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Cherchant le calme au milieu du fracas,
D'un mot, d'un rien elle paroit blessée,
Creuse su tête et n'a point de pensée,
Veut un avis et ne l'ecoute pas."

Those who know the manners and language of France will recognize in these lines, printed in italics, a portrait of Frenchwomen, sketched with great fidelity and effect, d'apres nature. We fear the following will suit some of our own novel readers of the present day. "Fausse avec art, la romancière Altin,

L'œil en extase et la voix langoureuse,
Feint de nourir un aimable chagrin:

Son cœur est froid, sa tête vaporeuse."

Notwithstanding the numerous volumes of French poetry which are still published, it is very rarely we find so many lines worth transscribing as we have done in this little poem, which is distinguished for graceful verse and delicate satire.

Elémens de Morale, c.

Elements of Morality, for the Use of Boarding-schools, by Abbé Cassegrain. Second edition, augmented by several chapters and sentences, extracted from the best French poets, placed at the end of each lesson.

18mo.

THERE is nothing either offensive or original in this work deserving of particular attention. The selection is judicious, and proper for youth.

Reflexions analytiques sur la Declinabilite de Participes, c. Analytical Reflections on the Declinability and Indeclinability of Participles; to which is added, a Solution of a grammatical Question, never before discussed. By J. F. Tissot, jun. pp. 28, 8vo. Avig

non.

WE were grievously disappointed in this tract, as we expected to find some easy and universal rule for the declension of French participles; but M. Tissot, if he has made any progress in this grammatical question, has forgotten to communicate it to his readers; neither has he collected all the exceptions to the already known rules, which certainly exist, and which must occur to every person reading French works.

Gonzalo de Cordoba; ó la Conquesta de Granada, escrita por el Caballero Florian.

Gonzalo of Cordoba; or the Conquest of Granada. Written by the Chevalier Florian, and published in Spanish by Don John Lopez de Penalver. 2 vols. 18mo. pp. 333 each, 8s. Dulau & Co. London. 1808.

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TRANSLATIONS, no doubt, are very useful in learning languages, and those of Florian into Spanish will assist the French reader

to acquire a knowledge of the Castilian tongue somewhat sooner. We admit, therefore, that the publishers of this work have judged rightly in laying it before the public in a cheap and convenient form. In doing this, however, it was indispensable that it should be correctly printed. The reverse of this is the case; there is scarcely a page in these two volumes, in which we do not see words with one or more wrong letters, turned letters, and even one word divided into two, and in some cases three distinct marks !

Novelas Nuevas, escritas en Frances, par M. de Florian, traducidas libremente, é ilustradas con algunas Notas curiosas é instructivas. New Novels, written in French by M. de Florian, and freely translated [into Spanish] and illustrated with some curious and instructive Notes, by Don Gaspar Zavala and Zamora. pp. 183, 18mo. 3s. Dulau and Co. 1808. London.

This and the preceding volumes are printed by a R. Juigné, in London, and are a disgrace to the English press. We presume the printer is a Frenchman, who is equally ignorant both of printing and of the Spanish language. It is lamentable that Booksellers will not take care to have foreign books correctly printed, or at least put them into the hands of respectable Printers, who would not commit such shameful errors as disgrace every page of these little volumes. No person learning Spanish can read them; for it requires a perfect knowledge of any language to comprehend ill-spelt words, and in many cases to guess at the meaning of unconnected letters by the context. This is a public grievance ; for no other Bookseller will venture to publish more correct editions of such works, while the present dirty paper is on sale. We do therefore advise Messrs. Dulau, Wingrave, &c. as an act of justice to the public, to return the paper to R. Juigné, make him pay for it, and cause a more correct edition to be printed immediately.

