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Rh This was published in 1568, and two years later appeared "The Morall Philosophie of Doni," and in 1579 came his most important work, the translation of Plutarch, after the vigorous French of Amyot. This was one of the most popular books of the period, running through eight editions within the century after its first appearance. Most of us know it, or know of it, as the source of Shakespeare's picture of the Roman world.

Yet, if recent research is to be trusted, North's first book, the translation of Guevara, which he called The Dial of Princes, had almost as much influence as his Plutarch. For Dr. Landmann in an ingenious essay (Der Euphuismus, Giessen, 1881) has attempted to trace Euphuism to the influence of Guevara. It is true Mr. S. L. Lee interprets this to mean that Euphuism had for