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Title: Handbook of fictitious names
Author: Olphar Hamst
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example XIX^e or XIX^{TH}.
A single asterisk occurring before a Title shows that the work was
published anonymously.
A bracketed unknown name is indicated by [ ], though the original text
used about a dozen spaces between the brackets. Similarly with ( ).
The original text used dashes of various lengths for an unknown name;
this etext always uses ---- (double emdash) for consistency.
The original text also used an emdash to link the place and date of
death, as in ‘Scotland--1846’. For clarity these occurrences have been
changed to e.g. ‘Scotland -1846’.
There are no footnotes in this book; it uses [...] for other purposes.
The Preface explains the syntax used in each item in this bibliography.
Many minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book.
A Martyr to Bibliography:
A NOTICE OF THE
LIFE AND WORKS OF
JOSEPH-MARIE QUÉRARD,
Bibliographer,
PRINCIPALLY TAKEN FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
MAR. JOZON D’ERQUAR (ANAGRAM);
WITH THE NOTICES OF GUSTAVE BRUNET, J. ASSEZAT, AND PAUL
LACROIX (BIBLIOPHILE JACOB);
AND A LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TERMS, AFTER PERQUIN,
WITH NOTES AND INDEX.
BY
OLPHAR HAMST, ESQ.,
Bibliophile.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
“A little volume of great interest and value. Of great interest
for the amount of information it contains relative to the life and
labours of one who was in sooth a martyr to the art he loved so well;
and of great value because it may awaken in all who read it a juster
estimate of the importance of bibliography.”--_Notes and Queries,
July 20, 1867._
* * * * *
“This is a curious pamphlet-biography, reversing the usual order. M.
Quérard’s works are treated as the subject, and M. Quérard himself as
something that grew out of his works. Perhaps the strangest feature
of all is that the index is made a sort of supplement, in which
anything that has not been said in the body of the work is added
incidentally. Thus, a good story about a French author ... appears
in the index under its author’s name.... We are afraid people will
be too much amused by the biographer’s eccentricities to pay proper
attention to his subject, which is much to be regretted for the sake
of Quérard, and may delay the public recognition of him which is
demanded by his eminent services to bibliography.”--_Spectator, Oct.
26, 1867._
“Under this title we have an interesting sketch of the life and
works of Joseph-Marie Quérard, the greatest of French (perhaps we
might say, of all) bibliographers, a useful class of men who seldom
obtain much fame, and whose works are generally left unread by the
public. One of Quérard’s works escaped this fate, his “Supercheries
Littéraires Dévoilées,” which attracted much attention, chiefly
on account of the terrible attack which it contained on Alexandre
Dumas.”--_London Review, July 20, 1867._
* * * * *
“Mr. Hamst’s short biography of Quérard does not add much to the
information given in the _Ecrivains Pseudonymes_; and it has been the
writer’s object to describe the quarrels and the many disappointments
of his hero, rather than to give a definite estimate of his labours.
Quérard’s bibliographical knowledge was minute, but not extensive.
The want of general culture forced him to restrict himself within the
comparatively narrow circle of modern books and modern languages; but
he made up for this drawback by malicious care in dragging to light
the secrets of contemporary authorship. His publications involved
him in endless personal disputes, and his life was full of literary
scandals. It must be reckoned not only an injustice to him, but a
misfortune for the Imperial library, that, owing to his peculiar
reputation, he never obtained a subordinate employment on its staff.
Mr. Hamst ... states that Quérard dedicated his early books to M.
Schalbacher; but there is no reason to suppress the fact that M.
Schalbacher was the Viennese bookseller with whom Quérard learned to
know books. That he also profited by the particular exactness and
perseverance which prevailed at Vienna, is an illusion of good nature.
“The son of the revolutionist Rousselin obtained an injunction
prohibiting Quérard from publishing an article on his father. Mr.
Hamst seems impressed with the danger of disobedience, and speaks of
him mysteriously as ‘the son of a man of ninety-three.’ * * * * * * *
* * * Mr. Hamst’s depreciatory remarks on the _Athenæum Français_ are
quite unjust; it was nearly the best organ of criticism in France,
and if it were not extinct would probably castigate the presumption
of a bibliographer who imagines (p. 15) that the Kehl [this oversight
is easily rectified by putting the word in parenthesis] edition of
Voltaire’s works is so called from the name of the editor.”--_The
Chronicle, July 27, 1867._
* * * * *
“A brief sketch of the obscure but useful labours and chequered
life of one of the greatest of modern bibliographers. It will be
read with pleasure by all Englishmen who know or care anything
about the science of books. We fear the number is somewhat limited,
and probably within the circuit of the British Museum Reading-room
Mr. Hamst’s audience will, without exception, be found. At all
events, the career of a man to whom we owe such valuable works of
rare erudition as ‘La France Littéraire,’ ‘La Littérature Française
Contemporaine,’ and ‘Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées,’
deserves to be known to English lovers of the study in which Quérard
was famous. Mr. Olphar Hamst has carried out his self-imposed
task with highly creditable diligence, accuracy, and good
taste.”--_Morning Star, September 2, 1867._
* * * * *
_NOTE.--Only two hundred copies printed for sale. A few copies still
remain, price Three Shillings and Sixpence, in cloth, post free._
J. R. SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
HANDBOOK
OF
FICTITIOUS NAMES.
HANDBOOK
OF
FICTITIOUS NAMES:
BEING A GUIDE TO AUTHORS, CHIEFLY IN THE LIGHTER LITERATURE
OF THE XIX^{TH} CENTURY, WHO HAVE WRITTEN UNDER ASSUMED NAMES;
AND TO LITERARY FORGERS, IMPOSTORS, PLAGIARISTS, AND IMITATORS,
BY
OLPHAR HAMST, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF “A NOTICE OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF J.-M. QUÉRARD.”
“All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
_As You Like It._
“There is no vice doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false
and perfidious.”
BACON.
LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,
36, SOHO SQUARE.
1868.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY S. AND J. BRAWN, 13, PRINCES STREET, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
HOLBORN, W.C.
TO
THE MEMORY
OF
JOSEPH-MARIE QUÉRARD
I DEDICATE
THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT
AT
EMULATING HIM.
A work on the literary impositions which have been perpetrated upon
the public, besides being replete with interest, would be productive
of considerable other advantage. It would furnish an important
subject of study in the great science of human nature, exhibiting
peculiar, cultivated specimens of criminality.
The secret history of the authorship of literary productions would
strip many a name of the reputation it enjoys, and place laurels on
the brow of many a man who
In life’s low vale remote has pined alone,
Then dropped into the grave, unpitied and unknown!
Rank and wealth have obtained unmerited eminence in the literary
world, at the expense of the time and abilities of gifted dependents.
DAVID FOSDICK, _Biblical Repository_, New York, 1838.
Literary swindling is a crime that is very prevalent, because we have
no Government police to bring offenders to justice.
S. N. ELRINGTON, Literary Piracies, &c. Dublin [1863] p. 18.
PREFACE.
This little work is the first of the kind, so far as we know,
that has ever been attempted in the English language; and such
being the case, we crave the indulgence of the public for our
numerous shortcomings. In publishing it we felt the necessity of
commencing somewhere. We might, without doubt, have spent twenty
years in a similar compilation; but even then it would not have
been perfect:--in fact, it is not in the nature of a book like this
to be made perfect. It can, however, approach completeness by the
aid of numerous contributors. If, for example, each one who found a
name wanting, were to send an authentic note of it to us, an immense
amount of information would soon accumulate, which we would undertake
to embody in a supplement devoted to additions and corrections, if
the present attempt should receive sufficient support. By this means
we trust we shall help to fill up the gap which is at present a
reproach to our nation.
The utility of a work of this kind, even though very imperfect, is
at once so apparent that it is a matter of considerable surprise such
a blank should have been left in our literature.
Another work of a similar nature, but larger and different in
scope to ours, which Mr. Halkett, of the Advocates’ Library, has
been preparing for some fifteen years past will be a considerable
addition to British Anonyms and Pseudonyms. On the Continent numerous
works treating of the subject of assumed names of authors have been
published, and in fact the idea of nearly every English work that
treats of books and their authors appears to have been taken from
our foreign brothers in literature. We are indebted to Quérard for
the idea and plan of this work. In the advertisement to the second
edition of his “Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées,” he observes
that Germany first produced a work on anonymous and pseudonymous
authors; then Italy; then France, for the first time, in 1690, by
Adrien Baillet. Then Sweden, and lately Belgium, and even Russia.
Now we wish to direct attention to the remarkable fact that Quérard
was unable to name a single English author as having treated of the
subject, though in France it was treated of two centuries ago.
Our original intention was that this should be a handbook for popular
use; consequently, as a rule, we pretend to no scientific detail.
Those who desire such must seek it elsewhere; and yet we hope the
erudite bibliograph, though he may learn nothing from these pages,
will find much wherewith to refresh his memory. One object we have
endeavoured never to lose sight of,--usefulness.
With us the word Pseudonym has a very extended signification, as
these pages will show. Any word, or name, or phrase, on a title-page
is sufficient to make a work pseudonymous. It is not considered
anonymous unless its title-page is hopelessly deficient of all
personal identification of authorship.
We do not, for example, consider a work “By The Author of,” &c.,
anonymous, as do Lowndes and his editor. This example is also a good
illustration of the labour we have had to go through, and it will
show that our handbook is by no means a compilation from existing
manuals, for the simple reason that these nearly always leave out the
very information it is our object to include. In Lowndes, by Bohn,
under “SHERER (Major Moyle),” we have seven out of a list of nine
works specially marked “(anon.)” Now, according to us, three of these
works, at least, are strictly pseudonymous, and consequently included
in our list. We could cite other instances from any bibliotheca.
We have made an attempt to distinguish the various kinds of
pseudonyms by using certain technical terms in _italic_ letters after
each pseudonym. A list of these terms will be found in our “Notice of
the Life and Works of J.-M. Quérard.” The author of an “Essai d’un
Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Pseudonymes publiés en Belgique
au XIX^e. siècle” [J. Delecourt] somewhat deprecates such an attempt
as useless. But we consider that, even supposing such to be the
case in one sense, it is exceedingly useful to the eye, by at once
separating the pseudonym from the real name; and it has a positive
use in certain cases, as, for instance, when a writer uses his name
written backwards, which, instead of being expressed by a phrase, is
at once expressed by a word.
The arrangement is strictly alphabetical according to Authors’
pseudonyms. When partaking of the nature of a christian and a
surname, the latter is chosen, though both should be looked for
if not found under one. If, in the nature of a phrase, the first
word after By, Of, or From is chosen, and it is catalogued strictly
according to the alphabetical order of the letters, without regard to
the meaning of the words, no inversion such as: Barrister (A): Author
of, &c. (The): is used.
So much as is given of the title-page is given verbally and
literally, and an abbreviation is generally indicated by ... or
an etc. Information occurring between brackets [] intimates that
such is not to be found in the book; between parenthesis () that
it is probably in the book, though not on the title-page. An
asterisk occurring before a Title shows that the work was published
anonymously. When initials only are used, search must be made under
the first and not the last, unless there is some addition to the
last, as: J. R. D----.
The name of every author, if known, is given in full in one part or
another of the book.
We have not confined ourselves to English and American pseudonyms:
in fact, our plan is rather a wide one, for we include Alexander
DUMAS and George SAND: BOZ, illustrated by PHIZ: S. G. O.: THE TIMES’
BEE-MASTER: CHAM and * * * (The Abbé).
We could have doubled the size of this work by inserting the
pseudonyms of authors whose real names are not known to us. This
is, however, no part of our plan, and when such are inserted it is
generally for some special purpose.
When no place of publication is given, London is to be understood,
and an author is generally of that country whence his works issue.
So many American authors, however, now have their works published in
London, that it is frequently a difficult matter to know on which
side of the Atlantic the author resides.
We have to acknowledge the very great assistance we have derived from
the admirable Manuscript Catalogue of the British Museum Library, in
above two thousand volumes, folio, compiled during the last twenty
years, under the direction of Antonio Panizzi, J. Winter Jones, and
Thomas Watts, Esquires. To George Bullen, Esquire, and all those
who attend to readers’ wants, we owe our best thanks. After these,
we think we are most indebted to the _Athenæum_, whose fearless
exposure of any literary fraud coming under its notice has justly
been relentless. But the want of a General Index has prevented us
from thoroughly using the materials it contains relative to our
subject. To _Notes and Queries_ we of course owe much, as must all
future students, no matter what particular subject they pursue. And
to several periodical publications, all specially acknowledged.
Mr. J. Russell Smith has given us the full benefit of his long
experience in our progress through the press. To many others,
frequently the authors themselves, we are indebted for some
interesting little revelations. Much has long been public property,
though unavailable. We trust that we have, to some extent, rendered
it available.
American works are so freely scattered through these pages, that
we cannot conclude without one word on the want of a Copyright
Law between America and England. How long will two nations with
pretensions to civilization go on robbing one another in the most
shameless manner? An excellent article on this subject by James
Parton, in the _Atlantic Monthly_ for October, 1867, has convinced
us that in some instances we have been rather too severe on American
piratical reprints.
_January, 1868._
CONTENTS.
PAGE
DEDICATION vii
PREFACE ix-xiv
PSEUDONYMS 1-175
ADDENDA 177-188
ASTERISMS 189-191
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTONYMS 193-220
GENERAL INDEX 221-235
PSEUDONYMS.
A.
A., _initialism_. [MATTHEW ARNOLD.]
The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems (signed A.) 1848.
A. (Major), see A * * * * * (Major), _pseud._
A----. _pseudonym_ [Rev. ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE].
St. Jonathan; the Lay of a Scald. _New York_, 1838.
Semi-anonymous, the dedication is signed.
A * * * * * (Major), _pseudo-titlonym_ [C. B. COLES.]
Short Whist, its Rise and Progress, by, &c., to which are prefixed
Precepts for Tyros, by Mrs. B * * * * * (Battle, _apocryph_), 1835,
18th edit., with an Essay ... by Professor P[ole]. _Longmans_, 1865.
The practical part of this book, consisting of about 25 pages, which
it was intended should be taken for the work of Major Aubrey, a
celebrated whist-player, is a _réchauffé_ of Matthews: one instance
will suffice:--
_Matthews, edit._ 1808. _Major A., edit._ 1865.
Be particularly cautious not to Be cautious not to deceive your
deceive him [your partner] in _his_ partner in _his_ or _your own
or _your own_ leads, or when he is leads_, or when he is likely to
likely to _have_ the lead--a con- have the lead; a concealed game
cealed game may now and then succeed sometimes succeeds in the suits
in the suits of your adversaries; of your adversaries, but this
but this should not be attempted should not be attempted before
before you have made a considerable having made considerable profic-
proficiency; and then but seldom, iency, and if too frequently
as its frequency would destroy resorted to, will destroy its own
the effect. p. 16. effect. p. 30.
In an edition published in Paris by Galignani, these two works,
Matthews and Major A. are put together.
Mrs. Battle’s opinions on Whist are also to be found in the Monthly
Magazine for Feb. 1821, signed “_Elia_.” (q.v.)
A and L, _semi-initialism_ [A. and L. SHORE].
War Lyrics, 1855.
A BARRISTER, _titlonym_ [Barron FIELD].
Hints to witnesses in a Court of Justice, 1815.
A very valuable and useful pamphlet, which we imagine might be
remuneratively reprinted.
A BARRISTER, _titlonym_ [Sir J. T. COLERIDGE].
Notes on the Reform Bill, 1831.
A BARRISTER, _titlonym_ [FREDERICK LAWRENCE].
Culverwell v. Sidebottom. _Effingham Wilson_, 1857.
This had a second edition in 1859, to which Lord Derby’s celebrated
letter to the Jockey Club was added. It was a most notorious trial.
A BARRISTER, _supposed-author_ [JAMES FITZ-JAMES STEPHEN, Q.C.].
Essays reprinted from the “Saturday Review,” 1862.
A BEEF EATER, _phraseonym_ [GEORGE VASEY, Wood-Engraver, author of a
Monograph of the Genus Bos].
Illustrations of Eating, displaying the Omnivorous Character of Man,
and exhibiting the Natives of various Countries at Feeding-time, with
woodcuts by the author. _J. R. Smith_, 1847.
A BIRD AT BROMSGROVE, _ironym_ [JOHN CRANE].
Rhymes after Meat, 1800. An Address to Bachelors, and The Apron
Farmer. _Birmingham_ [1802], 5th edition, 1816. The Bromesgrove
Constables, 1802.
A. B. M., _initialism_ [ARTHUR BACHE MATTHEWS].
The Riots at Birmingham, July, 1791 ... [edited with a preface by A.
B. M.], 1863.
A BRITISH SUBJECT, _geonym_ [Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD Bart.].
Three Letters to Lord Brougham, on the execution of Lount and
Matthews, 1838.
A. C. C., _initialism_ [COXE], and see A----. _pseud._
Saul, a Mystery, by the Author of Christian Ballads, &c. New York,
1845.
ACHETA, _phrenonym_ [Miss L. M. BUDGEN].
March Winds and April Showers, 1854.
ACHETA DOMESTICA, _phreno._ [Miss L. M. BUDGEN].
Episodes of Insect Life, by A. D., M.E.S., 1849 and ’51, a new
edition by the Rev. J. G. Wood, in 1867.
A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, _disguised-author_ [OLIVER GOLDSMITH].
The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher
residing in London, to his Friends in the East, 1762. First appeared
in “The Ledger.”
Frequently reprinted and generally with the author’s name on the
title-page, as if it had been published autonymously. All lovers of
books should condemn this increasing practice. If the name must be
given, it should be put in a note or preface, so that we may have the
title-page as the author bequeathed it.
A CHURCHMAN, _titlonym_ [Rev. EDWARD SMEDLEY, M.A., was the editor of
the Encyclopædia Metropolitana].
Religio Clerici, 1819; 2nd edition, 1821. Lux Renata; a Protestant’s
Epistle, by the author of Religio Clerici, 1827.
A CITIZEN, see J. D., _disg.-aut._
A CITIZEN OF THE WEST, _disguised-author_ [R. MACKAY].
Pocahontas, an historical drama; with an introductory Essay and
notes. By, &c. _New York_, 1837.
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, _demonym_ [M. MARGOLIOUTH].
The Anglo-Hebrews: their past wrongs and present grievances, etc.,
1856.
A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER, _demonym_ [E. F. LLOYD]; see also E. F. L.
Readings for the Sundays, etc., 1862.
A CLERGYMAN’S WIFE, _demonym_ [S. E. MAPLETON].
A Letter to my Class. Addressed to Young Women attending a Sunday
School. _Leeds_, 1859.
A COMPANION TRAVELLER, _phrenonym_ [Miss HARRIS, of Windsor].
From Oxford to Rome; and How it fared with some who lately made the
journey. 1st and 3rd editions, 1847.
The authoress subsequently became a Catholic, and publicly expressed
her deep regret for many of the unauthorised statements, or false
impressions concerning the Church of Rome in the above work.
_F. C. H. in N. & Q._
A CORNET IN THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY’S SERVICE, _titlonym_ [the
Eldest Son of T. J. PETTIGREW. He was a Lieutenant in the Madras
Light Cavalry, and died in 1837, at the early age of 24].
Lucien Greville. By a, etc., with Etchings by George Cruikshank.
_Saunders and Otley_, 1833, 3 vols.
“It gives the events of his short life, and it has served him for a
vehicle to give an account of Indian scenery and Indian manners and
customs.”
