Retrifpect of German Literature—Eafter fair, 1801. 
réader, without being a miner or metal- 
lurgift, follows him with pleafure. The 
fourth volume gives an interefting account 
of Pola, with explanatory copper- plates. 
Tranflations of all foreign books of 
travéls are likewife publifhed feparately, 
or they appear ; either tranflated at large, 
or abridged, i in ‘calleftions. Vols in Ber- 
lin, Héinfius in Gera, and the Induftrie- 
comptoir at Weimar, publifh fuch collec- 
tions. Profeffor Sprengel, the celebrated 
ftatiltician, is the editor of the colle&tion 
which appears at Weimar. In the third 
part of that magazine, good abridgments 
are given of the works of the French tra- 
vellers, Beaujour and St. Sauveur. 
Befides Profeflor PAuLus’s four vo- 
lumes of the moft remarkable Travels in 
the Eaft, which may ferve to illuftrate the 
Bible, a new colle€tion has been made by 
Rink, of Konigtberg. 
‘Amone the topographical defcriptions, 
MeRKzEL’s Sketch of Hamburg, being 
the firft part of his ‘* Letters on the 
Hanfe Towns,” is particularly deferving 
of notice, and may be compared with 
Meyer's “ Sketches of Hamburg,” and 
the above-mentioned Account of that 
City in Kittner. With pleafure we ob- 
ferved the wninterrupted progref{s of the 
well-conduéted ** Hanfeatic Magazine,” 
by Profefior Smrp, of Bremen. 
JURISPRUDENCE, 
Pofitive cuftomary law feems, if not in 
real life, at leait in literature, to lofe 
daily more and more of its long-eftablifh- 
ed dominion ; though we learn from the 
Catalogue, that it fill has its own literary 
journals, repertorics, and magazines ; nor 
is the Roman Jaw wholly neglected, as 
appears from the publications announced 
under the efteemed names of a Hofacker, 
a Gluck, a Happel, &c. but here too, 
the philofophical tendency of the age has 
diflodged it from many a trong|ly en- 
trenched point. 
In Konopack “‘ Ucberden Begriff und 
Zweck einer Rechts-encyclopadie ;’? in 
GERsTACKER’s “ Giltigkeit eimes Ober- 
ften Rechts-begriff,” é&c. it is, on the one 
hand, endeavoured to eftablifh and diffufe 
the moft liberal principles; and, on the 
other, in THiBauLT’s ‘* Verfuche iiber 
einzelne Theile der Theorie des Rechts,’’ 
2 vols. Jena, Manke; and, in other pub- 
lications, we find the authors aiming to 
give 4 philofophical explication to the 
moft intricate materials, and the livelie# 
a&tivity in every thiog that relates to 
what at prefent conftitute the principal 
fubjects of difcuffion, public and criminal 
jurifprudence. Heye we again find the 
MonTuiy Mac, No. 82. 
597 
names of aWerngr, Leyft, a Kamptz ; but 
are furprifed at FicuTe’s ‘ Gelchlos. 
fener Handets Staat,’’? which, even accord- 
ing to the judgment of Berlin ftatefmen, 
has many attarkeablg points, had called 
forth only one refutation, by Heftermann. 
Hiftorical materials ftill continue to be 
fuinifhed by HaBeRLetn, of Helmftadt, 
in his ** Staats-archiv,’’ of which the 22d 
number has been publifhed by Cotta, in 
Tubingen. Each number contains fingle 
moft important ftate-papers; as, for in- 
ftarice, in two of the. latter numbers, 
two articles relative to Bavaria and Wir- 
temberg, in both which countries the 
ftates have fhewn many figns of diffatis- 
faétion with the government. 
The venerable Klein, in conjunétion 
with Kleinfchrod: and Konopack, conti- 
nues his ¢* Archiv des Kriminal Rechts,*” 
and furnifhes examples and warnings to 
the fyftematicians. Indeed, from the pub- 
licity now given to law-proceedings. in 
Proffia, and trom the expofure of all the 
internal {prings of any there feems to - 
exift there an earneft wifh to introduce 
every poflible reformation. How different 
in this refpeét from many of the other 
provinces in Germany, notwithftanding 
the beft intentions of their rulers! as e. gs 
in Bavaria and in Saxony, where, for fo 
many years, there has exifted a commil= 
fion inftituted for the purpofe of revifing 
the laws.=-In {imaller treatifes too, we 
may often difcover the prevailing fpirit 
of the age: fuch as the fhort, but with 
information abounding, Diflertation of 
the liberal-minded SONNENFELS of Vi- 
enna, ** Ueber die Stimmen-mehrheit ber 
Kriminal Urtheilen ;” on the Majority of 
Voices in the Decifion of Criminal Pro= 
cefies. 
History AND BroGRAFPHY. 
The extenfive field of hiftory has been 
enriched in many detached paits, by 
{mall, intereftinge, and important contribu- 
tion. But here; fafiete the collecting and 
reviewing diligence of the Germans has 
eftablifhed Magazines in almoft. every di- 
vifion and fubdivifion, we in vain look for 
a hiftorical library, written in the f{pirit 
a Gatterer, which would ae ac= 
qui us with the clear profit that had 
arifen from thefe acquifitions. For WoLT- 
MANN’s journal, intitled ‘* Hiliory and 
Politics,” though, in other refpeéts, 
abounding with matter of information, 
does not comprehend -in its plan critical 
accounts of hiltorical publications ; and 
other hifterical journals are either exclu- 
fively appropriated tothe hiftory of the 
day, as the excellent Annals of Posserr, 
4H ARCHEN- 
