would expect to and a mere reput o Le plied from the i Eight more might une source, but were by accid There remained therefor : explain supposing that the editor : ΙΣ ΤΗ Aa-ki tion of the Resuscitatio had not been able, any more than Dr. Rawley when he edited the second, to procure a copy of the original volume. In 1679, a new volume of remains, under the title. of Baconiana, was published by Dr. Tenison from original manuscripts; with an introduction containing "an account of all the Lord Bacon's works." In this introduction he tells us (p. 59.) that the best edition of the Apophthegms was the first (1625); and censures as spurious, or at least as including spurious matter, the additions contained in the two collections last mentioned of 1658 and 1671; but of Dr. Rawley's collection in 1661 he strangely enough makes no mention whatever. In the body of the work he gives 27 additional apophthegms, found among Bacon's papers, and never before printed. Next came Blackbourne, in 1730, with an edition of Bacon's works complete in 4 volumes folio. His plan in dealing with the Apophthegms was to reprint, 1st, the whole collection (repetitions omitted) as it stood in the third edition of the Resuscitatio; 2ndly, the 27 additional ones in Tenison's Baconiana (all but 3; which he omitted, not very judiciously, because they are to be found in the Essays); 3rdly, the remaining 39, contained in the original edition, but omitted in all later copies. Thus we had for the first time a collection which included all the genuine apophthegms. But it was defective in this, that it Included likewise all, or all but one or two, of those hich Tenison had alluded to in general terms as ; and that no attempt was made in it to disthose which had Dr. Rawley's sanction from had not. Succeeding editors followed Blackbourne, without either noticing or trying to remedy this defect; until M. Montagu took up the task in his edition of 1825, m which he made an attempt, more laudable than Koyyabazi', to whaste the genuine from the spurious. Nosa nemark as his guide, be reprinted av lantion af 1/2 exactly as it stood. (or Te them at more than 130 Com the original) selves. Upon what principle he selected the other three which make up the 28, I cannot guess. One of them he has himself printed a few pages before among the genuine; another he quotes in his preface as one which he can hardly believe not to be genuine ; and before he came to the third, he must, if he took them as they stand in the book, have passed by 20 others which have precisely the same title to the distinction. But howsoever he went about it, his result is certainly wrong; for among his 28 spurious apophthegms there are several which were undoubtedly sanctioned by Dr. Rawley, besides the two which had been previously printed among the genuine ones by himself; and when all is done, there remain no less. than 30 others, silently omitted and entirely unaccounted for. Such is the latest shape in which this little work appears.1 The common editions contain all the apophthegms; but some that are spurious are printed in them as genuine. Mr. Montagu's edition does not contain all and some that are genuine are printed in it as spurious. : I have now to explain the plan upon which I have myself proceeded in order to set the matter right. First. Considering that the edition of 1625 was published during Bacon's life, with his name on the title-page; that there is no reason for supposing that is was written bef fesses to pearance of Mr. Bohn's volume of the Bacon, edited by Joseph Devey, M.A., thegms; omitting those known to be ven however it is not necessary to a selection from a selection, in which stinguish the spurious from the gen |