A new French periodical has just appeared, entitled, Revue de Paris. The collected works of Saint-Simon, the founder of the Saint-Simonians have been printed at Paris in ten volumes.

An edition of the "Life and Works" of the celebrated Thorwaldsen is proposed by Brockhaus at Leipsic. It is to contain 180 engravings, in large folio; and to be published in two parts. The subscription price of the first part, containing 31 sheets of letter-press and 80 engravings, is 20 Thaler, about 15 dollars.

The first volume of the "History of Europe since the end of the Fif teenth Century,” by Raumer (referred to, p. 209, Part 2, of this number of the Select Journal) has appeared. 8vo. Price, common paper, about $2.40; vellum paper $4.80. It is to be completed in 6 volumes.

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The seventh edition " enlarged and improved" of Wegscheider's "Institutiones Theologiæ Christianæ Dogmaticæ," has just been published. The first appeared in 1815. Wegscheider's book contains the system of those German theologians who call themselves Rationalists, and who deny to Christianity a supernatural character. The new edition is reviewed at much length with full approbation of its general principles in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, for January. This periodical is published at Halle under the direction of Gesenius, Wegscheider himself, and six other professors of the University in that place.

Thiersch is publishing a new edition of the Comedies of Aristophanes. The first volume containing Prolegomena and the Plutus; and the fourth volume containing the Rane have appeared. They are reviewed, at length, in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung for last November.

A new edition of Forcellini's "Lexicon Totius Latinitatis" is publishing at Padua. It is said to contain about 5000 new words and 10,000 other additions and corrections. Another edition, of which this is the basis, is publishing in Germany.

Three posthumous volumes of Wolf's Lectures have appeared. The first, über der Encyclopädie der Alterthumswissenschaft; the second, über die Geschichte der griechischen Literatur; the third, über die Geschichte der römischen Literatur. Price, about $1 a volume.

An edition of the collected works of Hegel, the last most famous name among German metaphysicians, is publishing by a society of his friends, Dr. Ph. Marheineke, Dr. J. Schulze, Dr. Ed. Ganz, Dr. Lp. v. Henning, Dr. H. Hotho, Dr. K. Michelet, and Dr. F. Forster. Two volumes, the first and eleventh, have appeared.

A new edition, the eighth, of the famous Conversations-Lexicon is announced by its proprietor, Brockhaus. It is to be, as is promised, thoroughly revised and brought down to the present period. It will be published in 24 numbers, two numbers forming a volume, and each number costing, according to the quality of the paper, either 48 cents, or 72, or $1,08. Fourteen thousand copies of the seventh edition, it is stated, were published in 1830.

A new edition of Körner's Works, under the direction of the mother of the poet, is announced for publication, in a single volume, Svo., corresponding in its execution to the volume of the Works of Schiller. Beside those already known, several new poems, tales, dramas, and letters will be published from his manuscripts.

One of the greatest living philosophers of Germany is Dr. Karl Rosenkranz, a very profound and voluminous writer of all work, a disciple of the school of Hegel. The Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung for last February

contains an article upon his "History of German Poetry during the Middle Ages." ""* The reviewer says that Dr. Rosenkranz feels deeply and thinks acutely; but that often he does not succeed in expressing clearly what he thus thinks and feels. "Since the death of Fichte," the reviewer adds, "the philosophers of Germany have unhappily spoken very different dialects, and the book before us is written in the latest of these, which may be called the absolute." Of this new dialect he gives a few specimens: "History," says Dr. Rosenkranz, "is the self-producing spirit, and hence follows the strictest connexion between all its parts. Even when, from the multitude of forms in which it loses itself, the connexion escapes our apprehension, still the centrality of a definite manifestation is to be found in the disseverance of the peripheral points." The genius of our language is so common place, that it is difficult to give the full effect of such wisdom in English; but, if we do not flatter ourselves, the preceding translation is but a little less oracular than the German.

According to Dr. Rosenkranz there are three kinds of poetry "the Symbolic," which is its most ancient form, "the Plastic," and "the Romantic." Of "the Symbolic we do not find any definition; "the Plastic " is said to be "the revelation of the Internal in the External." With this definition, the reviewer professes himself to be well satisfied; but not so with the account given of "the Romantic," "of which the principle is to be found in the individual self which is able to comprehend in itself the totality of the world as inward Infinity." The reviewer says that he does not understand this, or what follows: "The principle of the Romantic may be found in the Idea of the absolute reconcilement of the human spirit with the Divine." §

It must be confessed that our English writers of the Teutonic school, "Who with weak wings attempt from far such flights,"

have in general fallen far behind their masters.

In the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung for April, another work of Dr. Rosenkranz is reviewed, entitled "Natural Religion a Philosophico-Historical Essay." We attempt with diffidence the translation of one or two passages.

But

"God" (by 'God' is meant the universal Spirit or Soul in Nature, of which all individual spirits are modifications,)" God, as simply existing for himself, has thought of no religion. Religion begins with man. man, as an individual, exists only through Nature; although, in his essence, he is Spirit, and consequently the same which God is." ||

* Geschichte der Deutschen Poesie in Mittelalter, 8vo. pp. xv. 620.

