Note 89 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

[It consists of two series of lectures, the first entitled The Poetry, or the Romance of the History of Louisiana, and the second, Louisiana, its History as a French Colony. He says in a preface to a third series, printed separately in 1852 at New York,—Louisiana, its History as a French Colony, Third Series of Lectures (Sabin, vol. vii. nos. 26,793, 26,796),—that the first series was given to “freaks of the imagination,” the second was “more serious and useful” in getting upon a basis more historic; while there was a still further “change of tone and manner” in the third, which brings the story down to 1769. This was published at New York in 1851. Mr. Gayarré had already published, in 1830, an Essai historique sur Louisiane in two volumes (Sabin vol. vii. nos. 26,791, 26,795), and Romance of the History of Louisiana, a Series of Lectures, New York, 1848 (Sabin, vol. vii. nos. 26,795, 26,797, 26,799).—Ed.]