600 
or Principles of a thoroughly Praétical 
Philofophy (Leipzig, Gofchen), which 
ought not tobe Bveriobiced! by the Idealifts 
of “the newelt fchools. 
To thofe who with for an impartial, 
unprejudiced and luminous view of the 
new and neweit philefophy, and of its 
fe€ts and parties, from the days of Leib- 
nitz to the prefent titres, we may venture 
to recommend the ‘* Ueberficht der nevern 
Philofophie,”? 2 vols. Hamburg, Bohn, 
by Proteffor Scnuxz, of Helmftadt, who 
here too has merited the praife which 
not even his opponents could refule to his , 
former produétions. 
The Catholic part of Germany conti- 
nues to fhew the moft lively intereft in the 
promotion of the critical philofophy. In 
Bamberg, Logics adapted to the Kantian 
Syftem, have been publifhed at Nusflein 
aud Dae and that very prolific writer 
G. F. Wenze!, of Vienna, who parades 
ae no lefs than fix new titles in the 
Fafter Catalogue, has given us (befides 
the ‘* Huarte,’? which he has retouched, 
and befides the ** Goldener Schluflel zum 
Menfchlichen Herzen,”? The Golden 
Key to the Human Heart—and the 
«s Diatetik der Menfchlichen Seele ;” 
Dietetics of the Human Soul); hkewife 
a *“* Kanonik des Verftandes als Kom- 
mentar zu Kant’s Logik,” 
Reafon, being a Commentary to Kant’s 
Logic. From all this one might eafily be 
led to the falfe conclufion, that the thing 
3s there a marketable, fafhionable com- 
nodity. 
The excellent Mutfchelle, of Munich, 
continues, even after his juftly lamented 
death, to inftrué his countrymen by 
means of his Moral Divinity; and Salat, 
certainly the man belt qualified to fill the 
deceafed’s place, fhews by his lateft pub- 
lication, that in him ey hey illumi- 
nifm is only the gentle flame of a light- 
sith ing taper, and not the glaring blaze 
the incendiary’s torch. 
D tee cars Ethics, 2 vols. Gottingen, 
is a good colicétion of materials for the 
hifory of philofo: hemes, which will-per- 
haps be more frequently recurred to tor 
anita Gbn: than du’ 'y -guoted and 
praifed. ; ; 
~ Phough weeds and thifiles thrive im 
many places with too luxuriant a growth ; 
re a gl: ance at two divifiens of the vari- 
oifiy coicored Geld of literature before us, 
borifolts and confoles the fpetator. In the 
firft place, ancient claffical liter ature, the 
firmeft foundation of all true culture of 
the mind, and the fureft prefervatiye 
or Canon of 
Retro[pelt of German Literature—Eafter-fair, 1801. 
aus Praftifchen Philofophie ;* Realifm, 
avainft fcholaftic fooleries wie jargon, fill 
has a number of faithful admirers :—and 
fecondly, every thing is every year ren- 
dered more and more pra¢tical and fitted 
for the common ufes of life; rural econo- 
my, horticulture, forreftry, mechanics, 
and technology are improved by the re- 
fults of fcientific refearches, which are 
divefted of obfcurity, and diffufed in a 
hundred commodious vehicles of commu- 
nication.——We now proceed to 
PHILOLOGY. 
The philology of our times is not con- 
tent with merely collecting and compar- 
ing what had been faid before, or with 
the often more fhining than ufeful difplay 
of genius and learning in the émendation 
of the text. Founded on a philofophical 
anatomy of the component parts of lan- 
guage and on a more luminous grammar, 
fhe views antiquity from a hicher point of 
obfervation, and wstha bolder critici{m 
examines into the validity of the claims of 
the remains of Greek and Roman culture; 
often more venerable on account of their 
age, than the excellence of their contents. 
Of this, the Jaft Eafter-fair furnifhes us 
with many examples.—The acute Herr- 
mann, of Leipzig, fhews the fame powers 
of inddagacion wick he evinced in the 
development of the metres of the ancient 
Greek and Roman poets, likewife in the 
emendation of the Greek grammar: 
««HE RMANNIdeemendandaRationeGram- 
maticze Greece, libri I, & If. Accedunt 
Herodiani aliorumque Libelli nunc’ pri- 
mum editi.”’8vo. Leipzig,Fleifcher. In this 
part the verbs only are treated of. Syntax 
and Profody are to follow. Many new 
ideas are applied to the elucidation of his 
fubjest ; and fome before unpublifhed 
Greck grammarians are fubjoined from 
manu(cripts in Munich. 
The polyhiftor and critic of verfatile 
talents, Schneider, of Frankfort on the 
Gder, who is at the fame time employed, 
as one of the firft naturalifts of his coun- 
try, on ‘*Continuations of Blogh’s 
Fifhes,”’ and ‘* Lacepede’s (by Bechftein 
much improved) Amphibia,”’ and on a 
‘*Commentary on Vitruvius,”* has pub- 
lifhed the *‘Commentary to his Ecloge 
Phyfice.’” In this commentary we meet 
with the mot unlooked-for combinations 
of the neweit difcoveries in phyfics and 
natural hiftory with thofe of the ancients. 
The Greek text fills the frft volume, and 
the commentary the fecond. eer: 
mann 
Schneider has likewife given us an ex- 
cellent new edition of ghe ‘¢ Memorabilia 
of Xenophon,”* 
M. Wolfe, 
