Retrofpe of French Literature, —Novels. 
7. A report on the manufagture of me- 
tallic cloths, &c. 
‘© Code et Novelles de Juftinien; No- 
velles de !Empereur Léon, Fragmens de 
Caius d’Ulpien et de Paul; Traduétion 
unique qui, avec la Traduction des Infti- 
tutes de Ferriere et du Digefte de feu M. 
Hulot, complete la Tradtttion de tout le 
Corps du Droit.”—The Code of Tuttini- 
an, &c. By P. A. Tissov, Jurifcon- 
fult, and Member of feveral learned So- 
Cietics. 
This work is intended for the ftudents 
of the civil law, and according to the 
tranflator’s preface it will fupply the defi- 
ciencies in the editions hitherto publifhed 
by Ferriere and Hubot. 
“6 Diétionnaire du Code civil, ou le 
Texte du Code civ; rangé par Ordre 
alphabétique, et fon Ufage rendu plus 
facile, par une Concordance de tous les 
Mots fur lefquels chacun peut avoir be- 
foin de confulter le: Code.’—A Diction- 
ary of the Civil Cade, by A. G. Davu- 
BENTON, Ex-Judge, 1 vol. 8vo. 
This work exattly correfponds with 
Jacob’s Law Dittionary, publifhed in 
England. 
“© Mélanges de Géographie,  d°Hif- 
toire es de Chronologie anciennes, avec 
deux Cartes et un Mémoire de M. Bar- 
bié-du-Bocage, deftinés 4 fervir de Sup- 
plément a )’Hiftoire et aux CEuvres de 
Xénophon, et principalement a \’Hiftoire 
de Ja Retraite des Dix-Mille."—A Mif- 
cellany of ancient Geography, Hitory, 
Chronology, by M. de FortTia D'UR-: 
BAN, of the Etrufcan Academy of Cor- 
tona, the Atheneum of Vaucleufe, &c. 
a vol. 8vo. 
The author of this publication has long 
cultivated the mathematics and ancient 
literature with fuccefs. The public is 
indebted to him for many eftimable pro- 
ductions, among which is a Life of Keno- 
phon. 
In an introdwétien, he treats of the or- 
thography employed by him, and appears 
on this occafion to bave conceived a very 
violent antipathy to the unfortunate let- 
ter y. 
The work now under confideration, 
among other particulars, contains a 
diflertation to prove the infufficiescy 
of the Julian period, to determine chro- 
nological dates with precifion. A me- 
moir is alfo inferted relative to the bat- 
tle of Cunaxa. We havea learned note 
about the two Perfian Princes called 
Abrocamas, and fome geographical and 
hiftorical obfervations illulirative ef the 
setreat of the Ten Thouland, 
poflefles many real beauties. 
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NOVELS. 
«¢ Alphonfine, ou la Tendrefiz Mater- 
ne} le.’’—Alphonfina, or Maternal Tender 
nefs, by Madamede GENLIs. 3 vols.12mo. 
Amid the good qualities for which 
Madame de Genlis is dikinguilhed, her 
perfeverance ought not to be forgotten. 
Since fhe firft cofifecrated her pen to the 
important duties of inftrnétion, fhe has 
never once wavered in her opinion, like 
M. de la Harpe, and many others, ‘The 
fame principles have ever been uppermoft 
in her theughts and writings, and her brer- 
monious and correét ftyle has not failed 
to ornament them. One of her contem- 
porariés, who pretends to have analyzed 
this work, with great accuracy deduces 
the following pofitions : 
r. * That Madame de G. is particu. 
larly defirous to eftablith the belief, 
that a reafonable woman ought not to be 
in dove with any one, and, above all 
things, fhe is to be careful not to have any 
‘affection for her hufband, 
2. ** That it is, however, neceflary, on 
the other hand, that ladies at once fo dig- 
nified, and fo cold, fhould be pafiionately 
beloved, becaufe by means of this they 
obtain an increafe of their authority ; for 
‘¢ J] faut toujours que la femme commande.” 
3. That it is fufficient, on the part of 
the fair fex, to have no vepugnance, and 
that, above ali, every thing fhould be 
made to contribute to the propagation of 
the faith. 
4. © That this faith, the end of, 
and only happinefs, requires that children 
fhould be imbued with the leaf poffible 
portion of phyfical and moral knowledge, 
becaufe they will then be more blindly de- 
voted, and thus young women will prove 
- more obedient to their mothers: befides 
Paradife appertains to the poor in fpirit, 
amexim, however, which it 1s not the ine 
tereft of Madame de Genlis to diffemi- 
nate. 
«‘ Such (continues the. critic) is the 
doStrine which our celebrated author de« 
velopes anew, in three volumes, the firft 
of which is unhappily very &range, and 
the laft very feeble: the fecond, however, 
It is here 
intended to prefent a model or an example 
of a fenfitive education (educatinn fenfa- 
t7ve), av expreffion which is neither very 
clear, nor perhaps very goed and perfeét 
French: and in the opinion of Madame 
de Genlis, this education weéuld have 
heen more fenfitive, if the pupil poflefied 
but one fenfe lefs. 
‘Not wifhing, however, to borrow 
any thing from the Abbé Sicard or M, 
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