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The Dance of Death.

on a curtain held by two winged boys. At the top, a figureof Death, at bottom another of Time kneeling on a globe.In the right-hand corner, which is torn, there seems to havebeen a hand coupe, with a bracelet as a crest; in the left, acoat of arms with a cross boutonne arg. and sable, andfour mullets, arg. and sable. On each side, four oval com-partments, with the following subjects :—i. A pope, a car-dinal, and four bishops. 2. Several monks and friars. 3.Several magistrates. 4. A schoolmaster reading to hispupils. 5. An emperor, a king, a queen, a duke, a duchess,and a male attendant. 6. A group of noblemen or gentle-men. 7. A painter painting a figure of Death ; in the back-ground a woman who seems to be purchasing articles ofdress. 8. Two men with spades, one of them digging.This very beautiful print is engraved by T. Cecil. On thetop of each of the above compartments, Death holds astring with both his hands.

" Theatrum omnium miserarum." A theatre filled witha vast number of people. In the centre, an obelisk on apedestal, behind which is a small stage with persons sitting.In the foreground, Death holding a cord, with which threenaked figures are bound, and another Death with a nakedfigure in a net. Between these figures symbols of theworld, the flesh, and the Devil. 4to.

"Les Consolations de l'Ame fidelle contre les frayeursde la mort." Death holds his scythe over a group of per-sons, consisting of an old man and a child near a grave,who are followed by a king, queen, and a shepherd, withvarious pious inscriptions. 8vo.

" La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort, par M. deChertablon." Anvers, 1700, 4to.

In an engraved frontispiece, a figure of Time or Death,trampling upon a heap of articles expressive of worldlypomp and grandeur, strikes one end of his scythe againstthe door of a building, on which is inscribed " statvtvm

EST OMNIBVS HOMINIBVS. SEMEL MORI. Hebr. ix.*'

At the bottom, within a frame ornamented with emblemsof mortality, a sarcophagus with the skeleton of a manraised from it. Two Deaths are standing near, one ofwhom blows a trumpet, the other points upward with onehand, and holds a scythe in the other. On one side of the