_Die Ungöttliche Comödie_ is not by Batornicki, but translated by him from the Polish. In the preface he apologises for inelegant German, as that is not his native language; and I presume he is a Pole, as he says the author's name is known among us (_unter uns_). As he calls it a poem (_Dichtung_) the original is probably in verse. I think the Munich critic could have seen only some extracts from the _Comoedia Divina_; for, so far from Batornicki "plundering freely," I do not find any resemblance between the works except in the sole word _comoedia_. The _Comoedia Divina_ is a mockery, not political, but literary, and as such anti-mystic and conservative. _Die Ungöttliche Comödie_ is wild, mystical, supernatural, republican, and communistic. It contains passages of great power, eloquence, and pathos. German critics are often prosy and inefficient, but not given to wilful misrepresentation or carelessness in examining the books they review. The writer in the Munich journal must be held an exception. H. B. C. U. U. Club. * * * * * {571} LIVERIES WORN BY GENTLEMEN. (Vol. vi., p. 146.; Vol. viii., p. 473.) The prevalence of the custom of the liveries of noble and other persons being worn by others than the retainers of the family, in the reigns of Henry VI. and Elizabeth, is exemplified by two documents preserved amongst the MSS. of the corporation of this borough. The first, which is also curious as a specimen of the language of the period, is an award under the seal of Margaret of Anjou; under whom, as they had previously done under Katherine, queen of Henry V., the corporation farmed the bailiwick of the town: