If rant may be best foiled at its own weapons, the author's design is not ill-founded; for the marvellous has never been carried to a more whimsical and ludicrous extent." The reviewer had probably read the work through from one paper cover to the other.

It was in fact too short to bore the most blase of his kind, consisting of but forty-nine small octavo pages.

The second edition, which is in the British Museum, bears the following title; "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia; humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen, and if they please to be repeated as their own after a hunt, at horse races, in watering places, and other such polite assemblies; round the bottle and fireside.Smith.Printed at Oxford.

1786." The fact that this little pamphlet again consists of but forty-nine small octavo pages, combined with the similarity of title (as far as that of the first edition is given in the _Critical Review_), publisher, and price, affords a strong presumption that it was identical with the first edition.

This edition contains only chapters ii., iii., iv., v., and vi.