not only industrious to perfect himself in his art, but fond of promoting it.” His works were numerous, and have examples in the Emblem-books of his day. Otho van Veen, of a distinguished family, was born at Leyden in 1556. After a residence of seven years in Italy, he established himself at Antwerp, and had the rare claim to celebrity that Rubens became his disciple. In his Emblem-works the designs were by himself, but the engravings by his brother Gilbert van Veen. (Bryan, p. 853, 4.) Lawrence Pignorius, born at Padua, 1571, and educated at the Jesuits’ school and the university of that city, gained a high reputation by several learned works, and especially by those on Egyptian antiquities. He died of the plague in 1631. The work of Richard Lubbæus Broecmer, is little more than a reprint of one by Bernard Furmer, in 1575, _On the Use and Abuse of Wealth_. Jerome Aleander, nephew of one of Luther’s stoutest opponents, the Cardinal Aleander, was of considerable literary reputation at Rome, being a member of the society of Humourists, established in that city,—his death was in 1631. According to Oetlinger’s brief notice, _Bibliog. Biograph. Univ._, Gabriel Rollenhagen, of Magdeburg, was a German schoolmaster, born in 1542, and dying in 1609; his _Kernel of Emblems_ is well illustrated by Crispin de Passe. The same “excellent engraver” adorned _The Mirror of Heroes_, founded on Homer’s _Iliad_ by “le sieur de la Rivière, Isaac Hillaire.” Both Latin and French verses are appended to the Emblems, and at their end are curious “Epitaphs on the Heroes who fell in the Trojan war,” too late, it is to be feared, to afford any gratification to their immediate friends. To Jacobus à Bruck, surnamed of Angermunde, a town of Brandenberg, there belongs another Emblem-book, _Emblemata Politica_, Cologne, 1618. In it are briefly demonstrated the duties which belong to princes; it is dedicated “to his most merciful Prince and Lord, the Emperor Matthias I., ‘semper Augusto.’” GERMAN. De Bry _Emblemata 4to Francofurti 1596 Secvlaria—rhythmis _v._ Germanicis, &c._ ” ” ” ” 4to Oppenhemii 1611 _t._ Boissard _Shawspiel Menschliches 4to Franckf. 1597 Lebens_ _v._ Sadeler _Theatrum morum. Artliche 4to Praga 1608 gespräch der Thier, &c._ _v._ DUTCH OR FLEMISH. David _Christelücke_ 4to Antuerp 1603 _k._ Vænius _Zinnebeelden der 4to Amstel. 1603 Wereldtsche Liefde._ _v._