as
upwards of 1000 pages closely printed upon an indifferent
brown-tinted paper; which serves nevertheless to set off the
several hundreds of well executed wood cuts which the work
contains. Linsius's index, a thin folio, was published in
the year 1608: this is absolutely necessary for the
completion of a copy. As bibliographers have given but a
scanty account of this uncommon work (mentioned, however,
very properly by Mr. Nicol in his interesting preface to the
catalogue of the Duke of Roxburgh's books; and of which I
observe in the _Bibl. Solgeriana_, vol. i., no. 1759,
that a second edition, printed in 1672, is held in
comparatively little estimation), so biographers (if we
except Melchior Adam, the great favourite of Bayle) have
been equally silent respecting its author. Fabricius, and
the Historical Dictionary published at Caen, do not mention
him; and Moreri has but a meagre and superficial notice of
him. Wolfius's _Penus Artis Historicae_, of which the best
edition is that of 1579, is well described in the tenth
volume of Fournier's _Methode pour etudier l'histoire_, p.
12, edit. 1772. My respect for so extraordinary a
bibliomaniac as WOLFIUS, who was groping amongst the books
of the public libraries belonging to the several great
cities which he visited, (in his diplomatic character--vide
praef.) whilst his masters and private secretary were
probably paying their devotions to Bacchus--induces me to
treat the reader with the following impression of his
portrait.

[Illustration]

This cut is taken from a fac-simile drawing, made by me of
the head of Wolfius as it appears at the back of the
title-page to the preceding work. The original impression is
but an indifferent one; but it presents in addition, the
body of Wolfius as far as the waist; with his right hand
clasping a book, and his left the handle of a sword. His
ponderous chain has a medallion suspended at the end. This
print, which evidently belongs to the English series, has
escaped Granger. And yet I know not whether such
intelligence should be imparted!--as the scissars may hence
go to work to deprive many a copy of these "_Lectiones_," of
their elaborately-ornamented title-pages. Forbid it, good
sense!]

"In a short time," continued the venerabl