Abstract:

This essay argues for a new Hume attribution. It does so by pursuing an endnote—related to the Rev. Thomas Percy’s The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland—that Hume added to the 1773 edition of his History of England. Establishing the contexts of Hume’s elaborate endnote—including his later revisions to it and his correspondence with Percy, Adam Smith, William Strahan, and others—leads us to an anonymous book review of Percy’s volume, published in Gilbert Stuart’s Edinburgh Magazine and Review. If the argument presented here is right, that review is Hume’s. Appearing in January 1774, it is also the last known book review that Hume published.

摘要：

本文主张一种新的休谟归因。它通过追寻一个尾注——与托马斯·珀西牧师的《诺森伯兰郡第五伯爵亨利·阿尔杰农·珀西家族的规定和建立》相关——休谟在 1773 年版的《英格兰史》中添加了该尾注。建立休谟精心制作的尾注的背景——包括他后来对它的修订以及他与珀西、亚当·斯密、威廉·斯特拉汉等人的通信——引导我们对珀西的卷进行匿名书评，该书发表在吉尔伯特·斯图尔特的爱丁堡杂志和评论上。如果这里提出的论点是正确的，那么该评论就是休谟的。出现于 1774 年 1 月，这也是休谟最后出版的已知书评。