Edward Fitz Gerald 
 
 Chronological List 
 of His Books, Etc. 
 
 BY THE ,CAXTON CLUB (IN FINE 
 ARTS BUltDlNG) JANUARY FOURTH 
 TO JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST, 1899 
 
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Edward Fitz Gerald 
 Chronological List 
 of His Books, Etc. 
 
AND THIS REVIVING HERB WHOSE TENDER GREEN 
 FLEDGES THE RIVER-LIP ON WHICH WE LEAN — 
 AH. LEAN UPON IT LIGHTLY.' FOR WHO KNOWS 
 FROM WHAT ONCE LOVELY LIP IT SPRINGS UNSEEN 
 
4 Chronological List of the More 
 
 Important Issues 0/^ EDWARD FITZGERALD'S 
 Version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 
 and of Other Books, Written, Translated, 
 Edited or Owned by Him; with Portraits, 
 Autograph Letters, etc.; and with Ana, other 
 Versions of the Rubaiyat, and certain Items 
 identified with his Name, or forming Part of 
 his Persian Studies 
 
 Exhibited by The C ax ton Club (in Fine Arts 
 
 Building) Chicago, III. January Fourth to 
 
 January Twenty-First, 1899 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
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 In projecting the present Exhibition it is not so much 
 the purpose to extol the pagan philosophy of the old Per- 
 sian tentmaker, as to urge a more intimate acquaintance 
 with the "nice little things 11 with which the name of 
 Edward EitzGerald is more or less closely identified \ 
 either as editor, annotator, translator, or author. Sev- 
 eral other books of kindred interest have been included 
 in the Exhibition for reasons given in the notes appended 
 to and descriptive of each . Eitz Gerald put his full name 
 to only one book — Calderoris Six Dramas — and that 
 book was withdraivn from sale shortly after its publica- 
 tion, and thereafter found its way into circulation mainly 
 through private channels. Like all his other private 
 ventures, the issue was exceedingly limited, and it is but 
 rarely in the present day that any of these ventures 
 appear in booksellers 1 catalogues. 
 
 No money consideration ever tempted "old Eitz 11 — 
 Mr. Quar itch's single honorarium of ten pounds was 
 contributed to the fund in aid of the sufferers from 
 the famine in Persia. As Eanny Kemble said, he 
 " shunned notoriety as sedulously as most people seek it. 11 
 He once declined to be mentioned as the author of 
 Euphranor; and he concealed his identity with so much 
 success that his name as translator of the Rubaiyat 
 
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6 Introduction 
 
 was ten years in reaching his intimate friend and cor- 
 respondent, the "Chelsea Diogenes." In 1864 — four 
 years after the publication of his Quatrains — Mr. 
 Ruskin addressed a letter to " The Translator of the 
 Rubaiyat of Omar" which circled the globe for nine 
 years before arriving at its proper destination. , But his 
 good deeds are not suffered to lie neglected ; in America 
 we count him happy starred — * a "Moon of our Delight 
 who know* st no wane." 
 
 The notes to the separate issues of the Quatrains, 
 taken mainly from Ritz Gerald 1 s Letters, may serve to 
 remind us of what Mr. Edmund Gosse has said about 
 good poetry being " almost as indestructible as diamonds. 
 You throw it out of a window into the roar of London, 
 it disappears in a deep brown slush, the omnibus and the 
 growler pass over it, and by and by it turns up again 
 somewhere uninjured, with all the pure fire lambent in 
 its facets." 
 
 The books in the present Exhibition which appeared 
 prior to /8jQ, and with which RitzGerald* s name is now 
 identified, attracted so little attention that he was prac- 
 tically unknown, save to the few, until after Rossetti 
 and Swinburne found his first Omar in the penny box 
 outside Quar itch's door. Indeed, in 1882, three years 
 after the publication of the fourth issue of the Omar, 
 and only a year before FitzGerald 's death, we find but 
 one quatrain in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, under 
 
 * Among those born in the same year {i8oq) with Edward FitzGerald 
 were:. 
 
 Prof. John Stuart Blackie, Mary Cowden- Clarke, Charles Darwin, 
 W, E. Gladstone, Dr. O. W. Holmes, Lord Hotighton, Abraham Lin- 
 coln, Felix Mendelssohn, E. A. Poe, Alfred Tennyson, Robert C. lVin- 
 throp. 
 
Introduction 7 
 
 Omar Khayyam's name, and that sadly misquoted. 
 Mr. Bartlett not only took a foot out of the second line, 
 which he added to the third, but destroyed the sense of 
 the stanza into the bargain. In the ninth edition (i8q6) 
 of the Quotations, however, Mr. Bartlett atoned 
 in a measure for this lapse from his usual precision by 
 quoting the stanza correctly and adding four and a half 
 others. (He could have further enriched his useful 
 book by putting in Fitz Gerald's aphorism, " Taste is 
 the Feminine of Genius."} Today, if a new edition 
 of Familiar Quotations were called for, it would 
 hardly be safe to omit a quatrain of the poem, which, in 
 every conceivable variety of form, has been, or is being, 
 put out under American imprints* It has become the 
 fashion for professional and business men to point their 
 familiar letters with quotations from it; while the youth- 
 ful clerk shortens his morning jaunt to his office by 
 repeating his favorite stanzas; and even the gutter-mer- 
 chant carries a copy in his pocket. 
 
 In a little manual of this character it is not possible 
 to insure correctness on all points. Fitz Gerald himself 
 was very erratic, not only in his writing but in his 
 method of publishing, several of his books coming out in 
 the regular way, others being private ventures. The 
 first four issues of the Rubaiyat differ each from the 
 other; the several issues of Euphranor and Salaman 
 and Absal likewise; while the three collections of Let- 
 ters edited by Mr. Wright vary in many particulars; 
 and in neither of the collected editions do we find the 
 Memoir of Bernard Barton nor the Notes to Selden. 
 
 *Since this Introduction was written several new Editions have 
 appeared, and at least two periodicals have reprinted it entire. 
 
8 Introduction 
 
 Hence, a full sequence of Fitz Gerald' s books is necessary 
 if one wishes to possess all he wrote. 
 
 The Committee has not aimed at a complete Bibli- 
 ography of his "Master-pieces" not even of the editions 
 of the Rubaiyat, but the greater part of the more notable 
 issues of all are here, and much interesting and valuable 
 "ana" besides. 
 
 The columns of the London Chronicle have lately 
 been given over to pathetic appeals to Messrs. Macmillan 
 6° Co. for popular editions, but as will be learned from 
 the present Exhibition, the enterprise of American pub- 
 lishers enables us to buy the book at prices ranging from 
 twenty -five cents to $200.00 per copy. 
 
 The Committee regrets that it is unable to include 
 a copy of Nicolas among the various versions other 
 than that by FitzGerald ; of Mr. Quitter's piracy of 
 the Rubaiyat {1883); of Mr. T. f. Wise' s reprint of 
 the first edition of the Rubaiyat {1887); Hones Year 
 Book (1831), containing The Meadows in Spring, 
 FitzGerald 's first published poem; of all the separate 
 issues of "Old Fitz's" "small escapades in print" 
 such as The Two Generals (1868?), Virgil's Gar- 
 den (Temple Bar, April, 1882), Agamemnon (1865?), 
 Thackeray 1 s verses, Ho, Pretty Page, set to music by 
 FitzGerald (1876), Salaman and Absal (1856 edition 
 complete) /* and the little things reprinted by him for his 
 friends, such as Byron's Verses on Rogers, Arch- 
 deacon Groome's The Only Darter, in the Suffolk 
 dialect (which he would have been glad to recite to Prof. 
 Norton " were the telephone prepared across the Atlan- 
 tic)." 
 
 *A copy has been secured and will be in the Exhibition. 
 
Introduction 9 
 
 The Committee would also submit that among many 
 other items which have eluded the most diligent quest, 
 may be mentioned FitzGerald 's copy of Undine, illus- 
 trated with sketches by Thackeray ; the copy of Lowell's 
 Among My Books, in which he had marked the pas- 
 sages he did not like and intended to show to the author 
 sometime; the Squire-Carlyle Letters, which he (F) 
 passed back and forth to Mr. Norton in Cambridge 
 and Mr. Lowell in Spain; the copy of Charles Tenny- 
 son's Sonnets sent to Mr. Lowell; Tennyson's Poems 
 Chiefly Lyrical {1830) bound up with Poems (/8jj), 
 with Silhouette portrait of the laureate " Done in a 
 steamboat from Gravesend to London, Jan., 1842;" 
 Hazlitfs copy of his English Poets, with his own 
 {LPs) markings in it; the copies of Keats' Letters to 
 Fanny Brawne, and the Calderon's Dramas, sent to Mr. 
 Lowell; the copy of Milton in which he " never could 
 read ten lines together without stumbling at some Pedan- 
 try that tipped me at once out of Paradise, or even Hell 
 into the Schoolroom, worse than either;" the small 
 bunch of " Daddy " Wordsworth' s letters which he 
 extracted and bound up from a copy of Gillie's life of 
 a literary veteran in two volumes; and the scrap- 
 book which he called " half hours with the worst 
 authors, and very fine things by them." These and 
 many of the other books FitzGerald gossiped about so 
 learnedly and sent to his friends would add to the inter- 
 est and value of such an Exhibition as the present. 
 But perhaps we have sufficient, when considered in con- 
 nection with the notes, to throw some light on his unique 
 ideas as to the uses and abuses of books and literature. 
 A more curious example, for instance, of the Papaverius 
 
io Introduction 
 
 order of bibliomaniac than the Bernard would be hard 
 to find. FitzGerald tells us, in a letter to Prof. Cow ell 
 (/Sj8), that " many of the quatrains [of Omar] are 
 mashed together/ 1 and it was by a similar licence that 
 he " revised and decreased' 11 a voluminous and " trashy " 
 book. A book to him was not a "thing of beauty 11 but 
 a thing of use (see notes to No. 38). 
 
 It remains to thank Messrs. L. C. Page &" Co. for 
 courtesies cheerfully extended, and Mr. JV. H. Dole for 
 the loan of two important items in the Exhibition. 
 
 [It is believed that the first reprint of the Rubaiyat of 
 Omar Khayyam issued on this side of the Atlantic, is that 
 bearing the imprint, and date, of Belford Bros., Toronto, 
 
 1S75A 
 
THE MORE IMPORTANT SEPARATE ISSUES 
 
 OF EDWARD FITZGERALD'S VERSION 
 
 OF THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR 
 
 KHAYYAM 
 
 i RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The 
 Astronomer- Poet of Persia. Translated 
 into English Verse. Londori: Bernard Quar- 
 itch, Castle Street, Leicester Square, 185Q. 
 
 Original paper wrappers. Pp. xiii -f- 21. With auto- 
 graphs of D. G. Rossetti and Whitley Stokes. 
 
 " Nearly the whole of this, the first edition, I sold (not 
 being able to get more) at one penny each. Mr. FitzGerald 
 had made me a present of about 200 copies of the 250 he 
 had printed." So says Bernard Quaritch, in a note to the 
 item in one of his catalogues. A copy recently sold at auc- 
 tion in London brought twenty pounds. 
 
 " Edward FitzGerald . . . the man whose shy audacity 
 of diffident and daring genius has given Omar Khayyam a 
 place forever among the greatest of English poets. That 
 the very best of his exquisite poetry, the strongest and 
 serenest wisdom, the sanest and most serious irony, the most 
 piercing and the profoundest radiance of his gentle and 
 sublime philosophy, belong as much or more to Suffolk than 
 to Shiraz, has been, if I mistake not, an open secret for 
 many years — 'and,* as Dogberry says, 'it will go near to be 
 thought so shortly.' Every quatrain, though it is something 
 so much more than graceful or distinguished or elegant, is 
 also, one may say, the sublimation of elegance, the apotheo- 
 sis of distinction, the transfiguration of grace: perfection of 
 
1 2 : The Books df Edward FitzGerald 
 
 style can go no further and rise no higher, as thought can 
 pierce no deeper and truth can speak no plainer, than in the 
 crowning stanza which of course would have found itself 
 somewhat out of place beside even the gravest and the 
 loftiest poem (Mrs. Barbauld's immortal lines on life, old 
 age, and death) admitted or admissible into such a volume 
 as this. 
 
 Oh, Thou, who man of baser earth didst make, 
 And who with Eden didst devise the Snake, 
 For all the sin wherewith the face of man 
 Is blackened, man's forgiveness give— and take! 
 
 It is of work like this that his countrymen will always 
 
 think when they hear the immortal name of the workman." 
 
