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This work, which is drawn up with 
great method, contains a hiftory of the 
ancient telegraphs, and alfo indicates all 
the qualities neceflary for a good telegraph. 
Befides this, it contains a variety of de- 
tails relative to the introduétion of the 
telegraphic art into France; a defcription 
of the French telegraphs; an expofition 
of the experiments made by M. Edel- 
cranz, in order to introduce fimilar ones 
into Sweden, &c. 
“* Syfteme des Connoiffances Chimiques, 
&c.”” A Syitem of Chymical Knowledge, 
with its Application to the Phenomena of 
Nature and Art, by A. F. Fourcroy, 
of the National Inftitute, Counfellor of 
State, Profeffor of Chemiftry at the Mu- 
feum of Natural Hiftory, the Polytechni- 
cal School, and the School of Medicine ; 
a Member of the Societies of, &c. Paris. 
x3 vol. 8vo. price 50 fr. and 4 vols. gto. 
price 72 fr. 
This work, or, to fpeak more properly, 
this monument erected to chemical fci- 
ence by the celebrated Fourcroy, contains 
the hiftory of its origin and its progrefs, 
as well as the principles and the details of 
thofe immenfe difcoveries with which Eu- 
rope became enriched towards the clofe 
of the eighteenth century. This eloquent 
writer has at length withdrawn the veil, 
and the archives of fcience have become 
the common treafure of the learned of all 
nations. hae 
‘© Eloge Philofophique de Denys Di- 
derot, &c."” Philofophical Eloge of Di- 
derot, by Eusepius SALVERTE; read 
at the National Inftitute, on the 7th of 
laft Thermider, 1 vol. $vo. 
Eulebius Salverte itates, that it is his 
intention to render homage to the ta- 
Jents and virtues of a philofopher who 
honoured and ferved his country, and who, 
perfecuted during his life, has allo been 
affailed by calumniators after he had 
ceafed to exift. Of the numerous writ- 
ings of Diderot, the author cites ‘* La 
Vie de Seneque,”’ as particularly deferving 
of praife, and pofleffing every thing, buth 
in refpe€t of matter and manner, appro- 
priate to the fubje&t. He conficers him, 
as pidfound in his ‘‘Peniées Philofo- 
phiques, et l’Interpretation de la Nature ;”” 
concife, elegant, and clear in his ‘‘ En- 
tretien d’*un Philofophe ;*° a metaphyfician 
fuperior even to Locke and Condillac in 
his ©*Lettres fur les Sourds et Muets ;”’ 
poffefied of tafte in his ‘* Lettres fur la 
Peinture ;°° brilliant inhis ‘* Religicule,”’ 
&e. 
« Bibliographie Entomologique, &c.”” 
Entomological Bibliography; or, a Cata- 
logue of the Works relative to Entomo- 
Retrofpet of French Literature—Mifcellanies. 
logy and Infeéts, with critical Notes, and 
an Expofition of the various Methods, by 
Cuarves Novrer. Paris. 18mo. 
Every one is acquainted with the ex- 
cellent’ ‘* Botanical Bibliography of M. 
Haller,” and it is greatly to be wifhed, 
that every branch of human fcience fhould 
pofiefs its particular bibliography, in 
which, following the afcending line, the 
rudiments of the fcience, and the works to 
be ftudied gradually, might be pointed out. 
A proje& of this kind was fuggelted to 
cw Alembert, and fome progrefs made, 
but it was never carried into execution. 
** Odes, traduites ou imitées d*Horace, 
&c.” Odes, tranflated or imitated from 
Horace, by P. M. MiGER, 18mo. 
The poetical eflays contained in this 
little volume, appear to be the produétion 
of a man of fome talents. The author 
has added to his tranflations, a fragment 
of his own, on the power of poetry, the 
firft ftrophes of which are imitations of 
the feventh and eighth odes of the 4th 
book of Horace. 
‘*La Paix avec TEmpereur, &c.” 
Peace with the Emperor; or, the Treaty 
of Luneville, a Poem; te which is added, 
an Epiftle to Virgil, on the Battle of 
Marengo; by Cusreres, junior, Member 
of the Lyceum of Paris, of the Society of 
Arts and Sciences, and the Atheneum of 
of Lyons, &c. 12mo. yl eons 
It is notthe**Treaty of Luneville,”* but 
the actions that preceded the pacification, 
as well as the new profpects opened by 
it, that the poet confiders as a fit fubjeét 
for his’ Mufe. To this little work is 
prefixed, an epiftle which no friend to let- 
ters, to philofophy, and to tafte will con- 
fider as defpicable. ‘The verfes on the 
Peace are eafy and flowing, and the 
Epiftle to Virgil is accompanied by an 
Italian tranflation, by Povoleri, who has 
attained fome degree of celebrity by his 
verfification. 
‘¢ T’Univers, Poeme en Profe, &c.” 
The Univerfe, a Poem in Profe, and in 
Twelve Cantos, by P. C. V. Boisre, 
Author of an Univerfal Di€tionary of the 
French Language, 1 vol. 8vo. Paris. 
7 ei. 
The author tells us in his preface, that 
it is his intention to reprefent the univerfe, 
under four grand points of view, viz.. 
its phyfical, moral, political, and religious 
afpect. The invocation to the Deity 
abounds with fublime and appropriate 
imagery, and the whole is accompanied 
with notes, and adorned with well ex- 
ecuted prints. The frontifpiece repre- 
fents ‘* The Eternal, difperfing chaos, 
after Raphael.”? 
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