1825.] 
. The picture given.of the. French interior 
presents truths still:more: bold, :painted in 
colours eyen-yet more'sombre’: 
*© The people---.--is overwhelmed with sickness 
and despair. Sedition gradually illumes her torch, 
im every part ;------popular commotion, long un- 
heard-of, becomes frequent ;-:----you are reduced 
to the shameful extremity, either of leaving sedition 
unpunished, and letting it, with impunity, enlarge its 
ranks, or of inhumanly massacreing those whom you 
have driven to despair, by tearing from their lips,by 
imposts for thesupport of war, the bread which they 
have earned by sweat of brow.” 
And, amid this deplorable state, the 
prince remained wilfully blind; he wanted 
resources, and dared not see; he perceived 
not his fatal errors; he continued: ignorant 
of what the world well knew, that the lofty 
prelate who had: enchained his confidence 
(Harlay de Chanvallon, archbishop of Paris) 
was “corrupt, scandalous, incorrigible, false, 
malignant, artful, inimical to-all. virtue, an 
offence to good men;’’ that his confessor 
( Pere Lachaise) “ dreaded substantial vir- 
tue, and only loved the loose and immoral ; 
that he was jealous of his authority... . that 
he stretched it to its utmost limits,.... that 
he was duped by those who flattered him 
and made him little presents,”’ &c. 
We should, at least, have hoped that 
Madame de Maintenon and the Duc de 
Beauvilliers would have undeceived the 
_ king; “but their feebleness and timidity 
dishonoured them, and scandalized the 
whole world....evil, eyil to them that 
speak not the truth ; evil to you, who are 
hot worthy to hear the truth.” 
' So says the animated bishop of Cambray ; 
—but we must take our leave of this im- 
portant document. 
ITALY. 
_ Saggio sulla stria delle Mathematiche, &c. 
—Essay on the History of Mathematics, en- 
riched with select Biographical Notices, for 
the use of Youth. By Prof. P. Francuini.— 
Lucca, 1822, 8v0o.—The great merit of this 
work is its conciseness. After a brief his- 
tory of mathematics from the earliest ages, 
follows a particular account of the arithme- 
tic of the Greeks, imitated from the Hebrews 
and Pheenicians ; and, with Cossali, Prof. 
Franchini agrees that Vieta (master of 
requests to Queen Margaret of France, 
born 1540—died 1603) was not the inventor 
algebra (he only introduced the use of 
literal symbols for known quantities). He 
assigns the honour of this invention, after 
Diophantus (the real inventor, a mathema- 
tician of Alexandria) and the Arabians, to 
Leonardo Fibonacio of Pisa, who lived in 
the twelfth century. Statistics, particularly, 
and many other sciences, are mentioned 
with much precision ; and the whole is con- 
cluded: by biographical notices, in which 
" many omissions must, of course, be par- 
tioned. A History of Mathematics, from the 
a" of Newton to our own, is a desidera- 
Domestic and Foreign. 
63 
; GERMANY. Ne see 
Geschichte des Ost-Gothischen Reiches tr 
Ttalien.— History of the kingdom of 'Ostro. 
goths in Italy. By J. C. F. Manso.— 
Breslau, 1824, 8v0.—M. Manso has already 
given many separate dissertations on this 
subject. The present work commences 
with a general view of the Western empire, 
at the time when Theodoric entered Italy ; 
and proceeds with some general remarks on 
the Goths, and the extent of the empire of 
Ostrogoths, and the alliances of Theodoric 
with the Emperor of Greece, and with 
other states. The second section is allotted 
to the political and civil state of Italy, its 
administration, finance and agriculture. 
The third treats of the successors of Theo- 
doric, to the deposition of Theodatus. The 
fourth, of the misfortunes of the Goths 
under Vitiges, Ildibad and Eraric, until 
the accession of Totila and the retreat of 
Cassiodorus. The jifth completes the 
history of the Goths; and the sexth treats 
of the state of Italy:—/iftcen disserta- 
tions are added, on subjects which could 
not properly be introduced in the body of 
the work, and would have overloaded the 
notes. " 
Phantasiegemilde.—Fancy Pieces. By 
Dr. Grorces Darine; 1824.. Francforton 
the Maine.—This seems to be a work upon 
the plan of the’novels of Sir Walter Scott, 
in which the author has introduced the his- 
torical characters of Francis I., Eleonora 
queen of Portugal, married to this prince, 
and Charles the Vth., around whom figure 
all the eminent knights, ladies, and learned’ 
men of the French court. The constable 
Montmorency, the Countess Chateaubriand, 
the Duchess d’ Etampes, and the Marchio- 
ness de Canaples, are the principal actors in 
a court intrigue against the queen and her 
detested favourites and the constable, who 
is too susceptible of the beauty and virtues 
of this princess. Ona more extended plan, 
courtiers of an inferior order are exhibited : 
Albert, lute-player to the king, the celebra- 
ted fool Triboulet, and the astrologer Rollo. 
The first is attached to Annette, and has 
for his rival the Portuguese queen’s dwarf 
Coquelicot. The periodical press of Ger- 
many extends its instructive efforts to 
every branch of science, but all we can do 
here is to notice its activity. 
DENMARK. 
Grundtsdk, &c.—A Sketch of Sclavonian 
Mythology. -By M. InceMann.—Copen- 
hagen, 1824.—This little pamphlet - was 
published on the occasion of the public 
examination of the College of Soroe ; but it 
has a more general interest: it tends, in 
conjunction with the author’s late poem, 
“Waldemar the Great,” to illuminate a 
very obscure period of northern pri . 
Spanish Sproglaere, §-c.— Spanish Gram- 
mar, on a new plan. By M. Rasu.—Co- 
penhagen, 8vo.—This is the first Spanish 
Grammar published in the Danish language, 
and is the work of a man justly iam 
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