Here is news worth listening to; news as from the empyrean! Free interchange of poetries and proses, of heroic sentiments and opinions, between the Unique of Sages and the Paragon of Crown-Princes; how charming to both! Literary business, we perceive, is brisk on both hands; at Cirey the _Discours sur l'Homme_ ("Sixth DISCOURS" arrives in this packet at Loo, surely a deathless piece of singing); nor is Reinsberg idle: Reinsberg is copiously doing verse, such verse! and in prose, very earnestly, an "ANTI-MACHIAVEL;" which soon afterwards filled all the then world, though it has now fallen so silent again.

And at Paris, as Voltaire announces with a flourish, "M.

de Maupertuis's excellent Book, _Figure de la T'erre,_ is out;" [Paris, 1738: Maupertuis's "measurement of a degree," in the utmost North, 1736-1737 (to prove the Earth flattened there).

Vivid Narrative; somewhat gesticulative, but duly brief.

The only Book of that great Maupertuis which is now readable to human nature.] M.de Maupertuis, home from the Polar regions and from measuring the Earth there; the sublimest miracle in Paris society at present.