a young girl crowned with flowers, half veiled, and carrying a basket.  This brilliant procession marched to the sound of music, and, at certain distances, the youthful couples of the two sexes halted, in order to perform, with the assistance of their hoops, various figures, which were called the Danse des Treilles.  The machines also stopped from time to time at various places.  The camel was especially made to enter the Church of St. Aphrodise, because it was said that the apostle had first come on a camel to preach the Gospel in that country, and there to receive the palm of martyrdom.  On arriving before the statue of Pepezuch the young people decorated it with garlands.  When the square of the town was reached, the theatre was stopped like the ancient car of Thespis, and the actors treated the people to a few comical drolleries in imitation of Aristophanes.  From the galley the youths flung sugar-plums and sweetmeats, which the spectators returned in equal profusion.  The procession closed with a number of men, crowned with green leaves, carrying on their heads loaves of bread, which, with other provisions contained in the galley, were distributed amongst the poor of the town.

In Germany and in France it was the custom at the public entries of kings, princes, and persons of rank, to offer them the wines made in the district and commonly sold in the town.  At Langres, for instance, these wines were put into four pewter vessels called cimaises, which are still to be seen.  They were called the lion, monkey, sheep, and pig wines, symbolical names, which expressed the different degrees or phases of drunkenness which they were supposed to be capable of producing:  the lion, courage; the monkey, cunning; the sheep, good temper; the pig, bestiality.

We will now conclude by borrowing, from the excellent work of M. Alfred Michiels on Dutch and Flemish painting, the abridged description of a procession of corporations of trades, which took place at Antwerp in 1520, on the Sunday after Ascension Day.  “All the corporations of trades were present, every member being dressed in his best suit.”  In front of each guild a banner floated; and immediately behind an enormous lighted wax-taper was carried.  March music was played on long silver trumpets, flutes, and drums.  The goldsmiths, painters, masons, silk embroiderers, sculptors, carpenters, boatmen, fishermen, butchers, curriers, drapers, bakers, tailors, and men of every other trade marched two abreast.  Then came crossbowmen, arquebusiers, archers, &c., some on foot and some on horseback.  After them came the various monastic orders; and then followed a crowd of bourgeois magnificently dressed.  A numerous company of widows, dressed in white from head to foot, particularly attracted attention; they constituted a sort of sisterhood, observing certain rules, and gaining their livelihood by various descriptions of manual work.  The cathedral canons and the