ACCOUNT OF ;books. S3 



with zoophytesi and ends with man. This arrangement fias Its advantages, 

 the advantai^e oF inftilting ideas gradually into the mind of <he 

 fcholar, and avoiding a number ot" repetitions and anticipations, 

 Th© hiftory of organ i led labftances gives him an idea of bodies? 

 unmixed with any otiver ideas : that of vegetables ftiows him. 

 prganiz^'Uion and life in their moft fimpje ftatc : and Ihefe 4ie 

 perceives gradually become more complicated as he afcends 

 through the different clafTes of the animal kingdom, fo that th« 

 hiftory of each clafs is but little more than an expotition of 

 the organs and faculties it enjoys beyond thofe of the pre- 

 ceding. 



Though the difcuffion of any new idea feems contrary to the 

 efieuce of an elementary work, it is obvious, that fuch a work 

 cannot be well executed but by a man capable of confidering 

 the whole of a fcience in its proper point of view. In- this 

 refped the naturalift will here read with plealure the article of 

 general obfervations placed at the head of each part : he will 

 diftinguifli the hiftory of inl"e6ls, which Mr. D. has treated Mr. D. has 

 afier a. new pl^n : and he will notice the chapter on man, in fcfts^ t cm- 



OH' a new 



an. 



which the author difplays the phyfical characters that difiinguifli pi 

 man from brutes, and the confequences refpefiing his manners, 

 that arife from his very ftrudure. This chapter may be con- 

 fid erpd as the conneding link between phylics and meta- 

 phylics. 



Elemeqs de I'Art de la Teinture, &c. or Elements of the Art: 

 of Dying ; tiitli a Defcription of the Procefs of Bleaching hy the' 

 ojcigenated Muriatic Acid. Second Edition : by C, L. and 

 A, B. Bert HO L LET. Paris,.. 



This new edition of a work of the firft merit and celebrity BerthoHctoc 

 is fpoken of in the Foreign Journals, as being confiderably '^^"^* 

 improved by the former author and his fon. The great perf- 

 picuity and order which are feen in all the produ6tions of this 

 eminent chemift, and his own unremitted labours in the fci- 

 ence, are a fure guarantee to the fame effect. 



Confideralions on Organized Beings. i)yJ.C.DELAMETHERiE, 



The fcience of natural hiftory is indebted to M. Dehme- Tfchmcthtrie cat 



- janin ' 

 ings. 



therie for feveral interefting works which contain ideas of ad-^?^^""® 



vantage to the progrefs of human knowledge. Betides the 

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