in our laft number, we feel great pleasure in laying fome extracts from his communication before our readers. We are concerned that Mr. Wilfon's paper came to hand fo late as to prevent its appearance in the part of our Magazine devoted to original correfpondence, and we hope that his arguments will not appear to have fuffered from the curtailment which has been neceffary to adapt them to their prefent place. "The first column of the Varieties of your last publication (No. 155), p. 264, both methods, for a first edition: but this great expenfe must be repeated for every fucceeding edition from moveable types; whereas, by the Stereotype plan it ceefes for ever.-3dly. The expence of Stereotype plates, when I am employed to caft then, is not 201. per cent. of that of moveable type pages.-4thly. The expenditure upon paper and prefs-work is the fame by both methods; but it is not incurred at the fame time. The old method requires an advance of capital for a confumption of four years; whereas, by Stereotype, half a year's flock is more than fufficient. It follows, therefore, that 1211. per cent. of the capital hitherto employed in paper and prefs-work is fully adequate to meet an equal extent of fale.-5thly. A fire-proot room will hold Stereotype plates of works, of which the dead stock in printed paper would require a warehouse twenty times the fize; and thus warehouse rent and injurance are faved; with the d ditional advantage, in cafe of accident by |