[258]. Op. cit. sup., Introduction.
[259]. Halle, in the year named.
[260]. Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1750-58.
[261]. Later, Baumgarten did formally, while admitting metre as a sort of adjunct of “perfection,” provide that a prose work such as Telémaque may be a poem, while verse compositions may not,—the old notion back again.[again.]
[262]. Frankfort: 1750 1st vol., 1758 2nd. It was never finished.
[263]. Anfangsgründe aller schönen Wissenschaften, 3 vols., Halle, 1748-50.
[264]. He is thought to have derived something from Arnold, Versuch und Anleitung zur Poesie der Deutschen (2nd ed., 1741), a book of which I am still in search, while I should like to have rather fuller opportunities than I have yet had of studying Baumgarten himself and some others of the earlier Germans.
[265]. Leipzig, 1771-74, but mostly written much earlier. It was greatly enlarged twenty years later. Blankenberg’s Zusätze came after this in 1796-98, and there are extensive Appendices by others, making 8 vols. (1792-1808).
[266]. This book actually belongs to the nineteenth century, having been published at Berlin in 1803-5 (4 vols.) But Eberhard was then a man over sixty; he had published a Theorie der schönen Künste und Wissenschaften twenty years earlier, and his general position is that of the third quarter of the eighteenth.
[267]. V. sup., ii. [513, note]. First published in 1741, it was constantly reprinted. André was a Jesuit, and his full name was Yves Marc de L’Isle André, whence the rigid virtue of the British Museum insists that he shall be looked for under L.