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has given a text more correét than has 
appeared in any of the former editions, 
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Me. WagGner’s “Alciphrop, Lip, Mul- 
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a very ufeful index ;—the laft volume( part 
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“eurring in Pindar’s odes and fragments, 
of the proper names, and of the commen- 
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Drawing at Géttingen;—and the con- 
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Fritfch,, 1799, pp. «08, $vo. Spec. ii 
Lipf. 1800, pp. 460’—cannot be omitted 
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burg, in two volumes —Mr. BECK- 
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ralogy have been elucidated.— Whe -cele- 
Drated poet Voss has finifhed fis hexame- 
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tranflating the Biographies of Plutarch. 
BEHELESSEETTRES, Nov: Ls,.&c. 
<« Marie Miiller,” Berlin, Unger, 1799, 
pp. 388, 8vo. This novel is advantageouily 
diftinguifhed from the crowd of common 
novels. and romances by a fample and in- 
terefting tale, a true delineation and variety 
ef charaéters, and a foftnefs and delicacy 
of fentiment and painting, fuch as can 
only be expected from a female hand. 
Maria, the only daughter of an old citi- 
zen, has been educated with her coufin 
Lewis, who loves her, and towhdm fhe 
has promifed her hand, though without 
feeling any thing more for him than 
iriendfhip. Lewis having left his native 
town, to qualify;himfelf by travelling for 
a civil employment, Maria fees the youvg 
count Wodmar, whom fhe falls in, love 
with, though always refifing all his 
temptations to feductions Count Wod- 
mar being already betrothed to a young 
eguntefs Jofephine, he is fummoped by: 
# deteer of his father to depart in order to 
accomplifh his union with Jofephine.. 
This young and amiable lady had like- 
wie conceived a paffion for a young man. 
whofe condition is under her rank, and 
the but reluétaotly yields to an union, 
which Wodmar is by paternal authority 
and the beauty of Jaf. prevailed upon to 
conclude. Soon afier the nuptials Wod- 
mar happens to revifit the town where 
M. lives ; he perfuades her to be fecretly 
married to him, and co live in one of his 
diftant eftates, until the deathof his father 
fhould allow him to own her as his wife. 
Meanwhile Jof. had borne him a charm- 
ing boy 3 this bond and the melancholy 
air of W, had won him her heart.. Ex- 
pecting the return of her hufband, the 
fets out to meet him on the road; the 
comes to WNeffelfeld. and difcovers the. 
union of W. and Maria. The latter, 
overwhelmed with grief at the difcovery, 
determines never to fee her feducer more; 
fhe quits the houfe during the night, 
leaving to the countefs the letters fhe 
had received from Wodmar, to juftify her 
confenting to an union witha man whom 
fue did not know to be already married. 
In her flight fhe again meets Lewis, her 
firft lover: fhe is prevailed upon by his 
intreaties to marry him; but foon died in 
his arms. Jof. had been divorcéd* from 
her huiband, and afcerwards found happi- 
nefs in a folitary retreat with her fon, 
and in the bofom of a happy family. 
«¢ Charaktere intereflanter Menfchen, 
in moralifchen Erzahlungen dargeftelle 
von FRIEDR. ROCHLIZ’’--( Characters of 
interefting Perfons, reprefeuted in Moral 
Tales)—Zillichau,; Darnmann, 1799, pp- 
vil. and 468, 8vo. ‘Thefe tales are truly 
moral. ‘Lheir merit confifis lefs in an 
ingenious invention, than in an agree- 
able manner of relating, which is how- 
ever fometimes fpoiled by prolixity, 
We find here: “‘ The early Union;” the 
“«Country-Girl;” ‘Neighbour Millner.”” 
The author is known by two other collec- 
tions of tales, which have the fame mora! 
tendency and aré characterized by the 
fame natural fimplicity of incidents and 
fentiment; viz.:  ‘“* RecolleGtions » for 
the promoting of a right practical Pru- 
dence” (Zillichau, Darnmann,; 3 vel: 
1799, vo.) and ‘* Experiences from the 
Journal of an unobferved Man. (Leipz. 
Jxcobaer, 2. vols 1797, 8vo.)- 
“ Prinz Amaranth mit der groffen 
Nafe; von J..F..JunGer.”’. (Prince 
Amaranthus with the great Nofe.) Berlin, 
Nicolai, 1 vol. 1799, pp. xxiv, & 18, 8vo. 
A fatirical novel in the form of a Fairy- 
tale. The eafy and flowing ftyle of ee 
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