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aussi malheureuse; et en philosophie que nos pro- 
eres sont lent. Hélas! l'art est longue et la vie 
est courte.* Mes amis voudroient me consoler 
par Tidée d'un nom qu’ils disent que je laisserai 
apres moi; ils disent que j’ai assez vécu pour la 
gloire et pour la nature; mais que sera la ré- 
nommée pour un éphémére qui n’existera plus ? 
histoire que deviendra-t-elle lorsqu’s la 18ieme 
heure, le monde lui-méme, le Moulin Joly tout 
entier sera arrivé 4 sa fin pour n’étre plus q’un 
amas de ruines ?’ 
“ Pour moi, aprés tant de recherches actives, il 
ne reste de bien réels que la satisfaction d’avoir 
passé ma vie dans l’intention d’étre utile, la con- 
versation aimable d’un petit nombre de bonnes 
dames éphéméres, et, de tems en tems, le doux 
sourire et quelques accords de la toujours aimable 
Brillante.” 
BAYLE AND HIS CONTINUERS. 
I saw your notice to a correspondent (24 §, 
i. p. 264.) on the very day on which I chanced to 
look into D’Israeli for another purpose, and I 
was struck by the account which D'Israeli gives 
of the Nouvelles de la République des Lettres. He 
tells us that Bayle abandoned this work in 1687, 
having commenced it in 1684, and published 
thirty-six volumes (months would be more accu- 
rate); that Bernard continued it with inferior 
skill, and Basnage with more success, in his His- 
toire des Ouvrages des Scavans. The odds are that 
D’Israeli means James Basnage, the author of the 
Jewish History; and not, as he ought to have 
meant, Basnage de Beauval, his brother. Mor- 
hof makes James Bernhard a continuer of Bayle’s 
Nouvelles §c., and sets down the Ouvrages des 
Scavans as a distinct work. Brunet, in his first 
edition, makes Roque and Barrin the immediate 
continuers of Bayle, and J. Bernard and J. Le 
Clere their successors. Various bibliographers 
make Bayle go on much longer than 1687. 
An old note, of which I neglected to mark the 
source, states that Bayle, having conducted the 
work three years, resigned it in 1687 to Beauval ; 
who shortly afterwards gave it up to Buys, by 
whom it was continued until 1709. This note 
gives, as I find, a correct account. The Preface 
of the Histoire §c., acknowledges itself as the 
continuation of the Nouvelles, gives an account of 
the change of name, and announces the retirement 
of Bayle. The title-page bears, as editor, ** Mons. 
Be", Doeteur en Droit,” which, though not 
giving stars enough for either Basnage or Beau- 
val, has as many as the line will hold. Perhaps 
it was thought desirable to use a number of stars 
which might indicate Bayle. It took the name of 
Beauval’s journal, by which Chauffepié, for in- 
stance, designates it when referring to a period 
* Hippocrate. 
long after that at which Beauval had left it. He 
continued as B**** until September, 1690; when 
one star disappeared, and the editor became B***, 
which continued until 1709, when the work ceased. 
The number of stars now corresponds to the name 
of Buys: but this alone is inconclusive, since the 
previous number did not correspond to Beauval. 
But whereas B*** is only Doctor of Laws up to 
1705, he becomes also Fellow of the Royal Society 
in the first title-page of 1706. On looking into 
the list of Fellows of the Royal Society, I find 
that “ Mr. Buys, Esq., of Holland,” was elected 
in February, 1706. 
There is reason to suspect that Bayle, though 
he abandoned the active duties of editorship in 
1687, continued some assistance and superin- 
tendence even up to his death in 1706. That he 
contributed, up to 1704 at least, is certain: and 
it is also certain, that on the death of Bayle 
(December 28, 1706), the journal expired. It was 
not published during the whole of the year 1707. 
The trimestrial number for the first quarter of 
1708 appeared with B*** in the title-page, and 
an advertisement to the effect that the editor had 
been ¢rop occupé par un autre ouvrage. We may 
safely conclude that, at Bayle’s death, the work 
dropped as a matter of course, and that the revi- 
vification was an afterthought. 
Morhof, who is perfectly correct in the few 
words he says on the Histoire §c., affirms that 
the Nouvelles §c., were continued up to 1718 by 
Bernhard: and others make the same statement. 
Will some one give a distinct account of the con- 
tinuation of the Nouvelles §c. 2 I suppose Bayle’s 
volumes (1684-87) are always considered as be- 
longing to the continuation under the same name. 
But I think it appears above that it would pro- 
bably be more correct to join these first volumes — 
to the Histoire &c.: unless indeed the universal 
critic can be shown to have given as much aid 
and countenance to Bernhard, or whoever else it 
was, as to Beauval and Buys. 
It seems so likely that D'Israeli confused one 
Basnage with another, that it may be worth while 
to remind your readers that three of the name 
were known in literature at one time —James de 
Franquenei the Basnage, Henry de Beauval his 
brother, best known as editor of the Histoire Sc. ; 
and Samuel de Flottemanville (another brother ?), 
who wrote against Baronius in 1692. Are there 
any more ? A. Dr Morean. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY, 
Instructions to Judges. — The instructions given 
by James II. to the judges, before they set out 
upon their circuits in the summer of 1688 (re- 
ferred to by Macaulay, vol. ii. p. 419.), are printed, 
from a copy amongst the Tanner MSS., in Gutch’s 
Collectanea Curiosa (vol. i. p. 391.). Two addi- 
