The most reliable authorities tell us that the Anabaptists remained calm and firm to the last.

'Art thou a king ?' 'Art thou a bishop ?' The iron cages still hang on the church tower at Muenster; placed as a warning, they have become a show; perhaps some day they will be treasured as weird mentors of the truth which the world has yet to learn from the story of the Kingdom of God in Muenster." A living German artist of great power, named Joseph Sattler, too much of whose time has recently been given to designing book-plates, produced some few years ago an extraordinary illustrated history of the Anabaptists in Muenster.

Many artists have essayed to portray madness, but I know of no work more terrible than his.
We have travelled far from Leyden's peaceful studios.

It is time to look at the work of Gerard Dou.

Rembrandt we have seen was the son of a miller, Jan Steen of a brewer; the elder Dou was a glazier.