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conducted with the same judgment and spirit as the former 

 work : and that the Memoirs of Literature, and the New Me- 

 moirs, making together 14 volumes, are books which every 

 literary man ought to possess. 



The first series of eight volumes contains 597 articles, many 

 of which are reviewed at considerable length ; and not a few of 

 them are works of great curiosity and interest. The latter six 

 volumes (the New Memoirs) comprise 348 articles, besides the 

 account of Books newly printed in the different countries of 

 Europe. Each of these volumes is closed by a well arranged 

 and copious index. 



In my account of the first series of the " Memoirs of Lite- 

 rature," I have hinted at the valuable information which is to 

 be derived from those volumes respecting the life and writings 

 of Michael Servetiis ; it will therefore be proper to apprize the 

 public that many other particulars respecting that great man, 

 were afterwards collected by Mons. de la Roche, and that these 

 Biographical Notices are to be found in the first and sixth 

 volume of the A^ew Memoirs of Literature; particularly "An 

 Account of a very scarce edition of Ptolemy's Geography, pub- 

 lished by Michael Servetus, in the year 1535." This edition 

 was enriched by Servetus, with 50 maps, " each map, accom- 

 panied by an historical description, giving an account of the 

 country and its inhabitants. These descriptions," says La 

 Roche, " seem to be written with a good taste and judgment. 

 The style is clear and concise, and does honour to the author." 

 Some of the accusations, produced by Calvin against Servetus on 

 his trial, were founded upon his publication of this work. If I 

 am not travelling too far out of the path which I had prescribed 

 to myself, I am desirous of observing that Servetus was likewise 

 the editor of an edition of Pagninus's Bible, which he published 

 at Lyons in 1542, with a preface of his own, for which the 

 Bookseller paid him Five Hundred Livres. Both these works 

 are now extremely rare, but the curious inquirer who may hap- 

 pen to be at Paris, will, perhaps, thank me for informing 

 him that both of them may be found in the library of St. 

 Genevieve. 



