Sainte Menehould, besides being fined and banished for three years. The Lettres Provinciales, and the other works seized, were ordered to be burnt, and Deliège's type was confiscated and brought to Paris to be sold. The inhabitants of the place shut up their shops when the sentence was carried into execution, and no one attended except the officers of Police,

PICOT (l'Abbé).

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique, pendant le dix-huitième siècle. Paris, 1815, 4 vols. 8vo.

This work will be found a useful appendage to Tillemont's Mémoires, &c.

PLUQUET (L'Abbé),

Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Egaremens de l'Esprit humain, ou Dictionnaire des hérésies, des erreurs et des schismes, &c. Nouvelle édition, Besançon, 1817, 2 vols, The first edition of this excellent work appeared in 1762.

POTTER (M. de).

L'Esprit de l'Eglise, ou Considérations Philosophiques et Politiques, sur l'histoire des Conciles et des Papes, depuis les Apôtres, jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, 1821, 8 vols. 8vo.

"The author, M. Potter, has favoured us with the most interesting and curious portions of Ecclesiastical History. He is not a controversialist or an ultramontane casuist: but an historian, seeking truth amidst a chaos of contradictions; a philosopher who contemplates phenomena, with judicious regard to their

principles and effects. The first and second volumes of this work contain the History of the Councils, which in the first age of Christianity formed the principal occupation of the Church. The six succeeding volumes contain a general Ecclesiastical History, which is divided into two sections. The first, which the author terms Political, comprehends the commencement, the progress, and the overthrow of the sacerdotal powers; the second, which may be called Religious, embraces all which is not not found in the former, viz: the dogmas, whether orthodox or heterodox, of the various sects; the history of schism, the most remarkable doctrinal points, and accounts of the manners of the popes and priesthood."-Revue Ency. vol. 21, pp. 521-526.

POULLE (L'Abbé).

Sermons. Paris, 1768, 2 vols. 12mo.

"The two best discourses of the Abbé Poulle are L'Exhortation sur l'Aumône, and l'Exhortation faite à l'occasion d'une assemblée de charité en faveur des enfans trouvés. These two sermons created a powerful sensation. His sermons pronounced about the year 1738, were not then printed, but 40 years after, the Abbé dictated them anew, and they were published by his nephew in 1778, a prodigious effort of memory! The Abbé Poulle may be placed foremost in the second rank of Christian orators.-Peignot's Manuel, &c. vol. 2, p. 91-2.

PRADT (M. de.)

Du Jésuitisme Ancien et Moderne. Paris. 1825, 8vo.

"Jesuitism is understood here not only as an elucidation of the doctrine of the Jesuits, but also in explanation of their present state, of their institutions, and of their civil, religious,

political and moral conduct, from the first establishment of the Society. The author is too well known to require any recommendation from us."-Revue Encyclopédique, vol. 29, p. 74.

QUESNEL (Pasquier).

Le Nouveau Testament, en Latin et en François, avec des Réflexions morales. Amsterdam, 1736, 8 vols. 12mo.

"Upon the decease of Arnaud, the general direction of jansenism descended to Father Quesnel. * * * Soon after he received the Order of Priesthood, he composed his Moral Reflections on the New Testament. In its original form, it contained the four Gospels, with short Reflections; and was printed in a single duodecimo volume. It came into the world, ! with the approbation of M. de Vialart, then Bishop of Châlons. The encouragement which it received, induced the author to enlarge his plan. The third edition appeared in 1693, in four 8vo. volumes, with the formal approbation of M. de Noailles, who had succeeded to M. de Vialart, in the see of Châlons. The annotations were considerable; and when attentively examined, were found to contain the essence of Jansenism, blended in an elegant and artful manner, and presented to the reader under the most pleasing aspect. * * * On the 8th Sept. 1713, the Pope published the celebrated Bull, called from the first word in it, Unigenitus. He condemned in it 101 propositions, extracted from the Moral Reflections of M. Quesnel." Works of C. Butler, vol. 5, p. 119-20.

SAURIN (Jacques).

Discours Historiques, Critiques, Théologiques, et Moraux, sur les Evénemens les plus mé

morables, du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament. Amsterdam, 1728-39, 6 vols. fol.

"This work, (says Brunet,) is illustrated with fine engravings, from designs by Hoet, Houbraken, and B. Picart. They are 212 in number. Saurin only wrote the Discourses, contained in the first two volumes; the continuation of the Discourses. on the Old Testament, is by Roques, pastor of Basle; and C. S. de Beausobre, fils, is author of those on the New Testament." "M. Vander Marck formed a design of representing on copper plates, the most memorable events in sacred history, and he engaged M. Saurin to write an explanation of the Plates this gave rise to the Discourses here published. There is an édition of them in 11 vols. 8vo. They are deservedly held in the highest esteem."-Horne's Introduction, &c. vol. 2, (Ap pendix,) p. 115.

- Sermons.

Rotterdam, 1749, 12 vols. 8vo.

"Saurin was a Protestant preacher, and is said to have been gifted with one of the finest voices and persons, that were ever heard and seen in the pulpit. His prayer before his sermon kept his congregation in breathless admiration it could never be forgotten. Nor was it weakened by the discourse which followed; for there was a solidity, justness, moderation, and earnestness throughout the whole, that equally charmed and convinced the auditory. But it is his noble-mindedness-his christian charity-his goodness of heart-his thoroughly social feelings-which form the magic of his life and of his compositions."-Dibdin's Library Companion, p. 94.

"The chefs d'œuvre of Saurin are La Sagesse de Salomon, and the Discours de Saint Paul à Felix et à Drusille. Also should be noticed his Sermon on Le Jeûne, in which may be found the hardiest oratorical attempt ever conceived; a dialogue held

between the Deity and the preacher's hearers. The Sermon on Le Mépris de la Vie also contains some sublime passages."Peignot's Manuel du Bibliophile, vol. 2, p. 101.

SIMON (Le Pére).

Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament. Paris, 1678, 4to.

Original edition, not finished, being suppressed by order of the Chancellor.

Idem. Rotterdam, 1685, 4to.

This is considered to be the best edition.

Histoire Critique du Texte du Nouveau Testament. Rotterdam, 1689, 4to.

- Histoire Critique des Versions du Nouveau Testament, &c. Rotterdam, 1690.

Histoire Critique des Principaux Commentateurs du Nouveau Testament, depuis le commencement du Christianisme, jusqu'à notre temps. Rotterdam, 1693, 4to.

-Nouvelles Dissertations sur le Texte, et les Versions du Nouveau Testament. Rotter

dam, 1695, 4to.

"All the works of Father Simon are characterised by great learning and research. The criticism of the Bible being at that time less understood than at present, the researches which were instituted by Simon, soon involved him in controversy, as