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 mid Sentiments. 341 Ihow that confiderable ingenuity was employed in varying the forms of fuch hbrary tables. The next cut (No. 229) is taken from one of the illuminations to a manufcript of the "Moralization of Chefs," by Jacques de Ceflbles (MS. No. 22S. A Mcdia%il PFrker. Reg. 19 C. xi.), and is intended as a Ibrt of figurative reprefentation of the indullrial clafs of fociety. It is curious becaufe the figure is made to carry fome of the principal implements of the chief trades or manufactures, and thus gives us their ordinary forms. We need only re[)cat the enumeration of thefe from the text. It is, we are told, a man who holds in his right hand a pair of Ihears {uncs forces) ; in his left hand he has a great knife {un grant coujicl) ; " and he muft have at his girdle an inklland (une efcriptoiri'), and on his ear a pen for writing {ct fur Forcillc une penne a tfcripre)." Accordingly we fee the ink-pot and the cafe for writing implements fufpended at the girdle, but by accident the pen does not appear on the ear in our engraving. It is curious through how great a length of time the praftice of placing the pen behind the ear has con- tinued in ufe. The A'o. 229. Induftry.