Retrofpeé? of French Literature.— Mifcellaneous, 
police, cuftom-houfe duties,&c. The in- 
troduction confifts ofa variety of ufeful 
obfervations, by an attention to which 
the traveller will be enabled to proceed 
on his expedition, both in a commodi- 
ous and profitable manner. An itine- 
rary chart, together with plans. of 
Paris, London, Vienna, and St. Peterf- 
burgh, renders this Guide particularly 
ufeful and convenient. 
«© Paris et fes Monumens.” Paris 
and its Monuments ; or, a Colleétion. 
of the principal Public and Private 
Edifices of the Capital of France, to- 
gether with an Account of all the 
Malter-Pieces of the Arts which deco-~ 
rate it, meafared, defigned, and engrav- 
ed by Batrarp, Architect, together 
with Hiftorical Defcriptions, by the 
Citizen H.; publifhed by {ubfcrip- 
tion. 
The Louvre is,undoubtedly,the moft 
celebrated of all the edifices of Paris ; 
and it is, accordingly, with it that the 
work commences. After the Louvre, 
the palace of the Thuilleries next en- 
gages the attenticn of atraveller, and 
prefents an ample coilection of objects 
calculated to gratify the curiofity of a 
ftranger. The gallery which commu- 
nicates with thefe two palaces, in ad- 
dition to the beauties of its exterior 
decorations, contains the National Mu- 
feum, which is here préfented under 
the molt favourable afpeé, fo far as 
in{truction is concerned. The per. 
ipective view in particular of that 
portion of it confecrated to fculpture, 
eiters a variety of charms to the eye of 
the artiit and amateur. In refpeét to 
the numerous colleétion of paintings, 
compofing the French, Flemith, and 
Ytalian ichools, the author of the work 
now under confideration prefents all 
the neceflary details, together with re- 
fictions on the ftyle of the greateft 
maiters. The other palaces, hails, &c. 
of the metropolis, particularly thofe 
containing the different branches of 
the French legiflature, are here enumer- 
ated; and we, at the fame time, find an 
exact ftatement of their extent and 
proportions. The public libraries are 
numerous, and admirably contrived 
for the ftudious; the Hépital du Nord, 
éalled St. Louis, is exhibited as a mo- 
del ; while that of the Invalids, ereét- 
ed by Manferd, affords a high idea, 
both of the genius of that architeét, 
and the excelience of his art. 
The old Gothic churches contrat 
fingularly with the Pantheon, while 
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the Cathedral, nofwithftanding all the 
modern improvements in architecture, 
ftili appears grand and fublime. 
Among the monuments erected to the 
glory of the kings of France, ought 
not to be omitted the triumphal arch, 
ufually denominated Port St. Denis, 
which the tooth of time is now begin- 
ing to commit ravages upon, although 
it appears new and entire in this work, 
The author has drawn a paraliel be- 
tween the different theatres, and alfo 
between the private houfes of the in- 
habitants of the prefent day, and thofe 
built two centuries ago. 
“¢ Bloge de Marie-Francois-Xavier 
Bichat, &c.”—Elogy of Maria-Fran- 
cis-Xavier Bichat, pronounced in the 
Amphitheatre of the School of Medi- 
cine in Paris, on the 14th Germinal, 
the Eleventh Year of the French Re. 
public; by P. Sue, Profeffor and Li- 
brarian, at the opening of his Courfe 
of Medical Bibliography. . 
Bichat, a medical man of great ce- 
lebrity, was born on the rith of No- 
vember, 1771, at Thoirette, in the de- 
partment of the Ain, formerly known 
by the name of the province of Breffe. 
He was the eldeft fon of John Baptifte 
Bichat, a phyfician of the faculty of 
Montpellier, who at an early age was 
prodigal of thofe attentions, which are 
calculated to form the heart and en- 
lishten the underftanding. He like- 
wife received from this parent the firft 
inftruétions in the rudiments of his art, 
and was formed almoft from his birth 
to the language and the precepts of a 
medical man. | 
The application of the principles of 
his profeffion became familiar to him 
even before he was acquainted with 
their foundation. ‘ He enjoyed (we 
are told) all the advantage refuiting 
from that example, which inienfibly 
difpofes the human mind to a deter- 
minate fpecies of labour; a mode of 
education fo powerful, that we are dif- 
pofed to regret when we do not enjoy 
it; a mode, which many only difdain 
merely becaufe they are incapable of 
appreciating its happy effects.” 
“s Tt was at Lyons that the young 
ftudent firft applied himfelf ferioufly to 
obtain a proficiency in anatomy. What 
appears moft difficult in this purfuit, is 
to overcome that reluctance with which 
young men are naturally in{pired, in 
re{pect to the difiection of dead bodies; 
and much may be faid to be gained, 
when this repugnance has been over- 
come, 
