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Princes, though naturally haughty and paffionate, proves, on his acceffion to the crown, humble in his thoughts, and gentle in his temper; the younger, who at firft fhowed fymptoms of an indolent and trifling difpofition, becomes active and energetic; and both, although of oppolite characters, unite in firm and affectionate friendship. There is not, it is true, much novelty in the defign or execution of this little werk; but the maxims laid down are, generally fpeaking, juft; and the book is not unworthy of admiflion into 'thofe ufeful libraries for children, which the prefent age has produced.

ART. 55. A Review of the Mufical Drama of the Theatre-Royal, Dray Lane, for the Years 1797, 98, 99, and 1800: which will tend to develope a Syftem of private Influence injurious to Mufical Emulation, and Public Entertainment; and to elucidate feveral interefting Points of Matter in Mrs. Plowden's late diftinguished Publication. Addressed to the Proprietors of the Theatre. By R. Houlton, M. B. 8vo. 80 pp. 2s. Weftley, &c. 1891.

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A formidable attack upon Mr. Kelly, of Drury-Lane Theatre, as practising many undue arts, to fecure to him If the exclufive advantages of the mufical department in that houfe, is carried on throughout this pamphlet. In the difpute we have no inclination to interfere. Certain it is, that feveral very curious allegations are urged against the perfon accufed; but whether any thing can be faid in reply, remains to be difclofed. The piece which particularly occafioned this difcufion, is Wilmore Cattle, an Opera, by the author of this tract; of which, as a drama, we found ourselves unable to give much commendation*. The "diftinguifhed publication of Mrs. Plowden," is an Opera, entitled Virginia, the Preface to which is here reprinted (p. 35) as containing allegations fimilar to thofe of Mr. Houlton. The Opera, itfelf, after the diftinction thus attributed to it, we fhall take an early opportunity to examine. Acuteness and vivacity are manifeft in the mode of urging the charges here made, which are fuch as the public has reafon to refent, if they appear to be well-founded.

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ART. 57. Elements of German Converfation, upon the Plan of Perrins's Elements, By George Crabb. 12mo, 114 PP. 2s, bound. Boofey. 1800.

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We have already commended fome of Mr. Crabb's publications on the German language. The prefent is a vocabulary divided into fections, each of which is followed by a fet of examples, in which the words are applied. It appears to be a very convenient book to furnish and direct the ftudies of learners,

The first edition was noticed in March laft, p. 314, and the fecond very briefly, with three others, in April, p. 434.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

FRANCE.

ART. 58. Notions mathématiques de Chymie et de Médecine, ou Théorie du fu, ou l'on démontre par les caufes la lumière, les couleurs, le fon, la fievre, nos maux, la clinique. Par Antide Mangin, docteur médecin du Jura. Paris, 1800. 8vo. 334 pp. Pr. 4 fr. 25 cent.

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Nothing can be more extraordinary than the ideas on which the au thor establishes his fyftem of conienfations and dilatations, unless it be perhaps the jargon adopted by him to exprefs them. he, " par le compas de Newton et la bouffole de Lavoifier, le timon Guidé," fays de la clinique à la main, j'ai tourné le feffe, celle de quérir; au rétour, j'apporte la folution des problemes la fcience cap vers que je prode l'homme fain et malade, et par elle celle des phénomènes naturels.... Je conviens, que l'objet de mes méditations étoit circonferit; tant que l'ennemi fous la hache duquel je tomberai, n'avoit attaqué que les ouvrages avancé, je l'avois combattu mollement; mais déjà il avoit plus d'une fois pénétré jufqu'au cœur de la place. Pour le chaffer, il m'en avoir couté du fang, je n'en pouvois perdre beaucoup; il falloit pourvoir à des moyens de refiftance moins abfomptifs; tel étoit mon unique point de mire. Je cherchai dans une maladie putement chymique, dont la caufe pût m'être connue, et qui fût douée du même mouvement de principes que celle dont je fuis atteint. Je la trouvai dans la mitte et le fronton, affection particulière aux hommes courageux qui fe déyouent aux dernières fonctions de la fociété, l'exponction des larmes déterminées par l'une, la cécution dont frappe l'autre, me préfentè rent non feulement la théorie des intumefcences indolentes et des frigefcences douloureufes qui caractérisent le rhumatifme chronique, mais encore celle du vomiffement, de laquelle fe déduifoit fans peine le mouvement périftaltique. Pour parvenir à ces réfultats, je n'avois employé que des condenfations et des dilatations: j'avois beau par courir la création entière, partout je retrouvois ces mêmes phénomènes, l'un produit par le froid, l'autre par la chaleur. La nature, m'écriaije, ne nous en impofe que par une fimplicité inimaginable, purement pyrotechnique; elle n'a pas d'autres puiffances que fes condenfations et fes dilarations, tels font les deux voiles dont elle couvre toutes fes œuv L'un d'eux avoit été heureufement foulevé par la chynie, l'autre n'offroit rien de fi étonnant que d'étre fi voisin de l'homme, et qu'il ne Ja pénétrât pas. Déchirons-le, avons nous dit, & nous parvenons aux caufes premières des dilatations et des condenfations, la nature n'aura plus de fecrets, et le grand livre de fes merveilles fera réduit à un petit nombre de feuillets qui feront auffi fimples qu'elle l'eft elle même. Je ne me trompois pas; enfemble parcourons le рец de pages qu'ils con

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We fhall only observe, that if nature has really entrusted the knowledge of her fecrets to Mr. M. fhe has certainly, at the fame time, witheld from him the means of communicating them, in an intelligible manner, to others. Magas. Encyclop.

