1825.] | 
Under this title, M. De Barente presents 
a lively history of those great princes, who 
for nearly thirteen hundred years governed 
France, and, thereby, Europe; to which is 
affixed an appropriate motto from Quinti- 
lian—“ Scribitur ad narrandum, non pro- 
bandum ;” which may be rendered, We 
wrile to record facts, not to maintain them. 
These four volumes will, it is thought, 
form about one-half of the work. 
(uvres Completes de J. F. Ducis, &:c.— 
The Complete Works of J. F. Ducts, forming 
part of the Collection of French Classics. Paris, 
1825. 5 vols. 32mo.; with Portrait of the 
Author. — The editor of this work, M. DE- 
BURE, has been encouraged, by the well- 
merited success of the former parts of his 
“Collection,” to enlarge the promised num- 
ber of his volumes from sixty to one hun- 
dred. By this, however, M. D. has not 
deceived his subscribers, as any author con- 
tained may, or not, be taken, according to 
wish or taste. 
History of Grecian Literature, from its 
Origin to the Capture of Constantinople by 
the Turks; by N. ScHortt. New edilion. 
Paris, 1825. 3 vols. 8vo.—The first edition 
of this work, which appeared in 1812, under 
the title of “‘4n Abridged History of Gre- 
cian Literature,” &c. sold rapidly—was 
translated into many languages, especially 
the English and modern Greek, and every- 
where favourably received. The author 
has been occupied, during several years, in 
preparing a new edition, on a more exten- 
sive plan. The former edition had but two 
volumes, the second of which contained only 
sacred literature and tables; this has three, 
and treats of profane literature. Instead 
of confining himself to his former very suc- 
inet notices, the author enters into details 
of the respective epochs; ‘investigates the 
influence which the spirit of the nation had 
upon the productions of its writers; and, 
judging them according to established prin- 
ciples, he endeavours to give. more interest 
to this part, by discussions upon critical, 
literary and historical points, which may 
exercise the judgment of youth, and arm 
it against perversions of taste. In the first 
edition, as the author meditated a republi- 
cation of his Répertoire de la. Littérature 
Ancienne,” he omitted his bibliographical 
notes; but having given up that idea, he 
lias now united the bibliography to the his- 
torical part of Grecian literature; noticing, 
critically, the respective editions, from the 
commencement of the art of printing, and 
the desiderata yet unsupplied, whether criti- 
¢al, omissive, or in the way of explanatory 
elucidation. 
F. G. Escuuorr, professor of literature 
at the Institution Massin, has published a 
second volume of Greek Studies upon Virgil,. 
or a Collection of ail the Passages of the Gre- 
cian Poets imitated in the Bucolics, the Geor- 
gics, and the AEneid; with the Latin Text, 
and Literary References.—The student will 
Monrury Mac. No. 410. 
Domestic and Foreign.’ 
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find thisa useful work ; and M. Hichhoff has 
annexed a brief Analysis of Greek and 
Latin Poetry. 
The Alarum of Greece, the First Hellé- 
nide ; by M. PELLet, of Epinal. Paris. —The 
cause of the Greeks daily obtains fresh par- 
tizans. It is the triumph of civilization 
over barbarism—of liberty over despotism— 
of justice over strength—of the Gospel oyer 
the Koran. Every friend of humanity is 
interested in this sacred cause, and the 
yotaries of the muse emulate each cther in 
celebrating the courageous perseverance of 
regenerate Greece. M. Pellet’s First Hel- 
lénide is distinguished by energy of feeling 
and vigour of style. Criticism may con- 
demn some expressions as too bold; but, 
in general, his verses are excellent—as the 
following quotation will shew :— 
<I] disait. Et moins intr¢pide 
Rugit le lion des déser'ts ! 
Tl avait dit, et moins rapide 
La foudre passe dans les airs. 
La fureur, larage étineclle— 
Le fer luit, la sweur ruisselle— 
Les champs fument de sang trempés, 
Et sur les monts, .t dans les nues, 
On entend des voix inconnues 
Crier aux Grecs: ‘Frappe! Frappez!’” 
“« He said. Less dauntless in his might 
The desert-lion roars; 
And through the air with slower flight 
The vollied thunder pours. 
Wrath bums, steel flames, the sweat-drops flow, 
And slaughter bathes the field; 
While, urging on the avenging blow, 
In mystic chorus peal’d, 
The hills—the clouds, re-echoing, cry, 
*@trike, Grecians! strike for liberty !’” 
The author announces three other Hellé- 
nides ; the second of which, while yet in the 
press, the anticipating liberality of Parisian 
criticism has pronounced not inferior to the 
first. 
ITALY. 
Della Medicina Italiana, &c.—Of Malian 
Medicine, and the Medical Doctrines of 
Broussais, &c. ; by Dr. E. Bavest, Member 
of many Academies, &c. Leghorn, 1824. 8vo. 
Pamph., forming an introduction to a trans- 
lation of Pror. Gourit’s Exposition de la 
Nouvelle Doctrine Medicale, in which M. 
Bavesi glances at the state of medicine 
in Germany, where every science takes 
a colouring from those shadowy me- 
taphysics, so much. miscalled Philosophy. 
M. A.J. (in the Rey. Enc.) too truly, we 
fear, observes “the Italians and the French 
appear to surpass the Germans and the 
English in the pursuit of Natural Science, 
precisely, because they consume neither their 
time nor their intellectual energies in vain 
subtilities about abstract ideas.” 
Annali @’ Italia dal 1750, §c.— Annals of 
Ttaly, since 1750 ; compiled by A. Coppi. 
Vol. 1; 1750 to 1796. Rome, 1824, 8v0.— 
The author proposes to follow the foot- 
steps of the illustrious Muratori (an Italian 
historiographer, whose works fill forty- 
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