The first has no merit beyond a faithful report.
The latter is written with much more zest and vigour, and shows the interest that he already took in Christian antiquities.

Other articles, evidently from the pen of Deyverdun, on the English theatre and Beau Nash of Bath, are the liveliest in the collection.

The magazine was avowedly intended for Continental readers, and might have obtained success if it had been continued long enough.

But it died before it had time to make itself known.[6] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 6: Two volumes appeared of the _Memoires Litteraires_.

Of these only the first is to be found in the British Museum.