Of such, the voice of supreme wisdom has long ago declared,--“neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.” FOOTNOTES: [148] Dr. Van Der Linde infers that the Latin edition of the Speculum, wholly printed with separable types, was the first, and the one with the twenty pages of solid blocks, the second. From the fact, that the curious manuscript of the “_Spiegel der behoudenis_,” (written on 290 8vo. leaves of vellum), which is preserved at Haarlem, has the following inscription at the end, “Dit boec is gheeyndet int jaer ons here_n_ MCCCC en_de_ III en_de_ tsestich opte_n_ XVI dach in jul. Een ave Maria on God voer die scrijver;” and that another inscription in it states, that it belonged to “Cayman Janszoen of Zierickzee, living with the Carthusians near Utrecht;” the Dr. comes to the following conclusion: “Therefore, the Speculum was written, and finished in the Dutch language at Utrecht in 1464, in the days _before_ the introduction of the art of printing.”... “Utrecht had an episcopal see, a gymnasium, a Burgundian prince,--indeed, if hypotheses are allowed, then is that of an _Utrecht_ origin of the Specula provisionally, the only reasonable one.”--pp. 34, 38. [149] Seven different kinds of types of the _Speculum_ school have been identified, and these are used in 43 different specimens, many of which are second and subsequent editions. It is not however, material to the validity of the argument, that the whole of these seven different kinds of types should be proved to have been made of wood; it is enough, in the absence of the actual types themselves, that there is reasonable evidence, from their appearance in print, as well as from the probabilities of the case, that some of them were so made. To argue, that because Trithemius, Bergellanus, J. F. Faust, or others, may have misrepresented, unintentionally or otherwise, some of the leading facts in connection with the origin, or the inventors, of typography, therefore, on this one point of the original use of wooden letters, in which they all agree, they are not to be believed, is unworthy of one who assumes the functions of, and desires to be looked up to as, a sound historical critic. ERRATA. Page 104 last line, for _Vindicæ_ read _Vindiciæ_ ” 153 ” ” Opolio ” Opilio ” 175 line 10, ” have to ” have had to ” 181 ” 8, ” Historv ” History ” 239 ” 8, ” say, ” says ” 331 ” 17, ” follows ” follow _Dedicated, by Special Permission, to_ HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH. _Foolscap 4to. 412 pages._ ADAM’S PEAK. LEGENDARY, TRADITIONAL, AND HISTORIC NOTICES of the SAMANALA and SRI´-PA´DA; with a Descriptive Account of the PILGRIMS’ ROUTE from Colombo to the Sacred Foot-print; to which are added, copious Notes, Appendices, and an Index. Illustrated by a Map of the Mountain District, and 10 wood-engravings. By WILLIAM SKEEN.