The Warburg Institute reports the following activities since its last account to the readers of this newsletter, RN IV, 40. Three books by the late Professor Saxl, to appear shortly:

(1) Volume III of the Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, which Saxl compiled before his death, contains manuscripts in the libraries of London, Oxford and Cambridge. It has been seen through the press by Professor Harry Bober of Harvard University. Its main interest for readers of this paper, if the term Renaissance be taken to denote a recurring phenomenon rather than a particular period, lies in the survival of the illustrations to Aratus’ poem on the star images, and the transformations which they have undergone from classical to mediaeval times.