Retrofpedt of French Literature—Mifcellanies. 643 
the purpofe of obtaining information 
for himfelf, but alfo for his fellow-citi- 
zens. He examines every fubject as it 
appears in review before him, fuch as 
the conftitution of the government, the 
manners of the people, the climate, the 
cuftoms, the liberal and mechanical 
arts, agriculture, and domeftic econo- 
my. His praife appears exceifive. All 
the fineft flowers of the gardens of 
Europe, according to him, may be 
found wild in the woods; and every 
{pecies of fruit may be produced there, 
from the quince to the pine-apple. 
One fpot is pointed out as capable of 
bearing grapes that would rival thofe 
of Tokay; here future ages are to find 
orange groves that will equal thofe of 
Nice and Lifbon; there will {pring up 
hedges of myrties, and beds of pome- 
granates fuperior to thofe of Italy. 
Bonnet confiders the eftablifhment 
and extenfive circulation of newipa- 
pers as one of the moit efficacious means 
that can poffibly be devifed for keeping 
up the fpirit of patriotifm. 
‘© The Gazettes (fays he} conftitute 
an infallible barometer of public opi- 
nion, becaufe the editors are not-venal; 
they are very common and very nume- 
rous throughout North America. How- 
ever excellent the public fpirit may be, 
yet it always ftands in need of affiftance 
and direétion, and it is impoffible to 
invent a better coxduéfor than that to 
which I now allude. Great Britain, 
the fole country in Europe in which a 
real public fpirit is openly exhibited, 
prefents a ftriking example of the fure- 
ty and the goodnefs of this mode. 
Tolerance, in matters of religion. 
{adds the author) is both perfe& and 
abfolute throughout the United States; 
there is no dominant, no privileged re- 
ligion. There is no fpecies of worfhip 
payed either by the general or any par- 
ticular government; all the minifters 
are gratified by means of a private fub- 
‘ feription. Thirteen different religious 
fects exift on this Continent ; and the 
Catholic, although the fource of the 
twelve other denominations, poffeffes 
no pre-eminence, and obtains no place, 
among them, butas a fect itfelf.”’ 
** Hiftoire Naturelle des Poiffons, par 
Je Cit.”’ &c.—Natural Hittory of Fithes, 
by the Citizen LacEPEDE, Member 
’ of the Senate, and of the National In- 
ftitute of France; one of the Profeffors 
of the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory ; a 
Member of the National Inftitute of 
the Cifalpine Republic, of the Societies 
of Arragon, Berlin, Gottingen, &c. 
4t0. 
Citizen Lacepede has been long dif 
tinguifbed as one of the meft eminent 
of the French naturalifts, and muft be 
allowed by every one to be admirably 
calculated for a work of this kind. 
Three volumes are already publifhed, 
and the fourth and fifth, which are in- 
tended to conclude the fubjeét, are 
about to appear in the courfe of a few 
weeks. 
Du Vrai Gouvernement des Peuples. 
de la Terre,” &c.—Of the True Go- 
vernment of Nations; or, an Addrefs 
to thofe who are governed, by P. J, 
HERRENSCHWAND, Author of the Po- 
litical and Moral Economy of the Hu- 
man fpecies, 1 vol. 8vo. — 
P. J. Herrenfchwand, the author of 
this extraordinary performance, being 
affected by the vices and coniradiétions 
which, according to him, z#fe all the 
prefent governments of the earth, has 
undertaken the painful tafk of inftruct- 
ing the univerfe! This new Anachar- 
fis Cloots rgcommends to begin by 
overturning all theancient inftitutions, 
and he conioles himfelf with the hope, 
“¢ that the feeds now fown by him will 
produce fruit, fo {oon as it may pleafe 
Providence to permit it.” 
** De la Legiflation fur la Mariage et 
fur le Divorce,’’ &c.—Of Legifation 
fo far as it concerns Marriage and Di- 
vorce, by ANDREW NOUGAREDE, i 
vol. 8vo. 
Nougarede, the author of this little 
volume, has already diftinguifhed him- 
felf by a work on the paternal autho- 
rity, or that degree of power which 
ought to be left to parents, in refpeét 
to the management of their children. 
On the prefent occafion, he enquires 
into the connubial rights, and, after ex- 
amining the queftion, both as a mora- 
lift and a politician, he is of. opinion, 
that the interetts of fociety and of chil- 
dren equally require that marriage 
fhould be indifloluble. 
«cs Traité des Arbres et Arbuftes,”* 
&ce.—-A Treatife on the Trees and 
Shrubs at prefent cultivated in the 
open Air in France, by DuHaMEL; a 
new Edition, greatly augmented, and 
diftributed after an improved Method, 
with Plares painted by P. J. Redoute, 
Painter to the Mufeum of Natural Hif- 
tory. "Ais ka 
This magnificent work is printed in 
numbers, and on diiferent kinds of 
paper, fo that the prices are neceffarily 
; various, 
