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G04 Retrofpeit of German Literature Michaelmas-fair, 1861. 
tranflated into Enelifh, although from its 
firft appearance it excited dilouft in every : 
German of a caltivated mind. It would, 
indeed, be unjaft)to form an opinion of 
the talte of the tiation from the quantity 
of fuch trath annually vended at the Leip- 
zig’) Fair. Noanan of-rank and education 
would foil his “fingers therewithe: ‘But 
there exiit among the‘lower orders above} 
400 circulating Iibrarres, where the whole 
igeagerly receivedas a mow délegtabie treat. 
DRAMATIC PRODUCTIONS. * 
The moft important of the 57 dramatic 
prod uctions thata»peared Jatt Matter-fair is. 
undoubtedly ScHIL LER’S “Maria Stuart.” 
‘Phe fame eminent tragic poet has given us 
anew elegant pocket-edition of his ** Don 
Carlos,’’**which he has entirely remoulded ; 
‘anda metrical tranflation of ** Macbeth,” 
in which he has here and there attempted 
to improve Shakefpeare. 
-Of Korzepus’s. ‘* Neue Schaufpiele,”” 
the sth and 6th volumes were publifiied by | 
Kummer,-in Leipzig, contaming among 
others ** Die Klingiberge,’” one of his bett 
comedies, and four cther new plays. 
Qf the colleé&tion of IpFLAND’s plays, 
the 13th volume has appeared. A numz, 
ber of inferior writers, fuch as Werthes, . 
Kratter, Beck, Bilderbeck, &e. &c. like- 
wife. communicated. their dramatic. pro- 
ductions to the public. A certain Count 
ot the Hcly Roman Empire, Julius, yon, 
Soden, ventured. to give us; even after 
Kotzebue, a vew drama, entitled ** Men= 
{chenhafs und Reue;’’ and Keinbeck fent ta 
the Fair, all the way from Peterfburg, his 
*¢ Coffacs in Switzerland,’ -which had 
been reprefented: on the Peterfburg Thea-, 
tre. The Ex-jefuit, Tr. Xav.. Jan,. of, 
Augfburg, has favoured us with the 5th 
volume of his plays, which he affures us 
are free from. all ‘* fcandalous love-ins. 
trigues and marriages.” 
{ICHAELMAS FAIR, 1801. 
et 
CCORDING to the Leipzig Cata- 
logue,28gbooktellers forwarded 1150, 
articles to the lat Michaelmas Fair in that 
city; fo that this after-crop of German It- 
terature would-at firft ight appear to) be 
greater than the whole year’s produce: in 
England, which, if we may depend upon 
the accuracy of. the lifts that have been 
publithed, did not from Michaelmas 
800, to Michaelmas 1801, exceed goo 
articles, including fermons and the {mall- 
eft political pamphlets. Buc the Leipzig 
Catalogue is always a very uncertain and 
fallacious index of the real increafe of the 
ftock of books; and in particular that 
publified at Michaeimas. Many a cfi- 
tical Achilles, who has fought. his way 
threvgh the crowds. of the Eatter Fair, 
might be tempted, at the fight of fo many 
refu{citated book-titles, to exclaim with 
the fon of Thetis (Ul. xxi- 55.) f 
~ Ye mightyGods! what wonders ftrike my view! 
Is it in vain our conq’ring arms fubdue ? 
Sure 1 fhall fee yon’ heaps of Trojans kill’d ~ 
Rife from the fhades, and brave me inthe field! 
For, befides the 106 new editions, actually 
bearing cm their forehead the fign of re- 
generation (of which, however, more 
than: one haif, probably, have nothing 
new but the title-page) the intelligent eb- 
ferver eafily difcovers a large quantity of 
wares formerly rejeCted and condemned, 
but which are now again offered for fale 
under a new name. If we further deduct 
from the above {um-total about 200 con- 
tinuations, fome of them only fingle num- 
bers of magazines and journals; about 
80 pocket books, almanacks, and funilar 
atinuals ; moreover, a couple of hundreds 
of {mall pamphlets; and laftly, nearly 
113 novels and- romances, which were 
not infpired by genius but by hunger; 
there will remain but few articles whiclr 
may be deemed a real acquifition to lite- 
rature. Im every branch, however, we 
obferve fome contributions and even com- 
plete works, which are deferving of at- 
tention. 
THEOLOGY. | 
No where is it now fo ftill and quiet as 
in the once fo noify and tumultuous fields 
of theology. The Gottingen Prize-dif- 
fertation on the opinion’ of the ancient. 
Fathers relative to original fin, by Horn, 
fcarcely attracts notice; for can any thing” 
new on this fubje&t be gleaned even from 
the patriflic treafures of the Univerfity » 
library of Gottingen? ui 
Whit Potirz extraés the fecond part 
of the ‘¢ Spiritof Reinhard”’ for the public. 
at large; the venerable TELLER fends. 
forth an explanatory epiftle, in Latin,. to: 
Reinhard ‘“* de Finibus Gratie Diviuz,”’, 
thus giving a hint to the numerous, ma-, 
nufacturers of epiitles, in what language 
even now fuch controverfies ought to be 
carried on. 
From the Gallo-Romano-Catholic, Left 
Bank of the Rhine, we were favoured with 
Republican Devotions for every occurs 
rence and condition in life.—The new ors 
ganization of the Catholic Church in 
France gave rife to two epiftles, one of 
which, publifhed by Rein in Leipzig, 1€° 
is pretended was tranflated from a Latin. 
MS, written at Paris under Bonaparte’s 
Own 
