Latin grammarians, occasioned by the scarceness and the imperfections of the Collection of Putsche, which appeared 200 years ago. M. Lindemann has selected, as the partner of his labor, in the collation of manuscripts and the collection of various readings, his late pupil Mr. Friedrich Wilhelm Otto, who has distinguished himself by his edition of Cicero's Cato Major and the five books De Finibus. The whole collection will be comprised in 15 volumes like the first, and at least two volumes will be published yearly. All the grammatical writings, which are found in the collections of Putsche and Godefroy, will be comprised in this, and all that have been published since those collections, will be added. The Scholiasts and interpreters of Latin authors are for the present excluded."

In addition to those before mentioned, the following works have lately appeared.

Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, præsertim ex Djeuharii, Firuzabadiiquè, et aliorum Arabum operibus, adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris, confectum. Tom. I. 1830. Tom. II. Sec. prior. 1832. Price $15, large paper $30, vellum paper $60. "More full and accurate than the Lexicon of Golius; but from its limited extent not admitting the quotation of authorities, nor a detailed explanation of words and idioms." Reviewed in the "Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung" for last September.

Werke des chinesischen Weisen Khung-fu-Dsii, u. s. f. Works of the Chinese Philosopher, Khung-fu-Dsii (Confusius) and of his Disciples. Now first translated from the original into German, with Notes by Wilhelm Schott. The second Part (completing the work), Berlin. 1832. 8vo. Price, 1 Rthlr.

Alt Französische Grammatik (,) worin die Conjugation vorzugsweise berucksichtigt ist. Nebst einem Anhang von alten Fabliaux et Contes, welche Schiller's Gang nach dem Eisenhammer, Wielands Wasserkufe, Burger's Lied (e) von Treue, Langben's Kirschbaum (e) entsprechen: und einigen Bruchstucken aus dem Roman du Reuart. Von Conrad von Orell, Lehrer in Zürich. Zürich, Orell, Füssli und Comp. 1830. viii u. 420 S. 1 Rthlr. 16 Gr. This work is noticed and commended with qualifications by M. Raynouard in the Journal des Savans for October, 1832.

Der Tod Gustav Adolphs, u. s. f. The death of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, in the Battle of Lutzen, 6 Nov. 1632. In Commemoration of the second secular Anniversary. By F. E. F. Philippi, of Lutzen. With a portrait of the King, and a Plan of the Field of Battle. 8vo. 1832. pp. 115. This work contains a full account of the circumstances attending the King's death, derived in part from MS. authorities, not before used, with an examination of the disputed facts concerning it.

Versuch über die Romischer Plebejer, i. e. Essay upon the Roman Plebeians of the earliest Age; an Introduction to a full History of the Tribunes of the People. By Dr. G. Strässer. 8vo. Price about 60 cts. The writer controverts, and, it is said, confutes the hypothesis of Niebuhr, concerning the relation which the Roman Plebeians and Patricians originally bore to each other.

A new English and German Dictionary, by J. L. Hilpert, in two thick quarto volumes. Price, 7 Thlr. 12 Gr. on common paper, and 9 Thlr. on fine paper. It is to be followed by a German and English Dictionary by the same author.

[From the "Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung."]

Summary View of Swedish Literature from the beginning of the year 1829 to the month of July, 1831.

THE journalists of every nation regard their periodical productions as the choicest flowers of their literature; and though we are far from participating in an opinion so flattering to our self-love, we still consider the publications of the day as the expression of the political life of a country, and as deserving, on this account, to be thoroughly studied.

At the beginning of the year 1831, there were published in Sweden, twelve periodical reviews and sixty-nine journals. The "Argus" and the "Evening Gazette," which are most eagerly sought after, have only about twelve hundred subscribers each. All the other journals have still fewer. The most important reviews are "Svéa, tidskrift för Wetenskap och Konst (Svéa or Sweden, Periodical Review of Science and Art). It contains articles written with care, and not less instructive than well written. The principal contributors are Messrs. Wahlenberg, Geijer, Atterbom, Franzén, de Bescow, Palmblad, Agardh, and J. H. Schröder. The "Theologisk Quartalskrift," edited by Messrs. Reuterdahl and Thomander, is wholly devoted to religious discussions; as is also the "Siaren " (Seer), an inconsiderable journal, which appears monthly at Christianstadt. The “Juridiskt Archiv" of Christianstadt, offer little that is interesting, but the Musical Review of Kalmar (“Laöning uti musikaliska Amnon") is very well written, and manifests much zeal for the progress of art in general. As to the daily journals, they are not, as in France and England, edited by men of the first talent, by writers enjoying a well-deserved reputation; but by civilians of very moderate powers, whom the Saint-Simonians would not place very high upon the ladder of intellect. The offences of the nonperiodical press are under the jurisdiction of the civil tribunals, and the guilt of the authors is determined by a jury. As to the journals, they are ruled despotically. The government seizes the presses whenever it thinks proper, and deprives the editors of the means of issuing their sheets. Among the provincial gazettes, the "Correspondent" of M. Bruzelius, published at Upsal, deserves honorable mention. The gazettes of the capital give the tone to those of the whole kingdom, an observation which applies to Sweden as well as to France and England. The journals in most repute are the "Post och Inrikes-Tidninger," the "Stockholms-Posten," established in 1778 by the celebrated Kellgren, but much fallen from its original reputation; and the "Journalen," which appeared in 1809. The head of the present opposition is M. d'Ankarsward, a man distinguished by the regularity of his features, by his lively and impassioned eloquence, by his

