Note 155 — Chapter III · CAPTAIN LEOPOLD INTRODUCES HIS FRIEND.
Reading edition
Among the numerous errors in the few lines devoted to the Bollandists in the new Encyclopædia Britannica, not the worst is the statement that Père Bolland was only a short time engaged on the Acta. More than one-half of a life of sixty-nine years was spent in the production of five folio volumes for his own share, besides superintending the preparation of others.