UBRARY UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA SAN Jieso "*""^=ES- ^ \1U CATALOGUE OF BOOKS VIUWHID FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. PAPER USED IN THIS EDITION IS A FINE ACID FREE PERMANENT/DURABLE PAPER COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS "300-YEAR" PAPER Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 60-25693 CATy\LOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTliD FOR PRIVATF CIRCULATION. COLLECTED BY BERTRAM DOBELL, AND NOW DESCRIIiED AND ANNOTATED BY HIM. Xonbon, 1906 PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, "]"] CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. REPUBLISHED BY GALE RESEARCH COMPANY, BOOK TOWER, DETROIT, 1966 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE idea of the present work first occurred to me as long ago as 1884, and the first part of it was issued in 1891. Afterwards it was continued, at such intervals as I could devote to it, over a long period of time. I need hardly say that it proved to be a laborious and time-devouring work, and one from which no pecuniary advantage could possibly be derived. Yet since it seemed to me to be a work which required doing, and which would be of some utility when done, I should have been willing to continue my labours upon it had not other literary projects, which seemed to have a greater claim upon my energies, withdrawn me from it. Concerning the usefulness of such a work as the present I imagine that there can hardly be two opinions. That my own essay is very imperfectly executed I am quite willing to allow: but the candid critic will, I think, couless that it is one of those things which had better be imperfectlj' executed than not executed at all. At any rate it may serve to stimulate someone with moro leisure and, perhaps, more ability than I possess to produce a completer and more valuable work than this can pretend to be. The class of books of which the circulation is restricted to the friends of their authors, or to a limited circle of subscribers, has not yet received much attention from biblio- graphers. This is doubtless owing, in some degree, to the difficulty of obtaining information respecting them. The only book in English devoted to them is Martin's "Catalogue of Books privately printed," which was first issued in 1834, and of which a second edition was published twenty years later. This is a very careful compilation ; but, as was in- evitably the case, it is by no means a complete or final work. I have many books in my collection, printed before 1854, which are not catalogued by Martin ; and during the period which has elapsed since the second edition of his work was published, books of this class have increased so greatly that I think it may be truly said that more have been printed than during the whole previous time. In the present work only such books are catalogued as are, or have been, actually in my own possession. It was the work of many years to get these books together, and much patient research and a keen instinct was needed for their discovery. I need hardly say that most of the books of this kind are scarce or rare, and some, though by no means all, nor even a large proportion of them, are valuable. I have no doubt that some of my readers will find many books mentioned here of whose existence they had no previous knowledge : and it will be strange indeed if it does not, in some cases, prove an index to out-of-the-way information which might be sought for in vain elsewhere. The present catalogue will be found to diflfer in one respect from nearly all other bibliographical works. When I conceived the plan of it, the idea of printing a bare list of names and titles had no attraction for me. No doubt there is some utility even in such a list : but it seems to me that an entry, for instance, like the following Reminiscences of " The August Society." Cr. 8vo, pp. X. and 217. 1875 is of no practical use to any one. Many books — one might almost say most books — have titles so vague and sometimes so mis-leading that they give little or no help to those who wish to know what they contain. Therefore it seemed to me that it would be a good and useful thing to give not only the titles of the books, but also some notice of their contents and character. Moreover, 1 thought that by quoting occasional passages from the books noticed, the interest of the work would be much enhanced. In short, I desired to compile a catalogue which might not only be referred to occasionally, but might even be perused with some degree of pleasure and perhaps profit. How far I have succeeded in this design it is for the reader to judge. If he should suspect that under colour of noticing the contents of a book 1 have sometimes taken the opportunity of expressing some personal opinions, I shall not bo very anxious to clear myself from the charge. Only, as the greater part of the work was written and printed about fifteen or more years ago, there are a few passages in the book which I should express somewhat dififerently were I to re-write them now. I hope I may be pardoned for mentioning that although many of the books catalogued are no longer in my possession, I still have a good proportion of them in stock. I have, I believe, about two thousand volumes of privately printed books now in my hands, and if any private purchaser or public institution cares to purchase the whole collection, I shall be willing to sell them for a very moderate sum. Oct., 1906. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ABDY's(Mrs.) Poetry. 78, cloth Post 8vo, pp. IV. and 1834 Second Series. IV. and 139, cloth Third Series. and 172, cloth Fourth Series. Post 8vo, pp. 1838 Post 8vo, pp. IV. 1842 Post 8vo, pp. 1846 Post 8vo, pp. IV. 1850 IV. and 155, cloth Fifth Series. and 163, cloth Sixth Series. Post 8vo, pp. IV. and 166, cloth : together 6 vols. 7s 6d 1854 Each of these volumes has, on the title-page, a. statement that " These verses have appeared at various times in different magazines and annuals." Each volume has also an autograph inscription written by the authoress. Frederick Rowton in his "Female Poets of Great Britain" thus notices this lady— " Mrs. Abdy is a well-known and very able contributor to many of our Annuals and Magazines. She has pub- lished a volume of Poems for private circulation, many of the pieces in which are distinguished by a pm-ity of diction and loftiness of sentiment, which leave her little, if at all, behind the best writers among her sex." I quote Mr. Eowton's opinion for whatever may be its value, but I confess I do not rate Mrs. Abdy's verses so highly as he does. ABRAHAM'S (Isaac Ben) nj-)QJ< pIlH, or Faith Strengthened, Translated by Moses Mocatta. Pp. XII., 310, 8vo, cloth. 10s 6d Printed but not published, 1851 The translator in his address states that the work is intended exclusively for distribution among the Hebrew Community. It was originally com- posed by Isaac Ben Abraham, an Israelite, a native of Lithuania. The work was published A.M. 5393; and in De Rossi's "Dizionario Isto- rico," the author is designated as the most power- ful opponent and refutant of the doctrines of Christianity that had ever appeared among the Jews. " The grand design of his polemics (as he himself tells us) is to establish and make mani- fest the sublime truths of Israel's Faith, and expose and refute the erroneous views on which Christianity is founded."' ACCOUNT OF A Voyage to Manilla, in a series of Letters from the Lady of the Con- sulGeneral of France to all India, M. Adolphe Barrot, to her uncle, Captain George W. Manly. 8vo, pp. 58 and IV. 3s Yar- mouth : printed by Charles Sloman, 1842 These letters are very interesting, amusing and chatty. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. [ACROSTICS].— Double Acrostic Enigmas- with Poetical Descriptions selected princi, pally from British Poets, by Mrs. Alexan- der Gordon. Cr. 8vo, title, due, 2 11., and 204 pp. 2s 6d London, 1866 ACLAND's (Henry Wentworth) Feigned In- sanity, how most usually simulated, and how best detected. An essay to which was awarded the gold medal, in the class of medical Jurisprudence in the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, July, 1844. 12mo, pp. XI. and 86. 3s 6d 1844 The following is a summary of the contents of this book, given chiefly in the author's own words: —The essay begins by stating concisely the motives for Feigning Insanity. In the second chapter are some observations tending to show that medical men ought always to be able to detect Feigned Insanity. The forms of real In- sanity which are aped by impostors are sketched in four chapters. Special aids to diagnosis and topics for collateral study are treated of in Chap- ters VII. and VIII. [ADAM'S (William)] Blair-Adam Garden, with a Plan and Views. 8vo, pp. 35, several lithographs and two plans. 3s 6d 1834 An interesting account of a Scottish Estate, the improvement of which was begun in 1733 (when it was a bare wilderness) by William Adam, and completed by his son, John Adam, 1755. William Adam, the son of John Adam, gives, in this pam- phlet, an account, coloured no doubt by natural partiality, of its many beauties. AIKIN-KORTRIGHT's (Fanny) Dr. Van- homrigh, a Novel. In 1 vol, cr. 8vo, pp. 270. 2s 6d N.p. "As the following is only printed for private circulation among my friends, I venture to excuse its short- comings by saying that it was written and appeared in a magazine thirty years ago, and that in conse- quence of great family affliction, it is now sent forth without that careful revision which it doubtless re- quires." A long list of novels is given on the title-page as being by the same authoress, and words of com- mendation by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lytton Bulwer, H. W. Longfellow, W. E. Gladstone, and others are quoted in praise of some of them. AINSWORTH (William Harrison) The Lan- cashire Witches, a Novel. 4to, title-page and pp. 185 (double columns). 15s Printed for private circulation only, 1849 It seems somewhat curious that so popular an author as Ainsworth should have had an edition of this novel printed for private circulation. I believe, however, that it first appeared in the columns of a Weekly Newspaper, and, I suppose, the type before bemg distributed, was used to print a small number of separate copies. At least one other of Ainsworth's Novels ("Old Saint Paul's") was printed in the same style for private circulation only. A copy of it was sold in the Burnett Collection at Sotheby's in 1889, and fetched 168. Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. [AINSWORTH].— Banquet to William Harri- son Ainsworth, Esq., at the Manchester Town Hall, 15th September, 1881. Cr. 8vo, pp. 29. 2s 6d Only 40 copies printed. An account of a dinner to Mr. Ainsworth (a native of the town) by the Mayor of Manchester, with a report of the speeches. ALCOCK's (Thomas) Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, 1828-9. 8vo, pp. VIII. and 227, folding front, and map. 5s 1831 An interesting and well-written book. The follow- ing extract from the Introduction will give an idea of the scope of the work:— " The observations contained in the following pages may possibly be found interesting, as they were made on the spot during a Tour of eighteen months, which comprehended the period of the late contest between Russia and Turkey. They al'o include a few remarks on Persia ; and to these I have added notes, collected during a short stay in Gieeie, when that unhappy country had just ceased to le a prey to spoliation and plunder, and when the negociations with respect to her final settlement were pending. ALEXANDER'S (Very Rev. William) Speci- mens, Poetical and Critical. Cr. 8vo, pp. VIII. and 207. 4s 1867 The poems which occupy the larger part of this volume have much more than ordinary merit. The prose essays show good critical insight and discrimination. They are on Victor Hugo's " La Legends des Siecles," on "Matthew Arnold's Poetry," and on " St. Augustine and Virgil." [ALFRED THE GREAT].— A Description of Europe, and the Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, written in Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred the Great ; containing : — Facsimile Specimens of the Lauderdale and Cotton MSS. ; The Anglo-Saxon Text ; Notes and various Readings ; A literal English translation with Notes ; Mr. Hampson's essay on King Alfred's Geo- graphy, and a map of Europe in the time of Alfred, by the Rev. Joseph Bosworth, D.D., F.R.S., F.S.A. Roy. Svo, title-page and contents, 4 leaves, preface, pp. IV., Ohthere's and Wulfstan's Voyages, pp. 8, notes and various readings, pp. 4, Description of Europe, pp. 27, Essays on Alfred's Geography, pp. 56, but erroneously numbered 64, map and fac- similes. 88 6d Only 60 copies printed for presents. The title-page here quoted describes so fully the contents of the book that I hardly need give any further particulars about it. The present copy has an autograph letter from Dr. Bosworth m- serted. ALSOP.— A Tribute to the Memory of Robert Alsop. Cr. Svo, title 1 leaf, preface 1 leaf, and pp. 201. Ss 6d 1879 Bobert Alsop was born at Maldon, in Essex, in 1803, his parents being members of the Society of Friends. After serving an apprenticeship to a chemist and druggist, he set up for himself in that business in Sloane Square, Chelsea. He was an earnest worker in the Temperance cause, and a eealous advocate of the rights of the slaves and Aborigines throughout the world. He also took part in the relieious services of the Society of Friends. A good part of the volume consists of his letters and poems, which show him to have possessed a deep vein of piety. ALTER ET IDEM, a New Review, No. I., for a summer month in 1794. 4to, pp. VI. and 119. 10s 6d Printed (but not for publication) by Smart and Coivslade, Reading, Berks, 1794 Very rare, this being the only copy I have ever seen. It is not mentioned by Martin. This is a work of some value. It contains papers on a project for directing Air-balloons, Schemes for aPerpetual Movement, a New Method of Print- ing, a Method of Rowing, the Construction of a Single-Wheel Chaise, &c. The latter article is rather like an anticipation of the bicycle. I think there are some suggestions in this work which are worth considering even now. AMERICAN MEMORANDA, by a Mercantile Man, during a short Tour in the Summer of 1843. Roy. Svo, title-page, preface, and pp. 60. 5s Glasgoiv, 1864 This copy has an inscription on the title-page to the effect that its author was James Lumsden, afterwards Lord Provost of Glasgow. The author seems to have been very favourably impressed by what he saw of Canada and the United States. He wishes, he says, that he had the ptn of a Dickens or a Trollope to describe what he saw, but if he had he certainly would not use it to calumniate a people who, generally speaking, are much superior in natural talent and sound practical information to the great mass of our countrymen. AN ACCOUNT of the Statues, Busts, Bass- Relieves, Cinerary Urns, and other Ancient Marbles and Paintings at Ince : collected by H. B. 4to, pp. 332, ivith portrait of Henry Blundell, of Ince Blundell, and other plates. 8s 6d Liverpool, 1803 The author tells us that this descriptive catalogue was written with a view of serving as a kind of interpreter for those who visited his collection, and who might not be much versed in ancient history or heathen mythology. The collection was evidently a very fine one, and contained many antiquities and paintings of the highest interest and value. ANCIENT and MODERN. Sm. folio, pp. 67, 19, XXXVIII. , title-page and apology 2 leaves, and genealogical table. 6s 1875 This book relates to a dispute as to the right of using the title of Earl of Mar. It contains a short history of the Family of Mar, the Judg- ment of the House of Lords in the Peerage Case, a quantity of argumentative matter, in which it is endeavoured to show that the title was wrongly assigned to the claimant. Lord Kellie, and an appendix of documents, &c. ANDERSON'S (Peter J.) Records of the Arts Class, 1868-72, University- of Aberdeen. 4to, pp. 85. 5s ^ 1882 A list of the names of the students during the period mentioned, with a brief account of their subsequent careers. Marischal College and University, Aber- deen, 1593-1860 — Collections towards the preparation of the Fasti. Svo, pp. 28. 3s 6d 1886 The Author says in a prefatory note : " Selections from the records of the King's College of Old Aberdeen were printed in 1854 by the Spalding Club, l)Ut no similar work has as yet been attempted for her younger sister. The Lists that follow are the result of a preliminary investigation made with the view of ascertaining the amount of material available for such a purpose. They aie now printed in the hope that further details may be thereby brought to light." Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. [ANDERSON'S (P. J.)] Coats Armorial of Scottish Trade Incorporations. 8vo, pp. 8. 2s Ah€.rd(.en, 1886 Only 112 copies printed. ANNALS of Lloyd's Register ; being a Sketch of the Origin, Constitution, and Progress of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Roy. 8vo, engraved tide, pp. X. and 165, and 4 facsimiles. 7s 6d 1884 The following notice appears on the leaf following the title-page— "The Chairman and Committee of Lloyd's Register, upon this, the fiftieth anniversary of the Foundation of the Society, think the occasion a fitting one to present to each Subscriber, this short outline of the Origin and Progress of the Institution, in the hope that its perusal may prove of interest to all connected with Shipping." The above notice in conjunction with the title of the book, so well describe its nature that I need say no more about it than that it is aworkwliich should be in the library of any one who is in- terested in maritime matters. [ARCHERY].— A History of the Royal Toxo- philite Society, from its Institution to the present time. Edited by a Toxophilite. Cr. 8vo, pp. 125, and photographic frontis- piece representing prizes giveri for shooting. 3s 6d 1867 The editor states in the Preface that the preten- sions of this little Brochure are of a very humble character, for it can only be considered as a compilation of extracts from the works of Koberts, Ellis, Waring, Hansard, and others, bearing more particularly on the history of the Koyal Toxophilite Society. [ARETINO]. — Vita di Pietro Aretino del Berni. Cr. 8vo, title-page, c^c, 3 11. and 46 pages, loith fine portrait of Aretino en- graved by Swain. 8s 6d 1837 A reprint of 22 copies only of a work first printed in 1537. [ARISTOTLE].— Extracts from Aristotle's Works, Selected and Translated by Georgiana Lady Chatterton. Cr. 8vo, pp. IV, and 65. 3s 1875 Lady Chatterton says, in her preface : — '"When I translated passages from Plato's works, some yearsago, my r.hiel object was to select those which showed his Ijelief in the Soul's ininiortality and in the happiness resulting from goodness: in fact to show the perception that Plato possessed of some of the high aims and of the eternal happiness that the Christian Revelation afterwards preached and promised. My object now in selecting the following passages from Aristotle's voluminous works, is to show in another manner the advantage of a belief in Free Will, and to indicate the precepts he advocated for the attainment of happiness even in this world of trial, by means of goodness." [ARNOULD]. — Verses, Collected and Re- printed, as a Memento for Friends, by Sir Joseph Arnould, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court at Bombay. Cr. 8vo, pp. 36. 4s 6d 1859 The poems consist of "Hospice of St. Bernard," an Oxford Prize Poem : Verses on Lord Deuman, bir Kobert Peel and Havelock, and an Epitha- lamium. I extract a few lines from the poem on Havelock : — ■*' Through arduous struggles and wiih toil severe. His friendless virtue plougb'd its slow career. He could not match in purse the carpet lords Of purchased epaulettes and bauble swords ; Merit, not wealth, when manhood's prime was past, Raised the born leader to command at last : And with command came glory. Why recall What lives and burns within the hearts of all? We all remember how he rose— a star- On the thick midnight of that dreadful war, Roll'd back the tide of ruin, and restored The poise of Empire with his single sword." ASTLEY's (Francis Dukinfield) Poems and Translations. r2mo, pp. VII. and 182. 3s 1819 To this volume is added an addenda of 16 pages, which is dated 1821. Mr. Astley's poems are not devoid of merit, though they do not display much originality of thought. [ATKINS' (Henry Martin)] Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on the 22nd and 23rd of August, 1837. 8vo, pp. 51. 10s 6d 1838 One of the scarcest of the early narratives of Al- pine ascents. The account is in the form of a letter to a relative ; and as illustrating the dif- ferent light in which the ascent was then re- garded, compared with what it is now, it may be worth while to quote a sentence from the narrative : " I know perfectly well that you will blame me for having done a foolish thing, and I feel that I have great reason to be thankful to God for having preserved my life through the perilous enterprise." Before the ascent Mr. Atkins spent an hour with an Irish gentleman, who, he says, was very attentive to him. By way of encouraging him he told him the history of Count de Tilly's ascent, who had his legs frozen. " He also offered to make my will ; and told me by way of consolation, that if I were lost, and my body found again after an interval of ten years, it would be easily distinguished." The account of the ascent is very graphic, and gives an excellent idea of the difficulties to be surmounted. Mr. Atkins and his party, it seems, were the nineteenth in succession in making the ascent. [AUSTEN].— Natural History Papers and Memoir of N. Laurence Austen, edited by Frank Buckland, M.A., In Memoriam. 8vo, pp. XLIV. and \^(i, portrait of Austin ; view of his Tovih, and woodcut illustrations. 8s 6d 1877 The memoir, written by Frank Buckland, informs us that N. L. Austen was born in 1847 at Croy- don. "He had very great powers of accurate observation of living creatures, their instincts, liabits and structure. He had that peculiarity which few persons possess, namely, a natural sympathy with what are generally called dumb animals, and this faculty so strongly developed iu him will account for his wonderful power over animals." He died in 1874, the cause of death being a fall from his horse. The contents of the volume, which all relate to natural his- tory, are reprinted from the columns of Land and Hater, to which he was a frequent contri- butor. [AXON'S (W. E. A.)] Exotica. Cr. 8vo, pp. 25. 3s 1876 A collection of poems, mostly very short, trans- lated from various European languages. I quote two pieces as fair specimens. Epitai'h on an Englishman. Destouclies, Here lies John Roastbeef, Esquire, The worthy son of an English sire ; He found this world so very dreary, He found himself so bored and weary. That, tired and jaded, spent and done. He hung himself for a bit of fun. Catalogue of Privately Printed Books, AXON— con<. Human Sorrow. ((Zalderon.) Our earthly tears are but a dew, The breeze can scatter and the sun can dry ; Oblivion comes to sorrowing souls, Even as slumber to the weary eye. [AYTOUN]. — The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun, Secretary to the Queens of James VI. and Charles I., with a memoir from original sources of information, by the Rev. Charles Rogers. 8vo, pp. 120, and frcmt. representing the monument of Aytoun in Westminster Abbey. 6s 6d 1871 Mr. Koeers claims for Aytoun that he was the first 01 his countrymen to adapt to the Northern muse the language of the South. As to his merits as a poet the editor remarks : — " His manner is eminently lyrical, and his versifica- tion smooth and graceful. Compliment and love are his prevailing topics ; but he can in- dulge in opposite themes, and when he smites his sarcasm is crushing. In his sonnets he is terse and epigrammatic." BABBAGE's (Charles) Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples, with an attempt to explain the causes of the frequent elevation and depression of large portions of the earth's surface in remote periods, and to prove that those causes continue in action at the present time : with a Supplement, Conjectures on the Physical Condition of the Surface of the Moon. Svo, pp. 42, 2 folding plates and ivoodcuts. 7s 6d 1847 A presentation copy from the Author, with the following inscription, " Professor Willis, from the Author." Tne book is scarce. [BAGEHOT].— Walter Bagehot, InMemoriam, 8vo, pp. IV. and 146, cloth. 7s 6d 1878 With a photographic portrait and autograph sig- nature as frontispiece. This volume contains a selection from the obi- tuary notices of Mr. Bagehot, which appeared in the magazines and newspapers of the time. It includes articles by R. H. Hutton, E. D. J. Wilson, R. H. Inglis Palgrave, Percy Greg, &c. It forms a most interesting memorial of a man of singular ability, of whom much might be said, were this the place to say it. [BAILLIE]. — Memoirs of the Lives and Cha- racters of the Right Honourable George Baillie, of Jeviswood, and of Lady Grisell Baillie, by their daughter, Lady Murray, of Stanhope. Cr. Svo, pp. XVI. and 166. 12s 6d Printed at Edinburgh, 1824 The character and scope of this work will be best shown by some extracts from the Preface : — " To Lady Murray, the elder daughter, we are in- debted for the papers contained in this volume ; in which, with a pious and affectionate hand, she has delineated the characters and recorded the private virtues of her father and mother, as well as of her grandfather, the Earl of Marchmont ; and with which she has interwoven some of the many singu- lar incidents of their varied and eventful lives. . . In the following volume the whole of Lady Mur- ray's composition has been given without any re- serve ; and in the appendix are placed some relative papers which she had been at pains to transcribe, as calculated to illustrate and confirm her estimate of the character of her parents." It is a book of considerable value and interest. BAILLIE's (Mrs. Joanna) Ahalya Baee : a Poem. Cr. 8vo, pp. 39, cloth. 3s 6d 1849 This poem celebrates the virtues of an Indian Queen, who was one of the most capable, wise, and just rulers who have ever reigned. Sir John Malcolm, in his "Central India," says of her: — "The facts that have been stated of Ahalya Baee rest on grounds that admit of no scepticism. It is how- ever an extraordinary picture : — a female without vanity ; a bigot without intolerance ; a mind imbued with the deepest superstition, yet receiving no im- pressions except what promoted the happiness of those under its influence ; a being exercising in the most active and able manner, despotic power, not merely with sincere humility, but under the severest moral restraint that a strict conscience could impose on human action. And all this com- bined with the greatest indulgence for the weakness and faults of others." BAKHTYAR NAMA (The) : a Persian Ro- mance, translated from a Manuscript Text by Sir William Ouseley, edited, with In- troduction and Notes, by W. A. Clouston, Editor of "Arabian Poetry for English Readers." Cr. Svo, pp. LI. and 232. 12s 1883 The following extracts from the Preface will best descriLe the character of this work : — "The Romance which forms the ctaple of this little volume is generally considered as belonging to the S indibad cyc\c of tales. It has for ages been popular in the East, though to the average English reader the very name of Prince Bakhtyar is unknown. Many years ago the learned Orientalist Sir W. Ouseley, presented his countrymen with an English translation of this romance, but copies of his work have now become extremely scarce Of the present collection of tales it is remarked by a learned and acute writer that they are, for the most part, well wrought out, probable, and without anything magical or .supernatural. And those readers who do not delight in the extravagant creations of Oriental fancy — enchanted groves and fairy palaces beneath, lakes, where carbuncles of immense size supply the place of the sun — will find little in this romance to shock their "common- sense." Nor are there — except one or two expres- sions in the opening passages — any of those hyperbolical descriptions of female beauty and the puissance of monarchs which are so characteristic of most of the fictions of the East. These Tales, are, indeed, singularly free from such extravagances, and may be considered as well adapted to check the often fatal impetuosity of Eastern Monarchs, which was doubtless the purpose of the original author." [BALLADS] An Elizabethan Garland ; being a descriptive Catalogue of seventy ^lack Xettet ;(SallaDS printed between the years 1559 and 1597, in the possession of George Daniel, of Canonbury. Sm. 4to, pp. XII. and 31, with a portrait of Daniel. 10s 6d 1856 Of this catalogue only 25 copies were printed. At the sale of Daniel's books in 1864, this extra- ordinary collection of old ballads sold for the large sum of £750. They were purchased by Mr. Lilly, the well-known bookseller, who re- printed and published them. A collector of the present day, whatever his wealth or good for- tune, would seek in vain to get together such a unique collection. BARHAM's (Francis Foster) The Foster Bar- ham Genealogy. Svo, pp. 28. 7s 6d Not published but printed for private circulation, 1844 My copy of this Pamphlet is bound up with a number of other pamphlets (which appear, with the possible exception of one or two, to have been published in the ordinary way) by Francis Barham and A. F. Barham. Some of these pamphlets are devoted to expounding a religious Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. BARHAM— con<. system which Mr. Barham styles Alism. In explanation of this title, be says : — " I adopt the title of Alist or divine, because I honour divinity as the all-supreme good — omne sumTnum bonum — and the source of all excellence. This title Alist, derived from Alah, the Hebrew name of God, has of late years been approved by several superior men, among the transcendentalists, mystics and initiates, who aspire after a divinity of a transcen- dent and vital character — a divinity which has been termed by the mystic divines, 'the life of God in the soul of man,' a divinity of essential being, rather than formal doctrine, of vitality rather than know- ledge." Another work contained in the volume is " So- crates, a Tragedy in five Acts," by Francis Bar- bam, 1842. Tbe author states that this play was submitted to Mr. Macready, who greatly admired it, and recommended it to Mr. Web- ster, then manager of the Haymarket Theatre. Webster, however, thought it unfitted for the stage, and it was therefore never acted. Another of Mr. P. Barham's works bound in this volume is a translation of the "Adamus Exul " of Grotius. BARON'S DAUGHTER (The) : a Ballad, by the Author of Poetical Recreations. Sm. 4to, pp. 20. 2s Edinbiirgh, 1877 This ballad, though not a plagiarism of "Locksley Hall," nevertheless shows that its author had studied that poem pretty closely. BARROW'S (Sir John) Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club. 8vo, title-page, «fec., 4 11., pp. 212, and facsimile of handwriting. 4s 6d 1849 This work was intended by its author to form a Supplement to his Autobiography, in which no mention is made of the Royal Society Club, with which Sir John had been associated for full forty years. It consists chiefly of biographies of the Presidents of the Royal Society, with whom Sir John Barrow had been personally acquainted. These are— Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. WoUaston, Sir Humphry Davy, Mr. Davies Gilbert, The Duke of Sussex, and the Marquis of Northampton. The book also contains notices of Alexander Dalrymple, Mr. Cavendish, Smithson Tennant, Dr. Young, Sir Francis Chantrey, and Mr. Hatchett. BARRY'S (Martin, M.D.) Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 16th-18th of 9th Month (Sept.), 1834. 8vo, pp. 40, 2 plates and " model of Mont Blanc, as seen from the Brevent." 7s 6d [183f'] An interesting and well-written account of an un- dertaking which, at that time, was a much more serious and diflScult affair than it is now. The author states that it appeared by the list at the Priory that he was the twentieth person (not including guides) and the twelfth Briton who had succeeded in reaching the summit of Mont Blanc. BASSE'S (William) Great Brittaine's Sunnes- set. Bewailed with a shower of teares, at Oxford, Printed by Joseph Barnes, 1613, facsimiled hy W. H. Allnut, Oxford, 1872. 16mo, pp. 22, and 2 title-pages. 7s 6d Only 100 copies printed. This is one of the numerous i^oems called forth by the untimely death of Prince Henry, son of King James the First. It has some powerful lines, as witness the following stanza : — Like a high Pyramis, in all his towers, Finish 'd this morning, and laid prostrate scone ; Like as if Nighte^s black and incestuous bowers Should force Af>ollo's beauty before Noone : Like as some strange change in the heavn'ly powers Should in her /^k// quench the refulgent Moone : So He, his dales, his li^ht, and his life (here) expir'd New-built, most (Sun-like) bright P'ul Man, and most admir'd. Mr. Allnut facsimiled the poem from the unique copy preserved at the Bodleian Library, a portion of which had been purchased at Dr. Bandinel's sale for £,'i 3s, and which Mr. Allnut was afterwards fortunately enabled to render perfect. BATTEN'S (John) Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems. Post 8vo, pp. 310. 2s 6d 1841 Religious verse is generally of poor quality, and Mr. Batten's is no exception to the rule. BAXTER'S (Richard) What we must do to be saved, edited by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Liverpool. Cr. 8vo, pp. 48 1868 The same volume contains also : — Annotated List of the Writings of Richard Baxter, Author of the Saint's Everlasting Rest : Made from copies of the Books and Tractates themselves, by the Rev. A. B. Grosart. Cr. 8vo, pp. 56. 4s 6d 1868 Mr. Grosart says in a note : — "The tractate by Baxter herein reprinted in a limited private edition, was unknown to Calamy, and also escaped his best biographer Orme, as well as Dar- ling. ..... As a book it is among the rarest of Baxter's, and 1 have heard of prices being given for it recently that recall the Bibliomania days of the Roxburghe sale." [BAXTER].— In Memoriam, R. Dudley Baxter, M.A. Cr. 8vo, pp. 88, and photographic pen-trait. 3s [1878] The preface states that this sketch of the life of Mr. Baxter was written by his widow chiefly for his sons and family: also for those among his large circle of friends who loved and valued him. R. D. Baxter was born at Doncaster in 1827. He belonged to a family which counts the celebrated Nonconformist, Robert Baxter, among its mem- bers. He inherited from his parents great energy and love of information and of literature. "Vivacious and enquiring, he early took an interest in the subjects discussed at his father's table, especially in politics, and at the age of five he was so determined a Tory that it was with difficulty, and not without tears, he submitted to wear the little nankeen suit made for him, because of its yellow tinge, which was the local Whig colour." He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his favourite study was Mathematics. After leaving College he qualified himself to enter the legal Profession. Between 1860 and 1874 he published a number of works on political and statistical subjects. He died in 1875. [BAYLEY].— A Memoir of Henry Vincent Bayley, D.D. 8vo, pp. 66. 3s 1846 The subject of this memoir was born in 1777. He was educated at Eton, and afterwards at Trin. Coll., Cambridge, where he was a most assiduous student, and gained many prizes. He chosG the clerical profession, and ultimately became, in 1828, Canon of Westminster. He died, greatly beloved and respected, in 1844. BEAUMONT (Sir John) The Poems of, for the first time collected and edited, with Memorial Introduction and Notes, and engraving of Grace Dieu, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Large Paper, only 106 copies printed, pp. LXV. and 334. 10s 6d 1864 This volume forms part of the so-called Fuller Worthies' Library. Mr. Grosart in the Prefa- tory Note says : — "The present volume for the first time brings together Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. BEAUMONT— co)i<. the hitherto scattered and carelessly kept Poems of Sir John Beaumont, Bart. It contains the \/hole of the volume of 1629, edited by his son ; and also a number of additions gathered from various sources, as told in the relative foot-notes. I have also re- printed the ' Metamorphosis of Tabaco,' from the solitary surviving copy preserved in the British Museum Library." [BECKFORD]. — Recollections of the late William Beckford, of Fonthill, Wilts, and Lansdown, Bath. Cr. 8vo, pp. 48. is 6d 1893 The prefatory note, which is signed "Charlotte Lansdown," states that:— "The manuscript of the following letters, written by my father, has been in my possession. He intended to publish it at the time of Mr. Beckford's death in 1844, but delayed the execution of the work, and sixteen years afterwards was himself called to enter in the higher life of the spiritual world. Mr. Beck- ford and my father were kindred spirits, conversant with the same authors, had visited the same countries, and were both gifted with extraordinary memories." I know of no work which gives so vivid a picture of William Beckford, and of the wonderful contents of his two residences as the present small book. [BEDFORD (Duke of)] Copy of a Letter ad- dressed to Dawson Turner, Esq., on the occasion of the Death of the late Duke of Bedford ; particularly in reference to the services rendered by his Grace to Botany and Horticulture. Imp. 8vo, title-page and pp. 25, aUo a coloured front. 4s 6d Glasgow, 1840 The author of this letter was Sir W. J. Hooker the celebrated botanist. The Duke of Bedford was an ardent Botanist and Horticulturist, and printed at his own expense, for private circula- tion only, several splendid works, including "Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis," " Hortus Ericseus Woburnensis," and "Salictum Wobur- nense." The letter gives a most interesting account of the Duke's devotion to his favourite pursuits. BEEDHAM's (B. H.) Notices of Archbishop Williams. 8vo, pp. II., 95, and Appendix of VII. pages. 5s 1869 Only one hundred copies printed. The Life of Archbishop Williams was written by Bishop Hacket. The present work is to be looked upon as supplementary to Hacket's Me- moir. It is the fruit of careful investigations, and of many a pleasant journey, most of Mr. Beedham's enquiries having been made upon the spot. The result of his researches is that our knowledge of the Archbishop is considerably increased. BELFOUR's (John) Odes in honour of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, with other Poems. 8vo, pp. 32, with portrait of the Prince Regent inserted as front., hand- somely bound in morocco extra. 2s 6d 1812 Mr. Belfour was a better courtier and patriot (of the " Rule, Britannia" sort) than poet. BELL'S (Jonathan Anderson) Poems, Printed in Memoriam and not for Publication. 4to, pp. XI. and 65. 5s 1865 The author of these poems was born in Glasgow, but was educated in Edinburgh. He showed an early predilection for the study of Art, and spent nearly two years in Rome. On his return he de- termined to follow the profession of an Archi- tect. As an architectural draughtsman he has seldom been surpaNScd. In Lc Keux's "Me- morials of Cambridge," thirty of the most elaborate illustrations are engraved from draw- ings by Mr. Bell. He practised his profession for about 27 years in Edinburgh. In 1839 he was appointed Secretary to the Royal Association for the promotion of the Pine Arts in Scotland, and he held that post down to the day of his death. He died in his fifty-sixth year on the 28th Feb., 1865. Mr. Bell's poems evince poetic capacity and feel- ing, and are not without fine lines and passages. BENNOCH's (Francis) A Few Lyrics, Re- printed from "The Modern Scottish Min- strel," vol 5. Roy. 8vo, pp. 22, with a portrait of the author. 2s 6d 1857 The specimens of Mr. Bennoch's poetry here given have considerable merit, particularly those in the Scottish dialect. BENSON'S (Arthur Christopher) Le Cahicr Jaune : Poems. 8vo, pp. 99. lOs 6d Eton, 1892 This is, I believe, the first book of an author who has since gained a distinguished place as poet and essayist. I think that any one from reading this volume might have safely prophesied that its author was one who would be likely to make a considerable reputation in the future. [BENTHAMJ Auto-Icon ; or farther uses of the Dead to the Living, a Fragment, from the MSS. of Jeremy Bentham [not pub- lished]. 8vo, pp. 21 and title. 10s 6d n.d. The editor of this pamphlet in a prefatory note says that it was the last literary production in which Bentham was engaged. He died before he could finish it. The object of the work was to recommend the preservation of the dead as a means of enjoyment [I] and of instruction to the living. It is a very singular production. BIBLIOTHECA Hearneiana ; Excerpts from the Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Hearne, A.M., Printed from his own Manuscript. 4to, title-page, pp. 48, and portrait of Hearne. 7s 6d London, 1848 Only 75 copies printed at the expense of Beriah Botfield, the owner of the original manuscript. Hearne's library, as might be expected, comprised many rare and curious works. He adds to the name of each book, the price which it had cost him, and it is interesting to notice that works which would now sell for many pounds were then to be bought for a few pence. BIBLIOTHECA Nicotiana ; a first Catalogue of Books about Tobacco, collected by William Bragge, F.S.A., Shirle Hall, Sheffield. 8vo, pp. 46, title-page and prefatory note. 5s 1874 " This Catalogue of Books about Tobacco has been prepared and issued, partly as a record of what books relating to the history, growth, and uses of Tobacco are now known and collected, but especially in the hope that many more may be added from various sources in order to make a Bibliography of Tobacco as nearly as possible complete." BIBLIOTHECA Nicotiana ; a Catalogue of Books about Tobacco, together with a Catalogue of Objects connected with the use of Tobacco in all its forms, collected by William Bragge, F.S.A., Birmingham. Imp. 8vo, title-page and preface, 4 leaves, and pp. 251. 10s 6d 1880 Two hundred copies printed, of which this is No. 164. This is, in all probability, the most exten- sive bibliosraphy in existence of books about tobacco; while, as regards the Catalogue of ob- jects connected with its use, I am not aware of any other similar list. The bibliography com- prises upwards of 400 books and pamphlets; Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. BIBLIOTHECA Nicotiana— con*. while the collection of objects extends to up- wards of 5000 articles. It might be thought that a collection such as is here described must be a mere assemblage of curiosities; but a practice so general, if not universal, as that of smoking, which is nevertheless a confessed luxury, aud not a necessity of human nature, is surely worthy of all the attention and study which the philo- sopher and anthropologist can bestow upon it. A few extracts from Mr. Bragge's Preface will give an idea of the special value of his work :— "Special interest in the subject arises from the fact that all savage and semi-civilizeri peoples have lavished their highest skill and most characteristic art upon the construction and decoration of their pipes, and nearly the same may be said of nations higher in the scale of civilization. The decoration of pipes and of smoking appliances generally thus adds a new chapter to the ' Grammar of Ornament.' " " The collection includes all these ob- jects, and also the whole literature of tobacco. It was begun as the recreation of a busy life, to a large extent spent in travelling, thus affording special opportunities for collecting, and has been continued to the present time with increasing pleasure and success— the collection growing rapidly, while the field for exploration has opened out far more widely than had been expected." BINO STRACE Y's Book. 8vo, pp. 140. 7s 6d 1878 Captain Henry Stracey, the editor of this book, prefixes to it the following letter, which I quote, because it explains the object aud contents of the work: — " Mv Dear Little Bino, — You are at the present moment going through the delights of the spelling book. Mayhap in future years you may be fond of reading, and like to read something about your own family, so I have strung together some recollections of your grandfather, and with them have put some letters of your great-grandfather, written in Spain, and one or two letters from your great-greal-grand- father, the first 'Sir Edward,' addressed to his Son Edward at Oxford, and to John, who was in India. He seems to have been rather vexed with Edward, who was evidently young and headstrong. Your Uncle Gerry has sent me a very interesting account of his India Service on the North-West frontier, and I have added some letters I wrote to my father whilst I was in Turkey and Russia last year." The book contains a good deal of interesting matter. [BIRCH (Mrs.)] Letters written by the late Mrs. Birch, of Barton Lodge, in the ninety-ninth and hundredth years of her age. 4to, pp. XVI., 152, also a fine por- trait of Mrs. Birch and three facsimiles of her handier iting. 8s Gd (1838?) Mrs. Birch died on March 29, 1837, aged 99 years and 4 months. She retained to the last her mental powers almost unimpaired, and her let- ters evince a lively interest in everything going on around her, as well as a kind, sympathetic, and cheerful disposition. It is a volume of con- siderable interest as showinghowlife may, under favourable conditions, be worth living, even at a hundred years. BLACKMORE's (William) A Brief Account of the North American Indians, and par- ticularly of the hostile tribes of the plains ; principal Indian events since 1S6"2, &c. Svo, pp. 45. 3s 6d 1877 This essay was written for the purpose of being prefixed to Col. R. J. Dodge's ' Hunting Grounds of the Great West,' and a tew copies were printed off separately for private circulation. It gives an interesting sketch of the past history and present state of the American Indians, and of their relations with the white settlers; also ob- servations on the causes of Indian Ware, and of Indian atrocities and Western reprisals, &c. [BLOMFIELD].— Selections from the Corre- spondence of Robert Blomfield, the Suffolk Poet, edited by W. H. Hart, F.S.A. Svo, pp. XVI., and 62. 3s eid 1870 These selections are taken from the collection of Blomfleld's letters which are now in the British Museum. They comprise letters to his brother George, his patron Capell Lolft, the Duke of Grafton, &c. The selections relate chiefly to the literary labours of the poet. There is also a pedigree of the family, commencing with the poet's great-grandfather, Isaac Blomfield, of Ousden, who was also great-grandfather of Dr. Blomfield, Bishop of London. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of the Con- TKIBUTORS TO THE " PoKTICAL RHAPSODY," extracted from the New Edition of that work by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Esq. Cr. Svo, pp. CXXVIIL, bds. 3s Gd n.d. One of a few copies printed off separately for friends. [BLUE JACKET (A)] The Lost Manuscripts of a Blue Jacket. Svo, pp. VII. and 283. 5s Newcastle, 1850 This volume consists of a series of Letters from a Naval Ofllcer, written during a tour on the con- tinent, to a friend in England. The letters are dated 1835-7. They are written in a good epistolary style, and may be perused without weariness. One of them contains a graphic account of the assassination of Kotzebue, the German dramatist, by Sandt. BOHN"s (Henry G.) The Biography and Bibliography of Shakspeare [forming Vol VIII. of Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society]. Sm. 4to, pp. XVI. 366 ; to- gether with Bibliography from Bohn's Bibliographer's Manual, Numbered from 2253 to 2368, also portraits, die. £1 Is 1S63 This, like all the volumes printed for the Philo- biblon Society, was restricted to a very limited number of copies. Copies of this volume usually fetch from three to five pounds. It is proper to explain, however, that the present copy has, in place of the steel plates with which it should be illustrated, a number of photographs; hence the low price I have put upon it. BOHN's (Henry G.) A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets. Svo, pp. XXIII., and 715. £1 15s 1867 A few quotations from Mr. Bohn's preface will best show his design and object in compiling this Dictionary : — "The present volume is the result of a taste for collect- ing poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my non.ige, now more than half a century ago. .i^t that period there existed scarcely any books of English quotations practically accessible. Allot's " England's Parnassus," published as long back as 1600, and which gives only the earlier poets, used to sell for upwards of five pounds. Poole's "English Parnassus," which followed in 1657 was comparati'-ely useless, being ill-digested and entirely without authorities; and Hayward's "British Muse," published in 1738, though very satisfactory as far as it goes, and always within reach of a mode- rate purse, stops short at Herrick, and consequently omits Milton, Butler, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Gay, Pope, Swift, Thomson, and a great many others who flourished within his time ; and those were precisely the poets we most care.l to cultivate. My own volume must speak for itself; it has grown by slow degrees from its original embryo to the portly shape it now assumes, and has been especially enlarged since I came to the determination, some four or five years since, to prepare it for the press. The arrangement of subjects, as will be seen, is alphabetical, in the manner of a common-place book, and the quotations, so far as printing con- 10 Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. BOHN— coTif. venience would permit, are placed chronologically. Some few duplications will be found under syno- nymies ; a defect, if it is one, which I have found unavoidable." This is one of the most extensive collections of quotations from English verse. It is, on the whole, a good selection, though it comprises a good many pieces, which (to me at least) seem to have little title to he included; and, on the other hand, I miss some passages which should have been inserted. But this, I suppose, would be the case with any dictionary which could be compiled ; because it would be impossible to comprise within any volume, or even set of volumes, all the fine passages in English poetry, and also because no two persons would agree as to what passages should be inserted or omitted. [BORLASE's (W. C.)l Snnways: a Record of Rambles in Many Lands. 8vo, pp. IX. and 484, fronts, and vigntUes. 7s 6ii Plymouth, 1878 Mr. Borlaso recounts in this work his travels through the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Ceylon, Egypt, Turkey, and Kussia. He says, in his Preface, that the book, which has been copied, with a few additions, from the journal he kept during his tour, is not designed for the public eye; but only for the amusement of a few friends. Nevertheless it is far superior to many of the books of travel which the press pours forth in an unending flood. Mr. Borlase has an observing eye, a shrewd wit, a ready pen ; and as he travelled over the most interesting parts of the world, his journal is both instruc- tive and entertaining. BORRETT'f (George Tuthill) Letters from Canada and the United States. Cr. 8vo, title 1 leaf, preface 1 leaf, and pp. 294. 7s 6d 1865 These letters are the production of a very sensible, shrewd and unprejudiced observer. Not many published volumes of travels are so well worth reading as this one. I should like to make con- siderable extracts from the book, but the follow- ing short passages must suffice :— " But I have no time to lell you how surprised I was to find the American character so radically different from the English — how numerous are the points in which this great diversity consists. I am at a loss to know how to give you an idea of the general impressions I have formed of the Western people of this continent, but 1 think they may be briefly expressed by saying that, physically, the men and women are Scotch, with French heads ; intellectually, they are educated Japanese ; socially, they are French without manners; morally, they are Spaniards without romance. In a word, they are un-English. The Continental European element enters largely into their composition. One fourth of the shops in certain quarters of Chicago bear German names and signs. Immigration daily adds to the kettleful of nationalities, and climate warms the blood of the Anglo-Saxon ingredient ; so the Western settlers becorne, like other inhabitants of the same parallels of latitude all the world over, hot, peppery, impulsive, foolishly impatient of anything that the most sensi- tive of Heidelberg duellists could distort into what he calls an insult to his honour, inflammable in the company of females as a lion or a bull. They tell me that pistols and bowie-knives are not so ruthlessly employed as they were four years ago. The war has diverted men's passions into another channel, organized and concentrated them in a direction in which they can have full play ; so that travellers by the Mississippi boats have given up the good old practice of sitting down to 'whist' and 'euchre' with revolvers beside them on the table, and street murders are almost out of date. But there is still a marvellous recklessness of human life and Lynch- law atrocities." On pp. 250-6, there is a very interesting account of an interview with President Lincoln. [BOSWELL's (James)] A Biographical Sketch of the late Edmond Malone, Esq. 8vo, pp. 27. 3s 6d 1814 The " Advertisement " states that " The following sketch originally appeared in the 'Gentleman'^ Magazine.' A few copies of it (with some ad- ditions) are now reprinted for private distribu- tion." [BOTFIELD's (Beriah)] Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland during the Summer of MDCCCXXIX. Post 8vo, pp. XVI., 376, appendix of pp. -IX, front. (a view of Edinburgh) and engraved title, loith vignette title (view of the Cathedra/, oj lona). 88 6d Norton Hall, 1830 This copy seems to differ considerably from the one seen and described by Martin, which had neither front., engraved title, nor appendix. Mr. Botfleld's Journal forms no bad guide to the scenery of Scotland ; and it might be used even now as the traveller's companion and mentor. BOUCHIER's (Jonathan) The Advantages of the Study of Poetry: an Address delivered at the Carter Hall Mission Rooms, London, on the 4th of May, 1867. Cr. 8vo, pp. 48. 2s 6d 1867 A thoughtful and suggestive discourse. BOUQUET (The) culled from Marylebone Gardens, by Bluebell, Kingcups, and Mignonette, and arranged by [woodcut of a Thistle]. First Collection from June, 1851, to January, 1852. Cr. 8vo, pp. XVI. and 240, and 2 plates — Second Collection, from January to July, 1852, pp. VIII. and 232, five plates and a few woodcuts — Third Collection, from July to December, 1852, pp. VIII. and 200, and 6 plates— Fov^XH Collection, from January to July, 1853, pp. IV. and 267, and 2 plates : 4 vols in all. 8s 6d This amateur magazine contains a good many clever and interesting stories, articles, and poems, mixed, as might be expected, with much that is of little or no value or interest. Its projectors were Lady Hester G. Browne, the Misses Knatchbull, and Miss Hume Middle- mas, whose contributions to it are signed" Blue- bell," "Kingcups," and "Mignonette." The contributors, most of whom were very young people, all adopted the name of some flower as their noM de plume. There was a fifth collection issued. BOYD's (Zachary) Four Letters of Comforts for the Deaths of the Earle of Hadding- toun and of Lord Boyd, 1640. 4to, htilf title and title-page, 2 leaves. Introduction, pp. 16, Facsimile Reprint, pp. 16, also a portrait of the author. 8s 6d Edinburgh, 1878 Only one hundred and fifty copies printed. Zachary Boyd was the author of the well-known translation of the Bible into verse — a work which was quite seriously intended, but which is more amusing than any intentional parody could possibly be. He was also the author of a "poem" on the Battle of Newburne, which is not much inferior in point of absurdity, as witness the following lines : — " The powder blast most fiercely did remove Their beards below and mustaches above : The whisking balls made all their cheeks so smooth. They sought no Pincers for to draw a tooth : Yea, legs and arms which in the air did flee Were then cut off (like gibblets) fearfully : Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. II BOYD— cotWI. The Scottish bals so dash'd them with disdain That hips ov'r head, their skul did spue their brains, Both legs and arms and heads, like dust, did flee Into the air, with fearful mutiiiie." In this dreadful battle the Scots, it appears, lost only four or five men. The "Pour Letters of Comforts" is one of the rarer productions of Boyd. It is interesting as relating to the deaths of two Scottish noblemen who were intimately concerned in the civil conflict between Charles I. and his subjects. [BOWYER].— Anecdotes, Biographical and Literary, of the late Mr. William Bovvyer, Printer, compiled for Private use. 8vo, pp. 52. 5s 1778 Of this pamphlet only i20 copies were printed- It was the germ of Mr. Nichols' "Literary Anecdotes," which ultimately swelled into four- teen volumes. Martin wrongly describes it as consisting of 32 pp. instead of 52. BRASENOSE ALE. -A Collection of Poems presented annually by the Butler of Brase- nose College on Shrove Tuesday [motto from Theocritus]. r2mo, pp. VII. and UO. 7s 6d This is the first collection of these verses. The Introduction is signed by J. Prior, presumably the Butler of the College at the time. For further particulars see the following article. BRASENOSE ALE.— A Collection of Verses annually presented on Shrove Tuesday, by the Butler of Brasenose College, Oxford. Cr. 8vo, pp. VII. and 265, and front. 12s 6d Printed for Private Circu'ation by Robert Roberta, Boston, Lincolnshire, 1878 It seems to have been the practice at Brasenose College, for the Butler, on Shrove Tuesday, after presenting a spice-bowle of ale, to recite a copy of verses, after which he had money given to him by the House. It does not seem to be known when the practice commenced, and the first copy of verses which has been pre- served seems to have been recited about 1705. No others have been preserved down to 1806 or thereabouts, when a piece was recited, which seems to have been written by Keginald Heber. From 1826 all the pieces have been preserved. Though few distinguished names appear as the ■writers, many of the poems have considerable merit. The new edition differs from the former in being more carefully printed, and in containing explanations of all obscure allusions. The frontispiece of the volume represents the old Hanaper cup bequeathed by Dr. Radcliffe to the College. Its date is 1577, and it is the oldest piece of plate which the College possesses. This edition is got tip in the handsome style of printing, etc., which characterizes all Mr. Koberts'sproductions. It contains several pieces not in the 1857 edition. BRASENOSE CALENDAR (The) : a list of Members of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford (1509-1888), compiled by the Rev. William Edward Buckley, M.A., Rector of Middleton Cheney, and Falconer Madan, M.A., formerly Fellows of Brasenose. 8vo, Title-page, &c., 4 leaves, and pp. 226. 8s 6d University Press, Oxford, 1888 The following extracts from the "Prefatory Note " will give a sufficient idea of the purpose and scope of this book :— ■" Above a century ago the Rev. John Holmes, D.D., Fellow of Brasenose, compiled from the College and University Registers a list of the Members of the College from its foundation to his own time. This manuscript list, in two small volumes, preserved in the library of Brasenose, was continued by the late Rev. John Watson, M..\., Fellow, to the year 1812, and has served as the basis for the list now printed. The additions to 1888, and the Alphabetical Index have been contributed by Mr. Nladan. ... It is hoped that members of the College and others who take an interest in family history may be able to supply information about many persons whose names are here recorded, and that the material thus collected may some day suffice for a volume on Worthies of Brasenose." BRAY's (Edward Atkyns) Songs and other Poems. 12mo, pp. IV. and 72. 4s 6d 1821 The author in the "Advertisement" says:— "The following effusions, as occasional relaxations, enabled the writer of them to resume his se- verer studies with more successful application. The first two songs are reprinted from a volume of Poems published in 1799, and he acknow- ledges his gratification on finding them incor- porated into Park'u edition of Kitson's select collection of English Songs." Mr. Bray's songs are certainly well fitted for musical treatment. The following possesses something of the artless grace of the Eliza- bethan poets: — THE ARTIFICE OF LOVE. ' Tis said that Love's a naked boy : Rather he's drest in close disguise. He's boldest when he seems most coy ; And wholly on his art relies. As Proteus such bis subtle frame. He's ever changing, ne'er at rest, Sometimes like ice, and now like flame, He spreads his influence o'er the breast. With friendship's confidential air, He wins your unsuspecting heart ; Then, tangled in his wily snare. He wounds it with his hidden dart. With sobs of grief, and tears of woe, He comes in Pity's sad attire : But, ah ! those tears, that treacherous flow, Quench not but rouse his dreaded fire. Then, cautioned of his aits, beware. Beware to take him to thy breast ; Or never canst thou hope to share A moment's peace, a moment's rest. BRETON'S (Nicholas) Longing of a Blessed Heart : which loathing the World, doth long to be with Christ. 4to, 8 unnumbered leaves, and pp. 45. 8s 6d Kent, printed at the Private Press oj Lee Priory : by Johnson and Warwick, 1814 As in the case of most of the Lee Priory publi- cations, only 100 copies were printed ot this work. It is printed in the usual handsome style of Sir Egertou Brydges' undertakings. BRETON'S (Nicholas) Melancholike Humours, in Verses of diverse natures, with a critical preface, by Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart. 4to, pp. XX., and 72. 8s 6d Lee Priory Press, 1815 [BRITTON].— A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of John Britton, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., &c. Roy. 8vo, pp. 49, and leaf of Advertisements. 3s 1825 I have two copies of the above, both of which are presentation copies (one to Sir Thomas Lawrence and the other to Arthur Aikin) and have an autograph inscription in the author's hand- writing. This short autobiography formed part of the Preface to the third volume of the Author's "Beauties of Wiltshire." Britton was a self- made man, who raised himself to comparative 12 Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. [BRITTON]— con<. affluence by unremitting industry and unswerv- ing integrity. He had many difficulties to contend with in his early life, and was entirely self-taught. The many splendid architectural and topographical works which he wrote and published are still much valued, and indeed are hardly likely to be surpassed or superseded, so far at all events as their illustrations are con- cerned, for the art of steel engraving which was at the height of its excellence during his lifetime has now fallen into almost entire disuse. BRITTON's (J.) Account of Stonehenge, MTitten for "The Penny Cyclopedia." PostSvo, pp. 16, !('tf/t !i"Ooc?at;itor at Brougham, he generally con- fined himself in the morning closely to his own sitting-room, which was the rnost simply and plainly furnished room in the house ; and he was always hard at work composing his addresses, or carrying on his active correspondence. In the afternoon he used to walk about the grounds, and I found him a delightful and most instructive companion. It was an interest- ing sight to see his venerable face and form in the beautiful chapel at Brougham on Sunday, where he regularly attended the services of the church, and he not unfrequently muttered rather audibly what was passing in his mind. Sometimes at table he would sit for a considerable time, and it was difficult to rouse his attention. But whenever I called his memory back to old times, and put questions to him about the men and events of the early part of the century, it was wonderful to see how suddenly his mind lighted up, and how he poured forth his thoughts in a full and continuous stream of talk. His memory was most extraordinary — not merely of facts and dates— but of the contents of books : and the only sign of failing recollection at any time I detected was, that he now and then repeated the same thing more than once, forgetting that he had already mentioned it." [BROWNE (William)] Original Poems, never before published, by William Browne, of the Inner Temple, Gent., Author of " Britannia's Pastorals," with a Preface and Notes, by Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart., K.J. 4to, two title-pages, printed on India paper, o prel. II. and pp. 96. 