"La plupart des miniatures du volume sont signees G., 1519. La perfection qui les distingue les avait d'abord fait attribuer au celebre miniaturiste _Guilo Clovio_; maintenant on croit pouvoir affirmer qu'elles appartiennent a un peintre nomme Godefroy. Il se trouve a la bibliotheque de l'Arsenal une traduction francaise des Triomphes de Petrarque, avec des miniatures qui sont incontestablement de la meme main et de la meme epoque. Or, l'une de ces miniatures est signee _Godefroy_. "On peut voir le rapprochement que fait entre les deux manuscrits M. Waagen, dans l'ouvrage cite ci-dessus, Tome iii. p. 395. Il ne saurait, du reste, y avoir aucun doute sur le nom de l'artiste, lorsqu'on lit dans le _Bulletin du Bibliophile_ (pages deja citees) que {435} plusieurs des miniatures du Tome iii. sont signees _Godofredi pictoris_, 1520. "Ce precieux manuscrit ne sera pas vendu; il a ete legue par M. de Bure au departement des Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Imperiale." * * * * * WILLIAM BLAKE. (_Continued from_ p. 71.) I venture to send you another Note regarding William Blake, claiming for that humble individual the honour of being the pioneer in the establishment of charity-schools in Britain, from which department of our social system who can calculate the benefits accrued, and constantly accruing, to this country! We look in vain through the _Silver Drops_ of William Blake for any record of an existing institution, such as he would have his "noble ladies" rear at Highgate. Among the many incentives he uses to prompt the charitable, we do not find him holding up for their example any model (unless it be "Old Sutton's brave hospital"); in all his amusing "Charity-school Sticks," his tone is that of a man trying to persuade people that the thing he proposes is feasible. "Some of them," says the sanguine Blake, "have scarce faith enough to believe in the success of this great and good design. Nay, your brother Cornish himself," continues he, in addressing one of his ladies, although full of good works, "would have persuaded me to lay it down" upon the ground of its impracticability. The language of Blake is everywhere advocating this "_new_ way of charity." "If it be _new_," says he to an objector, "the more's the pity;" and, with reference to the possibility of failure, he would thus shame them into liberality. Speaking of his "fine, handsome, and well cloathed boys; not too fine, because they are the ladies'!" our enthusiast adds to this _soft sawdur_: "But now, if a year or two hence they should be grown, which God forbid! poor ragged, half-starved, and no cloaths, country folks would say, who ride or go that way, Were there not good ladies enough in and about London to maintain _one_ little school?"