Retrofped? of German Literature.—Geograpby and Statiftics. 685 
&c. for promoting the Hapninefs of Man- 
kind, and diffuling Knowledge among the 
Jower Clafies of the People, edited hy Von 
Coun, Superintendant of the Chrrch of 
Detmold, Am ng the papers in this 
collection, thole contributed by the editor 
and the princefs his miftrefs, are particu 
larly worthy of notice on account of their 
fuperior merit : fronrthe pen ofthe latter we 
find an animated exhorta'ion to the people 
againtt the deftruétive Habit of Dram- 
drinking; on the Duty incumbent upon 
Sovereigns tomaintain Public Worthip and 
the Schools ; and on the State of the Poor 
at Detmold. The editor and the other 
contributors are. in{pired with the fame 
{pirit of philanthropy. In other publica. 
tions, likewiie, on the Condition of Inftit 
tutions for the Relief of the Poor, and on 
Education, the attention of ftatefmen is, 
in the moft prefling manner, direéied to the 
confideration of thefe mot important lub- 
jects; as, for inftance, by ScHRAM, in 
his work, ‘* uber die Verbefserung der 
Schulen,’? &c.—Qn the Reformation and 
Improvement of public Schools, ina moral, 
pedagogical, and political Point of View ; 
on Advantages arifing from eniightening 
the Minds of the People, and on mu- 
tual Tolecaijon among the various Sects of 
Chrifians, ‘ From this publication we 
were glad to Jearn that the Proteftants 
have lately experiences the moft liberal 
treatment from the government of Bava- 
ria, where'they had formerly been very 
nuch oppreficd.—The fwarm of writers 
which the Lesters of Jewifh Heads of Fa- 
milies to Mr, Teller, at eminent di- 
vine of Berlin had excited, ‘{eemed to 
have quite {pent their tage, when a freth 
ftorm was railed by a publicationof Paat- 
ZOW, a'lawyer‘of Beriin. ‘This gave oc- 
cation to GRAYTENAUER to write a bit. 
ter invective againft that clafs of men; 
which was followed by a great number of 
pamphlets tor and againft them. This 
literary-wartare, however, was not produc- 
tive of aay alteration of their ftwation in 
civil fociety. Mote beneficial effeét may, 
perhaps, be expeéted trom: the efforts of 
thofe writers who recommend the giving 
treedom to the praiants who are ferfs, or 
annexed to the foil; as,tor inftance, ARNDT 
of Greifswald, in bis A.'drets on this fub- 
jest to the Landholders of Swedifh Pome- 
sania. — Several others pointed out the 
caufes of the decay of {mail towns. 
Ot the works on Finance the moft re- 
matkabie were fome late publicaticns in 
Denmark and Bavaria, relative to the 
introduétion of a land-.ax. Finances and 
the icience of government likewi.e conti. 
Oo * 4 f 
nue to be objects of attention at feveral of 
the univerfities,.as appears from the Lec- 
ture- books of Profeffors Benr of Wirz- 
burg, and CroMes ot Gieffen. | 
The influence of the peace of Luneville 
and of Amiens was likewife very vifible ~ 
in | 
GEOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS. 
The German geographers and ftaticiang 
had long arxioufly waited for the reftora- 
ticn of peace, to publith new editions of 
their former works, or entirely new ones, 
containing the aiterations produced by 
the conquefts of France and England, and 
by the fyftem of indemnification in Ger, 
many. Accordingly there appeared fuch . 
improved éditions of the Geographies of 
FPagri and of Gaspari, which have 
long enjoyed an eftablifhed reputation 5 
and two new 6 Geographical Dictiona- 
ries,” by EsBRMANN and WIANKOP. 
Protefio: Mu Lvuer, of Rinteln, began a 
new ‘¢* Manual of Statiftics,’? which will 
extend ‘to feveral volumes. There like- 
wife appeated a great number of topo- 
graphical defcriptions, in a variety of 
forms, Of the’ Jeparate provinces: and 
principalities’ into which Germany is di- 
vided: fuch as the * Travels through 
the Auftrian Dominions,” by FIscHER, 
SchuLTEs, Uwcer, &c. and feveral 
works on the provinces fubject to Pruffia, 
of which that by Krua, of Berlin, is par- 
ticularly deferving of notice, 
Gf thé accounts of travels into foreign 
countries, the moft abundant were the 
tours in and through Italy. BEenKo- 
Witz, an author who had before diftin 
euithed himielf in the department of 
Bellies Lettres; wrote an account. of a 
*¢ Journey from Glogau to Sorrento,”’ and 
likewife difhéd up the obfervations he had 
made during this journey in a periodical 
work, entitled “‘ Helios der Titan, coder 
Rom und Neapel,” publications in which 
there occur tco many infignificant things, 
and trite tedious remarks.—An anony- 
mous author prefented to the public a 
<¢ Reife iber St. Go'thard nach den Bor- 
romeifchen Iniein und Meyland.”’—Jours 
ney over Mount St. Gothard to the Bor- 
romeo Fflanids and Milan. Le wr.ter be- 
longs to the fentimenial humorous clafs 
of travellers; and ot .courfe much geo- 
graphical and flatiitical information cas- 
not be expected from him. Seume’s 
© Spaziergang nach Syracus, "—Walk to 
Syraculz, is throughout a very picturefque 
and humourous narrative of che author's 
peietrian tour, by way cf Prague, Vien- 
na, Triefte, Rone, &ce. Reuruss and 
TsCuHaRNER, woGcr.nan hterati,on their 
; , travels 