A CORONER’S CLERK, _ps._ [Rev. ERSKINE NEALE].
The Note-book of a, etc., reprinted from “Bentley’s Miscellany.”
A COUNTRY PARSON, _disguised-author_ [H. MOULE].
My Kitchen Garden, and half an acre of Pasture. ’60.
A COUNTRY PARSON, _disg.-aut._ [A. K. H. BOYD].
Autumn Holidays, 1864.
A COUNTRY PASTOR, _demonym_ [Archbishop WHATELY].
Lectures on Scripture Revelations, 1855. Prayer, 1860. And others.
A DELVER INTO ANTIQUITY, _phraseonym_ [WILLIAM BARCLAY DAVID DONALD
TURNBULL].
Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica. Edin., 1842.
Only 70 copies printed, one L.P., one on vellum.
A DETECTIVE, _phrenonym_ [ANDREW EDMUND BRAE, of Leeds, author of
Collier, Coleridge, and Shakespeare, A Review, etc.].
Literary Cookery, with reference to matter attributed [by J. P.
Collier] to Coleridge and Shakespeare. A letter addressed to “The
Athenæum” [by a Detective], with a P.S. containing some remarks upon
the refusal of that journal to print it. _J. R. Smith_, 1855.
As this publication gave great offence to many persons, it was
immediately withdrawn by its author, who was unknown for some time
after. No more than twenty-five copies got into circulation, some of
which fetched ten shillings.
On the 17th Jany., 1856, Sir F. Thesiger, on behalf of Mr. Collier,
moved for a rule against Mr. Russell Smith for publishing it; but
Lord Campbell said that Mr. Collier in an affidavit which he had
made, had cleared himself of the alleged “cooking” of dates in a most
satisfactory manner, and, with many just compliments to the veteran
bibliograph and bibliophile, refused the rule.
A. E. L., _initialism_ [LEE].
The Fruits of the Valley (Song of Solomon), 1855.
A FISHER IN SMALL STREAMS, _disguised-author_ [WILLIAM LINN BROWN, an
American].
Scribblings and Sketches, Diplomatic, Piscatory, and Oceanic. Phil.,
1844.
J. R. S.
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, _pseudonym_ [WILLIAM AYRTON].
The Adventures of a Salmon in the River Dee, etc. _Pickering_, 1853.
AGAPIDA (Antonio) Friar, _apocryph_ [WASHINGTON IRVING].
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. From the MSS. of, etc., 2
vols, 1829. Later editions.
A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS LEFT HIS LODGINGS, _pseudonym_ [JOHN EARL
RUSSELL].
Essays and Sketches of Life and Character. By, etc. _Longman_, 1820.
The preface is signed “Joseph Skillet,” the lodging-house keeper, who
is supposed to publish these letters to pay the rent the gentleman
had forgotten. This preface is left out in the 2nd edition, which is
dedicated to Thomas Moore.
A GENTLEMAN RESIDENT IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, who has made the Amusement
his Study for upwards of Twenty Years, _phraseonym_ [CHARLES SNART,
an Attorney of Newark].
Practical Observations on Angling in the River Trent, Newark, 1801.
Lond., 1812.
J. R. S.
A GAOL CHAPLAIN, _demonym_ [Rev. ERSKINE NEALE].
Recollections of a, etc. Reprinted from “Bentley’s Miscellany.”
A GLOWWORM, _pseud._ [JOHN LORAINE BALDWIN, editor of the Laws of
Short Whist as framed by the Whist Committee of the Arlington Club].
A Glimpse at Whist, published at the Glowworm Office, [1866] on a
card.
This is a plagiarism of the Pocket Guide to Whist by Cavendish.
_See the Field, 6 Oct., 1866._
A GRADUATE OF OXFORD, _tit._ [JOHN RUSKIN].
Modern Painters, their superiority in the Art of Landscape painting
proved by examples, &c. 1844.
Several editions. The author’s name occurs on the title-page of vol.
3, in the edition of 1846.
A GRANDFATHER, _demonym_ [SERGIUS ST. JOHN].
First Impressions, or Tales of, etc.
A HARROW TUTOR, _demonym_ [CECIL FREDERICK HOLMES].
A Vocabulary to Bland’s Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, 1863.
A HAÖLE, _geonym_ [A. LIHOLIHO].
Sandwich Island Notes, 1854.
A. H. G., _initialism_ [GRANT].
Contributions to “London Society,” chiefly poetical.
This gentleman is also author of a pseudonymous two volume work,
which we are not at present at liberty to give the title of.
A. J. K., _initialism_ [KEMP].
A few words to Tradesmen, 1842.
A JUSTIFIED SINNER, _apocryph_ [JAMES HOGG, the Ettrick Shepherd].
The Private Memoirs of ----, written by himself, with a detail of
curious traditionary facts, and other evidence, by the editor [J.
H.], 1824.
A HERTFORDSHIRE INCUMBENT, _geo-demonym_ [the Rev. Canon J. W.
BLAKESLEY, Vicar of Ware].
Contemporary Memoirs of Russia, 1727-44. By General Manstein, edited
by Hume, and re-edited by, etc. 1856.
Also author of numerous letters in _The Times_, under this signature
during the Crimean War.
A. K. H. B., _init._ [ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHINSON BOYD]. The Critical
Essays of a Country Parson, 1865.
A LADY _demonym_ [Mrs. RUNDELL].
A New System of Domestic Cookery. Several editions, from 1808 to 1859.
The most popular work of its kind ever printed.
A LADY, _demonym_ [Mrs. ANNA JAMESON].
The Diary of an Ennuyée, 1826. Several editions since.
Accident caused this work to be published, and we may also say that
accident made the authoress. A gentleman who knew her and her husband
well, was looking over some of her papers, and found this Diary;
he was so pleased with it that he offered to publish it, which he
did; but about that time (1825) abandoning the bookselling for the
Bar, where he afterwards took rank, he transferred the work to Mr.
Colburn, who put a fresh title-page, altering it from A Lady’s Diary
to that which it at present bears. The running title of the 1st
edition is A Lady’s Diary. It was pretended that it was published
“exactly as it was found on the death of the author.”
“The chief portion of Mrs. Jameson’s volumes [Visits and Sketches
at Home and Abroad, 1833] is, however, only a reprint of the
Diary of, etc.--a delightful book, with an affected title, which
has, it is hard to say why, only attained the honours of a second
edition, in this almost surreptitious and certainly not very
flattering re-appearance.”--_Edinb. Review_, 1835.
A LADY, _demonym_ [Miss GUNN, of Christchurch].
Conversations on Church Polity. _Westley_, 1833.
_See N. & Q._ 3rd S. x. 38.
A LADY, _demonym_ [Mrs. PALMER, a Sister of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS].
A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, 1837.
J. R. Smith. Bib. List. Dialects.
A LADY, _demonym_ [Miss SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER, daughter of the
celebrated American novelist, has added to the family laurels, and
thereby proved that no salique law exists in the Republic of Letters.
_Allibone._]
Rural Hours, 4 edit. New York, 1854.
A LADY, _demonym_ [JULIA WARD, afterwards HOWE].
Passion Flowers, Poems. Boston, 1854.
A LADY, _demonym_ [Miss E. M. SEWELL].
Amy Herbert, by a Lady, edited by Rev. W. Sewell. _Longman_, 1865.
Perhaps the ladies will take compassion on a poor bibliophile, when
we state that he has upwards of fifty works in his list, whose
authors are unknown, all “By a Lady.”
A LADY OF NEW YORK, _phreno-dem._ [Mrs. S. HAIGHT].
Letters from the Old World. _New York_, 1840.
ALASTOR, _pseud._ [JAMES ORTON].
“Excelsior,” or the Realms of Poesie, 2 edition. _Pickering_, 1852;
Poems, 1857; Caleb Redivivus, 1858.
A LATE LEARNED AND REVEREND DIVINE, _phraseonym_ [SAMUEL PEGGE,
LL.D.].
Anonymiana, or Ten Centuries of Observations on various subjects,
Compiled by ----. 1809.
A LATE NOBLE WRITER, _impostor_ [RT. HONBLE. EDMUND BURKE, _q.v._].
It was intended that the above should be supposed to be Henry St.
John Viscount Bolingbroke.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [JAMES ALLAN PARK, a King’s Counsel, and Bencher
of Lincoln’s Inn].
An earnest exhortation to a frequent Reception of the Holy Sacrament
of the Lord’s Supper, 1804.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [Sir JOHN BAYLEY, Bart.].
Prophecies of Christ, etc., selected from the Old and New Testament,
1828.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [Sir WALTER SCOTT].
Religious Discourses, 1828.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, BARON HOUGHTON].
One Tract more, etc., 1841.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [FREDERICK JOHN, Fifth BARON MONSON].
Four Sermons. Lond., 1842. Priv. Print., _see Martin_.
A LAYMAN, _dem._ [F. BOLINGBROKE RIBBANS, F.S.A.].
Doctrines and Duties; Faith and Practice. _Whittaker_, 1843.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [Sir W. DOMVILLE, Bart.].
The Sabbath, etc., 1849.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [Sir EDWARD HALL ALDERSON].
A second letter [in reference to the Gorham Case]. (Privately
printed), 1851.
A LAYMAN, _demonym_ [SAMUEL AUSTIN ALLIBONE, Author of a Critical
Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors,
1859, a work to which we are much indebted].
A review by a Layman of a work entitled “New Themes for the
Protestant Clergy: Creeds without Charity, Theology without Humanity,
and Protestantism without Christianity” (by S. Colwell). Phil., 1852.
ALETHINOS, _phrenonym_ [Rev. HARDINGE FURENZO IVERS].
The Audibleness of Thought demonstrated, and its use explained. 2nd
edit., 1866.
The author of this most extraordinary pamphlet contends that the
organs of speech are called into action when we think, that thought
speaks in the head, otherwise there is no thought; and he also
contends that this inaudible thought is capable of being audible to
others.
ALICE (Cousin), _prenonym_ [ALICE B. NEALE].
Helen Morton’s Trial, juvenile tale. New York, 1852.
A LINCOLNSHIRE GRAZIER, _pseudo-titlonym_ [Rev. THOMAS HARTWELL
HORNE].
The circumstances under which this pseudonym was employed, if they
were not rather distressing, would be highly amusing. The reverend
gentleman, who afterwards raised his name to such a high position
in literature, was in 1805 in great distress, and glad to work for
the booksellers. Having obtained an introduction to Crosby, the
publisher, upon the hard condition that he would give half his
earnings to his introducer, Horne was offered £50 for a work of 400
pages (!) on the Management of Grazing Farms, to be called “The
Complete Grazier.” The bargain was struck, and in nine months our
barrister’s clerk reduced the mass of materials set before him by the
publisher, and they were ushered into the world as by “A Lincolnshire
Grazier,” and the book was _pushed through_ several editions. The
poor booksellers’s hack was in want, but what excuse is there for
Crosby, the then opulent publisher, of Paternoster Row, for his share
of this imposition?
A LITERARY ANTIQUARY, _phreno-demonym_ [F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.,
author of Costume in England].
Holbein’s Dance of Death, edited by, etc. _J. R. Smith_.
A. L. O. E., _enigmatic-initialism_ (A Lady of England) [Miss
CHARLOTTE TUCKER].
This Aloe is not at all in keeping with her cognomen, for she has
produced upwards of fifty pieces, or volumes, since 1854, under the
above initials, and we commend them to the reader as of exceeding
beauty.
A LONDON ANTIQUARY, _pseud._ [JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN].
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, etc. 1859 and
1860.
The third and subsequent editions are anonymous.
A LONDON PHYSICIAN, _supposed-author_ [JAMES HOWARD].
The Evils of England, Social and Economical. _Parker_, 1848, 12mo.
A LOVER OF LITERATURE, _phraseonym_ [THOMAS GREEN, Barrister-at-Law,
of Ipswich].
In this “Diary of a Lover of Literature,” on June 2nd, 1797, we
have:--“Visited the Royal Exhibition. Particularly struck with a
sea-view by Turner; fishing vessels coming in, with a heavy swell,
in apprehension of a tempest gathering in the distance.... The whole
composition bold in design, and masterly in execution. I am entirely
unacquainted with the artist; but if he proceeds as he has begun, he
cannot fail to become the first in his department.” J. M. W. Turner
was then twenty-five. The continuation was contributed by Mr. Green’s
son to the _Gent. Mag._, 1834.
_W. Bates, N. & Q._
ALVAREZ ESPRIELLA (Manuel) _Spanish-pseudonym_ [ROBERT SOUTHEY, Poet
Laureate].
Letters from England, translated from the Spanish, in 3 vols., 1807.
Written by Southey: not translated.
A. M., _pseudonym_ [THADDEUS O’MAHONY].
Questions on Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding, by A. M.,
1860.
He also signs himself T. O’M.
A MANCHESTER MAN, _titlonym_ [Rev. J. LAMB].
Free Thoughts of a, 2 vols, 1866, from “Fraser’s Magazine.”
A MANCHESTER MANUFACTURER, _geo-demonym_ [RICHARD COBDEN].
England, Ireland, and America. 1836. Russia. Edinburgh, 1836.
A MAN OF BUSINESS, _pseudonym_ [T. DICKER, of Lewes].
The Christian Life exemplified in the Memorials and Remains of, etc.
_Hatchard_, 1852. Privately printed. Has a portrait of the author
signed.
A MAN OF BUSINESS, _phren._ [WILLIAM RATHBONE].
Social Duties considered with reference to the Organisation of Effort
in Works of Benevolence and Public Utility. _Macmillan_, 1867.
AMELIA, _ps._ [Mrs. WELBY, of Louisville, Kentucky].
Poems. New York, 1842.
A MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, _phraseonym_ [Sir JOHN BAYLEY,
Bart.].
The Book of Common Prayer, with Notes. 1813. A second edit., with the
author’s name, was published in ’16; the notes are very useful. “The
author withheld his name, not from any wish improperly to conceal it,
but because it was no part of his object to draw himself into notice.”
A MEMBER OF THE VERMONT BAR, _disguised-author_ [DANIEL P. THOMPSON].
The Adventures of Timothy Peacock, Esq., or Freemasonry Practically
Illustrated, etc. Middlebury, U. S., 1835.
AMICUS CURIÆ, _phraseonym_ [JOHN PAYNE COLLIER].
Criticisms on the Bar, 1819 (first published in the Examiner).
A MIDDLE AGED CITIZEN, _phras._ [R. RUSSELL].
London Railways. 1867.
A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER, _phrenonym_ [Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY].
Hints to Stammerers, reprinted from Fraser’s Mag., July, 1859.
London, 1864. Subscribed C. K.
The Irrationale of Speech. Another copy of the above with a new
title-page.
A MODERN GREEK, _phreno-geonym_ [ROBERT MUDIE, of Dundee].
The Modern Athens: a dissection and demonstration of Men and Things
in the Scotch capital. 2nd edit., _Knight and Lacy_, 1825.
A MOTHER, _demonym_ [SARAH BIRD].
Amy’s First Trial. 1854.
On the cover _only_ the author’s name is given. It is a little Book
for Children.
AN AMATEUR, _pseudonym_ [PIERCE EGAN the Younger].
Real Life in London, or the Rambles and Adventures of Rob Tallyho,
Esq., and his Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis
... with coloured prints. 1821, 1822.
AN AMATEUR, _demonym_ [C. K. SHARPE].
Portraits by an Amateur, etc. Edin., 1832.
Not published for sale.
AN AMATEUR, _demonym_ [W. COX].
Crayon Sketches, by, etc., edited by T. S. Fray. New York, 1833.
AN AMERICAN, _geonym_ [JAMES E. DE KAY].
Sketches of Turkey. New York, 1833.
AN AMERICAN, _geonym_ [J. FENIMORE COOPER].
Sketches of Switzerland. Philadelphia, 1836. 2 vols.
Gleanings in Europe: England, 1837.
AN AMERICAN, _geo._ [General L. CASS, LL.D.].
France, its King, Court, and Government. New York, 1840.
AN AMERICAN, _geo._ [GEO. HENRY CALVERT].
Scenes and Thoughts in Europe. 1847.
We have numerous titles of other works written by Americans, whose
real names we do not know.
AN ANGLER, _phrenonym_ [Sir HUMPHRY DAVY].
Salmonia; or Days of Fly-fishing. 1828.
AN ANTIQUARY, _demonym_ [Col. DE LA MOTTE?]
The principal historical and allusive Arms borne by Families of the
United Kingdom, collected by, etc. 1803.
AN ANTIQUARY, _demonym_ [RICHARD THOMSON, Librarian of the London
Institution].
Chronicles of London Bridge. 1827 and 1839.
AN ANTIQUARY, _demonym_ [ALEXANDER MAXWELL ADAMS].
The Crawfurd Peerage. Edinb., 1829. Printed for the Author.
A NATIVE OF CRAVEN, _phreno-geonym_ [Rev. WILLIAM CARR, B.D., of
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire].
... The Craven Dialect exemplified, etc. 1824 and 1828.
A NATIVE OF THE SOUTH, _phras._ [Dr. COOPER].
Memoirs of a Nullifier, written by himself. [A political fiction].
Columbia, 1832.
AN ATTORNEY, _titlonym_ [Sir G. STEPHEN].
See Emptor (C.) _ps._
AN EAST ANGLIAN, _geonym_ [CHARLES FEIST].
Thoughts in Rhyme. 1825.
R. Inglis, _N. & Q._
AN ENGLISHMAN, _geonym_ [J. C. HOBHOUSE, Lord Broughton].
The substance of some letters, written by, etc., resident at Paris
during the last reign of the Emperor Napoleon. 1816.
AN ENGLISHMAN, _pseudo-geonym_ [JOHN GOUGH, Bookseller of Dublin].
A Tour in Ireland, in 1813 and 14, etc. Dublin, 1817.
AN ENGLISHMAN, _geonym_ [Lord HOLLAND].
Letter [on Constitutional Government] to a Neapolitan [the Duke di
Gallo], from, &c. 1815 and 1818.
AN ENGLISHMAN, _supposed-author_ [J. DALLINGER].
The General Use of Machinery at a time when the poor are starving
for want of employment, proved to be destructive to the Morals and
Happiness of the Nation. Dallinghoo. 1821. Signed “An Englishman.”
AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER, _phreno-geonym_ [THOMAS DE QUINCY].
Confessions of an, etc. 1845.
This work seems to have been translated into French in 1828, by A. D.
M. Charles Joliet in his Pseudonymes du Jour, 1867 (Pseudonymes _des
Journaux_ would have been a more correct title), says that it is not
all translation, as “Alfred de Musset” inserted some autobiography.
AN ENGLISHWOMAN, _geonym_ [Miss WALDIE].
Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, 1815, and of a Visit to the
Field of Waterloo, 1817.
ANGLICANUS, _geonym_ [R. S. ELLIS].
The Traveller’s Handbook to Copenhagen and its Environs, etc.
Copenhagen, 1853.
AN ILL-USED CANDIDATE, _sup.-aut._ [J. C. CALEY].
Indignant Rhymes, etc. 1859.
AN INHABITANT, _disguised-author_ [HENRY POWNALL].
Some Particulars relating to the History of Epsom ... Mineral waters,
Palaces, etc. Epsom, 1825.
AN INVALID, _phren._ [Hon. ROBERT FULKE GREVILLE].
Outlines selected from the blotting book of, etc. 1825. Only 50
copies privately printed.
AN INVALID, _phrenonym_ [Miss HARRIET MARTINEAU].
Life in the Sick-room, essays. 1844.
