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228 REVIEWS. provenance of the pieces is not their least remark- able feature. Of the total of 1,631, the place of imprint of forty-five is as yet untraced (the smallness of the number reflecting great credit on the editors), nine are French, twenty-six Spanish, twenty-seven English, thirty-nine Low Country, forty-two Italian, and the remaining 1,443 German. Of course, some allowance must be made for the fact that the Commission is more influential in Germany than elsewhere, and it is only in Ger- many that thorough search has as yet been made in State and municipal archives; nevertheless, it remains remarkable that of every eleven single sheets as yet found and identified no fewer than ten are German. Clearly what is called 'job' printing established itself much earlier and much more thoroughly in Germany than elsewhere ; clearly also the German appetite for indulgences and almanacs (these latter largely concerned with the lucky days for letting blood, etc.) was much greater than that felt in any other country. A. W. P.