Retrofpeét of French Literature—Mafesllanecus. 
would be difficult to choofe a happier 
vnode than the prefent to attack a produc- 
tion, the reputation and effects of which 
are far more likely to be defeated by ridi- 
cule, than profecution and imprifonment 
on the part cf the fecular power, or penal 
fire, on that of the church. 
Les Soires Eitteraires, &c.—The Lite- 
rary Evenings; or, a Mifcellany of new 
Tranflations of the choiceft Remains of 
Antiquity, and of fuch amufing and in. 
ftrucrive Writings as may have fallen into 
_ Neglect... Paris. . : 
Of this collection, no lefs than twenty 
volumes have been already publifhed, and 
two more are now only waniing to com: 
plete the work. 
Cours Complet d’ Agriculture, &c.—A 
Complete Courfe of Agriculture, theore- 
tical, practical, and economical; alfo, of» 
Rural and Veterinary Medicine; or, an 
Univerial Dictionary of Agriculture, by a 
Society of Agriculture, edited by. the 
Abbé Rozigr. 
Ten volumes of this work have now ap- 
peared, and the name of Rozier, fill re- 
mains afixed to them, although the laf 
that was publifhed has been fuperintended 
by other men of equal eminence and repu- » 
tation, fuch as Chaptal, Counfellor of 
State, and Member of the National Infti- 
tute, who has given a Diflertation on the 
Vine; Duffieux, of the Society of Agri- 
culture of Paris, who has~- written a 
paper on Wine; Parmentier, who has 
given one on Vinegar; Labergerie, on 
fuch Animals as feed on-Grafs, &c. 
Notice Hifforique fur le Sauvage.del’ A- 
weyron, &c.—An Hiftorical Notice rela- 
tive to the Savage of the Aveyron, and 
fome other Individuals found at different 
Epochs in the Foreft, by P. J. Bonna- 
TERRE, Profeffor of Natural Hiftory in 
the Central School of the Department -of 
the Aveyron. 
This pamphlet, which we mentioned 
flizhtly on a former occafion, contains a 
variety of details relative toa child found 
in the woods, and poffeffing all the cha- 
racteriftics of a favage animal, feeding on 
acorns, roots, &c. and being incapable of 
articulating a fingle found. Although 
taken feveral times from the foreft, and 
brought into fociety, this child always 
found means to efcape, conftantly prefer- 
ring a vagrant and erratic life. 
In refpect to its faculties, it appears 
that the fmell occupies the firft rank, the 
tafte the fecond, and that the fight, the 
hearing, and the touch, are far from being 
perfect. He is not indeed wholly deaf, 
but he can only hear a very fhrill voice ; 
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the fole pleafure which he enjoys is repofes 
the fole defire which he evinces is that of 
independence, 
‘¢ Like all favages,”’ fays the author, 
‘¢thatof the Aveyron hath lived for feveral 
years in the foreft, at a diftance from. 
mankind. . This fact is demonftrated by 
the teftimony of people worthy of credit, 
by the fears with which his body is co- 
vered, by the cuftom. of fmelling all his 
aliments, by his walking often onail fours, 
by his exhibiting a repugnance to bread 
and flefh, by his fitting always in the- 
fame pofture asa monkey, by his running 
always ina kind of trot or full gallop, by. 
his hiding his fuperfluous victuals in the 
earth, by his going nearly naked, &c.”” 
This unhappy child has been brought 
to Paris, and placed under the care of the 
Abbé Sicard, the fucceffor of the. ccle- 
brated Abbé de l’Epée. 
Mappemonde Pbhilofophique et Politique, 
&c.—A Philofophical ans Political Map 
of the World, in which are traced the 
Voyages of Cook and la Péroufe, by L. 
Brion, Engineer and Geographer. 
Some ideas, equally new and interefting, 
are developed in this chart, which difin- 
guifhes, by means of fix different colours, 
the various governments that regulate the 
lot of humanity on the furface of the 
earth. : 
1. Therepublican government, whether 
democratic or ariftocratic. 
2. The monarchico-republican, 
3. The monarchical. 
4. The defpotic. 
5. The demi-favage. 
- And 6. and laftly, the favage. 
The two laf, illuminated, the one with 
yellow, and the other with green, occupy 
two-thirds of the world. fhe next in> 
magnitude is that of defpotifm, tinted in 
poppy. The other governments. are - 
{carcely vifible in this extenfive picture. 
The firft, or democratic, fpecies of .go- 
vernment, is painted red, and confined to 
the States of America, France, and the 
new republics, the allies of the laf? of thee 
powers. 
Geographie Ancienne et Moderne, &ce.— 
The Geography, Ancient and Modern, 
Hiftorical, Civil, and. Political, of the 
four Quarters of the World, &c: by the 
Abbé Greneat, Profeffor in the Univer. * 
fity of Paris, 2 vols. 12mo0. Paris. 
One of the moit defirable books for 
youth would be a good elementary treatife 
of geography for the ule of {chools, and 
private families, which, on the one hand, 
fhould not be fo voluminous as to frighten 
children, while, on the other, it ought to 
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