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Tragedies poessess more interest, while the Greek and the Italian are more instructive. The illusion also is better preserved in the former; it is true that the versification makes the dialogue seem unnatural, but, as this pervades the whole drama, tbe defect is less felt. The Greek and Italian recitatives are nature itself: but the divisions into which they are broken, by the chorus and the airs, materially impair the probability. The action is sometimes very animated, and sometimes very languid. In fine, the Greek and Italian Tragedies have recourse to music instead of excluding it, while the French performances solely rely on their own proper strength and effect.'

We now dismiss this elegant and informing compilation, with our sincere acknowlegements for the pleasure and improvement which we have derived from the editor's labours, in the discharge of our public duty. It is possible that the present scarcity of good literature may have occasioned our dwelling longer on these productions than we should otherwise have done but we can assure the reader that, in any circumstances, their ge nuine merits would have secured them consideration, and have intitled them to a more than ordinary share of our notice.

ART XVIII. Manuel du Muséum Français, &c.; i e. A Manual of the French Museum, with an analytical and explanatory Description of each Picture, exhibited in outline Etchings; the whole classed according to the Schools of the Works of the great Masters. By F. E. T. M. D. L. I. N. 8vo. Imported by De Boffe.

WE have already noticed a splendid folio, and also a handsome quarto edition of engravings copied from the pictures in the Central Museum at Paris; and in order that per sons of humble fortune might be accommodated with representations of these wonders of the pictorial art, behold an humble edition in octavo is prepared. (See also p. 522.) These sketches are on a very small sca e; and when the picture happens to be crowded with objects, they are confused and unsatisfactory. They may serve as reminiscences: but, to persons who have never surveyed the originals, they can afford only a faint idea of their merit and beauty.-Five Numbers of this work are now before us; the first containing, of the French School, the works of Poussin; the second, of the Italian School, the works of Dominichino; the third, of the Flemish School, the works of Rubens; the fourth, of the Italian School, the works of Raphael; and the fifth, of the French School, the works of Le Brun.

The remarks on the excellencies and defects of the paintings, from which these humble etchings are taken, are judicious: but it is unnecessary to make any extracts from this work, to shew the style in which the French criticisms are conducted.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

Aloes-wood, remarks on, 351.
Amphitrite Volutacornis, descrip.
tion of, 5..
Antiochus, monarchs of that name,
kings of Commagene, account
of, 176.
Apocalypse, remarks on, 371.
Appennines, description of, by
Lady Pomfret, 280.
Argil, discussion of argillaceous
earths, 486.

Arm, observations on amputating
it, 463.
Artillery-Company, origin of, 425.
Arts, superiority of the Grecks
in, discussed, 490.
Astrolabe, see Delambre.
Astronomy, observations on, 449.
Asylum, military, at Chelsea, ac-
count of, 333.

Austria, character of its troops,
and defects of its military sys-

tem, 203.

Bank of Ireland and of England,
APP. REV. VOL. XLVIII.

remarks on the conduct of
their Directors, 410, 411.
Bartolozzi, the celebrated en

graver, quits England, and
settles in Portugal, 175. note.
Basalt, observations on its preva-
lence in the environs of Lis-
bon, 520.
Basseville, see Hugues.

Baumé, M. on marine salts, 461.
Beattie, Dr. biographical account
of, 302.

Beauty, not consistent with large-
ness of dimensions, why? 397.
Beet, see Achard.
Betty, Master, the Young Roscius,
poetically criticized, 321.
Biot, M. on Velta's experiments,
456.

Birmingham, remarks on, 30.
London fowling pieces really
made at Birmingham, ib. Ca-
talogue of Birmingham manu-
factures, ib. Remarks on the
state of the artizans, ib.
Blood, properties of that fluid
chemically discussed, 124.
Bonaparte, satirized, 440.
Borkhausen, M., his botanical ob-
servations, 352.

Bort, in the Limosin, the birth-
place of Marmontel, beauti-
fully described by him, 243.
Bos Frontalis, of India, account
of, 3. 11.

Botany, observations relative to,

Catherine, Empress of Russia, her
mode of opposing revolution-
ary doctrines, 142.
Causation, see Hume.
Cecil, Mr., see Exeter, Marquis
of.

Cels, M., on the Robinia Viscosa,
462.

Cirl Bunting, remarks on, 8.
Civilians, English, sketch of,
3:8.

Cervantes, Don Vincente da, on
the gum trees of Mexico, 353.
Chemistry, Pharmaceutic, account
of, 48.
Chenevix, Mr., on mercury and
platina, 260.
Chironia, wild, at the Cape, ac-
count of, 7.
Choiseul, Duke de, particulars re-
specting, 503, 504.
Chorus, see Tragedy.
Christ, Jesus, observations on the
circumstances of his birth, 294.

Clairon, Mlle. de, anecdotes of
that celebrated actress, related
by Marmontel, 252.
Clay, see Argil.

Clwyd, vale of, sketch of, 187.
Coluber, of Java, a peculiar one
described, 106.

- new British species of, 3.
Comets, observations on, 479.
Commons, House of, peculiar
statement of the necessity of
its being free, in all respects,
287.

Compact, original, that political
doctrine asserted, 288.
Compass, new, description of,
457.

Cornwall, antient customs in, 67.
Its peculiarly fine mutton, 69.
Its ecclesiastical history, 72.
Its antient architecture, 73.
Cottager, in the New Forest, story
of, 25.

