Literary Friendships, ii. 55-58.
Literary Impositions, curious anecdotes of, i. 260, 261.
Literary Impostures, i. 132; by Varillas, the French historian, ib.; supposed by Gemelli Carreri, but afterwards discovered to be fact, ib.; Du Halde’s account of China compiled, 133; Damberger’s Travels, ib.; titles of works announced by the historiographer Paschal, his works at his death amounting to six pages, ib.; by Gregorio Leti, ib.; forgeries of Testaments Politiques, ib.; pretended translations, 134; Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, ib.; by Annius Viterbo, ib.; by Joseph Vella, who pretended to have recovered seventeen of the lost books of Livy, 135; by Medina Condé, 136; by George Psalmanazar, ib.; Lauder’s, 137; Ireland’s, ib.; by a learned Hindu, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 138.
Literary Journals, i. 12; originated with the Journal de Sçavans, by Denis de Sallo, counsellor in the Parliament of Paris, 13; Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, published by Bayle in 1684—continued by Bernard, and afterwards by Basnage in his Histoire des Ouvrages de Sçavans, 15; Le Clerc’s Bibliothèques Universelle et Historique, Choisie, and Ancienne et Moderne, ib.; Apostolo Zeno’s Giornale de Litterati d’Italia, ib.; Bibliothèque Germanique, 16; Bibliothèque Britannique, ib.; Journal Britannique by Dr. Maty, ib.; Review conducted by Maty, jun., 16; Mémoire des Trévoux, ib.; Journal Littéraire, ib.; Memoirs of Literature and Present State of the Republic of Letters, the best early English, ib.; monthly, ib.
Lollards, oath against them enforced upon sheriffs until reign of Charles I., iii. [447]; repealed by the political feeling of Coke, ib.
Longolius, or Longueil, composed a biographical parallel between Budæus and Erasmus, iii. [425].
Lorenzo de’ Medici, effect of his death, ii. 436.
Louis the Eighth, singular anecdote of the cause of his death, ii. 32.
Louis the Eleventh, anecdote of, ii. 10, 11.