ART. XXI.

Dictionnaire Univerfel de la France, contenant la Defcription geographique et hiftorique des Provinces, Villes, &c. l'etat de fa Population actuelle. de fon Clerge, de fes Troupes, de fa Marine, de fes Finances, de fes Tribunaux, &c. &c.-An Univerfal Dictionary of France, containing a geographical and historical Defcription of its Provinces, Towns, remarkable Places, &c. the prefent State of its Population, Clergy, Sea and Land Forces, Courts of Juftice, with an Abridgment of its Hillory, &c. By M. Robert de Heffeln. 8vo. 6 Vols. Paris.

TH THOSE who are defirous of being acquainted with the natural, civil, ecclefiaftical, and politicai ftate of France, its commerce, natural productions, every branch of the adminiftration, &c. &c. will find this a valuable and very useful work. In the execution of fo extenfive an undertaking, the Author was affifted by many perfons in office, and who were well qualified to give him the information he wanted; and, particularly, his accounts of the principal cities of the kingdom were thewn to, and corrected by, the most intelligent of their respective inhabitants.

ART. XXII.

Efprit de Leibnitz, ou Recueil de Penfées Choifies, &c.-A Collection of felect Thoughts upon Philofophy, Religion, Morality, Hiftory, &c. from the Writings of Leibnitz. 12mo. 2 Vols. Lyons.

1772.

IT is well known to those who are acquainted with the works of Leibnitz, that excepting in his Théodicé, and his Eays on the human Understanding, there is very little order or method in any of them. His quick and lively genius, as his judicious and learned Editor (M. Dutens *) obferves, would not fuffer him to enter into a full difcuffion of any one subject, but was conftantly pushing him into digreffions that were quite foreign to his first and principal object. This being the cafe, the collection now before us cannot fail of recommending itself to fuch" readers as have an high opinion of Leibnitz, but cannot purchase his works, or, if they could, have not leifure to peruse them. The principal defign of it is to prefent the public with a view of the most inftructive, curious, and interefting paffages that are scattered through the Author's writings upon the fubject of religion, and fuch other subjects as are most intimately connected with it.

As the name of Leibnitz is highly refpected in the republic of letters, and as he was known to be a fincere believer in Christianity, the Author of the Collection thought that fuch a

See a fhort account of M. Dutens' edition, Rev. vol. xl. p. 599.

publication

publication might be of fome fervice to the caufe of religion, and check, in fome degree at least, the progress of infidelity. Such a defign is undoubtedly very laudable, and we heartily wish he may not be difappointed in his expectations.

But though the Collection confifts principally of paffages on religious and moral fubjects, it contains, befide thefe, a very confiderable number of paffages upon other fubjects; fuch as history, criticifm, poetry, languages, logic, education, medicine, &c.-He concludes with a general view of Leibnitz's philofophy, published in 1720, about four years after his death, under the title of Principia Philofophiæ, feu Thefes in gratiam Principis Eugenii. M. Dutens has inferted it in his Collection, and supposes it to have been written in 1714, for Prince Eugene of Savoy. In the Collection before us it is tranflated into French.

ART. XXIII.

L'Empire Ture confidéré dans fon Etabliffement et dans fes Accroiffemens fucceffifs.-The Turkish Empire confidered in its Rife, Increase, &c. by M. D'Anville, of the Royal Academy of Infcriptions, &c. 12mo. Paris. 1772.

W E have here an account of the progrefs of the Ottoman power, from its rife, till the year 1739. The Author gives a clear and concife view of the principal events and revolutions; which, in fome measure, enlivens the geographical part of the performance, and renders it both inftructive and interefting. The fame able and accurate geographer has likewife lately published an account of the Ruffian empire, from its origin to the death of Peter the Great, in 1728.

A B T. XXIV.

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le Salut des Payens, ou nouvelle Apologie pour Socrate, par M. Jean Augufte Eberhard, Minister à Berlin. Traduit de l'Allemand, Premiere Partie. 8vo. A Londres. 1773.An Examination of the Doctrine relating to the Salvation of the Heathen; or a new Apology for Socrates. By M. Eberhard. THERE are feveral claffes of our Readers who will be

very differently affected if they should think proper to read this book. Our philofophical and free-thinking friends would wonder how any man could fpend fo much time and thought on opinions which have been fo long and fo effectually exploded. Many of our religious Readers, those especially who are emerging from the gloomy fhades of Calvinifm,

will be pleased with feeing the dogmas of an uncharitable faith, confidered with candour, and opposed in the charitable fpirit of a Chriftian. Our orthodox friends may, perhaps, be a little angry at the prophane attempt of laying heaven open to Pagans. We believe, however, there are but few of that temper in England; and we hope this book will leffen their

number on the continent.

Marmontel's Belifaire has given rife to a theological controverly in Holland and Germany; and this volume appears in defence of that amiable philosopher.

ART. XXV.

Satires de Perfe, traduites en Vers, et en Profe, pour fervir de fuite a la Traduction de Juvenal, par M. Dufaulx. Avec un Difcours fur la Satire et les Satiriques tant Latins que François; des Remarques critiques fur les Traducteurs de Perfe, et les endroits dificiles; le Texte, les Variantes, et un Interpretation en Profe Latine. Par M. D. D. R. A. A. P.-The Satires of Perfius, tranflated into Verse and Profe, intended as a Sequel to M. Dufaulx's Translation of Juvenal. 8vo. Paris. 1772.

WE have lately commended M. Dufaulx's Juvenal, and

wish we could fpeak in the fame manner of Mr. D. D. R. A. A. P.'s Perfius. His difcourfe on fatire is long, and contains nothing new or ftriking; nor have his obfervations on writers greatly improved or entertained us. Our objection to the tranflation is, that it is too free; on which account it can be of no great use. The poetical tranflation may be allowed fome liberty; but it need not be fo totally Frenchified as to lofe all fimilitude to the peculiar manner and spirit of the original. The profe tranflation is not fufficiently literal, if it be meant to affift those who are unacquainted with Latin; and we do not fee what other purpose it can answer. There are but few notes, and they are of very little confequence.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this

VOLUM E.

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

For the remarkable Passages in the Foreign Articles, fee the
Second Alphabet of this Index, in the latter Part of the Sheet.

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