1 46 History. 



The next remarkable production of this kind, 

 which has been still more celebrated than the 

 Athenian Letters 9 is the Travels of Anach arsis, by 

 M. Barthelemi. The models of this learned 

 composition are said to have been the Cyrop&dia, 

 and the Travels of Cyrns ; and the author, we are 

 told, devoted to it the labour of thirty years. Its 

 great merit and singular popularity are well 

 known. The Travels of Antenor, by M. Lantier, 

 in imitation of Barthelemi's work, is, in every 

 respect, inferior to that curious production. 



Besides the various kinds of history which have 

 been mentioned, the eighteenth century produced 

 histories of several Arts, Sciences, and departments 

 of Literature. These, if not peculiar to this pe- 

 riod, have greatly increased, in the course of it* 

 in number, accuracy and value. Of the large list 

 which might be recited, it is proper to notice, 

 with particular respect, the learned and judicious 

 History of Philosophy, by Brucker, abridged and 

 presented in an English dress, by Dr. Enfield; 

 the History of Astronomy, by M. Bailly; the 

 History of Optics and of Electricity, by Dr. Priest- 

 ley; the History of Chemistry, by Boerhaave, 

 Wei glib, and others; the History of Medicine, by 

 Le Clerc and Strengel; the History of English 

 Poetry, by Dr. War ton; the History of Music, 

 by Dr. Burney ; the History of the Law of Nations, 

 by Ward 5 the History of Jacobinism, by the Abbe 

 Bar ruel ; and the history of the Fine Arts, by the 

 Abbe Winckleman, and others. 



The plan of publishing large Collections of State 

 Papers, for historical purposes, though conceived, 

 and in some degree executed, before the com- 

 mencement of the eighteenth century, yet pre-emi- 



talcen the plan of his work from this publication ; but it has since ap- 

 peared that he had never seen the Athenian Letters previous to the com- 

 pletion of his celebrated Travels of Anacbartu. 



