Retrofpect of German Literature. 
oxly, will, in a fev hours, enable two 
Perfons ignorant of each other’s Language 
to correfpond in either. Ufeful alfo to 
Schools, for Grammatical. Exercifes, and 
as a Subftitute for Short-hand. By the 
Rev. P. RoBertTs, A.B.” 
The ingenious Mr. GREATHEAD has 
publithed “ The Report of the Evidence 
and other Proceedings in Parliament re- 
fpecting the Invention -of the Life-Boat, 
&e.” 
Mr. Wi LKiNson’s ‘* Epitome of the 
—-- — +. 
669° 
Hiftory of Malta and Gozo,” though a 
profefled compilation and abridgement, 
will repay the perufal. 
“© An Account of Louifiana, being ar 
Abftrad of Documents delivered in or 
tranfmitted to Mr. fefferfon, and by biin 
laid before Gongre/s, and publifbed by their 
Order.” 
We are glad to fee thefe curious and in- 
terefting documents repubdlifhed in Lone 
don: they communicate much important 
information in a very {mall compals, 
RETROSPECT OF GERMAN LITERATURE, 
EASTER AND MICHAELMAS FAIRS, 1803. 
N our laft Retrofpect of German Li- 
terature, in the Supplementary 
Number to Vol. XV., publithed in Ju- 
ly, 1803, we connected together our 
account of the books publifhed at both 
the Leipfic Fairs of the preceding year; 
and we here again adopt the fame 
plan, which we prefer for many reafons, 
but more particularly on account of 
the great difproportion there would 
neceliarily be betwixt two half-yearly 
Retrofpedis, from the comparative fcan- 
tinefs of the produce of the Michael- 
mas Fair. How great this difpropor- 
tion, will appear from a flight infpection 
of the Catalogues: for in Eatter Fair, 
1803, three hundred and fifiy bookfel- 
lers brought 4000 books to market; 
but in the Michaelmas Fair following, 
only about 200 bookfellers not much 
more than 1ooo books, pamphlets, 
pocket-books, and the like.—From this 
immenfe and variegated crowd we fhall 
fele&t principally fuch {cientific’works 
as are diftinguifhed by the names of 
authors of eminence, whom we have 
either formerly introduced to our rea- 
ders, or probably fhall in future fre- 
quently have occafion to mention, or 
by the interefting nature of their con- 
tents, or of the occafions and events 
that gave rife tothem. We fhail like- 
wile occafionally interweave with our 
notices fome anecdotes of their au- 
thors, remarks on the univerfities and 
other inftitutions for the diffafon of 
knowledge, and on the ttate of learning 
in Germazy, or the feveral provinces 
and principalities of that country, and 
likewife many circumftances, mere or 
jefs known, which contribute towards 
» the continual increafe of authorfip aud 
book-making. We fhall, as in our laft 
Retrofpect, begin with 
PHILOSCPHY AND METAPHYSICS. 
The various fects of the Kantians, 
Fichtians, and Shellingians, are ftill 
vifible, befides fome individual philofo- 
phers, who have not yet been able to 
acquire difciples enough to form a fepa- 
rate party. The adherents of Kant, 
a fecond edition of whofe ‘* Tugend-~ 
lehre,”” and a ‘+ Pedagogick”’ were pub- 
lithed, continued with diligent perfe- 
verance, partly to defend the fyftem of 
their lately deceafed mafter againft the 
attacks of the Tranfcendental Idealifts, 
and partly to treat of philofophy in ge- 
neral, or fingle divifions thereof, ac- 
cording to the principles laid down by 
bim. To this clafs of productions be- 
long, beiides the continuations of the 
worksof MeLLin and MuTSCHELLE, 
the «* Natur-recht,”” Law of Nature, by 
Profeffor” Rerpenir2 of Konigtberg, 
who here explains the pure unmixéd 
principles of bis maiter in a language 
eafily underftood, which is likewife 
done by Fascue (profeffor at Dorpat) 
an immediate difciple of Kant, and by 
feveral others :—The “‘Grundrifs der 
Sittenlehre,” — Outhnes of Ethics, 
cumpreliending the Law of Nature, (in 
2 vols.) by Proteffor TiIkFTrRUNK, of 
Halle, (to which univerfity ths obfer- 
vation is, on the whole, appiicable, 
which we before made relative to that 
of Konigfberg}):—The “ Verfuch der 
Aeltaetik fiir Liebhaber,’—Eflay on 
Aeftheticks, for Amateurs, by Pro- 
feflor SNELL, of Gieflen; a compre- 
henfible Extraé& from ‘“*Kant’s Kri- 
tik der Urtheilskraft’—Critique of 
Judgment :—and the “ Verfuch einér 
fafslichen 
