eulogies, who will
refuse this author's "_Avis pour dresser une Bibliotheque_,
Paris, 1627, 1644, 8vo." a place upon his shelf? Unluckily,
it rarely comes across the search of the keenest collector.
The other, yet scarcer, productions of Naude will be found
well described in Vogt's _Catalog. Libror. Rarior._, p. 610.
The reader of ancient politics may rejoice in the possession
of what is called, the "_Mascurat_"--and "_Considerations
politiques_"--concerning which Vogt is gloriously diffuse;
and Peignot (who has copied from him, without
acknowledgement--_Bibliogr. Curieuse_, pp. 49, 50,) may as
well be consulted. But the bibliographer will prefer the
"_Additions a l'Histoire de Louis XI._," 1630, 8vo., and
agree with Mailchelius that a work so uncommon and so
curious "ought to be reprinted." See the latter's amusing
little book "_De Praecipuis Bibliothecis Parisiensibus_," pp.
66, 67, &c. Naudaeus was librarian to the famous Cardinal
Mazarin, the great Maecenas of his day; whose library,
consisting of upwards of forty thousand volumes, was the
most beautiful and extensive one which France had then ever
seen. Its enthusiastic librarian, whom I must be allowed to
call a very wonderful bibliomaniac, made constant journeys,
and entered into a perpetual correspondence, relating to
books and literary curiosities. He died at Abbeville in
1653, in his 53rd year, on returning from Sweden, where the
famous Christian had invited him. Naudaeus's "_Avis, &c._",
[ut supr.] was translated by Chaline; but his "_Avis a
Nosseigneurs du Parlement, &c._" 1652, 4to.--upon the sale
of the Cardinal's library--and his "_Remise de la
Bihliotheque_ [Transcriber's Note: Bibliotheque] [Du
Cardinal] _entre le mains de M. Tubeuf_, 1651," are much
scarcer productions. A few of these particulars are gathered
from Peignot's _Dict. de la Bibliolologie_ [Transcriber's
Note: Bibliologie], vol. ii., p. 1--consult also his _Dict.
Portatif de Bibliographie_, p. v. In the former work I
expected a copious piece of biography; yet, short as it is,
Peignot has subjoined a curious note from Naude's
"_Considerations politiques_"--in which the author had the
hardihood to defend the massacre upon St. Bartholomew's day,
by one of the strangest modes of reasoning ever adopte