Edition, and enlarged with feveral Obfervations and Additions. By J. G. LEONHARDI. 6 Vols. 8vo. Leipz. 1783. We can certify, that the obfervations and additions of the learned tranflator give a value to this publication which far exceeds that of the original. The Latin, French, and German Indexes in the laft volume are particularly ufeful, as a General Chemical Repertory. both as to names and things: and a fhort treatise, pointing out the fucceffion in which the feveral articles may be read in a connected fcientific order, authorifes us to clafs this work among the fyftems of chemistry. Prof. ScoroLI, of Pavia, has published three volumes of a fimilar tranflation into Italian, in which, we hope, he has availed himself of Leonhardi's labours.-He probably makes confiderable additions, fince the third volume goes no farther than the letter D. We are forry, on this occafion, to announce to the Public the death of the celebrated MACQUER. 26. Oekonomisch-Kameralifliche Schriften. By J. C. SCHUBART, Aulic Counsellor. 8vo. 8 Sheets. Leipzig. 1784. We have left this title untranflated, as we are really at a lofs how to render the true meaning of it. Agricultural financical Tracts will no doubt excite a fmile in our Readers, and yet we know nothing that comes nearer to the purport of the original; we shall endeavour to procure a copy of this work, and if we find the high character given of it not exaggerated, we fhall probably lay a fuller account of it before our Readers. At any rate, we must gradually accuftom the Public to titles fimilar to this, as under fuch denominations many important works have of late appeared, and are likely ftill to appear in Germany. 27. Cours complet d'Agriculture. i. e. A complete Courfe of Agriculture; or, An Univerfal Dictionary of Husbandry. By the Abbé ROZIER. 4to. Paris. 1783. The third volume of this work, which has been lately published, comes down as far as the middle of the letter D. A correfpondent, in whom we may place fome confidence, fays, "This work is a compilation of all that has been hitherto printed in France concerning agriculture, and nothing more," The reputation of the Author, however, entitles it to thus much of our notice. A prac- 28. Traité pratique de la Confervation des Grains. i. e. tical Treatife on the Prefervation of Corn, Meal, &c. CESAR BUQUET, Author of the Miller's Manual. 8vo. pp. 236. with Figures. Paris.. This book is faid to contain much useful information to farmers, millers, bakers, maltters, and gentlemen who cultivate their own lands. 29. Traité de la Maladie des Grains. i. e. A Treatise on the Disorders of Corn. By the Abbé TESSIER. 8vo. pp. 351. Paris. 1783. A valuable work, which we are affured may be of very effential fervice to the Public. 30. Mineralogie des Volcans. i. e. Mineralogy of Volcanoes, or Defcription of all the Subftances produced and thrown up by Volcanoes. By M. FAUJAS DE ST. FOND. 8vo. Paris. 1784. A work just published, of which a farther account will be given. 31. De ignivomorum Montium et Terræ motuum Caufa, affectibufque exinde profluentibus, phyfica differtatio. Auctore THOM. YOUNG, in Semin. Piftor. Convict. et Audit. Folio. Pistorii. 1783. PP. 60. The Author, who is a native of Scotland, here investigates the caufes and effects of two of the most striking phænomena of nature, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and he has acquitted himself, we are told, in a manner that does him credit. 32. Dei Terremoti di Meffina. i. e. Of the Earthquakes of Meflina and Calabria of the Year 1783. By D. MICHEL AUGUSTI, Prof. of Philofophy in the Convent of Mount Oliveto at Naples. 8vo. Bologna. 1783. 33. Iftoria e Teoria de Terremoti. i. e. Hiftory and Theory of Earthquakes in general, and particularly of thofe of Calabria and Meffina in the Year 1783. By JOHN VIVENZIO, Physician to their Sicilian Majefties. 4to. Pp. 344. with a Map, and three other Plates. Naples. 1783. Some of our Readers may wish to know what accounts of this cataftrophe may deferve to be compared with that of Sir William Hamilton. We shall mention others, of any note, that may hereafter come to our knowledge. Thefe two are all that feem hitherto to have attracted any notice. CLASSICS. 34. Difcours de Lycurgue. i. e. The Orations of Lycurgus, Andocides, Ifeas, Dinarchus, together with a Fragment under the Name of Demades. Tranflated into French by the Abbé AUGER, 8vo. pp. 574. Paris. 