Mr. Andrew Brown has obtained a patent for Improvements in the Construction of a Press, for printing Books and other Articles, part of which may be applied to Presses in common use. THESE improvements are on the press itself; on the use of barrels or cylinders for feeding the types with ink; and in the loose frisket and manner of using it. The press is made of cast iron, as is also the bed which must be accurately faced for the types to lie on A follower gives pressure on the types, and is fixed to the screw. In using this press, the cast iron bed slides out below the roller or cylinder, which revolves round and feeds the types with ink. It is covered with flannel, or any other elastick substance, and then is covered with parchment or vellum, or other proper materials to prevent the ink from soaking too far in, and likewise to give it a spring, and afterwards is covered with supine wollen cioth, for the purpose of eceiving the ink to supply the types. There is a large barrel, or cylinder, and also a smaller one; the former having received the ink from the trough undern at it, the latter rolls on the other, and distributes or spreads out the ink on the face of it; or it may be necessary, with the small barrei er cylinder, occasionally to use a brush to distribute the ink, or lay the ink on the large barrel The large barrel feeds the other with ink, and that revolves and feeds the types by the motion of the spindle, which moves the bed. Mr. B. is able to apply the barrels or cyAnders, which he reckons his principal improvement, to presses now in common use, by means of a fly-wheel and traddle, which give motion to the two barrels or cylinders, and distribute the ink over the types, to feed them with ink either by the motion of the hand or fly-wheel, or by other methods well known to every mechanick. Frederick Bartholomew Folsch and William Howard have obtained a patent for a certain Machine, Instrument, or Pen, calculated to promote Facility in Writing: and also a certain Black Writing Ink or Composition, the Durability whereof is not to be affected by Time, or change of Climate. THE pen is made of glass, enamel, or other substance capable of admitting a bore. The point is small and finely polished; but the part above the point is large enough to hold as much or more ink than a common writing pen. The composition is a mixture of equal parts of Frankfort black and fresh butter, which is smeared over paper and rubbed off after a certain pressed for some hours, taking care to time. The paper thus smeared is to be have sheets of blotting paper between each of the sheets of black paper. When fit for this blackened paper, and the upper shect use, the paper is put between sheets of is to be written on with common ink with the glass or enamel pen. 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By Robert Ker Porter. 2 vols. 4to. pp. 611. London.-Philadelphia, republishing by Hopkins & Earle. WHEN a person of moderate abilities and limited information is betrayed, in an unlucky hour, into an act of ordinary authorship, we do not conceive ourselves bound to take any notice of it. The book most probably contains nothing which calls for publick censure; and it is still less likely to reward us with matter fit for extract or abridgment. But it is otherwise, when a person of this description travels, and tells his story. He can scarcely avoid setting down something worthy of our attention; and we have accordingly made it a rule, to examine, with some pains, almost every work of this class, noting the defects, and separating and preserving the useful parts, even though they should be as two grains of wheat in a bushel of chaff. In pursuance of this plan, we are now to make our readers acquainted with Mr. Ker Porter. He has been long known, we presume, to most of them, as a very ingenious artist. In this book, he does not increase, nor indeed sustain, that reputation; nor does he add to it any considerable portion of literary fame, although he entitles himself to the much higher praise of amiable feelings. The preface to a book generally contains the author's opinion of its VOL. II. defects; and this is pretty sure to be one of the most erroneous of all his positions. Mr. Ker Porter points out " continual egotism, an appearance of ostentation, and perhaps a too unreserved disclosure of his own situation and feelings," as his most "prominent imperfections." We cer tainly cannot altogether acquit him of these faults; but, that they bear any proportion to the whole defects of his work, or that, in a book of travels, they deserve to be seriously considered, unless where other and greater failings are not discoverable, we must take the liberty of denying. We wish Mr. Ker Porter had looked somewhat sharper after such failings. If he had corrected them, his book would have been improved; but if he had only noticed them in his preface, a good deal of trouble might have been spared to us. Our author sailed from England in August 1805, and had a favourable. passage to the Sound. As he ap proached Elsineur, he was occupied with the most mild and interesting meditations upon "a city immortal ized by the pen of our matchless Shakspeare." He had been following Hamlet every where; he had proceeded to measure the deep shadows on the platform;" he had then |