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608  Retrofpect of German Literature—Michaelmas-fair; 180r. 
Converfion, again revives that and many 
other previous fufpicions. Haller too, 
has inferted in the “* Germen Mer- 
ury;” a paper in-his favour, which has 
Jikewife appeared as a. feparate publica- 
tion. But in preference to ail thefe and 
other fragmentary eflays, the copious 
_§€ Lebensgefchichte Lavaters’—Life of 
Lavater—by J. G. Gessner, of which 
‘the firit volume has been publifhed at 
Wintherthur, is deferving of attention. 
Mr. Gefiner, Lavater’s. {on-in-law, had 
accefs to the beft-fources of infcrmation ; 
and it appears from the manner in 
which he has executed his tafk, that he 
beth could and would fpeak the truth 
with the ftriéteit impartiality. 
One of the few very interefting produéticns 
of theiaft Michaelmas-fair muft likewile be 
elatled under the head cf Autobiography : 
itis A. von Korzepue’s “ Merk- 
wirdigtics Jahr meines Lebens 5°? Mot 
yemarkable Year of his Life, 2 vols. 8vo. 
Berlin, Sander. What fudden vicifStudes 
of fortune and fingular adveniuies did 
he experience within the fhert {pace of 
twelve months! the dramatilt could 
touch the tendereft firings of the fympa- 
thifme heart-by fictitious fcenes and fitu- 
ations, how much more mult we be. af- 
fe&ted by this true drama, where nothing 
was left for the fancy of the poet to add, 
and én which he himéelf was the chief aGior ! 
Such fcenes as his wandering about for 
twenty-four hours in the foretis of Siberia, 
when he made an attempt to efcape-— 
his receiving the firft intelligence of his 
liberation—his firft. interview with his 
wife and children at Peterfburg—his frit 
converfation with the Emperor Paul, who 
atked his forgivenefs for the injufiice he 
had done him, &c. would, even putting 
hiftorical truth out of the queflion, ever 
Temain interefting from the enrapturing 
vividnels of the picture preiented to our 
View. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
Tn this department, befides a few topo- 
eraphies, as for inftance, ULMENsSTE:N’s 
* Hiftory of the Imperial City of Wetz- 
Jar,” the accounts of travels chiefly claim 
our attention: of thefe, the late Michael- 
mas-fair brought to light a few good 
ones, and feveral that are at leaft well 
tmeant. To the formerclafs undoubtedly 
belong: the fecond volume of EBex’s 
€* Schildernng der Gebirgsvolker der 
Schweitzer ;”? Defcription of the Moun- 
taineers of Switzerland ; (Leipzig, Welf ) 
—the “ Briefe tber Italien; Letters. on 
Staly, by the author of Confidential Let- 
-Krimm 
ters- on France, the patriotic Polander * 
Woyrpa—and Nrrest’s ** Wacderun~ 
gendurch Ragen,” publithed by Kolcgar- 
ten. The third and fourth volumes .o! the 
Profe-writings of the poetels Fr. Baun, 
likewife contain the interelting Journal 
of her Travels in Italy, a 
The ‘Fufsreife durch Schweden ;¥ 
Pedeitrian Tour through Sweden ; (Leip- 
zig, Hartknoch)—the ‘* Briefe eines Hel- 
vetiers auf einer Rei/e durch Thuringen 
und Heffen ;°* Letters’of an Helvetian on 
a Tour through Heffia and Thouringia— 
and ‘¢Streifzuge durch Inner Oeftreich 
bis Venedig 5” Excurfion through Inner 
Aufttia to Venice, with plates, (Vienna, 
Doll) ; will likewife be found entertain- 
Ing fire-fide companions to employ an 
idie hour or two of a winter’s even- 
ing, é 
The bookfellers Hahn, in “Hanover, 
have publifhed Srracx’s “¢ Mahleritce 
Xcifen durch Weitphalen ;” Pigturefque 
‘Your through Weltphalia, From the 
fame author we have received likewife a 
colle€tion of aquatinta copper-plates of 
the moft beautitul views in Wefiphalia. 
Of tranflations we fhall only notice 
SUWAROKOFF’s * Reife durch die 
: im Jahre, | 1799°—-Journey 
through the Crimea, in 1799: (Leipzig, . 
Hartknoch)—tvranflated from Ruffian inte 
German by Richter, the elegant tranflator 
of Karamiin. 
The univerfities conftitute an impor- 
tant branch of literary hiftory and fta.. 
tiftics. Profeffor Meiners, who has for 
many years. been collecting materials to- 
wards a Hittory of the Univerfities, has 
at length publifhed the firft volume of an 
important work, ‘On the Conftitution 
and Government of the German Univer- 
fities," (Gottingen, Rémer).—A very dif. 
ferent branch of culiureis treated of in . 
LanGstTrepr’s ‘ Denkfchrilt uber die 
Evangelifchen Mifficnsangelegenheiren 3”? 
On the Affairs of the Evangelical Mif- 
fions, particularly in the Eaft Indies; the 
greateft remarkability of the 18th century, 
as the title exprefles it. 
; PHILOSOPHY. 
The Schellingiah tranfcendental phi- 
lefophy received important conwribucicns 
in the fecond number of the third volume 
of SCHELLiING’s ‘ Zeitfehrift fir Specu- 
lativ Phyik.” Thofe who may wifh-te 
become acquainted with the neweft ma- 
nifeftoes, and other polemical papers that 
have pafled between the contending -phi-— 
lofophical parties in Germany, fhould 
confult the third number of RE:nuonp’s 
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