Erasmus' reply, dated 28 Jan. 1521 from Louvain, has no address but 'N. viro praepotenti'; and in consequence its connexion with Artlebus of Boskowitz has escaped notice. As was to be expected, he declined the proposal that he should set up a standard of Christian observance. He might criticize with all freedom the practices of monks and clergy and speak straightly of Papal iniquities: but the standard of the Church was still the life of Christ, and he would not arrogate to himself the right to draw the picture of this anew. He took the opportunity to lament, as he had done to Slechta, the discord prevailing in Bohemia, and to urge that a serious attempt should be made to reconcile the Brethren to the Church. But since his correspondence with Slechta the world had gone forward. Luther had burned the Pope's bull at Wittenberg, and Aleander at Worms was pressing the Diet to annihilate him. Erasmus has less to say to Artlebus in favour of the Brethren than he had said to Slechta: indeed, after the appeal for moderation, he goes no further than to condemn the attitude of the opponents of the Papacy, doubtless intending to include among them the Brethren. About Luther he would give no decided opinion. 'It is absurd how men condemn Luther's books without reading them. Some parts of Luther's writings are good; but parts are not, and over these I skip. If Luther stands by the Catholic Church, I will gladly join him.' Artlebus' reply is not extant; but a sentence in a letter of Erasmus to Wolsey a year later shows that the 'Bohemian Captain' was greatly vexed by the failure of his overtures. This is the last trace of Erasmus' correspondence with Bohemia. But, uncompromising as he had been in his refusal to both appeals, his influence there was only just at its commencement, if we may judge by the list of his works translated into Bohemian, which the Ghent bibliography has brought to light. The translation of his preface to the _Enchiridion_ was followed by his version of the _Saturnalia_ of Lucian (first published in 1517) in 1520; the _Precatio dominica_ (1523) in 1526; his version of the New Testament in 1533; some of the Colloquies in 1534; the _De Ciuilitate_ (1530) in 1537; the Paraphrase on St. Matthew (1522) and the _De puritate Ecclesiae_ (1536) in 1542; the _De immensa Dei misericordia_ (1524) in 1558 and 1573; the _Apophthegmata Graeciae sapientum_ (1514) in 12 editions between 1558 and 1599; the _De praeparatione ad mortem_ (1534) in 1564 and 1786; and the _Vidua Christiana_ (1529) in 1595. The envoys of the Brethren were perhaps wise enough to see that they had much to learn from the man who was courageous enough to preach caution and to let himself appear afraid. * * * * * INDEX Aberdeen University, 103-4. accuracy, new standards of, 258-61. Adrian VI, 107. Agricola, R., 14-21, 25-9, 31, 32, 63. Agrippa, H.C., 143. Aldus, 126, 128, 129, 135-6, 151, 253, 262-3. Aleander, 112, 136, 209, 297.