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 A new edition, very much improved and corrected, o fLangborne’s Plutarch, by the Rev. Francis Wrangham, will appear this month.

A new edition of Mr. Thornton'a Present State of Turkey, with very considerable additions and alterations, including a map of the Turkish empire and a plan of Constantinople, is expected to appear this month.

The Rev. J. Gordon’s History of Ireland has been translated into French, and published at Paris in three octavo volumes.

The History of Chili, natural, civil, and political, translated from the Italian of Abbé Molina, with notes from the Spanish and French versions, is in the press at New-York, in two octavo volumes. This work will be reprinted in London.

The second part of the Philosophical Transactions contains,

. Observations of a comet, made with a view to investigate its magnitude and the nature of its illumination: to which is added an account of a new irregularity lately perceived in the apparent figure of the planet Saturn, by William Herschel, L145.

. Hydraulic investigations subservient to an intended Croonian Lecture on the motion of the blood, by Thomas Young, 164.

. A letter on the alterations that have taken place in the structure of rocks on the surface of the basaltic country in the counties of Derry and Antrim, addressed to Humphry Davy, Esq. Sec. by William Richardson, 187.

. A letter on the differences in the structure of calculi, which arise from their being formed in different parts of the urinary passages, and on the effects that are produced on them by the internal use of solvent medicines, from Mr. William Brande to Edward Home, Esq. 223.

. Some observations on Mr. Brande’s paper on catculi, by Everard Home, Esq. 244.

. On the changes preduced in atmospheric air and oxygen gas by respiration, by William Allen, Esq. and W. H. Pepys, Esq. 249.

. Description of an apparatus for the analysis of the compound inflammable gases by slow combustion, with experiments on the gas from coal, explaining its application, by William Henry, M. D. vice-president of the Lit. and Phil. Society, and physician to the infirmarv at Manchester, communicated by Humphry Davy, Esq. Sec. 282.

. An account of some peculiarities in the anatomical structure of the womb, with observations on the female organs of generation, by Everard Home, Esq. 304.

. On the origin and office the alburnum of trees, in a letter from T. A. Knight, Esq. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 313.

. Eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, observed by John Goldingham, Esq. F. R. S. and under his superintendence at Madras in the East Indies322. . Electro-chemical researches on the decomposition of the earths, with observations on the metals obtained from the alkaline earths, and on the amalgam G2