Vue générale des progrès de plusieurs branches des sciences naturelles, depuis le milieu du dernier siècle. Par le comte de Lacépède. Paris, Rapet, 1817-19, 17 vols. 8vo. with plates. Seconde édition. Paris. Plassau, A. Eymery, 1820, et années suivantes, 25 vols. 8vo. with 235 plates.

M. Eymery who has bought this edition, has republished it in 1825, with new title pages, bearing his name. To it should be added a 26th. volume, containing the Précis des Merveilles de la nature, découvertes depuis Buffon jusqu'à nos jours.

Brunet says, that although the latter of these editions is good, yet he gives the preference to the other, in 90 vols. 12mo. - Histoire naturelle de Buffon, mise dans un nouvel ordre; précédée d'une Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Buffon, par M. le baron Cuvier. Paris, Ménard et Desenne, 1825-26, 36 vols. 18mo. with 400 plates.

This edition is deserving of commendation, as regards the typographical execution of the plates; it is however, imperfect as to the text.

La même, sous le titre d'ouvres, avec les descriptions anatomiques de Daubenton, son collaborateur. Nouvelle édition, commencée par M. Lamouroux, professeur d'histoire naturelle, et continuée [depuis le 13e. volume] par M. Desmarest. Paris, Verdière, Ladrange, 1824, et années suivantes, 40 vols. 8vo. avec 720 planches, lithographiées.

This edition, from the press of MM. F. Didot, deserves approbation, on account of the correctness of the text, and the number and execution of the plates, copied from those of the edition printed at the Imprimerie royale, (1749, 4to.) It contains what has been omitted in all the modern editions, as superfluous, the anatomical part by Daubenton, a task for which he was particularly well-calculated; for if we believe M. Cuvier, a competent judge on the subject, "such was the extreme care of Daubenton, that it is in vain to look for an error, and his anatomical descriptions form an important and indispensable appendage to the text of Buffon; so that we may consider as imperfect, all editions in which they are not to be found."

Besides this claim to superiority over the edition of 1749, this has the advantage of having the supplements placed at the end of the articles to which they belong; and of containing: 1. The Eloge of Buffon, by Vicq-d'Azyr, as well as that of Daubenton, by M. Cuvier; 2. A synonomy, by the latter; 3. A methodical table of the species described by Buffon; 4. An alphabetical table of the names and synonims, mentioned in the work; 5. The work by M. Cuvier, entitled; Sur les progrès des sciences physiques, depuis 1789.

La même, sous le titre d'Euvres complètes, mises en ordre, et précédées d'une notice historique, par M. A. Richard; suivies de deux volumes, "Sur les progrès des sciences physiques et naturelles, depuis la mort de Buffon," par M. le Baron Cuvier. Paris, Baudouin, frères, Delangle, frères, 1824, et années suivantes, 30 vols. 8vo. ornés de 200 planches.

This edition, printed by J. Didot, is like the former, entitled to commendation on account of its execution, but it does not possess like it, the advantage of containing the anatomical descriptions of Daubenton.

The Brothers Baudouin, booksellers in Paris, have issued a prospectus, announcing a Complément des Euvres de Buffon, ou Histoire naturelle, générale, et particulière de tous les animaux rares et précieux, découverts par les naturalistes et les voyageurs depuis la mort de Buffon, par R. P. Lesson. This supplement to all the editions of Buffon is announced as likely to consist of 10 vols. 8vo. and an atlas, of 120 plates, to be published in 20 parts.

CHAMFORT (Séb. Roch, Nic.)

Ses Euvres, recueillies et publiées par un de de ses amis [Ginguené,] avec une Notice sur la vie et les écrits de l'auteur. Paris, an iii. (1795) 4 vols. 8vo.

This edition was the first published, purporting to contain the whole of Chamfort's works; it does not however contain, Le Discours qui a remporté le prix à l'Académie de Marstilles.

Les mémes. Edition revue, corrigée et précédée d'une Notice sur sa vie, extraite de celle de Ginguené, par M. Colnet, et augmentée de son Discours sur l'influence du génie des grands écrivains sur l'esprit de leur siècle. Paris, Colnet, 1808, 2 vols. 8vo. and Paris, Maradan, 1812, 2 vols. 8vo.

Although this edition contains a Discours more than that

published by Ginguené, it is however, by no means so valuable as the following:

Les Mêmes, recueillies et publiées avec une notice historique sur la vie et les écrits de l'auteur, par P. R. Anguis. Paris, Chaumerot jeune. 1824-25, 5 vols. 8vo.

This edition, the most complete of Chamfort's works, besides those which found a place in the former editions, contains many that had never appeared with his name; also his Notes to the fables of La Fontaine, and under the title of Mélanges de Littérature et d'Histoire, the articles he furnished to the Mercure.

Chamfort was a man very largely gifted with Esprit, and among the whole of his productions, there is probably not one that can be called ennuyeux, except the tragedy of Mustapha et Zeangir, which was written to flatter Louis XVI, it being an allusion to the friendship which existed, or was supposed to exist, between the monarch and his brothers, the Counts of Provence and of Artois. The anecdotes of the society in which Chamfort passed the evening, and which on his return home he noted down on the back of a playing card, are extremely amusing, and the style in which they are written, comes nearer in piquancy, to the lighter productions of Voltaire than any thing we have had of a similar nature since. Chamfort composed several of the speeches which Mirabeau pronounced from the tribune. He put an end to his existence during the reign of terror. This edition of his works is worthy of occupying a place in the library of every lover of French Literature."-New Monthly Mag. vol. 15, p. 484.

CHATEAUBRIAND (Le Vicomte F. A. de),

Euvres complètes. Paris, Ladvocat, 1826, et années suivantes, 8vo.

The publication of this, the first edition of the complete works of M. de Chateaubriand, is rapidly advancing to its close, and of the 30 volumes of which it is to consist, more than 20 have already appeared (March, 1829.) Besides the principal works of the author, such as his Atala, Génie du Christianisme, Essai sur les Révolutions, &c. it will contain the numerous political pamphlets of the author, several pieces that have not as yet appeared, under the author's name, and some that are now published for the first time. For the materials which compose this edition, M. Ladvocat is said, by the French papers, to have paid the enormous sum of 550,000 francs.

CHENIER, (André) See Poetry, &c.

CONDILLAC (Et. Bonnot de).

Œuvres philosophiques, (contenant l'Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines; le Traité des Systèmes, celui des sensations et celui des animaux; le Commerce et le Gouvernement considérés relativement l'un à l'autre.) Amsterdam, 1746, 4 vols. 8vo. Nouvelle édition, Paris, 1798, 6 vols. 18mo.

-Œuvres complètes. Edition originale, augmentée de la Langue des Calculs, ouvrage posthume, (publiées par Arnoux et Mousnier) Paris, 1798, 23 vols. 8vo.

Les mêmes. Nouvelle édition, publiée par