10s 6d One of the most valuable of the Lee Priory publi- cations. The woodcuts with which it is adornod are most beautiful specimens of the art. Sir Egerton Brydges expresses his opinion in the advertisement that these short poems of Browne's, here first printed, are much finer than the more elaborate poems which tlie author himself printed, aud on which his fame was founded. Perhaps this may be doubted; but it is certain that these poems have much merit, and well deserved to be printed in the sump- tuous garb in which their first editor arrayed them. [BROWN].— Hilliard's (George Stillman) A Memoir of James Brown ; with Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect from Public Bodies. 8vo, pp. 8 and 138, por- trait. 7s 6d Boston, Privately Printed, 1856 The subject of this memoir was born at Acton, in Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. 13 [BROWN]— coni. MassachusGtts, in 1800. He was the son of a New England farmer, who had served in the army and reached the rank of Captain. James, after being a domestic servant, became an assis- tant to Mr. Billiard, a bookseller and publislier of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He afterwards became a partner in the firm. Ultimately he became a leading member of the firm of Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, Mass. He was a man of gi'eat business ability, and most estimable in his private life, and died greatly regretted. Mr. Brown paid several visits to England, and a passage from the diary kept on one of his visits seems to be worth quoting ;— " April IS, 1845. — Breakfasted in the stall where, seventy- five years ago, Franklin usually took his meals, and discussed with Strahan the then growing troubles with the mother country. There is a permanency about things here that does not e.vist with us. What stall in America will be found ' unimproved ' seventy years hence, or has remained so that lengtli of time?" In another entry he records a visit to Highgate to hear the nightingales singing in Caon Wood. He was, he says, " gratified with a full concert. The note is very much like that of the ferrugi- nous thrush, but less varied, and not so loud. It is very quick and lively, and not as I expected, slow and pensive. So much for impressions from poets." [BRUCE].— Poems by Charlotte Ann Brown- sword, deceased wife of C. C. Bruce, Esq. , of Calcutta ; Relict of J. F. D'Oyly, Esq., of Tirhoot, and daughter of the late Captain H. E. Page, Fort Adjutant, Monghyr, East Indies. Post 8vo, pp. VIII and 111. 2s 6d Calcutta, 1846 Mrs. Bruce's poems are chiefly of a devotional or domestic cliaracter. BRYDGES' (Sir Egerton) Odo, Count of Lingen, a Poetical Tale, in six Cantos. Sq. 8vo, pp. VIII. and 92. 7s 6d Geneva, Printedhy W. Fisk, MDCCCXXIV. Only 50 copies printed. This poem is founded upon an interesting story, and its poetical merits are considerable. "It is written in rhymes irregularly disposed, like those of Milton's Lycidas. The advantage pro- posed by the adoption of this metre is the free- dom of blank verse, modified by some small degree of the restraint formed by rhyme." [BRYDGES].— Theatrum Poetarum Angli- canorum : containing brief characters of the English Poets, down to the year 1675, by Edward Phillips, the Nephew of Milton : the Third Edition, Reprinted at the expense, and with the Notes of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart., &c. 8vo, pp. XLVI and 55, also XXXIII and 150, with four unnumbered leaves at end. £1 Is Geneva, 1824 Only one hundred copies printed. Sir Egerton Brydges' notes to this work are very extensive, and amount to more than Phillips's portion. It contains very interesting notices of Shelley, Byron and other modern poets. BRYDGES' (Sir Egerton, Bart.) A Note on the suppression of Memoirs announced by the Author, in June, 1825; containing numerous strictures on contemporary public characters. 12mo, pp. XXIV. and 92. 7s 6d Paris, 8e'pt.,\^1^ The author states that he had prepared a volume entitled Fragtnents of Memoirs of my own Time, for publication : but that when about to put it to press a few words in a correspondence with England, made him hesitate and finally deter- mine to suppress it. The present " Note " deals in a rather desultory way with a large variety of matters, chiefly literary. At page 88 is a passage which so well sums up the author's achievements in literature that it is worth quot- ing for its biographical value : — "What I have done, though little noticed by the throng of vulgar readers and fashionable triflers, has gradually and imperceptibly mixed itself with the durable literature of my country. I have contributed to the revival of a taste for its older authors ; I have withdrawn several meritorious old poets from oblivion : I have recovered a volume of original poems (never before printed), of William lirowne, the favourite pastoral poet of James the First's reign ; I have exhibited proofs of the genius of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, which show that he deserved the beautiful eulogy bestowed upon him by Lord Clarendon ; I have cast the truth and the interest of history on the peerage of my country — I have endeavoured, though with too little success, to expose the false philosophy of gambling Jews : I have sometimes been visited by the still small voice of genius, virtue, and learning to cheer me : but I have been left to struggle alone by those who ought to have extended to me an aiding hand: — the mean deserters of their blood, whose offered services I now reject ■ ith scorn ;• — I have been plotted against by treachery, fraud, and corruption: — and I have been persecuted and caluminated by the upstart power of hoary age, where intense malignity con- tinues to increase with years: where prosperity still indurates : and where the breath of the opening grave seems but to fan the petty passions of low-born and mean-tempered youth ! " BRYDGES' (Sir Egerton, Bart.) Whowaslta, Countess of Hapsburg, who founded the Monastery of Muri in Switzerland in 1018, and died 1026? On this question depends the development of the Origin of the Im- perial Houses of Hapsburg and Lorraine, on which new light is here thrown. 8vo, pp. 64. 7s 6d Paris, 1820 At the end is a list of the works of Sir Egerton Brydges printed on the Continent, from March, 1819, to December, 1825, which comprises 24 separate publications. During the same period 4 separate works by the same author were printed in England. [BRYDGES' (Sir Samuel Egerton)] The Anglo- Genevan Critical Journal for 1831, in two parts, part I., 12mo, pp. XX. and 224 ; part II., 12mo, pp. VIII. and 225 to 537. £1 10s Geneva, August, 1831 Only 50 copies printed. This work contains many articles of interest and value. Amongst them may be mentioned : — Keview of the various Lives of the English Poets, on Sacred Poetry, on Shakspeare, Works of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Arthur Young's Farmer's Letters, Mrs. Wharton's Poetry, &c. [BULWER's (J. R.)] Extracts from my Jour- nal, MDCCCLII. 8vo, pp. 56, and 3 plates. 10s 6d Norwich, 1853 This volume contains extracts from the Journal which the author kept, during a tour with a friend, through parts of Switzerland, Italy and the Tyrol, in 1852. The chief part of it is de- voted to an account of an ascent; of Mont Blanc. This is very interesting, as the ascent was more than usually difficult and dangerous. The nar- rative should be in the hands of all collectors of Alpine books. [BUxMSTEAD's (George)] Specimen of a Bibliography of Old Books and Pamphlets, illustrative of the Mug, Glass, Bottle, the Loving Cup, and the Social Pipe, inter- spersed with titles of curious old books on 14 Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. [BUMSTEAD]— con<. health and long life, with illustrative frag- ments, in prose and verse; spiced with anecdotes of celebrated Topers, compiled by me, G. B. Cr. 8vo, pp. VIII. and 144. 7s 6d Di8%, 1885 Mr. Bumstead was formerly a second-hand book- seller, whose shop was in King William Street, Strand. He was always somewhat eccentric, and his eccentricities increased with age. The present work is incomplete, but contains all that was printed. It comprises a good deal of curious matter, strung together with very little art or connection. He died May 22, 1890. [BURNS].— Some Account of the Glenriddell MSS. of Burns's Poems, with several Poems never before published, edited by Henry A. Bright. 4to, pp 55. 10s 6d Liverpool, 1874 The manuscript volume which is here described was presented in 185.3 by the widow of Mr. Wallace Currie (son of Dr. Currie, the biographer of Burns) to the Athenaeum Library, Liverpool. The volume was originally presented by Burns as a token of friendship and gratitude to Robert Riddell, of Glenriddell. It is a quarto volume of 162 pages, exclusive of portrait, title, and an introductory letter. The letter, and seventy- eight pages of the poems, are entirely in the poet's autograph. The rest of the MS. is in the handwriting of amanueuses, with occasional corrections and remarks by Burns himself. The volume contains several poems by Burns which are here printed in full for the first time. [ BURNS]. — Robert Burns' Commonplace Book Printed from the original Manuscript in the possession of John Adams, Esq., Greenock. 8vo, titles, pp. VII. and 54. 10s 6d 1872 Extract from the Preface :— "The Original Manuscript Commonplace Book of Robert Burns is here given to the public in its entire and primitive sh.ipe for the first time. Only noTu can it be said, the Book is given as Burns wrote it, frovi day to day, in those, his early days, when, as yet, the world had never heard of him. Editions of "Burns" are as the sands of the sea for multitude ; many of great excellence, stored with fresh and original matter, contain notices of the Commonplace Book and versions, more or less connected, of portions of its contents, yet, strange to say, no one edition has it in its first shape, in its original connection, and in its full extent. These extracts, merely copied by one Editor from another, can here at last be referred to the original of all the copies ; and it will be abundantly plain that no one of the Editors, from Currie down to the latest, had access to the genuine original Manuscript The contents of the MS. arc beyond the reach, a.-: they are beyond the need of criticism. The present possessor, Mr. John Adam, Town-Chamberlain of Greenock, has permitted the publication, as a tribute of reverence to the memory of Burns, and with the design of preserving authentic copies, should any unforeseen accident befall the Original." [BURNS]. — Genealogical Memoirs of the Family of Robert Burns, and of the Scot- tish House of Burnes, by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LZ/.Z). 8vo,pp. 68. 4s 6d Printed for the Royal Hintorical Society, 1877 Extracts from the Preface:— "What in respect of descent Burns really was these Meiiioijs will show. Remotely sprung from a landed stock, his immediate ancestors were yeomen, at first opulent, latterly the reverse. . . . The present work is chiefly founded on Dr. James Burnes' ' Notes on his Name and Family,' a thin duodecimo privately printed in 1851, and on entries in the parochial and other registers. . . . To render the genealogical narrative minute and accurate, no effort has been spared." BURNES' (James) A Sketch of the Knights Templars. Sm. 4to, pp. VI. and 59, supple- ment of X. pp., engraved title-page and woodnUs. 10s 6d 1837 Only one hundred copies printed. The author states that this work was written for the purpose of being given, as a token of gratitude, to some kind friend who had presented to him a magnificent piece of plate in the name of the Free-masons of Scotland. The work is almost entirely a compilation from an article on the History of the Templars in the Foreign Quarterly Review, Lawrie's Pree-Masonry, and Mill's " History of Chivalry." The illustrations of the book were executed by W. A. Lawrie, Secretary to the Grand Lodge of Scotland. [BYROM].— The Journal of Elizabeth Byrom in 1745, edited by Richard Parkinson, D.D., F.S.A. 4to, pp. 32. 3s Manchester, 1857 A reprint (of thirty copies only) from the Chetham Society's edition of John Byrom's remains. Elizabeth Byrom was the eldest daughter of Dr. Byrom ; she was born in 1722, and died in 1801. Her journal is verj interesting : most of it relates to the Jacobite rising of 1745, of which it gives some curious details. BYWATER's (William Matthew, P.M., No. 19) Notes on Lau. Dermott, G.S., and his work. Cr. 8vo, pp. VI., 57, and 2 facsimiles. 10s 6d 1884 Laurence Dermott was a distinguished Freemason. He was an Irishman, and was born in 1720. " In 1756 he achieved literary fame by producing a book which will hand down his name to all time. He entitled it '.\himan Rezon; or a Help to a Brother.' .... It was immediately accepted as the Book of Constitutions of the Antients. It went through several editions, and became the model for many similar works in other countries." He devoted much of his time to the service of the Crafi, which he defended most zealously against its enemies both within and wiihout ; and his staunch adherence to the ancient landmarks of the Order, and the vast knowledge which he brought to bear upon his work, j ustly entitled him n6t only to the encomium which his Grand Lodge pronounced upon him, but to the admiration of his Brethren in succeed- ing ages. He died in 1791. [BUTLER'S (George)J The Rosciad, a Poem, dedicated to Mr. Kemble. 4to, title-page and dedication, 2 11., and pp. 61. 15s Printed for Robert Butler, No. 9, Bruton Street, 1802 Since Churchill published his "Rosciad," many have been the essays published in imitation of it, but not one of them is now remembered or quoted. Mr. Butler's work appears to be a candid and impartial review of the merits of the leading actors and actresses of the time, but it is very prosaic in style. The following lines may be quoted as a fair specimen of the work :— " As the chief leader of the vocal tribe. From whose sweet voice we such delight imbibe, Its tones melodious, powerful, deep, and clear, Now, let our fav'rite iN'CLEnoN appear. Ne'er may a generous and enlightened age, Encourage foreigners upon the stage. When native excellence can there be found In one in whom all requisites abound. The soul, the depth of harmony we heard. Beyond more scientific strains preferr'd, And Music's self came sweetly from his tongue. When he as Carlos and Arbaces sung. Next Braham comes, among whose gifts are joined A strength of voice, and taste the most refined. A perfect master of the tuneful art. His powers the greatest pleasure may impart; Added to which be cannot fail to please, By a deportment full of grace and ease. Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. 15 [BUTLER]— con<. But we prefer the former's warblin? tone, And his superiority must own. Thus still awarding every merit due To Braham's talents, Incledon we view As one who more successfully can charm. Therefore on him must we bestow the palm." C's (C. J.) Sonnets. 16mo, 62 leaves. 7s 6d Printed at the Private Press of H. and E. Daniel: Frome : MDCCCLVI. These Sonnets are of considerable merit. I quote one as a specimen. The Sonnet. Nay, chide not at my Sonnet ; nor contemn The dainty pittance of its measured rhyme, Whose woven words, like fairest flowers, climb Round one choice Thought, their polished shaft and stem. If the parterre, like Flora's diadem. Blaze with the beauties of each orient clime, You yet admire the posy of its prime, Nor scorn the single rose-bud's mossy gem. So, nor more harshly, rate my favourite ditty. Whereon her best of skill mine art bestows, Epitomizing all that's quaint and pretty Which on one cherished stalk of fancy grows. In strain, not quite sublime, nor very witty — Apollo tickles, and a sonnet flows. CALMOURs (Alfred C.) The Amber Heart, and other Plays. Or. 8vo, title-page, &c., 5 leaves and pp. 164. 5s no date This volume contains— The Amber Heart, a Fancy, in three acts — Cupid's Messenger, a Comedy, in one act — and Cromwell, a dramatic fragment. "Love's Messenger" was brought out at a benefit performance at the Novelty Theatre on the afternoon of July 22, 1684. Dramatic Azotes, in recording its production, says :— " Mr. Calmour has treated his theme with a rare delicacy and nicety of touch. Its dialogue is sometimes poeti- cal, and it always flows easily and naturally." "The Amber Heart" was produced at the Lyceum Theatre at an afteriioon performance on the 7th of June, 1887, with Miss Ellen Terry in the principal character. According to the critic of the Daily Telegraph Miss Terry secured, in the part of EUaline, "perhaps the surest acting triumph of her long career. EUaline is Miss Ellen Terry, and Miss Ellen Terry is EUaline." Mr. Calmour may be credited, I think, with some degree of fanciful inventiveness, and a vein of poetical feeling. What he wants is a stronger grasp of character, passion and thought. He should strive to be forcible where he is now languid and feeble, and should endeavour to be terse and dii'ect where he is now diffuse and circumlocutory. CAMERON'S (Charles Hay) Two Essays : on the Sublime and Beautiful, and on Duel- ling. 8vo, pp. 91, title-page and preface, •2 leaves. 2.s 6d 1835 The essay on Duelling is reprinted from the seventh number of the Westminster Review. Both essays are thoughtful productions, acutely reasoned and well expressed. [CAMERON].— Memoir of Colonel John Cameron, Fa«-siefern, K.T.S., Lieutenant- Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, or 92nd Regiment of Foot, by the Rev. Archibald Clerk, Minister of Kilmallie. " proud Ben-Nevis hears with awe How at the bloody Quatre Bras, Brave Cameron heard the wild hurrah Of conquest, as he fell." — Scott. 4to, title-page, &c., 2 11., and pp. 108 ; also portrait 0/ Cameron, and views of Fassiefem, ami of his monument at Kilmallie. 12s 6d Printed for Sir Duncan Cameron, Bart., 1858 The obelisk erected at Fassiefern to Colonel Cameron, bears the following inscription from the pen of Sir Walter Scott :— " CoLi. John Camekon, eldest son of Sir Ewen Cameron, of Fassiefern, who during twenty years of active military service— with a spirit that knew no fear and shunned no danger — accom- panied or led in battles, sieges and marches, the 92nd Regiment of Scottish Highlanders, always to honour, almost always to victory and who, honoured and lamented, closed a life of fame with a death of glory. " Scott expressed, again and again, in poetry and prose, his admiration of " brave Cameron," "the gallant Fassiefern." His fall was lamented by Wellington, both on public grounds and on those of private friendship. John Cameron was born at Inverscadale in 1771. He was the eldest son of Sir Ewen Cameron. His father wished him to follow the law as a profession, and he was duly apprenticed to a Writer to the Signet; but as he grew up that profession proved so distasteful to him that his father, yielding to his wishes, allowed him to enter the army instead— the profession for which nature had evidently intended him. After seeing service in Gibraltar, Corsica and Ireland, he went with his regiment, of which he was the senior Captain, with the British forces to Holland, where they were to oppose the soldiers of the French Republic. The expedition, owing to the incompetency of the Duke of York, who commanded, turned out a failure, though the British exhibited their accustomed bravery. In the Battle of Egmont-op-Zee Cameron received a wound in the knee, from which he long suffered. In 1799 he went to Egypt with the expedition of Sir Ralph Abercromby, which was charged with the mission of expelUng the French troops, which Napoleon had left there. In the battle of Mandora, Cameron's Company occupied an advanced position, and suffered' severely. Cameron was about this time promoted to a Majority, and in the battle of Alexandria he bore a conspicuous part, and received a wound. In 1809 be obtained the Command of his Regi- ment (the 9'2nd), and shortly afterwards joined the unfortunate Walcheren expedition. In 1810 he joined V\ ellington in the Peninsula, and he served through the ensuing Campaigns to the close of the War. The 92nd Regiment took a prominent part in most of the battles and sieges of the war, and always acquitted itself bravely and honourably. At the Rass of Maya, where 3,000 British troops were opposed to 15,000 Frenchmen, Cameron received three wounds, and the losses of his Regiment were appalling — 324 privates out of about 750 fell, and 19 officers were killed or wounded. In the final repulse of the French in this action, the shattered remnant of the 92nd was forbidden to charge, a command however, which the brave lei lows, filled with the battle delirium, and desirious of avenging their slaughtered comrades disobeyed, and dashed forward at the very head of the charge. As I have already mentioned, Cameron fell at Waterloo. The following is an account of his death: — " The regiment [the 92nd] lined a ditch in front of the Namur road. The Duke of Wellington happened to be stationed among them. Colonel Cameron, see- ing the French advance, asked permission to charge them. The Duke replied, ' Have patience, and you will have plenty of work by and by.' As they took possession of the farmhouse, Cameron again asked leave to charge, which was again refused. At length, as they began to push on to the Charleroi road, the Duke exclaimed, ' Now, Cameron, is your time— take care of that road.' He instantly gave the spur to his horse ; the regiment cleared the ditch at a bound, charged, and rapidly drove back the French ; but while doing so, their leader was mortally wounded. A shot fired from the upper story of the farmhouse passed through his body, and his horse, pierced by several bullets, fell dead under him." [CAMPBELL].— Mairi of Callaird, a West Highland Tale, translated from the Gaelic i6 Catalogue of Privately Printed Books. [CAMPBELL]— cotK as orally collected, versified, und dedi- cated to MacCailein Mor, Duke of Argyll, by a Kinswoman, K.I.C., June, 1878. 4to, pp. VI. and 99. 3s 6d (1878) A good metrical version of an interesting legend, the tradition of -wliich still lingered in 1860 in the neighbourhood of Glencoe, and about Loch Awe. CAMPAKiN OF THE INDUS : in a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division, with an Introduction, by A. H. Holdsworth, Esq. Post 8vo, pp. XXIX. and 186. 7s (M 1840 These letters were written by Lieutenant J. W. K. Holdsworth. They tell the story of the first Afghan Campaign in a very graphic, albeit unstudied and familiar manner. At pages 83 to 96 is a most graphic account of the storming and capture of the fortress of Ghuzni, which I should like to extract but for its length. At the taking of Kelat, the author was dangerously wounded, and his life was at first despaired of. The whole narrative gives a most vivid idea of the hardships and dangers of an Indian Cam- paign. [CARD'S (Rev. H.)] The Brother-in-Law, a Comedy. 12mo, title-page, &c. , 5 leaves and pp. 9ff, with woodcut vignettes. 5s Kent, Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory ; by John Warwick, 1817 This comedy is for the most part written in that peculiar style of stilted prose which cha- racterised the second-rate authors of the latter part of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, and which now seems more archaic and old-fashioned even than the prose of the Elizabethan writers. It would, I suppose, Vje almost impossible for an author of the present day to begin in the following style : — " Rev. Mr. Temple. I shall begin to think that the best of all medicines for my weak nerves and body, is an errand of benevolence ; since I feel not the least weary with my long walk. . . The benevolent interest which Lady Georgina takes in the good of these poor cottagers, exhibits traces of a heart the most e-itimable and amiable. There is indeed some- thing in her whole character, which pleases me exceedingly. With the innocent vivacity of a child of Nature, she unites the graces and accomplishments, tlie dignity and spirit that ought to be the true distinction of a woman of rank." To judge the comedy, however, by these opening sentences would beuniust, for it is not altogether without merit. Sir Egerton Brydges in the "Advertisement" praises "its "elegance, its simplicity, and the moral cast of sentiment that pervades it." CARLILE.— Autobiography of William Carlile. Cr. 8vo, pp. XIII. and 104, a7id portrait. 4s 6d Glasgow, 1863 William Carlile was born in 1746. Characterized by sagacity, integrity, boldness, and ready eloquence, he rose in early life to the chief magistracy of Paisley, his native place. He also became, at the age of 21, an elder of thp Church of Scotland. He was a strong Liberal in politics at a time when it was somewhat dangerous to profess such opinions. He was for a long time prominent as the advocate and promoter of union among all classes of evangelical Chris- tians. He died in 1829 at the age of 84 years. [CARLISLE].— Poems by Frederick Earl of Carlisle, Knight of the Garter, &c., &c. A New Edition, with Additions. Post 8vo, pp. III. and 149, and front. (Coat of Arm.'i). 3s 6d 1807 The author of this book was Byron's guardian, and it is well known that his real or fancied neglect of his charge provoked the fierce resent- ment of the latter, who pilloried him in " Eng- lish Bards and Scotch Reviewers." The noble Earl was certainly an indifferent poet; but Byron confessed in later life that he had done him a good deal of injustice. CASS'S (Frederick Charles, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, and Rector of Monken Hadley, Middlesex) Monken Hadley. 4to, pp. 220, also plates and pedigrees. 15s Westminster, printed by J. B. Nichols f, being a Sermon preached on New Year's Day, 1710, at a Wedding at Maiden, in Essex. By J. Colby, A.M. To which is added, The Voyage of Matrimony, etc., etc. A very limited number printed, 4to, pp. 10 [««] 1845 Mr. Colby nmst have been a confirmed misogy- nist, for few can ever have held a more dispa- raging view of the female sex than he expresses in this sermon. " The number of women," he says, "is almost innumerable, yet if from them be taken away all that for one reason or another may be accounted not vertuous, I will not say that those whicb will be left are like white crows and black swans, but they will be rare creatures indeed ; and they must not be ac- counted Worldlings if they do not go and visit one another, for the great distance thsy live asunder may help to excuse them." THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of Thomas Tusskb, Author of -" Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," etc., now first printed. To which ia added his Metrical Au- tobiography, etc., 4to, pp. 10 [6b] 1346 Fuller describes Tussor, in his usual quaint manner as "a musician, schoolmaster, servingman, husbandman, grazier, poet, more skilful in all than thriving in any vocation. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, but none would stick thereon. I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy or vi?ible care- lessness." PLEASANT QUIPPES for Upstart Newfangled Gentlewomen. [By Stephen Gosaon, '• Par- son of Great Wigborow, in Essex "'] to which is added, Pickings and Pleasantries from the Trumpet of Warre : a Sermon preached at Paules Crosse, by Gosaon, 8vo, pp. 13 [78 6d] 1847 This tract was first published in 1595, and is ex- tremely rare, only two or three copies being known to exist. The author is extremely se- vere on the ladies of the time for their extrava- gance in dress, their light conduct and wanton- ness. There is a good deal of coarseness in his reproofs — so much so indeed that some passages have had to be omitted in Mr. Clark's reprint. The following stanzas will give a fair idea of the style of Gosson's satire : — " These flaming heads with staring liair ; These wyers turiifd like homes of ram, These painted faces whicli they weare, (Jan any tell from whence they cam ? Don Sathan, Lord of fayned lyes, All these new fangeles did devise. These glittering cawles of golden plate, Wherewith their heads are richly dect. Make them to seeme an angels luate. In judgment of the simple sect : To peacockes I compare them right. Thai glorieth in their feathers bright. These periwigges, ruflfe.s armed with pinues, Tliese spangles, chaines and laces all, These naked paps, the Devil's ginnes. To make vaine gazers painfull thrall : He fowler is, they are his nets, Wherewith of fooles great store he gets. FAIRLOP and its Founder ; or Facta and Fuo for the Poorest Frolickers, by a famed first Friday Fairgoer. Contains Memoirs, Anec- dotes, Poems, Songs, etc., with the curious Will of Mr. Day, never before printed, 8vo, 20 11., 78 6d Pairlop'a Friday, 1847 Fairlop Fair owed its foundation to Daniel Day, a benevolent and eccentric engine and pump maker, of St. John's, Wapping. It was held in Hainault Forest, at first underneath, and after- wards (when the tree was destroj'ed) on the site of the famous Fairlop Oak. "The trunk, or main stem, of this giant of tlio forest, measured about a yard from the ground, 36 feet in cir- cumferouco ! From this issued 11 vast arms, each of the dimansioas of a tree of moderate growth. In the meridian of the day, about sixty years ago, it is said that its shadow ex- tended over nearly an acre of ground ! " The fair was held on the first Friday in July, and attracted a vast concourse of people from the surrounding districts. for Private Circulation. 25 CLARK OF GREAT TOTHAM—cont. NARRATIVE of the Miraculous Cure of Annb MuNNiNGS, of Colchester, by Faith, Prayer aud Anoiating with Oil, oa New Year's Day, 1705 ; Crafty Kate of Colchester, or the false-hearted Clothier frighted into Good Manners, a rare and whimsical old Ballad ; An Extraordinary Love-Letter, addressed to a Lady of Maldon, in 1614 ; and the Maldou Martyr's Prayer, 1555, 8vo, 12 11., 78 6d 1847 This pamphlet is printed in black letter. The story of the miraculous cure of Anne Mannings shows that the so-called "faith-cures " about which we have recently heard so much, are by no means a novelty, but only a revival of an old device. "Crafty Kate of Colchester," is a re- print of a ballad, which bears the imprint of Newcastle-upon-'Tyne. The love letter is from Thomas Bourman to Mrs. Elizabeth Goode, and is dated 1644. The writer does not seem to have had a mean opinion of himself, as the fol- lowing passage witnesses : " As for liiysftlf, I am thouglit worthy of a cood wife, though unworthy of you. These pretty toyes, called husbands, are such rare coiniuodities in this age, tliat I can woe and win wivt?s by the dozen. I know not any gentlewoman in these part<, but woulde kisse a letter from my hands, reade it with joye, and laye it up next her hart as a treasure ; but I will not try their courtesies, except I And you discourteous." A DOCTOR'S " DO "-ING3 ; or the Entrapped Heiress of Witham ! a S^itirical Poem by Quintin Qaeerfellow . ...A very limited num- ber reprinted from the auppiessed edition, 12mo, 13 11., 78 6d 184S This " poem " tells, in Clark's usual punning and quibbling style, a story of an old doctor of sixty who succeeded in securing a young heiress as a bride. POOR ROBIN'S True Character of a Scold : or the Shrew's Looking-glaris. Dedicated to all domineering Dames, Wives Rampant, Cuckolds Couchant aud Hen-peckfc Sueaks iu City or Country, London, Printed for L. a, 1678, With an Appendix, Svo, 8 11., 78 6d 1848 Satirists of all ages have found no more fruitful topic for their invective than the female scold or shrev7. " Poor Robin " is witty and eloquent upon a topic that moves oven the dullest author to some degree of animation. " Did not Xantippe scold and tease The wisest mortal, Socrates, Which made him feel at last so badly, He t)0k the cup of hemlock gladly : Since when, how many other sages, Have found a woman in a rage, is More to be feared than any other. Of all the plagues that tnaakind bother." FLYING AND NO Failure ! or Aerial Transit ac- compli.-hed more than a Century ago. Being a minute descriptive Account; of " a most sur- prising engine," invented, constructed and used with the greatest success by Jacob, the son of Mr. Johu Daniel, of Roystou, the latter of whom, who survived his son, died in 1711, aged 97. Repriuted verbatim from that ex- cessively rare little work, '■ Narrative of the Life and astonishing Adventures of John Daniel, a snaith, at Royston, ia Hertfordshire, by the Rev. John Morri3,"Zoraion, 1751. Svo, 13 II., 78 6d 1848 I suspect, from the extracts here given, that the "Life of John Daniel" is the work of an imi- tator of Daniel Defoe, who has trie 1 (as Defoe did) to give an air of truth to his narrative by a plain matter-of-fact style of relation. The book must be very rare, as I have never yet seen a copy of it. The extract from it printed by Mr. Clark, relates how Jacob Daniel made a machine (a lull description of which is given) by which he was able to travel both before and against the wind. HUMAN FATE, and an Address to the Poets Wordsworth and Southey : Poems, by the late Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart, now first printed (verbatim) from the Author's MSS., in the possession of Charles Clark, Svo, 22 11., 79 6d 184S " Human Fate " is a poem of 880 lines of blank verso. It reads like an un revised first draught, rather than a finished work, but has neverthe- less some fine and powerful lines. The follow- ing are t'ue opening versos : — " He, whose good fate has pUced him in the lap Of competence and eas--., miy look with scorn And pity, mingled with severe reproach On him, who struggles with the waves and winds. All seems Co him a straight and lucid path.' He shrugs his .shoulders, and in accents smooth He gives advice : and then with voice oracular Tells us that trouble is the lot of man. He has no trouble but of dull ennui !" The " Addre.ss to Wordsworth and Southey" has a few tine linos, which it gives me pleasure to quote : — " All wealth Is in the mind ; — without the mind This scane of things is barren : 'tis the sentiment And thought annexed, that only gives it worth ! And thought without emotion is but empty. Uncertain, and more subtle oft than wise ! Defend me from an idle play of words And glittering images that tell no truth ! From metaphor, and simile, and dress. Illustrative of what is stale and hollow ! We want the substance, not a worthless figure, By gaudy and false ornaments disguised." ENGLISH COOKERY Five Hundred Years ago : exhibited in sixty "Nym3"or Receipts. From a Manuscript compiled about 1300, by the Master Cooks of King Richard the Second, entitled " The Forme of Cury," etc., printed (verbatim) in blac& IcttCl", with the addition of a running Glossary and Notes, Svo, 13 11., 7a 6d 1849 I quote one of the " nyms " as a specimen : — " Gees in hoggepot.* " Take gees and smyte hem iu pecys. Cast hem in a a pot ; do thereto half wine and half water; and do thereto a godo quantite of oynouns and erbest {jatrbs). Set it over the fyre, and cover it fast. Make a layor (mixturt) of brede and blode, and lay it therewith. Do thereto powdor-fort, and serve it forth." • Geese in hotchpotch. A COLLECTION OF SIXGLE LEAVK3 (Songs etc.) printed by C. Clark (as under) : — Lines written on the Anniversary of the Birth- day of the Rev. G. Towneley, Vicar of Great Totham, by '' T. T. " n.d. A Wife and not a Mother (Verses) N.D. Mr. Clark seems to have been a strong disciple of Malthus, and to havo lost no opportunity of en- 26 Catalogue of Books PrinUd CLA.RK OF ORE AT TOTHAM—cont. forcing his doctrine. The following are the concludine^ lines of these verses : — "0 ! blind women— women, heed A sister's warning voice ; And never— never— ne%-er— At births at all rejoice. Live as me and my darling, Both happy as a ' tar,' Be Iwil'M- BUT NEVER MOTHERS ! Fal, lal, lal, lal, la, la." Cotmt Tolstoi, as the reader is doubtless aware, has recently preached much to the same effect. Thus do great wits jump together ! The Days when Tiptree was our Pride ! (Song) 1841 Tiptree Races (Song) _ 1841 (These two pieces have the imprint of Henry Jackson, Maiden Lane, Soho.) An Acrostic addressed to Miss Mary Anne Browne, Author of " Mont Blanc," " Ada," etc. Reprinted, 1841 The Bognor Quack (Satirical Verses) 1841 Enclosure of Tiptree Heath, about 1803— The Cock and the Bull (Satirical Verses) 1841 Doings at Tiptree, about 1803 — The " Lurcher " (Satirical Verses) 1841 Tiptree two Centuries ago (Extract from a whimsical little work entitled — "Walk Knaves, Walk") 1841 The Father's Petition ! A Parody of " The Beg- gar's Petition " 1841 Maldon Election— The ' Dicky-Bird.' A Parody of " The Woodpecker " 1841 Essex Oonservative Festival — God save the Blues ! Adapted from the National Anthem 1841 Essex Conservative Festival — Blues of Essex ! a Glee 1841 Witham in an uproar ! Reprinted, 1341 A record in verse of a local squabble. Some of the inhabitants of Witham, it appears, at- tempted to put down the annual Guy Fawkes' celebration, and by so doing exposed themselves to our author's satirical muse. An Epitaph for Elizabeth, wife of Mr. William Larkins, of Great Totham (an Acrostic) N.D. The Trip to Tiptree, or a Lover's Triumph 1842 A set of .sixteen stanzas of verse "humbly pre- sented to the Pliilologist as a specimen of the dialect of the peasantry of Essex." An Epithalamium on the Marriage of Miss Clara Elizabeth La Touche Vicars and Lord Ray- leigh. 1842 An Acrostic composed extempore on reading the announcement of the Marriage— at Broad- way—of James Orchard Halliwell, Esq., of Alfred Place, London, to the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps, of Middle Hill, Wor- cestershire 1842 The Bard of Totham 1842 The Drunkard, a Parody, by James HoUamby 1842 Tiptree Races : All on the Heath, in Imitation of " All round my hat " 1842 September, o^ Spprt qo Spotting 1842 To Mr. Bicker, Butcher, of Rendham, Suffolk, on reading the announcement of his marriage to Miss Daniels, after a courtship of thirty years (two leaves) 1842 The Predicted Earthquake ! Air " The Camp- bells are Coming." Circus Royal, Colchester. To'^Mr. Batty, after visiting his Olympic Pavilion, now at Colches- ter Sept., 1842 Tiptree Races. By the Author of "Tom Clod- pole's Journey to Lunoun," with additional Stanzas by " C. C." 1842 An Acrostic on the marriage of Mr. William Larkin, of Great Totham, to Miss Phoebe Fuller, of Kelvedon 1843 An Epitaph for Elizabeth, wife of Mr. George AUaker, of Great Totham 1843 The Beacon Tree (at Tiptree) Air " The Sca- the Sea — the open Sea " 1843 An Epitaph for Edward Drummond, Esq., late Private Secretary to Sir Robert Peel ; who so unfortunately met hia death by the hand of an Assassin, January 20, 1843 1843 An Epitaph for the Rev. John Homfray, M.A., late Rector of Sutton, in Norfolk 1843 God Stop the Queen ! a new Version of the National Anthem — Those Royal Heirs ! a Parody 1843 Mr. Clark in these two pieces allowed his Malthu- sian prejudices to carry him far beyond the bounds of good taste and good breeding (no pun intended !). The Mother, or Maternal Miseries ! ^ Parody of Dr. Watts' " Sluggard " n.d. These verses are signed "A Malthusian, one who has considered bearing in all its bearings." A Literary Curiosity — Nature's Cook N.D. A reprint of some very curious verses by the Duchess of Newcastle. " Death is the Cook of Nature • and we find Creatures drest several way.s to please her Mind. Some, Death doth roast with Fevers burning hot ; And some he hoUs with dropsies, in a Pot." For Mr. John HoUamby, Hailsham, Sussex N.D. A punning and rhyming address, intended appa- rently for the envelope of a letter. A Pleader to the Reader not a Heeder N.D. This is Mr. Clark's punning and rhyming book- plate. As ho had a large collectien of books, his bookplate is very common, and it has often been reproduced iu print. Every now and then a correspondent of "Notes and Queries," to whom it is new, sends it to that paper, in which it has been two or three times (to my knowledge) inserted. The Last Snooks of Many ! In Imitation of " The Last Rose of Summer." To Thomas Hood, Esq., on the birth of his son N.D. Original Anagrams : On the late Marriages near Witham : On the Marriage of Mr. James Firmin, of Friuton, to Miss Emma C. Firmin, of Wivenhoe, Essex : Superscription to a Letter n.d. Totham (two leaves) n.d. A set of sixteen stanzas in praise of Totham. for PrtvaU CirculattQU. 27 CL4JiIC OF GREAT TOTHAM—cont. Snperecription to a Letter : Pointers and the Disappointers: " Wise W m's" Wonders ?: On the High Wind (March 10, 1842) : On Observing, in Great Tothaqa Churchyard, two Stones sacred to the Memory of a Family named " Mersent " : On the late Incendiary Fires and uixusual number of Marriages at Great Totham ; On a Sheep being stolen from Mr. Clark's during the severe weather in 1837 N,D. The Balloon to its Finder {woodcut of a Balloon) N.D. Stage Travelling in Essex ninety years ago n.d. Metrical Epistle by Mr. James Bird to C. Clark, of Totham n.d. Christmas -Carol — 1675 : by Robert Aylett, LL.D. N.D. The Disobedient Child ! From a very scarce little work entitled " A Book for Boys and Girls, or Country Rhymes for Children, by J. B., 1686." N.D, Sylvan Shades (Verses) n.d. Our Mechi is a Patriot, a Parody n.d. The Present Cold Weather (Verses) n.d. Parish of Heybridge, Essex — The Pageant Plav in MDXXXII. N.D. A Delinquent Damsel's Doggish " Do "-ings, or the Iscariot, Harriet I (See the London Papers of Friday, January 3, 1862) Steal Not ! In Imitation of the Hon. Mrs. Norton's " Love Not ! " 1862 This is evidently Charles Clark's, though I have seen nothing else of his of so late a date, and it has not got his name to it, as usual. The above is by far the fullest account of the works printed by Mr. Clark, which has yet appeared. It is not. however, a complete list, as I have not yet been able to get together the whole of his hrochures. T hope, however, to obtain the rest, and to give a list of them in the appendix of this volume. There is a short memoir of Clark in the " Dictio- nary of Natural Biography. " According to this, he was born in 1806, and bred a farmer. He lived for a good many years at Great Totham Hall, where he set up his private press, and where all his brochures were printed. After- wards he removed to Heybridge, where the latter years of his life were spent in almost com- plete seclusion. He was buried there in March, 1880. The writer of the notice characterises his original productions as being " exceedingly silly and indecent." This may apply to a few, but it is much too sweeping as applied to the whole of his writings. Not much, indeed, can be said in favour of them ; but still, those who love literary quaiutnesses or oddities, and seek for out-of-the-way curiosities, will not despise the productions of Charles Clark. CLARK'S (William, Advocate) Marciano, or the Discovery, a Tragi Comedy, sm. 4to, pp. xvi and 71, 88 6d Edinburgh, 187 1 Only seventy-five copies printed. This reprint was edited by W. H. Logan, who has prefixed an introduction to it. " Marciano" ap- pears to have been the first play presented in Scotland after the Restoration. It was first printed in 1663. Mr. Logan states that the au- thor is " believed" to have been William Clark, or Clerk, a member of the Scottish Bar ; but he does not state what evidence there is in favour of his authorship. It is a play of considerable merit, but more successful, I think, in the comic portions than in the serious parts. The charac- ter of "Manduco, an arrogant pedant," is well drawn. Mr. Logan praises the follovring lyric, wh|ch is perhaps the most quotable bit in the p^y:- SONG. So, so, So Lilies fade, before the Roses show Themselves in bow-dye, summer's livery. Feasting the curious eye With choyce variety ; While as before We did adore Narcissus in his prime ; Now Roses do delyte The nycer appetite : Such is the vast disparity of time. So, so, One woman fades before another know What 'tis to be in love ; but in a trice All men do sacrifice To the latter, and despise Her, whom before They did adore Like Lillies in their prime. Since now her sparkling eyes Are darkened in disguise : Such is the sad disparity ot time. CLAYTON'S (George, jun.) The Narrative of a Journey and Visit to the Metropolis of France, embracing, with a few Incidental Reflections, a General Description and Historical Account of the Principal Places, Public Edifices, and other Remarkable Objects, which render so attractive that much frequented and interest- ing capital, 12mo, pp. 95, 48 6d 1832 There is nothing very remarkable in this narrative, except that the author occasionally indulges in some rather curious flowers of speech. Thus in describing the holy horror into which the con- templation of the Sunday trading proceeding in Paris threw him, he says that the scene "would have provoked the pious indignation of a Nehe- miah, zealous for the glory of his God, to an irascible state of choleric exacerbation." Mr. Clayton (a true John Bull) frequently gets him- self into "an irascible state of choleric exacer- bation" at the misdoings of the wicked French people. [CLEGHORN]. — Memorial Sketch of Thomas Cleghorn, cr. 8vo, 4 unnumbered leaves and pp. 136 1881 Thomas Cleghorn was born at Edinburgh in 1818. In 1839 he was called to the Scottish bar, and, after overcoming the usual difficulties, was to- lerably successful in his profession. Though an able lawyer, however, his chief interests were in literary and theological matters, and he was a contributor to the North British Review, and other publications. In 1846 the office of Registrar of Friendly Societies was conferred upon him by the Government. In 1855 he became Sheriff of Argyll, and that office he retained up to his death in 1874. He was a man of deep piety and benevolence, and was much beloved by his relatives and friends. 28 Catalogue of Books Printed [CLAUDIAN].— The Rape of Proserpine, a Poem in Tliree Books, to whicli are added The Phoe- nix, an Idyll, and the Nile, a Fragment, trans- lated from the Latin of Claudius Claudianus, by Henry E. J. Howard, D.D., Dean of Lich- field, 8vo, pp. vi and 71, 59 1854 The Preface states that those translations were executed during the attacks of gout, to which the author was subject, when he was incapable of pursuits of a more serious character. Ho renders Claudian into good and forcible English verse ; witness the description of Etna : — "Eteroal witness of the Giants' doom, There central Etna rears its rocky tomb — Of crush'd Enceladus the funeral pyre, Still breathing sulphur from his Icings of fire. Oft, as with strugglinKS fierce, with rebel might He shifts his mountain load to left or right. The deep foundations of the island rock. And town and rampart quiver to the shock. The eye above can reach to Etna's he»d ; Above the woody girdle round it spread No tiller ventures, and no foot c:in tread : Now pitchy gloom it vomits forth, and shrou Js The glorious daylight with its inborn clouds ; Now threats the stars with masses hurl'd on high. That, plunging b^ck, fresh fuel still supply. Yet, mid that raging hent, its lury knows To keep due compact wjth the circling snows ; And while its flames ascend, its cinders glare. The frost of ages sits regardless there." [CLEVELAND'S (Duchess of)] History of Battle Abbey, 4to, titlepage, (fee, 4 11., pp. 367, and a plan of the Abbey, 2\9 1877 The Duchess in her preface says:— "Somo years ago I endeavoured to give an ac- count of Raby Castle. I have now made another attempt of a similar kind, in writing tho his- tory of my other home, Battle Abboy. But this has necessarily proved a more ambitious undertaking ; for the ancient Monastery that was 'the pledge and token of tho royal crown' of these realms takes a more important place in history than any private residence can claim. In this longer and harder task I have endea- voured to rest the responsibility of my chroni- cle only on authorities of established I'cpute ; and I have dono my very best to be conscien- tiously accurate." The book is divided into chapters, the headings of wliich are as follows:— Snnlac, The Battle, The Normans, The Monks, Tho Dissolution, The Brownes, Viscounts Montagus, The Websters' Present State, Exterior and Interior, Neigh- bours and Neighbourhood. There is also an Appendix, which deals with the following sub- jects:— Tho Battle Abbey Roll, Sussex Iron Works, 'J'ho High Roads of Sussex, Snsse.x Speech, Sussex Smugglers, The Cinque Ports, Borough English, The Garden, Visitors. The Duchess writes woU, and her account of the eventful history of the Abbey is full of interest, and sometimos (for the authoress evidently re- lishes a gondjoke, or a funny " nanygoat") of entertaiimuTit. Her book gives, on tho whole, the best ami coiupletcst account of the noble and venerable old pile with which I am ac- quainted. Tho Duchess was fortunate in having wich a splendid subject for her pen, and the abbey was fortunate in baving such an enthusi- astic and painstaking chronicler. The Duchess ptiblished in 1889, "Tiie B tttle Abbey Roll, with some Account of the Norman Lineages," 3 vols, Svo. In reviewing this, ho Athemeum said : — " In selecting for her task the reinstatement of the Battle Abbey Roll the Duchess has, indeed, shown no small courage ; and we may add, at the outset, that she has made a brave ami skilful fight on behalf of that discredited document. If is so long since any one has had a goDd word for what Dugdale terms 'this ancieat citUogue," that miny may be tempted to dismiss at once a work which takes it quite seri- ously. Vet we hope to siiow that its study is not de- void of interest; wliile even if her Grace must be deemed to liave failed in her avowed object, she has given us three volumes of pleasant and entertaining dissertation, in which she has shown herself well in- formed, in no ordinary degree, on the history of our ancient families." [CLOUQU.] — Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, sometime Fellow of Oriel Col- lege, Oxford, Others, 1 doubt not, if not we. The issue of our toils shall see ; Young children gather as their own The harvest that the dead had sown, — The dead forgottf-n and unknown. Cr. Svo, pp. vi and 328, £1 10s 1865 Perhsps there never lived a man of more loveabla character, and more sweetly reasonable disposi- tion than Arthur Hugh Clough. No one ever seems to have come into;"coutact with him with- out admiring and loving him ; and so far as ap- pears from the many accounts that have been published of him, he never had an enemy. Nor did this arise from any weakness on his part, or any merely good natured acquiescence in the ideas or prejudices of those with whom he might be thrown into contact. Never hasty at arriv- ing at a resolution or an opinion, he clung fast always to the right course, as he conceived it, and no considerations of interest, or ambition could move him to depart from it. His was an ideally perfect character, — a scholar, a gentle- man, a man of warm alfections, of the most scrupulous honour, of tho kindliest nature, yet never a jiretender to superior righteousness, and quite free from the insidious failing (which is so common, and which detracts so much from the esteem in which we hold mauy otherwise excellent persons) of a secret consciousness of his own great merits, and consequently of his vast superiority to his fellow mortals. How rare are such men! I am afraid it would be difficult from the whole history of England to select twelve names* worthy to be placed beside his. Indeed, tho names of Sir Philip Sidney and of Will-'am Blake, the artist, are the onl}' ones that at the present moment suggest themselves to me. I would fain add that of Shelley, but, alas! though he was superior, perhaps, to Clough in what may be called active goodness — by which I mean a burning and consuming desire to pro- mote human happiness, yet there are spots up- on his escutcheon which prevent me from doing so. The story of Clough 's life is told in the present volume, partly through the reminiscences of relatives and friends, but chiefly by means of his letters and remains. Miss A. .1. Clough tells the story of his boyhood and youth, and Profes- sor Shairp relates the occurrences of his college life. The volume contains such of Clough's poetical remains as had not at the time been printed elsowhero. It forms, on tho whole, a *I dj not doubt thit m my e.iUiUy worthy person*, who are U'lknowii or li.irdly known tj lam:, h.-ive existed in England, but I am alluding here to promi- nent historical personages. for Private Circulation. 29 [CLOUGH]— con<. beautiful picture of a life of noble and true manliness — " Take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like again." We may not to such heights attain — but yet 'Tis good to keep the mountain peaks in view ; Far from us are their stainless summits set — Few reach them, and we are not of those few. The stains of life are on us — we are weak, (And weakness is to evil near akin,) But noble natures — like the mountain's peak — Our thoughts from low and petty passions win. We are not lost while we can still admire The hero's steadfast courage— or the stern Endurance of the martyr — these inspire Something of their own spirit ; and we yearn. Dear Arthur Clough, thy track to follow, though We tread far off, with halting steps and slow. CLOUGH'a (Arthur H.) Poems, 12mo, pp. 64, Ts 6d This is Clough's portion of the volume which he published in conjunction with his friend Bur- bidge, under the title of •'Ambarvalia." A few copies were printed off separately for private circulation. THE COBLER of Canterburie, edited by Frederie Ouvry, Tr. S. A., 4to, pp. iv and 83, 21s 1862 This reprint was made from the only known copy of the edition of 1608. The book was first pub- lished in 1590. The author is unknown, but the work has been attributed (wrongly, if his own denial can be trxisted) to Robert Greene. It consists of a ntimber of stories, which are probably none of them original. One of them is taken from the Decameron. They are supposed to be told by the passengers in the barge going from Billingsgate to Gravesend. They are very humourously related, and are interspersed with copies of verse. It is almost needless to add that they are free-spoken to a degree that would much offend Mrs. Grundy. [COBB]— Memoir of the late Francis Cobb, Esq., of Margate, compiled from his Journals and Let- ters, 8vo, pp. iv, and 109, 3a Maidstone, 1835 The subject of this memoir was born at Margate in 1759. lu that town he long filled the office of deputy. He did much to promote the prosperity of the town, and was universally liked and re- spected. He died in 1831. [COBB] — Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Mrs. Mary Cobb, cr. 8vo, pp. xi, and 324, and frontispiece {coat of a7-ms) 3a 6d 1805 Mrs. Cobb, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Blackburne, was born in tho Isle of Thanet, Nov. 22, 1773. She was married to Mr. Cobb in 1794. She was a Baptist, and a woman of strong religious feeling. Nearly all the extracts from her diary and letters relate to her religious ex- periences. She died in 1802. [COCHRANE's (Alexander)] Poem?, 8vo, pp. viii, and 88, 38 London, 1838 The author states, in the preface, that "only twenty copies will be struck off :" his book there- fore has the merit of rarity, if it has no other merit. His poems indeed display poetical powers, which, however, he had hardly taken sufficient pains to cultivate. [COCKEN (W.)] Occasional Attempts in Verse, by VV. C, 8vo, pp. XV, and 127, 78 6d Printed only for the Writer's particular acquain- tance {by W. Pennington of Kendal) 1776 Mr. Cocken seems to have resided at Bourton in Kendal, as at the end of preface it is dated from B n in K 1. His poems do not dis- play much originality or liveliness of fancy ; but are nevertheless by no means destitute of merit. The following linos seem to be worth quoting : — OX HEARING A FLUTE AT A DISTANCE. Poiir'd through these summer lawns on eve's still ear. How softly sweet yon distant notes appear ! The dubious strain no imperfection shows, Lost each harsh touch, or fault'ring of tho close : And as the tuneful pantings breathe around. Thro' pure inherent energy of sound. Their thrilling falls the gentlest thoughts suggest, And fill with rapture high the feeling breast- So, with like dear delight the mind survey.s. Through time's dim vale, the scenes of youthful days. Forgot whate'er could then our peace annoy. All wears the semblance of unchequeredjoy : And, as more closely drawn our kindred ties. The soft'ning soul sees new endearments rise, ' Til! ev'ry social fervency of heart In sweetest league their lenient joys impart— And, so, perhaps, fond Man shall pleas'd retrace. From heav'ns high domes, his old terrestrial race. No more the object frail of pain and fear, Each error cancell'd in Redemption dear, That vale where nature first allur'd his eye, Shall, view'd from far, encreasiug charms supply ; Shall, as its series of events unroll. With gentlest musing captivate the soul — Thus Fancy, still the friend of human joys, At Mem'ry's call her height'ning pow'r employs ; Thus all her visions, e'en in realms divine. In time's soft gloom, like distant notes, refine. [COCKS]— A brief Memoir of the Honorable Isabella Jemima Cocks, 12mo, pp. 48, 2s 6d 1838 The subject of this memoir died at the age of nine years and seven months. She was a very preco- cious child, and exceedingly pious. [COQAN]— Contributions to the Monthly zine. Dr. Aikin'a Athenaeum, the Monthly Re- pository, and the Christian Reformer, by the late Rev. Eliezer Cogan, in Two Parts, Part I. Classical, Part II. Theological, Metaphysi- cal, and Biblical, Extracted and Compiled by his Son, Richard Cogan, 8vo, pp. vii, and 219, 4s 6d 1856 Dr. Cogan was an Unitarian Minister of the school of Dr. Priestley. He was a man of considerable learning, as his remarks on classical subjects, in the present volume, testify. His theological, metaphysical, and biblical e.ssays are also well worthy of perusal and study. He was the au- thor of " A Fragment on Necessity," printed, but not published ; and the editor of an edition of Moschus, printod 1795, but afterwards sup- pressed. [COLCHESTER].— Speeches of the Right Hon. Charles Abbot (Lord Colchester) in comruu- uicating Thanks of the House of Commons to Military Commauders, 1807 — 1816, with a Biographical Memoir and Appendix, 12mo, pp. iv. and 295, 5s 6d 1829 This work was printed by John Rickman, clerk at the table of the House of Commons, in con- junction with Dr. Smith, the Dean of Christ Church. The present copy of the book (one leaf of which is in MS.) lias a note inserted to the effect that it is very scarce, very few copies having been printed. The writer. states also that there is no copy in the British Museum, as, when he applied for it in Jan., 1876 (though it was duly cata- 30 Catalogue of Books Printed [COLCHESTER]— con<. logued) he was informed that it was either lost or mislaid. Charles Abbot (afterwards created Lord Colches- ter) was an eminent lawyer, who afterwards entered Parliament, and filled several official posts, and who was ultimately made Speaker of the House of Commons. The speeches printed in the above volume are those which te made, as representing the House, to the Various ofti- cers and commanders to whom our victories in Spain and at Waterloo were mainly due. " They may be quoted," saysMr. Rickman, "as models of just eulogy, appropriate to the person and to the exploit, with a degree of classic terseness and chastity of ornament suitable to the dignity of that House which had directed the National thanks to be thus commuuicated." [COLCHESTER (Lady)]— Miscellaneous Poetas, Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq., by E. S. L., Cr. 8vo, pp. vi and 104. Sa 1832 II Viaggiatore, dall' Inglese di Oliver Goldsmith, Recato in verso Italiano, con altri poemi, e dedicato a sua Eccelenza il Duca di Somerset, da E. S. L., 12mo, pp. 59, 2s 1832 The Lady " Arabella Stuart," a Poem, by E. S. L., cr. 8vo, pp. 126, 28 6d n.d. Qiustina : a Spanish Tale of real Life, a Poem in three Cantos, by E. S. L., cr. 8vo, pp. 63, 2s 6d 1833 Views in London, by an Amateur, Sketched from a window in the " Palais de la Verity :" and extracts from an Album, dedicated to Sophia Countess of Darlington, cr. 8vo, pp. 66, 28 6d 1838 Miscellaneous Poems, dedicated to Lord Colchester, by E. S. C, cr. 8vo, pp. 61, 28 6d 1849 Home Reminiscences, and other Poems, dedicated to the Hon. Reginald E. C. Abbot, by his affectionate Mother, Elizabeth S. Col- chester, cr. 8vo, pp. viiand 144, 3s 1861 Fitz-Edward, cr. 8vo, pp. 262, Ss 6d 1875 Elizabeth Sophia Law (afterward Lady Colchester) was a daughter of the famous Lord EUenbo- rough. Her poems, if they do not show much inspiration, are generally smoothly versified, and display a kind and affectionate disposition. Sometimes she attempts a humourous strain, and not altogether without success. The fol- lowing lines have much good sense and a l;Jtle wit, if not much poetry : — Answer to Pope's " Characters of Women." "You say, that women are devoid otmind — This bold assertion only proves you blind ; Proclaim us trifling— vain — whate'er you please— We can defend our injured cause with ease ; We ask no advocate our rights to plead. Truth is our champion in the hour of need ! liearn first then, sir, that 'tis to man wc owe Our love of pleasure, and our love of show ! By your example we are taught to prize Those charms alone which live in radiant eyes. A taste for study you at once deride. And teach us all to deck the mere outside ; You value not the talents of the mind ; But whilst to all attractions you are blind, Save those of form, of feature, and of face. An idiotfcharms you if she move with grace ! Fine eyes are courted, and each senseless word— The nymph may speak is still with rapture heard ! Mark with what eager haste each listening swain Catches th' effusion of her empty brain ; Whilst Emma, blest with every talent rare. May speak in vain — she's neither young nor fair — Applauding crowds on pretty Julia wait, Tho' wit and judgement were denied by fate ; You sit contented Flavia's song to hear, Tho' her false notes offend the wounded ear ; Whilst Myra tunes her sounding lyre in vain- Unheard, nnrainded— for poor Myra's plain, Then next you deprecate our love of sway, Yet take good care to teach us to obey. And nip our fav'rite passion in the bud, Unchanged your tyrant nature since the flood ! " I have quoted about half 'of the lady's expostula- tion ; enough to show that if she cannot compote with Pope in the finish of her versitication,or the severity of her satire, she has, at all events, a good defence to offer against some of his impu- tations upon her sex. " Fitz-Edward " is a novel, the story of which is told in a series of letters. It is decidedly old- fashioned in style, and has a tinge of Minerva Press sentimentalism ; but it is nevertheless not without merit. [COLERIDGE] — Notes on Stillingfleet, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 12mo, pp. 18, Ss 6d 1875 " The contents of this little tract appeared in The Athenceum of March 27th, 1875, and are now re- printed verbatim with the kind permission of the Editor of that journal. Thirty copies only printed." The notes are taken from a copy of Stillingfleet's " Origines Sacrae," which belonged to Cole- ridge's friend, Thomas Poole. cole's (John) Account of the Proceedings at the Commemoration in honour of Hervey at "Weston Favell, June 18th, 1833, 12mo, pp. 16, with view of Servey's Rectory, 28 1833 The object of the proceedings here recorded was to commemorate the eightieth anniversary since Hervey's institution to Ihe Rectory of Weston. Hervey is nearly forgotten now, but his "Me- ditations among the Tombs " once enjoyed a popularity and circulation probably equal to that of Tupper's " Proverbial Philosophy." Great is the genius of the Commonplace, and Hervey and Tupper were two of its Prophets ! COLLIER (John Payne) Works Edited by :— Five Miracle Plays, or Scriptural Dramas, Pri- vately Printed under the care of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A., am. 8vo, £2 2s London, 1836 Collation : Title-page and Introduction, pp. iv : The Harrowing of Hell, pp. 16 — The Sao'ifice of Abraham, 'pp. 19 — The Adoration of the Shep- herds, pp. 44 — The Marriage of the Virgin, pp. 2i—The Advent of Antichrist, pp. 39 — Glos- sary, pp. 4. Only 25 copies printed. The pieces contained in this volume are the oldest and perhaps the most curious of those strange productions which were the precursors of Eng- lish dramatic Literature. The Harrowing of Hell is believed to be the most ancient produc- tion in a dramatic form, which has been pre- served, in our language. The other pieces are Worthy of attentive study ; but the most curious of them is The Advent of Antichrist, a quite unique production. My copy of the above volume belonged to Sir Frederick Madden, who has much enhanced its value by various additions. It contains besides the pieces enumerated above, the following : — The Harrowing of Hell, from a MS. in the Advo- /of Private Circulatimi. 