Temple.
_Pictorial Proverbs_ (Vol. v., p. 559.).--Perhaps the book here mentioned
is one of the old German _Narrenbuchs_, or _Book of Fools_, which were
generally illustrated with pictures, of which I have a curious set in my
possession.
Can any of your correspondents give some account of the nature and merits
of these books? Are any of them worth translating at the present day? The
one from which my pictures were taken has the title _Mala Gallina, malum
Ovum_, and was published at Vienna and Nuremburg. It seems to have been a
satire on the female sex; but the text, I am sorry to say, is not in my
possession.