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...of worship except that which they themselves thought right. The wars of religion, which filled most of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century, were the most cruel and ruthless that were ever waged by the nations of Europe. As the struggle in...

...histrionic entertainment, popular at Court and amongst the nobility in England during the latter part of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century ; originally consisting of dancing and acting in dumb show, the performers being masked and habited...

...to them. Whether this was true we need not stop to discuss. The important point is that in the last half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century the vast majority of thinkers in every European country believed it to be true. The elements in question...

...and known as the Pilgrim Book proper, are to be found many interesting names of visitors to Rome in the latter half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth. This important record has been printed in the volume of the Jesuit Records, which deals with the English...

...preceding chapter have L' perhaps served to bring into prominence two sharply contrasted periods. The first half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth seem even more than a hundred years apart in tone and temper. We turn from the eager intellectual life...

...bishops' Bible of 1570, No. I being from Deuteronomy viii, 3 : and No. 2 from Psalm li, 17. In the last half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth the decoration of the walls of houses, as well as the churches, seem to have consisted largely of Scripture...

...as setting forth a picture of the universe as this was generally conceived of by men of learning in the latter half of the sixteenth century- and the first half of the seventeenth century. The world, MASSEI informs the Count of Alta villa, consists of fourteen parts • — namely - —...

...many others only slightly inferior in rank. As regards both quality and quantity, the latter quarter of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century must be called the golden age of English dramatic literature. THEATRES The Scarcity of Theatres. —...

...Mr. Ralph N. Booth of Detroit. Most of the pieces belong to the late Renaissance period, the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth, when the silversmith's craft was at its height in Germany. One piece, at least, dates in the Gothic...