ot seen, is stated to contain some remarks on
Polo's Book. The author had intended to write a Commentary thereon, and had
collected books and copies of MSS. with this view, and read an article on
the subject before the Academy of Padua, but did not live to fulfil his
intention (d. 1797).

[See _Cicogna_, II. p. 386; vi. p. 855.]

12. LESSING. _Marco Polo, aus einer Handschrift ergaenzt, und aus einer
andern sehr zu verbessern: (Zur Geschichte und Litteratur_ ... von G.E.
Lessing. II. _Beytrag_. Braunschweig, 1773, 8vo, pp. 259-298.)

13. FORSTER, J. REINHOLD. _H. des Decouvertes et des Voyages faits dans le
Nord_. French Version. Paris, 1788.

14. SPRENGEL, MATHIAS CHRISTIAN. _Geschichte der wichtigsten geographischen
Entdeckungen_ &c. 2nd Ed. Halle, 1792.

This book, which is a marvel for the quantity of interesting matter which
it contains in small space, has much about Polo.

15. ZURLA, Abate PLACIDO. Life of Polo, in _Collezione di Vite e Ritratti
d'Illustri Italiani_. Padova, 1816.

This book is said to have procured a Cardinal's Hat for the author. It is a
respectable book, and Zurla's exertions in behalf of the credit of his
countrymen are greatly to be commended, though the reward seems
inappropriate.

16. ----, ----. _Dissertazioni di Marco Polo e degli altri Viaggiatori
Veneziani_, &c. Venezia, 1818-19, 4to.

17. 18, 19. QUARTERLY REVIEW, vol. xxi. (1819), contains an Article on
Marsden's Edition, written by John Barrow, Esq.; that for July, 1868,
contains another on Marco Polo and his Recent Editors, written by the
present Editor; and that for Jan. 1872, one on the First Edition of this
work, by R.H. Major, Esq.

20. ASIA, _Hist. Account of Discovery and Travels in_. By HUGH MURRAY
Edinburgh, 1820.

21. STEIN, C.G.D. Rede des Herrn Professor Dr. Christian Gottfried Daniel
Stein. (Gesprochen den 29sten September, 1819.) _Ueber den Venetianer Marco
Polo_. Pages 8-19 of _Einladung zur Gedaechtniszfeier der Wohlthater des
Berlinisch-Koellnischen Gymnasiums_ ... von dem Direktor Johann Joachim
Bellermann. Sm. 8vo, s.d. [1821].

22. KLAPROTH, JULIUS. A variety of most interesting articles in the
_Journal Asiatique_ (see ser. I. tom. iv., tom. ix.; ser. II. tom. i. tom.
xi. etc.), and in his _Memoires Relatifs a l'Asie_. Paris, 1824.

Klaproth speaks more than once as if he had a complete Commentary on Marco
Polo prepared or in preparation (e.g., see _J. As._, ser. i. tom. iv. p.
380). But the examin