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reft, there are three divifions ; the firft of 
which, whofe colors are black with ful- 
phur, contain the hiftories of conjurors of 
the middle age, of grave-diggers and 
ghofts, in the manner of Albrecht and 
Spiefs, among which the Hiftory of the 
great robber Rinaldino may be reckoned. 
The fecond wear parrot’s feathers in their 
helmets, and are condu&ted by Cramer, 
- the ex-grenadier Laukhardt, and the au- 
thor of the Adventures of Squire Liim- 
mel, The third, or fentimental divifion, 
wear the gloves of their miftreffes on their 
hats, and contain the painters of family 
and common-life fcenes, the betrayers of 
the fecrets of human life, and all thofe 
avho with to get a garden and a finecure, 
-as honeft Lafontaine got from the Queen 
_of Pruffia, particularly delighted by his 
Romances. “However, two produétions, 
Weliodora, and Clara’s Secrets, deferve an 
honorable exception. Forty-two tranf- 
lations are loft in the crowd of original 
nonfenfe and dull verbofity. 
In claffic literature many articles deferve 
to be noticed, as Mi TscHERLIcH’s long 
wifhed-for edition of Horace, ScHiiTz’s 
new edition of Aefchylus, ErcusTapTs 
Diodorus Siculus, RuuHKoprF’s Seneca, 
Kravuset’s VWelleius, RoHDE's Vitru- 
vius, SCHWEIGHAUSER’s Simplicius, 
Matruras’s Commentary on the Home- 
rical Hymns, the continuation of JacoBs’s 
Commentary on the Greek Anthology, 
SCHNEIDER'S Xenophon, and Ecloge 
Phyfice, BREMi’s Suetonius, Mawnss’s 
Sparta, BoTTIGER’s Explanations of 
Tithbein’s Engravings of Hamilton’s new 
Colleétion of Greek Vafes, &c.—For hif- 
tory Plank, Wortmann, Bredow, Mil- 
biller, have been active. . The odious 
revolutionary branch 1s almoft entirely 
broken off. Eight Biographies of Bona- 
parte are loft in the crowd, as likewife fix 
Biographies of the unfortunate Pius VI. 
A more remarkable production feems to 
be the Prolemais, an Epic Poem on the 
Deliverance of Acre, which is affirm- 
ed to have been written at Conftan- 
tinople, and the addition on whofe title, 
3 ‘ ar = 
«“ with notes from authentic fources,”” is 
Sketch of the Principal Works in the loft Leipaig Fair. 
not made for parade crly. But the num- 
ber of occafional writings, and on the mot 
fafhionable topics, is above all expeéiation; 
almoit twenty treatifes are dedicated te 
the new German gold-mine, the beet fu- 
gar, and the German coffee, vulgo cicho- 
vreum. But a difpute had arifen about 
the kind of the beets ufed for fugar, till 
D. Rossic, Profeffer of Oeconomy at 
Leipzig, has terminated it by a botanic de- 
‘termination of the fpecies, The approach- 
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ing end of the 18th century has called 
forth the exertions of other authors. At 
Breflau the hiftory of it has been publifh- 
ed; D. JauyNiscH at Berlin bids it fare- 
well in his “‘ Spirit and Charaéter of the 
18th Century,” and BeHR at Gera makes 
propofitions of reconciliation. The laf 
fevere winter has drawn the attention of 
writers to the preventing of the want 
of wood. WiTZLEBEN’s “ Inquiries into 
the caufes of the want of woods,” are 
publifhed by Lanrop, with additions 
and corrections. Resen at Erfurt re- 
commends the cultivation of the bean- 
tree; mew propofitions are made con- 
cerning the birch; other authers recom- 
mend the qualities of the willow; but 
the pfeudo-acacia is little more heard 
of. Of Count RuMForRp’s Eifays a very 
good tranflation is publifhed at Weimar. 
If, on one hand, this catalogue might be 
confiderably diminifhed by leaving out 
all new editions and republications ; on 
the other hand, there are feveral books 
not regiftered in it, becaufe they were too 
late announced, or other reafons prevented 
it. There are even works of the higheft 
confequence omitted ; among which there 
are only fome few to be named now. Of 
GOTHE’s 2ew works, the feventh ve- 
lume has appeared at Berlin, The cele- 
brated Ouraniofcopus, D. GALL, at Vi- 
enna, has got his long-expeéted Prodro- 
mus printed for Brummer, at Copenha- 
gen. D.ERHaRD, at Nurenberg, has pub- 
lithed a very valuable work, “ A Theory 
of the Laws concerning the Bodily Wel- 
fare of the Citizens, and an Application 
ef Medicine to Legiflation ;”’ primted for 
Cotta, at Tiibingen. 

Retrofpedt of the Progrefs of Spanifo Literature during the 
Year 
On refuming our femi-annual tafk of 
reporting to our readers the progrefs of 
Spanifh Literature, we have once more to 
regret, that, from the interrupted commu- 
nication with Spain, it has not been in 
our power to fubftitute a full and.mimute 
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review of the moft recent Spanifh publi- 
cations inftead of the fucciné critical 
catalogue, to which we are ftill obliged 
to confine ourfelyes with regard to this in- 
terefting branch of foreign literature. 
Although within the period which 8 
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