There was a frightful, but expressive and well coloured, head of a Dwarf, or Fool, of which Mr. Lewis took a pencil-copy; but it is not of sufficient importance to enclose in this despatch.  It is the EARLY GERMAN SCHOOL of Art which is here the grand and almost exclusive feature of attraction—­speaking in an antiquarian point of view.  ReIchard estimates the number of these pictures at twelve hundred, but I should rather say seven hundred.

I find, however, that it will be impossible to compress all my Augsbourg intelligence in one epistle; and so I reserve the remainder for another opportunity.

[23] [Several years have elapsed since I have received a letter from Mons.
    Le Bret.  Is he alive?  If he be living, let him be assured of my
    unalterable and respectful attachment:  and that I have unfeigned
    pleasure in annexing a fac-simile of his AUTOGRAPH—­from a letter to
    me of the date of June 8th 1819:  a letter, which I received on the
    17th of the same month following—­the very day of our Roxburghe
    Anniversary Dinner.  Singularly enough, this letter begins in the
    following strain of bibliographical jocoseness:  “Monsieur, et tres
    reverend Frere de Boocace l’Immortel!”]

    [Illustration:  Signature—­f.c.  Lebret]

[24] The predominant religion is the Protestant.  Indeed I may say that the
    number of Catholics is exceedingly limited:  perhaps, not an eighth
    part of the population of the town.

[25] I presume this to be the earliest date which any of his books exhibit. 
    His brother GUNTHER, or GINTHER (for the name is spelt both ways in
    his colophons) began to print in 1468.  Lord Spencer possesses a
    beautiful copy (which I obtained from the library of St. Peter’s
    Monastery, at Salzbourg) of Bonaventure’s Meditations upon the Life
    of Christ, of the date of 1468, printed by G. Zainer, or (Zeiner)
    at Augsbourg; and considered to be the first effort of his press.

[26] The note, above mentioned, was written in Latin:  the Professor telling
    me that he preferred that language to the French, as he thought he
    could write it more grammatically.  A Latin note must be rather
    a curiosity to my readers:  which, as it is purely bibliographical, and
    in other respects highly characteristic of the bon-hommie of
    the writer, shall receive a place here.  After mentioning the books
    above specified, the Professor goes on thus: 

“Haec paucula e pluribus notare libuit, quae reliqua temporis angustia ostendere non permisit.  Habeo enim alias, quas vocant, editiones principes, e.g.  Diogenis Laertii, Bas. 1533-4.  Josephi, Bas. 1544. fol.  Jo.  Chrysostomi [Greek:  peri pronoias] 1526-8.  Ej. [Greek:  peri hierosunes], ib 1525-8.  Aliorum Graecorum