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the library of natural hiftory belonging 
to Sir Jofeph Banks: this, as may well 
be fuppofed, is not a mere dry catalogue ; 
on the contrary, it not only fhows the 
extent and value of the colleétion, but 
from the new and judicious arrangement 
points out to the ftudent numerous 
fources of information under each head, 
where it would with difficulty be difco- 
vered, and in works where it might not 
be expected to exift, 
Mrs. Cappre’s ‘© Account of two 
charity Schoo!s for the Education of 
Girls, and of a female friendly Society,” 
dves the higheft honour to herfelf and 
her female coadjutors for their aétive 
benevolence. 
A tranflation, faid to be the perform- 
ance of Mifs H. M. WiLtiams, has 
appeared in two volumes of Mercier’s 
«¢ New Piéture of Paris.’” 
Dr. A1k1N has publifhed a fecond vo- 
Jume of ** Letters from a Father to his 
Son, on various Topics relative to Lite- 
yature and the Conduét of Life.” It is 
impoffible to fpeak more highly of this 
volume than by faying that it evinces the 
fame ftrong and difcriminating jJudg- 
ment, the fame chafte and cultivated 
tafte, and the fame liberal turn of think- 
ing, which combined to flamp fo high a 
value on the former. 
Mr. WAKEFIELD has employed the 
hours of his confinement in Dorchefter- 
gaol as would naturally be anticipated, 
R etrofpcE? of Gersian Literature.—T healgy. 
namely, in the purfuit of claffical htera- 
ture. Within the walls of his prifon he 
has produced a tranflation of fome ** Se- 
leé&t Effays by Dio Chryfoftom:” the fe- 
leétion is judicious, and the tranflation at 
once elegant and faithful. 
The work with the notice of which 
we fhall conclude our retrofpeé for the 
prefent half year is from the claffical and 
learned pen of Dr. VINCENT, whofe il- 
luftration of the ** Voyage of Nearchus 
from the Indus to the Evphrates” we 
noticed on a former occafion. ‘“ The 
Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, part the 
Firft, containing an Account of the Navi- 
gation of the Ancients from the Sea of 
Suez tothe Coaft of Zanguebar.” The 
prefent volume contains only that part of 
the Periplus which has relation to Africa 
and its coaft ; the remainder of the Peri- 
plus, relating to the Arabian and Indian 
coaft, and the commerce carried on with 
them, Dr. Vincent intends to publifh at 
fome future time, fhould health and 
leifure permit him to profecute his ar- 
duous undertaking. Ourreaders will be 
very highly gratified to learn that an ele- 
gant and accurate tranflation into the 
French language, by M. Billecocq (un- 
der the patronage and by the order of 
Bonaparte), has lately been moft fplen- 
didly publifhed of Dr. Vincent’s Voyage 
of Nearchus. M. Billecocq is at prefent 
employed upon the tranflation of the 
prefent volume. 
ee 
RETROSPECT OF THE PROGRESS OF GERMAN LITERATURE 
DURING THE LAST SIX MONTHS. 
Wwe have not for many years witneffed 
fo abundant a harveft of zevzu lite- 
rary productions, as the laft Eafter-fair 
ef Leipfic yielded; nor is it the number 
only of new publications, but likewife 
their intrinfic value, that diftinguifhes 
zhis fair, at a time when it might have 
been expected that the effeéts of a ruin- 
ous war would, more than ever, produce 
a ftagnation in the book-trade. For, by 
the invafions of the French, the ufual 
commercial intercourfe with all Switzer- 
land and one half of South Germany has 
deen almoft entirely interrupted ; and 
fince the publication of the formidable 
Vkafe in April, 1800, the German book- 
fellers have been entirely excluded from 
the markets of Ruiffia, whither they ufed 
to export large quantities of books for the 
upply of the numerous German fettlers ; 
Jout where at prefent not a fingle printe 
ed fheet is allowed to be imported ; the 
Ukase being executed with fuch ftrictnefs, 
that whole pages of the Hamburg Newf- 
papers are blacked over and rendered il- 
legible, before they are diftributed to the 
fubfcribers. The fpace appropriated in 
our magazine tothe Retrofpeé& of German 
Literature would not be fufficient to al 
low us to charaéterife, in an ample man- 
ner, each of the more important publica~ 
tions of laft Eafter fair; we muit there- 
fore content ourfelves with giving a fume 
mary notice of them.—In 
THEOLOGY, 
an important work has been complet- 
ed: SrwupDLin’s * Grundiffe der Tu- 
gend und Religionflehre.’’ S.’s Principles 
of Morality and Religion.—2d feétion of 
part ii, (Gétting. Vandenhoek and Ru- 
prechr, 1. 8vo.). It contains the me 
an 
