at Paris a course of the art of teaching human knowledge, the savants and philosophic youth penetrated with these great lessons, were to return and repeat them in all parts of the Republic. This was the art of nature and of genius.

191. Turgot wished to possess for one year the power of realizing without obstacles and without delay, all the plans he had conceived in favour of reason, liberty and humanity.

220. Daunou, six months after Lakanal's report on the establishment-reports the necessity of shutting up the Normal School. That at Paris had excited as much contempt in its progress as enthusiasm at its foundation. It had been only three months in activity.

Tom. 3.

P.4. THE University is no other thing than government applied to the universal direction of public instruction.

The University has the monopoly of education almost as the Tribunals have the monopoly of justice, and the army that of the public force.

5. A collection of its constitutions forms several thick volumes more in bulk than that of the congregations, orders and corporate bodies which had endured.

13. Fourcroy was the great planner-he made twenty-three plans before B. was satisfied, and when after five years of this labour he expected to have been placed at the head of the University, the chagrin is said to have killed him.

17. Robespierre, says Daunou, had converted the benefit of education into a rigorous servitude by the barbarous law which tore the child from the arms of its father. But upon this principle Bonaparte planned his Imperial University, with this difference, that by Robespierre's plan education would have been at the national expense, Bonaparte made it a monopoly, and the company were to make the most of it.

80. Lyceums.

185. I instituted the University, said B. to take education out of the hands of the priests. Priests consider this world only as a Diligence for conveying people to the other. I want to have the Diligence filled with good soldiers for my armies.

253-4. Charges against the old colleges of having bred the revolutionists. 256. Well answered. 268. Jesuits.

316. "Chabot, opinant sur la liberté de la presse, vota contre cette liberté, disant qu'elle avoit été nécessaire pour amener le règne de la liberté, mais que, ce but une fois atteint, il ne falloit plus de liberté de la presse, de peur de compromettre la liberté elle même."

342. Schools in ique and in ie.

343. "la révolution seroit finie, quand ceux qui l'ont faite l'auroient pardonnée à ceux qui l'ont soufferte." M. de Bonald.

418. The sovereign people. M. de Revarol said, "Sa Majesté est tranquille quand elle digère."

442. Monopoly of the University.

459. Lacroix. "La constitution, voilà, notre évangile; la liberté, voilà notre dieu; je n'en connois point d'autre."

461. A Quaker wanted to keep on his hat in the tribune when he was present at a sitting of the Council of Antients. And the President thought the council by al

lowing him to remain with it on, would give a proof of its respect for the freedom of religious opinions. The order of the day was carried upon a very sensible remark by Rousseau. "He may come with his coat buttoned after the fashion of the Quakers if he please,—but let him take off his hat, or stay away. Si la délicatesse de

sa conscience ne peut céder à sa curiosité, qu'il fasse céder sa curiosité à la délicatesse de sa conscience."

Recueil. Tom. 4.

P. 625. INTENTION to abolish private schools.

FABER'S State of France.

P. 13. WAR and revenue sole objects of B's. government.

15. Official business reduced to mere obedience, the art only of doing what the government requires for the moment. They who order think only of the wants of the moment. They who execute dare not look further.

16. Offices sought merely for profit. 18. Enormous salaries of the prefect, 23, rapacity.

48. Regular system of falsehood.

50. God rested after he had created B! 96. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the immense Behemoth.

114. Lucien B. being complimented upon his speech in favour of the Concordat dicitur dixisse-it would have been far better had it been made against it.

115. God brought him out of Egypt to make him the man of his own right hand. 116. Blasphemous flatteries of the clergy, 116-7.

119. Character of the clergy, and paucity.
123. Mockery of the pope.
134. St. Napoleone.

WALSH'S Letter.

P. 63. HE predicts confidently the inability of Russia to resist France.

ST. PIERRE. Harmonies de la Nature. P. 55. BULBOUs and other plants, he says, have as many circles in the root as they are months in growing, "c'est ce qu'on peut voir surtout dans celles des carottes, des betteraves, et dans les bulbes des ognons. Peut-être étoit-ce à cause de ces rapports lunaires que les Egyptiens avoient consacré l'ognon à Isis ou à la lune, qu'ils ado

roient sous le nom de cette déesse. Ce qu'il y a de certain, c'est que ces racines ont pour l'ordinaire sept cercles concentriques, c'est à dire autant qu'ils ont été de mois à croître, depuis le commencement de Mars où on les sème, jusqu'à la fin de Septembre où on les recueille."

143. "Les arbres aquatiques, tels que les saules, les aunes, les peupliers, sont par leurs racines autant de machines hydrauliques. Ils pomperoient sans bruit l'eau des marais, en changeroient le méphitisme en air pure, et par leur dépouilles annuelles en transformeroient le sol ingrat en terre féconde."

159. Danton in his dungeon said with a sigh, "Ah! si je pouvois voir un arbre." 175. Busbequius is the person who introduced the lilac into Europe.

212. In Normandy they burn the straw of the bed belonging to a deceased person before his door, where for a time it leaves un rond tout noir sur le gazon."

341 "Les philosophes crient beaucoup contre l'intolérance théologique, mais elle

n'est qu'une branche de l'intolérance: ils en ont au moins autant que leurs ennemis."

348. To his daughter. "Ne parcours point comme savante le temple immense de la Nature; mais reste sous son vestibule, comme une vierge ignorante et timide, avec tes besoins et ton cœur."

