Whitney (Geoffrey). A Choice of Emblems and other Devises. Englished and Moralized by Geoffrey Whitney. With numerous Woodcuts. 4to. Leyden, 1586. Imprinted at Leyden in the house of Christopher, by Grancis Raphalengius. Willet (Andrew). Sacrorum Emblematum Centuria Una quae tam ad exemplum apte expressa sunt, &c. No Plates. 4to. Cantabr. n. d. (1598.) Wither (George). A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened with Metricall Illustrations both Morall and Divine. The Plates, 200 in number, were engraved by Crispin Pass. Folio, Lond. 1635. Printed by A. M. for Henry Taunton. Wynne (John Huddlestone). Choice Emblems for the Improvement of Youth. Plates. 12mo. Lond. 1772. [Footnote 1: We must exempt from this sweeping assertion a very interesting and well-written account of works on this subject, entitled "A Sketch of that Branch of Literature called Books of Emblems, as it flourished during the 16th and 17th centuries, by Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq., F.S.A.," of West Dingle, near Liverpool, the friend of Roscoe, and the worthy and intelligent President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, read at their meetings, and of which two parts have already been printed in their volumes of _Proceedings_. This "Sketch" only requires to be enlarged and completed, with specimens added of the different styles of the engravings, to render it everything that is to be desired on the subject.] [Footnote 2: Perhaps this, and the works of Colman and Heywood, are scarcely to be considered as _Books of Emblems_.] * * * * * AUTHOR OF TRACT ON "ADVANTAGES OF THE EAST INDIA TRADE, 1720, 8vo." Of this pamphlet, originally published in 1701, 8vo., under the title of _Considerations upon the East India Trade_, and afterwards in 1720, 8vo., with a new title-page, _The Advantages of the East India Trade to England considered_, containing {472} 128 pages, inclusive of Preface, the author never yet been ascertained. Mr. M^cCulloch accords to it, and very deservedly, the highest praise. He styles it (_Literature of Political Economy_, p. 100.) "a profound, able, and most ingenious tract;" and observes that he has "set the powerful influence of the division of labour in the most striking point of view, and has illustrated it with a skill and felicity which even Smith has not surpassed, but by which he most probably profited." Addison's admirable paper in _The Spectator_ (No. 69.) on the advantages of commerce, is only an expansion of some of the paragraphs in this pamphlet. In some parts I think he has scarcely equalled the force of his original. Take, for instance, the following sentences, which admit of fair comparison: