This judicious work was published in German, at Jena, in 1727: Stoll has made ample use of preceding writers in the different branches of literary history, to the time in which he wrote. "It contains, in a concise and perspicuous arrangement, an outline of the best critical and philological publications in almost every department of philosophy and literature." Dibdin's Intro. to the Classics, vol. I. p. xi.

STRUVII (BURCARDI GOTTHELFII.)-Bibliotheca Historiæ litterariæ selectæ, post variorum emendationes et additamenta, opus ita formavit, ut ferè novum dici queat, Joannes Fridericus Jugler. Jenæ, 1754-1763. 3 vols. 8vo.

Supplementa et emendationes ad Bibliothecam litterariam Struvio-Juglerianam, edidit Her. F. Koecher, Jenæ, 1785, 8vo.

STRUVII (B. G.)-Introductio in notitiam rei litterariæ et usum bibliothecarum, 8vo, 5th edit. Frankfort and Leipsic, 1729, in 8vo. A sixth edition of the same work was published at Frankfort by J. C. Fischer, in 1754, 2 vols. 8vo.

Struvius was professor of law at the University of Jena, and one of the most indefatigable writers of his day. Beside the above-mentioned works, he published several others relative to law, antiquities and history; he is most known by his Bibliotheca Historica Selecta, a bibliography of historical writers, of which a new and very greatly enlarged edition is in progress, under the auspices of M. Meusel. Eleven volumes 8vo, in 22 parts, have already appeared at Leipsic, (1782-1804); and the work will be completed in thirty or thirty-six volumes.

SECTION II. LITERARY HISTORY IN PARTICULAR.

§ 1. Writers on British Literary History.

AIKIN.-The Lives of John Selden, Esq. and Archbishop Usher, with notices of the principal English Men of Letters, with whom they were connected. By John Aikin, M.D. 8vo, London, 1812.

BALE.-Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Britanniæ, quam nunc Angliam et Scotiam vocant, Catalogus, a Japheto per 3618 annos usque ad A.D. 1557. In quo antiquitates, origines, annales, loca, successus, celebrioraque cujusque scriptoris, facta, recensentur. Auctore Joanne Baleo, folio. Basileæ, 1557, apud Joannem Oporinum.

The work is com

This first edition contained only nine centuries of writers; a second was published at Basil in 1559, with five additional centuries, making in the whole fourteen. Bale was Bishop of Ossory, in Ireland; where his zeal against popery exposed him to considerable personal danger. He escaped from Dublin with difficulty, and during the reign of Mary he resided abroad: on the accession of Elizabeth, he returned to England, and was appointed one of the Prebends of Canterbury, where he died in 1563. piled from various authors, but chiefly from the labours of the eminent antiquarian John Leland (see page 427, infra.) Though it must be admitted that Bale's "intemperate zeal often carried him beyond the bounds of decency and candour in his accounts of the papists," yet, his sufferings may furnish some apology for his acrimony: with considerable allowances for the strong bias of party zeal, his biographical work may still be read with advantage. Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. I. p. 139 (4th edit.) Aikin's Gen. Biog. vol, I. p. 541.

BALLARD.-Memoirs of several Ladies of Great Britain, who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages, arts, or sciences. By George Ballard. 4to. London, 1752. (Reprinted in 8vo, in 1775.)

Mr. Ballard was an extraordinary person: being of a weakly constitution, his parents placed him in the shop of a staymaker, and in this situation he acquired a knowledge of Saxon literature. The time appropriated to this purpose was stolen from sleep after the labour of the day was over. Lord Chedworth, and the gentlemen of his hunt, who used annually to spend a month during the season at Campden, Gloucestershire, (the place of his nativity and residence,) hearing of his fame, generously offered him an annuity of 1001., but he modestly told them that sixty pounds were fully sufficient to satisfy both his wants and his wishes. On this he retired to Oxford, for the benefit of the Bodleian Library and Dr. Jenner, the president, appointed him one of the eight clerks of Magdalen College. He was afterwards chosen one of the university beadles, and in consequence of his too intense application to literature, he closed a short life of study in June, 1755. A large collection of his epistolary correspondence is preserved in the Bodleian Library. Mr. Ballard published only the "Memoirs" above-mentioned; it is a work of great research and entertainment (Nichol's Lit. An. vol. II. pp. 466-470.) and comprises notices of the lives and writings of sixty-two Ladies, chronologically arranged, from the fourteenth century to his own time.

BERKENHOUT.-Biographia Literaria; or, a Biographical History of Literature: containing the Lives of Scottish, English and Irish Authors, from the dawn of letters in these kingdoms, to the present time. Chronologically and classically arranged. Vol. I. from the beginning of the fifth to the end of the sixteenth cen

tury. By John Berkenhout, M.D. 4to, London, 1777.

Three more volumes were designed to complete this useful work, which, from some circumstance or other, have never been published. It is divided into nine parts, including the lives of authors, in the following order :-Historians, Divines, Lawyers, Poets, Philosophers and Mathematicians; Grammarians, Politicians, Travellers and Miscellaneous Writers. The lives in each class are chronologically disposed, but necessarily brief. "The main circumstances, however, appear to be judiciously selected, and the list of 'the several authors' works form a very considerable and useful part of the compilation. The lives are accompanied, but not overwhelmed, with explanatory notes." Monthly Review, Old Series, vol. Ivii. p. 195.

BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA: or, the Lives of the most eminent Persons, who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages to the present time, folio, 7 vols. London, 1747-1766.

A second edition of this valuable and national work was commenced by the late Dr. Kippis and others: five volumes only (1778-93) have been published, death having terminated the labours of the learned editors. It is necessary to have both editions.

BOSWELL.-The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition never before published. The whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century, during which he flourished. By James Boswell, Esq. 8vo, 4 vols. London, 1807. (Fifth edition, revised and augmented.) There is also another edition in 5 vols. royal 18mo, (London, 1811.)

CAMPBELL. An Introduction to the History of Poetry in Scotland, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, down to the present time. By Alexander Campbell, 4to, Edinburgh, 1798, 2 vols.

The second volume consists of Sangs of the Lowlands of Scotland.'

CATALOGUE. A New Catalogue of Living English Authors: with complete lists of their publications, and biographical and literary memoirs, 8vo, vol. I. London, 1799.

This useful work was to have been completed in six volumes, the first of which only has been published. Two other anonymous catalogues of living authors have appeared: one in 1762, intituled "An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland; wherein their respective merits are discussed with the utmost candour." It is a thin 8vo volume, defective in execution, and from lapse of time is now become useless. The other is a " Catalogue of five hundred celebrated Authors of Great Britain, now living," 8vo, London, 1788. A meagre and incorrect work, which we mention here, as chart-makers notice shoals-to be avoided. Two similar works are noticed infra, pp. 428, 429. Proposals were issued and information solicited for a new catalogue of living authors, to be published early in 1814, which has not yet made its appearance.

CUMBERLAND.-Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written by himself; containing an account of his life and writings, interspersed with anecdotes and characters of several of the most distinguished persons of his time, with whom he had intercourse and connexion, 4to, London, 1806.

To complete this edition, an Appendix (published in 1807) should be added. Second edition, 8vo, 2 vols. London, 1807.