His criticisms on the merit of the engravings in De Mechel's work cannot be justified, for though they may occasionally be faulty, they are very neatly, and many will think beautifully executed. What Hegner has said respecting the alphabets of initial letters, is at once futile and inaccurate; but his comment on Hans Lutzenberger deserves the severest censure. Adverting to the inscription with the name of this fine artist on one of the sets of the initials, he terms him "an itinerant _bookseller_, who had bought the blocks and put his name on them;" and this after having himself referred to a print on which Lutzenberger is called FORMSCHNEIDER, _i. e._ woodcutter: making in this instance a clumsy and dishonest effort to get rid of an excellent engraver, who stands so recorded in opposition to his own untenable system. The very important and indelible expressions in the dedication to the first known edition of the Lyons wood-cuts, he very modestly terms "a play upon words," and endeavours to account for the death of the painter by supposing Holbein's absence in England would warrant the language of the dedication. This is indeed a most desperate argument. Frellon, the publisher and proprietor of the work, must have known better than to have permitted the dedication to accompany his edition had it been susceptible of so silly a construction. He again adheres to the improbable notion that _Holbein engraved_ the cuts to the Lyons book, and this in defiance of the mark or monogram [monogram: HL] which this painter never used; nor will a single print with Holbein's accredited name be found to bear the slightest resemblance to the style of the wood-cuts. Even those in Cranmer's catechism, which approach the nearest to them, are in a different manner. His earlier engravings on wood, whether in design only, or as the engraver, resemble those by Urs Graaf, who, as well as Holbein, decorated the frontispieces or titles to many of the books printed at Basle. It is not improbable that Urs Graaf was at that time a pupil of Holbein.