1765. Mémoire de M. de C. au Sujet des Poëmes de M. Macpherson. Köln. Cf. infra, pp. 77–8.
An essay throwing doubt upon the authenticity of the poems of Ossian, reprinted from Le Journal des Sçavans, Paris, May–December, 1764. Amsterdam reprint, June–August, October, 1764, and February, 1765.
Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen. Göttingen. i, pp. 129–31: Review of Fingal.
The author of the review is Albrecht von Haller, 1708–77; cp. ibid., 1767, and cf. his Tagebuch (1787); for contents cf. infra, p. 78.
1766. Neues Bremisches Magazin. Bremen. Vol. I, i, pp. 1–54: Fragmente der Alten Dichtkunst in den Hochländern von Schotland, gesammelt und aus dem Englischen übersetzet.
Prose translation of the first sixteen fragments together with Macpherson’s Preface.—A separate reprint of this translation was published in Bremen in the same year. Cf. infra, p. 80.
Briefe über Merkwürdigkeiten der Litteratur. Erste Sammlung. Schleswig und Leipzig. Achter Brief: Memoire eines Irrländers über die ossianischen Gedichte...
An account of the above Mémoire (1765) by Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg.—A reprint of the Schleswigische Litteraturbriefe appeared as No. 29 of the Deutsche Litteraturdenkmale des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts; the notes with regard to the Mémoire are found on pp. 56–7 (cf. also p. lxxii). Cf. infra, pp. 105–6
Review: Neue Bibl. der schönen Wissenschaften, Vol. 3, ii, pp. 308–9 (1767).