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rifon with the celebrated Letters of Mifs 
Williams, how different foever the princi- 
ples may be with which both thele travels 
were undertaken. : 
The Autumnal-Fair “has its own pe- 
culiar line of predu&tions, which confit 
in an infinite number of almanacks, 
pocket-books, and memorandums for the 
fubfequent year, which juftly may be 
ftiled the Lilliputian-library of Germany, 
every {cience and art having affigned to 
then their peculiar’ pocket - almanacks, 
"This line contains this time 54. articles ; 
for all our knowledge is now reduced into 
the form of pocket-books, There is an 
almanack for gamefters, for married peo- 
ple, and galanterie , which are to be con- 
tinued, and a new one for wine-drinkers 18 
added. In fuch inventions, Mr. Oemigke, 
a bookfeller at Berlin, particularly excels, 
who knows how to inclofe the philofopher’s 
ftone for both fexes in two almanacks, the 
ene of which is deftined for men, and cal- 
led the Art to be Happy with Women; the 
other forthe fair fex, the Art to be Happy 
evith Men. The adepts in both arts are 
zccording to the title, Gothe, Lafontaine, 
Rouféau, and Wieland, and the whole is of 
conlequence a poor, paltry compilation 
from thofe authors, : 
There is almoft every feafon in the 
year a new general topic amongft the 
literati cf Germany, with much ink- 
fhed on both fides of the queftion. 
Laft Eafter Fair, the famous .Kan- 
tean philofopher, Profeffor Fichte at Jena, 
had raifed a general intereft, by hisAppeal 
to the Public, for the charge brought 
againft him for atheiftical tenets. Scarcely 
are we got out of the buftle raifed con= - 
cerning this very ridiculous imputation of 
Atheifm (on which, however, a confidera- 
ble number of treatifes and pamphlets, 
even a Quint effence of Fichte’s Appeal, is full 
mentioned in the laft catalogue); but we 
are threatened with a new attack by the 
Jews, who offer to intrude into the Chril- 
tian church. Friedlander’s Letter of fome 
Fathers of Jews’ Families, and Tedler’s 
Reply, ftept already forth laft winter, 
which now are followed, as inbattle-array, 
by a crowd of Confiderations and Advices, 
againit which even the vigilant De Lie 
raifed his voice in vain. But the principal 
ftorm feems to be gathering ftill for the 
next fair. The Jews cf Berlin will and 
muft be Chriftians indeed, —Whilft a con- 
Literary and Phildfophical Intelligence 
oo 
[ Mar chr I, 
fiderable part of the public cannot yet pers 
fuade themfelves that the eighteenth cen- 
tury wil] expire only at the clofe of the 
year 1800, in behalf of which Mr. Kotze- 
bue has juflly brought.on the ftage a the. 
atrical entertainment, calledThe Nea Cen 
tury; and whilft another part fights with the 
arms of fatire or reafoning againft thofe 
{cepties ; we fee in this fair already all kinds 
of preparations to clofe it a€tually with 
parentations and pious refleGtions. Mr. 
Sebuich, a clergyman of Berlin, whofe peg 
‘is always prepared to lay hold on the moft 
fafhionable topics, prefents us with the fir 
part of the Spzrtt and Charaéter of the Eigh- 
teenth Century, another with a Sazyrico- 
Sentimental Apoftrophe of the Eighteenth Cen 
tury, which he calls himfelfa fetire; Mr. 
Dedekind co\le&s the Signs of the Time 
at the End of the Eighteenth Century 5 
and the venerable Abbot Dr. Teller at 
Berlin publifhed for the ufe of the cler- 
gymen a Treatife taken from his Ma- 
gazine for Preachers: Sigus of the Time, . 
applied to the Public Teachers of Religion 
at the Expiration of the Century. 
The moft remarkable production, which 
promifes full entertainment to.a numerous 
part of the public, is Mercier’s Nouveau 
Paris, which has appeared in 6 volumes, 
printed for Voeweg in Brunfwick, together 
with a tranflation by Citizen Cramer at 
Paris, and for which the defire of the read- 
ers has already been raifed by proofs exhie 
bited in French and German monthly ma- 
gazines. It is full of revolutionary anec- 
dotes and whimfical remarks, with many 
a jelt cracked on the Parifian badauts, and 
many a fevere reproof on their ficklenefs. 
There might ftill be made fome other - 
reflections, with refpect to fome popular 
writers, who, notwithitanding their ferti- 
lity, are juftly, efteemed, as M. Hufelana 
at Jena, Bujch at Hamburg, and Funke 
at Deffau, of whom the former is come for's ~ 
ward with eight, the other two with feven 
anew performances,or new editions of former © 
publications, or concerning fome new-fath- 
ioned bookfellers-addrefles;as for inftancey 
Britifh Compter of Commiffions at Ham= 
burg, a name which may-perhaps be ap- 
plied with equal juftnefs to that whole 
town; Library of the Compendious Bibli- 
othequt at Berlin; Magazine of Literature 
at Leipzig, &c.- But {uch refleétions will 
occur of themfelves to the attention of 
every reader, . . 
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