Retrofpe® of German Literature. ..Geograp hy. 
many phenomena which hitherro have been 
enveloped in impenetrable darknefs. The 
geographical. and ftatittical information 
which thefe volumes afford are particu- 
larly valuable. The aurhor difplays a 
peculiar degree of found and unbiaffed 
‘Judgment in his, account of Buona- 
parte‘and the Italian revolutions, and 
we can fafely affert that perhaps few 
books have been written on Ifraly, and 
the events which lately have taken place 
in that country, which are fuperior to 
thefe fragments in impartiality of judg- 
ment, intereft, and found reafoning. We 
only have to regret that the author has 
hot omitted feveral odious biographical 
anecdotes, or at leaft not adduced more 
fubftantial and authentic. proofs ‘of. their 
genuinenefs. We are happy to inform 
our readers, that two literary gentlemen 
are tranflating thefe interefting volumes 
jointly, and intend publithing them in a 
{plendid quarto.edition. 
«¢ Momentanes Bediir{nils fiir Zeitungs 
lefer,” 8c, &e: 1799. pp. 1843 12me. 
Momentaneous Guide tor Readers of 
107 
.mous philofopher of Koénigfberg, prove 
Newspapers, or Manual of the prefent, 
Helveuic Topography. A brief topogra- 
_phical defeription of Helvetia. after its 
prefent divifion*in eighteen cantons; to’ 
which is prefixed 2 concife account of the 
origin and formation of the Helvetic con- 
federacy, and of the revolutionin the year 
1798. 
“ Pratr’s Achrenlefe, 
Reife durch Wallis.’’ 1798. Pratr’s 
Gieanings, on a Journey through Wales. 
The tranflation is faithful, and reads like 
ancrigmal. Some paflages anda few let- 
ters have been lefr out. But as. thefe 
omiffions are entirely confiaed to paffages 
which are uninterefting or of an over- 
{trained fentimental cait, they rather are 
commendabie, as improvements, than de- 
ferving of cenfure. 
‘“ H. M. Marcarn’s Reife durch die 
Franzofifehe Schweirtz, und. Italien.’ 
Erfter Band. 1799; pp. 414; Svo.. H. 
M.Macarn’s Travels through French- 
Switzerland and fraly. Mr. Marcard 
Raid, in autumn 178s, a few weeks at 
Laufanne, and from there travelled, by the 
way of Geneve, through Savoy to Turin, 
Genoa, Piacenza, Parma, Modena, and 
Bologna, as far as Florence, where this 
firft volume concludes. We cannor re- 
cammend this work as particularly in- 
ftructive, although the aurhor extends his 
aceount. to the arts and fciences. The 
rancour with which: he declaims againf 
all republican forms of government, and 
the invectives which he on every. oppor- 
tunity pours out againft Kant, the fa- 
auf einer. 
¢ 
him to be utterly deftitute of that, philo- 
fophic {pirit of cofmopolitifm with whick 
every traveller muft be ‘endued, whe is 
defirous of reprefenting the objects of his 
_obfervations in a proper light, and of pur- 
fuing his inveftigations with ‘impartial 
jyudtice.: ‘ 
“ Reife von Amfterdain tiber Madrid 
und Cadix nach Genua.’’ Inden-jahren, 
1797 und 1798.. Von C. AF iscHers 
17993 8ve. Berlin. Journey from Am- 
fterdam through. Madrid and to Genoa. 
The author difplays great fkilin the art 
of interefting the heart and animating 
the imagination. Althcugh many of the 
earlier travellers te the parts which he 
vifited have furnifhed us in their ac- 
counts with more geographical and fatif— 
tical intelligence, yet none has afforded 
more amufement and infraction to his 
readers than. we meet with in Mr. Fii- 
cher’s interefting account. He des nor 
tire the patience of his readers by fui- 
fome repetitions of hacknied fubjetts, 
but relatcs the refults of his own experi- 
ence, and defcribes his own feeliags and 
obfervaticns in a dignified, though una- 
dorned ftyle, He chiefiy endeavours to 
exhibit a taithful piéture of the charafter 
of the Spaniards, and to furnifh fomein- 
terefting and valuable additions to Bour- 
’ 
going’s matterly work on the fame fubje& | 
We muf confefs, that the learned author 
has executed this tafk with great fuccets. 
He informs us that the number of inhahi- 
tants of Madrid,exclufively of the hofpitais, 
the garrifon, and the children, amountto 
13,980; Bilbao contains 13,000 mhabi- 
tants; Badajoz 9,000; Sevilla 70,000; 
Valencia 106,000; Barcelonetta 13,000. 
“ Hikorifch, Statifch, Topographifche, 
Beichreibung von Siid-Preuffen und Nez- 
Siid-Preuffen,” &c. &c. Erfter Band. 
pp. 6663 crown 8vo. Leipzig, 170%. 
Hiftorical, Statiftical,, and Topographtoak 
Defeription of South-Prufia and New- 
South-Pruffia; with fix Plates and three 
Maps. . This is the beginning of a well- 
digefted, inftructive, and extremely com- 
plete work on the faid provinces, whofe 
lateft organifation under the- Prufiian 
{ceptre has almoft entirely changed the 
former divifions, The introdnétion con- 
tains a concife fetch of the late reduftion 
of that part of Poland under the Pri- 
fian {cepire, of the.late infurreétion,. and 
of the general divifion of the provinces 
newly acquired by Prafha. The poi.ical 
hiftory of thefe provinccs is related with 
great fidelity. “The ftatiftical part con- 
tains.a great deal of new and> intereiting 
information. The topographical detorip - 
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