[They were _S_tephen _M_arshall, _E_dmund _C_alamy, _T_homas _Y_oung, _M_atthew _N_ewcomen, and _W_illiam _S_purstow: their followers were called _Smectymnuans_. See Butler's _Hudibras_, with Grey's notes, Part I, canto iii. line 1166.] Replies. LIBER CONFORMITATUM. (Vol. iii., p. 321.) Bartholomæo degli Albizzi, or Bartholomew of Pisa, who wrote the famous BOOK OF CONFORMITIES, was born at Rivano in Tuscany, and died in 1401. Mr. Rose's admirable _Biographical Dict._ (12 vols. 8vo. 1850) contains the following passage relative to this work, under the name Albizzi:-- "The LIBER CONFORMITATUM _was first printed at Venice, folio, without date or printer's name_; 2nd edition, folio, black letter, Milan, 1510; 3rd, Milan, 1513. In 1590, Father Bucchi (a Franciscan) published another edition at _Bologna_, but with considerable curtailment; and as it did not sell, it was republished in 1620 _with the first two leaves changed_, in order to disguise it. "The approbation of the Chapter of the Order is found in this edition, bearing date Aug. 2, 1399. Tiraboschi (i. 181.), who is very angry with MARCHAND for occupying SIXTEEN COLUMNS OF THE DICT. HIST. WITH AN ENUMERATION OF THE EDITIONS OF THIS WORK AND ANSWERS TO IT, should have remembered that after such an approbation, it is no longer the mere work of an individual. "In 1632, it was published at _Cologne_ with a new title; and in 1658 at _Liege_, but very much altered. Wading (_Bibl. Ord. Min._) has given a catalogue of Albizzi's other works, which has been copied by Casimir, Oudin, and Fabricius." A Venice edition, then, it would appear according to this writer, is the _original edition_; and that of Milan, 1510, is but the _second_. Will any one give me some accurate information on this point? Brunet and the publishers of the various editions of "L'Alcoran," seem quite ignorant of the existence of any edition previous to that of Milan, 1510. DR. ERASMUS ALBER, the compiler of the _Alcoranus Franciscorum_, was "a warm friend and violent partizan of Luther; his chief characteristic is severe, but broad, coarse satire." The Amsterdam edition of 1734 commences the 1st vol. with a preface in French, by Conrad Badius, which is succeeded by one from Luther in Latin: at the end of the same vol. occurs another and longer _Præfatio Martini Lutheri, Germanico libello præfixa utcumque translata_; then follow _Typographus Lectori_, and _Ex Epistola Erasmi Alberi, qui hunc libellum ex detestando illo Conformitatum volumine contexuit_.