de Charrière was critical of Huber's very literal translations and helped him improve his writing style. They also collaborated on a translation of Huber's into French, as Huber was dissatisfied with the existing one by Jean Nicolas Étienne de Bock, but this project was never finished. Some of her works were published in German in Huber's translations before they were published in French. Other important contacts for Huber were Rougemont and de Charrière's friend Benjamin Constant. Two more children were born in Bôle, Sophie and Emanuel, but both died young. Huber resumed reviewing for the , where his critiques of Friedrich Schlegel and other Romantic authors caused a literary scandal and quarrels with Schlegel. In 1796, Huber reviewed de Sade's novel Justine for Usteri's journal . In his widely read and extensive text, (About a Peculiar Book), Huber did not merely regard the book as pornographic, but considered the book to be significant because of the principles it was based on. He saw it not just as a literary phenomenon, but attempted to use it to understand the revolutionary history, and he used the revolutionary context to explain the book's great commercial success. Huber read as a parable on the philosophy of the French Revolution, and compared the excesses in the book with those of revolutionary terror. The review is slightly ambiguous in whether represents a revolutionary or a counter-revolutionary spirit. It is the only one of Huber's reviews in which he considers the social and historical context of a literary work, and has been described as a masterpiece of literary criticism. Journalist in Germany For the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta, Huber had edited and contributed to the monthly journal Flora since 1794. When Cotta started a political daily newspaper, the in 1798, he soon offered Huber the position of assistant editor. This brought financial stability, and Huber moved to Tübingen in March 1798, with his family following in May. For reasons related to censorship, Cotta moved the newspaper office to Stuttgart, where it appeared as Allgemeine Zeitung from September 1798. Huber became editor in chief and moved to Stuttgart followed by his family. In October, his daughter Adele was born, followed on 10 March 1800 by Victor Aimé Huber, his only son to survive him. In October 1800, Huber's mother died, and the following year, his father Michael Huber came to Stuttgart to visit the family. In July 1801,