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of the editors." This work is executed in so beautiful andaccurate a manner that it might easily be mistaken for thewood originals.

The professor has substituted German verses, com-municated by a friend, instead of the former Latin ones.He states that the subject will be taken up by ProfessorMassman, of Munich, whose work will satisfy all inquiriesrelating to it. Massman, however, has added to this volumea sort of explanatory appendix, in which some of the edi-tions are mentioned. He thinks it possible that the choleramay excite the same attention to this work as the plaguehad formerly excited to the old Macaber Dance at Basle,and concludes with a promise to treat the subject more a;large at some future time.

COPIES OF THE SAME DESIGNS, ENGRAVED IN COPPER.

I. " Todten Dantz durch alle stande und Geschlecht derMenschen, &c." i. e. " Death's Dance through all ranks andconditions of men." This title is on a frontispiece repre-senting a gate of rustic architecture, at the top of which aretwo boy angels with emblems of mortality between them,and underneath are the three Fates. At the bottom, Adamand Eve with the tree of knowledge, each holding the applepresented by the serpent. Between them is a circular table,on which are eight skulls of a Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, &c.with appropriate mottoes in Latin. On the outer edge ofthe table statvtvm est omnibvs hominibvs semel moripost hoc avtem ivdicivm. In the centre the letters mvs,the terminating syllable of each motto. Before the gateare two pedestals, inscribed memento mori and memorarenovissima, on which stand figures of Death supporting twopyramids or obelisks surmounted with skulls and a cross,and inscribed iter ad vitam. Below, "Eberh. Kieserexcudit." This frontispiece is a copy of a large printengraved on wood long before. Without date, in quarto.

The work consists of sixty prints within borders offlowers, &c. in the execution of which two different andanonymous artists have been employed. At the top 01each print is the name of the subject, accompanied with apassage from Scripture, and at the bottom three :ouplets o :