

_ Moft numerous again are the produc- 
tions in the field of the Belles-Lertres. 
But we fear there are many tares and 
empty ears mixed with the good cora.— 
The moft valuable produétion, however, 
in this department of literature is not 
mentioned in the Catalogue; and yer it 
is the work to which we might venture 
to promife a longer exiltence than to any 
other whofe title -is there recorded—and 
even true immortality, as far as the Jan- 
guage of Germany can enfure immorta- 
lity to one of her claffical writers. GO- 
{chen, a Bookfeller in Leipfic, whofe 
f{plendid editions are in the hands of every 
book-colle€tor in Europe, has publifhed, 
Jaft Michaelmas-fair, two volumes of 
WIELAND’s ‘‘Ariftippus,” either fe- 
parately, or as the 35th and 36th vol. of 
all his Works. At the end of a literary 
career of almoff fifty years, the venerable 
poet Wieland, blending with the full- 
grown itrength of mature age the eternal 
youth of his inexhauttible fancy, tranf- 
ports us in thefe Letters,’ as by enchant- 
ment, into the moft fhining peridd of 
ancient Greece. There is nothing of 
fiction in thefe letters, yet a f{pirit of 
poetry pervades them ; and the Germans 
may confidently venture to place them 
by the fide of ‘the celebratdd *'‘Fravels 
of the Younger Anacharfis:”—-M. Von 
Meyer has favoured the public with a 
fingularepic poem, entitled ‘“Tobias;” and 
a Mr. LANGNER hasat the fame time fent 
forth “ Winter and Spring,”—and “ A 
Meffiah tong after Klopftock’s Meifiah.” 
But we doubt whether the Methahs after 
Klopftock will raeet with a more fa- 
vourable reception among the Germans 
than the Iliads after’ Homer did among 
the Greeks.—Not inconfiderable is the 
number of Poets who have converted 
their Mufes into fheaf-binders ; or, in 
ether words, who have publifhed col- 
Jeétions of their difperfed poems. Be- 
fides SopH1A MEREAU’s, which be- 
long to an earlier period, there appeared 
colleétions of Poems by Seume, by 
FREDERIKA Brun, of Copenhagen, 
by MucuH ter, with chalcographical de- 
corations, and by VON WEISSENBURG., 
The laft-mentioned are particularly de- 
fervingy of notice. Voss and SCHIL- 
LER’s poetical Almanacks no longer ap- 
pear; and experience only can fhew, 
whether the new Auftrian and Weftpha- 
lian * Calendars of the Mufes”’ will, in 
forne meafure, indemnify us for the lofs 
of their efteemed predeceflors.—Of tranf- 
Jations, likewife, there is n9 want.— 
Sketch of the principal TF orks fol at the laft Leipfie Fair. 
G27 
Ruwope, of Berlin, has publifhed a free 
rythmical tranflation of Olfian; and Mut- 
LER, of Leipfic, has transtufed into Ger- 
man jYambics the celebrated “* Georgi- 
ques,” of Delille; the twelve editions of 
which in French had in Germany like- 
wife an incredibly rapid fale, 
_ The 6oo circulating librartes and read- 
ing focieties in Germany had hardly been 
able properly to arrange on their fhelves 
the excefive crowd of novels and ro- 
mances which appeared laft Kafter; wher 
a freth troop of 106 new comers pourin up» 
on thei from the autumnal Fair; befides 
many others, which had concealed them- 
felves among the main-body *. We hare 
lately feen announced a Lefterwwriter by 
means of dice, teaching, how, with the af= 
fittance of 99 {mall cards, a perfon might 
compofe moft charming little ingenious 
epifties, without being under the necef- 
fity oleftretching in the leaft the fibres of 
the brain. On reading this. advercife- 
ment, incredulous folks thook their head : 
but they will foon be convinced of the. 
unreafonablenefs of their incredulity, if 
they take a view of the wonderful {warm 
of novels and romances announced in the 
Catalogue; for if ‘two-thirds of ¢hem 
have not been thrown together merely 
by the ingérs, without the afiftance of the 
head; furely blind chance itfelf is become | 
invincible neceffiry, and--on the faro-table 
check is played. The words as be js 
and as ke fhould be have become a fafhie 
onable addition to the titles of many of 
thefe ephemeral productions; and we 
might, in like manner, divide all the 
works announced under this head in the 
Catalogue into fuch as toey are, and fecb 
as they faould be. ‘To the tirft clafs, alas ! 
belong at leaft feven-eighths of the whole 
troop ; and among them the terrorifts 
and heétorifts, or ghoff and robber-ra- 
mances, full take the lead, notwithftand- 
ing the keen fhafts of ridicule aimed at 
them in the witty romance, entitled, 
“ Kurt von Krotenftein,” and even in 
defiance to an order iffued by his Imperial 
majefty, on the roth of January, 18qo. 
Here again we have terrible Apartments, 
Stone Statues of the Mother, and Tzins of 
Wolfsmountain. A NMladame Von Wat- 

* In the Leipfic Catalogue, novels and plays 
are arranged under a feparate head: fome au- 
thors, who are afhamed of this company, cons 
trive, by giving a doubtful title to their works, 
to procure them a place among the other pro. 
duttions advertifed, which are arranged alpha- 
ketically, . 
LENRODT, 
