fervations upon her character and abilities. The original work of La Bruyere, confifts chiefly of detached and unconnected paffages, not fo fhort as the maxims of La Rochefoucault, but, in a fimilar manner, expreflive of fentiments on the character of man, and the conduct of life. This little work is divided into chapters, and may be read with inftruction to children by their parents or teachers, when properly commented upon and explained. The author herself could never expect or prefume, that children of twelve years of age would of themfelves perufe a collection of dry moral precepts, unenlivened by anecdote or epifode. They are certainly creditable to the underfianding and intentions of Madame de Genlis. There are fome things which, nevertheless, will excite a fmile fron English readers, and particularly what is faid about the tone of voice to be ufed in fpeaking to women, at p. 109. ART. 52. A Satirical View of London, at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. By an Obferver. 8vo. 5s. Kearsley. 1801.This idea is certainly a very good one, and if well executed might convey much information and amusement to the public. We cannot, however, very highly commend the prefent performance, which feems deficient in the more effential qualifications of acutenefs, and an intimate knowledge of fashionable life. There is, however, fome skill in the arrangement, and fome entertainment in the volume. ART. 53. Analysis of Horsemanship: teaching the whole Art of Riding in the Manege, Military, Hunting, Racing, or Travelling Syftem. Fo gether with the Method of breaking Horfes, and dreffing them to all Kinds of Manege. By John Adams, Riding-Mafier. 8vo. 196 pp. Cadell and Davies. 1799. 125. Horfemanship, like other practical arts, cannot be taught folely, or even principally, by books: yet a judicious treatife on the subject may affift ordinary mafters, and fix in the memory of pupils the inftructions they have received. The treatife before us contains ample and (as it feems to us) judicious rules for the Manège; but there is only a fhort chapter on Military Horfemanship, and a few occafional remarks on the other fpecies of riding. Thefe, however, are reserved for a fecond volume, which is promifed by the author; and which, if executed with the fame care and judgment as the firft, will probably form one of the completeft books of the kind which have been produced in this country. ART. 54. Domeftic Union, or London as it should be; containing Obfervations on the prefent State of the Municipality of London; with Hints for its Extenfion and Improvement: together with Remarks on the WeftIndia Docks in the Isle of Dogs, the Wapping-Docks, the Projects for improving London Bridge, and for making a new Iron Bridge across the Thames; the Canal on the South Side of the River, and the feveral new Streets under Contemplation. By the Author of the Portentous Globe. 4to. 35. 6d. Walter. 1800. Some good and useful hints are communicated in this publication, in a very fingular and uncouth manner. When the meaning, however, of of an author is fo obviously praiseworthy, we are not fo rigorous as to cavil about that precifion, accuracy, and elegance, which can only be the effect of long exercife and experience. ART. 55. Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet, deduced from various Sources of authentic Information. 8vo. Robinsons. 1800. 75. A work of this kind cannot be acceptable to many; but it certainly has its ufe, and when well and skilfully conducted, materially adds to our knowledge of ancient manners. Mr. Pocock is well qualified for the task he has undertaken; he is perfevering, diligent, and obferving. The Monument in the title-page from Rainbow Church, cannot be viewed without a fmile. A warrior in an immenfe tye-wig is, to modern prejudice, the cervix equina humano capiti. But the progrefs and changes even of drefs are one fource of interefting information, by no means to be difcouraged. Some agreeable anecdotes are interwoven in this volume, particularly at pp. 63, 110, 138, &c. &c. ART. 56. Obfervations on the Failure of Turnip Crops, with Propafals for a Remedy, not altogether new, yet not fully confidered by Agricul tural Writers. By the Rev. H. P. Stacy, LL. B. F. L. S. 8vo. 24 PP. JS. Hatchard. 