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Few persons, perhaps, would think it susceptible of remarks so curious as are here offered to the reader. For particulars, however, we must refer to the work,

On Oxygen as a Remedy. By M. GRILLE. It is here said that persons affected by the itch are cured by working in the mine of manganese at Maçon; and M. GRILLE asserts that an ointment of 6 parts of oxyd of manganese and 16 of oxygen cured this disease sooner than Pringle's ointment. He observes that the usual remedies were at the same time administered. The attempt to account for the effect of working in the mine, by help of the diffusion of oxygen in vapour, appears to us injudicious. If the fact be true, it is more likely to be owing to the fine dust of the ore.

Memoir on the Ammoniure of Cobalt, or, on an Acid contained in the grey Oxyd of this Metal usually denominated Saffre. By L. BRUGNATELLI. -This author describes a new acid which he denominates cobaltic acid, though he confessess that its base remains to be ascertained. It is procured, among other methods, simply by boiling saffre in water, and it exists therefore ready formed in that substance.

Report by M. FOURCROY concerning the artificial Mineral Waters prepared by M. PAUL. -The list of waters mentioned in this paper amounts to eleven; and, which is more surprizing, some of the liquids are said to contain five and six times their bulk of carbonic acid. There is an oxygenated water which contains half its volume of oxygen gas! an hydrogenated which contains a third! and an hydro-carbonated which contains two thirds! The impregnation is effected by strong compression: but the principal part of the machinery is kept secret. In the proportions of impregnating gases, however, there is reason for supposing that the desire of the manufacturer to extol his goods has produced some exaggeration: since the reporters could not extricate the quantity of gas specified. In the case of the oxygenated water, they could not expel one third of the bulk of the oxygen gas with which it was stated by M. PAUL to be impregnated. -Notwithstanding the exaggeration, however, (if such it be,) enough is here brought forwards to shew that prodigious improvements in this branch are practicable; and we hope that our chemists and mechanics will turn their attention to it.

We have left unnoticed several papers which appeared to us to be wholly unimportant, or the nature of which rendered them uninteresting to the English reader. - Nos. 99 and 100 are just come to our hands: but, as we have not time to report their contents, we must reserve them for our next Appendix.

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ART. XII. Nouvelle Methode d'Enseignement, Sc. i. e. A new Method of Instruction for early Childhood. By Madame DE GENLIS. 12mo. pp. 426. Hamburgh, &c. 1799. Imported by De Boffe, London. Price 5s.

TH HOUGH designed for a younger class of pupils than the former works of Madame DE GENLIS, this volume is said to be the fruit of longer meditation and of more reflection than any that she has before written on the same subject.' The plan is thus explained:

• I have here composed dialogues, a tale, some maxims, and little pieces for children. I have written them with simplicity, always sacrificing imagination to morality, and elegance of style to clearness; which necessarily occasions a continual repetition of words. With regard to detached maxims, I have not endeavoured to offer any that are either new or brilliant: my wish has been to trace the first rudiments of morality; and that these seeds, so precious, should result from the dialogues, &c. to the end that they should make the deeper impression.'

Notwithstanding the simplicity of the language, Madame DE GENLIS could not avoid introducing some words which may be beyond the comprehension of a child of six years old; and she has therefore subjoined a list of those which she thought might require explanation, and has given definitions of them.

Les jeux d'enfans, introduced in the last dialogue, are well devised, by making a play of the necessary employments of common life which children may have hereafter to perform; thus teaching them to rehearse their part well, before they are required to act. It is proposed to do this without loss to other instruction, by contriving that it shall form a part of their re

creation.

A new method is recommended for teaching young people to design and to paint; which is by instructing and forming their judgment, before they enter on the practical part.

Madame DE GELIS is of opinion that any child, well educated and perfectly managed from its earliest infancy, would appear a prodigy at twenty years of age. The difficulty consists in making the experiment: but, in the endeavour, much good would probably be produced.

From this brief description, and from the known abilities of Madame DE GENLIS, the reader will perhaps be able to appreciate the utility of this work. An English translation of it has appeared; as also of another recent production of this lady's pen, entitled La Brugere the Less: of which we shall shortly give some account.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

A

Aberdeen, longitude and latitude

of the observatory there, 10.
Achard, M. report on the frag-
ment of an antient monument
sent by him to the national
institute, 457. On the sugar
of beet, 561.

Acid, Muriatic, account of the
lithontriptic power of, observed
in complaints which were sup-
posed to depend on the pre-
sence of stone in the bladder,
269.

Acid, Nitric, exp. to ascertain the
effect of on iron, deposited in
the stomach of an animal, 271.
Acids. See Blair.

Admiralty islands, some account
of, 531.

Afzelius, Dr. obs. on the genus
Pausus; with description of a
new species, 369.

Agriculture.

See Staffordshire,
&c. See also Argyll, Lime,
Transactions of the Society of
Arts, &c. 297. See more Cat.
for March, p. 311. See also
Bath-Society.

Alexandrian library, the common
accounts of the destruction of,
contradicted, 514.

Ameilbon, M. on the colours of
the Antients, &c. 463.
Amsterdam, island, some account
of, 530.

APP. REV. VOL, XXXI.

