178 Nations lately become Literary. [C[L XXVI., 



Diisch, ill didactic poetiy ; Kleist, \"oss, and 

 Goethe, m descriptive ^oeiiy :, Schlegel, Herder, 

 Weisse, and Raniler, in lyric ; and Canitz and 

 Stolbers,'-, in satirical poetry : Gesner and Voss^ 

 in pastoral ; and Lichtwehr, Lessing, and others, 

 in fable. Nor have the dramatic poets of Ger- 

 many, in the last age,, been inferior in genius and 

 taste to those of any other country, Cruger, 

 Schrarder, Iffland, Grossman, Lessing, Engel, 

 Goethe, and Kotzebue, in comedy ; and Weisse, 

 Lessing, Leisewitz, Klopstock, Schiller, Goethe, 

 Babo, and others, in tragedy, are well known to 

 have raised the German drama to a very high 

 degree of reputation, if not for moral purity, at 

 least for spirit, force, and natural delineation of 

 characters. 



Germany has also abounded within the last 

 twenty years, beyond any country on earth, in 

 miscellaneous publications on philology, criti- 

 cism, education, and every branch of polite lite- 

 rature. It ought further to be mentioned, to the 

 honour of Germany, that although classic litera- 

 ture lias much declined in that country, especially 

 since the practice of delivering lectures in Latin,, 

 and speaking that language, in many of her se- 

 minaries of learning, has been discontinued ; yet 

 this kind of knowledge has declined probably 

 less in Germany than in any other part of the 

 literary world ; and the literati of that empire 

 may be considered as, on the whole, the best 

 classic scholars that now adorn the republic of 

 h'ttcrs. The names of Kuster, Reiske, Ernesti, 

 lleyne, Kuhnken, Matthasi, Schneider, Voss, 

 lleeren, F. A. Wolf, Bottis^er, and Heusingcr,. 



