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    A new RevieW , to be published quarterly , is said to be forthcoming , edited by the Rev . Blanco White . Another volume , in quarto , of Lingard ' s History of England , beginning with the Commonwealth , will be published in November .

    In the press and will shortly be published , an Historical Romance , chiefly illustrative of the public events and domestic manners of the Fifteenth Century , entitled , The Last of the Plantagenets . Also , in owe volume post octavo , Literary Remains of the late Henry Neele , Esq ., consisting of Lectures on English Poetry > Tales , and Miscellaneous Pieces , in Prose and Verse , never before published . . -

    At the close of the present year , in 2 vols . 8 vo ., Essays on . the Principles of Morality , and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind . By the late Jonathan Dymond , Author of " An Inquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity /' &c .

    The work is divided into three Essays . In the first of these the author has endeavoured to investigate and lay down the true Principles of Morality ; in which term is included , first , the Ultimate Standard of Right and Wrong ; and , secondly , Subordinate Rules for the direction of our conduct in life . In the

    second Essay these principles are applied in determining some of our more pro minent personal and relative duties . In the third , the writer has attempted to apply sound and pure moral principles to questions of Government , of Legislation , of the Administration of Justice , of Religious Establishments , &c .

    Thus the general object of the work is , first , to ascertain and to establish the authority of the true Standard of Right and Wrong , and then to bring various private and political questions to that standard as a test : to offer to the public a work of Moral and Political Philosophy founded primarily on the morality of the Gospel . It was the belief of the author of these

    Essays that the treatises on moral philosophy already existing , do not exhibit the principles and enforce the obligations of morality in all their perfection and purity . His desire , therefore , was to supply this deficiency , to exhibit a true and authoritative standard of rectitude , and no estimate , by an appeal to that standard , the moral character of human actions . The Rev . George Oliver ia preparing

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    for the press a " History ofInitiation /' forming a second volume to his " Signs and Symbols of Freemasonry , illustrated in Twelve Lectures . "

    The Annuals . These beautiful volumes have now attained a degree of importance in our literature which we could 'hardly have anticipated from their origin . In Germany , the public had long been familiar with annual literary anthologies , to which the most celebrated authors of that country were not merely " prevailed upon , " but were anxious to contribute . Mr «

    Ackerman , whose " Forget Me Not *' has the merit of being the parent of the imitative race in this country , was fortunate in the attempt , as a bookselling speculation , but as nothing farther . The " Forget Me Not , " however , sold , and other booksellers entered the field .

    Messrs . Hurst and Robinson came forward with the " Graces , " and Mr . Lupton Relfe with " Friendship ' s Offering . " So far we had made some improvement upon the common pocket-books , which eked out their claim to the price of eighteen-pence or half-a-crown , by the su » peradditiou of a few wretched prints and a few wretched verses . In the following

    year , a considerable improvement was manifested in all three , particularly in the " Forget Me Not , * ' and a verbal alteration appeared in the title of one , which , from the " Graces , " became the *« Literary Souvenir . " The " Amulet " followed , which affected to be a Christian miscellany ; but the Editor , probably conceiving religion to be inconsistent

    with gentility or good taste , turned out as very a heathen as any of his predecessors . Last year , the ' Keepsake , " for all its simple ti $ le , being ambitious , we presume , of " filling a greater space in the public eye" than its neighbours , appeared in a very imposing manner , both as to size and price . The " Bijou" and the " Winter ' s Wreath" were

    next . This year a new Annual , called the " Anniversary , " edited by Allan Cunningham , will be added to the list , as a rival to the " Keepsake j" and the " Gem , " formerly the " Pledge of Friendship , " by Mr . Thoiufts Hood , will

    contain the last puns of that facetious gentleman . Any statement that might be made with regard to tlie merits of the forthcoming volumes would belustly regarded either as impudent puns or mattclons slanders . As yet , we can receive our information only through such im * - partial persons as editors and publishers ;

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    Intelligence \~~ L % terary Notices . 727

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1828, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2565/page/71/