 — Swinburne's Studies in Prose and Poetry. 
 
 In a letter declining — " with many thanks " — an invitation 
 to one of the Omar Khayyam Club Banquets, Mr. Swin- 
 burne wrote as follows: 
 
 " As to the immortal tent-maker himself, I believe I may 
 claim to be one of his earliest English believers. It is up- 
 wards of thirty-six years since I was introduced to him by 
 D. G. Rossetti, who had just been introduced himself — I 
 believe, by Mr. Whitley Stokes. At that time the first and 
 best edition of FitzGerald's wonderful version was being 
 sold off at a penny a copy — having proved hopelessly un- 
 saleable at the published price of one shilling.* We invested 
 (I should think) in hardly less than sixpennyworth apiece; 
 and on returning to the stall next day for more, found we 
 had sent up the market to the sinfully extravagant sum of 
 twopence — an imposition which evoked from Rossetti 
 a fervent and impressive remonstrance. Not so very long 
 afterwards, if I mistake not, the price of a copy was thirty 
 shillings. It is the only edition worth having — as FitzGer- 
 ald, like the ass of genius he was, cut out of later editions 
 the crowning stanza, which is the core or kernel of the 
 whole." 
 
 The "crowning stanza" is not missing from any "later 
 edition " in this Exhibition. 
 
 * It was published at five shillings. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 1 3 
 
 2 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The 
 
 Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered 
 into English Verse. Second Edition. Lon- 
 don: Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly. 1868. 
 
 Original paper wrappers. Pp. xviii + 30. With inscrip- 
 tion, " W. H. Thompson from the Translator." 
 
 The second edition, of 500 copies according to Mr. Quar- 
 itch, is, in the words of Mr. Edmund Gosse, "now scarcely 
 less rare and no wit less interesting to the collector ;" and 
 a London bookseller believes it to be " rather scarcer than 
 the first." 
 
 "As to my own Peccadilloes in Verse, which never pre- 
 tend to be original, this is the story of Rubaiyat. I had 
 translated them partly for Cowell : young Parker asked me 
 some years ago for something for Fraser, and I gave him the 
 less wicked of these to use if he chose. He kept them for 
 two years without using : and as I saw he didn't want them 
 I printed some copies with Quaritch ; and, keeping some for 
 myself, gave him the rest. Cowell, to whom 1 sent a Copy, 
 was naturally alarmed at it ; he being a very religious Man : 
 nor have I given any other Copy but to George Borrow, to 
 whom I had once lent the Persian, and to old Donne when 
 he was down here the other Day, to whom I was showing a 
 Passage in another Book which brought my old Omar up." 
 FitzGerald to W. H. Thompson, Dec 9/61. 
 
 [LXV Second Edition.] 
 " If but the Vine and Love-abjuring Band 
 Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand, 
 
 Alack, I doubt the Prophet's Paradise 
 Were empty as the hollow of one's Hand." 
 
 [LXXVII Second Edition.] 
 " For let Philosopher and Doctor preach 
 Of what they will, and what they will not — each 
 
 Is but one Link in an eternal Chain 
 That none can slip, nor break, nor over- reach." 
 
1 4 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 3 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The 
 Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered 
 into English Verse. Third Edition. London: 
 Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly. i8j2. 
 
 Half Roxburghe. Pp. xxiv + 36. 
 
 "To E. FitzGerald 
 
 Old Fitz, who from your suburb grange, 
 
 Where once I tarried for a while, 
 Glance at the wheeling Orb of change, 
 
 And greet it with a kindly smile; 
 Whom yet I see as there you sit 
 
 Beneath your sheltering garden -tree, 
 And watch your doves about you flit, 
 
 And plant on shoulder, hand and knee, 
 Or on your head their rosy feet, 
 
 As if they knew their diet spares 
 Whatever moved in that full sheet 
 
 Let down to Peter at his prayers ; 
 
 Who live on milk and meal and grass; 
 
 * * * * * 
 
 — but none can say 
 That Lenten fare make Lenten thought, 
 
 Who reads your golden Eastern lay, 
 Than which I know no version done 
 
 In English more divinely well; 
 A planet equal to the sun 
 
 Which cast it, that large infidel 
 Your Omar." 
 
 — Tennyson. 
 
 Swinburne has expressed the wish that "the soul and 
 spirit" of Omar's thought may "be tasted in that most 
 exquisite English translation, sovereignly faultless in form 
 and colour of verse, which gives to those ignorant of the 
 East a relish of the treasure and a delight in the beauty of 
 its wisdom." 
 
 [XLVII Third Edition.] 
 
 " When You and I behind the Veil are past, 
 Oh but the long long while the World shall last, 
 
 Which of our Coming and Departure heeds 
 As the Sev'n Seas should heed a pebble-cast." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 1 5 
 
 4 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM; AND 
 THE SALAMAN AND ABSAL OF 
 JAMI: Rendered into English Verse. Ber- 
 nard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London. i8yg. 
 
 Half Roxburghe. Pp. xv + 112. 
 
 This is the fourth version of the Rubaiyat. Of this 
 version of the Salaman, FitzGerald says in one of his letters: 
 1 1 took it in hand, boiled it down to three-fourths of what it 
 originally was, and (as you see) clapt it on the back of 
 Omar, where I still believed it would hang somewhat of a 
 dead weight ; but that was Quaritch's lookout, not mine. 
 I have never heard any notice taken of it, but just now from 
 you ; and I believe that, say what you would, people would 
 rather have the old Sinner alone." In this same letter [to 
 Mr. Schutz Wilson], FitzGerald answers an inquiry as to the 
 omission of his name from the title-page, as follows: "As 
 to the publication of my name, I believe I could well dis- 
 pense with it, were it other and better than it is. But I have 
 some unpleasant associations with it ; not the least of them 
 being that it was borne, Christian and Surname, by a man 
 who left College just when I went there [Edward Marlbor- 
 ough FitzGerald] . . . What has become of him I know 
 not ; but he, among other causes, has made me dislike my 
 name, and made me sign myself (half in fun, of course) to 
 my friends, as now I do to you, Sincerely yours, 
 (The Laird of) Littlegrange, 
 
 where I date from." 
 
 In note 25 FitzGerald tells us that "At the close of the 
 Fasting Month, Ramazan, * * * the first Glimpse of 
 the New Moon, * * is looked for with the utmost anxiety, 
 and hailed with Acclamation." Then he quotes the following 
 pretty quatrain taken elsewhere from Omar: 
 
 " Be of Good Cheer — the sullen Month will die, 
 And a young Moon requite us by and by: 
 
 Look how the Old one meagre, bent, and wan 
 With Age and Fast, is fainting from the Sky." 
 
1 6 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 5 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The 
 
 Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered 
 into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, 
 with an Accompaniment of Drawings by 
 Elihu Vedder. Houghton, Mifflin and Com- 
 pany \ Boston. 1884. 
 
 Full brown morocco, with a design by Mr. Vedder in gold 
 and blind on upper cover, broad inside borders in gold, with 
 satin panels bearing a design by the artist which is repro- 
 duced on the satin ends. This edition is limited to one 
 hundred copies printed on Japan paper, of which this copy 
 is No. 78. 
 
 The drawings and text reproduced by the albertype 
 process. 
 
 Dedication — " In affectionate appreciation of her untir- 
 ing help and sympathy I dedicate these drawings to my 
 wife." 
 
 Note. "Commenced May 1883, Finished March 1884. 
 Roma." 
 
 In the Century Magazine for November, 1884, will be 
 found a very illuminating article by Mr. H. E. Scudder, 
 entitled, " Vedder's Accompaniment to the Song of Omar 
 Khayyam." 
 
 6 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The 
 
 Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered 
 into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald, 
 with an Accompaniment of Drawings by 
 Elihu Vedder. Houghton, Mifflin and Com- 
 pany, Boston. 1884. 
 
 "Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears 
 To-day of past Regret and future Fears: 
 
 To- morrow ! — Why, To-morrow I may be 
 Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years." 
 
The Books of Edzvard FitzGerald 1 7 
 
 7 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The 
 
 Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered 
 into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald. 
 The Grolier Club of New York, mdccclxxxv. 
 In original illuminated paper wrappers. Pp. xx + 62. 
 
 No. 55 of one hundred and fifty copies on Japan paper, 
 printed from type for and sold to members of the Club at 
 $3.00 per copy. Owing to the small number printed, the 
 book has rapidly risen in value, copies bringing at auction 
 in late years prices varying from $150 to $210. 
 
 This issue is reprinted from the edition of Bernard 
 Quaritch, London, 1879. The headbands are from exam- 
 ples in Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament, and the cover 
 is from an example in Audsley's Outlines of Ornament. 
 
 " For some we loved, the loveliest and the best 
 That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, 
 
 Have drunk their Cup a Round or two beforer^ 
 And one by one crept silently to rest." 
 
 8 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. In 
 
 English Verse. Edward FitzGerald. The 
 Text of the Fourth Edition, followed by 
 that of the First; with Notes showing the 
 extent of his indebtedness to the Persian 
 Original; and a Biographical Preface. New 
 York and Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and 
 Company, 1888. 
 
 Half Vellum. Pp. 124. 
 
 The Biographical Preface is signed M. K. (Michael 
 Kerney). 
 
 " And we, that now make merry in the Room 
 They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, 
 
 Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth 
 Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom?" 
 
1 8 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 9 SELECTIONS FROM THE RUBAIYAT 
 OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 Small quarto, paper cover. Pp. 21. One hundred copies, 
 "printed for private circulation only among those friends 
 whose love I prize more and more deeply as with advancing 
 years 
 
 The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop, 
 The leaves of life keep falling one by one." 
 
 This issue is the private venture of Mr. John L. Stoddard, 
 the lecturer, who says in his Preface, dated Dec. 8, 1893, that 
 "the following verses have been selected out of many which 
 appear in the four different editions of the 'Rubaiyat of 
 Omar Khayyam,' in order that I might have my favorite 
 stanzas arranged by themselves, as I best love to read them. 
 In cases where I preferred a word or line in one edition to 
 its substitute in a later one, I have not hesitated to adopt it; 
 but all these quatrains are the work of the great Persian 
 poet, as interpreted and versified by Edward FitzGerald of 
 London. . . . The thoughts expressed in the following 
 stanzas appeal as sadly and as forcibly to us as they did to 
 his contemporaries, though seven hundred years have rolled 
 away since Persian roses fell upon his grave. My own 
 enjoyment from them has been so great that, having ar- 
 ranged these quatrains thus in compact form, I have multi- 
 plied their copies, so that my friends may share this pleasure 
 with me. My motive resembles that of the Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, who, in the place where Anne of Austria had whis- 
 pered that she loved him, let fall a precious gem, desiring 
 that another might be happy where he himself had been." 
 
 " Yet, much as wine has played the infidel, 
 And robbed me of my robe of honor — well, 
 / wonder often what the vintners buy 
 One half so precious as the stuff they sell. 
 
 And when like her, O Saki, thou shalt pass 
 Among the guests, star- scattered on the grass, 
 
 And in thy joyous errand reach the spot 
 Where I made one — turn down an empty glass." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 1 9 
 
 10 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse by Edward Fitz- 
 Gerald. With an Accompaniment of Draw- 
 ings by Elihu Vedder. Houghton, Mifflin 
 and Compa?iy, Boston, 18Q4. 
 
 Crown octavo, cloth, top edges gilt. The size of this 
 issue is one quarter that or the original folio style, and the 
 cover and all other designs are faithful reproductions (re- 
 duced) from the originals, and approved by Mr. Vedder. 
 One note tells us that "the Quatrains as given in this volume 
 differ slightly in order from that adopted by FitzGerald, but 
 the entire 101 retained by him are here included." And 
 from another note we learn that the artist made " occasional 
 slight changes" in FitzGerald's text, "interpolating indeed 
 a verse of his own (number 44)," which is as follows:* 
 
 " Listen — a moment listen ! Of the same 
 Poor Earth from which that Human whisper came 
 The luckless Mould in which Mankind was cast 
 They did compose, and call'd him by the name." 
 
 11 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse by Edward Fitz- 
 Gerald. Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine. 
 
 MDCCCXCIV. 
 
 Original Japan paper boards with circuit edges. Pp. 80. 
 
 M r. Andrew Lang's quatrains " To Omar Khayyam " (from 
 Letters to Dead Authors) serve as a proem; and tour stanzas 
 by Justin Huntly McCarthy as L'Envoi. 
 
