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Baldwin, Printer, New Bridge-street, London. XII. CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF MADAME DE STAEL. Notice sur le Caractère et les Ecrits de Madame De Staël. Par Madame Necker de Saussure. - 237 XIII.-DEVIATION OF THE MARINER'S COMPASS ON ACCOUNT of LOCAL 1. An Essay on Magnetic Attractions: particularly as respects the Deviation of the Compass on Shipboard, occasioned by the local Influence of the Guns, &c. With an easy practical Me- thod of observing the Same in all Parts of the World. By Peter Barlow, of the Royal Military Academy. 2. Rules and Tables for clearing the Compass of the Regular A System of Mineralogy, in which Minerals are arranged ac- cording to the Natural History Method. By Robert Jameson, Christianity pleading for the Patronage of the Civil Power, but XVII.-PRESENT STATE OF COMMERCE, &C. IN FRANCE. 1. De l'Industrie Françoise. Par M. le Comte Chaptal, ancien 2. Rapport presenté à son Excellence le Ministre Secretaire d'Etat des Finances, par Hennet, le Commissaire Royal du Cadastre. 3. Statistique General et Particulière de la France et de ses Co- lonies. Par une Société de Gens de Lettres et Savans. 4. De l'Etat de la Culture en France, et des Ameliorations dont elle est susceptible. Par Depradt, Membre de l'Assemblée ART. XIX.-LITHOGRAPHY. XX. 1. Essai Historique sur la Lithographie. Par Gabriel Peignot. 3. A. Manual of Lithography; or Memoir on the Lithographical Poems by Bernard Barton. XXI.-IVANHOE, AND THE MONASTERY. XXII. 1. Ivanhoe: a Romance. By the Author of "Waverley." Page 377 . 384 2. The Monastery; a Romance. By the Author of "Waverley.” 393 List of New Publications INDEX - 455 - 493 - 499 THE BRITISH REVIEW, AND LONDON CRITICAL JOURNAL. JUNE, 1820. ART. XII.-CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF MADAME DE STAËL. Notice sur le Caractère et les Ecrits de Madame De Staëls Par Madame Necker de Saussure. A Londres, chez Treuttel et Würtz, Libraires, 1820. Sketch of the Life, Churacter, and Writings, of Baroness De Staël Holstein. By Madam Necker de Saussure. WE cannot have lived thus long in the world without having learned to receive the testimonies of the biographer with great caution; but the eulogium by one enthusiast of another leaves our credulity entirely unfettered. We are always ready, however, to compromise with such writers by agreeing to allow for their devotedness upon terms of being permitted to distrust their correctness. The portrait which the above writer has given to the world of her friend is less a likeness of the person intended to be represented than an example of the imbecility of idolatrous admiration. A narrative of the leading events of the life of Madame de Staël, her domestic intercourse, and familiar correspondence, could not fail to be entertaining, with whatever partiality they might be exhibited; but the letters of this extraordinary woman, by a destiny rather new in the case of a female author, appear not to have been preserved. They do not seem indeed, even in the opinion of Madame Necker herself, to have been upon a par with her other compositions. |