1783. Our claffical Readers are already fufficiently acquainted with the merits of these orations, and with the abilities of the tranflator, to need our opinion of either. ARCHEOLOGY. 35. Antiquorum Monumentorum Sylloge. Collegit, partim interpre tatus eft, atque edidit G. H. MARTINI, Schol. ad D. Nic. Rect. 8vo. Pp. 144. with two Plates. Leipzig. 1784. This work contains accounts of 1. A Sarcophagus at Agrigentum, reprefenting fome fcenes of the Hippolytus of Euripides. 2. An ancient fun-dial, according to the conftruction of Berofus: and 3. A coin of Patræ, with the name of a magistrate hitherto unknown.The Author is faid to have difplayed much erudition in this perform ance. 36. Novus Thefaurus Gemmarum veterum ex infignioribus dactylio. thecis' fele&tarum, cum explicationibus. Folio. Roma. Vol. I. 1781. Vol. II. 1783. This work is in a progreffive ftate, and is well fpoken of. 37. Magazin der Alterthumer. i. e. Magazine of Antiquities; or Reprefentations of the principal Gems, Buftos, Statues, Groups, &c. and all Monuments that relate to the Arts and Sciences. By C. F PRANGE. Fol. Hall. 1784. This is an intended periodical work; of which two Numbers are now published. It meets with approbation, 5 NUMIS NUMISMATICS. 38. Medailles frappées fous le Regne glorieux de l'Imperatrice Reine Marie Therefe. i. e. Medals ftruck during the glorious Reign of the Empress Maria Therefia. Fol. pp. 416. Vienna. 1782. This work is equally interesting to the medalift, the hiftorian, and the artist. The engravings of the medals, all taken from originals, are interspersed with the text, in the fame manner as in Van Loom's Hift. Met. des Pays Bas. The descriptions are in French and Ger man. 39. Almanach des Monnoyes. ie. Almanac of Coins. 12mo. pp. 326. Paris. 1784. Every science hath lately been put into dictionaries; every science is now by our light neighbours put into almanacs.-This, however, is a very useful one, both for traders and travellers, and in fome refpects also as a manual for the Numifmatic collector. BIOGRAРНУ. 40. Vie de Michel de Ruiter. i. e. The Life of Michael de Ruiter, Vice Admiral of Holland and Weft Friesland. By M. RICHER. 2 Vols. 12mo. with a Portrait of the Admiral. 1783. Paris. The Author has already appeared as a Biographer in the Lives of John Bart, Barbarossa, Marthal Tourville, and André Doria.-His style is faid to want elegance; but he is allowed to be accurate as to facts. 41. Verfuch über das Leben des Freyherrn von Leibniz. i. e. Effay on the Life of Baron Leibnitz. By MICH. HISSMAN. 8vo. pp. 80. Munfter. 1783. This hiftorical eloge is well fpoken of. We fhall perhaps give a fuller account of it in a future Appendix, the life of Leibnitz being an epocha in the hiftory of the fciences which will at all times merit attention. 42. D. JOH. JAC. REISKENS Leben. i. e. The Life of Dr. Joh. Ja. Reifke. Written by himself. 8vo. pp. 816. Leipz. 1783. A book full of literary anecdotes, which may poffibly afford matter for an article in one of our Appendixes. 43. Hiftoire d'Ayder- Ali-Khan. Hiftory of Hyder Ali Khan, Nabob-Nahader, King of Canarin, &c. Or, New Memoirs upon India. By M. M. D. L. T. General of 10,000 Men in the Mogul Empire, and formerly Commandant and Chief of the Artillery in the Army of Hyder Ali. 2 Vols. 12mo. Paris. 1783. This book is confidered as genuine. The eagerness of the Public in all that relates to India affairs, induces us to give this early notice of its publication. TRAVELS. 44. Voyage d'un Amateur des Arts. i. e. Travels of a Lover of the Arts, in Flanders, Holland, France, Savoy, Italy, and Swifferland, in the Years 1775-76-77-78. Containing, 1. Accounts of the most remarkable ancient and modern Buildings and Monuments. 2. Of the Collections of Paintings, Sculptures, and Natu ral History, of Libraries, &c. 3. A particular Defcription of the Glacieres of Faucigny, and of those in the Canton of Bern, and of the the principal Curiofities of the Alps. 4. An Itinerary of fome of the least frequented Paffes through the Alps. 5. The prefent State of the Roads, Rivers, Bridges, Ferries, &c. 6. The Prices of Poft Horfes, Mules, hired Carriages, Boats, Servants, Guides, Cicerones; and several other Instructions, very ufeful to thofe who wish to travel, with the leaft Expence, and greateft poffible Convenience. By DE LA R***, Efq; late Captain of Infantry in the French Service, 4 Vols. 8vo. Amft. 1783. A copy of this publication has been communicated to us-we tranfcribe the whole title as a fyllabus of the work. It evidently is not calculated for the closet; but we think it may be of much use to travellers, and especially to English travellers, for whom indeed we imagine it has been chiefly intended. AERIAL NAVIGATION. 