Lilienthalische Beobachtungen der neu entdeckten Planeten, &c. Observations on the newly-discovered Planets, Ceres, Pallas, and Juno, (Piazzi, Olber, and Harding) made at Lilienthal, to ascertain exactly their true magnitude, their atmosphere, and their relations in our solar system. By Dr. John Jerome Schroeter, Consellor to his Britannic Majesty, &c. Gottingen,

DR. Schroeter, after comparing the atmosphere and the magnitude of these planets with the atmosphere and magnitude of the earth, moon, &c. adds some curious speculations on cosmogony, relative to the general subject of this tract. He also attributes Herschel's error, in observing these planets, to the instrument which he employed, and the manner in which he used it. M. Harding, and the author of this tract, also noticed a grey shade on the side of Venus, the same as the moon exhibits shortly after the change. Dr. S. observed this appearance very distinctly with a 15-feet reflector.

Petri Hoffmanni Peerlkamp, Gymn. Doccum. Rect. Dissertatio de Surdorum Mutorumque Institutione. 8vo. pp. 66. Kamerling, Groningen.

MUCH spurious philanthropy has been displayed about educating the deaf and dumb; and the French, as usual, have dramatised it; but we believe the most sanguine advocates for this species of education are now perfectly convinced of their folly. A moment's reflection, indeed, must have satisfied any observer of human nature, that persons having such a defective organization, could not possess great mental faculties, nor much sensibility. The labours of the Abbés l'Epée and Sicard have fully demonstrated what might have been known à priori, as none of their scholars have ever evinced any talents, or displayed any capacity worthy of the pains and care bestowed on their education. The boys in the School for the indigent Blind, in St. George's Fields, display as much sagacity and skill as those in the school of Abbé Sicard in Paris. M. Peerlkamp, however, as rector of the Gymnasium of Dockum, in Frieseland, no doubt with the best intentions, has celebrated those schools in Latin verse and prose, in a Discourse de laudanda surdos mutosque instituendi ratione. The dissertation before us is dedicated to M. Henry Daniel Guyot, minister of the French Protestant church in Groningen. The dedication is in verse; and although the author is an old man, it proves that

"Aux ames bien nées

La vertu n'attend pas le nombre des années."

The following are the author's prognostics on deafness:
"Possumus et certis illud prædiscere signis:

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Si placidus semper se et pene immobilis infans
In gremio matris teneat, neque, forte coorto
Clamore aut strepitu, húc vultum convertat, eâdem
Fronte oculisque manens, Dîs non peperisse secundis
Talem infelices nimium miserasque parentes."

The notes to this dissertation discover considerable reading and re⚫spectable learning.

Vitæ aliquot excellentium Batavorum, in usum Scholarum. Pp. 41. 12mo. Loosjes, Harlem.

THESE biographical sketches are attributed to the author of the preceding dissertation on the deaf and dumb. But, although M. Peerlkamp writes Latin with great ease, and has imitated the style of Cornelius Nepos tolerably, yet we apprehend that his work is not likely to be preferred, even in Dutch schools, to that of the Roman. There is nothing of the spirit or feelings of a Roman mind now existing in any country in Europe; and, consequently, there is no man living, however well versed in Latin prosody and syntax, capable of writing the language of ancient Rome with sufficient elegance, energy, and propriety. The celebrated men of Holland, whose lives have been

composed, for the use of grammar schools, are William I. Viglius Zuichemus ab Aytta, John Van der Does, or Dousa, John the son of Simon de Ryk, D. Erasmus, Michael de Ruyter, John de Witt, and Hugh de Groot, or Grotius. There is much propriety in offering memoirs of distinguished compatriots to the attention of youth, as affording them more practical lessons of virtue and public spirit, than the splendid memoirs of Greeks or Romans. But such lessons should always be conveyed in the vernacular dialect, the only one which produces in general an effect on the mind and character: There is, indeed, something ludicrously absurd in making a Dutchman assume the air and sentiments of a Roman, which the author appears not to have perceived.

MISCELLANIES.

Roman Catholic Question, and Dr. Milner.

Letter from Bishop Milner to an Irish Parish Priest.

