Precamur ergo Deos, ut quam maturimè finiatur certAMEN. AMEN. Whoever was the author of the above facetiousness, was indebted for the idea to a book of no common occurrence, of which the title is “Lusus Imaginis Jocosæ sive Echus, a variis Poetis, variis linguis et numeris exculti. Ex Bibliotheca Theodori Dousæ, I. F. Accessit M. Schoockii Dissertatio de natura Soni et Echus. Ultrajecti. Ex officina Ægidii Roman. Acad. Typog. 1638.” The volume consists of poems, in the style and manner of that above printed, in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Dutch, German, and English; as for example: Echo in Nuptias Nobiliss. Viri HENRICI Van EEDEN et Nobil. Virginis DOUSÆ, quæ maternum stemma ducit e familia Dominorum Van REEDEN. Dic age quem thalamo deposcit filia REEDEN? _Eeden_—num thalamo vota parata? _rata._ Num sponsum moresque probos adamabit? _amabit_ Qualis ei conjunx? res operosa? _rosa._ Quæ pestis procul esse velis? _lis_—optima virtus Conjugii quæ sit, dic mihi clamor? _amor._ Dicite saxa, thori quæ spes, num fœmina vel mas _Mas._ At Posteritas quos sibi dicet avos? _Vos._ Sibi num celebres Downas annectere gaudet? _Audet_—Quid sponso dicere mane? _mane_— Num colet Henricus teneram siue labe puellam? _Ellam_—num magnum credet amare? _mare_— An mihi tam chari thalami fas dicere civis? _Si vis_—at Musæ si faveant? _aveant_— Num candor, doctrina, boni cultura sodalis, Et probitans illi est unica Thais? _ais._ C. BARLÆUS. This Caspar, or Gaspar Barlæus was a very learned physician of Antwerp, of whom Vossius says, “Dubium Poeta melior an Philosophus.” Many of his works are extant, and highly esteemed. But, to return to our subject. Let not such of ⸺’s surviving friends as may peruse this article take offence, when it is asserted that he was not the most profound of scholars, nor was his taste the finest and most accurate in the world; but he was certainly an excellent teacher, and many very eminent scholars have been produced under his guidance. He was far from deficient in judgment, was possessed of excellent common sense, and was wise enough to turn his familiar and intimate connection with Porson to excellent use. Many a lecture on the Greek dramas has smacked sensibly of the Professor. It is not known that he ever wrote any thing by which (the sermon above-mentioned excepted) his intellectual powers, or acquired attainments, can be brought to the test. The oration which follows in the Appendix was undoubtedly of his composition. As one of Porson’s has been exhibited, composed by him in very early youth, it should be noticed that the oration subjoined was produced not a great while before ⸺ changed this state for a better.