AN IRISH LADY, _geonym_ [Mrs. S. D. GREER].
Vindication of Friends (by one not a member), from Slanders contained
in a book just published entitled “Quakerism, or the story of my
Life.” (By Mrs. J. K. Greer). Phil., 1852.
AN IRISHWOMAN, _geonym_ [Miss ANNA PERRIER].
The Irishman. _S. O. Beeton_, 1866.
Republished from “The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine,” in which it
appeared as, The Irishman in Reality and Romance. This fact is not
stated in the reprint.
In a review of “a Walking Tour Round Ireland by an Englishman” in
The Times for the 9th Oct., 1867, the above work was mentioned
as an authority for some points. The following day the authoress
wrote complaining that the passages from her work ought to have
been in inverted commas! The editor justly remarked that she
seemed “the most unreasonable woman in the world.”
ANN, _prenonym_ [Mrs. _Ann Thomas_].
The Dovecot. From the Journal of Prätzel. In Cobbett’s Mag., Feb.
1834.
AN OCTOGENARIAN, _disguised-author_ [JAMES ROCHE, a learned and
copious contributor to the Gentleman’s Mag. In “The Prout Papers” he
is called the Roscoe of Cork].
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Cork, 1850.
Only 100 copies privately printed. See Martin C. of P. P. B.
AN OLD ANGLER AND BIBLIOPOLIST, _phreno-demonym_ [THOS. BOOSEY].
Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings. 1835.
AN OLD MAID, _phraseonym_ [Miss PHILLIPS].
My Life and what shall I do with it? A question for young
gentlewomen. 1860.
AN OLD MAN, _dem._ [Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD, Bart.].
Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau. 6th edit. 1841.
“The Earth hath bubbles as the water hath,
And these are of them.”
AN OPERA GOER, _phraseonym_, [D. G. MITCHELL].
The Lorgnette; or, Studies of the Town. New York, 1832. “Set off with
Mr. Darley’s designs.”
The Opera Goer, or Studies of the Town, by ---- (with a preface
signed John Timon, _pseud._) [D. G. M.]. 2nd edition. New York, 1850.
By the way “an English play-goer” now (Oct. 1867) writing from
America, is the dramatic critic of “The Times,” (where the letters
appear,) Mr. John Oxenford.
A NORTH COUNTRY ANGLER, _phreno-geonym_ [THOMAS DOUBLEDAY].
Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs, now first collected and edited by, etc.
Edinb., _Blackwood_, 1852.
ANTHONY (Grey) _pseudonym_ [HENRY CARL SCHILLER].
Christmas at the Grange. _Graham_, 1845, 2 vols.
The Illustrations are by the author.
We may also notice from the pen of this gentleman, the libretto
of “Bride of Kynast, a Grand Romantic Opera in three acts. Lond.,
printed by J. Miles & Co., 1864.” Only a few copies were printed at
the expense of the late Alfred Mellon, who intended to compose the
Music to it. He abandoned it because the author would not part with
his copyright for less than fifty pounds above the one hundred Mellon
offered him. It is one of the best librettos we have read.
A PASTOR’S WIFE, _titlonym_ [Mrs. MARTHA STONE HUBBELL].
The Shady Side; or, Life in a Country Parsonage. Boston (America) and
Lond., 1853.
40,000 copies were sold within a year of its publication.
A PHILADELPHIAN, _geonym_ [W. WILLIAMS, author of Travellers thro’
New England].
A Handbook for the Stranger in Philadelphia. Phil., 1849.
A PHYSICIAN, _titlonym_ [Dr. J. AYRTON PARIS].
A Guide to the Mount’s Bay, and the Land’s End. 2nd edition. 1824.
A PHYSICIAN, _titlonym_ [S. DICKSON?]
London Medical Practice, its Sins and Shortcomings. 1860.
A PHYSICIAN, _titlonym_ [J. HOSKYNS].
A Commentary on “The Revelation of Jesus Christ....” 2nd edition.
Dublin, 1863.
A POET, _dem._ [JAMES MONTGOMERY, of Sheffield].
Prose by a Poet. 2 vols, 1824.
A POET, _pseudonym_ [L. OSBORN].
Confessions of a Poet (a Novel). 2 vols, Phil., 1835.
APTOMMAS (Mr.), _scenonym_ [Mr. THOMAS, the well known harpist. This
gentleman _Welshified_ his name, probably for the sake of euphony].
A History of the Harp, published by the Author in numbers, at the
Conservatorie de la Harpe, New York. 1864.
ARACHNOPHILUS, _phrenonym_ [ADAM WHITE, of the British Museum].
A contribution towards an argument for the Plenary Inspiration of
Scripture ... as proved by ... Egyptian and Assyrian remains, etc.
1851.
ARISTIDES, _pseudonym_ [FRANCIS WILLIAM BLAGDON].
A pamphlet reflecting on the naval administration of Earl St.
Vincent, which was suppressed, and the author imprisoned for six
months. 1805.
ARNET (John Andrews), _pseudonym_ [JOHN HANNETT].
Bibliopegia, or the Art of Bookbinding in all its Branches. 1835 and
1837.
Afterwards published under his real name.
A ROMAN CATHOLIC, _demonym_ [H. F. IVERS].
Important Questions affecting the existence of the Roman Catholic
Church in England, etc. 1854.
A. S., _initialism_ [ANNA SWANWICK?]
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by A. S., 1851.
A. S., _initialism_ [ANNA SHIPTON].
The Child Minister. By the author of Tell Jesus. 1866.
A SAILOR, _pseudonym_ [Rev. JOSHUA LARWOOD, Rector of Swanton Morley,
Norfolk].
Erratics by, etc., containing Rambles in Norfolk and elsewhere. 1809.
J. R. S.
A SOUTHERNER, _geonym_ [SEYMOUR R. DUKE].
Osceola, or Fact and Fiction. A tale of the Seminole War. New York,
1838.
A STUDENT AT LAW, _dem._ [FREDK. KNIGHT HUNT].
The Fourth Estate; or, the Moral effects of the Press. _Ridgway_,
1839.
A. T., _initialism_ [Mrs. ANN THOMAS].
Clavigo: a tragedy, from the German of Goethe, in the Monthly Mag.
for Sept. and Oct., 1834.
The Steam Excursion by “Boz” is in the number for October.
A TRAVELLER, _phrenonym_ [HENRY SALT].
Egypt, a descriptive Poem. Alexandria, 1824.
Only 50 copies printed. It is the first English work carried
through, in Alexandria; and the compositor was entirely ignorant of
the language in which it is written.
See Martin, Cat.
A TRAVELLER, _phrenonym_ [JOHN BANIM].
Contributions particularly on “Theatrical Topics” in the Limerick
Evening Post.
A TRAVELLER, _phren._ [Mrs. A. ROYALL].
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States. New
Haven, 1826.
A TRAVELLING BACHELOR, _phrenonym_ [JAMES FENIMORE COOPER].
Notions of the Americans, picked up by, etc. Phil., 1838.
We lately saw a very nice copy of these two volumes at a book-stall,
marked at a price which unmistakably betrayed ignorance of their
authorship.
A TRINITY MAN, _disguised-author_ [J. M. WRIGHT, Mathematician].
Alma Mater, or Seven Years at Cambridge University. _Black_, 2 vols,
8vo.
This is believed to have been suppressed.
A VIRGINIAN, _geonym_ [WILLIAM CARRUTHERS].
The Kentuckian in New York, or the adventures of three Southerners.
New York, 1834.
_See Allibone._
A VIRGINIAN, _geonym_ [R. TYLER].
Ahasuerus, a poem. New York, 1842.
A VOYAGER, _phrenonym_ [G. HILL].
The Ruins of Athens, with other poems. Washington, 1831.
A WALKING GENTLEMAN, _phraseonym_ [THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN, the Irish
Novelist].
High-ways and Bye-ways; or Tales of the Road-side, picked up in the
French Provinces by ----. 1825.
A WONDERFUL QUIZ, _ironym_ [J. R. LOWELL].
Reader! Walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a
perfectly ruinous rate, a fable for critics.... By ----. New York,
1st and 2nd edition, 1848. (In verse).
A YANKEE, _geonym_ [J. H. INGRAHAM].
The South West [Travels]. New York. 1835.
A YOUNG AMERICAN, _phreno-geonym_ [ALEXANDER SLIDELL, afterwards
SLIDELL MACKENZIE, Admiral U. S. Navy].
A Year in Spain, 1836. Spain revisited, 1836.
B.
B. _pseud._ [Rt. Hon. GEO. CANNING].
He signed “B” articles in _The Microcosm_, a Journal entirely edited
by Etonians.
_Biog. Dic. of Liv. Aut._, 1816.
B. _initialism_ [Mr. BLACK]. See, also Q.
Readings by Starlight in the “Evening Star,” signed B.
B----. (Lord) _disguised-author_ [F. R. CHICHESTER, Earl of BELFAST].
Masters and Workmen, a tale. _T. C. Newby_, 1851.
B * * * * (Lieut.-Col.) _disguised-author_ [HENRY CHARLES BUNBURY].
The Whist-Player. Laws, and Practice of Short Whist. _Addey & Co._,
1857. 2nd edition. _Chapman & H._, 1858.
B * * * * * (Colonel) _disg.-aut._ [ ].
A Handbook to the Game of Billiards, addressed to the notice of the
Proficient, with the Laws, etc., and 44 diagrams. _T. & W. Boone_,
1841. 12mo, pp. 72. Dedicated to H. R. H. Prince Albert.
B * * * * * * * (Lord) _disguised-author_ [F. R. CHICHESTER, Earl of
BELFAST].
The Farce of Life, a novel. _T. C. Newby_, 1852. Wealth and Labour,
a novel, 1853. The County Magistrate.--Naples; Political, Social, and
Religious. ’56. The Fate of Folly, 1859.
BADHAM (Rev. C.)
This gentleman figures in our list for _plagiarism_, committed in his
“History of All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk,” of which he is convicted
by W. Hastings Kelke, author of _Sepulchral Monuments_, from which
work he plagiarises--they will be found at pp. 4, 41, of the latter
and pp. 44, 60, of the former.
_N. & Q, 1st S. vi. 504_
BALDWIN (Rev. Edward) _pseudo-titlonym_ [WILLIAM GODWIN, bookseller,
publisher, novelist: author of “Caleb Williams,” and others].
The Pantheon ... Gods of Greece, 1806. A new and improved Grammar by
W. Hazlitt, to which is added a Guide, etc., by E. B., 1810. Fables,
Ancient and Modern, 9th edit., 1821. The History of England, 1827.
History of Greece, 2nd edit., 1828 and 1862. History of Rome, 6th
edit., 1835 and 1862.
Several of these works have been reprinted in America, and most of
them have had editions up to the present time.
BANTRY (Ign. L.) see: The Catholic Bishop of.
BARBER (George) _abbreviation_, see BEAUMONT, George.
BARCLAY (J. T.) M.D., Missionary to Jerusalem.
The City of the Great King; or, Jerusalem as it was, as it is, and as
it is to be. Philadelphia and London, 1859.
Dr. Barclay has been accused of piracy, plagiarism, and theft from
Bartlett’s Jerusalem Revisited. The correspondence, which we shall
simply point out in this instance, will be found in the Athenæum for
1859.
BARROW (Rev. S.) _pseudo-titlonym_ [Sir R. PHILLIPS].
Another pseudonym which this gallant knight fabricated to give more
credit to the following than he probably thought his own name would
obtain. The Poor Child’s Library. Questions on the New Testament.
Sermons for Schools, 1812.
BEAUMONT (George) _abbreviation_ [GEORGE DUCKETT BARBER BEAUMONT].
This gentleman has written several works, chiefly legal, in some he
calls himself as above, in others George Barber.
BEDE (Adam) _pseud._ [ ].
The Natural History of Puseyism, with a short account of the Sunday
Opera at St. Paul’s, Brighton. Brighton [1860].
BEDE (Augustin) _pseud._ [ ].
Letters ... on ... the Book of Common Prayer. Baltimore, 1859.
BEDE (Cuthbert) _pseud._ [Rev. EDWARD BRADLEY].
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, 1857.
This gentleman is the author of a great number of works under this
pseudonym, and a constant _letterist_ in “Notes and Queries.”
BEDE (Seth) _pseud._ [SAMUEL EVANS].
Seth Bede, “the Methody,” his life and labours; chiefly written by
himself. Lond. Ryde [_printed_] 1859.
BEE (Hookanit) Esq. _pseud._ [S. R. WIGRAM].
Flotsam and Jetsam: a cargo of Christmas Rhyme. _Saunders & Otley_,
1853.
BEE (Jon) _pseud._ [JOHN BADCOCK].
Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the pit of
bon-ton, and the varieties of Life, forming the completest Lexicon
Balatronicum of the Sporting World. Interspersed with Anecdotes and
Whimsies. 1823.
A living picture of London for 1828.
BELL (Acton) _pseud._ [ANNE BRONTË].
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 2 edit., 1848.
BELL (Currer) (Ellis) and (Acton) _polynym_ [CHARLOTTE, EMILY JANE,
and ANNE BRONTË].
Poems by C. E. and A. Bell, 1846.
The “Athenæum” thought these were by three brothers. They were always
in fact taken for men, and in letters used the masculine gender.
Charlotte Brontë gives the following account of the assumption of
these pseudonyms:
“Averse to publicity, we veiled our own names under those of
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being
dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple of assuming Christian
names positively masculine, while we did not declare ourselves
women, because--without at the time suspecting that our mode of
writing and thinking was not what is called ‘feminine,’--we had a
vague impression that authoreses are liable to be looked on with
prejudice.”--_Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Brontë_, 1858, p. 240.
Having written a letter in the masculine gender to Miss Martineau,
the latter, in her reply, began “Dear Madam,” but addressed it to
“Currer Bell, Esq.”
BELL (Currer) _pseud._ [CHARLOTTE BRONTË, afterwards NICHOLLS].
Jane Eyre, an Autobiography, 1847.
The Professor, a tale [edited by A. B. Nicholls], 2 vols., 1857.
Shirley, a tale, 1849. Villette, 1853.
BELL (Ellis and Acton) _polynym_ [EMILY JANE and ANNE BRONTË].
Wuthering Heights [by E. B.] and Agnes Grey, [by A. B.], 1847.
BENENGELI (Cid Hamet) _oriental-pseud._ [THOMAS BABINGTON Lord
MACAULAY].
A squib printed at Leicester in 1826, entitled “Fragment of an
Ancient Romance.”
Reprinted in Lowndes by Bohn, 1861.
BENSON (Carl) _pseud._ [CHARLES ASTOR BRISTED, grandson of the
founder of the Astor Library].
BENSON (Edgeworth) _pseud._ [JOHN SCOTT, author of a Visit to Paris,
etc.].
Articles in the London Magazine, of which he was editor.
John Scott’s career was cut short at the age of 37. In a literary
quarrel Mr. Scott considered himself injured or insulted, and
challenged Mr. Christie. They fought by moon-light at Chalk
Farm, and Scott was shot dead! The survivors were tried for
murder, but acquitted. See _Gent. Mag._, 1821. An apology, in the
virulent language of the time, for Mr. Christie will be found in
Blackwood’s Magazine, xix.
BIGLOW (Hosea) _apocryph_ [JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL].
Melibœus-Hipponax, The Biglow Papers, edited with an Introduction,
notes, glossary and copious index, by H. Wilbur. Camb, U.S., 1848,
and Lond. [1st and 2nd series, 1865].
BIGLY (Cantell A.) _enigmatic-pseudonym_ Can tell a Big Lye. [ ].
Aurifodina, or Adventures in the Gold Region. New York, 1849.
BILLINGS (Josh.) _pseud._ [A. W. SHAW].
His Book of Sayings. 1866.
BLACKMANTLE (Bernard) _phren._ [CHARLES MOLLOY WESTMACOTT].
The English Spy, an original work, characteristic, satirical, and
humorous. 1826, 2 vols, and continued by the same editor under the
title of “The St. James’s Royal Magazine.”
BLAIR (Rev. David) _pseudo-titlonym_ [Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS, author
of, amongst numerous very useful and valuable works, “A Million of
Facts”].
The Class-Rook.--English Grammar.--Models of Juvenile
Letters.--Reading Exercises.--Grammar of Natural and Experimental
Philosophy.--The Universal Preceptor, 1816--Mother’s Question
Book.--Reading Exercises.--School Dictionary.--Tutor’s Key to
Questions.--Editions to the present time.
BLUEBELL, [Lady HESTER G. BROWNE], KINGCUPS [Misses KNATCHBULL], and
MIGNIONETTE [Miss HUME MIDDLEMASS], _polynym_.
The Bouquet culled from Marylebone Gardens by ----, and arranged by
Thistle [_pseud._] [1851-55]. Printed for private circulation.
BOGUE (David) Publisher.
In 1846, Henry G. Bohn, the well known publisher, obtained an
injunction against Bogue for _pirating_ part of a work published
by him entitled, “Illustrations of the Life of Lorenzo de Medici
by William Roscoe.” It appeared that William Hazlitt had “gutted”
this work, rejecting what he had not quoted as worthless. Bogue
was therefore restrained from publishing his work in “The
European Library,” entitled “A Life of Lorenzo de Medici.”
The case is one of great interest, and will be found in “The
Jurist,”--vol. x.
BOSSUT (M. l’Abbé) Professor of Languages _pseudo-titlonym_ [Sir
RICHARD PHILLIPS].
The first French Grammar.--A Key to French Conversation and
Idiom.--The French Syntax, 1807.--3,000 Words.--2,000 Phrases.--Easy
Exercises.
Another pseudonym we have to record against Sir Richard. He did it in
a good cause--that of education--so perhaps it is not right to blame
him as if he had used them in a less worthy cause.
“Bossut’s Philological Works.”
“Early in the present century the Abbé Bossut developed that
simple natural system of acquiring languages, which, with slight
variations, has been seized on by Hamilton and others. It is
exactly described in the Preface to his little French Grammar
printed in 1805, and is the system by which every language is
acquired in the nursery, etc., etc.”
It was no doubt his intention that the Abbé Ch. Bossut, the
celebrated Mathematician, who died in 1814, at Paris, should be
taken for the above.
BOZ, _pseud._ [CHARLES DICKENS].
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of Every-day Life. 1836. 1837. Memoirs
of Grimaldi. 1838. Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, in German,
1838-40. Frequently republished.
BROWN (Thomas) the Younger, _ps._ [THOMAS MOORE].
Intercepted Letters, or the Two-penny Post Bag. 8th edit., 1813. The
Fudge Family in Paris. 8th edit., 1818. The Fudges in England, 1835.
The latter was reviewed in The Edinburgh, 1836.
BRYANT (William Cullen).
A literary hoax was played off in the name of this celebrated
American poet by the editor of the _Buffalo Republic_ in order,
as he alleged, to establish what we believe to have been fully
established long since, viz., that no matter how atrocious an
effusion might be, the name of a known poet appended to it, would
render it true poetry in the eyes of a large majority of poetry
readers. Having succeeded in deluding his readers, who, no doubt
felt delighted with the amusing trick, it afterwards came out
that the trashy verses were the editor’s own.--_Notes & Queries_,
2 s., vii.
BUNTLINE (Ned) _pseud._ [EDWARD Z. C. JUDSON].
The King of the Sea, 1848. The G’hals of New York, 1850. Grassbeak
Mansion, a Mystery of New York, 1864. Life in the Saddle, New York,
1866. And others.
BURKE (Edmund) _imitator_ [Rt. Hon. EDMUND BURKE].
