544 Retrofped? of German 
the feventh chapter in particular, which 
treats of the laws and fources of vegeta- 
tion, does infinite credit to the attentive 
and learned author, who has furnifhed his 
countrymen with the jr? caffical produc- 
tion on this alluring and profitable tubjeét. 
_ ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. 
We have been agreeably furprifed with 
the appearance of a werk which, at the 
prefent period fo unfavourable to the 
Mufes, not only conters gicat honour on 
the editor, but which likewife will be a 
Jafting monument of the naticnal tafte 
end public fpiwit of the Germans. We 
allude to the “ Reprefentations and bhifio- 
vical Defcriptions of the Tafte of the prin- 
cipal Nations,’ by J. F. BaRoON aT 
Racknirz. Of this admirable publi- 
cation the third number has juft appeared 
at Leipzig; and as each number contains 
about 12 vignettes and plates piinied to- 
gether with the letter-prefs, and a port- 
folio, ‘in which there are fix coloured 
plates reprefenting ornamented walls, and, 
fix other plates exhibiting articles of 
houfhold furniture, in royal folio, be- 
fides the text, from 100 to 150 pages, 
quarto, the price of each number is 
E1cHT GuyNneas!! Notwithftanding 
this extravagant price, the noble editer 
has, however, brought this extraordinary 
work very Near its termination, as the 
fourth number will conclude the whole. 
Tn the firlt he has given an animated fe- 
prefentation and deicription of the Ara- 
befe tafie; in the fecond, we find a de- 
‘dineation of the Greek, Old Germen, 
New Perfan, Enghfb, the French gro- 
tejque, and the talte of the inhabitants of 
Ciabeite; in the third number we again 
meet with the Greek taite, in the times 
when it began to degenerate; alfo 
with the tafte of the Moers, the Turks, 
the auciczt French, the inhabitants of 
Kamt{chatka, and thofe of Mexice, 
fourth and Jaf number will probably 
finmife us with fpecimens of tafte from 
China, Spain, and other ceuntries not 
yet defcribed. ‘It muft, without hefi- 
tation, be allowed that the engravings, 
as weil as the mode of colouring them, 
are infinitely fuperior to every thing 
hitherto produced by German artifts, 
6 The Colledian of ufeful Egavs, and Ac- 
sounts rebatewe to Architecture,’ publifhed 
by feveral members of the Royal Pruffian 
Supreme Department in Affairs of Ar- 
chiteéture, vol. i.1798, with platés, de- 
‘ferves honourable mention in cur Re- 
trolpe@, as if contains ng oth-r than 
praétical and highly uleful information, 
particularly fo the beginner in the ftudy 
of this elegant art, tor whom it ig chiefly 
The 
Literature....Arts, ec, (Sup. 
and avowedly defigned. <«* The Techno-} 
logical Orbis tidus,” by P.H. C. Brop-. 
HAGEN, of Hamburge is a periodical] 
work in quarto numbers; the firft and 
fecond of which, befides a very elaborate 
and appropriate introduction, contain ac- 
curate defcriptions of a paper-manufac- 
tory, and of the procefs of refining fugars, 
which are illuftrated with fix plates. In 
fimilar numbers the ingenious author 
propofes to give a popular and fatisfatory 
account of every trade and manufactory 
carried on in Europe. Another work of 
a fimilar, though more of an elementary 
nature, is the ‘* Sy/lematic View af Ma- 
nufaciories,’ (and the materials ot which 
they make ufe) by J. F. A. GarTiine, 
Profeflor at Jena, pp. 45, 8vo0. This is 
only the outline of a plan, according te 
which the learned proteffor, who is well 
known in this country by his excellent 
chemical tefis, intends to publifh a com- 
plete ‘© Manual of Technology,’’ if the 
prefent fketch fhould meet with the ap- 
probation of the public. We are fully 
convinced Mr. G. is perfectly qualified - 
for this arduous tafk, and that his pro- 
mifed compendium will be gratefully re- 
ceived, not only. in Germany, but in 
other countries of Europe, where a fyfte~ 
macuc and elementary work of this kind 
is much wanting. ‘“ The New Painter’ s 
Lexicon,” for obtaining a more accurate 
Knowledge of good old and new pictures, . 
by L.v. Winkelman, &c. is offered to 
the public, in a fecond edition, as the 
moit complete artifts’ di€tionary; but 
joRice obliges us to fay that, though it 
may contain fome of the more modern 
pictures not to be found in fimilar works, 
yetitis vaitly inferior to ** Fussui’s Lexi- 
con of Aytifts,” in the number of articles, 
as well as in point of found criticifm, cor- 
rect information, and good arrangement, 
COMMERCE, 
Tt is a fpecies of pleafure to a difap. 
pointed reviewer, when, after having be- 
ffowed much time on a variety of worth- 
lefs or at leaft indifferent publications, 
he meets with one pofleffing truly claffical 
merit, and of which he is enabled ta 
give a favourable account, Such is the 
cafe with the work intitled,  Supple- 
mentary Informatioa ta the Theoretico- 
practical View of Commerce in its various 
‘Branckes,” by J. G, Buscx, (Profefor 
at Hamburg) vol. i. pp. xiv, and 296, 
This volume will be accompanied by 
another which will complete the work: 
we here meet with a new fpecimen of the 
yenerable author's pretound knowledge 
of trade in all its ramifications, the un- 
common attention he hgs beltowed for 4 
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