M. Domergue, M. Sicard, successfully 
cultivate universal aiid particular grain- 
mar.’ We shai! have to. remark a work 
on our language, one of the best produc- 
tions of Marmontel. 
M. Deverando, a'man of sagacity and 
methodical mind, has enquired i into the 
connexions of signs, with theart of think- 
ing. The ‘comprehenive genius. of 
M. de.Tracy, has collected the three 
sciences linked together, in one body, 
as they are in mature. M. Cabanis, as 
interesting as he is ry SENG and pro- 
found, by comparing the physical and 
the moral man, has submitted medicine 
‘to the analysis of the understanding, 
M, Garat, appointed to. lecture on this 
analysis, in the normal schools,, has, by 
his brilliant imagination, fendeved reason 
itself Juminous; a kind ‘of. service for 
which, mm qnestions yet abstract, rea- 
son can. be indebted to talents of a su- 
perior order only. 
The science of Ne no jes of man, 
Mor ality, without producing sO many 
works, has not however been barren. 
We Have fouad-in the lectures. which 
Marmontel bequeathed to his children, 
the precepts of Cicero blended with | 
evangelical wisdom. We ought parti- 
Silane to distinguish an important work 
of Saint Lambert, who formerly enriched 
our hterature by an eleganr, harmonious, 
and philosophical poem. Arrived at the 
-last period of his life, he did not abandon 
the banners under which he enlisted in 
his youth. Invaniable in. his principles, 
shunning extremes even in good, he 
neither affected excessive piety, nor 
stoical austerity. © Without’ detaching 
morality from the social, necessary de- 
monstrable principle of a superintending 
and protecting God, he founds it alto- 
gether on the relations which unite man 
to man, on our wants, on our passions, 
on the mmumerable multitude of indi- 
vidual interests, constantly at variance 
with each other, but compelled by nature 
to commingle, and forming ‘by their 
ulion, the general interest of society. 
We consider, in their turn, those who 
have.applied -the art of. writing, to mat- 
ters of policy and legislation: not the 
crowd of subordinate wits, who by- pe: 
riodical papers, or pamphlets, jess tran- 
sitory, flattered the passions of the mul- 
‘titude, while the multitude possessed 
“power ; but a small humber of men, more 
or less, distinguished for their talents, 
and equally laudable for their intentions. 
An _ able dialectician, M.  Sieyes, in 
works where the strength of thought pros 
Monturty Mac. No. 195. 
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“ ee 
duces strength of style, has treated im- 
portant questions’ of general-policy. A 
writer, celebrated i in more than one kind 
of composition, now the Prince Arch- 
‘treasurer of the empire; like him, M. 
Reederer, M. Dupont He Nemours, MM. 
Barbé- Waehoie: after them, M. M.-1.,B. 
Say; M. Ganilh, have treated, in an - 
teresting, and perspicuous manner, of 
different branches of political economy. 
The Elements of Legislation, published 
by M. Perrau, are not unworthy of being 
quoted. The shane of a work, ineeved 
with the prize of utility, which the 
French Academy used to decree, MoM. 
Pastoret, in developing the principles of 
penal lewislation, thought that be could 
determine how the law should proceed, 
in order to be homane, when it should 
strike to be just, and. a it should 
stop to be useful, We remark i, the 
works of M, de Lacretelle, a brilliant, and 
ene) discourse, on the nature. of 
ignominigus Purina: Adl these 
writers have kept pace with the reason 
of the age, and some have accelerated | iS 
progress. 
Before we proceed. to the ‘ératorical 
art, in which we again find policy and 
leg! islation presented. under new forms to 
‘France, we shall have to mention a Treg- 
' #iseon the Eloquence of the Pulpit, a book 
itself eloquent, in which Cardinal, Maury 
givés excellent precepts, after. having 
exhibited striking examples. 2... 
In hterary criticism, several writers 
furnish: us with profound studies, , afd 
judicious comments on our great clas- 
sics: M. Gailhava, on |Moliere; M. 
Palissot, on’ Corneil lle Andean Vol Ealing» 
Chau Afar, on Lafontal ine, whom he had 
while young, made the’ subject. of a 
charming eulogy; and Laharpe, on 
Racine,. whom he ‘had also worthily 
praised before, We do not omit remark- 
ing numerous additions to the Literary 
Memoirs. of My, Palissot, a work fre- 
quently instructive, and. bed eb written 
with uncommon elegance. Nor do we 
forget the labours of M. Ginguéné, on 
Ttalian ee a considerable ‘and 
useiul work, already in a. state of great 
forwardness. Here the last volumes of 
Laharpe’s Course’ present themselves, 
with _ his Correspondence in.) Ienssia. 
‘After having done justice, to the indis- 
putable talents of that man. of. letters, 
‘now no more, we shall be. obliged to 
point. out ‘the’ extreme severity with 
which he thought Jhimself ape horised to 
“treat his contemporaries, and’ particu- 
larly his rivals; his: unreserved. cens ure, 
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