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Announcements Les trois imposteurs, In my discussion of Les trois imposteurs, ou l'esprit de M, S~r ~ozain my review of Margaret Jacob's The Radical Enlightenment ~]~urnal~fthe History of Philosophy, 22:~ [April 1984]: e4a-44), I said that "there are at least four manuscripts which have six additional chapters taken word for word from the writings of Pierre Charron and Gabriel Naude. These appear in no printed edition." At that time neither I, nor Margaret Jacob, nor any one else working on Les trois imposteurs had seen the J719 printed edition. A young Italian scholar, Dr. Sylvia Berti of Turin has found a copy of this edition, and will soon be publishing her news about it in the Italian journal, Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres. The 1719 edition, most of whose copies were destroyed, does contain the six chapters from Charron and Naude. I have also found several more manuscripts with the six chapters in Europe and America. The history of the a719 edition seems more complicated than previously suspected , because one had assumed it was like the later printed editions. RICHARD H. POPKIN The Works of David Hume. The general editors of the new critical edition of The Philosophical, Political and Literary Works of David Hume would welcome information on any printed or manuscript material which may have a bearing on the work of this edition. They are particularly interested in tracing any unpublished ross. and unpublished letters relating to Hume's writings (apart from the RSE materials catalogued by Greig and Beynon); published ms. materials which have changed hands since the time of pubhcation; unrecorded autograph marginalia; marked or unmarked proofs; presentation copies of published works, and other evidence identifying owners contemporary with Hume; bibliographic anomalies not recorded in the bibliographies of Jessop or Todd; the location of any copies of works (e.g. first editions of A Treatise of Human Nature) of which there are known variant states; copies of works bearing the bookplate of Hume or his nephew, David (later Baron) Hume; and unpublished information on the publication history and contemporary reception of Hume's writings The critical edition will be published in eight volumes by Princeton University Press, over a period of eight to ten years from a98% under the [435] 436 JOURNAL or THE HISTORY or PHILOSOPHY 24:B JULY ~986 general editorship of T. L. Beauchamp, D. F. Norton, and M. A. Stewart. There will be four volumes of text, each accompanied by a concordance volume based on the new critical text. The text volumes will be as follows, with volumes x and 5 scheduled to appear first: Vol. 1: A Treatiseof Human Nature and associated pamphlets. Vol. 3: EssaysMoral, Political and Literary, together with other literary and political pieces published in Hume's lifetime. Vol. 5: The two Enquiries, A Dissertation on the Passions, and the Natural History of Religion. Vol. 7: Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and other posthumous and manuscript works. The principal works will also be made available in paperback format, with specially prepared introductions to facilitate classroom use. Although it is not part of the current plan to publish a critical edition of Hume's History of England or an up-to-date edition of his Correspondence, the general editors wish to collect information of the kind mentioned which might be relevant to a future edition of these materials. Along with the working papers of the Princeton edition, all information collected will in due course be deposited in the Nadonal Library of Scodand, and in one or more other major libraries, for the general benefit of Hume scholars. Information may be sent to: The David Hume Archive Manuscripts Department National Library of Scodand George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH i l EW Scotland, UK ...

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