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Befides the above, and fome new edi- 
tions of efteemed works, fuch as the 
«6 Sifters of Lefbos,” by AMaLIa VON 
ImMHOF¥, and the poem ‘ Siama and 
Galmory,” which has been reprinted with 
mott fplendid decorations, at Leipzig, few 
other fepar ate productions appeared in the 
department of fine literature. Indeed the 
fineft fowrets that {pring up on the Ger- 
man Parnaffus are collected in the nu- 
merous pocket-books, calendars,and alma- 
nacks of the Mules, of which laft autumn 
produced a greater fupply than in any 
preceding ) year.-— The ** Tafchenbuch fiir 
Damen”—Ladies” Pocket-book, publith- 
ed by Cotta in Tubingen, ftill . main- 
tains its pre-eminence over moft of ifs 
cornpetitors. —The «© Tafchenbuch fiir 
s802,” (publithed by Vieweg, of Brunf- 
wick, in fixe different fizes) difputes, 
however, the palm with it, and thereby 
increafes the enjoyment of the tafteful 
part of the reading public. In this latter 
pocket- book Herderhas inferted a paper in 
vindication of the chaftity of Heloife againft 
Pope’s Letter from Eloifa to Abelard. os 
‘To the pocket-book publifhed by Will- 
man, in Hamburg, Romberg and Rid. 
ley furnifhed the decorations ; nor will 
the reacer look in it in vain for the 
names of a Gothe, a Schiller, a Halem, 
and of other celebrated German literati. 
—V. Halem fings his ‘* Eleufina” in five 
cantos, in Unger’s ‘* Damen-kalendar;” 
Ladies-almanack.—Falk continues his 
Critique of the Spirit of the Times in 
his Satyrical Pocket-book.—The Pocket- 
bock fer Social Enioyment contains poeins 
and en‘ertaining effays, whiich entitle it to 
a diftinguifhed “rank among its competi- 
tors, of which no lefs than thirteen ap- 
= at Leipzig. Indeed the appetite of 
Geinteva tor’ thee ‘Tal putian pro- 
dpdion: feems to he infatiable: oo 
thing is compreffed into the nut-fhell fize 
Retrefpeét of Krench Literature-—Hiftory, 
of an almanack: there are pocket-books 
and almanacks for horticulturifts, for 
horfe jockeys, for freemafons, for tra- 
vellers, for virtuofi, &c. &c.- The book- 
feller Cotta, in Tubingen, gives us, in 
addition to his German one, a neat little 
French ** Almanach des Dames, which 
Fr agonard and Roger, of Paris, have de- 
corated with plates, and Laharpe, Parny, 
Lebrun, Creuze, and others, embellifhed 
with frefh poetic flowrets.—Fleifcher, of 
Leipzig, likewife announces a French, 
ne eA manaes des Mules.” 
NoveE.s, &c. 
After the vr aaliaide of novels, ro- 
mances, &c. with which at Eafter the 
German public were-gorged even to loath- 
ing, we little expeéted to fee 113 fuch 
compofitions pas in the Michael- 
mas bill-of-fare. Of thefe, perhaps, not 
above twenty are fit to make their ap- 
pearance in good company. “Ameng the 
better productions of this kind we may 
reckon ‘ Henrietta Bellmann,”’ a new fa- 
mily-picture, by Laronraine, whofe 
prolific pen has likewife furnifhed four 
almanacks with interefting little tales ;— 
another volume of STILLING’s_‘* Scenen 
aus dem Geifterreiche,”” and MULLER? "S$ 
“¢ Guftay Salden.” An Englifhman of the 
name of Lawrence has iveaue favoured 
the Germans with a ‘* Paradiefe der 
Liebe,” Paradife of Love, containing 
tales in the manner of Boccace. 
Under the head of novels we are forr 
to find fome of the bookfellers of Leipzig 
advertifing books replete with the 
groffett oblc cnity, fome under the veil of 
a decent title, and fome announced with 
the molt bare-faced effrontery. | Surely 
the licenfers might as ufefully employ 
their authority in preventing the fale of 
fuch poifon, tending to corrupt the morals 
of youth, as in fupprefiing pretended 
libeis againft church and ftate, ~ 
HALF-YEARLY RETROSPECT, OF FRENCH LITERATURE. 
Ee bree 
HIsTory. 
f E ISTOIRE des Progrés et de la 
Chite de Empire du Myfore,”’ 
é&c. Hiftory of the Progrefs and Fall of 
the Mylore Empire, under the Reighs of 
Hyder Ally and Tippoo Saib, by i Mi1- 
CHAUD, 2 vols. $vo. Paris, 7 Fr. 
The author dedicates the firft chapter 
to the antiquities of India; but he omits 
the mention of Alenander and Porus, of 
Seleucus Nicanor, and a variety of other 
princes and generals, whofe fate and hif- 
z 
tory are intimately conneéted with that 
portion of the globe. 
In Chap. Ii. he makes mention of. 
Hyder Ally, and gives an account of the 
rife and progrefs of that celebrated war- 
rior. On this occafion, he does not copy 
the errors contained inthe firft volume of 
6< Revolutions d’Inde,”” which were falfe- 
ly fuppofed to be written by Tippoo Saib:- 
but he is greatly miftaken when he afferts, 
‘¢ that Hyder was the fon of an officer of . 
cavalry, belonging to the Mogul empire.’* 
The truth is, that his father was taken at 
. _ Colar, 
