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travels through Italy, furnifhed from that 
country the materials for a periodical 
work, entitled «© Italien,” — Italy, in 
which interefting contributions towards 
a knowledge of the country and the min- 
hers of its inhabitants are prefented to the 
reader, agreeably intermixed with remarks 
on literature and the fine arts —-FisCHER, 
author of ano le's pleafing than inftruc- 
tive Tour through Spain, acded, asa com. 
panion to his * Pi@ture of Madrid,”’ ano- 
ther of ¢* Valencia,” in which he folfows 
Cavanille in what relates to natural hiftory, 
but the reit is entirely the produéttion of 
his own inimitable pencil; and with fuch 
glewing colourshas he painted that delight- 
ful place, that we could not help withing 
that we might there find a tranquil re- 
treat in the evening of life-—HELLDORF 
publithed a ** Picture ot Amfterdaim ;”° 
an anonymous author, an ‘* Ein Gemalde 
Ger Sitten, &c. der Portuguefen und 
Spanier, ’"—Pidture of the Manners and 
Cuftoms of the Portuguefe and Spaniards,”” 
and likewife © of the French Nation.” — 
Profeflor Linx, of Roftock, ia a third 
volume of bis “‘ Reife durch Frankreich,” 
&c.— Travels through France, Spain, 
and particularly Portugal] adds con- 
fiderably to our knowledge of the laft 
mentioned of thefe countries, which the 
Profeffor has exhibited in a lefs gloomy 
point of view than form rtravellers.—-Ma- 
dame Domeyss publifhed the fecond vo- 
lume of * Letters written during her ftay 
in England and Portugal,” which are di!- 
tinguifhed equally by a partial fondnels 
for the former and diflike of the latter 
country. Camps, author of many 
elteemed works for the inftruction of 
youth, gave an account of a * Reife 
durch Frankreich und England,” —-Tour 
through France and Engl.nd—from which 
he appears to have changed his former 
predilection of France for an equally en- 
thufiaftic admiration of Britain. Wucn- 
ELHAUSEN, a phyfician who formerly 
refided a confiierable time at Mofcow, 
gave us ‘*Zuge zu einem Gemialde von 
Mtkwa,’—Outlines towards a Piéture 
of Mofkow, containing |-kewife much in- 
formation rela'ive to tne Ruffian Empire 
in general, Mc Lier, anetber phyfician, 
in his “ Reife von’ Vcihnyia naes Cher- 
fon,” communicated an account of a jour- 
rey he had pertormed in 1787 from Vol- 
hynia to Crerfon: in which, from among 
bu? too gieat abundance of unimportant 
ebfervations, the reaver may pick cut 
fome interelting infermation relacive to 
geogrephy ard natural hiitory. | 
The “ Briefe eiavs resienden Spaniers 
. 
Retrifpeci of German Literature,—Hiftary. 
uber fein Vaterland und Preuffen,’°—Let- 
ters of a Spanifh Traveller on his native 
Country and-on Pruflia, are not the pro- 
duction of a foreigner, but written by a 
patriotic Pruffian, who has lavithed en- 
comiums cn his country with too indiferi. 
nating a hand, praifing even fuch meafures 
as cannot be juil:fied but by unavoidable 
neceflity. From the numerous inveétives 
againft the Jews, and other circumfiances, 
ii is fuppofed thefe letters came from the 
pen of Proteflor BucHHOLZ, of Berlin. 
As ufual, an indetatigable band of tranf- 
laters introduced to the German publie 
almoft every account of Travels that had 
lately appeared in France, England, and 
other foreign countries. 
The excellent Journals edited by Ber- 
TUCH and Von Zacgu, likewife conti- 
nued to diffule a knowledge of all the 
newelt information relative to modern 
geography ; to which we confine ourfelves 
in the pretent fection of our Retrofpeét, 
referving for the next fome notices of con- 
tributions towards the elucidation of Ans 
cient Geography. 
HISTORY. 
Among the vaft number of periodical 
works for almoft every department of 
art and fcience, and even for fubdivifions 
thereof, (as for inftance the Hiftory of our 
own Times) we were furprifed not to find 
any appropriated folely to the cultivation 
of general hiftory; for WoLTMANN’s 
hitorical journal, entitled ** Gefchichte 
und Politik,” and ARCHENHOLZ’s ** Mis 
nerva, ein Journal hiftorifchen und poli- 
tifchen Inhalts,’? comprehend, as indeed 
is indicated by their titles, polities és well 
as general hifory. 
The editor of the laft-mentioned jour- 
nal, the well known author of a very 
flattering Picture of England, publithed 
at the Eafter Fair the fecond volume of 
bis ¢* Hiftorifche Schriften,’’—Hiftorical 
Traéis, which contains a well written 
account of the Buccaneers of America. 
The firt volume of ** Kleine Hitlo- 
rifche Schriften,” by Profefior HEeREN, 
of Gotringen, who has lung been advan- 
tageoufly known to the literary world as 
a diftinguifhed philologift and hiftorian, 
contains a dcvelopment of the political 
influence of the eformation upon Eu- 
rope, exhibiting the eff és of that great 
event in many new points of view ; an 
Hitterical View of the Revolution of the 
Gracchi, which had been publifhed be- 
fore, but appears here in a much im- 
proved ftate; and the firft part of an Ef- 
jay of a Development of the Origin and 
Growth of the Continental Intereft of 
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