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artist's designs in his " Smaller Passion ;" and 

 though, owing perhaps t« the worn condition of 

 the blocks, the impressions are not remarkable for 

 clearness, yet any attempt to popularise the 

 works of this great reformer, who rose in Germany 

 simultaneously with kindred spirits in Italy, to 

 give a fresh impulse to art, is well worthy of en- 

 couragement. T. Harwood Pattison. 



" The Black Prince" a Tragedy. — There was 

 a MS. tragecly entitled The Death of the Black 

 Prince., said, in the Biographia Dramatica, to have 

 been sold as part of the library of the late Dr. 

 Sharpe. Can you inform me who this Dr. Sharpe 

 was, and whether he is likely to have been the 

 author of the play ? R. Inglis. 



" The General Review." — Can you give me any 

 information regarding the authorship of a periodi- 

 cal work called The General Review., printed in 

 1752 ? R. Inglis. 



La Duchesse de la Valliere. — Madame de Genlis, 

 in her Life of Madame de Maintenon (p. 92., Paris 

 edition, 1845), alludes to "cette fameuse epi- 

 gramme contre la duchesse de la Valliere." In a 

 foot-note is given the commencement, " Soyez 

 boiteuse, ayez quinze ans," etc. Can any of your 

 correspondents complete it ? G. R. B. 



Boston, Mass. 



Houses of Entertainment in 1608. — Can evi- 

 dence be adduced in favour of the following asser- 

 tions, or does Heywood merely exert the poet's 

 immemorial privilege pf lying ? — 



" The gentry to the King's Head, 

 The nobles to the Crown, 

 The knights unto the Golden Fleece, 

 And to the Plough the clown. 

 The churchman to the Mitre, 

 The shepherd to the Star, 

 The gardener hies him to the Rose, 

 To the Drum the man of war. 

 To the Feathers, ladies you," &c. 



Of course it is natural enough that the noble 

 should seek the place which nobles most affect ; 

 that the politician should attend houses patronised 

 by politicians generally, and the literary men seek 

 the haunts of literary men. But Heywood's lines 

 imply more than this, and more than is likely. 



Threlkeld. 



Barker, the Sophister of King's. — In Registrum 

 Regale., ed. 1847, p. 25., it is stated that Brian 

 Howe (elected from Eton to King's, 1499) was 

 author of the preface to a book called Scutum In- 

 expugnabile, written by one Barker, called " the 

 Sophister of King's." We trust some of your cor- 

 respondents can give more definite information as 

 to this Barker and his book. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Jean de Crepin. — In a recent first class exhi- 

 bition of water-colour drawings was shown a pic- 

 ture by " Johannot," with the subject given as 

 " The Arrest of Jean de Crepin by order of Riche- 

 lieu." Who was Jean de Crepin ? and where is 

 the narrative, historic or otherwise, to be found ? 



Anon. 



Gildon^s " Lives of the Dramatic Poets." — In 

 the Bodleian Library is preserved an interleaved 

 copy of this work, with corrections, in the auto- 

 graph of Coxeter, who, it seems, intended a new 

 edition. Perhaps some of your Oxford corre- 

 spondents will say if these corrections are nu- 

 merous and important. Edward F. Rimbault. 



" Finetti Philoxensis." — This curious diary of 

 an old " Master of the Ceremonies to two Kings," 

 was published after the author's death by his 

 friend James Howell. Oldys (British Librarian, 

 p. 163.) gives a careful account of its contents, 

 and mentions that there was a MS. in being more 

 full than the one published. Can any of your 

 readers give me the locality of this MS. at 

 present ? Edward F. Rimbaui-t. 



Manu.script of Job : " Katho" its Printer. — I 

 should be much obliged for information respecting 

 the following Queries ? 



1. An early English written MS. of Job, with 

 interlineal commentary. The text occupies about 

 a third of the page. It begins with a prologue : 



"Job gentilis plurimorum assertionibus extitisse per- 

 hibetur," &c. 



Next to this comes, — 



" Quaedam historice hie dicuntur et allegorice, et mo- 

 raliter, quaedam nequeunt ad litteram accipi, quia erronea 

 sunt," &c. 



Then comes the commentary : 



" Per Job Christus, id est, caput vel corpus designatur ; 

 ergo per historiam viso ex capite," &c. 



Again it says : 



" Allegorice : Job, dolens, id est, Christus qui dolores 

 nostros portavit." 



It ends with — 



" Plena dierura (i. e. the church) moritur cui labentes 

 anni non transeunt, sed (actuum) Stantium retributione 

 solidantur. Plena dierum moritur quia per baec transe- 

 untia tempora ad id quod non transit operatur." 



Can any of your numerous correspondents in- 

 form me who was the author, and where he lived ? 

 The book was written about the beginning of the 

 fourteenth century. 



2. Who was the printer of Katho de omni Cecitate 

 Hominis errantis in Via Morum ? It Is finely printed 

 in single columns, with about two inches of 

 margin ; there are thirty-four lines in the page. 

 The capitals throughout are printed in outline, 

 filled in afterwards with colour. The pages are 

 folioed in uncial letters, and the date cannot be 