melodious voice, and by his impetuous boldness in the Chamber of the Nobles. His opposition is attributed to motives of personal interest, or rather to his wounded self-love. During the events of 1813, 1814, and 1815, he advised the Prince-royal whose aid de-camp he was, to support the tottering power of Napoleon against the efforts of the Holy Alliance. This counsel led to his disgrace, and since that time he has been one of the opposition. The "Argus" has followed, for some years past, a course of systematic opposition, tending to a radical reform of the civil and religious constitution of Sweden. According to this journal, coustitutional monarchies are seats of corruption; the republican form of government is the only one on which the views of men should be fixed; unfortunately, it says, the present time is not ripe for a republic.

In the session of 1824, the "Argus" praised the conduct of Anders Danielson, who was at the head of the Estates of the peasants; Anders Danielson entreated the nobility to unite with the peasants, in demanding from the King the dismissal of a ministry which was destroying the prosperity of the country, and was on the point of ruining it. Ankarswärd and his associates highly approved the petition of the peasants; but the aristocrats replied, that it was very unbecoming in a peasant, who breakfasted every day upon oysters and champaigne, and who kept two or three mistresses, to complain of the misery and corruption of the country; nay more, they insisted that a country in which the agricultural class enjoyed such freedom, was a true Eldorado. The complaint of the peasants produced no effect.

The "Medborgaren" (Fellow-citizen) made a great noise on its first appearance. It was expected to be a Messiah to the opposition; unfortunately all went off in smoke; its subscribers withdrew day by day, and this journal now only vegetates. The same thing happened to the "Mimer," which was also an opposition journal. Its columns offered little that was interesting, and the eulogy upon Robespierre, which its conductors thought proper to insert, gave great offence to the Swedish public. In 1829, an anti opposition paper appeared, "den objiedne Gästen" (the uninvited Guest), edited with much ability by the celebrated Askelöf, former editor of the literary journal, entitled "The Polyphemus." For some time the "objiedne Gasten" has appeared under the name of the "Svenska Minerva" (the Swedish Minerva.) In all discussions, political, literary, or religious, it maintains a high superiority over all its rivals. The "Aftonbladet " (Evening Gazette) is one of the best edited and most interesting opposition journals. The object of the editor is not so much to direct public opinion as to make money; fortunately for himself, he succeeds in his object. In the midst of the political vortex which draws every thing into itself, only one daily journal raises its voice in support of elegant literature; this is the "Herindall," published by Mr. Rydquist, a dis. tinguished writer, of extensive learning and sound judgment. He wishes only to please the literary world, and he avoids with the greatest care whatever may savour of the spirit of a party or a coterie. The consequence is, that Mr. Rydquist rarely makes a pompous eulogy upon any work, and

that, when he finds fault, he always accompanies his critical remarks with honied phrases, that he may not wound the feelings of the author of whom he speaks. His paper is at war with the opposition, whose motto is, “He that is not for us is against us."

Sweden also possesses journals entirely devoted to the useful arts, such as the "Journal för Handel, Hoid och Konst," (Journal of Commerce, Trades, and Arts): "Archif for Husshallningen och Naringavna,"

(Register of Domestic Economy and Manual Industry), &c.

