
’ 
Retrofped of German Literature —Geography, Travels, Se. 
feems to acquit him of the reproach of 
eagerly hunting after anecdotes, by which 
fuch accounts of vifits are but too often 
ftained, to the deftruction of all true fo- 
ciablenefs and hofpitality. A juft and 
guick coup-d'ail, a mind enlarged by ya- 
rious knowledge, a benevolent heart, a 
flight tinéture of enthufialm, but free 
from all affected. fentimentality, foon 
render the honeft traveller familiar to 
us; we fhare his pleafurss and adventures, 
as if we were his fellow-travellers ; and even 
when we learn nothing new, we feel our 
hearts warmed and dilated by the fympa- _ 
thetic glow of benevolence towards our 
fellow-creatures; and our attention is 
directed to many peculiarities and ad- 
vantages of our fituation, which habit had 
made us overlook, or at leaft eftimate at too 
low arate. Certainly never a fitter mot- 
to was chofen, than is placed on the back 
of the ‘title page. 
‘¢ Whoever lives in love and peace with 
himfelf, finds joy.and love every where.”’ 
On this occafion the rapidly advancing 
Defcription\of Ruffa, from the pen of one 
of the moft popular authors in Peterfburg, 
and now tutor of the amiable young 
grand-duchefles, Mr. Srorcu, deferves to 
be brought back to remembrance, This 
year two new volumes (the 3d and qth) of 
his ‘ Hiftorical and Statiftical. Picture of 
the Ruffian Empire at the End of the 16th 
Century,” have been publithed at Leipfic by 
Hartknoch, which may vie with the fore- 
going inabundance of matter and elegance 
of compofition. Thefe twovoiumes treat of 
the Ruflian commerce. In the third, all 
the branches of indufiry are enumerated . 
in a fcientific order, and exactly determin- 
ed from the moft certain authorities, which 
perhaps were acceflible only to the author. 
‘The fourth contains a hiftory of the Rul- 
fian trade from the beginning of the empire 
to the clofe of the 17th century, In quite a 
new manner, which may lead to the moft 
furprifing refults concerning the commerce 
of the worlil, as well as the commercial 
monopoly of Great-Britain. How well 
qualified the author is to treat of the policy 
ef trade and the relations cf nations in 
point of induftry, appears from the fkilful 
confiderations in the 4th vol. upon the 
queftion, whether in general it may be 
ufeful to Ruifia’to have manufactures. 

thinks himfelf tranfported into the ftudy 
of that highly celebrated poet, 
him fpeak with that plain-dealing open frank- 
nefs, with which he always utters his fenti- 
ments on political and literary topics. Such, 
likewife, is the ftriking picture Mr, Karamfan 
- graws of Mr. Lavater, at Zurich, 
and hears . 
G6 
The refolution of this queftion in the affir- 
mative is perfectly confirmed by the late 
prohibitions of Englifh manufa€tures, 
which begin to be highly diladvantage- 
ous to the manufaGluring towns, Bir- 
mingham and Wolverhampton. 
Mr. Rim continues, in the fecond part 
of his “* Voyage through England,”’ to fhow 
us the reverfe of the medal, which in its 
exclufively admired front fide, hasbeen the 
idol of the half of Europe. This de- 
{cription, abounding with paradoxes, deli- 
vered ina ftrong language, mutft be looked 
upon as the voice of Oppofition ; which, 
independent of allthe exaggerations, which 
are eafily to be difcerned, enforces a great 
mavy truths, and might be produétive of 
great advantages, if it fhould give occafion 
to difcuffion and refutation, and bring us, 
after many deviations, at laft to the true 
medium 
Another work deferves likewife here te 
be mentioned, as a ‘performance unex- 
ampled, and vying with the fineft produc- 
tions of foreign countries in tafte and mag- 
nificence, namely, the Defcription of the 
Valley of Plauen, near Drefden (“ Be- 
{chreiburg des Plauifchen Grundes’*) 
which is publifhed by Prof. BECKER at 
the expenfe of a refpeétable print-feller at 
Nuremberg, Mr. TRAUENHOLz, with 25 
plates in large gto. The editor, Mr. 
Bicker of Drefden, is now keeper of 
the valuable coileétion of antiques in the 
Eleétoral Gallery, and ranks very high in 
reputation among thofe authors whofe 
publications are well calculated to amufe 
and to inftruét. He publifhes a Collec- 
tion of humorous Effays and Tales, writ- 
ten by a fet of fkilful authors in that line, 
under the name of Recreations (Erhoh-~ 
lungen),~ of which 4 volumes are now 
completed. But the principal fkill of Mr. 
Becker confifts in explaining Defigns for 
Architeéture and Landfcape-gardeniag, a 
fuperb collection of which is now print- 
ing at Leipzie, for M. Vofs and Ca. 
in folio. » Four numbers, with more than | 

* The price of 13 dollars for a work fo 
richly adorned by art is extremely moderate 
in refpeét to what one receives + and will 
-not be regretted by thofe who, in the midit 
of winter, like to call forth fuch a {pring 
at their reading-table. This certainly bids 
fair to furpafs every Ruffian winter-garden ; 
(a fort of nurfery and green-houfes, fur- 
rounded every where by tranfparent glaffes, 
and. richly ftocked with exotics in blof- 
fom, in which fmall families may fit at din- ~ 
ner or at the tea-table, now very much in 
fafhion in the Northern countries). Thofe 
who fubfcribed, paid only 7 dollars. 
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