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du pays, <fc la descente de St. Louis a
Damiette, tiree de Joinville & les Auteurs
Arabes, avec des Cartes Geographiques. par
M. Savary. Tome Premier. Nouvelle edition
soigneusement corrigee. A Amsterdam, Leide L
J'otterdam, et Utrechte. Chez les Libraires
Associes. 178S." Duodecimo. I., viii + 1-
339 ; II., 1-252 ; III., 1-248 pp.
There was a later French version, which ] have seen :
" Lettres sur 1'Egypte ; oil 1'on offre le paralldle des mffiurs anciennes et modernes de ses habi- tans .... Nouvelle 6dition. Paris, 1798." 3 vols. 8vo.
The translation listed above is given to
Holoroft in the ' Memoirs ' (p. 107), but I
have seen no other attribution.
In the British Museum Catalogue is :
- ' Letters on Egypt, containing, A Parallel
between the Manners of its ancient and modern Inhabitants, its Commerce, Agriculture, Govern- ment, and Religion ; with The Descent of Louis IX. at Damietta, extracted from Join- ville, and Arabian authors. In two volumes. Second edition. Vol. I. London : Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row. MDCCLXXXVII." Octavo. L, 4+i-xii+ 1-467 ; II., 4+1-490 + 14 [index] pp.
But there is no indication of the translator's identity.
I have seen a copy of the Irish edition: " Dublin, Printed for Luke White, Dame- Street, and P. Byrne, Graf ton-Street, 1787." 2 vols. 8vo.
In The Town and Country Magazine for February, 1787 (19: 71), is a simple notice:
- ' Letters on Egypt by Mr. Savary."
"Whether this second notice in the same magazine refers to the second edition or was merely a bit of advertising the publishers of the book and the magazine were the same I cannot tell.
In the same magazine for December, 1788 <20: 560), I find :
- ' Letters on Greece ; being a sequel to Letters
on Egypt. Translated from the French of
M. Savary. 8vo. 6a. Robinson's."
From the same publisher, by the same author, and admittedly a sequel, there is the possibility of Holcroft's being the trans- lator of this also. But I am not yet pre- pared to say. Notes from readers will be greatly appreciated.
The French original of this is " Lettres sur la Grece, faisant suite de celles sur 1'Egypte. Par Monsieur Savary " (8vo, 362 pp., Paris, 1788), which was noticed in The English Review for August, 1788 (12: 140).
The same magazine gives indication of two (list inct translations, reviewed in Novem- ber of the same year (12: 341) :
- ' tetters on Greece ; being the Sequel of Letters
on Egypt. Illustrated with a Map of the
Grecian Islands in the Archipelago, and of
Part of Asia Minor ; and with a Draught of
the Cretan Labyrinth. By M. Savary. Trans-
lated from the French. 8vo. 6s. Elliot <fe Co.
London, 1788."
" Letters on Greece ; being a Sequel to Letters on Egypt, and containing Travels through Rhodes, Crete, and other Islands of the Archipelago ; with Comparative Remarks on their ancient and present State, and Observations on the Government, Character, and Manners of the Turks and Modern Greeks. Translated from the French of M. Savary. 8vo. 7s. Robin- sons. London. 1788." (London : Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. M DCCT-XXXVTII. Octavo. L, p.l.+2 [title] + 1-407+8 [index] pp. British Museum, 1047. c. 22.) Extracts from the ' Letters on Egypt '
appeared in 'The Annual Register' for 1786
(pp. 97-106, 118-27).
ELBRIDGE COLBY. Columbia University, New York City.
( To be continued.)
THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN. By a
strange sort of coincidence, on 29 Aug., the
day on which the news of the sack of Louvain
appeared in the English papers, I was looking
among my books to see if I could add to
the Calendar of Incunabula which has been
printed by Dr. Ernst Crous in the new
volume of the Transactions of the Biblio-
graphical Society. I found a very beautiful
copy of Werner Rolewinck's ' Fasciculus
Temporum,' bound by the late Robert
Riviere after a Grolier pattern. On turning
to the colophon, I read, " Impressa est hoec
praesens Cronica . . . . in florentissima uni-
versitate Lovaniensi." It was, in fact, the
edition of 1476, printed by John Veltener at
Louvain, where, in the far more civilized days
of the fifteenth century, he had established his
press. We have now to face the fact that, in
an age that some people have the rashness
to consider more enlightened than that in
which John Veltener worked at his press,
nothing remains of the once flourishing
Universitv of Louvain but a few books in
scattered 'libraries. W. F. PBIDEAUX.
LOUVAIN LIBRARY : IRISH MSS. IN DUB- UN. The following appeared in The Daily Telegraph of the 1st inst. :
" There was one deed the German incendiaries could not do at Louvain. They could not destroy the beautiful Celtic manuscripts belonging x> the Irish College, for the simple reason that
- hey were no longer there. About forty years
ago these were removed to the Franciscan Con- vent of St. Isidore, at Rome, and shortly after- wards sent to the convent of the same name in
