Ret rofped? of German Literature.—Mifcellaneous Publications, Sc. 691 
riker,”"—the Art of Poetry in an Hifto- 
rical Point of View, according to the 
above-noticed ideas of Profeflor Buch- 
holz: . 
Fuessui, of Vienna, continued his 
6¢ Annalen der bildenden Kuntte, &c.””— 
Annals of the Plattic Arts in the Auftrian 
Dominions ; and at the fame time a Ger- 
man tranflation of his namefake’s ‘* Lec- 
tures on Painting’? was given by an 
eminent connoifleur, EsCHENBERG, of 
Brunfwick. Meusrv began, inftead of 
his ‘* Mifcellen artiftifchen Inhalts,’? a 
new ‘** Archiv for Kunttler und Kunft- 
liebhaber,”’— Archive for Artifts and 
Amateurs. FIoRiLLo’s ‘§* Kleine 
Schriften Artiftifchen Inhalts,’’°—Small 
Traéts relative to the Arts, contain many 
very inftruétive illuttrations of the arts 
in ancient and modern times. SICKLER’s 
** Gefchichte der Abfulhrung vorzuglicher 
Kunftwerke in die Lander der Sieger ;"°"— 
or, Hiltory of the Seizure and Tranfporta- 
tion of the beft Works of Art from 
conquered Countries into that of the Con- 
querors, the fecond volume of which 
brings thehiftory down to the prefenttimes, 
will be found a valuable contribution to- 
wards the hiflory of the influence of war 
on the arts and literature; as will like- 
wile the ** Recenfio Manufcriptorum Co- 
dicum ; qui ex univ. Bibliotheca Vaticana 
feleéti, Procuratoribus Gallorum traditi 
fuere.” 
We fhall now, as in our laf Retro- 
fpe&t, conclude with a view of 
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS AND 
CRITICAL JOURNALS. 
Separate Journals are now publifhing 
in Germany for almoft every country of~ 
Europe, which colleé fuch particulars as 
may enable their readers to form a pro- 
per judgment of the ftate of culture there, 
and contribute towards the promotion of 
the fciences by extraéts from the lateft 
publications. FiscHER, author of feveral 
works relative to Spain, began ‘* Spa- 
nifche Mifcellen—r, a Spanifh Mifcel- 
lany. A Madame HastFer, and other 
Germans refiding in Paris, furnifhed ma- 
terials for a “ French Mifcellany.”” The 
journal entitled <“* Fyankreich”? or, 
France—, and the Count SoDEN’s “ Fran- 
zofifcher Merkur” French Mercury, were 
likewife continued; and Prarr and 
FRIEDLANDER publifhed * Franzofifche 
Annalen,” for recording the Progrefs 
of Natural Hiftory, Phyfics, Chemiftry, 
&c.; and “¢ Entdeckungen Franzofifcher 
Gelehrten in den gemeinnitzigen Wiffen- 
chaften und Kinften,”*»—or lateft Difco- 
veries of the French Literati in the Arts 
and Sciences of general Utility. ' For Ita- 
lian there appeared, befides WIsMAyR’s 
‘© Ephemerides,”’ the above noticed jour- 
nal, entitled ‘* Italien.”” 
Befides Hiirrner’s ‘* Englifh Mif 
cellany,’’ there was begun by Kuun, of 
Leipzig, ‘* A Repertory of the lateft Ex. 
periments and Difcoveries of the Englifh 
in Phyfics, Medicine, and Surgery”’; and 
ALBERS, of Bremen, continued his ** An- 
glo-American Annals of Medicine, Na- 
tural Hiftory, Chemifiry, and Phyfics. 
—Befides Dérinec’s and SaLomon’s 
*¢ Journal of the State of Medicine and 
Natural Hiftory in Holland,” there is ano- 
ther entitled ScHmipT’s ** Hollandifcher 
Magazin der Naturkunde,”’ which is con< 
fined to phyfics. The Medical and Phy- 
fical Literature of Denmark and Sweden, 
is recorded by PrarF and SCHEEL, in 
their ** Nordifcher Archiv’’—Northern 
Archive; and another ** Northern Are 
chiv’? was appropriated for the Litera- 
ture of Ruffia, and particularly of Livonia. 
RicHTER likewife publithed «* Ruffifche 
Mifcellen’’—Ruffian Mifcellany. For 
Hungary, the before. mentioned Journal of 
SCHEDIUs was continued. 
In Germany itfelf, continuations ap. 
peared of feveral provincial and general 
Journals, fuch as WigLaND’s ‘ Deut- 
{cher Merkur,’”’—German Mercury ; the 
“¢ Berlinifche Mowathfchrift’””—Monthly 
Magazine of Berlin. For fome years, 
fingle provinces of the Empire, fuch as 
Auftria and Bavaria, have had their fepa- 
rate Critical Journals, whilft the ** Allges 
meine Deutfche Bibliothek,” the «¢ All- 
gemeine Literatur Zeitung,” formerly 
publifhed at Jena, now at Halle, and other 
general reviews went on without intere 
ruption. 
Notwithftanding, however, this multi- 
tude of Journals and Reviews, it is very 
difficult to obtain a corre& view of German 
literature: the many good productions 
are fo oppreffed by the heaps of rubbith, 
that the complaint of the decay of the 
book-trade daily increafes and remedies 
are propofed for removing the evil; as 
for inftance, in the publication, enti- 
tled, ** Ueber den Buch-handel,’’ and 
** Ueber den jetzigen Verfall de Buch- 
handels in Deutichland uberhaupt und in 
den Preuflifchen Staaten ins befondere.’” 
—On the prefent Decay of the Book- trade 
in Germany, and particularly in the 
Pruoffian Dominions. HuBLer, the hif- 
tovian, contributed for the ufe both of 
bookfellers and authors, his “‘ Bibliopoeia,”” 
which is well worthy of attention. 
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