TO PRESENT EDITION. 
so little is known of it at present, that, with the 
exception of the two copies in the valuable Library 
of Mr. Haivkins, there is not, perhaps, another 
in any collection of Great Britain. Although 
they served to throw considerable light upon 
the state of Greece, when that country had been 
little visited by modern travellers, no allusion 
to these two publications has anywhere oc- 
curred. Indeed, so entirely unexpected was 
the communication respecting hem, and so 
great the gratification which the writer of these 
pages felt in perusing tlie pleadings of the rival 
disputants, that it seemed to him as if the two 
authors had been called from their graves to 
talk of the travels they had performed near a 
century and a half ago ; or as if he had, in 
reality, been admitted to a *' dialogue in the 
shades.' A few general observations concern- 
ing the two publications are, however, all that 
the limits of this advertisement will allow. It 
must therefore be sufficient, for the present, 
briefly to state, that if Guillet had the advantage 
in the first instance, by his successful irony, and 
by the address he manifested in ridiculing the 
errors he had detected in Spoil's work, the 
latter finally triumphed, by his greater learning 
and more judicious criticism. He has made out 
a list of one hundred and twelve errors, which 
