4 
Retrofpett of German Literature—Education. 
dioufnefs ; it will, however, on the whole, 
convey mof ufeful practical imiftruc-' 
tion. 
“‘ Heliodora, oder die Lautenfpiclerin 
aus Griechenland.”  H. or the Lutanitt 
from Greece. x vol. pp. 182; 2 vol. 
pp- 164, 1800, 8vo, Muffen, Erbftein. 
A charming fiction, produétive of the 
higheft interefi for the heart and mind. 
The author has been happy enough to 
ftrike outa new way of conducting the 
plot as well as of difplaging the charac- 
ters. Toe much indeed cannot be faid 
in his praife; and the vaft ran it has had 
ever all Germany, is a fuficient proof 
that the refined ‘tafte of the public cor- 
refponds with the abilities of the au- 
ely 
Mofen- Almanach fiir das Jahr 18co, 
ores von FR. SCHILLER.’ 
hee Anthology for 1800, publifhed 
by. E. Fiibingsn, Cotta. Ar the head 
of this Peg anon is placed : The Sitters 
of Lefbos, a Poem in fix Canto’s, by 
Mifs A. von Imuor, a young lady of 
fuperior talents at ee) mar ; a performance 
which thows great talents, though the 
Structure of fe verfes is fometimes defti- 
tute of harmony and clegance, and the 
plan of the psem too loofely conneéted. 
The laft poem, The Song of the Bell, by 
Fr. Schiller, reprefents with all the force 
and elegance of diction, and all the ele- 
vation of thought, for which this great 
poet is celebrated, the procedure of caft- 
amg a bell, during which the mafter of the 
work accompanies every pew act with 
moral fentences and fentiments fuitable 
to the action. We miffed with regret the 
names of Githe, Schlegel, &c. and. la- 
mented, that poems of little or no merit 
had been teo indifcriminately received. 
< Romanen-Kalcndar or Romanen-bib- 
liothek, vois 2 and 3 for the years 1 799 
and r800. Gottingen, Dietrich, in 120.’ 
This collef&tion of fmall novels and re- 
mantic tales appears regularly at the end 
of every year in the fize of a Men book 
for the ule of ladies. Mr. Reinhard, the 
editor, well known im the German 
literary world by his accurate edition of 
Mr. Biirger’s Poems, fucceeds in enlift- 
ing the beft novel-sviiters under his ban 
mers, and has been happy enough to 
get contributions from Lafontaine, Mrs. 
Levefque, Mrs. Sophia Mereau, a oa 
of high poetical talents at Jena, and Mr 
Starke, whefe Domeftic Tales have been 
read with univerfa] applaufe. In the laft 
volume there are fix tales from different 
authors, amongft which the frit, from the 
at Drefden, 
now 
"blifaed literary reputation. 
675 
pen ef Lafontaine, which bears the ticle 
© Good Luck trom {ll Luck;” and the 
4th, written by the ed'tor Mr. Reinhard 
himfelf, ‘‘ The Apparition,’ cannot but de- 
light and intereft every reader of tafie and 
fenfibiliry. Lhere is a cut to every tale, 
invented by Schubert, and delineated by 
Riepenhaufen of Gottingen. 
Befides this collection there are two 
ethcr publications of the fame purport, 
affording entertainment by well chofen 
poems and little novels from different 
authors. One is published by Mr. B 
under the fignificant deno- 
mination of Recreations (Erhohlungen) 5 
the other by the joint efforts of Mr. 
NACHTIGAL of Halberftadt, and Mr. 
Hooke, with the alluring title of Leifure- 
Hours (Ruheftundcen); both meriting te 
be diftinguifhed and felefted from the 
vulgar crowd of fpeCtres, apparitions and 
other eccentricities which are throng- 
ing upon us as flies in a midfummer 
evening, and Alling the fthelves of our 
circulating libraries. ‘Spiefs, Cramer, 
Anthing, are favorite names arooneft 
fuch readers as are fond of romance 
run mad. 
EDUCATION. 
| The moft famous private Academg 
xifting in Ger many is that of Pro- 
fellor SALZMANN at Schnepfenthal near 
Gotha, in which there are commonly more 
than 50 pupils and 16 tutors, amoneft whom 
Mr. Lenz, well known by his fervent 
zeal for the total extirpation of the {mali- 
pox, and by his Travels i in the North and 
to France, and Mr.GutsmurTis fer his 
ufefu 1! pablications on Gymuaitic Games, 
and on Swimming, enjoy a well-efta- 
The latter 
has begun puolifhing towards the end of 
the year 1799 a Review of all that is done 
and written in the pedagogical way in. 
Germany: “ Bibliothek der padagogifchen 
Literatur, | erausgegeben von I. Cy 
GUTSMUTHs, Gotha, Perthes,”’ 
two firft numbers of the 2d volume having 
appeare d ads it fees that proper at- 
tention 16 paid to ufeful a publication 
by the public at ‘large. And it merits 
praife indeed ; impartiality and ingenuity 
being the leading principles of, the editor 
and his affociates. 
«© Verfuch iiber die Lehrart und den 
Inhalt des Schulunterrichts fiir Kinder 
in den Kleinen Sradten und auf dem 
Lande, yon Fr. G.ResewiTz.” Effay 
on the Method and Objeéts of School- 
Inftruétion for Children in Small Towns, 
and in the Country. Magdeburg, Keil, 
1799s 
LOKER_ 
The 