 " Wise Omar, do the Southern Breezes fling 
 Above your Grave, at ending of the Spring, 
 
 The Snowdrift of the Petals of the Rose, 
 The wild white Roses you were wont to sing? 
 
 ******** 
 
 * A lapsus caiami\ which has been corrected in later issues. This is quat- 
 rain xxxviii of the Third Edition. 
 
20 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 You were a Saint of unbelieving Days, 
 Liking your Life and happy in Men's Praise; 
 
 Enough for you the Shade beneath the Bough, 
 Enough to watch the wild World go its Ways. 
 
 ******** 
 Ages of Progress ! These eight hundred Years 
 Hath Europe shuddered with her Hopes or Fears, 
 
 And now ! — she listens in the Wilderness 
 To thee, and half believeth what she hears ! 
 ******** 
 Ah, not from learned Peace and gay Content 
 Shall we of England go the way he went — 
 
 The Singer of the Red Wine and the Rose — 
 Nay, otherwise than his our Day is spent! *' 
 
 Serene he dwelt in fragrant Naishapur, 
 But we must wander while the Stars endure. 
 
 He knew The Secret: we have none that knows, 
 No Man so sure as Omar once was sure! " 
 
 — Andrew Lang. 
 
 12 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 Rendered into English Verse by Edward 
 FitzGerald. Portland, Maine. Thomas B. 
 Mosher. mdcccxcv. 
 
 Original Japan paper boards with circuit edges. Pp. 125. 
 The following Sonnet by Mrs. Rosamund Marriott Wat- 
 son on Omar Khayyam serves as a proem to this edition: 
 
 " Sayer of sooth, and Searcher of dim skies! 
 
 Lover of Song, and Sun, and Summertide, 
 
 For whom so many roses bloomed and died; 
 Tender Interpreter, most sadly wise, 
 Of earth's dumb, inarticulated cries! 
 
 Time's self cannot estrange us, nor divide; 
 
 Thy hand still beckons from the garden -side, 
 Through green vine -garlands, when the Winter dies. 
 
 Thy calm lips smile on us, thine eyes are wet; 
 
 The nightingale's full song sobs all through thine, 
 And thine in hers — part human, part divine! 
 
 Among the deathless gods thy place is set, 
 
 All-wise, and drowsy with Life's mingled Wine, 
 
 Laughter and Learning, Passion and Regret." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 2 1 
 
 13 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse by Edward 
 FitzGerald. Printed for E. W. Porter Com- 
 pany, Publishers > 100 East Fourth St., Saint 
 Paul, Minnesota, mdcccxcv. 
 
 Paper boards, with cover-design, frontispiece and title- 
 page by W. Robert Pike. Pp. 93. 
 
 Of this edition, on handmade paper, 750 copies were 
 printed. 
 
 " Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, 
 Before we too into the Dust descend ; 
 
 Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, 
 Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! " 
 
 14 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF 
 NAISHAPUR. The Astronomer Poet 
 of Persia. Rendered into English Verse. 
 Ashendene Press, mdcccxcvi. 
 
 Small Quarto. Paper. Pp. xi + 48. 
 50 copies printed for private circulation only. This is 
 Number 5. 
 
 " Note. The text here printed is not that of any one of the 
 four editions ; but the Printer has selected from each those 
 readings which seemed to him best, & combined them 
 into one whole. He is aware that in so doing he cannot 
 hope to please all ; for the lovers of Omar are sorely divided 
 as to the merits of this or that particular turn of phrase or 
 thought: so that he can only crave humbly the indulgence 
 of those who may happen to disagree with his judgment." 
 
 Then follow Mrs. Rosamund Marriott Watson's sonnet, 
 Omar Khayyam ; the following stanzas, 
 
2 2 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 " La vie est vaine, 
 Vn pev d'amovr 
 Vn pev de haine, 
 Et pvis — bonjovr ! 
 
 La vie est breve, 
 
 Vn pev d'espoir, 
 Vn pev de reve, 
 
 Et pvis — bonsoir ! " 
 
 a dedication "to the Memory of Edward FitzGerald ;" an 
 address by the printer " To the gentle reader ;" FitzGerald's 
 Introduction and the text ; a Bibliography ; and the follow- 
 ing : 
 
 u Here endeth this Book of the Rubaiyat of Omar 
 Khayyam, translated out of the Persian into our English 
 Tongue by Edward FitzGerald, and imprinted in this man- 
 ner as ye may here see, by St. John Hornby & his sisters, 
 at their private Press, Ashendene; the same having been 
 begun & finished in the year of our Lord mdcccxcvi., 
 and the sixtieth of her most Gracious Majesty Victoria Brit. 
 Regina & Ind. Imperatrix." 
 
 From the description of this edition in the Bibliography 
 we learn that " The types used have been hand-cast from 
 matrices given to the University of Oxford by Bishop Fell 
 in the year 1670, and now in the possession of the Clarendon 
 Press." 
 
 IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, 
 Each softly lucent as a rounded moon ; 
 The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, 
 FitzGerald strung them on an English thread. 
 
 Fit rosary for a queen, in shape and hue, 
 When Contemplation tells her pensive beads 
 Of mortal thoughts, forever old and new. 
 Fit for a queen ? Why, surely then for you ! 
 
 The moral ? Where Doubt's eddies toss and twirl 
 Faith's slender shallop till her footing reel, 
 Plunge : if you find not peace beneath the whirl, 
 Groping, you may like Omar grasp a pearl. 
 
 — From James Russell Lowell's Heartsease and Rue. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 23 
 
 15 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 English, French, and German Transla- 
 tions. Comparatively arranged in accord- 
 ance with the text of Edward FitzGerald's 
 version, with further Selections, Notes, 
 Biographies, Bibliography and other ma- 
 terial collected and edited by Nathan 
 Haskell Dole. Two volumes. Printed 
 and published by Joseph Knight Company. 
 Boston, mdcccxcvi. 
 Cloth. Pp. clxxix + 597. 
 
 A new issue of this edition, bearing the imprint of L. C. 
 Page & Company, and with 56 pages of additional matter 
 and illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett and Gilbert James, 
 came out in the present year. A set of proofs of the illus- 
 trations form part of this exhibit. 
 
 " The Worldly Hope men set their hearts upon 
 Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, 
 
 Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, 
 Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone." 
 
 16 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse by Edward Fitz- 
 Gerald. Published for Will Bradley by R. 
 H. Russell, New York (1897). 
 
 Dark Green (stamped) paper boards. Pp. 61. 
 
 This is substantially a reprint of the Fifth Edition. 
 
 " Some for the Glories of this World; and some 
 Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; 
 
 Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, 
 Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum ! 
 
24 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 17 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse. London, Mac- 
 millan & Co., Limited. New York, The 
 Macmillan Company, 1898. 
 
 Vellum. Pp. 112. 
 
 This is a copy of the Fifth separate issue, first reprinted 
 in July and October, 1890, and subsequently in July, 1891, 
 and February, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897 (twice), and 1898. 
 On page 112 is this note by the Editor: "It must be ad- 
 mitted that FitzGerald took great liberties with the original 
 in his version of Omar Khayyam. The first stanza is 
 entirely his own, and in stanza XXXI of the fourth edition* 
 (XXXVI in the second) he has introduced two lines from 
 Attar (see Letters [and Literary Remains], Page 251). In 
 stanza LXXXI (fourth edition), writes Professor Cowell, 
 'There is no original for the line about the snake: I have 
 looked for it in vain in Nicolas; but I have always supposed 
 that the last line in FitzGerald's mistaken version of Quatr. 
 236 in Nicolas's ed., which runs thus: 
 
 ' O thou who knowest the secrets of every one's mind, 
 Who graspest every one's hand in the hour of weakness, 
 O God, give me repentance and accept my excuses, 
 O thou who givest repentance and acceptest the excuses of every one.' 
 
 FitzGerald mistook the meaning of giving and accepting 
 as used here, and so invented his last line out of his own 
 mistake. I wrote to him about it when I was in Calcutta; 
 but he never cared to alter it.' " 
 
 " Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn 
 In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn; 
 
 Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal'd, 
 And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn." 
 
 * Stanza xxxiii of Fourth Edition, which is reprinted here. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 25 
 
 18 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 Translated into English Verse by Edward 
 FitzGerald. William Doxey, At the Sign of 
 the Lark, San Francisco, (1898). 
 
 Issued in paper covers. Pp. 113. Opens with four Qua- 
 trains by Justin Huntly McCarthy, followed by Porter (Har- 
 nett's poem, "Glose upon a Ruba'iy,'' a quotation from 
 M. K., and a substantial reprint of the Houghton, Mifflin 
 & Co. edition of the fourth and first versions. The little 
 volume forms No. 1 of a series called The Lark Classics. 
 This copy contains the following three quatrains, and an 
 inscription, by Gardner C. Teall: 
 
 " Why did'st thou say, O King of all the Wise, 
 Maker of Tents, and Searcher of the Skies, — 
 Why did'st thou say we dust to dust descend 
 And lie sans Song, sans Singer and sans — find? 
 
 How can it be, the Echo of that Song 
 
 Thou sang'st in Naishapur, the Spectral Throng 
 
 All jealous of the Silence of the Tomb 
 
 Withhold or grimly smother in the Gloom ! 
 
 Is't so, sweet Singer of Immortal Song? 
 
 Then powerless to right Eternal Wrong 
 We yet may quaff, in memory of thy Soul, 
 What thou did'st brew, now emptied in this Bowl." 
 
 1 Oft have the footsteps of my Soul been led 
 By Thee, sweet Omar, far from hum of Toil 
 
 To where the Chenar trees their plumage spread 
 And tangly, wild grape-vines the thickest coil; 
 
 Where distant fields, scarce glimpst in Noon content, 
 Are lush with verdure quick upon the Plough; 
 
 Where trills the Nightingale beneath the Tent 
 
 Of Heaven, uttering her soft lament; 
 
 There have I sat with Thee and conned ere now 
 A Book of Verses underneath the Bough." 
 
 — Porter Garnett. 
 
26 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 19 THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAY- 
 YAM. The Astronomer-Poet of Per- 
 sia. Rendered into English Verse by 
 Edward FitzGerald. The text of the 
 Fourth Edition followed by that of the 
 First, with notes showing the extent of 
 his indebtedness to the Persian Original. 
 
 A Biographical Preface, FitzGerald's 
 Sketch of the Life of Omar, and a Fore- 
 word by Talcott Williams. 
 
 Philadelphia. From the Publishing House 
 of Henry T. Coates and Company. 
 
 MDCCCXCVIII. 
 Limp leather. Pp. lxxi + 75. 
 
 [I First Edition.] 
 " Awake ! for Morning in the Bowl of Night 
 Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight; 
 
 And Lo ! the Hunter of the East has caught 
 The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light." 
 
 [I Fourth Edition.] 
 " Wake ! For the Sun who scatter' d into flight 
 The Stars before him from the Field of Night, 
 
 Drives Night along with them from Heav'n and strikes 
 The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light." 
 
 [XI First Edition.] 
 " Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, 
 A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse— and Thou 
 
 Beside me singing in the Wilderness — 
 And Wilderness is Paradise enow." 
 
 [XII Fourth Edition.] 
 " A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, 
 A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou 
 
 Beside me singing in the Wilderness — 
 Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! " 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 2 7 
 
 20 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse by Edward Fitz- 
 Gerald, and into Latin by Herbert Wilson 
 Greene, M.A., B.C.L., Fellow of Mag- 
 dalen College, Oxford. Authorized Edi- 
 tion. Privately printed by Nathan Haskell 
 Dole. Boston, Mass., U. S. A. mdcccxcviii. 
 
 Morocco. Pp. 62. 
 
 "Of this edition have been printed nine hundred and fifty 
 (950) copies on English handmade paper, and fifty (50) 
 numbered copies larger format on Japan paper." (There 
 were 100 copies printed of the original Latin version.) Mr. 
 Dole calls this a "bilingual edition," which "is designed 
 as a breviary for those who make a sort of cult of the 
 Rubaiyat. Notes and introduction are superfluous: they 
 are omitted." The text, with the Latin version in red oppo- 
 site, is the one used by Mr. Wright in Letters and Literary 
 Remains (1894). 
 
 "When in Bedfordshire I put away almost all Books 
 except Omar Khayyam! which I could not help looking 
 over in a Paddock covered with Buttercups ana brushed 
 by a delicious Breeze, while a dainty racing Filly of W. 
 Browne's came startling up to wonder and snuff about me. 
 
 ' Tempus est quo Orientis Aura mundus renovatur, 
 Quo de fonte pluvial i dulcis Imber reseratur; 
 
 Musi'tnanus undecumque ramos insuper splendescit; 
 Jesu-spiritusque Salutaris terrain pervagatur. 
 
