Retrofpect of Spanifh Literature. —Agriculture, Se. 
tions Of that country, as to corivert the 
prefs into the medium of political difor- 
ganization. 
To archite&uré, to aftronomy and mae 
thematics, to the difcoveries of itinerant 
philofophers, and to inquiries into the 
phenomena of the human mind, their au- 
thors have devoted a very fmall por- 
tion of attention ; and the only works 
exclufively on natural hiftory, which have 
fallen under our notice, are a Compendium 
of the celebrated Buffon, and a Tranfla- 
tion frem the French of his Zoolcgy, 
which we mention here, becaufe we.have 
not confidered them fufficiently material 
to aflign to them a feparate title in our 
eatalosue, 
It canal appear fingular, that, at this 
time, when, in confequence of a new or- 
der of things, commercial regulations 
form to material a department of diplo- 
matic duty, a regard fo tranfient fhould 
have been diregted to this fubject by the 
Spanifh politicians: looking with folici- 
tude tothe commercial interefts of our na- 
tive country, confident of the advantages 
Spain has derived from her reliance on the 
honour and punctualicy of the Britifh mer- 
chant, we fhould have been happy to have 
.feen thofe broad and enlightened princi- 
ples diffufed in that kingdom, which 
would increafe the mercantile intercourfe 
between the two nations, and prevent its 
entire monopoly by the intrigues of the 
eonfular republic. 
AGRICULTURE AND BOTANY. 
“* Lecciones Piacticas de Agricultura 
_ y Economia del Campo, que da un Padre 
a {a Hijo para que fea buen Labrador en 
adi baaiex Pais.”"—Praétical Leétures on 
Agriculture and Ruftic Economy, from a 
Father to his Son, to make hima good 
¥armer in every different Soil and Chi- 
mate. 
in this work are acnee the different 
fpecies of earths; the principles of ferti- 
lity in the various foils; the effects of 
the atmof{pheric phenomena on produce ; 
the planis and feeds adapted to each kind 
of earth are inveftigated ; the method of 
fowing belt fuited to promote fecundity ; 
the method of preferving food for cattle 
with the {imalleft diminution of its nutri- 
tious quality; the method of warming 
cold foils: of rendering temperate thole 
in the oppofite extreme; and, in the 
courfe of the work, thefe le&tures difcufs 
every interefting fubject of agriculture. 
‘¢ Icones atque Defcriptiones Planta- 
rum, &c. Eftampes y Defcripciones de las 
Piantas que fe cultivan en el Real Jardin 
Botanico, y de las que crecen en Elpaiia,. 
MonTrHty Mag. No. 89. 
‘de a Sots. 
685 
fegonda y ultima Parte del tomo 6, por 
D. Antonio JoseEPH CAVANILLES.’— 
Engravings and De(criptions of the Plants 
cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden, 
and of thofe natural to the foil of Spain ;. 
the fecond and laft part, by D. Antonio 
Jofeph Cavanilles. 
The work, which was begun in 1791, i 
concluded with this fafciculus ; fixty new 
genera are fupplied from the feven hun- 
dred and twelve undefcribed plants intro- 
duced intoit. This production has been 
noticed with much refpeét by the periodi- 
cal publications in Europe ; the drawings 
of the plants, and of the parts of fruéti- 
fication that appertain tothem, were done 
by the hand of the author. Various con- 
troverted points are elucidated, and fome. 
articles of information are difclofed, which, 
before were wholly unknown. The pre- 
fent fafciculus contains forty engravings 
of plants, with their defcriptions, and an 
index of the whole work adapted to the 
fexual fyftem, . 
‘€ Curfo Completo ; 6, Diccionario Uni- 
verfal de Agricultura Tedrica, Practica, 
Economica, y de Medicina Rural y Vete- 
rinaria, efcrito en Frances por una Socie- 
dad de Agrénomas, y ordenado por el 
Abate Revie, traducido al Cattellano 
por D. Juan ALvarez GUERRA, India 
viduo de Mérito en la Clafe de Agricultu- 
ra de la Rea! Sociedad Economica de Ma- 
drid, tomo 52.”-——-A Complete View; ors 
Tower fal DiGtionary of Agriculture, The- 
oretic, Praétical, and Economic, and of 
Rural and Veterinary Pharmacy, from the 
French of a Society of Agritulturifts, ar- 
ranged by the Abbé Rozier, tranflated 
into Spanifh by D. Juan Alvarez Guerra, 
honorary Member inthe Clafs of Agricul- 
ture of the Royal Economic Society of 
Madrid, vol. 12, | 
‘© Defcripcion de las Plantas que D. 
Antonio Joleph Cavanill+s demoftré eu 
Jas Lecciones Publicas de Botanicode Ano 
*—Delcription of thofe Plants 
which D. Antonio Jofeph Cavanilles ex. 
hibited in his public Botanical Leétures 
of the Year 1801. 
The Preface to this work explains the 
elementary principles of the fcience. —- 
«¢ Junta Publica de la Real Sociedad 
Economica de Valencia, celebrada el 9 de 
Diciembre de, 1800, un temo en 4to.”— 
Public Meeting of the Royal Economic 
Society of Vale: cia, on the gth of Decem- 
ber, 1800, 1 vol. ato. 
Among others are the following papers : 
the Introduétory Difcourfe, by the Mar- 
quis of Valera; on Popular Education, 
by D. Manuel de Velafco; Memoirs on 
tae ty the 
