CHAPTER II. HOLBACH'S WORKS.
Holbach's published works, with the exception of a few scattered ones, may be divided into three classes, viz., translations of German scientific works, translations of English deistical writings, and his own works on theology, philosophy, politics and morals. Those which fall into none of these categories can be dealt with very summarily. They are:
1. Two pamphlets on the musical dispute of 1752; Lettre à une dame d'un certain âge sur l'état présent de l'Opéra, (8vo, pp. 11) and Arrêt rendu à l'amphithéâtre de l'Opéra, (8vo, pp. 16,) both directed against French music and in line with Grimm's Petit Prophète and Rousseau's Lettre sur la musique française.
2. A translation in prose of Akenside's The Pleasures of Imagination (Paris, 1759, 8vo).
3. A translation of Swift's History of the Reign of Queen Anne in collaboration with M. Eidous (Amsterdam, 1765, 12mo, pp. xxiv + 416).
4. Translations of an Ode on Human Life and a Hymn to the Sun in the Variétés littéraires (1768).
5. Articles on natural science in the Encyclopédie and article Prononciation des langues in the Dictionnaire de Grammaire of the Encyclopédie méthodique.
6. Translation of Wallerius' Agriculture reduced to its true principles (Paris, 1774, 12mo).
7. Two Facéties philosophiques published in Grimm's Correspondence Littéraire. L'Abbé et le Rabbin, and Essai sur l'art de ramper, à l'usage des courtisans.
8. Parts of Raynal's Histoire philosophique des deux Indes.