A Vindication of Natural Society.... In a letter to Lord * * * * by a
Late Noble Writer [_impostor_], 1756.
In this Burke imitated the style of “A late Noble Writer” so
closely, that Mallett, his executor, went to Dodsley’s, the
publisher’s shop, when full, and publicly disavowed it. Burke had
also written in 1749, some pieces in imitation and ridicule of
Dr. Charles Lucas. The “imitation” was so complete as to deceive
the public.--_Life by Peter Burke._
Burke’s “imitation,” as it is mildly termed, of Lord Bolingbroke was
a cheat and fraud on the public, and is so highly to be condemned,
that any writer of the present day who attempted a deceit of this
kind, would deserve the utmost censure.
BURNS (Robert), Poet.
Many readers will doubtless wonder why this name figures in our
list. It is not a pseudonym! and surely Nature’s Poet could not
have been a plagiarist, or impostor! No. Burns was no impostor,
but he was himself deceived by an imposture, and as is generally
the case, for the sake of gain. We have it on the very excellent
authority of Mr. William Chappell, that the result of the
deception practised upon Burns and the Scottish public is, that
whereas Burns intended to write only to Scotch tunes, literally
one half of his songs, were written, and are still published to
_English_ or Irish airs--principally to English.
See Notes and Queries.
C.
C., _init._ [ARTHUR CLEAVELAND COXE].
Christian Ballads. New York, 1840.
C., _initialism_ [Rt. Hon. JOHN WILSON CROKER].
Notes in “Notes and Queries,” see 2nd s., viii. 52, 1859.
C * * * * * * (Hugh) _disg.-aut._ [HUGH CAREW].
Life of Sir R. Carew. 1811.
CŒLEBS (of the Portland Club) _demonym_ [CARLYON].
The Law and Practise of Whist. _Hardwicke_, 1851. Several editions.
CAM, _pseud._ [WALLER LEWIS, M.D.].
Whist: what to Lead. 3rd edit. _Longman_, 1866.
C. A. M. W. _initialism_ [CHARLES WOOLEY].
Uncle Clive, a tale, 1865. My Sister Dagmar, 1867.
CARLTON (George) Admiral, _pseudonym_ [GEORGE IV., King of Great
Britain and Ireland].
The Voyage of ---- in search of Loyalty, a poetic Epistle. 2nd
edition, 1820.
CASTEL CHIUSO (Giorgione di) _ps._ [PETER BAYLEY].
Sketches from St. George’s Fields. 1st Series. _Stodart_, 1820. 2nd
S., 1821. Illustrations. Ded. of 2nd S. signed: An Unknown Author.
CAVENDISH _pseud._ [ ]
To all who smoke: a few words in defence of Tobacco. 1857.
CAVENDISH, _ps._ [HENRY JONES, M.R.C.S.].
The Laws and Principles of Whist. Eighth edition. De La Rue & Co.,
1864. This work has been pirated by D. Appleton & Co., of New York.
The Pocket Series of Whist, and several others.
In London Society, 1865 and 1866. Chamber’s Encyclopædia, Art.:
Whist. And numerous Articles in the Field, commencing Dec., 1862,
under other pseudonyms.
CAXTON (Pisistratus) _pseud._ [EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER
LYTTON, Baron LYTTON].
My Novel, 1853. What will he do with It? 1859.
Caxtoniania; a series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners, 2
vols., 1863. The Boatman, a poem. 1864.
Lord Lytton frequently publishes in Blackwood’s Magazine first.
CAXTON (Tim.) _ps._ [JOHN CLOSE]. See DOWELL (S.) _ps._
C. B., _initialism_ [CHARLES BATHURST].
Remarks on the Differences in Shakespeare’s Versification, in
different periods of his Life. 1857.
Selections from Beaumont and Fletcher. _Parker._
C. C., _init._ [CHARLES CLARK, of Great Totham Hall, Essex].
Tiptree Races: a comic punning Poem, _à la_ Hood’s celebrated “Epping
Hunt.” By “C. C.” or,
“A _Clark_--foredoom’d his father’s soul to cross,
Who pens a stanza when he should engross!”
_Longman & Co._ 1834.
C. E., _initialism_ [CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH, q.v.].
Maternal Martyrdom, a fact, illustrative of the Improved Spirit of
Popery in the 19th century. [1830].
CECIL, _pseud._ [WILLIAM HONE].
Cecil’s Sixty Curious, Interesting, and Authentic Narratives. Lond.
_Beckley_, 1824, and Boston, U.S., 1825.
CECIL, _pseud._ [CORNELIUS TONGUE].
The Stud Farm, 1851 and 1856.--Stable Practice, 1852.--Records of the
Chase, 1854.--Hints on Agriculture, 1858.--Hunting Tours, 1864.
C. E. K., _init._ [KELLY].
Little Apple Blossom. Boston, 1863.
CELATUS, _pseudonym_ [OWEN].
The Public Pearl, or Education the People’s Right and the National
Glory. 1854.
C. F. G., _initialism_ [Mrs. GORE].
Quid Pro Quo: or the Day of Dupes; the Prize Comedy. 3rd edit. [1844].
C. G. H., _initialism_ [HAMILTON].
The Exiles of Italy, Edinb., 1837. The Curate of Linwood, 1845.
Margaret Waldegrave, Edinb., 1846. Amy Harrington, or a Sister’s
Love, 1848. Constance Lindsay, or the Progress of Error, Edinb., 1849.
CHAM, _pseud._ [DE NOÉ, second son of the Comte de Noé, “pair de
France”].
A Parisian draughtsman and author, of great celebrity for the
comicality of his Characters, chiefly in the “Charivari,”
“l’Illustration,” &c.
CHARFY (Guiniad) _pseud._ [GEORGE SMEETON, printer of St. Martin’s
Lane, who, with his wife, was burned to death].
The Fisherman, or the Art of Angling made easy [1800?] A Compilation,
of no value.
J. R. S.
CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH, _prenonym_ [PHELAN, afterwards TONNA].
Under her Christian names this lady wrote upwards of fifty books for
children, tales, etc. 1825-62.
CHATTERTON (Thomas) _literary forger_.
When very young, his sister says, a manufacturer promised to make
Mrs. Chatterton’s children a present of some earthenware; on
asking the boy what device he would have painted upon his--“Paint
me (said Chatterton) an angel, with wings, and a trumpet, to
trumpet my name over the world.”--_Life by Dr. Gregory_, 1803.
The Execution of Sir C. Bawdin [a poem]. By Thomas Rowley. 1772. 4to.
Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley [a
monk], and others in the 15th Century; the greatest part now first
published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen
of one of the MSS., to which are added a preface, an introductory
account of the several pieces, and a glossary [edited by T. Tyrwhitt,
with a frontispiece]. Lond. 1777. 8vo. Numerous editions.
For much of the following brief notice of the impostures of this
unfortunate, mad genius, we are indebted to an article by our
respected friend, Mr. Frederick Lawrence, who has kindly given us
permission to make such use of his articles in Sharpe’s London
Magazine as suit our purpose.
“Chatterton’s _first_ forgery, although of the nature of an
innocent hoax--a mere schoolboy’s trick--is deserving of some
little attention, as illustrating in a striking manner, not
merely his profound skill in the art of deception, but his ready
insight into human character, and quick perception of individual
weakness and peculiarities. A pewterer of Bristol, named Burgum,
had taken some notice of him, and whilst treating him as a mere
boy, had encouraged a degree of intimacy which gave Chatterton
an opportunity of practising on his credulity. He soon found
that Burgum was a vain man, and just the person to be tickled
and inflated with the pride of ancestry; so he set to work and
deduced his pedigree from one of the companions of the Conqueror.
From documents which he pretended to have discovered in the
muniment room of the Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, he compiled
a history of the ‘De Bergham’ family; and furthermore produced a
poem, entitled ‘the Romaunt of the Cnyghte,’ written by one John
de Bergham, who flourished in the 14th century. As Chatterton had
suspected, the worthy pewterer was too well pleased to permit
himself to doubt the authenticity of the document which conferred
on him such an amount of ancestral dignity; and thus auspiciously
commenced the course of Fraud which ended in the production of
Rowley.”
Then came the forged account of the opening of an old bridge,
sent to the printer of Farley’s Bristol Journal, introduced by a
letter, signed ‘Dunhelmus Bristoliensis,’ intimating that it was
taken from an old MS.
This again went down, and the game went on merrily: it was
followed by another. Chatterton was found out, and told a good
round lie to account for his possession of the MSS.
His next fraud was perpetrated at the expense of a Mr. Catcott,
who was then writing a history of Bristol, and for whose benefit
Chatterton manufactured an account of Bristol, by Turgot or
Turgotus, “translated by T. Rowley, out of Saxon into English.”
Chatterton emboldened by success, next wrote to Horace Walpole,
who, though at first deceived, soon discovered the cheat, and
gave him kindly advice. “Too cautious and sensitive to become the
dupe of a lawyer’s apprentice, he now drew back, and wrote the
young enthusiast an edifying homily on the danger and disgrace of
forgeries, and urged him to stick to his business, and relinquish
his poetical aspirations.”
Horace Walpole had just before been made the instrument
of introducing into the world the Macpherson forgeries.
Chatterton, instead of following it, was indignant at the advice
given--advice which certainly did not come from one who himself
had acted on it; for, be it remembered, “The Castle of Otranto”
was said in the preface to have been discovered “in the library
of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England, and
printed at Naples, in black letter, in the year 1529!”
“Chatterton took his revenge on Walpole, and expressed his
resentment in some spirited lines, which have been published in
a recent memoir. We select a few couplets as _apropos_ to our
remarks:
“Thou mayst call me cheat;
Say didst thou never practice such deceit?
Who wrote Otranto?--But I will not chide;
Scorn I’ll repay with scorn, and pride with pride;
Still, Walpole, still thy prosy chapters write,
And twaddling letters to some fair indite;
Laud all above thee, fawn and cringe to those
Who for thy fame were better friends than foes.”
It is not our purpose to linger on Chatterton’s ultimate
unfortunate fate. That of literary forgers seems almost as
sure and inevitable as those of a commoner order, and though
not visited upon them physically by the law of the land, the
punishment has hitherto been unerring, and even more severe.
For the controversy which these forgeries excited, we must refer
our readers to the works mentioned in Lowndes by Bohn, and to the
article in Allibone’s Dictionary of English Literature.
CHRISTABEL, _pseud._ [Miss MAHONY, of Kenmare].
Poems on various subjects and occasions.
CHURNE (William) _pseud._ [F. E. PAGET].
The Hope of the Katzekopfs; a fairy tale, 1845.
C. H. R., _init._ [ROSS].
Ye Comical Rhymes of Ancient Times Dug up into Jokes for small folks
[1862]. Roundabout Papers, and Roundabout Stories, with square about
pictures by ---- [1866].
CIVIS, _pseud._ [GEORGE THOMSON].
Statement and Review of a recent Decision of the Judge of Police in
Edinburgh, authorising his Officers to make domiciliary visits in
private to stop Dancing, etc. Edinb., 1807.
“This statement is by George Thomson, the correspondent of Burns
and the editor of his songs. The judge was a hot-headed blockhead
of the name of Tait, who first rode on the rigging of his
commission, till he spoiled the first police system, and then had
the good luck to get about £300 a year to give up his office.” H.
C.
MS. note in the copy at the British Museum by Lord Cockburn.
CIVIS, _pseud._ [A. PETERKIN?]
A Letter to the Rt. Hon. E. Erskine ... relative to the act ... for
regulating the Police of Edinburgh. Edinb., 1806. A second Letter,
1807.
CIVIS, _pseud._ [Baron STOWELL].
Some Observations upon the Argument drawn by Mr. Huskisson and the
Bullion Committee from the High price of Gold Bullion ... 1811.
CIVIS, _pseud._ [JOHN COLES].
The Corporation Commission and the Municipal Companies of London.
Letters of CIVIS on the Opinions of Sir J. Scarlett, Mr. Follett, and
Mr. Rennell. 1834.
C. K., see A Minute Philosopher. [KINGSLEY].
CLADPOLE (Tim) _phrenonym_ [RICHARD LOWER, of Chiddingly].
Tom Cladpole’s Journey to Lunnun, told by himself, and written in
pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim. Brighton, 1831. The sixth
thousand, 1849. New edition, 1850.
J. R. S.
Jan Cladpoles’s Trip to ’Merricur ... written all in rhyme by his
Father, T. C. Hailsham [1844].
CLARIBEL, _pseud._ [Mrs. BARNARD].
Fireside Thoughts, Ballads, etc. 1865. This lady is well known for
numerous popular songs.
CLARK (Rev. T.) _pseudo-titlonym_ [JOHN GALT, the Novelist. and
Traveller].
A tour of Asia, abridged from the most popular modern Voyages
and Travels, etc. 2nd edition, _Souter_ [1820]. Modern Tour of
Europe.--The Wandering Jew, or The Travels and Observations of
Hareach the Prolonged. 1820.
The first letters of the last four sentences in the book make the
author’s name: G[reatness], A[ll], L[iterally], T[o].
CLARKE (Rev. C. C.) _pseud._ [Sir R. PHILLIPS?]
The Hundred Wonders of the World, by ----, Author of Readings in
Natural Philosophy. 1818.
CLARKE (John) _pseud._ [Rev. T. H. HORNE].
Bibliotheca Legum. 1810.
It is said that the materials were collected by the publisher
Clarke, but that the whole were arranged, corrected, and edited
by Horne. The materials for this volume might have been easily
collected in a single day. Clarke’s name has no right to appear
as the editor.
CLEISHBOTHAM (the Younger) [ ].
A Handbook of the Scottish Language. Edinb., 1858.
CLEISHBOTHAM (Jedediah) Schoolmaster and Parish Clerk of
Gandercleugh, _ps._ [Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart.]. Tales of my Landlord,
collected and arranged by ----. Edinburgh, 1817-1832.
The reader may search and search in vain, in Lockhart’s Life of
Scott, which is as miserably deficient of bibliography as it is
replete with biography, for information as to the Tales of my
Landlord having been sent forth under a pseudonym.
“Why he [the author of Waverley] should industriously endeavour
to elude observation by taking leave of us in one character,
and then suddenly popping out upon us in another, we cannot
pretend to guess without knowing more of his personal reasons for
preserving so strict an incognito than has hitherto reached us.
We can, however, conceive many reasons for a writer observing
this sort of mystery; not to mention that it has certainly had
its effect in keeping up the interest which his works have
excited.”--_Quar. Rev._, Jan. 1817.
CLERICUS, _dem._ [Rev. W. CARTWRIGHT].
Rambles and Recollections of a Fly-fisher. 1854.
J. R. S.
CLIFFORD (Charles) _pseud._ [W. H. IRELAND].
The Angler, a Didactic Poem. 1804.
CLINKER (Humphrey) _pseud._ [ ].
The History of the Haverel wives.... To which is added an oration on
the virtues of the Old Women, and the pride of the Young, dictated by
J. Clinker, etc. Glasgow, 1805; another edition, Stirling [1820?]
C. M. See the author of The Cottage on the Common. 1848.
C. M., _ps._ Scraps in Poetry (religious). _Hope & Co._, 1852.
C. M., J. H. G., M. R., _polynym_ [CAMPBELL MACKINNON, now of
Jamaica] [JOSEPH H. GIBBS] [MONTGOMERIE RANKING].
The Quadrilateral.
Some said, ‘John, print it!’
Others said ‘Not so!’
Some said, ‘It may do good!’
Others said, ‘No!’
BUNYAN’S _Apology for the Pilgrim’s Progress_.
_Saunders, Otley & Co._, 1865.
Poems dedicated by the three authors, who sign the preface, to C.
M. Crawford, who makes the fourth.
COFFIN (Joshua) _pseud._ [HENRY W. LONGFELLOW].
A sketch of the History of Newbury. Boston, Mass., 1845.
COLLETT (Stephen) _pseud._ [THOMAS BYERLEY].
Relics of Literature. 1823.
COLWAN (Robert Wringham) _pseud._ [JAMES HOGG, the Ettrick Shepherd].
The Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner. 1824.
COMMON SENSE, _phrenonym_ [Sir R. PHILLIPS, in the Monthly Magazine,
of which he was formerly editor and proprietor for about 30 years, 50
years ago].
CONTRIBUTORS TO TRACTS FOR THE TIMES, _phraseonym_, Plain Sermons. 10
vols. _Rivington_, 1840-8.
A. [JOHN KEBLE]. B. [ISAAC WILLIAMS]. C. [Dr. PUSEY]. D. [J. H.
NEWMAN]. E. [THOS. KEBLE]. F. [Sir GEO. PROVOST, Bart.]. G. [Rev. R.
F. WILSON, of Oriel].
_N. & Q., 3 s._
CONWAY (H. Derwent) _pseud._ [HENRY DAVID INGLIS, of Edinburgh].
Tales of Ardennes. 1841.
CORNWALL (Barry) [Poet], _crypto._ [BRYAN WALLER PROCTER,
Barrister-at-Law].
A Sicilian Story, with Diego de Montilla, and other poems,
1820.--Mirandola, a tragedy, 1821.--English Songs, 1832, several
editions of the above; and others.
C. O. S. See: a Priest of the Church of England. 1862.
COUR (T. E.) _anagram_ of the Author’s name in Spanish [W. G. T.
BARTER, Barrister-at-Law].
Two Essays, in: Life, Law, and Literature, 1863, were signed by the
author as above. See the preface.
COURTENAY (Peregrine) _pseud._ [WILLIAM MACKWORTH PRAED]. In Knight’s
Quarterly Magazine. 1823-4.
C. P. M., _initialism_ [CHRISTOPHER PARR MALE].
Have you any fear of Death? Birmingham, 1851.
CRAWLEY (Rawdon) Captain, _pseudo-titlonym_ [GEORGE FREDERICK PARDON.
He generally dates from the Megatherium Club; we need scarcely say,
therefore, that he takes his pseudonym from Thackeray, whom, in one
of his dedications, he calls his biographer].
Several Handbooks on Billiards, Chess, Draughts. Under both his
names. We fear this is a use of a pseudonym we should condemn, for it
savours of book-making, as for example in:--The Book of Billiards.
_Longman_, 1865.
Chess: its Theory and Practice, to which is added a Chapter on
Draughts. 3rd edition. _Clarke_, 1858.
To C. Hardwicke, Esq., author of the “History of Preston,”
this little book is affectionately dedicated by his friend and
collaborateur, the author.
CRAYON (Crotchet) _pseud._ [ ].
The Rival Houses of the Hobbs and Dobbs; or Dress-Makers and
Dress-Wearers. 1854.
CRAYON (Geoffrey) Esq., _pseud._ [WASHINGTON IRVING].
The Sketch Book, 1820 (Written in England, and sheets sent to America
for publication.) Bracebridge Hall, or the Humourists, a Medley. New
York, 1822. Tales of a Traveller, 1824. The Alhambra. 1832. Editions
to the present time both in England and America.
C. R. E., _initialism_ [ ].
Buried Treasures. 2 parts, London, 1851, no more published.
The first contains: The Law of Liberty ... by J. Locke, with a
life by the editor (C. R. E.) The second: On the Civil Power in
Ecclesiastical Causes ... by J. Milton, with a historical sketch
and notes.
CREYTON (Paul) _pseud._ [J. T. TROWBRIDGE].
Father Brighthopes, or an old Clergyman’s Vacation. Boston (U.S.)
1853.
Martin Merrivale, his × mark, 1854. Hearts and Faces. 1855. Boston
(U. S.) 1855.
