Valerius William Neubeck, M.D." published at Breflaw; "Elements of a Theory of the Art of Acting, with the Analyfis of a comic and tragic Part, Shakspeare's Falstaff and Hamlet, by the Chamberlain Von Einsiedel, of Weimar," publifhed at Leipfic; "New Travels round my Room," published at Brunswick; "Hiftory of Families, by Auguftus de Fontaine; "Family of the Haldens," in 2 vols. publifhed at Berlin; "Wilhelmina, a Hiftory, by J. F. Junger," in 2 vols. publified at the fame place; and "The Emigrants, a Novel," in 4 vols. publifhed at Brunswick.

The first work, in point of order, which claims our notice among the literary productions of Switzerland, is a volume of "Select Sermons, by J. G. Fifch, fecond Preacher at Aaraw," published at that place. Thefe Sermons have been fent by the author into the world, in juftification of himself against a malig. nant caluinny, that he did not preach the truths of Christianity. From the fpecimens which they afford us of his pulpit difcourfes we can easily conceive, that his fervices do not meet with the approbation of fanatics, or of those who strictly conform their religious principles to fyftematic creeds and confeffions of faith. But to fober rational Chriftians they must prove acceptable and edifying. As compofitions they reflect credit on M. Fifch's abilites; and the fentiments which pervade them are fuch as do honour to Chriftianity, by reprefenting it to be a yoke that is eafy, and a burthen that is light. At Laufanne, a little piece has been publifhed entitled "A Manual of practical Philofophy, &c." which confifts, chiefly, of extracts, effays, and moral maxims, felected from English publications relating to the subject of edu

cation. It is flattering to receive the editor's teftimony to the merit of that fpecies of our domeftic literature, that "the mildest philofophy, the greateft fimplicity, and the most judicious manner of conveying inftruction, diftinguishes thofe numerous literary productions."-AtGeneva, the celebrated Bertrand Barrère has published a work entitled "On our Scheme of Government, &c." which contains an ingenious illuftration of the principles of the republican government in France, and an artful well-written eulogium on its merits. But independently of the partiality which muft be allowed to have guided the author's pen, and the particular application of his fentiments, many of his remarks on government, civil liberty, public inftitutions, and politica! economy, are highly deferving of attention-At Zurich, M. C. U. D. von E. has published two volumes of "Archives of political Economy and Legiflation," containing extracts of what he deemed most valuable in the various little tracts on the above-mentioned fubjects, published between the years 1774 and 1795, digefted under their refpective heads, in alphabetical order. Useful as we acknowledge the author's defign to be, we with that he may not in fome measure defeat it, by rendering his work too voluminous. In the volumes before us, confifting nearly of a thoufand pages, he has not exhausted the letter A.—At the fame place, the fame author has published "Annals of political Economy, Vol. I. for the year 1795;" which is conducted on a fimilar plan, and confifts of extracts from treatifes published fince the year 1794, together with corrections and additions to the Archives.—At Laufanne, M. Brez has published an interefting and well-written “ Hifto

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ty of the Vaudois, or Inhabitants of the western Vallies of Piedmont," in 2 vols.-At Zurich, profeffor Jafp. Fäfi has published "A Sketch of a Manual of the Statistics of Switzerland," abounding in much accurate and valuable information, compreffed within a narrow compass. The author is the fon of the late J. Conr. Fäfi, well known for his geography of Switzerland.-At -the fame place, M. F. J. Stalder has published two volumes of "Fragments on Entlebuch, with a Supplement refpecting Switzerland in general." The account with which thefe fragments prefent us of the manners and cuftoms of the paftoral inhabitants of that alpine country, will be found entertaining by readers in general, and not unworthy the notice of the philofopher.In Switzerland, but the place not mentioned, Bertrand Barrere has publifhed a pamphlet entitled "Montefquien painted from his Works," containing a warm and eloquent eulogium on the talents and judgment of Montefquieu, in his character of a writer on government and legislation, not unmixed with acute animadverfions and free criticisms on thofe opinions and principles which are unfavourable to the fentiments and inftitutions of revolutionised France.-At Laufanne, Dr. Tiffot has published "The Life of M. Zimmermann, Counsellor of State, and firft Phyfician to the King of England, &c." which has been naturalifed in this country, and noticed among the biographical articles in our view of the Domeftic Literature of the prefent year.-At Zurich, an inftructive and enter taining work has appeared, entitled "Aloyfius von Orelli; a biographical Effay; with Fragments of Italian and Swifs Hiftory, and a Picture of the domestic Manners of the

