648 Retrofpect of German Literature—Philology—Belles Lettres, €'c. 
and towns in Denmark are accompanied 
with the requifite defcription, and- com- 
prize in ten numbers the more prominent 
objects of curiofity. The artift Brun and 
the writer Sauder Niemp have agreeably 
united their talents. 
<¢ Hauptveranderungen von LEerlin.”’ 
The alterations of Berlin in building, po- 
lice, and other refpeéts, are here hiftori- 
cally, detailed, with a micrology tedious 
to ftrangers, or curfory paflengers; but 
it tencs to inipire the native with a {pi- 
rit of public improvement, to criticife 
every court of juftice, to profe over every 
church-porch, and animadvert at. every 
. polt. | 
PHILOLOGY. 
<¢ Horatii Opera ad exemplar Bentleii 
‘curavit J. C.F. WETZEL, 2 vols.” A 
. good edition of Horace is much wanted ; 
that of the induftrious Geffner difplays 
little tafte and leis fagacity ; he illuftrates 
the lucid, and leaves in fhadow the ob- 
feure. This profeffes to be an improve- 
ment, it 1s a curtailment, of the edition 
of Bentley. ' 
‘¢ Juftinus des Martyrers Apologie.”’ 
The apology of Juftin Martyr, and his 
beok on the Monarchy of God, are here 
rinted off both in Greek and German. 
A liie and fome comments are affixed. 
_ “ Morgenfternii Oratio de Litteris Hu- 
manioribus.”” An inaugural Differtation, 
of a Profeffor of Poetry, which difplays the 
dapted hoard of information. 
“ Syoda eg WAwrwve ex Codicibus mul- 
tarum Bibliothecarum primum collegit D. 
RuUHNKENIUs.”” This-unfinifhed, long- 
expected work, will of courfe be fthelved 
with eagernefs in the libraries of {cholars: 
it belongs no doubt to that order of admi- 
rably learned labours, fo glorious in the 
claffical world, which few will read and 
nobody complete. 
<Antylli Vereris Chirurgi ra Agnfava— 
Prefide C. SpreNGEL. An imperfeét 
collection of the fragments of a furgeon, 
who flcurifhed under Dioclefian, and has 
been erronecufly fuppoled to have invented 
‘couching. — 
‘¢J. Stobazi Sermones e MSS. Codicibus 
emendatos edidit- N. Scuow.” This 
edition is diftinguifhed by the command of 
far-fetched refources, which it difplays, 
by thecurious extent of contributary read- 
ing. 
<¢ Handbuch der Metrik von G. Hzr- 
MANN.” ‘This Author,. already well- 
known to fchelars by his De Metris Poe- 
tarum Grzecorum ct Romanorum, lib. III, 
is now teaching his Syftem inthe Vernacu-. 
Jar Tongues 
“BELLES LETTRES AND MISCELLANIE Se 
“<< WIELaND’s Agathodzmon,” is a 
Hiftory of Apollonius of Tyana, divefted 
of the miraculous incidents with which 
it has defcended down to us, and.embel- 
lifhed into an agreeable, as.well as proba- 
ble narrative. 
‘‘Ariftippus und fein Zeitalter,”” by the 
fame - author, difplays his erudite fami- 
liarity with Greek feéts of philofophy.. 
«« Darftellungen zu Ver{chcnefung der 
Garten.”” A, Theory of Landicape-gar- 
dening . was publifhed in 1779, by 
HIRSCHFELD, enriched with elegant de- 
figns, which have contributed to diffufe in 
Germany a tafte for picturefque embellith- 
ment. ‘This volume contains a {upply of 
defigns for alcoves, temples, tombs, 
bridges, aviarics, green-houfes, ice-houles, 
iflands,  fifhing hovels, bathing-huts, » 
calcades, and other appendages, which, 
for purpofes of ornament or luxury, are . 
often wifhed for in pleafure-grounds. 
‘¢ Propyleen heraufsegeben von 
Gorue.” ‘Theauthor of Werter’s Suf- 
ferngs, of Egmont, of Iphigenia in Tau- 
ris, hasnow con(ecrated his talents to the 
philofophy of tafte, efpecially as far as 
relates to the plaftic arts,. He may in- 
ftinétively be a good connoiffeur ; but he 
has not the art of anatomizing neatly his 
own motives of decifion, and of fatistying 
his reader that they areadequate. Sultzer 
who has written on Genius with Tafte, 
and Diderot who has written on Tafte with 
Genius, had this art : but the vaguerhap- 
fodies of Winkelmann are beneath the imi- 
tation of Gothe. . 
<¢ HERDER’s Kalligone.”°—Some years . 
ago, Herder aimed at the Kritik der 
Vernunft, an eloquent book, entitled 
Metakritik, which lowered in the eles 
gant world that high opinion they had 
been content to adopt, concerning Kant. 
He has now aimed at the Kritik de Ur-— 
theilfkraft, a fimilar diatribe, entitled Kal- 
ligone. ‘The antagonitts are in antithefis. 
Kant has more logic than tafte ; Herder 
more tafte than legic. Kant is remarked 
for the infipid drynefs, Herder for the 
many-flavoured juicinefs of his ftyle. 
Kant isa clofe fubdividing reafoner, who 
difiects his thoughts in logarithms ; Her- 
der is a vague {weeping declaimer, who 
multiplies metaphors  infinitefimally, 
Without out-reafoning Kant, Herder 
will perfuade the public no more to liften 
to the taftelefs jargon, and fubtle fyllogifms 
of the philofopher of Konigfberg. 
‘Novels, Poems, Plays,-and Periodical 
Trath, without end, prefs upon us for no- 
tics it muft be left to the weeders. 
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