45. Effai fur la Nautique Aërienne. An Effay on Aerial Navigation, read at the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, Jan. 24th, 1784. By M. CARRA. Propofals for steering air balloons are too numerous for us even to enumerate them. We notice the pretent, merely because it has been heard by the Royal Academy. Wings no doubt are the means of progreffive motion. A fecondary balloon is to ferve as an anchor. A conductor is to guard against the effects of lightning. A log is even contrived for meafuring the way of the balloon. If any of thefe inventions should be tried and fucceed, we shall give early intelligence of it to our Readers.-There is already a controverfy between the author and a M. Bardin, concerning the priority of the inventions. NOVELS. 46. Eudoxie, Nouvelle Hiftorique. i. e. Eudocia, an Hiftorical Narrative. By M. d'ARNAUD. 8vo. pp. 112. Paris. 1783. This article merits a fuller account than we can give of it here. 47. Les Helviennes. Or, Provincial Philofophical Letters. 3 Vols. 8vo. Amfterd. and Paris. 1784. A fatirical novel, levelled at the prefumption of modern philofophers, who not only create the univerfe according to peculiar notions of their own, but alfo form a Deity beft fuited to their taste and conceptions; who, instead of the God of Ifrael, talk of the God of Voltaire, the God of Robinet, the God of d'Alembert, &c.—The irony in this narrative is faid to be very pointed-and fome living characters, though not named, are fo diftinctly marked, as not to be easily mistaken. I To the EDITOR of the MONTHLY REVIEW. SIR, HAVE juft read in the Monthly Review for December, 1782, No. VI. Vol. LXVII. p. 464, the following paffage, in which I am particularly concerned: "The tourmalin is fuppofed to be transparent schorle, vitrified by "the heat of volcanos. This discovery, we have been told, was "made by M. Abildgaard, Secretary to the Society of Sciences at Co"penhagen." It It is true, Sir, that about four or five years ago, I was induced to think, by fome indications, that the tourmalin might. poffibly be a fchorle. I therefore collected fchorles of all kinds, in Norway, Greenland, Sweden, Germany, and Italy, and I have obferved, that in all these countries there are fchorles, which, by being heated, become electric. But the greatest part of the schorles in my collection have no electrical virtue. In examining them clofely, I have obferved, that all the fchorles which are hard and not friable, but of a glaffy nature, had, in proportion to their hardness and compactness, more or lefs the virtue of the tourmalin; fo that I can judge, by a fingle look, whether a fchorle be a tourmalin or not. I communicated this obfervation to feveral of my friends, who have a tafte for fuch matters: but I never either faid or thought, that fchorles, vitrified by the fire of a volcano, or by any fire whatever, could thereby acquire electricity, I am even fully perfuaded of the contrary, although I have never afcertained it by experiments. I therefore earnestly defire, Sir, that this explication of the matter in queftion may be inferted in your Journal, to the end that this pretended difcovery may not be attributed to me, and that the mistake may be corrected, as foon as poffible.-I have the honour to be, with the highest esteem and refpect, Sir, Copenhagen, 13th Dec. 1783. Your most humble and obedient fervant, Member, and not Secretary of the Royal The letter and pamphlet from Eyam are juft received. The Writer mentions a former letter,—which never came to our hands. +++ A fecond letter from Mr. Wife is received, and fhall be farther attended to in our next. + We wish to be informed how to addrefs an answer to the letter from B-1, figned W. Lewis. ERRATA in our laft Month's Review. Page 87, in the Note, 4 lines from the bottom, for police,' r. pollice, 93, par. 2, 1. 6, for caufe,' r. course. 96, 1. 8, fordo,' r. deny. 119,-6, 1. 3, for Forster,' r. Fofter. 3, put a full point at goodness,' and for do,' r. ditto. 122, 2, 1. - 3, *123, 5, 1. 3, for views,' r. vices. 153, at the end of Art. 27, put a full point. |