Theodore Beza, in the beginning of the year 1580, published at Geneva a well-printed, clearly- expressed, and on the whole considerate and honest little Volume, in the Latin tongue, purporting to be

• Icones, that is to say, true Portraits, of men illus-
• trious in the Reformation of Eeligion and Restora-
• tion of Learning : ' * Yolume of perhaps 250 pages,

but in fact not numerically paged at all, which is sometimes described as 4to, but is in reality 8vo

• IconeSf id est Verm Imagines j Vironim cloctrind simul et jfictatc

illustriu7n, quorum pracipue viinisierio partim honarwn Literaruvi studia sunt restituta, partim vera Religio in variis Orbis Cliristiani rcgiombiis, nostra 2^'^irumque memorid fuit instaurata : odditis eorimdem vitmd: operce descriptionihus^ quibus adiectcc sunt nonnullce pidura) quas Eviblcmata vocant. Theodoro Bczd Auctorc. — Geneva;. Apud Joanncm Laonium. M.D.LXXX.