The Stork is described as a bird of extreme purity; and as nourishing, with wonderful affection, father and mother in their old age. The “interpretation” or application of the fact is;—“So also it behoves us to observe these two divine commands, that is to turn aside from evil and to do good, as the kingly prophet wrote; and likewise in the decalogue the Lord commands, thus saying;—Honour thy father and thy mother.” In a similar way the properties and habits of various animals,—of the lion, the elephant, the stag, the eagle, the pelican, the partridge, the peacock, &c., are adduced to enforce or symbolize virtues of the heart and life, and to set forth the doctrines of the writer’s creed. To illustrate the Emblem side of Christian Art a great variety of information exists in _Sketches of the History of Christian Art_, by Lord Lindsay (3 vols. 8vo: Murray, London, 1847); and Northcote and Brownlow’s _Roma Sotterranea_, compiled from De Rossi (8vo: Longmans, London, 1869) promises to supply many a symbol and type of a remote age fully to set forth the same subject. [Illustration: _Giovio, 1556._] ----- Footnote 1: See the _Olympica_, 12. 10: “σύμβολον πιστὸν ἀμφὶ πράξιος ἐσομένης.” Also Æschylus, _Agamemnon_, 8: “καὶ νῦν φυλάΣΣΑ λαμπ/δος τὸ σύμβολον.” Footnote 2: _Syntagma De Symbolis_, &c., per Clavdivm Minoëm, Lvgdvni, M.DC.XIII. p. 13: “Plerique sunt non satis acuti, qui Emblema cum Symbolo, cum Ænigmate, cum Sententia, cum Adagio, temerè & imperitè confundunt. Fatemur Emblematis quidem vim in symbolo sitam esse: sed differunt, inquam, vt Homo & Animal: alterum enim hîc maximè generaliùs accipi, specialiùs verò alterum norũt omnes qui aliquid indicii habeant.” Footnote 3: “LA VITA ET METAMORFOSEO:” “A Lione, per Giouanni di Tornes,” 8vo, 1559, pp. 2, 3. Footnote 4: ... “θύρην δ’ ἔχε μοῦνος ἐπιβλὴς Εἰλάτινος.” Footnote 5: ... “σκῆπτρον δέ οἱ ἔμβαλε χερὶ Κήρυξ Πεισήνωρ.” Footnote 6: ... “Νῆας ἐνιπρῆσαι, ὅτε μὴ αὐτὸς γε Κρονίων Ἐμβάλοι αἰθόμενον δαλὸν νήεσσι θοῇσιν.” Footnote 7: Philemon Holland names the work of art, “A broad goblet or standing piece,”—_“with a device appendant to it,_ for to be set on and taken off with a vice.” Footnote 8: Now the property of his grandson, Mr. Henry Yates Thompson, of Thingwall, near Liverpool. Footnote 9: “Quidam . . . . scriptos eos (scilicet locos) memoriæque diligentissime mandatos, inpromptu habuerent, ut quoties esset occasio, extemporales eorum dictiones, his, velut Emblematibus exornarentur.”—_Quint. Lib. 2, cap. 4._ Footnote 10: So the note in illustration quotes from Gower, _Conf. Am_. f. 190, “Upon _the gaudees_ all without Was wryte of gold, _pur reposer_.” Footnote 11: See Smith’s _Dictionary of Gk. and Rom. Ant._, p. 377 _b_, article EMBLEMA. Footnote 12: