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g. * La Lacheté.”’ 
4. © L’Envichi.”’ 
5. * Le Syftematique.”” si dad 
Le Thei/me et L’ Athei{me comparés, &c. 
—Tobeifm and Atheilm Compared, by 
Baye, and extracted from his work, 
entitled —*¢ Thoughts communicated to a 
Dogtor cf the Sorbonne, in confequence 
of the Comet which appeared in the Month 
of December, 1680. Paris, 1800. 
It is the intention of the Editor, as it 
was originally that of Bayle, to infpire a 
falutary abhorrence to perfecution on the 
{core of religious opinions, and to prove, 
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not refpeGiing this or that dogma of faith, 
but between good and bad citizens. 
Connsiffance des Temps, &c.—An Al- 
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This little work contains the three fol- 
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gorian, and epublican; to which ts 
added, the Eclipte that will take place on 
the 17th of Auguft, 1803, a Catalogue of 
$87 Southern Stars, by C. Vidal. another 
of 1500 new ones, by Michel Le Fran- 
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of edited ones to amount to 10,500, the 
Hiftory of Aftronomy for the 7th, year, 
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Melchior Ardent; ou, les Aventures, &c. 
—Melchior Ardent; or, The Picafant 
» Adventures ofa Beau, by M.S : 
Melchior Ardent, the hero of this ro- 
mance, is one of thofe young men, with 
which Paris, and all the great cities 
of Europe, abcund—in fhort, a fop, as 
defcribed by the Vifcemte de Segur :— 
¢¢ Si fa cravatte efit moins lié 
*¢ Son cou, fon menton, fa figure, 
*¢ Peut-étre il -verroit que fon pié 
«¢ N’eft pas dans fa chaflure.” 
I Art de Parler et d’ Ecrire Correétement 
la Langue Frangoife, &c.—The Art of 
Speaking and Writing French with Cor- 
rectnefs 5 cr, a Philofophical and Literary 
Grammar of the French Language, for 
the Ufe of fuch Foreigners as are defirous 
of becoming acguainted with its Genius 
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Port Royal, as commented upon by Du- 
miont and Fromant, Canons of Vernon. 
Bibliotheque Portaticwe des Ecrivaias 
Retrofpe of French Literature.—Mifcellaneous. 
Frangoife, &c.—A Portable Library of 
French Writers; or, 4 Colleé&tion of their 
principal Beauties, extracted: fram their 
Works, by M. Moysant, Emeritus Pro. 
feflor of Rhetoric, &c. &c. 
The French critics have been long ac- 
cuftomed to remark; that the prefent ig 
the age of Dictionaries, Abridgments,, Ex. 
tracts, and Compilations, of all kinds. 
They affert, that, poffefling no genius of 
their own, our literary garileners have 
fet themfelves to work in order to cut and 
prune, and deform, thole fine trees planted 
by our forefathers, and which {till fhelter 
their children under their fhade. 
Tt ought to be allowed on the other fide, 
however, that works of the kind cenfured 
above, are calculated to convey and dif. ~ 
fule inftruction; indeed; it can feareely 
be doubted, that they have contributed 
greatly to the fpread of»that knowledge 
that diitinguifhes the preleni age. : 
The three volumes now before us, pro- 
fefs to be the depofitories of two cenruries 
of genius, and in this point of view they 
can fearcely be deemed fatisfattory ; on 
the other hand however, it might be 
granted, that they are not-ill calculated 
to infufe a general notion of French lite~ 
Farure, 
‘ Objervations fur la Sechereffe de cet été, 
&e.—Obiervations on the Drynefs of the 
Jat Summer, together witn the Caufes, 
and the Means of preventing the Progrefs 
of fuch a Dilafter, by the Citizen Capet 
Devaux, a Member of the Societies of - 
the Department of the Seine, the Seine and 
Oile, &c.. &e. 3 
It is tated by the author, that amidft 
the political revolutions which have dif- 
tinguifhed the end of the eighteenth, and 
the beginning of the nineteenth, century, 
a phyfical revolution has alfo taken place, 
and produced a variety of extraordinary 
phenomena. Citizen Devaux attributes. 
this to the increafed confumption of wood 
in Europe, the devaftation of fo many 
forefts, the negleé&t of planting, &c. and 
it is to thefe caufes, ke thinks, we are 
indebted for the droughts that have taken 
place. 
«© Trees,” adds he, ‘* by attracting 
the humidity of the atmoiphere, give 
birth to rivulets, to ftreains, and to ri- 
vers, and the want of thele, of courfe, 
produce a deficiency of moifture:*’ he 
therefore recommends extenfive planta- 
tions, and forewarns the inhabitants not 
to grub up whole forefis, and thus change 
the nature of the fcil and the climate of 
Europe. 
- Ouvres, 
