Note 1 — JOSEPH-MARIE QUÉRARD.

It is curious that this work, like that of Quérard, should have been composed away from the repositories one would have expected the authors to consult. Many parallel circumstances may be traced both in the lives and works of these men, who so much benefited the literature of their country: without any benefit to themselves. Quérard was robbed of his work, as we shall presently see, and so was Watt. The former never recovered his. The Watts had a year’s labour before they recompiled the stolen sheets. Chambers’ Biog. Dict. of Em: Scotch: IV. 439, 1856.