31 COLLIER (John Patnb) Workt edited by — cont. oate's Library, Edinburgh, Edited by David Laing, pp. 16. Another copy, proof sheets, with numerous corrections. Three autograph letters from J. P. Collier to Sir F. Madden, with MS. remarks by the latter on Collier's inaccuracies, and on his obstinate adhe- rence to his own notions, after F. M. had pointed out his mistakes to him. A.n autograph letter from David Laing to Sir F. Madden, respecting his edition of The Hai-row- ing of Hell. Copy of a letter from Sir F. Madden to David Laing on the subject of his edition of The Har- rowing of Hell. It will be thus seen that the above is a valuable and indeed unique volume. According to Mr. Wheatley's "Notes on the Life of J. P. Collier," the British Museum copy of "Five Miracle Plays" does not contain The Mdmage of the Virgin. I have a separate copy of the following : — The Advent of Antichrist, a Miracle Play, sm. 8vo, pp. 39, 58 6d Cte IPrapsc df liotfetng, by £. D., 4to, pp. vi & 44, 12s 6d (1840?) This tract (which is printed, like the original, in black letter) was written by Sir Edward Dyer. The only known copy of the original edition is preserved in the Bodleian Library. It is an imi- tation of the MorUB Encomium of Erasmus, and is a mere piece of drollerj, which the author pro- bably did not intend to publish. ^ dialogue bsttoene tl^r rommune scctetars anii JjalotoBjC, touchinge the unstablenesst of Harlottes, 4to, pp. iv, and 4 leaves, 12s 6d (1842?) Only two copies of this humourous production ap- pear to have been preserved. It is a very curi- ous and somewhat coarse satif-e on the female sex. Mr. Collier cenjectures that it may have been written by Edward Gosynhyll. Thb Pityfdll Historie of two loving Italians, Qaulfrido and Barnardo lb Vatnb : which arrived in the countrey of Qrece, in the time of the^noble Emperoure Vespasian. And trans- lated out of Italian into English by John Drout, of Thauis Inne, Gentleman, Anno 1570, 4to, pp. iii and 28 leaves, 128 6d 1844 Printed in black letter (twenty-five copies only). Of the original edition of this work only one copy is known to exist. Though the author professes to have translated his work from the Italian, it is probably original, as its characteristics are far more English than Italian. It is a poor pro- duction, but has some points of interest about it. Pasqdil's Palinodia, and his Progress to the Ta- verne ; where after the survey of the Sellar, you are presented with a pleasant pynte of Poeticall Sherry, 1619, 4to, pp. 4 and 35, 128 6d 1866 Mr. Collier pronounces this, with good reason, to be a " very lively, clever, and amusing produc- tion." He says he never heard of more than three copies, and those of different dates (1619, 1620 and 1624). Who the author was does not appear, nor is there any clue to his identity ex- cept that it appears from the poem itself that he had previously made an attack upon the citizens of London, and their proverbially frail wives. The poem is interesting, not only for its merits, but also for its references to various circum- stances and customs of the time. The following stanza will give an idea of the spirit and fluency of its versification : — " Tis not the virgin liquor of the grape That turns amau into a filthy swine, A (joate, an asse, a lyon, or an ape ; Such beastly fruits spring never from the vyne. Brisk blushing Claret, and faire maiden Sherry, Make men couragious, loving, wise and merry ; It is adulterous * wine that playes the puncke, And robs men of their reason, being drunke." * Adulterated. Lady Pecdnia, or the Praise of Money. Also a Contest betwixt Conscience and Covetous- nesse, togither with, The Complaint of Poetry for the death of Liberality. Newly corrected and iularged by Richard Barnfield, Graduate in Oxford, 1605, 4to, pp. ii and 38, 128 6d (1866) The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, or the Praise of Money, by Richard Barnfield, Graduate in Oxford, 1598, 4to, pp. iiand49, 12s 6d (1866) These two reprints are perhaps more valuable on account of their Shakespearian interest than on the ground of their own merits. The 1598 edi- tion, contained two poems (the sonnet com- mencing "If Musique and sweet Poetrie agree," and "An Ode," commencing " As it fell upon a day ") which, as is well known, are found also in "The Passionate Pilgrim," first published in 1599. The fact that Barnfield, when republish- ing his poems, in 1605, did not include these two, which are certainly superior to the other contents of his book, is almost proof positive that they are really Shakespeare's, and not the inferior poet's. Barnfield's praise of Shakespeare's poems is well known : — " And Shakespeare, thou, whose hony-flowing vaine (Pleasing the world) thy praises doth containe ; Whose Venus, and whose Ltwrece (sweete and chaste) Thy name in fames immortall book have plac't. Live ever you, at least in fame live ever ; Well may the bodye dye, but fame die never." Loves Court of Conscience, writteh upon two several occasions, with new Lessons for Lovers. Whereunto is annexed a kinde Husband's ad- vice to his Wife. By Humfrey Crowch, 1637, 4to, pp. iiaud 19, lOs 6d 1866 This work is reprinted from the unique copy. Crowch's name is unnientioned by bibliogra- phers, but he was a voluminous ballad writer, and his versification is easy, if not very correct. " Love's Court of Conscience " has some merit ; sufficient at least, to justify its being placed by this limited reprint, beyond the reach of des- truction. The Triumph of Trdeth, manifesting the Ad- vancement of Vertue, and the overthrow of Vice Hereunto is added Cassars Triumph, the Gretians Conquest, and the Desert of Dives. Published by T. P., 4to, pp. ii and 28, 8s 6d (1866) This poetical tract was written by Thomas Procter, one of the editors of " The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," 4to, 1578. Proctor was a very poor poet, and "The Triumph of Trueth,' has the worst of all faults— that of dullness. 32 COLLIER (John Payne) WorJci edited hy—cont. The First Booke of the Preservation of King Heury the VII, when he waa but Earle of RichtDond, Grandfather to the Queenes Ma- jesty, compiled in English rythmicall Hexa- meters, 1599, 4to, pp. II. and d6, 128 6d (1866) Mr. Collier says, in his " Introduction,"— " The work bere reprinted is in every respect unique: only a single copy of it has Vieen preserved, and it is in a form of versification of which we have never seen any other specimen. The subject of it is Anglo- historical : but it has few claims to be considered an important addition to our national poetry, except- ing as regards the versification ; for the unnamed find unknown author can have no pretension to rank liimself with such contemporaries as Daniel or Drayton, both of whom (to mention no others) have left behind them highly finished proofs of genius in the same department of literature. The author of "The Preservation of Henry VII." was sufTi- ciently well read, and his biblical and classical allu- sions are numerous and apposite : but the frame of his mind was remarkably unoriginal, and his own reflections are always commonplace." I give, as a specimen of the peculiar versification, the author's address "To the Printer."— " Print with a good letter this booke, and carefuly, Printer : Print each word legibill, not a word nor a sillabil alter : Keepi? pointes, and commas, periodes, the parenthesis observe. My credit and thy reporte to defend, both safely to con- serve." Tottel's Miscellany, Songs and Sonettes, written by the Ryght Honorable Lorde Henry Howard late Earle of Surrey, and other, Apud Richardura Tottel, 1557, 4to, pp. 298 and leaf containing Collier's explanatory " Notice," 2l8 (1867) A GoBGious Gallery of Gallant Inventions, garnished and decked with divers dayntie de- uises, right delicate and delightfull, to re- create eche modest minde withall by T. P. 1578, 4to, pp. 152, 158 (1867) England's Helicon, 1600, 4to, pp. vi and 229, 2l8 (1867) The above three books form part of a series of " Seven English T>oetical Miscellanies, printed between 1557 and 1602." The other volumes are as follows : — The Paradise of Daintye De- vises, 1578— The Phoenix Nest, 1593— England's Parnassus, 1600— A Poetical Rhapsody, 1602. ©roaDsifie ISlacb Uettcr ISallalJi, printed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; chiefly in the possession of J. Payne Collier, illustra- ted by original woodcuts, 4to, pp. xiv and 1 30, 2l8 1868 Mr. Collier says of the ballads here reprinted that they will all be found to possess some features of interest, though only a few of them merit preservation on account of their poetical excel- lencies. Most of them are unique, and the rest are very rare in their original form. Twenty-five Old Ballads and Songs : from Manuscripts in the possession of J. Payne Collier, Octogen. A Birthday Gift. London, Printed for presents only, 11 Jan. 1869, 4to, title page, &c. , 2 leaves, and pp. 56, 21s Only 25 copies printed. This collection is taken from manuscripts, the ori- ginals not being known to exist. They illustrate the manners of our ancestors in the times of Elizabeth aud James I. ; and some of them are certainly superior in poetical merit to the ordi- nary run of old ballads. Catalogue, of Books Printed A Few Odds and Ends, for Cheerful Friends, A Christmas Gift Printed for Private Circu- lation only, 4to, title page, etc., 2 leaves and pp. 52. lOs 6d 1870 Mr. Collier states that these " Odds and Ends," were written between the ages of 18 and the same figures reversed. The entirely original pieces are comparatively few, most of the verses in this collection being founded on materials which the author found in the course of his read- ing, and which seemed to him proper to be put into rhyme. These is not much merit, it must be owned, in Collier's poetry ; but it is very im- pretentious, and is not devoid of a pleasant de- gree of humour or playfulness. I quote the first piece in this small volume : it is a fair average specimen, neither better nor worse than the majority of Collier's verses : — SPANISH GENEROSITY. King Ferdinand asked Aben-amar, the Moor, How he lived with such strength to the age of four score? And his prisoner thus answered : " I held the rnle good, That when I could sit, I never have stood ; And, instead of now throwing myself at your feet. As a King, though a captive, I here take my seat. I eat for my hunger, I drank for my thirst, And I ne'er tasted wine — 'tis a liquor accurst. I married in manhood, aud married no stranger ; And when my wife died, I avoided the danger Of marrying again ; an old man with young wife Is certain to shorten the term of his life. Thus my aim is still firm, though my head may be grey. And I hope yet to meet you in many a fray : I'm the Christian's sworn foe while life yet remains. In spite of your dungeon, in spite of these chains." — "You arc free !" said the King ; "to your armies depart: So old in the head, and so young in the heart." [Greene's (Robert)] Perimedes the Blacke-Smith. A Golden methode, how to use the minde in pleasant and profitable exercise London printed by John Wolfe, for Edward White, 1588, 4to, pp. ii and 71, 10s 6d 1870 The editor says of this story : "'Perimedes' was evidently a hasty production, written in a rather careless, and, in some respects, easy style : it has more simplicity (in accordance with the two main characters) than was usual with Greene, but at the same time it is full of most inap- propriate classical and other references, with an abundance of conceited and fanciful allusions, pro- ceeding from what a contemporary humourously calledJGreene's "Mintfor the coinage of beasts, birds and fishes," with such properties as were conve- nient for the illustration of his subject." IDEA : The Shepheard's Garland, Fashioned in nine Eglogs. Rowland's Sacrifice to the nine Muses 1593, 4to, pp. ii and 70, 128 6d 1870 This is a typographical fac-simile of Michael Dray- ton's second publication. The original is so rare that only two, or at most three, copies of it are extant. It comprises poems never afterwards reprinted by Drayton, and the whole shape of the volume was altered when Drayton repub- lished it. ENDIMION and PHCEBE.— Ideas Latmus At London, Printed by James Roberts for John Busbie, 4to, pp. iiiand 25 unnumbered leaves, 10s 6d _ 1870 Of this poem of Drayton's only two copies are ex- tant, and one of these is imperfect. The pre- sent reprint is a typographical fac-simile of the perfect copy. Drayton suppressed the poem, for what reason does not appear. It resembles a good deal in style Marlowe's "Hero and Leunder," but it was published, if not written, several years before that poem. for Private Circulation. 33 [COLLIER'S (J. P.)] The Happy Man's Shir6, and Magic Cap, imitated from the Italian. 4to, pp. 16. 28 6d 18S0 This is an amusing story, founded on two popular tales, which are current, I beliere, in a variety of forms, in most countries. Arsaces, Sultan of Ormuz, obtains from a magician a magic cap, which compels any one who puts it on to reveal his or her inmost thoughts or desires. He tries it on his chamberlain, who thereupon confesses his love for the favourite wife of his master. Next his wife tries it on, and avows her passion for the chamberlain. Filled with sorrow at these disclosures, the Sultan becomes very ill, and the sages of the Coui-t being summoned, one of the wisest of them declares that the only thing that will cure Arsaces, will be to search for and find a completely happy man, whose shirt will be the means of the monarch's re- covery. Of course a search is instituted, but for a long time without success ; and when at last the happy man is found, it turns out that he is shirtless,! Mr. Collier tells this story in the metre of " Don Juan," in a tolerably happy style. COLLINS' (Charles James) The Albanian ; a Tale of Modern Greece, a Poem. 8vo, pp. 24. Ss N.D. A poem in heroic verse, which seems to owe some- thing to Byron's " Corsair," and his other Ori- ental poems. COLSTON'S (James) History of Dr. Boyd's Fourth High School Class, with Biographical Sketch of Dr. Boyd ; and Reminiscences of High School Days. Second Edition. 4to, pp. XII and 116, mih a view of the High School, and a portrait of Dr. Boyd, 7s 6d Edinburgh, 1873 The first edition of this work was issued in 1862. At that time some of the members of Dr. Boyd's fourth class had formed themselves into a club for the purpose of " reviving acquaintanceships begun at school, and cultivating friendly inter- course with one another." This having proved successful, it occurred to Mr. Colston, the prime mover in the affair, that it would be well to compile and print a complete list, with such biographical particulars as could be obtained, of all the members of the class who attended it during the sessions 1841 — 1845, at which time Mr. Colston himself was at the school. This task which proved one of considerable difficulty, ow- ing to the wide scattering of the members, Mr. Colston accomplished so successfully that of the 139 members who composed the class during those years, he has traced out the subsequent history of all but a very few. It is a record honourable at once to Dr. Boyd, who was a teacher of rare gifts, and to his pupils, who seem, without exception, to have led honoura- ble and useful lives. [COMBERBACH]— Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach, by George W. Marshall, LL.B. Svo, pp. 58, and front, (coat of arms). 7s 6d 1866 "The following pages contain the little which is known concerning a family of no social importance, and will consequently only be interestinc; to those connected with it. For such they are written, and to such ad- dressed, without any apology for their publication." The family of Comberbach is traditionally derived from three brothers, who are said to have come over to England with William the Conqueror. The faouly eeem to have taken their name from 1 the township of Comberbach, in the parish of Great Budworth, in Cheshire, where they were settled as early as the time of Richard the First They seem to havej^'en principally located in Cheshire until quite modern times. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a numerous family of the name existed in Congleton and the neighbourhood. Afterwards representatives of the family are to, be found residing at Nant- wich and Haughton. A branch of it emigrated to Barbadoes, where it seems to have obtained a moderate degree of prosperity. Mr. Marshall has evidently laboured very diligent- ly in his task of gathering together all the par- ticulars he could find as to the family, and it is not his fault that there are large gaps in the information he has collected. [COMBERMERE's (Lady)] A Friar's Scourge. Nonsense Verses, Cr. Svo, pp. IV and 170. Ss 1876 This volume contains, beside " A Friar't Scourge," " Her three Husbands, a true story told in jest." Both pieces are written in verse which is somewhat careless and slipshod in style, but which is nevertheless by no means devoid of humour and cleverness. " A Friar's Scourge" is a satire on Roman Catholicism. As a speci- men, I quote a passage descriptive of a well- known Ecclesiastic —the same whom Lord Bea- consfield pourtrayed under the name of Catesby : — " Ah, see I here comes the Cupid of the spheres, Who like the smiling god of love appears. With radiant eye, complexion white and pinlc. Brilliant as any belle at Prince's rink. 'Tis he converts the artless little sinners. While eating blandly their weak father's dinners, Whispering soft nonsense in their pretty ears. To animate their hopes and work upon their fears. In three short days, he boasts, the work is done By him the chosen Mother Church's son ; But pretty girls were ever his vocation, He " catches them alive" in their vacation. They, kneeling at his feet, at once confess The faults he's bound in gallantry to bless." CONINQSBY.— Letters of Margaret, Countess of Coningsby, from France, in 1737-8. 16mo, title page and pp. 47. 78 6d Typis Medio- Montanis ; excudit C. Qilmour, 1842 Some of the letters (which are all addressed to the author's sister) are written from Brussels and Spa, whither the Countess had gone to take the waters. She writes in a chatty gossipping style about her travels and the people she came in contact with. rCONSTABLE]— Diana, or the Excellent Con- ceitful Sonnets of H. C, Augmented with divers Quatorzains of honourable and learned personages, devided into viij. Decads. 16mo, 40 11. 128 6d [1584] " This Reprint in facsimile was made in 1818 and limited to so copies." — MS. note on cover. The publisher of Constable's sonnets hit upon a particularly felicitous epithet when he described them as "conceitful." They are indeed full of ingenious conceits, but they want the true ring of sincere passion, and one feels that they are the work of a man taxing his brain to invent complimental phrases in praise of his mistress, rather than poems inspired by a true love for her. One of the sonnets is remarkable for its close re- Bemblance to one of Shakspeare's. I need only No. III. 34 Catalogue of Books Prtntea tOONSTABLE]— con*. quote the first four lines of it for the reader to recogfnise the resemblance at once : — " My Ladies presence makes the Roses red, Because to see her lips, they blush for shame : The Lyilies leaves (for envie) pale became, And her white hands in them this envie bred." [COOKE]— The Seize Quartiers of the family of Bryan Cooke, Esq., of Owston, Hafody-wern, and Qwyeaney, and of Frances his wife,_ daughter and heir of Philip Puleston, Esq., of Hafod-y-wern, by Mary his wife, sister and coheir of John Davis, Esq., of Gwysany and Llanerch, with Notes and Illustrations. 4to, pp. VIII and 110, also folding leaf giving the " Seize Quartiers." ids 6d Zondon, 1857 This work was compiled by V/illiam Bryan Cooke, who says in a prefatory note — " The following pages are the result of careful re search, in which I have been ably assisted by many kind friends, to all of whom I now repeat my grateful acknowledgements. The " Seize Quartiers" Pedigree, it will be observed, is con- fined to four generations on the paternal and maternal sides, exhibiting, on the German prin- ciple of marshalling coat armour, sixteen shields, to which my family is entitled." In the notes vrUl be found much genealogical and biographical information. COOPER'S (Rev. George Miles) Sussex Archaeolo- gical Essays. 8vo. 12s 6d 1850—1862 This work consists of a number of separate pam- phlets, several of which were first contributed to " The Sussex Archseological Collections." The following is a list of the contents of the volume : — On an Ancient Rectory-House in the Parish of West Dean, with some Remarks on the Church, pp. 12, and 4 flates 1850 Illustrations of Wilmington Priory and Church, pp. 32, Z'platti mid several woodcuts 1851 Researches into the History of the Abbey of Otte- ham. pp. 23, view of Otham Chapel and woodcuts 1852 Some account of Mitchelham Priory in Arlington, pp. 37 and woodcuts 1853 Berwick Parochial Records, pp. 23, and woodcuts 1853 Notices of the Abbey of Robertsbridge. pp. 38, and woodcuts John Russell Smith, 1856 The Premonstratensian Abbey of Bayham ; with some particulars relating to its origin and his- tory, pp. 37 andfview ^ the Abbey /. R. Smith, 1857 Notice of certain Plea Rolls of Edward II. relat- to the Abbey of Bayham. [pp. 8 J. R. Smith, 1859 An account of some British Antiquities found at Wilmington, pp. 5, and plates. The volume is one which must be of value to all who are interested in the county of Sussex. cooper's (William Durrant) A Glossary of the Provincialisms in use in the County of Sus- sex. Post 8vo, pp. 34. 48 6d Brighton, 1836 I believe Mr. Cooper, in this book, was the first to make an attempt to collect the provincial- isms of Sussex. The work was afterward en- larged, and published in the usual way. COOTE's (Charles Henry) Ordinances of soma Secular Guilds of London, from 1354 to 1496 to which are added Ordinances of St. Margaret, Lothbury, 1456, and Orders by Richard Bishop of London for Ecclesiastical Officers, 1597, by John Robert Daniel-Tyssen, F.S.A. 8vo, pp. 93, 48 6d 1871 This work is of considerable value and interest to all who desire to study the history of the old trade guilds of London. The Ordinances here printed were not known to be in existence until they were discovered by Mr. Daniel-Tyssen amongst the records of the Court of the Com- missary of London, They are of value, not only as throwing light upon the constitution and laws of the various guilds, but also because from their date they represent the English Ian* guage in its progress towards fixity and consoli- dation. The Guilds whose rules are printed in this volume are those of the Glovers, the Black- smiths, the Water-bearers, and the Shearmen. It contains also the rules of two German frater- nities (established in London) — the Guild or Brotherhood of the Holy Blood of Wilsnak in Saxony, and the Fraternity of St. Katherine. Mr. Coote makes one statement which seems to me very discreditable to the custodians of our manuscript collections. He says thst he knows that all the inventories of the effects of deceased persons during the seventeenth century, are in existence, though inaccessible to enquirers. Amongst these mu^t be the inventory of the personal effects of William Shakespeare, and perhaps therein might be found some mention of his copyrights. Surely a search for such an important document should be at once insti- tuted, at whatever cost of time and expense. [CORNEY]— Curiosities of Literature, by I. D'Is- raeli, Esq., Doctor in Civil Law of the Uni- sity of Oxford, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Illustrated by Bolton Corney, Esq. Honorary Professor of Criti- cism in the Ripublique des Lettres, and Mem- ber of the Society of English Bibliophiles. Post 8vo, title-page and contents, 4 leaves, and pp. 160, 78 6d Oreenwich, printed by special command This work is a severe, but apparently just, criti- cal examination of some of the articles in the elder D'Israeli's "Curiosities of Literature." Mr. Corney proves by unequivocal evidence that that very popular work is in many in- stances inaccurate, unreliable, and misleading. D' Israeli replied to Mr. Corney 's attack in a pamphlet entitled "The Illustrator Illus- trated." The reply was written in a tone of considerable asperity, and this led Mr. Corney to publish in 1838 (the privately printed edition was issued in 1837) a considerably enlarged edi- tion of his work in which he replied in a very sarcastic tone to D'Israeli's defence ; and con- cluded by observing that he had not had to mo- dify a single sentence of the strictures he had previously made in consequence of the reply. CORINTH, and other Poems. Dedicated (by permission) to the Right Hon. Viscountess Anson. 8vo, pp. Ill 1821 These poems were written by a lady, who states that they were printed for the purpose of pro- moting the comforts of relations near and dear to her. There is a long list of subscribers' names, so that she probably realised the pur- pose for which she printed her verses. for Private Circulation. 35 TEE CORNISH CLUB.— "One and all." 4to, pp. 20. 38 6d Privately Printed for the Members, 1842 This club was founded in 1768 : but little is known of its proceedings until a quarter of a century after its institution. It appears, however, that the object of the Club was to induce such gen- tlemen connected with Cornwall as might be temporarily or permanently residingjin London to dine together several times in every year. It became the rule eventually for the Club to have three dinners annually ; but there does not seem to have been much interest felt by the members in it at any time, as the attendance seems to have been usuaUy very slender. The Club in the course of its existence had some very distinguished members. [CORRY] — Reflections upon Liberty and Neces- sity, etc. [Motto from Lord Bolingbroke] 8vo, pp. 128, title and preface, 2 leaves. 10s 6d 1761 Bound up with the above is another work, viz : — Remarks upon a Pamphlet intitled, Reflections upon Liberty and Necessity, &c., and Answers, &c., to these Remarks. 8vo, pp. 195, VIII., title and Preface, 2 leaves 1763 Both these works appear to be scarce and almost or quite unknown. They are not mentioned by Lowndes, or even by Martin, though they were evidently printed for private circulation only. In the Preface to the first, the author says, " No copy of them shall, with his consent, be sold." I attribute them to Corry (whom other- wise I know nothing of) merely because some former possessor of the book has written that name upon the title-page and the back of my copy. The author was evidently a freethinker, and he ar- gues strongly upon the necessitarian side. He puts forward his arguments without much at- tention to order or method ; but he reasons in- geniously, and his work (in my judgment) is still well worth consulting. THE COURT OF SESSION GARLAND. 8vo, pp. VIII and 338. 18b Edinburgh, 1871 Only one hundred and fifty copies printed, of which this is No. 17. "The Court of Session Garland" appears to have been first publishedinthe ordinary wtiy in 1839. A supplement and a variety of privately printed addenda were afterwards issued. The present reprint contains the whole of the original collec- tion, and also the v.arious additions. I quote the following passage from the " notice" in the original edition, as descriptive of the character of the work : — To those persons who are familiar with the Parliament House— the Westminster Hall of Scotland — and its inmates, the various pieces collected together in this volume cannot be devoid of interest. Even to those not initiated iu the mysteries of legal proce- dure, a considerable portion of the contents, will, it is hoped, be attractive ; for no genuine votary of Momus can be insensible to the fun of the Justiciary Opera, — the drollery of the Diamond Beetle Case,— the exquisite point of the Parody on Helvellyn, — the satirical wit of the Chronicles of the City, and the quiet humour of the Scotish Royal Speeches." The humour of the volume is, it must be confessed, somewhat local in its character, and not to be properly appi'eciated by a Southron, However it contains a good many interesting anecdotes, and much curious information relating to Scot- tish law and lawyers. In a recent Scottish Bookseller's catalogue the book is priced 80s. [COURTHOPE's (William)] Memoir of Daniel Chamier, Minister of the Reformed Church, with Notices of his Descendants. 8vo, pp. VII and 121. 68 1852 Bayle, in his Dictionary, expressed his surprise at the fact that no memoir of Daniel Chamier had been written ; adding that only the French peo- ple were capable of so neglecting to preserve the memory of one of their ablest men. ■' The following pages" says Mr. Courthope, who is a descendant of Chamier, " originate from the de- sire of one of his descendants to place upon re- cord, the descent of his famUy from one, who has not only been styled the Soul, the Organ, and the Hero of his party, but the Defender, the Apostle, and the Martyr of the Protestant Church of France. In the pursuit of evidences to this effect, the ancient MSS. of the family have been examined, and found to contain anecdotes and notices of eminent individuals, connected with the Courts of France and Ber- lin, which gave to them an interest far beyond that of mere personal history. From these pa- pers, such passages have been selected as appeared to be most worthy of note ; and added to the scattered notices of Chamier and his descendants which are to be met with in the paares of French history, they form, together, a slight tribute to the memory of a great cham- pion of the Protestant Church, which will be perused with pride and pleasure by his descea- dants, and not, perhaps, without interest by the general reader." This book is not mentioned by Martin. CRADDOCK's (Thomas) Charles Lamb. cr. 8vo, pp. VII, 216. 68 6d 1867 This work perhaps can hardly be considered strictly as a privately printed book, for it bears on its title-page the names of Simpkin, Mar- shall, and Co., the well-known publishers. However, the author states that it was printed at the private press of his friend, W. Dawbarn, Esq., of Liverpool ; so that it may be included in the present list without any great impro- priety. Moreover, it is a good and interesting work, which I am glad to have an opportunity of recommending. Mr. Cradock has evidently studied Lamb and his writings with loving care and discriminating taste, and his book is worth reading even now when we have had such num- bers of works about Elia. [CRAUFURD].— A Memoir of the late Major- General Robert Craufurd, Reprinted from the Military Panorama, of October, 1812, with an Account of his Funeral, by the Au- thor of " The Subaltern," reprinted from " The Gem," of 1829. 8vo, pp. 32. 3s Private Impression, 1841 Robert Craufurd entered the army in 1779, when he was only fifteen years of age. He served thenceforth in nearly all the campaigns which the British forces went through. He distin- guished himself greatly in the Peninsular cam- paign, and met his death while leading his troops to the attack at the storming of Ciudad RodrJgo. CROFT's (Sir Thomas Elmsley, Bart.) Belgic Charity : with other poems. 4to, pp. 22. 2s 6d 1827 " Belgic Charity" celebrates the humanity of the Bel- gian people, as displayed alter the Battle of Water- loo, in giving aid to the wounded of both armies. The volume contains also "Lines, written on the field of Quatre Bras," and " On a boy sleepioK-" 36 Catalogue of Books Printed [CRANMER'8 CATECHISM].— A Bibliographical and Literary Account of the volume of Re- ligious Instruction for Children, usually de- nominated Cranmer's Catechism, printed and published in a.d. 1548 : drawn up from two copies of the original in the possession of William Tite, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.S.A., &c. Printed as a Memorial Book for the Friends of William Tite, and Richard Thomson of the London Institution. 4 prel. leaves and pp.87, with five facsimile illustrations, 4to. 8s 6d 1862 Only soventy-five copies printed. The book, of which a minute account is here given, was, it seems, originally a German Cate- chism for children, which was long in use in Nuremberg. Of this a Latin translation was made by Justus Jonas, a German divine and lawyer ; and this falling into Cranmer's hands, he was struck with its great value for the teach- ing of youth, and therefore translated it into English. It immediately became very popular, and two editions, if not more, were published in 1547 — 8. These editions differ much in their text, and their differences are minute- ly noted in the "Bibliographical Account." The editors style the Catechism, "The first kind and familiar manual of I'eligious instruc- tion for children, which was ever placed in a child's hand in England.' ORERAR's (William) The Mantuans, a Play in Five Acts [Printed as Manuscript for Private Circulation]. Cr. 8vo, pp. 65. 3b n.d. This play has no great merit. I quote a few lines, which are supposed to be spoken by a lady awaiting the arrival of her lover : — " How the sun enamoured of the sky Lover-like seems to linger in his course ! — Oh I I'm like one who on the beach doth stand Watching with expectation half gone mad, His ship which seems no bigger than his hand Returning fortune-fraught from golden Ind, And which scarce seems in motion though the tide. Leagues with the kindly breeze to carry it Swift as a prodigal seeking home, to port." CROKER'b (J. Crofton) A Description of Rosa- mond's Bower, Fulham, distant three miles from Hyde Park Corner, the Residence of J. Crofton Croker, Esq., with an Inventory of the Pictures, Furniture, Curiosities, etc. 4to, pp. X and 32, with two views of the Bower and a number of woodcuts. SOs 1843 This is exceedingly rare, only fifteen copies having been printed by Mr. Croker for presentation to the members of the Noviomagian Society. It was issued in five parts, the covers of which are bound up with the above copy. With it is also bound up the following : A Vision of the Prior's Bank : A Christmas Revel, enacted at Fulbam, on Monday, XXXth Decem- ber, MDCCCXXXIX. 4to, pp. 8, with several woodcuts. This is rt short dramatic piece, the characters of which were enacted by Mr. Crofton Croker, Mr. John Barrow, Mr. Gitford, and Mr. Hook. Loosely inserted are the following broadsides :— Noviomagian Necromancy ? (1842) The Fulham Regatta, 1843 : a new Ballad. Programme of performance at the Private Theatre, Pryor's Bank, 1843, Genuine Christmas Carols, as taken from the mouth of a wandering Gipsy girl in Berkshire (printed about 1843) Mr. Croker says, commencing the description of his residence : — " If Horace Walpole thought it necessary to apologise for printing, as an act looking 'a little like arro- gance ' a description of his villa and collections at Strawberry Hill, where, he observes, ' almost everything is diminutive,' how much greater reason have I to crave indulgence for printing a Catalogue of the contents of a very small Cottage, to which Strawberry Hill might almost seem a real Gothic Castle." Mr. Croker took possession of the residence in 1837, when it was called Brunswick Cottage. The name of Brunswick was then used as the denomination of an Irish political party (the Orangemen, if I am not mistaken) and on this account the name appeared objectionable to Mr. Croker. Near it had been an old dwelling which had been called "Rosamond's Bower," and Mr. Croker thought there would be no harm in reviving the old name. Originally it consisted of two rooms only, but additions made from time to time had converted it into a ten- rocTied house, which was its size when Mr, Croker took possession of it. In this condition it seems to have been a very cosy, though small dwelling-place. Of the contents as catalogued by their owner, I need only say that they com- prised many most interesting pictures and anti- quities, which are fully and even lovingly de- scribed by Mr. Croker. One reads the booklet with some degree of envy at the owner's good- fortune in possessing so pleasant a retreat, CROKER's (T. F. Dillon) Romulus and Remus ; or Rome was not built in a day : a Classical, and what one may call a most absurdly ridicu- lous Burlesque, in one act, being an attempt at something founded on Roman History. 8vo, pp. 49. 38 6d 1859 This burlesque is dedicated to Mr. Planch^. It seems to have been performed privately at Blackheath. The author acknowledges in the dedication that it is "nothing more than an idea for a burlesque, and possesses, in its present form little of the requisites for public represen- tation." But it is not without cleverness, and some of the puns in it are very good. [CRONHELM].— A Wreath for Catherine's Grave. 4to, 42 unnumbered leaves. 5s 1842 A series of poems in memory of Catherine, only daughter of Frederick William and Elizabeth Cronhelm, of Bolton. One is by William Dearden ; the others seem to have been composed by the child's mother. CROMWELL'S (Thomas) The Druid : a Tragedy, in five Acts, with Notes on the Antiquities and early History of Ireland. 8vo, pp. XV and 142. 3s 6d London, 1831 I conclude that this play was privately circulated, from the fact that it bears no publisher's name on the title-page ; although that circumstance is not always conclusive, it must be confessed. The author dedicates his play to S. T. Coleridge, " in grateful recollection of his opinion of this tragedy as conveyed by letter to the author in the year 1820." The subject of the tragedy is the final fall of Druidism before Christianity in Ireland. The plot is good, and ia well developed. for Private Circulation. 37 CROMWELL'a (Thomas) Honour ; or arrivals from College, a Comedy, in three Acts, per- formed for the first time, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Saturday, April 17th, 1819. 8vo, pp. xii and 56. 28 6d 1820 This play is stated (on the back of the title-pa^e) to be printed for one hundred subscribers only. The author states that his play, as originally writ- ten, was in five acts, and that the serious rather than the comic interest preponderated in it. He was induced, however, by the desire of the managers of Drury Lane to render it more of a Comedy, with, as he thought, a good deal of detriment to its chance of success. It was played for three nights only. As the first three acts were received with great applause, whereas the other two were but coolly received, he de- termined, when printing the play, to discard the fourth and fifth acts, and produce the denouement at the end of the third act. [GROOM]. — A Remembrance of David M. Groom- or. 8vo, pp. XLIX and 182, 48 6d [September 9, 1882] Mr. Croom was born in Perth in 1810. He was ordained in the South Church, Sanquhar, in 1838, as colleague to the Rev. James Raid. In 1852 he became pastor of a congregation which worshipped in the Vennell, Portsburgh. In 1878 he received from his Church its highest honour of the Moderatorship of the Synod. He died in 1882. The volume contains four of his Sermons, a Prefa- tory Note, and the pulpit references made on his decease by the Rev. Mr.Whyte and the Rev, Dr. Drummond. [CROSS'S (G.)] Rhymes. 12mo, pp. 64. 48 6d 1819 Some of the pieces in this little volume have con- siderable merit. The following is a fair speci- men : — BIRTH OF THE ROSE. When Innoceiu'.e, sweet maid, was youug. Arcadian minstrels often suu>{ Her artless grace and mien ! Her blushful cheek, her downcast eye. Her bosom never taught to sigh. Her lovely look serene. But Love, with all his raptures wild, The meek-eyed maiden soon beguil'd, And chased her calm repose : Then first she shed a bitter tear. Which dropt to earth, and rooted there, Became a lovely Rose ! While yet the pearly dew-drop fell, Hoyie came her trembling fears to quell, Virtue resumed her reign ; They, o'er the tear a fragrance breathed. The grace and beauty, too, bequeathed. Which still the flowers retain. But still the roseate tints bespeak," The blus'j that dyed the parent cheek, When crimsoned o'er with shame ; And still the rankling thorns reveal What loveliness is doomed to feel. When lost to virtuous fame. [CRUDELIUS].— A Memoir of Mrs. Crndelius, edited by Katharine Burton. 8vo, pp. 346 and 4 pre!, leaves. 4s 6d 1879 The following is the opening paragraph of this memoir : — " A woman has passed from among us who seems to deserve some memorial. Dying at the age of thirty- eight, Mary Crudehus left behind her a finished work of tlie utmost value to her sex and country. This work— the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational As- sociation—was entirely, or as entirely as any work could be, conceived and originated by Mrs. Crude- I lins ; at the time of its first beginning a very young woman, and during her whole short life a very deli- cate one." Mrs. Crudelius was undoubtedly a woman of un- common abilities/ ^s well as a most affectionate wife and mother. ' An appendix to the volume contains a number of poems written by her in early life. [CULVERWELL]— MeditativejHours : the Poeti- tical and Prose Remains of the late J. W. Gulverwell, with a Memoir of the Author. Pb. 8vo, title-page, etc., 4 11. and pp. 94. 48 6d 1867 Mr, Gulverwell was bom in 1810. He was educa- ted at Archbishop Tenison'a School, whore he distinguished himself by his perseverance and application to his studies. On leaving it he was apprenticed to a copperplate engraver, in which business he remained till his death in 1865. The remains here printed are indicative of a thoughtful and reflective, but unoriginal mind. CUNNINGHAM'S (Peter) Poems on several Occa- sions. Gr. 8vo, pp. VIII and 47. 4s 6d 1841 Mr. Cunningham in his " Advertisement," after stating that he has limited the number of copies of his book to seventy-five, anticipates that in the course of time it may become scarcer and scarcer, till at last " a fine uncut copy becoming unique and falling into the hands of some mad- man in books, is printed (0, that in our ashes our wonted tires may live !) as a contribution to some Roxburgh or Bannatyne Club of the year 2841." Not much can be said in favour of our author's verses, which do not in any case rise above me- diocrity. GURLL PAPERS.— Stray Notes on the Life and Publications of Edmund Gurll. From Notes and Queries, 12mo, pp. 107. lOs 6d 1879 Only 80 copies printed. This one is a presenta- tion copy from the author, William J. Thorns, to Alexander Gardyne. The satire of Pope, which has preserved the names of so many authors of his time, who would otherwise have sunk into total oblivion, has also bestowed an evil immortality upon the unlucky Edmund Curll. Though it must be allowed that Curll was hardly a model of rigid virtue, yet he was by no means so black as Pope painted him. In point of fact. Pope, now that the whole of the circumstances of his quarrel with Curll are known, cuts a decidedly discreditable figure. The following testimony to the character of Curll, taken from Nichols' " Literary Anec- dotes," appears to be a fair and impartial sum- mary of his merits and demerits : — " The memory of Edmund Curll has been transmitted to posterity with an obloquy more severe than he deserved. Whatever were his demerits in having occasionally published works that the present age would very properly consider too licentious, he certainly deserves commendation for his industry in preserving our National Remains. And it may, perhaps, be added that he did not publish a .single volume but wliat, ami'lst a profusion of base metal, contained some precimis ore, some valuable re- liques, which future collectors could nowhere else have found." It is well known that Mr. Thoms was deeply versed in the Literature of the Eighteenth Cen- tury, and no man was better fitted than he to f,avo an account of Curll's erratic career. In this booklul he has gathered toG^ethor all that it is necessary or desirable to know concerning Curll's publications ; and he also recounts the 38 Catalogue of Books Printed OURLL— con<. story of his quarrel with Pope ; tells us how he was tossed in a blanket by the scholars of West- minster School ; relates the particulars of his trial for publishing an obscene pamphlet, called "The Nun in her Smock," the result of which was that he was convicted, fined imprisoned, and pilloried : &c. D's (0.) The Rose : its Cultivation, use, and Sym- bolical meaning in Antiquity. Translated from the German. 8vo, title-page, 2 leaves and pp. 35. 3s 6d 1856 Only one hundred copies printed. This booklet gives a good and compendious ac- count of the Rose as known and alluded to by Greek and Roman authors. Some curious anec- dotes relating to its use are given, a few of which may be quoted : — " Heliogabalus in his madness, had violets and roses poured in such profusion on his guests that some of them who could not struggle through were suffo- cated among the flowers. The guests reclined on cushions or beds which were stuffed with rose-leaves. Roses strewed the floor. At a feast which Cleopa- tra gave to Antony she expended immense sums in procuring roses, which covered the floor of the ban- queting-room to the depth of a yard, and over which nets were stretched, so as to give elasticity. Helio- gabalus had not only the banqueting-hall, but the porticoes leading to it covered with roses, lilies, violets, hyacmths, and narcissi, and on this flowery pavement he walked. One of his successors, Cari- nus, had whole loads of roses brought from Milan, and covered the floors of his room and banqueting- hall with them." DACRE's (Barbarina Lady) Dramas, Translations, and Occasional Poems. In Two Volumes, 8vo, Vol I., pp. IX and 249 : Vol II., pp. VI. and 269. Gs 6d 1821 These volumes contain : — Gonzalos of Cordova, (a Play founded on one of Florian's Romances) ; Pedrarius, a tragic Drama, (founded on"Les Incas " of Marmontel) ; Ina, a Tragedy, (sug- gested by the story of Inez de Castro) ; Xarifa, a Tragic Drama, (founded on a story told in " Historia de las Guerras de Granada") ; some translations from Petrarch, and a number of original poems. Of the plays, "Ina" alone was ever performed, and that failed in the represen- tation. Nevertheless, there is very considerable merit in her dramatic efforts, and her transla- tions and original poems display much poetic feeling and accomplishment. Barbarina Ogle was the second daughter of Admi- ral Sir Chalouer Ogle. She was first married to Valentine Wilmot, Esq., and afterwards to Lord Dacre. ' " I passed much of the Summer of 1827 at the Hoo, Lord Dacre's seat in Hertfordshire. It was my home whenever I chose to make it so. Lady Dacre, recognised by artists as the best modeller in wax in Europe, was known also in the literary world for some volumes of poems. Besides several dramas, they contained some admirable translations of Pe- trarch. One of her Plays was acted at Drury Lane. I remember as a Westminster boy, being one of its claqueurs on its first representation ; but the piece, though full of exquisite poetry, had not a sufficiency of stirring incident to fit it for the stage, and it was unsuccessful. When I first became acquainted with Lady Dacre, she was engaged in writing a comedy, in which she assigned me a principal part. Having failed in her endeavours to please the public, she determined that she would not again solicit iheir ' sweet voices ' In the new piece, actors and au- dience were to consist of personal friends. Even the sctnery was the work of unprofessional artists, being ' that of Lady Dacre's neighbours, the Miss Blakes of Danesbury. The comedy was called, ' Pomps and Vanities.' Lady Dacre was Mrs. Hushem, a privi- leged nurse in the family of a certain Lord Pomps- bury — a character to which she gave full effect in a broad Hampshire dialect. . . . Accounts of our performances found their way into the news- papers, and ' Pomps and Vanities ' created quite a sensation in the West-end of London." — Fifty years of my life, by the Earl of Albemarle. DACRE's (Barbarina Lady) Translations from the Italian, Roy. 8vo, 84 unnumbered leaves 1836 Of this book, which is printed on thick paper in Whittingham's best manner, only one hundred and fifty copies were thrown off. The present copy is numbered 41. The translations are chiefly from Petrarch. They were approved and praised by Mr. Mathias, (the author of " The Pursuits of Literature," and a fine Italian scholar) Ugo Foscolo, and A. Panizzi. I quote the following as a fair speci- men of Lady Dacre's renderings : — Sonnet XI. The eyes, the face, the limbs of heavenly mould, So Icng the theme of my impassioned lay. Charms which so stole me from myself away, That strange^to other men the course I hold : The crisped locks of pure and lucid gold, The lightning of the angelic smile, whose ray To earth could all of paradise convey, A little dust are now, to feeling cold. And yet I live I— but that I live bewail, Sunk the loved light that through the tempest led My shattered bark, bereft of mast and sail. Hushed be the song that breathed love's purest fire : Lost is the theme on which my fancy fed, And turned to mourning my once tuneful lyre. [DALLAS].— Poetical Trifles. By the late Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Dallas. Svo, pp. vii and 97. Ss 6d n.d. Sir Robert Dallas, the author of these trifles died in 1824. His poems or rather verses, are by no means destitut^e of smartness or wit. The first poem is a tribute of gratitude to an old-fashioned, but still efficacious medicine — Sovereign cure of visceral ill, Pride of Pharmacy, Blue Pill ! It must be admitted that the subject is celebrated in verses fully worthy of it. Some of Dallas's epigrams are very good. Witness the following one on Burke, which was written during his Impeachment of Warren Hastings : — Oft have I wonder'd why on Irish ground No poisonous reptile ever yet was found ; Reveal'd the secret stands of Nature's work — She saved her venom to create a Burke. It is said that this epigram has been ascribed to more authors than any other in the English language. The following also seem worth quoting : — When of the matter most you make, Marriage at best is a mistake. Of questions asked in conversation. How few are asked for information ! Nine time.s in ten, whene'er we speak, 'Tis silence to ward off, or break. It never yet was clearly understood Why life should last so long before the flood ; Now on this subject learn what is my creed : There was much law, and L— had to plead. DALTON's (Charles) History of the Wrays of Qlentworth, 1523 — 1852, including Memoirs of the principal Families with which they were conDected. 2 volumes, Svo, vol 1, pp. for^ Private Circulation. 39 »x, 259 ; vol 2, pp. xvi, 223, and an appendix of pp. 58. 158 1880-1881 Vol. I has, as frontispiece, a portrait of Sir Chris- topher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1582. Vol. 2 has a portrait of Isabella Wray (Mrs. Dalton of Slemingford), 1771. The first volume was published in the usual way and bears the imprint of Chapman and Hall ; but Vol 2 has " privately printed" on the title-page. The work contains a genealogical and historical account of the now extinct family of the Wrays of Glent worth. The founder of the family was Sir Christopher Wray, who was bom at Bedale in 1523, and raised himself from a low station to become Lord Chief Justice of England. Few fa- milies took a more prominent part in the affairs of England during the seventeeth century than did the Wrays. Several members of this fa- mily distinguished themselves during the Civil War, in which they took the side of the Parlia- ment. From the slight examination of the book which I have made I should say ft is a work of value and interest to the students of history and genea- logy. [DALTON].— Ricordanza. Memoir of Elizabeth Dalton. who died on the 16th December, 1812, aged 59. 8vo, pp. viii and 225, with a por- trait. 48 6d 1813 This memoir of Mrs. Dalton was written by her brother, James Forbes. Elizabeth Forbes belonged to a Quaker family. She was born at Edmonton in 1753. In 1777 she accompanied her brother Jameson a voyage to India, where she became the wife of Mr. Dalton. In 1784 she returned with her hus- band to England, where in October, 1785, he died. She remained a widow until the time of her death in 1812. She was a woman of a most affectionate and pious disposition, and her brother writes of her in a manner that attests his intense love for her, and his great grief at her loss. DALZIEL's (George) Pictures in the Fire, and other Thoughts in Rhyme and Verse. Cr. 8vo, pp. xi and 255. 38 6d Printed for Private distribution, 153, Fleet Street, E.C. [1887J Mr. Dalziel is a good versifier ; and he deals with the common joys, sorrows, troubles, and per- plexities of human life in a cheerful optimistic spirit that is rather refreshing in these gloomy DANBY's (William, Esq., of Swinton Park, York- shire) Thoughts, chiefly on Serious Subjects. 8vo, pp. 299, title-page and prefatory note, 2 leaves. 58 Exeter, 1821 Ideas and Realities ; or Thoughts on vari- ous Subjects. 8vo, pp. iv, 470 ; also an index comprising pp. xxxi, and a leaf of errata. Ss Eooeter, 1827 Travelling Thoughts. 12mo, pp. xiv and 36 : also Index, 1 leaf. Ss Exeter, 1831 These books consist of Aphorisms after the man- ner of those in Colton's "Lacon." They are evidently the productions of a serious and thoughtful mind ; the aphorisms are almost in- variably sensible and just, but there is little brilliancy of expression, or of epigrammatic conciseness. They strike me, to speak plainly, as being a little prosy. However, I think that from the three volumes a good selection might be made, which would be readable and instruc- tive. I quote three or four of the shorter aphorisms : — " Expression is the clothing of thoughb ; its recep- tion with the world depends as much upon this, as a man's does upon the coat he wears." " How copious, and at the same time how imperfect is language, when it can express, and only express iu one word, jwhat It is impossible for the utmost stretch of imagination to conceive— Infinity— Eter- nity— Ubiquity 1 one word can express them— a thousand cannot describe them." "Maxims, to be ttrst, generally leave something un- said. How indeed is a complicated subject to be developed in a few words ? Enough, however, if a maxim is a proper foundation to build upon." "The judgment of the world is the more to be de- pended upon, as it knows when to give credit, and when to make allowances. But we often do more of both to ourselves than the world will do for us : and therefore we blame it. The judgment of the world is the opinion of a multitude of counsellors, corrected by a few." [DANTE].— The Metre of Dante's Comedy dis- cussed and exemplified by Alfred Forman, translator of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, etc., and Harry Buxton Forman, Editor of Shelley's Works, etc. 8vo, pp. 47. fis 6d 1878 Only 25 copies printed. This work consists of a version of four cantos of Dante's Comedy, translated (it is claimed) for the first time, in the exact metre of the origi- nal, by Alfred Forman, accompanied by a prose commentary by H. B. Forman. It has been pronounced impossible to translate Dante, strictly speaking, in the metre of the original ; but it is the aim of the present essay to show, that however djflRcult it may be, it is not im- possible. Mr. Alfred Forman scarcely claims to have altogether overcome the difficulties of his task ; but he has accomplished more than might reasonably have been expected, and has shown that a more exact rendering of the Di- vine Comedy than has yet been attempted or achieved is by means a hopeless undertaking. [DARLEY] — Poems of the Late George Darlet, A Memorial Volume printed for Private Cir- culation (Motto from Shelley]. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 211 n.d. [1888 ?] George Darley was born in Dublin in 1795 of Irish parents of independent means. He was edu- cated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1820. Soon afterwards he made his way to London, and adopted literature for his profession. He made the acquaintance of many of the most distingnished authors of the time, and with some of them he became very intimate. Amongst these may be mentioned Charles Lamb, Samuel Rogers, Lord Houghton, Tennyson, Carlyle, Henry Taylor, &c. A cer- tain hesitation in his speech (of which he spoke as a "hideous mask upon my mind, which not only disfigures but nearly suffocates it") made him shrink morbidly from general society, and the extreme fastidiousness of his taste also limited the circle of his companions. He con- tributed to several of the chief periodicals of his time, and in the London Magazine his articles (signed "John Lacy") are to be found side by side with those of Lamb, De Quincy, Thomas Hood, &c. For years he was art critic on the staff of the Athenaeum. He edited Moxon's edi- tion of Beaumont and Fletcher. Besides being a poet, he was also an excellent mathematician. 40 Catalogue of Books Printed [DARLEY]— conf. and was the author of several works on geome- try and astronomy. Carlyle's judgment on him is worth quoting, and his opinion is the more valuable as it is well known that he was by no means prone to over- rate the merits of his contemporaries : — " Darley (George) from Dublin, Mathematician, con- siderable actually, and also poet ; an amiable, mo- dest, veracious and intelligent man— much loved— though he stammered dreadfully." He remarks in another place : — " There is a trick of sham Elizabethan writing now prevalent that looks plausible, but in most cases means nothing at all. Darley has real lyrical genius ; Taylor, wonderful sense, clearness, weight of purpose;; Tennyson, a rich and exquisite fancy. All the other men of our tiny generation that I know of are, in poetry, either feeble or fraudulent." Tennyson, who was upon very friendly terms with him, urged Darley to collect and publish his poems, and offered to bear the expense of doing it, an offer which he did not think it right to accept. He died in November, 1846. Darley printed for private circulation, the follow- ing poems — "Nepenthe," "Olympian Revels," and "The Lammergeier." These^must be very scarce, for I have never seen any of them. The poetry of Darley, fine as it is, is so little known that 1 should like to quote extensively from it, did space permit. As it is, I must con- tent myself by giving these two short pieces, which I have chosen pretty much at random : — Hymn to the Sqn. [(From a MS., "The Sea-Bride.") Behold the world's great wonder. The Sovereign Star arise 1 'Midst ocean's sweet dread thunder, Earth's silence and the skies'. The sea's rough slope ascending. He steps in all his beams. Each wave beneath him bending, His throne of glory seems. Of red clouds round and o'er him His canopy is rolled. The broad ooze burns Ijefore him, A field of cloth of gold. Now strike his prond pavilion ! He mounts the blue outline, And throws in many a million His wealth from clime to clime. Sonnet. While the moon decks herself in Neptune's glass. And ponders o'er her image in the sea. Her cloudy looks smoothing from off her face That she may all as bright as Beauty be ; It is my wont to sit upon the shore And mark with what un even grace she glides Her two concurrent paths of azure o'er One in the heavens, the other in the tides : Now with a transient veil her face she hides, And Ocean blackens with a human frown, Now her fine screen of vapour she divides, And looks with all her light of beauty down I Her splendid smile, wide-spreading o'er the main, Brightens the glass she gazes at again ! [DARWIN.] -A Pamphlet, without title-page, of 31 pp., 8vo, containing extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow, by Charles Darwin. Bs 6d CamtWdac, 1831 This pamphlet was printed for distribution among the members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, in consequence of the interest which bad been excited by some of the geological no- tices which it contains, the said notices having been read at a meeting of the Society in Nor. 1865. The letters are dated from Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, Rio de la Plata, Falkland Island, Valpa- raiso, &c. They chiefly consist of notes on na- tural history and geology. [DAVENPORT'S (John Marriott)] Lords Lieu- tenant and High SherifiFs of Oxfordshire, 1086 —1868. Roy. 8vo, pp. 80. Ss 6d The author says, in a prefatory note — " The following lists have been compiled by one long connected by oflBcial ties with the county of Oxford, in the hope that the Roll of Names may be interest- ing to many Houses and Families whose Ancestors in blood, or Predecessors in Estates, have done good service to the Crown, but who have passed from their ranks in sad succession to the grave." It is a work of considerable value, and not a mere catalogue of names, though that indeed would not be without value. Mr. Davenport has ap- pended notes to nearly all the names in his lists, which give genealogical and biographical infor- mation about the persons enumerated. It is un- doubtedly a work of great use to all interested in the County of Oxfordshire. DAVENPORT'S (John Marriott) Oxfordshire An- nals. Roy. 8vo, pp. 122 and 6 prel. leaves, 88 6d 1869 The prefatory note runs thus — " The kindness and consideration with which the little book, 'Lords Lieutenant and Sheriffs of Oxfordshire,' was received, have induced its compiler to ex- tend the catena of Oxfordshire Annals ; and he now therefore presents the following links ; — with the further object of connecting the present with the, past." The present volume gives Lists and Notices of Sovereigns and Princes connected with Oxford- shire, Judges whose County was Oxfordshire, Members of Parliament for th^ County, the Chairmen of Quarter Sessions, th^ County Court Judges, the Revising Barristers, and Clerks of the Peace. Mr. Marriott it may be mentioned, filled the latter office from 1831 onwards. [DAVIDSON]— Notes taken during Travels in Africa, by the lata John Davidson, F.R.S., F.S.A., &c. 4to, title-page, &c., 411, pp. 213, and front, [view of Wadnom, from a sketch taken by J. Davidson) also plates at pp. 86 and 147. 1839 John Davidson was an enterprising traveller, whose peregrinations extended over Egypt, Palestine, Syria, United States, Mexico, Canada, Morocco, and other parts of Africa. He was educated for a physician, and his medical know- ledge proved of great use to him in his travels. His last journey (that to Africa) was in 1835—6. He arrived at the City of Morocco, February, 1836. — There he was well treated owing to the favour of the Sultan, who made him his physi- cian and who was very reluctant to part with him. About the end of November, he started for the Great Desert, on his route to Timbuctoo, and, when only fifteen days from the object of his journey, was waylaid by the tribe El-Harib, by one of whom he was deliberately shot. He was then about thirty-nine years of age, having been born in 1797. The journal consists only of rough and brief notes penned from day to day, often under the most unfavourable circumstances : hut it contains, nevertheless, much matter of interest. for Private Circulation, 41 [DAVIDSON'S (John)] Detached Musinga on the Organic, Physical, and other causes which operate in the formation of the various opi- nions and characteristics of men, ancillary to Philosophical and Christian Charity, Provi- dence Special and General — Volition — Neces- sity — " Solid Piety," &c. By an old Cosmo- polite, Author of a treatise on an Attribute of Deity — Letters to the Rev. Dr. Gumming, etc. 12mo, title-page, etc., 4 II. and pp. 193. 38 6d N.D. A portrait of the author (a remarkable looking old gentleman) is inserted. The author deals with the subjects mentioned on his title-page in a sensible and thoughtful, but not particularly novel manner. day's (John) Works, now first collected, with an Introduction and Notes, by A. H. Bullen. In seven parts. 