Retro/pe? of German Literature— Furifprudences 
fore warmth of heart, and in a more 
correét tafte, 
“ DODERLEINS Chriftlicher: Religions 
unterricht nach den Bediirfniffen unferer 
Zeit, von D. Cu. GotTrf, “JUNGE.” 
Dov. Inftruétion in the Chriftian Reli- 
gion, according to the Exigencies of the 
prefent Age, vol. 8, Niirnberg, Monath 
& Kufsler, 1799,p. 296, 8vo- ‘This excel- 
lent continuation of a valuable work is 
chiefly diftinguifhed by a liberal and tole- 
rant {pirit, a fedate tone, a juft interpre- 
tation, and an accurate knowledge of all 
dogmatical tenets; mixed with fine re- 
marks, though there be too much prolix- 
ity, and too little of that philofophic pre- 
cifion, which is, if not the firft, at leaft 
one of the principal, exigencies of our age. 
«Briefe an Chriftliche Religions-lchrer, 
von D. Auc. HERRMANN NIEMEYER 
Dritte und letzte Sammlung, tber popu- 
lare und praktifche Theologie,” Letters 
to Teachers of the Chriftian Religion, by 
D. Nrem. Thirdand laf Colleétion ;.on 
popular and practical Theology. Halle 
1799, pp- 432, 8v0. Thefe highly efteemed 
letters are to be confidered as a commen- 
tary on the fame author’s Manual of 
popular and practical Theology (Hand- 
buch der pop. und pr. Theologie, 1798, 
4th edit.) The colleétion before us treats 
principally of the deftination of man and 
of the means to fulfl it. 
«* Religion eine Angelegenheit des 
Menfchen, von J. J. Spatpinc.” Re- 
ligiona Concern of Man, 3d edit. Berlin, 
Vofs 1799, p. 36s, Sve. This work of the 
old venerable Abbot Spalding, of Berlin, 
who in the 82d year of his age wholly con- 
fecrated to the pious exercife of the firft 
ecclefiaftical funétion in the Pruffian 
States, enjoys ftill a firm health, adored 
and beloved, as Neftor was, by three ge- 
nerations he faw rife and vanifh again, 
needs no more our praife ; its great merit 
and favorable reception being fufficiently 
attefted by its having had, within the {pace 
of fcarcely two years, three fucceffive edi- 
tions. It is chiefly calculated to warn 
againft the fpirit of the times, by which 
- religion is too much fubordinated to phi- 
lofophical fpeculations, and the motives 
fer morality taken from religion too much 
undervalued. 
‘¢ Theologie des alten Teftaments ; oder 
Abrifs der Religidfen Begriffe der alten 
Hebrier.” The Theology of the Old Tef- 
tament, or a Sketch of the Religious No- 
tions of the Ancient Hebrews. Leipzig, 
Weygand, 1799, p. xvi and 430. 8yvo. 
There is no work, which, like thar be- 
fore us, contains fo complete and fo cir- 
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677 
cumftantial an account of all the religious 
theories of the Hebrews, together with fo 
full an account of the lateft treatifes on 
thofe fubjeéts. 
“«‘ Grundriffe der Jugend- und Religions- 
Lehre zu Akademifchen Vorlefungen fiir 
zuhiinftige Lehrer in der Chriftlichen 
Kirche, von Carn, FRIED. STauD- 
LIN, D. und Prof. der Theol. zu Gottin- 
gen.” .ASketch of Moral Doétrine and 
Dogmatics for the Ufe of Academical 
Leétures, intended for Future Teachers 
in the Chriftian Church. Gottingen, 
Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, IS800. A 
complete compendium of the dogmas of 
the Chriftian religion, written in an in- 
ftructive and interefting manner, with 
many valuable hints refpecting the changes 
that feveral dogmas have undergone by 
the moft recent exegetic refearches, as well 
as by the fceptical turn of modern philo- 
fophy. 
‘© Verfuch einer Hermeneutik des alten 
Teftaments, von G. W. Meyver.” Hif- 
tory of the Interpretation of the Old Tefta- 
ment, vol. I. pp. 528, 1799.Vol. 2. pp. 672, 
1800, 8vo, Liibeck, Bohme.--Mr. Meyer, 
leturer on theology at Gottingen, 
has fhown great ingenuity and. learn- 
ing in colleéting the materials and deli- 
vering his own opinions upon the moft 
contefted points. It is undoubtedly the 
beft repertory exrant for all who-are anxi- 
ous to know the moft liberal opinions of 
the beft theologians refpeéting the ge- 
nuinenefs of the moft important contro- 
verted texts. 
JURISPRUDENCE. 
“ Praktitcher Commentar tber die Pan- 
deéten, nach dem Lehrbuche des Herrn- 
G. R. R. HELLFELD.” 
mentary on the Pandeéts, afterthe Com- 
pendium of H.—vyol. 7. Leipzig, Bchme, 
1799, p- 527, 8vo. A complete compi- 
lation of all that has been faid till now oa 
the different titles in the Pandeéts, with- 
out any new obfervations. The firft vo- 
lume of this work appeared in 1796, and 
the whole will confit of 14 volumes. 
D. Jou. Benny. Cur. ErcuMANN’S 
““ Erklarungen des biirgerlichen Rechts, 
nach Anleitung des Hellfeidfchen Lehr- 
buchs der Pandeéten’”’ Tlluftrations of 
Civil Law, after the direétion of H’s. 
Compendium, i vol. Berlin, Lange 1799, 
pp. 508, 8vo. This is the moft complete 
commentary on H’s. compendium, and a 
work of confiderable merit, whofe firt vo- 
lume appeared 1776. 
“¢ Samuglis de Coeceji, Jus Civile con- 
troverfum—editio nova—recenfuit ac pere 
petuis notis illuftrayit Jo. Ean, Beunu, 
4°89 mi; ; ney oe 
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