1800.] — 
his deep knowledge in the fcience’ of war, 
goes on with unremitting affiduity in the 
publication of his Military Magazine, and 
his claffical work for the Literature and 
Hiftory of War-Sctence is continued with 
out interruption. Even the horrid difco- 
very of a Frenchman, Boreux, which fhews 
how the effeSt of artillery might be in- 
creafed in fuch a manner as would render 
all refiftance ulelefs, bas found a faithful 
tranflator. Bonaparte has given way to 
Suworof, whofe life and exploits. have 
been defcribed in four German and two 
French new publications. The Drufes and 
Mamelouks have, however, given rife to 
fome compilations, and the French in Egypt 
to a fentimental novel, drawn as pretended 
from French papers. 
Of the fciences, chemiftry and phy- 
fics have been mott cultivated and en- 
riched by this fair. Alex von Humboldt, 
wiliillft he puts to practice and enlarges his 
rare knowledge in another hemifphere, 
having embarked himfelf for Peru and 
Mexico, inftruéts the public by two im- 
portant treatifes on the Subterraneous Ga- 
fes, and on the Chemical Solution of the 
Atmofphere. Ritter at Jena continues his 
experiments on Galvanifm. Profeflor Reit 
at Halle has publifhed the fecond part of 
his Cure of Fevers, and Hufeland, at Jena, 
his long expeéted Compendium on Patho- 
logy, and his Obfervations on Nervous Fe- 
vers. The fyftem of Browa, very ably 
difcuffed in the General Literary Review 
of Jena by a Jewilh Phyfician at Han- 
ever, Mr. Stieglitz, and fkilfully defended 
by Profeflor Rofchlaub at Wurtzburg, finds 
new detenders as well as adverfaries (this 
time three on each fide). Girtanner has 
completed his Examination of Darwin’s 
Syftem of Praétical Medicine; and Freife 
has tranflated Beddoes s Experiments on the 
Effe&ts of the Nitrous Acid, The ino- 
_culation of the cow-pox, too, is brought 
to our knowledgein feveral different ways. 
The refearches of ‘fenner, its difcoverer, 
on that fubje&t have been tranflated into 
Latin, with notes by Caren, a phyfician of 
Vienna 5 and, Pear/on likewile appears in a 
German attire. At lalt, Wardenburg’s 
Fournal of a Medicinal Journey on the 
French Methods of Curing Diftempers is 
finithed ; and Winterfeld dire&ts our atten- 
tion_anew to the Cold Baths for Children. 
How eaiily foever the infatiable avidity of 
the public for the reading of novels may be 
fatished, it will be difficult to find a more 
indigeltible and loathfome food than that 
which has been offered this fair, to the 
five hundred circulating libraries exifting 
in Germany by feventy-five pitifully, if 
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we may judge fo by their title, and filly 
pieces in the Bzbliotheque ot Novels ; to 
which may be added ten other, produétions 
of the fame kind, independent of that col- 
lection, Even the Cartouches and Robin- 
fons areagain railed from the dead. Scarcely 
afew more valuable performances, as the 
Novantiken, done in the manner of the ce~ 
lebrated novel-writer, the late Mr. Mu- 
farzof Weimar, by Muller, at Itzchoe; Al- 
lun, by Méarthifon ; Scenes of Human Life, 
by the author-of Maria Muller; and fome 
others are to be found ont from under this 
filth. Readers of tome inftruétion will 
certainly firlt of all felect Reimbardt’s Al- 
manach of Novels, publithed at Gottingeng 
the Almanach' for Ladies, for Cotta at 
‘Tubingen, in which three excellent tales of 
Lafontaine, Huber, and Mrs. Wolzogen, 
the amiable author of Agnes of Lilien, 
refiding at Weimar, are to be found ; the 
Paftimes, by Mr. Becker; and fome other 
articles, which however do not announce 
their contents and value by their title (as 
for inftance, the Hiftory of a Voyage bya 
Livonian Gentleman, Mr. Mernel, now 
refiding at Weimar). But much matter 
of amufement is required to allay the ful- 
lennefs of winter, which is already-of it. 
felffo tirefome, that the Theory of Idlenefs, 
&c.( Theorie des Miffiganes und der faulen 
Kunjfte), which is likewile a bubble of the 
laft fair, will little contribute to alleviate it. © 
Though the knowledge of foreiga 
countries and nations has received fome 
enlargements particularly by Ga/pari’s 
Annals of Geography and Statiftics, which 
will. afford us a’ comprehentive view of 
what may accrue every year to thofe 
{ciences,- yet has the Michael. Fair 
been lefs fertile than ever in enter- 
taining Relations of Travels. The Collec- 
tions of Travels publifhed byVofs at Ber- 
lin, and Hofmann at Hamburg, contains, 
in fome new volumes, the beft publica- 
tions of this kind made in foreign coun- 
tries; to which may be added La Roche- . 
foucauld’s important Voyage to North 
America, of which the laft volume had 
been publithed from the original manu- 
fcript laft fair; and. Karamfin’s Travels 
through Germany, tranflated from the 
Ruffian. The Yournal of a Voyage through 
the Bajiern and Souibern Parts of Switze = 
land, by Frederica Brun, 2 German lady 
D5 yi 
of high talents, daughter of the ever re- 
nowned Dr. Munter at Copenhagen, mar- 
ried to the firit merchant of that capital, 
gives occalion to many forrowful compari- 
fons, The feeling author was allowed 
by her happy fituation to {peak freely, and 
has no-cecalion to fhrink from a compa~ 
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