I beg you to return them my grateful thanks, and to assure them
that this notice from so eminent a seat of science is very precious to
me.
The most remarkable publications we have had in France, for a year
or two past, are the following. _Les Voyages d'Anacharsis, par Abbe
Barthelemi_, seven volumes, octavo. This is a very elegant digest of
whatever is known of the Greeks; useless, indeed, to him who has read
the original authors, but very proper for one who reads modern languages
only. The works of the King of Prussia. The Berlin edition is in sixteen
volumes, octavo. It is said to have been gutted at Berlin; and here
it has been still more mangled. There are one or two other editions
published abroad, which pretend to have rectified the maltreatment both
of Berlin and Paris. Some time will be necessary to settle the public
mind as to the best edition.
Montignot has given us the original Greek, and a French translation of
the seventh book of Ptolemy's great work, under the title of _Etat des
Etoiles fixes au second siecle_, in quarto. He has given the designation
of the same stars by Flamsteed and Bayer, and their position in the
year 1786.
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