4to. Part I (The Parliament of Bees) pp. vi and 77 : Part II (The Isle of Quis) pp. 2 and 109 : Part III (Humour out of Breath) pp. 2 and 78 : Part IV (Law-Tricks) pp. 91 : Part V (The Travails of the Three English Brothers) pp. viii and 91 : Part VI (The Blind-Beggar of Bethnal-Green) pp. 116 : Part Vll (Introduction, Peregrinatio Scholastica, Notes) pp. 104. £2 10s 1881 This is the first of the admirable series of reprints of Elizabethan literature, for which all scholars and students have so much reason to be deeply grateful to Mr. Bullen. Ue is an ideal editor : as painstaking on matters of fact as the most dry-as-dust antiquary, while having an unerring instinct for literary excellence —a point in which the editors of our old poets have too often boon deficient. Of the life of John Day, as of most of our old dra- matists, we know very little. The date of his birth and of his death are alike unknown to us. Our chief source of information about him is Henslowe's diary, from which we learn that he was a most industrious writer, as well as a very needy one. We find continual entries in it of small sums advanced to him on account of vari- ous plays which he was writing. He usually wrote (as was the custom of the time) in con- junction with other authors, his most frequent coadjutor being William Haughton. Of all the plays in which he was concerned only si^ (those mentioned a.bove) have come down to us. A place amongst the foremost dramatists of the Elizabethan age cannot be claimed for Day. He is perhaps only to be placed in the third rank of those great writers, whose productions, however faulty they may sometimes bo, owing to the haste with which they were compelled to work, are yet unsurpassed and unsurpassable in their forcible delineations of human character, their exquisite vein of poetical invention, their rich humour, and their heart-searching pathos. Mr. Bullen is too good a critic to claim more than his due place for Day amongst these giants. His summing up of his merits, whilst eminently sympathetic, is yet perfectly judicial : — " Day's merits are unobtrusive : his brightest work is of the thinnest texture. It is only in moments of the most abandoned idleness that we can sit down to enjoy to the full the dainty repartees of his court ladies, or the pretty pertness of his pages. At such times we think of Day, as of one of his own Bees, flitting in careless gaiety from flower to flower; now sipping the honeyed sweetness of Shakespeare's early comedies, then lighting on the fragrant exo- tics of Lyly, and again revelling in the ' blossomed bravery' of the ArmdwL He seems as one born to live a life of idleness, a lounger in the Castle of In- dolence, released from all ' the heavy trouble, the bewildering care,' that beset our work-a-day exis- tence He is no mocking-bird. His plays, as Mr. Gosse has remarked, ' testify to a talent, some- what out of sympathy with the main poetic current of the day.' The influence of Lyly is plainly distin- guishable ; but luckily the early comedies of Shake- speare were at hand to oppose the sometimes grace- ful but oftener tiresome euphuist." Mr. Bullen printed only one hundred and fifty copies of this book : and it is now rare and much sought after. It is to be hoped, in the interest of students of slender means, that he may see his way to publish a new edition. [DAWSON.]— Rambling Recollections of Past Times ; embracing a period from the termina- tion of the last till the close of the twentieth year of the present century. By Adam Daw- son, Esq., of Bounytoun. Svo, pp. 76. 59 Ist January, 1868 These " Recollections," originally appeared in the Falkirk Herald. They are very amusing, and contains many good stories and anecdotes, [DEANE.]— A Journal of the Campaign in Flan- ders, A.D. MDCC.VIIL, including the Battle of Oudenarde, and the Siege of Lille. By John Marshall Deane, of the first batta- lion of the Foot Guards. Svo, pp. viii and 69. (78 6d) not published, 1846 This journal waseditedby the Rev. JohnBathurst Deane, who restricted the number of copies printed to seventy-five. It is the genuine jour- nal of a private soldier, who describes what passed under his own eyes during the memora- ble campaign of the Allied Armies in Flanders in 1708 : a campaign no less remarkable for the discipline, activity and endurance of the British troops, than for the skill of their illustrious Ge- neral. We gather from the Journal that the soldier on shore was generally well cared for and comfort- able in his quarters. But the case was far diffe- rent at sea, as may be seen by the following ex- tracts from the Journal: — " While we lay on board we had continual distraction in ye foretop— ye Pox above board— ye Plague be- tween decks— Hell in ye forecastle, and ye Devil at ye Helm : so that we may easily judge what course we steered ; and amongst al other Pleagues, one of the greatest was wch. way to confound our allow- ance, wch. was so sparingly distributed amongst us that ye Purser was dayly blest with ye Souldiers Prayers, being grown as latt as whiping post— that indeed according to ye old saying : Sharp ye Word and sharp ye deed : and so sharp weather ; that for one while shall I care [not?] for any more voyages to ye Northward." " Thus having weathered ye Main Point and safely arrived att our desired haven, we bid adiew to ye wooden world: being translated from Purgatory to Parradise, and from pinch gutt to whole allow- ance, began to look like ourselves, in our old station, where taking a glass or two of brandy caused us to forget ve old grievance, though it was, rightly under- stood a fateauge for ye Devill." Devoid as private Deane was of literary art, it would not be easy, even for a Defoe, to equal the graphic force of the above passages — which bring home to us the fact that truth is, like beauty, " when unadorned adorned the most." 42 [DEAN.]— Private and Official Correspondence of R. B. Dean, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Customs, from 1819 to 1846. Roy. 8vo, pp. XV. and 617. ISs N.D. In a prefatory note the author says : " In my re- tirement from the public service I have revised my private and official correspondence, embrac- iDg a period of nearly tv^enty -seven years ; dur- ing which, under eight successive Administra- tions, I presided over the department of the Customs. Within that long period various and important changes have taken place. What part I took in these changes the letters will in some measure show." This is a volume of importance to all who are in- terested in questions concerning the Customs. The correspondence relates to almost every con- ceivable question that can arise in connection with the levying of Customs dues, the preven- tion of smuggling, &c. The copy I have was presented by the author to Sir Henry Wheatley ; and he has marked it "strictly private." It is the only copy I have ever seen or heard of. It is not mentioned by Martin. DEATH SCENES ; Extracted from Biographical and other Works, by E. C. Sharpin. 8vo, pp. ix and 395. 78 6d 1842 The following extract from Mr. Sharpin's Preface will explain his object in making this compila- tion : — " In the compilation of this series of Death Scenes, my object has been twofold : to select well-known characters and striking occurrences. Either may furnish an important lesson ; and indeed, what death-scene may not? We naturally desire to be in- formed, how those, whom the Almighty appears to have peculiarly set before the world as patterns or as warnings, conducted themselves on that awful occasion ; we are no less naturally inquisitive, when circumstances out of the ordinary course of events are connected with the hour of dissolution. To re- peat the words of Addison ' the dying man is one, whom sooner or later, we shall be sure to resemble :' what happens to him generally, cannot fail to hap- pen to ourselves: what may be more particularly his lot, may also possibly be our own. When we re- flect how soon ' the vast, unbounded prospect that lies before us ' may be opened to our view, it were to be more or less than man not to desire to pene- trate the ' darkness, clouds and shadows that rest upon it.' " DE BLAQUIERE's (Hon. Mrs.) Pilgrims; a Poem. 12mo, pp. 103. 38 1869 The following extract will give some idea of the style in which this poem is written : — " Where chesnnt woods, beyond Palermo's walls. Climb grassy knolls, and trickling water-falls In freedom revelling, babble loud and leap Foaming in wanton glee from steep to steep, Like silver ladders up the mountain heights ; Where all the colours of the southern lights Are spread, from their prismatic bonds untied, Seeming in rich confusion multiplied ; There — built in mockery of light and space — A Prison mars the charm of Nature's face ; Showing where misery and sin have trod — Man's shadow on the glorious work of God !" DENISON's (Lord Albert) Wanderings in search of Health. Cr. 8vo, pp. 319 and front. 38 6d 1849 The author's wanderings in search in health, led him to Malta, Greece and Italy. He tells the story of his travels in a very interesting and un- affected style. Catalogue of Books Printed [DELEPIERRE] — Joseph Octave DelepJerre ; born 12 March, 1802 ; Died, 18 August, 1879. In Memoriam. For Friends only. 4to, pp. 69 : also a portrait of Belepierre from a photo- graph by Dr. Diamond. 8e 6d ? 1880 This short memoir was compiled by Nicholas Trubner, who has appended to it a bibliographi- cal list of the many works written, edited, or translated by Delepierre. Delepierre was born at Bruges. His father brought him up after the system of Rousseau, as regards giving him during his early years, a physical and moral training only, vrithout the intervention of the schoolmaster. Consequently at the age of twelve he could neither read nor write, but his physique was finely developed, and he made rapid progress in learning when he once com- menced. After having completed his education and obtained the degree of Doctor of Laws, he was appointed to the keepership of the archives of the province of West Flanders in his native city of Bruges. Here he much distinguished himself by the manner in which he introduced order into the chaos of documents which were undfc'- his care. His investigations of the ma- terials in the archives led to the publication of many articles, pamphlets, and books relating to the history, biography, folk-lore, etc., of Flan- ders. In 1843 he was induced by his friend, M, Van deWeyer.to exchange Belgium for England. He was appointed one of M. Van de Weyer's Secretaries of legation, and, on the death of the then Belgian Consul, was appointed to succeed him. Delepierre soon became a great favourite in social and literary London circles, where his handsome person and dignified deportment never failed to attract attention. His own "salon," with its Sunday evening receptions, was for years quite a feature of London life. All Dele- pierre 's best works were produced whilst he re- sided in England. The subjects he chiefly pre- ferred belonged rather to the byeways of litera- ture than to the common pathways. The follies of man, his mental and moral aberrations, sin- gularities of literature, enigmas of life and man- ners, and the like, had a strange fascination for him ; and subjects such as these were those he wrote upon by preference. His works are very numerous, as the list printed in this volume shows, but they are no less valuable than nume- rous. He died at the age of seventy-eight at the house of his son-in-law, Mr. Nicolas Trubner, on the 18th of August, 1879. DESCRIPTIVE INDEX of the Contents of five Manuscript volumes, illustrative of the his- tory of Great Britain, in the Library of Dawson Turner, Esq. Roy. 8vo, pp. 176. 38 Great Yarmouth, 1851 This book belonged to Sir Frederick Madden, who has written in it — "These five volumes were purchased of Mr. Dawson Turner for the British Museum in 1853 for the sum of £1000. There are many errors in the printed description of the contents." Many of the letters contained in these volumes are of great historical value, and it is fortunate that they have found a final resting-place in the British Museum. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the Gallery of Pictures, collected by Edmund Higginson, Esq., of Saltmarshe. 4to, pp. 58. 38 1842 This valuable collection was particularly rich in examples of the Dutch school of painters. The various paintings are all carefully and fully described. for Private Circulation. 43 [DENISONl— A Brief Record. Being Selections from Letters and other Writings of the late Edward Denison, M.P. for Newark. Edited by Baldwyn Leighton, with a Preface. 8vo, pp. xi and 1 44 ; with a photographic portrait. 38 6d 1871 Edward Denison, son of the Bishop of Salisbury, was born in 1840. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1867 he be- came greatly interested in the question of the condition of the poor, and he established him- self at Stepney, with a view of studying and ameliorating, as far as laid in his power, the great distress which then existed amongst the labouring classes. The letters included in this volume are largely occupied in discussing the questions of pauperism, the right methods of relief, etc. Unfortunately his health gave way, and in 1869, he left England, on a voyage to Australia, which, it was thought, might re- establish his health. He died at Melbourne, Jan. 26, 1870, about a fortnight after he had landed there. He was a noble character, and had he lived would probably have had a distin- guished career. There is much matter of inte- rest in his letters. Thb Description and Explanation op a " Uni- versal Character," or Manner of Writing, that may be intelligible to the Inhabitants of every Country, although ignorant of each other's language ; and which is to be learnt with facility, because founded on a simple and easy mode of classifying our ideas, and re- quiring but few arbitrary signs. 4to, pp. 51 and 38 plates. 68 Bath, n.d., but circa 1840 I should say, judging from the plates in this volume, that the author took the idea of his system from the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians. I must confess myself incompetent to judge of the merits of his plan : but, in spite of the simplicity the author claims for it, it looks to me as if it were too complicated to have much chance of ever being generally adopted. But it is undoubtedly a system which should be examined by all who are in search of that greatly desirable, but, it may be feared, almost unat- tainable object, a universal language. DEUTSCHE LIEBE. Translated by M. J. Cr. 8vo, pp. 96. 28 6d 1863 This is an interesting book, though the sentiment is a little too gushing for sober English readers. I suppose it is, as represented, a translation from the German, though the fact that the au- thor (or assumed writer) of the story appears to be more familiar with such English poets as Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold than with Goethe and Schiller, would lead one to another conclusion. [DEVONSHIRE (Duchess of)]— Passage du Mont Saint-Gothard : Poeme par Madame la Duchesse de Devonshire, Traduit de I'An- glaise par M. I'Abbe de Lille, un des qua- rante de 1' Academic Francaise. 4to, pp. v & 44, portrait on copper of the Authoress and her sister ; and twenty lithographic views of the towns and mountains of Switzerland. 21 s Jmprimerie Lithographique de C. de Lasteyrie, rue du Bac No. 58 Martin mentions an edition of this poem, with an Italian translation by G. Polidori, printed in 1803, but does not refer to this. The Duchess of Devonshire's poem is given here in the original as well as in de Lille's transla- tion. It is a piece of very considerable merit, and was much admired by Coleridge, who made it the subject of one of his early poems. It is not without defects, as where the author writes of "beauteous horrors;" and, in the following stanza, " Th' industrious path " is surely a very odd as well as unpoetical expression : — " Midst towering cliffs and tracts of endless cold Th' industrious path pervades the rugged stone, And seems— Helvetia let thy toils be told — A granite girdle o'er the mountain thrown." The lithographic views are from designs by Lady Elizabeth Foster and Lady Bessborough. The Duchess of Devonshire was famous for her beauty, and the fine portrait which the book contains shows that fame, iu this respect, was only just. [DEVONSHIRE (Dukeof)]-A Sketch of the Life of the Sixth Duke of Devonshire. Third Edition. 4to, pp. 96. 6s 6d 1870 WUliam Spencer Cavendish was born at Paris in 1790, and succeeded his father in 1811 as Duke of Devonshire. Being in possession of immense wealth, he commenced all sorts of projects, re- gardless of expense. He began by following the example of his uncle. Lord Spencer, in pur- chasing rare books and early editions. He had also a passion for making alterations at his various residences, and he got entangled in a contested election at Youghal, which proved very expensive. " These expenses," says his biographer, "added to former debts, made it necessary for him to sell the town [!] of Weather- by, in Yorkshire, and afterwards Londes- borough in the same county." One may par- donably doubt whether it should be in any one man's power to own two considerable towns, even though it may be such a one as the Duke, who made, on the whole, a good use of his enor- mous possessions. In 1819 he commenced his great alterations and improvements at Chats- worth, imderthe direction of Sir Jeffrey Wyatt- ville. He afterwards acquired a great taste for botany, which led to his forming an arboretum, and building a great conservatory at Chats- worth, which was completed in 1836. He was always most magnificent in his encouragement of the fine arts, and was very generous in alleviating the distresses of the less fortunate professors of painting, sculpture, music, and literature. He died at Hardwick on the 18th of Jan., 1858. The sketch of the Duke's life in this volume (the author of which gives no further clue to his identity than his signature, "A. W. C") is rather a bald one, but it is enriched by a number of letters from various persons who were well acquainted with the Duke, and who give their recollections of him. There are also many interesting notices of him, collected from vari- ous quarters. It may be worth while to men- tion that the third edition contains consider- ably more matter than the first, which was printed in 1860 or 1861. [DIALECT].— The Book of Ruth, in the North- umberland Dialect, from the Authorized Ver- sion, by J. P. Robson. 32mo, pp. 24. 68 1860 This is one of the works in English dialect which Prince Lucien Bonaparte caused to be undcr- taJcen. Only 250 copies were printed. 44 Catalogue of Books Printed DIARY OP THE LATB WiLtiAM Qbat, Esq., of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire. 8vo, pp. 63. 38 6d N.D. This is a melancholy and rather morbid produc- tion. Mr. Gray was unfortunate in his early life, and met with a good many mischances, but he seems (judging from his diary) to have been of a gloomy disposition, and always brooding over his spiritual shortcomings. In his later life he became prosperous, but, though the early part of the diary is filled with complaints of his poverty, he notes that his good fortune ren- dered him no happier. Perhaps his diary does him injustice (in which case it should not have been printed) but it certainly leaves an impres- sion ou the reader's mind that he must have been an unamiable person. [DILLWYN s (Lewis Weston)] Memoranda rela- ting to Coleopterous Insects found in the neighbourhood of Swansea. Roy. 8vo, pp. 75. 68 6d [1829] In his prefatory note, the author says : — " Without ever having made Entomology a principal study, it was my amusement for several years, when walking in the neighbourhood, to collect Coleopterous Insects, and to make memoranda of the situations in which they are usually found, and of any circumstance relating to their habits or specific characters that appeared to be worth no- tice. The names of the species thus collected have been obtained from Mr. Marsham, the Rev. Mr. Kirby, Dr. Leach, Mr. Stephens, or Mr. Samouelle, and as they rest on such good authorities, I have here arranged my notes by Mr. Stephen's Systema- tic Catalogue, with the hope that they may be of service to any Entomologist who happens to visit Swansea. [DISNEY]— NugDe Poeticse, being a Selection of Miscellaneous Poems. By John Disney, Esq., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. 4to, pp. xii and 164. 33 Chelmsford, 18.^6 The author states that these poems were written at various periods : some as long ago as 1796, when he was a student at Cambridge, the rest during the ensuing sixty years. They are mostly slight occasional pieces; some of them display a playful and humourous fancy. DODSWORTH's (Mrs.) Fugitive Pieces. 12mo, pp. iv and 107. 28 6d Canterbury, 1802 These poems are chieflyf trifling effusions suggested by domestic incidents; or epistlos to friends,&c. DIXON 's (Richard Watson) Lyrical Poems. 4 to, title-page, &c., 4 11. and pp. 62. £1 Is H. Daniel, Oxford, 1887 One hundred and five copies printed, of which this is No. G.5. I think my readers will thank me for quoting the following fine poem . — "WINTER WILL FOLLOW.' The heaving roses of the hedge are stirred By the sweet breath of summer, and the bird Makes from within his jocund voice be hoard. The winds that kiss the roses sweep the sea Of uncut glass, whose billows rolling free Half drown the hedges which part lea from lea. But soon shall look the wondering roses down Upon an empty field cut close and brown, That lifts no more its lieight against their own. And in a little white tho^e roses bright, Leaf after leaf, shall flutter from their height And on the reaped tield lie pink and white. ' And yet again the bird that sings so high Shall ask the snow lor alms with piteous cry, Take fright in his bewildering bower, and die DIXON's (Richard Watson) The Story of Eudocia and her Brothers. 4to, pp. vi and 35. 2l8 Printed by H. Daniel, Oxford, 1888 Only 50 copies printed, of which the present ex- emplar is No. 30. The author says, in his Preface: — " Of the successful use of the live-beat couplet verse in original serious narrative poems, there are few examples si nee Chaucer. Indeed there are not many examples altogether, whether successful or unsuc- cessful, of this verse used in original serious narra- tive. The verse has been called the standard mea- sure of English poetry : and in miscellaneous, medi- tative, or satirical poetry, and in sportive narrative it may be the standard measure I cannot hope to have succeeded in a task in which some have failed, and which most have declined : for most of the original serious narrative poems in our language (leaving blank verse out of the question) are written not in couplets, but in some stanza or another." ' The Story of Eudocia and her Brothers ' is taken from the annals of Byzantium. Theodosius, the Emperor of Byzantium, marries Atheuais, after- wards styled Eudocia, a maiden of comparatively humble birth. The story of his jealousy and ill- treatment of her, and of the troubles of her brothers, forms the substance of Mr. Dixon's verse. It is a very interesting narrative, and is well told by our author. I do not think he has altogether overcome the difficulties he al- ludes to in his preface, of writing a narrative poem in the five-beat couplet, but he has cer- tainly come very near to entire success. I should like to quote a few lines, but it is diffi- cult to find any which would (apart from the general flow of the story) do justice to the au- thor's talents. DIXON's (Richard Wataon) Odea and Eclogues, sm. 4to, title page, &c., 4 leaves, and pp. 37. £1 Is Printed at Oxford by Henry Daniel, 1884 Only 100 copies printed, of which this is No. 79. It is a safe prediction, that in time to come the productions of Mr. Daniel's private press will be eagerly sought after by intelligent collectors, since they have not only their intrinsic merits to recommend them, but also their comely ap- parel. Mr. Dixon's Poems have won high ap- proval from the best judges. Dante Rossetti greatly admired his writings, and never lost an opportunity of advising his friends to read them. In one of his letters to Mr. Hall Caine he says : " There is an admirable but totally unknown living poet named Dixon. 1 will send you two small vols of his which he sent me long ago, but please take good care of them, and return them as soon as done with. I value them highly His tinest pas- sages are as tine as any living man can do." Douglas's (Evelyn) Love Sonnets. 8vo, pp. 72. 78 6d Chelmsford, 1889 The author of these sonnets is a true poet, of whom we should hear a good deal in the future, if he can fulfil the promise which this volume holds forth. I quote a specimen sonnet, which however, is not perhaps the best that might be chosen: — Joy in desire, more than desire of joy Hath ever been my passion : mute from far To love an unknown woman like a star ; To build in dreams no waking could destroy Some island-palace far from life's annoy ; By strength of spirit to force the silver bar Of twilight till the dawn-gates stood ajar, And craze on Paradise, a dazzled boy; To look forth o'er the ocean's grey-lit foam In the dim morning ; and in starry night Upcn the myriad-mustered worlds above ; Ti.) emulate the unequalled, Greece and Rome, Heroes and deeds, the heads of faith and tight : To adore thee whom I may scarcely love. for Private Cifculation. 45 [DRAKE]. — Some unpubb'shed Papers relating to | the Family of Sir Francis Drake, edited by the Rev. Thomas Hervey, Rector of Colmer, Hants. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 103. Ss 6d Colmer, 1887 This book was printed as well as edited by the Rev. Thomas Hervej'. The volume contains a brief biography of Sir Francis Drake: genealogical accountsof his des- cendants, &c. : a Sermon preached at the fune- ral of Dorothy Lady Drake: various memoranda by Elizabeth Lady Drake : Letters, &c., of An- thony Duncomb: Thalia Triumphans, a Congra- tulatory Poem to the Honourable Sir Fran. Hen. Drake, on his happy marriage, by Elka- nah Settle : Letters of Francis Samuel Drake, one of which gives an account of the execution of Admiral Byng, of which he was an eyewit- ness : and various miscellanies relating to the family. DRAMATIC Sketches in Rome. 12mo, pp. 89. 3a 1853 The First Sketch is'called, "Claudius, Emperor:" the Second "Vespasian, Emperor." The ' Sketches ' are not without merit ; but though dramatic in form, they show little power of cha- racterization, and small skill in delineating the conflict of passions, the essential elements of success in play-writing. [DRAYTON].— Selections from the Poems of Michael Drayton. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Sm. 4to, pp. xxiii and 199. 128 6d 1883 Only 155 copies printed. From the Editor's excellent Introduction, I ex- tract the following passage: — " No poet is more thoroughly English than Michael Drayton ; there is not a poem in our literature that breathes a finer spirit of patriotism than the Ballad of Agincourt : and who loved better than the author of the " Polyolbion " all the highways and byeways of England, its hills and dales, its woods and streams ! In an age remarkable for powerful intel- lects, Michael Drayton held a distinguished place. He cultivated many kinds of poetry, and much of his work is of rare excellence : many of his lyrics are wonderfully spirited ; a few of his sonnets are quite first-rate ; for fantastic grace his fairy poem, the "Nimphidia" is unequalled; his long choro- graphical poem, the "Polyolbion" carries the reader along through hundreds of pages in the swing and sweep of the bounding verse ; and the " Muses Eli- zium," published one year before his death, when he had nearly attained the age of threescore years and ten, takes us into that old pastoral world, of which we never tire, where there was 'truth on every shepherd's tongue,' and no lack of clouted cream and syllabub." This is truly as well as eloquently said ; and it is to be hoped that Mr. Bullen 's capital selection from Drayton's voluminous writings will help to make better known to modern readers the fine old poet, who, in spite of the uustinted praise bestowed upon him by such worthies as Lamb and Hazlitt, is still far too little read or appreciated. I understand that a new edition of Mr. Bullen's "Selection" will shortly be published. DREW'S (Rear- Admiral) A Narrative of the Cap- ture and Destruction of the Steamer ' Caro- line,' and her descent over the Falls of Nia- gara on the night of the 29th of December, 1837 : with a Correepondence. 8vo, pp. 31. 6s 1864 A brilliant deed of arms is here chronicled, viz. the taking under cover of night of the Rebel Steamer 'Caroline,' which was then set fire to, and, whilst burning, went over the Falls of Nia- gara. How magnificent a spectacle was this ! On the American side of the river the rebels were collected, watching the destruction of their most important ship, whilst on the other side were the British troops, who had lighted enormous fires on the shore in order to aid the return of the gallant men who had successfully accomplished a most hazardous task. Here is a subject worthy of the pencil of some future Turner— if nature ever produces such another genius ! DRUMMOND's (William) Byblis, a Tragedy. Royal 8vo, pp. 67. 58 1802 This play has considerable merit. Its plot is well developed, and it has some powerful scenes. It is written in the last century declamatory style, as the following passages will show: — " Byllis. The world without, Aspasia, takes its tints Prom that within, and pleases, as it seems To wear that colouring which the soul would lend it. In vain for me sweet Nature is arrayed In the green garment of the youthful spring, And all the rich luxuriance of the year. Me most she pleases, when involved in gloom She shrouds the wintry sky in night obscure, Sends forth the whirlwind on the naked heath, Or pours the tempest prone upon the plain." " Ne'er be it thought, that he who rules above The cause of Nature, and the source of life. Rejoices in the blood of victims slain. Beware my parents. Superstition works Strange miracles on man. This shuts the ears Of pity to the cries of innocence. Unmans the hero, and degrades the king. This hardens the cold heart of selfish age ; This turns to pale the florid hues of youth ; This makes the father immolate the child ; And arms the furies to afflict the world." DRUMMOND's (The Right Honorable Sir W.) The CEdipus Judaicus. 8vo, pp. Ixxxii and 381, with "Postscript," 1 leaf, and 16 plates. 15s 1811 The author, in his Preface, thus explains the de- sign of his book, and his reasons for not pub- lishing it for general circulation : — "I pretend that the Ancient Jews, like other nations of antiquity, had their esoteric and their exoteric doctrines. They concealed the former under innu- merable types and symbols, the meaning of which is generally unknown among their descendants. It is the object of my book to explain the hidden sense of many passages in the Hebrew Scriptures; but as Christians are, for the most part, so well satisfied with the literal sense, as never to look for any other, except when it is thought that some allusion is made to the Advent of Christ, I feel my- self unwilling to publish any explanations of the original text, which may not coincide with those notions concerning its meaning which are most commonly received. Besides, there may be pas- sages in this volume which are capable of alarming the timid, and of provoking prejudice. Ignorance bears ill being told, that it has much to learn : and to instruct pride is to affront it." After some further remarks respecting the oblo- quy and persecution to which those authors are exposed who dare to dispute the reigning opi- nions in religion and philosophy. Sir William proceeds thus :— " To a small circle I think myself at liberty to observe, that the manner in which theChristian readers of the Old Testament generally choose to understand it, appears to me to be a little singular. While the Deity is represented with human passions, and those none of the best ; -while he is described as a quar- relsome, jealous, and vindictive being ; — while he is shown to be continually changing his plans for the moral government of the world ;— and while he ia 46 Catalogue of Books Printed DRUMMOND (Rt. Hon. Sir W.)— con<. depicted as a material and local God, who dwelt on a box made of Shittim wood in the temple of Jerusa- lem ;— they abide by the literal interpretation. They see no allegory in the first chapters of Genesis; nor doubt, that far the greater portion of the human race is doomed to suffer eternal torments, because our first parents ate an apple, after having been tempted by a talking serpent. They find it quite simple, that the triune Jehovah should dine on veal cutlets at Abraham's table ; nor are they at all sur- prised that the God of the universe should pay a visit to Ezekiel, in order to settle with the Prophet, whether he should bake liis bread with human dung or with cow's duug. In these examples the Chris- tian readers of the Hebrew Scriptures understood no allegory. They believe the facts to have hap- pened literally as they are stated ; and neither sus- pect nor allow, that the language of the sacred wri- ters upon such occasions may be entirely figurative. Very different is their mode of interpreting those same Scriptures, when they think there is any allu- sion made to the Kingdom of Christ. Then they abandon the literal sense without scruple, and sometimes, it may be thought, without considera- tion. The Rabbins learn with astonishment, that, the Song of Solomon, for example, is a mere alle- gory, which represents the love of Jesus for his Church ; and that the lady, whose navel was like a round goblet, not wanting liquor,— whose belly was like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies,— whose nose was as the tower of Lebanon, which loaketh towards Damascus, — and who promised to her well- beloved, that he should lie all night, betwixt her breasts,— was not Solomon's mistress, but the Church, the spiritual spouse of Christ My notions of the Divine nature may be very heterodox, but they do not permit me to attribute human in- firmities to God. I cannot suppose the Deity first creating our little earth, and then fretting because he had done so. I cannot ascribe to him all the scolding and cursing about idolatry ; aU the squab- bling about capricious laws, and all that prattling and gossipping about insignificant rites and ceremo- nies, which so frequently occur in the Jewish le- gends. I cannot allow myself to imagine that the Sacred Writers were speaking literally when they talked of these things ; and I feel myself compelled either to consider their writings as impositions on the credulity of mankind, or to believe that they are chiefly, if not entirely, allegorical compositions." Sir W. Drummond supports his opinions with a great deal of learning and ingenuity; and his ideas, whether sound or unsound, are unques- tionably the outcome of a sincere and strenuous search after truth. Though the progress, since his time, of investigation into the history of ancient faiths may have disproved some of his speculations, yet his book is still worth consul- ting on account of the great quantity of curious and recondite knowledge which it contains. [DRUMMOND's (Sir William)] Memoir on the Antiquity of the Zodiacs of Esneh and Den- dera. &vo, pp. 191, and 3 -plates. 78 6d 1821 Martin describes this book as containing pp. Ill and two plates : mistakes which it is not very easy to account for. Sir W. Drummond says, in explanation of the de- sign of this work : — "The antiquity of these zodiacs must be decided, if it be decided at all, by the internal evidence which they themselves furnish. It seems, however, to be generally agreed, that they were intended to 'repre- sent the state of the heavens at the commencement of a Sothic period ; andconsequently that they may be referred, with the greatest probability, either to the year 1782 before Christ, or to the year 1322 be- fore Christ, or to the year 138 after Christ. Before 1 proceed to canvas these questions, or to examine the zodiacs, I shall make some remarks : yirst, upon the system of chronology which is generally received— secoTwZZy, upon ;^he progress which the Ancient Egyptians, and the Orientalists in general, had made in the science of astronomy — and thirdly upon the origin of the zodiacal symbols." DUBOURG's (Augustus W.) Caught in a Web : au Original Comedy, in three acts. 12mo, pp. 47 no dale Mr. Dubourg is the author of several dramas and comedies. He wrote in conjunction with Tom Taylor, " New Men and old Acres," a comedy which had a very successful run. ' ' Caught in a Web," is a well-written piece, but, though de- scribed as original, it reads much like an adap- tation from the French. DUCKETT's (Sir G. F., Bart.) Record-Evidences, among Archives of the Ancient Abbey of Clu- ni, from 1077 to^l534 ; Illustrative of the his- tory of some of our early kings ; and many of its English aflBliated foundations. Refe- rences to Records, and description from Delisle's Catalogue of the National Library of France. Roy. 8vo, pp. 64, 6s 1886 The Benedictine Abbey of Cluni, which was founded A.D. 910, was situated about 15 miles from Maun, in ancient Burgaudy, in the De- partment of Saone-et-Loire. Celebrated as the training school of four Popes, and for the Re- formation of the Benedictine order, undertaken by its 9th abbot, Peter the Venerable, it attained to a pitch of great prosperity and in- fiuence, which it retained up to the sixteenth century. Then it became exposed, like aU monastic institutions in France, to the evils of civil and religious war, and sufifered much from the outrages of the Calvinists. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, it fell a prey to the decrees of the Republic, and it is, at the pre- sent time in complete ruins. The object of Sir George Duckett's work is to draw attention to the numerous documents concerning English histoi-y which the Archives of Cluni contained, many of which, though scattered in different Quarters, are still in exis- tence. They are of great importance for the illustration of events in England from the Con- quest to the reign of Henry Vlll., and have much value in elucidating various obscure points, and as contributing to the settlement of various controverted questions. [DUDLAY].— The Tree of Common Wealth : a Treatise by Edmonde Dudlay, Esq., Barrister- at-Law ; sometime Speaker of the House of Commons ; President of the Privy Council of Henry VII.; and one of that King's Com- missioners for receiving the forfeitures of Penal Statutes. Written by him while a Prisoner in the Tower, in the years 1509 and 1510, and under Sentence of Death for High Treason. Now first Printed from a Copy of his Manuscript for the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross. 4to, pp. xix and 66. 168 Manchester ; Printed by Charles Simms <£• Co., 1859 Only 140 copies printed, including ten on large paper. Edmonde Dudley was the father of the Earl of Northumberland, who lost his life in conse- quence of his attempt to make Lady Jane Grey the Queen of England, and the grandfather of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Edmonde Dudley paid the forfeit of his life in the first year of Henry VIII., for the abominable ex- for Private Circulation. 4f [DUDLAY]— con*. tortions which he had exacted when acting with Richard Empson as Henry the Seventh's Com- missioners for receiving the forfeitures of Penal Statutes. The avaricious and grasping king profited by their extortions, and was thus primarily responsible for their crimes ; but they were certainly willing tools, and ajipear to have bettered their instructions, so that they richly deserved their fate. •'The Tree of Common Wealth" is a singular literary production, which seems to have been written with the hope that it might be perused by Henry VIII. ; and might move him to par- don its author. It seems to me to be rather a curious than a valuable production, but it has some interesting passages. It is stated in the preface that the manuscript having come into the possession of a few antiquarian friends, they thought it right to preserve, by the aid of the press, what might otherwise soon perish. Why these antiquarians should have called themselves " The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross " does not appear. [DUDLEY (Howard)].— The History and Anti- quities of Horsham. By the Author of Ju- venile Researches. Illustrated by wood en- gravings and lithographic views. 12mo, title-page, etc., 6 II., pp. 74, and 12 separate illustrations, besides several woodcuts in the text. lOs 6d 1836 This little work is a decided curiosity, as it was written, illustrated and printed, by a youth who was only fifteen years of age. It is a very creditable production ; and the illustrations, considering the artist's youth, and the fact that he was entirely self-taught, are not without merit, though somewhat rude in execution. Howard Dudley was born in 1820. When only fourteen years of age he printed and issued a little book, called "Juvenile Researches, or a description of some of the principal towns in the Western parts of Sussex, and the borders of Hants. '■ This, like the ' ' History of Horsham, " was illustrated by numerous engravings ; and his success in these juvenile efforts led him to adopt the art of wood- engraving as his profes- sion. In this he attained a high degree of pro- ficiency, and he practised his art successfully until his death in 1864. He was an amiable man, and a pleasant and witty companion. [DUNKIN's (Alfred John)] Memoranda of Spring- head and its Neighbourhood during the Primeval Period. 8vo, pp. 154; also portrait of the author, and plates of antiquities. 78 6d One hundred copies printed for private circulation, 1848 This book is well worth consulting by all who are interested in the early history of Britain. It contains much information about the aborigines and their conflicts with the Belgje and the Romans. The author says that when he com- menced printing his book he intended to have made it "A History of Kent in the Primeval Period," but circumstances compelled him to vary his plan. However, he hoped to be enabled to present the public in a few years, with a work upon Springhead and its neigh- bourhood, for which he had accumulated vast materials. I do not think, however, that this promised work ever appeared. THE DUKE OF FLORENCE, a Tragedy, in five acts. By One of the Medici. 8vo, pp. 111. 4s 6d 1843 The subject of this tragedy is the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici, in 1537. It is the work of a cultivated and scholarly writer, and is not devoid of merit. It contains some well-con- trived scenes, and some few good lines, but alas ! it has the fatal defect of being almost unreadable. The following lines (spoken by a Greek) are the most quotable I can find : — " He sneers at destiny who sneers at Greece ! It tramples us, but scatters not the dust In which we crnmhle ; — from the hoard, secure. Where fell the ruin, there to build it up. Earth's chosen sons, when earth and time were young, Eldest of those who helped to store renown, Though beggared now. Fame's title-deeds are ours. And Fate that holds them, will approve them good." [DUNCAN'S (P. B.)] Essays and Miscellanea. 12mo, pp. viii and 420. 48 6d 1840 The chief essays in this volume are as follows : — On Conversation : On Quackery : Essay on Botany : History of the Science of Zoology : History of Museums, etc. Under the head of "Miscellanea," it contains a variety of anec- dotes and short extracts from various sources. DUNN'S (Sarah Jane) Poems. Sq. 8vo, pp. 32. 28 6d 1870 This booklet contains two poems which were writ- ten by a poor girl deformed by spinal, and suffe- ring also from heart disease, who had received no education beyond that supplied by a charity school. The first poem was written at the ago of sixteen, and expresses her sorrow at the death of her sister, a child who died at the age of ten. It has considerable pathos, as the fol- lowing extract vrill show : — MY SISTER. Did yon ever see her — The little fairy sprite. Who came glancing through the household Like a ray of golden light , Whose little feet kept dancing, Never weary, until eve Threw its purple shadow o'er us, And her good-night kiss she gave ? And you did not see her When those pattering feet were still, When the little hands were folded. Not by their sweet owner's will ; When the eyes were closed so gently, And the soft and curly hair By the hands of friends was parted From her forehead pure and fair ? And you did not see her When they closed the coffin lid. And our little fairy darling From our sight for ever hid ? With her going went our sunlight, From that hour 'tis ever gone ; Can we say, with truth and calmness. Not our will, but Thine be done ? [D'URBAN]. — Public Documents showing the Character of Sir Benjamin D'Urban's Admi- nistration of the Government of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, especially with regard to the Katfir Tribes beyond its fron- tier, from the beginning of 1834 to the be* ginning of 1838. 8vo, pp. 109. Ss Cape Tovm, 1838 48 Catalogue of Books Printed EBSWORTH (Rev. J. W.) Cavalier Lyrics : ' For Church and Crown.' 8vo, pj). xxxvi and 200, xnlK scviral Ulnstrations engraved by the author. 2l8 1887 Mr. Ebswortli is vf ell known as the editor of some of Braithwaito's works, of 3 vols of "Drolleries of the Kestoration," and of the Roxburgh Bal- lads, which he has edited for the Ballad Society. In the department of Ballad Literature, it is sale to say that he is far and away the tnost learned and accomplished professor now living. That he can write excellent ballads, as well as edit them, the presejit volume is a conclusire proof. Of Mr. Ebsworth it may be said with literal truth that he has been born out of his due time. He should have been one of the gallant cavaliers whom he sings of, when he would have fought as bravely, and supported the cause of ' Church and Crown,' as powerfully with his pen as any of King Charles's soldiers or poets. Here is, what may be styled, Mr. Ebsworth's "confession of faith" — a confession, however, which may be subscribed to, without necessarily subscribing also to a belief in high Toryism or high Church- ism : — "Surely we need more of the Cavalier spirit among us. If we had it, we might then take life pleasant- ly, working no less industriously, without being so noisy about our religion or decrying other people's irreligion. Too much commotion is made, far too much nonsense is talked, and rabid Salvationist rant encouraged, by those who ought to know bet- ter. Let us avoid sanctimoniousness as we desire to avoid rebellion. The favourers of the one are prone to the other. Mawworm and Anarchus gene- rally hunt in couples as they did of old. Let us re- sist the encroachments of Puritanical intolerance and ugliness, physical or moral. Laugh to silence the re-assertors that " Beauty is only skin deep." Who wishes to go deeper than the surface, and bur- row down into the skeleton? Love a fair face with- out disguise or shame ; for the Platonic doctrine is true, and a beautiful soul is generally found in a beautiful casket. The mind fashions its receptacle in harmony ; although it has a hard task before it, after many generations have been brutalised by a sordid Puritanism. Let us love whatever deserves to be loved, and not insult humanity by morbid discontent, vivisecting all that is fair, all that is holy, in distrust and conventicle malevolence. If life be made brighter to others, by sweetness and openheartedness, we cannot fail to share the happi- ness we so readily extend. That is the Cavalier faith and practice. It will be long before anybody finds abetter." It may be feared that Mr. Ebsworth, like other worshippers of the past, views the Cavaliers through a halo of glory formed by his own fine spirit ; for admitting his denunciations of the Puritans to be in some degree justified, it is certain that there was plenty of self-seeking and double-dealing among the Royalists also. But the adherents of a lost cause must always be looked upon with respect, for they, we are cer- tain, are not actuated by unworthy motives. I should be glad to quote two or three of the ballads in this volume, in order to give a fair idea of their quality : but I must content myself with the following short piece :— LEFT ON THE BATTLEFIELD. (Naseby, June 14, 1645). ' If 'twere to do again, who'd change? Not I, who lost, and pay ; Vet to he dying here seems strange ; Sad close to my last day ! I waken from my fever-dream, The dying 'neath the dead ; I hear men groan, the night-bird Scream : I see the stars o'er&pread. " One hand I still can move, and feel My wounds are bound in frost ; I pluck from out my side the steel : How was the battle lost? It comes to memory, onslaught fiercej We made on Iretou's line : When through my breast his sword did pierce, And on his helm broke mine. " My staunch Black Bayard weighs across My crush'd and shatter'd limb ; We lie together, deep in moss; Sometimes my senses swim : I close my eyes, there comes again The face I loved most dear ; Then throbs once more this burning pain, Again that groan I hear. " Better to drowse away from life, To seek yon distant sky. Than still rush on from strife to strife 1 It is not hard to die. Could she, my Mabel, see me now ; — She armed me for the fight — I know she'd bend, and kiss my brow, I've earned it well. Good-night ! [EDWARDS (Jonathan)] Selections from the Un- published Writings of Jonathan Edwards, of America. Edited from the original MSS., with facsimiles and an Introduction, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Kinross, Royal 8vo, pp. 209 and facsimiles. 4s 6d 1865 The Editor states, in his Introduction, that he in- tended to edit a new and complete edition of the works of Jonathan Edwards. With that inten- tion he crossed the Atlantic in order to examine the MSS. of Edwards which are now preserved in the hands of his descendents. Amongst them he found the various treatises, etc., which make up the present volume. The design of issuing a new edition of the works being abandoned, or at least suspended, he determined to issue the pre- sent volume for private circulation amongst a limited number of subscribers. The volume consists of a Treatise on Grace, Annotations on the Bible, Directions for Judging of Persons' Experiences, and a number of Sermons. E's (T. W. E.) From Devonshire to Yorkshire on Wheels, 1882. 4to, pp. 103. 58 1882 This is a lady's diary of a Journey through Eng- land in a phaeton. It seems to have been a very pleasant jaunt, and the lady concludes by saying that she can strongly recommend any one who is fond of driving to make a tour of this description, bercause in this way only can the beauties and charms of our English rural scenery be properly seen and appreciated. The narrative of the adventures of the party is well told, and the lady's powers of description not only bring the different scenes vividly before the reader, but lead him to envy her good fortune in being able to make so pleasant a journey, and see so many interesting things. THE EASTER EGG : Intended to be an Easter Present for Children, and translated appro- priately by E. G., for her grandchildren. 16mo, pp. 88. 28 6d Marcus Ward, N.D. Extract from the Preface : — " The following little tale on the subiect of the beauti- tiful meaning and high intention of the Holy Easter Feast was read, once upon a time, to several children at a very pleasant instructive entertainment ; and not only little ones, but many growti people who were present, listened to it with much pleasure, As I have thought, my dear children, that the story might give pleasure, not only to you, but to your elder sis- ters and brothers, and even to your p.irents, I have condensed it into a small form as an Easter present for you.'* for Private Circulation. 49 EDWARDS' (Edward) A Letter to Sir Martin Archer Shea, F.R.S., President of the Royal Academy, on the Reform of tho Royal Aca- demy. With observations on the Evidence respecting the Academy, given before the select Committee of the Commous on Arts and Manufactures. 8vo, pp. 44. 3a 6d 1S39 EQERTON's (Lady Frances) Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land, in May and June, 1810. 8vo, pp. 141, and 4 lithographic views from sketches by Lord Francis Egerton. 3s 1821 Lady Egerton 's journal is written in a plain and unpretentious style. She has nothing very new or original to impart, but the story of her wan- derings may nevertheless bo read with interest, and, considering how little things change in the East, with profit, by any one who intends to go thither. EGYPT ; ITS Highways and Blways. With some peeps into nooks and corners of Cairo and Alexandria. By F. A. C. Cr. 8vo, pp. iv and 84. Ss 1882 This is an amusing little book, which does not tell us very much about Egypt, but gives us instead a good deal about its author's adventures and misadventures. As tho author remarks, it tells us nothing about Cleopatra's Pillar, Pompey's Pillar, or the Pyramids ; but we get instead much about fleas, cockroaches, donkeys and Arabs. This is rather an agreeable change, for only a writer of first-rate talent can now contrive to interest us very much in that often-described, though ever-mysterious, cradle of art and civi- lisation. THE EIGHTEENTH OF NOVEMBER, 1852. 4to, pp. 25, with three woodcuts. Ss 6d 1853 This is a poem which was suggested by the public funeral of the Duke of Wellington on Nov. 18, 1852. It expresses well the feeling of universal regret and mourning which the death of Eng- land's greatest modern soldier aroused. I believe the poem was written by the Earl of Ellesraere. ELEVEN DEEDS of the Times of Henry III. and Edward I., from amongst the Court Rolls of the Manor of Keswick ; also the Deed of Sale of the Advowson of Intwood, 7th Edward I. 1279, in the possession of Hudson Gurney, Esquire. 8vo, pp. 30. 48 ed 18 11 This has an inscription on the title-page to the following effect — " Given to me by Mr. Hudson Gurney, 30 May, 1842, William J." Thorns." ELLIOTT'S (Charles Alfred) The Chronicles of Oonao, a district in Oudh. 8vn, pp. ix and 156. 88 6d Allahabad, 1862 The author, an Indian official, who was stationed for some time in the district about which he writes, states that his object in printing it was to test his belief that an accurate and intimate knowledge of tho pnst history of an average district, would not only have its value for the officials or residents of the district itself, but would also afford useful information to the stu- dent of Indian history, and would not be devoid of interest to the general reader. He also states that he had long been engaged in tho collection of materials for a general History of Oudh, and he hoped that other officials and residents in that country would rendc him assistance in that de- sign, as they woidd see from tho present work the kind and nature of information which he desired to obtain. His work is well done, and should be consulted by all who are interested in Indian history and politics. ELWES' (Dudley George Gary) The Family of De Braose, 1066—1326. 8vo, pp. 57. Sa 1883 This genealogical essay was published in tho pages of "The Genealogist," a few copies being printed separately for private distribution . Mr. Elwes says that he had hoped to continue the history of tho family down almost to the pre- sent time, but that want of leisure has rendered this design for the present impossible. [ELY'S (Lady)] Mafeesh, or Nothing New ; the Jnurnal of a Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, the Sinai Desert, Petra, Palestine, Syria, and Russia. In Two Volumes. Vol I, pp. viii and 331. Vol II, pp. iv and 372. Ss 6d 1870 Lady Ely's narrative of her tour begins with her departure from Trieste. "Our party," she says, " consisted of Ely, myself, Dr. Coulthard, Mr. Bobbins, my maid, and two couriers." They do not seem to have met with any startling experiences, but the account of their peregrina- tions may, nevertheless, be read with interest, for they travelled with that determination to see everything worth seeing which English tourists usually display. The tour seems to have been a very enjoyable one, though the travellers had, of course, a few discomforts to encounter here and there. Lady Ely describes the various incidents of the journey in an ani- mated and unaffected style. Anyone about to undertake a similar tour would do well to read Lady Ely's book. [ENGRAVINGS.]— Proof Impressions of Engrav- ings designed to Illustrate Mr. Roscoe's Cata- logue of the Manuscript Library at Holkham, Folio, Title-page and index, 2 leaves and 25 plates. 123 6d 1835 Only fifty copies printed. Amongst the plates in the collection are the fol- lowing : — A portrait of Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of England, 1613— 1616 : Bust of Tho- mas Coke, who was created Earl of Leicester under the Walpole administration, and by whom the House at Holkham was built, and the noble treasures in Learning and Art there assembled were collected : a variety of engrav- ings copied from iUuminations in various ma- nuscripts of the Gospels, Breviaries, &c., pre- served at Holkham, &c. Tho engravings and etchings were executed by C. Edwards, Mrs. Dawson Turner, R. Girling, and Misses M. A. and H. Turner. [ERASMUS.]— Des Erasmi Rot. Concio de Puero Jesu, olim pronunciata a puero in Scbola Jo- annis Coleti Londini Institutu in qua Pisesi- debat Imago Pueri Jesu, docentis Specie. Cr. 8vo, titlepnge, &c,, 4 11. and pp. 38. with a facsimile of EraKmus' handwritlruj and woodcut ornaments. 53 1860 Brunet thus describes this book :— " Jolie edition enrichee des ornaments typographiques les plus rechcrches." It is indeed a beautiful specimen of typography ; and the present copy is in the finest possible state. Whether it is entitled to be considered as a privately printed book I No. iV. 50 Catalogue of Books Printed [ERASMUS]-con<. am not altogether sure ; but this exemplar con- tains a note stating that only 100 copies were printed ; and it has no publisher's name on the title-page, which merely gives the names of Nichols and Beutley as printers. I avoid as far as possible,, entering in this catalogue any works which are not clearly privately printed; still, in a case like the present, I feel justified in giving the book the benefit of the doubt. EPLE's (T. W.) A Pipe of Dutch KanaBter, or six days in flolland. 12mo, pp. 2:i6 and front. 38 1851 and 1860 This book is the result of two short tours in Hol- land in 1851 and 1860. The author is a keen observer, and a lively writer, and never grows dull or prosy. His style is a good deal like Sa- la's, and indeed this volume might very well pass as one of the latter's books. A Bottle of Mixed Pickles. 12mo, pp. 97, and front. Ss 1853 A collection of humorous trifles in prose and verse. Mrs. Funnell. 12mo, pp. 65, and front. 28 6d 1856 A humourous story iu verse. The Phenomenon ; or Millhall Miscellany. 12mo, pp. 108. 38 1856 A collection of trifles in verse and prose. . Gossip from Millhall. 12mo, pp. Ill, awd front. 38 1858 This volume contains essays and poems of a light and humourous cast. A tale of a Nosegay, being the account of a highly romantic piece of business. Part the First. 12mo, pp. 70. 28 6d 1858 A humourous story in verse. The author says of it ;— " Bear in mind that our narrative does not pretend I'd contemplate aught as its object and end, Than to furnish lor whims, thoughts, and fanciful scraps Such a home as is formed by those bowls which per- haps You have seen on some tables, whereinto are thrown All sorts of odd knicknacks which no one will own." — Elementary Hydrostatics. A Lecture, given at the Isleworth Reading Room, Oct. Ifl, 1852. 12mo, pp. 55, and illustrations. 28 1859 Money. A Lecture given at the Cuckfield Reading Room, November 22, 1859. 12mo, pp. 49. 28 1859 A Tale of a Toe, or Mr. Brown's Misfor- tune. A Tale for the Times. 12mo, pp. 32, 2s 1857 Letters from a Theatrical Scene-Painter, j'rinted by desire. 12mo, pp. 107, 1859 — Letters from a Theatrical Scene-Painter (Second Series) 12mo, pp. 95, 2 vols. 7s 6d 1862 This work consists of a collection of humorous critical accounts of performances at the minor theatres of London, such as the Victoria, Gre- cian, Effingham, Marylebone, &c. I quote the following as a specimen of the manner in which Mr. Erlej good-humouradly "chaffs" the per- formances which took place at these Theatres thirty years ago : — "THE STRING OF PEARLS, OR THE BARBER FIEND OF FLEETiSTREET," at the " Royal Britannia." " An evening at the Brittannia during the run of ' The String of Pearls, or The Barber Fiend of Fleet Street,' was to sup full of horrors. In the vulgar tongue of Hoxton and elsewhere a full supper is called a ' tightener.' The expression is coarse, yet suggestive. Abominably so. Going to see the Bar- ber Fiend was a tightener of horrors, like a visit to the room at Madame Tussaud's. The plot was as follows. The Barber Fiend murders in succession all his customers who come to him to be shaved, aud then, by way of utilizing them to the utmost possible extent, as well as of conveniently disposing of their bodies, makes them into pies, upon which such of the characters as are left to carry through the business of the piece, are regaled. A series of cfTects are produced by the successive discovery in the pies of what may be called ' internal evidence ' of the true nature of their Ingredients. Thus, one of the customers finds in the first instance a wo- man's hair. This is not viewed as a circumstance of much gravity, since it is a matter of common expe- rience that long hairs have an intrusive tendency which induces them to present themselves in com- bination with most alimentary substances. From luuis, for example, they are as inseparable as grit. Lodging-house batter is usually fraught with them, and a marked affinity is developed in their constitu- tion for London bread. Their frequent manifesta- tion in mutton pies is natural enough, since it may so easily occur that the stumps of the horses' tails w'lich supply the meat, may, on the occurrence of any press of business in the trade, be incompletely divested of them. This specific class of mutton is also distinguished by a wiry tenacity of fibre and sinew such as an advocate of '^muscular Christiauity ' might envy. It is attributable to the fact that the particular kind of 'sheep' which sup- plies it firms the source of motive jiower in the cab system of the metropolis. Bnt to return to the Barber's pies. The discovery of the hair is followed by that of a thumb nail, which appears to give rise to some indistinct, but uneasy, misgiv- ings in the breast of the consumer. He pursues his meal with reflective hesitation, and with a zest which has now been obviously impaired by the operation of disquieting mental influences. The startling revelation of a brass button attached bya fragment of material substance of some kind or other which bears the aspect of having formed a constituent portion of somebody or other's leather breeches, proves what is called a ' staggerer," and brings the repast to an abrupt and uncomfortable conclusion. The terrors of the scene culminate in the discovery of a full and detailed account of the whole matter set forth on the paper in which the pies had been wrapped. The narrative in question is accompanied by strictures on the conduct of the murderer, ably drawn up by his victims, and a free and explicit confession by himself is also appended to the document. At this point a torrent of fiddles is let loose, which rasp away for some moments with an energy worthy of the crisis. The Barber is then taken into custody. But not by policemen. Not a bit of it ! The R.B. management knows bet- ter than that. Police constables, no doubt, consti- tute a highly respectable and estimable body of men. Still, when they march in with the mecha- nical precision of automata, as stiflf as a procession of animated lampposts, and with countenances fraught with utter unmeaningness, they are, it must be confessed, the very essence of the unpic- turesque in effect. And their plain, matter-of-fact, truncheons are but silent and ineffective accesso- ries to a situation. No. A party of supers rush in, attired iu the uniforms in which they are accus- tomed to 'do ' the Swedish army in Charles the Twelfth, and let off their muskets with signal intrepidity, firing earnestly upwards, as though anxious to hit .some bird or other object which they must be supposed to have descried flitting about up among the gas battens. The light fusil- lade incidentally brings about the desirable result of creating a strong smell of gunpowder, and the noise throws a collection of urchins at the door of the theatre, who cannot muster their sixpence for the gallery, in paroxysms of excitement to know what i.s going on inside. Of all the various sad forms of Iniinan destitution perhaps the most affect- ing to contemplate is that of small boys who hang night after night about the doors of theatres but for Private Circulation. ^t ERLE (T. W.)— con<. can't afford to go in. Tho apprehension of the wicked barber necessarily brings the drama to its conclusion, and at this point, therefore, all the mur- dered characters reappear. If it be objected that the supposition of his guilt is weakened by, not to say is absolutely inconsisteut with, the bodily pre- sence of his victims — the ipsissiraa corpora delicto- rum— all as right and tight as can be, the answer is that the claims of the final tableau are paramount. The scene is then illuminated with red fire. An explanation of the propriety of this enrichment of the tableau is probably to be sought in the notion of its being in some degree typical of the subject- matter of the piece, since it is not within ordinary experience that the action of retributive justice is attended by any such meteoric phenomena. The whole of the characters then join iu a patriotic song, in which the invasion panic, and the discomfiture of the enemy by the gallantry of the Hoxton volun- teers, together with any other points which may happen to be of general interest to the community at the particular moment, are very neatly and happily touched off. Now if that isn't a • strong ' piece, pray what is ? If you do not agree with me in so cha- lactcrising it, I should then be glad to be put into possession of your views as to what in a strong piece. Surely the conversion of one half of the characters in the drama into animal sustenance for the other half is an incident of a complexion suffi- ciently decided to arrest attention." Performances of this cla.ss are now unhappily sel- dom to be seen. I say " unhappily," because I have myself witnessed such performances, and have derived, I think, more amusement from their absurdities and incongruities than from really good pieces well acted at fashion- able theatres. I have seen several burlesques in which the melodrama of the minor theatres has been ridiculed ; but none of them have amused me half so much as the real thing has done. To Venice and back in an Hour. Parts of which were read at the Cuckfield Reading Room, Feb. 11, 1860. l2mo, pp. 183, and map. 3s 6d 1860 An amusing and interesting account of the Au- thor's Venetian experiences. Stray Leaves. 