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remarkable production of this kind, which has 

 been still more celebrated than the Athenian Lct-^ 

 ters, is the Travels of Ana char shy by Barthelemi*. 

 The models of this learned composition are said 

 to have been the Cyropcediay and the Travels of Cy- 

 rus ; and tlie author^ we are told, devoted to it 

 the labour of thirty years. Its great merit and 

 singular popularity arc well known. The Travels 

 of Antenor, by M. Lautier, in imitation of Barthe- 

 lemi's work^ is, in every respect, inferior to that 

 curious production. 



Beside the various kinds of history which have 

 been mentioned, the eighteenth century produced 

 liistories of several Arts^ Sciences^ and departments 

 of Literature, These, if not peculiar to this pe- 

 riod, have greatly increased, in the course of it, 

 in number, accuracy, and value. Of the large list 

 which might be recited, it is proper to notice, 

 with particular respect, the learned and judicious 

 History of Philosophy^ by Brucker, abridged and 

 presented in an English dress, by Dr. Enfield ; 

 i\\^ History of Astronomy, by M. Baiily ; the Hi* 

 story of Optics and o^ Electricity, by Dr. Priest- 

 ley ; the History of Chemistry, by Boerhaave, 

 Wiegleb, and others; the History of Medicine, by 

 le Clerc and Sprengel ; the History of English 

 Poetry^ by Dr. Warton ; the History oj' Music, by 

 Sir John Hawkins, and Du Burn.ey ; the History 

 of the Law of Nations, by Ward; the History of 

 Jacobinism, by the abbe Barruel ; and the history 



■♦^f Jean Jacques Barthelemi was born in Provence, in lyiQ. He 

 published the 'J 'rave h of Anne h arsis in 1788, and died in \7C)5. 

 His learning was various and profound, and jiis modesty and good 

 nature were no less remarkable. 