Cottages, good remarks respecting
the building of, 212.
Crawfurd, David, the Scotch
historian, his forgeries and fic-
tions, 427.
Crebillon, at an advanced age, in-

troduced to royal favour, as a
rival to Voltaire, 251.
Crescimbeni, some account of that
Italian writer, 15, 16.
Creutz, Count de, portrait of,
356.
Cuckoo, observations on the musi-

cal intervals in the notes of
that bird, 12.
Curate, of Lanberis, description

of, 190.
Cynanche trachealis, observations
on, 378.

D'Alembert, M., character of, Ercildoune, Thomas of, the rhy-

355.

Dallas, Mr., remarks relative to
his Elements of Self-Know-
lege, 447.
D'Argenson, M., unhappy situa-
tion of his mind, under the
disappointments of ambition,
361.

Davy, Mr., on a mineral pro-
duction from Devonshire,
262.
Decandolle, M., on the cortical
pores of the leaves of plants,
350.
Delambre, M., on the Astrolabe
of Synesius, and on the stereo-
graphic projection, 450. On
the grand trigonometrical
tables, 451.

Desert, journey across from Alep-
po to Bussorah, 232.
Desfontaines, M., on the Date-

bearing Palm, 462.
Desmarest, M., on the hill of
Montmartre, 461.
Deyeux, M., his report on A-
chard's experiments on beet,
459.
Diderot, M., his anecdote of
Rousseau, 359. His conver-
sation and society described,
360.
Dillenius, Herbarium of, remarks
on, 6.

Duc Lachapelle, M., on the ap-
pulse of the Moon and Mars,

457.
Durion, observations on that plant,
8.

Dynasties, remarks on the rise
and fall of, 536.
Dysentery, observations on, 388.
E

Eclipses, calculations of, 457.
Elector, laughable use made of
that title, by an English free
holder, in Germany, 143.
England, remarks on the laws of,
by a foreigner, 539.

mer, account of his Sir Tris-
trem, a romance, 196.
Erica Daboccia, observations on,
353.

Esox Saurus, description of that
fish, 3..

Evils of the World, sermons on,
169.

Exeter, late Marquis of, romantic
story of, 366.

Eye, observations on the iris of,
and on forming an artificial
pupil, 459.

Farmer, advice to a young one,

284. See Norfolk.
Females, instance of characteristic
humanity in a female Arab,

231..

Fencing the Tables, explanation of
that phrase in the Scotch
Church, 295. note.

Ferrer, M. his astronomical ob-
servations, 449.

Fever, observations on the prac-
tice of Hippocrates in treating
it, 466.

Ffestiniog, vale of, more properly
the vale of Maentwrog, de-
scribed, 193.

Fluids, cohesion of, essay on, 265.
Forder, John, story of, 25.
Forfait, M., on the marine of Ve-
nice, 463.

Fortune, how to paint that
goddess, 512.
Fox, Mr., his bust angrily
thrown by the Emperor Paul
into a cellar, 141.
France, anecdotes of the despo-
tism and extortion of its pre-
sent government, 221, 222.

revolution in, prepared
by the corruptions of the last
two reigns, 502.
Fronde, war of, remarks on, 534.

Gail, M., on the Astrolabe, 450.
Nn 2
Garda,

that worm, 4.

Gout, medically considered, 381.
Grass, see Smith.

Gray, Mr. his verses on the death

of Mr. West translated into
Italian, 15.

Greece, modern, its situation de.
plored and its enfranchisement
slily hinted, 494..

Greeks, antient, their superiority
in the arts discussed, 490.
Gryffydd Grug, a Welsh Bard,
anecdote of, and of his rival
Dafydd ap Gwilym, 191.
Gum-Trees, account of, 353.
Guyton, M. on the change of
bases of two salts, 461.
Gyall, of India, account of that
species of cow, 3, FI.

Hallé, M. on Vaccine inocula-
tion, 450.
Hardwicke, Capt. on a Rat of
India, 11.

Hartford, Countess of, account

ef, 275. Her singular anec-
dote of a Gentleman in Suf-
folk, 282.

Haworth, Mr. on the genus
Aloë, I.

Hedwig, M. on the organs of
perspiration in plants, 350.
Helvetius, portrait of, 355.

Hemlock, chemically and medical
ly described, 58.
Hereford, county of, its impor
tance in an historical view, 337.
Various particulars respecting,
338:50.

Herschell, Dr. his experiments on
Telescopes, 264.
Hippocrates, observations on the
doctrines and practice of, 466.
Holbach, Baron d', description of
the Society at his house, 36c.
Hospitals, comparative remarks
en those of Italy and Eng-
land, 226

Hugues de Basseville, M. some ac-
count of, 22.

Hume, David, his conduct to-
wards Rousseau commended
by Marmontel, 361. His doc-
trine on cause and effect dis
cussed, 391.

Hunter, Dr. Henry, his character,
292.

, John, his opinions on
Syphilis discussed by a French
writer, 469.

I and J

Iceland, Poetry of, observations
on and specimen of, 413. 415.
Jesuits, origin of the abolition of
that order, 499.

India, account of the silk worms
of Bengal, 24. Of the Bos
Frontalis, 3, 11. Of a large
Rat, 11. Of the Serpents of,
106. Of the Plants of the
Coromandel coast, 107. On
civilizing the natives of, 109.
Ink, observations on the form-
ation of, 458.

Insect, ravages of one among the
peach-trees at St. Helena, 313.
Still more extraordinary de-
structton of the Opuntia on
the Coromandel coast, by a
Cochineal insect, 316.
Ireland, currency of, and state of
its exchange with England,
discussion on, 399-412.

Jumpers,

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