ing all that is useful on the art of reafoning. Whoever will take the trouble of comparing it with Duncan's Elements of Logic, not to mention fome other treatifes on the fame subject, will be at no lofs to know which is the most useful and accurate performance. Our Author's abilities as a grammarian are well known; moft, if not all the articles upon grammatical fubjects in the first volumes of the Encyclopedie were written by him, and many of them are excellent. The principles of grammar, which make the most confiderable and the most valuable part of the work now before us, are taken from the articles in the Encyclopedie, and other pieces upon grammatical fubjects published during the Author's life. Such of our Readers as are not acquainted with the character or writings of M. du Marfais, and have not an opportunity of confulting the Encyclopedie, will be much pleased with this part of his work; it contains many ingenious obfervations, and is written with accuracy and precifion. See an account of this work in the feventh volume of our Review, p. 467. ART. XXVII. Thefaurus Differtationum. Programmatum, aliorumque Opufculorum felectiffimorum, ad omnem Medicina ambitum pertinentium. Collegit, edidit, et neceffarios indices adjunxit Eduardus Sandifort, M. D. &c. 4to. Vol II. Rotterdam, 1769. We gave fome account of the first volume of this valuable collection, in the Appendix to the 36th volume of our Review. Of this second volume, which is but just come to our hands, we shall give our Readers a more particular account, as soon as we have had time to perufe its contents. ART. XXVIII. Antiquitès Etrufques, Grecques et Romaines. Tirées du Cabinet de M. Hamilton. A Collection of Etrufcan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities, from the Cabinet of the Honourable W. Hamilton, his Britannië Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples. Folio. Naples, Vol. I. Though this work was published at Naples in the year 1766, yet it has but lately reached us. The London bookfellers have delayed the publication of the first volume till they receive the fecond, which they expect daily. We flatter ourselves that we shall be able to give a distinct account of both volumes in our next Appendix; at present, we fhall only fay, that fo fine a collection of defigns from Etrufcan, Greek, and Roman vafes, muft give great pleasure to all the lovers of antiquity and the arts. The defign of the work is not confined merely to a collection of exquifite models, or an explanation of figures prefented to the eye; the Editors have a nobler end in view, viz. the advancement of the arts. They endeavour to fhew what fyftem the ancients followed in order order to give their vafes that elegance which is fo univerfally ac knowledged and admired, and to affign exact measures for fixing their proportions; in order that the artist who would invent in the fame ftyle, or only copy the monuments he thinks worthy of being copied, may do it with as much truth and precision, as if he had the originals themfelves in his poffeffion. Their principal view is to follow the fteps of the human mind in the purfuit of thofe arts which embellish fociety and render life more agreeable; in a word, to establish certain principles, and exhibit good models. The greatest part of the vafes are ornamented with paintings, the fubjects of which are taken from the hiftory, the mythology, the religious, civil, or political customs of the ancients, which render them very interefting to the learned: the compofition of these paintings, the elegance of the attitudes, the beauty of the expreffion, and the fingularity of the out-line, make them very valuable for painters, fculptors, and all the lovers of defign. The Editors do not trouble their Readers with learned differtation upon the antiquities they exhibit, but leave this talk to the antiquas rians; fometimes, indeed, they give us their fentiments upon particular pieces, and endeavour to fupport them with appofite paffages from antient writers, &c. but they leave it to the learned to decide. Those who collect prints and drawings will be pleafed to find copies, in this collection, of the most antient designs extant; and as the Editors observe, it is upon the vases of the antients only, that we see the traces of their defign.