Sax. 1750, 4to. The works in which the Germans have sought to do
honour to their great protestant saint, are numerous enough to fill
a small library but two of them are so remarkable as to deserve
notice, 1. "Luther's Merkwürdige Lebensumstande bey seiner
Medicinalischen Leibesconstitution, Krankheiten, geistlichen und
leiblichen Anfectungen und andern Zufallen, &c., von F.G. Keil,"
Leipsig, 1764. 2. "Luther's Merkwürdige Reisegeschichte zu Erganzung
seiner Lebensumstande, von Jo. Th. Lingke," Leipsig, 1769, 4to. The
earliest wood-cut representation of Erasmus with which I am
acquainted is a medallion accompanying another of Ulric of Hutten,
on the title-page of the following work of the unfortunate but
heroic champion of the Reformation:--"Ulrichi ab Hutten cum Erasmo
Rotirodamo, Presbytero, Theologo, Expostulatio." There is reason to
believe that this Expostulation was printed only a short month
before Hutten died; and, though it bears neither date nor name of
printer, that it was printed by Johannes Schott, at Strasburg, in
the month of July, 1523. It has another portrait of Hutten at the
end, the whole strikingly spirited and characteristic; by some they
have been attributed to Holbein, and if not by him, which is
doubtful, they are at least worthy of him.

One would gladly forget this strife between the great promoter of
learning and the soldier-scholar. Erasmus's conduct was unworthy of
a great man, and can never be vindicated.

S.W.S.

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