the notice of Strasbourg—­was almost entirely translated by Mons.
    Crapelet himself.  An exception however must be made to those parts
    which relate to the King’s Private Library at Paris, and to
    Strasbourg:  these having been executed by different pens, evidently
    in the hands of individuals of less wrongheadedness and acrimony of
    feeling than the Parisian Printer.  Mons. Crapelet has prefixed a
    Preface to his labours, in which he tells the world, that, using my
    more favourite metaphorical style of expression, “a CRUSADE has risen
    up against the INFIDEL DIBDIN.”

Metaphorical as may be this style, it is yet somewhat alarming:  for, most assuredly, when I entered and quitted the “beau pays” of France, I had imagined myself to have been a courteous, a grateful, and, under all points of view, an ORTHODOX Visitor.  It seems however, from the language of the French Typographer, that I acted under a gross delusion; and that it was necessary to have recourse to his sharp-set sickle to cut away all the tares which I had sown in the soil of his country.  Upon the motive and the merit of his labours, I have already given my unbiassed opinion.[A] Here, it is only necessary to observe, that I have not, consciously, falsified his opinions, or undervalued his worth.  Let the Reader judge between us.

        [A] Vide Preface.

[2] [They have now entirely lost the recollection, as well as the sight, of
    them.]

[3] ["The Parisians would doubtless very willingly get rid of such a horrid
    spectacle in the streets and places of the Metropolis:  besides, it is
    not unattended with danger to the Actors themselves.”—­CRAPELET.]

[4] ["And will continue to be so, it is feared—­to the regret of all
    Frenchmen—­for a long time.  It is however the beginning of a new
    reign.  The building of some new Edifices will doubtless be undertaken. 
    But if the King were to order the finishing of all the public
    Buildings of Paris, the epoch of the reign of Charles X. would
    assuredly be the most memorable for Arts, and the embellishment of the
    Capital.”  CRAPELET. 1825.]

[5] [It is now completed:  but seven years elapsed, after the above
    description, before the building was in all respects considered to be
    finished.]

[6] [A most admirable view of this Market Place, with its picturesque
    fountain in the centre, was painted by the younger Mr. Chalon, and
    exhibited at Somerset House.  A well executed print of such a
    thoroughly characteristic performance might, one would imagine, sell
    prosperously on either side of the channel.]

[7] [This building, which may perhaps be better known as that of the
    Opera, is now rased to the ground—­in consequence of the
    assassination of the Duke de Berri there, in February, 1820, on his
    stepping into his carriage on quitting the Opera.  But five years were
    suffered to elapse before the work of demolition was quite completed. 
    And when will the monument to the Duke’s memory be raised?—­CRAPELET.]