The relations in which men stand with regard to God, and to each other, separate history into two kinds, satred and profane; which will divide this work into two parts. Sacred history comprehends holy and ecclesiastical records; which two united form a complete, history of religion; of that religion which it certainly most concerns us to know. Holy history embraces all that period of time which elapsed from the creation of the world to the birth of Jesus Christ; which event happened, according to the generally received opinion, in the year 4004; and we call it holy writ because it was the work of men inspired by God. It is the proper history of the Hebrews, known by the name of the people of God. Ecclesiastical history, commencing with the birth of Christ, contains an account of the church from that time to the present. Profane history comprehends antient and modern records. The antient, properly speaking, commences only at the epoch of the dispersion of mankind; that is to say, about the year of the world 1800; and finishes in the year 4004. Under this head, I shall give a general idea, first, of the great empire of the Assyrians: 2dly, of that of the Persians: and at the end of each, I shall speak separately of the different celebrated people who were their cotemporaries, 3dly, of the empire of the Greeks, whose abridged history will be followed by that of the different kingdoms formed out of its ruins. 4thly, I shall take a view of the Romans, from the foundation of their city, to the establishment of the empire; at which period, modern history commences. Under this head, I shall speak in succession of the most celebrated nations of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. I shall begin with the Roman Empire; divided, in the three hundred and eighty fourth year after the death of Augustus, into the empire of the East and that of the West; and shall pursue the recital te the present state of the latter, now known under the name of the Empire of Germany.' The chief merit of this work is the clear system which it points out for the study of history; and the principal and leading events are as judiciously selected, and as properly told, as the nature of a very concise abridgment will allow.-M. DoMAIRON shews himself to be a very zealous Catholic; inso nuch that we cannot help applying to him what he says of Robertson, in describing that writer's history of Scotland: It is a pity that the author manifests such partiality, when he speaks of the Catholic and Protestant Religions.' !! ART. XV. Récherches sur l'Existence du Frigorifique, &c. i. c. Inquiries concerning the Existence of a Frigorific Principle, and its common Receptacle. By J. P. BRES. 8vo. pp. 144. Paris. 1800.-Imported by De Boffe, London. Price 3. sewed. M. BRES is a sort of Manichean in chemistry, who opposes to one acknowleged power, another of a contrary ten dency. He admits the existence of Caloric, but he contends for for the admission of a Frigorific in return. We cannot discover, in his disquisition, any traces of a knowlege of the doctrine of latent heat; if he will make himself acquainted with this subject, it will solve most of his problems. The opinion which he supports, of the descent of frigorific particles from the clouds, is really not worth examining, after the late discoveries in pneumatic chemistry.-The poles, according to this author, form the general receptacle of frigorific particles. We cannot deny M. BRES the praise of ingenuity, and we admit that his book is composed with correctness, and even with some degree of elegance: but there does not appear, at this moment, much more hope of the restoration of the frigorific particles, than of that of the French monarchy. It would have been well for mankind, if the species of warfare here employed had been the only one exerted in the other cause. ART. XVI. Instruction sur les Mesures et Poids Nouveaux, &c. i. e, Information respecting the New Weights and Measures compared with the Old, furnishing an easy Method of ascertaining the Relations between them. By MATHURIN-JAMES BRISSON, Member of the National Institute, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in the Central Schools at Paris, and one of the Commissioners for Weights and Measures. Small 12m0. Pp. 130. Paris. 1800. -Imported by Dulau and Co. London. Price 1 s. 6d. THE HIS little manual will prove useful to foreigners, by presenting them, at one view, with the past and present denominations of quantity. The new terms, without such a ready explanation, are abundantly perplexing in books of science. As this work consists almost entirely of tables, it does not admit of an abstract. INDEX To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the of commerce, mem. furnaces, 151. Arcs. See Brinkley. Arseniates of copper. See Bournon Ashes. See Pissis. B Bacon, Lord, eulogium on, 467, gar. See also Castillon, and Su- Bembo, Cardinal, account of, 142, properties of the Galvanic ap- Birds of Paradise, the breed of, Borneo, account of that vast Boulam in Guinea, the place ed, 497. Castillon, M. de, on the culture gar from honey, 494. Charles I. King of England, hi3. with that of Mohammedism, Circle, demonstration of the pro- perty of discovered, (in the from sitting in the House of 41. See also China. Cottager, and his family, pleasing D Dabit, M. on acids, 492. Delunel, M. on distilled water of Desormes and Clement, M. M. on Egerton, Rev. Mr. his account of Equations, cubic. See Meredith. racter of, and specimens of his Vauquelin and Thenard in new France, travels in, 134. Re- Franklin, Dr. unfounded attack Galvanic experiments. See Four- apparatus, memoirs on |