[8] [It is now entirely demolished, to make way for a large and commodious
    Street which gives a complete view of the church of St. Stephen. 
    CRAPELET.]

[9] The views of it, as it appeared in the XVIth century, represent it
    nearly surrounded by a wall and a moat.  It takes its name as having
    been originally situated in the fields.

[10] [Two years ago was placed, upon the top of this small lantern, a gilt
    cross, thirty-eight feet high:  41 of English measurement:  and the
    church has been consecrated to the Catholic service.  CRAPELET.  Thus,
    the criticism of an English traveller, in 1818, was not entirely void
    of foundation.]

[11] [Our public buildings, which have continued long in an unfinished
    state, strike the eyes of foreigners more vividly than they do our
    own:  but it is impossible to face the front of St. Sulpice without
    partaking of the sentiment of the author.  CRAPELET.]

[12] [Louis XVIII.]

[13] [read and understand GRAHAME.]—­Mr. Grahame is both a very readable
    and understandable author.  He has reason to be proud of his poem
    called the SABBATH:  for it is one of the sweetest and one of the
    purest of modern times.  His scene however is laid in the country,
    and not in the metropolis.  The very opening of this poem refreshes the
    heart—­and prepares us for the more edifying portions of it, connected
    with the performance of the religious offices of our country.  This
    beautiful work will LIVE as long as sensibility, and taste, and a
    virtuous feeling, shall possess the bosoms of a British Public.

[14] See the note p. 20, ante.

[15] It is now completed.

LETTER II.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BIBLIOTHEQUE DU ROI.  THE LIBRARIANS.

Hotel des Colonies, Rue de Richelieu.

The moment is at length arrived when you are to receive from me an account of some of the principal treasures contained in the ROYAL LIBRARY of Paris.  I say “some":—­because, in an epistolary communication, consistently with my time, and general objects of research—­it must be considered only as a slight selection, compared with what a longer residence, and a more general examination of the contents of such a collection, might furnish.  Yet, limited as my view may have been, the objects of that view are at once rich and rare, and likely to afford all true sons of BIBLIOMANIA and VIRTU the most lively gratification.  This is a bold avowal:  but I fear not to make it, and:  the sequel shall be the test of its modesty and truth.