Note T — SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF NATIONAL INDUSTRY.

These poëtes et littérateurs amiables qui chantent pour s’amuser, are M. de Berchoux, author of the charming poem la Gastronomie, and the authors of the Almanac des Gourmands, an annual publication written with infinite wit and humour, and which enjoys a higher reputation, and more extensive popularity, than any other work of taste published in France, since the revolution. For an account of both these productions the reader is referred to the Literary Panorama, Vol. VII. pp. 661, and 719. The Almanac of Gluttons, if it be not the standard of poetic genius in imperial France, is at least an indication of the direction which talent is now taking: a direction, which the laws and literary police of the Napoleon government will not fail effectually to maintain. T.