1795. | 
fire, when the water boils, dip in an ofier 
bafket, or cabbage net, full of potatoes. 
_ After being completely immerfed during 
four feconds, withdraw the bafket, or net, 
and renew the operation with the re- 
-Mainder of the potatoes, taking care to 
keep the water boiling as before. The po- 
tatoes are then to be placed on boards, 
and expofed to the fun, and a current of 
air, in order to dry them as quickly as 
poilible. After this, they are to be re- 
moved toa garret, or any other apart- 
ment, where they are to be kept dry, 
and turned frequently. 
The French /teratz lament exceed- 
ingly, that many of the MSS. of Greffet, 
author of Ververt, Le Parran Magnifique, 
and Le Gaxetin, fhould have been loft, or 
miflaid. One of his admirers recolleés, 
and has publifhed four lines of ?Ouvrorr, in 
which the author thus defcribes the oc- 
cupations of the re/igzeufes : 
“ L’une découpe un agnus en lofange 
“ Qu met du rouge a quelque bienheureux ; 
&€ L’autre bichonne une vierge aux yeux bleus, 
** Ou paffe au fer le toupet d’un Archange.”’ 
The MS. of this fatire was fent 
to the (great) king of Pruffia, and as his 
prefent majefty is fuppofed to prefer 
gold to literature, there are hopes of its 
recovery. 
In the mean time, a new edition of his 
works has been publifhed. 
Fiifioire de la Conguration de Louis- Phi- 
lippe-Fofeph D? Orléans, 3 vols. 8vo. 
Paris, 1796; imported by De Boffe. 
This contains a developement of the 
Orleans confpiracy, as it 1s termed, and 
exhibits the decp-laid plots of that noble- 
man, to attain the crown. 
The French, amid the horrors of 
war, do not forget the cultivation of their ; 
language. The Port-Royal Grammar, 
and thofe publifhed by Duclos, Girard, 
and Dumarfais, poffeffed confiderable re- 
putation; but the Nouvelle Grammaire 
atfonnze, bids fair to eclipfe them all. 
The Chapter on Syzonimes, and thofe 
on French verfe and profody, are written 
by Guinguené and executed with his 
accuftomed precifion. Laharpe and Su- 
ard, both of them men of talents, have 
alfo contributed their labours. Panc- 
koucke, fo celebrated as the publither of 
the Eucyclopédie, is the editor. 
Cit'zen Cottereau has lately read a 
a before the Lyceum of Arts, in 
“aris, in which he points out the means 
of rivalling the Erglith in the manufac. 
ture of crayons, a branch of induftry 
in which the fine arts are immediately 
imterefted, 
Montruny Mac. No. VI, 
Prefent State of French Literature. 
4.72 
C. Cardinet, at the fame time, pre- 
fented a threfhing machine, by means of 
which, one man can do as nuch work 
as fix with the common flail. 
Hollend, which is not fuppofed to fa- 
crifice frequently to the graces, has lately 
produced a tranflation of one of the moft 
elegant poets of the Auguftan age, into 
the vernacular tongue. Ovid’s Art of 
Love, in Low-Dutch, muft, of courfe, 
bewa treat. to. the critics !.-dehe title, 
which does net promife much melody, is 
as follows ; Ovzd’s Kunft zu Lieben, in der 
verfart der Originals ueberfext van Fride- 
17¢0 Karl van Strombek. 
Jerome Lalande, the celebrated aftro- 
nomer, has publifhed, 
1. An Eloge on the late M. Bailly, one 
of the moft learned aftronomers of our 
times. 
2. The Hiftory of Aftronomy for 
1794 and 1795. 
3- An Account of the Voyage of Dif- 
covery, undertaken by the unfortunate 
Entrecafteau. f 
And, 4. A Memoir refpeéting the 
Cold of the Winter, 1794-5. 
Darcet, Lelievre, and Pelletier, three 
chymiits, have publifhed an Effay on the 
Fabrication of Soap, in which they point 
out a mode of {implying the procefs, &c. 
G. Cuvier, the entomologift, has en- 
riched Natural Hiftory. wich the defcrip- 
tion of two curious infects, hitherto un- 
noticed. 1. Afilus Mantiformis (L’afle 
Manic) and, 2. Phalangium 4—denta- 
tum (Le Faucheur a 4 Dentelures.) 
Of Condorcet’s pofthumous work, 
entitled, Ejquiffe dun Tableau Hiflorique 
des Progrés de I ifprit Humain. ‘Three 
thoufand copies’ have been diftributed 
throughout France at the public ex- 
pence. . 
A new tranflation of Aifchylus, bv 
Laporte du Thiel, is in the prefs; in- 
deed, the two firft volumes have been 
publithed. 
Citizen Brulé has printed fome Hints, 
relative to the Cochineal Fly, which he 
withes to render indigenous to St. Do- 
mingo. 
M. Mi. Leblond and Wailly have com« 
pleted the object of their miffion into 
Belgium. ‘They haye brought home 
sooo volumes from the library of the 
univerfity of Louvain, the buft of Juf- 
tus Lipfius, from the church belonging 
to the Francifcans, and a curious petre- 
faétion, from the gate of St. Peter, at 
Maeftricht. 
M. Macé has publifhed a letter to 
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