introductions, a preface for the _Lector benevolus_, Latin verses, and a table showing what people ought to observe in travelling. Travelling, according to our friend, is the source of all wisdom; and he quotes Moses and the Prophets in support of his theory. We ought all to travel, he says,—“vita nostra peregrinatio est;” and those who stay at home like snails (_cochlearum instar_) will remain “inhumani, insolentes, superbi,” etc. It would take a long time to follow Paulus Hentznerus through all his peregrinations; but let us see what he saw in England. He arrived here in the year 1598. He took ship with his friends at _Depa_, vulgo _Dieppe_, and after a boisterous voyage, they landed at _Rye_. On their arrival they were conducted to a _Notarius_, who asked their names, and inquired for what object they came to England. After they had satisfied his official inquiries, they were conducted to a _Diversorium_, and treated to a good dinner, _pro regionis more_, according to the custom of the country. From _Rye_ they rode to _London_, passing _Flimwolt_, _Tumbridge_, and _Chepsted_ on their way. Then follows a long description of London, its origin and history, its bridges, churches, monuments, and palaces, with extracts from earlier writers, such as Paulus Jovius, Polydorus Vergilius, etc. All inscriptions are copied faithfully, not only from tombs and pictures, but also from books which the travellers saw in the public libraries. Whitehall seems to have contained a royal library at that time, and in it Hentzner saw, besides Greek and Latin MSS., a book written in French by Queen Elizabeth, with the following dedication to Henry VIII.:— “A Tres haut et Tres puissant et Redoubte Prince Henry VIII. de ce nom, Roy d’Angleterre, de France, et d’Irlande, defenseur de la foy, Elizabeth, sa Tres humble fille, rend salut et obedience.” After the travellers had seen St. Paul’s, Westminster, the House of Parliament, Whitehall, Guildhall, the Tower, and the Royal Exchange, commonly called _Bursa_,—all of which are minutely described,—they went to the theatres and to places _Ursorum et Taurorum venationibus destinata_, where bears and bulls, tied fast behind, were baited by bull-dogs. In these places, and everywhere, in fact, as our traveller says, where you meet with Englishmen, they use _herba nicotiana_, which they call by an American name _Tobaca_ or _Paetum_. The description deserves to be quoted in the original:— “Fistulæ in hunc finem ex argillâ factæ orificio posteriori dictam herbam probe exiccatam, ita ut in pulverem facile redigi possit, immittunt, et igne admoto accendunt, unde fumus ab anteriori parte ore attrahitur, qui per nares rursum, tamquam per infurnibulum exit, et phlegma ac capitis defluxiones magnâ copiâ secum educit.”