Gio4 
tranflated into Enelith, although from its 
firft appearance it excited dilouft in every : 
German of a caltivated mind. It would, 
indeed, be unjalt to form an opinion of 
the talte of the tiatioh from the quantity 
of frch trafh annually vended at the Leip- 
zig’ Fair. Noaan cf rank and education 
would: foil his ‘fingers therewith.: ‘But 
there exit among the‘lower orders ‘above/ 
400 circulating hbraries, where the whole: 
iveagerly receivedas a moftdeleétabletreat. 
DRAMATIC PRoDUCTIONS. 
The moft important of the’ 57 dramatic 
produétions that-appeared laft Pater-fair is: 
undoubtedly SCHILLER’s “Maria Stuart.” 
‘Phe fame eminent tragic poet has given us 
anew elegant pocket-edition of his ‘* Don 
Carlos,’**whici he has entirely remoulded ; 
‘anda metrical tranflation of ** Macbeth,” 
in which he has here and there attempted 
to inprove Shakefpeare. 
-Of Korzepte’s. «* Neue Schaufpiele,”’ 
> 
Retvofpect of German: Literature Michaelnias-fair, 1861. 
the 5th and 6th volumes were publified by 
Kummer,-in Leipzig, contaming among 
others ** Die Klingfberge,”” one of his bett 
comedies, and four cther new plays. 
-Of 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 Hely Roman Empire, Julius. von. 
Soden, ventured. to give us; even after 
Kotzebue, a new 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.” 
MICHAELMAS FAIR, x8o0r. 
ee 
CCORDING to the Leipzig Cata- 
logue,28gbookfellers forwarded 1150, 
articles to the lat’ Michaelmas Fair in that 
city; fo that this after-crop of German i- 
terature would-at firft Sight 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 
publifhed, did not from Michaelmas 
Zao, to Michaelmas 1801, exceed goo 
articles, including fermons and the {mail- 
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 
through the crowds. of the Hatter 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 mizhtyGods! what wonders ftrike my view! 
Is it in vain our conq’ring arms fubdue ? 
Sure 1 hall fee yon’ heaps of Trojans kill’d ~ 
Riie from the fhades, and braveme inthe field! 
For, befides the 106 new editions, actually 
bearing cn 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 af magazines and journals; about 
80 pocket books, almanacks, and fimilar 
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 delerving 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-dit- 
fertation on the opinion’ of the ancient. 
Fathers relative to original fin, by Horn, 
fcarcely attracts notice; for can any thing’ 
new on this fubject be gleaned even from™ 
the patriflic treafures of the Univerfity : 
library of Gottingen? vi 
Whillt Porirz extracts the fecond part 
of the ‘* Spirit of Reinhard’’ for the public 
at large; the venerable TELLER fends 
forth an explanatory epiftle, im Latin,, to: 
Reinhard “* de Finibus Gratie Divine,”’, 
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. —T he new ors 
ganization of the Catholic Church im 
France gave rife to two epifiles, one of 
which, publifhed by Rein in Leipzig, 3¢) 
is pretended was tranflated from a Latin. 
MS, written at Paris under Bonaparte’s 
own 
