Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften und der freyen Künste. Leipzig. Vol. 27, i, pp. 146–7: Review of Shaw’s Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems ascribed to Ossian, London, 1781, and of John Clark’s Answer to Mr. Shaw’s Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems ascribed to Ossian, Edinburgh, 1781.
Fingal in Lochlin. Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen. Nach Ossian. Dessau.
A dramatization in prose with several lyric passages in verse based upon the story in Fingal, Book iii, p. 236, 16–p. 238, l. 5, and upon Cath–Loda, while an episode in Act iii, 3, is based upon Carric–Thura (Fingal’s battle with the Spirit of Loda). The drama was reprinted in Vol. 272 of the Deutsche Schaubühne, Wien. Another edition appeared in 1787, e. g. Gurlitt (1802, April 9, p. 8), Nicolai (1877) and others give the date of the first appearance as 1783, which is incorrect. The author of this and the drama Inamorulla (1783) is Karl Heinrich Wachsmuth, born 1760.
Review: Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen, 1782, ii, pp. 1245–6.
Wienerischer Musenalmanach auf das Jahr 1782. Wien, pp. 141–51: Das Grabmahl in Caracthuna. 1781. von Joseph Blodig v. Sternfeld.
A free invention in the Ossianic style.
Die Lieder Sineds des Barden ... von M. Denis ... Wien. Cf. 1772.
1783. Works of Ossian. 4 vols. Francfort and Leipzig.
Edited by Merck; cf. 1st ed., 1777. This edition contains Clark’s Answer to Shaw’s Inquiry (for a review of which cf. Bibl. der schönen Wissenschaften, 1782), as well as Macpherson’s Dissertation concerning the Aera of Ossian in Vol. 1. At the end of the fourth volume an Alphabetical Index of Names and Things is given, the specimen of Temora’s original added to the English edition being omitted.