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Le dernier fiit Drac, avec quatre pieds fort courts, jaune et 

 verd, le corps par-dessus flambant briin, comme du feu bleu, et sa 

 queue rougedtre. 



This last grovelling spirit must have been the red-tape 

 devil of the party. 



Ces sept avec Belial, qui sont ces conseillers d'entretien, etoient 

 ainsi habillez de couleiu-s et fafons, qui out ete recitees. 



Then came a rabble of fiends, some in the shapes of 

 unknown creatures; others less ambitious, taking the 

 forms of frogs, fallow deer, red deer, bears, wolves, apes, 

 hares, buffaloes, horses, goats, boar-pigs, and the like: 

 but are they not pictured in the fearful nightmare of 

 Walpurgis night by the hand of Retszch, under the in- 

 spiration of Goethe ? 



We must lay down this fascinating old book,* even 

 though we shut it in the face of oiu" reader, albeit the in- 

 domitable Faust, no whit abashed, bids his friend 'go 

 on ;' and stands undaunted the infernal battle wherein all 

 these diabolical forms eat each other up, after changing 

 to as many shapes as the Princess in the Ai'abian story, 

 without even leaving their tails, to say nothing of the 

 plague of insects which afterwards comes upon him and 

 drives him almost mad ; till bitten, stung, and blistered all 

 over by the vilest vermin, he leaves the enchanted atmo- 

 sphere of Belial and his study — not beaten, mind you — 

 and coming forth into the blessed air of nature, finds that 

 it is all a diabolical delusion, and that his skin is un- 

 sullied by a single insect, parasitic or predatory. 



When Faust has Mephistopheles, thereafter, assigned 

 to him, what adventures! But we must not be tempted 

 further, though Alexander the Great himself is made to 

 apj)ear to the emperor, Charles Y., as \dvidly as the 



* Histoire prodigieuse et lamentable de Jean Faust, Grand 

 Magicien, avec son testament, et sa vie epouvantable. A Cologne, 

 cbez les Heritiers de Pierre Marteau. 



