S.R. MAITLAND.

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A FLEMISH ACCOUNT.

T.B.M. will be obliged by references to any early instances of the use
of the expression "_A Flemish account_," and of any explanation as to
its origin and primary signification.

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROJECT.

Of the various sections into which the history of English literature is
divisible, there is no one in which the absence of collective materials
is more seriously felt--no one in which we are more in need of authentic
_notes_, or which is more apt to raise perplexing _queries_--than that
which relates to the authorship of anonymous and pseudonymous works.

The importance of the inquiry is not inferior to the ardour with which
it has sometimes been pursued, or the curiosity which it has excited. On
all questions of testimony, whether historical or scientific, it is a
consideration of the position and character of the writer which chiefly
enables us to decide on the credibility of his statements, to account
for the bias of his opinions, and to estimate his entire evidence at its
just value. The remark also applies, in a qualified sense, to
productions of an imaginative nature.

On the number of the works of this class, I can only hazard a