I think that it has recently been completed at Brussels.

70 The title of Ruinart's work is--"Acta primorum Martyrum sincera et
selecta ex libris, cum editis, tum manuscriptis, collecta eruta vel
emendata." 4to, Paris 1687, and several editions afterwards.

71 The most important of these Apocrypha of the New Testament, some of
which have reached us, whilst we know the others from the writings
of the fathers, are the Gospels according to St Peter, to St Thomas,
to St Matthias, the Revelations of St Peter, the Epistle of St
Barnabas, the Acts of St John, of St Andrew, and other apostles.

72 Mabillon on the Unknown Saints, p. 10. _Apud_ Basnage, p. 1047.

73 "Vie de St Francois Xavier," par le Pere Bouhours, 1716. _Apud_
Maury, p. 22.

74 "Liber Aureus Inscriptus, Liber Conformitatum Vitae Beati ac
Seraphici Patris Francisci, ad Vitam Jesu Christi Domini Nostri." It
went through several editions.

75 The title of this curious work is "Histoire de St Francois d'Assise,
par Emile Chavin de Malan." Paris: 1845.

76 "Edinburgh Review," April 1847, p. 295.

77 History of St Waltheof, p. 2 in the 5th vol. of the collection.

78 Ibid., p. 24.

79 Life of St Augustine of Canterbury, Apostle of the English, p. 237,
in the 1st volume of the English Saints, mentioned above.

80 There is a German story which is evidently a parody of this legend.
It says that an individual who was passionately fond of playing at
nine-pins committed a crime for which he was sentenced to be
beheaded. He requested, as a favour which was usually granted to
culprits before their execution, to indulge once more in his
favourite game. This demand being conceded, he began to play with
such ardour that he entirely forgot his impending execution. The
executioner, who was present, got tired of waiting for the culprit,
and seizing a moment when he stretched his neck picking up a ball
from the ground, cut off his head. The culprit was, however, so keen
in the pursuit of his game, that he seized his own head, and having
made with it a successful throw, exclaimed, "Haven't I got all the
nine?"

81 An old German ballad gives a fair specimen of the ideas which people
entertained of the joys of heaven. It says, amongst other
things:--"Wine costs not a penny in the cellar of