ter as their patients; and, confequently, 
to conclude from the healt th and well-being 
of the latter upon the wifdom and well- 
regulated activity of the former. He ftates 
feveral more points of view which the 
hiftorian conftantly mut keep in fighr, 
and which will enable him to render his 
inveftigations particularly interefting and 
ufeful. He defires, for inftance, that hi- 
ftory fhould be confidered as a drama, i in- 
timately connected in all irs parts, in or- 
der to fhow how and by what means 
the whole machinery was put in motion 
and regulated in its principal movements. 
It then will be obvious, adds: he, that 
many concerns, now [carcely glanced at, 
are objeéts which are deferving of being 
attended to with peculiar care “by princes 
and governments; that it is more meri- 
torious to confine luxury in proper limits 
than to invent new taxes; 
nating the feeds of vice, by eftablith- 
ing good fchools and diffeminating, ufe- 
ful knowledge among the lower elaffes, 
contributes more to diminifh the num- 
ber of criminals than the ereétion of 
the beft regulated houfes of correétion, 
Se. ezce 
‘* Vaterlandifces Lezebuch,’’ &c. &c. 
17993 pp. 260; 8vo. Patriotic Reading. 
book, for the Ufe of Country and Mili. 
tary Schools. Writing the hiftory of 
our country, for the inftruéction of youth, 
is a highly ufeful undertaking, the bene- 
ficial coafequences of which are the more 
important, the more the wants of the 
flare require thar its citizens fhouid ob- 
taln a certain peculiar difpofition of mind, 
and be properly inftruéted in every thing 
that can contribute to promote it. It is 
generally known that this is the.cafe in 
Pruffia. That kingdom has obtained, by 
the national (pirit which animates its. in- 
habitants, a rank to which it was not en- 
titled oy the extent pe the territory over 
which its monarch rules. That fpirit ‘is 
entirely of a military nature. For this 
reafon it. ts coe teed neceflary that an 
early attention fhould be paid to this point 
in the hiftorical inftruétion which that 
clafs of people receives of whom the ar- 
mies chiefly confit. Confidering this, 
the publication of which we are going 
to fpeak, fearcely could have been exe- 
cuted in a better manner,than it actually 
is. The author aie his accoun! with 
the origin of the marquifate of Brande - 
burg ; and, in relating the hiftory of the 
reigning family, and the martial exploits 
which its princes performed, omits no 
epignack of exhibiting their heroifm 
‘gn the moft interefting point of view, ré- 
Jating eyen the diltinguifhed warlike 
Retro/peé? of German Literatures. Hiftory. 
that extermi- - 
“ma 
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deeds of individual regiments. It is'faid 
that the king of Pruffia, having the’men- 
tal improvement of the lower claffes par- 
ticularly at heart, intends to order this 
book to be ufed in the {chools. 
1.“ Charaétertflic Frederjch’sdesZ wei- 
ten, Kénig’s von Preuffen.’’ 3 theile. 
Svo. Charafteriftic of Frederick II. King 
of Pruffia. 3 volumes. 
2.“ Fragmente zur Schilderung desGei- 
ftes, &c. Friederich’s: des Zweiten.” Von 
GarveE. 2theile; 8vo. Dreflau, 1798. 
Fragments, tending to piétare the Spirit, 
Charaéter, Jand Government, of Frederic 
the Second, Dr. Sretn, the author of 
this work, has executed. his tafk with 
‘great modefty, diligence, and judgment. 
We have, however, to regret, that he 
.has frequently omitted to ftate the fources 
from which he derived his inftruétive and 
interefting intelligence. This defeét might 
eafily be remedied in an appendix; which 
is particularly neceflary, as he relates 
many anecdotes which are of a com- 
plexton that cannot but create doubts in 
the mind of a reflecting reader. 
Mr. GARVE, rhe author of No. 2, treats 
his fubjeét more as a philofopher thandn a 
hiftor ean iew. Thofe of our readers, who 
know him already as the able commenta- 
tor on Paley’s celebrated work, will give 
us credit 1f we maintain that profeffor 
Garve’s obfervations on the charaéter of 
Frederic II. are highly interefting and 
inftructive. The remarks on Frederic’s 
literary charaéter deferve particularly 
- being read, as they abound with the moft 
important Gol invefiigations relative: 
to the fudy of hiftory, Sad will prove 
equally interefting to the philofophic hi- 
ftorian and the man of letters. i 
et Gefchichte des Ungarifchen Reichs,” 
&c-dc. Von. Ge, ENGEL. Erfter 
theil; 1798. Hiftory of the Kingdom 
of H: a gary, and the Countries belonging 
to ve Mr. Engel proves, by the manner 
in. which, he has executed his Hiftory of 
Ea wadi his. native country, that he 
made ee moft careful ufe of all exifting 
terials, and that his {prrit of invefti- 
gation and impartiality were not checked 
by the literary de!potifm which at prefent 
is exercifed by the major part of the dig- 
nitaries of thai country. The little au- 
thentic information we have had hitherto 
af Hungary, avd the indefatigable zeal 
with which Mr. Engel has. endeavoured 
co fill up that chafm, entirles him to the 
tha ks of the hiftorian. The number of 
livine literary characters in Hungary, the 
writers of pamphlets included, is ftated 
by Mr. Engel as {carcely amounting to 
fifty, a lamentable proof of the mental 
darkne({s 
