5^6 anecdule. ' April i % . 



1790, and left them in property to his four sotT^, or whom 

 the respectable Mr Bernoulli at Berlin is the eldest co-heir, 

 find suggested, that as the whole collection is prepared lor 

 the prefs, if the lovers of natural philosophy and mathe- 

 matics in Britain were to induce any booksellers to under- 

 take publllliing these letters in numbers, by way of speci- 

 men, and trial of their succefs, Mr Bernoulli of Berlin 

 would engage to elucidate the letters with notes liter.iry 

 nnd biographical, and with fac simile of the hand writing 

 r)f the authors ; claiming for his reward no more than one 

 gninea for each (heet of letter prefs, in the first instance^ 

 and more as the undertaking (hould be profitable to the 

 publifliers. 



There are great treasures of a similar nature at Riga, 

 Sreslau, Hamburgh «nd other cities in Germany, which 

 will be indicated hereafter, if these notices (hall attract the 

 attention of the learned and be called for through the me- 

 dium of literary journals. 



ANECDOTE. 

 Tn 1542 (34 Henry viii.) was publi(hed a book of the 

 introduction of knowledge, the which doth teach a man to 

 speak part of all manner of languages, and to know the 

 usage and fafhion of all manner of countries, and for to 

 know the most part of all manner of coins of money, by 

 Andrew Eorde, London, 1542, 4to. dedicated to the lady 

 Mary, daughter of king Henry vui. by an epistle dated at 

 Montpelier, 3d May same year. This book is written 

 partly in verse, and partly iu prose, contained in thirty- 

 nine chapters ; every one of which hath in its beginning the 

 picture of a man, sometimes two or three, printed from a 

 wooden cut. Before the first chapter, which treats of the 

 natural disposition of an Engllfhman, is the picture of a na- 

 ked man, with a piece of cloth lying or. his rijht arm. and 



