JVotice of the Revue Encydopedique, ^c. 395 



tion of public establishments, universities, museums, hos- 

 pitals, savings banks, &c. ; national remunerations, accord- 

 ed by governments or by societies to learned men and to 

 benefactors of the human race ; monuments consecrated to 

 celebrated men ; the phenomena of natural history or of 

 meteorology, processes of domestic economy, statistical ex- 

 tracts, discoveries of objects of art or of ancient manu- 

 scripts, the finest recent productions of architecture, sculp- 

 ture or painting, the progress of mutual instruction adopted 

 by all governments that interest themselves in the well be- 

 ing of their people, the state of lithography ; the new dra- 

 matic productions which obtain a degree of celebrity, and 

 the direction given to the influence of the theatres which 

 may become schools of public feeling ; lastly, obituary no- 

 tices of men whose lives have been illustrated by good ac- 

 tions or by good productions ; such are the infinitely varied 

 subjects which are created and multiplied in this gallery of 

 nations. 



It is added, " The Revue Encydopedique is not then 

 merely a scientific work destined for the savans ; or, literary, 

 for mere scholars, or national, designed for one nation only. 

 It is a methodical collection of interesting facts, which 

 evince the activity of the genius and industry of man, upon 

 all parts of the globe. It is a philanthropic enterprize in 

 which all elevated minds ought to be interested, and all 

 generous hearts summoned to form a kind of electric and 

 mysterious chain infinitely extended, embracing the desti- 

 nies of man and which from age to age, from country to 

 country, unites all the thoughts, all the works having refer- 

 ence to the great end of the preservation, amelioration and 

 alleviation of the condition of man, as well as to the more 

 free and complete developement of the human faculties 

 and of the social institutions which constitute trute civiliza- 

 tion." 



Such are the views entertained in Paris of this periodical 

 work. As far as we have had opportunity to peruse it, 

 they are (abating perhaps a degree of enthusiasm which is 

 certainly pardonable on such a subject) justified by the ex- 

 ecution which evidently involves an amount and variety of 

 knovi^ledge and labour unprecedented, we believe^ in the 

 execution of any periodical work, 



