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1811.] Account of the Leipzig Fair at Easter> 
To philology, in a more extended sense, 
belong likewise the modern languages, 
which the German studies with critical 
accuracy, extending his attention to the 
classical authors of every country : of 
this we have a proof in an elegant 
edition of the Lusiada of Camoens, with 
%'arious readings and annotations, by 
V. WiNTERFELD. -J. W. BeCK, by 
QucBStiones de Originibus Linguas Fran¬ 
co-gallics, has contributed to the for¬ 
mation of a new etymological Dictionary 
of the French language. In the Cata¬ 
logue we find under the head of Foreign 
Literature, above two hundred articles, 
among which are Grammars, Chresto- 
mathies. Class-books, and Dictionaries of 
almost all the languages of Europe—-the 
less common of which are the fourth 
volume of Vox Lixde’s (Rector in \Var- 
ssiw) Polish Lexicon, M.—O. which gives 
a comparative view of all the dialects of 
the Slavonic language; and Kopitar^s 
Grammar of the Slavonic language, as 
spoken in Krain and Carinthia. Sam¬ 
ples of almost every production of Da¬ 
nish literature, during the preceding 
year, were exhibited by Brummer, from 
Copenhagen, notwithstanding the un¬ 
favourable rate of exchange w’ith that city. 
Docex, Bexeken, and other eminent 
philologists, in the journals and other 
contributions devoted to old Teutonic 
Literature, elucida’. the history of the 
Minnesdnger, the sources of ancient 
German poetry. A Dictionary and 
Grammar of the ancient Teutonic, has 
been announced by twm eminent phi¬ 
lologists of Berlin—Von Hagen and 
Biisching. Campe’s large Dictionary 
proceeds rapidly towards completion. 
Tlie fourth part contains in the letters 
S. T. 13,036, articles more than Ade- 
lung; with a discourse by Bernd, the 
learned and indefatigable editor. The 
last volume, was to appear at Easter, 
1811; and to it will be added an ety. 
juological volume by f'ater, of Konigs- 
berg. Much is likewise expected from 
tlie labours of the Bavarian Academy^ 
with respect to German Grammar. 
The treasures of the East continue 
likew'ise to be explored by intelligent, 
orientalists. In this re.spect the journal 
entitled the “ Fundgriiben des Orients^ 
undertaken by Count Wexcesl.vus 
Rzevusei, and published by the learned 
Von Hammer, in Vicuna, deserves par¬ 
ticular notice. For the, instruction of 
the students of the Oriental Academy, ir. 
Vienna, a drama in the Turkish language 
bus been published, V;’Ani., a orof^ssor 
in Halle, has completed his preliminary 
labours for the publication of Sha Na« 
nieh. Geseuius, to whom we were in¬ 
debted for a new useful Hebtieo-chaldaic 
Lexicon, has extended his labours to the 
ancient Maltese language. The manu¬ 
script from which a translation of the 
whole of the Thousand and One Nights 
is announced, by Caussix, in Paris, 
was found in Cairo by a German, Vo2f 
Hammer. 
The contents of the Catalogue evince 
anew the justness of the German’s claim 
to the tide, “ Central Librarian of 
Europe,” 
The twelfth volume of Harle.s’s Fa- 
bricius; the eighth of Reuss’s Repertory 
of the Acts of all Literary and Scientific 
Societies, are additional proofs of hif 
collecting or methodizing diligence. 
The eighth volume of BouterweceT 
History of Modern Literature, brings 
the literary History of England down 
to the latest times, with a critical discri¬ 
mination from which even Britons might 
learn. 
Hardt gave, in the fourth part of the 
Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the 
Central Library in Manich, an enumera¬ 
tion of the manuscripts. No. 348—472, 
removed thither from Augsburg. 
The indefatigable Meusel continued 
his Account of Deceased Authors to the 
end of the tenth volume, containing 
N— Q; and Jordexs concluded with 
the sixth part his Dictionary of German 
poets and prose writers. 
Among the Encyclopsedias and Lite¬ 
rary Histories ofsingle Sciences, of which 
almost every year brings forth new ones, 
the systematic Encyclopadia of Medicine, 
by Burdach, and Becker’s, Literatur 
der Nnhr'urigsJainde, hold a distin¬ 
guished rank. The Letters of the Fa¬ 
mily of Klopstock, which have appeared 
at Haiberstadt, under the title of “ iv/op- 
stoch and his FriendsP are highly iuter- 
esting: though the mode of publication 
has brought meiited censure on the 
editor. Lastly, Aretik’s IMnemonikj 
with tables of characters printed on 
stone, cieserves lionourable mention. 
How easily might all this degenerate 
iiUo mere pedantry and sciolism, if the 
torch of piiilosophy did not diltuse light 
over the chaotic mass; and certainly the 
true spirit of phiiosophislng is not extin¬ 
guished, wiiilst new editions of such 
works as Schulze’s Logic appear; and 
wlien a Hafbnuer, agreeably to a prizes 
question of the Berlin academy, pub- 
liAiCS his Ptesearchea on Philosophical 
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