...The Grey Brother,...Thomas the Like the corpse of an outcast abandoned to weather, Till the mountain-winds wasted the tenantless clay. Nor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended, For, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended, The much-loved remains of her master defended, And chased the hill-fox and the raven away. How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber; Many of these pieces possess very considerable merit; though we cannot but consider the Lay of the last Minstrel as decidedly the chef d'oeuvre of Mr Scott; for with greater force of genius, it unites a degree of sim. plicity which he had not before attained. Glenfinlas, however, is a very fine poem; and with the translations (or paraphrases) from Burger, appears to us the best of those formerly published. At the end of the volume And, Oh! was it meet, that,...no requiem are several songs, produced for the musical collections of Messrs White and Thomson. They seem to be written later than the Lay, and prove, we think, that in the course of composing that poem, Mr Scott's genius had received a permanent improvement. They are marked by that character of sedate and solemn tenderness in which he particularly excels. We shall present our readers with Hellvellyn, which is thus prefaced: In the spring of 1805, a young gentleman of talents, and of a most amiable disposition, perished by losing his way on the mountain Hellvellyn. His remains were not discovered till three months afterwards, when they were found guarded by a faithful terrier-bitch, his constart attendant during fr quent solitary rambles through the wilds of Cumberland and Westmoreland. When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start; How many long days and long weeks didst thou number, Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart; read o'er him, New Works published in EDINBURGH. P. during the great civil war; being the Life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and Memoirs of Captain Hodgson, with notes, &c. Edited by Walter Scott, Esq. 8vo. 12s. 1. 11. 7s. Pirie's Miscellaneous Works, 6 vols. 8vo. 11. 43. (Perth.) Count Alfieri's Italian Tragedies, with two others, by Marquis Maffei, and Abati Monti. To which are added, Biographical and Critical accounts of the Life and Writings of Alfieri. By Antonio Montucci, Sanese, L.L.D. 8vo. 11. 1s. A Treatise on the Varieties and ly completed, and its publication may be expected in January or FebIt will be constructruary next. ed from original materials, to which he has obtained access by means of the parliamentary commissioners for making roads and building bridges in the highlands of Scotland. The elaborate military survey of the mainland of Scotland, made in the middle of the last century, and preserved in his Majesty's library, has been copied and reduced for the present map, and the several proprietors of the western islands have communicated all their surveys, most of which have been recently executed. Consequences of Ophthalmia. By In addition to the astronomical obser. Arthur Edmonstone M. D. 8vo. 7s. Reflections on the Administration of Civil Justice in Scotland, 8vo. 2s. 6d. An Attempt to delineate some of the public services of Lord Mel. ville, a poem, 8vo. 1s. Extraits des Meilleurs auteurs François en prose & en vers, par M. Hallard, 12mo. 6s. The British Indian Monitor; or Substance of different works on the Hindostanee language. By the author of Hindostanee philology, &c. vol. 1. 8vo. A system of practical Book-keeping, by C. Buchan, 8vo. 7s. The Edinburgh Review, No. 17. Scottish Literary Intelligence. vations heretofore known, many latitudes and longitudes have been purposely ascertained for this map, as well as a considerable number of magnetic variations. The map is to be accompanied by a memoir, explanatory of the several documents on which it has been constructed. Proposals have been circulated for publishing, by subscription a catalogue of plants growing in the liberties of Berwick, and the adjacent parts of the country on both sides of the Tweed; arranged according to the system of Linnæus, including their English as well as systematic names, and the several places of their growth. It will be printed in an octavo size, so as to correspond with the History of Berwick. The price will be 3s. No more copies will be printed than are subscribed for. A second volume of the Indian Monitor will appear in the course of the ensuing month. Mr Graham, minister of Aberfoyle, is publishing a work on the authenticity of Ossian. Mr Graham has obtained acknowledgements from Smith and Kennedy of their poems being in a great degree sophisticated, but expects to be able to prove that Macpherson's were all genuine, LITER LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, ENGLISH shall practise midwifery without a cer A and FOREIGN. NEW and entire edition of the literary, moral, and medical writings of the late Thomas Percival M. D. F. R. S. A. s. is now in the press; to which will be prefixed, memoirs of his life and writings, by his son, and a selection from his literary correspondence. It is the editor's design to comprise the work in four octavo volumes, in such a manner as that the literary and medical parts may be had either separately or together. The following plan for restoring the dignity and character of the medical profession, will be submitted to the legislature, in the ensuing session of parliament: No person shall practise as physician unless he be a graduate of some university in the united kingdom, and has attained the age of