the monthly review

for any defects that may attend fuch an attempt. His peculiar turns of expreffion, the rapidity of his tranfitions, his metaphors, and his frequent allufions to mythology, create no fmall difficulty to the generality of readers, even to thofe who have a tolerable acquaintance with the writings of the Auguflan age.

M. De Longchamps appears to have ftudied his author with great care, and, in his notes, which are fubjoined to each book of the Elegies, has very happily illuftrated many difficult paffages. The tranflation, which is in profe, and accompanies the text, is not a cold, literal tranflation; but, if proper allowances are made for the different genius of the Latin and French languages, has much of the force and spirit of the original.

In a very ingenious preliminary difcourfe, the Tranflator compares the characters of Ovid, Tibullus, and Propertius, and gives the preference to Propertius. What he says upon this fubject will afford pleafure to every reader who is converfant with the Roman poets, and fhews him to be a man of taste and judgment. R.

ART. XII.

Hiftoire de la Literature Françoife depuis les Tems les plus reculé' jusqu' à nos jours, avec un Tableau du Progrés des Arts dans la Monarchie.— The Hiftory of French Literature from the earliest Times, &c. By Meffrs. De la Baftide-Senior and D'Uffieux. 12mo.

Paris.

THE

1772.

2 Vols.

HE Authors of this Hiftory appear to be men of tafte, judgment, and learning, and well qualified for the laborious task they have undertaken. In the two volumes now before us, the history of French literature is carried down, from the earliest times of which we have any accounts that can be depended upon, till the death of the Emperor Honorius, and we fhall be extremely glad to fee the work continued. The plan of it feems much better adapted to give the reader a clear and distinct view of the progrefs of literature and the fine arts, and likewife of the caufes that influenced this progrefs, than the plan which is followed by the learned Benedictins in their Literary Hiftory of France.

As the progrefs of letters is always connected with civil policy, and as letters have their revolutions as well as empires, our Authors, in the arrangement and diftribution of their materials, follow the natural and progreffive order of historical events, and while they trace the progrefs of the human mind in literature, arts, and fciences, they carefully mark thofe civil revolutions which precede or follow this progrefs. Accordingly, their work is not divided into fixed and regular periods, like that of the Benedictins, nor into distinct and feparate articles; but they obferve the natural order and progreffion of

events.

The Articles of CORRESPONDENCE which we proposed to infert in this Appendix, are transferred to the Review for Jan. 1774. +++ The Memoirs of the Foreign Academies, printed in the year 1773, arrived too late for any account of them to be given in this Appendix, but they will certainly appear in our next.

INDEX

INDE X

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this

VOLUME.

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

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

·A'

DELPHI, buildings, defcribed,
Page 104.

AESTEL. See PEGGE.

ETNA, Mount, Capt. Brydone's jour-
ney up, and curious defcription of, 27.
Inhabitants of, 31. Farther account
of the journey to the top, 115. Won-
derful profpect from thence, 117.
AGUES, quotidian, remedies for, 134.
AIR, fixed, enquiry into its medicinal
ufes, &c. 288.
ALFRED. See MILLS.

AMADEUS, Victor, curious anecdotes re-
lating to, 82.

AMERICA, North, fome account of, 20.
AMERICUS Velpucius, his difcovery of
favage people, 329.

ANTIMONIALS, obf. on the medical
ufe of, 176.

ANTIQUARY, ftudies and pursuits of,
commended, 173.
APPLICATION, allegorically perfonified,

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BARILLON, Monf. his letters to Louis
the 14th concerning his negociations in
England, 1. His conduct fufpicious,

IO.

BARRINGTON, Hon. Daines, his two
letters on Cæfar's invafion of Britain,
256
BARROWS, amazing ones difcovered by
the Ruffians, in a defart, 258.
BEATTIE, Dr. his Elay on Truth at-
tacked, 49.

BEAVER, resemblance of that animal to
man, in his focial capacity, 323.
BIRDS, Ray's Syftem of the Genera of,
preferred, 61. Mr. Pennant's System
explained, ib.

BISHOPS, their Oppofition to the Diffen.
ters' Bill cenfured, 89.

BLEEDING, obf. on, 126. The lancet
more fatal to Englishmen than the
fword, ib.
BOHEMIA, general tafte for mufic in that

country, 213. The loweft of the peo-
ple there inftructed in this fcience, 214.
BRADDOCK, General, apology for his
conduct in America, 372.

