ing the barbarities which he had sanctioned. He died on the 30th day of May 1574, not having fully attained the age of twenty-four. Charles IX, notwithstanding the ferocity of his disposition, is said to have possessed good abilities, and to have been favourably inclined towards the fine arts and literature. To the cultivation of such a taste he had been diligently incited by his preceptor Amyot, the admired translator of Plutarch; whom he constituted bishop of Auxerre, and his grand almoner. Poetry is said to have been the study which he peculiarly favoured. He gave some indications of a personal proficiency in that art; and distinguished D'Aurat, Ronsard, and Jean Antoine de Baif, by special remunerations. It was however, a jocular remark of this monarch, that if poets were placed in circumstances of complete independence, they would cease to labour: like spirited horses therefore, they ought to be well fed, but not to be pampered. French writers consider some of their wisest laws to have à Son sang been enacted in this reign; the merit of which is mainly attributed to the celebrated Chancellor de l'Hospital; to whose invention also, is ascribed a royal device then adopted; with which Frederick Morel, and other considerable printers of a subsequent period, occasionally decorated their impressions: "Deux colonnes, avec ces mots, PIETATE "et JUSTITIA." What a device, it has been said, for the author of the massacre of St. Bartholomew ! CHAPTER XXX. HENRY ESTIENNE II. CONTINUED HIS FURTHER IMPRES SIONS 66 AND TRAVELS- FRANCOFORDIENSE EMPO "RIUM"- 66 PARODIE MORALES," AND OTHER ORIGINAL WORKS. 1573-1576. THE appearance of the "Thesaurus Græcæ 66 Linguæ," as the reader may have observed, nearly coincided in point of time with the dreadful occurrence of the eve of St. Bartholomew. This adds probability to a conjecture of Fabricius, that Henry carried on and executed that great work at Geneva. Had he been domesticated at Paris, when that horrible insurrection against all Huguenots took place, it can scarce be imagined that either the kindness of individual friends, or any precautions of his own, could have preserved him or his family from the common vengeance. Whilst however, the prominent outlines of this printer's professional life have been preserved, we remain in almost entire ignorance of his private history; and of the solicitudes or enjoyments, perils or escapes, with which it is probable his mortal career, like that of others, was diversified. Henry III. now succeeded to the throne of France, which we have lately seen vacated by the death of his brother. He was a prince who tarnished the military reputation which he had acquired as duke of Anjou, by many subsequent acts of licentiousness, effeminacy, imbecility, and folly. His reign exhibited moreover, a continuation, or rather an aggravation, of the same wars and dissensions which had disturbed those of his predecessors. Amidst a course of such distractions, he could be expected to confer few benefits upon literature: and historians are indeed almost silent even with regard to his disposition in this particular. Henry Estienne was however occasionally admitted, as we shall hereafter shew, to a friendly intercourse with this French monarch; and actually received various tokens of his patronage and kindness. Having in the last section, extended my notice of public events somewhat beyond the point of time to which Henry's typographical labours have been traced, I shall now revert to the chronological series of his impressions. 1573. Glossaria duo, noticed sub anno 1572; Aristoteles de atomis, de auditu, & miraculosis auditionibus, Græce, 8vo. ap. H. Steph.; this I mention on the authority of Fabricius. De abusu linguæ Græcæ, &c. 8vo. This edition rests on the authority of Almeloveen. The original has been mentioned sub anno 1563. Francisci Hotomani Jurisconsulti, Quæstionum illustrium liber, 8vo; Juris Orientalis libri tres, Gr. Lat. 8vo; Homeri & Hesiodi certamen, nunc primum luce donatum. Matronis & aliorum parodiæ, ex Homeri versibus parva immutatione lepide detortis consuta. Homericorum Heroum Epitaphia, cum duplici interpretatione Latina, 8vo. Of the two Latin versions of these Epitaphia, one is by H. Steph. the other by Gulielmus Canterus. Poesis Philosophica, vel saltem Reliquiæ poesis philosophica Empedoclis, Xenophanis, Timonis, Parmenidis, Cleanthis, Epicharmi; adjuncta sunt Orphei carmina, item Heracliti & Democriti loci quidam, & eorum Epistolæ, Græce, 8vo. This collection is highly interesting, and the typography is beautiful. Jani Parrhasii liber de rebus per epist. quæsitis, 8vo. (ante, sub anno 1567;) Virtutum Encomia, sive Gnome de virtutibus, ex Poetis & Philosophis utriusque lingua; Græcis versibus adjecta interpretatione H. Stephani, 8vo; Terentii Varronis Opera, cum Josephi Scaligeri conjectaneis, appendice, & notis, Adriani Turnebi, Antonii Augustini, & Petri Victorii emendationibus, 8vo. Henry afterwards repeated this edition, but with the omission of a passage commencing page 211, and ending p. 212, ab "obviam occurrunt," usque ad "hic |