EN JONSON, FELTHAM, AND RANDOLPH 381

ARIOSTO AND TASSO 386

BAYLE 391

CERVANTES 394

MAGLIABECHI 394

ABRIDGERS 397

PROFESSORS OF PLAGIARISM AND OBSCURITY 400

LITERARY DUTCH 403

THE PRODUCTIONS OF THE MIND NOT SEIZABLE BY CREDITORS 405

CRITICS 406

ANECDOTES OF CENSURED AUTHORS 408

VIRGINITY 412

A GLANCE INTO THE FRENCH ACADEMY 413

POETICAL AND GRAMMATICAL DEATHS 417

SCARRON 421

PETER CORNEILLE 428

POETS 432

ROMANCES 442

THE ASTREA 451

POETS LAUREAT 454

ANGELO POLITIAN 456

ORIGINAL LETTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH 460

ANNE BULLEN 461

JAMES THE FIRST 462

GENERAL MONK AND HIS WIFE 468

PHILIP AND MARY 469

CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.

LIBRARIES.

The passion for forming vast collections of books has necessarily
existed in all periods of human curiosity; but long it required regal
munificence to found a national library. It is only since the art of
multiplying the productions of the mind has been discovered, that men of
letters themselves have been enabled to rival this imperial and
patriotic honour. The taste for books, so rare before the fifteenth
century, has gradually become general only within these