630 Retrofped? of French Literature—Novels and Romances-— Poetry. ‘ 
French Ditionaries publifhed, either an- 
terior or fubfequent to the Revolution, 
whence they have compWed the prefent. 
NOVELS AND ROMANCES. 
Les Effets du Repentir, &c.—The Ef- 
feéts of Repentance ; or, the Memoirs of 
"Count D***, 2 vol. remo. 
This Romance is written after the man- 
ner of the Abbe Prevoft. The ftyle is 
agreeable, the fituations are intereiling, 
the reflections are often juft, and the 
events not unnatural): in fhort, it will afford 
fome amufement to thofe whofe heads are - 
not filled with fpectres, haunted towers, 
poniards, and all the anitco-moderno ma- 
chinery of romance. | 
Voyages a Giphantie, &c.—Travels to 
Giphantia, by’ M***, 2 vol. 18mo. 
This is the production of a great tra- 
weller, who loft all his manu{cripts but 
the prefent. He tells,us that he has 
vifited all the nations of the earth, and 
traverfed the ruins of the ancient world. 
We are prefented with a long account of 
Babyion, but it is evidently written by a 
man who never beheld the -banks of the 
Euphrates. . 
Stella, Hiftoire Angloife, &c.—Stella, an 
Englith Story, by AGLAE D*** P***, 
4 vols. 12mo. 
‘Compofitions of this fpecies, are far 
more difficult in point of execution than 
is generally imagined ; and it muft furely 
excite no {mall degree of furprize, when 
it is mentioned, that the French language 
pofefles more good tragedies, than good 
romances. The prefent novel is formed 
after the model of the Englifh fchool, 
but the copy falls far fhort of the ori- 
~ ginal. 
Adele et d Abligny, &e.— Adelaide and 
d’Abligny, by PicauLT Le Brun, 
z Vol. 12mo. 
Citizen Pigault is author of no fewer 
than 16 volumes of romances, the prin- 
cipal of which is called ‘* les. Barons de 
Felfheim” ‘The facility of this author. is 
truly aftonifhing, for he hath undertaken 
to produce a new novel every month, and 
‘twelve within the year! The conduct 
of-the heroine Adela is not very exem- 
plary, and the prefent bears too clofea 
refemblance to a very immoral romance, , 
from the fame pen, entitled, PEnfant du 
Carnaval. 
Le Cemetitre de la Madeleine, &c.— 
The Church-yard of the Magdalen, by J. 
J. REGNaULT-Wanrin, author of Romeo 
and juliet, &c, &c. 2 vols. 12mo. with 
Engravings and Muli, : 
“This work was intended to avenge the 
memory of Louis XVJ. and his familys 
and it was of courfe prohibited by the 
French Government, and both the author 
- and editor imprifoned. Thefe circum- 
ftances were not a little calculated to ex- 
cite the public curiofity ; ir, however, 
received but little collateral affitiance from 
the intrinfe merits of the publication. 
Monf. Warin is the author of feveral 
other novels, one of which is foundéd on 
a ftory, already confecrated by the pen 
of ovr immortal Shakefpeare. On the 
prefent occafion, the motto is alfo bor- 
rowed from the Englifh, it being a 
profe tranflation from ~Young’s Night 
Thoughts. . 
‘« Ainfi pour confterner Ja foule vulgairey 
la faux de la mort immole de grandes vice 
times, et renverfe les tétes illuftres.” 
\ POETRY. 
Guerre de Troye, &c.—The War of 
Troy, from the Death of Heétor to the 
Ruin of that City, a Poem, in fourteen 
‘Cantos, by Quintus, of Smyrna, being 
a Continuation of the Iliad ; tranflated, 
for the firft Time, from the Greek into 
the French, by R. Tourlet, Royal Phy-_ 
A 
fician, and Member of the Academic — 
Society of Sciénces, fitting at the Louvre, 
z vols. 8vo. with an engraving. 
The French have excelled all the other 
European nations, in refpe® to tranfla- 
tions from the Greek and Latin, andthe 
prefent will not detract from the fame fo 
juftly acquired by their Men of Letters. 
Here follows a fhort analyfis of the 
work : 
Tn the firft Canto, the Poet, after open- 
ing a fummary of the events that fuc- 
ceeded the death and funeral of Hector, 
mentions the arrival of the Amazon Pen- 
thefilea, in Troy; details her exploits ; 
her combat with Achilles; her fall, and 
the regret of the hero on this event; who 
puts Therfites to death foon after. 
Canto II. Memnon, fon of Aurora, 
having arrived from Ethiopia, new com- 
bats enfue. After killing Antilochus, 
ton of> Neftor, he himéelf falls beneath 
the fword of Achilles; and al the Ethi- 
“opians, his followers, are transformed into 
birds, * 
Canto III. The combat between Apollo 
and Achilles; the death of the latter; 
the bloody combats that enfue between 
the rival nations, about the corpfe of 
the deceafed hero. 
Canta 1V. The Trojans celebrate the 
funeral of Glaucus. 
Canio V. Ulyfies receives the arms of 
, Achilles, 
