[Footnote 8: See the _Mémoires_ of Monluc, Brantôme, La Noue, &c. The fifty-two volumes in Petitot's incomplete series entitled _Collection des Mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France jusqu'au commencement du dix-septième siècle_ show at a glance the remarkable richness of French literature in the _mémoire_ at an early date.] [Footnote 9: _La Socíété française au XVIIe siècle_, 1858 vol. i, p. 7. The 'key' drawn up in 1657 is printed as an appendix.] [Footnote 10: _Art poétique_, iii. 115-18.] [Footnote 11: Cousin, _Madame de Sablé_, 1854, pp. 42-8.] [Footnote 12: Edited by Edouard de Barthélemy in 1860 under the title _La Galerie des Portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier_.] [Footnote 13: Edited by Ch. Livet, 1856 (Bibliothèque Elzevirienne. 2 vols.).] [Footnote 14: Sc. x, where Madelon says 'Je vous avoue que je suis furieusement pour les portraits: je ne vois rien de si galant que cela', and Mascarille replies, 'Les portraits sont difficiles, et demandent un esprit profond: vous en verrez de ma manière qui ne vous déplairont pas.'] [Footnote 15: Joseph Hall's _Characters of Vertues and Vices_ appeared in 1608 Overbury's _Characters_ 1614-22. For Earle, see pp. 168-70.] III. Clarendon. Clarendon's _History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England_ is made up of two works composed with different purposes and at a distance of twenty years. The first, which may be called the 'Manuscript History', belongs to 1646-8; the second, the 'Manuscript Life', to 1668-70. They were combined to form the _History_ as we now read it in 1671, when new sections were added to give continuity and to complete the narrative. On Clarendon's death in 1674 the manuscripts passed to his two sons, Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, and Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester; and under the supervision of the latter a transcript of the _History_ was made for the printers. The work was published at Oxford in three handsome folio volumes in 1702, 1703, and 1704, and became the property of the University. The portions of the 'Manuscript Life' which Clarendon had not incorporated in the _History_ as being too personal, were published by the University in 1759, under the title _The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon_, and were likewise printed from a transcript.[1]