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Birds, Essay on the trachee or
wind-pipe of various kinds,
365.

See Markwick. See Mon-
tagu.

Birinus, St. miraculous story of,
from Milner's history of Win-
chester, 408.

Bitaubé, M. on the study of the
antients, 459.

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Socrates at the school of
a theologist, 460.
Bitumen, elastic, of Derbyshire,
Mr. Hatchett's obs. on, 366.
Blair, Mr. on the anti-venereal
effects of several acids, &c.
which have been proposed as
substitutes for mercury, 273-

on the removal of an ob-
struction of the oesophagus,
274.

Blight, of wheat, described, 368.
Bonaparte, Letters from the army
under his command in Egypt,
part 3d; their authenticity ad-
mitted, 198. See other Letters,
P. 212.

oriental MSS. brought

by, from Egypt, 517.
Bovey coal, Mr. Hatchett's ob-
servations on, 366.
Brahmins, observations on their
trigonometrical tables, 6.

Brown, Mr. his travels in Africa,
-arrives at Alexandria, and
description of that city, 112.
Other parts of Egypt de.
scribed, 113. Manners of the
people, 116. Proceeds to Syria,
and describes the entrance of
the grand caravan from Mecca
into Damascus, 121.

Brown, Mr. case of an inverted
uterus, with retention of the
placenta after parturition, 272.
Browne, Dr. Patrick, author of
the Natural History of Ja-
maica, anecdotes rel. to, 364.
Brugnatelli, M. on the acid con-
tained in the grey oyxd of Co-
balt, 563.

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499.

Cartwright, Rev. Edmund, his
exposition of his laudable mo-
tives for declining the ballot
for the secretaryship to the
society of arts, &c. 219.
Cephalonia, island of, some ac-
count of, 526.
Chalmers. See Shakspeare.
Chamberlaine, Mr. cases of im-
perforate rectum, and obstruc-
tion in the neck of the blad-
der, 272.

Chartreuse de Paris, antiquities
of, 505.
Chevalier, Mr. on the plain of
Troy. See Dalzel.
Clock-work, improvement in,
with regard to escapement,
301.

Close, Rev. H. J. an eminent
agriculturist, 393. On the
value of ruta baga, 397.
Collins, Mr. on sheep, their dis-
orders, &c. 395.
Conciergerie, prison, at Paris, de-
scription of that scene of hor-
ror in the reign of Robespierre,

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Dalzel, Mr. his illustration of
Chevalier's Tableau de la Plaine
de Troye, 17.

Davies, General, his account of
the Canadian mouse, 367. On
a new species of Muscicapa,
from New South Wales, 369.
Deaf and Dumb persons, Menx
on the necessity of instructing
them, and on the primary
means of communicating with
them, 456.

Delille, Abbé, his poem on the
immortality of the soul, 513.
Derham, Mr. his Physico-theology
reprinted, 259. The errors in,
chargeable only on the times
in which he lived, 261.
Dewailly, M. his critical opinions
relative to some peculiarities

in the French languages, 455.
Deyeux, M. on plaisters, 542.
Distillery, in Scotland, evils and
abuses in the practise of, 147.
Domergue, M. on the grammati-
cal proposition, 456.
Drill-husbandry, advantages and
disadvantages of, 393.
Dropsy. See Walker.
Ducis, poem against celibacy, 457-

E

Education, curious obs. on, 47.
Private education preferred to
public, 49.

Egypt. See Brown. See Bona-
parte. See Sonnini.
Elephant, asiatic, obs. on the dif-
ferent species of, 233.
Ellipsis, new series of the rectifi-
cation of, 10.

Empyema, case of, successfully

treated, 273. History of an
empyema which terminated
fatally, 274.

Errat, Mr. his case of diseased
kidney and stone in the blad-
der, 269.
Euripides. See Porson.
Exter, Mr. his agricultural suc-
cess in the drill practice, 393.

F

Farinelli, biographical account
of, 291.

Fever cured by Mercury, 274.
Fish, poison of, mem. on by Dr.
Thomas, 270.
Flaugergues, M. on the place of
the node of Saturn's ring, in
1790, 454. Obs. made at Vi-
vieres, in the Department of
the Ardeche, 455.
Fletcher of Saltoun, pleasant
anecdotes of, 22.
Flinders, Mr. See Small-pox.
Fond, M. (Faujas de St.) his
travels in England, Scotland,
&c. 239. His grateful ac-
knowlegements to the English
for the politeness shewn to him,
240. Extracts from his obs.
and descriptions, 241-247.
Fothergill, Dr. A. on the effects
of arteriotomy in epilepsy, 273.
his valuable obs. on

the bite of a mad dog, 395.
Fourcroy, M. report concerning the
artificial mineral waters pre-
pared by M. Paul, 543.

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and Vauquelin, analysis

of human urine, 540.
Fox-glove, its medical virtues
discussed, 62.
France, conduct of, with regard
to the present continental war,
165.
Enterprize against
Egypt, 218. 423. France the
aggressor in the existing war
with England, 438. Thoughts
on the late overtures of France
in favor of peace, 440. Stric-
tures on the vicissitudes of the
revolution, 534.

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