ANTOINE-YVES, a distinguished French writer, born at Paris Jan. 18, 1716. From his infancy he was connected by ties of friendship with Alexander Conrad Fugère, the learned editor of the Journal des Savans; they studied philosophy together at the college of Harcourt; and when Goguet undertook the work which distinguishes his name, Fugère assisted him with criticisms and materials. In the midst of these labours Goguet was cut off by an attack of small-pox, May 1, 1758, and his friend was so deeply affected by his bereavement that he only survived the shock three days. Goguet's work is entitled De l'Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Sciences, et des leur Progrès chez les anciens peuples, Paris 1758, 3 vols. 4to. Of this valuable work there have been several editions; but the first is the best. An excellent translation of it was published at Edinburgh in 1761, in 3 vols. 8vo, by Dr Henry, the historian of Great Britain. The period embraced in the work extends from the establishment of civil society to the reign of Cyrus. It is divided into three parts, and each part into six books, which treat separately of government, the arts and manufactures, the sciences, commerce and navigation, the military art, and, lastly, manners and usages. The style is agreeable, though occasionally marred by traces of bad taste. At the end of each volume are discussed, in learned dissertations, those points the detailed examination of which could not easily enter into the body of the work. An Eloge of Goguet was printed in the Année Littéraire, 1758, tome iv., and in the supplement to the Journal des Savans for the month of July in the same year.