ENGLISH. Bynneman’s _Translation of Vander 8vo London 1569 Noot’s Theatre._ _v._ North _The Morall Philosophie of 4to London 1570 Doni_ _v._ Daniell _The worthy tract of 8vo London 1585 Paulus Jovius, &c._ _k._ Whitney _A Choice of Emblemes, 4to Leyden 1586 &c._ _k._ Henry Bynneman, whose name is placed before the version of Vander Noot’s _Theatre_, is not known with any certainty to have been the translator. He was a celebrated printer in London from about 1566 to 1583. Sir Thomas North, to whose translation of Plutarch, Shakespeare was largely indebted, was probably an ancestor of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Charles II. Samuel Daniell enjoyed considerable reputation as a poet, and on Spenser’s death in 1598, was appointed poet-laureate to the Queen. Of Whitney it is known that he was a scholar of Oxford and of Cambridge, and that his name appears on the roll of the university of Leyden. He was a native of Cheshire, and died there in 1601. It may be added that an edition of Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_ was in 1570 “Imprinted at London in Paules Churchyarde by John Cawood Printer to the Queenes Maiestie.” Thus, in the period between Shakespeare’s birth and his full entry on his dramatic career, we have named above sixty persons, many of great eminence, who amused their leisure, or indulged their taste, by composing books of Emblems; had we named also the editions of the same authors, within these twenty-five years, they would have amounted to 156, exclusive of many reprints from other authors who wrote Emblems between A.D. 1500 and A.D. 1564. II.—Shakespeare’s Dramatic Career comprises another period of twenty-five years,—from 1590 to 1615. From the necessity of the case, indeed, few, if any of the Emblem writers and compilers towards the end of the time could be known to him, and any correspondence between them in thoughts or expressions must have been purely accidental. For the completion of our Sketch, however, we proceed to the end of the period we had marked out. And to save space, and, we hope, to avoid tediousness, we will continue the tabulated form adopted in the last Section. ITALIAN. Bernardetti _Giornata prima dell’ ... ... about Imprese_ 1592 _v._ Capaccio _Delle Imprese trattato, 4to Napoli 1594 in tre libri diviso._ _k._ Tasso _Discorsi del Poeme_ 4to Napoli 1594 _k._