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the young man and young woman on the other side of the room, all are full of life and true characteristic painting.

Mr. Krimmel's painting room, in Spruce street above Seventh, in Philadelphia, contains many admirable specimens in the same style. His Country dance, Return from camp, Return from boarding school, &c. afford the amateur a rich and varied repast.

ART. IX.-Miscellaneous Articles.

Fine Arts.--Mr. Sully's great picture of the passage of the Delaware by the American army in 1776, is finished, and exhibiting at the gallery, No. 169, Chesnut street. It contains a full size equestrian portrait of Washington, and also likenesses of general St. Clair, and col. Knox. The connoisseurs speak of it in the most favourable terms. Mr. Birch has recently finished a beautiful view of the passage of the Brandywine by a corps of the artillery battalion on their march to Kennet's square, in September 1814. And a fine sea piece, representing the wreck of the brig Helen, near cape Henlopen.

Among the most recent American publications, are the South Sea Islander, containing many interesting facts, relative to the former and present state of society in the island of Otaheite, &c. New York, published by W. B. Gilley.

Biographical memoir of the late Hugh Williamson, M.D. LL.D. &c. delivered, Nov. 1, 1819, at the request of the New York historical society. By David Hosack, M. D. &c. New York, 1820.

The Fudge Family in Washington, a poem, edited by Harry Nimrod. Baltimore, small 12 mo.

A work under the title of the United States Military Review, is preparing for the press, and will be published in Quarterly Numbers. Its object is, to examine all publications having relation to the late war with

Great Britain, and to any military movement since. Boston Paper.

A biography of the late governor Caleb Strong has been published at Boston.

Mr. N. G. Maxwell, Baltimore, proposes to publish one volume of sermons, of the late Dr. James Inglis; for the benefit of the orphan children of the deceased author.

Mr. A. P. Heinrich, of Kentucky, proposes to publish the musical effusions of his leisure hours, under the title of Dawning of music in Kentucky,' &c.

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Mrs. Graham, author of a Journal of a Residence in India, &c. who is now in Italy, is preparing for the press, Two Months Residence in the Mountains near Rome; with some Account of the Peasantry, and also of the Banditti that infest that neighbourhood.-The same lady has also been employing her time upon a Life of Nicholas Poussin.

Edinburgh Mag.

A Humorous and Satirical work, entitled, Lessons of Thrift, is on the eve of publication. It is ascribed to the pen of a distinguished veteran in the fields of literature; and report speaks of it as combining the placid good sense and amiable bonhommie of Montaigne, with the caustic raillery of Swift, and the richly gifted philosophy of Burton. It is to be illustrated with engravings from designs by Cruikshanks, in the best style of that unrivalled caricaturist.

ib.

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MARCH, 1820.

ART. I.-An Essay on the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Mr. de Malesherbes; addressed to my children: by the Count de Boissy d'Anglas, peer of France, member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres, and grand officer of the Royal order of the legion of honour, 2 vols. Paris and London.

octavo.

[Translated from La Revue Encyclopedique.] FEW works merit more than this to fix the attention, whether we consider the subject, or the author. We have displayed to us, the life and writings of an illustrious philosopher, by a writer respectable for talents, character, and rank. We were not wholly ignorant of the life of Mr. de Malesherbes, for it forms a part of history: but those, who, with different abilities, but with one applauding pen, have recorded it, have not so closely examined his writings and opinions, as to exhibit him in one harmonious view, as a citizen, philosopher, author, and public character. The count Boissy d'Anglas has, we think, successfully undertaken this. He has not rejected the known and characteristic anecdotes of his hero; but has added others, which his intimacy with Mr. de Malesherbes enabled him to collect. He has not confined himself to a single portrait, but has displayed,

around his principal personage, other remarkable men who have played a part in the scenes of the drama, of which a vast empire has, recently, been the theatre. He has therefore composed a truly historical painting.

In uniting an account of the events in the life of an eminent man, to that of the principal political occurrences of France, during nearly half a century, he has certainly not wanted opportunities of entering on questions of the highest public interest; and he has, on all occasions, examined these questions with noble candour, and rare honesty. We need scarcely add, that the reflections which he has advanced on these important subjects, are all favourable to philosophy, justice and liberty.

Mr. Boissy d'Anglas gives us the following portrait of Mr. de Malesherbes, one of those men of whose acquaintance and esteem he is proudest.'

'He was,' says Mr. Boissy d'Anglas, 'intimately acquainted with many branches of human learning, and had a partial knowledge of almost all of them. We behold in him an eloquent orator, a writer of distinction, a man of polite literature replete with information and taste, a profound statesman, an able legislator, a magistrate full of sagacity and firmness. In private life, he preserved a uniform course of goodness, simplicity, and modesty; we saw him endued with the greatest moderation, and exercising the utmost indulgence; in manners, mild, and easily accessible by all. He was truly a good natured man; not in the style of la Fontaine; silly, diverting, eccentric, and whimsical; but by a certain charm which was found in him alone.'

We follow Mr. Boissy d'Anglas to his delineation of Mr. de Malesherbes in public life, in his different situations as president of the court of aids, director of the library, and minister of state. We always find him the sensible man, the defender of every kind of liberty, the undaunted supporter of the oppressed.

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