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ef Humgoupt’s & Travels round the 
~ World ;”’ and a third edition, with many 
additions and correftions, of REICHARD’S 
<* Handbuch der Parflagier auf der Reife 
jn Deutfchland, — Traveller’s Guide 
through Germany, and fome of the ad- 
joining Countries.*” Campg had pro- 
vided for his young friends the feventh 
volume of his ** Neue Sammlung Merk- 
wirdiger Reifebefchreibungen, — New 
Collection of remarkable Voyages and 
, Travels.” 
Paffing by. a c owd of almanacks, ma- 
“nuals, magaz'nes, pocket-books, and other 
mifcellaseous aod ephemeral produétions, 
we now proceed to a 
ee ea 
RETROSPECT or DANISH 
LITERATURE. 
To give aclearer idea of this lefs known 
literature, we have to look farther back 
than was neceflary in {peaking of that of 
Germany; and as our materials are Jefs 
copicus, we have not arranged them under 
different heads, but intreduced them to 
our readers in the fame order as they -hap- 
pened to occur to us. 
Paftor EYLER HaGERUX, of Vordalen 
in Norway,” has publifhed a ‘* Hiftory of 
St. Olave, King of Norway,” awork which 
is the more interefting, as this great mo- 
narch, whofe memory will always be dear 
to the Norwegians, was ,born in the 
yeat 995: coniequently at a time when 
northern hiftery was intimately connected 
with that of England; and it is well 
known how great an influence his canoni- 
zation, after he had been murdered by his 
heathen {ubjects, had on the civilization 
and culture of the North of Europe. 
A Danish tranflation has appeared of 
Goede’s metft interefting and inftruétive 
*¢ Travels in Great Britain and Jieland, 
in the Years 1802 and 1803.” 
In Denmark, a difficult fubje& is ge- 
nerally chofen for the inaugural differta- 
tions, and the ftudent is required to treat 
of it with the utmoft diligence: and ac- 
cordingly we have to mention, with com- 
mendation, the ** Commentarii Critico- 
exegetici in quorundam Prophetarum Va- 
ticina Specimen primum, Vaticinia Ze- 
phanize comple¢tens, quod pro fummis in 
Philofephia honoribus examini Fac. Phil. 
Havnienfis fubmifit Larsen, &c.”’ in 
which the author maintains, that the pro- 
phecies of Zephaniah confit of three 
diftings parts, befides an epilogue, in which 
Retrofpelt of Danifo Literature. 
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there is a fort recapitulation of what had 
been more fully developed in the preceding’ 
oracles, Conreétor Prost has hkewile 
produced an interefting inaugural d:Ger- 
tation, ‘© De Carmine Hebrzorym  ero- 
tico, quod valgo infcribuur Canticum 
Canticorum, &c.’’ in which, after ftating 
the opinions of Leffing, Herder, Doder- 
lein, Schlez, Hufnagel, Bauer, and Schytte, 
he gives the following as the refult of his 
inquiries, that thefe {ceses or dialogues 
petween two lovers were writen by fome 
poet of alater age, who, to give them 
a greater degree of authority, publifhed 
them uncer the name of Solomon. 
Mr. Torzitz, who had been fent, in 
1803, by the Dan th government to Burg- 
dorf in Swi'zeriand, to learn from Pefta- 
Jozzi himfcif his method of iniruéction, 
returned thence quite charmed therewith, 
and has publifhed an account of his joure 
ney. 
“We have likewife to announce Mr. 
WoLeBecx’s “ Hiflor.cal View of the 
Reigns and Fo:tunes of the Stuarts.’* 
This work may be confidered only as an 
introduction tu the Biography of the Pre. 
tender Charles Edward Stuart, which the 
author has nearly finifhed for the prefs. 
Mr. W., at the fame time that he dces 
juftice to the virtues which feemed to be 
hereditary in the Stuart family, does not 
conceal from his readers that they are al- 
ways blended with fuch weaknefles, and 
often with fuch faults, as can leaft be for- 
given in a fovereign; and which, in the 
circumftances in which they were placed, 
could not fai! to lead to their ruin. 
Ravn furnifhed a ‘* Natural Hiftory,” 
adapted to the ufe of every clafs of read- 
exs; and Brorn a “ Syftem of Arith- 
metic.” 
OLUFSEN’s * Rural Economy of Den- 
mark,” is a valuable prefent to fuch of 
his countrymen as are engaged in agricul- 
ture. J 
A fupplement has been added to the 
works ot the late Profefler Tode; and 
Dr. MunTer has publifhed “ ‘Thoughts 
on Natural Theology,” being the fruit of 
his lectures on that fcience. 
A great number of other publications 
might be here enumerated; but they are 
chiefly tranflations, the Danifh literata 
having been diligently employed in trans- 
ferring into their native tongue fome of 
the beft works of other nations, efpecially 
of their German neighbours. 
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