LAISSE-LES ESPERER, LAISSE-LES ENTREPRENDRE; IL SUFFIF QUE TA CAUSE EST LA CAUSE DE DIEU. VOL. VI. LONDON: Printed, for the Proprietors, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, Peterborough-Court, AND PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET 1800, OF THE TITLES, AUTHORS NAMES, &c. ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine; &c. &c. &c. For MAY, 1800. LAISSE-LES ESPERER, LAISSÉ-LES ENTREPRENDRE; . IL SUFFIT QUE TA CAUSE EST LA CAUSE DE DIEU. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. ART. I. The Travels of Antenor in Greece and Afia; fromt a Greek Manufcript found at Herculaneum: including fome Account of Egypt. Tranflated from the French of E. F. Lantier. With additional Notes by the English Tranflator. In 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. Boards. Longman and Rees. 1799. THE HE French are more peculiarly attached to the historical Romance. In this fpecies of compofition they have, in general, made choice of fubjects highly interefting to a claffic imagination. They have introduced characters in the most ftriking or engaging attitudes; reprefented incidents with an uncommon force and beauty; and defcribed places in a style delightfully picturefque. Yet, with all these advantages, they have, for the most part, incurred cenfure from the extrava..gance or boldnefs of their effays, in the intertexture of fiction with truth, In the Telemachus," of Fenelon, we can scarcely fay, that hiftory has been involved in fabulous invention; fince the age and the characters of Telemachus, pre-occupied by the Bards of Greece, were, in themfelves, poetical. In the Travels of Anacharfis," the imagination of the NO. XXIII. VOL, VI. B poet |