t Three is
less than One.--"The Knotty Question Discussed," wherein is
proved that under certain circumstances, Wrong is Right, and
Right is Wrong, by a Casuist of the Sorbonne.--"A New Plan of
the English Possessions in America," with the Limits
_properly_ settled, by Jeffery Amherst, Geographer to his
Britannick Majesty.--"The Theory of Sea-fighting reduced to
Practice," by E. Boscawen, Mariner.--"A Treatise on the
Construction of Bridges," by I. Will, and I. Willnot,
Architects, near the Black-Friars, at Louvain.--"The Spirit of
Treaties," a very Curious Tract, in which is fairly proved,
that absolute Monarchs have a right to explain them in their
own sense, and that limited Princes are tied down to a strict
observance of the letter.--"The Conquest of Hanover by the
French, in the year 1759," a tragi-comic Farce, by a French
officer.--"A Letter of Consolation from the Jesuits in the
Shades, to their afflicted brethren at Lisbon," the second
edition.--"The Fall of Fisher," an excellent new Ballad, by
---- Harvey, Esq.--"The Travels of a Marshal of France, from
the Weser to the Mayne"; shewing how he and 10,000 of his
companions miraculously escaped from the hands of the savage
Germans and English; and how, after inexpressible
difficulties, several hundreds of them got safe to their own
country. Interspersed with several Curious Anecdotes of Rapes,
Murders, and other French Gallantries; by P. L. C., a
Benedictine Monk, of the Order of Saint Bartholomew.'

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FOOTNOTES:

[100:A] Cooper's hammer was of boxwood. Millington applies to his own
the Homeric line, +deine de klange genet' argnreoio bioio+, which anyone
is quite at liberty to believe. James Christie's original hammer is
still in the possession of the firm; Samuel Baker's belongs to Mr. H. B.
Wheatley.

[101:A] In 1686 Millington was selling the library of the deceased Lord
Anglesey. Putting up a copy of 'Eikon Basilike,' there were but few
bidders, and those very low in their biddings. Casually turning over the
pages before bringing the hammer on the rostrum, he read, with evident
surprise, the following note in Lord Anglesey's own handwriting: 'King
Charles the Second and the Duke of York did both (in the last session of
parliament, 1675, when I showed them, in the Lords' House, the written
copy of this book, wherein