122 ROSENGARTEN — FRANKLIN 'S BAGATELLES. LMay 17, 



i. The Levee. 



2. Proposed New Version of the Bible. 



3. Apologue (written, says a footnote, at the period of and in 

 allusion to the claims of the American Royalists on the British 

 Government). 



4. To Miss Georgianna Shipley, dated London, September 26, 

 1772, with an epitaph on her American squirrel. 



5. The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams. 



6. The Ephemera, an Emblem of Human Life (written in 1778, 

 to Mme. Brillon, of Passy). 



7. The Whistle (to Mme. Brillon, Passy, November 10, 1779). 



8. The Petition of the Left Hand. 



9. The Handsome and Deformed Leg. 



10. Morals of Chess. 



11. Conte (with a translation), a Tale. 



12. Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout (dated midnight, 

 October 22, 1780). 



13. To Mme. Helvetius, at Auteuil. 



14. A Madame Helvetius (in French, with a translation into 

 English). 



15. Tres humble Requete Presentee a Madame Helvetius par ses 

 Chats (with translation). 



16. A M. L'Abbe de la Roch, a Auteuil (with translation). 



17. A M. L'Abbe Morellet, Passy (with translation). 



In Vol. 1, p. 410, of The Memoirs of the Life and Writings of 

 Franklin, Philadelphia, 181 8, published by William Duane, is the 

 following from the Introduction to the Life and Works, by his grand- 

 son, William Temple Franklin : " Notwithstanding Dr. Franklin's 

 various and important occupations, he occasionally amused himself 

 in composing and printing, by means of a small set of types and 

 a press he had in his house, several of his light essays, ' Baga- 

 telles,' or jeux d'esprit, written chiefly for the amusement of his 

 intimate friends." Among these were the supplement to the 

 Boston Chronicle of March 17, 1782, which is reprinted ; Franklin, 

 in his letter dated Passy, July 7, 1782, enclosed a copy to his friend 

 Mr. Hutton in London. Clearly Franklin took care that his 

 political satires should be read far beyond the circle of his friends 

 in Paris, and they were spread broadcast in the newspapers. 



Ford, in the Introduction to his Franklin Bibliography, says : 

 i( Sent in 1776 by the Congress to France, his pen was soon at 