BREAD, importance of having it pure,

CHARCOAL, obf, on the noxious vapours
of, 288.

CHARLES II. his ridiculous proclamation
against the coffeehouses, 10r.
CHEROKEE Indians characterized, 376.
CHESHIRE. See GOWER.
CICERO, his effay on old age, encomium
on that work, 109. Elegant transla-
tion of by Melmoth, ib. His fine re-
flections on the happiness of a future
flate, 110,
COLERROOKE, Mr. his account of Ket's

Coity house, 255.
COLUMBO root, enquiry into the medi-
cal properties of this drug, 287.
Coox, Capt. his voyage to the fouthern
hemifphere, 479 Arrives at Otaheite,
483. Curious account of that island
and its inhabitants, ib.-490.
His
difcoveries at New Zealand, 491. At
New South Wales, 494. His distress
at Batavia, 496. Returns to England,
497.

CORNS, faid to be sprouts of the rheuma-

tiím, 127.
CROMWELL, Oliver, public effects of his
exaltation, 99. His conduct compared
with Cæfar's, 100.
CUMBERLAND, Duke of, his ftatue in
Cavendish fquare criticised, 105.

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ARMS, remarks on the connexion be-
tween the fize of, and the prices of
provifions, 151.

FERDUSI, the celebrated Perfian poet,
account of, 283. His wonderful èpic
poems, 284.

FERGUSON, James, his account of his
own life and ftudies, 459.

FEVERS, obf. on, 125. Of cordials in,
126. Of bathing in, ib. Intermit-
ting, remedies for, 133. Remitting,
cure of, 174. Miliary (or child bed)
remarks on, 391. Puerperal, ib. Com-
mon fevers, divided and claffed, 433.
Malignant, diftinguished as falitious
and native, 436.

FITZWILLIAM, Dr. his letter to Lady
Ruffel, 59-

FORSTER, Mr. his obfervations on fome
very curious tumuli difcovered in Tar-
tary, 258.
FOTHERGILL, Dr. account of the law-
fuit between him and the late Dr.
Leeds, 320.

ARCILASSO de la Vega, his account

Gof American favages, 327.

GAY, Mr. his elegiac epiftle to a friend,
338.

GENIUS, fine allegorical defcription of,
473.

GERMANY

ARBORD, Mr. accused of intriguing
with the agent of France, 7.
HARE, in fome countries a folitary ani-
mal, in others gregarious, 323.
HAVANNA, retrospective view of the

established, 343. Great charter of Li
berty obtained under Henry III. 344.
History continued to the time of Ri-
chard II. 352. Ireland greatly involved
in the contests between the factions of
York and Lancaster, 464. Henry VII.
conftitutes Sir E. Poynings vicegerent,
ib. His fchemes for the reformation of
that ftate, ib. Hiftory continued to the
reign of Elizabeth, 471.

ITALY, weather and climate of, defcrib-
ed, 87. See alfo NAPLES.

ENNICOTT, Dr. attacked, with re-

Avaqueft of, 575. Hardships endured Kgard to his collation of the Hebrew

by the English in the fiege, ib.
HENRY II. forms the defign of conquer-
ing Ireland, 210. His intrigues with
the Pope, to that end, ib. Arrival in
that kingdom, and great fuccefs in
eftablishing his dominion there, 341.
HENRY VII. his measures for reforming
the ftate of that kingdom, 464.

VIII. reformation of religion in
his reign carried into Ireland, 468.
HENNUYER, Bishop of Lizieux, his life,
43. Voltaire's tragedy of, 44.
HIGHWAYS, general act for the amend-
ment of, digefted, 498.
HORSE, a focial animal, 323.
of, ib.

Inftance

Ews, how punished at Oxford, in the
reign of Henry III. for the folly of
one of their brethren, 185.1
INDIPENDENCE, finely perfonified, sco.
INDIANS, N. American, ftate of, at the
time of our firft fettlements there, 19.
Iroquois, fome account of, 21.
Cherokees characterized, 376. Re-
flections on the moral character of the
Indians in general, 377.
INDIES, Eaft, difeafes peculiar to, 174.
Remedies for, 175. Account of the
mutiny of the officers in that part of
the world, 314.

INDUSTRY recommended from the pul-
pit, 413.

JONES, Mr. the learned Orientalift, his
account of his own ftudies, 286.

JORTIN, Dr. Curious anecdotes, from

bible, 11.

