Editions, fay the Revisors, as if the Kings of thofe Countries made no figure in History. Those omiffions have been fupplied. Some famous Orders and Religious Congregations had been forgotten in the Edition of 1718; and what was faid of many others, had been tranfcribed from unexact Writers. Thofe Articles are rectified in the new Edition. The Hiftory of Men eminent for their Learning is confiderably enlarged; efpecially as to the learned Men of Portugal, moft of which had been omitted in the former Editions. The Memoirs for thofe Articles have been taken from a Portuguefe Bibliotheque, which a Writer of that Country will fhortly publifh. The Genealogies of the fovereign Houfes and illuftrious Families of Europe have been rectified; and many of Spain, Portugal, England, Italy and France have been added in the prefent Edition. II. The Babillard (the Babbler) of Mr. De Boifi is come out. That Comedy in verse has had a good fuccefs. III. An important Book relating to Religion and natural Philofophy has been lately printed. It is entitled: The existence of God demonftrated by the wonders of Nature. That excellent Work was written in Dutch by Dr. Nieuwentyt a celebrated Physician. The French tranflation of that Book has a great fale. It contains a Philofophy grounded upon a vaft number of obfervations, and not upon vain notions, like those of fome modern Systems. In quarto. That Work has been tranflated into French from the English Verfion. IV. The IV. The Edition of the Works of Origen will fhortly come out. V. All the Latin Authors in ufum Delphini are to be reprinted. Ufeful alterations will be made in fome Notes. VI. A Pamphlet is juft come out, intitled, A Letter of a Profeffor of the University to Mr. *** about Father Hardouin's Pliny. VII. Two Bookfellers are printing The Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of the XV, XVI, and XVII Centuries, with the beginning of the XVIII, as far as 1725, in 14 Volumes in 12°. and in 4°. The two first Volumes, to be fhortly published, contain the Hiftory of the Councils of Pifa, Conftance, Bafil and Florence. VIII. We expect a Critique upon Mr. Bayle's Dictionary. IX. Mr. De fuffieu has printed a new Edition of Mr. Tournefort's Hiftory of thofe Plants that grow about Paris. Hiftoire des Plantes, qui naiffent aux environs de Paris: avec leur ufage dans la Medecine. Par M. Pitton Tournefort, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Seconde Edition, revue & augmentée. Paris. 1725. Two Volumes in 12o. The Editor has made a great many confide rable additions to that Work. It were to be withed that this new Edition was as fairly printed and as correct as the firft. Mr. X. Mr. Noblot has put out an Hiftorical Geography. Geographie univerfelle, Hiftorique & Chronologique, ancienne & moderne, &c. Par. M. Noblot. Paris. 1725. Six Volumes in 12°. (1fball give an account of that Work, as foon as it comes to my bands.) XI. They are reprinting Father Daniel's Abridgment of his Hiftory of France. The firft Edition of that Work, which came out lately, confifts of nine Volumes in 12°. The fecond will be printed in fix Volumes in quarto.. In this Abridgment, the facts are connected together, the chief perfons characterized, the different interefts unfolded, important negotiations and great events fufficiently defcribed; fo that the reading of this Work will afford a notion of the Government of this Monarchy, of the manners of the Nation, and of the different alterations that have happened in thofe two things, the knowledge whereof is the main advantage arifing from Hiftory. H LOND ON. ERE follows the Title of a Book to be printed. Firma Burgi: or an Hiftorical Effay concerning the Cities, Towns and Boroughs of England. Taken from Records. By Thomas Maddox, Efq; His Majefty's Hiftoriographer. That important Work will be printed for R. Gofling at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, where a fpecimen of it may be seen. I ADVERTISEMENT. HAVE thought fit to inform thofe Gentlemen, who have the firft Edition of the former Memoirs of Literature, that the second Edition of that Journal is exactly the fame as the firft, excepting an Account of Servetus's Bible, fent to me from Paris, after I had left off writing that Work, and a fmall Addition to the Hiftory of Nicolas Anthoine's Life, with a short Extract of two old Books. It appears by this account that thofe Additions are but few, and not very confiderable, abating the firft. If I have not quoted the first Edition, as well as the fecond, in this new Journal, 'tis becaufe I have no Copy of it. The few Tables of that Edition are fo large and fo particular, that one may eafily find in it any thing referred to in thefe New Memoirs of Literature. If I can get a Copy of the first Edition of the old Journal, I fhall quote both Editions, when there is occafion to refer the Readers to that Journal. I fhall occafionally obferve, that there are Journals of Literature in all the learned Countries beyond Sea; and therefore I think it is very proper, we should have one of our own. THE (j) THE INDEX. A Dvertisement, Page 460. Alberti (John), Philological Obferva- 60 Teftament, 253 149 Anfelme's Genealogical Hiftory of the House of Appian, his character, 248 13 164 Arbutus, a defcription of that fhrub, Arfacidarum Imperium, &c. Attorney (An) and his wife. ΙΙΟ 401 A story about their going to confess their fins, 416 Avilla, an admirable virtue of that plant, 293 times, 448 |