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ART. 59. Hiftoire naturelle des quadripèdes ovipares, par F. M. Daudin, membre des fociétés d'hiftoire naturelle et philomatique de Paris; avec des gravures faites et enluminées fur les deffins d'après nature, par J. Barraband. Deuxième livraison. Paris.

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This fecond livraison is compofed of fix plates, representing, 1. the byla viridis; 2. the byla boans; 3. the byla venulofa; 4. the byla lac wa, and hypochondrialis; 5. the byla lateralis, and the byla bilin ata; and, lastly, 6. the byla marmorata; each engraving being accompanied with two pages of text. We are informed likewife, that when the thirty-livraifons, of which this work is to contift, are finished, the author will publifh a volume in quarto, with the title, Traité élémentaire et complet de l'hiftoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, written on the fame plan with the firft volume of the treatife on Ornithology, published fome months ago.

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ART. 60. Dictionnaire portatif de la Fable, pour l'intelligence des poEtes, des tableaux, ftatues, pierres gravées, médailles et autres monuments relatifs à la mythologie, par Chompré. Nouvelle édition revue, corris gée et confidérablement augmentée, par A. L. Millin, garde des médailles, pierres gravées, et antiques de la bibliotheque nationale, profeffeur d'hiftoire et d'antiquité, &c. 1 vol. 8vo, of more than 1000 pages. Pr. 8 fr. 50 cent. Paris,

As the author was not publishing an original work, but only making additions to, and improvements in, that of Chompré, he has availed himfelf of all the exifting materials, and fometimes borrowed entire articles from other writers. The works to which he has had recourse, after the claffics, and befides a very great number of particular differtations, are thofe of Banier, Heyne, Vofs, Boettiger, Hermann Lenz, Moritz, Seybold, Rambach, Voelkel, Siebenkees, Larcher, Delandine, Dupuis, Baffville, Zoëga, Liffing, Vogel, &c. the excellent dictionary of Heredich, written in Germany, and revified by Schwabe, that of Nitfch, and the English Dictionary of Riley. Many articles have likewife been extracted from the learned author's Course of Lectures on Antiquities; and the account, or descriptions, of the different monuments, from the most confiderable and univerfally efteemed engravings, fuch the Statutes of Roffi, the Monumenti inediti of Winkelman and Guattani, the Florentine, Veronefe, Pio-Clementine and Capitoline Museums; the Antiquité expliquée of Montfaucon; the Recueil d'Antiquités of Caylus; the Villa Pinciana, the Galleria Giuftiniani; the Greek Vafes of Pafferi, Hancarville, and Fischbein, the Paintings of the Herculaneum, thofe of the Tombs of the Nafos, of the Baths of Titus; the Pièrres gravées of Mariette, Ficoroni, Lachauffe, Gravelle, Stofch, Lippert, and Tafie; thofe of the Cabinets of Orleans and of Vienna; the Lamps of Bartoli and Pafferi; the Medals of Hunter, Vaillant, Seguin, Patin, Morel, Magnan, Geffner, Eckhel; the Medallions of Décamps, Albani, Carpegna, and of the Cabinet du Roi, the Inferiptions of Gruter, Mu ratori, Marini, &c, &c,

Ibid.

ITALY.

ART. 61. Mumiographia, Mufei Obiciani, &c. Padua, 1800. 4to. 65 pp. with two Plates.

In this work the learned and indefatigable author, Paulinus à Ste. Bartholomeo, defcribes an Egyptian mummy, covered with hierogly phics, which had attracted his attention, when, in the month of July, 1799, he had been, together with Cardinal Borgia and Dr. Florian Caldani, to fee the magnificent mufeum of the Marquis Thomas de Obiciis at Catajo, near Padua. Mr. Edward Wortley Montague, celebrated for his travels and his fingular adventures, had enriched that museum with this muminy before his death, which happened at Padua in 1776. The amateurs of antiquity will read with much pleasure this memoir; in which, befides the defcription of the mummy, are to be found a great number of interefting obfervations

Mr. P. à Sto. B. is likewife employed in preparing a new and greatly augmented edition of his Grammatica Samfcredana, with Latin characters, for the ufe of Europeans.

GERMANY.

ALT. 62. Joh. Gurlitts Verfuch über die Büßenkunde.—Essay on Bufis, by J. Gurlitt. Magdeburg, 1800. 4to. 91 pp.

