"Voici une nouvelle édition du _Livres des merveilleux Secrets_ du Petit Albert, connu en Latin sous le titre d'Alberte Parvi Lucii, _Libellus de Mirabilibus Naturæ Arcanis_. L'auteur à qui on l'attribue, a été un de ces grands-hommmes qui par le peuple ignorant ont été accusez de magie. C'étoit autrefois le sort de tous les grands esprits qui possédoient quelque chose d'extraordinaire dans les sciences, de les traiter de magiciens. C'est peut-être par cette raison, que le petit trésor est devenu très rare, parceque les superstitieux ont fait scrupule de s'en servir; il s'est presque comme perdu, car une personne distinguée dans le monde a eu la curiosité (à ce qu'on assure) d'en offrir plus de mille florins pour un seul exemplaire, encore ne l'a-t-on pu découvrir que depuis peu dans la bibliothêque d'un très-grand homme, qui l'a bien voulu donner pour ne plus priver le public d'un si riche trésor," &c. Who was Albertus Parvus? when and where was his work published? Jarlzberg. _English Translations of Erasmus' Encomium Moriæ._--An English translation of _The Praise of Folly_ (with Holbein's plates), I think by Denham, Lond. 1709, alludes to _two_ previous translations; one by Sir Thomas Challoner, 1549; the other it does not name. I should like to know whose is the intermediate translation, and also what other translations have been made of that curious work? Jarlzberg. _Symbols of the Four Evangelists_.--St. Matthew _an angel_; St. Mark, _a lion_; St. Luke, _an ox_; St. John, _an eagle_. It is on account of its being a symbol of the Resurrection that the _lion_ is assigned to St. Mark as an emblem; St. Mark being called the historian of the Resurrection. (This title he probably obtained from his gospel being used on Easter Day.) The reason why the lion is taken as a symbol of the Resurrection is to be found in the fabulous history of the animal; according to which the whelp is born dead, and only receives life at the expiration of three days, on being breathed on by its father.--What are the reasons assigned for the other three Evangelists' emblems? Jarlzberg. _Portrait by Boonen._--Can any of your correspondents state the precise time when Boonen, said to be a pupil of Schalcken, flourished? And what eminent geographer, Dutch or English, lived during such period? This question is asked with reference to a picture by Boonen,--a portrait of a singular visaged man, with his hand on a globe, now at Mr. Peel's in Golden Square; the subject of which is desired to be ascertained. It may be the portrait of an astrologer, if the globe is celestial. Z.