12mo, pp. 26. Ss 1865 A collection of poems, many of which are trans- lations ; together with an e?say on Beggars. ERSKINE's (Hon. Mrs. Esm^ Stewart) Alcon Malanzore, a Moorish Tale. 8vo, title-page, etc., 4 11. and pp. 193. Ts 6d Brussels, 1815 This is a story of some interest told in fluent verse something after tho manner of Sir Walter Scott's poetical tales. The following extract will convey some idea of the style of the lady's poetry : — " Oh ! that those moments in our life so rare. Should mock the grasp, like fancied forms of air ! As the dark clouds emit ethereal light. Deepening the gloom by flashes false and bright ; As some dear lovely vision of our sleep Quits the enraptured wretch to wake and weep. These fleeting pleasures, transports wild and fair, But leave the memory of what they were — Raise us from earth to sink us down again, To darker, colder loneliness of pain — Oh strange ! that joys engendering remorse, Should have a keener bliss, a loftier force ! — The calm delights that Peace and Virtue bring. Boast not their rapture— bnt disown their sting." ERUTA FR A OMENTA : Select Epigrams from Delicise Poetarum Qallorum, translated into English Verse ; to which is added a transla- tion of an Ode commemorative of the Death of H.R.H. Albert, Prince Consort. [Transla- ted by C. R. Jackson] Cr. 8vo, pp. xi., 66, with pp. 8 additional at end. 5s 6d Aberdeen, 1863 The translations in this volume are, for the most part neatly turned. I quote the following as fair specimens : — ON HUMAN LIFE. Tho joys of life— we hardly taste, Before the sweets are hurried past ; The ills of life — their lightest pressure, Weighs on our spirits beyond measure. THE LIAR'S REWARD. What has the liar by his lies achieved? That when bespeaks the truth he's not believed. THE ART OF DISPLEASING. 'Tis one of Heaven's unchangeable decrees, Who can be pleased by none, shall no one please. ON THE INFANT OLEANDER. One day, his fir.st and last, contained the span Of young Oleander's sojourn on the earth ; Ere half that day was spent, the hour glass ran Its brief career that marked his death aud birth. Upon the world he oped his infant eyes ; He saw the bitter anguish of its strife ; He knew it doomed to perish ; and with sighs, Spotless he hastened to eternal life. ETHELSTON's (C. G.) A PHvate Lunatic Asy- lum Exposed. 8vo, title-page, etc., 4 leaves and pages 44. 58 1885 This is a very strange production, which scarcely reads like the work of an entirely sane person. The :iuthor states that while confined at a pri- vate lunatic A.sylum at Clapham, his food was heavily drugged, the consequence of which was that the natural functions of his body ceased, and his throat closed up so that he could not swallow. He also states that an attempt was made to suffocate him with the fumes of chlo- roform, &c. He makes other statements which are no less startling. His story, if true, is a new proof that truth is stranger than fiction, for even Charles Reade never imagined such horrors as Mr. Ethelston relates as facts. It is to be hoped, for the credit of humanity, that Mr. Ethelston suffered from delusions, rather than that his story is a true one. EXTRACTS from the Life of the Virtuous, Chris- tian, and Renowned Queen Anne Boleignb, by George VVyat, Esq., written at the close of the XVI Century, and now first printed, roy. 8vo, 3 prel. leaves, and pages 29. 68 6d 1817 Of this pamphlet only twetity-seven copies were printed, and a list is given of the names of the persons to whom they were presented. It was edited by S. W. Singer. The present copy consists of the proof-sheets, and has the editor's alterations, additions, and correc- tions. George Wyat, by whom this Life of Queen Anne Boleyn was written, was tho grandson of Sir Thomas Wyat, the poet, and sixth son and heir of Sir Thomas Wyat, the younger, be- headed in the first year of tho Reign of Queen Mary. He writes of Anne Boleyn in a spirit of much admiration for her beauty and good qualities, and of pity for her unfortunate end. Three portraits should be found in this pamphlet, but they are missing in the present copy. 52 Catalogue of Books Printed THE EXAMINATION and Confession of Cer- tain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex. Communicated and Prefaced by Hermann Beigel, M.D. 4to, pp. 49. 78 6d [1864] This pamphlet forms part of ono of the volumes of the Philobiblon Society's Miscellauies. A few copies were thrown ofiE separately. The " Examination" is reprinted from the unique copy preserved in the Library of Lambeth Pa- lace. It consists of twenty-two folios, without pagination, and has nine curious woodcuts. It commences With some exceedingly quaintdog- grel. I cannot resist the temptation to give a short specimen of this. The poet informs us that the sessions .were being held at " Chence- forde," and proceeds thus : — "Three feminine dames attached were, Whom Sathan had infect With Belials sprite whose sorcery did, The simple so molest That when they would with present death, They were full sore opprest. Here after shall succeede the actes That they themselves have wrought, As they themselves confessed have, To judgement being brought." "Feminine dames" is good : it is distinctly pre- cious in fact. As to the examination (which was held in 1566) it must suffice to mention that the persons examined were Mother Agnes Waterhouse, aged 63, and her daughter Jane, who both confessed the usual absurdities about keeping a devil in the form of a cat, &c. One feels a sort of shame by proxy to think that our ancestors (and not only the ignorant among them, but even such presumably well educated persons as the judges and other officers of the law) should have been capable of putting faith in'such ineffably ridiculous stuff. Surely, even if they could have believed in the malevolence of the poor old creatures whom they persecu- ted, they might at least have given the devil credit for a little more sense than to stoop to such infinitely stupid devices as he was accused of ! But alas ! how little of the rationality which, as man boasts, distinguishes him from other animals, does he really possess! Pre- judice, hide-bound custom, superstition, and unreflecting passion, are the real motive- springs which guide him, and reason, when it conflicts with any of these, almost invariably goes to the wall. EXTRACTS, etc. 16mo, pages 200. 1832— Ex- tracts, etc. Second Series. 16 mo, pages 214, 1847— Extracts, etc. Third Series. 16mo, pages 182. 1869. 3 vols. 58 The compiler of these volumes gives us no infor- mation as to his plan of selection, and per- haps he simply chose such passage as, in the course of his reading, struck him as peculiarly excellent. Though many of his selections are well chosen, yet it seems to me that he has inserted some that hardly merited the honour. But, as regards literary merit, what seems of little or no value to one reader will appeal with peculiar force to another. A passage in- deed may have little merit in itself, but may nevertheless, come home to the reader with particular force, because it chimes in with his personal experiences, thoughts, or fancies. EXERCISES OF A Recumbsnt Vacation, 1860— 61 ; with a few of earlier date, 12mo, pages 44. 2s 6d 1861 The writer's initials appear to be J. T. He states that the title implies confinement to an in- valid couch at Hastings from May, 1860 to Sept. 1861. His verses are fairly good, but present no special features. EXTRACTS FROM various Authors, and a Let- ter detailing a fatal Banditti Adventure in Afia Minor in 1845. or. 8vo, pages VII and 67. 38 6d 1868 These extracts were made by Wra. Twopenny, and printed at the request of the Duchess Dowager of Norfolk. A good many of the extracts are from Bishop Barrow. The story of the fatal banditti adventure is told in a letter from Captain Richard Twopenny to Edward Two- penny of Woodstock in Kent. It is a very in- teresting narrative. The writer was travel- ling with Sir Lawrence Jones and some ser- vants on the road to Smyrna, when they were attacked by some Xebecs (disbanded Janis- saries). Sir L. Jones and one of the servants wore shot dead, and Captain Twopenny re- ceived several wounds which disabled him for some weeks, but from which he eventually recovered. [EWING] — In Memoriam — Ella. Cr. 8vo, pages 118, and photographic portrait. 28 6d 1879 The memoir of a girl (Elizabeth Constance Lind- say Orr Ewing) who died at the age of six- teen. She was a girl of unusual thoughtful- ness and piety, and the chief part of the me- moir relates to her religious experiences, [F's (C. K.) Selection of Ballads, translated chiefly from German Writers. 4to pp. vii and 203. 6s 6d 1873 The ballads are translated chiefly from Burger, Schiller, Uhland, Goethe, Chamisso, Korner, Heine, and other German authors. They are, for tho most part, very well done. The follow- ing is a fair specimen : — THE LURLEL My heart is sad, I know not why — The passing zephyr seems a sigh 1 The shadow of a tale of woe Rests on my miud from long ago. — 'Tis twilight on the banks of Rhine, The stars like glittering diamonds shine — The sun-set on the mountains glows. While at their feet the current flow. Above a maiden wondrous fair, Sits combing soft her golden hair, Chanting with melody divine, While her rich robes with jewels shine. The sailor in his bark below. Heeds not the waters as they flow — His gaze is on the maid so fair, Her locks, her song, have witched him there. He sees no wave, nor sunken rock, He hears no sound, he feels no shock, Lured by the Lurlei's fatal charms, He sleeps his death-sleep in her arms. F's (J.) Extracts from my Note-Book ; from 1831 to 1854. Not published — printed for private circulation — not to be reprinted, copied, or extracted from. 12mo, pp. 224. 3s 1865 This is the work of a devout Quaker, and most of the extracts have reference to the writer's reli- gious experiences. for Private Circulation. 53 F.'s (J.) — MisCKLLiNEOUS EssAYS : very generally with reference to the Christiaa Principles of the Religious Society of Friends. Cr. 8vo, pp. ivand 18fi. 23 6d 1870 These essays are on educational and reli5;ious sub- jects. One of them is entitled, "A Retrospect of past days, at the age of eighty-two." [FAIRFAX]— In Memoriam, Obituary Notices and Funeral Services having reference to the late Hon. John Fairfax, M.L.C., who died I6th June, 1877. Collated and reported by the Literary Staff of the " Sydney Morning Herald." Cr. Svo, pp. 120, and photograph of bust. 48 John Fairfax was born at Warwick, in 1804. In 1838, ho was the proprietor of a newspaper at Leamington. Some strictures on the conduct of a public official which he published in his paper, exposed him to an action for libel, which ended in a verdict in his favour, but the cost of which practically ruined him. But this misfor- tune (as it seemed) was really the beginning of his prosperity : for it led to his emigration to Australia. He landed there with only five pounds in his pocket, and a family of young children, the same in number as his sovereigns. Here his abilities were soon recognised, and in 1841 he became a part proprietor of the Sydney Herald. This prospered iinder his management, and he ultimately realised a large fortune from it. His career in Australia was eminently suc- cessful ; but his success was earned by industry, enterprise, and steadfastness of purpose, es- tablished by integrity, and adorned by the exercise of charity. FAIRH0LT'8(F. W.) Notes of a Journey through the South of France to Rome, during the Au- tumn of 1856 (in a Letter to C. Roach Smith), Roy. Svo, pp. 105, u-'uh 7 plates and many il- lustrations in the text. 243 1858 This copy belonged to Dr. Purland, one of Fair- holt's friends. He has much enhanced its value by inserting in it many autograph letters from Fairholt and C. Roach Smith, together with a considerable number of extra plates and cut- tings from newspapers, magazines, etc. It thus forms about the completest memorial of Mr. Fairholt that could be obtained. F. W. Fairholt was the son of a German father (whose name was orii^inally Fahrolz, which he anglicized into Fairholt) and an English mother. He was born in London, in 1814, and remained all his life a true cockney, not merely without a liking for the country, but actually hating it. He was the sixteenth and last child of his parents ; but all the others died in early infancy, and as he never married the family became ex- tinct at his decease. His father was a tobacco manufacturer, and endeavoured to persuade his son to follow the same bu.siness, but his tastes were artistic and literary, and he could not re- concile himself to the drudgery of trade. He managed, apparently without having had any education as an artist, to obtain employment as a designer of wood-engravings, and his clever- ness, iuiiustry, and promptitude in this work, secured him constant and remunerative employ- ment. As li3 was of a very frugal disposition, he amassed cou-iideraVile property, besides a valuable colloctioa of books and antiquities. He left his Shakespearian coliestioQ to tuo Library and Museum at Shakespeare's House, at Strat- ford- on- Avon : his works on Costume and his collection of Prints to the British Museum, and his works on Pageantry to the Society of Anti- quities. With regard to the " Notes of a Journey through the South of France," it may be stated that the tour was begun in the company of Lord Londes- borough and his family, who had invited Fairholt to go with them. He seems to have greatly en- joyed the journey, and, of course, profited much by it, inasmuch as he lost no opportunity of seeing whatever was to bo seen in the way of architecture, antiquities, public libraries, etc. It is needless to say that all these are well and vividly described ; and where the pen fails, the pencil comes in to render assistance. The an- tiquities of Rome excited the author's enthusi- astic admiration, and he describes their beau- ties with a warmth of expression which is well calculated to make the reader desire to follow in his footsteps. FANE'S (Julian) Ad Matrem. 1849—57, 12mo, pp. iv and 34. 78 6d (1857) The poems, which are here collected, were pre- sented annually by the author to his mother on her birthday, and powerfully express his deep affection for her, and his great gratitude for the influence for good which her noble conduct had exLTted over him. " I am glad," he says, " to print these poem.s, not because I believe them to possess any great intrinsic merits.but because I am sure that as the genuine expression of a pure and holy love, not tenderly imagined, but deeply aud sincerely felt, they have a real and solid value." The presout Lord Lytton has written an e^icellent memoir of his friend, Julian Fane, who was part author with him of the poem of "Tannhauser, or the Battle of the Bards." To this I must refer the reader for the details of the life of a singularly amiable and lovoable m.'<,n, I must quote, however, a sentence or two, from the memoir : — " He was, I think, the most graceful and accom- plished gentleman of the generation he adorned ; and by this Heniiration, at least, appropriate place sliould be reserved for the memory of a raau in whose character the most universal sympathy with all the intellectual culture of his age was united to a rebnemeut of social form and a perfection nf per- sonal grace, which, in spite of all its intellectual culture, the age is sadly in wane of. There is an artistry of life as well as of literature, and the per- fect knighthood of Sidney is no less precious to the world than the geuius of Spencer." FARM AND ITS INHABITANTS.— With some Account of the Lloyds of Dolobran, by Rachel J. Lowe. 4to, pp. 119, with front, represent- ing the arms of Charles Lloyd of Dolobran, and other illustrations. 2l8 1S83 The fine old red-brick house called '"Farm," is situated at Dolobran in Montgomeryshire. The Lloyd family '' was established in the county of Montgomery about the year 1300 by Celynin of Llydwiarth, and was seated at Dolobran from 1400 to 1780 ; it claims ancient descent from the kings of Dyfed in South Wale.s." The first member of the family of note seems to have been Thomas Lloyd, born in 1640, who joined the Society of Friends, aTid became a valued preacher. Ho assisted William Penn in tho colonization of Pennyslvania ; and during Penn's absence in England, was Doputy-Uovornor and 54 FARM— cont Catalogue of Books Printed President of that province from 1684 to 1693. After this time the family (or at least its leading scions) seem to have become members of the Society of Friends, to which persuasion they have remained faithful down to the present time apparently. In 1780 the family having fallen into difficulties, Dolobran was bought by a Mr. Jones, and it remained in the hands of him and his descendants until 1876, when it again came into the possession of the Lloyd family. The book contains much genealogical and bio- graphical information relating to the Lloyd fa- mily. Ope of its members was Charles Lloyd, the poet, and friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb. The work, on the whole, is more interesting than most family records, and does great credit to its compiler. One of the daughters of the family married a Mr. Biddle, who was a very absent minded man. On one occasion he was sent to take a thousand pound bank-note to the Bank of England. When he got there he could not find it. He re- membered twisting a bit of paper between his fingers, and tossing it away in a comer. He re- traced his steps and fortunately found it where he had thrown it. On another occasion he went to make a call upon a friend. The servant asked him for his name, but he could not remember it, and so went away. A friend met him in the street, and accosted him, " How do you do, Mr. Biddle? " "Oh, Biddle, Biddle, Biddle, that's the name," cried he, and rushed off to pay his call. [FARRAND].— A Sister's Memorial ; or a little Account of Rebecca Farrand : also, drawn up by her, a brief sketch of an Elder Sister. Cr. 8vo, title page and preface, 2 leaves, and pp. 142. 2a 6d 1857 A memorial of a pious and amiable woman, inter- spersed with many letters and poems written by her. FASCICULUS. Cr. 8vo, pp. 48. Ss 6d Ckiswick Press, 1869 A pencilled note on the title-page of the above states that it is by Canon J. H. Marsden. Most of the pieces are very slight, and many are translations, I quote the following as speci- mens : — THE LADY AND THE LOOKING GLASS. From J. Owen When in the glass thy face thou vlewest, Suffer not pride to creep within ; For bright, yet fragile, fair, yet fleeting, Thoa and thy glass are near akin. THE CYNIC. From the French. In all the world I find nought good ; So sayest thou in thy jaundiced mood. Write verse, my friend, For never yet was man, but could In his own verse find somewhat good. THE FILIAL TRIBUTE. 12mo, title page, &c., 2 11., and pp. 43. 2s 6d 1807 By Judge Hardinge, according to Martin. It consists of a series of very warm tributes in Terse to the memory of his " angel mother." A FATHER'S TRIBUTE to the Memory of an Amiable Child. 12mo, pp. viii and 86. 12s Oxford, 1835 This is a collection of poems composed by a girl who died before she had completed her four- teenth year. No clue is given as to her name or parentage, but it is stated that she died at Win- chester in 1835, and was buried, by her own de- sire, in her native village of Bishop's Stoke. Considering the very early age at which these poems were written, and that few or none of them had undergone revision, they show I think, that their author had considerable poetic talent, and, had she been spared, might have written something worthy to live. I quote some specimens : — A THOUGHT. When sorrow o'er the youthful soul Comes, by remembrance driven, It makes the tears in torrents roll, And speaks of kindred riven ! Thus o'er the green and flowery vale. The mountain torrents roar. Destroying all the lilies pale. So beautiful before ! ON A PARASITICAL PLANT THAT GROWS ON THE FURZE. Rootless, fruitless flower of snow, Disclose the secrets of thy birth ; Al l other flowerets shoot and grow, Proceeding from their mother earth ! But thou dost live on air alone, Spread'st thy red streamers to the wind ; To zephyrs sigh, or tempests moan, But can'st thou there refreshment find ? Thou clingest to the dark green thorn. Entwining with thy tendrils bright. Bedewed with sparkling pearls at morn, Kissing the moonbeams clear at night I BEAUTY. I love to gaze on Beauty ! Oh I love To watch the glances of a sparkling eye, From 'neath the eyelash dark, in wildness rove. And blue and brilliant as a summer sky ! The figure formed in perfect symmetry ; The graceful waving of each auburn tress I love to gaze on ! Then in Poesy Attempt to paint that matchless loveliness, And own the effort vain, such Beauty to express. FIELD'S (Henry M.) History of the Atlantic Tele- graph, to the return of the expedition of 1865. Cr. 8vo, pp. vii and 329. 88 6d New York, 1866 The author — a relative of Cyrus W. Field, to whom, more than to any other indiWdual, the project of the Atlantic Cable owed its final suc- cess — says in his Preface : — " The object of this volume is to record the history of a great enterprise, which after repeated disap- pointments, seems at last to 'approach its hour of triumph. It is a work which has cost its projec- tor twelve years of constant toil, and more than fifty voyages, of which two-thirds have been across the Atlantic, and the rest to Newfoundland ; and which has been pursued in the face of a thousand difficulties, and, what was harder still, of a public incredulity, which sneered at every failure, and derided the attempt as a delusion and a dream. Against such discouragements nothing could avail but that faith or fanaticism which, believing the in- credible, achieves the impossible. The story of such an enterprise deserves to be told. The relation of the writer to the principal actor in this work, has given him peculiar facilities for obtaining informa- tion on all points necessary to an authentic history, but he trusts it will not lead him to overstep the strictest limits of modesty. His object is not to exalt an individual, but to give a faithful record for Ppivak Cif^i^lation. 55 FIELD— con<. that sliall bear in every line the stamp of trnt.h ; and to do justice to all, on both sides the Atlantic, who have borne a part in a worlj which will do so mnch to link together two great nations, and to promote the peaceful intercourse of mankind." As early as 1842 or 1843, Professor Morse had ex- pressed a deliberate couviction, founded on scientific experiments, that a telegraphic com- munication might with certainty be established across the Atlantic Ocean. It was not, however, till 1854, that the project began to be enter- tained as a practical undertaking. In that year, Mr Gisbome, who bad conceived the project of a cable to connect Newfoundland and the Uni- ted States, came to New York to solicit support for his undertaking. Among others to whom he applied was Mr. Cyrus W. Field, who whilst meditating upon the project was struck with the idea that it might bo possible even to span the Atlantic Ocean. The idea once conceived, he took steps to ascertain its feasibilty, and being ultimately convinced of this he never rested un- til the project was at length an accomplished fact. The difficulties he had to contend with — the continual failures when apparently on the eve of success, and the thousand and one ob- stacles in the path^ would have dismayed and finally discouraged any less sanguine, energetic, and strenuous individual than Cyrus Field. In the great roll of Worthies of the English race, few are more deserving of honour for the good work they have accomplished than is the roan to whom is chiefly due the establishment of the Atlantic Telegraph. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Svo, pp. 131. 88 6d Crown 1867 A note states that " The following pages contain the substance of some letters written during a tour of three months duringthe autumn of 1866, and are printed at the request of some very dear friends, who wish to possess a record of the au- thor's travels." This note is dated, " Bearwood, Nov. 1, 1867," and the postscr-pt at end is signed "J. W."; which we may consider, without much risk of mistake, as representing, "John Walter." It is certainly an interesting and well-written re- cord ; and the author does full justice to the energy and enterprise of the American people. He says of New York : — " On the whole my week's sojourn in New York has impressed me very much with the astounding vi- gour and energy of the people. There is an intensi- ty in the expression of their countenances which I have never observed in those of other people. It is almost impossible to believe that the vast accumu- lation of wealth and prosperity which you see around you is the growth of little more than half-a- century. Should they go on improving at the same rate, I am afraid they will beat us in most things by the end of the century." In the summing up at the end there is the follow- ing significant sentence : — • " America must be seen to be understood ; and those who visit it will probably return with mixed feelings — of pride, at the thought that the great work of civilization which is rapidly overspreading that con- tinent is being c.irried on by men of our own race and language ; and of grave reflection, I will not say of sorrow, at the thought that half a century hence America will be the most powerful country on the face of the eartli, and that, as all greatness is rela- tive, our own star will be on the decline." [FENNER].— Tlorae Poeticse ; iu three Part.8. Part I. The Spiritual Apph'cation of the Classics — Part II. A Paraphrase of the Proserpine of Claudian — Part III. Lyrics on various Sub- jects. To which is appended, A Popular Epistle on the Utility of the Classics. By C. J. Fenner, S.H.W. (01. St. John's Coll., Cam). Svo, pp. xvii and 225. 6s Zonrfon, 1841 Mp. Fenner'a method in the poems included in the first part of this rolume is to relate some classioal legend or event, and then to draw a parallel or moral from it which shall redound to the credit of Christianity. The translation of Claudian is in octo-syllabic verso, and (so far as I am able to judge) seems to be well done. The Epistle on the Utility of the Classics is an able plea in favour of classical studies. [FLAXMAN.]— Twenty-five Drawings, by John Flaxman, R.A. Selected by J. H. Foley. R A.: Photographed by W. Hurst. Folio. 12r 6d Privately Printed (50 copies only), 18(>S " The Drawings from which this collection is taken are, for the most part, in the Flaxman Gallery, University College, London." The drawings include subjects from the " Pilgrim's Progress," from "Acts of Mercy," Studies male in Rome, a portrait of Flaxman as a child, drawn by himself in 1779, etc. FISHER'S (Major Payne) The Tombs, Monuments, &c., visible in S. Paul's Cathedral (and S. Faith's beneath it), previous to its Destruc- tion by Fire, a.d. 166G. Edited by G. Blacker Morgan. 4to, pp. iv and 190. 8s 6d London .'Printed 1684.- Privatrly Reprinted, 18''.^' The impression of this work was limited to thirty large, and one hundred and lifty small paper copies. The compiler of this work — Payne Fisher — was born in 1616. He entered the arm)', and " trailed a pike " in the Netherlands. Returning to England, he obtained a commission as ensign in the army raised by Charles I. against the Scots. He afterwards sei-ved in Ireland — where he obtained the rank of Captain, and on his re- turn to England that of Majo»-. During the Civil War he served under Prince Rupert, and was present at the Battle of Marston Moor, which he celebrated in his first published poem. He afterwards deserted the cause of the Royal- ists, and joined the Parliamentarians. He gained the favour of Cromwell, under whose Protector- ate ha held the office of Poet Laureate. At the Restoration he fell into poverty, and died in dis- tressed circumstances in 1693. As a poet he possessed considerable talent, but as a ' student in Antiquities ' his work was somewhat wanting in accuracy. Nevertheless he deserves our thanks, for he preserved a good many memorials of the past that would otherwise have perished. Portions of Fisher's work are transcribed from Dugdale's " History of St. Paul's Cathedral" ; but it contains some inscriptions not recorded by Dugdale, and some interesting and valuable inscriptions found upon the coffins, disinterred when excavating after the fire in 1666, of which there is no other record. Mr. Morgan has sub- jected Fisher's work to a thorough revision, and has corrected many errors which ho discovori-il in it. As thvis amended the book is of great value to the historiaa and gonealogist. 56 Catalogue oj Books Printed fisher's (Major Payne) Catalogue of the Tombs in the Churches of the City of London, a.d. 1666. Revised and edited by G. Blacker Mor- gan. 4to, pp. vii, 95. 7s 6d London, Printed 1668 : Privately Reprinted, 1885 Of this reprint, seventy-five small, and twenty-five large paper copies were printed. This work was first published by Fisher in 1668. Unfortunately the author forgot to record in what churches he found the inscriptions, thus rendering his work comparatively useless. In the present edition, this information (where known) has been supplied, and many additions from other sources have been added to Fisher'c compilation. Mr. Morgan has evidently be- stowed much labour on his task, and he deserves the thanks of all interested in historical and genealogical onquirie.«. FLEAY's (Rev. F. G.) Hints on Teaching. 8vo, pp. 24, 28 6d 1864 ^— — The Book of Revelations Symbolic not Special ; being the Substance of Sermons preached at Ledsham. 8vo, pp. 32. 2s 6d 1864 These two pamphlets have publisher's names on the covers, but Mr. Fleay assured me they had never been published, but only privately distri- buted. The " Hints on Teaching," contains many useful su8:gestions for all who are engaged in tuition. With regard to the Book of Revelations, Mr. Fleay holds that it "gives us the politics of Christianity ; couched indeed in poetrj', yet plain and easy of comprehension," [FLEAY].— The Master Pieces of the Breton Bal- lads. Translated by F. G. Fleay, M.A. Sq. 12mo, pp. 45. 3s 6d 1870 Mr. Fleay translates these famous ballads well aud spiritedly. [FLETCHER]. -Summary of the Moral Statistics of England aud Wales. By Joseph Fletcher, Etq., Barrister-at Law, One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, Honorary Secretary to the Statistical Society of London, &c. 8vo, pp. xi and 216 ; also 13 unnumbered leaves at end, and a number of maps, fis For Private distribution [no date] Extract from Preface :- - "Tlie following pages are mfrcly the collected proofs of three successive papers read, the two earlier l>efore the Statistical Section of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, on the 29th June, 1847, and Uth August, 1S4S, and the later before the Statistical Society of London, at its ordi- nary nieetmg ot the 19th March, 1819, which vas honoured by the presence of IT.K.H. Prince Albert. They record the processes and the results of aji in- vestigation pursued for several years, atinfervals of leisure, insiifhcient, it must be confessed, for its proper irosecution, but devoted to this object in a profound conviction of the unsoundness of the data employed in comparing crime and ignorance, wliieh were in universal use. and therefore of the con- clusions drawn from them, however near these might accideatally approach to the truth." The statistics hero gathered together, and the tables founded upon them must have cost their author an immense amount of labour. The book must have a considerable value for the student of sociology. " FLOATING SPARS." By the late Thomas Plumptou Tindale. 4to, pp. 62. Ss 6d 1876 This book is adorned with a photographic portrait of the author, and a beautiful Blake-like fi;ontis- piece designed " as a labour of love," by Wil- liam Blake Richmond. The brief, but tender and sympathetic memoir is signed H. N. P., which initials doubtless stand for Horace N. Pym, the editor of that excellent book, the "Journals of Caroline Fox." Thomas Plumpton Tindale was born in 1849. He lost his parents while still very young, and, by his father's death, succeeded to a considerable landed estate. He was educated at Rugby and afterwards at Cambridge, where he made many friends. He was a close student in many branches of science, and there is no doubt that his too eager pursuit of knowledge helped to bring about his early death. He died in 1875, in his twenty-sixth year. I quote the following as a specimen of Tindale's verse : — ON A SKULL. As from its resting place I drew. This cabinet of reason. My present thoughts back ages flew. And pondered there a season. Did these crude Avails and flakes of bone, Encircle will and pleasure? And did they chip the flinty stone, And toil and delve in measure? Yes ! and their works are living still, Stone volumes read by sages : Think, little Mind, and train thy will, A Monument for ages ? I may add that the volume is beautifully printed and 'got-up,' and that only one hundred copies of it were printed. [FONNEREAU].— The Diary of a Dutiful Son. By H. E. 0. 12mo, title page, etc., 3 11., and pp. 226. 58 1849 Thomas George Fonnereau, the author of this vol ume, was one of the few surviving descendants of an old family, from the neighbourhood of Rochelle, whence it emigrated to this country, at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He embraced the profession of the law, but upon succeeding to a eood property on the death of a relation he retired from it, and occupied him- self with building what he called "a bachelor's kennel," in Hertfordshire — -an Italian villa, designed by the eminent Decimus Burton. In this pleasant retreat he lived until 1850, when he died at tho age of 61. " The Diary of a Dutiful Son," of which one hun- dred copies only were printed, was at once re-, cognised as a work of considerable ability, anal of his father in America. 8vo, pp. 14. .'5a 1859 Mr. Forbes states that having, at his father's re- quest, drawn up this sketch of his early life, it was forwarded to his elder sister, who resided in America. She put it into the hands of a printer, who mangled it so terribly, that the author resolved, in self-defence, to print a correct copy. Mr. Forbes' narrative is exceedingly interesting. It reminds one strongly of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. Like that it shows what may be accomplished by industry, integrity, patience, and perseverance, [FORBES].— Memoranda relating to the Family of Forbes of Waterton, from a MS. of the deceased John Forbes (b. 1754, who was served heir to the last Thomas Forbes of Waterton in 1775), and is now printed solely fi>r the use of members of the family. 4to, pp. 61, vieic of the house of Waterton in 1770, arms of the family, and several sheets of genea- logies. 8s 6d Aberdeen, \857 The principal contents of this volume are as follows : Catalogue of Original papers relating to the family, 1630 to 17-25. List of Papers from 1725 to 1774. The Family of Forbes, from Lurasden, &c. {folding plate). Pedigree of Forbes of Waterton {folding plate). Tree of the Family of Scrymgeour {folding plate). Documents relating to the Dunkeld Family, 1702 to 1775. A variety of miscellaneous Memoranda re- lating to the family history. [FORSTER's (J. M.)] Nugoe Cantabrigenses ; or. Trash from Parnassus. No. . Being a Collection of Fragments and Fugitive Pieces, the occasional Amusement of hours of Recre- ation. 8vo, pp. 17. 38. 1812 A collection of verses in Latin and English. It appears that other collections were intended to follow this ; but I do not think that any more were priatod. 58 Catalogue of Books Printed [FORBES!. — Memoir of Sir John Forbes, Kt., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc Reprinted, by permission, from the January number, 1862, of the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgi- cal Review. (For Private Circulation). 8vo, pp. vi and 70 ; alio a photographic portrait. 5s 1862 This memoir was written by Dr. Parkes. Forbe.s wa.s born in 1787. In 1803 he entered at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and remained there till 1806. He then went to Edinburgh and took the diploma of Surgery, and in 18U/ entered the medical service of the navy. He remained in it till 1816, serving chiefly m the North Sea and in the West Indies. He after- wards settled at Penzance, where he remained till 1822, and where he spent much of his time in meteorological and geological investigations. Lcavino- Penzance, he removed to Chichester where he succeeded Sir William Barnett, and whore he became very popular as the leading physician of the district. During his stay here he projected, in concert with Drs. Tweedie and ConoUy, "The Cyclopaedia of Medicine," a work far in advance of anything of the sort then in existence. When this great work was nearly completeil, Forbes planned, and with his friend Dr. Conolly commenced, tho publication of the " British and Foreign Medical Review."^ This soon gained a great reputation, and attaineil a considerable circulation, which was chiefly owing to its editor's talents as a wiiter and con- ductor. In 1840, he removed to London, and in 1841 was appointed Physician to the Prince Consort and to the Queen's Household. He afterwards published several popular works, and retained his great and well-deserved repu- tation as a physician until his retirement from active life iu 1859. He died at Whitchurch, near Reading, in 1861. THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS of Great Britain, administered by the Right Honourable Henry Johu Viscount Palmerston. 8vo, pp. viii and 276, toilh a portrait of Palmerslun. 4b 6d 1841 This book is an attack upon the policy of Lord Palmerston, which, as the writer argues, would lead to a war with France, and eventually to the ruin and destruction of the British Empire. Ho contends that Lord Palmerston was, con- sciously or unconsciously, working in the inte- rests of Russia, which would seize the opportuni- ty of a war between France and England, to march on Constantinople. FORSHAW's (Charles Frederick) Wanderings of Imagery : a collection of Original Poems. 12mo, pp. 72, and portrait. 28 Bradford, 1886 [FOSTER'S (Rev. John)] Brief Notes of several Religious Lectures, with a few occasional tracts. 8vo, pp. iv and 170. 38 6d 1837 This book appears from the preface to have been printed for private circulation only, though it bears a publisher's name on the title-page. The Rev. John Foster was the author of two works, once very popular, entitled " An Essay on the evils of popular le:norance," and " Essays on decision of character. " The present volume contains essays on "The Death of H.ume," " Paul's Address to Agrippa," " The Moral and Intellectual Effects of Natural Scenery,"" The Imprisoomeat and Deliverance of Peter," etc. [FORSTER].— Epistolarium, or Facsimile of Cu- rious Letters, with a few familiar Poems, and some account of the writers, as preserved among the MSS. of the Foreter family. By F. 2 vols, 8vo. 12a Bruges, 1845 This work is made up as follows : — Title-page and preface, 2 leaves : ' Biographical Notice of Edward Forster, Biographical Sketch of Dr. Thomas Ignatius Forster, additions to these biographies, etc., pp. 62 : Letters of Algernon Sydney, John Locke, Dr. Forster, Richard Gough, and others, pp. 63 to 204 : l/cttei-s of Edward Forster, and others (continued), pp. 205 to 268 (this completes the first vol). The second vol. has the following title :— Epistolarium, or the Correspondence of the Foster Family : Letters and Essays, printed for private circula- tion only. Volume 2, Bruges, 1850. This Vol. contains : — Preface, containing additional bio- graphical notices of the Forster family, pp. xxviii ; a collection of Letters to and from Mr. Forster, pp. 1 to 245. The above description of this book is sufficient to show that it contains much matter of interest ; but it hardly indicates how varied are its con- tents, and with what a variety of topics it deals. The Forsters, whose biographies appear in this book, were scions of the ancient family of For- ster of Northumberland— a family which num- bered a good many notable persons amongst its members. The interesting and valuable letters of Algernon Sydney and John Locke, were ori- ginally addressed to Benjamin Furly, by whom (or by his son, it is not clear which) they were presented to Edward Forster, who was born in 1729, and who was for fifty-two years Gover- nor of the Russia Company of London. Dr. Thomas Forster, the most distingfuished mem- ber of tho family, was the grandson of this Ed- ward Forster, He was the author of many works of merit, the majority of which were on scientific subjects. His best known work is " The Perennial Calendar and Companion to the Almanack," 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1824. He was a somewhat eccentric character, and, though a professed Roman Catholic, was also a disciple of the Pythagorean philosophy. He said, in a letter to a friend— "Although many people fancy that the Philosophy of Pythagoras and the Bramius is inconsistent with the doctrines of Christianity, yet, I myself, could never find out the discre- pancy : both are very ancient truths handed down to us by sacred tradition, and they agree very well with one another." Another of his opinions was that animals have souls, and are equally immortal with mankind. On this ac- count he was very kind to all animals, and par- ticularly to dogs. He celebrated his dog Shargs in a poetical elegy, in which he styles him his chief, if not his only friend. With regard to the letters contained in these volumes, most of them are not so much private communications from friend to friend as essays on morals, literature, etc. Three of the letters are devoted to a long account of the Violin, of which instrument Dr. Forster had a large and valuable collection. Ho gives an account of the various celebrated makers, and describes the peculiarities which distingfuish the handiwork of the different masters. Several of the letters deal with the subjects of dreams, somnambulism, etc., others deal with metaphysical and moral questions. for Private Circnkfkn' 59 FORSTER'b (Thomas Ignatius Maria) Philosopbia Musaruoj, containing Pan, a Pastoral of the first age, with other Poems and Fragments ; a Supplement consisting of fugitive pieces and collections, and some philosophical Notes. Cr. 8vo, pp. xxi and 290. Ss 6d Bruges. 1843 Dr. Forster's verses, though in the main un- satisfactory, owing to their author having bes- towed too little labour upon them, so that they appear rough and unfinished, have much of the spirit and substance of fine poetry in them. How vigorously Forster could write may bo judged from the following linos, quoted from his "Inscription for the tomb of my old dog Shargs" : — Beneath these trees I've buried my old dog, Who, nine years by my side was wont to jog, With him I loved the weary day to spend, My brother mortal and my only friend. But now his tongue is mute, hi.s bones are old. His nerves are quiet and his blood is cold. Yet warmer still, though cold, than those who find A pride to boast themselves of human kind. Nor emptier 1 find his hollow head. Now laid, as whilome, on his master's bed. Than stupid man's who takes such fruitless pains To make me think his sknll posses.sed of brains : For Shargs was Nature's dearest sweetest child, His ways were simple and his temper mild. His faithful heart aloue knew no deceit ; And, when his tongue his master's hand would greet. No squint suspicion filled the cautious mind, Such as one feels when greeted by mankind. That venom lurks behind each fond embrace, While hypocrite is written in the face ! Vile man alone defiles the nuptial bed ; Lust bids him couple, interest makes him wed ; Pride prompts his virtues, avarice his cures ; And coward superstition writes his prayers. • ••••* Bat man leaves other brutes far, far behind In cruelty, and preys upon mankind ; Gorged with the gore of beasts, seeks human food. Eats kindred flesh, and drinks his brother's blood. In civil life, a fiend grown more refined. He steals his friend's estate and wounds his mind, Destroys his comrade's honour, blasts his fame. And robs his neighbour of an honest name ; And when his foul career is fully run, His body rotten and his soul undone, He hopes to get his horrid sins forgiven. By laying claim to an exclusive heaven. The three lines I have italicised, have, I should think, never been surpassed in their fierce epigrammatic concentration of scorn and bitter- ness. Some passages in the latter portion of the extract will be clearer to the reader who re- members that Forster believed in the immor- tality of animals as well as of man, and that he was an advocate of Vegetarianism. I may add, that I have corrected in the above lines several strange misprints, which must have arisen from the fact that the compositor was unacquainted ■with the English language. The whole volume indeed is full of extraordinary errors of the press, and it seems as if the author could never have corrected the proofs of his book. I quote another piece as a specimen of the author's lighter style : — FAREWELL TO MAY. Sweet queen of flowers ! Say, now, where thou art hiding, Beneath the starred welkin's carpet blue. That seems just spread anew. The rosebuds and the odorous hawthorn bowers. That while thou wast abiding Among us, in our blossomed gardens grew. Bay, goddess, where These purple blooms are gone ; Hast thou transformed them to the mottled skies Where, with thy sister Pleiades, Thou wearest them in thy bright amber hair? Or do they fade upon Thy bosom, where thy fondest suitor dies ? THE FORTUNES OF EY ABBEY. 8vo, pp. 14. 28 6d [1868] A poem in blank verse, descriptive of the changing fortunes through which this ancient ruin hiw FORSYTH'S (William, Q.C.) The Great Fair of Nijni Novogorod, and how we got there. Sq. Itimo, title and pp. 117. 58 1865 Mr. Forsyth left London on the 8th August, 18(54, to visit Russia, intending to make Nijni Novo- gorod, on the banks of the Volga, the limit of his journey. He gives a highly interesting account of his experiences in Russia. The Great Fair seems to have much disappointed his ex- pectations ; but the country generally and its people, seem to have produced a very favour- able impression on the traveller. He says, iu conclusion: — "The result of my short experi- ence is, that there is no pleasanter country in which to make an autumn tour than Russland." FOSTER'S (Joseph) The Royal Lineage of our Noble and Gentle Families, together with their paternal ancestry. 4to, pp. xx, " Family Register," 2 11, and '' Lineage," pp. 134 to 172. 7a 6d 18S3 This appears to be the first volume only of this work, although I believe no other volumes have yet been issued. The following extract from the Preface will suffi ciently describe the design and character of this work : — "Though this is not the first work which has appeared on Royal Descents, it is the first in which they have been genealogically treated. Hitherto they have only appeared in the form of chart pedigrees, which though useful adjuncts to a genealogical narrative, are by themselves meagre and uninstructive. The families included iu the present work will have their descent from the blood royal traced in the form of a detailed narrative, introducing the various historic houses — now extinct, for the most part, in the male line — through whom they derive their royal descent. Most of the names illustrious in our early annals are no longer to be found in works dealing with the extant Peerage, but they will necessarily occupy a prominent place in the present work Many of those who are outside the charmed circle of the titled classes can prove their descent from the Kings of England, and I have taken the opportuuity afl'orded me by this fact, and by the wide sphere which the subject consequently presents, to extend my genealogical operations beyond the Peerage and Baronetage, and to deal on a somewhat comprehen- sive scale with the history of our gentle though untitled families." [FOWLER.]— Memoir of Robert Fowler, with Ex- tracts from his Letters and Memoranda. Cr. 8vo, pp. 163. 38 Norwich, 1833 Robert Fowler was born of Quaker parentage and remained all his life a faithful member of the Society of Friends. He was born in 1755 at Melksham, in Wiltshire. In his early life he was engaged in trade, and seems to have met with the success which usually attends the mem- bers of the Quaker sect. Afterwards he became a minister, and visited in this capacity nio.st of the meetings of Friends in Great Britain. He died in 1825. 6o Catalogue of Books Printed [FOWLER].— A Short Memoir of R— F— , with extracts from her Memoranda, etc. 12mo, pp. 97. 3s Norwich, n.d. A memoir of a Quakeress. Rachel Barnard, who became the wife of Robert Fowler (not apparently the Robert Fowler whoso memoir is noticed above,buta memberof the same family). She was born in 1767 and died in 1833. FOWLER'a (Charles) Description of the plan for the revival of Hungerford Market, with some particulars of the Buildings proposed to be erected; and other improvements. Roy. 8vo, pp. 23, and three plans. 28 6d 1829 FOWLER'a (John) Lecture on Egypt delivered at Tewkesbury, Jan. 20, 1880. Roy. 8vo, pp. 68, and SO lithographic plates. f)B 1880 The author of this lecture is a well-known en- gineer. The circumstances which led him to visit Egypt were as follows :--• " Eleven years ago, when' suffering temporarily from tlie effects of overwork, a kind and valued friend, the Duke of Sutherland, proposed to me the pleasant reuiedy of a visit to E;;ypt with himself and a few fiiends, including Professor Owen. An expedition to the nearly finished Suez Canal was a part of the programme, and a trip up the Nile under very fa- vourable conditions was suggested as probable. The temptation was beyond my power of resistance, and I gladly agreed to be one of the party." Mr. Fowler describes well what he saw in the land of the Pharoahs. Naturally he was much in- terested in the Suez Canal, and in the various other ensfineering works then proceeding in Egypt, and his remarks upon them are instruc- tive and valuable. The lecture, aided by its illustrations, gives one a very good idea of the country, its marvels and its inhabitants. FRAGMENTA SCOTO-DRAMATICA, Ulfj-.ns. 12m<>, pp. 48. lO.i ed Edinburgh, 18^5 Of this pamphlet only a vo,ry few copies were printed at the expense of the Editor, W. H. Logan. It consists chiefly of atlvertisenients and other extracts from newspapers relating to the drama in Scotland. Some of the extracts illustrate the fierce opposition which was offered to the estiiblishment of dr.imatic performances in the Scottish capital by the more bigoted of its citizens. FRAGMENTS from the Pilgrimage of Art and OF Time, a Parable without end. Svo, pp. 84. 4s 6d ahy. 8vo, pp. 45. Ss 6d 1857 This is a thoughtful and eloquent disquisition. GERAMB's (Baron de) Letter to Earl Moira, Gene- ral of the Armies of his Britannic Majesty, etc., on the Spaniards and Cadiz. Translated and printed by order of Baron Qeramb, solely for the Members of both Houses of Parlia- ment. 4to, pp. 88. 5d 6d 1810 The above copy has a fine portrait of the Baron inserted, which does not appear to belong to the book, as Mr. Cosens's copy, recently sold at So- theby's, was without it. The portrait represents him as a very melodramatic sort of personage, with flowing locks, a well-trained moustache, a fur cloak with skull, crossbones, star, etc., mounted upon it, and a showy sash tied round his waist. The Baron's Letter is written in a style which in an Englishman or American would be considered " high-faluting," but which coming from him may be described as ornate eloquence. More- over, the sufferings which Spain was then under- going from the French invasion, rendered a cer- tain iutejnperance of language excusable and justifiable. The intent of the letter is to describe the heroic determination of the Spaniards not to yield to their invaders, and to enlist the sympa- thies of the English Parliament in their favour. Making allowance for the Baron's dithyrambics, his address is a really powerful plea in favour of the Spanish people. [GILFILLAN]— In Memoriam : the Rev. George Gilfillan. Reprinted from the Dundee Adver- tiser. 12mo, pp. 176. Ss 6d 1878 An interesting memorial of this remarkable preacher ;md writer. The Dundee Advertiser, in the course of its notice, said of him : — " George Gilfillan was not merely a man of a thousand, but of a tliousand thousands— so grand, so genuine, so earnest, while not without weaknesses that kept him akin with feebler men. Now that he has passed away, what multitudes will remember that abound- ing and impulsive goodness of heart which led him to take endless trouble on behalf of deserving, and sometimes even undeserving aspirants to fame. He was ever ready to spend himself in befriending the friendless, encouraging the timid, and stimulating the hopeful." THE GLADIATOR of Ravenna, a Tragedy, by Frederich Halm (Baron von Miinch Belling- hausen). Translated bv Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B. 8vo, pp. ix and 77. 78 6d 1885 This play is the best of the many written by Friedrich Halm. This dramatist is best known in England by his " Sohn der Wildniss," which under the title of " Ingomar," has long been a popular acting piece. "The Gladiator of Ra- venna" was first produced anonymously at the Burg Theatre of Vieuua, in October, 1854. It was very successful ; but the fact that it was written by Halm did not become known till 1856, its authorship meanwhile being claimed by two other persons, whose partizans on one occa- sion nearlj' came to blows in disputing about it. The story of the play was evidently suggested by a passage in Tacitus, who states that after the first defeat of Arminius by Germanicus, the wife of the former, being taken prisoner, was sent to Rome, where she gave birth to a son, who was trained as a gladiator at the school of Ravenna. On this slight foundation, Halm has constructed a play full of life, action, and interest. Sir Theodore Martin has given us a version of it which, I should guess, is little, if at all, inferior to the original. 64 Catalogue of Books Printed aiLSTRAP'a (Elizabeth Ilaigh) The Harp of Colue. Cr. Svo, pp. ix aud 230. 3a ]886 [GLASSFORD (Jamej)]— MiBcellanea. J. G. 4to, pp. 83. 78 6d 1818 The author of this vohime was an .idvocate : he died at Edinburgh in 1845. The contents of the book are as follows: — Machinse Gesticulantes, or the Puppet Show, translated from Addison into English verse : Templum Har- lemianum, or the Show Box, translated from the Latin of Stephen Clay : Spheristerium, or the Bowling Green, translated from Addison : Cur- sus Glacialis, or Skating, from the Latin of Frowde : The Panorama, an original poem: and a variety of translations from Metastasio, Tasso, and other Italian poets. Mr. Glassford's translations are very good. As a specimen take the following Sonnet from the Italian of Delia Casa : — Sleep, O peaceful son of the moist, still, And shadowy night; comfort of the mind That suffers ; sweet oblivion where to find Repose, and interval of human ill ; Help thou a heart that languishes, nor will Take rest ; these weak and weary limbs unbind ; And, hovering on thy gloomy pinions kind, Brood o'er me, and with balmy slumbers fill. Where has the coy and darkling silence fled ? And where the dreams, which ia thy quiet train With light aud timorous step were sometime led ? Alas 1 in vain I call thee, and in vain Sigh for the dusk and dewy time. O bed And pillow of thorn ! O nights of grief and pain ! The following short original poem has, I think, considerable merit : — O welcome is the hour of prime, And sweet the opening bud to see : Yet joys there are in every time, For such as thankful be. O life is pleasant at the dawn, AVhilc hope is beating in the breast ! And pleasant when the shades are drawn, For then we look to rest. [GLADSTONE]. — In Memoriam. Jane May Gladstone, and her children, Alice Jane Gladstone, John Tilt Gladstone. With a Ser- men preached by the Rev. James Hamilton, on Sunday, March 27, 1864. Or. Svo, pp. 64. 68 n.d. A memorial of Jane Mary Gladstone (the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Tilt, born in 1830, died 1864), the wife of Dr. J. H. Gladstone, the com- piler of the volume ; and of two of her children. She was a woman of much ability, and her hus- band writes of her in a strain of great tender- ness and deep regret for her untimely decease. Her children, too, wore very clever, and of great promise. [GLENBERVIE'b (Lord)] Translation from the Italian of Forteguerri of the First Canto of Ricciardetto ; with an Introduction concern- ing the principal Romantic, Burlesque, aud Mockheroic poets. 12mo, pp. liv and 106. 58 1821 The Introduction gives an excellent critical account of the leading Italian writers of bur- lesque poetry, with a particular notice of Forte- guerri, a capital author in that style, but one who is little known to the English reader. Lord Glenbervie's translation of his First Canto is very well done, and it is to bo regretted that he did not translate the whole of the " Ricciar- detto." GLEANINGS from " The Blue." Being a Se- lection of Poetry and Prose from the Maga- zine of Christ's Hospital in the years 1870-71 and 1874-81. Cr. Svo, pp. viii and 184. 7s 6d Hertford, 1881 This volume contains a good many interesting ar- ticles. Amongst them may be mentioned the following : The Death Scenes of Shakespeare, Mr. Du Maurier,A Brush with Pirates, Matthew Arnold's Poems, and Recollections of a new boy. GLIMPSES.—" Nought set down in Malice." Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Pantglas. Svo, title-page, etc., 2 11. and pp. 257. lOs 6d October, 1862 This is a record of the matrimonial disputes and troubles of Mi-, and Mrs, Jones. These persons seem to have found marriage a decided failure; and if Balzac could have read this relation of their disagreements, he would probably have found in it materials for another chapter of his * Miseries of Married Life.' The story is told by Mrs. Jones (or perhaps by some friend of hers, for it contains passages praising her beauty and fascination, which, one would think, she could hardly have indited herself), and relates in detail the story of her marriage, of her hus- band's flirtations with various ladies, of his furious jealousy of his wife, and ill-treatment of her, and, in short, of all the infinity of dis- agreements and discomforts which arise from an ill-assorted marriage. The story as here re- lated, is that of Mrs. Jones, and it is possible that her husband may have had something to say on the other side ; but it is at least plain that they were a most unhappy couple, and that their marriage must have been a frightful mis- fortune to both of them. The story is a suffi- ciently sorry and shameful one ; but it is inte- resting in the same way that a novel is ; while it has the advantage over a mere story that it is a leaf from the book of real life ; and reality ever holds the same relation to romance that diamonds bear to paste. For this reason Mrs. Jones's narrative could give points even to one of Zola's fictions. [GOLF.]— Poems on Golf. 4to. pp. ix and 78. lOs 6d Edinburgh, 1867 A prefatory note states that some members of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society having re- solved to collect a few fugitive pieces in verse, relating to the game of Golf, had, after some labour, procured the poems contained in this volume, which were then printed for private circulation among a number of subscribers. The collection begins with " The Golf," by Thomas Mathison, reprinted from the edition published in 1763. This is a very curious production, highly interesting as recording the names and achievements of many famous Golfers of the past, but not a work of much poetic merit. An- other poem of some length, and of some anti- quity is called "The Golfiad," but no author's name is affixed to this. The remainder of the poems are mostly short occasional pieces, and chieHy by modern authors. The most interer^t- ing of these latter is a series of nine Sonnets, entitled " The nine holes of the Links of St. Andrews." I sho\ild like to quote one or two of these, but they are rather too full of techni- calities to be appreciated by persons unacquaint- ed with the game. The volume is veiy handsomely printed and * got up.' for Private Circulation. 65 GOLDING's (Charles) The Coinage of Suffolk, consisthig of the Regal Coins, Leaden Pieces, and Tokens of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Together with notices of the Mints and of some of tlie issues of Tokens. With upuurds of seventy illustra- tions. 4to, pp. xi and 100, with six plates. £1 Is 1868 Mr. Gelding's work gives evidence of much pains- taking research, and must be of the greatest value to all who are iuteresteil in numismatics. [GOLF].— Blackheath Golfing Lays, by the Poet- Laureate of the Club (Thomas Marsh, Esq.) Cr. 8vo, pp. 143. 5s Printed for the Members of the Clui, 1873 Mr. Marsh leaves us in no doubt as to his enthusi- astic devotion to the game of Golf, and those who are equally devoted to it will certainly ad- mire his verses, in spite of the fact that they do not always conform to the strict rules of rhyth- mical construction. [GRACE FAMILY]. -Memoirs of the Family of Grace, by Sheffield Grace, 'Esq., F.S.A. Roy. 8vo, pp. 104, with Z\ plates consisting of por- traits, views, coats of arms, ti;c.,and two maps. 2l8 1823 At the end of the volume are the following addi- tions : — Lines " To my Friend, Sheffield Grace," by Charles Symmons : Lines written at Jer- point Abbey, pp. 16, dated 1820 : Verses in Irish and English on "Grace's Country," two leaves : Descent of the Family of Grace, two leaves : The Descent of the Graces of Gracefield from the House of Courtstown, on a folding sheet : Monumental and other inscriptions re- lating to the Grace Family. The Family of Grace, according to our author, is of the very highest antiquity. Descended from the ancient lords of Tuscany, it passed in the person of Otho or Other, a powerful nobleman, contemporary with our Alfred, into Normandy, and thence into England ; where in the sixteenth year of Edward the Confessor he is stiled a baron. He was the father of Walter- Fitz-Other, who at the general survey of the Kingdom in 1078, was Castellan of Windsor, and appointed by the Conqueror to be Warden of tlie Forests ia Berkshire. From Other are descended many illustrious families, which have, in the course of time, spread themselves over England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. Amongst the noblemen who took part in the in- vasion of Ireland was Raymond Fitzwilliam de Carew, surnamed le Gros. He so greatly dis- tinguished himself, that Strongbow,Earl of Pem- broke, bestowed upon him the hand of his sister Basilia de Clare, and with her that great dis- trict in Kilkenny, denominated from him the " cantred of Grace's Country," for his agnomen of Gros, given to him on account of his prowess, gradually became fii-st Gras, and then, by Eng- lish pronunciation, Grace. Into tlio further history of the family I cannot enter here : suf- fice it to say it long retained a position of great power and influence in Ireland. It seems to have lost its pro-eminence during the time of the great civil war. Mr. Grace's book contains a sketch of the general history of tho family, followed by a number of biographies of its more prominent representatives. It is a work of con- siderable value to the historian and genealogist. [GRACE]. — An Ancient Feudal War-Song, enti- tled Grasagh Aboe, (the Cause of the Graces) which, in the Olden Time, constituted the Slogan or War-Cry of the retainers and clans- men of the Family of Grace, Barons of Courts- town, and Lords of the Cantred of Grace's Country ; with Translations from the original Gaelic Iberno-Celtic Language into metrical versions of the English, French, Italian, Ger- man, Spanish, Greek, and Latin languages. Collected and Composed by Sheffield Grace, Esq., ofKnole House, Dep. Lieut, and J.P. of the Co. of Sussex, &c. Roy. 8vo, pp. 80, and 22 plates. 8s 6d 1839 Some of the plates in this volume are reproduced from the " Memoirs." The book contains, be- sides what is mentioned above, various poems, &c., relating to the Graces, and the music, ar- ranged for the pianoforte, of " Grasagh Aboe." This book is not mentioned by Martin. [GRAHAM]. — Memoir of General Graham, with Notices of the Campaigns in which he was en- gaged from 1779 to 1801. Edited by his Son Colonel James J. Graliam, Author of the ' Art of War.' Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 318, with por- trait of Gen. Graham, and other engravings. 8s 6d Edinburgh, 1862 The chief portion of this book consists of a narra- tive which General Graham seems to have drawn up chiefly with a view of vindicating his friend, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, from a charge of having improperly expended public money, Samuel Graham was born at Paisley in 1756. Having completed his education at the College of Edinburgh, he entered the military profes- sion in 1777. In that year the war with America caused an augmentation of the army, and several regiments were raised in Scotland. Graham was promoted to a lieutenancy in the 76th Highlanders in consequence of his services in raising a quota of men. In 1779 he succeeded to the Captain-Lieutenancy of the regiment, and shortly afterwards the troops were ordered to America. The part which was taken in the war by the 76th regiment is fully dwelt upon, and many details of interest are related. The 76th was one of tho regiments which sur- rendered at Yorktown with Lord Cornwallis. Graham was one of the thirteen officers who cast lots to see which of their number should be executed as an act of revenge for the murder of the American officer. Captain Huddy. The 76th regiment returned to England at the conclusion of tho war in 1784. In 1793 and 1794 Graham served under the Duke of York and the Earl of Moira in Holland. He was afterwards sent to the Island of St. Vincent, in which the Caribs (natives of the Island)were then in a state of in- surrection. Here Graham was severely wounded, and his recovery was for some time despaired of. He afterwards served in tho Egyptian Campaign of 1800. He was, on his I'eturn to England, ap- pointed Governor of Stirling Castle, and, though ho made frequent applications to go on active service, he was not again employed abroad. Ho was a brave and experienced officer, and had ho been placed in a position' of responsibility would doubtless have won greater distinction than ho achieved. [No. v.] 66 Catalogue of Books Printed [GRAHAM].— Journal of the Lady Beatrix Gra- ham, Sister of the Marquis of Montrose. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 253. 78 6d 1870 It is stated in the Introductory Remarks, that this journal is printed from an old Manuscript, which had come into the Editor's possession many years before. It is written in a some- what antique style, which has, however, an ad- mixture of modern phrases, which makas one suspect that it is not really what it pretends to be, but a work of fiction attempting to pass for a genuine old narrative. Whether new or old, however, it is a book not destitute of interest." If not one of the books that must be read, it is at least one of those that inay be. [GRANT'S (J.)] The Joshuad, a Poem in Thirteen Books. 8vo, pp. viii and 451: with a folding map. 48 6d 1837 This book is not mentioned by Martin. The above is a presentation copy from the author to his son. The author states that he long cherished the hope of visiting the Holy Land, and in order to pre- pare himself for doing so secluded himself for several years from society. His poem of " The Joshuad " was the recreation with which he relieved his severer studies. The poem is not destitute of merit, but is of such length that, I fear, only a Robinson Crusoe on & desolate is- land would ever find time to read it through. GRAPHID^, or Characteristics of Painters. Sq. 12mo, pp. vi and 39, vnth a frontispiece. 6s 1838 The author of this work, who signs himself ' H. R.' says, in a Prefatory note : "These composi- tions were first written down as a kind of sport in art, to describe the painters to whom they severally relate by some awakened association with a favourite picture, or some general charac- teristic of the artists' genius." The following lines on Claude Lorrain will serve as a specimen of the author's style : — The calm of moonlight and the pomp of day Blend with the aery sunbeams on their way, To wave in paths of gold on summer seas. Smile o'er the earth and sweep the feathery trees. The ridge of distant mountains, blue and bare, Kisses in light the denser depth of air ; And clouds of incense, sea-born strangers, fly On the clear breeze of that enchanted sky. GRAVES' (Rev. James) A Brief Memoir of the Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, known as the fair Qeraldine. Roy, 8vo, pp. 16, with a portrait and a facsimile of the lady's handxcriting. 83 6d Dublin, 1874 A highly interesting memorial of a lady whose charms were sung by the Earl of Surrey, of who a romantic fable in connection with her was long current, but was at length disproved by Dr. Nott. The present memoir adds con- siderably to our scanty store of knowledge about her. GRAVES' (Rev. James) The Church and Shrine of St. Manchan. Roy. 8vo, pp. 19, vnth 13 il- lustrations. 6s 6d Dublin, 1875 " Impression 50 copies." Mr. Graves seeks to prove that the Church and Shrine of St. Manchan was situated at Lema- ghan, in the barony of Garry-castle, King's County. It is an essay of value to aU who are interested in Irish antiquities. GRAVES's (Rev. James, Editor) Anonymous Ac- count of the Early Life and Marriage of James, First Duke of Ormonde, with an Appendix. Roy. 8vo, pp. 27. 7s 6d Dublin, 1864 " Privately printed : impression, twenty. five copies." The Manuscript of this curious relation was dis- covered by Mr. Graves in the Evidence Cham- ber at Kilkenny Castle. It bears all the marks of authenticity, and the particulars which it contains were probably gathered from some old and faithful follower of the house of Ormonde. It is a document of considerable value from an historical point of view ; and the editor's numerous notes do much to elucidate and illus- trate it. [GRAY]. — List of the Books, Memoirs, and Miscel- laneous Papers,by John Edward Gray, F.R.S., with a few historical notes. 8vo, pp. 58. 3s 6d 1872 On the back of the title-page is the following ac- count of Mr. Gray, taken from a letter which he wrote to a friend : — "My father was a posthumous child, born after his patrimony had been distributed. He was educated by his mother, who had only a small annuity. He was exceedingly industrious, but suffered from a disease of the lungs from shortly after my birth to the end of his life. I am the result of necessity and perseverance. I was a weakly and ailing child, confined to my chair eight months of the year, and never eating animal food. My mother taught me my letters and how lo write them. My father em- ployed me to make extracts for him. My chief oc- cupation was reading, on my knees, the " Encyclo- paedia Britannica," aud making card models of the machinery, &c. At twelve I began the world to provide for myself and help ray family. It has been a very kind and benevolent world to me; and I only suffered sufficient opposition to induce me to persevere. I have been invited to join more than one commercial firm, and also (pffered a more impor- tant and lucrative appointment ; but I have kept firmly to my early plan, to form the largest and most complete Zoological Collection known, which I hope I have done." Mr. Gray's immense industry is testified to by the list of books and papers given in the above pamphlet, for they amount, in all to the great number of 1162 articles. The few notes affixed are of considerable interest. [GREEK COMMITTEE].— The Cession of Thes- saly to Greece. Proceedings at the Banquet of the Greek Committee, held in Willis's Rooms, London, on Saturday, March 4th, 1882. 8vo, pp. 55. 3s 1882 This banquet was held to celebrate the peaceful cession of Thessaly by arbitration of the powers to Greece, and the termination of the woi'k of the Greek Committee in connection with the Treaty of Berlin. G 's (0.) The Pass of Bonholme, and other oc- casional verses. 12mo, pp. viii and 100. 4s 6d 1831 The author's name appears to be Greene, as the book is dedicated to the author's brother. Cap- tain Greene. The author states that some of the pieces had ap- peared in the Asiatic Journal and other periodi- cals ; but that most of them were intended for domestic circulation only. " The Pass of Bon- holme " relates to the melancholy fate of a clergyman named Bracken, who was lost while attempting to cross the Alps in 1830, for Private Circulation. 67 GREEK DRAMAS, adapted from the version of the Rev. Robert Potter, by John Benson Rose. Cr. 8vo, pp. vi and 312, with woodcuts. 5s N.D. The plays contained in this volume are the Prometheus and Ag-amemnon of ^schylus, The CEdipus and Ajax of Sophocles, and the Alcestis and Hecuba of Euripides. Mr. Rose states that his introduction to the Greek drama was through the translation of the Rev. R. Potter. It seemed to him that Mr. Potter's work was injured by his adherence to a very lite- ral rendering of the originals, and he therefore decided to make a version for his own use, which should be more flowing in style and more in- teresting to a reader without a knowledge of Greek than Potter's translation. [GREEK VASES].— Two Ancient Greek Vases, known as the Capo di Monte and Actaeon, now on view (by permission) in the British Museum. Printed for Private Circulation, at I the Chiswick Press, for the Rev. E. J. Ed- j munds, Trentham. Imp], 8vo, 3 11. of letter- press, and four plates These two vases are of the greatest beauty, and few relics of antiquity surpass them in value or interest. [GREENE'S (John)] Notes on Pleasure Trips. I. English Lakes and Scotland, 1862. II. Rome and Italy, 1864. III. Switzerland, the Rhine, Holland, &c., 1866. Cr. 8vo, pp. 189. 53 1871 There is nothing very original in Mr. Greene's de- criptions; but they are evidently the work of a cultivated, thoughtful gentleman, with a great capacity for extracting pleasure and instruction from the various scenes and incidents of his travels. [GREGORY'S (Dr. James)] Lucubrations on the Epigram. 8vo, pp. 48. 7s 6d 1808 In this volume is inserted an autograph letter of Lord Woodhouselee's, in which he says : — " I send you a literary curiosity, the translation or paraphrase of a Greek epigram in 70 different versions, a wonderful specimen of the versatility of language and the power of expressing the same idea in an infinite variety. The Editor is nay friend Dr. Gregory, who taxed a number of his literary friends to furnish him with transla- tions," He states further that the translators were Dr. Gregory, Dr. Thomas Brown, himself and two of his sons, and some other persons whose names he is not permitted to mention. I quote below three of the renderings. " If the wayward Fates are brewing For nie inevitable ruin, Since I cannot 'scape the ruin, Tell me not what they are brewing.' " If foreknowledge of grief Could afford us relief, 'Twere indeed a relief To foresee all our grief; — But since no relief Comes from foresight of grief. Why seek to know grief Since it brings not relief." " Fool the man, whoe'er he be, Who courts his coming fate to see ; For what avails that lot to know. No caie can teach us to forego." [GREY].— The Autobiography of the Rev. Henry Grev, with a short account of his last Illness and'Death. 12mo, pp. iv & 228. 3s 6d (1861) This autobiography of a very zealous clergymen was written in his seventy-third year (1857). He died in 1860. [GREY's (Hon. C.)] Letter to Lord Mahon on the Ministerial Changes of 1801 and 1804. 8vo, PP 24. 3s (18.52) Lord Mahon having printed for Private Circula- tion " Secret Correspondence between Mr. Pitt and Lord Melville," explanatory of the circum- stances under which Mr. Pitt resumed office in 1804, expressed certain opinions as to the con- duct of Pitt and Fox, and their followers, which the author of the above pamphlet regarded as erroneous. He argues that Pitt never intended to act with Fox, and that his offer to do so was a mere pretence, and that Fox's party acted wisely in refusing to have dealings with him. [GRIFFITH]. — Literary Reminiscences : a Me- morial Volume, containing Selections from the Papers of Samuel Hallett Griffith, M.R.C.S. Edited by his Brother. Cr. 8vo, pp. VL and 276. 3s 6d I860 Samuel Hallett Griffith was bom at Bath in 1819. He was educated for the ministry, but feeling himself not altogether qualified for that profession, he decided to become a phy- sician. After passing his examinations, he commenced medical practice in Wolverhamp- ton. The death of one to whom he was deeply attached made him give up his prac- tice here after little more than a twelvemonth, and he then accepted a medical apppoint- ment which took him to the East and West Indies. He returned home in 1846, and shortly afterward entered on medical dutie.s in London. He contributed articles to the 'Leisure Hour,' 'Sunday at Home,' and 'Church of England Monthly Review.' In 1859 he v.ent abroad as surgeon to the Joseph Fletcher. This ship was wrecked when just entering the China Sea, near the Loochoo Isles, and Dr. Griffith was one of the victims of the calamity. The essays reprinted in this volnme give evi- dence of a thoughtful and cultivated mind, though they are mostly too short to enable the author to do justice to his subjects. He writes upon the Religion of Geology, Celes- tial Scenery, Ethnology, Sanitary Reform, Dew, Sleep, etc., etc. The longest essay is one on Druidism. GRILLION's CLUB, from its Origin in 1812 to its Fiftieth Anniversary. By P. G. E. Sm. 4to, pp. 126 and s., frontispiece {a portrait of Sir Sir Thomas Dylce Acland) and facsimile. 12s Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1880 This history of a famous Cktb is a hook of can- sidorable interest. The peculiarity of Gril- lion's Club is that it is not, like most others, restricted to the adherents of one political party ; but is open to Liberals and Conserva- tives alike. It commenced with a few college friends, severalof whom, after leaving Oxford, re-assembled in 1807-8 at Eilinburgh. for attendance on the lectures of Dugald Stewart and other distinguished Professors. These afterwards continued their intimacy in Lon- don, and in 1812 formed themselves into a club, which from its place of meeting took the name of Grillion's Club. On the whole the Club seems to have prospered, though there were times when it fell to a very low ebb, and it was difficult to induce members to assemble even at the periodical dinners. 68 Catalogue of Books Printed GKILLION'S CLUB-con<. ' Many distiiiffiiibhcil persons belonged to it at ditt"en;nt times, amongst wlicni may lie men- {ioneil Samuel WilKeiforce, Bishop of Oxford, Lord tlmijrliton, Sir Tliomas Dyko Aclaiiri, Sir William Stirlin^-Mr,xv/ell, Lord Stratford do Redclifl'e, Eai-1 Cairns, &c. A collection of portraits of tlio memliers was executed at the cost of Sir Thom.as Dyke Acland and Sir Jaraes Buller East, and by them presented to the Club. The object of the Club, viz., to promote sociality and good feeling between individuals who might be political opponents, seems to have been successfully attained. [GROOM-NAPIER].— Notes on the Pedigree of Her Most Serene Highness, Ann Groom, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat in Italy* and of her Son, His Highness, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, Prince of Mantua and Montferrat ; Master of Lennox and of Napier of Kilmahew, Compiled from public and private Documents, by the late John Riddell, Esq., assisted by M. Berryer, Junr., and J. Montgomery. 8vo, pp. 40. 3s 1879 * Here follows a long list of high-sounding titles, which I have neither time nor inclination to transcribe. The two noble personages whose pedigrees are given in this pamphlet, seem to number amongst their ancestors a perfectly awe- inspiring and almost paralysing number of famous and kingly personages. Considering that they were the last of their race, it must have rendered them profoundly unhappy to think that such an illustrious line of descent might come to an end in their persons. The Hon. Archibald Napier, one of the said ances- tors, once applied to Napoleon for the con- firmation of his titles as Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. Napoleon answered, "That not creating his ancestors to the titles he could not confirm them ; but if he represented the family, he was doubtless entitled to them, but they were empty titles, as the land had passed out of the family 100 years previous- ly." He added, sarcastically, "that only priests, women and fools cared for empty titles, but with this qualification he had no objection to them. " Priests, women and fools comprise at least four-fifths of the population of the earth, so perhaps Her Serene Highness, Ann Groom, Duchess, etc., etc., and her son were well advised in printing their remark- able pedigree. GROSART's (Rev. Alexander B.) Lord Bacon not the author of " The Christian Paradoxes," being a Reprint of " Memorials of Godliness and Christianity," by Herbert Palmer, B.D. With Introduction, Memoir and Notes. 8vo, pp. vi and 126, with portrait of Palmer. 5s 1865 The following extract from the "Prefatory Note " will best explain the character of this book : — " In ' Infroduction' I have sivcn an account of the re- markable little discovery that it has fallen to me to make, to wit, the non-Baconian, and aotnal author- ship of ' The Christian Paradoxes.' I briefly describe the difTerent editions. Thereafter will be found illustrations of the evil influence against l^acon of his snjipof^ed authorship of these ' Paradoxes," as misunderstood, more eaiiecially in France and Ger- many : and also of bow the real authoj-ship sweeps aw!iy the abounding pneas-work as to thcii' meaning and desisn. Ins 'Memoir' of Herbert Palmer, I liave I'l'onpht together, from all accs-iblf source", such l.acts ind meinorial-i as remain. In Appendix A. there is given a verbatim ct literatim et punctativi re- l>rint of the s'irre|ititions anonymous edition of the ' Paradoxes,' 1645: and in U. the various readings &n they appeared in ' The Remains,' under the name of Bacon, 1648." [GROSVENOR's (Lord Robert)].— Leaves from my Journal during the Summer of 1851. 8vo, title-page, &c., 4 11. and pp. 173 ; also a por- trait of the author, and four other plates. 2s 1852 There is nothing very novel in Lord Robert Grosvenor's Journal ; but he writes in an easy, pleasant and somewhat humourous vein. THE GROVE. Nos. 1 to 6, 8vo, pp. 192. 5s 1867 This magazine is described by its editor as " a periodical, published monthly, for private cir- culation among tho members of a club, called the ' Mistletoe,' in connection with the Society of Druids of the Oak." Tue contents of "The Grove" are of the usual miscellaneous nature, but are above the aver- age degree of merit in amateur magazines. Some of the poems in its pages are of very considerable excellence. I quote tho two fol- lowing pieces, not as the best to be found, but because of their brevity : — BEWARE. Tell me where Love sleeping lies. — In the depths of maidens' eyes. In the many-charnbered cells Of maidens' hearts, I.ove slumbering dwelLs. Oh ! speak softly, lightly tread, If you near his sacred bed ! Dangerous 'tis his sleep to break. At a whisper Love will wake ! TO THYRZA. Yesterday you bade me go, And your voice was soft and low ; But to-day you bade me stay, And your voice was light and gay. Bid, oh 1 bid me from you fly. If you speak it with a sigh ; Rather than in careless tone Say, — You need not, love, be gone ! GURNEY's (Rev. Alfred) A Ramble through the United States of America, a lecture delivered (in part) in S. Barnabas' School, February 3, 1886. 8vo, pp. 63. 38 6d n.d. Mr. Gurney's account of his tour, which took him to most of the remarkable cities and places of the United States, is very well writ- ten, though, of course, it has not the merit of novelty, the ground he traversed having been so often and so fully described by those who had preceded him. H.'s (H.) Ballads and Rhymes. 12mo, pp. 90. 2s 6d 1856 The first Ballad in this volume is called " Tho King's Tri.al," tho trial being that of King Charles I. : the second is on the Funeral of the Duke of Wellington. To challenge com- parison with Marvell and Tennyson is some- what rash ; and I am bound to say that H. H. does not compete successfully with his fore-runners. However, bis verses may be allowed to roach a fair leyel of merit. for Private Circulation. 69 [GURWOOD].— Jlajor-Ger.eral W. Napier and Colonel Gurwood. 8vo, pp. iii and 8s. 3s 6d [1845] Colonel Gurwood conceivinof that Napier, in hi.s "History of the War in the Peninsula," had done hira some injustice in his (Napier's) aoco\uits of the fightinw at Sabugal and Ciu- did Rodrigo, printed this pamphlet in order to vindicate himself in the eyes of his friends. GUTHRIE'S (Alex.) The ^neid of Virgil, trans- lated from the Latin. Books First and Fourth. 4to, pp. 86. 3s 6d QUa^gow, 1826 The translator of Virgil attempts an ambitions and difficult task. Even Tennyson himself could do no more than justice to the aiithor of the "^neid." It cannot be said that Mr. Guthrie has succeeded where so many have failed. [HADDO]. — Memoranda of the Life of Lord Haddo ; in his latter years fifth Earl of Aberdeen. Edited by the Rev. E. B. Elliott, M.A. Cr, 8v(), pp. xvii and 351, with illus- trations. 4s 6d 1866 Lord Haddo was born in 1816. As a child ho was somewhat shy and reserved, and these qualities remained with him all his life. He was exceedingly pi li-s or man- nerisms of tbe i1ay to so absolute a degree, as to tempt line to believe tliat, the la*"esti sinner he may have even lieard of i.s Wontswort!) ; while in some respects his ideas and point^i arc newer than the newes' m vogue : and tlieexteiml affinity frequent- ly trac .ible to elder poets only throws this essential iudepti dence into siartling and. al^ limeys, almost whims'. hI relief. His s' vie, at its most character- istic picb, is a combination of extrenje homeliness, as of Qiiarles or liunyar, with a forniality and even oceasifinal coMrtliness of diction which recall Pope Inmseif in his most prfifi.-ial flights : while f-ne is Irtqnently reminded ot Gi'ay by siistair.ed vii;oin' of decl imation.' Every man, it has been v,-oH said, lias the de- fects of his (p'.alities ; and Dr. flake's cltief defect, it seems to me, is that he is deficient iu the sense of humour. He who wants hu- mour is apt to be humourous unconsciously, and I hope 1 shall not be thought too cruel if I quote a passage evidently intondod to bo quite serious, from " Old Souls to Mend," which, when 1 first read it, caused me to laugh more heartily than over I laughed at; anything in the pages of "Punch." The poem, as the reader is doubtless aware, re- presents the Saviour as going about in the disguise of a tinker, crying out " Old Bonis to Mend." One stops him and asks for help, whereupon — The tinker looks into his eye And there detects besetting sin - Straightway the tinker sets to work to pluck out the weed of sin from the offending eye, and labours with " tooth and nail " — His tack is steady, slow and snre : He plucks it out, despite the howl, With patifitit hand and look demure. As cuniilnrj maiden draws a fowl. He knows the job he is about. And pulls till all the lie is out. The line I have italicised is surely aViout as perfect an example of the art of sinking into bathos or absurdity, as ever was accomplished by the most ridiculous of the heroes of " The Dunciad." Yet some serious-minded person may perhaps ask wherein the alisnrdity lies ? Well, I conceive it lies in this : that the i-emoval of sin is a metaphysical, and not a physical process : and that lo liken Christ saving a sinner to a cook-maid drawing a fowl is to bring together two incongruous ideas ; and from our sense of incongruity arises our perception of humour. I ought to add, however, that blots like this are rare in Dr. Hake's poems, for which, indeed, I have an admiration hardly less than that of Ros- setti himself. HALE HALL : with Notes on the Family ot Ireland Blackburne. 4 to, title-page, &c., 4 leaves, pp. 128, and mimcrous photographic views, woodcuts, two coloured plates of the heraldic quarter ings of the Jamih/, d;c. £1 Is Liverpool, 1881 This book appears, from an autograph inscrip- tion in my copy, to have been compiled by Harriet E. Blackburne. The village of Hale, in the vicinity of which is situated Hale Hall, is located about ten miles south-east of Liverpool, in an angle of the river Mersej'. The Hall is almost surrounded by fine timber, but its south front commands an extensive view of the river Mersey and the hills of Cheshire. Tlio date of its erection is unknown, but its occupation by the Ireland family is traceable as far back as 1190. Mi'ss Blackburne gives a good description of the Hall and its surroundings, an account of the two families (Ireland and Blackburne) who liave had almost uninterrupted possession of it since 119(1, various genealogical tables, and other matter of interest. HALFORD's (Sir Henry) Nug^i Metrie;i3. 8vo. pp.40. 33 lS;i9 The author of this tract was a disti;igni?lied physician, and the author of several essays. etc. He say.s of flic above verses—" Most of the following trilles were written in the c.ii'- riage, and served to liegiile the tedium of many a day spent in my professional pur- suits." 70 Catalogue of Books Printed HALIBQRTON'a (R. G.) New Materials for the History of Mau, derived from a comparison of the Caleudars and Festivals of Nations. No. 1— Tiie Festival of the Dead, 8vo, pp. V and lOi, with an appendix of pp. 14. 3s 6d Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1863 Mr. Haliburton (a son, I think, of Judge Hali- burton, " Sam Slick ") argues in this essay that the Festival of the Dead (known amongst ourselves as the Festivals of All Halloween, All Saints, or All Souls) is a uni- versal commemoration amongst all nations, which is celebrated at or about the same time of the year — the end of October or beginning of November. Mr. Haliburton urges that the universality of chis Festival furnishes an argument in favour of the unity of origin of the human race, an opinion which he sup- ports with a show of much learning and research. I cannot judge of the soundness of our author's views; buD I can at least certify that his essay contains much curious and out- of-the-way matter of interest to comparative mythologists, folk-lorists and antiquarians. [HALL]. — Miscellaneous Pieces, by Rev. Robert Hall, A.M. Printed for Private Circulation only. 8vo, pp. iv and 336, with an appendix of pp. 31. 3s 1830 Why this collection of miscellanies by so popu- lar an author as Robert Hall was in his day should have been printed for private circula- tion only is not explained ; but it was pro- bably thought that the pieces having been mostly written to serve a local or temporary purpose, were hardly suited for publication in the usual way. The pieces are chiefly on religious subjects. HALL'S (S. C.) The Use of Spiritualism. 4to, pp. 36. 3s [1876] Mr. Hall writes as a strong believer in, and advocate of, spiritualism. He has evidently, however, some painful misgivings, as the fol- lowing extract from the prefatory note will show — " I printed this letter iu 1863 ; in 1871 I reprinted it, with many additions. In 1870 I print it again ; and I again add to it. My motive in referring to previous editions is to sliow that my belief in Spi- ritualism has undergone no change. I have as en- tire conviction of its truth as I had thirteen years ago; but I have far lessJDyinit now than 1 had then. It is, at this time, not only enveloped in mystery, not only confused, and conflicting, and contradictory ; but many of its public professors subject it to the vilest influences, while some of the spiritual publications uphold the filthiest doctrines : taught to them, as they say— and probably truly— by SPIRITS who have lived iu earth life." There are, it appears by this, lying spirits abroad now, as iu former times : but surely it would be better to decline all commerce with spirits, rather than run the risk of being deceived by bad ones. How can a mere mortal decide which are true, and which are false spirits, if, indeed, any of them are true ones • HALL's (Spencer, Librarian to the Athenceum) Echyngham of Echyngham. Roy. 8vo, pp. viii and 22. 3s 6d 1850 This is a genealogic;il account of a family of some note, which flourished in England from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, after which it seems to have become extinct, fie- sides the account of the family, Mr. Hall gives a description of the Church and lands of Echyngham, which are situated about eight miles from Battle in Sussex. [HALL's (Elizabeth Sophia)] Poems on several Occasions. 8vo, pp. xvi and 197. 3s 6d 1844 This book is not mentioned by Martin. The lady's verses present no special features of interest. [HALLAN'S (Arthur H.)] Oration, on the Influ- ence of Italian Works of Imagination on the same class of Composition in England ; delivered in Trinity College Chapel, December 16, 1831. 8vo, pp. 29. 2a Cambridge, 1832 This is a presentation copy from Mrs. Hallam to Lady Callcott, and has a long autograph letter from the former to the latter lady inserted ; also a copy of the inscription oa the grave of Eleanor Hallam. I need not remind the reader that the author of this oration was the gifted youth whose untime- ly death is commemorated in Tennyson's "In Memoriam." The oration is included, I believe, in the volume of Hallam's "Remains," of which I regret that I have not a copy to include in this catalogue. [HALLAM.] — Memoir of Henry Fitzmaurice Hal- lam. For Private Distribution. 8vo, pp. 16. 168 [1851] This memoir is signed at the end H. S. M. and F. L. H. F. Hallam was born in 1824. Even in its im- maturity, his mind exhibited the germs of rare qualities. He had great facility in learning, a quick appreciation of principles, and a very tenacious raemor}-. At the age when most boys are reading Scott or Byron, he studied Bacon, and delighted in Wordsworth and Dante. He went to Eton in 1836, where his masters, and those of his school-fellows who saw much of him were struck by the general forwardness of his intellect. In 1842 he commenced his residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his natu- ral ability and general attainments secured him a high position. He took his degree in January, 1846 ; was among the Senior Optimes in the Mathematical Tripos ; and Second Chancellor's Medallist. He quitted Cambridge at Christmas, 1846, and took up his residence in London, in order to commence the study of the law. He was called to the bar in 1850, and became a member of the Midland Circuit in the summer. Soon after he joined his family in a tour on the Continent. In the course of this tour he was attacked by a sudden and severe illness, and died at Sienna, on October 25, 1850. Thus, like his gifted brother, Arthur Henry Hallam, was he cut off when his powers were maturing, and when there was the Snest promise that he would have had a distinguished and honourable career. WORKS WRITTEN OR COMPILED BY JAMES ORCHARD UALLIWELL, {after- vxirds J. 0. HaUiweU-PhUlipps). Thk Management of Covent Garden Theatre Vindicated from the attack of an anonymous critic, in a letter to the Editor of the " Cam- bridge Advertiser." By J. 0. H. 8vo, pp. 12. 5s 6d 1811 Mr. Halliwell, who seems at this time to have been the writer of notices of London Theatrical performances to the " Cambridge Advertiser," vindicates himself in this letter from the charge of having criticised too favourably the pieces pro- duced at Covent Garden under the management of Madame V«stris. for Private Circulation. 71 HALLIWELL— con<. NuG^; Poetics. — Select Pieces of Old English Popular Poetry, illustrating the manners and arts of the fifteenth century. Edited by J. 0. H. 12mo, pp. xi. and 72. 6s 6d 1844 This has the name of John Russell Smith on the title-page as publislier ; but as only one hun- dred copies were printed, I have thought myself justified in including it. It is one of Mr. Halli- well's most interesting collections, the pieces it contains being of uncommon value. The first poem, Colyn Blowbol's Testament, is a compo- sition of considerable humour, and is one of the earliest examples of English satirical poetry. Another piece of interest is the "Debate of the Carpenter's Tools," an old fabliau, which is per- haps one of the most curious of its kind known to exist. It was probably translated from the French, pieces of that kind being comparatively common in Anglo-Norman, while English com- positions of such early date are rare. The other pieces here reprinted are all worthy of at- tention, either for their intrinsic merits, or be- cause of their illustrations of ancient manners. Statement in answer to Reports which have been spread abroad against Mr. James Orchard Halliwell. 8vo, pp. 24. 3s 1845 This pamphlet relates to a rather unpleasant af- fair, which caused Mr. Halliwell to be denied the u.se of the British Museum. Various MSS. it seems, had disappeared from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, and these (or at least MSS. similar to them), after a time were traced to the possession of Mr. Rodd, the book- seller, who stated that he bought them of Mr. Halliwell. Upon this the authorities of the British Museum (who had bought some of the MSS.), and those of Trinity College, applied to Mr. Halliwell for an explanation. He replied that he had bought the MSS., or most of them from a Mr Denley, a bookseller, who was, most unfortunately, dead. In his "Statement," Mr. Halliwell enters fully into the mattex-, and pro- tests vigorously against the manner in which ho had been treated by the Museum officials. MoRTB Arthure. — The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur. Now first Printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral, Edi- ted by J. O. H., Esq., F.R.S., etc. 4to, pp. xxii and 368. Jtl 10s 1847 Seventy-five copies printed : twenty-five on thick, and tifty ou thin paper. The Manuscript which contains the Romance here printed, is a folio volume on paper, which was transcribed about the year 1440, and is now preserved in the library of Lincoln Cathedral. It was coTupiled by Robert Thornton, of East Kewton, Co. York, and remained in the posses- sion of the Thornton family till the close of the sixteeulh century. The story of the deatliof King Arthur, as related in this Romance, does not diti'er materially from GeoiiVey of Monmouth's account of the same event : but it is told at far greater length in the former than in the latter. Tl:o Romance, as compared v.ilh other works of the same period, is decidedly above the average in poetical merit. Warton was not acquainted with it, or it would have furnished him with material for an interest- ing chapter in his " History of English Poetry." From a philological point of view also, the Ro- mance is important and valuable. Contributions to Early English Literature, derived chiefly from Rare Books and Inedited Manuscripts, from the Fifteenth to the Seven- teenth Century. 4to. £1 Is 1849 Seventy-five copies printed: twenty-five on thick, and fifty on thin paper. The contents of this volume are as follows : — The Suddaine Turne of Fortune'sWheele, a poem, by John Taylor, the Water Poet, from an un- published Manuscript, pp. iii and 27. The Lite of St. Katherine : the Tale of the Knight and his Wife ; and an Account of the Magical Manuscript of Dr. Caius. pp. iv & 32. The Tale of the Smyth and his Dame ; and the Booke of Robin Conscience : from the unique black-letter tract in the Bodleian Library, pp. iv and 48. Band, Ruffe, and Cuffe, a Costume Shew : Newes out of Islington : and a Derbyshire Mummer's Play. pp. iv and 40. Ballads and Poems respecting Hugh of Lincoln, a Boy alleged to have been murdered by the Jews in the year MCCLV. pp. iv and 40. The Interlude of Youth ; from the rare black-let- ter edition printed by Waley about the year 1554. pp. ii and 44. It will be seen from the above list of contents that this is a volume of unusual value and interest. The whole of the pieces contained in it have either intrinsic merit, or else are important from their illustrations of the manners, morals, or customs of our ancestors. The Autobiogeahy and Personal Diary of Dr. Simon Forman, the celebrated Astrologer, from A.D. 1552 to A.D. 1602, from the unpub- lished manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Edited by J. 0. H. 4to, pp. iv & 32. 15s 1849 Only one hundred and five copies printed. Dr. Forman's autobiography is a work of great curiosity, being written in the style and form of the black letter prose romances. Those who are interested in Elizabethan literature, will find much in it which will illustrate the manners and customs of the times. The diary, in its candour, reminds one of Pepys', who was not more sus- ceptible to female charms than was the learned astrologer. The final impression one gets from the autobiography and diary is that its author was a nian of much cleverness and cunning, skilled to take advantage of the weaknesses of humanity, quite unscrupulous in pursuing his own interests, perhaps not altogether an impos- tor, but with a grain or two of belief in his own pretensions, and, on the whole, a sort of human fox, living and flourishing on the weakness, credulity, and ignorance of the people of his time. A Cataloodk of CHAP-BooKS,Garlaud8, and Popu- lar Histories, in the possession of James Or- chard Halliwell, Esq. Post 8vo, pp. iv & 190, xoiih a frontispiece representing a Horn-Book, and a few facsimile woodcuts. 12s 6d 1849 This catalogue contains the titles of the most curi- ous and interesting of Mr. Halliwell's collection of Chap-Books, together with notices of their contents. It is needless at the present time to insist upon the value which the old chap-books possess as illustrating the manners and customs of our ancestors. It is much to be regretted that so few of those printed during the sixteenth 72 Catalogue of Books Printed HALLIWELL— cont. and seventeenth cent Ties are now preserved. Many of them, however, continued to be re- printed down to the end of last century, and these arc therefore, nearly as valuable to the student as the originals. Mr. Halliwell's collec- tion, as evidenced bv the present catalogue, was of the highest degree of interest and curiosity. Probably it would be impossible now to get to- gether such another collection. The C.\stle of Love : a Poem by Robert Grosse- teste. Bishop of Lincoln. Now first printed from inedited Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century. Edited by J. 0. H., Esq., F.R.S., 4to, pp. vii. and 80. 15s 1849 The poems here printed appear to have been ori- ginally written in Anglo-Norman, and a copy in the Bodleian Library is entitled Romance per Maatre Robert Grosseteste. The translation, lirst printed in the above volume, was made early iu the fourteenth century. For an account of it, see Warton's "History of English Poetry." The impression of this book consisted of one hun- dred copies, viz., ten copies on thick and ninety copies on thin paper. The Literature op the Sixteenth and Seven- teenth Centuries, Illustrated by Reprints of Very Rare Tracts, Edited by J. 0. H., Esq., F.R.S. 4to, title-page, preface, etc., 5 11. and pp. 236. £1 Is 1851 The impression of this book was restricted to seventy-five copies, viz., twenty-five copies on thick, and fifty copies on ordinary paper. The present is a thick paper copy, and has the auto- graph of J. P. Collier on the title-page. The pieces reprinted are as follows : — 1. Hani/ White his Hamcmr. — A curious satiri- cal tract, written by Martin Parker, of which Mr. Hallivvell knew of only one copy, which is preserved in the Bodleian Library. 2. The Two Jtalkui Gentlemen. — Mr. Hailiwell regrets that he could only give portions of this extremely rare and curious drama, which was published lata in 15S4, or early in 1585, and of which only two copies are known to exist. 3. Tailor's Travels. — An interesting work by the honest water-poetjContaining valuable notices of Charles I. 4. Wyl BucJce. — A curious tract, which chiefly consists of culinary receipts for dressing vari- ous joints, and making savoury courses of the buck or doe. 5. The Book of Meyy>/ Riddles.— Mr. Hailiwell says that there can scarcely be a doubt that this is a later impression of the book which Master Slender lent to "to Alice Shortcake upon Allhallowmas last, a fortnight afore Mi- chaelmas." If so, it is an important literary curiosity, independently of its value as a rem- nant of our early popular literature. 6. All for ^folw/.-— Mr. CoWier in his " History of Dramatic Poetry," mentions this as "one of the most elaborate and involved of our later Moral Plays." It is very uninteresting, but contains some curious allusions. 7. Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco. — .\ very curi- ous and humourous dialogue, in which Wine, Beere, Ale, and Tobacco contend for superio- rity. 8. A New Bool- of New Conceits. — A curious tract by Thomas Johnson, of which Mr. Haili- well knew of only one copy. 9. Loves Garland, or Posies for Rings, Ilanker- ckers, ami Gloves, and .iwch prefti/ tokens that Lovers send their Loves. — A reprint of a very rare, and probably unique, tract of 1624. It will be seen from the above list that this volume is full of matter of interest to tho student of early English Literature. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and An- cient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. By J. 0. H., Esq.... In 2 volumes, 4to. Vol I., pp. viii and 480. Vol II., pp. 481 to 960. £1 10s Brixton Hill, 1852 This dictionary is so well known, and its value is so well appreciated, that I need not make any remarks upon it, except such as explain why (be- ing a well-known book which has gone through many published editions), it finds a place in the pre-ient catalogue. In the Preface Mr. Haili- well explains that he printed it especially for the use of those who wished to make manuscript additions to the work. " It was thought that copies with large margins, sufficient, with pro- per care, to contain any reasonable amount of annotations, would be found much more useful than interleaved copies of the octavo edition." One hundred and twelve copies only were printed of this edition. The Comedies of William SHAKEsrEARE; Edited with Introduction and Notes, Critical and Ex- planatory, by J. 0. H., Esq., Reprinted from the American Edition. Royal 8vo, title-page and preface, 2 11. and 624 pp. 12s 6d 1854 Mr. Hailiwell explains in the preface that the pub- lication of this edition of Shakespeare commenc- ed in New York, in the year 1850, and a pirated edition was almost immediately commenced in England, with which ho had no connection. Tho Comedies were completed, and a portion of the Histories was also issued, when the work was discontinued. The edition in three volumes, published by Messrs. John Tallis & Co., is re- plete with oversights which are not to be ascrib- ed to Mr. Hailiwell, though the work was pub- lished with his name attached. Only twenty copies of the Comedies were issued in the pre- sent form. The Whimzies ; or a new List of Characters : from the original edition, published in 1631. Edited by J. 0. H. Sm. 4to, pp. 143, £1 Is 1859 Only twenty-six copies printed. This curious work has been attributed by Lowndes and others to the prolific pen of Richard Braith- wait, but Mr. Hailiwell is of opinion that there is no ground for this ascription. Books of characters, like this, were very common and popular in the seventeenth century. Butler was perhaps the last author of distinction who de- voted his talents to this kind of literature. The author of "The Whimzies " had a good share of wit, and a considerable knowledge of human nature, so that his work is by no means devoid of entertainment. for Private Circulation. 73 HALLIWELL— con<. Anqent Inventories of Furniture, Pictures, Tapestry, Plate, &c., illustrative of the Do- mestic Manners of the English in the Six- teenth and Seventeenth Centuries : Selected from Inedited Manuscripts, and Edited by J. 0. H., Esq. 4to, title-page, &c., 4 11. and pp. 160. 1854 Of this book twenty-five copies only were printed. The Inventories contained in this book are as fol- lows : — • 1. Inventory of the Goods of the Countess of Leicester, made in 1634— 5. 2. An Inventory of Linen, Plate, Pewter,Bi-ass, Armour, Household Goods, Maps, Books, &c. IGIO. 3. Inventories made A.D. 1626. 4. An Inventory of the Plate, Household Stuff, Picture.*, &c., in KeniUvortli Castle, taken after the death of Robert, Earl of Leycester, 15S8. It is almost needless to dv/cll upon the importance which old inventories, such as are here printed, have for tlie archreological student, and for all those who arc curious as to the manners and customs of our foi-efathers. They throw much incidental light upon the domestic economy and household airangomonts of the nobility and gen- try of former times: and help to elucidate many obscure passHges of the old ])oets and drama- tists. Somcthinj^ has been done by the Camden and Surtees Societies in the way of printing: some of the most important of the old Inven- tories ; but there is still much to be done in this direction. The Scourge of Drunkenness ; a poem, by Wil- liam Hornby, a.d. 1614, Edited by J. 0. H. 4to, pp. viii. and 37. ICs 1859 Only twenty-six copies printed. Of this poem no copy of the original edition is known to be in existence ; but Mr. HalliwcU had a copy in MS. which professed to be a transcript from one dated 1614. Two or three copies of later date are, however, in existence. J^othing is known of the author, except what he tells of himself. He was, ho says, a reformed drunkard, and he wrote this poem with a design to reclaim those who were victims to the ruin of inebriety. His design was better than his exe- cution of it, for his poetry is of a mediocre de- scription. The Debate and Stryfe betv.eene Somer and Wynter; a poetical Dialogue from the unique copy printed by Laurence Andrew early in the sixteenth century. Edited by J. 0. H. Square 16mo, pp. 19. 6s 6d 1S60 Only thirty copies printed. A reprint of a very curious ohl poem, in which Summer and Winter enter into a contest re- specting their severed advantao'es and disadvan- tages. Mr. Halliwell thinks that son-.o similar dialogue must have suggested to Shakesjieare the conclusion of " Love's Labour Lost." The Wyse Childe and the Emperor Adrian ; a Dialogue resembling that of Salomon and Saturn ; from the unique edition iirinteer Questions, and Witty Proverbs, to make pleasant paslime. Now first Reprinted from the unique edition printed at London in the year 1660. Sq. lunio, ]>[). 46. 10s 6d 1866 Only twenty-five copies printed, of whicli fifteen were destroyed. "The original of this little tract, now reprinteii, is believed to be unique. It is an edition, wiili nmiy variations, or the old Book of RiddKs nlluded lo by Slender, which was undoubtly primed in the sixteenth century, although no copy of so early it date is known to exist." 76 Catalogue of Books Printed HALLIWELL— con<. The Accounts of the Cuambeulains of the Borough of 8tratfortl-upoii-Avon, from the year 1590 to the year 1597 ; now first edited from the original manuscript by J. 0. H. Sm. 4to, pp. 62. 12s 6d 1866 Tweuty-five copies only printed, of which fifteen were destroyed. Many names occur in the course of the accounts of persons who were more or less connected with Shakespeare. Some of the entries are of in- terest from the light they throw upon the ancient customs of the townsfolk. The Tale of Tereos and Progne, referred to several times by Shakespeare. Edited by J. 0. H. Sq. .32mo, pp. 36. 10s 6d 1866 Only ten copies printed. Mr. Halliwell was of opinion that Shakespeare was well acquainted with the " Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleasure," first printed in 1576, and that the tale of Tereus and Progne, as given in that curious work, wa.-; the version in his recol- lection when ho referred to the stoiy in the second act of Cymbeline. For this reason he has in the above booklet reprinted the stor}'. A List of Works, illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare, tlie History of Stratford-ox-Avon, and the Rise and Pro- gress of the early English Drama, piinted for very limited and private circulation at the expense of J. 0. Halliwell, 1850—1866. Post8vo, pp. 71. 4s 6d 1867 Mr. Halliwell defends, in the preface to this volume, his system of printing very limited edi- tions of his various Shakespearian works. He urges that the numbers, small as thej- are, are as many a.s he is able to attend to personally, and that if copies were multiplied ifc is very doubtful if customers would be found for them. The list of issues in this volm-uo is a very remark- able testimony to Mr. [lalliwell's industry in his favourite pursuit. It woidil hardly ho pos- sible to get totjethor a cotiipleto collection of the various volumes here enujnorated. An Extract from the unpublished Diary of the late Joseiih Hunter, F.S.A.. containing an ac- count of a Visit made to Stratford-on-Avon in the year 1824. Sq. 16mo, pp. 20. 10s 6d 1867 Only ten copies printed. The extract is interesting as givint,' an account of the state of the various Sliakespearitm me- morials at the time of the visit. Extract.^ from the Accounts of the Chamberlains of the Borough of St rat ford -upon Avon, from the year 1609 to 1619. Selected and Edited from the original Manuscripts by J. 0. H. Sm. 4to, pp. 56. 10s 6d 1867 A Muster R(ill of Able Men at Stratford-on- AvoN and it.s Xeighbourhood in the twenty- eighth year of King Henry the Eighth. Now first printed from the original Manuscript. Sq. lemo. pp. 17. 8» Cd 1«67 Only ten copies printed. A C.\TAL0GUE of a small i^orticm of the Engrav- ings and Drawings illustrative of the Li?e of I Shakespeare, preserved in the Collection formed by J. 0. H., at No. 11, Tregunter Road, London, 4to, pp. 92, 63 6d 1868 Selected Notes upon Shakespeare's Tragedy of Antony and Cleop-vtua, by J. 0. H. Sm, 4 to, pp. 41. 6s 6d 1868 Only fifty copies printed. The notes consist of selocteil extracts, illustrative of Shakespeare's language and allusions, taken from old Engli.sh books. Selected Notes upon Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest, by J, 0, H. Sm. 4to, pp. 62. 6s 6d 1868 Only fifty copies printed. These notes consist chiefly of passages from old authors, which illustrate or parallel Shake- spearean words or phrases. Greene's Groatsworth of Yv'it, bought with a Million of Repentance. Reprinted from an original copy of the extremely rare edition of 1596, preserved in the library of Henry Huth, Esq. 8vo, pp. 61. 12s 6d Printed at the Cldswich Press, 1870 Only eleven copies printed, A very handsomely-printed reproduction of this interesting tract, so important from its author's envious and spiteful attack on Shakespeare. A Catalogue of the Warehouse Library of J. 0. PL-P., of No. 11, Tregunter Road, West Brompton, near London, Svo, i)p. 108, 4s 6d 1876 The author says that he terms this the Warehouse Catalogue, because the books are deposited at the Pantechnicon; and the list has been com- pileil merely to guard himself .against the jjur- chase of duplicates. Memoranda on Love's Labours Lost, Kino John, Othello, and on Romeo and Juliet. By J. 0. H.-P. Svo, pp. 96. 7s 6d 1879 Memoranda on All's Well that Ends Well, The Two Gentle.men of Vkrona, Much Ado about Nothix';, and on Titus An- DUONK'US. By J. U. H.-P. 8vo, pp. 80. 78 6d 1879 Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet. By J. O. H.P. 8vo, pp. 79, u'ith severed far^i- niUcs of title-pages, etc. 6s 6d 1879 The author says that these pages contain merely a few straggling memoranda, selected from a largo number of notes made in years fione by, anil now issued in the hope that the)"- may be \iseful to future editors or critics. He adds that the more he reads Handet, the less he really understands it as a whoh;, and he despairs of meetiner with any theories that will reconcile its perplexing inconsistencies. New Lamps or Old ? A few additional words on the momentous Question respecting the E and the A in the name of our National Dra- matist. Second Edition. Svo, pp. 40. 3s 1880 Mr. H.illiwi^ll shinvs that na'uos a'lciontly were spelt in the mo-;t capriciou.'? manner, tha same person frequently spcllin;r his own natU'^ in four or five ditbjrent ways. Shalcespiiare'sname was no exception to this rule, and ic was spelt in ma'iy diverse, and in so;n,i lost iiim's, jrror,e>qno w.iys \ but the balance of evidence is imj ju'it.edly in favour of .Shakespeare, as being the most usual form of the word. tor Private Circulation. 77 HALLIWELL— coTi^ Which Shall it Ee ? New I^amps or Old ? Shax- pere or Shakespeare • Svo, pp. 16. 2s 1879 Memoranda on The Midsommer Night's Dream, A.D. 1879 and A.D. 1855. By J. 0. H. P. Svo, pp. 47. 6s 6d 1879 Private and Confidential. A brief lieport on the Interchange of Books, Relics, &c., between the New Place and the Birthplace Museum, and on the re-arrangement of the library, drawn up in pursuance of directions given by the Trustees, May 5th, 1881 ; and now sub- mitted to the consideration of the Executive Committee. Cr. Svo, pp. 15. 2s 6d (1881) Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, by J. 0. H. P. Svo, pp. 192. 6s 6d For Presents only, 1881 This is the first edition of this work, which, each time becoming bulkier and bulkier, was des- tined to pass through seven editions in the life- time of the author, and on an eighth edition of which he was engaged at the time of his death. It is to this work that all who desire to know such facts as may be known respecting our great dramatist, must always resort, for it is most unlikely that Mr. H.-P.'s work can ever bo altogether superseded. No other Shakespearian editor or biographer ever gathered together such a mass of materials as Mr. H.-P., aided by in- finite patience, untiring enthusiasm, and great good-fortune, was enabled to amass. Future biographers of Shakespeare may produce works which, in point of literary excellence, may be far superior to that of our author, but they can- not possibly surpass him in the extent of their discoveries. Regnal Years, List of Law Terms, etc., during the Shakespearean Period. Compiled by J. 0. H. P. 12mo, pp. 80. 3s 6d 1883 The Shakespeare - Autotype Committee at Stratford - on - Avon. Transformation Scenes and a Retrospect, Svo, pp. 23. 3a 6d 1883 This pamphlet exposes the unhandsome and xmgenerous conduct (as Mr. H. considered it) of the Stratford Town Council towards him. There is no doubt that ho had conferred many substantial tjcnefits upon the town, and it is pretty clear that the Council showed a want of due consideration towards him. Memoranda on the present state of the Birth- place Trust, and on the necessity of providing a Calendar of the voluminous contents of the Shakespeare Library and Museum, respect- fully submitted to the consideration of the Trustees, May the 5th, 1883. Svo, pp. 16. 3s 1883 A Hand-List of the Drawings and Engravings illustrative of the Life oi Shakespeare, pre- served at Hollingbury Copse, near Brighton, that quaint wigwam y of a letter published in the (London) Times new8paper,30 January, 1888 ; reprinted for circulation in the United States. 8vo, pp. 8. 2s 6d 1888 Mr. Halliwell protests in this letter against cer- tain alterations proposed to be made in the Stratford Parish Church, which, he contends, will do irremediable mischief to the building. T)ie .ibove list of Mr. Halliwel'.rhillipps' literary un- dertakinjTs is by no means so full as I should like to make it. I do not suppose it comprises even one half of the Yiooks and pamphlets edited by the energetic Shnkspearean enthusiast. A complete bibliography of his labours, such as Mr. 'Wheatley has furnished of Mr. Collier's works is much wanted. I shall endeavour, in an appendix or con- tinuation of this Catalogue to add, as far aa possible to the list I have given above, though my rule of entering only such Ijooks as T actually possess necessarily restricts my efforts at completeness. HAMILTON'S (H.) Midas, an Original Poetic Mythological Play, in three acts. 12mo, pp. 83. 3s N.D. Mr. Hamilton is now well-known as the author of several successful plays, and also as an actor of considerable ability. " Midas " is a play per- haps more suitable for reading than for per- formance ; at least it seems to me that its merits are rather poetic than dramatic, though it contains some good scenes and some clever pieces of characterisation. HAMILTON'S (H.) A Shadow Sceptre : an His- torical Play, in four acts. 12mo, pp. 103. 3s N.D. The heroine of this play is Lady Jane Grey, whose story, strangely enough, though full of dramatic possibilities, has never yet inspired a really great dramatist to deal with it. Mr. Hamilton's drama is far from a bad one : he h.ns handled the incidents of Lady Jane's moment- ary elevation and immediate fall and execution with very considerable skill, and with some degree of poetical feelinsf. I believe the piece has never been performed, but it would certainly make an eflfectivo acting drama. [HAMILTON FAMILY]. A pamphlet without title-page, consisting of correspondence be- tween various parties on the subject of the disposition of the property of the Duke of Hamilton. 8vo, pp. 101 and 10 unnumbered leaves. 7s 6d [1820?] Tlie following extract from the prefatory note (which is signed C. S.) will give some idea of tho contents of this pamphlet :^ " Lord Archibald Hamilton, not having been for some time on good terms with his father, requested me to speak to him upon his (Lord Archibald's) future prospects. The Uuke of Hamilton urged that the infirm state of his health must prevent his euturing upon business; but he allowed me to enmmnnicate upon the subject with his Solicitors, Messrs. Hamil- ton and Goofieve. In that permission the following correspondence originated : of which I have caused to be printed, as being more easily read, a few copies, with a view to enable the friends of my father and myself to form their own opinion upon the assertion made by Lord Archibald, that the testamentary dispositions of my father are to be attributed to power latterlv obtained, and exerted over him by me." HAMILTON'S (Walter) The Drama during the last three Centuries. 16mo, pp. 79, ivith a frontispiece representing the interior of the Swan xheatre, Bankside, in 1596. 10s 6d Imprinted at the Chiswick Press, 1891 This booklet forms one of tho "Privately Printed Opuscula issued to the Members of the Sette of Odde Volumes." Only 201 copies were printed. Mr. Hamilton's essay gives a fairly good summary of the history of the stage from the time of Shakspeare down to the present daj*. for Private Circulation. 79 [HANBURY].— Ismena Tindal Hanbury : wife of Robert William Hanburj- : born Feb. 1850, married April 29, 1869, died Jan. 26, 1871. Cr. 8v(., pp. xi and ^6. 3s [1S71] A tribute to the memory of a muoli-luvod and ex- cellent woman. [HANLEY'.s (C.)] Random Recollections of the Stage, by an Old Play- goer. Second Edition. Cr. 8vo, pp. 86. 4s 6d [1883] Mr, Hanley seems to Iiave been as persistent a play- goer as even Chas. Lamb, and his recollections of the various performances and performers he has seen, though desultory and almost dateless, are not without interest. He does not confine his recollections to the West End Theatres, but has much to say about such outlying playhouses as the Surrey, the Victoria, Astley's, &c. Mr. Hanley by no means indulges in the usual cheap sarcasms respecting the plays and players of these theatres, but on the contrary does justice to the real ability of many of the actors of the minor houses. He even has a good word for one whose name has almost become a synonym for rant and fustian, the famous N. T. (or ' Braj'vo ') Hicks, who was, according to Mr. Hanley, an actor of fine appearance and real ability. Our author, in concluding his gossip about the stage, protests against the great in- crease of the prices of admission at the theatres. " Going to the Play," as he very truly says, is now an expensive luxury, and unless you are rich enough to book a seat beforehand, it is impossi- ble to get a comfortable place. Had prices been as tiigh in Mr. Hanlcy's young days as they now are, he would never, he says, have been able to describe himself as an old play- goer. [HANNAH]. — Posthumous Rhymes, by John Hannah. 8vo, pp. 75, with a portrait of the author. 3s 6d Beccles, 1854 Mr. Hannah's verses are not withoiit merit. Dates are appended to them, by which it ap- pears that they were written between 1826 and 1831. The book gives no particulars respecting the author. [HANNAY].— The Poetical Works of Patrick Haunay, A.M., MDCXXII : with a Memoir of the Author. 4to, pp. 50 and 264, ivith portrait of the author and several facsimiles of title-pages, He. £1 Is 1875 This handsome volume was presented te themeui- bers of the Hunteriau Club, by Thomas Russell. It was edited by David Laing, by whom also the memoir of the author was written. The memoir indeed consists of little more than a series of conjectures, for materials for a biogra- phy of Haniiay are even more scant}'^ than is usually the case with the poets of the seven- teenth century. Mr. Laing thus ends his essay : — " III conclnsion, as we have no nerfain information to fr.iiii a corroct iJea of Hannay's character, or the. .share he may have taken in public afluirs, we must j also remain in itrncirancp of the time and circum- stauce.s of his flecease. As an author, ho liolds a respectable ji')sitiii;i amonp; the minor Scottish Poets ; for altlionyh he eannot be reckoned with the Drunimonds, Alexanders, or Ayt^mns, he may nevertheless stind aioniieido of Jinrrnv of Gorthy, Simeon Graham, Crai^ of R(.se-Craig, William Lith- gow, and otliers who flourished during the first half of the seventeenth century." Hannay published his collected poems in the year 1622, and the present volume is a faithful and literal reprint of that edition. The original is a very rare book, and only three or four perfect copies are known to exist. I do not find it pos- sible to feel much interest in Hannay's verses, which seem to be of the sort which are "very tolerable and not to endured," Some of his songs, however, rise above the usual level of his verses : witness the following extract from one of them, which strongly resembles one of Suck- ling's lyrics. " I can love and love intirely. And can prove a constant friend : But I must be loved as dearely. And as truly to the end : For her love no sooner shakpth, But my fancie farwell taketh. "I cannot indure delaying, I must have her quickly won: Be she nice (though not) denaying, By her leave I then have done: For I am not yet at leasure To dwine for a doubtfuU pleasure. " My eies shall not still be wailing. When I'm answered with neglect : Hfy heart is not at hfr hailing, Who my paine doth not respect : He's a foole that seekes relieving. From her glories in his grieving." ' Dwine ' is a very nncomrr.on word : one of its meanings, as given by Halliwell, is 'pine ' which is evidently its sense as used here. HANSON'S (Captain William) Short Journal of a Voyage to Sicily, 1810, and of an Excur- sions to Messina and Syracu-^e, by way of Et- na and Catania, 1811. 8vo, pp. 50 and 12 unnumbered leaves at end. 3s 6d 1814 Letters from the Eastern Coast of Spain, ill 1813 ; with some account of the late Mili- tary Operations of the British Army in Va- lencia and Catalonia. 8vo, pp. 35, and appen- dix of pp. 68. 3s 6d 1814 The author of these works fell in a skirmish with the French near Villa Franca on the 13th Sep- tember, 1813. He was a most gallant and pro- raising officer. His account of the military operations in Valencia and Catalonia is of considerable interest. He complains greatly of the mismanagement of Sir James Murray, the Coramander-in-Chief, whose inefficiency prevented the expedition from ac- complishing anything of importance. [HANSON]. — Route of Lieutenant- General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B., Overland from India. In a Series of Letters from Captain Hanson, late Assistant Quarter-Master General with the Field Array of the Madras Establishment. 8vo, pp. viii and 284, and a map. 6s 6d 1820 This is a presentation copy from the author to a friend, and contains a long autograph letter from him to the same person. The voyage, of which the particulars are here re- lated, commenced on Jan. 7th, 1819, when Sir Miles and Lady Nightingall, accompanied by Captain Hanson and others, embarked at Bom- bay in the Teignmouth ship of war. On the 18th of the same month the ship struck on the Coast of Arabia Felix. Captain Hanson gives a graphic narrative of this misfortune, which seemed likely to end in the breaking up of the ship, and in its passengers and crew being cast on a barren and inhospitable coast. However, by great good fortune the ship was got off the 8o Catalogue of Books Printed HANSON- coriY. shore, ami proceederl on its voyaafc without fur- ther accident. Captain Hanson's narrative of the Overlanoks Printed [INGLIS].— Sketch of the Life of Sir Hugh Inglis, Bart. 8vo, pp. 13, with silhouette por- trait. 3s 1821 Hugh Inglis was born in 1744. After a distin- guished career in India, he returned to England, and in 1784 became one of the Directors of the East India Company. This position he held, with benefit both to England and India for nearly thirty years. He died in 1820, in the 77th year of his age. [IRBY and MANGLES]. