Sketch of the principal Works in the loft Leipzig Fair. 
writings contribute likewife to promote 
the ‘ftock of mathematical fcience. The 
bookleller Voss, at Berlin, continues to 
publifh the Magazine of Voyages, whofe 
value has not been diminithed fincé the 
death of J. R. Forfter, and we may hope 
to find much new ioftruétion in the Bib- 
liotheque of the neweft and moft important 
voyages, of which Mr. SpRENGEL at 
Halle is the redacteur, and whofe firft vo- 
lume contains a ufeful extraét of Brown’s 
Travels through the interior parts of A fri- 
ca, and of Wilfon’s Milhonary Voyage, 
with very able introduétions from the edi- 
tor. We are moreover prefented with 
two other valuable tranflations, the one of 
Volney’s Travels through Egypt, to which 
Profeffor PAULUS at Jena has annexed 
very inftructive additions ; the other of 
Bourgoiag’s Travelsthrough Spain, which 
Mr. FiscHeR, the author of a very in- 
terefting original Tour through Spain, has 
enriched by many additions and new ex- 
tracts. Citizen BECKER, ftom Cologne, 
publifhes a magazine in monthly numbers 
at Berlin, in which all French publications 
and memoirs from the National Inititute 
at Cairo, and all literary reports from 
Egypt, are very {peedily communicated to 
zhe German readers 1n ufeful extracts and 
obfervations.—In the medical line, Ger- 
many has peculiar journals for the im- 
provements of almoft every country. Be- 
‘fides the Continuation of HUFELAND's 
Annals of French Medicine and Surgery, 
there appear feveral other Journals, dedi- 
cated only to French medicine, among 
which we diftinguith Zap1G’s E/prit of the 
neweft Medical Literature in France. To 
the journals already exifting for Englifh 
medical literature, Mr. KUHN’s, a learned 
phyfician ai Leipzig, Phyfico-Medical 
Journal is now added, in which BRaD- 
LEy’s and WILLIcHu’s Journal is follow- 
ed, but which contains hkewife many ori- 
ginal Difertations. RuPOLPHI publifhes 
Swedifh Annals of Medicine and Natural 
Hiftory. Brown’s Syftem has been con- 
fiderably cultivated and enlarged in Ger- 
many; the names of FRANKE at Vienna, 
RGéscHLAvuB’s at Wurzburg, and MarR- 
Kus at Bamberg, give us the affurance, 
that the f{pirit of innovation was not the 
only promoter of it. From the firft of 
thefe three phyficians we receiys a toxico- 
logy after Brown's fyftem, and a fecond 
magazine for the improvement of Brown’s 
fyftem gocs on with hafty fteps. The 
inoculation of the cow-pox, too, has found 
a more favorable reception in the medi- 
gal fchool at Vienna than in any other 
piace of the continent, Eyt REL has writ- 
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ten likewife on this fubjeét, and the beld 
FERRO has tried on his own children the 
poifon of the cow-pox, which was brought 
from England. A Hanoverian phyfician, 
BALLHORN, communicates to us the 
lateft obfervations of Jenner and Wood~ 
ville on that fubjeG@. Even the Dutch 
have been put to contribunoen by a tranf- 
lation of SowDpeNn’s Treatife on the Ino 
culation of the Small pox. 
The literary men of Germany havetaken 
care, tkewife, to tranfplant poetical and 
oratorical works tothe German territory. 
Among the Greeks, the favorite authors 
are Xenophon (tranflated in a mafterly man- 
ner by WieLaND ina new number of his 
Attic Mufeum), Plutarch, and Dio Caf- 
fius (the fecond volume of the excellent 
tranflation of thisauthor by Penzet, has 
appeared): among the Romans, Horace and 
Cicero. HARTMANN has given atranfla- 
tion of Oriental productions. Four laborious | 
tranflators, ali known as matters, have 
vied with each other in verfions of Shake- 
fpeare and Cervantes. P. ROSEGARTEN, 
one of our favorite poets, and well known 
by a new tranflation of Clariffa, has ga- 
thered the faireft{ flowers which have 
lately grown in England into a British 
Odeon; and GRIESS prefents us with a 
vetric tranflation of Taflo, which has 
already raifed a great expectation by the 
{pecimens he has given. However it it 
to be obferved, that the German tranflators 
are become much nicer in the choice of 
foreign works, particularly in thoe 
bravches in which German literature 15 
richer than that of foreign nations, which 
even borrow from it; and thus one will 
fearcely receive but with a imile a double. 
re-tranflation of Pizarro, a phenomenon 
which can only be accounted for, if we 
feppofe that the female tranflator at 
London looked on this as a proper exercife 
not to forget her own language. Thus, 
though it may appear from what has been 
{aid here, that perhaps a fixth part of the 
produce of this fair are foreign wares ; 
the manner, however, in which the Ger- 
mans have imprinted the ftamp of their 
~genins and learning on thefe productions 
imported from abroad, fpeaks highly to 
their advantage. Long ago the catalogue 
of the fair has been looked upon not only 
as atelegraph, by which in a fortnight 
all German readers from Copenha- 
gen to Strafburg and Berne, may know 
what they may be(peak by their refpedtive 
bookfellers flocking now from every corner 
of Germany and the adjacent countries 
to the great ftaple of the Leipzig fair; 
but likewife as a true fiandard by whe 
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