670 
dern Romans, as will appear from the 
following remark :-— 
<¢ But, what became of the peopleafter 
this? They haftened to {pend the remain- 
der of the day in feftivais and debauch- 
ery, which, in this country, generally 
conclude with murder and affaffination 
—fo eafily and fo quickly was the im- 
preflion of the moft impofing religious 
fpectacle in the univerfe effaced !"’ 
This work is printed with elegance, 
and the vignette, which ferves as a fron- 
tifpiece, is engraved with great taite. 
‘© Recueil des Lettres de la Famille 
de Solomon Geffmer,’’ &c.—A Collec- 
tion of Letters written by the Family 
of Solomon Geffner, 1 vol. 8vo. 
This is a tranflation from the Ger- 
man edition, which was publifhed at 
Berne about a twelvemonth fince. The 
greater part of the letters confift of a 
familiar correfpondence between the 
celebrated Gefiner and his fon Con- 
yad, then on his travels, and the ftu- 
dies proper for an artift, conftitute the 
chief fubject. 
“¢ Voyage de Ja Troade,” &c.—A 
Journey through the Troad, during the 
Years 1785 and 1786, by J. B. Le 
CHEVALIER, Member of the Society 
ot Arts and Sciences of Paris, the Ly- 
ceum of Caen, the Academies of Got- 
tingen, Caffel, Madrid, &c. 
This is the third edition of a book 
which has occafioned a very lively fen- 
fation, not only throughout France, 
but Europe; and it is fo confiderably 
augmented by the obfervations of many 
learned men, who have vifited the 
Troad fubfequently to the author, that 
it may be now confidered as an en- 
tirely new work. An additional vo- 
lume has aifo been added, and we no 
longer accompany the author into the 
plain of Troy, without any previous 
notice, but fet out from Venice along 
with him, and are prepared to admire 
the beauties of Homer, before we con- 
template the fcene of his labours." 
It is almoft unneceflary to inform 
the reader, that this publication has 
already given rife to a celebrated lite- 
rary controverly. . 
«© Voyage a la Cote Occidentale d’A- 
Frique, fait dans les Années 1736, 1737; 
contenant la Defcription des Meeurs, 
Ulages, Lois, Gouvernement, et Com- 
merce des Etats.da Congo, fréquentés 
par les Europééns, et un Précis de la 
‘Traite des Nows, ainfi qu'elle avoit 
liga avant la Reévolution Frangaile, 
Retrofpect of French Literature.—Voyages, Ge. 
fuivi d'un Voyage fait au Cap de Bonne 
Efpérance, contenant la Defcriptioi 
Militaire de cette Colonie, par L. De- 
GRANDPRE, Officier de la Marine Fran- 
caife ; ornés des Vues, Cartes, et du 
Plan de la Citadelle du Cap: Paris, 2 
vols. 8vo. Prix 10 fr. 50 c. Idem pap. 
vélin 24 fr." —-A Voyage to the Weftern 
Coalt of Africa, during the Years 1786 ' 
and 1787, &c. 
’ Citizen Degrandpré, having former- 
ly vifited Afia, has been enabled, in 
the courfe of his refidence in Africa, to 
make a comparative eftimate between 
the manners and cuitoms of two diffe- 
rent continents, and to find out certain 
points of approximation, which would 
never have occurred toa lefs enlight- 
ened traveller. 
The inhabitants of Congo fcrupu- 
loufly adhere to the fuperititions of 
their anceftors; and fo adverfe are 
they from receiving the doétrines of 
Chriftianity, that Father Joly, notwith- 
ftanding his zeal, was never able to 
baptize more than a fingle Negroe, 
during two years refidence at Malembe. 
This, we are told, ‘* was a hideous: 
flave, whom nobody would purchafe, 
and whom the black merchants were 
about fo precipitate from the top of a 
mountain, when he was refigned fora 
little brandy, and, thanks to his defor- 
mity (adds the author), this wretch 
became a Chriftian.” 
We are, however told, that the inha- 
bitants are not intirely infufceptible of 
civilization;but it is neceflary toacquire 
their confidence by means of benefits. 
‘© What they want (fays Degrandpré) 
is medical affiftance, to fuccour them 
in their maladies, and men capable of 
inftructing them in agriculture: thefe 
are the miffionaries, who would foon 
behold their labours crowned with fuc- 
Cais yt 
<< Voyage en Italie de Abbé Bar- 
thelemy, de l?Aeadémie Frangaife, de. 
elle des In{criptions et Belles Lettres, 
et Auteur du Voyage d’Anacharfis ; 
imprimé fur fes Lettres originales, 
écrites au Comte de Caylus ;, avec un 
Appendice ou fe trouvent des Mor- 
ceaux inédits de Winckelmann, du P. 
Jacquier, de PV Abbé Zarillo, Académi- 
cien ‘d’Herculaneum et Antiquaire du 
Roi de Naples, et autres Savans; pub- 
lig par A. Serieys, Bibliothécaire du- 
Prytanée,et communiqué pendant l’Im- 
preilion au Sénateur, neveu de cet Aca~ 
demicien, et au Directeur de la Mon- 
ae noie: 