 "Which is to be read as Monkish Latin, like 'Dies Irae,' 
 etc., retaining the Italian value of the Vowels, not the 
 Classical. You will think me a perfectly Aristophanic Old 
 Man when I tell you how many of Omar I could not help 
 running into such bad Latin. I should not confide such 
 follies but to you who won't think them so, and who will be 
 
28 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 pleased at least with my still harping on old Studies. You 
 would be sorry, too, to think that Omar breathes a sort of 
 Consolation to me! Poor Fellow; I think of him, and Oliver 
 Basselin, and Anacreon; lighter Shadows among the Shades, 
 perhaps, over which Lucretius presides so grimly." 
 
 FitzGerald to Cow ell, May, 1857. 
 
 20A RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Ren- 
 dered into English Verse by Edward Fitz- 
 Gerald. Decorated by W. B. Macdougall. 
 London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. New York: 
 The Macmillan Company, mdcccxcviii. 
 Small quarto, cloth, unpaged. 
 
 "This edition of the Rubaiyat is dedicated to the members 
 of the Omar Khayyam Club." 
 
 It is a reprint of the first edition without introduction or 
 notes, and is limited to 1,000 copies. 
 
 20B RUBIAYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, 
 The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. 
 Rendered into English Verse. First 
 American from the Third London Edition. 
 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 
 The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1881. 
 
 Original cloth. Pp.78 — the text being printed on only 
 one side of the leaf. John Wilson & Son. University Press. 
 This edition is now in the twenty-seventh impression. 
 
OTHER BOOKS TRANSLATED, WRITTEN, 
 
 EDITED OR ANNOTATED BY 
 
 EDWARD FITZGERALD 
 
 21 THE TABLE-TALK OF JOHN SEL- 
 DEN, ESQ. With a Biographical Pref- 
 ace and Notes by S. W. Singer, Esq. 
 London, William Pickering, 1847. 
 
 Portrait of Selden. Pp. cxxxiv + 257 -f- 1 page corrigenda. 
 
 As to the Notes, Mr. Singer says: " Part of the following 
 illustrations were kindly communicated to the Editor by a 
 gentleman to whom his best thanks are due, and whom it 
 would have afforded him great pleasure to be allowed to 
 name." Mr. Wright quotes this remark in the Letters, and 
 adds: " It might have been said with truth that the 'greater 
 part' of the illustrations were contributed by the same 
 anonymous benefactor, who was, I have very little doubt, 
 FitzGerald himself. I have in my possession a copy of the 
 Table Talk which he gave me about 1871 or 1872, with 
 annotations in his own handwriting, and these are almost 
 literally reproduced in the Notes to Singer's Edition. Of 
 this copy FitzGerald wrote to me, 'What notes I have 
 appended are worth nothing, I suspect; though I remember 
 that the advice of the present Chancellor [Lord Hatherley] 
 was asked in some cases.' " 
 
 "There is more weighty bullion sense in this book, than 
 I ever found in the same number of pages of any uninspired 
 writer." — Coleridge. 
 
 29 
 
30 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 22 SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS AND 
 LETTERS OF BERNARD BARTON. 
 Edited by his Daughter. London. Hall, 
 Virtue & Co. mdcccxlix. 
 
 Cloth, Portrait of Bernard Barton, and other Illustrations. 
 Pp. List of Subscribers, 12 leaves (unpaged) + xxxvi-j- 363. 
 
 The " Memoir of Bernard Barton" in this volume, signed 
 " E. F. G.," is the first published (and acknowledged) literary- 
 work by FitzGerald,* who afterwards married Barton's 
 daughter, Lucy, the editor/)* The "Memoir " has not been 
 reprinted in either of the collected editions of FitzGerald's 
 works, though it has been liberally ''tampered with" by 
 Mr. Edward Verrall Lucas in his book, Bernard Barton and 
 his Friends, where it is conceded to be "a model of what 
 such memoirs should be, for delicacy of style, justice of 
 appreciation, and Tightness of proportion." 
 
 "He had his cheerful remembrances with the old; a 
 playful word for the young — especially with children, 
 whom he loved and was loved by. — Or, on some summer 
 afternoon, perhaps, at the little inn on the heath, or by the 
 river-side — or when, after a pleasant picnic on the sea- 
 shore, we drifted homeward up the river, while the breeze 
 died away at sunset, and the heron, at last startled by our 
 gliding boat, slowly rose from the ooze over which the tide 
 was momentarily encroaching." — From the Memoir. 
 
 Writing to F. Tennyson, Dec. 7, '49, FitzGerald says: " I 
 have been obliged to turn Author on the very smallest scale. 
 My old friend Bernard Barton chose to die in the early part 
 of this year. . . . We have made a Book out of his Let- 
 ters and Poems, and published it by subscription . . . 
 and I have been obliged to contribute a little dapper 
 Memoir, as well as to select bits of Letters, bits of Poems, 
 etc." 
 
 *Unless we except the poem, The Meadows in Spring, first printed in 
 Hone's Year Book (1831). 
 
 t FitzGerald's widow died Nov. 27, 1898, aged 90 years. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 3 1 
 
 23 EUPHRANOR. A Dialogue on Youth. 
 
 London, William Pickering, 1851. 
 
 In the original green cloth. Title + pp. 81. 
 
 FitzGerald's first book, of which, he said, the year follow- 
 ing its publication, " It would be a real horror to me to be 
 known as the writer." But later in life, after Spedding and 
 others had praised it, he thought it "a pretty specimen of 
 chisell'd Cherry-stone." Writing to Fanny Kemble, March 
 17, 1875, ne sa ^ °f * t: "The Dialogue is a pretty thing in 
 some respects; but disfigured by some confounded smart 
 writing in parts." And again, to Lowell, April 17, 1878; 
 "So pretty in Form, I think, and with some such pretty 
 parts; but then some odious smart writing." Tennyson said 
 that the description of the boat race, at the end of the book, 
 was one of the most beautiful pieces of English prose. 
 
 24 EUPHRANOR. A May-Day Conversation 
 
 at Cambridge. " Tis Forty years since." 
 Billings & Son, printers, Guildford. (1882). 
 
 Privately printed. Half Morocco, without regular title- 
 page, but with much matter not in the first and second edi- 
 tions, especially about Tennyson, on pages 25 and 56. 
 
 In May, 1868, FitzGerald wrote to Prof. Cowell: " I had 
 supposed that you didn't like the second Edition [of 
 Euphranor] as well as the first; and had a suspicion myself 
 that, though I improved it in some respects I had done more 
 harm than good: and so I have never had the courage to 
 look into it since I sent it to you at Oxford. Perhaps Ten- 
 nyson only praised the first Edition and I don't know where 
 to lay my hands on that .... I remember being 
 anxious about it twenty years ago, because I thought it was 
 the Truth (as if my telling it could mend the matter!): and 
 I cannot but think that the Generation that has grown up 
 in these twenty years has not profited by the Fifty Thousand 
 Copies of this great work! " 
 

 3 2 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 25 POLONIUS: A Collection of Wise Saws 
 
 and Modern Instances. London: Wil- 
 liam Pickering. 1852. 
 
 Original green cloth. Pp. xvi + H5- 
 
 " Few Books are duller than books of Aphorisms and 
 Apophthegms. A Jest-book is, proverbially, no joke ; a Wit- 
 book, perhaps, worse; but dullest of all, probably, is the 
 Moral-book, which this little volume pretends to be." — 
 From the Preface. 
 
 " It is a collection of wise saws and modern instances, some 
 of them his own, most of them borrowed from Bacon, Selden, 
 Kenelm Digby, and, of the living, Carlyle and Newman, the 
 whole graced by a charming and characteristic preface by 
 FitzGerald himself." — Edmund Gosse in Fortnightly Review. 
 
 26 SIX DRAMAS OF CALDERON. Freely 
 
 translated by Edward FitzGerald. London. 
 William Pickering, mdcccliii. 
 
 Original crimson cloth. Pp. viii +273 + Errata 1 leaf. 
 
 This is the only book to which Edward FitzGerald affixed 
 his full name. 
 
 Probably not more than 250 copies were issued, and these 
 were presently withdrawn and suppressed, because of the 
 unfavorable reviews — one of which, in the Athenceum^ Fitz- 
 Gerald characterized as a " determined spit at me." " I am 
 persuaded," he wrote to Mr. Lowell, "that, to keep life in 
 the work (as Drama must), the translator (however inferior 
 to his Original) must recast that original into his own Like- 
 ness, more or less : The less like his original, so much the 
 worse : but still, the live Dog better than the dead Lion, in 
 Drama, I say. As to Epic, is not Cary still the best Dante? 
 Cowper and Pope were both men of Genius, out of my 
 Sphere; but whose Homer still holds its own? The elab- 
 orately exact, or the * teacup-time' Parody?" FitzGerald's 
 Calderon translations brought him the Calderon medal. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 33 
 
 27 THE MIGHTY MAGICIAN. "SUCH 
 STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE 
 OF." Two Plays translated from Cal- 
 deron. (1865.) 
 
 Privately printed, February, 1865. "I had about a 
 hundred Copies . . . printed . . and have not had 
 a hundred friends to give them to — poor Souls ! " In gray 
 paper wrappers ; the first without title-page, the second with 
 a half-title as follows : 
 
 " Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of." 
 A Drama, 
 Taken From 
 Calderon's " Vida Es Suefio." 
 
 For Calderon's Drama sufficient would seem 
 The title he chose for it, u Life is a Dream ; n 
 Two words of the motto now filch ' d are enough 
 For the impudent mixture they label — "Such StuffT 
 
 John Childs and Sons, Printers. Pp. 131. Corrections 
 on PP- 35» 37» 4°» 56, 58, 59, and 75, in the translator's hand- 
 writing. 
 
 In a letter to R. C. Trench, February 25, '65, FitzGerald 
 says: 
 
 "And I took up three sketched out Dramas, two of 
 Calderon, and have licked the two Calderons into some sort 
 of shape of my own, without referring to the Original. One 
 of them goes by this Post to your Grace; and when I tell 
 you the other is no other than your own ' Life's a Dream,' 
 you won't wonder at my sending the present one on Trial, 
 both done as they are in the same lawless, perhaps impu- 
 dent, way. I know you would not care who did these things, 
 so long as they were well done ; but one does n't wish to 
 meddle, and in so free-and-easy a way, with a Great Man's 
 Masterpieces, and utterly fail : especially when two much 
 better men have been before one. One excuse is, that 
 
34 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 Shelley and Dr. Trench only took parts of these plays, not 
 caring surely — who can ? — for the underplot and buffoonery 
 which stands most in the way of the tragic Dramas. Yet I 
 think it is as a whole, that is, the whole main Story, that 
 these Plays are capital ; and therefore I have tried to 
 present that whole, leaving out the rest, or nearly so; and 
 altogether the Thing has become so altered one way or 
 another that I am afraid of it now it's done, and only send 
 you one Play (the other indeed, is not done printing: neither 
 to be published), which will be enough if it is an absurd 
 Attempt." 
 
 Mr. Gosse says M the plays were printed separately, and 
 more copies were distributed of the former than of the 
 latter." 
 
 " SONG. 
 Who that in his hour of glory 
 
 Walks the kingdom of the rose, 
 And misapprehends the story 
 
 Which through all the garden blows; 
 Which the southern air who brings 
 It touches, and the leafy strings 
 Lightly to the touch respond ; 
 And nightingale to nightingale 
 Answering a bough beyond — 
 Nightingale to nightingale 
 Answering a bough beyond." 
 
 28 SEA WORDS AND PHRASES ALONG 
 THE SUFFOLK COAST. Three articles 
 from the East Anglian of 1 868-1 871 (?). 
 
 This is a set ot the pages from the numbers of the East 
 Anglian Magazine selected by FitzGerald, and with cor- 
 rections in his handwriting. The set is enclosed in a loose 
 wrapper marked simply "Complete." 
 
 In a letter to Mr. W. A. Wright, FitzGerald says, "My 
 poor old Lowestoft Sea-Slang may amuse yourself to look 
 over perhaps," and Mr. Wright did not reprint it in the 
 Letters and Literary Remains, though Mr. Quaritch did in 
 his collected edition (No. 35), reprinting from this copy. 
 
The Books of Edward FztzGerald 35 
 
 29 SEA WORDS AND PHRASES ALONG 
 THE SUFFOLK COAST. No. 1. Ex- 
 tracted from the East Anglian Notes and 
 Queries, January, 1869. Lowestoft: Sam- 
 uel Tymons, 60, Highstreet. i86g. 
 
