The celebrated Cardinal Maury has recently published an edition of his works in two volumes octavo, consisting of his Essay upon the eloquence of the pulpit and of various Discourses and Panegyrics.

Among the other works lately issued from the Parisian press, which have been most successful with the French public, are the following:

A history of the Revolutions of Persia during the eighteenth century; by Charles Picault.

A commercial and political journey through parts of the East Indies, the Philippine Isles and China, performed during the years 1803, 4, 5, 6 and 7; by Felix de Sainte-Croix. This work is stated to contain "important details concerning the com66 merce of those countries, and a view of the means to be em"ployed in order to rescue them from the English yoke." A History of Western Italy; by Professor Denina.

The second volume of the magnificent work of M. de Choiseul Gouffier on Greece.

An able Treatise on the various systems of political economy; by Charles Ganilh.

Fables in verse; by Ginguene, a distinguished member of the Institute.

An excellent translation of Livy; by Dureau de la Malle. The travels of Kang-Hi, or New Chinese letters; by Mr. de Levis.

A plan for the amalgamation of all religious societies; by J. Descotes.

A new novel of Goethe, entitled "Elective Affinities."

A history of France during the eighteenth century; by C. Lacretelle.

A volume entitled "Mde. de Maintenon delineated by herself."

A history of the first ages of Greece, by Clavier.—And a multitude of dissertations on the literature of the eighteenth century, and on the progress and character of the Mahometan religion.

It is to be collected from the last catalogue of the fair of Leipsic, that there are now in Germany, ten thousand two hundred and forty three authors full of health and spirit, and each of whom publishes at least once a year. In a report made not long since to the French Institute, on the subject of German authorship, it is stated, that in the department of ancient literature alone, more than five hundred works have been published.

within the last three years. The most remarkable and interesting of the late publications of the North of Europe, is a work entitled "Nestor, or Russian Annals in the original "Sclavonian, compared, translated and interpreted, by Louis "Schlætzer professor of history and politics, in the University "of Gottenburg."-In 1765 Mr. de Schlætzer, then a resident academician of St. Petersburgh, was charged by virtue of a particular ukase from the Empress Catherine, to investigate all the most authentic and ancient documents, in relation to the Russian History, and to digest and arrange the annals of the empire from the earliest periods. The work which the learned professor has now begun to publish, is the fruit of the labours of nearly a whole life consecrated to the study of History in general, and of this particular subject. It is dedicated to the Emperor Alexander, and will consist of twelve volumes. The following notice is taken of it by the most celebrated of the Parisian amateurs of German literature; "We have in this "work not only a full elucidation of the old chronicle of the "Monk Nestor, who may be called the Muscovite Gregory "of Tours, and who has unfolded the origin and the increase "of the most considerable empire that exists, but also a his"C tory of the relations of the Sclavonian people with all their "neighbours, with the Byzantine empire, and with western "Europe. In the critical annotations which Mr. de Schlatzer "has annexed to his version of the Russian annalist, and in "which he displays a wonderful store of erudition, as well as "an extraordinary vigour and subtilty of mind, he has sifted compared and elucidated the various relations of the history "of the ancient Muscovites, with that of their cotemporaries, "and has thus rendered his work, a solid foundation for the "general history of the modern nations of a part of Asia and "Europe. The first volume is but "An Introduction to the "ancient history of Russia" in which, however, the author has "given, the most profound and luminous views, of the charac"ter of historical criticism in general."

The works of Alexander Hamilton, comprising his most important official Reports, an improved edition of the Federalist, &c.-In three volumes. New York, published by Williams and Whiting, 1810.

THE appearance of these volumes has given us the most lively satisfaction. They contain the writings of a statesman, whose opinions deserve to be received as oracular, and to be recalled to the public attention at every concurrence of opportunity. The official reports of General Hamilton, as secretary of the treasury, and his essays on the Federal Constitution, form an invaluable fund of solid instruction, and are fitted to yield a rich harvest of honour to the American name. They display such natural endowments of intellect, and such an accumulation of knowledge, as would have raised their author to the highest offices of national trust, and intitled him to the most splendid rewards of fame, under any free government, whether of antiquity, or of modern times. Abroad, his reputation as one of those illustrious patriots, who achieved the independence of this country, is inferior only to that of Washington; and at home, the same rank must be assigned to his merits by those, who regard the establishment of the Federal Constitution in its true light; as a victory for the United States, not less important, than their emancipation from a foreign yoke.

