fhall only fay, that those who can read and view it, with unmoved muscles, do not belong to that company with which we wish to affo ciate. The "Anecdotes of Archery, Ancient and Modern, by H. G. Oldfield," form a pleafing and entertaining little work, which contains a fhort collection of historical paffages, tracing the practice of archery, from the earlieft notices among almost all nations. At the prefent period, when this practice is revived, as the means of an elegant and falutary recreation; fuch a publication is feafonable, as an object of curiofity, as well as information. The publication entitled "forty Years Correfpondence between Geniuffes ov both Sexes, and James Elphinstone, in fix pocket Vollumes; four ov eridginal Letters, two ov Poetry," is intended to exemplify M. Elphinstone's plan, for improving the orthography of the English language, which has been for fome years before the public. For our parts, we are free to acknow. ledge, that we cannot perceive the comparative advantages that would attend the introduction of Mr. Elphinstone's method. But, independently of his fcheme, we think that thefe volumes contain a number of letters, and pieces of poetry, which deferve to be refcued from that oblivion to which we apprehend they will be configned, if fuffered to remain in their prefent drefs. The Practical Geography for the Ufe of Schools; with an Epitome of Ancient Geography, and an Introduction to the Science of the Globes, by J. Ouifeau, A. M.," is a brief, but judicious manual of the outlines of the fcience, to an ac quaintance with which the author would wifh to introduce young per 2 fons. It poffeffes this advantage over fimilar publications, with refpect to France, that it contains the new divifions of that country, according to the prefent conftitution, in connexion with the old. The "Roman Antiquities, or an Account of the Manners and Cuftoms of the Romans, &c. by Alexander Adam, IL. D.," is a labo rious and judicious compliment, which deferves to be recommended as an ufeful key to the Latin claffics. His information and his authorities, Dr. Adam appears to have selected with very commendable accuracy and industry. The "Extracts, elegant, inftructive, and entertaining, in Profe; felected from the best modern Authors, and difpofed under proper Heads, &c. in one large Volume, 8vo," form a very instructive and entertaining compilement, for the ufe of young perfons, in the course of a fchool education. They con fift of felections from the works of our most valuable and approved authors, on moral and religious, critical and claffical fubjects; of nar- · ratives, dialogues, and other humourous and entertaining pieces; and of fhort introductions to geography, chronology, and natural history, together with chronological tables of remarkable events, and of the æra, the country, and the writ ings of learned men. The volume of Epiftles, elegant, familiar, and inftructive, felected from the best Writers, ancient as well as modern, in one large Volume, vo," contains the moft copious collection of the letters of eminent men, that we have ever met with, in a fimilar form. And it deferves a place, not only in the libraries of young perfons, but of thofe who are more informed and felect in their choice of books. We We fhall now conclude our view of the Domestic Literature of the year 1791, by inferting a catalogue of the novels which it produced. In this lift, the following have been more highly fpoken of, than the general clafs of fuch publications: "Celeftina, in 4 Vols. by Charlotte Smith;" "A Simple Story, in 4 Vols. by Mrs. Inchbald," "The Adventures of Richard Cœur de Lion, in 3 Vols. by J. White, efq. ;' "The School for Widows, in 3 Vols. by Clara Reeve," "The Devil upon two Sticks, in England, Vols. V. and VI.;" "Wanley Penfon, or the Melancholy Man, in 3 Vols. ;" and 3 "William Wallace, in 2 Vols." Of the fame fpecies of compofition are, 66 Eugene and Adelaide, in 2 Vols;" "Woodley Park, in 2 Vols. ;" the Hiftory of Tom Wefton, in 2 Vols. by G. Brown;" "Confcious Duplicity, in 2 Vols; "Memoirs of Julia de M. in 2 Vols;" "The Labyrinths of Life, in 4 Vols;"" Alvarez, or the Irrefiftible Seduction, in 2 Vols;" "Frederick and Alicia, in 2 Vols;" "Perfiana, in 3 Vols;"" the Vale of Felicity, in 2 Vols;"" the Life of Lord Montague, in 2 Vols;" "the Victim of a Vow, or the Dangers of Duplicity, in 2 Vols;" "Edward, or Sorrows from Sepa ration, in 2 Vols;" "the French Adventurer, in 3 Vols;" "Afpafia, or the Dangers of Vanity, in 2 Vols;" "the Indian Cottage, from the French of St. Pierre;" "Popular Tales of the Germans, tranflated from the German, in 2 Vols;" "the Siege of Belgrade, from the German, in 2 Vols;" "the Triumph of Reafon, in 7 Tales, addreffed to the Fair Sex;" " the Cypher, in แ Vols;" "Gertrude, in 