 This copy is made up of the set of the selected sheets, 
 with a title-page specially printed, on tinted paper, and 
 is bound in morocco. 
 
 30 SALAMAN AND ABSAL. An Alle- 
 gory. From the Persian of Jami. Ips- 
 wich. CowelFs Steam Printing Works, 
 Butter Market 1871. 
 
 Original green cloth with leather back. Pp. xvi + 45. 
 This copy has the title-page and text of the second separate 
 edition, bound up with the "Life of Jami" (with many cor 
 rections in FitzGerald's handwriting), of the first, and was 
 the editorial copy used by Mr. Quaritch for his collected 
 edition. FitzGerald, in a letter to H. Schutz Wilson (1882), 
 says of the Salaman: * * * "It was the first Persian 
 Poem I read, with my friend Edward Cowell, near on forty 
 years ago: and I was so well pleased with it then (and now 
 think it almost the best of the Persian Poems I have read or 
 heard about), that I published my Version of it in 1856- 
 (I think) with Parker of the Strand. When Parker disap- 
 peared, my unsold Copies, many more than of the sold, were 
 returned to me; some of which, if not all, I gave to little 
 Quaritch, who, I believe, trumpeted them off to some little 
 profit; and I thought no more of them." 
 
 And again, to Prof. Norton in 1879, ne savs of Salaman 
 that it "is cut down to two-thirds of his former proportion, 
 and very much improved, I think. It is still in a wrong key: 
 Verse of Miltonic strain, unlike the simple Eastern; I re- 
 member trying that at first, but could not succeed." (See 
 No. 4.) 
 
36 The Books of Edward Fit z Gerald 
 
 31 AGAMEMNON. A Tragedy Taken From 
 iEscHYLUS. London, Bernard Quaritch, 1 8j6. 
 
 Half Roxburghe. This Edition (the Second) limited to 
 250 copies. Published by "my little Quaritch * * * * 
 at his own risk." 
 
 "Two or three years ago I had three or four of my Master- 
 pieces done up together for admiring Friends. It has oc- 
 curred to me to send you one of these instead of the single 
 Dialogue [Euphranor] which I was looking in the Box for. 
 I think you have seen, or had, all the things but the last 
 [Agamemnon], which is the most impudent of all. It was, 
 however, not meant for Scholars: mainly for Mrs. Kemble: 
 but as I can't read myself, nor expect others of my age to 
 read a long MS., I had it printed [in 1865] by a cheap friend 
 (to the bane of other Friends), and here it is." — FitzGerald 
 to Pollock, 1873. 
 
 The four lines following are said to be one of FitzGerald's 
 interpolations — perhaps the "one single little originality'* 
 to which he alludes in his letter to Mr. Pollock: 
 
 " Call not on Death, old man, that, call'd or no, 
 
 Comes quick; nor spend your ebbing breath on me, 
 Nor Helena: who but as arrows be 
 Shot by the hidden hand behind the bow." 
 
 32 CHARLES LAMB. A Calendar of his 
 Life in Four pages. [1878?]. 
 
 The MS. additions are in FitzGerald's handwriting. 
 
 " Now I enclose you a little work of mine," writes Fitz- 
 Gerald to his friend Prof. Norton [1878], "which I hope does 
 no irreverence to the Man it talks of. It is meant quite 
 otherwise. I often got puzzled in reading Lamb's Letters, 
 about some Data in his Life to which the Letters referred: 
 so I drew up the enclosed for my own behoof, and then 
 thought that others might be glad of it also. If I set down 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 37 
 
 his Miseries, and the one Failing for which those Miseries 
 are such a Justification, I only set down what has been long 
 and publickly known, and what, except in a Noodle's eyes, 
 must enhance the dear Fellow's character, instead of lessen- 
 ing it. ■ Saint Charles! ' said Thackeray to me thirty years 
 ago, putting one of C. L.'s letters* to his forehead; and old 
 Wordsworth said of him: ' If there be a Good Man, Charles 
 Lamb is one.' " 
 
 To "My Dear Groome," he also wrote: "By the by, I 
 enclose a Paper of some stepping-stones in ' Dear Charles 
 Lamb' — drawn up for my own use in reading his Letters, 
 and printed, you see, for my Friends — one of my best 
 Works; though not exact about Book Dates, which indeed 
 one does not care for. The Paper is meant to paste in as a 
 Flyleaf before any Volume of the Letters, as now printed." 
 
 33 THE DOWNFALL AND DEATH OF 
 KING CEDIPUS. A Drama in Two 
 Parts. Chiefly taken from the CEdipus 
 Tyrannus and Colonaeus of Sophocles. 
 The Inter-act Choruses are from Potter. 
 (1880-1). 
 
 Half brown morocco, top edges gilded. Pages, Part I. 
 46, and Part II, VIII + 45. The Preface, which precedes 
 Part II, is a letter to "My dear N — ," signed "Little- 
 Grange." The title-page is without date or place of im- 
 print, but we learn from Mr. Edmund Gosse's Catalogue, 
 that Part I was printed in February, 1880, and part II in the 
 following March, both in a small private issue. The para- 
 phrase was made for Mrs. Kemble. 
 
 In a letter to Prof. Norton, Sept. 3, '79, FitzGerald apolo- 
 gizes for delaying to send him the two " Sophocles Abstracts," 
 of which he says he "would not send any but a fair MS. if 
 
 ♦That to Bernard Barton about Mitford's vases, December i, 1824. — W, A. 
 Wright. 
 
38 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 I sent MS. at all; and may perhaps print it in a small way, 
 not to publish. . . . It is positively the last of my Works! 
 having been by me these dozen years, I believe, occasionally 
 looked at." He had laid the Plays by after looking them 
 over, " meaning to wait till another year to clear up some 
 parts, if not all. Thus do my little works arrive at such 
 form as they result in, good or bad; so as, however I may be 
 blamed for the liberties I take with the Great, I cannot be 
 accused of over haste in doing so, though blamed I may be 
 for rashness in meddling with them at all." 
 
 34 READINGS IN CRABBE. -Tales of the 
 Hall." London, Bernard Quaritch. 1882. 
 
 Original green cloth. Pp. xiv + 242. With a correction 
 in the handwriting of FitzGerald. This is the editorial copy 
 used by Mr. Quaritch for his collected edition (see No. 35), 
 and FitzGerald's introduction here is quite different from 
 the reprint of it in the Letters and Literary Remains, where 
 it is dated [June, 1883] — the month and year of his death. 
 The date of the reprint seems to have been added by the 
 Editor, Mr. W. A. Wright. 
 
 Mr. Gosse says this selection is FitzGerald's "last literary 
 enterprise," but some extracts from the Letters throw a 
 fuller light on the history of this puzzling book. 
 
 To Prof. Norton, Dec, 1876: 
 
 " I wish some American Publisher would publish my Edi- 
 tion of Tales of the Hall, edited by means of Scissors and 
 Paste, with a few words of plain Prose to bridge over whole 
 tracts of bad Verse?* 
 
 [These " bridges " at the breaks in the Tales have not 
 been reprinted]. 
 
 To J. R. Lowell, Oct., 1878: 
 
 "I positively meditate a Volume made up of 'Readings' 
 from his (Crabbe's) Tales of the Hall, that is, all his better 
 Verse connected with as few words of my own Prose as will 
 connect it intelligibly together." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 39 
 
 To Prof. Norton, May, 1879: 
 
 "By this post I send you my Handbook of Crabbe's 
 Tales of the Hall, of which I am so doubtful that I do not 
 yet care to publish it." 
 
 To J. R. Lowell, May, 1879: 
 
 " By this post I send you a bit of a Book, in which you 
 see that I only play very second fiddle. It is not published 
 lyet, as I wait for a few friends to tell me if it be worth 
 publishing." 
 
 To Prof. Norton, May, 1880: 
 
 "It was mainly for the Humour's sake that I made my 
 little work: Humour .... which I meant to try and 
 iget a hearing for in the short Preface I had written in case 
 the book had been published." 
 
 To Prof. Norton, March, 1883: 
 
 "The Crabbe is the same I sent you some years ago: left 
 in sheets, except the few Copies I sent to friends. And now 
 I have tacked to it a little Introduction, and sent some forty 
 copies to lie on Quaritch's counter: for I do not suppose 
 they will get further." 
 
 Hence it would appear that the book of Tales, though 
 printed and circulated privately as early as 1879, was not 
 regularly published, with an Introduction, until 1882 or 1883 
 — some copies bear the latter date. That FitzGerald con- 
 templated, and indeed left in MS., a more comprehensive 
 selection from his " Eternal Crabbe," must be inferred from 
 the following: 
 
 To Fanny Kemble, Nov. 13, '79. 
 
 "Within doors, I am again at my everlasting Crabbe! 
 doctoring his Posthumous Tales a la mode of those of 'The 
 Hall/ to finish a Volume of simple 'Selections' from his 
 other works: all which I will leave to be used, or not, when- 
 ever old Crabbe rises up again: which will not be in the 
 Life-time of yours ever." 
 
 To W. A. Wright, May, 1883: 
 
 "The Crabbe volume would, I think, serve for an almost 
 sufficient Selection from him, and some such Selection will 
 have to be made, I believe, if he is to be resuscitated." 
 
40 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 35 WORKS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD, 
 Translator of Omar Khayyam. Re- 
 printed from the original impressions, 
 with some corrections derived from his 
 own annotated copies. In two volumes. 
 Bernard Quaritch, Lo?idon. Houghton, Mif- 
 flin & Co. Boston. 1887. 
 
 In cloth as issued. 
 
 This edition bears a dedication which reads as follows: 
 "To the American people, whose early appreciation of 
 the genius of Edward FitzGerald was the chief stimulant 
 of that curiosity by which his name was drawn from its 
 anonymous concealment and advanced to the position of 
 Honour which it now holds, this Edition of his Works is 
 dedicated by the Editor." 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 Portrait of Mr. FitzGerald {by W. Griggs ; after a photograph). 
 Biographical Preface. 
 Omar Khayyam's Grave. 
 Omar Khayyam's Life. 
 
 Tomb of Omar Khayyam {from a drawing by William Simpson). 
 Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. First and Fourth Editions. 
 
 Notes by Mr. FitzGerald. 
 
 Notes by the Editor. 
 Life of Jami. 
 
 Persian design of a game of Chugan {after a MS.). 
 Jami's Salaman and Absal. 
 Appendix. 
 
 Agamemnon from jEschylus. 
 Euphranor. 
 
 Polonius, a Collection of Wise Saws. 
 Essays on Crabbe. 
 
 vol. 11. 
 Six Dramas of Calderon. 
 
 The Painter of His Own Dishonour. 
 
 Keep Your Own Secret. 
 
 Gil Perez, the Gallician. 
 
 Three Judgments at a Blow. 
 
 The Mayor of Zalamea. 
 
 Beware of Smooth Water. 
 Suffolk Sea Phrases. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 4 1 
 
 36 LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS 
 OF EDWARD FITZGERALD. Edited 
 by William Aldis Wright. In three vol- 
 umes. London, Macmillan and Co. i88g. 
 
 Original red cloth. Portrait of FitzGerald in Vol. I.; 
 Woodcut of the " Little Grange," Woodbridge, in Vol. II.; 
 and in Vol. Ill the woodcut illustrating the lines: 
 
 " Welcome, Prince of Horsemen, welcome ! 
 Ride a field, and strike the Ball." 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 Portrait of Edward FitzGerald. 
 Preface. 
 Letters. 
 Index to Letters. 
 
 VOL. II. 
 
 The "Little Grange" Woodbridge. 
 Euphranor. 
 
 Six Dramas from Calderon. 
 The Bird Parliament. 
 The Two Generals. 
 
 vol. in. 
 
 Persian design of a game of Chugan. 
 The Mighty Magician. 
 Such Stuff as Dreams are made of. 
 The Downfall and Death of King OZdipus. 
 
 OZdipus in Thebes. 
 
 OZdipus in Athens. 
 Agamemnon. 
 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 
 
 Notes. 
 
 Omar Khayyam, Reprint of First Edition of. 
 
 Variations between the Second, Third and Fourth Editions. 
 
 Stanzas which appear in the Second Edition only. 
 
 Comparative Table of Stanzas in the Four Editions. 
 Salaman and Absal. 
 
 Appendix. 
 Bredfield Hall. 
 Chronomoros. 
 Virgil's Garden. 
 Translation from Petrarch. 
 Preface to Polonius. 
 Introduction to Readings in Crabbe. 
 Written by Petrarch in his Virgil. 
 
