borax. bear. The lower part, or cradle, is made 160 of red lead,-60 of sand,—60`of' Mr. F. claims, as part of his invention, the method of cutting and filing the socket of the pen, hollow in shape like the nib of a pen, and making a small groove at the point, instead of the slit. When these are subjected to such a heat, as to be thereby completely fused, he takes equal parts of each mixture, and grinds them to an impalpable pow der, for the purpose of being mixed with menstruum proper for coating the glass. a The menstruum consists of one part of because without such an addition the MR. JOHN DAVENPORT'S, (BARRLEM,) for The second is-120 parts of cullitt, MONTHLY MAG, No. 195. This invention is not only applicable to all kinds of useful and ornamental articles of glass-ware, on which the common methods of engraving have been practised, but may be applied to windowglass and plate-glass, of every description, in place of grinding, for the purpose of making window-blinds. It is also said to be peculiarly adapted to produce beau I tiful tiful specimens of art, for the windows of altar-pieces, libraries, museums, coachwindows, and for the glass used in or namental buildings of all descriptions. This invention has another advantage ⚫ver the common method, by the work wearing much cleaner than the work of ground-glass; the surface of which being fractured by the action of the wheel, &c. is therefore liable to gather dirt on the rough unpolished parts of the borders, &c. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN JANUARY. ** As the List of Nero Publications, contained in the Monthly Magazine, is the ONLY COMPLETE LIST PUBLISHED, and consequently 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 Work, (Post paid,) and they will always be faithfully inserted, FREE of EXPENSE. 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SCOTT, late oriental professor at the Royal East-India College, has in the press, an edition of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, to be embellished with engravings from designs by Smirke. The last edition in four vols. duodecimo, of the translation from Galland's French version, received considerable additions from the pen of Mr. Gough, of Enfield. This edition Dr. Scorт adopts as his basis, carefully revising and occasionally correcting it from the Arabic original. To this he has added a new volume, comprising thirty-five Tales, now first translated from an Arabic copy of the One Thousand and One Nights, brought into Europe by Edward Wortley Montagu, and deposited in the Bodleian Library; and also an Introduction and Notes illustrative of the Religion, Manners, Customs, and domestic Habits, &c. of the Mahummedans. A new and enlarged edition is in the press, of Mr. CUMMINGS's Observations on the Properties of Cylindrical and Conical Wheels, accompanied by a Supplement elucidatory of the national advantages to be expected from the investigations of the select Committees of the House of Commons. Mrs. WEST's new novel, entitled the Refusal, will be published in a few days. Mr. COOKE, of Brentford, has in the press, a practical treatise on Tinea Capitis Contagiosa; together with enquiries into the nature and cure of Fungus, Hæmatodes, and Nævi Materni. will continue at the same hour on each Friday and Saturday evening. An interesting volume is in the press by the Rev. Dr. WHITAKER, formed principally from Letters of Sir George Radcliffe. Mr. HUTTON, of Birmingham, is printing an account of his Trip to Coatham, a watering-place on the Yorkshire coast. The Rev. Mr. PHELPS has nearly completed his Botanical Calendar. A new edition is printing of Mr. CUMBERLAND'S Poem on the Death of Christ. The dried specimens which accompany Mr. Amos's Treatise on Grasses, may now be had without difficulty. Mr. THOMAS HAYNES, an experienced propagator of trees, shrubs, and plants, is about to publish early in the spring, New and interesting Discoveries in Horticulture, as an improved system of propagating fruit-trees, hardy American and other evergreens, and deciduous ornamental trees and shrubs. The Spring Course of Lectures at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, commence the beginning of February; viz. At St. Thomas's, Anatomy and the Operations of Surgery, by Mr. CLINE and Mr. COOPER--Principles and Prac tice of Surgery, by Mr. CooPER. At Guy's Hospital, Practice of Medicine, by Dr. BABINGTON and Dr. CUR RY.-Chemistry, by Dr. BABINGTON, Dr. MARCET, and Mr. ALLEN.-Expe rimental Philosophy, by Mr. ALLEN. 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THOMAS COMBER is compiling from unpublished manuscripts, and other authentic sources, the History of the Parisian Massacre of St. Bartholomew, wherein all the minute circumstances of that sanguinary event are faithfully pourtrayed. ROBERT STLELE, Esq. of the Royal Marines, is preparing for the press, a Tour through the Atlantic, or Recollections from Madeira, the Azores, and Newfoundland, including the period of discovery, produce, manners, and customs of each, with Memorandums from the convents visited in 1809, in his Majesty's ship Vestal. The Rev. D. DAVIES, of Milford, Derbyshie, is engaged in writing a new Historical and Descriptive View of the Town and County of Derby, in one large volume, octavo: he invites communications respecting the antiquities, natural history, or recent improvements. Mr. MUDFORD has completed his Translation of Bausset's Life of Fenelon, MISS RUNDELL, of Percy House, Bath, has just completed a Grammar of Sa. cred History, including the Old and New Testament, with Maps, &c. Mr. JENNINGS's amusing Poems, consisting of Retrospective Wanderings, the Mysteries of Mendip, the Magic Ball, Sonnets, and other Pieces, are in the press. In the ensuing month will be published, a History of the Mahrattas, prefaced by an historical sketch of the Decan; containing a short account of the rise and fall of the Moslim sovereignties, prior to the æra of Mahratta independence, by EDWARD SCOTT WARING, Esq. Lieut. Colonel MARK WILKS will publish early next month, in quarto, with maps, the first volume of his Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to trace the History of Mysoor, from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of that State, to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799. Mr. WILLIAM WILKINS, author of the Antiquities of Magna Græcia, proposes to publish in the ensuing spring in an imperial quarto volume, a Translation of the Civil Architecture of Vitruvius, illustrated by numerous engravings executed by LowRY. Dr. AIKIN has in the press, in two octavo volumes, Memoirs of the Life of Peter Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches, translated from the original, by Huet himself, with the addition of copious notes, critical and biographical. Major SAMUEL DALES has nearly ready for publication, an Essay on the Study of the History of England, in one octavo volume. The Rev. Mr. HODGSON is preparing a collective edition of the works of his venerable relation the late Bishop of London; to which will be prefixed a Life of the author, founded on authentic materials. Dr. LAWRENCE is preparing for the press, from the papers of his late brother, a volume of Critical Observations on the New Testament, particularly on the Prophecies of the Revelations. Sir RICHARD COLT HOARE has in the press, the History of Ancient Wiltshire; and the first part, illustrated by several plates, will appear early in the spring. The first volume of the Transactions of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, will speedily make its appearance. Dr. CHARLES ANDERSON, of Leith, the translator of Werner's classical work on Veins, has in the press a Translation of the celebrated Von Buch's Mineralogical Description of the county of Landen, in Silesia. DAUBUISSON, a distinguished pupil of Werner, some time ago published an excellent Description of the Floetz-trap formation in Bohemia. A translation of this work by a member of the Wernerian Society, will appear early this spring. The Map of Devonshire, by Colonel MUDGE, is completed, and in another month, will be given to the public. Expectation has been much raised by this work, from the high character of the author, whose affections have gone with his labours, in anxiety to exhibit his native county in the most perfect style; and we are induced to think, from the representation of those who have seen it |