earliest writer who mentions the proverb "Ubi tres Medici, duo Athei."


_Compendyous Olde Treatyse._--In Ames's _Typographical Antiquities_,
vol. i. p. 405. (ed. Herbert), is described a work, printed by Rycharde
Banckes, some time between 1525 and 1545, entitled, "A compendyous olde
treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englyshe,
with the Auctours." 12mo. 18 leaves. This copy belonged to Herbert
himself, and was probably obtained at the sale of Thomas Granger, in
1732. Any information as to its wherabout at present, or the existence
of any other copy of the above tract, would confer a fabour on the
inquirer.

F.M.


_The Topography of Foreign Printing Presses._--I have often been at a
loss to discover the locality of names which designate the places where
books have been printed at Foreign presses; and "when found" to "make a
note of it." I was therefore pleased to find in No. 16. p. 251., by the
reply of "R.G." to Mr. Jebb, that "_Cosmopolis_ was certainly
Amsterdam," and that "Coloniæ" signifies "Amstelædami." And I will take
the liberty of suggesting that it would be an acceptable service
rendered to young students, if your learned correspondents would
occasionally communicate in the pages of your work, the modern names,
&c. of such places as are not easily gathered from the books themselves.

P.H.F.