2 Vols;" "the Libertine, by J. Bacon;" "Illicit Love, in 2 Vols, by Mrs. Morris;" "Adolphus, or the Unnatural Brother, in 2 Vols;" « Errors of Education, in 3 Vols. by Mrs. Parfons;" "the Life of Mifs Prifcilla Moreton, and the faithful Cottager, in 2 Vols;"" the Lake of Windermere, in 2 Vols;" "the Hiftory of Sir Geoffrey Reitlefs, in 2 Vols;" "Tancred, a Tale of Ancient Times, in 2 Vols, by J. Fox;" "the Danish Maffacre, in 2 Vols;" "Villeroy, or the fatal Moment, in 3 Vols;" "Memoirs of a Scots Heirefs, in 3 Vols;" "Soliman and Fatima, in 2 Vols. by T. Wright;""Mentoria, in 2 Vols;"; Mental Pleafures, in 2 Vols;" "the Tales of an Evening, from the French of Marmontel;" and "Violet Hill, or Memoirs of Cordelia, by E. Miles." FOREIGN LITERATURE Of the Year 1791. IN giving our view of the Foreign branches of the mathematics, and Literature of the year 1791, we fhall, in the first place, introduce to our readers thofe publications in the Ruffian dominions, concerning which we have been able to obtain fome imperfect information. And the firft which we have to an hounce is, the "Nova Acta Academiæ Scientiarum Petropolitanæ, Vol. III." published at Petersburg. This volume contains, the hiftory of the academy, down to the year 1785, in which we meet with nothing very interefting; a fupplement to that hiftory, confifting of fuch memoirs as have been prefented to the academy by thofe who were not members of it; and the academical memoirs, which are arranged under the heads of mathetics, phyfico mathematics, phyfics, and aftronomy. The memoirs in the fupplement to the history, are on fubjects in natural hiftory, and mathematics; and were delivered in by M. O. F. Muller, M. Simon L'Huilier, citizen of Geneva, M. E. Block, and M. de Lambre. The moft valuable of the academical 'memoirs relate to the higher were the productions of the late M. Euler, M. Nicholas Fufs, and M. F. J. Schubert. The papers in the other claffes, were contributed by M. Euler, M. James Bernoulli, M. N. L. Krafft, M. C. F. Wolff, M. J. G. Georgi, M. J. J. Ferber, M. B. Zuyew, M. Steph. Rumousky, M. Fufs, and by M. John Albert Euler, who drew up the meteorological tables for the year 1785. This volume is not fo important and interefting as the preceding ones. At the fame place have appeared, "Select Economical Papers, from the Memoirs of the free Economical Society at Petersburg, Vol. 1." publifhed in the German language. This volume commences with the hifory of the fociety, which was estabifhed in 1765, by prince Orlow; and contains a number of interefting economical papers, by M. J. G. Georgi, Mrs. Von Kelchen, chancellor Gronau, M. Lehmann, M. G. Orraus, M. Weinberg, M. Wagner, and various anonymous contributions.-At Petersburg, likewife, there hath been published “a Brief Introduction to Mathematical Geo Geography, and the Knowledge of the celeial Globe," by M. Staniflaus de Komar, a page of the emprefs, which is well fpoken of by the foreign journalifts." interefting information relative to the hiftory of Livonia. - At the fame place M. Hupel has published "an Hiftorical Effay on the Coffacks," and other memoirs, which will fupply the general historian with useful ma terials. At Riga, M. Hupel has published an Effay on the Political state of Ruffia, Vol. I." from materials with which he was fupplied by the minifters, and the fubordinate officers of government. This work is the most valuable and complete one, that hath yet been offered to the public, upon this interefting fubject. It contains an accurate and perfpicuous account of the different fubdivifions of the Ruffian empire; of the climate, population, and culture of each province; of the claffes and diftinctions established among the inhabitants; of the public and civil law; of the imperial family; of the court, the army, the finances, the national industry, the commerce, and the connexion of that empire with other European powers. We fhould wish to be better acquainted with this work, which has emp oyed the attention of the author during the course of thirty years.-At the fame place, M. Freibe has publifhed" a Manual of the Hiftory of Livonia, Efthonia, and Courland, Vol. I. ;" and "Memoirs for the Hiftory of Livonia, taken from a Manufcript newly difcovered, and other Materials for northern Hiftory, collected by M. Hupel." The first of these works commences at the period when the Phoenicians opened à traffic with Livonia for amber, and extends to the year 1439 The manufcript from which the latter is taken, was written about the year 1640, by Melchior Fuchs, burgomafter of Riga, and relates, chietly, to the difputes between that city and the archbishop From the labours of this induftrious hiftorian and antiquary, we may expect much At Petersburg hath appeared "a Sketch of a Defcription