Retrofpee? of German Literature—Michaclmas-fair, 1801.  GOF 
Breipxopr’s ‘ Beitrage zu einer 
Gefchichte der Schreibkunf,’? Contribu- 
tions towards a Hiltcry of the Art of 
Writing, as arranged and edited from the 
deceafed’s papers, by one of the moft 
learned’ literators of Germany, M. Roch, 
of Leipzig, will be an acceptable pre: 
fent to every lover of diplomatics, and of 
the hiftory of modern culture. 
The fpeculating collector of antiques, 
M. von Murr, in Niirnberg, has begun 
** Gallery of the Hand-wiitings of cele- 
brated Men, in which engraved /ac- 
Jimiles ave to be given according to the 
order of time in which the writers flou- 
rifhed, and an illuttrative commentary 
added. ‘The firft Number of thefe Chiro- 
grapha perfonarum illuftrium has been 
publifhed in the “*Iniuftrie Comptoir,” 
at Weimar, and is certainly a valuable 
prefent to libraries. and book-collec. 
tors, ; 
Tt is with pleafure we fee announced 
the third and concluding volume of 
Rorn’s “* Verfuch einer Gefchichte des 
Nurmberger Hondels’’—Hiltory of the 
‘Trade of the City of Nurnberc; and a 
Complete Collection ‘of Proielfiur Rein- 
HaRD’s (of Erlang) Differtation; ‘* De 
Commerciorum in Fianconia , Initiis et 
Incrementis ;°’ two excellent contributions 
towards the hiftory of commerce and cul- 
ture in Germany m the middle ages. © 
History anD BioGRaPuy. 
The laf&t Michaelmas-fair has been ra- 
ther -unprodu&tive of grand hiftorical 
works: there were not however wanting 
interefting contributions and $ibyl’s- 
leaves, which deferve to be colleéted and 
arranged by the intelligent hiforian. 
Genz “ Von dem Politifchen Zu- 
ftande von Europa, vor und nach der 
Franzofifchen Revolution’*-—On the Poli- 
tical State of Europe, before and after 
the French Revolution—which gives new 
currencyto the {pecious fophifms of Mallet 
Du Pan, will be very acceptable to one 
clafs of readers. It is generally believed 
in Germany, that the author of this pub- 
lication was penfioned by the Britifh Go- 
yernment to write againft France. 
’ The ‘*Gefchichte der Emigranten 
Armee”’—Hiltory of the Emigrant Army, 
feems to have flowed from a very different 
inkftand; indeed from the lung mounte- 
bankith title page, one might be tempted 
to confider the whole to be 4 Laukardian 
produétion. ‘A Hiftory of France hors 
de France, during the Jalt eleven years, 
would certainly be a moft interelting 
work, if written by a Malouet, a 
Mounier, or other hiftcsian animated 
with the fame philofophical and cofmopo- 
litical {pirit; but fuch fams-culotte trath as 
the produftion before us, is not deferving 
of the name of hiftory. 
Of the memorable battle of Copenha- 
gen, onthe 2d of April laft, feveral ac- 
counts have appeared, of which the. 
<* Grundonnersdag oder der 2te April, 
1801,” by Paetaaaiate, of Copen- 
hagen, is the moft efteemed. Annexed to 
it, is a copper-plate witha plan of the 
engagement. 
Leonhard Meifter is fupplying his 
countrymen with **A Helyetic Hiftory 
during the laft 2000 Years, or from 
Czfar to Bonaparte,”? of which the firft 
volume has made its appearance at St. 
Gall. 
Among the many continuations of hif- 
torical works, JzniscH’s ‘%Univerfal 
Hiforifcher Ueberblick des Menfchen- 
gefchlechts;°> Univerfal Hiftorical View 
of the Human ‘Race; particularly des 
‘erves to be noticed with praife. " 
Every inveftigator of hiftory, who pay 
more regard to intrinfic worth, than to 
the dreis in which it is cloathed, fees 
with pleafure the progrefs of Von Ene 
Get’s ‘*Gefchichte des Ungarifchen 
Reichs und feiner Nebenlander ;”’ Hiftory 
of the Kingdom of Hungary and of the 
adjoining Provinces; which, with the 
original documents annexed to each vo- 
lume, ferves to illuftrate many a dark 
{pot in the hittory of the nations and 
tribes inhabiting the banks of the Dae ~ 
nube. The Third Part, 4to. has juft 
been publifhed by Gebauer, in Halle. 
The biographical department of hif- 
tory has been enriched by many new aCe 
quifitions. From the Pedagogical Prefs 
in Snepenthal, came forth ‘* Denkwir- 
digkeiten aus dem Leben ausgezeichneter 
Deutfchen des 18ten Jahrhunderts,” a 
very good contribution towards German 
biography, and which may be very ufefu} 
to foreigners likewife, who with to be- 
come acquainted with the moft eminent 
perfons-who flourifhed in Germany dur- 
ing the laft century. . 
‘ScHeLLE has givenus a ‘‘ Charac- 
teriftic of Heydenreich;’? and Tuiess 
continues his ‘* Autobiography.” 
' The late celebrated Lavater’s friends, 
in particular, feem emuloufly to contend 
with one another in placing in every 
point of view the character of that moft 
remarkable man, and in tranfmitting to 
pofterity every particular relative to him. 
Niufcheler and Tobler indeavyour to free 
him from the fufpicion of enthufiafin ; 
whilft Stollberg’s Epiftle to bim on his 
satus Bi 4 4 Iz 4 ‘Cone 
