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Literary England ; which, notwithftand- 
ing the’ recommendatory preface, by the . 
celebrated Fofter, did not meet the fuc- 
cefs it deferved. To this has now been 
aoe a Supplement, in two volumes, 
corre€ted up to 1803. An Englifh title 
has likewife -been prefixed to it: viz. 
*¢ Alphabetical Regiger of all the authors 
in Great Britain, and “in the United Pro- 
vinces of North America, with a cata- 
logue of their works. The fame learned 
author has publifhed the fifth volume af 
his ** Repertorium Commentationuin a So- 
cietatibus. Literariis editarum ; which 
comprehends thofe of Germany as well as 
foreizn countries. The fifth volume is a 
repertory cf ee treating of aitronomy. 
A somber of the mixed Journals, and re- 
views, likewife, pay particular attention 
to the bifory of foreign, literature ; nor is 
that of Germany negleded, as appears 
from the continuation of the labours of 
Meuse, who has publifhed fupplemen- 
tary volumes to his ‘* Gelebrte Deutfch- 
land ;"—or, Account of living German 
Authors, and their Works ; and a fourth 
and fifth volume of his J.exicon of German 
Writers, who died betwixt the years 17 50, 
and 1800 ;” feveral biographical fketches 
of living authors, belonging to particular 
provinces or cities, likewife appeared, fur- 
nifhing materials for the compilation or 
continuation of fuch a work as Meufeil’s, . 
Among feparate biographies of literary 
men we, in particular, have to notice fe- 
veralof HerDeR and Kant. Several of 
Kant’s friends and difciples, at Konigf- 
berg, have united to furnith biographical 
and charaéteriftical accounts of his life 
and writings. Borowsky and Jacu- 
MANN treat of the earlier years, Wast- 
ANSKY of his latter period of life. Ketcn 
likewile, has given us an ‘¢ Analyfis of his 
Scull,” according to the theory of the 
craniofcopical Dr. Gall. 
Paffing over the particular hiftories of 
Univertities and other learned Inftitutions, 
we fhall notice here only a few works of 
a more generally interefting kind. Profef- 
for WacHTER, of Marourg, began a 
«¢ Handbuch der allgemeinen Gefchichte 
der Cultur ;°°—the five volumes of which 
Marrates in a very fatisfaftory manner, 
the progrefs of arts, fciences aad culture 
in general. The author has adopted the 
ethnographic {cientific arrangement. The 
‘© Gefchichte der Kunfie und Wifleng- 
chaften, &c. ;?’—or, Hiftory of Arts and 
Sciences, from the time of their Revival to 
the Clofe of the Eighteenth Century, is 
continued ; and the fifteenth and fixteenth 
parts contain BUHLE’s Hiltory of Phila 
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{mali éditions of ihe Pheedon ; 
Retrofped? of German Literature.— Philology. 
fophy. BeELLERMANN has likewifé con- 
tinued his ** Almanach der neueften Fort- 
fchritte der Erfendungen ;°—the fourth 
annual volume of which comprehends the 
period from Laifter 1803, to Halter 1804, 
and gives a fhort account of the progrefs, 
and difcoveries in the {peculative and poli- 
tive fciences ; and ina fimilar publication 
by Buscu, ** Almanach der. Fort{ch. 
und Entd. in Wiffenichaften,’’—is to 
be found an Account of the Inventions 
or Di'coveries in Aits, Manufaékures, 
&c. during the fame time. 
PHILOLOGY. 
In the cuitivation of Greek and Roman 
literats ure, we again find a zealous emula- 
tion mone the German philologifts. 
Homer in particular, has engaged the at- 
tention of feveral eminent critics. After 
Protetfor Woure, in. Halle, had given 
a fmall pocket edition, and then a larger 
one, with ledrned Prolegomena; and aiter 
the appearance of the long expected one, 
of the rio lefs c.lebrated critic, Heyne 
which is now repr:nting, m a fmaller Goa 
for the ufe of {chools ; we find another 
undertaken by GoscuEN, of Leipzig, the 
_Didot of Germany, upon the fame plan, 
and with the fame new-iavented type, as 
his moit fplendid edition of Griesbach’s 
New Teftament. He has adopted the 
text of the edition of Wolf, who has un- 
dertaken the revifai of the proofs. The 
continuation of the Illiad with Extraés 
from Euflathius, by the lately deceafed 
Mutter, rector ot “the fchool at Meiffen; 
and the new edition of KoppEn’s «© Ao 
larende Anmerkuagen zum Homer 
Explanatory Notes at Homer, are © prot, 
of the diligent fiudy of taat poet. Nor’ 
were the other Gieck poets see 
FACHSE, the tranflator of Piato’s. Repub- 
tic, gave Pindar-and Sophocles in a Ger- 
mandrefs. Ast and Hitpercrin, like. 
wife gave tranflations from Sophecles. 
To the veteran mafter of the lyre, the ce- 
lébrated WitLaxD, who in his “* Atiic’ 
Mufeum,” likewife furnifhed contribu- 
tions towards the illufiration of the litera- 
ture of Greece, his countrymen are tn~ 
debted for a tranflation of the Beauties of 
Euripides’s: Helena and fon into their 
native tongue. Of Ariftophanes, a new 
edition was given by KurnoL; and of © 
Theocritus, by DayHL. The works of 
Plato, were likewife the cbjeéts of the 
critical labours of feveral learned authors. 
Bucktine of Haile, publithed large and 
which was 
jikewile tranflated by Linpav. 
Timocus with a commentary. 
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Win- 
DISCHMANN, gave a tranflation of the © 
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