"Der Geschichte ist der sich selbst erzeugende Geist, und darum hängt in ihr Alles auf das Engste zusammen. Auch da wo die Menge der Formen, in welche er sich verliert, ihm aller bündigen Auffassung entziehen will, ist der Centralitat einer bestimmten Manifestation in der Zersplitterung der peripherischen Punckte heimisch."

..... "für welche das Princip in dem eignen Selbst zu finden seyn soll, welches die Totalität der Welt, als innere Unendlichkeit in sich zu fassen vermöge."

"Das Princip des Romantischen finde sich in der Idee der absoluten Versöhnung des menschlichen Geistes mit dem göttlichen."

"Gott als rein für sich existirend gedacht hat keine Religion. Diese beginnt erst mit dem Menschen; der Mensch aber als Individuum wird nur durch die Natur, obwohl er seinem Wesen nach Geist und hiermit dasselbe ist, was Gott."

The following words, says the Reviewer, are less remarkable.

"On the one side, man as Spirit is distinguished from Nature, which is not Spirit; on the other side, he is distinguished from God, not being, as God, the absolute, but being as man, both through his individuality and naturality, the limited Spirit."*

Beside the two works already mentioned, the unwearied activity of Dr. Rosenkranz has likewise produced within a short time, the first volume of a" Manual of a General History of Poetry," and an "Encyclopædia of the Theological Sciences."

We subjoin the titles of a few other works lately published on the continent of Europe.

Corpus Poëtarum Latinorum, uno volumine absolutum. Cum selectâ varietate lectionis et explicatione brevissimâ. Ed. Dr. G. E. Weber. Royal 8vo. Price, 6 Rthlr. 18 Ggr., or on vellum paper 8 Rthlr. 12 Ggr., from about $5 to $7.

Taciti Opera recensuit et Commentarios suos adjecit G. H. Walther. 4 Tomi. large 8vo. The price varies according to the paper, which is of four different qualities, 5 Rthlr., 6 R., 10 R., and 12 R., from about $3,75 to $9.

Apparatus criticus et exegeticus in Eschyli Tragœdias. 2 vol. 8vo. maj. Price about $3.50. The first volume contains Stanley's commentary as published by Butler with additions from the papers of the author, and Reisig's emendations of the Prometheus; the second volume, the commentary of Abresch.

Apparatus criticus et exegeticus ad Demosthenem, Opsopoei, Wolfii, Taylori, et Reiskii annotationes tenens. Aliorum et suis annotationibus auctum edidit G. H. Schaeferus. 6 Tomi. 8vo.

Die Lehre der Kirche vom Tode Jesu in dem ersten drey Jahrhunderten dargestellt von K. Bähr. 8vo. 1832. pp. VIII. 184. Price 16 Ggr. (about 50 cts.) From the notice of this work in the Erganzungblatt, to the Allgemeine Lit.-Zeit. for December, 1832, (No. 111.), we should infer that it is of some value, as affording a correct view of the opinions of the early Fathers on the doctrine in question.

Tittmann de Synonymis in N. T. Lib. II. Post mortem auctoris edidit et alia ejusdem Õpuscula adjecit Guil. Bacher. 8vo. 12 Ggr.

Adam Oehlenschlager's Schriften zum erstenmal gesammelt. In 18 small volumes. Price about $7.

Wahreit aus Jean Paul's Leben: 7tes und 8tes Heftlein. These complete the work, the price of which is 13 Rthlr. 18 Ggr., about $10.

Göthe's Briefe an Lavater. Aus den Jahren 1774 bis 1783. Herausgegeben von H. Hirzel. 8vo. Price about 75 cts.

H. C. A. Eichstadii Oratio Goethii Memoriæ dicata. (Delivered before the University at Jena, where Eichstad is Professor of Eloquence, Poetry, and Ancient Literature.)

Geschichte der Alchemie, von K. C..Schmieder. 8vo. 2 Thlr. 8 Gr. Teatro Español anterior á Lope de Vega. Por el Editor de la Floresta de Rimas antiguas Castellanas. Hamburg. Fred. Perthes. 1832. 8vo. pp. iv. 471. 2 Thlr. 18 Gr.

Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de la Révolution de 1830. Par M. Alex. Mazas, Secrétarie du dernier Conseil des Ministres, nommé par le Roi Charles X. Paris. 8vo. 1832. See Quarterly Review, No. 98.

* "Der Mensch ist als Geist einerseits im Unterschiede von der Natur, welche nicht Geist ist, andrerseits im Unterschiede von Gott, weil er nicht wie dieser, der absolute, sondern als menschlicher zugleich der durch seine Einzelheit und Natürlichkeit beschränkte Geist ist."

INDEX

TO VOLUME II.

JULY-OCTOBER, 1833.

The numbers with an obelisk [t] affixed, refer to pages in the second part of the volume.