42 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 In this, the most complete collected edition of Fitz- 
 Gerald's Works, are several pieces published for the first 
 time, chief among them being Farid-Uddin Attar's "The 
 Bird Parliament," from which we take the following lines: 
 
 " The Clay that I am made of once was Man, 
 Who dying, and resolved into the same 
 Obliterated Earth from which he came 
 Was for the Potter dug, and chased in turn 
 Through long Vicissitude of Bowl and Urn : 
 But howsoever moulded, still the Pain 
 Of that first mortal Anguish would retain, 
 And cast, and re -cast, for a Thousand years 
 Would turn the sweetest Water into Tears." 
 
 " Written by Petrarch in his Virgil 
 
 Laura, illustrious in herself, and long celebrated in my 
 verse, first dawned upon my eyes, while I was yet a youth, 
 at the Church of St. Clara in Avignon, in the year of our 
 Lord 1327, on the 6th of April, at daybreak. And in that 
 same City, in that same month of April, and that same 
 morning hour, of the year 1348, was that fairer light from 
 the light of day withdrawn, I being then at Verona, alas! 
 unconscious of my loss. 
 
 Her most fair and chaste body was deposited on the 
 evening of the day of her death in the cemetery of the 
 Minor Brothers. For her soul, I am persuaded (as Seneca 
 was of Africanus) that it is returned to the Heaven whence 
 it came. 
 
 I have been constrained by a kind of sad satisfaction to 
 inscribe this memorial in a book which the most frequently 
 comes under my eyes; to warn me there is nothing more to 
 engross me in this world, and that, the one great tie being 
 broken, it is time to think of quitting Babylon for ever. And 
 this, I trust, with the Grace of God, will not be difficult to 
 one who constantly and manfully contemplates the vain 
 anxieties, empty hopes, and unexpected issues of his fore- 
 gone life." 
 
 (This is the finale of the Works, apparently as designed 
 by FitzGerald.) 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 43 
 
 37 LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD. 
 
 In two volumes. Lo?idon. Macmillan and 
 Co. 1894. 
 
 Original red cloth. Pp. Vol. I, xiv + 349; Vol. II, 368. 
 Portrait of FitzGerald in Vol. I; "Little Grange" in Vol. II. 
 
 These are the Letters separated from the Literary Re- 
 mains, with some additions. 
 
 "His correspondence now reveals him, unless I am much 
 mistaken, as one of the most pungent, individual, and pic- 
 turesque of English letter-writers. Rarely do we discover 
 a temperament so mobile under a surface so serene and 
 sedentary; rarely so feminine a sensibility side by side with 
 so virile an intelligence. He is moved by every breath of 
 nature; every change of hue in earth or air affects him; and 
 all these are reflected, as in a camera obscura, in the richly- 
 coloured moving mirror of his letters. It will not surprise 
 one reader of his correspondence if the name of its author 
 should grow to be set in common parlance, beside those of 
 Gray and Cowper for the fidelity and humanity of his ad- 
 dresses to his private friends." — Edmund Gosse in Fort- 
 nightly Review. 
 
 38 LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD 
 
 to FANNY KEMBLE, 1871-1883. Ed- 
 ited by William Aldis Wright. New 
 York and Lo?idon . Macmilla?i and Co. 1 895 . 
 
 Original red cloth. Pp. viii + 261. 
 
 "Of the letters which are contained in the present vol- 
 ume, the first eighty-five were in the possession of the late 
 Mr. George Bentley, who took great interest in their publi- 
 cation in The Temple Bar Magazine, and was in corre- 
 spondence with the Editor until within a short time of his 
 death. The remainder were placed in the Editor's hands 
 by Mrs. Kemble in 1883, and of these some were printed in 
 whole or in part in FitzGerald's Letters and Literary Re- 
 mains, which first appeared in 1889." — Editor's Note. 
 
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, PORTRAIT, ETC. 
 
 39 TWO LETTERS OF E. F. G. 
 
 The first letter appears to be one of those FitzGerald 
 addressed to Mrs. W. H. Thompson, wife of the late Master 
 of Trinity College, Cambridge, England. 
 
 The second, dated " Lowestoft; March 2/70 " appears to be 
 one of a number written to Mr. Frederick Spalding between 
 1865-1882. "Posh" was Edward FitzGerald's nickname for 
 Captain Fletcher, his partner in the herring-lugger Meum 
 and Tuum, and characterized as "a gentleman of Nature's 
 grandest type;" "fit to be King of a Kingdom;" "who 
 looks in his cottage like King Alfred in the Story." 
 
 Mr. Wright tells us in the Letters that FitzGerald, in 
 the year 1871, "parted with his little yacht, the Scandal, so 
 called, he said, because it was the staple product of Wood- 
 bridge." In September of the same year FitzGerald writes: 
 
 "I run over to Lowestoft occasionally for a few days, but 
 do not abide there long: no longer having my dear little 
 Ship for company. I saw her there looking very smart 
 under her new owner ten days ago, and I felt so at home 
 when I was once more on her Deck that — Well: I content 
 myself with sailing on the river Deben, looking at the Crops 
 as they grow green, yellow, russet, and are finally carried 
 away in the red and blue Waggons with the sorrel horse." 
 
 [LXXIV First Edition.] 
 
 " Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, 
 The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again : 
 
 How oft hereafter rising shall she look 
 Through this same Garden after me — in vain! " 
 
 44 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 45 
 
 40 FITZGERALD'S BOOKPLATE. De- 
 signed by W. M. Thackeray. 
 
 It is supposed that the Angel is intended to portray Mrs. 
 Brookfield. In a letter to a friend, dated March 19th, 1879, 
 FitzGerald wrote: 
 
 " Done by Thackeray one day in Coram (Joram) Street 
 in 1842. All wrong on her feet, so he said — I can see him 
 now. E. F. G." 
 
 41 PORTRAIT OF EDWARD FITZGER- 
 ALD. Etched by Costello. 1886. 
 
 Of which E. B. Cowell said, " The portrait vividly brings 
 back my dear old friend to me." 
 
 42 WATER- COLOR DRAWING BY ED- 
 WARD FITZGERALD. 
 
 Inscribed on the back in an unknown hand, " Bredfield 
 White House, Suffolk — painted by Edward FitzGerald. 
 Lady Rendlesham, Mr. Manning (brother of ye Cardinal), 
 and Mr. Robert Knipe Cobbold lived there." 
 
 Writing to Bernard Barton in 1839, FitzGerald says : 
 "Thank you for the picture of my dear old Bredfield, 
 which you have secured for me : it is most welcome. Poor 
 Nursey [a Suffolk artist] once made me a very pretty oil 
 sketch of it : but I gave it to Mr. Jenney. By all means 
 have it engraved for the pocket book : it is well worthy. 
 Some of the tall ash trees about it used to be visible at sea : 
 but I think their topmost branches are decayed now. This 
 circumstance I put in, because it will tell in your verse illus- 
 tration of the view. From the road before the lawn people 
 used plainly to see the topmasts of the men-of-war lying in 
 Hollesley bay during the war. I like the idea of this : the 
 
46 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 old English house holding up its enquiring chimneys and 
 weathercocks (there is great physiognomy in weathercocks) 
 toward the far-off sea, and the ships upon it. How well I 
 remember when we used all to be in the Nursery, and from 
 the window see the hounds come across the lawn, my Father 
 and Mr. Jenney in their hunting caps, etc., with their long 
 whips — all Daguerreotyped into the mind's eye now — and 
 that is all." 
 
 FitzGerald's Verses on his old home, " Bredfield Hall," 
 are printed in Vol. Ill, — see No. 36. 
 
 [LXXII First Edition.] 
 "Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! 
 That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! 
 
 The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, 
 Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! " 
 
ANA 
 
 43 PROF. C. E. NORTON'S REVIEWS OF 
 NICOLAS, AND FITZGERALD'S 
 ENGLISH VERSION (Second Edition). 
 North American Review. 1869. 
 
 Pp.565 — 584. Unbound. 
 
 Prof. Norton renders thirty nine passages, in English 
 prose, from the French of Nicolas, which, he submits, 
 f suffer from the accumulated injuries of a double transla- 
 tion" and "reproduce neither the poetic form nor the style 
 of the original verse." 
 
 At the time of writing these reviews Prof. Norton did not 
 know the anonymous translator of the English version. 
 But FitzGerald could not have found a more sympathetic 
 reviewer among his friends, and as a piece of informing 
 literary criticism that will be new to many we venture to 
 give one of the main paragraphs here. 
 
 "Much in the English work has been simply suggested 
 by the original. Hints supplied by Omar are enlarged; 
 thoughts touched upon by him are completely grasped; 
 images faintly shadowed by him, fully developed. The se- 
 quence of the Persian quatrains, depending on the rhyme 
 and not upon the contents of the verse, admits of no pro- 
 gressive development of feeling and no logical continuity 
 of thought. The poet is compelled by his form into senten- 
 tiousness, into gnomic sayings, into discontinuous flashes of 
 emotion, and finds himself obliged to recur often to the 
 same idea, in order to present it under a new image or in a 
 different aspect. The English Omar has not troubled him- 
 self to follow this peculiarity of his model. He has strung 
 
 47 
 
48 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 his quatrains together in an order which, if it fail to unite 
 them all in a continuous and regularly developed whole, 
 into a poem formed of the union of the separate stanzas, 
 does at least so bind together many of them that the various 
 portions seem like fragments of an Oriental eclogue. 
 Moreover, a minor key of sadness, of refined melancholy, 
 seems to recur in the English composition more frequently 
 than in the Persian. The sentiment of the original Omar is 
 often re-enforced by the English, is expressed in stronger, 
 tenderer and more delicate strokes. Every now and then a 
 note of the nineteenth century seems to mingle its tone with 
 those of the twelfth; as if the ancient Oriental melody were 
 reproduced on a modern European instrument. But it is 
 very striking to see, and much more to feel, how close the 
 thought and sentiment of the Persian poet often are to the 
 thought and sentiment of our own day. So that in its Eng- 
 lish dress it reads like the latest and freshest expression of 
 the perplexity and of the doubt of the generation to which 
 we ourselves belong. There is probably nothing in the mass 
 of English translations or reproductions of the poetry of the 
 East to be compared with this little volume in point of value 
 as English poetry. In the strength of rhythmical structure, 
 in force of expression, in musical modulation, and in mastery 
 of language, the external character of the verse corresponds 
 with the still 'rarer interior qualities of imagination and of 
 spiritual discernment which it displays." 
 
 44 EDWARD FITZGERALD. By Edmund 
 Gosse. Fortnightly Review, July, i88q. 
 
 Pp. 57—70. 
 
 This article was afterwards reprinted in Mr. Gosse's book, 
 Critical Kit-Kats, 1896. 
 
 "Who is rashly to decide what place may not finally be 
 awarded to a man capable of such admirable feats in Eng- 
 lish prose and verse? There can be little doubt that when 
 much contemporary clamour has died out forever, the clear 
 note of the Nightingale of Woodbridge will still be heard 
 from the alleys of his Persian Garden." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 49 
 
 45 EDWARD FITZGERALD: An After- 
 math. By Francis Hindes Groome. 
 Blackwoods, November, i88g. 
 
 Pp. 615— 632. 
 
 "From my bedroom-window, I could see FitzGerald's 
 old lodgings over Berry's, where he sojourned from i860 
 till 1873. The cause of his leaving them is only half told in 
 Mr. Aldis Wright's edition of the Letters. . . . Mr. Berry, 
 a small man, had taken to himself a second wife, a buxom 
 widow weighing fourteen stone; and she, being very gen- 
 teel, could not brook the idea of keeping a lodger. So one 
 day, I have heard FitzGerald tell the story — came a timid 
 rap at the door of his sitting-room, a deep ' Now, Berry, be 
 firm,' and a mild 'Yes, my dear;' and Berry appeared on 
 the threshold. Hesitatingly he explained that 'Mrs. Berry, 
 you know, sir — really extremely sorry — but not been used, 
 sir,' &c, &c. Then from the rear, a deep 'And you've got 
 to tell him about Old Gooseberry, Berry,' a deprecatory 
 'Certainly, my love;' and poor Berry stammered forth, 
 'And I am told, sir, that you said — you said — I had long 
 been old Berry, but now — now you should call me Old 
 Gooseberry.' " See No. 56. 
 
