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amufement of thofe who have not at- 
tained the years of difcretion, it be- 
comes neceflary to fix the attention of 
youth, by means of memorable events, 
and fhining actions. It would have been 
better therefore, perhaps, to have di- 
vided the prefent work inte epochs, ra- 
ther than into centuries; but, on the 
whole, itis worthy of perufal. 
«¢ Ta Morale en Exemples ; ou, Elite 
d’ Anecdotes Anciennes et Modernes, 
de préceptes et de Difcours propres a 
former la Jeuneffe 4 la Vertu et a l’Art 
d’Ecrire, par Auteur de la Morale en 
Aétion, et du Tableau des Vertus du 
Peuple, avec cette Epigraphe, 
—*6 Je ne crois point qu’on puifle étre ver- 
tueux fans religion. J’aieu long temps cette 
opinion trompeufe dont je fuis trop défa-_ 
bufé.” 
J. J.Rovusszav, Lettres a d’Alemb. 
3 vols. 12mo. de 1318’ 'p. Prix 7 fr. 
go c.’——-Morality exemplified; or, a 
choice Colleétion of Ancient and Mo- 
dern Anecdotes, Precepts and Dif- 
courfes, calculated to form Youth to 
Virtue, and the Art of Writing, &c. 
The author of this little work here 
endeavours to render morals amiable, 
and to produce a work, which, while 
interefting to the youth of both fexes, 
cannot fail, at the fame time, to prove 
inftructive even to age. The principal 
articles in this mifceilany confift of the 
rich Manand Ariftippus, an anecdote ; 
a Summary of all our Duties, in twelve 
chapters, by St. Lambert; Hiftory of 
Cleon, of Athens; Felix, or the un- 
grateful Man, an anecdote; the Empe- 
ror Sigifmondan, an anecdote; a Con- 
verfation between a Father and Son, by 
the Abbé Sicard; the Prayers of He- 
fiod, Plato, Socrates, Numa, Maffillon ; 
George and Marcel], an anecdote; An- 
tonio and Roger, a Spanifh anecdote ; 
the Creation, by the Abbé de Reyrac, 
&c. &c. 
« Abrégé d’un Cours complet de 
Lexicographie et de Lexicologie, a 
VUfage des Eléves de la quatriéme 
Claffe de l’Ecole Polymatique, par P. 
R. F. Butet (de laSarthe), Directeur 
de cette Ecole, Paris, 2 vols. 8vo.Prix 8 
fr.’—Summary of a complete Courfe of 
Lexicography and Lexicology, for the 
Ufe of the Pupils appertaiming to the 
fourth Clafs of the Polymatic School, 
&c. 
Citizen Butet, the author of this 
work, is teacher of languages, litera- 
ture, and mathematics in one of the 
principal fchools of Paris: he is alfo 
profefior of natural Philofophy at the 
Lyceum of Paris. The prefent treatife 
has been received with marked applaufe 
in France. 
‘Cours d’Hiftoire, feconde Année 
faifant fuite au Cours de Cofmographie, 
de Géographie du méme Auteur, par 
le Citoyen MENTELLE, Membre de 
VInftitut National, et profeffé par Ini a 
VEcole Centrale des Quatre-Nations, 
Paris, 1 vol. 8vo. Prix 4 tr.”—A Courfe 
of Hiftory for the fecond Year; being 
a Supplement to the Courfe of Cefmo- 
graphy and Geography of the fame 
Author, &c. 
Citizen Mentelle, a literary man of 
confiderable reputation in France, has 
divided this new work under diftinét 
heads :—The 1. contains the conftitu- 
tion of the greater part of modern 
ftates; 2. we are prefented with a fum-- 
mary of their military and political re- 
lations ; 3. we meet witha general ac- 
count of the genealogies of fovereign 
houfes ; and, 4. with a ftatiftical fum- 
mary of the German ftates. 
The author begins by tracing the 
conftitution of the ancient Romans; 
for, according to him, the inftitutions 
of that people alone ought to be ftu- 
died, in order to obtain rules of con- 
du& applicable to modern govern- 
ments. He then confiders and invefi« 
gates three grand epochs :—1. The in- 
curfions of the northern barbarians 
into Europe; 2. the tranflation of the 
feat of the empire from Rome to Con- 
ftantinople; and, 3. the publication of 
the Juftinian Code. : 
in America he finds nothing worthy 
his attention, but the United States; 
in Afia and Africa defpotifm is every 
where triumphant; in our happy por- 
tion of the globe the governments be- 
come mixed. Inthe No:th of Europe, 
he places the kingdoms of Great Bri- 
tain, Denmark, Sweden, and the Ruf- 
fian empire ; In the middle we findthe 
French, Batavian, and Helvetic repub- 
jics; the German empire; the king- 
doms-of Bohemia and Ruffia. 
This wark is clear and accurate, and 
the author has been at great pains to 
imitate the manner and arrangement 
of the great Bofluet. 
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