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resolutions passed by that body, calling upon him for information on the subjects to which they relate. These are, the state of public credit,—the institution and constitutionality of a national bank,-the establishment of a mint,-and the encouragement of domestic manufactures. No encomiums can be too lofty, when applied to the success with which he has treated these important branches of political economy. A most profound knowledge of general principles,-a singularly skilful application of them to the circumstances of this country, a most intimate acquaintance with our domestic interests and relations, the utmost perspicuity of method and style, and the happiest selection of topics both of argument and illustration, distinguish all his official reports, and authorize us to denominate them masterpieces in their kind. No question connected with their subject matter can now arise, upon which they do not shed the fullest light; and none of this description should be decided by any individual, or any body of men who may be engaged in the administration of our affairs, without a reference to these disquisitions.

General Hamilton has been justly styled the father of public credit in this country. To him we owe the organization of our finances, and the erection of various other of the main props of the constitution. In his official reports he has left sources of illumination-a body of fundamental maxims,-to his successors both in congress and in the treasury department, which, if duly appreciated, cannot fail to guide them to the same ends of public good, that he himself had constantly, and we may venture to say, unerringly, in view.

It is not our intention to analyse at this time, the contents of the first volume. The purposes of our undertaking will lead us to discuss separately, in the future numbers of this Review, the several branches of public economy which form the subject of the Reports. We shall then refer to them, with the sentiments of profound deference and admiration, to which they are intitled, and endeavour to exhibit their most prominent doctrines with suitable care and fulness. In all those doctrines, with the exception of a few points relating to domestic manufactures, we most heartily concur. If we venture to dissent from some of his opinions on this head, it will be with the same caution and diffidence, which we should feel in resisting the authority of Dr. Smith, or of Mr. Pitt, on any of the topics, to the investigation of which, their great minds were habitually applied.

It is to the two last volumes that our attention will be principally directed, in the notice which we mean to take of the

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work. They comprise the essays under the signature of the Federalist, which are universally admitted to contain the most profound and luminous exposition that has ever been given of the constitution of the United States. These essays are said to have contributed materially to the ratification of that instrument, and they are,-it may be affirmed with confidence,-no less admirably adapted to strengthen its authority and to prolong its duration. It is chiefly with a view to the important effects which they are still capable of producing, that we now undertake to dwell on their contents; to pronounce a well merited panegyric on their intrinsic excellence, and to compare the theory of the constitution as it is here expounded, with the aspect which it has hitherto worn, and now wears, in practice.

The subject is equally curious and important, and naturally leads to the discussion of a variety of momentous questions, on which we shall say as much as our narrow limits will allow. We shall think that we have rendered a valuable service to the country, if what we may now utter with respect to the Federalist, should merely conduce to widen the circulation of the work among ourselves, or to attract to it the notice of any part of the European world. In the hands of an American, it must operate as an antidote to the prejudices of party spirit, and to the illusions of wild democratic theories. To the mind of a dispassionate foreigner, it must convey a satisfactory refutation, of all the most serious objections, which have been urged against the institutions of the United States.

The circumstances under which these essays were written, invest them with an adventitious dignity, more imposing, perhaps, than that which belongs to any other political treatise whatever. Soon after the promulgation of the federal constitution, three of the leaders of the convention by whom it was framed, undertook, in a series of newspaper dissertations, to expound the principles and demonstrate the necessity, of the new government tendered to the nation. These gentlemen were, General Hamilton, on whom the labour chiefly devolved, Mr. Jay, who has since filled the first judicial of fice of the country, as well as the most important of our foreign embassies, and Mr. Madison, now President of the United States. No persons could have been more admirably qualified for the task, not only on account of the vigor of their talents and the vivacity of their zeal, but from the large and important share which they themselves had taken, in all the deliberations of the convention, on the subject of the federal system.