Burrcliff, its Sunshine and its clouds.... 6th thousand, 1855.
CRIB, _phrenonym_ [ ].
Secret Love; or the Phantom Barber: a burletta, adapted by Crib.
[1859]. In verse.
CRIB (Tom) _phren._ [THOMAS MOORE].
Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, with a preface.... By one of the
Fancy. 4th edition. London, 1819 (in Verse).
CRIBB (Tommy) _phren._ [ ].
To the Electors of the Borough of Southwark. The Presentation of the
Pipkin, etc. The whole taken in shorthand by ----. Lond., 1819.
CROFT (Zachary) _pseud._ [CHARLES KELSALL].
The first sitting of the Committee on the proposed Monument to
Shakespeare. 1823.
CROQUIS (Alfred) _pseud._ [DANIEL MACLISE, R.A.].
Portraits in Fraser’s Magazine.
CROWQUILL (Alfred) _pseud._ [ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER, Artist and
Author].
Leaves from my Memorandum Book.
His first publication under this pseudonym. For numerous others
we must refer to _Men of the Time_, and Allibone’s Critical
Dictionary of English Literature, 1859, under Crowquill.
CRUISER (Benedict) _pseud._ [GEORGE A. SALA].
How I tamed Mrs. Cruiser. By, etc. Edited by G. A. S., with
illustrations by Phiz [_pseud._]. 1858.
CRUSOE (Robinson) _fictitious name_ [DANIEL DEFOE].
The Life and surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York,
Mariner. Written by himself. 1st edition, 1719.
The most popular fiction in our language.
“It is remarkable that two of the most interesting tales
that ever were written,--‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,’--are without that which forms the chief source of
interest in most other tales--a love story.
“Robinson Crusoe” and “Gulliver,” are two works which probably
will remain as long as the English language. One of them has
even introduced a new word into our language; for _lilliputian_
is often used to denote something excessively minute. And it is
remarkable that the authors of these works, Defoe and Dean Swift,
who have never been surpassed--perhaps never equalled--in any age
or country in their own peculiar art of giving to fiction the
air of reality, were contemporaries, and held each other in the
greatest contempt and abhorrence. Their designs were different.
“Gulliver” was, of course, not expected to be believed, but
affords part of its amusement from the striking contrast between
the sober, matter-of-fact style of the narrative, and the
monstrous extravagance of the matter; as where mention is made in
his quiet way of the house in Redriff, which brought in a rent of
£30 a year; and of the little daughter Betsy, who was sewing her
sampler, and who afterwards married and had children.
“Robinson Crusoe,” on the contrary was originally put forth as a
true history (Defoe not being very scrupulous on that point) and
long after, and probably even down to the present time, was by
many considered as substantially true, and as being merely the
history of Alexander Selkirk, on the Island of Juan Fernandez;
only a little dressed up, and with a change of names. It is
possible that Defoe may have heard that history, and that it may
have suggested to him the idea of his tale; but if this be so,
it is the very utmost that could be said; for the two histories
are totally unlike, except that in each there is an island in the
South Sea, with goats upon it. Alexander Selkirk had no tools, or
stores, or arms, saved from a wreck; he had no implements, save
a pocket knife; and used to capture the goats, on whose flesh he
fed, by running them down. He never met with any savages, nor
had any friendly intercourse with the Spaniards; and there were
only two remarkable incidents that occurred during his sojourn on
the island, neither of which is found in the history of Robinson
Crusoe. One was, his being pursued by a party of Spaniards who
had landed on the island, and from whom he fled for his life,
well knowing that their design was to murder him, as was the
practice of the Spaniards with all strangers found in those seas.
He escaped by climbing into a tree with thick foliage, where he
lay hidden like King Charles in the oak.
His other adventure was catching hold of a goat.... Now both
these remarkable incidents being wanting in “Robinson Crusoe,”
it is plain that the notion above alluded to, of the one history
being taken from the other, is altogether groundless.
One part of the art by which Defoe gives his tale the air of
reality, consists in the frequently recording minute particulars
and trifling occurrences which lead to no result.... Another
apparent indication of reality is that such improbabilities as
there are lie precisely in the opposite quarter from that in
which we should expect to find them. A writer of fiction would
have been likely (as we may see for instance, in some of the
imitations of “Robinson Crusoe”) to attribute to the hero _more_
ingenuity and _greater_ success than is accordant with the rules
of probability. With Robinson Crusoe it is just the reverse....
It would be a curious and not unprofitable task to draw up a
criticism of Robinson Crusoe, showing that there are, in a
tale which, beyond all others, has been the oftenest mistaken
for a true history, such improbabilities as amount to complete
disproof. Such a work would be a kind of companion and supplement
to the “Historic doubts respecting Napoleon Bonaparte” [published
anonymously by Archbishop Whately].... His culture of _rice_
may be pronounced an absolute impossibility. He threw out, it
seems, before the entrance of his habitation, among dust and
husks, some unperceived grains of barley and rice, which grew and
came to perfection, and enabled him thenceforward, to cultivate
those crops. Now this is probable enough as far as regards the
_barley_; but Defoe was probably ignorant that _rice_, when
designed for human food, is divested of its husk by a process
which destroys its power of germinating; so that to sow rice in
the state in which it comes to market would be as vain as to sow
pearl-barley.... When Friday is pursued by three savages, and
they come to a creek, one of them turns back, as being _unable to
swim_.... A Brazilian sea-coast savage, unable to swim, may be
pronounced a total impossibility.... When Robinson Crusoe comes
forward to rescue the Spaniards who are about to be slaughtered,
he addresses one of them in _Spanish_.... Alexander Selkirk,
after only three years, could scarcely express himself even in
his own mother-tongue.
But the most wide-spread (if I may so speak) of the
improbabilities; though the one the most likely to be overlooked
by the generality of readers, is the character ascribed to
savages ... if we examine attentively all the accounts that
are given of savages by those who have had actual intercourse
with them, we shall inevitably come to the conclusion that the
representation of savages, as given by Defoe, involves a complete
moral impossibility.--_Miscellaneous Remains of Archbishop
Whately_, to which the reader is referred for the whole of this
interesting discussion.
We greatly regret that want of space prevents our giving the
whole of the Archbishop’s essay, as we consider it conclusive.
C. S., _initialism_ [C. STAUNTON].
Life and Humours of Falstaff. 1829.
J. R. S.
C. S. C., _initialism_ [C. S. CALVERLEY].
Verses and Translations. Camb., 1862. 3rd edit. 1865.
CUMBERMERE (Lord Claudius Hastings) _pseudo-titl._ [ALFRED ASSOLANT].
Les Aventures de K. Brunner, docteur en Théologie par Lord, etc.
Paris, 1861.
C. W. S., _init._ [CHARLES WILLIAM SHORT, a Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel, Coldstream Guards].
A Treatise on Swimming, as taught at Berlin, in the Military College.
From a German MS. _Ollivier_, 1846.
Preface signed.
C. W. S., _init._ [SMITH].
The Big Bulls of Europe and the Blasphemous “Te Deum” (two letters
reprinted from the Morning Post) [1855].
CYCLA, _pseud._ [Mrs. ELLEN CLACY].
Aunt Dorothy’s Will, a novel. 1860.
D.
Δ, _Greek pseudonym_ [D. M. MOIR].
Biographical Memoir of the late Mrs. Hemans. 1836.
Memoir of Galt.
Δ, _initialism_ [Right Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI].
Venetia, 1857. The Tragedy of Count Alarcos. By the author of Vivian
Grey. 1839.
Δ, _pseud._ [F. BARHAM].
A loyal Address to the Queen [1840].
D. (Dr.) _init._ [Dr. N. DELUIS].
Shakespeare, edited by ----. 1854.
D---- (J. R.) _disguised-author_ [JAMES REID DILL].
A Sermon from the Grave. 1862.
DAGOBERT (Chrysostôme) _pseudonym_ [JEAN BAPTISTE ALPHONSE LED’HUY].
A bon Chat bon Rat, Tit for Tat, a new and idiomatic course of
instruction in the French language. 1855.
We have numerous other works on teaching French from the pen of this
gentleman, all under this pseudonym.
DASH (La Comtesse) _pseud._ [the Vicomtesse de SAINT-MARS].
A great number of Novels (French) from 1853 to the present time.
Amongst other masks this lady has “Henri Desroches” and “Jacques
Reynaud.”
DE BERNARD (Charles) _abbreviation_ [CHARLES BERNARD DUGRAIL DE LA
VILLETTE].
The Lion’s skin, and the Lover Hunt [from the French]. New York, 1853.
DE BOSCOSEL DE CHASTELARD (Pierre) _aristonym_ [W. H. IRELAND].
Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated
from a Gallic MS. in the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with
songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory by the Translator. To which
is added Historical Fragments, Poetry, and Remains of that most
unfortunate Princess. 1808.
DECANUS, _titlonym_ [Very Reverend EDWARD NEWENHAM HOARE, M.A., Dean
of Achonry].
English Settlers’ Guide through Irish Difficulties. 1850.
DE COMYNE (Alexander) _aristo._ [CHARLES THOMAS BROWNE, of Trinity
College, Dublin].
See Men of the Time.
DEENE (Kenner) _pseudandry_ [CHARLOTTE SMITH].
The Dull Stone House, 1862. Christmas at the Cross Keys, 1863. The
Schoolmaster of Alton, 1863. Anne Cave, 1864. Rutly Rivers, a story
in four books. 1864.
DE K---- (E.) Madame, _disguised-author_ [Madame EMMA DE K?]
Holly Grange, a tale, by ----, edited by William Hazlitt Esq. _Joseph
Cundall_, 1844.
One of Hazlitt’s Holiday Library.
DELTA, _greek-pseudonym_ [D. M. MOIR].
Poems, 1852. First published in Blackwood’s Mag.
DE MIRECOURT (Eugene), _aristonym_ [CHARLES-JEAN-BAPTISTE JACQUOT, de
MIRECOURT, Vosges, France].
Fabrique de Romans. Maison Alexandre Dumas et compagnie. Paris, les
marchands de nouveautés. 1845.
Dumas brought an action against the author for this tremendous
attack, provoked by his own unfair treatment of its author.
Histoire Contemporaine. Paris, 1867.
Under this title he is writing a series of biographical sketches of
celebrated or popular Frenchmen.
DE PEMBROKE (Morgan) _aristonym_ [MORGAN EVANS].
The following letter to the editor of the “Athenæum”, from the number
for Oct 4th, 1862, requires no comment:
Mabus, Pembrokeshire, Sept. 20th, 1862.
I read with great interest your notice of Mr. Kendall’s [MS.]
“Verses.” In the Poem called “Kiama” the following line occurs:
A white sail glimmers out at sea--a vessel walking in her sleep.
In the _Athenæum_ for the 17th Nov., 1860, you noticed a small
volume of mine, viz., “Poems, by Morgan de Pembroke,” _Bennett_.
In your review of my book under that name, one of the verses
favourably noticed contained two lines, which you printed thus:
A white sail glimmers on the deep--
A vessel walking in her sleep.
The similarity between my two lines and Mr. Kendall’s one line is
remarkable. I write this to forestall any accusation against me
of plagiarism should I reproduce my poem in another form at some
future time.--Yours, etc.
MORGAN EVANS.
DE PONTAUMONT (M. E. Lechanteur, inspector of the Imperial Marine,
Cherbourg) _plagiarist_.
La Rosïere de Bricquebec. Liege, 1861.
The above is translated, word for word, from “The Pride of the
Village,” by Washington Irving.--_De Manne._
D----G, _anastroph_ [GEORGE DANIEL, author of the Modern Dunciad].
Cumberland’s British Theatre, with Remarks biographical and critical,
by D----G. 1829-43.
D. G. M. _init._ [MITCHELL]. See Marvel Ike, _ps._
DOBLADO (Don Leucadio) _Spanish-pseudonym_ [JAMES BLANCO WHITE].
Letters from Spain. 1822.
DODD (Charles) _pseud._ [HUGH TOOTELL].
Dodd’s Church History of England, etc. 1839-43. 5 vols.
DOESTICKS (Q. K. Philander) P.B., (_i.e._, Perfect Brick) _phren._
[MORTIMER THOMPSON, son-in-law to “Fanny Fern”].
Doesticks, what he says. New York. 1855.
Plu-Ri-Bus-Jah: a song that’s by no author. Perpetrated by, etc.
1857. The Witches of New York. 1859.
DOLORES, _pseudonym_ [Miss DICKSON].
Music to numerous songs, upwards of 50, since 1854.
DOWELL (Samuel) _pseud._ [JOHN CLOSE].
A Month in London, or the select adventures of S. D., the Village
Bard, edit, by A. M. Writewell [_pseudonym_]. _Appleby_, 1844. Four
numbers of another edition were published as follows:
Adventures of an Author [S. D.], or the Westmoreland Novelist. Edited
by T. Caxton [_pseud._] 1846.
DOWNING (Jack) Major, _ps.-titlonym_ [SEBA SMITH].
The Life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away
down East in the State of Maine, written by himself. Boston, 3rd
edition, plates. 1834.
Letter of J. D., Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his
old friend, Mr. Dwight, of the New York Daily Advertiser. 1834, and
Lond., 1866.
DRYDOG (Doggerel) _phren._ [CHARLES CLARK].
September; or Sport and Sporting! Colchester, 1856.
Privately printed at the Great Totham Press.
DUMAS (Alexandre Davy) calling himself Marquis de la Pailleterie.
L’homme de génie ne vole pas, il conquiert.
_Alex. Dumas._
Aventures de John Davy. Paris, 1840. 4 vols.
This romance, borrowed from the “Revue Britannique,” is said
to be superior to many productions of Dumas of the same kind.
“John Davy” is an English sailor, having a close relationship to
Captain Marryat’s of the same name. In a somewhat prosy letter of
Michael Angelo Titmarsh [Thackeray] to the most noble Alexandre
Dumas, Marquis Davy de la Pailleterie, in Fraser’s Magazine,
for 1846, he directly accuses him of having adopted it from the
English.
Les Trois Mousquetaires [written by Auguste Maquet], Paris, 1844. 8
vol. Vingt ans après suite des Trois Mousquetaires [by the same].
Paris, 1845, 10 vol. Dix ans après, ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne,
deuxième suite des Trois Mousquetaires, 6 vols [by the same].
Dumas is said to have taken the idea of his almost interminable
novels from Richardson. Twenty-four volumes! When, however, the
ample margin is reduced, the type decreased in size, and the
blank paper extracted, these 24 vols are reduced to something
like reasonable proportions.
As he acknowledged in his preface, Alexander Dumas, or rather,
Aug. Maquet, made free use of the “Mémoires d’Artagnan,”
capitaine-lieutenant des Mousquetaires, [written by Sandraz
de Courtilz, 1702]. He also gives the title of a MS. he
found:--Mémoires de M. le Comte de la Fère, etc.--from which he
had also drawn much matter. This latter announcement induced a
learned French bibliograph to mention “the Three Musqueteers” as
a reprint of an old MS. The first-mentioned work exists, but the
MS. is a creation of the fertile novelist.
The great and deserved success of this romance, though in
point of morals it is not as unexceptionable as Monte Christo,
drew attention to an historical personage who had been totally
neglected, viz. Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known by the title
of the “comte d’Artagnan.”
Le Comte de Monte Christo. 1844-5. 18 vols.
The first part, the Château d’If, published separately, is
written by P. A. Fiorentino. Monte Christo, which is a sequel
to it, is written by Aug. Maquet. Two episodes are said to be
literally taken from Mémoires, etc., de la Police de Paris,
by J. Peuchet, 1837-8. They are “François Picaud, histoire
contemporaine,” and “Madame de Vartelle, ou un crime de famille.”
The only alteration in the last being in the title and names. “La
Roue de fortune,” of Auguste Arnould was made to contribute the
completion of the history of “M. Morel.” And there are probably
other “conquests” of the same nature undiscovered. Many pages are
said to have been taken from the German.
Our readers are doubtless aware that this most successful and
interesting piece of manufacture, was dramatised by the author,
and occupied _two nights_ in representation.
Innumerable are the tales of Dumas’ method of allotting and
selling his _manufactures_. He himself explains one: “Mr. Véron
came to me and said, ‘We are lost if we do not give in a week
from this, an amusing, brilliant, and sensational romance’ ...
You want a volume, that is 6,000 lines; 6,000 lines are 135
pages of my writing. Take this paper, number, and divide into
paragraphs 135 pages....”
We have contented ourselves with the dates when these works were
first published. They have been reprinted in every imaginable
form; and three different translations sometimes published in the
same language at one time.
The number of authors who claim or are said to have written
for Dumas is upwards of seventy. August Maquet alone furnished
him with twenty-four volumes: the Chevalier d’Harmental,
Sylvandire, the Guerre des Femmes, the Reine Margot, Chevalier de
Maison-Rouge, Mémoires d’un Médecin, those mentioned above, and
others.
The new editions of Monte Christo, Twenty Years After, etc., have
the joint names of Dumas and Maquet on the title-page.
In 1845 he published sixty volumes, whereupon de Mirecourt (see
Dumas Père, 1867) makes this calculation:
The most skilful copyist, writing 12 hours a day, can with
difficulty do 3,900 letters in an hour, which gives him at the
end of a day 46,800 letters, or 60 pages of a romance. Thus
he could copy five volumes octavo a month, and sixty a year,
supposing that he does not lose a second during the time.
For the facts above we are indebted to Quérard and De Mirecourt.
Some interesting notes on Dumas will be found in our “notice of
the life and works of Quérard, 1867.”
DUNDREARY (Lord) _pseudo-titl._ [CHARLES KINGSLEY].
Speech of Lord D, in section D ... on the great Hippocampus Question.
Cambridge, 1862.
There have been numerous other publications under Mr. Sothern’s
representative name.
DUNSHUNNER (Augustus) _pseudonym_ [WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN].
Contributions to Blackwood’s Magazine.
E.
E. A. M., _initialism_ [Mrs. MADDOCK].
The Liturgy of the Church of England catechetically explained. 3
vols. Winchester [1845?]
EBEN-EZER, _ps._ [Rev. EBEN. ALDRED, Unitarian Min.].
The Little Book, etc. Derbyshire, 1811.
An extraordinary book by an eccentric character. See Martin.
E. C. A., _initialism_ [AGNEW].
Geraldine, a tale. 1837, 3 vols.
E. F. L., _initialism_ [LLOYD].
John Brown’s Trouble; and the good that came of it. Founded on Fact.
By a Clergyman’s Daughter (q.v.) 1863.
Susan Brown’s Victory, a sequel to J. B., etc., by the author of J.
B.’s trouble. 1864.
E. H. C. M., _enigmatic-pseudonym_ (Editor of the Hebrew Christian’s
Magazine) [Rev. NATHAN DAVIS].
Israel’s true Emancipation (two letters to Dr. Adler). 1852.
E. H. R., _pseud._ [ELIZABETH HARCOURT MITCHELL].
First Fruits, Poem. _Hurst & Blackett_, 1827.
Athenæum, No. 1757.
E. H. S., _init._ [Lord STANLEY].
Six Weeks in South America. 1850.
Privately printed, only 150 copies. See Martin’s Cat.
E. L., _initialism_ [E. LORD].
Discursive Remarks on Modern Education. Lond., 1841.
ELIA, _pseud._ [CHARLES LAMB].
Essays which first appeared under that signature in the London
Magazine. 1823.
ELIOT (George) _pseudonym_ [MARIAN EVANS].
Scenes of Clerical Life (originally in Blackwood.) 1858.
Adam Bede. 1858, 3 vols.