Town of Zurich, in the Middle of the 16th Century, by S. v. O. v. B.; with a Preface by H. H. Fuefsli."In our view of the Foreign Literature of the year 1795 we announeed the publication, at the last-mentioned place, of profeffor Meiners's valuable and interefting "Lives of celebrated Men who flourished at the Time of the Revival of Science." He has fince added a fecond and a third volume to that collection, which will afford abundant gratification to the reader. The fecond volume contains the biographies of Picus of Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Ambrofio degli Agnoni, or Ambrofius Traverfarius, general of the Camaldulenfian order of monks, and Herman von dem Busche, or Rudolf Agricola; and the third volume is wholly devoted to an account of the life and writings of the celebrated Ulrich von Hutten.-At the fame place, M. C. C. H. Roft has published two volumes of an useful and entertaining work, entitled "The Amateur and Collector's Manual of the principal Engravers, and their Works, from the Commencement of the Art to the prefent Time, arranged chronologically and in Schools, compiled from the French Manufcript of M. Huber." Thefe volumes are entirely employed on an account of the lives and principal works of artists of the German school.-At Bafil have appeared "Publii Terentii Comœdiæ Sex, &c." ftated by the foreign reviewers to be a fplendid publication, in which the text of Bentley is chiefly followed, though not without variation; and which in critical correctness equals its typographical beauties.-At Laufanne, the "Tragedies of Count V. Alfieri da Afti," have been publish ed, in five volumes; at Bafil, a poem entitled "The Inhabitants of the

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Country, or the French Georgics," by the celebrated De Lille, author of The Gardens,' and tranflator of Virgil's Georgics; and at Geneva, "Cyrus and Milto, or the Republic," a political romance, by M. H. D'Uffieres.

With refpect to Italy, literature can have been but little cultivated amid the extraordinary circumftances which have agitated that country during the year 1797; and our information repecting fuch productions as have made their appear ance, is unusually imperfect. At Venice, we understand that "The Book of Ecclefiaftes, or the Preacher," and "The Book of Wisdom," have been tranflated into Italian, by F. Boaretti; but of the merits of those versions we have feen no account.-At Naples, a work has been published entitled "Elements of the Roman Laws &c. by Scorzafave," which is ftated to be well adapted for the inftruction of ftudents in civil law. At Florence, P. Foffombrons has published a curious "Effay on the Principle of virtual Velocity. At Pavia, citizen Valer. Lewis Brera, profeffor of phyfic, has published a thefis "On the Effects produced on the human Body, by means of Friction with Saliva, and various Subftances, &c." who has found, by a series of experiments, that opium, fquills, acetated kali, digitalis, and other drugs, if mixed with gaftric juice, or with faliva, produce the fame effects, when rubbed into various parts of the body, as when adminiftered internally. At Venice, D. Targioni has published "The Life of Cavallucci, the Painter," in which the character of the artift is delineated with the skill of a connoiffeur.-At Sienna, P. M. Guglielm. Della Valle has published The Lives of ancient Greek and Roman Painters;"

which display much learning, induftry of research, and fagacity of illuftration, but are greatly defective in perfpicuity and the graces of compofition.-At Pavia, F.A. Muzzi has published "Researches into the Hebrew Language;" and at Parma, S. Requeno has published an elaborate Elucidation of the Art of manual Gesticulation," as practifed by the ancients.

