A 
TREATISE ON CIDER $ 
WITH A 
SKETCH 
OF THE 
LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR, 
THE LATE 
REV. FRANCIS LE COUTEUR, A. M 
In perusing a work of merit, the curiosity of the reader is 
directed to know who was the author, what propensities in¬ 
clined him to any particular study, what was the tendency of 
his pursuits, and to what degree of eminence ! e ever arrived. 
After contemplating the man in his literary capacity, we feel 
interested to follow him still farther, and to see him in the 
less conspicuous, but more amiable, relations of private life. 
The following Treatise, of which a translation is now offered 
to the public, is calculated to awaken such a curiosity* and, 
at the same time that the mind of the reader is warmed with 
the recital of private worth, it is certainly the most gratifying 
task to a biographer to extend the fame of a good man, and to 
pay a tribute to the memory of a departed friend. 
In such an endearing relation, stood the writer of this 
sketch with the author of the following work. It was his 
happiness to have long known and esteemed the man whose 
merits he now attempts faintly to delineate. The lives of 
literary men, and indeed, of all such whose actions are not of 
so public a nature as to be linked with the history of their 
country, is generally barren of interesting incidents, and is 
little more than a detail of dates and publications. And as to 
the occurrences that happen to men in private life, they are so 
nearly similar to those which are daily to be met with in every 
other situation, that unless they are distinguished by great 
moderation and self-denial on the ope hand, or extreme de¬ 
pravity 
