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France and the Low Countries to fo de- 
ferving an object. Complaints have been 
made 3 the profufion of wocd cenfumed 
_ tn the public offices of France, for which 
mo better reafon can be given than that 
the afhes (now rendered doubly valuable 
on aecount of the quantity of falt-petre 
manufactured in every part of the repub- 
lic) are the perquiiites of the office- 
keepers. 
A very novel plienomcnon we obferve 
in the French book trade. From the ex- 
paca fearcity ot ready money pre- 
ailing in the epaclss the bookfellers in 
general are ruined, or at leaft unable to 
make purchafes of mamuferipts 5 ; and the 
few who have money, prefer applying it 
in the funds, where they can gain an in- 
tereft of forty per cent. for fpecie. The 
confequence is, that foreign bookfellers 
repair from diftant countries to Paris, to 
purclate the copyright of the moft valu- 
able French writers, and they could not 
enter into a more profitable {peculation. 
Thus Mr. Views, of Berlin, has lately 
purchafed and imported into Germany, 
the copyright of “¢ Mercier’s New Pic- 
ture of Peris,” in iour volumes, a work 
that contains a number of interefting ef- 
fays; it is reprinting at Berlin, and a 
tranflation into German is preparing, by 
Citizen CRAME R, now at Paris. 
There is now in the prefs, at Weimar 
in Germany, one of the mott gels 
and extenfive works that has appeared for 
anumber of years, in the department of 
Hiterary hiftory, entitled, ‘* The Univerfal 
Repertory of Literature from the Year 
791 f0 1795,” being 4 continuation of 
the former Repertory from 1785 to 1790, 
in three volumes, guarte, one of which is 
already publiithed, the fecond to appear in 
Eafter, and the laft at Midfummer; the 
fubfeription price of the whole, eight 
Saxon doilars, or about twenty-eight 
thillings fterling- It confifts of a fyf 
tematic regifter of all the critical, gene- 
ral, or particular journals, of any, value, 
and refpectability, publifhed in Europe 
during this period; of an alphabetical 
index of all the books that have appeared 
within the fame time, together with their 
prices, and likewife of the individua 
tifes and Effays contained in periodical 
works, with regular reference to the 
<s Sy Pematic Regifter sand of alphabeti- 
cal tables of the principal fubje€ts treated 
of im the different clafies ot books, ac- 
_ cording to the following {yftematic ar- 
* rangement. 1. Theo logy. 2. Juridical 
snd ftatiftical literature. 3. Medicine; 
including phyfics, chemiftr; y; and natural 
trea- 
. 
Fifty Articles of Literary and Philefophical Intelligence. [Feb. 
hiftory. 4. Metaphyfics and éducation. 
5. Mathematics, including naval and mi- 
itary tactics, economy, arts, and ma- 
nufactures, and the commercial fciences. 
6. Hiftory and geography. 7. Criticifm 
and the Belles Lettres. 8. Thé hiftory 
of literature, general and particular, in- 
cluding milcellaneous works; and, 9. An 
-univerfal alphabetical index of books pub- 
lifhed in this period, with the prices, te” 
which is prefixed a portrait of Dr. Her- 
SCHEL. For the accommodation of pur- 
chafers, each of thefe nine departments is 
to be fold feparately. 
The arts of every kind, whether libe- 
ral or induitrious, appear to meet with 
every encouragement in France at this 
time ;. that of printing feems in full ac- 
tivity. The C. C. Divot and HERHAN 
have gone beyond our dogagraphic attempt ; 
they have inftituted what they call fereo- 
type printing, i.e. the form to be printed 
off is competed of folid pages. ‘They are 
not caft in a mafs, but firmly cemented 
or foldered togethtr, after they are com- 
poled, fo as that no. part may be loofened 
by the aétion of the prefs or the adhefion 
of the paper. We can eafily conceive 
that the text may thus be preferved more 
perie&t from the ordinary accidents of. 
printing; but it is not fo certain that the 
economy of the art will receive any ad- 
vantage therefrom; fince it muft of ne- 
ceflity employ a vaft additional quantity 
of metal, and the folid forms mutt be very 
liable to be defaced. ‘There will be a 
faving in paper undoubtedly ; as fo much 
need not lie on the fhelves of the book- 
feHer, but till the total of the advantages 
and difadvantages are taken into’the ae- 
count and fairly. balanced, we fhall hefitate 
to pronounce this novelty in the art an 
improvement. 
Proicflor Faust, of Buckeburg, in 
Weltphalia, ftands, at this moment, in a 
confpicuous point of view. Of his va- . 
rious philanthropic works his “ Catecht/me 
ea Health” is {aid to deferve a pace among - 
the frit elementary books, But his fa- 
veurite plan, and which occupies him at 
this moment, is the entire extirpation of 
the fmall-pox. He confiders it as a fim- 
ple epidemic difeate, whofe duration and 
prolongation are the effect only of igno- 
rance in the people, and indifference in 
governmeuts, and that it ought to be 
Peede to dilappeur like the leprefy. He 
points out the way by which he conceives 
this daily f{courge of the human race, faid 
to {weep away one twelfth of the popula- 
tion of Europe, may be removed. In 
fhort, the proteflor i is defirous to pe 
the 
