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BARCLAY  . the characters and names of the story . Thus Aneroetus is' Clement VIII;, Arx non eversa is the Tower of London; Hippophilus and Radirobanes are the names of the king of Spain; Hyanisbe is Queen Elizabeth; Mergania, by an easy anagram, is Germany; Usinulca, by another, is Calvin . The book is of historical importance in the development of 17th • century romance, including especially Fenelon's Telemaque . Ben Jonson appears, from an entry at Stationers' Hall on the 2nd of October 1623, to have intended to make a translation . Barclay's shorter poems, in two books, were printed in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (Amsterdam, 1637, i. pp . 76-136) . In the dedication, to Prince Charles of England, he refers to his earlier publication, the Sylvae . The best account of Barclay is the preface by Jules Dukas in his bibliography of the Satyricon (Paris, 1889) . This supersedes the life in Bayle's Dictionary, which had been the sole authority . A " fifth part " of the Satyricon appears in most of the editions, by Alethophilus (Claude Morisot) . For the Argenis, see the dissertations by Leon Boucher (Paris, 1874), and Dupond (Paris, 1875) .

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Icon Animorum was Englished by Thomas May in 1631 (The Mirrour of Mindes, or Barclay's Icon Animorum) . Barclay's works have never been collected .