of Peterburg, the refidence of the Empres of Kuffia, and what is worthy notice in the Neighbourhood, by J. G. Georgi, M. D. Fellow of the Academy of sciences, &c. in 2 Vols." This work is an important and interesting one; and will be acceptable to travellers, who may be defirous of vifiting that celebrated metropolis, or' to others who may with for as accurate a knowledge of it as can be obtained through the medium of the prefs. In an Appendix, Dr. Georgi has added a fketch of the natural and a conomical state of the government of Peterburg. At the fame place has been published a treatise entitled, "the Speaking Wall or a Picture of what has been written and drawn on the Wall of the Garden of the imperial Corps of Gentlemen Cadets, illuftrated by Plates." This work contains an account of the emblems and infcriptions which the count of Anhalt has ordered to be painted on the wall furrounding the garden of the cadets, for their amufement and instruction. The emblems are appropriated to the different fubjects of their ftudies; and the infcriptions, which are in the Ruffian, French, and German languages, confift of thoughts, maxims, fentences, principles, precepts, lef fons, reflections, proverbs, dialo gues, queftions, notes, mifcellanies, withes, and problems, with fcraps of history, geography, aftronomy, natural hiftory, tactics, &c. &c. The book is given to the cadets on their quitting the school. $3 When When we turn our attention to Swedish literature, the first work which demands our notice is," the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Vol. XI. for the year 1790," published at Stockholm. This work, as ufual, is divided in. to four parts, relative to the different quarters of the year; and contains many curious and interefting papers on subjects in natural hiftory, political economy, chemistry, meteorology, aftronomy, phyfiology, and medicine; to which is added, a hiftory of the academy for the year 1790, with defcriptious of the medals ftruck in the courfe of the year. Of the papers in this collection, those which belong to natural hiftory and medicine are by far the most numerous. Among the refpectable names prefixed to the different articles, we meet with thofe of M. S. Fahlberg, M, O. Swartz, M. C. P. Thunberg, M. A. Modeer, M. P. J. Hielm, M. J. Gadolin, M. F. Von Paula Schrank, M. D. Lundmark, M. C. L. Nordmark, M. CL. Bjerkander, M. J. L. Ochelius, and M. C. L. Hellenius. -At Stockholm also have been publifhed the Tranfactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Hif tory, and Antiquities, Vol. II." The principal pieces which compofe this volume, difplay considerable knowledge and tafte, and appear with the following titles: hiftorical remarks on fome ancient gold coins found in the island of Oeland, by M. Engeftroem; remarks on the fcience of emblems, fo far as it concerns medals, by M. Adlerbeth; a view of the connexions of commerce and policy between Sweden and the Hanfe towns, and the effects of thofe connexions, by M. Flintenbeg; an enquiry how far the ancients ought to be confidered as models for modern hiftorians, by M. J. Hallenberg; and propofals and fketches for medals of great men, who flourished in the times of Guftavus Adolphus, and Chriftina, by M. Luth.-At the fame place a valuable work is publishing in numbers, under the title of Swedish Archives," by M. Gioerwell, keeper of the royal library; who, after being diftinguished in the literary world, for more than thirty years, by the ardour of his refearches, and the importance of feveral of his periodical works, has now entered on rural retirement, in which his object is to devote his applica tion falely to a hiftory of his country. The "Thoughts on Agriculture, Mines, Manufactures, Commerce, &c. as a Memorial of Lewis, Anceftor of the Family of De Geer, the greateft Promoter of Manufactures in Sweden, in the preceding Cen. tury," published at Stockholm, compofe a mifcellaneous work, relative, partly to political economy, and partly to biography. Under the former head, it offers to us many interefting and entertaining obfervations on the state of agriculture, arts, fciences, and commerce ia Sweden, from the reign of Guftavus I. to the abdication of Chriftina, and the mode of education, and manners of the times, which will be acceptable to the readers in general. The biographical part contains the life of Lewis de Geer, to whofe activity, reputation, and wealth, the manufactures of Sweden are fa greatly indebted, that he may almoft be confidered as their founder.-At the fame place hath appeared "a Treatife on the Swedish Iron Furnaces, by J. C. Garney," illuftrated with numerous plates. This ufeful and inftructive work, for which the author appears to have been well qualified, in paint of knowledge and infor mation, |