ai2 The Dance of Death.

states, that the English version of the Macaber Dancebelongs to John Porey, a poet who remains unknown even tohis countrymen, and is inserted in the " Monasticon Angli-canum." Now this unknown poet, who is likewise adoptedby M. Peignot, is merely the person who contributed Hollar'splate in the " Monasticon," already mentioned in p. 45, andwhose coat of arms is at the top of that plate, with thefollowing inscription:—" Quo prsesentes et posteri Mortis, utvidimis, omni Ordini communis, sint magis memores, posuitiohannes porey." M. Weiss has likewise inadvertentlyadopted the error that Holbein painted the old Dance ofMacaber in the convent of the Augustines at Basle.

Two recently published Dances of Death have come tohand, too late to have been noticed in their proper places.

1. a Der Todtentanz. Ein Gedicht von Ludwig Bech-stein, mit 48 Kupfern in treuen Conturen nach H. HolbeinLeipzig bei Friedrich August Leo, 1831." 8vo. Theseprints are executed in a faithful and elegant outline, andaccompanied with modern German verses.

2. " Hans Holbein's Todtentanz in 53 getreu nach denHolzschnitten lithographirten Blattern. Herausgegebenvon J. Schlotthauer k. Professor. Mit erklarenden Texte.Miinchen, 1832. Auf Kosten des Herausgebers." 121x10.The prints are most accurately and elegantly lithographedin imitation of wood engraving. The descriptions are inGerman verse, and accompanied with some brief prefatorymatter by Dr. H. F. Massmann, which is said to have beenamplified in one of the German journals or reviews.

And lastly—The Reviewer of the first edition of thepresent dissertation, prefixed to Mr. Edwards's engravingsor etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar, has displayed con-siderable ingenuity in his attempt to correct supposederrors, by a lavish substitution of many of his own, someof which are the following :—

That the Dance of Death is found in carvings in wood inthe choirs of churches. Not a single instance can be pro-duced.

That Hollar's etchings are on wood.

" Black letter " is corrected to " Black letters."

That the book would have been more complete if Lyd-gate's stanzas had been quoted, in common with others