_François Bonivard_, to whom we owe the vivid pictures of the agitations which marked the beginning of the sixteenth century, was born of Savoyard parents, in 1493, at Seyssel. At seventeen he became prior of St. Victor, a community of Benedictines near Geneva. Revolutionist at heart, he entered into the struggle against the duke of Savoy, who in 1519 imprisoned him and confiscated his priory. He died in 1570, aged seventy-seven years, after a troubled youth and a melancholy old age as pensioner in the city where he had once been a man of mark. He left behind him the invaluable chronicle of his time, written half in Latin, half in the quaint French of his day, in a style at once rude and naive, familiar and vigorous, and brimming with picturesque imagery and lively metaphor. =Bonnechose=, E. de, Les Réformateurs avant la Réforme, Paris, 1860, 3rd edition, 2 vols.--=Brandstetter=, J. L., Repertorium über die Zeit und Sammelschriften der Jahre, 1812-1890, Bâle, 1892.--=Bulletin= official du Directoire Helvétique, 3 vols.--=Bullinger=, H., Reformationsgeschichte, Frauenfeld, 1838-40, 3 vols. _Henry Bullinger_ was born at Bremgarten in 1504 and died at Zurich in 1575. After a preliminary course at Emmerich, his father having refused him the means necessary to continue his education, he made money by singing in the streets and in 1520 he recommenced his studies at Cologne, with the idea of joining the community of the Chartreux. But his resolution and his religion as well were changed by his association with Zwingli, whose doctrine he embraced and whose successor he became. In addition to his history of the Reformation and numerous theological writings he edited the complete works of Zwingli. =Burckhardt=, Der Kirchenschatz des Münsters zu Basel, Bâle, 1867. * * * * * =Cæsar=, J., De bello gallico.--=Casus S. Galli.= By Ekkehard IV. Translated by G. Meyer von Knonau, Leipsic, 1878.--=Chambrier=, F. de, Histoire de Neuchâtel et Valangin jusqu’à l’avènement de la maison de Prusse, Neuchâtel, 1840. _Frédéric de Chambrier_, the real founder of the Academy of Neuchâtel, was a man of wide culture and varied resources. In his _Histoire_ he follows faithfully, century by century, the progress of the little but proud and independent people of Neuchâtel, handling his character analyses with skill and persisting in a style at once simple and dignified.