"Reverend SiR,-How strange does it appear to me that I, who, but the other day, was overwhelmed with the thanks and praises of my brethren, and particularly of my clerical brethren in Ireland, should now have become the subject of their obloquy and odium! How still more strange does it seem that this change should have taken place on the supposition of my betraying the cause of the Catholic Church and its prelacy; that cause which I have been labouring with all my might to support during these twenty years, and never more zealously or more vigorously than within the last three months! But, sir, it is hardly less strange that all this should have happened on the mere credit of newspapers, and that none of my former friends should have expressed a wish, so much as to receive accurate information from me, on the subject of these accusations; nay, that some of them should have forbidden me to furnish them with any! Such are the effects, upon common candour and common sense,' among Catholics, no less than among Protestants, of that maddening cry, the Church is in danger, My only comfort under this extraordinary persecution is, that it proceeds from a principle of orthodoxy, which I cannot but approve of and love. The hearts of my former friends are quite right, though their heads are not a little wrong.

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"In the first place, sir, it is notorious that, ever since the year 1789, I have been in a state of hostility, by the pen and by ever other means in my power, with the spiritual supremacy of the crown, and the prevailing encroachments of the civil upon the ecclesiastical power; look in particular at the Preface to the Meditations of St. Teresa; the Letters upon the Appointments of Bishops; the Divine Right of the Episcopacy; Ecclesiastical Democracy Detected: the Appendix No. 5, to Sir John C. Hippesly's Substance of Additional Observations, and the Supplement to ditto, in Four Letters lately printed; look also at various passages in the Antiquities of Winchester; the Letters to a Prebendary, and the Letters

from Ireland; and then say, however weak an advocate I have been for the Church, liberty, and independence, whether I have not been at least, a zealous and indefatigable one. In the course of this long continued controversy, there have not been wanting, as it is natural to suppose, and as I can prove to have been the case, both promises to allure me, and menaces to frighten me from the straight line of my duty to the Catholic Church. I have, nevertheless, during all that period, preserved my reputation untainted. How unlikely, then, is it that I should at the present moment yield to be "tampered with," as the newspapers assert, by persons who have nothing to give me! and that I should aim a mortal blow at that mystical spouse of Christ, (as I have been accused in private letters,) to whose preservation and service I have devoted the whole of my life; and for the least of whose rights I am always ready, with God's grace, to shed the last drop of my blood.

In the next place, sir, you will observe that it is not I who have wantonly or imprudently brought forward this delicate question, concerning the interference of the crown, in the appointment of Catholic bishops; it has been for some years past before the public; and many writers, as well Catholics as Protestants, have, to my grief and astonishment, declared themselves for it in its most objectionable form, and without any qualification whatsoever. See in particular Sir John Throckmorton's Considerations arising out of the Debates, &c. on the Catholic Petition, in 1805; Thoughts on the Civil Condition of the Catholic Clergy, by T. M'Kenna, Esq.; as also the celebrated Letters of Peter Plymley, so called, in which the writer asserts, that he is "authorised" to assert that the Catholics have no objection whatever to the measure. You will recollect that something to the same effect is contained in the late Petition to Parliament of the inhabitants of Newry, and it is notorious that a great number of the most respectable Catholics, as well as the generality of our Protestant friends, ceased not to proclaim that "the present mode of appointing our prelates, was the chief, and almost only obstacle to the so much wished for emancipation, and that the situation of public affairs, and the safety of the common empire, absolutely require that this power should be lodged in the crown. "The population of Ireland, they ceased not to exclaim, " is at the beck of the Catholic bishops; these bishops are chosen by others, who are the creatures of the Pope, and are instituted by the Pope, who himself is the slave and tool of the public enemy." I mention these circumstances, not by way of intimating any acquiescence in a measure, which, taken as it was proposed, I know to be unlawful and schismatical. So far, indeed, from acquiescing in it, I wrote most pressingly during the last spring to two of your venerable metropolitans, in order to consult with them on the best mode of defeating it; and it is a fact which I declare upon my conscience, that my chief motive for going up to London about ten weeks ago, was to oppose the measure, had it been brought forward in parliament, as I feared would be the case; being deeply conscious that it was my duty to do so, even at the

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