260 Literarjand Philofophical Intelligence, 
In the tourfe of the year 1800, the 
number of books and pamphlets publifhed 
at Paris were r172. On Natural Hiftory 
and Botany, there were 443 on Medicine 
and Phyfics, 271; on Morality, 413 on 
Legiflation and Politics, 168 ; in Belles- 
Jettres 75; in Poetry and the Drama 303; 
and of Novels, &c. 125. 
M. Guruitt has publifhed in quarto, 
at Magdeburg, an Effay on the Antique 
Bufts of the Grecians and Romans. 
After entering into a detail of the ufe 
which thefe memorials were of to thofe 
nations, by animating the obfervers with 
a defire of emulating the deeds of the cha- 
raéters thus reprefented, he proceeds to 
give an alphabetical catalogue of 375 
bults, of every denomination, ftill exitt- 
ing. 4 
A very interefting work, in two volumes 
folio, by C. Denon, is now preparing 
at Paris. The firft volume will contain 
3xz0-plates, felected from 300 drawings 
made in Egypt by that artift; the fecond 
will contain a Journal of his Travels, &c. 
This work, of which the laft plates are 
now in hand,‘ will be fpeedily publifhed. 
‘The Citizen Denon was one of the artifts 
who accompanied Bonaparte’s expedition, 
and he attended the divifion of Defaix in 
its march into Upper Egypt. 
The aftronomer CAGNOLI of Verona, 
and profefforat Modena, has been left un- 
molefted during the Auftrian invafion of 
the Cifalpine republic, and by means of 
the penfion affigned him by Bonaparte 
he has publifhed the eighth volume of the 
Memoirs of the Italian Society, wherein 
he has given fome new details relative to 
aftronomy. . 
In the Connoiffance de Temps for the year 
a1, juft printed at Paris, there are nume- 
rous ebfervatiens and calculations from the 
moft celebrated living aftronomers, and a 
catalogue of 2300 new ftars by Le Fran- 
eais Lalande, and Vidal. A volume of 
additions to this work, entitled Meianges 
a’ Aftronomie, has appeared, making to- 
gether soo pages. 
The Magazin Encyclopedique gives 
an account ef anew work; by William 
Tifchbein, Direftor of the Royal Acade- 
my of Painting at Naples, entitled Mozu- 
omens Homeriques. It will be  publifhed 
in numbers, each containing fix engrav- 
ings from the moft celebrated antiques, 
illuftrative of Homer’s Hiad and Odyfley, 
with a defcription annexed to €ach plate. 
The Gr number will give engravings re- 
Jative to the Hliad, the fecond ‘illuttrative 
of the Odyfley, and fo'on alternately. 
JerOMe-DE LaLaNDE has given a 
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corrected edition of the Mexdes de Fone 
tenelle. ‘This work has been publifhed by 
Bode, in Germany, and by Codrika in the 
Greek tongte.: | as 
The fame indefatigable ‘philofophter is 
preparing for the prefs a fmall ftereotype 
edition of the Tables of Logarithms, ori- 
ginally publifhed by himfelt and Lecaille, 
in 1766. This edition will be by far the 
moft corre&. 
M. Caussin of Paris, is employed on: 
the tranflation of avery curious antient 
Arabian MS. treating, for the moft part, 
on that branch of aftronomy which re- 
lates to the lunar courfe ; it was the work 
of I. Junis, and was after many folici- 
tations procured by the National Inftitute 
from the Batavian Government. The 
MS. is in quarto, confifting of 400 
pages, and belongs to the’ City of Ley- 
en. 
Mr. Bone of Berlin, has publifhed 
No IV. of his beautiful folio Celeftial At- 
las ; in which he announces the appear- 
ance of the sth and laft number, in the 
courfe of four months, together with a 
Preface and Index, and a catalogue of 
17,000 ftars, the greater part of which 
were furnifhed by Jerome de Lalande. 
This atlas contains 20 beautiful charts. 
Among the effects of the late violent 
ftorm in. France may be reckoned the ap- 
pearance of certain rare birds in that coun- 
try. Some were fourd in the northern de- 
artments which travellers have hitherto 
defcribed as belonging to Siberia. A fea- 
{wallow was fhot at the Jardin des Plantes 
at Paris. F 
A model of the town of Marfeilles” is 
now exhibiting at Paris. The execution 
is extremely exact, and fully equals the 
beautiful colle€tion of models of fortified 
places belonging to government and kept 
at the Invalids. In this reprefentation of 
Marfeilles every individual houfe may be 
diftinguifhed ; the exact’ flope of every 
roof and every ftreet is given, a plan of 
the neighbouring hills &c. C. Keron- 
DEL, the artift of this curious wérk, has 
added to the exhibition fimilar models of 
the principal remains of antiquity in the 
fouth of France. The Maifon carrée 
the amphitheatre of Nifmes, and the fa- 
mous aqueduct the Pont de Gard, are among 
the number. 
C.MoncGsz has prefented to the Inftitute 
a curious Memeir on the harangues given 
by antient hiftorians and afcribed to parti- 
cular orators and generals ; and on the 
means‘which the antients took to inereafe 
the .effeé&t of the voice in’ theatres. Tn 
anfwer to the queftion which has often been 
put 
