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The Dance of Death.

president in tournaments. In other editions the cuts areon wood by the artist with the mark % ^ >%

In the margins of some of the " Horae," printed by Thiel-man Kerver, there are several grotesque figures of Death,independently of the usual Dance.

In many of the Bibles that have prints to the Revelations,that of Death on the pale horse is to be noticed.

In Petrarch's work " De remediis utriusque fortunae," bothin the German and Latin editions, there are several cutsthat relate materially to the subject. It may be as well tomention that this work has been improperly ascribed toPetrarch.

In many of the old editions of Petrarch's works whichcontain the triumphs, that of Death is usually accompaniedwith some terrific print of Death in a car drawn by oxen,trampling upon all conditions of men from the pope to thebeggar.

" Guilleville, Pelerin de la vie humaine." The pilgrimis conducted by Abstinence into a refectory, where he seesmany figures of Death in the act of feeding several personssitting at table. These are good people long deceased, whoduring.their lives have been bountiful to their fellow-creatures. At the end, the pilgrim is struck by Death withtwo darts whilst on his bed.

Death kicking at a man, his wife, and child. From somebook printed at Strasburg in the 16th century.

Death, as an ecclesiastic, sitting on the ground andwriting in a book. Another Death, holding an inscribedpaper in one hand, seizes with the other a man pointing toa similar paper; the Deity in a cloud looking on Fromthe same book.

" Mors," a Latin comedy, by William Drury, a professorof poetry and rhetoric in the English college**at Douay.It was acted in the refectory of the college and elsewhere,and with considerable applause, which it very well deserved.There is as much, and sometimes more, wit and humour init than are found in many English farces. It was printedat Douay, 1628, i2mo. with two other Latin plays, but notof equal interest.

A moral and poetical drama, in eleven scenes, entitled