the art of fair writing. Calligrates is said to have written an elegant ditch on a felsanum seed. Junius speaks of a person, as very extraordinary, who wrote the apostles creed, and beginning of St John's Gospel, in the compass of a farthing. What would he have said of our famous Peter Bale, who in 1575 wrote the Lord's prayer, creed, ten commandments, and two short prayers in Latin, with his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the queen, in the compass of a single penny, inclosed in a ring and border of gold, and covered with a crystal, all so accurately wrought as to be very legible?