PRUSSIA. ART. 31. Bruchstücke aus Neander Leben, &c. Fragments of the Life of Neander,by Charlotte Elizabeth Constantia zan der Rechte. Published by C.A. Tredge. 8vo. Berlin. 1804. THIS little book, says the publisher, will find readers in those who love to muse in silence on those monuments which sensibility has erected. The life of Neander was as poor in events, as it was rich in virtue. In commemorating the pains which his pious mother bestowed on his education, the writer well remarks that every wife may be animated by the reflection, that almost all men who have been distinguished by their merit have been indebted to the virtues of their mothers for the first scions of those habits, which have afterwards shot up into so much genuine worth. ART, 32.-Slownik dokladny iezyka Polskiego i Niemieckiego, &c. A complete Polish and German Pocket Dictionary, &c. by G. S. Bandtke. Breslau. Sto. 1806. NOWY Słownik Rieszonkonz, new pocket Dictionary of the Polish, German, and French languages. Though the Polish language has to contend with many unfavourable circumstances, both within and without, yet the author, judging from the natural energy of the Poles, supposes that the language will still recover from its present depression. This opinion might he realised if every Pole were animated with the same zeal as M. Bandtke, to promote the Polish language and literature. ART. 33. Abhandlung von der düngung, &c. A Treatise on Manure, and the proper Method of managing the same. Draun up for the Use of all Economists, by Johann Karl Fischer, Professor of Philosophy at Jera. 8vo. 1803. FOREIGNERS are far behind us in agricultural experience, and the method of mixing manure and of accelerating the putrefaction, which is here recommended, has long been practised in this country. We are, however, happy to find a professor of philosophy at Jena, devoting his thoughts to so useful a subject. It gives us pleasure to see the advocates of idealism forsake their airy speculations in order to improve the solid products of the earth. Of agricultural innovations in general, we must remark that the only test of their excellence, is the general utility, and the facility of practical execution. Expermental agriculturalists often forget that what is true on a small scale, may be false on a large, or in other words that experiments which on a small scale,have been attended with the happiest results, will, from a variety of circumstances, and more particularly from the very circumscribed powers of individuals, be impossible to be executed on a large. RUSSIA. ART. 34. Die Geschichte der Philosophie, &c. - The History of Philosophy. First Part. The Wisdom of the M. STECK is one of the Idealists, and idealism appears to be the refuge of dogmatism, driven by criticism into a corner, of which, notwithstanding the shouts of victory, a penetrating eye soon discovers the beggary and despair. Every thing, remarked Anaxagoras, lay confounded together, when intelligence came and arranged the whole; the reverse may be said of the spirit of this history. We are however willing to pay the tribute of respect to the talent and the knowledge of the author. For this reason we cannot but wish that he may submit his philosophical notions to a more serious and attentive examination, that he may no longer lavish the strength of his mental faculties on visions and chimeras. DENMARK. ART. 35.-L. M. Widels Inderlandske Reise igiennem de betydebigste og skionneste Egne af de danske Provindser. Widels Inland Travels through the most important and beautiful Parts of the Danish Provinces. 2 Parts. 8vo. Copenhagen, &c. . WE have here a copious description of the travels which the author made in 1799 and 1801, through Zealand, Jutland, Schleswick, Holstein, to Altona and Hamburg and back again. We have no descriptions of many of the places and towns which he visited so circumstantial as with those which he has presented us and we meet with some instructive observations. ART, 36.-Christian II, Konig Dienemark, &. Christian II. King of Denmark. Norway and Sweden, by Henry Bohrman, First Part. Copenhagen, 1805. IN the history of this distinguished and remarkable personage the author has with a laudable industry drawn his materials from the most undoubted authorities; compared the writers of different nations, and, as far as was possible, rescued the truth from the exaggerations and misrepresentations of the enemies of Christianity. TURKEY. ART. 37.-Nochbei Wehbi. Wehbi's Selections. Scutari, 1220 of the Hagir. 8vo. IT is well known that in the Turkish schools, boys are taught the most necessary gabic and Persian words, by the help of rhyming glossaries,Schahidis, Persic and Turkish glossary, and the Arabic and Turkish which were known under the name of Sukei Sibjan were the rhyming vocabularies most usually employed in the Turkishschools. Wehbi Efendi, a meritorious old man, who is still living, and the greatest philologist of his time at Constantinople, has eutirely revised the first of these elementary books, or rather has produced a new and more complete work of the same kind under the title of Tohfei Wehbi, that is, Wehbi's gift. Wehbi Efendi composed his Nochbei Wehbi, or Arabic and Turkish vocabulary,as a compa nion to his Tohfei Wehbi, which is Persic and Turkish. In his rhyming preface, after the usual praise of God and the Prophet, the author declares that the uncommon approbation which his Tohfei had experienced had incited him in his old age to spare no pains in the composition of the Nochbei,that it might be a worthy companion to his former work. HOLLAND. ART. 38.-Examen de Systeme du Dupuis et Volney, &c. Examination of the Systems of Dupuis and Volney on the Origin of the Mosaical and Christian Religion. Prize Essays, from the Teylerian Society, Amsterdam. 1806. THE systems of Dupuis and Volney have made no impressions in England, and their absurdity has been acknowledged even by the enemies of our faith. But the subject deserved to be examin ed, and became naturally a question fit for the discussion of the Teylerian society. This discussion is well arranged in the work before us by the mathematical professor of the university of Leyden. He examines the opinions of the two atheistical writers with great sobriety and impartiality; shews that the idea of referring christianity to astronomy must be grounded upon popish notions, not on any thing in the Christian religion; and due allowance being made for the system of theology which prevails in the Low Coun tries, he vindicates the Christian faith from the aspersions thrown upon it by his antagonists. The essay does the author certainly great credit, and we are glad to see it translated from the Dutch into the French language, that the infidels in France may have an opportunity of seeing in a very short compass the chief arguments of their favourite philosophers placed in their true light, candidly examined, and completely refuted. secret stair-case discovered in the so- The wisdom of Nature ib. Bates's Christian Politics, 238. A 32.1 live happily under all governments Bengal, remarks on the husbandry 448 pire, ib. |