Retrofped of German Literature,—Poetry and the Drama. 
ene at Erfurt, and another at Vienna, 
which are only reprints of the text; the 
two others at Leipzig and at Gottingen 
are Furnifhed with notes, and are printed 
under the direflion of EicKsTapr and 
Rupzgrrt, two well known philologifts. 
Befides thefe colletions, there appear- 
ed a great number of feparate editions 
and tranflations of Latin claffics. Dor- 
inG, director of the excellent grammar 
fehool at Gotha, tegan a valuable edition 
of Horace ; Calpurnius was edited by the 
learned BEck, of Leipz ig 3 an id Phadrus, 
by BoruHe, with annotations, in which he 
enters mei G into the invettigation of the 
genius of the fabulilt, and of that {pecies 
of poetical compofition. Krause’s edi- 
tion of * Velleius Paterculus” will be 
found particularly uleful for {chools, 
SPaLDING finifhed his beautiful edition 
of Quintilian. 
Virgil's Georgics were trarflated anew 
by Bock, who per before rivalled the ce- 
lebrated Vofs in the execution of the dif- 
ficult tafk of transfufing into the German 
language the beauties of the Roman bard. 
Many other tranflations of Roman claffics 
were publifned, but thefe cannot be fup- 
pofed fufficiently interefting to an Englith 
reader, to require a particular enumera- 
tion in this place. 
HaRLes’s ** Brevior Notitia Literaturz 
Romanze” is not merely an extraét from his 
former publicaticns on that fabjet, but a 
really valuable work, which is remodel- 
led after an improved plan. 
With refpe& to Oriental Literature, we 
fhall here only notice ROMMEL’s ‘* Cam- 
mentary on Abulfeda,” whicn gained the 
prize offered by the Univerfity of Got- 
tingen ; DomBay’s “ Gramnfttica Lia- 
guz Perfice, cum Vocabulario,” &c. ; 
and ALTER’s “ Treatife on the Tagalic 
Language.” The two laft mentio ned au- 
thors refide at Vienna, where the oriental 
languages and literature are cuitivated 
with confiderable ardour. LicuTren- 
STEIN’s ‘* Tentamen Palzographie”— 
Affyrio-Perficz,’’ is the long-expeéted ex- 
plication of the nail-headed or Pcrlepoli- 
tan chara€ters. 
POETRY AND THE DRAMA, 
In the preceding fegtion we mentioned 
fome poctical tranflations from the ancient 
claffics ; and here we fhall notice other 
tranflations from more medern claffics, 
and original produétions of the German 
Mufe, Scuiecer’s * Blumenttrguffe 
Ttalianifcher, Spanifcher, und ~ Portuge- 
fifcher Pcefie,’? confifts of tranflations from 
fele& pieces of Italian, Spanifh, and Por- 
tuguele poets ; but, according to the man- 
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ner of the Schlegelian {chool, fpoiled by 
being overloaded with ornaments. Borue 
has publifhed a volume of Satires, im 
which the tranflations and imitations are 
better than the original pieces. In Ticks 
*¢ Sammlung von Minneliedern,” we are 
preemies with a colleétion of old German 
ballads, &c. in their original flate, with- 
out any alteration with refpeét either to 
language or orthogiaphy. MarTuison, 
on the other hand, has given in his 
“€ Lyrifche Anthologie,” a fele&tion from 
the German pcets of the Jaft two centu- 
ries, which he has corrected and mo- 
dernifed, 
Of the te s of the prefent day, collec- 
tions of whofe productions made their ap~ 
pearance, the tender bard who edited the 
above-mentioned collection, and his friend 
Satis, hold a diitinguithed rank: of the 
former’s poems a fifth, and of the latter’s 
a fourth edition was publifhed. Tuizp~ 
GEN’s §* Elegien und vermifchte Ge- 
dichte’’—- Elegies and Mifcellaneous 
Poems, abound with tender fentiments ; 
-and may likewife be recommended as ex- 
celling with 'refpect to. delicacy and ful- 
nefs of expreffion, euphony, and {mooth- 
nefs of verfification. LINDENMEYER’S 
Poems may likewife be chara€terifed by 
delicacy of fentiment; and thofe of 
Burpe, by a beautiful fimplicity. The 
German poems of the celebrated Danith 
poet, BaccEseEn, deferve likewile to be 
noticed here with commendation. Of the 
larger poetical compofitions, publifhed fe- 
parately, the moft diftinguifhed is RoSE= 
GARTEN’s * Jucunde,”” a pafloral poem 
in five eclogues; which requires, how- 
ever, a few trifling corrections and alters 
ations. > 
In the dramatic department of litera- 
ture there was a very rich harvelt, both 
with refpeét to quantity and quality. 
Befides Gothe and Schiller, Kotzebue, 
and many other poets cf more or lefs 
celebrity had written for the ftage, and 
communicated their works to the public. . 
GoTue’s Tragedy, entitled ** Die Na~ 
turliche Tochter’’-—The Natural Daugh. 
ter, 1s only the firft part of a dramatic 
poem, founded upon the Memoirs of 
Stephania Louifa of Bourbon-Conti: ft 
will probably be extended to three parts, 
like Schiller’s Wallenfein. . In Scury- 
LER’s ‘*Braut von Meffina; oder, die feinde 
lichen Brider’’—Bride of Mefhna 5 Ory 
the Hoftile Brothers’—choruffes are intro= 
duced, after the plan of the ancient Greck 
tragedies. It is impoffible to charaéterifé 
thefe two works in a few lines, and we 
muft therefore content ourfelves with this 
4X brief 
