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The following lines will fhew, that 
che poet is not infenfible to the recent 
acquifitions of his country :— 
Ces chefs-d@euvre divers, ces lauriers, ce 
concourse, 
Ont de l’art de Zeuxis ramené les beaux 
jours. 
Plus de vils préjugés, qu’un noble orgueil 
rejette, 
Le fils méme des grands a faifi la palette, 
Et prés du vieux guerrier, qui défendit Etat, 
Liartifte vénérable eft affis au fénat. 
Prenez, art qu’en honore, un plus grand ca- 
ractére, 
Une marche plus libre, enfemble et plus 
auftére, 
Chacun de vos fujets doit parler 4 mon ceur, 
Belifaire m’apprend 4 fouftrir le malheur. 
Horace arme fes fils pour Rome, et mon 
oreille 
Croit entendre fa voix ou celle de Corneille. 
It is well known, that Delille has 
hitherto refufed to return to France; 
the following lines allude to that fub- 
ject, and prefent an invitation that 
cannot fail to gratify the poet :— 
‘¢ Parmi tous les talens dont mon pays s*ho- 
nore, 
Je ne me place point ; mais jaurai fait plus 
qu’eux, R 
Si mes vers accueillis te rendent a nos veux ; 
Et qu’enfin refpirant fous fon laurier fertile, 
La France puiffe encor entendre fon Virgile.” 
** Le Valet du Fermier, poeme cham- 
petre; par ROBERT BLOOMFIELD, &c, 
1 vol, 12 mo. withten engravings.” 
This isa Tranflation of Bloomfield’s 
‘© Farmer’s Boy,” a Poem, which, af- 
ter obtaining many admirers in this 
country, is about to increafe the repu- 
tation of the author abroad, by means 
of a French Verfion. 
“¢ La Liberteide, on les phafes, &c.— 
The Liberteid ; or, the Phafes of the 
French Revolution ; confifting of Hero- 
ico-lyrical Defcriptions of the Events 
which have taken place, fince the for- 
mation of the States-General in 1789, 
until the Epoch of General Peace, in 
the year X. (1802.) with Notes, hif- 
torical and critical, by P. Mous- 
SARD. 
This fingular Poem, to which the 
Author has prefixed the following line 
as 2 motto: 
‘¢ Univers, admire et fremis,” 
is compofed of three hundred and 
twenty-fix Stanzas, each of ‘which is 
terminated by the word Liberty! Here 
follows a Deicription of the Vandalifz, 
Retrofped of French Literatuve.—School Books, Sc. 
as it is called, which» took place 
1793: 
Ivre de fang et de vengeance, 
Jia difcorde a banni la Paix.” 
La plébe repand fa demence ; 
La plébe commet les forfaits ; 
La plébe affeoit la tyrannie : 
Difparoit Peuvre du génie. 
La gloire de l’antiquité ; 
C’eft la rage, un chaes vandale ; 
C’eft l’arrogance et le fcandale 
L’opprobre de la liberté. 
The following Defcription of Faming | 
will perhaps make the reader {mile : 
Fai faim dit Venfant a fa mére 5 
Jai faim, dit le vieillard blanchi; 
J'ai faim, dit la feeur 4 fon fréré 5 
Jai fam, dit le pére affoibli; 
Jai faim, dit la mére débile: 
Jaifaim, dit la France fertile; 
Le cri lugubre eft répéie— 
Elles périffent les membranes ! 
Ils fe defléchent les organes, 
Les fibres de la liberté+ 
*¢ De Amoribus Pancharitis and Ze- 
roae; the Loves of Pancharis and 
Zoroas; an erotic and didactic Poem. 
Thofe who recollect the verfes of 
Catullus, on Lefbia’s Sparrow, will 
not ‘be difpleafed at the following ona 
parraquet: 
Pfittace, quem decorat cervicis difcolor arcuss 
Plumarumque nitor, cui canor alter honos ; 
O decus egregrium quandam telluris Eoz. 
Mente, modifgue tuis tam celebrande comes, 
Quam mihi dulce fonas iterans iteranfque lo- 
quelas, 
Quas docui, dominam blandius unde trahes $ - 
Suavius haud modulos promit Philomela fo, 
noros. wh: 
en den. See ee ane Mn ee A OS RS. oS 
Hec tibi preecipué cordi fint mellea verba, ° 
Szpius et blafo gurture danda tuo: 
¢¢ Dum thyma pervolitabit apis, dum bellida 
pafcet, fins, 
‘* Pancharitis Zoroas fidus amator erit.”® 
SCHOOL AND CHILDREN’S BOOK. 
«© Tableaux de l’Hiftoire Univer- 
felle,”? &c.—Pictures of Univerfal Hif- 
tory; or, a general Defeription of each 
Century, prefented in Succeffion, from 
the firft Ages of the World until the 
Reign of Tiberius, by Madame BreR- 
THELOT DE LA VILLEURNOY, 1 Vol. 
12mo. 
The lady, who has written this little 
work for the inftruction of children, in 
the fearch after novelty, has adopted a 
plan not altogether exempt from cen- 
fure. -Hiftory being a ftudy which pre- 
fents only facts and inftru€tion, and 
being but little calculated for the 
amufement 
