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Horn, and others, of which we cannot, 
however, take {pecial notice. 
JURISPRUDENCE. 
Not one NEw work having appeared 
under this head fince lait Michaelmas- 
taw that could be interefting to a foreign 
reader, we muft beg leave to pafs it over 
in flerce, and preceed to give an account 
of the new publications in the mo.e ge- 
derally interefiing department of 
NaTURAL HISTORY AND CHEMISTRY. 
Iiicer’s interefting Magazine for In- 
fefiology feems to experience that patron- 
age which it fo eminently deferves, two 
additional numbers having appeared fince 
our laft Retrofpect. 
C. S. Scurnz has publified the two 
firft numbers of ** A practical Commen- 
tary upon the celebrated J. Geflner’s Phy- 
tographical Tables for Phyficians and Lo- 
vers of Botany,” which promifes to ren- 
der thefe vaiuable tab'es ftill more ufeful. 
Hor’s ** Magazine for Mineralogy, 
Geognofy, and Mineralogical Geogra- 
phy,” of which fix numbers are now be- 
tore the public, continues to realize the 
hopes which were entertained ‘of its uti- 
lity. The difccyeries in this department 
of fcience, which in our times fucceed 
each other fo :apidly, undoubtedly render- 
ed 2 periodical work of this kind very ne- 
ceflary; and its being condutted by fo 
able an editor as M. Hof proves himfelf, 
is indeed a very foriunate circumftance. 
The lateft numbers of GiILBERT’s 
«* Annals of Phytfics’’ abound in uleful 
and interefting information, and contmue 
to diffule the knowledge of the new diico- 
veries_ made by the greateft natural philo- 
fophers in all parts of Europe. 
An intereiting little work, intitled 
* Anweilung fur Licbhaber der Canarien- 
vogel,” has been publiithed by SHRODER, 
of Brunfwick, which contains much ule- 
ful information refpeéting the natural 
hitory, the breeding, and difeafes of ca- 
nary-burds, tegether with directions tor 
curing the fame, and will prove very ac- 
ce; table to the lovers of this domeftic 
bird. 
‘The continuation of Vorcr’s ** Maga- 
zn fur den neueften Zuttand der Natur- 
kunde,”” the fecond volume of which is 
now completed, contains a great variety 
of intereiting and ufeful intciligence. as 
well in the department cf natural hiftery, 
as in that of phvfics, together with a re- 
trofpect of t'e progrcfs of lite:ature in 
this branch of f{cience. 
4. WAGNER, who has repeatedly, with 
eontiderable fucce:s, exerted his talents 
Retrofpeci of German Literature. —Furifprudence, Se. 
for the promotion of mental illumination 
and civic virtue among the middling 
claffes, has lately publifhed two volumes, 
intitied ‘* Natur-Wunder und Lander- 
Merkwirdigkeiten,” in which he has cel- 
leGted a great and interefting variety of 
uncommon natural phenomena, as well as 
fele€tions from the accounts of celebrated 
travellers and* voyagers, refpeéting the, 
moft ftriking peculiarities of different 
countries in all partsof the world. This 
inftructive and entertaining work is chiefly 
intended to counteract the pernicious rage. 
for novel-reading, by fupplying the idlers 
in Germany with more fubftantial and 
wholefome food, than Romances can af- 
ford. May complete fuccefs attend his 
laudable undertaking ! 
To the lovers of botany, we recommend 
a very uleful work with which Profeflor 
CuHaRLEs SPRENGEL, of Halle, has lately 
enriched this branch of literature, under 
the title of “ Anleitung zur Kenntnifs 
der Pflanzen.’’—Guide to the Knowledge. 
of Plants, in 2 vols. 
It is compofed in the form of letters to 
alady. The firft volume treats of the 
ftruéture of plants, and of the deftination 
of their different parts; the fecond vo- 
lume explains the botanical terminology 
and fytiem. The great perfpicuity that 
diftinguifhesit, willrender it a very accept- 
ible companion to the dilettantithat ftudy 
this interefting {cience. A third volume 
will make its appearance next Michaelmas- 
fair. 
N. T. Host, of Vienna, has favoured 
the botanical wor!d with * Icones et De- — 
{criptionesGraminvum Aufiriacorum,” with 
200 coloured plates, in 2 vols. A third 
volume will fpeedily follow. 
FG. Dittricu’s “ Vollftandiges Lex- 
icon der Gartenerey und Botanik.’—A 
Complete Dictionary of Gardening and 
Botany, ranks very high ameng the bo- 
tanical works that have lately appeared in 
Germany. Profeflor KurT SPRENGEL, 
of Halle, who iurely will be allowed te 
be acompetent judge, has written a Pre- 
face to it, in which he declares, that he 
feels himielf urged to contefs, to have de- 
rived much uleful information from the 
peruia] of it, and that he confiders it ful- 
ly intitled to be received with as much ap- 
plau‘e by the botanifts of our age, as Mil- 
ler’s celebrated work obtained among the 
cotemporaries of that diiiinguifhed wri- 
ter. The fecond volume is in the prefs, 
and will, as we are informed, foon make 
its appearance. 
br. j. A. ScumipT is editing a 
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