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor ; during the years 1817 and 1818. By the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles, Com- manders in the Royal Navy. Printed for Private Distribution. 8vo, pp. xxxiii and 560, with maps and several lithographic plates. 5s 6d 1823 'The Preface informs us that : — "On the 14th of August, 1816, the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles. Commanders in the Royal Navy, left England with the intention of making a tour on the Continent. This journey tiiey were led to extend far beyond the original design. Curiosity at first, and an increasing admira- tion of antiquities as they advanced carried them at length through several parts of the Levant, which have been little visited by modern travellers, and gave them more than four years of continued employment." The narrative of the travels is told in a series of letters which the travellers sent to their friends at horao. It is a highly interesting account, and differs from modern travellers' tales from the fact that many more difficulties and perils had then to be encountered than is the case now-a-days. [IRELAND]. — Extracts from a Journal during a a Tour in Italy, in 1829 and 1830. 8vo, pp. 276, with a number of lithographic views. 10s 6d Chisivick : printed by C. Whittingham, 1836 The copy of the above book which now lies before me is very handsomely bound in morocco extra, and has the bookplate of Mr. Sheep- shanks, the famous art-patron. The name of Ireland is lettered on the back as the author ; but otherwise there is no indication of its paternity. Mr. Ireland seems to been chiefly interested in the architecture, pictures, statuary, and anti- quities of Italy, and of such of these as he saw he furnishes a good and interesting descrip- tion. [ISHAM]. — The Journal of Thomas Isham, Lam- port, in the County of Northampton, from 1st Nov. 1671, to 30th Sept., 1673, written by him when a boy, in Lat^in, by command of his father. Sir Justinian Isham. Translated by the Rev. Robert Isham, Rector of Lamport, with an Introduction, Notes, and Index, by "Walter Rye. 8vo, pp. 127, with a facsimile of the first page of the diary. 6s Norwich, 1875 This diary was commenced by Thomas Isham, when only fourteen years of ag"., at tho request of his father, who promised him a reward for keeping it. It is a document of considerable value, inasm\ich as diaries giving minute ac- counts of every-day life ia bygone ages are extremely rare. The present one, though it is silent on many points on which we should have been glad of information, is full of curious, in- i fdy Prit)dU CiycUimfn. 95 [ISSAM]— con<. structive, and amusing entries. It enables us (to a considerable extent) to reconstruct for ourselves a picture of the life which the Isham family, and of course many other families in a similar position of life, were then leading from day to day. It would be of great service to a novelist or dramatist anxious to give an air of verisimilitude to his work. I am sorry I cannot quote largely from the diary ; but one choice morsel I will not withhold from my readers : — "April 18. The Earl of Devon with his Lady came on their way to London and visited us : their ser- vant told Holland a wonderful story of a Baron (thought to be a liar) who swore it was true. A Scotchman was let down to gather samphire from the rocks, when the rope broke, and he by chance fell into a whale's moutli ; thinking to himself where he could be, he had the presence of mind to wound the whale, which immediately came to land and was pierced by the people with darts. The man cried out from its belly " Spare me, spare me." When they knew that a man was in the whale they shot no more, but brought him out safe." The Baron who swore to the truth of this vera- cious story must surely have been Baron Mun- chausen ! Still, when one reflects ou what hap- pened to the prophet Jonah, and considering, moreover, that Scotchmen, though they may not be prophets, can generally realise a profit out of very unpromising circumstances, the relation assumes a new aspect, and it is at least as easy to believe in it as in the real piety of "General" Booth, the moderation and studious avoidance of personalities of Tim Healy, the modesty and calm judgment of W. T. Stead, the -stern devo- tion to principle of Sir William Harcourt, and the disinterestedness and simple-minded devo- tion to duty of politicians of all parties. IVATTS' (E. B.) The Handbook of Railway Sta- tion Management ; or Agent's Manual. Post 8vo, pp. 142. 48 6d Liverpool, 1861 This is the first book ever published of its kind. It is, I should say, a very useful manual for those employed in railway management. It enters at large into the minutiae of the many details that have to be attended to by Station- Masters, clerks, &c. [JACKSON].— Nugse Lyricae, by the Rev. E. Dud- ley Jackson, B.C.L., Rector of Heaton Norris. Part I. — Secular. Crown Svo, pp. 96. 33 6d N.D. Inserted in the above is an autograph letter from the author to the Belgian Ambassador. Mr. Jackson's poems are not without merit. [JAMES THE FIRST].— The Poetical Remains of King James the First of Scotland. With a Memoir, and au Introduction to the Poetry, by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D., F.S.A., Scot. Svo, pp. 96, with portrait. 68, Edinburgh, 1873 Only one hundred-and-fifty copies printed. This is the conipletest, and, on the whole, the best edition of the poetical works of James the First, who has, as a poet, been associated with Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. JAMES' (Sir John Kingston) Day Dreams, to which are added some Translations from the Italian. Sq. Svo, pp. xii and 187. 53 1879 This book is dedicated to the Arch-Consol and Membet^ of the Royal Academy Delia Crusca as an indication of the author's sense of the great honour conferred by lii.j election as a mem- ber of that illustrious body. Sir J. K. James displays much poetic feeling, but hardly shows a mastery of the mechanical por- tion of the poet's art. Ho is somewhat too fond of ideas and images which have already done duty in the hands of former versifiers. I give a specimen :— To . Why ask thee for thy photograph, When in my heart it lies ? Heaven's brightest rays are not by half So graphic as thine eyes. The sunbeams when transferr'd by art With them no sunshine bear. The traits are like— but ah ! we start, For life is wanting there. Where are the lightnings of the eye, The dimples on the cheek ; The blushes which though silently, So eloquently speak ? These are the charms no art can give, No portraiture impart ; These, while its colours die, still live Undying in the heart. JEBB'S (R. C, Professor of Greek in the Univer- sity of Cambridge) Modern Greece : Two Lec- tures before the Philosophical Institute of Edinburgh. Cr. Svo, pp. 109. 6s n.d. The first of these lectures contains a rapid but nevertheless brilliant sketch of the story of the Greek nation from the time of Alexander the Great to our own epoch. The second contains an eloquent description of modern Greece as it was seen by the author when making a tour of the country in 1878. Professor Jebb writes with an enthusiasm, which is not less effective because tempered and restrained, of the great, though unfortunate nation, which through every trial and discouragement has maintained its in- tellectual eminence and its national characteris- tics. JEFFERY's (Frederick J.) Numismatic History of England, from 1066 to the present time : in two papers, read before the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Svo, pp. 3 i, with five plates of coins. 3s 6d 1867 This pamphlet gives a good, but of course very summary view of the historj' of the English coinage. The plates are very well executed. JIM BLAKE'S TOUR FROM CLONAVE TO LONDON. Illustrated with Sketches by E, N., A.R.A., photographed by Q. W. Wilson. Preface and Notes by A. A., M.R.I.A. 4to, pp. vi, 24, and 9 illustrations, 7s 6d Dublin, 1867 This is a real narrative of the visit of an Irish peasant to London, as written by himself, and only corrected by the addition of the punctua- tion, of which the original was quite destitute. The writer, James Blake, was a fair type of his class — the peasantry of central Ireland— and his narrative gives a good idea of the character of his countrymen, and of their ways of looking at things which are strange and unaccustomed to them. In London he sat as a model to Mr. Erskine Nicol, the artist, who supplied the sketches which illustrate the book. o6 [JEJEEBHOY].— Memorandum of the Life and Public Charities of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. Post 8vo, pp. 27. 23 6d 1854 Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable of the natives of India. He built up, entirely by his own efforts, a flourishing business as a merchant, by means of which he realised a large fortune : but he was no less celebrated for his munificent charities than for his wealth. The pamphlet gives an in- teresting account of his life, and a list of his chief public benefactions. [JOHNSON].— Literary Remains of Edward Lewis Johnson, Esq. Svo, pp. viii and 64. 3s 6d 1844 This volume was edited by Laman Blanchard, who has prefixed to it an affectionate and touch- ing tribute to the memory of his friend, who died in 1842, at the early age of forty. He was of a most kind, sociable, and loving disposition, and his literary talents were very considerable. The pieces contained in this booklet are chiefly translations from the Spanish and Italian ; but there are also a few original pieces. JOHNSON'S (Charles) Travels in Portugal : being an Account of a visit to Lisbon, Mafra, and Torres Vedras. Svo, pp. 40. 3s 1875 Mr. Johnson gives a good deal of information about Portugal and other matters in a somewhat flippant and rambling style. [JOHNSON].— The Geographical Distribution of Material Wealth, by Alexander Keith John- ston, F.R.S.E., Geographer to the Queen for Scotland. II. Historical Notes regarding the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, and the Widows' Scheme and Hospitals. Sm. 4to, pp. viii and 120 (" Geographical Distribu- tion," etc.): pp. 128 ("Historical Notes") and xlvii (Appendix) : together with a co- loured rruip and several woodcuts. 10s 6d Edinburgh : Private Press of Peter Latoson <£,• Son, 1862 This book appears to have been printed at the expense of Charles Lawson, who twice filled the office of Master of the Merchant Company of Edinbui-gh. Mr. Johnston's Lecture con- .sists of a survey, necessarily brief and imper- fect, but still useful and instructive, of the world's material wealth, chiefly considered in its bearings on commerce and navigation. The Historical Notes on the Merchant Company were compiled by Mr. A. K. Mackie. It is an interesting memorial of a wealthy and power- ful corporation. [JOHNSTON]. -In Memoriam of the late A. Keith Johnston, LL.D. 4to, pp. 48, with por- trait. 4s Gd Edinburgh, 1873 This memorial of the famous geographer consists of a biographical sketch by Samuel Mossman ; Recollections of liim, liy the Rev. James Fair- bairn ; an Account by Dr. Hanna of a visit which they made in company to the Holy Land: and a list of the works written or constructed by him. Altogether it forms an interesting memorial of a man who Vv-as nou more distin- guished by his abilities than by his amiable and aft'ectionato disposition. [JONES].— Reminiscences of the Public Life of Richard Lambert Jones, Esq., formerly mem- ber of the Court of Common Council of the Catalogue of Books Printed City of London. Roy. Svo, pp. iv and 117, with a facsimile of a portrait medal presented to Mr. Jones. 3s 6d 1863 Mr. Jones was for thirty-one years a member of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, and during that time he took an active part in carrying out many of the great public improvements which were effected from 1819, when he was elected, to 1851, when he retired. The ■' Reminiscences " give a full and interest- ing account of the various reforms and improve- ments which Mr. Jones was instrumental in effecting. [JONES]. — Infantine Musings. By Ernest Charles Jones, written by him, between the eighth and tenth years of his age. Svo, pp. 68. £1 15s Hamburg : Printed by P. H. Nestler, 1830 These poems are the juvenile productions of tho afterwards celebrated Chartist orator and poet, Ernest Jones. A note prefixed to the volume states that the poems are selected from many others which the author has found time to write without neglecting his other studies. They were written by him without the least apparent labour of the mind, and so rapidly that they might almost be termed extemporary. They are printed exactly as written, without altera- tion or correction. As to the verses themselves they are, of course, very juvenile and imitative ; but allowance being made on these accounts, they are cer- tainly much better than might be expected. I cannot at the moment call to mind any verses written at an equally early age which can be compared to them, except perhaps some of Chat- terton's. JONES'S (Morris Charles) Reminiscences con- nected with old Oak Panelling, now at Gun- grog. Svo, pp. 39. 3s 6d Welshpool, 1864 The author of this pamphlet states that having a fancy for old oak panelling for his dwelling- house, and some being advertised for sale by auction at an old house in the City of London, he was fortunate enough to secure it. Circum- stances caused him to become curious about the City house from which tho panelling was taken, and on enquiry he found that it had a most interesting history attached to it. That history is told in the above pamphlet. JONES'S (J. Winter) Assyrian Excavations : a Lecture delivered at the Central Hall, Pen- zance, March, 21, 1881. Roy. Svo, pp. 43. 3s This is one of four copies printed on a special paper, and is a presentation copy to the Rev. W. Maskell. Mr. Jonos's lecture is a highly interesting, but of course summary account of the excavations which have been executed in Assyria and Babylonia, and of the wonderful discoveries which have resulted from them. JOURNAL of a Tour in Egypt and Syria, by Henry Nicholas Courtney, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law : with an Appendix by F. W. Pennefather, of Trinity College, Cam- bridge. Svo, title-page, kc, 4 11. and pp. 213. 4s 6d 1876 Mr. Courtney has a good talent for descriptive writing, and his account of his tour is very read- able. I for Private Circulation. 97 JONES'S (Owen) Lectures on Architecture and the Decorative Arts. Roy. 8vo. Ss 1863 The Lectures contained in this volume are as fol- lows : — ■ I. On the influence of Religion upon Art, pp. 25. IL On the Decorations proposed for the Exhibi- tion Building in Hyde Park, pp. 15. III. An Attempt to define the principles which should regulate the employment of Colour in the Decorative Arts, pp. 59. IV. On the leading Principles in the composition of Ornament of every Period, pp. 34. It is scarcely necessary to say that all Art-stu- dents will derive instruction and benefit from a perusal of these excellent discourses. TOUR in Holland in the year MDCCCXIX. 12mo, pp. vi and 252. 10s 6d London, n.d. A JOURNAL of a Tour in Italy. Five Volumes. Vol I, pp. xxiv and 350 : Vol II, pp. xviii and 331 : Vol III, pp. xxii and 336 : Vol IV, pp. xxii and 353 : Vol V, pp. xxviii and 279. £1 15s London, N.D. I have placed these two books together because they are evidently by the same author. They were written by a connoiseur of painting and sculpture, and their chief value consists in the accounts which they contain of the public exhi- bitions and private collections of art which the author visited. They are also valuable because they contain accounts of the leading living painters of Holland and Italy of the time, whose studios the author visited and describes. Much information will be found in the books, which I should think it would be diflScult or impossible to find elsewhere. With respect to the authorship of these volumes, I have not been able to glean any information from Martin or any other source. But in the copy of the "Tour in Italy " which now lies be- fore me, there is, in the third volume, a note in pencil, evidently written by the author, which is signed "Clanwm." Prom this I conclude that the books were written by the Countess Clanwilliam, for it is evident that they were com- posed by a lady. The "Tour in Holland" has two supplementary chapters describing visits to Holland, which the author made in 1822 and 1823. The "Journal of a Tour in Italy," commences August 8th, 1833, and ends May 26, 1836. This contains in addition to descriptions of objects of art and curiosities, notices of the leading churches and other architectural works and antiquities. We get also a good many glimpses of the manners and customs of the people of Italy. The title, it may be mentioned, is scarcely so comprehen- sive as it might be, inasmuch as the book gives details of the author's travels in France and Ger- many, as well as in Italy. I now quote a few passages from the book, which will help to show that it is by no means devoid of entertainment or instruction :— "The Italians are extremely tolerant, and, though full of observation, rarely make ill-natureci remarks on the conduct of their neighbours. This may, in part, be dictated by policy, as they may feel con- scious of requiring the same iiidultjeiiL'e, for the de- pravity of morals is very great. Every lady is at- tended by a cavaliere servantc, who is lepnlarly in- vited wherever she is, while the hushaud is never thought of; and it is by no mear.s uncommon to be inlimate for years with the wife, and be totally un- acquainted with the man whose name she bears. Elderly ladles pay their cavalieres ; and one, be- ; tween sixty and seventy, whom I was acquainted with, used to pay a young man of four-and-twenty, four pauls a day, for which paltry pittance he was her constant attendant. If an enquiry is made as to who is such a person, the answer returned is not the name but " C'est le cavaliere de Madame une telle." or " C'dtait I'araantde Madam une telle avant qu'elle cut pris un tel." This is not intended as scandal, but quite a matter of course. There are, however, bounds which must not be passed, and beyond them there is no toleration. A very pretty young woman, who too openly marked her prefer- ence, was not received at court in consequence, and her position in society was very equivocal. She appeared at her mother's parties, who sounded peo- ple before she introduced her, and in private, I am told, lectured her severely, but her grandmother took her part, saying to the mother "She only does with leas caution what you and I did, and therefore we ought to support her." "The Italian language is particularly adapted for ex- tempore verse, and improvisatores are frequently met with in all classes. I was very much delighted with the talent Signora Lucrezia Mazzei displayed one evening at Madame Orlandini's. The theme given was the fable of Apollo and Daphne, and Sig- nora Mazzei strictly followed Ovid through all the mazes of Apollo's pursuit and Daphne's flight ; but she interwove some beautiful imagery, and extem- porised most harmonious verses as quickly as prose is spoken by the generality of persons. The sound of her voice was more strong than melodious, but her articulation was perfectly distinct ; and the ease with which she spoke, and the animation, which kept increasing as she pursued her subject, gave her an air of inspiration totally independent of her ex- terior, than which nothing could be less attractive. She appeared about forty ; her face plain and pale, blue eyes, and rather a flat nose What proves her excellence is, the moment she is listened to her plainness is forgotten, or rather not per- ceived." " M. Alibert told us a droll story of M. Dubois, the famous surgeon. He has been married four times, and has had children by all his wives. One of his daughters gave her husband reason to be dissatisfied with her conduct, and he complained to Dubois, who said, " Etes-vous fou de faire du train pour pa- reille bagatelle. Oela m'est arriv6 quatre fois puisque j'ai en quatre femmes, allez soyez raison- able. Vraiment vous n'etes par propre i etre marie. C'est le sort de tout le monde." The son-in-law was not convinced by these arguments, and insisted on a separation, although by this step he proved him- self " un homme qui ne savait pas vivre." JOURNAL of a Tour in Italy, in 1869, 4to, pp. 39. 3s 6d These notes of a traveller are fairly well-written, but present no points of special interest. JOURNAL written on board of His Majesty's Ship Cambridge, from January 1824, to May 1827: by the Rev. H. S., Chaplain. 12mo, title, etc., 3 11. and pp. 245, with a front. 7s 6d Ne7vcastle, 1829 The destination of the Cambridge was to South America, to carry out four consuls : — Mr. Row- nroft to Lima, Mr. Nugent to Valparaiso, Mr. Parish to Buenos Ayres, and Mr. Hood to Monte Video. In pursuance of their purpose they visited the places named, as also Rio Janeiro, Callao, &c. The journal of the voyage is very well written, and shows its author to have been an intelligent and open-uiinded man. South America was then, as indeed it usually is even now, in a very unquiet condition, and our author has much to say about the faction fights of tho various states. His book indeed is full of facts of value and interest, and tan bo safely recom- mended to all who wish for iiiformatioTi mI"!!!*, the districts he visited. Capt.uu Malin.r w.is tho Commander of tho Cr,:j' ri ';■;• : h-j ";is accom- [No. VIL] 98 Catalogue of Books Printed JOURNAL— con<. paiiied by his wife, who was a daughter of Dr. Darwin. Slie was a woman of very superior in- telligence, and when, during the voyage, she died, her loss was felt as a severe calamity. The author concludes his narrative as follows : — " We were delighted to come once more withiu view of the chalky cliffs of Albion, after an absence of three years and a half. I advise all who wish to know how delightful a place Kngland is, to absent themselves for a few years on a visit to the tropical regions, where the human frame is wasted with heat, and the animal spirits exhausted by incessant sti- mulus." JOURNAL of a Ramble in Scotland. 8vo, pp. xi and 130. 7s 6d Cheltenham, 1835 In my copy of this book the preface is signed in ink "C. Lessingham Smith, Shurdington,'' and that gentleman was doubtless the author. I find no mention of his work in Martin or else- where ; but I believe an edition was afterwards published for sale. Mr. Smith states that a desire to view the scenery of Scotland was the leading motive of his expe- dition ; and the chief portion of his journal con- sists of descriptions of the landscapes of Cale- donia. These are very well sketched ; and the reader of Mr. Smith's Journal will perhaps gain as good an idea of the scenery of the Highlands as can be gained from written descriptions. I quote his account of Loch Coruishk : — "We now descended along the course of a burn, at one time expanding into a small lake ; till at last, turning round the shoulder of a mountain, we came in sight of Loch Coruishk, the Bay of Scavaig, and the Islands of Eig and Rum in the distance. We descended to the very margin of this most deservedly celebrated lake, and beheld the wild and wondrons picture which it presents under a. bright sun and a blue sky. The water itself is two miles long, and narrow in breadth ; while in colour it is as dark as Erebus, from the reflection of the black hyperstein mountains that rise up precipitously, and almost immediately from its surface. The hue of these rocks is indeed remarkable ; and one might imagine the whole gorge to be some vast Cyclopean cave, while the enormous tabular fragments strewn along the shores of the lake bear no inapt resemblance to the anvils of the giants. This is the tirst time I have seen hyperstein, and I am lost in astonish- ment at the supernatural effect it gives to the scene. When quite dry it really is absolutely black ; and where it is moistened by the rills which flow down from the heights, and at the same time lighted by the sun, it sparkles with a gem-like lustre ; thus re- minding one very forcibly of the affinity that exists between diamond and charcoal. No trace of moving thing is di.scernible in this fearful glen, the very lichens and timestains being banished from the greater portion of it. All is bare and gloomy, and one cannot contemplate without an appalling thrill such a desolation of sterility." JOURNAL of a Tour in Ireland, during the Months of October and November, 1835. Post Svo, pp. xxiv and 251. 5s 1836 The dedication of this work is signed G. F. G. M. The author says he "endeavoured to collect in- formation on religious rather than on general subjects ; and in treating of religion, I have en- deavoured to preserve that quiet dispassionate spirit which is the opposite of political religion." He appears to have been a Protestant ; but he writes in an apparently candid and truthful mauner as to what he saw of the effects of Ro- man C'ltholicism as displayed in Ireland. Inci- dentally he gives a good deal of information about the general condition of the people. It is a work worth consulting by those interested in the country and people of Ireland. JOURNAL of a four days' Tour in North Wales, by a party of five. 8vo, pp. 117, with two pho- tographs and some woodcuts. 4s 6d 1877 From the photograph of the tourists which ap- pears as a frontispiece it seems that the party consisted of four young ladies (apparently sis- ters) and an old gentleman, who was probably their father. The various incidents of the tour are told in a lively and unpretending style. JOURNAL of a Residence in England, and of a Journey from and to Syria, of their Royal Highnesses Reeza Koolee Meerza, Najah Koolee Meerza, and Taymoor Meerza, of Persia. To which are prefixed some particu- lars respecting modern Persia, and the death of the late Shah. Originally written in Per- sian by H.R.H. Najah Koolee Meerza . . . and translated, with explanatory notes, by Assad Y. Kayat. In two Volumes. Post 8vo, Vol I, pp. xxiii and 306 : Vol II, pp. 291. 5s n.d. The visit of these princes to England took place in 1836. They were the tirst members of the Per- sian royal family who ever visited England. They were induced to take the journey by the hope of gaining the intercession of the English Government in favour of their father, Firm4n Firm&ti, who had made war against Mohammed Shah, the ruler of Persia, and who had been overcome and made prisoner by the latter. They were hospitably entertained by the British government, which acceded to their request, and by its mediation with the Shah, effected their desire. Najah Koolee, the writer of the ' Journal, was a man of much intelligence, a poet, and a good observer. His narrative is very well written, and is highlj'' interesting, as showing how our manners and customs affected a fo- reigner to whom they were new and strange. The following short extract will give some idea of the style of the work : — " The people of this kingdom are of genteel nature, and delicate constitution ; most of the ladies, and females in general, are more delicate and refined than the blossom of roses. Their waist is more slender than a linger ring, their form is beautiful, their voice gains the afi'ections. The men are very particular in their disputes, which are carried on with great ability. If there should be the widest possible misunderstanding, still they keep up the rules of politeness. If it should rise so high as to produce vindictive feeling, still they carry on their disputes in a genteel style, and bad language (God forbid) is not used. To be called a liar is the utmost insult : this will lead to a duel ; the duel is allowed here." [After describing, correctly enough, the pre- liminaries which precedeaduel, our author continues as follows.] "However, when all mediations fail, then the two individuals, accompanied by their re- spective friends as witnesses, meet at the appointed place, exactly at the fixed hour, which will be pub- lished in the newspapers. When the two come to this place with their pistols, then the friends use their utmost influence of mediation; if at last all should be in vain, then they separate from each other a distance of twenty feet, and the signal will be given when both fire. Then it becomes a matter of chance; sometimes, both of them are hit and perish, and perhaps no one is hit, or one dies, and the other is saved. Thus the question is finished ; this act is permitted by theirlaw which does not condemn it, and ic has been a well known practice among the fools of this nation from the ancient times." It must be allowed that our distinguished visitor used far too much coleur de rose in his picture ; hut, of course, a>goo«i deal of allowance must be made for the Oriental habits of exaggeration and hyperbole. Moreover, such visitors have few or no opportunities of beholding the seamy side of our social system. for Private Circulation. 99 A JOURNAL in Rhyme of a Tour in the Month of July, 1852. 12mo, pp. vi and 55. Ss (id N.D. This Journal seems to have been written by Al- fred White, whose name occurs on the last pagfe. The Journal, which is written in octo-syllabic rhyme describes a tour through the North of England and Scotland. JOWETT's (Rev. William) Memoir of the Rev. Cornelius Neale, M.A., formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. To which are added his Remains, being Sermons, Notes, and various other Compositions, in Prose and Verse. 8vo, pp. xiv and 368. 8s 6d London, 1833 The copy of the above book which now lies before me is a very fine one, it having been handsomely bound in purple morocco, extra gilt, by Clarke and Bedford. The work is a biography of a sincere and zealous minister, who was an excellent preacher, and an amiable man. He was born in 1789, and died in 1823. JOWETT's (William) Verses written on various occasions for Friends. 12mo. pp. 39. 2s 6d 1834 These verses are chiefly of a religious cast. JYL OF BREYNTFORD's TESTAMENT, by Robert Copland, Boke-Prynter, The Wyll of the Devyll, and his last Testament, A Talk of ten Wives on their Husbands' Ware, a Balade or two by Chaucer, and other short pieces. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. 8vo, pp. 44. 7s 6d 1871 Mr. Furnivall says that he first thought of reprint- ing these pieces for the members of the Early English Text Society, but afterwards resolved to print them for private circulation only, in order to avoid possible annoyance to the Society from any cantankerous puritan, like the one who bothered him about the Percy-Folio Loose and Humourous Songs. It must be allowed that the pieces contained in this tract do not err on the side of over-nicety of expression ; rather they resemble the utterances of the outspoken gentleman who went a point beyond calling a spade a spade, and invariably alluded to it as a shovel. However there is no real harm in these specimens of our ancestors' very primitive humour, and if they show that they were easily amused, and that they were liable to mistake coarseness for wit, they do not entitle us to con- clude that we have really any reason to pride ourselves upon our superior moral elevation. [JULIAN].— The Arguments of the Emperor Ju- lian against the Christians, translated from the Greek fragments preserved by Cyril, Bis- hop of Alexandria. To which are added ex- tracts from the other works of Julian, rela- tive to the Christians. By Thomas Taylor, Cr. 8vo, pp. xi and 98. £2 10s Printed for the Translator, 1809 This is perhaps the scarcest of the works of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist. Lowndes states that it was printed at the expense of William Meredith, who, on reading it in print, resolved to suppress the entire edition. The present copy has a MS. note, signed " E. H.," which states that " not more than 6 copies are in cir- culation. " Mr. Meredith, a builder in the New Road, Paddington, bought up all the copies, "but Mr. Taylor's Son-in-law got them from him, and destroyed all but 50, which were pur- chased bj' a Mr. Coney, who still holds them." A reprint of this work, edited by Willis Nevins, a Roman Catholic, was published in 1876, but it is practically useless, since it omits all Taylor's notes and also the preface. I quote the following passages from the Preface, because they serve to show Taylor's design in translating the fragments, and give an idea of its contents to those whom the extreme scarcity of the book prevents from acquiring it : — " I rejoice in the opportunity which is now aflForded ran of printing this translation of the extracts from a lost work of Julian against the Christians ; con- ceiving that it may be the means of benefitting a certain few, who though they may have been edu- cated in stupid opinions, have abandoned them, and who, if properly instructed in, would immediately embrace the genuine religion of mankind. " As man is naturally a religious animal, and as the true knowledge of divinity is, as Janiblichus beau- tifully observes, virtue, wisdom, and consummate felicity, nothing can be so important as the acqui- sition of this knowledge, and, as one of the means of obtaining it, a purification from theological error. Julian, who was certainly one of the most excellent emperors recorded in history, wrote, I am per- suaded, the treatise from which these fragments are taken, with no other view than to lead the reader of it to this most sublime knowledge, and the translator of these extracts can most solemnly affirm this was his only aim in translating and print- ing them. " A few copies only of this translation were printed, because a few only in the present state of things are likely to be benefitted by it ; and these few copies, for obvious reasons, are not published. " As an apology for certain stroncj expressions both in the fragments and accompanying notes, suffice is to say that false opinions in things of the greatest moment cannot 6e too forcibly reprobated : and that those who are offended by these expressions are such as will never be purified from the errors they are intended to expose. "I also deem it necessary to observe, that Cyril, from whom these extracts are derived, is with the strongest reason suspected of being the cause of the murder of Hypatia, a lady who was one of the brightest ornaments of the Alexandrian school, who delivered instructions from that chair which Am- nionius, Ilierocles, and many other great philoso- phers had filled before, and who was not only a, prodigy of learning, but also a paragon of beauty." [KAYE].— Poems and Fragments. Cordis laeerati cruor poesis. 8vo, pp. 56 and iv. 7s 6d Jersey, 1835 This volume was written by John William Kaye, the historian of the Sopoy Rebellion. The poems give evidence of considerable poetic power. The author's favourite poet seems to have been Shelley, whose style and cadences are plainly imitated in many of the pieces hero printed. The first poem in the volume is " On the Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley." [KAYE].— The Story of Basil Bouverie, by the Au- thor of " Peregrine Pulteiiey." Roy. 8vo, pp. 191 (Vol I), 187 (Vol II), and 176 (Vol III). 8s 6d Calcutta : Privately Printed by S. Smith & Co., 1842 I do not know (confession sad !) Whether this story's good or bad : For I, (howe'er it hurts my credit), Must frankly own I haven't read it : Some clever critics, it is true. Books they've ne'er read can yet review : But I've but lately made a start. And haven't yet acquired that art. lOO Catalogue of Books Printed [KARKEEK].— An Essay on the Future Exis- tence of the Brute Creation, by W. W. Kar- keek, M.R.C.V.S. (Truro). From " The Vete- rinarian." 8vo, pp. 67. 3s 6d 1878 An eloquent plea in lavour of the future existence of the lower animals, and for kindness and for- bearance towards them on the part of mankind. [KEATS].— Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats, edited, with an Introduction by Thomas J. Wise. 12mo, pp. 21. 7s 6d For private distribution only, 1884 Only twenty-nine copies printed— 25 on paper and 4 on vellum. Mr. Wise reprints the Ode from the "Lamia" volume, without alteration or de- viation from the original. He also prints Mrs. Browning's sonnet on Keats, and two stanzas of SheMey's "Adonais." [KEIR].— Sketch of the Life of James Keir, Esq., F.R.S., with a selection from his Correspon- dence. 8vo, pp. 164. 6s 6d n.d. (1860?) The James Keir who is here commemorated was born on the 29th September, 1735. He entered the army and attained the rank of Captain; but left it in order to devote himself to scientific pursuits. He made several discoveries in che- mistry, some of which were claimed by others, and he did not dispute their claims, saying to his friends — "Knowledge is important, but whether the discovery is made by one man or another is not deserving of consideration." He enjoyed the intimate friendship of Drs. Darwin and Priestley, and of Messrs. Boulton and Watt. He was also a great friend of Sir Humphry Davy. He died at the age of eighty-five on the 11th October, 1820. [KELLEY].— Alfred Kelley, his Life and Work, by the Hon. James L. Bates, of the Ohio Bar. Svo, pp. viii and 210, with portrait. 3s 6d Columbus, Ohio, 1888 Alfred Kelley was a distinguished citizen and pub- lic servant of the State of Ohio. He initiated or supported many reforms and projects of public improvements during his life-time, and was greatly respected by all parties as a man of energy, unbending integrity, and great capacity. He was born in 1789 and died in 1859. [KELSEY's (Richard)] Niagara, Jephthah, Re- marks upon the defence of Wessex by Alfred the Great : with other compositions in Verse and Prose. Svo, pp. xvand 375. 6s 6d 1848 [KELSEY's (Richard)] Alfred of Wessex. Two Volumes. Vol I, pp. ix, Ivi, and 491 : Vol ii, pp. vi and 603. 10s 6d Printed by Francis William Ticehurst, Battle, Sussex, 1852 Mr._ Kelly, in a deprecatory preface to " Niagara," gives us some information about himself, from which we learn that he was a Londoner, born and bred within the sound of Bow Bells, and that in the course of his life as a Citizen and an Haberdasher he was rarely absent from the me- tropolis. He also informs us that his poetical compositions were written to beguile the weary gaps of nothing-to-do in a laborious life. It may be doubted whether poetry written merely as a recreation is likely to prove of much literary value : for myself I should think that to compose fine verse it is nececsary that the whole of a man's faculties should be exerted ic such a man- ner as to exclude entirely the idea of its being a recreative process. Of course I do not deny that it may be recreative in the same way as rowing or running is, for there is always a cer- tain satisfaction to be derived from the exer- tion of a man's entire energies, whether physi- cal or mental. I merely desire to express my opinion that in order to produce fine verse, the poet must bring to the task a fresh and untired mind; must, in short, devote to it his full ener- gies, and not his powers when worn and ex- hausted by business affairs. I do not mean to imply by these remarks that Mr. Kelsey's verse is bad; on the contrary, it is of a very fair de- gree of merit. With regard to_ "Alfred of Wessex," it is an ef- fort so ambitious in aim and so va=t in extent, that it deserves for these reasons alone, to be treated respectfully. It appears to have been written after the author had retired from busi- ness, and when he had reached a considerable age. An accident he met with, he tells us, con- fined him to his room, from whence he was un- able to stir for twelve months, though his health, apart from the injury he had received, continued excellent. It was during this time that "Alfred" was mainly written. It is indeed a monument of patience and perseverance, con- sisting, as it does, of twenty-four books, and containing more than thirty thousand lines. 1 have not, of course, read through this im- mense quantity of verse, and indeed I cannot conceive of anyone, save perhaps a Robinson Crusoe on a desert island, ever persevering with it to the end ; but what I have read convinces me that the author was not without a share of poetic ability, which, if he had chosen a more manageable subject, might have produced some- thing of real interest. Only the highest genius can now vivify for us the dead bones of our Saxon and Danish forefathers. I must not leave Mr. Kelsey without giving a short specimen of his verse. The following are the opening lines of his "Alfred:" — In fear, in trembling, in humility, Unnanied, unnoted, shrinking in myself Feebly I sing. What hand shall dare awake The heroic lyre long slumbering? Who shall dare Essay his puny flight toward that ascent Where, on their ivory thrones, by fame emblazed Sit, in their majesty, ennobled bards, Who, from the misty height look down sublime In grandeur unapproachable ; in mind Giants of godlike mould, eagles, whose eye Could, fixed and steadfast, at the blazing sun Gaze, undismayed, unharmed: eagles, whose wing. No feather bentor ruffled, could untired Sweep through their heaven of heavens ; whose fierce clutch Could grasp the lightning of their hero gods And pour their volleyed thunders. Who shall dare Aught, but with reverent and quailing eye To gaze and flit, where they could boldly soar? [KENRICK].— In Memoriam : John Kenrick, by James Martineau, Reprinted from the " Theo- logical Review," of July, 1877, 8vo, pp. 43 : with a portrait. 58 1878 This is a, fine and eloquent tribute to the memory of a good man, and an eminent scholar. John Kenrick was born in 1788, and died in 1877. He acted for thirty years (1810 -1840) as Clas- sical Professor at Manchester New College, York, a post which he filled with the greatest ability. He was the author of many books, including "Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs," 2 vols, 1850; "Phoenicia," 1855; and "Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions," 1858. He also contri- buted largely to various periodical publications. for Private Circulatiott. lOt KENEALY's (Edward) Goethe, a new Pantouiime, 12mo, pp. vii and 421. 5s 1850 This is the first edition of this poem, which was, I believe, printed only for private circulation, though it was afterwards published in the usual manner. In trying to estimate Kenealy's claims as a poet, it is difficult to do so without being biassed by a recollection of the discreditable part he played as an advocate and politician. Like many an- other able man, he was his own worst enemy, and by his perversities of character and temper, spoiled what might have been a successful and honourable career. As a poet he seems to me to display a good deal of talent, but not a scin- tilla of genius. He has a copious flood of words, but of ideas, he has, if not a plentiful lack, yet certainly only a slender stream. The great poet is a master of words, the inferior one is mastered by words, and this is the case with Dr. Kenealy. In "Goethe," part of his aim seems to have been to enter into competition with Dante, and to show that he could create a live- lier Inferno than his predecessor. In some respects I think he has succeeded; for Dante, strangely enough, omitted to introduce a comic element into his picture of Hell, whereas Kenealy is very successful in dej^icting the hu- mourous side of life in the Infernal regions. The Hell of Dante and of Milton On lines of terror grand is built on : Kenealy, hoping to outclass 'era, Resolved in humour to surpass 'em : Comic relief he thought was wanted, So set about the task undaunted Of making hell ridiculous, Unconsciously revealing thus The fact that; men put faith no more I' the savage creed believed of yore : For when of Hell you make a jest 'Tis of your unbelief a test: And Hell indeed is only fit Forthose who now have faith in it. THE KETTLE OF FISH, a Quarterly Amateur Magazine. Published for Subscribers only. 8vo, Nos. 4 to 24 (minus No. 14) Dec. 1876 to Dec. 1882. 15s 1876—1882 This magazine was edited by Misses Blanche and Rose Chubb. A notification in No. 24 states that no more numbers will be issued. The contents of " The Kettle " consist chiefly of tales and poems, some of which display conside- rable ability: while others do not rise above the usual level of amateur writing. Some poems signed "Viva" show a good deal of poetical feeling. I quote one of these : — From A Letter. "When one begins with 'Do you remember?' one can go on for ever." — Extract from a Letter. " Do ynu remember?" with a shout of laughter ; " Do you remember ? " with a rain of tears ; " Have you forgotten ? " then a silence after ; How close the present to the bygone nears. " There was a time ; " then steady voices falter, And set lips quiver that were stern before ; Unyielding faces turn away and alter ; " There was a time ; " and it will come no more. The chain of memory's links can ne'er be broken, It coils round every human heart so sure; A look, a touch, a word or sentence spoken, Tells us how long those fetters shall endure. Yet would we have it otherwise, and rather Forgetfuluess in all the present seek ; Beniember yesterday, perchance, no farther ; Grow utterly oblivious in a week ? Ah ! surely not. Tho' once our hearts were aching, Tho' once the days were filled with doubt and woe, Tho' once all light our pathway seemed forsaking, Tis past and o'er. Would we forget it? No ! Have we been happy ? Then sweet recollection, Bring back the time, and tell us o'er and o'er, To solace us in hours of sad dejection We have been happy ; dare we wish for more? "Do you remember ?" Yes, my friend, whose writing Brings back a joy unmingled with regret ; I answer to your words my heart's inditing — I do remember ; I will not forget. [KILDARE].— Descents of the Earls of Kildare, and their Wives ; by the Marquis of Kildare. 8vo, pp. 66. 6s 1869 A pencilled note on this copy states that one hun- dred copies only were printed. The work consists of genealogical tables only, without note or comment. KING POPPY : a Story without an end. Cr. 8vo, pp. ix and 276. 10s 6d [1874] This appears to me to be a poem of very con- siderable merit. No clue is afforded as to au- thorship ; but something should, I think, be known of so good a poet as the writer of " King Poppy," which, albeit in blank verse, and of an allegorical character, and therefore heavily handicapped, should be made known to those who still love and appreciate good verse. The poem is supposed to be written by Hamlet's friend, Horatio, who is made to say in the Preface — " — certainly it is apiece of me that you have here. And, if this piece of me you had not sooner, it is the fault of those publishers who will nothing shorten of that long way which leadeth from Parnassus unto Paternoster Row ; and whose philosophy doth neither dream of the things which be in Heaven, nor yet value so much as a rotten nut what is but dreamed of upon earth. But in these pages I have discovered unto you a truth. And because it is a truth, therefore it needeth not that I prove it to be true. For albeit demonstration doth often times lack truth, yet truth standeth nol, in need of demon- stration. Even as there be many men that want money, but money never wanteth a man. If, indeed you do know of any money that yet wanteth a man, I pray you tell me. For that man am I. Now the truth I have discovered in this : Be it granted (as it is by your philosophy) that space and time are but the prejudices of human obstinacy, then how great soever be the distances, either temporal or local, that do seem to be between certain beings, those dis- tances exist not, in the ideal verity. Wherefore, you, my loving friends, do yet daily rub elbows with that king of imprudence, fond old father Lear, who is everlastingly shut out of his own house; and with Fortune's favourite, brave young Fortinbras, who doth ever come jump on the occasion when there is something rotten in the State. In other words there be certain universal immortal characters which cannot die, but which do accommodate themselves to circumstance and custom, >)y changin-j; names and bodies as easily as you change shirt and hose" I wish I had time and space enough to attempt to do justice to this poem ; but I must content myself by quoting one brief extract from it. It is a description of the song of Diadoma, who symbolizes, in this instance, Poetry without Art- Swift and sweet Above the angry old king's hoary head, Rose, bird-like, from the sea-girt balcony A voice that ravished all the lulled isle With musical surprises. Its (dear tones Of careless happiness, now high, now low, Chasing each other, hnver'd, soar'd and sank. Sportive as young sea-swallows, who-ie light wings Winnow the azure air in wavering orba Of vivid flight, that vanish soon as seen, 102 Catalogue of Books Printed KING POPPY— con<. And then as suddenly revive. So rose Those rapid notes, that with ethereal song Search'd the serene wide welken. There tlioy seemed To imbibe the secret bliss of boundless space Which had, till then, been silence ; but now pass'd Ic fervid music palpitant thro' all Their line pulsations ; thrill'd the listener's soul And from it.s throbbings freed some captive sense Of supernatural capacity, That, for the first time, fonnd its source, and aoar'd Upon their wings to heaven. It was the cry Of Beauty claiming to be born. Appeals Blithe and imperious, anawer'd as they rose By tremulous responses faint with fear ; A happy fear, and full of timorous joy. The heart that, hearing, heard that music, seemed Enlarged, uplifted, loosed, half-lost, to hang And welter on some mighty wave that swell'd Against the limits of a world too small! For its immense emotion. And hard by, Yet just beyond this insufficient world. Waiting wide open was the Infinite. king's (Austin J.) The Bayeux Tapestry : a Paper read before the Bath Literary and Philosophi- cal Association, on the 2nd of December, 1881. 8vo, pp. 48. 2s 6d This essay gives a luminous account of the his- tory and peculiarities of the famous memorial of the Norman Conquest of Britain. [KING].— Our Diary in Europe. 8vo, pp. 107. 48 6d Printed for Private Distribution at the Chiswich Press, 1871 This book is "Dedicated to Henry Palmer King, by his Parents B. W. and E. A. King." The authors were .Americans, and the story of their Tour in Europe is well and pleasantly told, but has no special points of interest. [KING'S (Richard John)] Tveo Lectures read before the Essay Society of Exeter College, Oxford. Royal 8vo, title, tfcc, 5 11. and pp. 100, with several woodcuts, 8s 6d 1840 The subjects of these Essays are " On the Super- natural Beings of the Middle Ages," and "On the Origin of the Romance Literature of the XII and XIII Centuries, chiefly v^ith a reference to its Mythology." These subjects are treated in a very interesting manner, and are well worth reading by students of mythology and folk-lore. [KINGLAKE].— Mr. Kinglake and theQuarterlys: by an old Reviewer. Not for Sale. Svo, pp. 67. 4s 6d 1863 This is a warm defence of the truth and accuracy of Kinglake's account of the opening scenes of the Crimean war, against various charges brought against him in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. [KINGSDOWN].— Lord Kingsdown's Recollec- tions of his Life at the Bar and in Parliament, Printed for Perusal by private Friends only. Cr. 8vo, pp. iv and 132. 8s 6d 1868 Mr. Pemberton, the editor of this volume tells the reader, that Lord Kingsdown informed him on his deathbed, that he had written an imper- fect account of his early professional life, which might be communicated to friends, but was not to be published. Mr. Pemberton accordingly caused a few copies only of the Recollections to be printed ; but desires those who may be favoured with copies to consider them confiden- tial. Lord Kingsdown's career was one of apparently un- interrupted success as a barrister. His success, however, seems to have been owing more to his industry and absorption in his profession rather than to any more brilliant qualities. He entered parliament, where he acted with the Tories, but he does not seem to have made any considerable figure as a politician. His " Recollections " have a good deal of interest, and his notices of the famous Advocates and Judges of his time, including Sir John Leach, Sir Samuel Romilly, Lord Eldon, Sir William Grant, and others, «how keen insight into character. KITCHINER's (Wm. Brown) Fancy's First, or Tender Trifles. Post Svo, pp. xlviii and 208. 6s 1829 This book is the production of the son of the well- known Dr. Kitchiner, the author of works on Marriage, Cookery, Travelling, etc. Mr. Kitchiner's poems consist chiefly of songs and short pieces of a few lines only. Some of them bear rather a suspicious resemblance to other pieces which somehow happened to be previous- ly written. I quote two short specimens, which are as good as the majority of our author's pieces : — " Hawe y(y^ not seen, as slow declines away, Ling ring with love, and half inclined to stay, Day s peerless light, reflecting as it flies A golden robe around the tinted skies ? So have I seen the blush on beauty's face, Declining, give to every charm a grace." " Some ancient said, who must have been a dunce, No mortal ever did two things at once ; But you convince me that the fellow lies, Speaking at once with both thy tongue and eyes." KNAPP's (Arthur John) Roots and Ramifications; or Extracts from various books explanatory of the derivation or meaning of various words. Post 8vo, pp. v and 152. 3s 6d 1856 Mr. Knapp states that it was Dean Trench's book " On the Study of Words" which first induced him to explore the field of philology. Though his work only professes to be a compilation, it is calculated to be of considerable use to the stu- dent of languages, inasmuch as it brings to- gether a good deal of information which would otherwise have to be sought in widely-scattered authorities. KNIGHT'S (R. P.) An Inquiry into the Symboli- cal Language of Ancient Art and Mythology. 8vo, pp. 200. £1 10s 1811 The author states that this work was intended to be prefixed to the Second Volume of the Speci- mens of Ancient Sculpture, published by the Society of Dilletanti ; but as there appeared little probability of its early issue, owing to the Society's want of funds, he had resolved to print a few copies of it, in order that the information he has been able to collect, may not be lost to his successors in the study of an- cient art. Mr. Knight's treatise consists of a general analysis of the religious and poetical mythology of an- cient times ; this being, he conceives, a more convenient, as well as more concise method of proceeding, than would be a separate descrip- tion of each particular monument. The "Inquiry " was reprinted in the pages of the Classical Journal, and an edition, edited by E. H. Barker, was published in 1836. In 1876 an edition, which was edited by Alexander Wilder, for Private Circulation. 103 KNIGHT (R. ^.)-cont. and which contained much additional matter, was published by J. W. Bouton of New York. From Mr. Wilder's Preface, I take the follow- ing extract : — " Richard Payne Knight was one of the most thorough scholars of the earlier period of the present century. His works display profound .jiid.cjiiient, discrimina- tion, taste, acuteness, and onidition, united witli extraordinary candour and impartiality ; and tliey constitute an invaluable collection of ancient and curious learning, from which the students of such literature can draw abundant supplies. In these respects they stand side by side with the writings of Godfrey Higgins ; while they excel in respect to scope, accuracy, conciseness, and the arrangement of subjects. They are of .untold value for the un- folding of correcter views of Ancient Mythology than have been generally enteilained. Later re- search has enlarged the province of these investiga- tions, and occasionally modified the conclusions which they had seemed to indicate ; but it has not superseded them in any important respect." [KOTPE].— A Modern Pilgrimage, by H. M. M. K. Sm. 4to, pp. 152, and, 12 illustrations, tis N.D. This is a well-written accouat of a tour with a party of Cook's tourists, in Egypt, Palestine, Greece, &c. [L. (E.)]. — In Memoriam— E. L., 1866—1872. Cr. 8vo, pp. ix and 359. 8s 6d Edinburgh, 1875 This is a collection of Essays and Verses which E. L. (whose identity is not further disclosed, though we are informed that she died in 1875, aged 27), contributed to the "Ladies' Edin- burgh Magazine," during the years 1866 to 1872 under the signature of Dido. She was evident- ly (judging from her writings) a lady of good sense, considerable cleverness, and some degree of wit. Many pretentious published volumes of poems and essays are less worth reading than the remains of this young woman. [L.'s (L. B.)] A Description of the Heart-Shrine in Leybourne Church, with some account of Sir Roger de Leyburn, Kt., and his connection with the wars of the Barons in the thirteenth century : a letter to Thomas Godfrey Faus- sett, Esq. 4to, pp. 76, with 3 plates. 10s 6d 1864 This essay is reprinted, with additional notes from Archseologia Cantiana, Vol. 5. Only seventy-five copies were printed. The author of this work (probably a member of the Leyburne family), after describing the curi- ous heart-shrine preserved in Lej'bourne Church, proceeds to give reasons for believing that it is the heart of the famous Sir Roger de Ley- burn which is therein contained. His essay contains also much interesting historical and genealogical matter. [LAING's (David)] Specimen of a proposed Cata- logue of a portion of the Library at Britwell House, Buckinghamshire ; c(;llected by the late William Henry Miller, Esq., Craigen- tinny. 4to, pp. 24, with a iwrtrait of David Murray. £1 5s 1852 Only thirty copies printed. Laiug's own copy Bold for £5 10s. The above was J. P. Collier's copy, and has a few MS. notes in his hand- writing. Mr. Miller's library, which is still, I believe, in- tact in the hands of Christy-Miller, Esq., was a most extensive and valuable collection, and was particularly rich in early English literature. It comprised an almost unrivalled collection of ear- ly poetry and plays. It is a pity that Mr. Laing did not carry out his design of making a cata- logue of the library, for it is scarcely likely that any one equally competent for the task cm bp found to execute it. [LAING]. — Biographical Notices of Thomas Young, S.T.D., Vicar of Stowmarket, Suffolk. By the Editor of Principal Baillie's " Letters and Journals." 8vo, pp. 39, with a portrait of Young and 2 other plates. 4s 6d Edinburgh, 1870 Dr. Young was a celebrated Puritan divine, and was one of the tutors of John Milton, on the development of whose mind he exercised a con- siderable influence. Milton, in his Liher Epis- tolarum, has preserved two letters which he ad- dressed to his tiitor, in terms of affectionate kindness alike honourable to both. Young, who was a native of Scotland, was born in 1587 and died in 1655. [LAING's (David) An Account of the Scottish Psalter of a.d. 1566, containing the Psalms, Canticles, and Hymns, set to Music in four parts, in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wode or Wood, Vicar of Sanctandrous. From the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol. VII. Sm. 4to, pp. 16 of text, and 8 leaves oi facsimile of portions of the Psalter. 6s 1871 The manuscripts here described are of gi'eat im- portance as illustrating the history of sacred music in Scotland. [LAKE]. — In Memoriam, Edward Lake, Major- General Royal Engineers, C.S.I. Sq. 16mo, pp. 87. 3s 6d. [1877] Edward Lake was born at Madras in 1823. Called at an early age to active military service in the field, he won for himself a high reputation as a soldier while only a subaltern ; and afterwards discharged, with credit to himself and advantage to the state, the duties of an administrator of the provinces he had helped to conquer. He particularly distinguished himself during the great Indian mutiny of 1857. He died in 1876. LAN A CAPRINA. Cr. 8vo, pp. 31. 5s 1888 " Condiscipulis hunc libellum dedieo meis. — W. M. L." The verses in this little booklet are not without merit. The author succeeds best as a sonneteer; and I therefore quote the following : — Anticipation. " I bent beneath the weight of years to come. Of multipljing sins, and ills foreknown : Accumulated thunders left nie dumb, And concentrated lightnings chilled ray bone : BYom each day's mist grew the black fog of years, While each day's teirs I multiplied to flood ; — And thus ensured safe anchorage for fears, And left no haven for the hope of good. So, then, I mused, until prepared to tell All questioners of Life, that Life is Death ; — That, than our earth is no completer hell ;— When to my thought, a thought that answereth ; " The tide comes wave by wave ; a moment's dole Is not an hour's ; an hour's, not Life's, oh soul ! " 104 Catalogue of Books Printed [LAND ON], —Narrative of a Journey through India, by J. D. L. Post 8vo, pp. viii and 118, xoith a coloured frontispiece. 48 6d 1857 Tho author in his Preface alludes to ' ' my highly gifted relative, the late L. E. L.," and thus re- veals his own name, takine:' the statement in connection with the initials of his title-page. His narrative is interesting and well-written. LANQFORD'S (John Alfred) The King and the Commoner : a Historical Play in five acts. 8vo, pp. 87. 4s 6d Birmingham, 1870 This Play is founded on the story of William Fitz- Osbert, surnamed Longbeard, who, in the reign of Richard the First, obtained great influence by his eloquence, over the people of London. At one time it seemed likely that he would ob- tain supreme authority in London. However, he seems to have been wanting in the decision, and perhaps the courage, required in the leader of a revolution. He was ultimately taken pri- soner, tried, condemned, and executed at Ty- burn. There are undoubtedly great possibili- ties for a fine dramatist in Longbeard's story : and though I cannot say that Mr. Langford has made the best use of his materials, his drama is not without powerful and interesting scenes. [LASCELLES]. — Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland. 8vo, pp. 84. 12s fid London : Printed hy Cooper & Graham, for the Author, Sept. 1796 My copy of this book has the following note writ- ten on the flyleaf : — "Presented to me by the Author, Rowley Lascelles, Esq." The note is signed, " Wm. Durham, 6 Oct., 1796." I am not aware that the book has ever been noticed elsewhere, except that in one of Messrs. Sothe- by's sale catalogues it was most absurdly ascribed to Shelley. The book is a very good one : the author had a fine eye for the picturesque and sublime in mountain scenery, and he describes well and vividly what he saw. His work is scarce, and now that there is such a demand for Alpine books, it should be a prize for collectors of that class of literature. [LATHAM].— English and Latin Poems, Original and Translated : by the late John Latham, D.C.L., of Bradwell Hall, Cheshire. " In Me- moriam." 12mo, pp. xxxvi and 249. 3s 6d 1853 John Latham was the son of a physician well- known in his day, and was bom at Oxford, in 1787. He studied at Oxford, where he won the prize for Latin verse in 1806. It was intended that he should follow the profession of the law, and about Christmas, 1806, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn. But very soon afterwards he was attacked by ophthalmia, which soon ren- dered him almost entirely blind, and of course made him incapable of following his intended profession. Notwithstanding this great misfor- tune, his life, owing to favourable circumstan- ces, and to his amiable disposition, was a com- paratively happy one. He died early in 1858. His poems and translations give evidence of a thoughtful and finely cultivated mind, and have considerable merit. [LAW].— Notes and Materials for an adequate Biography of the celebrated Divine and Theo- sopher, William Law. Comprising an Elu- cidation of the scope and contents of the Writings of Jacob Bohme, and of his great Commentator, Dionysius Andrew Frkher, with a notice of the Mystical Divinity and most curious and solid Science of all ages of the World. Also an Indication of the true means for the Induction of the intellectual " Heathen," Jewish, and Mahomedan Nations into the Christian Faith. 