The bond of love. For by the eye of God Southey's Joan of Arc, p. 94. The cruelties of Freron, of Carrier, of Lebon, and of all those exterminating messengers of the evil genius of Robespierre, who compressed within a single year every variety of crime which the annals of ages have recorded, occupy an extent in this volume which is painfully harassing. At p. 150, a separate chapter is allotted to the literary men of whom the tyrant deprived France: Condorcet, Raynal, Florian, Vicq-d'Azyr, Bailly, Linguet, Lavoisier, and many others, are enumerated. The account of his downfall and death is read with a vindictive joy. This event was succeeded by a transient equivocal preponderance of internal parties, which terminated on the 5th Fructi dor 1795, in proclaiming the present Constitution of France, and ordering the re-election of one-third of the members of the Convention. At this period, the history of the present writer terminates. His arrangement of events is by no means skilful, and rather resembles the teazing discontinuity of the cantos of Ariosto, than the lucid order of the chapters of Hume. The earlier portion of his narrative is very defective, and can only be consulted to fill up the chasms, not to supply the place, of other historians. A want of unity in the point of view diminishes the pleasure of his readers; and an acknowlegement in the preface (p. xvi),-that, when the committees of Robespierre invited, by advertisement, the men of letters to employ their talents in giving to their historic monuments the gloomy tinge which suited republicans, he applied to the committee of public safety to patronise his intended publication,-ought somewhat to diminish their confidence. Nevertheless, the work has interest; and, as our extracts have evinced, it contains various amusing and informing particulars. ART. XV. Les Amours de Clitophon et de Leucippe, &c. i.e. The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippa. By Achilles Tatius; translated from the Greek, with Notes. Izmo. Pp. 262. Paris. 1796. Imported by De Boffe, London. Price 5s SOME OME Continental philosophers have lately made it a question, whether the general state of society under the Antonines, with the morals of Epicurus and the amusements of Paganism, was not on the whole happier than that of modern Europe under the more strict obligations and rites of Christianity:-but, if it be considered that the religion of the antients has every where been uniformly found unfavourable to female virtue; and that they they themselves were so well aware of its corrupting tendency, as to seek among the Pythagorean women for chaste wives and domestic accomplishments; it will surely be conceded that a religion, which is so peculiarly adapted as the Christian to produce the feminine excellencies, and which is in fact the chief cause of that decided superiority in domestic comfort that distinguishes the modern world, must greatly have improved the mass of social felicity. There is not a pleasanter nor a fairer way of arriving at a probable decision of this question, and of acquiring a clear idea of the state of private life and manners among these vaunted Pagans, than by the perusal of their novels. The editor of the volume before us proposes to publish, in a like form, all the other works of the Greeks in this department of literature; and a perusal of them will assist in the decision of many ethic problems, very interesting to our minor pleasures. Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, the author of the Loves of Clitophon, flourished early in the fifth century. His novel, which had been printed in 1586, and translated into Italian by Angelo Coccio in 1598, was laboriously edited by Salmasius in 1640, whose corrections of the Greek text have not extended to the very vicious Latin interpretation. The abridged French version here offered to the public is attributed to the Abbé Desfontaines; and it was, if we mistake not, originally printed under a fictitious name in 1733. The eight books of the original are compressed into four; while the abounding indelicate passages are veiled under a more decent drapery, and are thus rendered less unworthy of a writer who is said to have turned Christian and to have attained a bishopric. Many elegant explanatory notes accompany this translation. The type is clear, minute, and correct; and a neat engraving ornaments each chapter. The reading world, while it peruses this tale of love, may derive some pleasure from observing the great superiority of our modern works of entertainment, compared with those which satisfied the public in the days of antiquity. ART. XVI. Le Voyageur à Paris, &c. i. e. The Traveller at Paris; a picturesque and moral View of that Capital. 3 Vols. 12mo. 180 Pages in each. Paris, 1797. Imported by De Boffe, London. Price 5s. sewed, A DESCRIPTION of Paris in the form of a dictionary may have the merit of novelty, but it has not altogether that of convenience. The association of contiguity, either to the per-, son who visits or to the literary investigator who would ideally Q93 wander wander through the modern Athens, is more conducive to a speedy, an orderly, and a distinct survey, than the capricious skips of an acrostic itinerary. It is, however, to the latter species of pilgrimage, that the royalist author of these topographical volumes has invited his readers. Saint-Foix furnished the basis of his selections: the usual Stranger's Guide assisted to complete them; and the recent revolutionary dilapidations afforded but too many occasions of variation and topics of regret. We shall endeavour to extract some of the more characteristic articles. Vol. i. p. 8. Auteur. Occupied with the interests of Europe, an author yet thinks himself fortunate when he can hoard a crown-piece. He is more frequently satisfied with bread and cheese, than with a dinner in the saloon of a restaurateur. It is in vain to inquire for him on the first floor: his neighbour in the garret can perhaps point out to you his attic. His study is the picture of Chaos. Voltaire slumbers there beside the Bible; and Buffon lies buried beneath a heap of pamphlets. Scraps of paper, numerous as the autumnal leaves in Vallombrosa, cover every thing, until some printer sweeps them away. His dress, worthy of the Medes and Persians, is a bed-gown of flowered stuff, perfectly assimilating with an old flat-cushioned armchair.' P. 130. Fontaine des Innocens. This fountain once stood close to the church of the Innocents, at the corner of St. Denis' Street, and is first mentioned in a patent of Philip-Augustus in 1273. In 1550, it was rebuilt with