1800. "That turnip crops are materially injured by infects, is not to he denied; but that they are wholly deftroyed by them, is certainly yielding to an opinion, without confidering whether there are not other caufes operating at the fame and with more effect." P. 9. Thefe caufes are faid, with great probability, to be heat and drought; and the remedy fuggefted is, "placing the feed at fuch a depth, that its radicle may have powers to fupply the young plant with moiffure fufficient to forward its growth, notwithstanding the ravages of the infects, and the heat of the weather." P. 20. An experiment, which much favours this opinion, is ftated at p. 11: "Thirty-two turnip feeds were fown at different depths, in glaís veffels, filled with common garden mould, and plunged into the earth; on the fourth day after fowing, they were examined, and the refults were as follows: feed fown, at 4 inches depth, had shot forth a radicle 3 inches long, a germ 1 inch. 3 ditto, 2 ditto, 1 ditto, n an average." ditto, ditto, ditto, 2 ditro, ditto ditto. This tract appears to be very deferving of the attention of farmers. The illuftration at p. 19, would better have been omitted. We object ftrongly to the introduction of facred topics on trivial occafions. ART. 57. The British Tourist's or Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, comprehending the most celebrated Towns in the British Islands. By William Mavor, LL. D. Volume V. and VI. Izmo. 6s. Newbery. 1800. In vol. xii, p. 556, of the British Critic, an account is given, in favourable terms, of the commencement of this work, This continua tion is entitled to the fame praife. It is very neatly executed, will often be found an acceptable companion to the traveller, and will form a very defirable portion of a youthful library. ART. 58. An Account of the French Expediton to Egypt; comprehending a View of the Country of Lower Egypt, its Cities, Monuments, and Inhabitants, at the Time of the Arrival of the French; and a particular Defcription and Measurement of Pompey's Pillar, illuftrated by a Plate. By Charles Norry, Member of the Philotechnical Society, and One of the Architects attached to the Expedition. Tranflated from the French. 8vo. 53 PP. 2s. 6d. Ridgway. 1800. We have here a title-page almost as extenfive as the publication itfelf. The reader will judge what fort of an account may be expected of the French expedition to Egypt, its cities, monuments, inhabitants, &c. &c. &c. in the compass of fifty-three pages. ART. 59. The Impolicy of prohibiting the Exportation of Rock-Salt, Conftable, Edinburgh. 1799. "The reader is not to expect any new matter in the following work it is rather a felection from other authors; but fuch a felection as, perhaps, has not hitherto been prefented to the public." P. 4. In perufing many of the introductory pages of this tract, we looked back continually to the title-page; wondering but in van) how they were to be connected with the fubject propofed. Those pages, however, are not unentertaining. The main bufinefs of the book is entered upon at page 18; where it is propofed to fhow," that by the importation of rock-falt from England into Scotland, the revenue will not be diminished or endangered; the proprietors of falt-works will not be injured; and that confiderable advantages to the fisheries, the manufactories, and, in general, to the whole of that part of the united kingdom, will be acquired." Thefe points feem to be well established and the whole tract (which does not admit of abridgment) appears to be very deferving of attention. FOREIGN CATALOGUE. FRANCE. ART. 60. Fragmens fur les inftitutions républicaines. Ouvrage foflume de St. Juft. Paris. The editor of the Fragments concludes his Introduction thus: "A peine agé de 27 ans, St. Juft a été moifonné par une révolution à laquelle laquelle il avoit confacré fon existence; il a laiffé de longs regrets à la patrie et à l'amitié." To enable our readers to form fome judgment of them for themselves, we fhall prefent them with the following extracts: "Le bien même et fouvent un moyen d'intrigue. Soyons ingrats, fi nous voulons fauver la patrie. "La groffièreté eft une forte de réfiftance à l'oppreffion. "La modeftie d'un héros ne m'en impofe pas; fi vous louez la modeftie d'un homme, que feroit-il de plus dangereux pour la liberté, s'il montroit de l'orgueii? "Un gouvernement républicain a la vertu pour principe; finon la terreur, que veulent ceux qui ne veulent ni vertu, ni terreur? 