Retrofped? of French Literature—Poetry. 
Part I. contains an account of the 
country from Cape Blanc, to Cape Ta- 
grins This {pace includes 300 leagues 
of coaft, and comprehends the Senegal, 
the borders of which are prote&ted from 
infult by a bar, that prevents the ap- 
pe of men of war. The Ifle of St. 
ouis, five leagues diftant from the 
mouth of this river, carries on a con- 
fiderable trade in gum and flaves; 
Goree, although but a mere rock, yet 
prefents a port for navigators, and has 
the fettlements of Ruffifque, Portudal, 
ival, Salum, and Abreda, dependant 
upon it. 
Part II. comprehends all the country 
between Cape Tagrin, and Cape Lopez 
Gonfalvez, having a line of coaft of 
Goo leagues in extent; it includes 
Amckou, where a factory was firft efta- 
blifhed by the French in 1786, and 
Juda, which is dependant upon the 
king of Dahomé. a 
The Third Part includes from Cape 
Lopez to CapeNegro, being 320 leagues, 
an the courfe of which are to be found 
Loango, Congo, and Angola, countries 
which are frequented by the traders of 
all nations; but the remainder of the 
coaft of Africa, as far as the Cape of 
Good Hope, is feldom vifited by 
ftrangers. 
The author through the whole of the 
work evinces the molt fincere wifh to 
increafe the trade of France, by the 
abolition of monopolies and companies 
pretending to exclufive privileges. 
**DeL’Homme et de fes Facultés, par 
Davip HarTLey, &c.""-——Of Man and 
his Faculties, by David Hartley, 2 vol. 
8vo.” 
This is the tranflation of an Englith 
work of great celebrity, undertaken 
by R. A. Sicard, a ‘member of the Na- 
tional Inftitute of France, and fu- 
perintendaut of the Eftablifhment for 
Deaf and Dumb. In thenotes to this 
edition, he endeavours to elucidate the 
ideas of his author, and boafts that the 
hope of Hartley, and the dream of 
Leibnitz, are now accomplithed, by the 
introduction of an univerial language. 
We are further informed, that he is 
about to publith his diétionary of figns, 
and he alfo promifes a new nomencia- 
ture of pantomimical exprefions, by means 
of whicn utter ftrangers can underftand 
each other. 
POETRY. 
**(Euvres Meilées et Pofthumes de 
Waspre D’EGLANTINE, &c.’—Milcel- 
MonTuoiy Mac. No. i03. 
661 
laneous and Pofthumous Works of 
Fasre D’EGLANTINE, 2 vol. 12mo. 
Thefe little volumes, publifhed for 
the benefit of the widow,contain an apo- 
logetical preface concerning the con- 
duct of. the author, formerly addreffed 
by him to his fellow-citizens. His 
works confift of poems, fatires, tales, 
epifties, romances, and three odes, one 
of which is extemporaneous, on feeing 
the (tatue of Buffon ere¢ted in the Gar- 
den of Plants; but as this difficult 
{pecies of compofition is not achieved 
with the fame eafe as an acroftic, ora 
rebus, it is not fingular that it fhould be | 
below mediocrity. On other occafions 
however, he has merited praife, more 
efpecially in his ** Epitre a un jeune 
Poéte,"—** Le Berger Martin,” —** Le 
Malheureux,” &c. The following de- 
{cription of the domeftic Cat is un- 
doubtedly entitled to praife: 
*© Sous le comble anguleux que recouyre la 
brique, 
Vos yeux ont vu fouvent ce larron domef{- 
tique, : 
Qui, le foir, prés du feu, d’amis environné 
Vient gliffer fous leurs mains fon habit here 
miné. 
Ce rufé ferviteur qui convoite une proie 
Cherche, pour s’en faifir, la plus oblique 
vole 5 
D’un témoin dangereux, s*il furprend le res 
gard, 
Tl cherche a fe cacher, ou prend un air cae 
fard ; 
Mais libre, il fe redreffe et toujours plus 
alerte, 
Le cauteleux fripon pourfuit fa découverte s 
Le matois, cependant, ennemi du fracas, 
Glife un wil hypocrite 4 Ventour ve fes pass 
A mefure qu’au but il arrive en filence, 
Sa queue en longs contours s’agite et fe bae © 
lance; 
Le voit-il ?,...comme un trait, il le happe, 
s’enfuit, 
Et court cacher fon crime aux antres de la 
nuit....Telle,” etc. 
“* Melanges de Poéfies, &c.”’—Mifs 
cellaneous Poetry, by F. De Saint 
ANGE, ‘tranflator of Ovid’s Metamor- 
phofes into verfe, andProfeffor of Belies« 
Lettres, in theCentralSchools of Paris. 
1 vol. r2mo. 
Ibis colle&tion of Poems confifts of 
epiltles, odes, ftanzas, anc fables. Some 
of theie are imitated from the Eng tiih, 
fuch as ** Les Funerailles d°’Arbele,’? 
in which,defcribing an old. nan beloved 
by Heaven, the proteffor paints-his paft 
Nite, and in an admirable manner, by 
means of the following excellent line: 
*€ Sa vie avoit coulé comme une fource pure.*” 
4Q. He 
