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whicli are attached explanatory Jjatiii verses by Hartman 

 Schopper. In a long and laboured dedication of the work to 

 his friend and patron Oswald Ab Eck, the editor expatiates 

 upon the cares and sufferings to which human nature is 

 subject, amongst which he enumerates the various trades 

 which men are constrained to exercise. " Of all these ills/' 

 says he, " the apostacy and transgression of our first parents 

 " has been the cause. For if Adam had not fallen, we should 

 ** have had no trading or mechanic arts, no shoe makers, tailors, 

 "dyers, carvers, weavers, furriers, painters, &c., no discomforts 

 "arising from bad weather, no bad crops, or noxious beasts — 

 "all of which were introduced through the disobedience of 

 " our first parents. It is however a great consolation to re- 

 " fleet that this earth is not our lasting abode, so that we may 

 " by patience rise superior to these evils. And moreover man 

 " has within him, as it were, a noble workshop abounding in 

 " wonderful and innumerable supplies of immense value from 

 " God himself. From him therefore all these mechanical arts 

 "are unquestionably derived." The author then sets forth 

 the necessity of diligence, humility, and mutual good- will in 

 the exercise of our respective callings. Many curious descrip- 

 tions are given. At pages M 7. and Q 8. the double occupation 

 of the barber is plainly notified to be shaving and curing of 

 wounds. Another page exhibits the trade of a purse maker — 

 of great importance at that period, when the nature of the 

 currency was such as to require very large bags made of the 

 skins of animals or other strong materials. They bore some 

 resemblance, in size and shape, to the reticules carried by 

 females at the present day, but were suspended from the body 

 by a strong girdle. They may be seen in the paintings and 

 engravings of portraits taken in the sixteenth century, and are 

 worn by the Scotch Highlanders to this day. Hence the 

 origin of the term cut-purse, as applied to a tluef by Shake- 

 spear and other old writers. In the present engraving a 

 number of purses are hung up in the shop, some of which are 



