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fion of Grammars, Dictionaries, and 
Chreftomathies for the living languages 
of Europe, efpecially the Enghih, 
French, and Italian.- With refpect to 
the German, we have to remark, that 
Frofeflor Heynatz, of Frankfort, on 
the Oder, who, after Adelung, pafies 
for one of thofe who poffefs the great- 
eft knowledge of the language, has 
begun to publifh ** Neue Beytrage zur 
Verbeflerung der Teutfchen Sprache,” 
(New Materials for improving the Ger- 
man Tongue). ere 
POEMS AND PRAMATIC WORKS. 
The German ‘* Mufen Almanachs”’ 
ufually appear in the catalogue for 
Michaelmas againft the enfuing year. 
Some that were too late were not an- 
nounced till the Eafter-fair. Such was 
that.of VERMEHREN, in Jena, moft of 
the articles in which are furnifhed by 
the poets of the new {chool of Schlegel, 
whofe fonnets are tin€ured with my{- 
tic philofophy ;—ancther from Leip- 
zic, and a third from Vienna. Of thefe 
the efiays of young poets make a great 
part. Several other coile€iions Of poeti- 
cal productions have been continued, 
fuch as thofe of the late BLUMAUERand 
BuRGER, feveral-of whoie admired 
ballads have been tranflated into Eng- 
lif; of the old, blind, and yet fo 
chearful, PFEFFEL, one of the happieft 
fabulifts of our age; of Voss, efteemed 
by different claffes of readers for his 
Idyls and his tranflations of Homer; 
and of the tender fentimental poetefs, 
Sopura MEREAU. 
The following are not fo well known, 
being bards newly ttepping forward with 
editions of their werks: BauRING, 
Cuno, WoLDEKE, UFFo VON WILD- 
INGEN, WiLL, and a CHARLOTTE 
VON FINK. . 
A nomber of writers continue to vie 
with each other in tranflating Offian’s 
Poems, while the learned antiquarians 
are difouting about the authenticity.of 
them. Thetranflators of Shakefpearfuc- 
ceeded flillbetter. Of thefethere has ap- 
eared a profe tranflation by Escuen- 
BURG, begun by WIELAND: a poetic 
one by SCHLEGFL, fenior. Othello has 
been tranflated airefh by L.Scuusarr. 
SCHILLER, who, among our contempo- 
raries, approaches fhe neareit to Shake- 
gpear, and who. lately. prepared his 
Macbeth for the German tiage, gave a 
new edition of his Don Carles. 
ren. 
We Jock in vain. for KoTZERUE’s | 
name this year; but IFFLAND has 
Retrofped? of German Literature--Poems, 
given the nineteenth volume of his Dra 
matic Works. 
HuTTENBERG, lefs known, has pro- 
duced the third volume of his theatri- 
cal pieces. 
RamsBacn’s ‘ Beytrag zur Teut- 
{chen Bithne,” (Contributions to the 
German Theatre), partly from the 
French, was received with approbation. 
NOVELS AND ROMANCES 
conifted of about 300 articles: very 
few of whofe authors are known. Av- 
CusTuSs LAFONTAINE, whom, for a 
long time, we are not accuftomed to 
mifs, and who may always depend on 
approbation, efpecially from the fair 
' {ex, notwithftanding the enmity of the 
new {chool, has given the ninth and 
tenth volume of his ‘* Familien Ge- 
{chichte,”’ (Family Tales), .or ‘* Hen- 
riette Bettmann, ein Gemalde Schce- 
1€r Herzen,”’ (Picture of Good Hearts). 
Of the other novels and tales, the 
following have been received with ap- 
probation by the public: ‘ Die Ver- 
wandten,” (The Relations); the 
‘* Erzahlungen,” (Tales), by HUBER; 
thofe of EBERHARD, the above men- 
tions ScHULZE, of Drefden, and fome 
anonymous writers, who ftyle them- 
felves the authors of the novels ** Der 
Grauen Mappe,”’ of Don Carlos, and 
of Heliodora: thefe diftinguifh them- 
felves among the herd of their rivals, 
partly by happy invention, and partly 
by wit and humor. A veteran in this 
clafs, F. J. HERMEs, at Breflau, author 
of a very moral, much-read, romance 
of fix volumes, who could never con- 
ceaj himfelf in the later werks which 
he publifhed without his real name, 
has now given a new romance,  Ver- 
heimlichung und Eil,” (Myitery and 
Hafte), in his well known manner. 
Other novel-writers, liked by a certain 
clafs of readers, fuch as Cramer, Sche- 
ling, and others, have not failed to 
come forth. Several writers continue 
to tranflate French, Englifh, and Spa. 
nifn, romances, but thefe are but a 
fmall addition to the multitude of 
originals which for fome time have 
had_their particular journals: one at 
Berlin, the other at Penig. Thofe who 
contribute to the former are, for the 
moft part, unknown, but they have 
many readers of all clafles. The fatter 
is compofed by the partizans of the 
new fchool; they require a particular 
clafs of readers, which, to all appear- 
ance, 1s not very numerous, fo that the 
con- 
