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Germany, aswell as elfewhere, fraudulent 
book feliers endeavour to impofe upon the 
public, and by which they have drawn 
down upon themfelves the well-merited 
contempt -and indignation of the more 
honeft and se{peftable part of their bre- 
thren. If we deduét all thefe, and the 
many {mall pamphlets, and other works 
of a temporary or local intereft, and 
others which have been prematurely an- 
nounced, and fometimes never make their 
appearance, the number would be confi- 
derably diminifhed ; but ftili large enough 
to make us defpair of being able to in ro- 
duce to the notice of our readers all the 
produétions of only one of the more im- 
portant departments of literature: in the 
general view, therefore, to which our 
limits confice us, we muft content our- 
felves with giving a fuccinét account of 
what has been done for the enricning the 
ftock of each department of literature, 
and the various modes by which provifion 
has been made for its cultivation; we 
can only mention fuch works as, in either 
of thefe refpe&ts, are moft worthy of no- 
tice; and, in doing this, we fhall follow 
the method \and claffification adopted in 
our preceding Retrofpects. 
PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHYSICS. 
Here again there was a rich harveft. 
Several celebrated names of founders of 
fe&ts, and of their diftinguihed partifans 
or opponents, illuftrate the laft catalozues. 
Befides Kanr and SCHELLING, and 
many others, friends or foes of the latter, 
as author of the fyftem called ** Tne Phi- 
lafophy of Nature,” BARDILI, and his 
champions ReinvoLp, ABICHT, and {e- 
veral others, made their appearance be- 
fore the public. Profeflor Rink, of Ko- 
nigfberg, publifhed, from the criginal 
manulcript of bis friend Kanr, that il- 
juftrious philolopher’s an{wer to the prize- 
gueftion propofed, in the year 1791, by 
tre Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, 
6 What has been the Progrels of Meta- 
phyfics fince the Time of Leibnitz and 
olfe?”’—a publication which mutt 
prove the more interefting to the friends 
of that fcience, as Kart himfelf atted 
the moft diltinguithed part. To Profef- 
for Riek the public was hkewife indebted 
for the genuine edition of Kant’s “¢ Phy- 
fical Geography.” A new edition of 
Kant’s ‘* Kritik der Beurtheilungikraft,” 
adapted for the ute of the unimitiated, 
was given by KigsewrETrer, of Berlin; 
who had before deferved well of the pub- 
lic by feveral works, in which-he treats 
of the critical philofophy in a pepular 
manner, LBefides thele, the active zeal 
Retrifpee? of German Literature.—Philifophy, ie; 
of the Kantians was fhewn only in pole- 
mical writings againft other fyftems ; 
efpecially, fince a complete ceflation of 
hoftilities feems to have taken place with 
refpect to Fichte, again& that framed by 
Schelling. This founder of what is ftyled 
the ‘* Philofophy of Nature,’’ whole ideas 
have by a great many phyficians been 
applied to the theories of medicine, feems, 
indced,. no longer to continue his Journal 
for the Philofophy of Nature, but has 
communicated his thoughts in a fepirate 
work, entitled ¢ Philofophy and Reli- 
gicn,”” which does not entirely agree with 
his friend Dr. EscHENMAYER’s work on 
the fame fubjeét, entitled «* Philofophie 
in ihrem Uebergange zur Nicht-Phi- 
lofophie.”” Efchenmayer continued to 
exhibit his myftico-philofophical ideas in 
‘6 Der Eremit und der Fremdiing, uber 
das Hcilige und die Gefchichte’—The 
Hermit and the Stranger, on facred 
Things and on Hiftory. Dr. REUBEL, 
who, fome years ago, firlt diftinguifhed 
himlelf at the Univeifity of Bamberg, by 
detending fingular thefes on fubjeéts taken’ 
from Scheiling’s Philofophy of Nature, 
has likewife adopted the. principles of 
that philofopher, in his ** Ideen tiber 
Kuntt und Religion, ein Beytrag zur Phi- 
lofophie der Kuntt.”—-Thoughts on Art 
and Religion, being a Contribution to- 
wards the Philofophy of Art. Oa the 
other hand, WeiLLer, of Munich, that 
moit pertinacious opponent of Schelling, 
continued, efpecially in the Oberdeutiche 
Literaturzettung (or Literary Journal for 
Upper Germany), with SaLarand others, 
to attack him with vigour, In his 
‘* Geift der allerneueften Philofophie der | 
Hercn Schelling, Hezel und Comp. eine 
Ueberfetzung aus der Schulfprache in die 
Sprache der Welt”—(Spirit of the newett 
Philofophy of Meffrs, Schelling, Hezel, 
and Co, being a Tranflation from the 
Language of the Schools into the Lan- 
guage of common Life)—he combats the 
Puilofophy of Nature with the powerful 
weapons of wit andraillery ; and that his 
‘© Verfuch eines Syftems in der Philofo-~ 
phie’’—(Effay of a Syliem of Philofophy), 
—and hs ‘* Entwurf einer _Philofophie 
zum Behuf feiner Vorlefungen”—(Sketch 
of a Sytem of Philofophy, being a Fext- 
Book fcr his Lectures) ,—are in dire&t op- 
pofition to the fyltem of the Idealiits, may 
be expected from (o ftrenuous_an attacker 
of their dogmas. Wacwner, | likewile, 
formerly a warm friend of Schelling, 
whois philofophy he taught at the Univer- 
fity of Salzburg, is now become his col- 
league at Wurzburg, and his opponen’, 
being 
