Vol. V.J 
etc. page 42), has beer, in great mea-_ 
fure, fulfilled by this careful colleétion, 
though it is far from being fo complete 
as to require no further improvements ; 
but, upon the whole, Mr. V.'s induftry 
and accuracy cannot be difputed by im- 
partial judges. Another demonftration 
of the peculiar diligence of the Germans, 
in this department, is “© The Archiy 
(Magazine) for Pure and Pvaétical Ma- 
thematics;.’ edited by G F. HinpENn- 
BERG, at Leipzig. Of this we have feen 
the fixth number, which is filled with 
feveral valuable effays, written by the 
following eminent mathematicians, name- 
ly, HENNERT, KLUGEL, BUZENGLI- 
GER, KasTNER, FiscHer, Rorue, 
and Liprcke. We cannot conclude 
this article without pointing out a work 
which promifes to afford great ‘tatisfac- 
tion to every lover of literature; viz. 
“The literary Hiftoryof the mathematical 
Sciences ; Vol. I. containing the Litera- 
ture of Mathematics in general, of A- 
rithmetic, and Geometry :” or, with a 
Latin title, “ Bibliotheca Mathematica, 
auctore F.Gu. A. Muruarp, Vol. I. 
continens Scripta. generalia de Mathefi, 
de Arithmetica, & -Geometria.”’ Be- 
fides the fyftematic catalogue of books, 
chronologically arranged in every branch © 
of mathematics, the editor has carefully 
abridged the criticifms, that have from 
time to time appeared in the German as 
well as in the foreign reviews. 
, _ JURISPRUDENCE. 
In this department we find but a few 
books which can intereft the Englith 
reader. That Germany has produced 
great lawyers, fuch as PUFFENDORF, 
Wotrius, PuTTerR, and many others 
cannot be denied; but the public and 
private law of that country being na- 
tional in fpirit and form, it would be an 
unprofitable. tafk to introduce any other 
than fuch works as treat upon general 
principles. Of this nature is ‘ The Li- 
brary of Criminal Jurifprudence, and the 
Knowledge of Law in general,’ by Dr. 
C.Groitman. No {cience has a great- 
er influence on the welfare or deftruétion 
of fociety, than that of criminal law; 
and yet it is perhaps the moft unfettled 
in theory, as well as the moft wavering 
in practice. With the benevolent inten- 
tion of removing thefe obftacles, and of 
advancing. a ftep farther than his prede- 
ceffors have done, the fame author has 
very lately publifhed “ The Principles of 
Criminal Law, together with a fy {tematic 
View of the Criminal Law of Ger- 
many,’ 1798, pp. 500, octavo. In this 
r 
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excellent treatife Dr. G. not only exhi- 
bits the fpirit of the pofitive law, accord- 
ing to the German conftitution, but he 
alfo unfolds in a complete and perfpicu- 
ous manner the whole fyftem of law, by 
reducing it to the clear and tenable 
principles of the law of punifhment in 
general, In 
MEDICINE 
we find the Germans more bufily em- 
ployed than in any other department. 
Every branch of medicine is cultivated 
among them with uncommen ardour; 
and anatomy, in particular, has of late 
years been fuccefsfully ftudied. There 
is, perhaps, no medical man in this coun- 
try who is unacquainted with the works 
and merits of WALTER, SOMMERING, 
LEBER, MECKEL, LopEerR, Metz. 
GER, and many other celebrated anato- 
mifts of the prefent day in Germanye 
One of the lateft publications is * Sam. 
Taom. SOMMERING Tabula Sceleti fe- 
minini, junéia Deferiptione ; fol. roy.”? By 
this table the learned profeffor has en- 
deavoured to fill up a chafm in anatomy, 
that has exifted ever fince the appearance 
of the mafterly plates of ALBINUS, which 
exhibit the male fkeleton. And though 
the female fkeleton by SOmmering be not, > 
in every vefpeét, equal to that by Albi- 
nus, it is neverthele{s a valuable acceflion 
to the latter work. In phyfiology and 
pathology feveral excellent works have 
lately been publifhed, of which we muft 
notice Prof. $PRENGEL’s ‘¢ General Pa- 
thology,” in three volumes, o€tavo, and 
Prof. Reixt’s book, “ On the Knowledge. 
and Cure of Fevers;” the firt*part of 
which contains the general doétrine of 
fevers, in 580 pages, o¢tavo. The for= 
mer work renders that of GAuBIUS, on 
the fame fubjeét, obfolete: the latter is 
the produétion of a man who neither in- 
volves himfelf in theories, or fubtle hy- 
pothefes, mor wifhes to explain every | 
thing by explaining nothing; but it is the 
werk uf a phyfician, who, through many 
new and fertile ideas, difcovers a genuine 
philofophic fpirit, who, “after a long ex- 
perience, only wifhes to theorize, who 
confeffes, with modefty, that much ree 
mains to be explained, and whofe ac- 
knowledged merits,.in medical f{cience, 
receive additional luftre from this valuable 
publication. ‘he fame author continues 
to publith the ** Phyfiological Magazine,” 
begun in 1796, of which two volumes 
have been completed. Of this publica. 
tion we can only fay, that the firft medi- 
cal characters in Germany fupport it by 
their correfpondence ; and that it is chiefly 
defigned 
