text:  It is we trust proved to every candid reader that with the exception of one anecdote entertaining in itself but betraying the greatest ignorance of Spanish manners two or three allusions to the current scandal and topics of the day and the insertion of several novels avowedly translated from other Spanish writers; all the merit of Le Sage consists in dividing a manuscript placed by his friend the Abbe de Lyonne in his possession into two stories--one of which was _Gil Blas_ and the other confessed by himself to be a translation and published long after the former was the _Bachelier de Salamanque_