fuperiority over the univerfities, where nothing could be learnt. without money. Upon the fame principles, they administered the facraments, and performed the offices of religion, without any pecuniary reward. Such an inftance of difinterestedness won upon the people, and by increafing their reputation, in proportion extended their influence. The laft peculiarity our Author mentions in this inftitution is, that the perfons they fix upon to fill up the most eminent pofts in their order, are not those who have diftinguifhed themselves in the learned world, but old divines, who have been exercifed from their youth in the fubtilties of the schools, accustomed by a long practice of hearing confeffions to diftinguish and direct all the workings of the heart, and who, by repeated trials, have been found as capable of fubmiffive obedience as of abfolute command. Such were the Cottons, the Lachaifes, and the Telliers. The Author having thus explained the principles on which this order was founded, and to which it owes all its greatnefs, proceeds to relate by what means it was received.into Italy, Spain and Portugal: after which he gives an account of Father Xavier's travels to the Eaft Indies, and his attempts to preach the gospel in India, Japan and China: and concludes the book with a view of the establishment the Jefuits made in Congo and Brafil. The rest of the work contains a fhort, but lively, narrative of the principal events in which the Jefuits have been concerned till their firft expulfion from France, in confequence of the attempt made by John Chaftel to affaffinate Henry IV. This hiftory is difpofed in a chronological order, and all along enlivened with a number of obfervations and reflections, which tend to throw a light, not only upon the subject itself, but on the general hiftory of thofe times. The principal fubjects on which the Author enlarges are, the proceedings of the council of Trent, (in relating which he follows F. Paul's account) the fettlement of the Jefuits in Paraguay, where he represents them as having almoft reftored the golden age; the disputes which have at different times arifen between this order and the bishops and univerfities of France; together with a particular account of the part they took in the civil wars of the League, and the attempts that were made by their enemies to expel them the kingdom, before they actually fucceeded. From this imperfect view of this hiftory, the reader may form fome judgment of its merit, and will probably with for an opportunity of perufing the whole. What impreffion the reading it may leave upon the minds of others, we cannot say: but, from confidering the view which is here given of the refined policy on which this celebrated order was founded, and the amazing degree in which it prevailed, we could not forbear admiring the hand of Providence which has fo fuddenly pulled down this haughty edifice, and employed for this purpose those powers who were amongst the first to eftablish and support it. CJ. CATALOGUE; or, A brief View of fome other late FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. Art. 11. ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΟΥ ΙΠΠΟΛΥΤΟΣ. Euripidis Tragedia Hippolytus, quam, Latino carmine converfam a Georgio Ratallero, adnotationibus inftruxit Ludov. Cafp. Valckenaer. 4to. Leyden, 1768. WE E have here a correct edition of the Hippolytus of Euripides, accompanied with notes which fhew great erudition and know. lege of the Greek language, but relate, chiefly, to verbal criticism and different readings. These notes, which are not printed at the bottom of each page, but feparately, are followed by a very long and very learned difcourfe, confifting of twenty-five chapters, concerning the fragments of thofe tragedies of Furipides which are loft. Art. 12. P. Rutilii Lupi de figuris fententiarum et elocutionis libri duo. Recenfuit et annotationes adjecit David Ruhnkenius. Acce dunt Aquila Romani et Julii Rufiniani de eodem argumento libri. 8vo. Leyden, 1768. This edition of Rutilius Lupus, &c. is much fuperior to any of the former editions-the text is more correct; the notes are, many of them, useful and judicious; and the learned Editor has added a critical hiftory of the Greek orators, which, though neither entertaining nor interefting to the generality of readers, cannot fail of being agreeable to thofe who are fond of, and converfant with, antiquity. R. Art. 13. Geographie Ancienne abrégée, par M. d'Anville, de l'Academie Royale des Belles-Lettres, &c.-Ancient Geography abridged by M. D'Anville, &c. Paris. 12mo. 3 Vols. 1768. The very name of Mr. D'Anville is a fufficient recommendation to any work upon ancient geography.