Retrospect of French Literatui-e^ 

 manners of a people of wliom little lias 

 been hitherto known. Tlie editor dues 

 not inform us how Don Kaphael suc- 

 ceeded in acquiring the iniineiise variety 

 of information he furnishes. It would 

 appear that he liadaccualiy become an 



(S37 

 sages of Theocritus that Virgil hat 

 imitated: translated into French verse, 

 by Firmin JJidot. In 1 volume 12iB0. 

 1816. 



M. FiRMiN DiDOT has displayed, in 

 this voluiue, that lie has ciiitivate<l tiie 

 Arab of one of the tribes, to be initiattd Aiuses and typography witii equal sue- 

 as he appears to be in all that relaies to cess. The translation is laithl'ul and 

 their domestic manners and customs; spirited; the notes learned and curious, 

 for they are described with a degree of Would that all printers resembled in hn- 

 minuteness and precision that an eye- nour, talent, and genius, M. F. Didot I 

 witness alone could have furnished. His — nwi 



portraits are happy and striking. Here [The two following works do not strictly 

 we vie«r the children of nature, unso- come witluu the ciicle of French iite- 

 phisticaied by education. The virtues rature; but, being published at Paris, 



of the soul here display themselves in 

 the most heroic forms; and, were they 

 not allied to their opposite vices, we 

 should present the untutored Arab as a 

 model of virtue to civilized Europe. 

 One thing in his favour i^, his viitues 

 are those of his suul ; his vices the ofl- 

 spring of habit and necessity; and, in 

 many cases, the former atones for the 



iinkiiovMi in England, and of great hite-i 

 rest, they merit notice amoug tlie novel- 

 ties of the French press.] 

 On the Oii^in, Nature, Progress, and 

 Iiijluence of Consular Kstubiishinentsi 

 by D. B. Warden, ComuLGenLraL ^ 

 the United Stales of America at Far.is^ 

 4c. 4'C. 1 vol. 8vo. 

 'i HE want of a work on the nature 



latter, as in a case recited by our author. «"d duties of consuls, has been long a«d 



*' A traveller had been robbed and strip- 

 ped naked by a troop of Arabs. He 

 liad wit enough to cry after them ; the 

 chief turned : the traveller addressed 

 him — 'Oh! chief of the Arabs, famed 

 for virtue and generosity, 1 have been 



severely ftlt; and, strange as it may aj»- 

 pear, the most commercial country in 

 the globe has never possessed a consul 

 I'-ho thought it worth his while to rieve- 

 lojie the arcana of his office. To tlie 

 consul-general of tiie United States, «•« 

 are indebted for supplying the deficiency- 



robbed and stripped by a perverse Arab; ^ . 



I entreat thee, by Mahomet, to comoel ^^'=* °HJ^ct at hrst was, he tells us, oi.ljr 



him to restore me my property.' The '" P""" *""' """^ ,"'' '''^ ^'^"'^'^'^ '» "*e 



Arab smiled, 'Thou art a cunninu fellow; consular system to his government, whicii 



here, take thy clothes, ^-c. that the per 

 verse Arab had given to me; g(» thy 

 way, and take better care in future.*" 

 The work abounds with pleasing anec- 

 dotes, which must render it very po- 

 pular. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Les Trois Ages, ^c. 



The Three Ages ; or the Olympic Games 



— the Amphitheatre and Chivalry ; a 



Poem, with Historical NUts, 1 vol. 



lijino. 1816. 



This is a most exquisite little work: 

 the author (JM. iioux) need not have been 

 ashamed to put his name to it. It is 



insensibly led him to examine what liafl 

 been done by other nations, and ha was 

 surprized to iind that the public hbraiies 

 of Paris did not contain even a simple 

 memoir on the subject. He, thereforsi, 

 sought infonnaiion in national treaties, 

 and other documents of a diplomatic 

 nature. 



His ideas on the conduct a consui 

 ought to observe, will be duly appre- 

 ciated. "Although I am decidedly of 

 opinion that a consul ought to iiave no 

 interest in tr.ide, yet I am, nevertJieless, 

 the friend and advocate of liberal com- 

 merce; which, if founded on the prin- 



., J . 1- 1 .1 L 1 ciples of justice, lionour, and reciurocitv. 



addressed to rrench youth, but the tunes .. ij , i > . ^ jjiul-hj, 



„ „ ^, . ■/ ' . would /orm, between nations and tli- 



are changed since it was written — emu- .„^,,.„ „ „■ '■ <■ „ • i • T, 



1 .■ • ' 1 ,,. mates, a clia:n of coinmumcatiun hie i » 



lation 15 no longer a virtue. We recoin- c.., ii . .i. ' 6'"J 



_ _ J ., I . II J . (avourable to the improvement of arts, 



mend the volume to all our readers w lo ;„j„ , „ , ^ , ,■ ', .■» 



, .„ . 1 1 II industry, and political economy: com- 



love genuine poetry and hiyh y poetic . • i . i '^ ■ ■' • 



• . ° 1 "^ •', , ° 1 "^ merce might then, with some proonetv. 



ideas, in chaste and elegant anKuace. i„ j c ? ,. . »• j h- vjiin-ijr, 



.... „ '„ , . ■, ,^ 6 fa • be defined the art ot rendering ^ people 



Ihe volume is beautifully printed on i.j,, ^ » e> «• f »^"i'i« 



vellum, by Firmiii Didot. )J!' " . _ . r m i.r , . . 



' •' Ihe arrangement of Mr. Warden'* 



Les Bucolifjues deyirgile, S)C. work is classical. He first (Cbapttrl,) 



The' Bucolics (f Virgil, preceded by seve- considers the commercial advantjgi s ot" 



red Idyls of Theocritus, Bwn, and consular establishments. Chnp. 2, th« 



UoiiliM; und/Qlloued bj/ n(l (h^^as^ political and economical advanii.ges of 



couiiular 



