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io6 REVIEWS. 1480. This is not the place for a detailed dis- cussion of the problem, especially as Dr. Schwarz has gone over the ground extremely thoroughly, but one point is worth mentioning here. The name ' Cassis ' is a Latinization, not of ' Helm,' as Dr. Schwarz assumes, but of ' Eysenhut,' which occurs together with c Helm ' as the equivalent of ' Cassis ' in Diefenbach's Glossarium, and Cassis is thus clearly identical with the Johann Eysenhut who printed a block-book at Ratisbon in 1471. All the particulars given by Dr. Schwarz agree with this identification, which seems worth follow- ing up systematically. It seems a pity, by the way, that the title, 'Drucker der Historic von S. Rochus,' has been given to the press in question, since a ' Drucker der Rochuslegende ' already figures in the list of Nuremberg printers, and there is some risk of confusion between the two. By far the largest part of the volume under review is naturally taken up with the bibliography of Johann Winterburger, and the authors are to be congratulated on their success in taking the sum total of his recorded productions from ninety-nine to no fewer than one hundred and sixty-five. As Winterburger must undoubtedly have also printed a multitude of calendars, prognostications, and official documents which are now entirely lost, his total output probably amounted to at least three hundred items. He first established himself in Vienna as early as 1492, but it was quite ten years before his business really began to flourish ; nearly all of the fifty-nine incunabula enumerated by Dr. Dolch (as against only forty-two in Burger's Index) are