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The following book is deferving of 
attention, not only on account of its 
title. but fora variety of other reafons: 
«¢ La Religion Catholique eft la feuie 
qui fot Vrale, &c.°—Tne Catho ick 
Religion is the only true one, and the 
fole fuitable to the Dignity and the 
Wants of Man. By M. Lucer, author 
of the Principles of Univerial Canon 
Law. 
The author of this work, not con- 
tent with rejoicing at beholding the. 
altars of the Catholic faith reftored, ap- 
pears extremely eager to give an undue 
preference to the fect of which he is a 
meinber. He affcéts to defpife the an 
cients on.account of their comparative 
ignorance inrefpect to the myiteries of 
‘yelizion, and leaves the inodern phile- 
fophers to navigate that ocean of doubt 
and uncertainties which appeared bhi~ 
deous even to Roufleau. 
He begins his work, by anathemati- 
zing Socinus and his followers ; and af- 
ferts that the churches founded by 
Martin Luther and his difciples pof- 
fefs none of the characters appertaining 
to thofe of the true faith, while the doc- 
trines taught bythem are blafphemous 
in the extreme. 
Caivin, or Cauvin, 1s accufed of hav- 
ing defpifed the precepts of St. Paul, 
by the. equality intreduced by him 
among paftor s,and heis greatly biamed, 
for having impsifoned and banithed 
Bolfec, under pretext of being a Pela- 
gian, and burnt Servetus, becaufe he 
happened to differ from him in certain 
religious tenets: but this 1s only an ar- 
gument againft the character of the 
man, not the doétrines of the reformer. 
Henry VIII. of courfe experiences a due 
fhare ot abufe, and we are told, that 
the unhappy Church of Englandis now 
only a cry branch of the ancient tree, 
which had hitherto nourifhed it ; in 
fhort, nothing better than a mere bu- 
man inititution! 
Tn fine, the whole of M. Lucet’s opi- 
nions favour but littie of the fpirit of 
Chiiftianitv, and are ali comprehended 
in the tolluwing fentence, whi_h he has 
chofen for his mctio: / 
** Je crois PEglife qui eft une, fainte, ca- 
thoiique, et apoftelique.” 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
& Voyage aux Grottes d’Arcy.” 
A Journey to the Grottoes of Arcy, ac- 
companted wiih Fugitive Poetry, and 
detached Thoughts. ” By A. DEVIELE, 
Protetior ot Natural iltery, jn the cen- 
frail School of Ycnne.” 
Retrofpeé? of French Literature—Natural Hiftory. 
The French profeffor performed the 
journey which he here defcribes, on 
toot, a mode of travelling deemed far 
more initructive by this naturalift, than 
any other. It is his opinion, that ‘thefe 
{uoterraneous apartments. are mere ex- 
cavations, for the purpofe of finding 
buiiding materials, for the erection of 
certain venerable edifices in the neigh- 
bourhood, and not produced by the 
ordinary operations of nature, as has 
been hitherto fuppoled. 
«¢ The Grottoes, ({ays he), abound- 
ing with ftalatites and ftalagmites are 
fo common as to be fcattered all over 
the country. That ot Chablais, called 
the Grotto of the Fairies, is fituate amidit 
frighttul rocks, in the midf of a foreft 
of hawthorns, near two leagues diitant 
from Ripaille. According to Voltaire, 
in the Encyclopedick Dictionary, they 
confift of three arched grottoes,the one 
above the other, cut perpendicularly by 
nature, in an inacceflible rock. 
“The water which diftils from the 
uppermoft vault, has formed the figure 
ofa hen brooding over her chickens. 
Near to this, is another concretion re- 
fembling a piece of bacon, with the 
rind exadly delineated. In the centre 
of the fame apartment, is to be feena 
fpinning-wheel, diftaff, and the ap- 
pearance ofa fruit refenvbling almonds. 
The women of the neg Beout ae pre- 
tend to have feen in the apperture, the 
figure of a petrified female, but fhe has 
difappeared of late years, and this cire 
cumitance has probably occafioned the 
cavern to be denominated the pe 
of the Fairies. 
*« At the prefent period, when man- 
kind are fill fond of the marvellous, is 
it not potibie fo maintain-that thefe 
feeming {ports of nature are real pe- 
trifations? The grotto may be fup- 
pofed to have ‘been formerly inhabited 
by a woman, who was accuftomed to 
fpin; her bacon is ftill fufpended from 
the roof; her hen and chickens for- 
merly furrounded her; fhe was eating 
almonds, when changed into a rock, 
along with her wheel, her diltaff, and 
her almonds, exadttly in the fame inan- 
ner, that Edith, the wite of Lot, was 
turned into a ftatue of fat.” 
“Nouveau Diétionnaire d’Hiftoire Na- 
tureile,&c.?,—AnewDitticnary of Natu- 
ral Hiftory, applicable to the Arts, and 
cs princeate Rural and Domeftic Eco- 
nomy, by a Society of Naturalilts and 
Agriculturiits.”’ 
This immenfe work, formerly noticed 
by us, at its commencemeni, is now 
proceeding 
