Literary Journals. 291 



Dr. William Wotton; Dr. Jortin; Mr. Samuel Barker, aii(i 

 others. The 1st and 2cl numbers were published in the year 

 1722; the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th, in 1723, and the remainder 

 in 1724. Only ten numbers of the work were published. These 

 are usually bound in one quarto volume, consisting of about 

 500 pages. I consider this to be one of the most valuable 

 Literary Journals I have ; and in consequence of the opinion 

 which the public have of it, it has long been a very scarce and 

 dear book. 



XXII. 1725. " New Memoirs of Literature." The 

 first number of this work appeared in January 1725, and the 

 whole was completed In six volumes 8vo. The full title runs thus, 

 — " New Memoirs of Literature, containing an Account of 

 New Books, printed both at home and abroad, with Dissertar 

 tions upon several Subjects, Miscellaneous Observations, &c." 

 Printed for William and John Innys. The advertisement pre- 

 fixed to the first volume is short and yet sufficiently to the 

 purpose. 



" Though I had no inclination to go on with my Meinoirs of 

 Literature, yet I have resumed them at the desire of Messieurs 

 Innys. 1 shall only observe that I have been desired to take 

 from the Foreign Journals what I think proper to be commu- 

 nicated to the English readers, in order to make this new 

 Journal more universal ; and that whenever I publish an ex- 

 tract, of which I am only the translator, I shall give notice of it." 



April '[2th, 1725. Michael de la Roche. 



These memoirs were published monthly, without interruption, 

 lor three years. Six numbers made a volume, and each volume 

 was concluded by a copious index. The last volume was com- 

 pleted at the end of the year 1727, when the work was discon- 

 tinued in consequence of Messrs. Innys having been engaged 

 by Mr. Andrew Reid to publish a new periodical Journal under 

 the title of " The History of the Republic of Letters." la 

 justice, however, to the memory of Mr. de la Roche, it must be 

 said thai the New Memoirs of Literature appear to have been 



