rather extraordinary merit and utility. Of the author of
both these treatises, some have extolled his talents to the
skies, others have depreciated them in proportion. His
literary character, however, upon the whole, places him in
the first class of bibliographers. Consult the _Polyhist.
Literar._, vol. i., 175. He was one of the earliest
bibliographers who attacked the depraved taste of the
Italian printers in adopting licentious capital-initial
letters. Catherinot, in his _Art d'imprimer_, p. 3, makes
the same complaint: so Baillet informs us, vol. i., pt. i.,
p. 13, edit. 1725: vol. iii., pt. 1, p. 78. SCHOTTUS'S work,
_de Bibl. claris Hispaniae viris, France_, 1608, 4to., is
forgotten in the splendour of Antonio's similar production;
but it had great merit in its day. _Jugemens des Savans_,
vol. ii., pt. 1, 132, edit. 1725.]

[Footnote 111: BOLDUANUS published a _Theological_ (Jenae,
1614) and _Philosophico Philological_ (Jenae, 1616), as well
as an _Historical_ (Lipsiae, 1620), library; but the latter
work has the pre-eminence. Yet the author lived at too great
a distance, wanting the requisite materials, and took his
account chiefly from the Frankfort catalogues--some of which
were sufficiently erroneous. _Polyhist. Literar._ vol. i.,
199. See also the very excellent historical catalogue,
comprehending the 1st chap. of Meusel's new edition of
Struvius's _Bibl. Histor._, vol. i., p. 26. DRAUDIUS'S work
is more distinguished for its arrangement than for its
execution in detail. It was very useful, however, at the
period when it was published. My edition is of the date of
1611, 4to.: but a second appeared at Frankfort, in 1625,
4to.]

The name of DU CHESNE can never be pronounced by a sensible Frenchman
without emotions of gratitude. His _Bibliotheca Historiarum Galliae_
first published in the year 1627, 8vo.--although more immediately
useful to foreigners than to ourselves, is nevertheless worth
mentioning. Morhof, if I recollect aright, supposes there was a still
later edition; but he probably confused with this work the _Series
Auctorum, &c. de Francorum Historia_;[112] of which two handsome folio
editions were published by Cramoisy. French writers of bibliographical
eminence now begin to crowd fast upon us.

[Footnote 112: The reader will find a good account