Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

LITERARY

Saint Pierre, in his great work, "The Studies of Nature," has made, perhaps, the most valuable accession to the stores of modern philosophy.

Goldsmith has been praised for familiarizing science, and for strewing with flowers what Dr. Johnson denominates "the dusty deserts of barren philosophy." But Goldsmith, without being superior to St. Pierre in eloquence, is less profound, less accurate, less informing.

Of this most intelligent guide, through the walks of nature, an edition of his delectable "Studies" has lately been given by Mr. Joseph Nancrede, with a lustrous paper and type, not often witnessed in America.

Few books have been more liberally subscribed to; but still, to the mass of readers, a useful and pleasing book is almost unknown.

On men of letters, an enterprising bookseller has always his claims; and it may be truly said, there are peculiar. He has with an adventurous spirit, risked a large impression of a bulky work, and, exceeding his proposals, without enhancing his demands, furnishes his subscribers with fair edition, on English woven, instead of an inferior, and American paper.

Good Books, well printed, with men of science and taste, seem not merely to merit, but to challenge encouragement. America has been pronounced indifferent to letters, and studious men have been directed to Rome for a Mecenas, rather than to Boston. Let the reader and the patron, in this country, refute this ignominious charge, and in the midst of abundance, suffer not the corn to wither on its stalk, for lack of watering.

(Boston Mercury.)