LESCAILLE, JAMES, a Dutch poet and printer, was born at Geneva. He and his daughter Catherine Lescaille excelled most of the Dutch poets. But the latter, who was
surnamed the Sappho of Holland, and the tenth muse, died in 1711. A collection of her poems has been printed, in which are the tragedies of Genesic Wenceslaus, Herod and Mariamne, Hercules and Dejanera, Nicomedes, Ariadne, Cassandra, and others. James Lescaille, her father, deserved the poet's crown, with which the Emperor Leopold honoured him in the year 1603. He died about the year 1677, aged sixty-seven.