Retrofped? of German Literature.—Hiftory, &c. 
relative to the prefent ftate of the 
Aufttrian dominions.—Still, however, 
Gaspari’s * Ephemeriden” continue 
to have as extenfive a circulation as 
ever; and indeed it would be difficult 
to furnifh as much letter-prefs and 
fuch good prints and maps at fo mode- 
rate a price as, from peculiar circum- 
ftances, the publifhers of it are ena- 
bled to do.—Various collections are 
likéwife publithed of voyages and tra- 
vels; in which either tranflations of 
the whole, or abridgments, of all new 
foreign works of Geography and Tra- 
vels are {peedily circulated —The Ger- 
‘mans cultivate with equal ardor the 
geography of theirowncountry; anda 
number of their moft intelligent literati 
and philofophers are eagerly traverfing 
every quarter of the globe in queft of 
knowledge ; fo that every year brings 
forth many valuable volumes, contain- 
ing the refults of their labours and 
enquiries. 
At the Eafter-fair many topographies 
appeared of various parts of Germany, 
efpecially of thofe which formed part 
of the indemnities. FrscHerR, of 
Drefden, whofe Travels in Spain have 
been tranflated into Englifh, favoured 
the public with a ‘* Gemalde von Ma- 
drit,” (Pi€ture of Madrid); a varie- 
gated feries of charming fketches, to 
which the author intends fhortly to 
add, as a companion, a fimilar ‘ Pic- 
ture of Valentia.” 
After all that has of Jate been written | 
refpeéting France, muchthat isnewand 
attraétive will be found in the ‘* Bruch- 
ftiicke einer Reife durch Frankreich,” 
(Fragments of Travels in France) by 
ARNDT, who talks to the public with 
the fame unaffected fimplicity and fin- 
cerity that diftinguifhes his converfa- 
tion with his friends; as is already 
known from his Travels through Ger- 
many and Italy. —GERNING, Secretary 
of Legation at Frankfort on the 
Mayne, gaveusanew * Tour through 
Italy,’? which contains much intere(t- 
ing matter: and an anonymous au- 
thor (an officer in the French army) 
*¢ Briefe tiber Italien inden J. 1793-9,” 
(Letters on Italy in the Years 1798-9), 
which are important on account of the 
interefting period to which they relate, 
and are likewife on the whole written 
in an agreeable ftyle. DRoysens 
“‘ Bemerkungen auf einer Reife durch 
Holland, &c.” (Obfervations during a 
Tour through Holland and Part of 
France) will be particularly acceptable 
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to the friends of natural hiftory and 
phyfics. Madame BErNarD (now 
Madame DoHMEYER) defcribed her 
*¢ Journey through England and Por- 
tugal, in a Series of pleafing Letters 
to a Friend.”"—-Ggore continued his 
“© Befchreibung des Ruffifchen Reichs” 
(Defcription of the Ruffian Empire) ; 
SrorcH his “ Hiftorico-ftatiftical Pic- 
ture” of the fame country ; and GEiss-~ 
LER, engraver in Leipzig, who, as 
draughtf{man, accompanied Pallas in 
his travels, publifthed fome additionak 
numbers of his ‘ Sitten, Gebrauche, 
und Kleidungen der Ruitfen in S. Pe. 
terfburg.’’—Manners, Cuftoms, and 
Dreffes of the Ruffians in Peterfburg, 
with Defcriptions and Explanations, 
by Dr. Gruser.—A_ continuation 
likewife appeared of HarQuetT’s “ Ab- 
bildung und Befchreibung der Siid- 
weft und Oeftlichen Slayen’” (De- 
lineation and Defcription of the South- 
weft and Eaftern Sclavonians); not to 
mention many other fimilar works of 
le{s importance. 
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. 
We find the two fciences of hiftory 
and geography joined together in 
Brepow’s ‘ Unterfuchungen tiber die 
alte Gefchichte, Geographie, und Chro- 
nologie,”’ the 2d number of which has 
appeared ,containingabridgments of,and 
remarks upon, GOssELIN’s Refearches, 
relative to the weft and eaft coat of 
Africa—Major RENNEL’s Geography 
of Herodotus, and Dr. VincenT’s Pe- 
riplus, &c. with 12 maps. 
The learned philologitt Koie, has 
likewife given us a.valuable ‘* Verfuch 
einer Daritellung der Phyfifchen: Geo- 
graphie der Alten, (Effay of a View of 
the General Phyfical Geography of 
the Ancients), the materials of which 
are drawn immediately from thé origi- 
nal fources. The hittory of ancient 
nations and heroes, likewife. found 
fome excellent cultivators. 
Mr.Von Bernwitz gave us the firft 
volume of a. well-written * Life of 
Hannibal ;°? and befides the fecond 
volume of ‘* Sparta, ein Verfuch zur 
Aufklarung der Gefchichte und Ver- 
vafiung diefes Staats’? (Elucidation of 
the Hittory and Conttitution of Spar- 
ta), by Profeflor Manso, of: Breflau, 
there appeared, from the pen of Pro- 
feflor ScHuLze, of Gotha, a very in- 
ftructive work, intitled ‘*Kampf der 
Ariftokratie und Demokratie in Rom” 
(Conreft betwixt Ariftocracy and De- 
mocracy in Rome; or, Hiltory of the 
Romans, 