The theological publications have, in general, no other aim than to instruct the people; they consist of homilies and sermons. The work of Professor Lundwall, entitled "De Rationalismo Lutheri," forms an honorable exception to the fact just stated. In the department of jurisprudence we notice the following publications: " Corpus juris Sveo-Gothorum Antiqui et M. Calonii opera omnia, denuò edidit A. S. Arwidson." Colonius was professor of law at the university of Abo, and he had thoroughly investigated the science which he taught his pupils. In his old age, he gained the admiration of his fellow-citizens and the esteem of the emperor Alexander, who had become master of Finland by the cession of it to him by Sweden. In philosophy, we will refer to the works of Biberg, preceptor of the son of Gustavus Adolphus, and professor of moral philosophy in the university of Upsal. The third volume of his works has just been published. During his life Biberg would print nothing, for fear of increasing the innumerable mass of books with which libraries are encumbered. His heirs are less timid; if they stop short, it will be rather for want of money than want of courage. Mr. Cederschiöld, professor at Lund, has published a system of ethics, under the name of "Rationel Pligtlara (in German, "Rationelle Pflichtlehre.") In the month of September, 1830, appeared the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for the year 1829. Mr. Berzelius has published the sixth volume of his "Course of Chemistry,” and Mr. Hisinger the fifth of his "Geognosy of Sweden." Sweden is indebted to naturalists for the following works: "Monographia Pompilorum Suecia," by Mr. Dahlbom: "Monographia Chrysidum," by the same author; "Hemipteria Suecia," by Mr. Fallen; "Monographia Teuthredinidum Suecia," by the same; "Lichenographia," by Mr. Fries; "Manual of Botany," by Mr. Aghard; “Skandinavisk Fauna," by Mr. Nilsson. Medicine is enriched by the "Anatomisk Handbok för Lakare und Zoologer"; history, by the " Scriptores rerum Suecicarum medii avi," a collection published by Messrs. Geijer and Schröder; the "Diplomatarium Suecorum," by Mr. J. G. Liejegren; the "Samlingar for Nördens Fornälskare ” (Collections for the Use of the Antiquarians of the North), by Mr. Ljöborg; the "Hundlingar rörande Scandinaviens Historia" (Documents relative to the History of Scandinavia); “Konung Carl X. Gustafs Historia" (History of Charles X. Gustavus, King of Sweden), and "Svensk Plutark" (Swedish Plutarch), by M. Lundblad; " Sveriges Historia för Ungdom" (History of Sweden for the Young), by Mr. Bruzelius; “Berrättelser ur Svenska Historien" (Narrations extracted from the History of Sweden), by Mr. Fryxell; geography, by the "Handbok i Physiska och

Politiska, aldre och nyare Geographien" (Manual of Physical, Political, Ancient, and Modern Geography), by Mr. Palmblad; "Utförligt geographiskt Lexicon" (Detailed Geographical Lexicon), by Mr. Sundler, &c.

[From the same.]

Summary View of Swedish Literature, during the second half of the year 1831.

For the last ten years, say the Swedes, the journals of Europe have paid us but little attention. In general, we have been content that it should be so, seeing that we led a very peaceable life. We have, notwithstanding, been engaged in war, but a war in which nothing has been shed but ink, and pens have taken the place of bayonets and muskets. There are no conspiracies among us; as to revolutions, we have liked better to read of them than to take part in them. Our lawyers alone have been offended by the apathy of the Swedish people.

At the beginning of the second half of 1831, our journals were supplied with two great sources of interest; the cholera and the revolution of Poland. The journalists did their best to frighten the people and the government, by the hideous picture of the ravages of the cholera. Thanks to their indefatigable solicitude, we have had cordons sanitaires, and ordinances of a hundred articles, to preserve us from the plague, whether absent or present. The universal blockade, prescribed by the ordinance, appeared so ridiculous, so impracticable, that the government revoked this extraordinary measure. As to cordons sanitaires, trade has suffered considerably from them, and, in this respect, it would have been much better to have had the cholera near, than at a distance. When it was at Abo, at Hamburg, and in England, the journals did not whisper a syllable of it, and this, because it was no longer the fashion of the day to be alarmed at the Hindoo plague.

The cause of Poland awakened, as it ought, universal sympathy; but the liberal journals, wishing to gratify their readers, published no news except such as came by way of Warsaw. Our official journals contained, it is true, the Russian bulletins; but either they were not read, or were charged with imposture. In a word, it was expected, rather that the Poles would enter St. Petersburg, than that the Russians would enter Warsaw; thus the capitulation of the latter city came like a thunderbolt upon the majority of readers. I knew one individual whom it threw into a fever of several days' continuance.

Soon after began the war of the journals. In the month of September, a book appeared entitled: "Om Ministere och Opposition" (On the Ministry and the Opposition). To tell the truth, the pamphlet took neither one side nor the other, with the exception of the final tirade in which the author entreated the King to throw himself into the arms of his people, and to overthrow the aristocracy. The author wishes the present representation of the four estates, to be abolished, and, in this, he agrees with the