NOTES ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. 1

THE "BIBLIOGRAPHIE BIOGRAPHIQUE." A lover of literature, and aspiring to promote its extension and improvement, I sometimes form projects for the adoption of others--sensible, be it also said, of the extent of my own engagements with certain learned societies. One of these projects has been a tabular view of the literary biography of the British Islands. In the midst of my reflections on the plans of Blair, Priestly, Playfair, Oberlin, Tytler, Jarry de Mancy, &c. I received a specimen of a *Bibliographie biographique*, by Edouard-Marie Oettinger, now in the press at Leipzic. As books multiply,…