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Theory of the Intellectual Operations and 
Facuities; by Ocravius ALEXANDER 
FaLLete Baro, 1 vol. 4to. 
This work, which is printed at Turin, 
isa kind of fummary of the various bafes 
which conftitute the doétrines of moder 
metaphyficians, with an exception to the 
new German {chool alone, 
The author, who divides his work-into 
ten chapters, begins as follows: * The 
queitions concerning the nature of which 
we now tieat, hang by a fingle hair; we 
ought not to /oeke it too much, Jef it 
fhould break. Plycology fhould be re- 
duced to what it may, and ought effec- 
tually to be: a fcience founded, like na- 
tural philofophy, on obfervation, and 
which, like it, alfo depends upon tacts.” 
Part I. treats of the nature of our 
ideas ; and on thisoccafion, M. Barol un- 
dertakes to difcufs the gueftion, whether 
an idea be the primitive operation of the 
mind, or only the refult of it? His own 
Gefinision is, ‘* Thiet an idea is the repre- 
fentation of things, nearly in the fame 
manner faat figns reprefent idezs them- 
felves.” He aifo inhfts on the neceflity of 
diftinguifhing fenfation from perception. 
Part II. is eccupied refpe&ting the ai 
tinction of ideas ; parts third and fourth, 
with abfradions ; part fifth, with a com- 
arifon between ideas and things; part 
aa is con:inued to the fubjeét of analy- 
fis; part feventh, to reafoning aud. ob- 
fervation; part eighth, to method; part 
ninth, to the faculties of the human mind; 
and part tenth is occupied about - the 
qmagination. 
The author, who was formerly a fub- 
je& to the King of Sardinia, and has late- 
ly become a French citizen, although born 
and bred a foreigner, writes in the French 
language with all the eafe and facility of ° 
a native. 
«* Mémoires de la Société Médicale 
d’Emulation,’’ &c.—Memoirs of the Me- 
dical Society of Emulation; 1 vol. 8vo, 
adorned with Copper-piates. 
This, which is the fifth annual publi- 
cation on the part of the Medical Society, 
is preceded by the éloge of Mavier Bichat, 
by Le Vacher de Lateutrie; it alfo coa- 
tains a Memoir on Canine Madnefs, by 
Befyguilon ; four Memoirs on the Cli- 
mate of the Antilles, or Windward Weft 
India finds appertaining to France, by 
Caffan ;,Cbiervations on feme Points of 
the Mechanifm which produce Motion 
in Mankind by Barthez; and a Differ- 
tation on the Attributes and Surnames 
ef vpoilo the PhyGcian, as well as of the 
Reirofped of French Literature—Mifcellanies. 
Menuments in which he is reprefented im 
‘this Chara&er, by A: L. Millin. 
The volume is terminated by a letter of 
the celebrated Fontana, relative to the 
difeafe of corn, called /’érgot, in France, 
as well as refpeéting a plant, known by 
the name of ¢remella. According to the 
obfervations of this learned naturalift, the 
grain’ affeéted by the ergot contains a 
quantity of eel-like animals, while the 
tremella is the Jatt link of an immenfe 
chain, that conne&is organized bodies and 
vegetablestogether. | 2 
** Dictonnaire Univerfel de la Langue 
Frangaile, avec le Latin, et Manuel d’Or- 
thographe et Necloge; extrait comparatif 
des Dicionnaires publiés jufqu’a ce Jour; 
contenant-—1. Les Nomenclatures, 1’Or- 
thographe, }Analyfe, et la Comparifon 
des Definitions des Di€tionnaires de l’Aca- 
demie Francaife, Edition de 1778, fans - 
Citation; de 1798, de 1803, des Distion- 
naires de Trévoux, Richelet, Ferraud, 
Reftaut,” &c. &c.—An Univerfal Die 
tionary of the French Language, with the 
Latin Terms, and 2 Manual of O:tho- 
graphy and Neology; together with a 
comparative Abfiraét of all the Diétion= | 
aries hitherto publifhed, &c. &c. 1 vol. ° 
4to. and 2 vols, 8vo. 3 
This is the fecond edition of a dic- 
tionary, in which the compilers have en- 
deavoured to unite in one general plan, 
every thing hitherto confidered as ufeful 
in ali preceding publications of a fimilar 
kind. : 
<¢ L’Efprit de PHiftoire ; ou, Lettres 
Politiques et Morales d’un Pére a fon Fils, 
fur la Maniére d*’Etudier I’Hiftoire en 
géncral, et particuliérement PHiftcire de 
France ; par ANTOINE FERRAND, An- 
cien Magittrat.. Seconde Edition.” —The 
Spirit of Hiftory; or, Letters, Political 
and Moral, froma Father to his Son, on 
the Manner.of S:udying Hittory in gene- 
ral, and particularly the Hiftory of France; 
by Anthony Ferrand. Second Edition, 4. 
volse vo. 
The author commences his introduc- 
tion with’ certain plain and inconteftable 
pofitions, and he is extremely defrous to 
imprefs his fon with the idea, that his ftu- 
dies'in this or any cther branch of know- 
ledge, can alone be rendered ufeful by 
the application and obferyance of crder 
and regularity. He then lays down the 
bafes of ancient hiftory, after which ke 
confiders the Jaws, manners, and cuftoms 
of the Jews, affuredly the moft wonderful 
peopie upon earth. 
éuccording to him, the firft traces of re- 
ligious 