 46 OMAR KHAYYAM. By Andrew Lang. 
 The Indepe?ide?it. New York. (1890?). 
 
 In this article, which has not been reprinted, are some 
 paraphrases by Mr. Lang, two of which follow here: 
 
 " The Paradise they bid us fast to win 
 Hath Wine and Women ; is it then a sin 
 
 To live as we shall live in Paradise, 
 And make a Heaven of Earth, ere Heaven begin? 
 
 Each morn I say, tonight I will repent, 
 Repent ! and each night go the way I went — 
 
 The way of wine; but now that reigns the rose, 
 Lord of Repentance, list not, but relent." 
 
50 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 47 THE ROSE OF OMAR. By Edmund 
 
 Gosse. March yth, i8qj. 
 
 Only 40 copies were printed, for distribution among 
 friends, of this " Inscription for the Rose-Tree brought by 
 Mr. W. Simpson from Omar's tomb in Naishapur, and 
 planted today on the grave of Edward FitzGerald at 
 Boulge." 
 
 " Reign here, triumphant Rose from Omar's grave, 
 Borne by a dervish o'er the Persian wave; 
 
 Reign with fresh pride, since here a heart is sleeping 
 That double glory to your Master gave. 
 
 Hither let many a pilgrim step be bent 
 To greet the Rose re-risen in banishment; 
 
 Here richer crimsons may its cup be keeping 
 Than brimmed it ere from Naishapur it went." 
 
 48 EDWARD FITZGERALD. By Edward 
 
 Clodd. The English Illustrated Magazine, 
 February, 1894. 
 
 Pp. 629 — 633. 
 
 "A tall sea-bronzed man, as I remember him, wearing a 
 slouch hat, often tied on with a handkerchief, and wrapped 
 in a big cloak, walking with shuffling gait hobnobbing with 
 the beachmen, among whom he had his favoVkes, recipients 
 of his bounty in boats and gear — everybody knew old Fitz 
 by sight, and many called him ' Dotty.' 
 
 49 LETTERS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD, 
 
 ETC. Edinburgh Review, October, 1894. 
 
 Pp. 365 — 39*. 
 
 " ' What I think and know,' he [FitzGerald] said, ' of my 
 small escapades in print' is that they are 'nice little things, 
 some of them, which may interest a few people for a few 
 years. But I am always a little ashamed of having made 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 5 1 
 
 my leisure and idleness the means of putting myself for- 
 ward in print, when really so much better people keep 
 silent, having other work to do.' And this was his genuine 
 feeling. It seemed, if one might say so, just touch-and-go 
 whether the world ever heard of him. A shade more indo- 
 lence, a shade less impetus, and the ' Nightingale of Wood- 
 bridge ' might have uttered no audible note. Its absence 
 would not only have impoverished the orchestra of modern 
 English song, but the public would have been debarred 
 from the privilege of his posthumous acquaintance." 
 
 50 CONCERNING A PILGRIMAGE TO 
 THE GRAVE OF EDWARD FITZ- 
 GERALD. By Edward Clodd. London, 
 
 1894. 
 
 Fifty copies printed for private distribution to the mem- 
 bers of the Omar Khayyam Club. Morocco. Pp. 18. 
 
 Among other verses printed in this little book is this 
 quatrain by Mr. Grant Allen. 
 
 " Here, on FitzGerald's grave, from Omar's tomb, 
 To lay fit tribute, pilgrim singers flock; 
 Long with a double fragrance let it bloom, 
 This Rose of Iran on an English Stock.*' 
 
 Also the following Sonnet by Mr. Theodore Watts- 
 Dunton: 
 
 " Prayer to The Winds 
 
 Hear us, ye winds! From where the North -wind strows 
 Blossoms that crown * the King of Wisdom's' tomb, 
 The trees here planted bring remembered bloom 
 
 Dreaming in seed of Love's ancestral Rose 
 
 To meadows where a braver North-wind blows 
 
 O'er greener grass, o'er hedge- rose, may, and broom, 
 And all that make East England's field-perfume 
 
 Dearer than any fragrance Persia knows : 
 
 Hear us, ye winds, North, East, and West, and South ! 
 This granite covers him whose golden mouth 
 Made wiser ev'n the word of Wisdom's King: 
 
 Blow softly o'er the grave of Omar's herald 
 Till roses rich of Omar's dust shall spring 
 
 From richer dust of Suffolk's rare FitzGerald! " 
 
52 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 51 CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A DIC- 
 
 TIONARY OF ENGLISH BOOK- 
 COLLECTORS. Part VIII, containing- 
 the account of Edward FitzGerald. Lon- 
 don, Bernard Quaritch, 1896. 
 
 Paper wrappers. Four pages devoted to FitzGerald. 
 
 "... it is true that the men whom Dibdin wor- 
 shipped would look upon such fellows as FitzGerald with 
 an eye of abhorrence and would deny to them even the 
 lowest rank in the roll of book-collectors. Nevertheless, on 
 the strength of the bookplate, which Thackeray designed 
 for FitzGerald, and of the fact that FitzGerald was a book- 
 buyer, we will give him a place in this series." 
 
 Writing to Frederick Tennyson in August, 1843, Fitz- 
 Gerald says: "I had the weakest dream the other night 
 that ever was dreamt. I thought I saw Thomas Frognall 
 Dibdin — and that was all. Tell this to Alfred." 
 
 52 VERSES. Read at the Dinner of the Omar 
 
 Khayyam Club. L>-y.. Austin Dobson. 
 London. Printed at the Chiswick Press, 
 
 MDCCCXCVII. 
 
 Paper. Pp. 11. 
 
 One hundred copies printed for Edmund Gosse to be 
 presented to the members of the Omar Khayyam Club as a 
 memento of his Presidency. 
 
 " Well, Omar Khayyam wrote of Wine, 
 And all of us, sometimes, must dine; 
 And Omar Khayyam wrote of Roses, 
 And all of us, no doubt, have noses; 
 And Omar Khayyam wrote of Love, 
 Which some of us are not above. 
 Also, he charms to this extent, 
 We don't know, always, what he meant. 
 Lastly, the man's so plainly dead 
 We can heap honours on his head." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 53 
 
 53 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 Four pages from the Illuminated Manuscript Copy (now 
 in the possession of Lady Burne-Jones) made by the late 
 William Morris, reproduced to accompany Mr. Walter 
 Crane's article in Scribners Magazine (July, 1897). Mr. 
 Crane says the original is "An exquisite autograph work of 
 William Morris's . . . which he wrote out and illumi- 
 nated with his own hand, though even to this work Burne- 
 Jones contributed a miniature, and Mr. Fairfax Murray 
 worked out other designs in some of the borders." 
 
 " O life that is so warm, 'twas Omar's too; 
 O wine that is so red, he drank of you : 
 
 Yet life and wine must all be put away, 
 And we go sleep with Omar — yea, 'tis true." 
 
 — Richard Le Gallienne to the Omar Khayyam Club. 
 
 54 IN PRAISE OF OMAR. An Address 
 Before the Omar Khayyam Club. By 
 the Hon. John Hay. Portland, Thomas B. 
 Mosher, mdcccxcviii. 
 
 Original Japan paper wrapper, with a design in red re- 
 produced from the title-page of a book of poems by Herbert 
 P. Home, entitled "Diversi Colores." Ten leaves, five of 
 which are paged 1 to 9. No. 16 of 50 copies on Japan paper. 
 A stanza by Mr. T. B. Aldrich, which faces the title-page, is 
 printed here. Following the title is Mrs. Watson's beautiful 
 sonnet, which cannot be printed too often, and a paragraph 
 from the introduction to the prose version of Omar by Justin 
 Huntly McCarthy, who also contributes L'Envoi. 
 
 " Sultan and Slave alike have gone their way 
 With Bahram Gur, but whither none may say. 
 Yet he who charmed the wise at Naishapur 
 Seven centuries since, still charms the wise to-day." 
 
54 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 55 SOME SIDE-LIGHTS UPON EDWARD 
 
 FITZGERALD'S POEM, -The Ruba'- 
 iyat of Omar Khayyam." Being the 
 substance of a Lecture delivered at the 
 Grosvenor Crescent Club and Women's 
 Institute on the 22nd March, 1898. By 
 Edward Heron- Allen. London. H. S. 
 Nichols, i8q8. 
 
 In paper wrappers. Pp. 32. Mr. Heron-Allen has made 
 A New and Literal Prose Translation of the Ruba'iyat to 
 accompany a facsimile of the Bodleian Manuscript — the 
 book being issued by Mr. Nichols. See No. 66. 
 
 Mr. Heron-Allen, after a careful study of the subject, has 
 reached the conclusion that FitzGerald's poem, now so 
 familiar to English readers as the Rubaiyat of Omar 
 Khayyam, is the composite "result of FitzGerald's entire 
 course of Persian studies." See note to No. 17 (Fifth Ed.) 
 
 56 TWO SUFFOLK FRIENDS. By Francis 
 
 Hindes Groome. ^William Blackwood and 
 Sons, Edinburgh and London, mdcccxcv. 
 
 Original cloth. Pp. viii + J 32. 
 
 A Suffolk Parson [Archdeacon Groome], 
 
 Edward FitzGerald: An Aftermath. 
 
 This was first published in Blackwoods, for November, 
 1889, under the title Edward FitzGerald : An Aftermath. 
 
 Mr. Groome tells a story of a visit his father and Fitz- 
 Gerald made to Captain Brooke of Ufford, the possessor of 
 one of the finest private libraries in England. "The draw- 
 ing-room there had been newly refurnished, and FitzGerald 
 sat himself down on an amber satin couch. Presently a 
 black stream was seen trickling over it. It came from a 
 penny bottle of ink, which FitzGerald had bought in Wood- 
 bridge and put in a tail-pocket." See No. 45. 
 
BOOKS FROM FITZGERALD'S LIBRARY 
 
 57 HUETIANA, OU PENSEES DIVERSES 
 
 DE M. HUET, EVEQUE D'AV- 
 RANCHES. Amsterdam, 1723. 
 
 Twelve mo, in old calf. With a note of two pages in the 
 handwriting of FitzGerald, extracted from Sainte-Beuve, 
 and the Bookplate of FitzGerald; likewise the bookplate of 
 the late Charles Keene, who has written within the cover, 
 " Given to me by E. FitzGerald. C. S. K." 
 
 58 RETROSPECTIONS OF THE STAGE. 
 
 By the late John Bernard, Manager of 
 the American Theatres, and formerly 
 Secretary of the Beef-Steak Club. London. 
 Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. New 
 Burlington St. 1830. 
 
 Originally in two volumes, but reduced to one by a sys- 
 tem of clipping and pasting and transcribing original with 
 Edward FitzGerald, the former owner of the book, whose 
 bookplate, designed by Thackeray, is on the inside of upper 
 cover. 
 
 To his friend W. B. Donne, FitzGerald wrote in 1865, "I 
 have been reading and reducing to one volume from two 
 {more meo), a trashy Book, ■ Bernard's Recollections (sic) of 
 the Stage,' with some good recollections of the Old Actors, 
 
 55 
 
56 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 up to Macklin and Garrick. But, of all people's one can't 
 trust Actor's Stories." And, as indicating his preferences, 
 FitzGerald wrote to Prof. Norton in one of his letters (1883): 
 4i I got our Woodbridge Bookseller to enquire for your Mr. 
 Child's Ballad-book; but could only hear, and indeed be 
 shown a specimen, of a large Quarto Edition, de luxe I 
 believe, and would not meddle with that. I do not love any 
 unwieldy Book, even a Dictionary ; and I believe that I am 
 contented enough with such Knowledge as I have of the old 
 Ballads in many a handy Edition. Not but I admire Mr. 
 Child for such an undertaking as his ; but I think his Book 
 will be more for Great Libraries, Public or Private, than for 
 my scanty Shelves at my age of seventy-five. I have 
 already given away to Friends all that I had of any rarity 
 or value, especially if over octavo." 
 
 Mr. John Loder, the Bookseller alluded to, gave to Mr. 
 Francis Hindes Groome, some years ago, a book which the 
 latter describes as " 'made up,' like so many others, by Fitz- 
 Gerald, and comprising this one, three French plays, a pri- 
 vately printed article on Moore, and the first edition of * A 
 Little Dinner at Timmins's.' " 
 
OTHER VERSIONS OF THE RUBAIYAT, 
 ETC., WITH CERTAIN BOOKS WHICH 
 FORMED PART OF FITZGER- 
 ALD'S PERSIAN STUDIES 
 
 59 DIE LIEDER UND SPRUCHE DES 
 
 OMAR CHAJJAM. Verdeutscht Durch 
 Friedrich Bodenstedt. Breslau, 1881. 
 Schletter* sche Buchhandlung (E. Franc k). 
 
