omitted the additional chapter of Fra Luis de Leon, contrary to
the practice of his predecessors. But he has done more, for he
has traced the paragraphs of that chapter to their sources, and
has given us now a collection of papers which form almost another
Life of the Saint, to which he has given their old name of
Relations, [26] the name which the Saint herself had given
them. [27] Some of them are usually printed among the Saint's
letters, and portions of some of the others are found in the
Lives of the Saint written by Ribera and Yepes, and in the
Chronicle of the Order; the rest was published for the first time
by Don Vicente: the arrangement of the whole is due to him.

The Relations are ten in the Spanish edition, and eleven in the
translation. The last, the eleventh, has hitherto been left
among the letters, and Don Vicente, seemingly not without some
hesitation, so left it; but as it is of the like nature with the
Relations, it has now been added to them.

The original text, in the handwriting of the Saint, is preserved
in the Escurial, not in the library, but among the relics of the
Church. Don Vicente examined it at his leisure, and afterwards
found in the National Library in Madrid an authentic and exact
transcript of it, made by order of Ferdinand VI. His edition is,
therefore, far better than any of its predecessors; but it is
possible that even now there may still remain some verbal errors
for future editors to correct. The most conscientious diligence
is not a safeguard against mistakes. F. Bouix says that in
ch. xxxiv. section 12, the reading of the original differs from
that of the printed editions; yet Don Vicente takes no notice of
it, and retains the common reading. It is impossible to believe