686 Sketch of the principal Works in the loft Leipzig Fait. 
vifion of the German territory into fo many 
ftates, and tothe non-exiftence of an all- 
devouring capital ; whilft many a {mall 
capital of a middling principality fhows 
often more literary fertility than entire 
provinces of Great Britain or France. 
Another great encouragement is afforded 
by the 38 German univerfities (a fhort bat 
interefting furvey of which is given in 
Justiand Mursinnus's Annals of the 
German Univerfities, to be continued an- 
nually) and by the great number of book- 
fellers ; for there is fcarce any fmall town 
in Germany which has not at leaft one 
bookleller. Of the bookfellers or ftation- 
ers, who have publithed works at their 
own expenfe in this Fair, 311 are named 
in the Catzlogue, to which number 20 
more may. be added, who on account of 
their announcing their publications tco 
late, or for other reafons, have been omit- 
ted. It cannot be denied, that this cir- 
cutmftance has occafioned many to enlift in 
the corps of German authors, (a corps 
now confifiing of almoft 15,000 men) on 
whom Melpomene never fmiled at their 
birth, and in whom the divine fpark has 
been kindled by their neighbour, a book- 
feller in a fmall town, who withed to fhine 
at the fair by many and cheap publi- 
cations. But a confiderable part of the 
literary produétions appearing every year 
in Germany, is due to a fort of Cofmopo- 
litifm reigning among the Gerinan lite- 
rary men, by which every new publi- 
cation appearing from Madrid to Mefcow 
is paid attention to, and is ufhered into 
the public in a tranflation almoft as foon 
as the original has appeared ; if they are of 
the fcientifie or hiftorical kind, they feldom 
are germanized without confiderable notes 
and additions. For fuch is the genius of the 
German tranflators, who for the moft part 
are well verfed in different branches of 
antient and modern literature, that they 
cannot find in their hearts to publifh their 
germanized exotics without confiderable 
improvements from their own fiock of 
Jearning and reading. The prefent cata- 
logue furnifhes examples of this in abun- 
dance. The Englifh fcarcely imagine, that 
in any country, but their happy ifland, ara- 
tional fyftem of agriculture can be found, 
in which they were confirmed byaccounts, 
fuch as Mr. Arthur Young has given 
in his Oeconomical Travels. But let the 
books marked with the names of RIEM, 
F. Bo WEBER, WEISSENBRUCH.. and 
thofe comprehended under the title of Jz- 
troduction or Effay, becomputed, and decide 
whether German literature does not aflord 
the beft propofitions and inffructions on 
rural ceconomy. Every improvement made 
in England is likewifle put to ufe. Doétor 
THAER at Zelle gives us, befides a con- 
tinuation of his Lower-Saxony Annals of 
Rural Oeconomy, a fecond volume of his 
Introduétion to the Knowledge of Englyh 
Agriculture and Oeconomy, by the tran- 
flation of which into Englith the Britith 
themfelves would gain a great deal.—y 
Count PopEWILLsS continues to tranflate 
Marfhall’s Agricultural Surveys of Eng- 
land, with very ufeful remarks ; and the 
chemical philofopher SCHERER gives usa 
complete furvey of ordinary, and till now 
little known, manures from the Accounts. 
of the Board of Agriculture, not without 
valuable additions. Scarcely was the Trea- 
tife of Laffeyrie, who is fo aétive for the 
Spanifh fheep-breeding, known in France, 
when Hiibbe, at Hamburg, gave us av 
tranflation of it, with remarks, and an ap 
pendix, in which the article on Englith 
fheep-breeding is fupplied from Thaer ; 
and the book{feller Villaume is fo patriotic 
as to offer copies of it to feveral pofieffors 
of eftates, for their peafants, with a con- 
fiderable abatement of the price. An ori- 
ginal work.of great value is SUDEKUM on 
the improvement of Sheep-breeding ; to 
which may be added a Direétion for Sheep- 
breeding in the hereditary States of Auf- 
tria, taken from the papers of the late 
Count Harrach, at Vienna; and another re- 
markable work On Sheep-breeding in the 
States of Pruffia. Tranflations of the two, 
mafterly works of the immortal French 
mathematician, LA PLACES, are an- 
nounced : the Mecanique du Ciel, by 
Mr. BuRcKHARDT, late fellow of the 
univerfity of Leipzig, but, by a recom- 
mendation of the great aftronomer Mr. 
von Zach to his aftrsnomical and mathe- 
matical friends at Paris, now in high fa- 
vor with all the fcientific men at Paris, and 
affociated to the Board of Longitude there, 
and who by numerous remarks, tending 
to facilitate the reading of it’ to a larger 
public than the French work could obtain, 
has given it an original value. The The- 
ory of the Motions of the Heavenly Bo- 
dies, which appeared in 1784, has been 
revifed and rendered more intelligible by 
Ips. Art the fame time profeflor HINDEN- 
BURG, at Leipzig, publifhes a new num- 
ber of his Archive; and Griison, Lec- 
turer of the Mathematics at the Maili- 
tary School at Berlin, a new volume of 
his valuable Introduét:on to Military Ma- 
thematics ; the: venerable KASTNER, at 
Gottingen, continues the Catalogue Rai- 
fonné of his large colle€tion of mathema- 
tical books ; and a great number of {maller 
writings 
