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Mr Hegeiv't/h., an author of great hiftorjcal talents, Profeflbr 

 of Hiftory at Kiel, has united in his works judgment, learn- 

 ing and philofophical refiedtion, with an entertaining manner. 



Profejfor planks^ of Goltingen, has fome years fince favoured 

 the world with a Hiftory of the Reformation, in which he un- 

 folds the proteftant doftrine and fyftem in a manner very dear 

 and candid, and likely to gain attention. His book is the 

 fulleft, and beft exifting, on the German and Helvetic Reforma- 

 tion. He had accefs to many fcarce materials and records, 

 and ftudied diligently the original works of Luther, Zuinglius, 

 Melancthon, and Erafmus, efpecially in their too much ne- 

 gledted correfpondence by letters, whereby he has made his 

 work an " Hiftoire raifonnee de TEfprit Humain du terns de 

 la Reformation." It is delightful to follow this author in his 

 inveftigation of the gradual rife of the fun of truth in Luther''s 

 foul, and in the clearing up the ideas of the firft reformers and 

 their contemporaries. The whole hiflor^ is very philofophical, 

 the didion noble and pure, vet for adepts fomewhat too dif- 

 ftife. 



Prqfejfor H^beriin's Hiftory of Germany is an immenfe ma- 

 gazine of annals in the manner of our Carte. He had the ufe 

 of the records and library of Wolfenbuttel, the moft compleat 

 in German hiftory that can be imagined. The firft 34 volumes 

 of this book, printed in oftavo of a great bulk, bring his hifto- 

 ry down only to the year i/;94 I 



In the Gottingen library there is a MS. Collecftion of Chan- 

 cel/or Vlglius Zuichemus' s letters, in twenty-four volumes folio, 

 icontaining important information relating to the hiftory of tka 

 'reign of the Emperor Charles V. It contains the fpeech he 

 made on his abdication in the Netherlands on the 2^th of 

 October 1555. 



In the fame library there ii a «' Sommaire des I'cyages fails 

 par Charles F. dcpuis \e,\i„ jufques 1551, recuillez. et mis par 

 efcript,par Jean Faudenejfe, cottrolleiir, ayant fuivifa Majejie en 

 tour lesdiSs -voyages." This journal is «Iedicated to Cardinal 

 Granvella. Tlic author afterwards continued it to 15^0. Tho' 

 written in the Ample ftile of a diary, it contains many remark- 

 able unknown fadts. 



Very little ufe has been made of tliefe MSS. by the late Mr 

 Dieze, who corretfled Guthrie and Gray's Hiftory of Spain and 

 Portugal, which coireflion is to be found in the German tranf- 



