Retrofpedi of German Literature—Eafter-fair, 180%. 599. 
of the Poet Gotter is particularly defery- 
ing of commendation. 
According to the Catalogue, biographi- 
cal monuments have been erected to the 
following men:—to Deppifch,ecclefiaftical 
councillor, and preacher at the Julius 
Hofpital, in Wirzburg, by his fucceflor 
Fortich ; to Meierotto, confiftorial coun- 
cillor, and reétor of the Calvinift gymna- 
fium in Berlin, by his colleague, Profeflor 
Brun; to the meritorious Burgomafter 
Muller, of Leipzig, by an anonymous bi- 
ographer; to Profeflor Bufch, of Ham- 
burg, by Nolting ; to Fafch, of Berlin, 
by Zeller; and to Lavater by Schul- 
thefs. 
Profeflor Miller, of Schafhaufen, has 
given us, in the fourth part of his ¢* Selbft- 
bekenntnifle,” Memoirs of Chriftina, 
Queen of Sweden. Nor are felf-biogra- 
phers wanting. The long expected Life 
of Ditterfdorf, chap;|-mafter and opera- 
compofer, is now in the hands of every 
man of curiofity ; it is entitled ¢* Carl von 
Ditrerspoze’s Lebens Befchreibung ; 
feinem Sohne in die Feder dielirt;*? con- 
tains many interefting mufical anecdotes, 
and well expofes the miferies of a court- 
life. Tuuiess, formerly profeffor of divi- 
nity in the univerfity of Kiel, whence he 
was driven on account of the freedom 
with which he declared his opinions, has 
given an account of his fate and adven- 
tures in the ** Gefchichte meines Lebens : 
ein Fragment aus der Sitten und Gelehr- 
ten-gefchichte des XVIII. Jahrhunders, 
vol. 1. Hamburg, Kratfch; and blind 
SACHSE, of Gera, has written a ‘* Hifto- 
ry of his own Life and Sufferings.”” 
Fulleborn, of Breflau, has begun a 
© Mufeum Teutfcher Gelehrten, und 
beruhmter Tonkinftler,’ in which he 
gives the portraits of celebrated muficians, 
and living German literati, with a fhort 
biographical account at the back of the 
portraits, in which the man is defcribed 
chiefly from his works. 
| PHILOSOPHY, 
There was a time, when Alchymy 
was called the queen and miftrefs of all 
earthy and heavenly wifdom, and when 
‘Turneifer and other German thefophitts 
of the Paracelfian (chool fent year after 
year to the then flourifhing fair of Frank- 
fort their bales of the alone poflible {ci- 
ence. At the commencement of the 
nineteenth century another only poflible 
{cience, Fichte’s tran{cendental idealifn, 
is again extolled as the queen and canon 
of all other {ciences, and wanders in vari- 
ous forms and dreffes to the great book- 
mart of Leipzig. Let us hope that it 
will be more produtive than its predes 
ceffor of genuine gold, which will ftand 
the teft of the crucible. 
Father Kant himfelf is now tolerated 
only by a few faithful adherents in the 
philofophical houfe-chapel. Rink brings 
once more from ftuble-fields fo often 
gleaned. before a few almoft empty ears. 
Por{chke has given us ‘* Anthropologifche 
Abhandlungen,” intended as Commen- 
taries on Kant’s Anthropology ;——and 
Ratze a ‘* Critical Anthology,” collected 
from Kant’s writings. M. M. Ratze and 
Rink are profeffors in Konigfberg, where 
Kant, in a very advanced age, now only 
vegetates phyfically.—-Nor is Mellin, of 
Magdeburg, yet become tired of continu- 
ing his Marginal Notes. 
But undoubtedly the philofophical work 
that moft {plendidly fhines forth, is 
Ficute’s ‘* Sonnenklarer Bericht an das 
groffere Publicum uber das wahre Wefen 
der Neueften Philofophie;” A Report, 
clear as the Sun, to the Public at large, 
relative to the True Principles of the 
Neweft Philofophy.” How will the irra- 
diation affect poor Krug? who has con- 
tinued his ‘Briefe uber die Wiffen- 
{chaftflehre,”> and even ventures to lay 
before the world the Plan of a New Or- 
ganon. He might learn what awaits 
him from the caftigation which Reinhold 
has received in Fichte’s Anfwer to him. 
For thofe who havejfailen back again 
into the old doétrines are there told, that 
fuch back-fliding cannot be accounted 
for, except by a total incapacity to com- 
prehend Fichte’s fyftem. An impartial 
reader will however with to examine like- 
wife the documents produced by the other 
party, and, before he comes toa decifion, 
perufeReiNHOLD’s “ Beitrage zur Jeich- 
tern Ueberficht des Zuftandes der Philofo- 
phie.”” On the whole, the laft Eafter 
Catalogue, though we were furprifed to 
find that Niethhammer and Fichte’s 
Philofophical Journal is difcontinued, 
fhews that the neweft Philofophy is 
zealoufly fupported by many active par- 
tizans. Even the poet Mnioch, gives us | 
Illuftrative Variations on the Tendency 
of Fichte’s Deftination of Man. 
Schad, of Jena, continues his View; 
and in another publication endeavours to 
prove, againft Heufinger and other doubt- 
ers, the «Complete Harmony of Fichte’s 
Syftem with Religion.” : 
All this has given rife to a Lucianic 
piece of humour, entitled ‘¢ The Lait 
Judgment of Philofophy,” by RuckeRr. 
But that this author is likewife capable 
of confidering the fubje& in a ferious 
point of view, appears from his 
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