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As a fpecimen of the rapidity, or fa- 
ther rapacity with which fome bookfellers 
in Germany emulate certain Aonourable 
publithers in London in the art of multi- 
plying books and pirating literary pro- 
jects, we find as early as in the month 
of Auguft, 1798, txvo diferent tranfla- 
tions advertifed in the Intelligencer to the 
Jena Literary Gazette of the intended 
“« BeirisH NECROLOGY.” 
The fame whimfical anticipation pre- 
vails alfo in Germany in announcing 
-tranilations of «© Munco Park's Tra- 
vels in the Interior of Africa.” hele had 
actully attracted the attention of no lefs 
‘than half a dozen German publifhers be- 
fore a fheet of them was prizted in Eng- 
Jand. The old proverb of ‘¢ phlegmatic 
Germans’ canno longer be applied with 
juftice. 
Among the numerous Englifh books, 
‘of which tran/lations into German have 
either already appeared, or are now in 
the prefs, we notice the following: Tra- 
vels into Sicily and Athens: the Ilands 
of the Archipelago, Smyrna, Conftanti- 
nople, .and the Coafts of Africa; the 
Myfterious Caftle, a novel, in two parts ; 
Travels in Hungary, with a fhort Ac- 
count of Vienna, in the year 1793, by 
‘R. Townfon ; the Lite of Thomas Day ; 
An Account of the Englifh Colony of 
New. South Wales, by David Celhuns ; 
Britith Public Characters of 1798; 
‘the Reétor’s Son, by Mils 4uz Plumire ; 
Clermont, atale; a Survey of the Tur- 
kifh Empire, &c.. by W. Eion; Frag- 
ments in the manner of Sterne, fecond 
edition 1798 3 a Tour in Switzerland, &c. 
by Helen Maria Williams ;a Sketch of Mo- 
gern France, in a feries of letters, &c. 
the Yeung Philofopher, by Charlotte 
Smith; Chronclogical Tables of Univer- 
fai Hiftory, by Fohw Blair, continued by 
Chontreau ; Anecdotes of two well-known 
Families, written by a delcendant, and 
dedicated to the firft female pen in Eng- 
land, prepared for the prefs by Mrs. 
Parjons; three vols. 1798 ; Anecdotes of 
the Founders of the French Republic, 
vol. ii; Geraldina, a ftory; the Priory, 
er the Hiltory of an Orphan; Walling- 
ham, or the Pupil of Nature, by Maria 
Robinfon, &c. &c. 
New Maps.—Prof. Menn-rt has lately 
publithed anew Map of the Eaft- Indies, 
ot Hindotlan.. A Chorographie Map ef 
Belzium, by Capt. Louis, editor of the 
National Atlas of France in 69 folio 
plates’; a Chart, fhewing the fituation of 
che German and French armies rear Trier 
and. Saarburg, in the years 17 
Foreign Literary Intelligence. 
- [Jan, 
1794, by an officer of the German army ; 
a Plan of the Fortrefles of Strafburgh and 
Kehl and the neighbouring country, with 
a reprefentation of the fortifications 
erected at the fiege of Kehl, &c. 5; a new 
Map of the prefent territory of the Bata- 
vian Republic, according to its divifion - 
into departments, delineated by 7. C. 
Rader ; a Map ot the Black Sea, accord- 
ing to the Jateit aftroncmical calculations 
of Citizen Beauchamp, {ketched in the af- 
tronomical obfervatory at Seeberg near 
Gotha, iarge 4to. ; a Map of the Straits, 
called the Dardanelles or the Helleipent, 
and the Channel of Conftantinople or 
Boiporus, together with the Sea of Mar. 
mora, publifhed from the actual found- 
ings by Giafefcldt ; and a Map of Greece, 
and the Archipelago, according to the 
_ lateft drawing of Delarochette. 
The rage tor critical inveftigation and 
reformation in every branch of {eience, 
has arrived at fo high a pitch in Ger- 
many that Divinity and the Chriftian re- 
ligion itfelfdoes not appear to be exempt 
from it. A periodical publication hes 
been lately commenced by J. C, GREIL- 
ING, at Magdeburg, entitled ‘ Nesey 
pradical materials for Sermons on the Sun- 
day and Holiday Gofpels, extrafed and di- 
gefted fron IMMANUEL Kanr’s meral 
and religious writings. 
Mr. Schubart, a German poet of fome 
celebrity, who was for feveral years kept 
in confinement by the late reigning Duke 
of Wurtemberg, for publifhing a fati- 
rical pcem, in which he animadverted on 
the Duke’s extravagance and prodigality, 
is now employed in tranilating (fan into 
German poetic prefe; a {pecies of com- 
pefitien which has been fuceefsfully m- 
troduced by various iate writers, but par- 
ticularly by Gefuer in his Idyls, Death of 
Abel, &c. 
The Privy-counfellor Hezel, of Geif- 
en, has lately announced a work which 
he is prepering for the prefs, entitled 
“The Humanifiic Encyclopedia, or a Dic- 
tionary of Faéts, containing all the 
feiences requifite to an interpreter of the 
Latin and Greck claffics.* In oppetition 
to this work we find lately anvther of a 
fimilar nature advertifed for publication 
by the celebrated Mr. Tuake, of Deffau, 
who is already favcurably known by fe- 
veral elementary works in the department 
of education. While Mr. Hezel’s work 
comprehends natural hiitery, aelthetics 
(tre theory and principles of tafte) rhe- 
toric, poetry, introductery to the ancient 
claflics, Sc. that of Mr. Tunke is prin- 
copally direSted wo tubjects of ancient hif- 
tory; 
