4.  Eine schoene lustige Comoedia von Jemand und Niemand. 7.  Tragoedia von Julio und Hippolyto. 8.  Eine sehr klaegliche Tragoedia von Tito Andromico und hoffertigen Kayserinn, darinnen denkwuerdigen Actiones zu befinden. 9.  Ein lustig Pickelherings-Spiel von der schoenen Mario und alten Hanrey.

The second volume was published in 1630, under the title Lieberkampff, oder ander Theil der Englischen Comoedien:  it contains 8 plays.  The 1st is the 21st of the collection of 1670, with this addition: 

    Die Personen der Lustspiels sind:  1.  Venus, die stumme Person;
    2.  Cupido; 3.  Jucunda, Jungfraw; 4.  Floretus, Liebhaber; 5. 
    Balendus, Betrieger; 6.  Corcillana, Kuplerin; 7.  Hans Worst.

The 2d is the 20th of the same collection, “mit 9 Personen, worunter die lustige Person Schraem heisst.”

    3.  Comoedia von Prob getrewer Lieb, mit 11 Personen, worunter
    auch eine allegorische, der Traum ist.

The 4th is the 18th, “mit 9 Personen, worunter die lustige Schampilasche Lean Potage heisst.”

The four remaining are operas, without particular titles.

Ebert (Bibliogr.  Lexicon, N. 5064.), speaking of these collections, says, “the plays they are composed of are not translations from the English,” but, “as it appears,” German original works.

I am at a loss to understand how that bibliographer, generally so exact, did not recognise at least five comedies of Moliere.  MR. BOLTON CORNEY will, I wish and hope, point out the originals—­English, Italian, and, I suppose, Spanish—­of some others.

If you think proper to make use of the above, I entreat you, for the sake of your readers, to correct my bad English, and to consider my communication only as a token of the gratification I have found in your amusing and useful “NOTES AND QUERIES.”

D.L.

Ancien Membre de la Societe des Bibliophiles.

Bethune, July 31. 1850.

P.S.—­The Query (Vol. i., p. 185.) concerning the name of the Alost, Louvain, and Antwerp printer, Martens or Mertens, is settled in the note, p. 68., of Recherches sur la Vie et les Editions de Thierry Martens (Martinus, Martens), par J. De Gand, 8vo.  Alost, 1845.  I am ready to send a copy of the note if it is required.

[We have also received a reply to MR. CORNEY’S Query from MR. ASHER of Berlin, who refers for particulars of this interesting collection to Tieck’s Preface to his Alt-Deutsche Theater.  We propose shortly returning to the curious fact of English comedians performing in Germany at the close of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth centuries:  a subject which has several times been discussed and illustrated in the columns of our valuable contemporary The Athenaeum.]

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ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE. 
(Vol. ii., p. 154.)