162, 
etched and coloured under the infpeéction 
of the original defigner; and the whole be 
publithed by next Chriftmas. 
In December of laft year was publithed 
by Breitkopf in Leipzig, J. Eper’s En- 
glifh-German and German-Englifh Dic- 
tionary, 5 vol. large octavo, in two divi- 
fions. Firft divifion, ‘* complete Diétio- 
nary of the Englifh Language for the Ufe 
ef Germans,” 2 vol. fecond divifion, 
the New and Complete Dittionary of 
the German and Englifh Languages, com- 
poled chiefly after the German Dictiona- 
ries of Mr. Adeiung and of Mr. Schwan; 
elaborated by J. Ebers, 3 vol. 1793— 
1799.” The author of this digtionary re- 
fided {ome time in England ; and was ma- 
“ny years teacher of the Englifh language 
in the CaroLine COLLece at Brunf- 
~wick. In the compofition of his work, he 
had recourfe to Johnfon’s, Kenrick’s, She- 
ridan’s, and Walker’s Dictionaries, Cham- 
bers’s Cyclopedia, Grofe’s Claff. Dict. of 
the Vulgar Tongue; in fhort, all the 
beft dictionaries and grammars of both 
languages. 
View of the General Catalogue of the New 
Publications of German Bookjellers at the 
Autumnal Fair at Leipfic. 
(Communicated by our Corre/pondent at Weimar.) 
The bookfellers-trade in Germany af- 
fumed already as early as laft century a 
form quite different from what it has. in 
England and other countries, by the Ger- 
man bookfellers reforting to fairs, which 
to an Englifh bookfeller would be an ob- 
ject of averfion. But thele fairs muft foon 
‘be productive of many inftitutions, which 
tend to render a fummary view of all the 
articles of trade more ealy and expeditious. 
Hence the catalogues of new books to be 
brought to the fair, the exchange of books, 
the trade with books in complete fets, the 
exact catalogue of new publications with 
their prices, which appear twice a year, 
and many other conveniences which a Ger- 
man firft begins to value when he fees him- 
felf obliged at Paris, London, or Rome, 
to run a whole day for a book which is 
fold by only one bookfeller. ‘The books 
brought to the fair are fent about in bales ; 
for this reafon our bookfellers cannot fell 
their books in boards, but only in fheets ; 
and all the complaints brought in of Jate of 
this inconveniency, arife from ignorance 
of the nature of the bookfelleys’ trade in 
Germany, and from difregarding the ad- 
vantages which the reading of books in 
fheets, and the fpreading about of various 
knowledge produces in {mall towns and in 
the country ; forbooks in- boards cannot 
be cut but by the proprietor, and of courte 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. ° [Marcha, 
every one, who does not buy them, is ex- 
cluded. 
The general catalogue of books to be 
brought to the fair, which is publifhed 
by Weidmanns at Leipzig fome weeks be- 
fore each fair, and to the making of which 
the bookfellers in the different towns of 
Germany contribute, by fending up to the 
publifher the titles of thofe works which 
they are to print at their own expence, is 
intended to give a fummary view, not only 
of thofe publications that are to be finifhed 
at the term of the enfuing fair, but alfo of 
thofe for which engagements are already 
made, but the term of whofe appearing 
cannot yet be fixed. But to literary pro- 
duétions, laftfummer feems to have been 
as unfavourable as to thofe of the foil. 
The laft general catalogue of St. Micha- 
el’s Fair, already reduced to fo fmalla fize, 
would fhrink to a few fheets only, if 
all the articles omitted at the time of the 
Eafter-Fair, or repeated with fome incon- 
fiderable alterations, all continuations and 
new editions, {mall pamphlets, and ephe- 
meral writings, fhould be truck outfrom it. 
Hufbandry and economical reports fi- 
gure very highinit. The turnip-fugar, 
an invention of Mr. Achard of Berlin, very 
much talked of laft fummer, and encou- 
razed by high premiums, but by a recent 
report of. the committee named by the king- 
of Pruffia funk very much in the general 
opinion, has produced fix different tracts, 
Several parts~of mathematics, tech- 
nology, and natural philofophy are ren- 
dered popular in a hundred different 
manners, the advantage of all which for 
the enlightening and improvement of the 
lower clafles is not to be doubted of. But 
important and great works, which might 
intereft the nation at large, are not be 
fought for. The remarkable and trulyclaffi- 
cal Secret Hiftory of the Congre/s of Raftadt, 
in 6 vol. by Mr. Haller of Berne, is even 
not regiltered ; che cautious bookfeller not 
thinking fit to put his name under the title- 
page. Some general obfervations, how- 
ever, may perhaps not be improper here. 
War and bloodfhed are ftill all the order 
of the day, and it is with affliction that 
the peaceful friend of the Mutes finds here 
about forty military books. The Prince de 
Ligne,who, driven from his pofleflions inthe 
Netherlands, refides ftill at Vienna, and 
enlivens the higher circles of life with bis 
anecdotes and {mart repartees, prefents us 
with four works, once the fruits of his 
military experience ; of which number are 
alfo the Regulations of Frederic II. fay 
Cavalry, otherwife kept in high fecrecy, 
Hoyer, an officer of the artillery of the 
Elector of Saxony, generally efteemed for 
his 