In French literature, the first publication on our lift is "The Manual of the Philanthropist," which has been tranflated into English, and already engaged our attention among the productions which have iffued from our domestic press, during the prefent year." The Works of Helvetius," a new and complete edition, have been published by citizen Laroche; which he has been enabled to perfect from the manu fcripts bequethed to him by that celebrated metaphyfician. The "Refutation of the Work on the Mind, delivered at the republican Lyceum, by John Francis La Harpe," contains popular, and fometimes fuccefsful, but more frequently loofe and trifling objections against fome of the leading pofitions of the last mentioned author. M. La Harpe feems to have entered the lifts against Helvetius, without any accurate acquaintance with what preceding metaphyficians have written, either in iupport or confutation of his opinions.-The treatise entitled "The Philofopher of the Universe," is employed in inveftigating the doctrine of optimism, to which the author feems more inclined than to the oppofite notion. Among many fingularities, it discovers a commendable zeal for the interefts of benevolence, and of morality. For the illumination of the Parifians, M. Hercules Peyer-Imhoff has tranflated into French the "Obferv

fier), in honour of the aftronomer of that name, by the fame; the Poniatowsky's Bull, the Family Arms of the laft King of the Poles, by M. Poczobut, a Polish Aftronomer; the Frederick's Glory, by M. Bode; the greater and lefs Herfchellian Telescope, and the George's Harp, by M. Hell.-The "Connoiffance des Temps, or aftronomical Journal for the fixth Year of the Republic (1798)," and the fame an nual publication for the feventh year (1799), befides the ufual ephemerides, contain the hiftory of aftronomy to the year 1794; valuable aftronomical communications from Lalande, Mechain, Methier, Vidal, and others; and a memoir concerning the globes or balls of fire which occafionally appear in the atmosphere. The "Chemical Annals, or a Collection of Memoirs concerning Chemistry, and the Arts dependent on that Science," after a confiderable interruption, have again been refumed to the no fmall fatisfaction of the philofophical world. The twenty-first and twentyfecond volumes have reached this country, and furnish the fcientific reader with a variety of valuable and interefting papers. The most diftinguished contributors are Meffrs. Guyton (formerly well known as M. de Morveau), J. A. Chaptal, Vauquelin, R. Pelletier, Klaproth, Van Marum, A. Seguin, Prevoft, Venturi, Van Mons, Bouillon la Grange, and Fourcroy. Of the five volumes of "The Theory of the Earth, by J. C. Delametherie, the fecond Edition, corrected and enlarged," the first and second are devoted to mineralogy, and are the evident refult of extenfive enquiry, and diligent application. The third contains fpeculations on the power and properties of matter, in which hypothefis and fancy are a

bundantly predominant. The laft two alone treat of the theory of the earth, in which we cannot pro nounce the author less liable to ob jection, than fome of the preceding writers, whofe opinions he has undertaken to review and controvert.

"The Philosophy of Monf. Nicolas," in three volumes, is one of the most extraordinary farragos of extravagance and abfurdity, that ever was delivered to the world through the medium of the prefs, under the name of philofophy-The "Memoirs of Natural History and Natural Philofophy, established on Bafes of Reasoning, independent of all Theory, &c. by J. B. Lamarck, Member of the Inftitute," are intended to overturn the foundations of the pneumatic chemistry, and to establish a new theory in oppofition to it. They are, however, frequently too profound for our comprehenfion; and when we do understand the author, we perceive in them more of affumption and fpeculation than of legitimate induction from facts.-The "Effay on the medical and phyfical Topogra phy of Paris, or a Differtation on the Subftances which may influence the Health of the Inhabitants of that City, &c. by Audin Roviere," is well conceived, and well executed, and to the Parifians must prove interefting. It is divided into two parts: the first treating of the fituation, foil, air, feaíons, food, water, mode of living, and clothing of Paris; the fecond, of its hofpitals.- · Profeffor Chauffier has published "A Synopfis of the human Muscles;" Profeffor Portal, “Obfervations on the Nature and Treatment of the Rickets, or Curvatures of the Spine, and of the fuperior and inferior Extremities;" Meffrs. Moreau and Burdin, "An Effay on the humid Gangrene;" M.Villars, "Ele

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