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 1920 REVIEWS OF BOOKS 613 (1755-1830), Alexander Comrie (1706-74), John Durie (1596-1680), Robert Fleming, senior (1630-94) and junior (1660 ?-1716).i On the other hand, we have accounts of visits to England made by such men as Jacobus Alting, Nicolaus Arnoldi, &c. There are, naturally, occasional inaccuracies in handling EngUsh matters. Erpenius (ii. 768) visits ' de universiteiten te Canterbury en Oxford '. In 1644, apparently, the Pole Nicolaus Arnoldi, who had been prevented by the civil war from going to Oxford, bent on visiting one ' academic ' before leaving England went on foot with three friends to ' Canterbury ', ' sed inania hie reperit Sacra, Professores in coUegio Trinitatis detentos, nee nisi muti in Bibliothecis consuli poterant Magistri '. Surely some one has blundered over 'Cantabrigia '. The earl of Manchester in his visitation of the university held his court in Trinity and his commissioners sat at the White Bear opposite that college. ^ The statement of Nethenus that Ames^ would have become master of Christ's College in 1609 if it had not been for his nonconforming tendencies is regarded by Dr. Peile as questionable. Cary, King James's nominee, was forced on the college, but the choice of the fellows had been not Ames but William Pemberton. On 5 January 1615 Sixtinus Amama ' werd in Oxford College opgenomen '. In the notice of Robert Fleming, senior, an Epistolary Discourse and a Discourse on Earthquakes are in- cluded among his works. The Rev. Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography ascribes both to Robert Fleming, junior, while The Rod and the Sword, which he also gives to the son, is not mentioned in the Dutch dictionary. The funeral sermon on the father was not by Burgers, but by Burgess. But presumably these elaborate lists are not consistently based on a first-hand examination of the works mentioned. The huge number of proper names and titles of books has inevitably produced a sprinkling of errata.^ But Latin has suffered out of all propor- tion to the havoc of grammar and metre. Amongst other slips we have noted opus Culum (ii. 99) ; veritatum theologicorum (i. 434) ; contra defen- sionum (p. 591) ; two misprints in a Latin couplet at p. 713 ; academiens ordo ending an hexameter (p. 744) ; postulatio for postulato (ii. 93) ; Menandri et Philemonis reliquae and, presently, reliquia (p. 99) ; Psalmi Davidis Syriacae (for -ce) (p. 775) ; enarato for exarato {ibid.) ; excercitatio (iii. 99). Apart, however, from any such defects the work is one of enormous industry and curiously interesting. But the reader's convenience should be consulted by making two improvements. Let the year of a man's birth and death be given at the beginning of each article, and let an index of names accompany each volume. It would be a further boon if initials could be added to the page-heading in the case of homonymous personages. E. Bensly. of as a Christian person's surname before ! " The Reverend Mr. Leap-distractedly " labouring in that dense element of Campvere, in Holland ? We will hope not, if there be a ray of hope ' (Baillie the Covenanter). But see Mr. Weekley's Surnames, s.v. Spong. ' Though the six named are all treated in the Diet, of Nat. Biogr., in no instance does the present work mention it among its authorities. ^ Mullinger, The University of Cambridge, iii. 273 seq. ' It is satisfactory to find a mention of Dr. Shipley's article on Ames in the ChriaVa CoUege Magazine.
 * John Bunjan (ii. 187) has perhaps been naturalized.