8vo, pp. xxxii and 688. £1 lOs London, 1854 With this book, two pamphlets by the same au- thor on relative subjects are bound-up, — one of which describes the necessary or essential quali- fications which should distinguish the bio- grapher of Law, and the other details some grievances which the author had suffered at the hands of the Chetham Society, to which he had lent, on certain conditions, which were not fulfilled, various MSS. which were required for the Society's edition of the Correspondence of Dr. Byrom. The " Notes " respecting Law, are printed in small type, and form a most elaborate body of matsrials, which to all interested in that re- markable theologian, must have great value and importance. Nor is it of less value to all who are interested in the writings of Jacob Bohme, and other mystical writers. The compiler of the book was Christopher Walton, a gentleman who appears to have been engaged in mercan- tile pursuits, but who was evidently deeply learned in the literature of mysticism. He states that the compilation, editorship, and printing of this work extended over seven years, terminating at Christmas, 1853. It was origin- ally intended to comprise about four or five sheets only, but gradually grew under his hands, until it became in effect rather a cyclopaedia of evangelical truth and divine philosophy, than what was originally intended, a statement of the qualifications desirable in the biographer (whom Mr. Walton was anxious to discover) of William Law. Mr. Walton's book is one with which the reader will hardly expect me to deal critically. I need hardly say that I am aware of my own incompe- tence to appraise it adequately: but I can safely recommend it to all who desire to study the writings of the theosophers and mystics. To all such it will furnish a vast fund of informa- tion which it would be impossible, or at least very difficult, to find elsewhere. It should be noted, in conclusion, that my copy of the " Notes," is one of a few which the au- thor caused to be extensively added to and cor- rected in MS. [LAWRENCE].— Memoir of the Honourable Ab- bot Lawrence, prepared for the National Por- trait Gallery, by William H. Prescott, Esq. Extracted from the work by permission of the publishers. 4 to, pp. 51, with a portrait. 3s 6d _ _ 1856 Mr. Lawrence was a distinguished American mer- chant and politician. From 1849 to 1852 he acted as American Minister in England, where he became almost as popular as in his own country. "THE LAY OF THE LAST ANGLER:" or, a Tribute to the Tweed at Melrose at the end of the Season of 1867 : by a Sexagenarian. 24mo, pp. 58. 63 6d Kelso, 1867 A pencilled note on my copy of the above ascribes for Private Circulation, 105 "THE LAY OF THE LAST ANGLER "—cont. its authorship to the Hon. R. Liddell. It is in- scribed to Colonel and Mrs. Learinoiith, and to Sir William and Lady Scott, the friends to whom the author was indebted for the sport he chroni- cles in his verses. He seems to have been very successful in his angling expeditions, and re- cords his feats with all the relish of a true disci- ple of Izaak Walton. Instead, however, of quoting the description of one of our author's angling exploits, I quote a passage of more general interest. A proposal of his hostess's to pay a visit to Abbotsford, recalls to the author's memory the fact that he was a guest of Sir Walter Scott's in the last party which the latter gave before his death. He then proceeds to recall the names of the guests at the party: — " Sir Walter Scott, his daughter Anne, His soldier son, a splendid man ; Lockliart, his son-in-law, and wife — He wrote, you know, Sir Walter's Life ; Wordsworth, the poet, Allan, too, Who ' The Circassian Captives ' drew ; And Wordsworth's child, a damsel staid ; And nephew Charles, now Bishop made ; And James, not he of ' Naval War,' But pleasant author of a score Of novels (one just like the other); Old Lady Polwartli (late Lord's mother); Myself, my brotlier's wife, and brother. One day we went, like merry grigs, In coaches, phaetons, and gigs. Through stubble brown and flowery mead Along the sunny banks of Tweed, Into the glen, more steep and narrow, Of Newark and romantic Yarrow. It was a touching sight to see Those aged bards of minstrelsy Sauntering together, arm in arm, 'Mid scenes with ancient memories wann ! Old Newark's towers in ruins gray Were emblems of their own decay ; Their pleasure not unmixed with pain — They never met on earth again ! But Wordsworth that sweet walk records, In sonnet of his pensive words. The flicker of a dying flame, ' Yarrow Revisited,' is its name. In it, or note, he condescends To mention some ' young giddy friends,' Which meant, in truth, Anne Scott and me, Who climbed the walls in youthful glee, And mounted up that hillock steep Which marks the Castle's ancient keep. But hold ! —these thoughts of days gone by Raise an involuntary sigh. Wliere are those friends ? Alas ! all gone ! Their record, the sepulchral stone. Some names, indeed, can never die. But live enshrined in history — Yet death has struck tliem all but three — The Bishop, Ravensworth, and me." Considered merely as poetry, the above lines per- haps have not a great deal of merit : but never- theless, the vein of true and tender feeling which runs through them, makes them interest and affect us far more than do many compositions which, in a merely technical point of view, are infinitely superior. LAYS OF THE SEVEN HALF-CENTURIES. For St. Paul's Schools' Three Hundred and Fiftietli Anniversary. 8vo, pp. 22, with por- trait of Dean Cold and John Milton. 3s 6d Freely presented to all lovers of St Paul's Sehool, 1859 The preface is signed " H. K." The contents of the pamphlet consist of seven poems of consi- derable merit, each of which celebrates one of the Jubilees of the school, which may claim to be the oldest Public School in Great Britain, LEA'S (Henry CL) Translations and other Rhymes. Sq. Svo, pp. iv and 114. 78 6d Philadelphia, 1882 The translations in this volume are chiefly from the French and German, with a few from the Jjatin and Spanish tongiies. They are, on the whole, fairly well done. The following is one of Mr. Lea's original pieces : — De Profundis. We are boni, we know not why, We toil, through want and care ; Worn out, at last we die, And go, we know not where. We suffer, we inflict. Unknowing what we do : We gain, to find us tricked ; We lose, we idly rue. If the soul, impatient, aims At something higher, better, The flesh asserts its claims, And will not loose its fetter. Nor Hindu sage, nor Greek Can aid our impotence : The highest goal they seek Is dumb indifference. The Christian's nobler plan But palliates the ill : All man can do for man Leaves earth in misery still. The riddle who can read ? WTio guess the reason wliy ? We knov/ but this, indeed. We are born, we grieve, we die ! I feel tempted to add another verso or two : — These things are so indeed. But why lament them so ? To man's rapacious greed His sorrows he doth owe. He grasps at all he sees, With nothing is content : A usurer fierce, his fee's A million per cent. Let him renounce the thought That only for his sake The universe was wrought, His heart will cease to ache. [LEEVES AND ELSDALE FAMILIES].— A Family Memorial. Dedicated to a Beloved Mother. Svo, title, efcc, 4 11. andpp 185, with several photographs, and the music to "Avid Robin Gray." Js 6d 1872 Inserted in this volume is a copy of a letter from William Harrison Ainsworth, the novelist, which sums up so well the contents of the book, that I cannot do better than quote it here : — "My Dear Mrs. Moon,— I have beenabsent from home, or I should have acknowledged, long before this, the very interesting ' Family Memorial ' which you have kindly sent me. Pray accept my best thanks for it ! I am really very much pleased with the vol- ume, which you have put together charmingly, and in the best taste. The Literary Remains of your grandfather, the Rev. William Leeves, well deserved to be collected. As the composer of the exquisite music of " Auld Robin Gray," he ought to have a niche in the Temple of Fame ; and I think these re- cords will secure one for him. When he was an offi- cer in the Foot Guards, in 1772, before he took Holy Orders, he nuist have been very handsome ; and his portrait, which is admirably photographed, adds to the attraction of the volume Mr. Robinson Blsdale, your grandfather, appears to have been a very remarkable man. The volume (in MH.) containing his early adventures, was sent to me for publication by Dr. Elsdale. I lent it to Captain Marryat, who based upon it his story, entitled ' The Privateer's Man.' The early chapters of that tale are actually a transcript from your grandfather's most curious narrative Most sincerely yours, W. Harrison Ainsworth," io6 Catalogue of Books Printed LEQENDiE CATHOLICS, a lytle boke of seynt- lie Gestes. Sq. 16mo, pp. xviii and 257. £1 15s Imprinted at Edinburgh in the year of the Incarnation, 1840 Forty copies only were printed of this book, which was edited by W. B. B. TurnbuU. It consists of a number of hagiologies selected from the Auchinleck MS., preserved in the library of the Faculty of Advocates, at Edinburgh. This manuscript is supposed to have been written in some North of England Monastery about the latter end of the 13th, or commencement of the 14th century. The MS., Mr. TurnbuU tells us, has been sadly mutilated by some sacrilegious hand. "Would to God," he adds, "that for his pains the Vandal had been served after a similar fashion, and been qualified to chant shrill treble within the choir of the Sistino Chapel ! " Mr. TurnbuU seems to have been swayed by some pretty strong opinions or pre- judices, to which he did not hesitate to give full expression. Kitson, who was not a mealy- mouthed writer by any means, incurred the wrath of TurnbuU by remarking that — " There is this distinction, indeed, between the heathen deities and the Christian saints, that the fables of the former were indebted for their existence to the flowery imagination of the sublime poet, and the legends of the latter to the gloomy fanaticism of a lazy monk or stinking priest." To this TurnbuU replies : — " My olfactory nerves are not so retrospective as were Mr. Kitson's, and therefore I am not quite so cogni- sant of the stench of monks. Certain it is, that nine- tenths of these scented individuals appear to have died 'in the odour of sanctity,' a peculiar perfume which did not cling to poor Eitson." TurnbuU and Ritson were evidently well-matched in point of temper, and in command of abusive epithets, and if a controversy between them had not been impossible owing to chronological rea- sons, it would have been even more amusing than a discussion between a pair of Billingsgate fishwives. I must reauy make room for a few more of Mr. TurnbuU's flowers of speech — they represent so well a certain ferocity of temper, common enough formerly, which is now, happily, grow- ing rarer and rarer : — "And these legends were fabricated for the promotion of fanaticism ! " Is fanaticism extinct, now that monachism seems no more ? Look at the vile and pestilently rampant heresies from Calvinism down- wards, and are any redeeming qualities to be found in all their vagaries ? Are not the fabrications is- sued by the evangelical canters of the Tract Socie- ties most fulsome and impertinently profane? Is not the stuff which they put into the mouths of the 'subjects of these Memoirs'— making the creature cry, as it were, ' Hail, good fellow, well met ! ' to its Creator,— not merely devoid of grace and merit, but brimful of hypocrisy and intolerant familiarity? However rough-ivrought the old monastic legends are, they all possess a dignity from their very sub- jects, of which these heretical tracts are destitute. There is a grandeur and beauty connected with the remembrance of a Magdalen, or a Lazarus, of those who have sat at the feet of the blessed Jesus, and heard from his lips the words of mercy and of truth ; but what instruction or mental profit can be derived from the diary of a Mrs. Newell, or what devotion excited by tlie Memoirs of Sally Jones ? . . I re- peat that I am no Romanist, but this I declare, that I had rather be condemned with a Papist than saved with a Puritan ! " Let us hope that separate heavens and lielle are provided for the members of the different sects; for they will certainly carry their quarrels into the next world ! THE LEGEND OF ST. BERNARD, a Poem: with notes. 8vo, pp. 44. 3s 6d Norwich, N.D. This poem deals with the career of St. Bernard, who is said to have laid the foundations of the two Hospices which still bear his name on the Great and Little St. Bernard. The story is told in blank verse, which runs smoothly and plea- santly enough, but has no special merit. LEIGH'S (Chandos) Verses, Or. 8vo, pp. 93, with two additional unnumbered leaves at end. 2s 6d N.D. (about 1815) The author states, in an advertisement, that " these few verses form a Supplement to a col- lection of poems which were printed some time since, and circulated by the author, under the title of ' Juvenile Poems.' They were never pub- lished." There is nothing very noticeable in Mr. I'«igh's " Verses." [LEIGH]. — Tracts, written in the years 1823 or 1828. By C. L., Esq. [Chandos Leigh]. 12mo, pp. vi and 247. 3s 6d V/arvdck, 1832 These tracts, or essays, deal chiefly with political subjects, as Parliamentarj' Reform, Freedom of Trade, Taxation, Emigration, &c. The author deals with these subjects in a liberal spirit, and his remarks are usually acute and sensible, if not particularly profound. [LEIGH PARK]. -Notices of the Leigh Park Es- tate, near Havant, 1836. 8vo, pp. 44, with a view of Leigh Park Mansion. 4s 6d 1836 The estate, at the time this pamphlet was printed, was in the occupation of Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart. LEISURE HOURS : or Desultory Pieces in Prose and Verse, by E. L. A Private Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv and 320, with a portrait of the au- thoress. 6s Calcutta, 1846 This volume is inscribed "To America, by one of her absent daughters." I do not find anything specially American in the lady's effusions, ex- cept it may be, the national fondness for " high- falutin " flights of language. LEO'S (F. A.) The Autograph of Rosenkranz and Giildenstern. Printed from the 'Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft,' Vol XXV. 60 copies. 2s 6d n.d. This tract gives an account of the discovery, in a Ducal Remembrancer Book, which possibly be- longed to the Duke Frederick I. of Wurtemberg, of the autographs, placed side by side, of two gentlemen named Rosenkranz and Giildenstern. This is certainly sufficiently curious, consider- ing that Shakespeare has coupled those two names for all time to come, but whether it is anything more than one of those strange coin- cidences which occasionally occur, may well be doubted. LETTERS, &c., &c. Cr. 8vo, pp. 54. 5s (1854?) This booklet consists of letters, chiefly written from Germany, by two sisters named Phoebe and Emily Taylor, one of whom was 19, the other 17 years of age. They were sent to Wiesbaden in April 1854, for educational purposes, and in the following July were seized with fever, which in a few days proved fatal to both. The notice prefixed to the book states that their relations find a melancholy pleasure, and some alleviation of their sorrow, in printing a few copies of the young ladies' letters for family circulation. ihr Privati CiretUattcH. 107 LETTERS which passed between Mr. West DiGGES, Comedian, and Mrs. Sarah Ward, 1752—1759. 8vo, pp. xi. and 160. 12s 1833 Of this book, which was edited by James Maid- ment, sixty copies only were printed. West Digges was an actor of considerable ability and reputation. He never made much of a figure in London, where he wns overshadowed by the superior abilities of Garrick and others ; but he was much admired and a great favourite in Edinburgh and Dublin. Though a married man, he formed a connection with Mrs. Sarah Ward, a very beautiful woman, and in some characters an excellent actress. The intimacy between them subsisted between eight or nine years, during which time several children were born to them. At the end of this period, Digges threw over the lady in favour of Mrs. Bellamy. The letters in this volume consist of a series writ- ten by Digges to Mrs. Ward between 1753 to 1755; and an undated series from Mrs. Ward to Digges. Both series contain in addition to a good deal of matter, interesting perhaps only to the parties themselves, much theatrical intelli- gence which could hardly be found elsewhere. Mr. Maidment has added a considerable num- ber of notes, in which he gives much informa- tion about the actors, managers, and theatres of the time. The correspondence hardly gives a favourable idea of the character of Digges, who seems from it to have been of a jealou.s, selfish, and exacting nature. The lady's letters, though far less correct in point of style than the gentleman's, being deformed by grammatical errors, and a most eccentric system of ortho- graphy, are nevertheless forcible and impas- sioned, and are evidently the genuine expres- sions of an affectionate woman's love and ten- derness. I have read few things more pathetic than her last letter, in which she takes leave for ever of her faithless lover. LETTERS from the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert SooTHEY, to Daniel Stdart, editor of the Morning Post and the Courier, 1800 — 1838. 8vo, pp. XV and 463. £1 10s 1889 Daniel Stuart, to whom these letters were address- ed, was born in 1766. He was a successful journalist, and by his connection with the Morning Post and the Courier, realised a consi- derable fortune. He was a man of much good sense and intelligence, and Coleridge was much indebted to him for the unceasing kindness and assistance which he rendered him. In the let- ters printed in this volume Coleridge's acknow- lodgments of his indebtedness to him are made with a warmth and frequency which prove that he must have been indeed a real friend to him. So much should be said in justice to Stuart, as some of Coleridge's biographers have hinted that Stuart showed himself rather a shrewd man of business than a friend in his dealings with Coleridge. The letters of Coleridge have much value from a biographical point of view. He displays him- self herein with much completeness ; and it is hardly too much to say that a mental portrait of him could be drawn up from them, which would only require to be supplemented by a knowledge of "The Ancient Mariner," " Chris- tabel," and two or three other of his finest poems. His chronic impecuniosity, his constant illnesses, his want of resolution, and of constan- cy in his undertakings, his procrastinations, his helplessness and reliance upon others for assis- tance, his dislike of the labour of composition, and his feeling that oral teaching was his strong point — all these and many more characteristics are displayed in the letters, which are only de- ficient from the fact that they do not exhibit (or at least only imperfectly exhibit) the man's real ability and genius. There appear to be «ome blanks in the letters as printed, which are rather aggravating, as they occur at passages where the reader's interest is most of all excited. But they probably contained expressions which might have been painful to some living person or persons. The letters were edited by I^Iiss Stuart, the daugh- ter of Daniel Stuart. She gives at the end of Coleridge's letters, a most pathetic account of the last visit which she, in the company of her father, made to him. I wish I could find space for the whole of this, but I must content myself by quoting two or three sentences from it : — "My father sent up his card, and we waited some quar- ter of au liour, when the door opened, and the old poet (old ! lie was but sixty-two I ) appeared, clad in black, leaning on his staff'; mucli bent, his hair snow- white, his face pale ; but his eyes, those wondrous eyes ! large, lustrous, beaming mth intelligence and kindness He was a kind old man, was Cole- ridge ! particularly so to the young, with a vein of affectionate fun that won the heart, together with a refinement and purity that banished all fear and re- straint. My fatlier and he had been almost like brothers ; and Coleridge in one of his letters, now in my possession, characterises him as ' the \visest ad- mirer, and the most sturdy, disinterested, and gener- ous friend heaven ever bestowed upon man '." The letters of Coleridge occupy nearly three- fourths of the volume ; and are, of course, by far the most interesting portion of it. The let- ters of Wordsworth and Southey, are not with- out interest ; but one feels conscious in passing to them of a great difference. Many of Coleridge's letters deal with matters which are of trifling interest, or of which the interest has long since departed ; but somehow one never loses the feeling that the writer was a genius, even if a flawed and imperfect one. Of course, Wordsworth also was a man of genius— or rather I should say, had some gonius — but one would never discover it from his letters. LETTERS from Lord Pollock to the Rev. Robt. WODROW, 1703—1710. 12mo, pp. 24. 3s Edinburgh, 1835 Edited by James Maidment : only 30 copies print- ed. The letters contain a good deal of curious and interesting gossip about the events of the time, and the friends and acquaintances of the correspondents. LETTERS of a Citizen Haberdasher to a Young Friend. Post 8vo, pp. 393. 7s Printed for the Author, 1847 These letters are the productions of a sensible, well- informed and reflective mind. They touch on a great variety of sulijects, hut chiefly on poli- tics, religion, and literature. The following passages are extracted from a letter dated De- cember 9, 1845 : — " I have just returned from a visit to my native place, which is a droll place too. A woman fell in love with a man 39 years of age, and could not be persuaded to give up the freak. Her relatives and children op posed the match rudely, even took measures to con- io8 Catalogue of Books Printed LETTERS— coni, fine her to her house. She told them nothing could alter her determination, ' if they fastened the doors she would jump out of the window,' and lo ! abso- lutely slie accomplished her purpose last week, and eloped with her swain. She was 81 years of age, upon my honour. In the same small town also, there are living three women who have had 71 chil- dren—one '25, another 24, and the third 22. The youngest of these women is now 86. These things are secrets iwhich thousands of you would like to know something about. Such enduring passion ! such munificent mothers ! " " Free-will is a contingency— the expression of preced- ing causes. I am good because I have learned to be good ; I am evil for the same reason. I act freely from compulsion of previous laws. Your love is free, but still the consequence of the law of your nature —you are still restrained by what has gone before- all is God's chain. I am afraid I have not made tliis plainer, this Gordian Knot." I quite agree with the writer as to his not having made the question of Free-will versus Necessity any plainer by his explanation. I should say he was a necessitarian without knowing it, for we do not the less act from necessity becanse our actions are due to a long chain of previous causes, instead of being compelled by obvious and immediate motives. And if, as our author says, " all is God's chain," then we are irrespon- sible both for our good and bad actions, if, in- deed, actions which have the divine sanction can be characterised as good or bad. In another letter the author mentions a visit which he paid to a Lunatic Asyluai :— " There was a woman there belonging to our Union, who knew two of our Committee, and addressed them in a cheerful and sensible manner, so much so as to make me belie\'e at once she had very little necessity for her confinement. However, as we were passing on, one of the visitors said, ' But how well you look, Mrs. Pitt ! ' ' Sir,' she replied, ' that is a great mistake of yours— I am not Mrs. Pitt; I saw that poor creature die— I buried her, in fact. Cannot you understand I am in the place of her, her representa- tive ? ' She has the persuasion that she is another being. Her husband failed in business, and failed also in his duty to her. This double bereavement turned her brain. She remembers something of her sanity, and the difference seems to be another life to her. The links of her being are there, but not .joined together. Oftentimes I have dreamt after this fashion, and felt the delusive certainty of being quite another person. The wild images of a dream make a sleeping insanity— there is but a step between us." There are few of us, I sujjpose, who have not been at some time conscious of this sort of double per- sonality — of this discordance between our better and worser selves. How vividly has Mr. Steven- son realised this idea in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ! See also, for an acute discussion of this subject,.James Thomson's essay, entitled," Sym- pathy," in his " Essays and Phantasies." LETTERS from the Cardinal Borgia and the Car- dinal of York, IiIDCCXCIX- MDCCC. 4to, pp. 14 and 3 11. oi faaimiies. 73 6d [1800] These letters refer to the distressed circumstances of the Cardinal of York, the last male survivor of the unl'ortuiiate house of Stuart, whose ne- cessities were generously relieved by a yearly allowance from the Privy Purse of King George the Third. LETTERS on a Journey to Bombay, through Sy- ria and Arabia, in 1834— 35. 8vo, title, ^f-c., 2 11. and pp. 136. 4s 6d 1837 These letters, though containing little that can be considered absolutely novel, are interesting and readable. Writing from Arabia, ho says of the Arab population of the towns, that they are liars, thieves, and murderers, cruel, ungrateful, treacherous, &c., &c. One would fancy that it would be impossible to surpass these in turpi- tude, but nevertheless, we are informed that the Turks are worse than the Arabs, the Chris- tians worse than the Turks, and the Jews worst of all! Arabs are bad as bad can be, But even worse the Turks : The Christians' vile depravity Beats both in evil works : But all three fail in evil deed To match the race of Abraham's seed ! Save us from all and let them, Heav'n ! have power, Like the famed cats, each other to devour ! [LEUVILLE]. — A few leaves from Entre Nous, by the Marquis de Leuville. 8vo, pp. 1 6. 2s N.D. This pamphlet consists of a few poems, which are said to be reprinted from the 12th edition of " Entre- Nous." This would seem to show that the Marquis's poems must have found many ad- mirers and appreciators. Well, when a real live Marquis condescends to write poetry, it would be the height of ingratitude to find fault with it ; and I willingly allow that our author's verses are quite as good as could reasonably have been ex- pected from such an exalted personage. [LEVL]— The Story of my Life: the first ten years of my residence in England, 1845 — 55. Leone Levi, Born at Ancona, Italy, 6th June, 1821, Died at Highbury, London, 7th May, 1888. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 164. Ts 6d 1888 This work contains the first portion of an autobio- graphy, which the distinguished writer did not live to complete. Mr. Levi first came to England in 1844, when he was quite ignorant of the English language, and had not a single friend m the country. He was, moreover, very slenderlv endowed with means. However, his ability and perseverance soon pfained him a good position, and he became ul- timately the greatest living authority on Com- mercial Law and Statistics. He was an untir- ing vvorker in every good cause, and of a most kind and benevolent disposition. LEWIS' (Charles E., M.P.) Two Lectures on a short Visit to America. 8vo, pp. 107. 3s 1876 Mr. Lewis's Lectures, though they have the dis- advantage of a well-worn subject, are not with- out interest. Speaking generally, he writes with admiration of the American people and their in- stitutions, though he is compelled to admit the existence of n»any serious drawbacks, as the cor- ruption amongst their officials and public men, the universal worship of wealth, &c. LEVINGE'S (Godfrey) The Traveller in the East; being a Guide through Greece and the Le- vant, Syria and Palestine, Egypt and Nubia; with practical information ; containing De- scriptions of the principal Cities, Antiquities, and interesting Localities: Excursions through the Southern Prc>vinces of the Kingdom of Naples, Albania, the Ionian Islands, and the principal Islands of the Archipelago ; and a variety of Tours, with Distances. The whole interspersed with Anecdotes, Narratives, His- torical Sketches, and Remarks on the present for Private Circulation, 109 LEVINGE's Traveller in the East— coni. state of each country. 8vo, pp. vi and 331. 5s Printed by the Author, Curzon Street, May Fair, 1839 This is the first volume only of this hook : but though the author in his preface promises a second, I do not think it was ever issued : at all events I have never seen it. The work may perhaps have been intended for public circula- tion : but I insert it because printed at a private press, which I regard as a sufficient reason for inclusion in the present catalogue. Mr. Levinge's title-page gives so good an idea of what is to be found in his book that I need say no more about it than that it seems to be well adapted to its purpose. Of course much of the information it gives is now out of date ; but still there is so much useful information in his book, that intending travellers may even now consult it with advantage. LIDDIARD's (J. S. Anna) Kenilworth, and Far- ley Castle ; with other poems. 12mo, pp. xviii, vii, and 144. 3s 6d Dublin, 1813 The authoress gives, as her reason for not publish- ing this volume, that she considered she had been illiberally treated by one of the Reviews with regard to a former collection of Poems. Her verses do not display any special merit. LINDSAY'S (Sir Coutts) Boadicea : a Tragedy. Roy. 8vo, pp. 83. 38 6d 1857 This play has very considerable merit. The cha- racter of the fierce revengeful Queen iswell deli- neated and well sustained : and the versification is nervous and spirited. LINDSAY'S (Lord) Lives of the Lindsays ; or a Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Bal- carres. To which are added Extracts from the Official Correspondence of Alex., Sixth Earl of Balcarr-es, during the Maroon War ; together with personal narratives by his brothers, the Hon. Robert, Colin, James.John, and Hugh Lindsay. Four Volumes. Vol I., pp. xxvii— 349, with genealogical chart of the Lindsays, also a sheet of facsiiniles of signa- tures of various members of the family ; Vol. II., pp. vii— 323 ; Vol III., pp. xlviii— 259 ; Vol IV., pp. 321. £3 3s Wigan, 1840 I regret that I am unable to dwell at length upon this excellent family history, which, however, it is not needful for me to do, as the work has been once, if not twice, reprinted for piiblic sale, and is well-known and appreciated. Lord Lind- say tells with an honourable and justifiable pride the story of the family fortunes — a story that is far more creditable than that of most of our great houses Vols. I. and II. of the book contain Lord Lind- say's history of the family. Vol. III. contains — The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the Ma- roon War, Illustrated by a Selection from the public Dispatches and Private Correspondence of Alex. Earl of Balcarres, Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief in Jamaica : and Narratives of the occupation and defence of St. Lucie, 1779 ; and of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1782, by the Hon. Colin Lindsay. Vol. IV. contains — Ori- ental Miscellanies ; comprising Anecdotes of an Indian Life, by the Hon. Robert Lindsay; Nar- ratives of the Battle of Conjeveram, &c., by the Hon. James and John Lindsay ; Journal of Im- prisonment in Seringapatani, by the Hon. John Lindsay ; and An Adventure in China, by the Hon. Hugh Lindsay. LINES ON A Withered Tree ?n the Viceregal Grounds, by the Earl of Carlisle : Imitated in Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Sq. 16mo, pages viii and 46, with frontispiece. 5s Dublin, 1870 " A tender and melancholy interest lingers about a glade in the Viceregal Grounds. In this spot the Countess of St. Germans planted a tree, {Pinus Insignis), to preserve a remembrance of her sojourn in Ireland. Within a year the tree withered and died, the very month of the lady's own death. Touched by the coincidence. Lord Carlisle wrote a few tributary lines, and had them inscribed on a Memorial stone, placed where the tree had been." Lord Carlisle's verses are as follows : — Poor tree ! a gentle mistress placed thee here, To be the glory of the glade around : Thy life has not survived one fleeting year, And she too sleeps beneath another mound. But mark what difT'ring terms your fates allow, Tho' like the period of your swift decay : Thine are the sapless root and withered bough ; Her's the green mem'ry and immortal day. The various translations of these verses are by H. M. Butler, J. Bernard Burke, R. C. Jebb, Peter Burke, C. S. Calverley, Lord Lyttleton, Max Muller, and others. LINTON'S (W. J.) Bob Thin, or the Poorhouse Fugitive. Illustrated by T. Sibson, W. B, Scott, E. Duncan, W. J. Linton. Royal 8vo, pp. 39. 15s 1845 This poem originally appeared in the " Illumina- ted Magazine," of which Mr. Linton was at that time the editor. A few copies were printed off separately for presentation. "Bob Thin " is one of Mr. Linton's most interest- ing productions. It is instinct with his hatred of injustice and oppression : in the first part full of satire upon those who think the best use that can be made of a man is to put him in a workhouse, and in the second, full of poetical pictures and charming lyrics inspired by the au- thor's love of nature and country life. The il- lustrations are worthy to accompany the text ; sometimes grotesquely humourous as in the queerly designed capital letters of the First Part, and again full of the beauty of trees, flowers,forests, and waterfalls,as in Part Second. Altogether it is a book to be loved and prized. [LINTON]. —The Plaint of Freedom. Small 4to, pp. 75. 3s 6d 1852 This poem is dedicated " To the Memory of Mil- ton." It consists principally of an address to England from the Spirit of Freedom — The storm is hush'd a breathing space, And Freedom's question cleaves the gale : Ho, Saxtm England ! canst thou fail ? Shall younger warriors take thy place ? The Spirit of Freedom proceeds to recall to memo- ry the many English heroes and martyrs who had in former times upheld her cause. As a specimen of the portraiture of these, I select the following lines on Milton : — no CatptlogM 0f Books Printed LINTON'S " Plaint of Freedom "—cont. For he was of Perfection's mould, The best beloved of Freedom's seed, Her councillor in depth of need, Or standing on the steps of gold. And day by day his course he kept Within the bounds of Virtuous aim,— No razor-bridge o'er gulf of flame, But the broad path where Honour stept. Life's topmost heights he firmly trod ; As grandly )ourney'd through the mean ; Defeat bow'd to his front serene ; His worn eyes ne'er lost sight of God. And therefore Freedom did entrust To his sure hand her two-edged blade : Which slays who wrongly ask its aid, And only serves the pure and just. [LINTON'S (W. J.)] Wind-Falls : two hundred and odd. Sq. 16mo, pp. 96. 10s 6d Appledore Private Press, N.D. This little volume consists of blank verse scraps, which are supposed to be quotations from vari- ous dramas. It may be surmised however, that they resemble the supposed quotations from old plays which Sir Walter Scott used to prefix to the various chapters of his novels. I quote a few specimens : — Vices. Our vices are like weeds. 'Tis not enough To prune or break them down. Up with the roots ! A Book. A good book is a friend : the best of friends, That cannot be estranged or take offence Howe'er neglected, but retimis at will With the old friendship. Consciences. The parson (an archdeacon) frankly own'd A conscience was too costly for his use. Had he but thought how cheaply they are made O' the Grundy pattein, he had dared indulge In the mild luxury ; and gone on his way Rejoicing. There are sorts of the article : Some tender, some instructed, some quite dull, And some so wrapped in hippopotamus hide Scarce any sin can pierce them. The last kind Is mostly worn by hypocrites. Spring. Now comes the Spring in vesture of fresh green, With gleams of light in the ripples of her hair. Her eager glances glistening through glad tears ; And bearing in her hands a wealth of buds That open as she smiles on them. ViCARIOUSNESS. A shabby doctrine : Sin, and throw the effect On some one else ! Can meanness be more mean ? A Grumbler. Kothing on earth was ever well vnth. him. After he went to heaven, when some enquired (Some spiritualist friends) how there he fared, 'Tis said he answered them " Well, fairly ; but The halo they have given me does not fit." LINTON'S (W. J.) James Watson : a Memoir of the days of the fight for a free press in Eng- land, and of the agitation for the People's Charter. 8vo, title, &c., 4 11. and pp. 76, with a portrait. 10s 6d Appledore Private Press, 1879 This is a memoir of one of those brave, sincere, and public-spirited workers for political freedom and the freedom of the press, to whom we of the present day, who are now in possession of most of the privileges for which they fought and suf- fered, owe so deep a debt of gratitude. Wat- son twice suffered imprisonment (an imprison- ment that was as much an honour to himself as it was a dishonour to his prosecutors) for his efforts to promote a.free and unstamped press. He was not less active in his efforts to secure political reform, and he was one of the original promoters of the Chartist agitation. He was one of the wise.st and most moderate of the ad- vocates of the People's Charter ; and had all the leaders of the movement been possessed of an equal degree of wisdom, the agitation would probably have been successful. I mean by this that it would have met with immediate success, for the agitation, abortive as it seemed in 1848, when it made its last effort, undoubtedly led the way to, and had a great share in hastening, the reforms which have been effected during the last forty years. Linton was an intimate friend of Watson, and his memoir of the single-minded, true hearted, and indomitably honest bookseller, publisher, and reformer, does as much honour to himself as to his subject. Enviable as is the reputation Mr. Linton has gained as the best of modern English wood-engravers, his own la- bours in the cause of liberty and enlightenment do him at least as much credit as his achieve- ments in the world of art. He has never suffered in person, it is true, like his friend, but that was an accident only, for it cannot be doubted that he would have endured imprisonment with as much cheerfulness and fortitude as V/atson had the occasion arisen. His sacrifices, indeed, in time and money, though he has never boasted of them, or even alluded to them, so far as I am aware, have been quite sufficient to attest his devotion to the cause of political and religious liberty. It will be observed that this and the preceding book bear the imprint of the "Appledore Pri- vate Press." Appledore is Mr. Linton's per- manent residence, and is situated in the town- ship of Hamden, just outside New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. "Windfalls," and the Memoir of James Watson, were the first pro- ductions of Mr. Linton's press. Several other works have since been printed by Mr. Linton, and I am sorry that I cannot give particulars of them here. Those, however, who wish to know more about Mr. Linton's productions, should consult an article by Mr. A. H. Bullen in " The Library," for January and February, 1889. It is perhaps worth noting, that the two hooks mentioned above are presentation copies to Mr. Linton's old friend, R. H. Home, and have au- tograph inscriptions to that effect. LIST OF ENGLISH BOOKS, printed not later than the year 1600, Part I. Theology. 8vo, pp. 54. 3s 1865 This book supplies no clu« as to the owner or com- piler of the collection of books here catalogued. It appears to have been a valuable collection of itskiud : and it included a good number of the Martin Marprelate books. LITERARY HOURS : by various Friends. Cr. 8vo, pp. V and 232, with a portrait as frontis- picee. £1 12s 1837 The dedication of this book is signed by Jos. Ablett, who edited the volume, and whose por- trait (I presume), from a drawing by Count D'Orsay, appears as frontispiece. Many of the pieces here collected, we are informed, had al- ready appeared in the ephemeral publications of the day, but others had never been printed before. The largest contributor to the volume for Pfiftatt Circulation. Ill LITERARY HOURS— con*. was Walter Savage Latidor, who is responsible for upwards of forty pieces of prose and verse, including six "Imaginary Conversations." Leigh Hunt contributes several pieces ; and other contributors were A. M. Jones (a lady), Augustus Hare, A. S., and J. "SV". The copy now before me seems to have belonged to A. M. Jones, who has tilled in the names of the contri- butors in MS. to the table of contents. It is a volume of very considerable value and interest, nearly all the pieces it contains being of unusual excellence. The book is not mentioned by Martin ; nor have I come across any previous mention of it. The following pieces by Landor will be well known perhaps to some of my readers ; but none, I imagine, will be offended at my quot- ing them here : — Lines on the Death of Charles Lamb. " Once, and once only, have I seen thy face, Elia ! once only has thy tripping tongue Run o'er my heart, yet never has been left Impression on it stronger or more sweet. Cordial old man ! what youth was in thy years, What wisdom in thy levity, what soul In every utterance of that purest breast ! Of all that ever wore man's form, tis thee 1 first would spring to at the gate of Heavsn." A Moral. " Pleasures— away, they please no more. — Friends— are they what they were before : Loves — they are very idle things. The best about 'em are their wings. The dance — 'tis what the bear can do ; Music— I hate your music too. " Whene'er these witnesses that Time Hath snatcht the chaplet from our prime, Are called by Nature, as we go With eye more wary, step more slow, And will be heard and noted down. However we may fret or frown : Shall we desire to leave the scene Where all our former joys have been ? No — 'twere ungrateful and unwise ; — But when die down our charities. For human weal and human woes. Then is the time oiu- eyes should close." LITERARY RECREATIONS : Selections from the Manuscript Magazine of the Literary Society in connection with Park Church, Highbury. Cr. 8vo, pp. 104. 3s 6d 1879 This volume contains a number of essays and poems of a fair degree of merit. Amongst the pieces of particular interest, the following may be mentioned : A Visit to the Bell-Rock Light- house, On Wit and Humour, and Two Days in Honolulu. [LITTLEDALE's (H. A.)] King Henry's Well, and Pudsay's Leap — Ballads, founded on Craven Legends. 4to, pp. 35, with 3 plates. 4s 6d Bolton, hy Bowland, 1856 These two ballads have some merit and interest. They are dedicated to the author's uncle. Pud- say Dawson, of Hornby Castle. LLOYD'S (William Watkiss) Essays on the Life and Plays of Shakspeare, contributed to the Edition' of the poet by S. W. Singer, 1856. Post 8vo, pages not numbered. 7s 6d Printed hy 0. Whittingham, 1858 The author says, in a prefatory note : — "The following pages consist of a reprint, for con- venience of private distribution, of the Essays on the Life and Plays of Shakspeare contributed by me to my friend Mr. Singer's edition of the poet pub- lished in 185ti. The impression is limited to the smallest number of copies which can be an excuse to set the press in motion ; I (■hall be well content if but a very small proportion even of these can be bestowed where sympathy with the writer will be ready to excuse, and sympathy with the poet to help out, the shortcomings of criticism. The work has been first to last a labour of love,— so planned, so executed, anil so it must remain. May the delin- quences of amateur anthorship be atoned for by resolute independence of some less advantageous in- fluences that are v pt to beset and hamper the author by profession." Mr. Lloyd is an excellent critic, and his notices of Shakspeare's plays are always h«lpful and in- forming to the reader. LOCKER'S (Frederick) London Lyrics. Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 134. £3 5s Not Published, 1868 A very scarce edition. The value of the present copy is enhanced by the fact that an autograph letter from the author to a friend is inserted. LOCKER'S (Frederick) London Lyrics. 16mo, pp. X and 108 1881 London Rhymes. 16mo, pp. vi and 98 1882 I have not priced the above books, as they are not tor sale. They were presented to me by the author, and one of the volumes has an autograph inscription in Mr. Locker's handwriting. As I respec* and esteem the man no less than the poet, it will readily be understood that I count these books among my most valued possessions. Few men have been so happy in their lives and fortimes as Mr. Locker, and none, it may confidently be affirmed, have more deserved their happiness and good fortune. With respect to Mr. Locker's poetry, my hand, I fear, is far too heavy to do it justice. It requires a Thackeray or an Austin Dobson fully to ap- preciate it, or to describe its peculiar merits. How admirably has the latter summed up the characteristics of Mr. Locker's verse : •- Apollo made, one April day A new thing in the rhyming way ; Its turn was neat, its wit was clear. It wa\-ered 'twixt a smile and tear ; Then Momus gave a touch satiric And it became a " London Lyric." To these I venture to add (with apologies to Mr. Locker and Mr. Dobson) a few lines of my own : — Many have sought its style to catch. Its shy elusive charm to match : Its sweetness, lightness, kindly wit. And archly humourous turns to hit: Its happy choice of word and phrase To imitate,— but after days Of labour lost, each bardling moana "Locker alone the secret o^vns." I do not think I need say anything more : Mr. Locker's verse does not stand in need of any man's praise, and certainly not of mine, though I could not resist the temptation of uttering a few words of gratitude in ackuowledgment of the pleasure which I have derived from it. But I will not part with our London Lyrist until I have quoted one of his songs. Those who know it already will not be displeased at meeting it once again ; and those who are not acquainted with it will thank me for introducing it to their notice. Besides it will seem like a little oasis 112 Catalogue of Books Printed LOCKER (F.) London Lyrics- con<. in what, I fear, is a somewhat barren desert of names and titles. Rotten Row. I hope I'm fond of much that's good, As well as much that's gay : I'd like the country if I could ; I love the Park in May : And when I ride in Rotten Row, I wonder why they called it so. A lively scene on turf and road ; The crowd is bravely drest : The Ladies Mile lias overflowed, The chairs are in request : The nimble air, so soft, so clear, Can hardly stir a ringlet here. I'll halt beneath those j)leasant trees, — And drop my bridle-rein. And, quite alone, indulge at ease The philosophic vein : I'll moralize on all I see — Yes, it was all arranged for me ! Forsooth, and on a livelier Spot The sunbeam never shines. Fair ladies here can talk and trot With statesmen and divines : Could I have chosen, I'd have been A Duke, a Beauty, or a Dean. What grooms ! what gallant gentlemen ! What well-appointed hacks ! Wliat glory in their pace, and then What beauty on their backs : My Pegasus would never flag If weighted as my Lady's nag. But where is now the courtly troop That once rode laughing by ? I miss the curls of Cantilupe, The laugh of Lady Di : They all could laugh from night to mom. And Time has laughed them all to sdorn. I then could frolic in the van With dukes and dandy earls ; Then I was thought a nice young man By rather nice young girls : I've half a mind to join Miss Browne, And try a canter up and down. Ah, no — I'll linger here awhile. And dream of days of yore ; For me bright eyes have lost the smile. The sunny smile they wore : — Perhaps they say, what I'll allow. That I'm not quite so handsome now. LOCKHART's (James, M.A.) Dante Alighieri : Tiie Festal Day, May, 1865. Sm. 4to, pp. 34, 4s_6d (1865) This is a blank verse poem in honour of Dante. Though apparently by an Englishman, it reads like the composition of a foreigner, with an im- perfect knowledge of the English language. [LOFFT's (Capel)] Ernest: in Twelve Books. 16mo, pp. 298. £1 Is Printed for the Author, 1839 Ernest : the Rule of Right. Second Edi- tion. Cr. 8vo, pp. xxvi and 300. £1 Is 1868 Capell Lofft, the author uf this very remarkable poem, which may be briefly characterised as the Epic of Socialism, was the nephew of Edward Capell, the well-known Shakspearean editor and commentator. In neither the first nor the second edition is any indication as to atithorship given: but the writer of a review, (Dean Milraan) of the poem, which appeared in the Quarterbi Revieio for December, 1839, plainly hinted that he could, if he likerl, disclose the author's name. 1 he reviewer, in this article, while bestowing much praise upon the excellence of the poetry. denounced in the strongest terms its evil tendency — that is to say its advocacy of democratic and socialistic principles. In particular the writer's advocacy of the nationalisation of the land, ex- cited the reviewer's wrath. The poem was in- deed, for its time, a very remarkable and ad- vanced production, and it is no wonder that it roused th« ire of the Tory reviewer. I should like to give an extended notice of this very remarkable poem, but must content my- self here with a brief reference to it ; though I hope to find an opportunity of dealing with it at large. In the first edition, the poem, of which the second title is "Political Rege- neration," is dedicated as follows: "To the Memory of Milton, the Poet, the Divine, and the Republican, this Work, written in the light of his glorious countenance, is dedi- cated." In the second edition this dedication is omitted, but there is a long " Preface," (there is none in the first) in which the author un- folds his ideas as to the uses and aims of poetry, and tells us what was his special object in writing "Ernest." It is, he tells us, apolitical poem ; but it is not, he adds, merely or mainly didactic. No wise man wonld versify a system : what he aimed at was " not to set forth iacts, but to kindle enthusiasm ; not to poetize poli- tics, but to make Poesy for once practical." The Poem is founded on a German tradition of Ernest, something like the Welsh one of King Arthur — both of whom, at their nation's worst need, are to return again, discomfit their op- pressors, and fulfil other prophecies. The first edition differs considerably from the second, the author having subjected it to revision before re- printing it, though this revision was only par- tial, as the author says he found it the hardest headwork he had ever undertaken, and had to give it up at last, for even perfection, he says, would be too dearly bought with the risk of palsy or brain -fever. I am enabled, by the courtesy of the Rev. H. A. Holden to give a few biographical details respecting the author of "Ernest." He was the son of Capell Lofft, the author of "Lau- ra," a Collection of Sonnets, in 5 vols, and other works : and was born 19 Feby., 1806. He was placed on the foundation of Eton College, 1814, whence he proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, in 1825. He became in due course a fellow of his College ; and having at- tained the Craven University Scholarship in 1827, he graduated B.A. in 1829, M.A. in 1832. He was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1834, but never obtained any professional eminence. His love of philosoph)' and litera- ture, combined with a lack of worldly wisdom, prevented him from making any figure as a practical man of affairs. Shortly after the printing of the second edition of " Ernest," he emigrated to the United States, where he pur- chased an estate. He died in his new home a few years afterwards. Besides " Ernest " he was the author of "Self Formation,, or the History of an Individual Mind," published in 1837 ; a highly interesting work of an autobiographical character, in which he traces the development of his intellect, and shews how he overcame the diflSculties which a defective organisation opposed to his progress ; of a work on the New I'estament, containing suggestions for the reformation of the Greek Text : this was said to be on the title-page to be by R. E, Storer, (i.e. Restorer), and was pub- for Private Circulation. 113 [LOFFT (Capel)]— con«. lished in 1868 : and of " The Self-Communion of M. A. Antoninus, printed but not published, by C. L, Porter, New York." I add a short quotation from "Ernest," though but little idea of the character of the poem can bo gained from so brief a sample : — 'Tis a sad thing To retrace step by step our mazy life, And find, what should have been a forward track Straight as an arrow started froni the string To be a wild self-crossed perplexity, A hurry without speed : and at the end Farther from its mark than the beginning was : Farthest of all from its good. To see it, Hope Sickens, and Faith is fool'd. Therefore we're blind Wilfully : none looks home within- but on — Doggedly on ; never bethinking him Whither and why, but ever round and round Narrowly reeling in the self-same ring, As wise as any other whirligig. Such is our folly ; and to reframe his life By rule of righteousness from man to God, That were our wisdom — but oh— Wisdom and Man — Who yokes ye both together, he is a fool. For ye're no yoke-fellows— but why more words ? Alas ! our foUy speaks itself too plain. [LONSDALE].— Memoir of the Reign of James IL : by John Lord Viscount Lonsdale. 4to, pp. xxxii and 64. 16s York, 1808 This is a scarce book, and copies have sold at very high prices. Sir Mark Sykes's copy sold for £5 19s. The author of this work was born in 1655, at Hackthrope Hall in Westmorland. In 1675 he was elected one of the knights for the coun- ty of Westmoreland, and he continued to repre- sent that county as long as he remained a com- moner. He was one of the members of the House of Commons who voted for the exclusion of James II. from the Throne. He was one of those who joined in inviting William of Orange to accept the Crown of England, and he filled several responsible offices under William III. He was a wise, prudent and able man, and his services were much esteemed by King William. He died in 1700. His Memoir of the reign of James II. is a well-written account of that period : but it is a pity that it was not planned and executed on a larger scale. LORD BLUE-BEARD ; or the Crim-Tartar, a Naturalized British Subject : a Dramatic Medley, by Jacob Bundle. 8vo, pp. 40. Ss Printed for the Author, 1858 This piece seems to have been written for per- formance by amateurs. THE LOWTONIAN SOCIETY, founded in the year 1793. 8vo, pp. 122, with an engraving of the " Lowtonian vase." 7s 6d [1881] This volume contains "Reminiscences of the Low- tonian Society, Edited by Robert Manley Lowe," the rules and regulations of the Society, Lists of the members, &c. Tho Society is an association of legal gentlemen, and the number of members is restricted to thirty-one. It was first established in 1791, and was named after its first President, Thomas Lowton, a highly- respected Solicitor and Clerk of Kisi Prius, an office which he held for forty years. The re- cords of the Society do not exhibit its members as doing much else besides dining together at certain stated times : but its object seems to have been to protect the interests of Solicitors, of whom it chiefly or entirely consisted. LUCREZIA BORGIA, a Tragedy, altered from the prose Drama of Victor Hugo, and adap- ted for the English Stage, by William Young. 12mo, pp. 102. 3s 6d 1847 How happens it, Mr. Young asks, that this mag- nificent drama, the most popular of French plays, is only known in England through the medium of Donizetti's opera ? It is probably be- cause Hugo has thought proper to heighten his portraiture of vice by special allusions to crime of so deep a die that our English taste revolts 'at the very mention of it; Believing that this cause, and this alone, has excluded the play from the stage, Mr. Young offers his version, in which the original prose is replaced by blank verse, and all passages offensive to English taste have been expunged, as one well- suited for performance before an English au- dience. It is but justice to him to say that he has well performed his task, and that Hugo's play seems to have lost little of its power and im- pressiveness in his hands. Victor Hugo, as a dramatist, might, it seems to me, he almost looked upon as a re-incarnation of our own Christopher Marlowe. There is, in both of them, the same swelling imagination, the same propensity to make their characters not so much men and women, as types of virtues and vices, the same extravagance of plot, the same grandeur of diction — a grandeur indeed that often comes perilously near to rant or bom- bast — and the same want of that saving humour which would have preserved them indeed from sometimes overstepping the narrow line be- tween the sublime and the ridiculous, but which might also have had the effect (supposing them to have possessed it) of restraining them from attempting some of their most brilliant strokes of genius. Both of them deal with a world, which is not the ordinary everyday world of common experience, but one in which passion, unchecked by reason, rules supreme, in which there is no medium between the most glaring light and the most intense darkness, and whore- in one feels as little at home as Gulliver must have felt amongst the Brobdingnagians. It is a world which it is pleasant enough to visit occa- sionally, but in which no one would care to dwell. Shakespeare and Moliere indeed are al- most the only magicians who have been able to construct ideal worlds in which ordinary mor- tals could feel themselves at home. LYBBE's (Philip Lybbe Powys) The Lay of the Sheriff. Sni. 4to, pp. xxxv.— H. E. B., Esq., his first and second of October, at Holly Copse, Oxon, by P. L. P. Lybbe. Sm. 4 to, pp. 22. 3s 1869 The two pieces are bound together in one vo- lume. The first piece describes, with some humour, the commotion caused in a family circle, by the ap- pointment of the head of it to the oflSco of High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. The second gives an ac- count of a shooting expedition. [LYON's (James Tennent)] Creative and Imita- tive Art : Decoration and Ornamentation. Imperial 8vo, pp. 139, with numerous woodcuts. 12s 6d Brussels, 1873 The Preface to this book states that it embodies some views upon Fine Art, which its Author had made a subject of close study and much re- [No. VIIL] 114 Catalogue of Books Printed [LYON (James Tennent)] — coni. flection. Had he lived, tliere is no doubt that the author would have amplified his essay ; but as he was not allowed to do this, it was thought better not to expose his work to the ordeal of publication. So lar a-s I am able to judge, I should say that Mr. Lyons' essay is written on sound principles, and is well worthy of the attention of art-stu- dents. LYTE's (Rev. H. C. Maxwell) Dunster and its Lords, 1066 — 1881 : with a sketch of Dunster Castle, by G. T. Clark, F.S.A., and a chapter on the siege and surrender of Dunster Castle, by E. Green. Roy. 8vo, pp. viii and 146, with several lithographs and woodcuts. 8s 6d 1882 Two hundred copies printed. Dunster Castle in Somersetshire, is of very great antiquity — it was in existence even before the Norman Conquest and it was for many centu- ries a place of great military consideration in the Western counties. It was the chief seat of a line of very powerful barons. It was a place of great importance during the great Civil War, in the course of \' hich it was held successively for the Parliament, for the King, and then again for the Parliament. In 1645—6, it being then in the hands of the Royalists, it underwent a siege by the Parliamentarians. It was gal- lantly defended by Colonel Windham, its Go- vernor, and only surrendered at last when all the provisions were exhausted, and there was no hope of its being relieved. Mr. Lyte's book is an interesting record, and a ■work of much value to the historian and anti- quarian. M'K.'s (H.) A.D. 1316—1849. The Lay of the Turings : a Sketch of the Family History, feebly conceived and imperfectly executed : now dedicated to The Chief, with the siucerest Respect and Affection. Sm. 4to, pp. 77, with a folding genealogical chart. 6s (1849?) In AD. 1316, King Roltert the Bruce granted a charter of the Baronj' of Foveran in favour of Andrew Turzon. Since that period, the Turing family has played a not unimportant part in the history of Scotland and Great Britain. "The Lay of the Turings," passes in review the chief vicissitudes which the Turings have undergone. There arc a number of notes by R. F. T. in il- lustration of the poem, which give a good deal of interesting information about the family. M's (C.) Three Months from Home : Notes of a Tour on the Continent. 12mo, pp. 43. 3s Greenock, 1873 An account of a tour through France, Italy, Aus- tria and Prussia. M's (J. S.) Ballads, Bagatelles, and Kindergarten. Cr. 8vo, pp. 105. 4s 6d n.d. This book is dedicated to Anna Maria Heywood. It contains translations from Goethe, Burger, &c., and original verses, most of which are of a humourous cast. M's (M. W. J.) Thoughts in Verse. Post 8vo, pp. vii. and 104. 3s 6d I860 From some MS. notes in this volume, it appears that the author was a lady, and that her name i was Matthews. I [M's (W. S.)] Bibliotheca Hibernicam : or a De- scriptive Catalogue of a select Irish Library, collected for Sir Robert Peel. 8vo, pp. v and 51 , tvith a frontispiece. 3s Dublin, \82Z The object of Sir Robert Peel, who was, it will be remembered, for some time Irish Secretary, in forming this collection was to get together a fairly complete set of books, dealing with the Antiquities, History, Biography, Topography, &c., of the Irish Nation. The compiler of the catalogue has added much to its interest by inserting short biographical and critical notes, collected from private sources and printed au- thorities. Any one desirous of forming a simi- lar collection would do well to consult this cata- logue. MABERLY's (G«orge) Thoughts in Verse, founded chiefly on Holy Scripture, and other pieces. Cr. 8vo, pp. 59. 2s 6d 1871 [MACKENZIE].— Remains of the late Rev. John Morell Mackenzie, A.M.; with a selection from his Correspondence, and a Memoir of his Life. 1 2ino, pp. xi — clix and 292. 3s 6d Edinburgh, [1845] The author of these remains was a minister, and a theological professor of great powers and at- tainments. He was drowned at the age of 37, in the wreck of the Steamship ' Pegasus,' on July 20, 1843. The letters and remains though evincing much talent, are yet a very inadequate memorial of him, for he was one of those men, who shine more in conversation and oratory than in authorship. Mr. Henry Rogers who in this volume records his impressions of Mr. Mac- kenzie's intellectual abilities, says, that with regard to the powers of his mind he has rarely known one which even approached it in versa- tility, in the rapidity with which intellectual conquests were gained, the perfection in which knowledge was retained, or the promptitude with which is was employed. MACKIE's (Alexander) Italy and France. An Editor's Holiday. 8vo, pp. xvi and 415. 4s 6d 1874 This book is dedicated to the President of the Provincial Newspaj)er Association. The author states that the letters of which it consists ap- peared in the Wan'iiigton Guardian in 1872, and are reprinted with the view of aiding other newspaper proprietors and editors to spend a month abroad with comfort. Another object Mr. Mackie had in view was to exhibit a book entirely set by his Steam Type Composing Ma- chine. Mr. Mackie writes with a practised pen, and if he has nothing very new to communicate to us, he understands the art of interesting us in what is indeed an oft-told tale, but will always bear re- telling when the writer is an observant and in- telligent person. MACKINNON'S (Rev. Donald D.) Memou-s of the Clan Fingon. 8vo, pp. xiand 221, with gene- alogy of the clan, coloured plate of the tartan and coloiored plate of arms. 8s 6d Tunbridge Wells, n.d. A few extracts from the Preface will best explaiu the design and scope of this book :— " It seemed unfitting to the author that, while many o' the Highland clans possess printed records of the history and deeds of their ancestors, the clan Mac- kiunon, which traces its descent from the earlie.st for PrivaU Circulation. "5 MACKINNON (Rev, Donald D.)— con<. tlmes,*and can claim precedence in this respect of a large majority of the thirty acknowledged Highland tribes, should remain unchronicled, at least in an individual form, especially when its records contain more abundant matters of interest than perhaps those of any other clan, in proportion, that is to say, to its uniform numerical diminutiveness. In assum- ing the office of " Sennachie," the author desires to remind those among whom this memoir is about to be privately circulated that the matter with which he has had to deal is gathered to a considerable ex- tent from sources which are often uncertain, meagre, and in many instances unconfirmed by the parallel history of Scotland. The cause of this is due both to the remoteness of the region whence the family takes its origin, and to the unlettered state of semi-barbarism in which the inhabitants of the Western Isles remained even to a comparatively re- cent period. Later generations have naturally not suffered in this respect, so that in each case wliere the author has det