The Dance of Death.

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hunting-spear, pushes a naked figure into the mouth of hell,in which are seen a pope and two monks. Behind thisgroup, Moses, with a pair of bulls' horns, and attended bytwo Jews, holds the tables of the law. In the distance thetemptation, and the brazen serpent.

A German translation of the well-known block book,the "Ars Moriendi," was printed at Dilingen, 1569, 121110.with several additional engravings on wood. It is perhapsthe last publication of the work. On the title-page is anoval cut, representing a winged boy sleeping on a skull,and Death shooting an arrow at him. The first cut exhibitsa sort of Death's Dance, in eight small compartments. 1.A woman in bed just delivered of a child, with which Deathis running away. 2. A man sitting at a table : Death seizeshim behind, and pulls him over the bench on which he issitting. 3. Death drowning a man in a river. 4. Flamesof fire issue from a house : Death tramples on a manendeavouring to escape. 5. Two men fighting, one ofwhom pierces the other with his sword. The woundedman is seized by Death, the other by the Devil. 6. A manon horseback is seized by Death, also mounted behind. 7.Death holds his hour-glass to a man on his death-bed. 8.Death leading an aged man to the grave. At the end ofthis curious volume is a singular cut, entitled " SymbolumM. Joannis Stotzinger Presbyteri Dilingensis." It exhibitsa young man sitting at a table, on which is a violin, music-books, and an hour-glass. On the table is written respicefinem. Near him his guardian angel holding a label, in-scribed angelvs astat. Behind them Death about tostrike the young man with his dart, and over him morsminatvr. At the end of the table Conscience as a female,whom a serpent bites, with the label conscientia mordet,and near her the Devil, with the label diabolvs accvsat.Above is the Deity looking down, and the motto devsvidet.

"II Cavallero Determinado," Antwerp, 1591, 4to. Atranslation from the French romance of Olivier de laMarche, with etchings by Vander Borcht. The last printrepresents Death, armed with a coffin-lid as a shield,attacking a knight on horseback. In several of the otherprints Death is represented under the name of Atropos, as