Vol. V.] 
Italy, with fome other poems relative to 
that country, by Theodore Defarguro, 
8vo. The author, who has travelled in 
Iraly, -and writes the Italian language, 
here pays a poetical tribute to that fair. 
country, and the great men it has lately 
produced. 
La Religion vengee, &c. Religion 
avenged, a Poem in ten cantos, 8vo. The 
firft edition of this pofithumous work of 
Cardinal de Borius was printed at Parma 
by Bodau; the fubjeét is the triumph of 
religion over idolawry, atheifm, &«. In 
the opinion of the French critics, w 's in- 
ferior to the fimilar poem of Louis Racine. 
The celebrated poet Delille has publith- 
ed a new work at Baile, his Georgigues 
Frangujes. From the extraéts we have 
{cen, it is worthy of the tranilator of Vir- 
gil’s Georgic, and of the author of Les 
Gardins. France poffefles an excellent 
lyric poet, Lebrun, whofe productions in 
the French journals breathe the real {pirit 
gi the. ode,» -- 
NOVELS. 
Peregrinus Protes, ec. 
teus, 
18mo. . 
Gerard de Velfen, &c. Gerard de 
Velfen, or the Origin of Amfterdam, an 
hiftorical novel, in feven books, by Mer- 
cier de Campiogne, 18mo. 
La Religieufe, &c. The Nun, by Di- 
derot ; anew edition, 3 vols. s3mo. This 
has a portrait of the author, and other 
prints. 
Les Bataves, &c. The Batavians, by 
Bitaubé, 12mo. This is a kind of hitto- 
rical romance, founded on the deliverance 
of the United Provinces from the power 
of Spain. The hiftorical romance is an 
unpleafing fpecies of compofition to read 
ers of genuine tafte, who would with to 
keep truth and fiction in thcir peculiar 
{pheres. 
Alpbonfe d’Armencourt, &c. Alfonfo 
d’Armencourt, or the Fair Widow, by 
Madame de Sancy, 18mo. This novel, 
far inferior to thofe of Madame Kicco- 
boni, has nothing to recommend it either 
in plan, characters, or fituations. 
Peregrine Pro- 
tranflated from Wieland, 2 vols. 
Retrofped of French Literature.x—Novels, &c. 
WET, 
541 
Alexandrine de Bannay, &c. Alexane 
drina de Bannay, or Innocence and Wic- 
kednefs, an hiftorical Anecdote by Le 
Brun, Taffo, 12mo, The heroine of this 
novel, daughter of a country gentleman, 
and educated in the country by a devout 
mother, is feduced, or rather violated, by 
a curate, her confeffur; becoming preg- 
nant, her feducer, to preferve his charac- 
ter of holinefs, accufed her own brother, 
&c. The profligacy.of the French clergy 
was fufficiently notorious, without adding 
invented crimes. 
Marie de Sinclair, &c. Marte de Sin- 
clair, rz2mo. This novel is of the fenti- 
mental caft, and feems to have no parti- 
cu.ar claim to recommendation. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Effai fur la Propreté de Paris, &ce. An 
Effay on cleanfing Pacis, by Cit. CHav- 
8vo. This pamphlet deferves 
great praife. The author begins with 
fhewing the advantages of 'cleanlinefs in 
general, in a moral and falutary way. In 
a more particular coafideration of his fub- 
ject, he points out the defeéts in the ca~- 
pital, the dirtinefs occafioned by the want 
of drains and fewers, the height of the 
houfes, the narrownefs of the f{treets, the 
filthy red with which the outfide of the 
fhops is daubed, by way of rnament, ftalls 
perinitted even in narrow places, horfes 
fhoed in the ftreet, carriages and cafks left 
ftanding, clothes feowering, and, of late, 
even butchers kiling and cleanfing, {kins 
fufpended by tanners, and linen by wafher- 
women. The author juftly obferves, that 
it is in vain to ornament a city with mag- 
nificent edifices, if the avenues be fuffered 
to remain thus obnoxicas. ‘¢ It is,”’ fays 
he, ‘ like hanging of fine paintings in a 
room fpread with fpider-webs.”’ 
Effat fr la Phifioznomie, Sec. An Effay 
on the Phyflognomy of living Bodies 
from Man down to Plants, &c. by f. J. 
SUE, &c. 8vo. The abfurdities of La-~ 
vater foon fe in England, but feem to 
thrive in France. Fielding fays, “ we 
may look in a man’s face, to fee if he have 
had the fmall-pox, but for nothing elle. 

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