Retrofpet of French Literature.—Mifcellanies. 
By Jean-DanieEL ALBERT HoEcK, 
Connfellor of Juftice to the King of 
Pruffia, and Director of the Police at 
Schwabach. Publifhed in French by 
A. Duquesnoy. 
This work, which appeared originally 
in German, has at length been tranf- 
lated into French, and confifts . of 
thirty-one tables, diftributed 1 in the fol- 
lowing manner : 
I. Three treat of the dominions of 
the Houfe of Auftria in a regular fe- 
ries: 
- Bohemia, Moravia, and Silefia. 
2. Lower Auitria, Interior Auftria, 
and the Tyrol. . 
3. Hungary, Illyria, Tranfylvania, 
Buckowina, and Gallicia. 
The refult is, that the Imperial Fa- 
mily poffefles a furface of 11,4183 
geographical miles, which on_ being 
reduced to hectares, prefents the num- 
ber of 62,664,728, and a population of 
21,585,787 inhabitants. 
If. Four tables are appropriated to 
the States of the Elector of Branden- 
bourg. 
The if treats of Pruffia and Pome- 
rania. 
The 2d. of. Brandenbourg, the bi- 
fhoprick of Magdebourg, the princi- 
pality of Halberitadt, and the ftates of 
Weltphalia. 
The 3d of Silefia, the principalities 
of Tramonia, and the principality of 
Neufchatel ; the laft of thefe appears 
to have been abandoned by Pruflia. 
The 4th is dedicated to the enume- 
ration of the military. 
The refult of this is as follows :— 
that the pofleffions of the King of Pruf- 
fia comprize a furface of 7924 geogra- 
phical miles, or 42,000,000 hectares, 
and that they are occupied by a popu- 
lation of 8,921,156 inhabitants. 
Although not included in the original 
plan, yet the reader may not be indif- 
pofed to learn that France occupies at 
prefent a furface eftimated at more than 
60 millions of hectares, and poffeffes a 
population of 34,302,000 inhabitants. 
Ruffia pofleffes a total, amounting to 
twenty- eight times the extent ofFrance; j 
the number of people, however, does 
not exceed 36,152,000. China itfelf is 
lefs extenfive than Ruffia, but on the 
other hand its population has been 
guefed, rather than eftimated at, 200 
millions. 
Five tables are appropriated to ihe 
Ecclefiattical States; eleven compre- 
hend the old Principalities ; three in- 
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clude Saxony ; four the new Princi- 
palities of the empire; five are dedi- 
cated to the Imperial towns of Ham- 
burgh, Bremen, Lubeck, Francfort, 
Augfburg, Nuremberg, &c. 
«© De la Chaleur animal, et. de, fes 
divers rapports, d’apres une Explica- 
tion nouvelle,” &c.—Of animal Heat, 
and its different Affinities, according 
to a new Explanation of the calor ifick. 
Phenomena, with an Examination of. 
the Opinions of different modern Aus 
thors on the fame Subject, by F. Josse; 
of Rennes, 1 vol. 8vo. 
The fociety known by the name of 
the School of Medicine, hath borne 
teitimony to the merits of this doétrine, 
whichis, however, difputed by Jouard 
the phyfician. 
‘¢ Monumens Antiques,” &e. —A 
Collection of Ancient Monnansttes 
Statues, Bas-Reliefs, Bufts, Paintings, 
Mofaicks, Engravings, Infcriptions, 
Medals, and Vafes, either entire- 
ly omitted before, or newly explain-. 
ed; by A. MiLuin, Contervator of 
Antiquities, Medals, and engraved) 
Stones belonging to the National Li-, 
brary of France, Profeffor of Hiftory: 
and Antiquities, &c. 
This work, which comes from the 
pen of a very induftrious antiquary, 
is publifhed in numbers, fix of which 
conftitute a volume, confifting of fifty. 
pages of letter-prefs, and forty plates. 
Not only the fize, but the engravings, 
type, &c. are intended to exhibit a 
clofe refemblance to two celebrated 
publications of the fame kind, one of 
which, entitled ‘* Recueil d’Antigut- 
tiés, Egy ptiennes, Grecqties, et Romai- 
nes,” appeared at Paris in.1756,and the 
other ‘* Monumenti Antichi inediti,” 
by Guattini, at Rome, in 1784-1789 
Citizen Millin gives the following 
account of himfelf and his labours, 
in the preface to No, 1.— 
<‘ The paffion difcovered by me far 
the fcience of Antiquities, and to which 
Iam more indebted than for any ta- 
lents of my own, to that confidence 
with which the government has been 
pleafed to honor me, was the principal 
inducement to a work of this kind, in-, 
tended by its variety to be equally 
grateful to learned men and to artifts. 
“The engravings are executed with the 
greateit fidelity, and more or lefs finifh- 
ed, according tothe nature and the in- 
tereft of the works intended to bere -pre- 
fented. Many of them are finely exe- 
cuted, others are only tketched in aqua 
458 fortis. 