extraordinary splendor, and formed a monument highly honourable to the progress of the fine arts in France. Lescot de Clagny was the architect, and Jean Gougeon the sculptor: it was the merit of the latter which conferred on the building all its celebrity, This edifice was repaired in 1708, and in 1786; and it was removed into the middle of the Green-Market in May 1788. It was now necessary to add two new fronts to those already existing: but as the more conspicuous of them was adorned with three marble Naiads, and the other with two only, the addition of three new sta tues was sufficient to complete the present appearance. • In order to obtain an unity of effect, the stones of the antient building were employed in equal proportions in each of the four fronts of the new one, with alternate layers of fresh stone; and a coati g of paint concealed the difference of color. In its new situation, this building is more elevated than it was by the graduated pedestal, which measures about ten feet perpendicularly. Each front represents an open portico, flanked on either side with two grooved composite pilasters, between which are niches containing figures of water-nymphs. A regular cornice supports an attic, interrupted by triangular frontoons, which inclose basso-relievos. A hemisphere roofed with copper forms the cieling. In the central arcade of each front, are four cubes of stone supporting four vast leaden cisterns of antique form, the corners of which terminate in lions' feet; and be hind the cisterns, on a loftier basis, lie four lions, in lead, moulded according according to those of the fountain Termini at Rome, and pierced with a tube through which water may pass into the cisterns. The Naiads, and the sporting Tritons on the basso-relievos, are the most interesting ornaments of this fountain; and it may be doubted whe ther the new statues of Pajou do not equal the five antient figures. On a tablet of black marble, the building is inscribed Fontium Nymphis, and the poet Santueil wrote for it these two lines, engraved in 1689, "Quos duro cernis simulatos marmore fluctus Hujus Nympha loci credidit esse suos." Vol. ii. p. 19. Institut des Sciences & des Arts. This is now the first of the learned societies of the metropolis. Its object is to improve the sciences and the arts by the requisite inquiries, experiments, and examination of scientific and literary productions. Its sittings are held in the Louvre. Two institutors and four associates are attached to each of the following departments: Mathematics. Social and legislative Science. Grammar. Chemistry. Medicine. Morals. Sculpture. Science. Poetry. Declamation. This long nomenclature brings to mind the former academies. Cardinal Richelieu founded the Academie Française, to guard the pu rity of the national language. Louis XIV. founded the Academie des Sciences, which pursued the progress of natural philosophy and mathematical science. Colbert founded the Academie des Inscriptions Belles Lettres, which was to devise inscriptions for public monuments, and to occupy itself with historical investigation. Charles VI. founded the Academie de Peinture & de Sculpture; and that of architecture was added by Colbert.' P. 34: 6 Jardins aeriens. Thanks to the terras-mortar invented nearly thirty years ago by the Chevalier D'Estienne, several roofs formerly useless now offer the prospect of aerial gardens and even of orchards. One especially, situated at the corner of Temple-street next to the Boulevart, produces a very picturesque effect: but the view from below is nothing to that which the terras itself commands.' P. 88. ( Jacques Molai. An opinion recently published assigns to this grand-master of the Templars the foundation of those clubs of free-masons, whose hostility to royalty and sytematic pursuit of the independence of the universe is no longer equivocal. Hence their æra of 1314, the time of Molai's death, and the assertion of Cagliostro and other illuminated persons that they had existed for ages. From them came those unfortunate sacramental words Kadosh, regenerating, and Nekom, exterminating. From them, the sanguinary rite of probation, to sacrifice, blinded, a ram, and to handle its yet throbbing heart: a trial reserved for that higher order of adepts, which managed the good-natured benevolent associates of the preparatory lodges.' At p. 100, we find an account of the church of Notre Dame at Paris, which is too long for transcription: but we learn from it that, during the fashion of atheism, all the bells and precious ornaments of the altars, and every meritorious work of art, were carefully removed from the church, and deposited in a store-house at the Petits Augustins; to be used, whenever practicable, in the decoration of future public monuments. Not only the statues of Saint Christopher and of Bishop Gondy are in this predicament, but Pigalle's mausoleum of Count Harcourt, and Coustou's holy groupe for Louis XIII.— two master-pieces of sculpture. Thus Constantine decorated his triumphal arch with stolen relievos, which public gratitude had carved for Trajan. At Chaillot (vol. iii. p. 28) is situated the steam-engine erected by the brothers Perrier, for supplying a vast district of Paris with river-water. The jesuit Boscovich offered to the architect the following inscription : "Irarum oblita flamma hic conspirat et unda : Civibus optatas ipse dat ignis aquas." Four vast cisterns, amphitheatrically disposed, alternately receive the water from the pump. While one is filling, and one is supplying the conduit, the water is depositing its sediment and filtrating in the other two. Each cistern is thirty fathoms long, ten broad, and two deep. Pornographe. This article contains a short analysis of the work so entitled by Retif de la Bretonne, printed at Paris in 1776, and applauds his project of police relative to prostitutes. This author also wrote the Paysan Perverti, and other celebrated novels. The inscription of the Anatomical Theatre is ingenious: p. 119, Hic locus est ubi Mors gaudet succurrere Vitæ. The epitaph (p. 148) is curious for its quibbling; "Passant, pense-tu pas passer ce passage, Où pensant j'ai passé; Si tu n'y penses pas, passant, tu n'es pas sage; P. 218. Truffes. It was about the middle of the sixteenth cen tury, that the idea of employing muzzled hogs to grub for truffles first occurred. This delicately-flavoured subterraneous vegetable was in favor with Charles VI., for it is on record that he made himself ill by eating them to excess. Many first-rate works of art are omitted in this catalogue, such as Perrault's Front of the Old Louvre, and Reubens's Cielings, of |