Viator. Rollin's Ancient History, and History of the Arts and Sciences

Your correspondent Iota inquires (Vol. ii., p. 357.), "How comes it that the editions" (of Rollin) "since 1740 have been so castrated?" *i.e.* divested of an integral portion of the work, the *History of the Arts and Sciences*. It is not easy to state *how* this has come to pass. During the last century comparatively little interest was felt in the subjects embraced in the *History of the Arts and Sciences*; and *probably* the publishers might on that account omit this portion, with the view of making the book cheaper and more saleable. It is more difficult to assign any reason why Rollin's Pr…