"The Catalogue of Books in England alphabetically digested, printed at London, 1658, 4to., is ascribed to Bishop Juxon in Osborne's Catalogue for 1755, p. 40. But, as Mr. Watts, the judicious librarian of Sion College, has observed to me, this is no authority, the Epistle Dedicatory bearing internal evidence against it. The author's name was William London, whence arose the mistake!"
J. Yeowell.
Hoxton.
Dutensiana (Vol. vi., p. 376.; Vol. vii., p. 26.).—The following statement, extracted from Quérard's France Littéraire, sub voce Dutens, will account for the discrepancies mentioned by your correspondents with reference to the works of Louis Dutens.
Dutens published three volumes of Memoirs, which he afterwards committed to the flames, out of consideration for certain living characters. He then published, in three volumes, his Mémoires d'un Voyageur qui se repose, the two first containing the author's life, and the third being the Dutensiana.
Your correspondent W. (Vol. vi., p. 376.) says that Dutens published at Geneva, in six volumes 4to., with prefaces, the entire works of Leibnitz. This statement is thus qualified by the Biographie Universelle:
"L. Dutens est l'Editeur de Leibnitii opera omnia, mais c'est à tort que quelques bibliographes lui attribuent les Institutions Leibnitiennes. Cet ouvrage est de l'Abbé Sigorgne."
The same correspondent inquires whether Dutens was not also the author of Correspondence inteceptée: and Sir W. C. Trevelyan (Vol. vii., p. 26.) says he had seen a presentation copy of it, although it is not included in the list of Dutens' Works given by Lowndes.
This is explained by the fact that the work, originally published under the title of Correspondence interceptée, was afterwards embodied in the Mémoires d'un Voyageur. Lowndes seems to have had no knowledge of it as a separate publication.
Henry H. Breen.