and Reality of Human Knowledge_, _On
the Folly and Presumption of Philosophers_, _On the Rise and Progress
of Monotheism_, and _On Authority in Matters of Religion_, were first
published in Mallet's faulty edition in 1754,--according to Johnson's
well-known denunciation, "the blunderbuss charged against religion and
morality,"--and subsequently in 1778, 1809 and 1841. _A Collection of
Political Tracts_ by Bolingbroke was published in 1748. His _Letters_
were published by G. Parke in 1798, and by Grimoard, _Lettres
historiques, politiques, philosophiques, &c._, in 1808; for others see
Pope's and Swift's _Correspondence_; W. Coxe's _Walpole_; Phillimore's
_Life of Lyttelton_; _Hardwick State Papers_, vol. ii.; _Marchmont
Papers_, ed. by Sir G.H. Rose (1831); Letters to Lord Chancellor
Hardwicke in _Add. MSS. Brit. Museum_ (see Index, 1894-1899), mostly
transcribed by W. Sichel; _Hist. MSS. Comm., MSS. of Marquis of Bath,
Duke of Portland at Welbeck_; while a further collection of his
letters relating to the treaty of Utrecht is in the British Museum.
For his attempts at verse see Walpole's _Royal and Noble Authors_
(1806), iv. 209 et seq. See also bibliography of his works in Sichel,
ii. 456, 249.

A life of Bolingbroke appeared in his lifetime about 1740, entitled
_Authentic Memoirs_ (in the Grenville Library, Brit. Mus.), which
recounted his escapades; other contemporary accounts were published in
1752 and 1754, and a life by Goldsmith in 1770. Of the more modern
biographies may be noted that in the _Dict. of Nat. Biog._ by Sir
Leslie Stephen, 1897; by C. de Remusat in _L'Angleterre au 18me
siecle_ (1856), vol. i.; by T. Macknight (1863); by J. Churton Collins
(1886); by A. Hassall (1889); and by Walter Sichel (1901-1902),
elaborate and brilliant, but unduly eulogistic. (P. C. Y.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Swift's _Inquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's Last
Ministry_; Mrs Delaney's _Correspondence_, 2 ser., iii. 168.

[2] _Berwick's Mem._ (Petitot), vol. lxvi. 219.

[3] _Hist. MSS. Comm., Portland MSS._ v. 235.

[4] _Stuart MSS._ (Roxburghe Club), ii. 383.

[5] _Hist. MSS. Comm., MSS. of H.M. the King, Stuart Papers_, i. p.
xlviii.

[6] Sichel's _Bolingbroke_, i. 340; _Lockhart Papers_, i. 460;
Macpherson, ii. 529.

[7] _Wentworth Papers_, 408.

[8] _Hist. MSS. Comm., Stuart Papers_, i. 500; Berwick's _Mem_.
(Petitot), v