Mill on the Floss. 3 vols., 1860. Silas Marner. 1861. Romata, 1863.
Felix Holt, the Radical. 1866. All Edinb. and Lond.
Nor can we omit, in concluding this notice of a most remarkable
book, some notice of the disputes as to its authorship. The
newspapers have been full of them. Mr. Anders, rector of Kirkby,
writes early in April of this year to assure the world that “the
author of Adam Bede is Mr. Liggins, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire,
and the characters whom he paints in Scenes of Clerical Life,
are as familiar there as the twin spires of Coventry.” But just
as we have satisfied our minds that this is the true state of
the case, and are feeling greatly obliged to Mr. Anders, a
wrathful letter from “George Eliot” disturbs us; asking (not
unreasonably) whether “the act of publishing a book deprives a
man of all claim to the courtesies usual amongst gentlemen?”...
Then some gentleman is “receiving subscriptions” as the ill-used
author of Adam Bede. Finally, the Messrs. Blackwood, turning
at last to throw a stone, declare that, “those works are not
written by Mr. Liggins, or by any one with a name like Liggins.”
... Now upon all this we have only to remark, that we cordially
agree in the dictum of Mr. Eliot, that “the attempt to pry into
what is obviously meant to be withheld,--his name,--is quite
indefensible.”--_Edinb. Rev._, 1859.
E. M., _initialism_ [MAGRATH].
A Letter on Canada, in 1806 and 1817, during the administration of
Governor Gore. 1853.
EMPTOR (Caveat) Gent. One, etc., _Latin pseud._ [GEORGE STEPHEN,
Solicitor].
The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse. Longman 1835. 2nd
edit., 1861.
This gentleman was afterwards called to the Bar, and is now Sir
George Stephen.
E. O. A. B., _initialism_ [Mrs. BULL].
A sequel to Mrs. Sherwood’s Easy Questions. 1848.
EPHEMERA, _phrenonym_ [E. FITZGIBBON].
Handbook of Angling. 1866, 8vo.
Several editions. He is also a contributor to Bell’s Life under the
above pseudonym.
E. R. C. _init._ [EUSTACE R. CONDER].
An Order for the solemnization of Matrimony. 1854 and 1859.
ERITH (Lynn) _pseud._ [EDWARD FOX, of Wellington, Somerset]. Poetical
Tentatives. 1854.
E. S. A., _init._ [ERNEST SILVANUS APPLEYARD].
Principles of Protestantism. 1849. My Country: the History of the
British Isles. 1859-62.
And several others under these initials.
E. S. L., _initialism_ [Hon. ELIZABETH SUSAN LAW, afterwards Lady
COLCHESTER].
Giustina; a Spanish tale: a Poem. 1853.
ESPRIELLA. See Alvarez.
E. V. B., _initialism_ [Hon. Mrs. BOYLE].
These initials have long been made familiar by delightfully delicate
and artistic illustrations to numerous works, chiefly to children’s
books.
F.
F., _init._ [FLOOD, _i.e._, NICHOLAS FRANCIS FLOOD DAVIN].
Mr. Black, Mr. E. Yates [see Q.], and this gentleman were the first
to write “Readings by Starlight” in the Evening Star. 1866.
F. A., _initialism_ [Rev. FREDERICK ARNOLD].
In London Society, Leisure Hour, etc. 1867.
FAG (Frederick) _phrenonym_ [Dr. JAMES JOHNSON].
The Recess, or Autumnal Relaxation in the Highlands and Lowlands ...
a serio-comic tour to the Hebrides. 1834.
FAIRLEIGH (Frank) _pseud._ [F. E. SMEDLEY].
Under this pseudonym the name of the hero and title of one of his own
novels, he edited Sharpe’s London Magazine, 1848-9, vol. 7 and 8,
in which Frank Fairleigh and Lewis Arundel were first published. On
relinquishing the editorship he says:
The discovery which many a literary man has made before us,
that the labours of editing and of composition are not only
incompatible, but diametrically opposed to each other; the latter
requiring a mind
“_Studious_ in meditation, fancy free,”
The former necessitating a ceaseless routine of active business.
_Sharpe’s Lond. Mag._ viii. 256.
FALCONER (Edmund) _scenonym_ [EDMUND O’ROURKE].
Extremes; or, Men of the Day. A comedy. 1859.
FELIX (Minutius) _pseud._ [GEORGE HARDINGE].
The Essence of Malone. 1800 and 1801.
Semi-anonymous: dedication subscribed.
FELIX (N.) [NICHOLAS WANOSTROCHT the Younger].
Felix ... on the use of a Cricket Bat; together with the history and
use of the Catapulta, 1845. 4to. Several editions to the present time.
FELIX (Charles) _pseud._ [ ].
The Notting Hill Mystery. Compiled by Charles Felix, [_ps._] from the
papers of the late R. Henderson, Esq. [_apoc._], Saunders & Otley,
1865.
Reprinted from Once a Week.
FELIX (Frank) Captain, _pseud._ [ ].
Musings on Guard (Poems). 1858.
F. E. P., _init._ [FRANCIS EDWARD PAGET].
Caleb Kniverton, the Incendiary, a tale. Oxford, 1833. Privately
printed.
FERN (Fanny) _pseud._ [SARAH PAYSON WILLIS, afterwards ELDREDGE,
afterwards FARMINGTON, now PARTON, an American Authoress of much
celebrity].
Fern leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio. Cincinnati, 1853.
Rose Clark. 1856.
About 30 pieces under this pseudonym.
F. F., _init._ [FREDERICK FYSH].
Nature’s Voice in the Holy Catholic Church, a series of Designs.
London and Derby, 1864.
FIGARO, _pseud._ [MARIANO JOSE DE LARRA].
Obras completas de Figaro. 2 tomes, Paris, 1848.
Figaro is a pseudonym adopted by numberless writers.
FISHER (P.) Esq., _pseud._ [WILLIAM ANDREW CHATTO, Author of the
History of Wood Engraving].
Angler’s Souvenir. London, 1835.
See J. R. Smith’s Cat. on Angling.
FITZ-EUSTACE Father, a Mendicant Friar, _ps.-titlonym_ [ ]. Essays,
London, 1822.
FLETCHER (Grenville).
LITERARY BORROWING.
[_To the Editor of the_ ATHENÆUM].
Ivy Cottage, Ballard’s Lane, Finchley, Jan. 1, 1867.
May I utter a complaint touching a Mr. Grenville Fletcher, late
editor of the _Kentish Champion_, _Court Journal_, _Mirror
of the World_, _Hants Standard_, &c. Looking, as I always
do, in old bookshops, I came across a volume, the other day,
professing to be a third series of “Parliamentary Portraits,”
by this gentleman. A very small piece of silver secured for me
possession of the prize. On taking it home and examining it,
I find page after page reprinted from my “Modern Statesmen,”
without a single word of acknowledgment. Mr. Fletcher gives a
sketch of Viscount Palmerston, almost entirely mine. He devotes
eight pages to Sir James Graham; and more than six of them are
mine. I wrote an article on Mr. Brand; Mr. Fletcher reprints it,
slightly altering it. Thus he commences: “It was during the lull
of an evening debate I once beheld Lord John Russell carrying
on a friendly and good-natured conversation, on the Government
benches of the House of Commons. To see his lordship smile is a
very unusual circumstance, for he is mostly so excessively cold
in his manner--added to which there is a rigid demeanour about
him--as one would only expect to be evinced by a _great_ man,
knowing that he is part and parcel of that wonderful machine
the British Constitution.” I had written: “It was once my
good fortune to behold Lord John Russell smile, and carry on a
friendly conversation, on the Government benches of the British
House of Commons. Generally his lordship is cold and dignified
in his demeanour, as becomes a man who is part and parcel of
that wonderful machine the British Constitution.” In like manner
Mr. Fletcher has helped himself to my Sketches of Mr. Disraeli
and Mr. Lindsay. This gifted work is dedicated to Lord Llanover,
and bears on the title-page the respectable name of Mr. James
Ridgway, Piccadilly. In his Introduction the author expresses
his gratitude to the _members_ of his own _craft_ (the public
_press_) for the truthful, generous, and impartial mode in which
his portraits have been critically noticed. Surely Mr. Fletcher
might have expressed his gratitude to, amongst others, yours, &c.
J. EWING RITCHIE.
F. M., _initialism_ [Sir FREDERICK MADDEN].
How the Goode Wife thaught hir Doughter [edited by F. M.], 1838.
FORREST (George) Esq., M.A., _translationym_ [Rev. J. G. WOOD, author
of numerous very popular works on Natural History, and editor of the
best book ever published for boys].
Every Boy’s Book: a complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements.
_Routledge_, 1855. And Handbooks of Swimming, Skating, Gymnastics,
etc.
FORRESTER (Frank) _ps._ [HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT].
An Englishman by birth, but an American by adoption. Under the above
pseudonym he has written numerous sporting works and novels. Died
1858.
See Allibone’s Dict. of Eng. Lit. Sampson Low’s Cat. of American
Books.
FOX (Charles James).
Histoire des deux derniers Rois de la Maison de Stuart Par ----.
Suivie de Pièces originales et Justificatives; ouvrage traduit de
l’Anglais; auquel on a joint une notice sur la Vie de l’Auteur [By
the Abbé D’Andrezel]. Paris, 1809.
This anonymous translator “violated the fidelity which he owed to
his author” by suppressing numerous passages, without taking the
slightest notice of such, and by altering other passages, and in
fact “cooking it up” to serve the then prevalent French notions.
A full account will be found in the Edinburgh Rev., 1810. Quérard
in his France Littéraire, quotes a passage which intimates that
Napoleon himself had a hand in the mutilation and suppression of
the obnoxious passages.
FRANCO (Harry) _phren._ [CHARLES F. BRIGGS].
The Adventures of H. F., a Tale. New York, 1839. The Trippings of Tom
Pepper, or the Results of Romancing. 1847.
FUME (Joseph) _phrenonym_ [W. A. CHATTO].
A Pipe of Tobacco, treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and
advantages of Smoking, &c. 1839.
FUNNIDOS (Rigdum) Gent., _ph._ [ ].
The Comic Almanack, with cuts by G. Cruikshank London [1834, 1846].
American Broad Grins. London, _R. Tyns_, 1838.
Writers before 1800 assumed this name.
FUNNYFELLO (Abel) _phren._ [ ].
A Shy at the “Great Gun.” The Blue-Coat Boy, or Domestic
Reminiscences of Mister T. Bounce, Driver of “The Turnabout”
[_i.e._ T. Barnes, editor of “The Times”]. With Illustrations by A.
Crookedshinks. No. 1 and 2, London, 1837.
G.
G * * * * * * * * (A. B.) M.D., _initialism_ [AUGUSTUS BOZZI
GRANVILLE?]
Critical Observations on Mr. Kemble’s performances at the Theatre
Royal, Liverpool. Liverpool, 1811.
GAULTIER (Bon) _polynym_ [THEODORE MARTIN and W. E. AYTOUN].
The Book of Ballads. 1845. First published in Blackwood’s Magazine.
G. D., _initialism_ [GEORGE DUNBAR, Professor of Greek in the
University of Edinburgh].
Herodotus. Græce et Latine. Edinburgh, 1806.
G. D., _init._ [GEORGE DARLEY (?), Mathematician and Poet].
The Life of Horace. British Poets, vol. 97. 1822. Life of Virgil,
1825.
Athenæum, Jan. 6, 1866, p. 22.
G. F. P., _init._ [GEORGE FREDERICK PARDON].
The Little Traveller, by the Author of the “Christmas Tree.” 1857.
Games for all Seasons, a sequel to “Parlour Pastime.” 1858. And
several others.
GIFFORD (John) _literary name_ [JOHN RICHARDS GREEN].
A History of the Political Life of ... Pitt. London, 1809, 4to.
Blackstone’s Commentaries abridged for the use of Students. By ----,
the author of the Life of ... Pitt. London, 1823.
He wrote all his numerous works under the above name, mostly
before 1800.
GIFFORD (John) _pseud._ [EDWARD FOSS, the learned author of that
sterling and very valuable work, _the Judges of England_].
An Abridgment of Blackstone’s Commentaries. 1821.
Did Mr. Foss intend that the public should be deceived? or was he
not aware of another, the real Richmond being in the field.
We believe he was not. It is most extraordinary that two persons
should, about the same time, write abridgments of the same work,
under the same pseudonym. But another extraordinary point is that
John Richard Green died in 1818, five years before his abridgment
was published! Mr. Foss seems to have been translated into German.
GIFFORD (John) Esq., _ps._ (we acquit this gentleman of being an
_impostor_) [ALEXANDER WHELLIER].
The English Lawyer. 14th edition, London, 1827. 17th edition, 1830.
21st, 1837. 30 editions.
It is almost impossible to suppose that he was not aware of a
“John Gifford” being the author of numerous works long before he
took the name.
G. L. M., Esq., _init._ [G. LAING MEASON].
On the Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy. 1828.
Only 150 copies privately printed.
See Martin.
GLYNDON (Howard) _pseudandry_ [LAURA C. RIDDEN].
G. M., _initialism_ [GERVASE MARKHAM].
The Young Sportsman’s Instructor. 1820. Eight copies printed on
vellum.
GOLDSMITH (Rev. J.) _pseudo-titlonym_ [Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS] see
Blair (Rev. D.) _ps._
Biog. Class Books. Grammar of British Geography. Wonders of the
United Kingdom, and several others.
Five Hundred Questions deduced from (Rev. J.) Goldsmith’s History of
England, etc. By James Adair.
In the preface he says:--The author [James Adair, _pseud._ Sir R.
Phillips] long meditated to write a new History of England, in
which more anecdote, and more information relative to manners and
social improvements, should have had place, than are to be found
in Goldsmith’s ... which he believes is generally adopted because
there is no other in the same compact form [this is frank--of his
own book] ... (as that) which passes _under the name_ of the late
Dr. Goldsmith. The italics are his. See Notes and Queries, 3rd S.
xii.
GRANGER (William) Esq., _pseud._ [ ].
The Wonderful Magazine. 1802. See Kirby, Publisher.
GRAY (Barry) _ps._ [ROBERT BARRY COFFIN].
My Married Life at Hillside. New York, 1865.
GREEN (John) _pseud._ [GEORGE HENRY TOWNSEND].
Evans’s, Covent Garden, Minutes of Evidence taken before the select
Committee on Theatrical Licenses. Mr. John Green called in and
Examined [Lond., 1866].
Evans’s Music and Supper Rooms.... Odds and Ends about Covent Garden
and its vicinity, the Ancient Drama, the early English Divinity
and Controversial Plays, compiled by Mr. ----, also a selection of
Madrigals, Glees, etc. [Lond., 1866].
GREENDRAKE (Gregory) Esq., _phren._ [J. COAD, editor of the Dublin
Warder, 1824].
Angling Excursions of, etc., with additions by Geoffrey Greydrake,
Esq. [Thomas Ellingsale, of Dublin.] 4th edition, Dublin, 1832.
We are not quite certain of the spelling of Ellingsale; it may be
Ellingsate.
GREENWOOD (Grace) _ps._ [Mrs. SARAH JANE CLARKE, afterwards
LIPPINCOTT].
History of my Pets, 1853. A Forest Tragedy, 1856. Recollections of my
Childhood, with Illustrations by H. Billings, 1858.
Numerous other works, for which see Allibone.
GREYLOCK (Godfrey) _phrenonym_ [J. E. A. SMITH?]
Taghonic; or Letters and Legends about our Summer Home. Boston, 1852.
GRIFFIN (Gregory) _phren._ [GEORGE CANNING].
The Microcosm, a periodical, by G. G., of the College of Eton
[assisted by J. Smith, J. H. Frere, R. Smith, and others]. Windsor,
1809.
GRIFFINHOOF (Anthony) Gent., _phrenonym_ [JOHN HUMPHREYS PARRY].
The Maskers of Moorfields; a vision. By the late A. G., Gent, (edited
by W. Griffinhoof, _ps._ J. H. P.) 1815.
GRIFFENHOOF (Arthur) _phren._ [GEORGE COLMAN, the Younger, the well
known dramatic author].
Songs, etc. in the Gay Deceivers, a musical farce, in two acts,
performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market. Written by A. G., author
of The Review and Love Laughs at Lock-Smiths. Dated from Turnham
Green. [1804].
GRINGO (Harry) _pseud._ [Lieutenant WISE].
Tales for the Marines, by ----, author of Los Gringos. Boston, 1855.
GULLIVER (Lemuel) _fictitious_ [JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.].
Travels into several remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver,
first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships. 1726. Frequently
reprinted.
A lost leaf of Gulliver’s Travels will be found in “Miscellaneous
Remains of Archbishop Whately,” 1865; and in the Pall Mall
Gazette, 1867, was one which completely deceived several persons.
GULLIVER, _allonym_ [ ].
G’s last Voyage, describing Ballymugland, or the floating Island.
1825.
GULLIVER (Lemuel) jun., _pseud._ [ ].
Voyage to Locuta; a fragment, with etchings, etc. (a grammatical
Tract). 1818.
There were numbers of spurious Gullivers though chiefly before
1800.
G. W. M., _init._ [GEORGE WILSON MEADLEY].
Memoirs of Mrs. Jebb. 1812.
H.
HACKLE (Palmer) _pseud._ [ROBERT BLAKEY].
Hints on Angling. 1846.
H. A. L., the Old Shekarry, _init._ [Major LEVESON].
The Camp Fire. The Forest and the Field. 3rd edit. _Longman_, 1865.
_Sauders, Otley & Co._, 1867. With photographic portrait of the
Author. The Hunting Grounds of the Old World. 1st series, 1860.
Wrinkles, or Hints to Travellers and Sportsmen upon Dress, Equipment,
etc. 1867.
HALLER, (Joseph) _pseud._ [HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE].
In Knight’s Quarterly Magazine. 1823-4.
HAMILTON (Gail) _pseud._ [Miss M. A. DODGE].
Gala Days. Boston, 1863. A Call to my Countrywomen. New York, 1863.
Skirmishes and Sketches. Boston, 1865. Stumbling Blocks, 1864.
Wool-Gathering, 1867.
HAPPY (John) _phren._ [J. P. ROBERTS].
HARDBARGAIN (Henry) _phren._ [ ].
Hints to Subalterns of the British Army, by H. H., late of the ----
Regiment. 1843.
HARDCASTLE (Daniel) _pseud._ [RICHARD PAGE].
Letter to the Editor of “The Times,” on the Bank of England, etc.,
1826.
HARDCASTLE (Daniel) junior, _pseud._ [ ]
Banks and Bankers. 1842 and 1843.
HARDCASTLE (Ephraim) _pseud._ [WILLIAM HENRY PYNE, artist].
Wine and Walnuts; or, After Dinner Chit-Chat, 1823. 2 vols.
HARLAND (Marion) _ps._ [MARY VIRGINIA HAWES, afterwards TERHUNE,
American Authoress].
Alone, 1854. The Hidden Path, 1855. Moss Side, 1858. Sunnybank, 1866.
Christmas Holly, 1867.
HARRIET, _prenonym_ [BALDUCK].
Pious Harriet; or, the History of a Young and Devout Christian. By
the Author of the Retrospect, etc. London, 1820.
HARRIET, _prenonym_ [Miss WHITE, of Cashel].
Verses, sacred and miscellaneous. 1853.
J. P--r.
HAYDEN (Sarah Marshall) _pseud._ [MARY FRAZAER].
Early Engagements: ... and Florence. Cincinnati, 1858 (1854?)
