‘Languages. 
: - ie 
Retro[pe® of French Literature... Mifcellanies. 
the Children of the prefent Age. A 
work the whole of which is intended te 
forward the education of children from 
twelve to thirteen years of age, except 
the laft ten chapters, which are calcylat- 
ed for grown perfons. By Madame de 
GENLIs. 1 vol. 8vo.” “I have com- 
pofed for young people,”’ fays the au- 
thor, “* tales, a theatre, and a romance 
in letters ; a book of maxims, and por- 
traits was ftill wanting—and,. lo! here it 
is.’ Madame de Genlis on this, as on 
every other occafion, endeavours _ to 
draw the public attention towards her- 
felf. ** It was my fate,”’ fays fhe, ** to- 
have been born in times of trouble. “I 
have beheld crimes which furpafs every 
thing I ever read of ; I have been the 
victim of calumny’; I am a fugitive, pro-_ 
feribed, and bereaved. of my property, 
but I have not loft all; for the love of 
truth ftill remains, and I dare to affert, 
that, neither in this work, nor in anv 
other written by me, will be difcovered 
that exaggeration, ili-humour, and mif- 
anthropic difpofition, which misfortune 
and injuttice but too often produce.” 
“ Lecons élémentaries de Geometrie,”’ 
&c. Elementary Leffons of Geometry 
and Trigonometry. By E. Tepenat, 
Affociate of the National Inftituté of 
France, and Preteffor-of Mathematics at 
the Central School of the Department of 
Aveyron. §1 vol. in 8vo. With Plates, 
The application of the decimal calcula- 
tion to the admeafurement of furfaces 
and folids is recurred to in this elemen- 
tary treatife. It alfo contains the ratio 
or proportion bettveen the old method 
and the new; the new nomenclature; a 
variety of propofitions relative to fpheri- 
cal polygons, &c. + 
“* Les Ufages de la Sphere,”’ &c. The 
Ute of the Sphere, and the Celeftial and 
Terreftrial Globes, according to the Syftem 
of Prolemy and Copernicus. - To which 
is added, an hiftorical and geographical 
Analyfis of the Four Quarters of the 
World. By Deramarcu, Geographer. 
1 vol. 8vo. With Plates. Fhe author 
here exhibits the mechanifin of the ap- 
paratus ufuaily employed in the fudy 
of aftronomy znd geography, and’endea- 
vours to prevail on young’ people to learn 
the elements of thefe fciences, by way of 
an amufement, rather than a taik. 
“ Principes de Grammaire générale,”’ 
&c. The Principles of general Gram- 
mar, for the Ufe of Children, iatended 
as an Introduétion to the Study of all 
By A. J. SYLVESTRE DE 
Sacy. i2mo. This litle werk is di- 
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“ftinguifhed as well by the juftnefS of its 
principles as by the /order and regulart- 
ty with which they are exhibited and ex- 
plained. The author, who ‘has taken 
the general grammars of Port Royal and 
Beauzée as his models, divides his fub- 
je&t into three parts. In the firft, he 
examines the nature of the words em- 
ployed in difcourfe; the fecond contains 
reflexions on all the different caufles which 
modify the terminations of thefe words 3 « 
and the third exhibits a few general de- 
finitions, relative to fyntax and con- 
ftruction. , 
“© Les Trois Mufées,” &c. The Three 
Mufeums for Infancy ; containing a View 
of Nature; a View of Human Society ; 
and a View of the Arts and Sciences. 
By the Inventor of the Pafigraphy. to. 
The firft number of the firft volume of 
this work is now publithed. It con:zains 
three prints, with an explanation, in the 
five following languages; viz. Latin, 
Tialian, French, German, and Englith. 
At the bottom of each, the names of the 
various objects are engraved, in pafigra~’ 
phic characters. 
“Nouveau Syfteme de i’ Univers,” &c. 
A new Syftem of the Univerfe or a Phi+ 
lofophical. Abridgment of Warural Hi- 
ftory and Chemiftry, with an Account of 
the new Difcoveries of the Author, &c. 
By Cuaries LEorotp MaTuHieEv, of 
Nancy, Profeffor of Natural Hiftory and 
Chemiftry in the Department of Correze, 
é&c. 8vo. Lhe relation between natural, 
hiftory and chemiftry is fo. evident, thaz 
an acquaintance with the one prefuppofes 
a-knowledge of the other. It isin confe- 
quence of this, that, in the central fchools 
of France, the teaching of thefe two {ci- 
ences is confided to the fame profeffor. 
The work now before us confifis of a 
courfe of leétures delivered by Mathieu 
to his pupils. 
“ MISCELLANIES. 
** Précis Hiftorique dela Campagne du 
Général Maffena,” &c. Hiftorical Som-= 
mary of General Maffena’s. Campaign, 
in the Grifons and Helvetia, &c. By 
Makes, an Officer of Engineers. The 
auther, who commanded a batallion un- 
der thts celebrated leader, cenfures the 
gencral plan of the campaign of 1799 on 
the part of France, and afferts, that Ma(- 
fena was the only one of the three repub- 
lican commanders who, on taking the 
field, experienced any degree of fuccefs, 
This general, haying been greatly biam- 
ed for facrificing fo many men to no 
manner of purpofe, at the affaulr of Steig, 
Mares,. who was prefent on the’ occa- 
fiun, 