Mr. G. has before published several valuable works on the subject of Archæology. In the prefent one, which is peculiarly important, he treats of antique bults; his differtation is divided into fix parts.

The author firft gives an account of the origin and use of heads, of Hermès and of antique bufts. By the term Hermès are understood heads placed on a fquare base, because Hermès (Mercury) had been reprefented in this manner. Thus we fay Hermathene, to indicate a Minerva lo placed; Hermerates, to denote a Cupid of the fame form, and not, as has been imagined, to fignify the double heads of Mercury and Minerva, of Mercury and Cupid, &c.

Mr. G. gives an alphabetical catalogue of 375 bufts, of all kinds, ftill exifting. The authors from whofe works he has formed it are chiefly Urfini, Bellori, Sandrart, the Capitoline and Pio-Clementine

mufeums.

ART. 63. Reife nach Troas oder Gemählde der Ebene von Troja in ihren gegenwärtigen Zustande vom Bürger Lechevalier. Nach dem Franzörifchen der zweyten Aufgabe frey bearbeitet, von C. G. Lenz, Profeffor am Gymnafium zu Gotha.-Voyage to the Troad, or description of the Plain of Troy in its prefent State, by Lechevalier, Freely tranflated from the Second French Edition, by C. G. Lenz, Profeffor in the Gymnafium at Gothe, with Eight Engravings, and a Chart. Altenburg and Erfurt, 1800; 271 pp. in 8vo.

A work had already been publifhed, on the Plain of Troy, by Mr. Lenz, after a manufcript of the Duke de Choifeul, which had been fent to him from Tranfylvania, in which he had given an account of the fcene of the Iliad, according to Homer. Since that time, he has pubblished this German tranflation of the fecond edition of the excellent work of Mr. Lechevalier, on the Plain of Troy. Befides this verfion,

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well executed, and accompanied with notes, Mr. L. publishes in this volume a letter, which had been addreffed to him by Mr. Ake blad, who had refided for feveral years as Swedish Secretary of Legation at Conftantinople, and who, in 1792 and 1797, had vifited the road. This letter contains different obfervations on the work of Lechevali r ; and, among other things, an infeription, copied by Mr. Akerblad near Tfchiblak; an exact copy of the infcription, published No. V. of the work of Lechevalier, pp. 262 feqq.; a copy of what is ftill remaining of the Sigean infcription; fome other infcriptions, found in the Troad by an English merchant, Willis, fettled in the Dardanelles, in whofe houfe Mr. Akerblad copied them, in 1792, &c. The other additions confift of two letters from Major Schwartz, one of them to Mr. Heyne, the other to Mr. Lenz, another from the Swedish Major Helwig to Mr. Heyne, alfo relating to the Troad; and, laftly, fome ob. fervations of the late Mr. Kaefner, Professor at Göttingen, on the height of Mount Athos.

ART. 64. Petri Camperi, fummi medici, differtationes decem, quibus ab illuftribus Europa, præcipuè Galliæ, academiis palma adjudicata.— Accedunt ejufdem de optima agendi vel expectandi in medicina ratione liber fingularis, et differtatio de forcipum indole et actione. Vol. fecundum et ultimum; cum tabulis in ære expreffis. Lingen, 1800. 834 pp. in 8vo.

The first volume of thefe very valuable Differtations was published in 1799. In this fecond volume we have the following articles, befides thofe fpecified in the title: 7, De remediorum fpecialium requifitis, genuina hiftoria, a&ione, et optima adminiftrandi methodo; necnon de morbis, quorum fpeciales curationes defiderantur; to which the prize was awarded in 1779, by the Royal Academy at Dijon; 8, p. 129, Differtatis de fomni et vigiliae indole atque ufu in morbis qui manu curantur; which, in 1781, obtained the prize from the Royal Chirurgical Society at Paris; 9, p. 227, Solution de la question: comment le vice des différentes excretions peut influer fur les maladies chirurgicales? et quelles font les regles des pratique, relatives à cet objet ; to which the prize was likewife adjudged in 1782, by the fame fociety; 10, p. 389, De hydrope, to which the prize was given by the Royal Medical Society at Paris, in the fame year, and which was also published in 1788, in the fixth volume of the Mémoires de la Société Royale de Medecine at Paris. The three annexed plates belong to the laft Differtation, De forcipum indole Jena ALZ.

et actione.

ART. 65. Codices manufcripti theologici bibliothecæ Palatine Vindobenenfis Latini aliarumque Occidentis linguarum. Volumen I. codices ad Caroli VI. tempora bibliothecæ illatos complexum Pars I.—III. 3358 Col. together with a double Index.--Vol. II. codices à Caroli VI. temporibus bibliothecæ illatos complexum, Pars I. Recenfuit, digeffit, indicibus inftruxit Michael Denis, a concil. aul. Aug. et ejufdem bibliotheca primus cuftos. Vienna, 1799. 1116 Col. Fol.

The theological manufcripts defcribed in this very important and accurate work, are divided by the learned author into hierographici, ber

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