.

[2] Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, _A history of Eton college_, London, 1911,
4th ed., p. 311.

[3] Nigel Abercrombie, _The origins of Jansenism_, Oxford, 1936, p.
246; no authority is there cited.

[4] The following paragraphs contain an abbreviated and paraphrastic
translation of the preface.

[5] Janus Gruter, _Delitiae poetarum germanorum_, 6 v., Frankfort,
1612.

[6] See Georg Ellinger, _Geschichte der neulateinischen literatur
Deutschlands_, I, "Italien und der Deutsche humanismus," Berlin, 1929,
pp. 115-7.

[7] The last line of an epigram on learned ignorance, _Poemata_,
Leyden, 1637, pp. 331-2, printed in the _Delectus_, p. 399.

[8] _The Port-Royal logic_, tr. Thomas Spencer Baynes, 8th ed.,
Edinburgh, n.d., Discourse 2, p. 17; Part 3. 20, p. 286; and 1. 14, p.
90.

[9] _Ibid._, Discourse 1, p. 1, "Thus the main object of our attention
should be, to form our judgement, and render it as exact as possible;
and to this end, the greater part of our studies ought to tend."

[10] Lipsius had suggested some such procedure (Justus Lipsius,
_Epist. quaest._, 1.5, _Opera omnia_, Antwerp, 1637, I, p. 143): "He
would do a service to the world of letters who would make a selection
of Martial's epigrams in the fashion of the old critics and would
affix a mark of praise to the good and of blame to the bad."

[11] Shorter poems 51, _Claudian_, ed. Maurice Platnauer, 2 v., "Loeb
classical library," London, 1922, II, 278-81.

[12] _Poemata_, Amsterdam, 1687, p. 1; not in _Opera omnia_, Leyden,
1725.

AN ESSAY ON TRUE AND APPARENT BEAUTY IN WHICH FROM SETTLED PRINCIPLES
IS RENDERED THE GROUNDS FOR CHOOSING AND REJECTING EPIGRAMS.

_Why men's judgments on beauty differ so much._

I should say that the reason why even learned men differ so widely and
display so great a range of opinion in judging the excellence of
particular writers is that practically no one looks to reason and
weighs the matter in the light of true and settled principles. Indeed
everyone in the act of judging embraces a hastily conceived opinion
and follows his impressions without reflection or judgment. Thus it is
that few have made any attempt so far to arrive at an exact knowledge
of the nature of true beauty, by which in the last analysis all else
must be determined; rather, each has immediately pronounced that to be
beautiful which affected him with some sort of pleasure. Yet there is
no norm of judgment more misleading or more variabl