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656 
-"The author muft be allowed to be 
well acquainted with his fubjeét, and 
he is entitled to praife, for having ex- 
hibited a variety of notions equaily pre- 
cife and fatisfa¢tory. The rule laid down 
jn re{peét to the application of the par- 
ticiples, re{pecting which many men of 
letters have been ata lofs, is developed 
in a clear and methodical manner; and 
the whole of this litthe work may be 
_ perufed with advantage both by thofe 
already acquainted with the prin- 
ciples of the French language, and 
thofe who with to attain a knowledge of 
them. \ 
. “© Efope, en trois Langues, &c.’-— 
#& (op, in three Languages, Greek, La- 
tin, and French; or, a. Concordance 
of his Fables, with thofe of Phedrus, 
Faerne, Defbillons, La Fontaine, and 
other French Writers, 1 vol. 12mo. 
. This is publithed not only as a fub- 
ject of curiofity, but for the exprefs 
purpofe of inftruction, being intended 
for the edification of fuch as have for- 
gotten the languages of Greece and 
Rome, as well as thofe young men 
who cultivate them in the ichools and 
univerfities of France. | 
«< Dictionnaire des Termes. Tech- 
nigues de Botanique, &c.”—A Dic- 
tionary of the Technical Terms of 
Botany, adapted to the Ufe of Scho- 
lars, as well as thote who occafionally 
ftudy that Science. By Citizen Mou- 
TON FONTENILLE, Member of the 
Atheneum, the Society of Agriculture, 
&c. r vol. 8vo. 
The author has endeavoured in this 
little work to copy the methodical no- 
menclature in the Phijofophia Bota- 
nica of Linnzus. His Dictionary ac- 
cordingly unites all the advantages of 
the alphabetical with thofe of the me- 
thodical form. 
‘© Manuel d’un Cours de Chimie, 
é&c.”—Manual of a Courfe of Chemif- 
try; or, the Elementary, Theoretical, 
and Praétical, Principles of this Sci- 
ence; by E. J. B. BouviLton La- 
GRANGE, Profeflor of Phyfic and Che- 
miftry, in the Central Schools of Paris, 
and a Member ot {feveral learned So- 
cleties, 3 vols. 8yo. Third edition. 
The {fcience of chemiftry, formerly 
fiudied by the learned alone, and 
confined to the laboratories of the 
curlteus, is now taught like arith- 
metic, mathematics, &c. in all the 
public fchocls of France. Bouillon 
Lagrange, who is a man of fome re- 
putation, has. taken advantage of all 
Retrofpeet of French Literature.—Maps, Charts, ce 
the books lately publifhed on this fub- 
ject, particularly the ‘* Syliéme des 
Connoiflances Chimiques’’ of the cele- 
brated Profeffor Fourcroy, but he does 
not borrow ina fervile. manner from 
the authorities he quotes, : although, 
like-a man of fenfe, he appears eager 
that both himfelf and his readers fhould 
profit from the progre{s of modera dif- 
covery. 
“« Grammaire Raifonnée; ou, Cours 
Théoretique et Praétique de la Langue 
Frangaife, é&c.”°—A Rational Gram- 
mar; or, a Theoretical and Pratticak 
Courfe of the French Language, dedi- 
cated to the Ufe of thofe who with to 
become acquainted with and prattife 
not only the Rules recognized by the 
ableft Grammarians, but alfo fuch as 
are either entirely new, or but little 
known: a Work deftined for Public 
Schools, and dedicated to the Firft 
Conful. By J.E.J. F. BoInvitLigrs, 
of the Nationa! Inititute, 2 vols. 12mo. 
No fubjeét has undergone a greater 
variety of difcuffion than that of Gram-- 
mar in France; but this circumftance 
alone tends to prove, that the French 
nation has been making unceafing ef- 
forts to attain perfeétion in this {cience.- 
M. Boinvilliers is a difciple of M. Do- 
mergue, and has adopted his theory, 
relative to the prepofition. His work, 
however, is inferior in many refpects 
tothe ‘¢‘ Grammaire Générale’ of the 
Abbé Sicard, more efpecialiy fo far as 
re{peéts clearnefs, exactnefs, and fim- 
plicity. He, however, mutt be allow- 
ed toexcel, inrefpect to the rules of 
fyntax; and he has alfo followed, and 
even furpafled, Beauzée, in the docs 
trine of participles. 
MAPS, CHARTS, AND ENGRAVINGS, 
‘¢ Carte des Etats Unis de l’Amerique 
Septentrionale, &c.’"’-—-A Map of the 
United States of North America, four 
Sheets grand eagle. 
This is one of the fineft maps which 
have ever appeared in France, and by 
far the moft correct of any hitherto 
publifhed in that country, of North 
America. The editor, P. F. Tarpigv, 
has, on this occafion, been greatly in- 
debted to the work on the fame fubjeét 
by Mr. Arrow{mith; and, as the names 
of places are engraved in Englifh, as 
well as the notes, it appears evident, 
that it is defigned to rival the latter in 
the markets of Philadelphia, Bofton, 
&ec. . 
Some valuable communications are 
infested, 
