PASCAL AND HIS EDITOR BOSSUT

Although I am not afraid of the fate with which that unfortunate monk met, of whom it is said,— "Pro solo puncto caruit Martinus Asello," yet a blunder is a sad thing, especially when the person who is supposed to commit it attempts to correct others. Now the printer of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" has introduced, in my short remark on Pascal, the *very error* which has led the author of the article in the *British Quarterly Review*, as well as many others, to mistake the Bishop of Meaux for the editor of Pascal's works. Once more, that unfortunate editor is BOSSUT, not BOSSUET; and if it may appea…