Unfortunately this learned translator died, after having completed only the first volume; the rest of the work was executed by a very inferior hand.
The notes of Wenck are extremely valuable; many of them have been adopted by M.Guizot; they are distinguished by the letter W.* III.

The new edition of Le Beau's "Histoire du Bas Empire, with notes by M.St.Martin, and M.Brosset." That distinguished Armenian scholar, M.
St.Martin (now, unhappily, deceased) had added much information from Oriental writers, particularly from those of Armenia, as well as from more general sources.

Many of his observations have been found as applicable to the work of Gibbon as to that of Le Beau.
IV.

The editor has consulted the various answers made to Gibbon on the first appearance of his work; he must confess, with little profit.
They were, in general, hastily compiled by inferior and now forgotten writers, with the exception of Bishop Watson, whose able apology is rather a general argument, than an examination of misstatements.

The name of Milner stands higher with a certain class of readers, but will not carry much weight with the severe investigator of history.
V.Some few classical works and fragments have come to light, since the appearance of Gibbon's History, and have been noticed in their respective places; and much use has been made, in the latter volumes particularly, of the increase to our stores of Oriental literature.