 Small octavo, cloth. Pp. xxii -\- 217. Printed in three 
 colors — black, red and blue. 
 
 Bodenstedt claims to give " a fairer idea of Omar than is 
 to be found in FitzGerald, who, he thinks, scarcely does 
 justice to the old Persian's ' Gottlicher Humor.' " 
 
 60 THE STROPHES OF OMAR KHAY- 
 
 YAM. Translated by John Leslie Gar- 
 ner, With an Introduction and Notes. 
 Milwaukee. The Corbitt & Skidmore Co. 
 
 1888. 
 
 Square i2mo. Cloth. Pp. xii + 76. 
 
 "While Omar's fatalism and indifference may to many 
 seem pernicious, thrusting themselves forward in such a 
 manner that they cannot be overlooked, the effect of the 
 whole is, as Mr. FitzGerald says, more apt to move sorrow 
 than anger towards the old Tent-maker." 
 
 — From the Introduction, 
 
 57 
 
58 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 61 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 Translated by Justin Huntly McCarthy, 
 M.P. London. David Nutt. mdccclxxxix. 
 
 Pages lxii + clvi. No 19 of sixty copies printed on large 
 (Japan) paper. 
 
 " Keats once entreated some traveller who was going to 
 the East, to take a copy of ' Endymion ' with him, and when 
 he came to the great Sahara, to cast the volume from him 
 with all his force far away into the yellow waves of sand. 
 It was a delicious fantastic wish, that the loveliest poem of 
 our later English speech should lie and drift in the remote 
 Sahara and be covered at last in the sand that has engulfed 
 so many precious things, but none more precious, caravans, 
 and gold, and tissues, and fair slaves, and the chiefs of 
 mighty clans. If I might frame a wish in distant emulation, 
 I would choose that some wanderer to the East, some 
 Burton, some Kinglake, some Warburton, might carry this 
 little book in his saddle-bags, and ride through Khorassan 
 till he came to * T izhapur, and cast it down in the dust 
 before the tomb of Omar Khayyam." 
 
 — Justin Huntly McCarthy. 
 
 62 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 A Paraphrase from Several Literal 
 Translations. By Richard Le Gallienne. 
 New York. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 
 
 MDCCCXCVII. 
 
 Octavo. Paper boards. Pp. 107. The issue in this form 
 limited to 1250 copies. 
 
 "Probably the original rose of Omar was, so to speak 
 never a rose at all, but only petals toward the making of a 
 rose; and perhaps FitzGerald did not so much bring Omar's 
 rose to bloom again, as to make it bloom for the first time. 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 59 
 
 The petals came from Persia, but it was an English Magi- 
 cian who charmed them into a living rose." 
 
 — From Mr. Le Gallienne s Note to the Reader. 
 
 63 THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHEY- 
 YAM OF NISHAPOUR, Now first com- 
 pletely done into English Verse from the 
 Persian, in accordance with the Original 
 Forms, with a Biographical and Critical 
 Introduction, by John Payne, Author of 
 "The Mask of Shadows and Other Poems," 
 &c, &c, and Translator of "The Book of 
 the Thousand Nights and One Night," &c, 
 &c. London: mdcccxcviii: Printed for the 
 Villon Society by Private Subscription a?id 
 for Private Circulation only. 
 
 Bound in Vellum, Pp. lxxxi + 206 + one page of adver- 
 tisements. No. 3 of 750 copies on handmade paper. There 
 are also 75 copies on large paper. Mr. Payne gives 845 
 quatrains, of which No. 83 is as follows: 
 
 " Like water in the river, like wind on wold, for aye 
 Of thine and my existence gone is another day : 
 Of two days and their canker I never yet did reck — 
 The day that's still unmorrowed, the day that's past away! " 
 
 In the announcement of Mr. Payne's book, we are told 
 that "No complete or adequate translation of the Rubaiyat 
 or Quatrains of the great poet of twelfth century Persia has 
 yet appeared. Mr. FitzGerald's elegant paraphrase of a 
 small portion (about one-eighth of the whole), although a 
 charming poem which will always, on its own merits, retain 
 its place in English literature, is so exceedingly loose, and 
 often indeed so extravagantly wide of the mark, that it 
 
60 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 affords practically no idea of the original; and the other 
 translations which exist, whilst a little more exact, are 
 wholly destitute of the poetical charm which makes the 
 earlier version, with all its shortcomings, dear to the lover 
 of poetry." 
 
 64 THE STANZAS OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 Translated from the Persian by John Leslie 
 Garner. Second Edition with Introduction 
 and Notes, mdcccxcviii. Published by 
 Henry T. Coates and Company. Philadelphia. 
 Limp leather. Pp. 79. 
 
 " The herald of the morn, in lusty tone, 
 Loud greets the dawn upon her golden throne, 
 
 Again proclaiming to a slumbering world : 
 Another night beyond recall has flown." 
 
 65 THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAY- 
 
 YAM. The Persian Text with an Eng- 
 lish Verse Translation. By E. H. 
 Whinfield, M.A., Late of the Bengal Civil 
 Service. London: Trubner & Co., Ludgate 
 Hill. 1883. 
 
 Original cloth. Pp. xxxii + 335. First Edition is dated 
 1882, and is without the Persian text. 
 
 " A potter at his work I chanced to see, 
 Pounding some earth and shreds of pottery; 
 
 I looked with eyes of insight, and methought 
 'Twas Adam's dust with which he made so free ! 
 
 No longer hug your grief and vain despair, 
 But in this unjust world be just and fair; 
 
 And since the substance of the world is naught, 
 Think you are naught, and so shake off dull care! " 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 6 1 
 
 66 THE RUBA'IYAT OF OMAR KHAY- 
 YAM. Being a Facsimile of the Manu- 
 script in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 
 With a Transcript into modern Persian 
 Characters, Translated with an introduc- 
 tion and notes, and a bibliography by 
 Edward Heron- Allen. [Here follow three 
 lines of Persian text]. London, H. S. 
 Nichols, Ltd., jg Charing Cross Road, W. C. 
 
 MDCCCXCVIII. 
 
 Original cloth. Pp. xlii + 320. 
 
 The printed title-page is preceded by an engraved title 
 in black and red capitals, the wording being slightly 
 abridged. A Second Edition, carefully revised and con- 
 siderably enlarged, bears the imprint of L. C. Page & 
 Company, Boston. 
 
62 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 67 THE GULISTAN ; OR, ROSE GARDEN, 
 OF SHEKH MUSLIHU'D-DIN SADI 
 OF SHIRAZ. Translated for the first 
 time into Prose and Verse, with an In- 
 troductory Preface, and a Life of the 
 Author, from the Atish Kadah. By Ed- 
 ward B. Eastwick, F.R.S., M.R.A.S., of 
 Merton College, Oxford, Member of the 
 Asiatic Societies of Paris and Bombay; 
 and Professor of Oriental Languages and 
 Librarian in the East India College, 
 Haileybury. Hertford. Printed and Pub- 
 lished by Stephen Austin, Bookseller to the 
 East India College, mdccclii. 
 
 Octavo. Full morocco. Pp. xxx + 309 + 1 page of 
 Errata. 
 
 This book, in the original and in the present translation, 
 formed part of FitzGerald's Persian Studies; and some of 
 its passages, Mr. Heron-Allen assures us, are echoed in his 
 Version of the Rubaiyat. 
 
 In 1853 FitzGerald ordered a copy of Eastwick's Gulistan: 
 "for I believe I shall potter out so much Persian," he said 
 to Mr. Cowell. And in 1857 he wrote to Mr. Cowell, "yester- 
 day I bought at that shop in the Narrow Passage at the End 
 of Oxford Street a very handsome small Folio MS. of Sadi's 
 Bostan for 10s." Again to Mr. Cowell, in 1868, u I wish you 
 would have Semelet's Gulistan which I have. You know I 
 never cared for Sadi." 
 
 " In this fond hope, dear life, alas! has waned: 
 
 That my heart's wish might not be wished in vain : 
 Hope, long delayed, is granted. Have I gained 
 Aught? — Nay. Life spent returns not back again." 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 63 
 
 68 NOTE SUR LES RUBA'IYAT DE 
 'OMAR KHAI'yAM. Par M. Garcin De 
 Tassy, Membre De L'Institut. Paris. 
 Imprimerie Imptriale. mdccclvii. 
 
 In original paper cover as issued. Pp. II. 
 
 To Mrs. E. B. Cowell, FitzGerald wrote, April 22, 1857, 
 as follows: 
 
 " Now this morning comes a second Letter from Garcin 
 de Tassy, saying that his first note about Omar Khayyam 
 was 'in haste:' that he has read some of the Tetrastichs 
 which he finds not very difficult ; some difficulties which are 
 probably errors of the 'copist;' and he proposes his writ- 
 ing an Article in the Journal Asiatique on it in which he will 
 1 honourably mention ' E. B. C. and E. F. G. I now write to 
 deprecate all this: putting it on the ground (and a fair one) 
 that we do not yet know enough of the matter : that I do 
 not wish E. B. C. to be made answerable for errors which 
 E. F. G. (the 'copist') may have made: and that E. F. G. 
 neither merits nor desires any honourable mention as a Per- 
 sian Scholar: being none. Tell E. B. C. that I have used 
 his name with all caution, referring de Tassy to Vararuchi, 
 etc. But these Frenchmen are so self-content and super- 
 ficial, one never knows how they will take up anything. 
 
 69 THE ROSE GARDEN OF PERSIA. By 
 Louisa Stuart Costello. Lo?idon. John 
 Stark. 1888. 
 
 Octavo, cloth. Pp. xvi + 193. 
 
 This book contains no reference to FitzGerald, but it does 
 contain a short note on Omar Khiam, who "may be called 
 the Voltaire of Persia," and some verses from his Rubajat, 
 of which the following is a sample : 
 
64 The Books of Edward FitzGerald 
 
 " Ye who seek for pious fame, 
 And that light should gild your name, 
 Be this duty ne'er forgot, 
 Love your neighbour — harm him not." 
 
 It is only fair to add, however, that the Author of "The 
 Rose Garden of Persia" died in 1870, and the present copy- 
 is one of a "New Edition" of her book — which seems 
 to have been unknown to FitzGerald, though it was first 
 published in 1845. Yet FitzGerald may have had the book 
 in mind when he wrote to Mrs. Cowell (1877), "I never see 
 any Paper but my old Athenaeum, which, by the way, now 
 tells me of some Lady's Edition of Omar which is to dis- 
 cover all my Errors and Perversions. So this will very 
 likely turn the little Wind that blew my little Skiff on." 
 
 70 GHAZELS FROM THE DIVAN OF 
 HAFIZ. Done into English by Justin 
 Huntly McCarthy. London. Published by 
 David Nutt. New York. C. Scribner's 
 
 Sons. MDCCCXCIII. 
 
 Paper boards. Pp. vii + 152. 
 
 This little book, in the original and in other translations 
 than the present, is often referred to by FitzGerald, who 
 says, in one of his letters, " Hafiz and old Omar Khayyam 
 ring like true metal." In his dedication to Mr. William 
 Ernest Henley, Mr. McCarthy says: "To some the head 
 of Omar is circled with a halo of mysticism, while others 
 see only the vine-leaves in his hair. You will decide for 
 yourself, as you please, whether the Beloved is Spirit or 
 very Flesh, whether the wine is the Blood of the Grape or 
 the Ichor of Doctrine. All that is certain is, that Hafiz was 
 born in the dawn of the fourteenth century and that he died 
 in its dusk, and that between the date of his birth and the 
 date of his death he wrote some songs which have filled the 
 world with their music." 
 
 " Grieve not; if the springtide of life should once more mount the throne of 
 the garden, thou wilt soon, O singer of the night, see above thy head a curtain 
 of roses.*' 
 
The Books of Edward FitzGerald 65 
 
 71 IN A PERSIAN GARDEN. A Song- 
 Cycle for Four Solo Voices (Soprano, 
 Contralto, Tenor and Bass). With Piano- 
 forte Accompaniment. The words se- 
 lected from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khay- 
 yam (FitzGerald's Translation). The 
 Music composed by Liza Lehmann. Lon- 
 don: Metzler & Co., Lfd. New York: 
 G. Schirmer. (i8g6). 
 
 Quarto, paper. Pp. 8 + 76. 
 
 The twenty-eight quatrains and four couplets making up 
 the book have been slightly modified as to the words, and 
 transposed as to the order, to suit the requirement of the 
 music. 
 
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