Retrofped? of German Literature.—Belles-Letires. 
tica in Anthologiam Gracam, cum fup- 
plemento epigrammatum maximam par- 
tem Ineditorum (Jena, et Lipf. From- 
mann). 
The Homeric Hymns, which fince the 
publication of Ruhnkenius’s Ep. Crit. 
have engaged the attention of a number 
of learned commentators, have again been 
treated of by MaTTHIA, in his “ Ani- 
madverfiones in Hymnos Homericos, cum 
Prolegomenis de ejufdem confilio, parti- 
bus, ztate (Lipf. Weidm.)’’ In the Pro- 
legomena, the acute and ingenious author 
enters into an examination of the different 
hypothefes concerning the author of thefe 
hymns. The Commentary contains a fe- 
ries of happy emendations and learned 
explanations. 
Of the new editions of Latin authors, 
that moft deferving of notice is the ex- 
cellent one of Vitruvius, by the fame 
learned gentleman to whom the public 
were already indebted for a mafterly 
tranflation of, and commentary cn, that 
writer, intwo vols. 4ro. The title of the 
mew edition is, *‘ Vitruvius ed. Rhode 
{4 maj. Berol. Mylius).’”’ 
Other contributions towards the eluci- 
dation of Vitruvius have been commu- 
nicated tothe literary world by GENEL- 
LY, in his *‘ Exegetifche Briefe tiber Vi- 
truvs Baukunft, an Aug. Rhode,” Exe. 
etical Letters on the Architeéture of 
Wie addreffed to Aug. Rhode (vol. 
i. with cuts, |. 4to. Brunfwick, Vieweg. ) 
Of RuHKOP#F’s efteemed edition of Se- 
neca the fecond volume has made its ap- 
pearance: ‘* Senece Philof. Opera omnia 
que fuperfunt, recognovit et illuftravir 
F. E. Ruhkopf (vol. ii. 8 maj. Lipf. 
Weidm).”—GIERIG, the learned editor 
of Ovid’s Metamorphofes, is now em- 
ployed about a new edition of the Letters 
of the younger Pliny, of which the firft vo- 
Jume has been publifhed: “ Plinii Epifto- 
larum libri X, recenfuit notisque illuftra- 
vit Gierig (8 maj. Amftel. & Lipf.).’’ 
The laf Hafter-fair likewife broughtforth 
a new edition of Apicius: ‘ Apicti de op- 
foniis et condiments f. de arte coquina- 
ria libri x. cum leétionibus variis atque 
indict ed. Dr. BERNHOLD (vo. Anfpach. 
Haueifen).” It likewife deferves to be 
mentioned, that fince the laft Eafter fair, 
the highly finifhed and long expected 
edition of Horace, by Prof. MirscHER- 
LICH, of GGrtingen, was publifhed, in 2 
vols. 1. 8vo. (Leipzig, Crufius).. Thefe 
two volumes contain the five books of 
odes, with alearned commentary, written 
in claffical Latin. 
contain the critical remarks feparately, 
MontTuty Mas. 
A third volume wilk 
Gat 
BeLLes-LETTRES. 
Of works of this clafs there has been, 
as ufual, a very rich fupply : and in the 
crowd we notice fome valuable produc- 
tions. To thefe works of the firft rank 
belong SCHILLER’s “ Wallenftein, ein 
dramatifches Gedicht”—Wallenftein, a 
dramatical poem (Tiibingen, Corta), 
which is already fo well known, that we 
need not fay any thing farther on the 
fubje&t ; and his ** Gedichte’—Poems 
(Leipz. Crufius, 8vo.)—which had al- 
ready appeared in feveral ‘* Almanachs 
of the Mufes,” and whofe merit has long 
been acknowledged: there is only one 
new poem, addreffed to Géthe, and con- 
taining a friendly expoftulation relative 
to the latter’s tranflation of Voltaire’s 
““ Mahomet’? into blank-verfe for the 
Weimar theatre. 
WILL. AuG, SCHLEGEL has likewife 
colleéted his * Poems (I. 8vo. Tiibing. 
Cotta),” which, though not diftinguifhed 
by a high poetic flights, excel in purity 
and harmony of language. 
The works of two other deceafed poets 
of diftinétion have made their appearance 
in a new elegant drefs, with correc- 
tions and additions; viz. HAGEDORN’S 
“‘Sammtliche poétifche Werke, herausge. 
geben von Efchenburg.” All the poetical 
Works of Hagedorn, a new edition, by 
E.”’ (2 vol. |. 8vo. Hamburg, Bohn); 
and the * Poétifche Werke,” Poetical 
Works, of Ramuer, the German Ho- 
race (vol.i, |. 8vo. Berlin, Sander). Hi¢ 
tranflation of the Odes of Horace, ‘* Horaz 
Oden tiberfetzt wnd erlauteret von Carli 
Wilh. Rammler,” is publifhed as a fepas 
rate work (vel, 1,1. 8vo. Berlin, Sander). 
MULLER, the ingenious author of Als 
fonfo and of Richard Cosur-de-Lion, has 
prefented to the public his “ Lyvifché 
Gedichte und Epifteln’—Lyric Poems 
and Epiftles—(Carlfruhe, Muller); and 
*« Gedichte an den Erzherzog Carl” —~ 
Poems to the Archduke Charles-—(ibid. 
id.). F. DELBRUCK developes the rules 
of fine writing from the works of German 
poets, rendering them more generally in- 
telligible by his illuftrations: ‘* Lyrifche 
Gedichte, erlauteret yon Ferd. Delbruck, 
vol. i.”’—Klopftock’s Odes (Svo. Berlin, 
Sander). 
Among the romances and novels pub- 
lifhed laft Eafter fair, the moft diftins 
guifhed is ‘“* Titan,” by Jean Paut 
(RICHTER) with an Appendix (Berlin, 
Matzdorf), in which the original vein of 
humour of that admired, but little un- 
derfiood, poet fhincs. forth with greater. 
luftre than ever. 
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