[_The History of the Religious Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle_ is a
remarkable book, written by the Abbé Bordelon, and first published, we
believe, at Amsterdam, in 2 vols., 1710. The Paris edition of 1754, in
2 vols., entitled _L'Histoire des Imaginations Extavagantes de Monsieur
Oufle_, is the best, as it contains some curious illustrations. From
the title-page we learn that the work was "Occasioned by the author
having read books treating of magic, the black art, demoniacs,
conjurors, witches, hobgoblins, incubuses, succubuses, and the
diabolical Sabbath; of elves, fairies, wanton spirits, geniuses,
spectres, and ghosts; of dreams, the philosopher's stone, judicial
astrology, horoscopes, talismans, lucky and unlucky days, eclipses,
comets, and all sorts of apparitions, divinations, charms,
enchantments, and other superstitious practices; with notes containing
a multitude of quotations out of those books which have either caused
such extravagant imaginations, or may serve to cure them." If any of
our readers should feel inclined to collect what we may term "A
Diabolical Library," he has only to consult vol. i. ch. iii. for a
catalogue of the principal books in Mons. Oufle's study, which is the
most curious list of the black art we have ever seen. An English
translation of these _Religious Extravagancies_ was published in 1711.]
_Lysons' MSS._--Is the present repository of the MS. notes, used by Messrs.
Lysons in editing their great work, the _Magna Britannia_, known?