LISCOV, CHRISTIAN LUDWIG, born at Wittenberg in 1701, although very little known in this country, still ranks high in Germany for his satirical writings, which in their caustic irony show their author to have had a congenial turn of mind with Swift. Very few particu lars of his life have been recorded, further than that about the year 1739 he was private tutor at Lubeck, where a pedant named Sievers was the first who fell under the castigation of his pen. After this ho became private secretary to Oelseimenrath von Biome, from which time nothing can be traced respecting him till he entered the service of Von Ileinecker at Dresden. Under this accomplished and generous patron he might have passed his day. in tranquillity, had not his love of ridicule prevailed over his prudence. Having offended the English minister at that court by some sarcasms, he drew upon himself the resentment of the all-powerful Count Bruhl, who canoed him to be rent as a state-prisoner to Eilenburg, where he died shortly after, October 30th, 1760. Some however have questioned the truth of his having been in confinement.
Posterity has been more just to Liscov'a merits than were his con temperance. His satire was directed only against presumption and folly, and was besides far more general thou personal, certainly impar tial, and without any respect to persona, for a powerful offender was in his eyes no more than the meanest. That he possessed no ordinary ability for politics may well be conceived when we find Pott, tho editor of a posthumous pork of hie, saying that had Count Bruhl listened to Liecov's advice, Germany would have been spared the Seven Years' War. The first complete edition of his works was pub lished by Kriegrath 3Itichler, in 3 vols. 8vo, Berlin, 1806. Of several of these pieces the titles will convey some notion of the subjects: ' On the Excellence and Usefulness of Bad Writers ;" On the Uselesa nem of Good Works towards Salvation ; ' and the' Inaugural Diacouree of the learned J. E. I'., &c., at the Academy of Small Wita ; together with the Reply of that eminent Society.' Limey's own Apology for Ids satirical attacks is admirable.