66 L'opulence eft une infamie. “Il faut détruire la mendicité par la diftribution des biens nationaux aux pauvres." "Le XVIIIe fiècle doit être mis au Panthéon." We cite this propofition merely to fhow its abfurdity. "de "Combien ne doit il pas exifter de riches, puifqu'il y a en circulation quatre fois plus de fignes qu'autrefois ? Combien trois ou quatre cent millions (d'affignats) émis par mois ne jettent ils pas de corruption dans la focié é? Ce fyflême de finances pourroit faire fleurir une monarchie; mais il doit perdre toute république." He propofes lever tous les tributs, en un feul jour, fur toute la France"; as, alfo, "de donner à tous les Français les moyens d'obtenir les premières néceffités de la vie fans dépendre d'autre chofe que des lois, et fans dépendance mutuelle dans l'état civil." That is, without labour, and without affecting the property of the rich. Again: Tout homme âgé de 21 ans eft tenu de déclarer dans le temple quels font fes amis. Cette déclaration doit être renouvelée tous les ans, pendant le mois de Ventôfe. "Si un homme quitte un ami, il eft tenu d'en expliquer les motifs devant le peuple, dans les temples, fur l'appel d'un citoyen ou du plus vieux. S'il le refufe, il est banni. "Si un homme commet un crime, fes amis font bannis. "Celui qui dit qu'il ne croit pas à l'amitié, ou qui n'a point d'amis, eft banni." St. Juft was the friend of Robespierre. "Je défirerois," fays he, in another place, "que lorfqu'une idée auroit faifi tous les efprits jufqu'à la fureur, il y eûr, fur la tribune aux harangues, une couronne civique pour celui qui, même en fe trompant, la combattroit avec décence et générofité." This wish would be fublime, if it were not the height of hypocrify, or if it did not appear to arife from a prefentiment of that fate which awaited the author. St. Juft had talents, which it cannot be doubted that a monster may have. Efpr. d. Journ. ART. 61. La morale de l'enfance, ou Collection de quatrains moraux, mis à la portée des enfans, et rangés par ordre méthodique, par Ch. G. Morel-Vindé. 5e édition, corrigée et augmentée. Paris, 18co. Though we have been very much fatisfied with the Quatrains of M. Morel Vindé, we are perfuaded that the virtues of the father are ftill ftill more valuable than the writings of the author, of which the following may ferve as a specimen. "Des foins que vos parens vous donnent chaque jour, Que votre attachement foit une récompenfe, Qu'ils doivent vos efforts et votre obéiffance Moins aux lois du devoir qu'à celles de l'amour, Si d'un père fameux, le ciel vous a fait naître, Il n'eft rien, mes enfans, dont on ne vienne à bout. L'on fe perd fans retour, et l'on fe défhonore Même quand il dit vrai, l'on croit qu'il ment encore.' Ibid ART. 62. Tableau mélotachygraphique, inventé par Woldemar. Paris. Évery one is acquainted with the advantages refulting from Tachygraphy to writing. A well-known compofitor has endeavoured to extend them to mufic, and his plan appears to us fimple and easy. This melo-tachygraphy may likewife be applied to declamation, and be rendered ufetul not only in perpetuating the delivery of celebrated actors, but likewife in fixing the accents of the principal paffions, as the forms which they imprefs on different animals, have been deter mined by a fifter-art. Ibid. ART. 63. Oeuvres de François Bacon, traduites par André Lafalle, avec des notes critiques, hiftoriques, et littéraires. 3 Voll. in 8vo. with a portrait of Bacon, 13 fr. 50 cent.-The fame, portrait avant la lettre, 14 fr.-The fame, grand papier d'Auonay, fatiné, 27 fr. Dijon and Paris. These three volumes contain the treatife on the dignity and advancement of the fciences, enriched with learned and inftructive notes. They |