662 
by way of preface to the fifth edition of 
Clairaut’s Algebra; but in its prefent 
{tate it is confiderably altered and im- 
proved. The laft article, entitled, ‘ De 
quelques moyens pour abréger les calculs 
arithmetiques,’ (Of fome modes of 
abridging arithmetical calculations) is very 
ingenious, and thofe who do not underftand 
Algebra, will be enabled by its means to 
add confiderable celerity to great precifion. 
““ Melanges de Mathematiques,” &c. 
~ Mathematical Mifcellanies, or Memoirs 
relative to different Mathematical Sub- 
jects. Part 2d. Brufiels. This is the 
fecond volume of a colleétion of mathe- 
matical papers by C. NreuPoRT, and 
contains the conclufion of his inquiries, 
relative to the integration of equations. 
‘¢ Linterieur de ma Chambre,” &c. 
A View of the infide of my Apartment, 
and an Account of my Panic; ora few 
harth Truths relative to the Jacobins, by 
APs ias css DE) Oe aves: isha “burs 
lefque epiftle in verfe, rather direéted 
againft the miftrefs of the Hore! q’Axgox- 
éme, with whom the author appears to 
have refided for fome time, than-the Ja- 
cobins. 
© & Nouveau Chanfonnier Francois,” &c. 
The new French Songtfter, or a Seleétion 
of the beft Songs. A new Edition, with 
a Calendar for the Year 1809. This, as 
the title implies, is a_colleétion of the 
beft modern French -forfgs, fung in the 
various theatres of Paris. 
‘© Le Paradis Perdu, de Milton,” &c. 
Milton’s Paradife Loft; a .Tranflation 
from the Englith, with Notes. There have 
been no lefs than three tranflations of this 
mafter-piece of our celebrated bard, ante- 
rior to the prefeut: the firft by Racine, 
the fecond by Dupre de St. Maur, and the 
third by Mofneron, of which this is a 
very clofe copy. Itis extremely difficult 
to transfule the images Into another idiom, 
and accordingly the following paffiges - 
have puzzled the ingenuity of all who 
have attempted a French verfion: 

And the thunder 
Wing'd with :ed lightning’s impetuous rage. 
Retrofpe? of German Literature—Hiflory. 
‘€ Here in clofe recefs 
With flowers 
Efpoufed Eve deck’d her nuptial bed,’* 


The latter paffage has been thus given by 
the prefent tranilator : 
*€ Ce fut au fond de ce myfterieux afyle, gue 
la compagne d’ Adam, nouvelle & tendre &[peu- 
Jée, joncha fa couche nuptiale,”’ 
“© Portrait du General Suwarow :” 
Portrait of General Suwarow, by Citizen 
Pons pE VERDUN. This poetical por- 
trait 1s followed by three others of the fame 
kind ; they form together four burlefque 
fatires, not much longer than epigrams, 
a {pecies of compofition in which the an- 
thor has already acquired confiderable 
reputation. 
“* Au Peuple Frangois, fur l’Affaffinat 
des Plenipotentiaires a Raftadt,” &e. To 
the French People, occafioned by the Af- 
fafiination of the Plenipotentiaries at Raf- 
tadt: a ditharymbic Poem by: M. D. 
CUBIERES. ° 
This little peem, which does not ex- 
ceed 200 lines, is accompanied by a pres 
face of forty pages, and ten of explanatory 
notes. ‘The Emperor of Germany, and 
the late Pope, are both abufed in this pro- 
duction, which comes forth from the pen 
of a wiiter who has alike diftinguithed 
him{elf by his poetical talents and “his 
revolutionary zeal. | 
** La Guerre Civile, poeme,” &¢. Civil 
War, beinga free tranflation of a Poem 
by Petronius, accompanied with the Latin 
Text, Criticifms, &c. by Jonn NicoLas 
Maria Dscuer_es, Member of the 
Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts at 
Paris. This poem has already been tranf- 
lated by three Frenchmen, viz. the Abbé. 
de Marolles, Nodot, and the Prefident 
Bouhier. The prefent verfion by Deé-. 
guerle is however confidered as fuperior 
to that of any of his predeceffors, on ac~ 
count of its elegance. The notes which 
accompany, it are partly hiftorical and 
partly critical; they abound with imfor- 
mation, and contain a variety of grams 
matical difcuffions, 
Te ee 
GERMAN LITERATURE. 
History. 
“Peutfche _ Reichsgefchichte,- von 
Cerist. GortTL. HeEmNRicH, Hofrath 
nnd Profeffor der Gefchichte in Jena.” Hif- 
tory of the German Enipire, vol. vill. 1799, 
pp. 1002, 8vo. With this volume a work is 
erought near to its conclufion, which be- 
\ 
gan in 31786,.defigned as a continuation 
of Guthrie and Gray’s Univerfal Hit 
tory, of which only the title has been 
prefixed. Jt comprehends the whole hif- 
tory of Germany down tothe breaking off 
of the negotiations at Raftadt in 1799. 
A fubfequent volume will. continue the 
naryauve 
