598 
ARCHENHOLZ’s Minerva, and the Ge- 
nius of the Nineteenth Century ; or con- 
fined to fingle provinces, as is the **: Mu- 
feum for the Hiftory of Saxony,” by Pro- 
feffor Weusse, of Leipzig. The grand 
hiftorical drama of the prefent day, whofe 
final a& will hardly be received in Ger- 
many with general applaufe, put, at the 
beginning, numbers of rapid pens in mo- 
tion; but, at laft, the fcenes fucceeded 
one another fo quickly, that even the moft 
ready book-keepers gave up all hopes of 
being able to keep pace with the pafling 
events. They are at laft become fenfible, 
that the ftorm mutt have gone by, before 
it is poflible properly to appreciate the 
damages it has done, or the advantages 
that may refult from it. Hence, on Bo- 
naparte even, the laft Eafter-fair brought 
forth only two publications. 
Pant, author of a well-written ‘* Ge- 
fchichte des Franzofifchen Revolutions- 
krieges ;*? Hiftory of the French Revolu- 
tionary War, 3 vols. Frankfort, Efsling, 
has likewife given us an account of the 
fhort career of the Parthenopean Repub- 
lic in his ** Gefehichte der Parthenopai- 
{chen Republik, F-ankfort, Efsling. 
But Switzerland has undoubtedly fur- 
mifhed the greateft number of contribu- 
tions towards the hiftory of the prefent 
times. Among thefe,C. H. v. HALLER’s 
«* Gefchichte der Wirkungen und Folgen 
des Oefterveich. Feldzugs in der Schweiz’ 
—Hiftory of the Operations and Confe- 
quences of the Auftrian Campaign in 
Ewitzerland—( Weimar, Gadicke) holds a 
diftinguifhed rank. .The author, who is 
a grandfon of the immortal Haller, and 
now refides at Vienna, was himfelf em- 
ployed in the negociations between the 
Canton of Bern, and the French Direc: 
tory ; but afterwards, unable to bear the 
domination of the infolent conquerors, left 
his country, to return again with the 
Archduke Charles; and confcquently he 
almoft every where {peaks as an eye- 
witnefs. As he himfelf, however, withes 
to have his work confidered as a continu- 
ation of Mallet du Pan, it is probable that 
only-one party will be fatisfied with this 
acceunt of the attempt to deliver Switzer- 
land from the yoke of the French. 
Von Junge has treated, in a work con- 
fifting of two thick volumes, of ‘¢ The 
Political Relation of Switzerland to the 
Germanic Empire, from the Origin of the 
Helvetic Confederacy to the End of the 
Eighteenth Century.” Two fmaller 
works, ** Helvetien zu Ende des XVIII. 
jahrhunderts’’—Helvetia at the Clofe of 
the Eighieenth Century; and ‘* Ueber 
Retro/pee? of German Literature—Eafter-fair, 180... 
die Schweiz am Ende dés  XVILI. Jahr- 
hunderts”—On Switzerland. at the Clofe 
of the Eighteenth Century, feem to fhews 
by the different names which they give to 
the country of which they treat, that they 
are the produétions of men of oppofite par- 
ties. In the ‘¢ Vermifche Schriften,’® 
Mifcellaneous Pieces,(4 vol.Copenhagen), — 
of BONSTETTEN,who now lives at Copen- 
hagen, in the bofom of friendthip, we 
may likewife expect many interefting par- 
ticulars relative to. Switzerland. 
Profeflor Tralles, of Bern, who was 
fent to Paris to affift at the fynod there 
convened to deliberate on the propriety 
of adopting the new weights and meas 
fures, has given us an account of his mif- 
fion in a treatife, ** Ueber die Mittel, 
ein Allgemeines Maas und Gewicht in 
Helvetien einzufthren.”” 
Guftavus Vafa, the founder of a new 
dynafty, and the eftablither of Proteftant- 
ifm in Sweden, has found an hiftorian 
worthy of him in M. von ARCHEN-~ 
HOLZ, who has publifhed a ‘* Regierungs- 
Gefchichte des Schwedifchen Konigs, 
Guitavus I.’? Hiftory of the Reign of 
Guftavus I. King of Sweden, 2 vols. Tus 
bingen, Cotta. Befides the known fources 
of information, the author confulted the 
Diflertations of Befali, and had an op-. 
portunity of recurring for advice to a 
Gjowell, a Fant, and a Nordenfkiold, 
Swedifh refident in Hamburg. And al- 
though criticifm may find fomething to 
blame in the too general views in the ins 
troduction, and in fome other things ; yet, 
in the fequel of the hiftory, every reader 
will eafily difcern the hand of the mafter, 
who knows how to conneét his fcattered 
materials, to place every thing in moft 
agreeable light, and to render Guftavus, 
the reformer and enlightener, dearer and 
dearer to us as he relates his repeated 
combats with the abettors of darknefs. 
In the biographical department of hif- 
tory, we obferve with pleafure, that the 
Germans begin more and more boldly to 
contend for the palm of excellence with 
their neighbours, efpecially the Englith, 
whofe appetite for biography, foreigners 
have remarked, is infatiable. One of the 
mot interefting produ€tions of this kind 
is the ** Life of the Prefident von Hippel, 
of Konigfberg,” derived chiefly from his. 
own papers and confeffions. 
Of SCHLICHTEGROLL’s *¢ Necrology,”° 
an excellent national work, whofe faults it. 
is eafier to blame, than to remove by 
fomething more finifhed and feleét, we 
have received the fecond volume of the 
vighth year, viz. 1797, in gee ee 
or, 
