Retrofped? of German 
with which the author is gifted is. not 
dried up, difplaying itfelf rather more to 
advantage than in the former volumes; 
and the autoor continues to deferve the 
applaute with which the prior part of his 
entertaining compofition was received in 
Germany. 
“ Graf Pietro d’ Albi und Giannetta,” 
von GusTAv Fxrepav. 1798. Count 
Pietro d’Aloi and Giannetta. In three 
vols. We fhould be guilty of injuttice 
to the worchy author of thefe volumes 
were we to confound his interefting and 
inftruétive compolition with the clals of 
common novels, with which tr cannot be 
compared. The promotion of pure mo- 
rality is the principal objeét of his event- 
ful compoeficion, and he deierves the gra- 
titude of his cotemporaries for having’ 
exerted his talents with more than com- 
mon alliduity far the promotion of civic 
and domeftic. virtue. ‘We muft, how- 
ever, obferve, that he is rather too fe- 
rious for our frivolous age, and undoubt- 
‘edly would have been more fuccefsful in 
his endeavours if he had treated his fub- 
ject in a more generally pleafing manner. 
* Romantifche Skizzen.’” 1798. pp. 
200; 8vo. Romantic Sketches. The 
eight little tales compiled in this volume 
feem to be tranflations from the French, 
as not only the fcene of them hes in 
France, but alfo a number of Gallicifms 
occur. We cannot comprehend what 
procured them the honour of being trani- 
lated into the German language. : 
** Charaéteriftick . des Menfchlichen 
Herzens,” &c. &c. 1798. pp. 240. Cha- 
racteriftic of the Human Heart, &c. 
&c. Six romantic tales, which alfo are 
tranflated from the French, and deferve 
being configned to oblivion. 
«* Natur und Kunft,”’ &c. &c. 1798. 
Pp. 394; 12mo. Nature and Art, or, 
the Gardens. This poem is divided into 
four epiftles, addrefled to a friend, The 
author is particularly fuccefsful in pic- 
ture{que defcriptions. We muft, how- 
ever, obferve, that his verfes fometimes 
are extremely unharmonious. 
“* Gedichte,” von K. A. RUDOLPHI. 
1798; pp.1203; 8vo. Although we are 
not warranted to pronounce thefe poems 
cleffical, yet we muft do the author the 
juftice to confefs, that his verfification 1s 
eafy, and that he difplays a refined tafte, 
and a generous manner of thinking. 
‘« Hans von Greifenhorft,” &c. Hans 
of Greifenhorft; a Tragedy, in Three 
Aé&ts. 1799. pp. 68; 8vo. A juvenile 
attempt, both uninterefting and taftelefs. 
“ Kiara yon Synau,’”’ &e. &c. 1798. 
Literature...Ph Hology, 1085 
p: 167. Klara de Synau, a Traged 
A Five Aéts. The fubje€t of this mrore 
is taken from Lafontaine’s Clara Duplef- ~ 
fis. The furious and haughty vicomte 
Dupleffis is introduced under the name of 
Count Synau. Lafontaine’s Clairant ap- 
pears under the name of Charles Lunau. 
His uncle, a captain Lunau, is fubftituted 
for the prior. Clara is here, as well as 
in Lafontaine’s novel, the moft romantic 
character. The piece contains paflages 
which paint the paffions with uncommon 
energy, and creates increafing intereft by 
the truth and power of many highly in- 
terelling {cenes. 
PHILOLOGY. 
“ Salluft’s Romifche Gefchichte, &c. 
1798. pp. 62. Salluft’s Roman Hiftory, 
‘reftored by De Brosses, tranflated by 
SCHLUTER. A fpecimen, with a pre- 
face by J. F. DEGEN. The Jaft excel- 
lent works of the late learned Prefident 
de Broffes was a reftoration and French 
tranflation of Salluft’s lof& ** Hiftoria Ro- 
mana,’’ comprifing the hiftory of the Ro- 
man republic, in 5 books. De Broffes un- 
dertook the laborious tafk of colleéting the 
fragments of this work from the ancient 
grammarians, and at laft faw his diligence 
rewarded by a collection of more than 
feven hundred fragments, which he com- 
bined with fo much judgment and ability, 
as to produce a beautiful whole, graced 
with the genuine {pirit and energy of the 
noble Ruman. The work was publifhed 
1777, at Dijon, in three quartos, under 
the title ‘ Hiftoire de la Republique 
Romaine dans le Cours du VI Ime Siecle, 
par Salluite, &c.”’ Mr. Schluter, a lite- 
rary gentleman of great talents and ace 
tivity, who already is known by an ex-~ 
cellent German tranflation of Salluf, in- 
tends to render Broffe’s work, which is 
extremely fcarce in Germany, more ge- 
/ 
nerally known by a tranflation, and offers | 
here a fpecimen which exhibits a clofe 
copy of the dignified ftyle of the Roman 
hiftorian, 
«“ Plutarchi Cheronenfis, que fuper- 
funt, omnia. Cum Adnotationibus vario- 
rum, adjectaque Lectionis diverfitare, 
Opera,. J. Geore. Hurren,” S&Xe. 
Vol. x. 1798. pp. xxxix, and goo; Svo. 
This volume, the fourth ofthe ‘ Operum 
Moralium et Philofophicorum,’’ contains 
the following 16 treatifes of Plutarch: 
(34) De Tranquillitate Animi; (35) De 
Fraterno Amore; (36) De Amore Proliss 
(37) An Vitiofitas ad Infelicitatem fuf- 
ficiat ? (38) Animine an Corporis Affec- 
tiones fint pejores? (39) De Garrulitate ; 
(40) De Curiofitate; (41) De Cupidi- 
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