professional gentlemen. Illustrated with new plates, including maps, engraved for the work by many of the most distinguished artists. The whole improved and adapted to this country by gentlemen of known abilities, by whose aid it will be rendered the most complete work of the kind that has yet appeared.

An edition of Johnson's Dictionary, abridged, including the author's preface to the folio edition, has been published by Jacob Johnson, of Philadelphia; improved by the standard of pronunciation established by Walker's Dictionary; "but where words occurred, not to be found in that, of which the instances were numerous, other sources have been investigated, particularly Marchbank's quarto edition of 1798, and the pronunciation of these words carefully regulated by Walker's directions."

W. W. Woodward, of Philadel phia, has issued proposals for publishing Adams's Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged by Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics, and, pro tempore, teacher of natural philosophy, in the university of Pennsylvania. The publisher is now waiting for a new edition of the work, coming out in London, by Jones.

Proposals have been issued for publishing by subscription, in monthly numbers, a work entitled Amonitates Graphicæ, or an instructive and amusing collection of views, animals, plants, flowers, fruits, minerals, antiquities, costumes, and other interesting objects; carefully selected and engraved, either from drawings after nature, or from the best representations of those objects; with descriptive and explanatory sketches, in English and French: the whole calculated to excite, in youth of both sexes, a taste for useful and ornamental knowledge, and to assist the cultivation of the same, as well as the cultivation of the languages in which the sketches are written. The descriptive and ex

planatory part by L. H. Girardin, professor of modern languages, history, and geography, in William and Mary college; the engravings by Frederick Bossler. A preliminary and separate number is already issued, as a specimen of the work.

A new edition of Johnson's Dictionary at large, in royal octavo, with the author's life, by Dr. Aiken, and with two engravings, one of the author's portrait by sir Joshua Reynolds, and the other of his statue in St. Paul's, is proposed for publication, by subscription, at Philadelphia, by Mr. Humphreys, in whose success every one who approves integrity, industry, and enterprize, must be deeply interested.

Messrs. Maxwell and Manning have completed the first volume of their accurate and valuable edition of Shakespeare. The plan on which this edition is conducted is generally known. The latest and best editions of this poet are carefully revised, the less interesting matter in the commentary is omitted, and some useful additions have been made from the stock of American sagacity and ingenuity.

Proposals have been issued for publishing, by subscription, Lectures on Theology, by the late Dr. Charles Nisbet, president of Dickinson college. This work is to be prefaced with a life of the author, by Dr. S. Miller, of New York.

To those who are acquainted with the character of the late Dr. Nisbet, no recommendation will be necessary to engage their attention to this publication. His profound erudition, his eminent talents, and his fervent piety, rendered him, for many years, a distinguished light in the church of Scotland, and a principal leader of what is there denominated the orthodox party. His high reputation induced the trustees of Dickinson college to call him from the conspicuous and honourable sphere of usefulness which he occupied in his native country, to take the presidency of that institution. This important station he held for

near twenty years, with a degree of honour to himself, and of advantage to the seminary, which those who have attended to the progress of American literature well know. The lectures now proposed to be published were delivered, at Dickinson college, to a select class of theological students, who heard them with so much gratification and instruction, that manuscript. copies were eagerly sought after, and by a few obtained; and application was made to the venerable president, on his death-bed, for his consent to have the whole laid before the public, in a more correct and perfect form.

Though the body of theological instruction, now offered to the world, was not originally formed with a view to publication, and though it did not receive the advantage of the author's last corrections; yet, unless his friends have formed a very partial and erroneous estimate of the work, it will be found to contain a rich fund of theological learning, which will abundantly repay the reader, and form a lasting monument to the honour of the author.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE author of the Elegiac Stanzas is earnestly solicited to make this work the depository of his fugitive pieces. Many such must be lying in his port folio. Whatever resolutions his diffidence may adopt, with regard to the future, a muse so prompt and fertile as his will find it impossible to be wholly silent. She cannot open her lips but to awaken the respectful attention of a much greater number than he seems at present aware of, and her most careless and unlaboured effusions will be gratefully received. The editor extremely regrets that he cannot admit these stanzas into the present number. He is obliged to reserve them for the next.

Yelse's favour was received too late for the present number.

N. W.'s advice is well meant, but if the editor's integrity would allow him to follow such counsel, he wants, alas! both the wit and the invention that are requisite to make it graceful and becoming. In VERO tutissimnis ibis, an honest poet would say.