40 Retrofped 
ef the crown by means of children, vifit 
your kingdoms ; go to Naples and Sicily ; 
examine Milan, and return by Flanders. 
This will afford you an occafion to fee us. 
2@ ** Take care that you have a 
firong box for keeping papers in, of 
which you alone fhall have the key. 
21. **© I conclude by one of the mot 
important pieces of advice that I can pof- 
fibly communicate to you: do not allow 
yourfelf to be governed; be always maf- 
ter; have never any favourite, or Prime 
Miniter; hear and confult your council, 
but decide for yourtelf. God, who has 
made you a King, will give you fuch 
knowledge as may be neceffary for your 
ftation, provided your intentions prove 
but good,”* 
The remainder of the volume contains 
letters from Louis XIV. to his grand-fon, 
Philip V. during the years 1701 and 1702. 
The whole concludes with a compli- 
mentary addrefs to the fame Prince from 
Madame de Maintenon, in which fhe ob- 
ferves, with the moft flattering atiention, 
*f that the French employ whole hours in 
talking of his Majefty, and envying-the 
happinefs of Spain.” 
‘©Les Monumens antiques du Musée 
Napoleon.” —The ancient Monuments of 
the Napoleon Mufeum, engraved by THo- 
mas Piro_i, with en Explanation by 
M. Louts De Petit RaDEL. 
The following lift alone will: tend to 
thow, that the Napoleon Mufeum contains 
a wonderful collection ofsinterefting woiks 
of art: 
x. A ftatue of Nero, in the habit of a 
conqueror in the Grecian games. 
2. A buf cf Galba. 
3. A head of Otho. 
4. A flatue of the fame Emperor, 
5. Vitellius. 
&. A bead of Vefpafian. 
9. A bult of Titus. 
8. Another of Domitian. 
9: Neré ae 
. A buf of Trajan, with a flatue of 
the fame fitting; the latter is fuppofed by 
M. Vifconti to be compofed of a head of 
the Emperor, joined to the tiunk of a phi- 
dofopher. 
sr. A bof of Hadrian. 
72.’ A head of the fame. 
3. Two bufts of Antirous. 
ra. Ahead and bafs-relief of the fame; 
and, ~ 
nase Antinous under the figure of Arif- 
teus. 
All thefe have Been already engraved, 
aod there is but little doubt that the 
. the hiftory of letters. 
. a Variety “of notes of his own, not only 
of French Literaturts—Mifcellanies. = 
and when you have enfured the fucceffion . 
works of art contained in this faperh ore, 
leéticn will occupy the labours of half a. 
century, at leaft, in defigning and engrav- | 
ing them 
‘Des Divi ités générarrices, ou du 
Culte du Pigalius chez ies Anciens et les 
Modernes ; des Cultes du Dicu de Lamp- 
faque, de Pan, de Véaus, &c. Originesy 
Movifs, Conformités, Variétés, Progrés, 
Altération, et Abus de ces Cultes chez 
différens Peuples de Ja Terre; de leur, 
Con‘inuation chez les Indiens et chez les, 
Chrétiers d’ Europe ; i des Moeurs des Na- 
tionset des Temps owelles onc exilté.” 
Of the Divinities who prelide over Gene, 
raticn, or the Worfhio of the Phallus 
among the Ancients ani Mederns, &c. 
A Member of the Britith ag Pe hen 
has already written a wok on the fame. 
fubject According to the French au- 
thor, the origin of this worfhip is io be 
traced to one of the two figures of ani- 
mals which defignate the vernal equinox 
in thezodiac; a certain part belonging to 
this ign being a fymbol of the fun’s: fe. 
cundating nature, became alfo the model 
of the phallus. M. D. then traces the 
hittory of this worfhip among the Egyp- 
tians, the Hebrews, the Pheniciaas, the 
Phrygians, the Affyrians, the Pertians, 
the Indians, the Mexicans, the Greeks, 
and the Romans. 
to the annals of the middle ages, whence 
he endeavours to prove, that this worfhip 
was regularly continued uatil then; but 
he only demonirates the licentioufnefs 
that prevailed during. thofe periods, and 
from the learning and zeal difplayed by 
bim throughout the whole of this differta- 
tion, he at once proves the fingularity of 
his tafle, and acquirements. 
‘© Hiftoire générale des Sciences et de 
la Litiérature, depuis les Temps anté- 
rieurs a] Hikoire Gperaee julqu’ a nos. 
jours.”’—AL aroctal Lftory ot Science and 
Literature, from the Period anterior to® 
the Greek Hftory to our own Time; by 
M. L’Abbe-Jean Anpres, a Jeluit; 
tranflated from the Italian, with Additi- 
ons, Supplements, and Sates, by E. cine 
TOLARI. vol. 1. 
The karned work of the Jefuit Andres, 
entitled ** Storia d’ogni Litteratura,”” bas 
long enjoyed a difting gutfhed reputation 
with ali lit terary men. “M. Ortolani has 
accordingly been induced to prefent the 
public with a French verfion of it, andhe . 
has commenced with the general intro- 
duction, which contains a rapid review of 
He bas alfo added 
on the recent improvements of educations 
but. 
After this, ~he recurs - 