H. B., _pseud._ [DOYLE, Father of Richard Doyle].
Reform Caricatures. London, 1830.
H. C., Esq., author of the Fisher Boy [W. H. IRELAND].
The Fisher Boy, a poem, comprising his ... avocations during the four
seasons of the year, by H. C., Esq., Lond., [1808].
The Sailor Boy, a poem in four cantos, illustrative of the Navy of
Great Britain, by ----. 1809.
H. D., of Cheltenham, Publisher, _init._ [HENRY DAVIES].
Hours in the Picture Gallery of Thurlstone House. Cheltenham, 1846.
H. E. M., _init._ [MANNING].
Dies Consecrati: or a New Christian Year with the Old Poets. London,
1855.
H. G., _init._ [HUDSON GURNEY].
Cupid and Psyche, a mythological tale (rendered into English Verse,
from Apuleius). London, 1844.
HIBERNICUS, _pseudo-geonym_ [DE WITT CLINTON].
Letters on the Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of
New York. 1822.
HIEOVER (Harry) _pseud._ [CHARLES BRINDLEY].
Practical Horsemanship. _Longmans_, 1856. Hunting Field. The Stud for
Practical Purposes and Practical Men. Stable Talk and Table Talk, or
spectacles for Young Persons; (with a portrait of the author).
See Allibone, under this pseudonym.
HIEROPHILOS, _phren._ [JOHN MAC HALE].
The Letters of H. on the education of the Poor of Ireland, etc.
... the letters of Bibliophilos (written in reply to Hierophilos).
Dublin, printed by P. Blenkinssop, 1821.
Letters of H. to the English People on ... Ireland. London, _Keating
& Brown_, 1822.
This is an enlarged republication of the above.
Catholic Emancipation ... Ireland ... to the Right Hon. G. Canning.
Dublin, _Keating & Brown_, 1824.
The whole of these are republished in:
The letters of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, D.D., under their
respective signatures of Hierophilos, John, Bishop of Maronia, Bishop
of Killala, and Archbishop of Tuam. Dublin, _Duffy_, 1847.
HIEROPHILUS, _phren._ [ ].
A vindication of the ... Bishop of Peterborough from the
animadversions of a writer in the Edinburgh Review ... a Letter
to the Rev. S---- S---- [Sydney Smith, author of the Review].
_Rivington_, 1823.
HIS MOTHER, _demonym_ [M. M. ROLLS].
Excelsior, a truthful Sketch of a lovely Youth, B. G. L. R.--(Bernard
Glanville Lyndon Rolls). By his Mother. London and Birmingham
[1855?], 32mo.
HISTORICUS _phren._ [Hon. E. VERNON HARCOURT].
Letters in _The Times_.
H. K., _initialism_ [HERBERT KYNASTON].
Commemoration Address in praise of Dean Colet. London, 1852.
H. L. W., _initialism_ [HENRY LOVETT WOODWARD].
Poems of a Religious kind in the _Christian Observer_, London, 1835-6.
H. M., _initialism_ [HARRIET MARTINEAU].
The Martyr Age of the United States, etc. Republished from the London
and Westminster Review. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1840.
H. M. G., _init._ [GUNN].
History of Nonconformity in Warminster. Lond., 1853.
H. M. K., _disguised-author_ [Rev. HENRY MACKENZIE].
The Lay of the Thrings [1849]. Only 250 copies privately printed.
See Martin’s Catalogue.
HOGG (Cervantes) F.S.M. (Fellow of the Swinish Multitude?)
_pseudonym_ [E. S. BARRETT].
The Rising Sun, a serio-comic satiric romance (with coloured plates).
1807-9. Several editions.
N. & Q., 2 S. ii. 310.
HOGG (Nathan) _pseud._ [HENRY BAIRD].
Letters in the Devonshire Dialect [in verse]. Exeter, 1847.
HONORIA, _pseudonym_ [ ].
Essays selected from Montaigne, with a Sketch of the Life of the
Author [signed Honoria]. Lond., _Cadell_, 1800.
The Female Mentor, 2nd edition. [18--.] An edition, Philadelphia,
1802.
HONORIA, _pseud._ [M. A. POWER].
The Letters of a Betrothed, 1858, (signed).
HORAM, the Son of Asmar, _Persian pseud._ [Rev. JAMES RIDLEY,
Chaplain to the East India Company].
The Tales of the Genii; or, the delightful Lessons of ----.
Faithfully translated from the Persian MS. ... by Sir Charles Morell
[_pseudo-titlonym_ J. Ridley]. Lond., 1764. New edition, collated and
edited by Philo-Juvenis [_ps._ H. G. Bohn, the publisher of it]. 1859.
See Lowndes by Bohn, p. 2570.
In these beautiful tales Mr. Ridley has given an amiable portrait
of the Rev. J. Spence, the well known author of an Essay on
Pope’s Odyssey, under the character of the “Dervise of the
Groves,” whose name is “Phesoj Ecneps,” or Joseph Spence, if read
backwards.
HORNEM (Horace) Esq. _ps._ [GEORGE GORDON, Lord Byron].
The Waltz; an Apostrophic Poem, 1813, _Sherwood_, 4to.
Waltz: an apostrophic Hymn. By ----, (the noble author of Don Juan).
_W. Clark_, 1821, 8vo.
This trifle was written at Cheltenham, in the autumn of 1812,
and published anonymously in the spring of the following year.
It was not very well received at the time by the public; and
the author was by no means anxious that it should be considered
as his handiwork. “I fear,” he says, in a letter to a friend,
“that a certain malicious publication on waltzing is attributed
to me. This report, I suppose you will take care to contradict;
as the author I am sure would not like that I should wear his
cap and bells.”--_Note in Byron’s Works_, 1850, p. 456. We have
never seen the first edition, but a quotation in the Gentleman’s
Magazine, April, 1813, p. 348, shows it to be the same.
HOWARD (George) Esq., _pseud._ [FRANCIS C. LAIRD, Lieut. R.N.]. Lady
Jane Grey and her Times. London, 1822. Woolsey, the Cardinal and his
Times. 1824.
H. S., _telonism_ [RALPH THOMAS, Serjeant-at-Law].
Going to the Bar. In Cobbett’s Magazine. 1832.
HUMPHREY (Old) _pseud._ [GEORGE MOGRIDGE].
Books intended chiefly for the Young. For list see _Allibone_. See
Parley (Peter), _impostor_.
I.
IGNATIUS, Brother, [calling himself] Monk of the Order of Saint
Benedict, _name of religious order_ [JOSEPH LEYCESTER LYNE].
The Catholic Church of England, and what she teaches, a lecture.
Manchester [printed], London, 1864. Monks and Nuns, in reply to two
Lectures of Father Ignatius, O. S. B., 1864. Ignatius ... to ...
Father Darby [in reply to his Lecture on Monks and Nuns]. 1864.
IGNATIUS (Father) Passionist, _name of religious order_ [Hon. and
Rev. GEORGE SPENCER].
The Life of Blessed Paul of the Cross, translated by ----, London,
1860.
Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist [Hon. George
Spencer]. By the Rev. Father Pius a Sp. Sancto, Passionist. London,
_Duffy_, 1866.
IGNATIUS (Grandfather) _ironym_ [ ].
Re-generation or De-generation, a Pill for the Parsons and a Spur for
Spurgeon. [Lond., 1864].
IGNATIUS (John) _pseud._?
Advance of the Sikh Army upon India; and other Poems. London, Derby
(printed). 1847.
INDICUS, _pseud._ [Major EVANS BELL].
The Rajah and Principality of Mysore. 1865.
IRELAND (Samuel William Henry) _literary forger_.
Miscellaneous Papers and Instruments under the hand and Seal of
William Shakespeare, including the Tragedy of King Lear, and a small
fragment of Hamlet, from the original. 1796, folio, £4. 4s.
An imposture on a grander scale was never conceived or executed;
and perhaps we may add, with all respect to the learned
celebrities who were deceived by it, that dupes more easily
satisfied, more credulous and unsuspecting, were never met with.
It must be admitted that a very opportune period was chosen for
the imposition; and taking into consideration the youth of the
individual by whom it was perpetrated,--that he had not at the
time attained his twentieth year,--it must also be confessed that
it was carried out with considerable cleverness and ingenuity.
Ireland was the son of a gentleman who is known as the author of
several Picturesque Tours, and some illustrations of Hogarth--a
man of considerable taste, and an ardent admirer of Shakespeare.
He had been articled to an attorney, and having daily
opportunities of inspecting ancient deeds and writings, he
seems to have occupied his leisure, first in deciphering, and
afterwards in copying and imitating them. Possessed of this
dangerous talent, his father’s reverence for the great English
dramatist, and his own ambition for distinction, suggested to
his mind the daring imposture by which he rendered himself
remarkable. From an attentive examination of the authentic
signature of Shakespeare, he soon learned to imitate the
character of his handwriting with facility; and from time to
time presented his father with scraps of MS., to account for the
possession of which he invented a most romantic and improbable
story.
For a long time Ireland made almost daily additions to his
pretended discoveries. Was it possible that his father had no
suspicion of their origin, and was he entirely deceived by the
monstrous assertions of his clever but unprincipled son? The
appearance of the MSS. went far to prove their genuineness. A
number of literary gentlemen voluntarily subscribed their names
to a declaration of their authenticity. It is further stated that
Mr. Boswell, the biographer of Johnson, previously to signing
his name, fell upon his knees, and in a tone of enthusiasm and
exultation thanked God he had lived to witness the discovery, and
exclaimed that he could now die in peace.
One of the ablest critics of the day, however, Mr. Malone,
remained unconvinced.
Believing himself possessed of a most invaluable treasure--in
spite of the protestations of his son, who dreaded and foresaw
the exposure of the fraud--Mr. Samuel Ireland determined on
publishing the “discoveries,” and printed a large portion of them
in a fine folio volume, the title of which is given at the head
of this article.
A very slight examination of this volume would, it has been
thought, have shown the transparency of the fraud.
The most daring imposition, however, remains to be told. On the
2nd of April, 1796, the play of Vortigern and Rowena “from the
pen of Shakespeare,” was announced for representation at Drury
Lane Theatre. Public excitement was at its height. As the evening
approached, every avenue to the theatre was thronged with anxious
crowds, eager to obtain admission. Thousands, it is said, were
turned away.
The fraud, however, was very soon discovered, and an attempt
that was made to announce the play for repetition was wisely
withdrawn, the unanimous voice of the public having proclaimed
the imposture. This failure was a death-blow to the fraud.
Gratified by the notoriety he had acquired, Ireland was induced
to publish the following full and free confession in “An
Authentic Account of the Shakespeare Manuscripts.”
“I solemnly declare, first, that my father was perfectly
unacquainted with the whole affair, believing the papers most
firmly the productions of Shakespeare. Secondly, that I am myself
both the author and writer, and had no aid from any soul living,
and that I should never have gone so far, but that the world
praised the papers so much, and thereby flattered my vanity.
Thirdly, that any publication which may appear tending to prove
the MSS. genuine, or to contradict what is here stated, is false;
this being the true account.
“W. H. IRELAND.”
It must be confessed that circumstances seemed to warrant the
suspicion that father and son were equally implicated, and even
the latter’s solemn declaration to the contrary could not remove
the impression that had been made on the public mind. To the
time of his death, in 1835, he carried with him the significant
sobriquet of Shakespeare Ireland.
The above is chiefly abridged from the article by F. Lawrence in
Sharpe’s London Magazine.
In Chalcographomania, which is said to be written by Ireland,
these observations are made. They almost seem to render his being
its author doubtful.
Weeps o’er false Shakesperian lore,
Which sprang from Maisterre Ireland’s store;
Whose impudence deserves the rod,
For having ap’d the muse’s god.
To this latter the following note is added.
“It has frequently afforded me a matter of astonishment to think
how this literary fraud could have so long duped the world,
and involved in its deceptious vortex such personages as Parr,
Wharton, and Sheridan, not omitting Jemmy Boswell, of Johnsonian
renown; nor can I even refrain from smiling whensoever the
volumes of Malone and Chalmers, together with the pamphlets of
Boaden, Waldron, Wyatt, and Philalethes, otherwise ---- Webb,
Esq., chance to fall in my way.”--p. 57.
See Shakespeare (William).
ISA, _prenonym_ [ISA CRAIG, afterwards KNOX].
Poems. Edinb. and London, 1856.
ISABEL, _pseudonym_ [W. GILMORE SIMMS].
Pelayo; or, the Cavern of Covadonga, a romance (in verse). New York,
1836.
IT MATTERS NOT _WHO_, _phraseonym_ [Rev. E. NARES].
Heraldic Anomalies, or Rank and Confusion in our Orders of
Precedence. By ----. London, 1823.
J.
JACIA, _pseud._ [JOHN CRANE].
Remarks on Coinage. London, 1859.
JAQUES, _pseud._ [J. HAIN FRISWELL].
The “Censor” in the Evening Star, 1867.
J. B., Gent., _initialism_ [ ].
The Meteor; or a Short Blaze, but a Bright one, a farce. 1809.
J. B. P., _init._ [PAYNE]. Moxon’s Miniature Poets. 1865.
J. C., _initialism_ [JAMES CLAY, M.P.].
A treatise on Short Whist. This is bound up with the Laws of Short
Whist, edited by J. L. Baldwin, 1864.
Another little work on this subject was published under these
initials, but it is not by this gentleman.
J. C. B. _init._ [JOHN COXE BOYCE].
Poetical Productions of my Youth. Birm., 1842.
Written at the age of 15. Privately printed.
See Martin, Cat.
J. C. G., _initialism_ [JULIA C. GRIMANI].
Sacred Lyrics. London, J. R. Smith, 1849.
J. C. G. (Marin de P * * *) _init._ [ ].
A Fortnight in Paris ... with an Historical Notice by J. C. G. Marin
de P * * * Translated from a new and enlarged French edition, by J.
Fisher, of Paris, with ... a map. Paris, 1863.
J. D., _disguised-author_ [J. D. B. DE BOW].
The Political Annals of South Carolina. By a Citizen (signing himself
J. D). Charleston, 1845.
J. D., _init._ [DISTURNELL].
The Eastern Tourist, being a guide through the States of Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, also
a Dash into Canada. New York, 1848.
J. D., _init._ [JOHN DIX].
Pen-Pictures of Popular English Preachers; with Limnings of Listeners
in Church and Chapel. By J. D., author of the Life of Chatterton,
etc. London, Stokesby (printed). 1851.
JENKINS (Peter), see Tomkins (Isaac). 1835.
J. F. D., _init._ [ ].
The Outcast, or the Wonderful Dealings of Divine Grace exhibited in
the history of Kate ---- (edited by J. F. D.). 2nd edition. Dublin,
1856.
J. G., _init._ [JAMES GLASSFORD].
Miscellanea [Translations in English from the Latin of etc.], Edinb.,
1818, 4to. Privately printed.
Notes of three Tours in Ireland in 1824-6. Bristol [1830].
Not published.
J. H. B. M., _init._ [MOUNTAIN].
A Sermon preached at Blunham Church ... on ... the completion of an
East Window, by M. F. Sadler (with a preface by ----). London, 1864.
J. H. H. H., see Little (T.) junior, _ps._ [ ].
J. H. M., _init._ [MONK].
Memoir of Duport, Regius Professor of Greek and Dean of Peterborough
(by ----, from the Museum Criticum) [Cambridge, 1825].
J. H. N., _init._ [Father NEWMAN].
The Dream of Gerontius. 1865.
Dedicated to Father Gordon, of the Oratory, Brompton, by his
friend J. H. N.
J. K. L., _initialism_ [JAMES DOYLE, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare
and Leighlin].
Letters on the state of Education in Ireland and Dublin, 1824.
These letters excited a great deal of controversy, and produced a
number of anonymous pamphlets.
Observations addressed to H. Phillpotts [afterwards Bishop of
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J. L. A., _initialism_ [ANDERDON].
River Dove; with some quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of
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_Pickering_, 1847.
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J. M., _initialism_ [MORGAN].
Elegy, Mark Luke Grayston. _Woodbridge_, 1830. _s.sh._
J. M., Rev. D.D., F.S.A., _init._ [J. MILNER, Bishop of Castabala].
A vindication of the End of Religious Controversy, etc. London, 1822.
J. M., _init._ [JOHN MUIR].
The Course of Divine Revelation, etc. Calcutta, 1846.
J. M., _init._ [JOHN MARTIN].
An Inquiry into the Authority for Echard’s Statement in his History
of England, etc. London, 1852.
J. M. and C. C., _polynym_ [JOHN MILL CHANTER and CHARLOTTE CHANTER].
Jack Frost and other tales. London, 1858.
J. N. D., _init._ [JOHN NELSON DARBY].
A number of tracts, etc., on religious subjects. 1861-5.
J. O., _init._ (Jacob Omnium, _pseud._ q.v.) [M. J. HIGGINS].
The Story of the Mhow Court-Martial (reprinted from the Cornhill
Magazine). London, 1864.
JOBSON (Frederick J.) D.D.
Whether Dr. Jobson has been guilty of plagiarism is a difficult
matter to determine. So difficult, that taking into consideration
his denial, we shall let our readers judge for themselves, by
giving the accusation and answer from the Athenæum, with no
alteration but a correction of the paging, etc.
Supposing that there is no ground for accusing Dr. Jobson of
borrowing without acknowledgment, then this correspondence
comes in as part of our plan. It certainly is one of the most
remarkable instances of two writers expressing their ideas in
similar words, though at an interval of several years.
LITERARY LARCENY.
[To the Editor of the _Athenæum_].
Hammersmith, Feb. 14, 1863.
Some four or five years ago I published a little book of Travels
called ‘Southern Lights and Shadows,’ which--thanks to kindly
notices in your columns and elsewhere--was tolerably successful.
The work, however, was sadly abused in the Australian colonies,
and, for some reason or other which was never made apparent to
me, gave sore offence to the Methodists of New South Wales. The
volume has, I think, run out of print, and is probably by this
time forgotten. Nevertheless, it has strangely been decreed that
a leader of the body who were most offended at it shall revive
and perpetuate its “obnoxious” pages.
Within the last day or two a “second edition” of a book entitled
‘Australia; with Notes by the Way,’ by Frederick J. Jobson,
D.D., has come under my notice. I cannot exactly tell what led
me to look into its pages, unless from a desire of seeing how
a Methodist divine would deal with a subject which, under my
treatment, had proved so unpleasant to the Wesleyan community
of Trans-Pacifica. Imagine my surprise when I found that, from
the opening to the close of Dr. Jobson’s volume, the leading
paragraphs were stolen from my ‘Southern Lights and Shadows’!
This is a serious charge to bring against any author, and so
specially serious when brought against an author who carries
D.D. at the end of his name, that I feel bound to support it
with direct and unmistakeable evidence. I append, therefore,
in parallel columns, a few of the passages which appeared in
‘Southern Lights and Shadows’ in 1859, and which now re-appear,
with but the slightest and shallowest disguise (a disguise of
so transparent a character that, like the _coa vestis_, it only
serves to reveal what it affects to hide), in ‘Australia; with
Notes by the Way,’ in 1863:
_My Book_ [1859]. _Dr. Jobson’s Book_ [1863].
The evenings in Australia are The evenings at Sydney were at
singularly beautiful. I have often times singularly beautiful. The
read a newspaper by the light of moon was so bright and large that
the moon. The stars are very you could see to read by it. The
white and large, and seem to drop stars, too, were brighter and
pendulous from the blue, like larger than ours in appearance,
silver lamps from a dome of and seemed to drop like pendent
calaite.--P. 85. lamps of glittering crystal from
the deep blue dome above.--P. 126.