-This work must likewise be an agreeable present to our manufacturers of earthen ware and china, and to those who make vases in filver, copper, glafs, marble, &c. as it will furnish them with a great variety of beautiful models, the chief part of which must be new to them. Of all the collections that can poffibly be made, either in marbles, bronzes, medals, or engraved ftones, theirs alone, the Editors tell us, is capable of fhewing the fucceffive progrefs of painting and defign; fo that by means of it, the man of tafte and letters, may see, as in a kind of geographical chart, the whole progrefs, and count, as it were, every step of human induftry, in the most agreeable art it has invented. We must not omit mentioning that the colours of the vases, and the ornaments that furround them, are preferved in the plates. The difcovery of the manner in which the plates are printed, the Editors ac-knowledge, is not owing to them, but to Mr. Jofeph Bracci, an able and ingenious artist. We shall conclude, at prefent, with acquainting our Readers, that this collection is to be compleated in four volumes, after which the Editors propofe writing the ancient and modern history of Sicily, and collecting in it all the monuments of the antients, and every thing remarkable in that delightful country, where the arts once flourished with fo much fplendor. We have fee an advertisement, wherein the fubfcription for the whole work, in four volumes, is propofed, at Nine Guineas, for the fet. ART. ART. XXIX. Hiftoire des Caufes Premieres, ou Expofition Sommaire des Penfies des Philofophes fur les Principes des étres. The Hiftory of First Causes, or a fummary View of the Sentiments of Philofophers concerning the Original Principles of Things. By M. l'Abbé Batteaux,' Profeffor of Philofophy, &c. 8vo. Paris, 1769. This work is intended for the use of such readers, as being engaged in other studies, are defirous of knowing, with little expence of time or pains, the real value of the fpeculations of Pythagoras, Plato, the two Zenos, and Aristotle, concerning the fyftem of the universe.—In this view it is a valuable performance, as it will fave young students a great deal of time; and perfons of profound erudition too, if they will condescend to look into it, how much foever they may pique themfelves upon an accurate acquaintance with the opinions of the antient philofophers concerning the origin of things, may learn from it, that the time and pains they have employed to gain this acquaintance, might have been employed in much more valuable and useful refearches. As this ingenious and learned Author has given several differtations upon the fame fubject in the Memoirs of the Academy of Inferiptions and Belles Lettres, he has not fcrupled to make a free ufe of them in the work now before us. He has likewise, in another volume, given the original text, with a French tranflation of Ocellus Lucanus, Timæus of Locri, and Ariftotle's Letter to Alexander; which being fhort works, and not loaded with commentaries, or long, learned remarks, may, as they all relate to the fyftem of the univerfe, be of ufe to thofe who want to have a general acquaintance with this part of antient philofophy. ERRAT A, in this VOLUM E. Page 188, lines 13 and 14 from the bottom, the words champions and his should not have been printed in Italicks; and the stricture on them, p. 189, par. 2, line 5, is redundant:-fee this accounted for in the Erratum, p. 240. P. 273, par. 2, line 2, for parenthesises, read parentheses. P. 418, 419, for poffeffio, read poel. INDEX To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this VOLUM E. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the A A GRICULTURE, happy effects of, Albany, duke of, droll ftory relating to, ALBINUS, fix of his anatomical tables periments relating to antifeptics, 362. lar circumftances, 513. of one, 457: AUGUSTUS, his mausoleum at Rome de- B B ENEVOLENCE, advantages of, to a BENLOWES, his prints of the dreffes of BERNARD, Governor, becomes unpo- BLACKSTONE, Dr. vindicates himself dare et d'Horace vamped into English, PP BRAIN, country, 435. CHAPPE, Abé, leaves Tobulk, 435. CHINESE merchant, curious hiftory of CHRIST, his curfing the fig-tree, diffi- to, 108. CHURCH-AUTHORITY, arguments a- CHURCHILL, Charles, Letter from to COAL MINE, account of one, in France, which has continued burning for a long CoLIC, endemical, of Devon, not caused COMETS, ridiculous fuperftitions con- CONDAMINE, M. de la, his third me- CORNEILLE, his dramas compared with CORTES, in Spain, their bold oppofition COURTS-MARTIAL formed on principles D'M D ALEMBERT, M. his encomium on D'ARCY, Chevalier, his memoir on the See COLIC. DIFFIDENCE, philofophical, facilitates DRESS, English, curious account of the various fashions of, in former times, 211. Du HAMEL, M. his botanical and me- His treatife on fruit trees, 564. EARTH |