"C'est dans la seule classe de ceux qui aiment la nature que tu trouveras ceux qui aiment la vertu."

Tom. 2.

P. 57. Ar the isle of France "les madrépores avoient transformé en roches les carcasses de quatre vaisseaux qu'on avoit laissés pourrir dans le port par négligence. Il fallut faire venir de Brest à grands frais des machines et des cables pour les arracher."

P. 2. THE golden calf walked, and ate, and was alive, for which cause Aaron erected an altar to it.

One excuse for him is that he did not make the calf; he only put the gold in the

87. Why is the stone of the peach and nectarine often found broken to pieces in the fruit? The fruit itself being unhurt. Est-ce un effet de quelque électricité végétale ou animale ?"

94. Dust of the lycopode used in the furies' torches at the Opera. You may throw out with it a flash five yards long.

148. The seal common at French fairs, and very fond of its master.

496. A whimsical theory of animal and vegetable souls! Of the phosphoric particles in the sea, he says, "Ne seroientils pas des molécules organiques répandus

partout, suivant Buffon? Seroient-ce les âmes élémentaires des animaux ou leurs âmes animales mêmes ?"

Tom. 3.

P. 27. SOME good remarks upon the story of Junius Brutus and his sons, and upon all such stories.

In a French Bible printed by Antoine Bonnemere, 1538, the fables have been foisted into the text, of the beards becoming gilt, of those who drank the infusion of calf, if they had worshipped him, and of the Israelites spitting upon Hur, when he refused to make gods for them, till they smothered him.

3. Aaron placed at the head of sculptors. 7. Abaris made the palladium, and of the bones of Pelops. 12.

13. La Mothe le Vayes said of the old philosophers who foretold earthquakes, "n'est ce point qu'à considérer la terre comme un grand animal, ils avaient l'art de lui tâter le pouls, et de reconnaître par la les convulsions qui lui devaient arriver." 15. Water finders.

18. Water doctors, in his days a new

quackery, and which, he supposed, had been presently exploded.

25. Abdas, a Bishop in Persia, in the reign of the younger Theodosius brought on a persecution by destroying a Fire temple.

40. Cœlius Rhodiginus never cited any author in his compilations, in order that he might be cited himself. And the artifice succeeded, for he is often quoted for what in him are quotations.

57. There are many men like the Anselm of whom Abelard speaks, "ad quem si quis de aliquâ questione pulsandum accederet incertus, redibat incertior. - Verborum usum habebat mirabilem, sed sensu contemptibilem et ratione vacuum. Cum ignem accenderet, domum suam fumo implebat, non luce illustrabat."

62. The monks tried to poison Abelard in the bread and wine of the Eucharist!

91. History of the creation-imputed to Abraham-published in Latin 1552 and 1642, different translations.

111. Evil of University Professors being so little fixed in their stations.

112. George Wicelius thought Plutarch had written the life of Charlemagne,-because it used to be printed with Plutarch's lives!

116. Accius the tragic poet, being a very little man, put up a huge statue of himself in the Temple of the Muses. Pliny, 1. 34.

c. 5.

177. The Hésycastes among the monks of Mount Athos held that in the fervour of their prayers they saw that same uncreated light which was manifest in the Transfiguration.

190-1. Well would it have been for Bayle, and for thousands whom he has contributed to lead astray, if he had remembered what he has said of the consequences of such philosophy as his own,-when speaking of Acosta.

217. St. Paul thought in Italy to savour of heresy in many things! See Sandys.

221. "Il ne faut quelquefois que trente ou quarante ans, pour rendre une secte fort

dissemblable à celui qui l'a fondée."

259. "Ce serait, je crois, un livre de bon débit que celui de la Religion du Souverain: il ferait oublier celui de la Rel. du Médecin." He relates this as having been recently said by an Italian Prince to the Envoy of a powerful Sovereign with whom he was negociating, and who asked what security he could offer to the king his master. 66 Assurez-le, repliqua le Prince, que je lui engage ma parole, non pas en qualité de souverain; car en tant que tel, il faut que je sacrifie toutes choses à mon agrandissement, à la gloire, et à l'avantage de mes états, selon que les conjonctures s'en offriront: dites lui donc, que je lui engage ma parole, non pas sous cette qualité-là, ce ne serait rien promettre, mais comme cavalier, et honnête homme."

264. Agesipolis took Mantinea by bringing the waters of a river to bear upon its walls. Cimon had taken Eion on the Strymon by the same stratagem - which was practised by the Peruvians in their last insurrection during the American war.

277. Three things disgusted Erasmus with the Reformation. The rash writings of some of the reformers; the scandalous lives of some of their followers; and the excesses committed in image-breaking, and in the Peasants' war.

297. "Agrippa, Erasme, et quelques autres grands génies, furent ravis que Luther eût rompu le glace; ils en attendirent une crise qui délivrerait de l'oppression les honnêtes gens; mais quand ils virent que les choses ne prenaient pas le train qu'ils auraient voulu, ils furent les premiers à jetter la pierre contre Luther."

299. Cornelius Agrippa's dog was not the devil, his servant Wier testifies, but a black dog whom he called Monsieur, and for whom he got a black she-dog, and called her Mademoiselle.

309. This passage concerning concubinage was cut out of Cornelius Agrippa's works in the Lyons edition-that he had read of a certain bishop who boasted that he had in his diocese "undecim millia sa