ture”, which would afford alfo to England 
a great dealof very welcome intelligence 
for Police Eftablifhments. Medical and 
botanical Geography is eagerly cultivated 
and has received no fmall additions this 
fair. Brer’s (of Vienna) Work on the 
Eyes;; HureLann’s Syftem of prac 
tical Medicine, SOMMERING’S anatomi- 
cal Tables, and the new editions of KURT 
SPRENGEL’s Hiftory of Medicine, are. 
valuable acquifitions for this fcience. The 
beautiful monographies in natural hiftory 
are augmented by PALLAS in the two firft 
numbers of his Aftragali. The new 
Ichthyology after Lacepede, of which the 
firft volume now appears with fine en- 
gravings, will delight many readers; and 
the firft number of the Profeifor of natural 
hiftory at Jena; Mr..BarscH’s work on 
Natural Hiftory, which begins with mine- 
_ralogy, may be confidered as the beginning 
of a long wifhed for henoticon of natural 
hiftory. The books with copper-phates 
for natural hiftory, for little and great 
children, are almoft infinite, and yet the 
firft of this kind publifhed by Mr. Ber- 
tuch at Weimar, is ftill going forward 
with univerfal applaufe; and kas not yet 
been furpaffed by any fubfequent one. - 
Geography has likewife been treated part- 
ly in colle€tions and partly in travels, 
through particular countries. For natural 
{ciences, the Journey of Count Hor- 
MANNSEGG from Hungary tothe Turkith 
frontiers in original letters, MARSHALL’s 
of Bieberftein Defcription of the regions 
of Caucafus, Lenrin’s (Mineralo- 
gic) Letters on Anglefea; but, above all, 
the able naturalif{t-and linguifi, Dir. 
NEMNICH’s Voyage from Hamburgh to 
England; may be confidered as valuable 
acquifitions. «But BoNSTETTEN’S Views 
ef Switzerland, and his friend FREDERICA 
Brun’s Journal on Rome, as likewife 
the Voyage from Hamburg to Philade!- 
phia, and-Lewz’s Remarks onthe North 
and France, will unite inftruétion with 
entertainment. The Letters written on a 
Journey from Vienna to Venice, and back 
again through Tvrol in the year 1798, pub- 
lifhed underthe title of Sketches (Zeichnun- 
gen )comprehend a period very remarkable 
for thefe regions. Hess, the Hamburgh 
traveller, has likewife publifhed a new 
volume of his Travels through Germany, 
and Sophie LA Rocue, the venerable 
authoref’s and juvenile friend of Mr. Wie- 
land, has ‘given a very interefting Account 
of anexcurfion during the laft Summer, in 
“which fhe paid her vifit to Mr. Wieland 
in his villa at Ofmonftaedt near Weimar, 
and of all the literary characters fhe faw at 
MontHry Mac, LXI. 
Sketch of the Principal Works in laft Leipzig Fair. 
685 : 
Weimar, interwoven with other literary 
notices of her acquaintances at Offenbach. 
The whole is infcribed: Schattenriffe 
merkwiirdiger Tage, z.¢. Sketches of 
Memorable Days.—In the Belles Lettres 
there are two works which will raife ge- 
neral attention, by the name of their 
authors. H#RpDER gives us a critique 
-of the Theory of Belles Letters in his 
‘* Kaligone or on the agreeable and beauti- 
ful,”—SCHILLER’s Piccolomini and Wal- 
lenftein, which the narrow-minded ava~ .- 
rice of the managers excluded till now from 
many theatres, are at length publifhed; 
at the fame time an anonymous author 
announces ‘* Something on Sch. Wallenftein 
with refpeét to the Greek Tragedy.” By | 
the publication of a colleétion of his profe | 
writings and poems, Schiller ' fatisfies 
another wifh of the public. ,A. W. 
SCHLEGEL has likewife publifhed a col- 
le€tion of his poems. But in general the 
~German Parnaffus is much deferted this 
year ; two of the moft read poetical Alma- 
nacks are concluded. However two of the 
more antient German claffic poets, Hage- . 
dorn and Ramler, are regenerated, the. 
former by the care of Efchenburg, aug-, 
mented by a volume, the fecond drefled 
out in every typographic and chalcographic 
embellifhment. Of the two female poets, 
whofe works are publifhed, the one, Maria 
Muiach, is dead already. The other is 
the foft WiLHELMINA MULLER of 
Vienna, better known by her family name 
Mnifch. Nor are there colleétions and 
chreftomathia’s, or elegant extracts for 
{chools wanting, as the names of Delbriik 
Rambach, Horftel fhow, VETTERLZIN 
has fupplied a defeét which had been ob- 
ferved long fince, by his Manual of Poetical 
Literature, in which the life and the 
works of the moft celebrated German poets 
are now fully detailed. An agreeable pub- 
lication.is the third volume of ENGEL’S 
Philofopher for the World, in which he 
has given a funeral fermon on the neweft 
mif-ernployed philofophy. 
A motley crew, 296.in number, follows 
afrer the main body, the corps of ro- 
mances and novels. ‘There are certainly 
fome refpeétable names in thiscorps. Whe 
would not make an exception in favor of the 
excellent Tales of ANTON WaLL, Hu- 
BeR’s Tales, KoSEGARTEN’S, DIEK’S 
KRETSCHMANN’S Poetical Tales; La- 
FONTAINE’s Theodor, MERKEL’s Tales, 
which are partly taken from Rouffeau’s 
not ‘yet printed papers, RocHLiTz’s 
Charaéteriftics and Remembrances, &c. and 
particularly the long-expected Titan of 
the inexhaufible Jaan Pau. For the 
vast reft, 
