.'>2 Mr. Parkes's History of 



work was suspended at tlie end of the 12th volume, as this 

 contains only eight parts instead of twelve as heretofore ; the 

 first six months of the year being comprised in two numbers 

 instead of six as formerly ; and, on the back of the general 

 title page of the volume we read an Advertisement, of which 

 the following is a copy : 



'■' The Booksellers who are the Proprietors of this Work 

 thought fit for some considerations, to suspend the publication 

 of it for the last six months, but have now agreed to resume it; 

 and that there may be no chasm in this History of the 

 Works of the Learned, all material books that were pub- 

 lished at home or abroad, during Januari/, February, and 

 March, 1711, will be accounted for in one I2d. book; and 

 those for April, May, and June, in another ; after which, the 

 Work is to be continued monthly, as before." 



I have ascertained that one other number, said to be for 

 January, February, and March, 1712, and purporting to be the 

 commencement of a 14th volume, was published, but whether 

 it was further continued or not, I have no means of knowing. 



XV. 1703. " BiBLiOTHEQUE Choise'e." In this year 

 Daniel Le Clerc began to publish this work, as a supplement 

 to the " Universal Bibliotheque," which he had formerly 

 edited in conjunction with Mr. De La Crose. This work was 

 continued by Le Clerc to the year 1714, and consists of 28 

 volumes 12mo. It was immediately followed by his Biblio- 

 theque Ancienne et Moderne, which extended to the end of 

 the year 1728, in 29 volumes. " These little volumes," says 

 Mr. Chalmers, " contain a great mass of valuable materials, of 

 critical disquisitions and bibliographical notices and memoirs, 

 and well deserve a place in the library of every literary man." 

 The public are indebted to them for the documents from which 

 Dr. Jortin principally composed his Life of Erasmus." 



It may here be proper to state, that in the year 1704, John 

 Dunton commenced a periodical work entitled the " Post 

 Angel," which he says he carried on for 18 months, but whether 

 this was strictly a literary journal or not, I cannot tell, as I 



