48 Mr. Parkes's History/ of 



this motto, " Epluribus unum." This work has more the cBa- 

 racter of a magazine than a literary journal, but as it contains 

 a monthly account of " news of learning," which includes a 

 list of new books, and of works then in the press, it seemed to 

 deserve a place in this collection *. 



X. 1693. " Memoirs fob the Ingenious, contain- 

 ing several curious observations in philosophy, mathematics, 

 physick, history, philology, and other arts and sciences. 

 In miscellaneous Letters, by J. De la Crose, Eccl. Angl. 

 Presb. To be continued monthly." This work is in small 

 quarto, and the first number was published in January, 1693. 

 London, printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star in Fleet-street, 

 and for J. Harris, at the Harrow in the Poultry, 1693. 



The volume consists of letters to eminent men on literary 

 subjects, with opinions of books ; but the observations appear 

 to have been chiefly confined to the sciences referred to in the 

 title-page, as copied above. The sixth number closes with the 

 following advertisement. " At last I have received something. A 

 very curious paper that was left for me at the Latin Coffee-house. 

 It is a prophetical brass cut of the New Jerusalem ; and not 

 knowing what to do with it, nor how to shew my gratitude to- 

 wards the presenter, I have clapt it on the door of my clo- 

 set, an honour which no almanac ever had. I could wish the 

 ingenious would present the world, by my means, with some- 

 thing more suitable to the design of these Memoirs ; and I am 

 informed they would, were I in a fit state to reward them ; I 

 am sorry I am not in such a condition, for their sake and for 

 mine. Those who shall be so generous as to send me any 

 paper, are desired to direct them to my lodgings in Playhouse- 

 yard, Blackfriars. And I promise them to let 'em appear 



* There was a work entitled " The Gentlemen's Journal," pub- 

 lished in the following year, by Randal Taylor, the first number of which 

 came out on the 23d July, 1693 ; but this must not be included in our list, 

 as it was not a literary journal, but a work of a very different character ; 

 it being merely a periodical descriptive account of all the fortified cities 

 and towns in Europe. 



