Dr. Shea’s later views, as expressed in his English translation (1880) of the _Description de la Louisiane_ (1683), is that Hennepin’s manuscript or revamped copy of his earlier book, as prepared for the printer by himself, was subjected to the manipulations of an ignorant and treacherous editor, who made these insertions to produce a more salable book, and that Hennepin was not responsible for it in the form in which it appeared. Shea’s arguments to prove this opposite of the generally received opinion are based on inherent evidence in the insertions that Hennepin could not have written them, and on the material evidences of these questionable portions of the book having been printed at a later time than the rest of it, and in different type. The only rejoinder yet made to this exculpation is by Mr. E. D. Neill, in a tract on _The Writings of Louis Hennepin_, read before the Minnesota Historical Society in November, 1880, in which the conclusion is reached that “nothing has been discovered to change the verdict of two centuries, that Louis Hennepin, Recollect Franciscan, was deficient in Christian manhood.” The _Nouvelle Découverte_ was reset and reissued in 1698 at Amsterdam, with the same maps and a new title. COPIES: =CB.=, =L.= REFERENCES: Shea, no. 2; Sabin, no. 31,350; Harrisse, no. 176; Ternaux, no. 1,110; O’Callaghan, no. 1,073; Muller, 1877, no. 3,666; Sparks, _Catalogue_, no. 1,211; Rich, 1832, 12s.; Carter-Brown, vol. ii. 1,538; _Historical Magazine_, vol. ii. pp. 24,346. There was another edition, _Voyage ou Nouvelle Découverte_, at Amsterdam in 1704, with the same maps and additional plates, to which was appended La Borde’s _Voyage_. COPIES: =BA.=, =CB.= REFERENCES: Shea, no. 3; Sabin, no. 31,352; Rich, 1830, no. 8; _Historical Magazine_, vol. ii. p. 347; Beckford, no. 676; Leclerc, no. 905, 60 francs; Stevens, vol. i. no. 1,436; Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 52. The Hague and Leyden editions of the same year (1704) had an engraved title, _Voyage curieux ... qui contient une Nouvelle Découverte_, but were evidently from the same type, and also have the La Borde appended. COPIES: =CB.=, =L.=, _HCM._ REFERENCES: Shea, nos. 4, 5; Sabin, no. 31,353; _Historical Magazine_, vol. ii. 25. The Amsterdam edition of 1711 was called _Voyages curieux et nouveaux de Messieurs Hennepin et de la Borde_, with oblong title, folded in, which seems to be the only difference from the 1704 editions. COPIES: =BA.=, =CB.=, =HC.= REFERENCES: Shea, no. 6; Sabin, no. 31,354; Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 153. In 1712 another Amsterdam edition was called _Voyage ou Nouvelle Découverte_. COPY: =CB.= REFERENCES: Shea, no. 7; Sabin, no. 31,355; _Historical Magazine_, vol. ii. p. 347; Carter-Brown, vol. iii. no. 168; Stevens, vol. i. no. 1,438.