A brief of this book account of the author can be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol.xxvi, p.165 To the brief references to other books there given, add the Memoir of A.B.Alcott, by F.B. Sanborn It is of Heraud that Dr. Shelton Mackenzie wrote, "He Germanized his faculties until he became nearly unintelligible" in which feat he has been outdone by several small professors in American universities. It was to Heraud that Douglass Jerrold said, when asked by hi have you seen my Descent into Hell?" "No; I wish I had. At one time, Emerson, who was a great collector of rare birds and queer fish was desirous of exploiting Heraud, but was deterred by Carlyle's scornful mention of the "unaspirating" cockney-author. Her aud was however warmly endorsed by A.B.Al cott: Emerson's "tedious archangel This book is noteworthy as Daving been used by its author, John A.Heraud as copy" for a projected second edition; which, however, was never printed. There was enough of the mystic in Heraud to make him દ not wholly unworthy author of a Life of Savonaro1 a, and he who has rad both Madden and Villari can also turn to Heraud and not without profit. This book is valuable if only for 101. the list of Savonarola's writings given the Appendix; and it 1 S the first attempt at such a list. in 1895. S.A. Jones. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA; ILLUSTRATING THE PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION IN ITALY, DURING THE fifteenth CENTURY. By John A. Herand. Second Edition -remind & conected. -121 "La vita sua, la dottrina, il soggetto che prese, erano sufficienti a "The World knows nothing of its Greatest Men."-HENRY TAYLOR. LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO. AVE MARIA LANE. PREFACE. AT Naumberg, on his way to the diet of Worms, LUTHER made the acquaintance of a certain zealous priest, who carefully and reverentially preserved in his closet the portrait of GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA, the monk of Florence, though more as a martyr to liberty and morality, than as a religious confessor. The good priest, however, perceived enough resemblance between the Italian and the German, to draw the attention of the latter to this sacred memento. Silently producing the cherished painting, he held the same awhile before the eyes of Luther, who as silently perused it; but nothing daunted, conceived rather courage than fear from the lesson it presented. The mighty Reformer seems in consequence to have studied the works of his less fortunate predecessor, and in the year 1523 published the Exposition by Savonarola, of the fiftyfirst and thirty-first Psalms; in the preface to it ex |