666 Retrofpel? of German Literaturve—Geography, Travels, Ce. 
intrigues of the Spanifh ladies have been 
often defcribed, even to fatiety; however 
the traits, which are colleéted and joined 
to one complete picture in the 31ft letrer, 
will furprife every reader by their noveity 
aid the moft intuitive livelinefs. More- 
ever, the author knows how to difribute’ 
the light and fhade, and to find out the 
interefting fide of the drieft fubje@s. A 
particular pleafure is afforded by the po- 
pular phrafes, often interfperfed, and rhe 
picturefque exprefiicns taken from the lan- 
guage of common life, which are almoft al- 
ways added in the fonorous original idiom, 
with a tranflation, 
tributes likewifein a high degree toa fuller 
knowiedge of the Spanifh language and 
literature; and in this refpeét the 33d letter 
principally deferves to be ftudied atten- 
tively by every lover of literature. The ap- 
pendix, concerning the manner of travelling 
in Spain gives many valuable hints to 
thofe who may hereafter vifit that country, 
or enter into any other -connection with 
that nation. Itis to be wifhed, that this 
may not be the laft work of the kind which 
we receive from the pen of this author. 
A Ruifian, a genuine Mufcovite, pub- 
lifhed fome years ago in ‘the Moftkow- 
Journal,the relation of his journey through 
Germany and Southern Europe, in the 
form of Jetters to his friends, by which he 
gained univerfal applaufe. The great Ca- 
iherine herfelf took notice of them, and 
read them, we are told, with great fatis- 
faction, as they might at the fame time 
férve as models of claifical writing; the 
emprefs herfelf writing the Ruffian lan- 
guage ina mafterly manner. Lait year 
they were collected from the Journal, and 
united into a body, publifhed by the author, 
Mr, BaRAMSIN, in 6 fmali volumes, and 
raifed in this more perteét form a f1!l mere 
aniverfai attention, In Germany too, the 
ublic wifhed to know in what hight this 
‘ 
This work con- - 
new Anacharfis, who had left his country _ 
only with the defign of inflru€ting himfeir 
by more enlichtened nations, and after- 
wards Jaboring the more efleétually as 
an author in the mprovement of his own, 
had obferved and judged men and their 
mutual relation in other countries. Bat 
to a few only was the original accedfi- 
ble, until a German at Mofkow, Joun 
RIcHTER (to whom we are indebted for 
an interefting picture of the mannersof that 
immenfe town”, where, with the moft fin- 
gular contrafts,.two parts of the worid meet 

* << Mofkwa: Eine Skizze von Jou. 
RrcuTer,” i. e. Motkow, a Sketch, by J. 
Richter, with cuts, Leipz. Hartknoch, 1799, 
= 
one another almoft at the corners of every 
ftreet), undertook a tranflation of them, 
whereof the two firft volumes have ap- 
peared in the laft fair*. Its accuracy is 
not to be doubted of, efpecially’as Mr. 
Karamfin, who on his journey through 
Germany aftonifhed all the learned whom 
he called upon_by his exact knowledge of 
the German Janguage, revifed’ it himfelf 
before it was printed. The delicacy of fen- 
timent and fimplicity of expreffion which 
chara€terife the original, have been happily 
retained in the tranflation; and on this 
account alfo the work cannot fail of being 
well received by thofe who can ftill enjoy 
- good fenfe unmingled with fafhionable af- 
fectation. The firft vol. contains the voyage 
from Twer, by Peterfburg, Riga, Pola- 
gen, andthen by the known way to Berlin, 
and from thence to Drefden, where wefee 
the good-natured enthufiaft, in a walk in 
the Great-garden, fhed tears cf joy at 
the enjoyment of an enrapturing evening 
fcene. In the fecond volume he gives 
an account of what he faw at Leip- 
zig, Weimar, Franckfort, Strafburg, 
Bafil and Ziirich. He every where went 
to fee the moft celebrated men, and pour- 
trays them by few but ftriking traits. 
The difcretion with which he gives an 
account of his converfation with them + 
| feems 

150 p. 12mo. The reader finds himfelf by this 
fketch, drawn with freedom and frem an expe- 
rience of many years, tranfported as by 
magic into another world; and the author 
knows how to prefs together, in 12 chapters, 
fo many individual traits and characteriitie 
anecdotes, as ate not to be found in volumi- 
nous topographies. We are promifed, befides; 
a complete topography of that ancient refi- 
cence of the Czars, fiom Mr. Heym, at Mof- 
kow, which may be put on the fame fhelf with 
Mr. Scorch’s View of Peterfburg. 
* The title is, ‘‘ Reife cines reifenden Ruf- 
fen,’? i.e. Letters of a Ruffian Traveller, by 
K aRAMSIN, tranflated from the Ruffian by T. 
Richt ER, with engravings, Leipz.Hartknech. 
Karamfin was himtelfthe editor of the Mofkow 
Journal. Some of his fmall tales, as Julia and 
Eliza, are likewife tranflated into French and 
German. He feems in them to bearfome re- 
femblance to the beit German novel-writersy 
Antony Wall and Lafontaine. He likewife 
wiote Bavatelles, and adapted Marmontel’s 
Moral Tales to the ufe of his countrymen. 
He publithed too fome years fince, a Poetical 
Almanack, under the title of Aoniden. See 
Richter’s Moikwa, p. 68. 3 
+ Such as, for an inftance, the lively defcripe 
tion he gives of his converfation with Mr. 
Wieland, during his ttay at Weimar. One 
ey thinks 
