ATLANTIS, New, is the name of a fictitious philosophical commonwealth, of which a description has been given by Lord Bacon. The New Atlantis is supposed to be an island in the South sea, to which the author was driven in a voyage from Peru to Japan. The composition is an ingenious fable, formed after the manner of the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, or Campanella's City of the Sun. Its chief design is to exhibit a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpretation of nature and the production of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men, under the name of Solomon's House, or "the college of the six days work." This much, at least, is finished; and with great beauty and magnificence. The author proposed also a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth. But this part is not executed.