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celebrated on the borders of the Wolga, 
or the plains of Siberia, for the Goddefs 
cannot there finda fingle rofe, wherewith 
to adorn her garland !”’ 
He advifes thofe who with to ftudy and 
admire fine forms, to fcale the Alps and 
penetrate into Italy, where, as they ap- 
proach towards the fouth, they will be- 
hold the human prefile affume a more 
marked and charatteriftic afpe&, the nofe 
and forehead approximate towards a right 
line, and the whole phyfiognomy exhibit a 
more noble, open, commanding, and cha- 
Facteriftic appearance.”’ But it is in 
Greece and the iflands of the Archipelago 
that perfection is to be found: ‘It is 
in Greece alone, where man is created 
after the image of the gods, and where 
the ftatuaries and the painters will be able 
to form gods, refembling man.” 
This workof Cit. LeBarbier may be con- 
fidered as a gallery of interefting pictures, 
in which we difcover the purity of defign, 
thedelicate touch, and the exquiiite colour- 
ing, that diftinguith the hand of a great 
matter. 
“© Tableau du Commerce de Ja Gréce, 
&c.”> A Defcription of the Commerce of 
Greece, eftimated according to an 
average, from the Year 1787 to the Year 
1797, by Fetix Beaujour, Ex-conful 
in Greece, 2 vols. 8vo. 
This interefting work is the refult of 
the enquiries of the author among the 
beft-informed merchants of Salonica, and 
it alfo contains fuch obfervations as his 
own refpectable fituation neceflarily enabled 
him to make, In confequence of thele 
fources of information, he has. been ena- 
bled to colle& every thiog of effential im- 
portance relative to the commerce of 
modern Greece, and to efiimate the advan- 
tages which the agriculture, the com- 
merce, and the manufactures of France 
are likely to reap, in confequence of a 
connection with this part of the Archipe- 
Jago. Thefe various facts were annually 
arranged and inferted under their {pecific 
heads, after which it was the cuftom of 
the French Conful to tranfmit them home 
for the inf{pection of adminiftration. 
The firft volume contains fifteen letters 
on the commodities fit for exportation 
from Greece, while the fecond gives an 
account of the amount of the importations 
from the feveral commercial nations of 
Europe. 
England for a long time poffefled nerly 
a monopoly of this trade: but France at 
length, by means of the port of Marleilles, 
not only entered into a competition, but 
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Retrofpeé? of French Literature—Mifcellanies. 
in this particular inftance obtained a fupe- 
riority over her rival. Beaujour, who 
in, confequence of his official fituation 
may be fuppofed capable of deciding on 
-a fubject of this kind, afferts, that the 
profit reaped by France on the general ba- 
lance of trade, formerly amounted to 
from thirty to thirty-fix millions of livres. 
The war with Great Britain and the 
Turks has nearly annihilated this, as 
well as every other branch of foreign 
commerce, but on the conclufion of peace, 
it is predifted by the Ex-conful, that the - 
trade of the Republic will in a few years - 
be equal fo that of any other nation what- 
ever. 
<¢ Difcours fur la Vertu, &c.”? A Dif. 
courfe on Virtue, recited before the Aca- 
demy of Sciences and Belles Lettres, at 
Berlin, on January 25th 1797, by Sta- 
NISLAUS BOUFFLERs, 2d edition, core 
rected and augmented. 
This is a very fertile fubje& for decla- 
mation, and one which has engaged the 
attention of a multitude of writers, both _ 
ancient and modern. According to Cit, 
Boufflers, ‘*a]l our virtues: originate in 
compafiion, and it is to the development 
of this faculty, partly phyfical, partly 
moral, that I affert,” fays he, “‘* the 
whole fyftem of virtue.”” Soon after this, 
he defines virtue, to be “a fincere difpo- 
fition to do to others all the good in’ our 
power;”’ and this difpofition, ‘he main- 
tains ‘*to lie concealed at the bottem of 
the human heart, like gold in the entrails 
of the earth, until the labour of man has 
conferred beauty and value upon it.” 
<* Phyfiologie Vegetale, contenant une 
Defcription des Organes, &c.** Vege- 
table Phyfiology, containing a Defcrip- 
tion of the Organs of Plants, and an Ex- 
pofitions of the Phenomena produced by 
their Organization, by JOHN SENNEBIER, 
Affociateemember of the Natural Infti- 
tute, and alfo of feveral Academies and 
learned Societies, &c. 5 vols. 8vo. 2133 
pages. Geneva. A new edition. 
The learned and celebrated author of 
thefe volumes, has not only taken advan- 
tage of the difcoveries of Spallanzani and 
{ngenhovz, but added new and important 
remarks on the nature and properties of 
vegetables, a fubjeét which has long en- 
gaged his attention and excited his la- 
bours. While perufing this interefting 
work, we are charmed with the obferva- 
tions relative to the phyfiology of the 
vegetable word, and the curious and im- 
portant inveltigations, not only of the two 
former men of {cience, but allo of Cou-., 
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