[73] like Aldus, “say my saying” quickly.] Consult Mr. Roscoe’s
    Life of Leo X. vol. i. p. 169-70, 8vo. edit.  Unger, in his Life
    of Aldus, edit.  Geret. p. xxxxii. has a pleasant notice of an
    inscription, to the same effect, put over the door of his
    printing-office by Aldus. [It has been quoted to satiety, and I
    therefore omit it here.]

[74] [Mons. Periaux has lately published a Dictionary of the Streets of
    Rouen, in alphabetical order; in two small, unostentatious, and useful
    octavo volumes.]

[75] [Mons. Licquet translates the latter part of the above passage
    thus:—­“avec quelle facilite nous parvenons a nous abuser
    nous-memes,”—­adding, in a note, as follows:  “J’avais d’abord vu un
    tout autre sens dans la phrase anglaise.  Si celui que j’adopte n’etait
    pas encore le veritable, j’en demande sincerement pardon a l’auteur.” 
    In turn, I may not be precisely informed of the meaning and force of
    the verb “abuser”—­used by my translator:  but I had been better
    satisfied with the verb tromper—­as more closely conveying the sense
    of the original.]

[76] M. Le Prevost is a belles-lettres Antiquary of the highest order.  His
    “Memoire faisant suite a l’Essai sur les Romans historiques du moyen
    age” may teach modern Normans not to despair when death shall have
    laid low their present oracle the ABBE DE LA RUE. [I am proud, in
    this second edition of my Tour, to record the uninterrupted
    correspondence and friendship of this distinguished Individual; and I
    can only regret, in common with several friends, that M. Le Prevost
    will not summon courage sufficient to visit a country, once in such
    close connexion with his own, where a HEARTY RECEPTION has long
    awaited him.]

[77] [The omission, in this place, of the entire IXth Letter, relating to
    the PUBLIC LIBRARY at Rouen, must be accounted for, and it is hoped,
    approved, on the principle laid down at the outset of this
    undertaking; namely, to omit much that was purely bibliographical, and
    of a secondary interest to the general Reader.  The bibliography, in
    the original IXth Letter, being of a partial and comparatively dry
    description—­as relating almost entirely to ancient volumes of Church
    Rituals—­was thought to be better omitted than abridged.  Another
    reason might be successfully urged for its omission.

This IXth Letter, which comprehends 22 pages in the previous impression, and about 38 pages in the version, having been translated and separately published in 1821, by Mons. Licquet (who succeeded M. Gourdin as Principal Librarian of the Library in question) I had bestowed upon it particular attention, and entered into several points by way of answer to his remarks, and