twenty-four years.He shall have studied the different branches of physic in an university, or other respectable school or schools of physic, during the space of five years, two of which shall have been passed in the university where he takes his degree. No person shall practise as surgeon under three and twenty years of age, nor until he has obtained a diploma or licence from some one of the royal col leges of surgeons, or other chirurgical corporations of the united kingdoms.He shall have served an apprenticeship of five years to a practitioner in surgery, and afterwards have spent at least two years in the study of anatomy and surgery in a reputable school or schools of physic. No person shall practise as an apothecary, until he shall have served an apprenticeship of five years to some regular apothecary, or surgeon practising as an apothecary ;-he shall have studied the different branches of physic in some reputable school or schools during the space of at least one year, and shall have attained the age of twenty-one years. No man shall practise midwifery, un less he has attended anatomical lectures twelve months, and received instructions for the same term from some experienced accoucheur, and shall have assisted at real labours. And no female tificate of fitness and qualification from some regular practitioner or practitioners in that branch. No person shall follow the business of a retail chemist or druggist, unless he shall have served an apprenticeship of five years to that art. None of these restrictions to be construed to affect persons at present regularly practising, in the different branches of medicine. A register shall be kept of all medical practitioners in the united kingdom, and every person in future entering upon the practice, of any branch of the profession shall pay a fine on admission. The names of the committee for carrying the plan into effect are; Sir John M. Hayes, Bart.; Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart.; Drs Blackburn, Harrison, Garthshore, Pearson, Stanger, Willan, Clutterbuck, and Secretary. The Rev. Edward Forster has announced his intention of publishing a splendid work, to be entitled The British Gallery of Engravings, from pictures of the Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch and English schools, now in the possession of the king, and the noble. men and gentlemen of the united kingdoms; with some account of each picture, and a life of the artist; and also a short history of the arts of painting and engraving, including the rise and progress of those arts in Great Britain. The work will be published in numbers, containing four plates each, as frequent. ly as a proper attention to excellence will permit; and it is understood, that the intervals will not be very great. It will be in imperial folio, and the plates will be of a size properly adapted to the different pictures, but will vary according to the nature and fullness of the subjects; the largest will be twelve inches by nine, and the smallest six inches by four. Every plate will be finished in the very best style, and they will all be engraved in the line manner, by artists of the first abilities in this country. Mr Forster has already obtained permission to have engravings made from the pictures in the several collections of his Majesty; of the Dukes of Bedford and Devonshire; of the Marquisses of Stafford and Thomond; of the Earls of Suffolk, Dartmouth, Stewart, Cowper, War Warwick, Egremont, Grosvenor, and Carlisle; of Lords Yarborough and Radstock; of Sir George Beaumont, Sir Francis Baring, Mr Coke, Mr Coxe, Mr Hibbert, Mr Henry Hope, Mr Thomas Hope, and Mr West. Several pictures have been some time in hand, and the first and second numbers may be promised in the course of next season; and the publisher, Mr Miller of Albemarle street, has pledged himself that the strictest attention shall be paid to the delivery of the numbers in the exact order in which they are subscribed for. The letter-press will be in the English and French languages. Dr Mavor is preparing for the press a new and much enlarged edition, being the third, of the British Tourists, inclu. ding the most celebrated recent tours in the British Islands. The same author has just completed, at press, a new and improved edition of Holme's Rhetoric, which has long been out of print. Dr Jones, master of the Kentish Town academy, proposes to publish by subscription a select number of the most admired Orations of Cicero, translated into English from the best Latin editions. Mr Cuthbertson, of Poland-street, has in the press a work on Practical Electricity and Galvanism, being a translation of the most interesting experiments, contained in a Treatise published by him during his late residence in Holland, with the addition of all such as have since been invented by himself and others. Mr Rannie has in the press a volume of plays and poems, which will be published in the course of a month. He has also in preparation a third edition of his first volume of poems, with additions. Some principal inhabitants of that vast suburb of the metropolis situated on the southern banks of the Thames, have determined to set on foot a new public literary establishment, to be called the Surry Library Institution. The basis and primary object of this excellent design will be to collect and accu mulate a valuable and extensive library of general literature, in the works of the best English authors of the past and present day, particularly including all new publications of merit. The books will be circulatory to subscribers at their own