KET's cot-house, account of that mo-
nument,225. Farther account of, 381.
KING, of England, seasonable hint to,
against the abuse of royal mercy, 104.

AGISTRACY, frequent imbecil-

his remarks on ecclefiaftical hiftory, Mlity of, 103. Shamefully abused

189.
IRELAND, remarks on the antiquity of
her hiftory, &c. 194. High encomium
on, 197. Conversion of the Irish to
Christianity, a ftriking period, 207.
Confequences of, ib. Their cuftom of
fofterage, 208. Introduction of the
English, 211. Their military achieve-
ments, 340. King Henry's arrival,
and fuccefs, 342. His dominion there,

under the fpecious name of mercy, ib.
MAGNESIA, examination of several forts
of, 334.

MAN, confidered in a favage ftate, 324.
Various fpecies of, 325-330.
MANSFIELD, Lord. See LIBERTY.
MASERES, Mr. his view of the ancient
conftitution of the English parliament,

262.

MELMOTH,

MELMOTH, Mr. his translation of Tul-
ly's CATO commended, 109. His
philofophical estimate of human life,

112.

MICHAELIS, his expofition of Daniel's
70 weeks, 263.

MILLS, Dr. his difquifition on the pre-
fent fent by King Alfred to fome ca-
thedrals, 181.

MIND, the powers of, not enlightened
in those climates that are most exposed
to the action of the fun, 457.
MIRACLES, the credibility of, defended
against Hume, 387.
MIRZA Mahadi, his Hiftory of Nader
Shah, tranflated, 280. Account of
this writer, 281.

MONK, General, his conduct at the re-
ftoration cenfured, 100.

'MOORE, Mifs, her poetry commended, 202.
MOUNTERS, explanation of that "Old-
Bailey term, 313.

MUSEUM, British, account of the rari-
ties, &c. depofited there, 105.

N healthy, 23.

APLES, air of, inconftant and un-
Natives of, their
Beautiful bay of, de-

manners, 24.
fcribed, 26.
NATURAL Hiftory, its late great pro-
grefs in this country, 224. Little at-
tention paid to it among our country-
men refiding in diftant climates, 225.
NEW England, account of the farms and
plantations there, 20.

NEw Zealand, Capt. Cook's difcoveries
relative to, 491-494.

at New South Wales, ib.
NICHOLLS, Dr. his theory of the Soul,
384. Of the circulation through the
heart, ib.

NONJUROR, reafons given by one, for
not taking the oath to King William,
59.

BEREA, Queen of Otaheite, defcrip-
tion of her perfon, &c. 299. Her
attention to the English, 299. Mu-
tual civilities between her and Capt.
Wallis, 300. Her grief at the Depar-
ture of the Dolphin, 301. Equally at-
tentive to Capt. Cook, Mr. Banks, &c.
484 Farther particulars relative to
this lady, 485-488. Feigned poetical
epiftle from, to Mr. Banks, 503.

PATAGONIANS, collective accounts of
our late voyagers, relative to them,
290.

PEGGE, Mr. his difquifition on the
Saxon word Aeftel, or Stylus, 181.
His acount of the bull-running at Tut-
bury, 183. His obf. on Dr. Percy's
account of minstrels among the Saxons,
255. His account of the crane, as a
difh ferved up at great tables, 256. Of
the battle of Cheflerfield, 262.
PETTINGAL, Dr. his account of the
Gule of Auguft, 179. His obf. on an

altar with a Greek infcription, found at
Corbridge, 183.

PHYSIC, the great inftruments of, what,
125.

PLATO, his fame virulently attacked,
438.

POWNAL, Governor, his defeription of
a curious fepulchral monument in Ire
land, 261.

PREACHING, new way of, in the time
of King John, 185. Changes that
have happened in the modes of, fince
the time of Elizabeth, 425.
PROVISIONS, caufes of the rife of, ig-
veftigated, 15.

PRUSSIA, King of, his tafte in mufic,
218.

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ORANGE, Princefs of, her letter to Lady ROGER, Bishop of Sarum, fome ac-

Ruffel, 58.

ORDER, poetical encomium on the love
of, 121. The unmeaning want of or-
der in gardening, exploded, 123. De-
viations from, in the human mind, ac-
counted for, and defcribed, ib.

count of, 257.

RUSSEL, Lord, accufed of intriguing with
the agent of France, 1. His charac-
ter vindicated, 4.

Lady Rachel, her letter to
Charles II. 57.

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