[Consult the following:--_Biographia Philosophica_: being an Account of
the Lives, Writings, and Inventions of the most eminent Philosophers
and Mathematicians, by Benjamin Martin: London, 1764, 8vo. There is
also a Chronological Table of the most eminent Mathematicians affixed
to John Bossut's _General History of Mathematics_, translated from the
French by John Bonnycastle: London, 1803, 8vo. Some notices of our
early English mathematicians will also be found in the _Companion to
the Almanac_ for 1837, and in the _Magazine of Popular Science_, Nos.
18. 20. and 22.]
_"Les Lettres Juives."_--Will any of your correspondents inform me who is
the author of _Lettres Juives_? The first volume of my edition, in eight
volumes 12mo., has the portrait of Jean Batiste B., Marquis de ----, ne le
29 Juin, 1704.