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of the Council of Agriculture, to the 
Minifter of the Home Department, &c. 
Tt is a fa& well afcertained, that the 
cows of Paris are attacked with a pulmo- 
nary confumption, of which this work 
indicates the fymptoms and the. cure; 
while the author at the fame time ani- 
madverts on the confequences arifing 
from the ufe of milk, proceeding from 
difeafed cows, by the fick, &c. The 
whole is terminated by an advertifement, 
and regulations of the feciety of agri- 
“eulture. 
« De Influence des Paffions, &c.””— 
Of the Influence of the Paffions of the 
Mind, in Difeafes of the Body, and the 
Means of correcting their bad Effeéis. 
By. C. J. Trssor, Phyfician, fuperior 
Officer of Health tothe French armies. 
z vol. 8vo, about 300 pages. Paris, Straf- 
burgh, and Francfort on the Mein. 
This work, which is divided into three 
parts, is the produétion of a phyfician, 
who holds a high fituation in the medi- 
eal department of the French armies, 
and is preceded by an introduction. 
Part I. Contains a morai table, with 
¢orrefpondent remarks relative to a ftate 
ef health and ficknefs: the author then 
treats of the paffions which ufually apper- 
tain to a certain fpecified age, fex, tem- 
erament, condition, and mode of life. 
In Part IE. he confiders the effeét of 
the paffions in general, in refpect to ma- 
fadies ; then, of each malady in parti- 
cular: and in 
Part LEI. he gives a differtation on the 
means of either correéting or anticipating 
their bad effects. — 
In refpe&t to the fcience of medicine, 
this muft be allowed to be a ufeful work; 
and it is ftill more interefting in a mova 
point of view, as it holds out an induce- 
_ ment to watch over the paffions, and to 
regulate them by the moft powerful of 
all confiderations which can poffibly af- 
fe& aman—that of his own preferva- 
tion. 
This work has been already tranflated 
into German, by J. G. Breiting. 
, FINE ARTS. 
«¢ Tconolovie Elémentaire, &c.”’—Ele- 
mentary Iccnology, adorned with 208. 
engraved figures, 4 vols. z2mo. and 
4 vols. 4to. Paris. 
This elementary treatife, on the fcience 
of images, figures, or flatues, is highly 
necefary, not only to artifis, but to all 
who are defirous of being acquainted 
with the explanations of the monuments, 
the medals, and the engraved Stones of 
antiquity. | 
Retrofpei of French Literature—Mifcellanies. 
Previoufly to the appearance of the 
prefent publication, the work of Casar 
Ripa, an Italian author of fome note, 
on the fame fubje&t, was generally con- 
fulted; but the author was deficient in 
point of tafie, and did not feem to be 
aware, that in order to render allegory - 
the univerfal language of all nations, it 
ought firft to be rendered intelligible. At 
length the ingenious GRAVELOT, after 
ftudying the works of Raphael, Rubeps, 
Le Pouffin, and Lebrun, formed the plan 
of a new treatile on ‘ Iconology,” but 
death prevented him from finifhing his 
work, which, however, is now completed 
under the fuperintendance of M. Cochin, 
heretofore perpetual fecretary. of the 
Royal Academy of Painting. 
‘© Elemens de Perfpeétive pratique, 
&c.’’—Elements of praétical Perfpective, 
for the Ufe of Artifts; to which are added, 
Advice and Inftruétion to a Pupil, rela- 
tive to Painting and Landfcape. By P. H. 
VALENCIENNES, Painter, and Member 
of the Polytechnical Society, of the So- 
ciety of Sciences and Arts at Paris, &c. 
1 vol. 4to. of 700 pages, with 35 plates. 
Paris. 
This elementary treatife is unlike 
thofe which are calculated to fatigue and 
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ference to a multitude of geometrical 
operations. 
The firft and fecond chapters contain 
preliminary notions relative to geometry 
nd perfpective ; and the third, fourth, 
and fifth, treat of the operations necef- 
fary for affigning to plans and eleyations 
their proper points of perfpective. In 
the fixth we are prefented with an 
abridged method of operating in perfpec- 
tive; and the feventh contains obierva- 
tions on the reflection of objects placed 
in water. The application of linear 
perfpeétive to painting is the fubjeét of 
the eighth chapter; and the four laft 
treat of the perfpeétive of theatres and 
gardens. 
; MISCELLANEOUS. 
“ Lecons d’Anatomie. comparé, de 
G. Cuvier, &c.”—Leffons on Compara- 
tive Anatomy, by G. Cuvier, Member 
of the National Enftitute, Profeffor in the 
College of France, and the Central School 
of the Pantheon. Colleéted and pub- 
lithed with the confent and affiftance of 
the author, by C. DUMERIL, Chief Af- 
fiftantin the Anatomical Laboratory of the 
Medical Schoo] of Paris, 2 large vols. in 
Svo. of about 7oo pages each, with $ 
plates, containing the claflification of - 
the 
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