. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. Bonaventure des Periers, MauriceSceve, Jean de Langeac, Guillaume Du Choul, and othersare in the second volume honoured with special paragraphs. The form in which the Commentaries appeared waswell worthy of their merits. The two folios which containthem are, with one exception^, the most splendid monu- Nostra hostis Ciceronis, et Galli (quce rabies?) no


. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. Bonaventure des Periers, MauriceSceve, Jean de Langeac, Guillaume Du Choul, and othersare in the second volume honoured with special paragraphs. The form in which the Commentaries appeared waswell worthy of their merits. The two folios which containthem are, with one exception^, the most splendid monu- Nostra hostis Ciceronis, et Galli (quce rabies?) nominis jam parcere mortuo Mens est, nee tacitam carpere posteaLarvam vulnifico stylo. Defiinctum meritis sic modo laudibusO Muscc meritum senem Omemus. Rapiiit mors nimium rapaxGermance patrioe decus, Doctorumque decus: quoslibet ItaliaTellus, Gallaque proferat (Te Buda;e tamen, te qiioque Longoli ?)Germance patriae decus, Doctorumque decus mors rapuit ode has been translated into English verse, neither very accurately norvery poetically, in the f)2nd volume of the Gentlemans Magazine, p. 1037(Nov. 1792). » 2 Com. 1328. ^ Id. 1163. .The exception here referred to is the magnificent Latin Bible printed by S. ETIENNE DO LET. 243 mcnt of the typocjraphical art of Gnphius, as well as,without exception, the most important original work whichissued from his prolific press. In the 1708 closely-printedcolumns which form the text of the first volume, the authoronly noted eight errata, which are corrected at the end ;and though he does not assert, nor is it the fact, that thereare no others, yet they are certainly very few in border of the title-page of each volume is a mostelaborate specimen of wood engraving, displaying themerits and the defects of the contemporary Germanschool; and if wanting in delicacy and taste, yet it pos-sesses the force and vigour which show the hand of a the top in the centre is King Solomon, with Aristotleand


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