676 
5799, pp. 84, §vo. This little treatife of 
the late abbot of the juftly celebrated 
tchool of Klofter- Bergen near Magde- 
Burg, and a veteran in pedagogy, has 
been occafioned by the atrempts now 
making in the Pruffian States towards re- 
forming the {chools. It treats particularly 
of moral and religious inftruétion. The an- 
thor {peaks very frankly on the difadvan- 
tages arifing from the indifcriminate read - 
ing of the whole Bible, and recommends, 
_ ws others had done before him, the mak- 
ing of extracts from. Scripture. 
“ Ueber affentliche Schulen und Er- 
zichungsanfalten, von D. Aug. Herren. 
NIEMEYER.” ~.On Public Schools and 
Anfitutions for Education, Halle 1799» 
Pp- 328, 8vo. This is one of the mof ute- 
ful works that have 28 yet been publi fhed 
en the fubject of education, as it contains 
fullextratts from the beft works thereupon, 
together with complete literary notices 
and practical remarks by the author; and, 
‘by comprehending the whole extent of 
Pedagogy, may ferve as an enchiridion 
to’ every mafter of a’fchool. Foreigners 
amay fee by this work, ia which, together 
with found reafonings, lifts are given of 
the beft publications upon every fudjeét 
‘wnpublic education, what progrefs Ger- 
many has made in this fcience: Mr. 
Niemeyer is Profefior of Divinity and 
“head-mafler of the Academy called the 
Royal School at Halle,in which more than 
#50 young gentlemen aré bred to every 
avr and fcience becoming their future 
‘character in life. 
Divinigry, tb 
Befides the Bibliotheque Univerfelle 
{Algemcine Bibliothek) of Scriptural Li- 
‘terature publifhed regularly by. Profeffor 
ErcHRORN, the 9th volume of which 
“every volume containing 6 numbers) has 
been completed laft Eafter Feir: and the 
Theological Magazine pubbthed by Mefirs. 
AMMON and Staup.in, both Profeffors 
of Divinity at Gittingen; a third 
view hasbeen cftablithed under the 
lowing title : 
“Allgemeine Bibliothek der neucfen 
Theologifehen Literatur. Herausgeceben 
von JoH.CuR PErnsr.Scumipr. Prof, 
“der Thecl. zu Gieflen.” General Review 
of Theological Literature, publithed under 
‘the direction of §S. Gieffen,~“Meyer 2 vols, 
799. The plan of this Review is, firft 
to give a complete retrofpeét of all the 
Theological publications of: every year, 
that have appeared in Germany as well 
as in cther countries; and fecondly, to 
give a jak oisigue of- the publications 
Re- 
fol- 
‘reform under 
‘RetrofpeF of German Liter ature— Divinity. 
mentioned. This double defign has beet 
fo weil executed in the prefent periodical 
work, that its continuation is Very much to 
be wifhed for. 
“ Darftellung der durch K Jofeph TI. 
entftandenen Grundlage der kirchlichen 
Verfefflung der Protefiancen, infonderheit 
‘der Reformirten, fowohl in Wien als in 
den fammelichen Erbftaaten von Oefter- 
reich.” Account of the foundation laid bi 
the Emperor Jof. II, for the church go- 
vernment of the Proteftants, particularly the 
Calvinifts, beth at Vienna and in all the 
Hereditary Eftates of Avftria. Ratifbon, 
1799, pp. 220, 6vo.—-T his account is given 
y an eye-witnefs to, and promoter of, the 
Jofeph II. and bears on 
every page {trong proofs of its authenticity. 
Amongft the great number of Collelions 
of Sermons, which have made their ap- 
pearance within this period, the higheft 
praife muft be given totwo different col- 
leGtions of the fame author, M. REIn- 
HARD, D. D. at Drefden, chaplain in 
chief to the court, and the firft clerzymzn 
in the whole Eleiorate of Saxony. The 
“one 
rs a regular feries of Sermons, 
preached in the court-chapel during the 
year 1798: ** Predigten im Jahre 1798, 
gehalten. Sultzbach, Seidel,” The other 
is a feleétion of different fermons aiming 
at the fame end, to refine and correét mo- 
ral feelings: “ Beytrage zur Scharfung 
des fittlichen Gefiihls, in einigen Predigten 
von D. RernuaRp, Leipzig, Fleifcher, 
1799, pp- 390, 8vo. Mr. Reinhard ftands 
now - unparalleled as a facred orstér 
amongft the Proteftant preachers in Ger- 
many; as well for the ftrength and 
arrangement of his arguments, as for the 
clearnefs and true claffic elegance of his 
ftyie. They fhould be tranflated ‘into all 
other languages, and read by every fervent 
Chriftian in all Eurcpe.—Next to him 
come Mr, RosENMULLER’s, D. D. and 
Profefior at Leipzig, ‘ Sermons delivered 
at the partfh-church of St. Thomas in 
Letpzig;” the 3d volume of which has lately 
appeared.—Nor ought SINTONIS’s Sere 
mons, publifhed under the old German 
appellation of Pofi/le, to be omitted here, 
as they are ‘highly meritorious for their 
popular turn of eloquence fitted for the 
meaneft capacity and for the moft refined 
reafoning. 
««Erinnerung an Luthers Reformation, 
in drey Predigten, von MICHARR 
Wovens.” RecolleGtions of the Lu- 
theran Reformation, in 3 Sermons. Ham. 
burg, 1799. Few fernrons inculcate more 
important truths, and are written’ with 
ymnore 
