Retrofped of French Literature—Drama. 
bled to achieve this conqueft by means of the 
fociety of Mademoifelle d’ Altrais, a young 
lady, who proves to be the companion and 
confidant.of Madame d’ Albren; this fenfi- 
ble female renovates his courage, and 
pours confolation into his wounded fpirit. 
. He now refumes his original defign, 
recommences his journey, .and applies 
himfelf as.ufual to his former puriuits ; 
but he finds himfclf feized with a new 
paffion, for the remembrance of Mademoi- 
felle d’Aftrais every where haunts him ; 
and meeting with that lady on his return 
to Beziers, the many amiable qualities of 
her heart. induce him to make an offer 
of his hand. They.are accordingly united 
in the bands of matrimony, and enjoy all 
the pleafure likely to be derived from a 
virtuous and honourable conneétion. 
«© Thaira & Fernando; ou, les 
Amours d’une Peruvienne_ et d’un Efpag- 
nol.’’. Thaira and Fernando; or, the 
Amours of a Peruvian and a Spaniard, 
x vol. 1z2mo. yy 
Thaira is an idolater, and her lover, 
Fernando, profefles the Chriftian religion ; 
this circumitance becomes an infurmount- 
able obftacle to their union, for the lovely 
Peruvian, preferring the prejudices in 
which fhe had been educated, to. a marriage 
with her lover, determines rather to ab- 
jure ber favourite than her faith. Fer- 
nando, however, either lefs {crupulous, or 
more deeply enamoured, under pretence of 
rendering philofophy victorious over fa- 
Naticifm, determines to renounce the re- 
ligion of his fathers; and the grand obfta- 
cle being thus removed, an union imme- 
diately enfues. ; 
‘* Sophie, ou, mon Voyage a Befan- 
gon,"’ &c.—Sophia, or my Journey to 
Befancon, by P. J. SaLEs, 2 vols. 12mo. 
M. SALEs, the author of this Novel, has 
been bred to the bar, but Jike fome of 
our Englifh lawyers, he pérmits himfelf 
occafionally to indulge in literary excur, 
fions. On this occafion, he follows the 
example of his own countryman CHa- 
PELLE, and our RICHARDSON; from the 
latter of whom he has borrowed the mot- 
to prefized to his work, viz. ‘* That love 
in a worthy and honeft man is nothing but 
virtue joined with fenfibility.” 
To give a greater degree of intereft to 
the adventure, the hero is {uppofed to be 
a grandfon of the celebrated J. Jacques 
Rouleau ; while the heroine, after being 
forced into a marriage with a man fhe 
diflikes, in confequence of the commands 
.of an inexorable father, is fuddenly re- 
lieved from her thraldom, by the death of 
her hufband; a cireumftance which enables 
_ Montusrx Mas. No. 110, 
659 
the lovers ‘to fulfil their original engages 
mentcin AB AON US Ra hint 
Thefe two little volumes ¢ontain fo 
much poetry, as to render the whole ra- 
ther infipid, and on this eccafion, at leaft; 
the author has forgotten the remark of 
his favourite Greflet. Mehade 
** Que trop de vers entrainent trop 
d’ennui.”” Why Sick 
_ “Elzean & Corradin; ou, les Guertiers 
Rivaux; Elzean and Corradin, or the ri- 
val Warriors; to which is added the Story 
- of Eleonora, or the Gipfey; by Madame 
Ce De is irons men ert 
The fubje& of this Romance is coés 
val with the Crufades. Elzean is the on-« 
ly fon of the Baron de’Rofny: Burning” 
with ardour to acquire glory, he fets off 
for the holy land, under the conduét of 
Reynold, . his father’s (quire. Having 
arrived at the camp of Louis le Jeune, 
where his reputation had already pre- 
ceded him; the famous Eleonora of 
Guyenne, the confort of that monarch; 
immediately conceives a paflion for this 
celebrated chevalier. At the fiege of 
Damaftcus, he foon after diftinguifhes him~ 
felf by his exploits ; and on this occafion, 
he finds a rival worthy of his prowe(s, in 
the perfon of the brave Corradin, the go- 
vernor of that city. 
Having foon after feized on a neighbour- 
ing caftle, which contained the beautiful 
Fatima; the mittrefs of the Saracen war- 
rior, juft mentioned, this lady alfo be- 
comes, enamoured with the Chriitian 
knight, who prefers her even to Zoraida, 
whom he had captured from the Arabs. 
In confequence of a previous promife 
he, however, reftores her to Corradin, 
who, that he might not be otitdone it 
generofity, fends her back to his rival. 
Eleonora, or the Gipfey, contains the 
adventures of a fuperfitious Englifh wo- 
man, who is faid to have died at Naples, 
in 1783, foon after having received a 
ring from her lover. This fatal effeé 
was produced by the prediétion of a Gip- 
fey, who had affured the lady in quef- 
tion, that whofoever fhould tran{mit her 
fuch a prefent, would prove the occafion 
of her death. 
It is not a little remarkable, that a 
work has lately appeared at Rouen, write 
ten by M. Hurarp DE SainT DESIREs 
in which a fimilar fory is told, and it is 
infifted upon the author, that the fact ad- 
mits-of no doubt whatfoever. 
DRAMA. 
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