But in addition hereto, a full inscription runs along each back, at top and bottom and each side, stamped with _movable metal types_ applied by hand, {406} without gold, as is done by the bookbinder to this day in blind stamping. The legend on the first back is as follows: _At top._--"DIEZ . PUCHLE[=I] _Continued to the right._--IST . S. . MARGRETEN . _At the bottom._--SCHUEST . AB[=T] . ZU . _Continued to the left._--S. . KATHERE[=I] . ZU . MUR." That is,-- "Diez puchlein ist schwester Margreten, sehuest abtisse zu Sankt Katherein zu Mur." The legend on the last back is,-- _At top._--"NACH . CRIST . _Continued to the right._--GEPURT . MCCCCXXXV . _At bottom._--UVART . GEPUN _Continued to the left._--D[=E] . DIEZ . PUCH ... K." That is,-- "Nach Crist gepurt MCCCCXXXV uvart gepunden diez puch ... k." The whole inscription will therefore be, in English,-- THIS BOOKLET IS SISTER MARGARET'S, SISTER-ABBESS AT SAINT CATHERINE'S AT MUR. AFTER CHRIST'S BIRTH, 1435, WAS BOUN- DEN THIS BOOK ... K. A letter or two is illegible, from the injury made by the clasp, before the last K. Both the clasps are torn away, perhaps from their having been of some precious metal. Has this K anything to do with Koester? Can any particulars be given of the abbess, monastery, and town mentioned? Is any other specimen of movable _metal_ types known of so early a date? GEORGE STEPHENS. Copenhagen. * * * * * PORTRAITS AT BRICKWALL HOUSE. Among the pictures at Brickwall House, Northiam, Sussex, are the following portraits by artists whose names are not mentioned either in Bryan, or Pilkington, or Horace Walpole's notices of painters. I shall be thankful for any information respecting them. 1. A full-length portrait in oils (small size) on canvas (29 inches by 24) of a gentleman seated, dressed in a handsome loose gown, red slippers, and on his head a handsome, but very peculiar velvet cap; on the ground, near him, a squirrel; and on a table by his side, a ground plan of some fortification. "John Sommer _pinxit_, 1700." N. B.--The late Capt. Marryatt, and subsequently another gentleman, guessed it to be a portrait of Wortley Montague from the peculiar dress; but the fortification would seem to indicate a military personage. The picture is well painted. 2. A half-length portrait in oils (small size) on canvas (20-1/2 inches by 17), of an old lady seated; a landscape in the background. A highly finished and excellent picture; the lace in her cap is most elaborate. "T. Vander Wilt, 1701." N. B.--I conclude this is the artist's name, though possibly it may be the subject's. 3. A pair of portraits (Kit Kat size), of John Knight of Slapton, Northamptonshire, aged seventy-two; and Catherine his wife, aged thirty-seven. "Lucas Whittonus _pinxit_, 1736."