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HALF-YEARLY RETROSPECT or GERMAN LITERATURE: | 
WITH aN APPENDIX on DANISH LITERATURE. 
pe taking a retrofpeétive view of North« 
ernjiterature during the laft half-year, 
we can, as far as regards Germany, only 
notice {uch works as were publifhed at 
the Michaelmas-fair of 1805, and have 
not properly come into circulation till the 
prefent year: it would be impoffible to 
avoid too halty decifions, if we attempted 
to give an opinion relative to the fproduc- 
tions of the lalt Eafter-fair, which is jut 
over. From thus confining our view to 
the Leipzig Michaelmas-fair, which feems 
every year to decreafe as much as the 
Eafter-fair increafes, the celebrated litera- 
ture of Germany may perhaps appear to 
occupy a place that is not commenturate 
to its magnitede ; efpecially when com. 
pared with the Danifh and Swedifh, which 
is not fubjeéted to the fhackles of regular 
fairs, fo that nearly an equal number of 
books is publifhed every month. Iisa 
circumftance that requires to be taken no- 
tice of, that Danifh literature confiderably 
increafes every year; and indeed fo rapid. 
ly, that we muft fuppofe the tafte for 
reading to have doubled during the laft 
twenty years, to account for the poffibility 
of, finding purchafers for fo many books 
ix a country, the population of which 
does not much exceed two millions of 
fouls; and if RuMfian literature fhould 
continue to increafe in the fame ratio as 
fince the acceffion of the prefent Emperor, 
it will in a few years rifeto a diftinguifh- 
ed rank. 
GERMANY. 
The Catalogue of the laft Michaelmas 
Leipzig Fair, announced the publication 
of about 80 novels and romances, 30 
plays, and 70 mufical compofitions ; from 
800 to goo fcientific books of various 
kinds, in the German and Latin langua- 
ges; befides 80 works written in foreign 
languages, particulariy in the French: 
for this Janguage is gaining ground in 
Germany, and, in particular, French 
grammars and other elementary bcoks 
have been exceedingly multiplied. We 
find in the catalogue very few Englifh or 
Tralian works, and none in other Jan- 
guages. 
We thal] now proceed to give a view 
of thefe produétions, arranged according 
tothe different divifions of f{cience. 
* THEOLOGY. 
.~ DeEREISER proceeded with his con- 
@inuation of the ‘* Heilige Schrift alten 
MONTHLY Maé,, No, 145. 
Teftaments, von BRENTANO,” —Sacred 
Writings of the Old Teltamenr, &c., as 
far as the fecond half of the fecond part 
of the third volume, containing the book 
of fob. 
A work entitled «© The aftual Appa- 
rition of my Wife after her Death,”’ had 
given rife to *{Gedanken Uber die men{ch- 
liche Seele, deren Fortdauer und Er{chei- 
nung nach dem ‘TYode,—Thoughts on 
the Human Soul, and on the Exiitence 
and Apparition thereof after Death, by 
CannaBicH,”’ of which there now ap- 
peared a fecond edition correéted : as like~ 
wile of Sinrenis’  Elpizon oder ber 
meine Fertdauer im ‘Tode,—On my Exif- 
tence alter Death,”’ the fecond part of the 
fecond volume, The fame work is pub- 
lithed under the title of “* Was fieht vom 
Zuftande nach dem Tede in der Bibel ?>—- 
What do we fiad in the Bible relative to 
the ftate of Man after Death 2??? volume 
fecond. 
Dinporpui ** Novum Lexicon Line 
guz Hebraico-Chadaice, cum Cormmen- 
tario in libros Vel. Te. dialeftorum cog- 
Natarum imprimis ope Animadverfioni- 
bufque preftantiff. Interpret. locuplet.” 
was continued in the firft fection of the 
fecond part: and Heinricn’s « Bey- 
trage zur BefOrderung der Theologifchen 
Wiffenfchatien, &c.— Contributions to- 
wards promoting the Study of Theolo-_ 
gical Science, and efpecially the Exegeti- 
cal Illuftration of the New Teftament,” 
was enriched with the fecond number of 
the firft volume. 
- Dr. Henke had got ready the fourth 
number of the fecond volume of his 
“© Mufeum fur Religions- Wiffenfchaft, 
&c.—Mufeum for every Branch of Reli- 
gious Science; and H. D. Hermes, 
the zealot of the old faith, furnifhed a 
new and correéted edition of “ Allge- 
meines Religions und Erbauungs-Buch 
fur Chriften jeder Religion,—Book of 
Edification for Chriftians of every denc- 
mination 5°” whilft his namefake, T. A. 
HeRMES, wrote ‘ Ueber das Selbft oder 
Eigenwirken im Chriftenthum,—On Free- 
will and Self-aétion in Chriftianity ;°° and” 
JonG ventured to ljay before the public 
his “ Eriter Nachtrag zur Siegefge- 
{chichte der Chrift.ichen Religion, &c.”? 
in which he profefies to give a popular 
and generally uleful interpretation of the 
Revelations of St, John. / 
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