620. 
Athenian almanack ; a defcription of the 
Greck dances, Anacreontic fongs, &c. 
4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 20 fr. common, and 
40, vellum paper. 
The learned author of this very elegant 
work has entered into a long and ela- 
borate inquiry relative to the feftivals of 
the ancient nations, particularly thofe of 
the Athenians, both religious and polt- 
tical. He illuftrates his work by a va- 
riety of quotations both from the poets 
and hiftorians of antiquity, and he infits 
that the inftitutions which he defcribes, 
are admirably calculated to excite and de- 
velope the fenfibility of mankind. 
It ought not however to be omitted, 
that there are certain parts of this publi- 
cation, which Barthelemy would not have 
ountenanced, although it be publifhed 
as a Supplement to his ‘* Anacharfis.”” 
‘¢ Correfpondence Litteraire, adreflte a 
fon Alteffe Imperiale,’ &c.’? Literary 
Correfpondence, addreffed ta his Imperial 
*Highnefs the Grand-duke, at preient 
Emperor of Ruffia, and to Ccunt An- 
drew Schouwalow, Chamberlain to the 
Emprefs Catherine II. from 1774 to1789, 
by Jean Francois LAHARPE, 4 vols. 
8vo. Paris, price rs fr. 
The author of the prefent work has long 
fince diftinguifhed himfelf by his literary 
labours, particularly his Courfe of Lec- 
tures atthe Lyceum. On the prefent oc- 
cafion, however, he has departed from the 
rule laid down by himfelf, which was to 
avoid giving offence to, or even mention- 
ing living authors, when it could be 
avoided. Many of his contemporaries 
appear to confider this as a kind of fcan- 
dalous chronicle, and upwards of twenty 
men of ietters have had their feelings 
wounded by the ‘publication. It has alfo 
been remarked, that Laharpe, while fo 
ready to criticize the works of others, 
feems entirely to have forgotten ail his 
own defects, which has oceafioned fome to 
exclaim with Lucretius s 
‘* O miferas hominum mentes! 6 pectora 
ceca !” 
Or with La Fontaine, they are eager to 
remark that 
Le fabricateur fcuverain 
¢¢ Nous créa befaciers tous de méme manicre, 
‘¢ Tant ceux du temps paffe que du temps 
d@’aujourd’ul : 
s¢ Il fit pour nos défauts la poche derriére, 
‘©Et celle de devant pour les defauts 
d@autrul.””’ 
‘In fine this publication is confidered as a 
- Retrofped? of French LiteratureMifcelianies; 
kind of magic lanthern, in which the axe 
thor exhibits both the dead and the liy- 
ing, in the moft unnatural and diftorted 
attitudes. 
‘© Tableaux et Ordinaire de la Sainte 
Meffe, &c.” The Prints and Ordinary 
of the Holy Mafs, preceded by Morning 
and Evening Prayers, and followed by 
the Seven Penitentiary Pfalms, Verfes, 
&c. Prayers of St. Bridget, 6 vols, 
24m0o. 
This little book, which we merely no- 
tice to fhew that the freedom of opinion 
is not entirely profcribed in France, is 
adorned with wooden cuts, and fold for 
75 cents. : 
‘© De l’Excellence et de ia Supériorité 
de la Femme, &c.”’ Of the Excellence 
and Superiority of Women, tranflated 
from the Latin, 1 vol. 12mo. 
Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the author, 
was born in 1486, and died at Lyons ac- 
cording to fome in 1524, and according 
to others at. Grenoble in 1535, in the 
hofpital. ‘The work in quetftion was com- 
pofed by him, with a view of flatterin 
Margaret of Auftria. ~ - 
He afferts, that there is no difference 
between the foul of the female and that of 
the male; nay, he attempts to prove, that 
Eve was fuperior to Adam. He then 
enters into a difquifition on the beauty, 
modefty, cleanlinefs, &c. of the female fex, 
to which he attributes the principal fhare 
in generation. Nay, he aflerts, that when 
woman was tempted, the was lefs culpa- 
ble in the difcbedience to the orders of the 
moft High, that enfued, than man,—Af- 
ter this, he quotes Ariftotle to prove, that: 
all the good comes from the female, and . 
ali the evil from the male: without bad 
hufbands there would never be bad wives, 
&c.; and he concludes with afferting, 
that woman was not istended to practile 
obedience. gy 
“‘Les Nouvels Poids et Mefures,comparés 
aux Mefures et aux. Poids Anciens, 
&c.’” The New, compared with the Old 
Weights and Meafures ; or, a Simple and 
Eafy Method of reducing the Old to the 
New, and the New to the Old, &c. &c. 
The title fufficiently announces the 
contents of this publication, which is 
chiefly intended as a Vade Mecum for the 
French merchants, traders, &c. 
‘« Journal de Siége et Blocus de Malte, 
&c.°> A Journal of the Siege and 
Blockade of Malta, from the 16th Fruc- _ 
tidor of the Year 6, the Epoch of the Revolt 
of the Maltele, until the 22d Fructidor of 
the 
