In 1738, a Life of the Duke of Marlborough, in the Dutch language,
was given to the public, by Abraham de Vryer, which was principally
drawn from Lediard, with some additions from the Dutch and French
writers. It forms four volumes small octavo.

In 1742 appeared, in two volumes duodecimo, "The History of John
Duke of Marlborough, and of Francis Eugene, Prince of Savoy,"
written with perspicuity and spirit, but containing few material facts,
which had escaped the researches of preceding biographers.

Another Life, in one volume, was published by a German writer,
which is only a brief compilation from the foregoing works.

We have, lastly, to mention a recent publication, which made a consi-
derable sensation in France and England, because it was written by order
of Bonaparte, and was supposed to contain several notes from his own
pen. It is intituled "Histoire de Jean Churchill, Duc de Marlborough,"
and printed at the Imprimerie Imperiale, in 1805.

This history is composed in a pleasing, lively, and perspicuous style,
and the military operations are detailed with distinctness and precision.
The author has drawn the substance of his narrative from Lediard. He
has certainly spared no pains in consulting and comparing the writers of
all countries, though he is not more fortunate than Lediard in tracing
the motives of action, or in developing the intrigues of the cabinet; and
for the same reason, namely, that he had access to no unpublished docu-
ments. He was fully sensible of this deficiency, and acknowledged it
with laudable candour, when, in presenting a copy of his work to the
late duke of Marlborough, he solicited information from the family
papers. ^*

Another work, intimately connected with the subject of these memoirs,
must be particularly noticed: --