on p. i. _rev._ are, Enoch’s Translation, Christ’s Ascension, and the Translation of Elijah. The Aldine press at Venice, A.D. 1505, gave the world the first printed edition of the “HIEROGLYPHICA” of Horapollo. It was in folio, having in the same volume the Fables of Æsop, of Gabrias, &c. See Leemans’ _Horapollo_, pp. xxix-xxxv. A Latin version by Bernard Trebatius was published at Augsburg in 1515, at Bale in 1518, and at Paris in 1521; and another Latin version by Phil. Phasianinus, at Bologna in 1517. Previous to Shakespeare’s birth there were translations into French in 1543, into Italian in 1548, and into German in 1554,—and down to 1616 sixteen other editions may readily be counted up. John Haller, who had introduced printing into Cracow in 1500, published in 1507 the first attempt to teach logic by means of a game of cards; it was in Murner’s quarto entitled, “CHARTILUDIUM logice̦ seu Logica poetica vel memorativa cum jocundo Pictasmatis Exercimento,”—_A Card-game of Logic, or Logic poetical or memorial, with the pleasant Exercise of pictured Representation_. It is a curious and ingenious work, and reprints of it appeared at Strasburg in 1509 and 1518; at Paris, by Balesdens, in 1629; and again in 1650, 4to, by Peter Guischet. As an imitation of Brandt’s _Ship of Fools_, so far as it relates to the follies and caprices of mankind, mention should also be made of Murner’s “~Narren Beschwo^erung~,”—_Exorcism of Fools_,—Strasburg, 4to, 1512 and 1518; which certainly at Francfort, in 1620, gave origin to Flitner’s “NEBVLO NEBVLONVM,”—or, _Rascal of Rascals_. “~Speculū Paciētierum~ theologycis Consolationibus Fratris Ioannis de Tambaco,”—_The Mirror of Patience with the theological Consolations of Brother John Tambaco_,—Nuremberg, MCCCCCIX., 4to, is a work of much curiousness. On the reverse of the title is an Emblematical device of Job, Job’s wife, and the Devil, followed by exhortations to patience; and on the reverse of the introduction to the second part, also an Emblematical device,—the Queen of Consolation, with her four maidens by her side, and two men kneeling before her. The chapters on consolation are generally in the form of _sermonettes_, in which the maidens, three or four, or even a dozen, expatiate on different subjects proper for reproof, exhortation, and comfort. The devices in this volume are understood to be from the pencil of Albert Durer. This same year, 1509, witnessed two English translations, or paraphrases, of Brandt’s “~Narren Schif~,”—the one _The Shyppe of Fooles_, taken from the French by Henry Watson, and printed by De Worde;—the other rendered out of Latin, German, and French, _The Ship of Fooles_, by Alexander Barclay, and printed by Pinson. Of Watson little, if anything, is known, but Barclay is regarded as one of the improvers of the English tongue, and to him it is chiefly owing that a true Emblem-book was made popular in England.