was drawn
up by Count de Boulainvilliers, and more adroitly than delicately
inserted by Lenglet in his own work. The original manuscript exists
in various copies, which were afterwards discovered. The minuter
corrections, in the Duke de la Valiere's catalogue, furnish a most
enlivening article in the dryness of bibliography.

[151] The last edition, enlarged by Drouet, is in fifteen volumes,
but is not later than 1772. It is still an inestimable manual for
the historical student, as well as his _Tablettes Chronologiques_.

[152] The "Dictionnaire Historique," 1789, in their article Nich. Le
Fevre, notices the third edition of his "Course of Chemistry," that
of 1664, in two volumes; but the present one of Lenglet du Fresnoy's
is more recent, 1751, enlarged into five volumes, two of which
contain his own additions. I have never met with this edition, and
it is wanting at the British Museum. Le Fevre published a tract on
the great cordial of Sir Walter Rawleigh, which may be curious.

[153] This anonymous work of "Memoires de Monsieur l'Abbe Lenglet du
Fresnoy," although the dedication is signed G. P., is written by
Michault, of Dijon, as a presentation copy to Count de Vienne in my
possession proves. Michault is the writer of two volumes of
agreeable "Melanges Historiques et Philologiques;" and the present
is a very curious piece of literary history. The "Dictionnaire
Historique" has compiled the article of Lenglet entirely from this
work; but the _Journal des Scavans_ was too ascetic in this opinion.
_Etoit-ce la peine de faire un livre pour apprendre au public qu'un
homme de lettres fut espion, escroc, bizarre, fougueux, cynique,
incapable d'amitie, de soumission aux loix? &c._ Yet they do not
pretend that the bibliography of Lenglet du Fresnoy is at all
deficient in curiosity.

THE DICTIONARY OF TREVOUX.

A learned friend, in his very agreeable "Trimestre, or a Three Months'
Journey in France and Switzerland," could not pass through the small
town of Trevoux without a literary association of ideas which should
accompany every man of letters in his tours, abroad or at home. A mind
well-informed cannot travel without discovering that there are objects
constantly presenting themselves, which _suggest_ literary, historical,
and moral facts. My friend writes, "As you proceed nearer to Lyons you
stop to din