"Compare with him Milton, for his _Lucifer_ gives the fairest means of comparison. How weak are his highest flights compared with those of the bard of Paradise! and how much does Vondel sink beneath him in his failures! Now and then the same thought may be found in both, but the points of resemblance are not in passages which do Milton's reputation the highest honour." The scene of this strange drama is laid in Heaven, and the _dramatis personæ_ are as follows:-- Beelzebub } Belial } Disobedient Officers. Apollion } Gabriel (Interpreter of God's secrets). Troop of Angels. Lucifer. Luciferists (Rebellious Spirits). Michael (Commander-in-chief). Rafael (Guardian Angel). Uriel (Michael's Esquire). Act I. Scene 1. Beelzebub, Belial, Apollion, &c. I give this from the original Dutch now before me. HERMES. _Dutch Version of Dr. Faustus_.--Can any of your correspondents give me information as to the author of a Dutch _History of Dr. Faustus_, without either author's name or date, and illustrated by very rude engravings? There is no mention of where it was printed, but at the bottom of the title-page is the following notice:-- "Compared with the high Dutch copy, and corrected in many places, and ornamented with beautiful copper plates."[3] There is also a promise of a Latin copy soon to follow. HERMES. [The first German chap-book upon _Faust_ appeared in 1587. A translation of it into Dutch was published as early as 1592, at Emmerich. It was again printed at Delft in 1607; and there have been several editions since that date. The curious history of this romance has been well investigated by H. Düntzer, _Die Sage von Doctor Johannes Faust_, in the 5th volume of _Das Kloster_; and even more fully by the Freiherr v. Reichlien Meldegg, in the 11th volume of the same work.] _To Fettle_.--Your correspondent L.C.R. (p. 142) is referred to the late Mr. Roger Wilbraham's _Cheshire Glossary_, or (as he modestly termed it) _An Attempt_, &c. This work, privately printed in 1820, is the republication, but with _very considerable additions_, of a paper in the _Archaeologia_, vol. xix. The explanation of the present word is an instance of this expansion. Your correspondent and Mr. W. agree as to the meaning of this verb, viz. "to mend, to put in order any thing which is broken or defective." Being used in this sense, Mr. W. differs from Johnson and Todd, and he is inclined to derive Fettle from some deflection of the word _Faire_, which comes from Latine _Facere_. I must not crowd your columns further, but refer to the _Glossary_. May I point out rather a ludicrous misprint (doubtless owing to an illegible MS.) at p. 120. For Mr. Pickering's _Lives_, read _Series_ of Aldine Poets. J.H.M. To Fetyl, _v. n._ To join closely. See G. _factil. ligamen._--Wyntown. Fettil, Fettle, s. Energy, power.--S.B. To Fettle, _v. a._ To tie up.--S.