-Thofe who have purchafed his very ufeful and accurate maps will find this abridgment not only extremely ufeful, but, in fome meafure. neceflary. R. Art. 14. Lettres Choifies des Auteurs François les plus celebres, &c. -Select Letters of the most celebrated French Authors, 12mo. 2 Vols. Paris, 1768. We have feen feveral collections of this kind in the French language, but the collection now before us is the mof judicious and useful of any that we are acquainted with. It is introduced with fome very ingenious and pertinent obfervations upon the epilary ftyle, which may be of great ufe to thofe who are defirous of exceding in this fpecies of compofition. The authors, from whom the letters are taken, are the following: Balzac, Coftar, Voiture Godeau, Guy-Patin, Peliffon, Chevalier de Méré, Evremond, Kalie, Fontaine, Mad. de Sevigne, Buffi Rabutin, Flechier, Bourfault, Fontenelle, Mad. de Maintenon, Mad. Lambert, Rouffeau, Mad. du. Montier, Mad. du Bocage, Mademoiselle de Bari, D'Ablancourt, Voltaire, Abbè le Blanc, M. de Turenne, M. de Louvois, M. de Luxembourg, Cardinal D'Offat, Prefident Jeannin, Duc de Rohan, Comte d'Eftrades, Comte d'Avaux, Marquis de Torci, L'Abbé Dubois, M. de Morville, Cardinal de Fleury, and Abbè de Montgon. B. Art. 15. Par quelles caufes et par quels degrés les Loix de Lycurgue fe font altérés chez les Lacédémoniens jufqu' a ce qu'elles ayent été aneanties. Differtation qui a remporte le prix dans L'Academie Royale des Infcriptions et Belles Lettres, le 28 Avril, 1767. Par M. Mathon de la Cour de Fil. 8vo. Paris, 1767. In a preceding article of this Appendix we have given a pretty full account of a philofophical and political hiftory of the laws of Lycurgus, by the Abbè de Gourcy, in anfwer to a very curious question propofed by the Royal Academy of Inferiptions and Belles-Lettres.-The inge nious Author of this differtation, though he does not enter fo fully and minately into the fubject as the Abbe, yet treats it very judiciously, and in fuch a manner as fhews a philofophical and liberal turn of mind, and a thorough acquaintance with the Greek writers.-He introduces his differtation with a fhort view of the laws of Lycurgus, after which he proceeds to enquire into the caufes of their decay; thefe caufes, he fays, are, ft, the effence of the laws themselves, which were contrary to nature, and only calculated to form a nation of foldiers; which tended to cherish pride and a favage fierceness of manners, and introduced an equality of fortune impoffible to be kept up ;-2dly, the creation of the Ephori, who were factious magiftrates, and almost always preferred the intereft of their own power to the public good;-3dly, the war with the Perfians, which obliged the Spartans to have intercourfe with other nations, carried their pride and ambition to the highest degree, excited their jealousy againft the Athenians, and infpired them with a paffion for luxury-bly, the taking of Athens by Lyfander, which left the Spartans no rival, and, by introducing riches among them, occafioned a total corruption of manners.-Thefe caufes he illuftrates from the hiftory of the Spartans, and concludes his differtation with examining the progrefs and the feveral fteps of the declension of Lycurgus's fyftem.-To the Differtation are added notes, containing the principal events in the hiftory of the Lacedemonians. The Author promife, a compleat hiftory of this famous people, a task for which he feems to be very well qualified, and which every reader of his differtation will, we are perfuaded, be impatient to fee. R. Art. 16. Amusemens Dramatiques, &a à Leyde. 1768. The Dramatic Amusements of the Baron de Bielfeld. 8vo. 2 Vols. This Writer is known to the world by his Political Institutes and his Elements of Univerfal Erudition, but he has not diftinguished himself as a dramatic poet. The following plays are contained in thefe two volumes: Le Tableau de la Cour-Emilie, ou le Triomphe du Merite-L'Etat du Mariage-La Matrone ou la faufe Veuse--Les Alemands a Paris-Les Myfterieux. The firft of thefe plays was originally written in German, and it is a représentation of the manners of German courts. In the fecond the Baron attempts to unite the comic with the tender; and borrows his principal characters from the Enfant Prodigue; but in this, as well as in the rest of his dramatic attempts, his fuccels has bean very indifferent. Four of thefe pieces were published twelve years ago, the two last only are new. L. To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this .A VOLUME. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the 422. ACTINIA Sociata defcribed, AGUE, important obf. on the ufe of the bark in the cure of, 434. ALKALI, cauftic, beft manner of AMBER, exp. on, 532. Not an ANIMAL flower, defcript. of, 422. feveral eminent ones, ARNAUD, Abbè, his diff. on the Greek accents, 523. thofe patient animals, 100; par- ATHENS, ftate of, at the time of AKER, Dr. his inquiry into the cardamines as an anti-pafmodic BARBADOS, government of de- dation of the phofphorus of urine, 531. BARETTI, Sig. his Fruftra Lette- BARRINGTON, Hon. D. his ac- count of fome fish in Wales, 421. relative to the notions of the an- BEES, beft method of managing, 107. Mr. Wildman's account BERN, 1 BERGIER, M. Voltaire's Advice to, 574- BERN, magiftrates of, cenfured for hypothefis relating to, 297. count of his architecture, 182. 375. CA C. 1 AMPHIRE, Exp. on the dofes CASTOR, exp. on the dofes and CHATSWORTH, by whom built, 182. CHEBANNON, M. his difc. on Pin- CLERGY, lively difplay of their COD-FISH, its aftonishing fecun- COINS, Saxon, Roman, and English, Rr Co- |