In a rare copy of this volume now before me, it is attributed by a pencil-note to the editorship of Dr. Philip Hayes, who was organist of Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford, from 1777 to 1797. I should be glad to learn on what authority this could be stated. I am anxious also to know the names of any authors who have published books respecting the life, reign, or times of King William III.?
J. R. B.
Oxford.
[Some of our readers will probably be able to authenticate the editorship of Jenkin Lewis' Memoirs of the Duke of Gloucester. The following works on the reign of William III. may be consulted among others: Walter Harris's History of the Reign of William III., fol., 1749; The History of the Prince of Orange and the Ancient History of Nassau, 8vo., 1688; An Historical Account of the Memorable Actions of the Prince of Orange, 12mo., 1689; History of William III., 3 vols. 8vo., 1702; Life of William III., 18mo., 1702; another, 8vo., 1703; The History of the Life and Reign of William III., Dublin, 4 vols. 12mo., 1747; Vernon's Letters of the Reign of William III., edited by G. P. R. James, 3 vols. 8vo., 1841; Paul Grimbolt's Letters of William III. and Louis XIV. Consult also Watt and Lowndes' Bibliographical Dictionaries, art. William III.; and Catalogue of the London Institution, vol. i. p. 292.]
Apocryphal Works.—Can you inform me where I can procure an English version of the Book of Enoch, so often quoted by Mackay in his admirable work The Progress of the Human Intellect? Also the Epistle of Barnabas, and the Spurious Gospels?
W. S.
Cleveland Bridge, Bath.
[The Book of Enoch, edited by Archbishop Laurence, and printed at Oxford, has passed through several editions.—The Catholic Epistle of St. Barnabas is included among Archbishop Wake's Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers.—"The Spurious Gospels" will probably be found in The Apocryphal New Testament; being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other Pieces now extant, attributed in the first four Centuries to Jesus Christ, his Apostles, and their Companions, and not included in the New Testament by its compilers: London, 8vo., 1820; 2nd edition, 1821. Anonymous, but edited by William Hone.]
Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouché.—Can any of your correspondents tell me which are the best Lives of three of the most remarkable men who figured in the age of the French Revolution, viz. Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouché? If there are English translations of these works? and also if there is any collection of the fierce philippics of Mirabeau?
Kennedy McNab.