Notices respecling New Books. 383 



toembers facts and objects, learns and knows things, but forgets 

 tlale?, same as children speak in substantives and infinitive verbs. 



XX. Groan (J^' form; some animals are 'attentive to learn, as 

 some people easily recollect faces ; thev have wide eyes, depressed 

 downwards outwards, and look somewhat as if squinting ; animals 

 have the same faculty ; bees distinguish those ot their own hive ; 

 dogs and elephants recollect and know their friends and enemies ; 

 this is the faculty or organ of form, which is essential to artists. 



It is diifereut from XXI, the organ of size, as the one con- 

 cerns the figure or form, the other the dimensions or size, which 

 are different conceptions of the mind. 



XXII. Organ oj' weight. It is not feeling, not muscle; he 

 Ivho exiimines the weight or density of any thing has an internal 

 power, and he may v>-eigh any thing in case of physical injury or 

 disease without the feeling sense. 



XXIII. Organ of colours ; t\\z eves are not sufficient for 

 painters. Animals want the sense of colour, and some men are 

 devoid of the sense of harmony of colours ; hence an internal 

 sense. Instances of persons attempting to bccnaie painters, and 

 failing from inability to discriminate colours, vet having perfect 

 vision. This organ is manifested by an elevated circle over the 

 eyebrows, which gives the countenance a gay jbvial aspect. 

 \Vomen excel in colouring, as their taste in dress evinces, and 

 have this organ generally very conspicuous. 



[To be continued.] 



LX. Notices respecting New Books. 



Dictionnaire Chinois, Francois et Latin, ^c. — Chinese, French 

 and Latin Dictionary. By M. De Guignks, late French 

 Resident in China, at present attached to the Ministry for 

 Foreign Relations, Corrcsr>on.dimr Member of the First and 

 Third Class oj the Institute. Paris: Printed at the Govern- 

 ment Press in 1813, but not published until July 1814 ; one 

 large folio volume, London : imported by Deboffe. 



jtV few copies only of this valuable and most laborious work 

 have reached this country. As the small muiiljer of the im- 

 presssion, and necessary high price, of such a splendid book will 

 render it inaccessible even to a great majority of the learned on 

 this side of the Channel, we take the earliest opportunity of 

 giving some account of it to our readers. We confess indeed 

 that we are unacquainted v/ith tlie Chinese language ; a defi- 

 ciency for vvhicii we claim the indulgence of our readers, without 

 fear of bein;j accused of aii unpardonable disqualification; for we 



mean, 