houses, and the library will also be open for resort and reference. Newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, &c. will be amply provided. The price of shares to a limited number of early subscribers will be six guineas, with an an nual contribution of two guineas. Persons making liberal donations may be elected by the trustees life members. The situation of the library will be chosen as centrical as possible to Southwark, Bermondsey, Newington, Walworth, Camberwell, Kennington, Stockwell, Clapham, Vauxhall, Lambeth, and Blackfriars. At present, Newington Causeway is contemplated as the most eligible scite. The government will be vested in open committees, to be held quarterly ;--the ostensible and financial management in the president, the vice. presidents, the treasurer, and the trustees; the local direction and efficient superintendance in a librarian, actuary, and accountant, (in one person) with requisite assistants. The first president is Lord Grantley, and the vice presidents consist of the county and borough members, Lord Leslie and Robert Barclay, Esq. The shares are to be proprietary; also inheritable, deviseable, and transferable. Subscriptions are received by the treasurer, Sir John Pinhoru, Southwark Bank; where the statutes and regulations at large are ready for delivery to subscribers. Mr Beaty, surgeon of the Victory, in the battle of Trafalgar, is about to publish a narrative of the most interesting occurrences on board the Victory, from her leaving Portsmouth till the day of battle inclusive; with the particulars of Lord Nelson's death, &c. &c. A new edition of Holinshed's Chro nicles is in the press, and intended to be the first of a series of the old English chronicles. A collection of important facts on the navigation system of Great Britain will be speedily laid before the public. The Rev. W. L. Bowles has undertaken a new edition of Pope's Works, including many unpublished letters, and a new life of the poet. It will appear early in the winter, and be embellished with numerous portraits. A new history of Northumberland will be shortly pab. shed, under the direction of Mr Hutchinson, of Bernard Castle. The Rev. Wm. Bawdwen is about to publish a translation of the Domesday Book, so far as it relates to the county of York, and a certain district of Lancashire, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary. The Russian is one of the least diffused of the European languages. Its limited currency has occasioned numerous errors in the orthography and pronunciation of words, and especially of proper names. This has been remark ed for some time in the German jour. nals, in which Russian proper names have been strangely disfigured. This dangerous innovation has engaged the attention of the Academy of Sciences of Petersburgh, and has probably induced it to hasten the publication of the plan of a "Rule for the Manner of writing Russian Words with foreign Characters, and foreign Words with Russian Characters." This vocabulary, prepared by a committee of that Academy, is composed of two alphabets, German and French, by means of which the proper orthography and pronunciation of words in the Russian language is rendered intelligible to foreigners. A German, having devoted himself to the study of astronomy and mathematical geography, made a calculation, fifty years ago, with a view to determine the courses of the planets round the sun, which he considered as the exact solution of the great problem of the Cyclic or Platonic year. The author of this hypothesis supposed that the six planets, known at that time, finished their courses round the sun,' the basis of his calculations. However, adopting this cycle, either by accident, or, more probably, in consequence of previous calculations, which are, undoubtedly, lost, he found that during this period of 280,000 years, the planets of our system will revolve round the sun, Mercury The Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn 23,616 9,516 M. de Lalande has found these revolutions to be perfectly accurate. He could scarcely believe that they all begin anew at the end of 280,000 years; but he has convinced himself that the author is right. The Society of Gorlitz has offered a prize of 30 crowns for the best solution of the following question: "In cloudy weather it never freezes but when Reaumur's thermometer has descended to zero, or at least very nearly to that point, Why, then, does it freeze, in serene weather, when the same thermometer stands at three or four degrees above zero." The Royal Bohemian Society offers 700 ducats for the best answer to the following question: "By what method can the various adulterations of the different necessaries of life be best ascertained or lessened, by radical examination or otherwise?" Messrs Lacepede and Cuvier have been elected members of the Royal So ciety of London. This nomination was announced to M. Delambre, one of the perpetual secretaries of the class of Mathematical and Phyfical Sciences of the Institute, by a letter from Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, to the following effect: Sir Joseph expresses to his new colleagues the pleasure he feels in announcing to them the choice made of them by the Royal Society. He considers this nomination as a striking testimony of the profound respect of the Royal Society for the Institute of France, and of the good will which unites the members of the two societies-a sentiment which he hopes will never be disturbed by any political quarrel between the two nations, nor weakened by any other circumstance." The |