Retrofpect of German Literature.—Fine Aris. 
macher, now Profeffor at Halle, began a 
complete tranflation of all the works of 
Piato ; and Horsve furnifhed a learned 
treatife entitled “© Platonis Dostrina de 
Deoe Dialogis ejus redacta.”” Of the works 
of Xenophon, Plutarch, and Thucydides 
there likewife appeared new editions and 
tranflations. Of the laft mentioned of 
thefe authors, a new verfion has been be- 
gun by JacoBr, who had before given 
Herodotus in a German drefs. SCHELT, 
of Leipzig publifhed the Teyyn bsophan 
que vulgo Dionyfio Halicarnaflenfi tri- 
buitur; with acommentary, in which he 
endeavours to prove that the work is 
merely a compilation compofed of extracts 
from the writings and le&tures of Dyonifius, 
intermixed with fragments of other an- 
thors. HsyNe’s new edition of Apollo- 
dorus may likewife be confidered as an 
important addition to the ftock of Grecian 
literature ; and the ‘* Epifto!e: critica 
duz, una de Aeliono et Philoftrato altcra 
de Hélicdoro ;” by the acute philologitt 
Jacogs, are def:rving of honourable 
mention. 
With refpeét to Roman literature, we 
remark, that the two feries of editions of 
all the Latin authors, under the fuperin- 
tendance of EisTapT, at Leipzig, and of 
Ruperr!, at Gottingen, has gone on 
without interruption: the former entitled 
** Corpus Scriptorum Latinarum,”’ to the 
fourth, and the latter to the feventh vo- 
‘lume. In Eichfiadt’s Collection have 
been given the Con:inuation of Cicero’s 
Oratorial Works, by Scnutrz; and Eu- 
tropius cura Tichucke; in tharof Ruyerti, 
Perlius wth a Commentary by Konic; 
Cicero de Legibus, by WaGNner ; Cur- 
tius & Cornelius, by SmicpeR and 
Tscuuke; Plautus by ScHuMIEDER ; 
and Tacitus, by the Editor. At Vienna, 
likewife, a colleGtion of Roman authors 
was continued ; anda new ‘* Bibliotheca 
Ciaffica Latina,’’ for the ule of Schools, 
has been begun at Linz, by F. N. Nirzez, 
who publifhed at the laft fair, a learned 
treaiile, ** De Epitomes Rerum Romana- 
rum que fub Nemine L. Flori fertur, 
wate probatiffimo, vero atore operis, 
antiqua forma,’ &c. The progres of 
thefe colleétions, did not, however, prevent 
the publication of various feparate edi- 
tions and tianflations of Latin authors: 
Ot the former, we fhail only notice that 
of Terence, by BoTHE, who, for the pur- 
pofe of correcting the text, collated three © 
aveient MSS. in the library, at Berlin. 
Paflinge over tranflations from Roman 
autnors, {chool-books and di¢ticnaries, 
643 
we proceed to Oriental literature, which 
has been enriched with ‘* Beytrage zur 
Arabifchen Literatur ;”—Contributions 
towards Oriental Literature, by the inde- 
fatigable and learned antiquary De MurR,_ 
who, likewife, publifhed a ‘* Ccmmentatio 
de Papyro, f. yoluminibus Grecis Hereu- 
Janenfibus.”’ An anonymous author fur- 
nifhed an ‘¢ Encyklopoedifche Ueberficht 
der Literatur des Orients ;”—Encyclope- 
dical View of the Literature of the Eaft, 
tranflated and compiled from feven Arabic, 
Perfian, and Turkifh works. This Ency- 
‘clopedia contains many things that will be 
highly interefting to the Oriental {cholar 5 
not, however, without an admixture of nu- 
merous errors, KLAPROTH, of Weimar, 
publifhed a “* Kritilche Gefchichte und 
Erlauterung der Chinefifchen Chara@eren;”’ 
—being a Critical Hiftory of the Chinefe 
Charaéters. 
As for the philological, grammatical, 
and lexicographical works, on the modera 
languages of Burope, we fhall only ftate, 
as an index of the proportion cf their cul- 
tivation, the number of their publications 
on each, viz. fixteen on the German ; 
twenty-four on the Englifh ; eight on the 
Danifh ; one on the Dutch; more than 
fifty onthe French; twenty on the Italian ; 
nine on the Spanifh and Portuguefe ; three 
on the modern Greek ; five on the Hunga- 
rian; oneon the Ruffian ; four on the 
Polith; and five on the Bohemian lan- 
guages. 
FINE ARTS. 
The hiftory of the fine arts, fo intimate - 
ly connected with the hiltory of ancient 
literature, is likewife more and more dili- 
gently cultivated. Iwo new works have 
been besun relative to the colle&ions of 
works of art, in Germany, which promile 
much entertainment and inftructicn to 
amateurs. The ‘* Augufteum, Drefdens 
Artike Denkmaler eathaltend ;”—by 
Becker, contain, in the firft numbers, 
fume of the ancient Egyptian and Grecian 
monumenis, inthe Augufteum at Drefden ; 
and Levezow gave usa treatife, ** Uber 
die Familie des Lykomedes ;°’—or, on the 
Family of the Lycomedes, in the collec- 
tion of antiquities of the king of Pruffia, 
in Berlin. Of another collection, at Dref- 
den, there appeared an account in ‘* Ca- 
talogue des Tableaux de la Galerie Elec- 
torale de JJre{cde ;”? and at Berlin, ** Tab- 
leaux d’un Amateur,’ which will contaia 
plates, with explanations of the principal 
woiks of painting and {culpture in Ger. 
many. - 
MEUsEL, in his * Archiy der Kunft,”’ 
402 conti- 
