Part One of _The Notorious Impostor_, as the sequel informs us, met with a "general Reception." Advertised in the February issue of _The Term Catalogues_, also, was a separate continuation. Interest in the impostor did not diminish during February. "The Death of _William Morrell_," complained _The Gentleman's Journal_ of this month, "hath made too much Noise not to have reach'd you before this.... Had not his Will and Life been printed, I would have given you a large Account of both." The anonymous writer refers here, perhaps, to _Diego Redivivus_ ("Will") and _The Notorious Impostor_ ("Life") in the order of their publication. He then ironically lauds, in the verses of "_William Morrell's_ Epitaph," the great skill of the impostor ("Columbus-like I a new World descry'd, / Of Roguery before untry'd"). Elkanah Settle's two parts of _The Notorious Impostor_ were finally published together in 1694 as _The Compleat Memoirs of the Life of that Notorious Impostor Will. Morrell, alias Bowyer, alias Wickham, &c._ ... under the imprint of Abel Roper and E. Wilkinson. So extensive are the re-arrangements of the episodes taken from Parts One and Two that _The Compleat Memoirs_ may be regarded as a fifth, very different narrative. All the apologies for not resorting to "romance" are now dropped, and the humorous dedication is replaced by a direct appeal to Gabriel Balam, signed "E. Settle." _The Compleat Memoirs_ then reworks the texts of the two Parts into a smooth, chronologically consistent narrative.[5] Even more important in designating _The Compleat Memoirs_ as "new" are the "Considerable Additions never before Published" announced by the title-page. After using the incidents from _The Second Part of the Notorious Impostor_, Settle then adds: "Since the first Publication of our fore-going History of our Grand Guzman, we have receiv'd some Comical Adventures, worth inserting in his Memoirs, which though they now bring up the Rear of his Chronicle, however, they were the first of all his Wedlock Feats...." In the totally new adventures that end _The Compleat Memoirs_ (pp. 72-88), the cynical tone and raciness of the picaresque become even more dominant than in the earlier separate narratives.[6]