subject, industrious, and in the bottom of their very souls greater lovers of the good old English government and prosperity of these kingdoms among the comprehended than, for aught we yet see, may be found among those who are like to be unkindly excluded. However, if such we were in any one point, cure rather than kill us, and seek the public good some cheaper way than by our destruction. Is there no expedient to prevent ruin? Let reason qualify zeal, and conscience opinion.

(From Tract on The Proposed Comprehension.)

DR. EDWARD BROWNE

[Dr. Edward Browne, eldest son of Sir Thomas Browne, was born in Norwich in 1644. He was educated at the Norwich Grammar School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M. B. in 1633. He afterwards travelled on the Continent, staying for some time at Vienna, and making an expedition to Larissa in Thessaly, the scene of the medical practice of Hippocrates. He lived in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, on his return from his travels, became physician to Charles II. and to St. Bartholomew's Hospital (1682), as well as President of the College of Physicians (1704-8). He died in 1708.]

DR. EDWARD BROWNE translated (1672) a History of the Cossacks, and the lives of Themistocles and of Sertorius in Dryden's Plutarch (1700), but his most interesting work is the account of his own, travels, A Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungary, Styria, Bulgaria, Thessaly, Austria, Servia, Carynthia, Carniola, and Friuli. It was published in 1673, a further part in 1677, and both in one volume in 1685. He admired his father, and had learnt much both of literature and of science from him. He had read the Greek and Latin fathers as well as the classics, and admired his father's writings; but his strain of thought is never as deep as that of Sir Thomas Browne, and he seldom rises above a simple narrative style, but tells many interesting things without enlarging upon them too much.

NORMAN MOORE.

UNICORNS' HORNS

THERE is an old library belonging to this church, which contains divers old books and manuscripts. A large bible in six volumes, painted and gilded after a very ancient manner; two idols, taken (in time of war) long since in Germany, and given to this place by the Emperor Henry the Fourth, are worth the seeing, not so much for their neatness, as their antiquity and odd shape: as also a horn made out of a tooth, said to be given at the same time. There are also three unicorns' horns, little differing in length; the longest being five foot and an half: I drank out of one of them, the end being tipped with silver, and made hollow to serve for a cup. These were of the sea-unicorn, or the horn or long wreathed tooth of some sea-animal much like it, taken in the Northern Sea: of which I have seen many, both in public repositories, and in private hands. Two such as these, the one ten foot long, were presented not many years since to the King of Denmark, being taken near to Nova Zembla; and I have seen some full fifteen foot long; some wreathed very thick, some not so much, and others almost plain: some largest and thickest at the end near the head; others are largest at some distance from the head: some very sharp at the end or point, and others blunt. My honoured father, Sir Thomas Browne, had a very fair piece of one which was formerly among the Duke of Curland's rarities, but after that he was taken prisoner by Douglas in the wars between Sweden and Poland, it came into the hands of my uncle Colonel Hatcher, of whom my father had it; he had also a piece of this sort of unicorn's horn burnt black, out of the Emperor of Russia's repository, given him by Dr. Arthur Dee, who was son to Dr. John Dee, and also physician to the Emperor of Russia, when his chambers were burned in which he preserved his curiosities. I have seen a walking-staff, a sceptre, a scabbard for a sword, boxes, and other curiosities made out of this horn, but was never so fortunate as

from experience to confirm its medical efficacy against poisons, contagious diseases, or any other evident effect of it, although I have known it given several times, and in great quantity. Mr. Charlton hath a good unicorn's horn. Sir Joseph Williamson gave one of them to the Royal Society. The Duke of Florence hath a fair one. The Duke of Saxony a strange one, and besides many others, I saw eight of them together upon one table in the Emperor's treasure, and I have one at present that for the neat wreathing and elegant shape gives place to none. But of these unicorns' horns no man sure hath so great a collection as the King of Denmark; and his father had so many, that he was able to spare a great number of them, to build a magnificent throne out of unicorns' horns.

(From A Brief Account of Some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe.)

THE EMPEROR LEOPOLDUS

His person is grave and graceful; he hath the Austrian lip remarkably, his chin long, which is taken for a good physiognomical mark, and a sign of a constant, placid, and little troubled mind. He is conceived to carry in his face the lineaments of four of his predecessors, that is, of Rudolphus the First, of Maximilian the First, of Charles the Fifth, and Ferdinand the First. He was very affectionate unto his empress, who, though but young, was a modest, grave princess, had a good aspect, was zealous in her religion, and an enemy unto the Jews. He showed also great respect and observance unto the Empress-Dowager Eleonora, who was a sober and prudent princess, well skilled in all kind of curious works, and delighted sometimes to shoot at deer from a stand, or at other game, out of her coach. He was also very loving unto his sisters, beautiful and good princesses; whereof one, the eldest, was since married unto that noble prince, Michael Wisnowitzki, King of Poland, and afterwards to Charles, Duke of Lorraine.

He speaks four languages, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. He is a great countenancer of learned men, and delights to read, and, when occasion permits, will pass some hours at it. The worthy Petrius Lambecius, his library keeper, and who is in