Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, Vol. 12: For July, 1814 Miss Ere. It is singular, that Rubens should be called the Prince of the Flemish School when he was a German. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.