All Dr. Jobson does here is to give us his new lamps of crystal
for my old ones of silver.
_My Book._ _Dr. Jobson’s Book._
In Sydney and its immediate There are more than five hundred
neighbourhood there are no less public-houses in Sydney and
than five hundred public-houses, its immediate neighbourhood, and
many of them as great and garish some of them are as ... gay and
as the gin-palaces of London. garish as our own street corner
--P. 52. gin-palaces.--P. 157.
As Dr. Jobson was writing three years after me, he, no doubt,
conceived it a safe and subtle alteration to turn the word
“less” into “more;” but as the “five” was a misprint for _three_
in my book, his caution has only made the trap into which he
has put his foot clip it the closer. A similar maladroitness
characterizes the reverend author’s picking and stealing
throughout. The reader will see it strikingly displayed in the
next example, where the sentences are so unaltered in themselves,
and yet so changed in their sequence and order, that, like the
boy who steals the eggs in ‘Parents and Guardians,’ Dr. Jobson
evidently thinks he has only to shift position to annihilate
identity.
[For brevity we here omit two long parallel passages].
In the first-quoted plagiarism Dr. Jobson gave “crystal” for
“silver”--in the above he supplies “brittle pottery” for
“crystal.” My “dogs” only are afflicted by the hot wind--Dr.
Jobson blasts the beasts of the field and the birds of the air.
My “great-coat is buttoned tightly around” me--Dr. Jobson’s
“great-coat” is only thought “desirable.” But this is accounted
for, as with me the thermometer “sinks fifty or sixty degrees,”
while with Dr. Jobson it “sinks _down_” but “forty or fifty.” My
“compact wall,” “Last Seal” and “Apocalypse,” however, are taken
bodily. It is scarcely worth while pointing out the ludicrous
errors which, in “dodging” my description about, Dr. Jobson has
committed. The “brickfielder” is not the hot wind at all; it is
but another name for the cold wind or “southerly-buster,” which
_follows_ the hot breeze, and which, blowing over an extensive
sweep of sand-hills, called the Brickfields, semicircling Sydney,
carries a thick cloud of dust (or “brickfielder”) across the
city. How true is old Butler’s remark that some plagiarists
accompany their robberies with murder to prevent detection!
_My Book._ _Dr. Jobson’s book._
It (the mosquito) comes buzzing The pungent bites of musquitoes,
against your cheek with a drowsy which in the evening, whether
sing-song _whir_, fixes its suckers in public, social, or private life,
into the flesh, and bounds off with come buzzing against your cheek
another song--a kind of _carmen with a peculiar _whir_, fixing
triumphale_--leaving a large red their blood-suckers in the flesh,
mark behind it, which is far more and then, after drawing their full
irritating than a healing blister potion, flying off with a flutter of
... They have a great relish--being triumph, leaving a blotch behind,
epicures in their way--for which, until ripened to a yellow
the round, fat, mottled part of head, is far more irritating than a
the hand ridging the off-side of healing blister.... And they have
the palm. In about two seconds evidently a high relish for the
one will sow it with bumps and round fat part of the hand, _from
blisters _from the wrist to the the wrist-bone to the little
little finger_.... They, too, finger_. If this part be exposed
especially hate and harass the from under the coverlid for five
new chum. Pp. 83-4. minutes, it will be sown all over by
them with bumps and blisters, not to
be forgotten till the next night,
if so soon. They, too, like the
boys in the streets, have wanton
pleasure in vexing “new chums.”
Pp. 158-9.
One very brief illustration more, and I have finished with Dr.
Jobson:--
_My Book._ _Dr. Jobson’s Book._
The shark gleaming, green and _Sat. March 2._--Pleasant passage
still, just an arm’s depth below down the harbour, in which,
the surface.--P. 131. gleaming, still and green, at not
more than an arm’s depth from
the surface, the ravenous shark
might be seen.--P. 173.
This last example raises one’s gorge. I close my book with an
attempt at a panorama of sea scenery, _and, in the middle of a
sentence_, are the words quoted in the left hand column above.
Dr. Jobson, after concluding his description of Sydney with
these words,--“Only let the churches of Christ send an adequate
number of missionaries to India, China, the multitude of the
isles, and to the interior of Africa, and these heathen regions
shall assuredly be evangelized: these realms of sin become the
kingdom of our God and of his Christ!” (p. 174)--opens the next
section of his book with _my_ fish! If a whale once appropriated
a missionary, verily here is a missionary appropriating a shark!
In closing, let me say that my only object in asking you to
insert this letter is to direct other writers on the subject to
Dr. Jobson’s book. If he has taken so much from me, I have no
doubt he has--to use an Australian phrase--“jumped other claims”
for the balance of his nuggets.
Frank Fowler.
47, City Road, March 3, 1863.
In justice alike to me and to the public who have purchased,
within fourteen months nearly three editions of my volume on
‘Australia, with Notes by the Way,’ I am sure you will give me
space to reply to a communication which appeared in your columns
of February 21, but which I did not see till nearly the end of
last week.
As to any quarrel which your Correspondent has had with my
friends on the other side of the globe I know nothing at all. Up
to the time when his letter was given in the _Athenæum_, I had
not heard of his ‘Southern Lights and Shadows;’ and as he states
that the book is out of print, I cannot hope to examine it [Dr.
Jobson could have seen it in the British Museum], else I should
be curious to learn how his “little book” on New South Wales
only, could supply the “leading paragraphs” “from the opening to
the close” of my post-octavo volume of nearly three hundred pages
[only 112 pages relate to Australia and Tasmania], and which
treats, not only of all the Australasian Colonies, but also of
all the principal countries in the way to them. I might also try
to ascertain whether he has broken up his own paragraphs, after
the fashion of his dealing with mine [The paragraphs seem to us
fairly quoted.] Every one knows how easy it is by such a process
to make things look alike, which are in their own setting and
original connexion sufficiently different. Not that I am about to
charge this writer with intentional misrepresentation: an attempt
at brevity may be a great part of the explanation.
The fact is, that in my travels I did as everybody else does:
that is, I read whatever came in my way bearing on the countries
through which I was passing; but I took care to note down my own
observations and impressions; and if, in doing so, some terms,
perfectly true to my own views, though, possibly, they had been
employed by others, adhered to my memory, and found their way
into my manuscript, no reader of books of travel could feel
surprise. In the several colonies of Australia, as in other parts
of the world (as often as I could do so), I availed myself of the
judgment of intelligent friends, who had the advantage of longer
residence, with a view to secure accuracy in the statement of
facts, etc. In this instance, there are peculiar circumstances
which, for explanation and proof, rest upon minute examination,
not only of my own manuscript notes, but also of the written
suggestions of others. And had the complainant communicated
with me through my publisher, or otherwise, there would have
been supplied to him evidence fully to account for the apparent
resemblances in subjects and terms to which he has referred. He
has not done so; and as I do not choose to leave the case, as
it really is, to depend upon my own single assertion, I have
submitted it, with all the papers in question, to gentlemen whose
public character and intellectual competency are above suspicion.
They all have authorized the appending of their names to the
following declaration by themselves; but as it is not necessary
to give all their signatures, I content myself with two: the one
by a gentleman of Cornwall, well known by his numerous writings;
and the other by a minister of high standing in the metropolis.
FREDERICK J. JOBSON.
“At Dr. Jobson’s request, we have examined the manuscripts and
proofs, to which reference is made above; and are fully satisfied
of the correctness of his statement; and that there is no just
cause, literary or otherwise, for the unfavourable reflections
which have been cast upon him.
“GEORGE SMITH, LL.D., F.S.A.
“WILLIAM W. STAMP.”
JORROCKS (John) _pseud._ [SURTEES].
Jorrock’s Jaunts and Jollities; or, the ... exploits of that renowned
Sporting Citizen, John Jorrocks. With twelve illustrations by Phiz
[_pseud._] _R. Ackermann_. 1838. royal 8vo, £1. 5s.
J. R. L., _init._ [LOWELL]. The Poetical Works of J. Keats, with a
Life (signed J. R. L.) Boston, 1854.
J. R. M., _init._ [MACCULLOCH].
Tracts ... on Metallic and Paper Currency, by S. J. Lloyd (edited by
----). 1858.
JUNE (Jennie), _phrenonym_ [Mrs. JENNIE CROLY].
JUNIUS, _pseudonym_.
The Letters of Junius and Philo-Junius, 1769-1772.
First published in the “Public Advertiser.” They are often talked
about, but seldom read, only the mystery about the author has
kept up the excitement. We cannot do more than say that nearly
every celebrated man of the time (and some obscure ones too)
has had these letters attributed to him. The author is not
authoritatively ascertained. A full account will be found in S.
Austin Allibone’s Critical Dict. of English Literature, 1859,
under Junius, etc. See Lowndes by Bohn.
There is also: Junius Redivivus, Junius Secundus, Philo Junius;
and Junius has been constantly used as a mask since it was made
celebrated, though chiefly by writers in periodical publications.
J. W., deceased, in usum Amicorum, _init._ [JOHN WILSON, of
Islington].
The Music of the Soul, etc., in verse. Lond., 1829.
Privately printed, see Martin.
J. W., _initialism_. See L * * * (Mrs.)
J. W., _init._ [JOHN WADE, Barrister-at-Law].
The Cabinet Lawyer, a popular digest of the Laws of England. 22nd
edit. _Longman_, 1866.
Semi-anonymous, the preface is signed J. W.
J. W. H. M., _init._ [JOHN WILLIAM HENRY MOLYNEAUX].
Private Prayers ... selected from Bishop Andrewes’ Devotions (by
----). 1866.
K.
K., _initialism_ [JOHN COLLYER KNIGHT].
Queried Tracts, from Kitto’s Journal of Sacred Literature. Lond.,
1851.
KATE (Cousin) _prenonym_ [CATHERINE D. BELL].
Set about it at once, or Cousin Kate’s Story. An Autumn at Karnford,
a sequel to, etc. Edinburgh, 1847. Georgie and Lizzie, 1849. What
may I learn, or Sketches of School-girls, 1849. The Douglas Family
[1851]. Margaret Cecil: or, “I can because I ought,” 1851. Arnold
Lee: or, Rich Children and Poor Children [1852]. Lily Gordon, the
Young Housekeeper, 1853. Hope Campbell, or, know thyself [1854]. Mary
Elliott, or be ye kind to one another. 2nd edit. [1856]. New Stories
[1861]. My first Pennies. Boston [U. S., 1864].
KERR (Orpheus C.), _phrenonym_ (Office Seeker). [R. H. NEWELL, of New
York].
What the satire of “Hudibras” was to the great civil war of the time
of Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell, it is pretended the “Orpheus C.
Kerr Letters” have been to the recent American struggle.
Avery Glibun; or between Two Fires: a romance. New York, 1867,
Is his latest production; as the preface is not lengthy, we
will give it:--“Avery Glibun being my first essay in sustained
fiction, it seems remarkably prudent to say no more about it.”
KETCH (John) _pseud._ [ ].
The Autobiography of a notorious Legal Functionary (J. K.) with 14
illustrations from designs by Meadows. Lond., 1836.
K. H., _initialism_ [ ].
Sketches in Prose and Poetry. _Smith & Elder_, 1838.
KIRKE (Edmund), _pseud._ [JAMES R. GILMORE].
Life in Dixie’s Land, etc., 1863. My Southern Friends, 1863. Down in
Tennessee, and back by way of Richmond. New York, 1864. Among the
Guerillas, 1866. Patriot Boys. Boston, 1866.
KIRWAN, _pseud._ [Rev. NICHOLAS MURRAY].
Romanism at Home. 6th edition. New York, 1852. Men and Things as I
saw them in Europe, 1853. The Happy Home, 1858.
KNICKERBOCKER (Diedrick) _pseud._ [WASHINGTON IRVING].
The History of New York, numerous editions.
One of the wittiest works of this brilliant author. “The first
part was sketched in company with Dr. Peter Irving.”--_Allibone._
L.
L., _ps._ [CATHERINE SWANWICK].
Poems. London, 1858, etc.
L., _init._ [JAMES LENOX].
Shakespeare’s Plays in folio, Bibliographical Notices of the same.
New York, 1861.
L---- (Lady), _disguised-author_ [Lady LYONS].
Olivia; a tale, etc. Philip Hetherington. The Lover upon Trial. All
1847.
L * * * (Mrs.), _disguised-author_ [LEFEVRE].
An extract of Letters, by ----, edited by J. W. [John Wesley].
Dublin, 1808.
Several editions before this year.
L. A. D., _pseud._ [ILFRACOMBE].
Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari Banon, a Drawing Room piece, 1859.
LASCELLES (Lady Caroline) _pseudo-titlonym_ [M. E. BRADDON?]
The Black Band, first published in the Halfpenny Journal.
The following, from the Athenæum, requires no explanation from us:--
THE MANUFACTURE OF NOVELS.
The literary people of New York are wrangling over a matter
which, like many causes of dispute, derives importance from the
ingenuity and warmth of the discussion which it provokes. Amongst
other points that await judgment, the squabble has raised a
question concerning an English novelist who would act prudently
in publishing without delay her part in the transactions that
have raised a Grub Street tempest on the other side of the
Atlantic. At this present time the proprietors of the New
York _Sunday Mercury_ are publishing in their paper a novel,
entitled ‘Nobody’s Daughter; or, the Ballad Singer of Wapping,’
which they announce in highly sensational advertisements as an
original work from the pen of Miss Braddon, of whom they observe,
with characteristic magniloquence and capitals:--“_Two Worlds_
have indorsed Miss E. Braddon as a novelist of transcendent
power,--the Old World and the New. The English reviews have
carped at her works--probably because they had not soul enough
to appreciate them; but the very magazines in which their
petti-fogging criticisms are published have since found it to
their interest to beg for stories from her pen, paying her such
price therefor as she thought fit to demand, and she queens
it to-day in the department of _Sensational Romance_ wherever
the English language is spoken.” Whilst they thus proclaim
Miss Braddon’s royal status, these same masters of sensational
advertisement speak tall words about their own merits, stating
very distinctly that they are citizens of whom the Union has
reason to be proud, and that their _Sunday Mercury_ is “the
newspaper that _occupies the throne_ of Sunday journalism.”
Next to personal possession of a throne, the sole and unlimited
possession of that which occupies a throne may be regarded as
the highest object of mere worldly ambition; and we congratulate
their Majesties one-degree removed of the New York _Sunday
Mercury_ on their tenure of royal rank,--although their throne
is nothing more splendid than the editorial chair of a Sunday
newspaper. Nor do we warmly censure the enthusiasm, though we may
question the judgment which they display in fighting for Miss
Braddon’s crown. Since they have “soul enough” to admire her
novels, by all means let them put to shame those English reviews
“which carped at her works, probably because they had not soul
enough to appreciate them.” But if upon inquiry it should be
ascertained either that they have been induced to regard as Miss
Braddon’s work a story of which she never wrote a line, or that
they have conspired to hoax the public for their own private
advantage, what will be thought of these several occupants of
thrones?
On one side it is asserted that in assigning ‘Nobody’s daughter’
to Miss Braddon, the proprietors of the _Sunday Mercury_ are only
endeavouring to draw attention to their paper by an impudent
fabrication; and those who take this view of the case argue
thus:--‘Nobody’s Daughter’ is merely a reprint, under a new
title, of ‘Diavola,’ a story that is now being published in the
_London Journal_, by the author of ‘The Black Band.’ So far, a
London reader can safely follow the New York disputant; for the
current number of the _London Journal_ (Feb 16, 1867,) contains
chaps. 37-39 of the story called ‘Diavola,’ by the author of ‘The
Black Band.’
It seems clear, therefore, either that Miss Braddon is the author
of ‘The Black Band,’ or that she is not the writer of ‘Nobody’s
Daughter.’ Which of these two? Against the first supposition the
New York Critics bring forward the following evidence. They say
that in the summer of last year, when ‘The Black Band,’ which
originally appeared in the _London Journal_, was republished in
New York by Messrs. Hilton & Co., under the new name of ‘What is
this Mystery?’ Miss Braddon indignantly denied the authorship of
the story, and protested against the conduct of the publishers
who advertised the book as a production of her pen. How then,
it is urged, can Miss Braddon, who has explicitly disclaimed
the authorship of ‘The Black Band,’ be the writer of ‘Nobody’s
Daughter,’ _alias_ ‘Diavola,’ which is announced in the _London
Journal_ as written by the author of ‘The Black Band?’
On the other side, the occupants of “the throne of Sunday
Journalism” reiterate their assertion that ‘Nobody’s Daughter’
is from Miss Braddon’s pen, and that they paid the lady a
“munificent price” for early sheets of the work, together with
permission to publish it under a new title. They denounce all
journals that venture to express incredulity of their statements,
as “concerns on their last legs, and destitute alike of brains
and principle.” Moreover, a gentleman acting for the proprietors
has exhibited, in New York, papers that are represented to be
Miss Braddon’s receipts for two sums of £75. each, instalments of
the sum of £250., which was the munificent price spoken of in the
advertisements of the work. This same person has also exhibited
letters which he says were written to the proprietors of the
_Sunday Mercury_ respecting the early sheets of ‘Diavola,’ by Mr.
Maxwell, of London. If we felt ourselves justified in accepting
the statements thus put forth by the proprietors of the _Sunday
Mercury_ as unquestionably true, we should regard them as
settling the question respecting the authorship of ‘The Black
Band’ and ‘Diavola.’ But the gentlemen who act for the throne of
Sunday journalism use language with such singular freedom that
we hesitate to put unqualified reliance on their assurances.
A certain measure of distrust is surely due to men who have
the astounding impudence to say that the English reviews which
criticized Miss Braddon with severity have been glad to make
friendly overtures to her, and buy her tales at her own price!
With respect to Miss Braddon our counsel is that she should lose
no time in giving her explanation of facts that may be unfairly
used to her disadvantage.
Tremadoc, Feb. 26, 1867.
As Miss Braddon does not seem inclined to “give her explanations”
as to whether she is or not the author of ‘The Black Band’
(‘Diavola,’ I believe, is not denied), but is content that Lady
Caroline Lascelles (whoever she may be) should have the credit of
it, I think, on looking at the facts, there will be no difficulty
in setting this vexed question at rest. It appears that ‘The
Black Band’ originally appeared in the _Halfpenny Journal_, the
proprietor of that journal being Mr. Maxwell. ‘Diavola’ is now
being published in the _London Journal_, as by the author of
‘The Black Band,’ early sheets of which Mr. Maxwell negotiated
for sale in America. Finally, Mr. Maxwell is the proprietor of
_Belgravia_, edited by Miss Braddon.... Surely in the interests
of literature it behoves Mr. Maxwell that he should lose no time
in giving his explanation of this scandal, which may be used to
Miss Braddon’s disadvantage.
HUGH MORGAN.
Concerning “The Black Band Scandal,” Mr. John Maxwell--in a
letter published in last week’s _Athenæum_ [March 11]--makes some
strange admissions, though he seems to be under the impression
that he reveals nothing of importance. The proprietor of the
_Halfpenny Journal_, and the confidential agent who negotiated
between Miss Braddon and the New York Sunday Mercury, Mr.
Maxwell writes, “If the ‘interests of literature’ were in any
way involved in my revealing _who suggested, who planned, and
who wrote the romance of ‘The Black Band’_ and other serials
under the same _nom de plume_ which appeared in the _Halfpenny
Journal_, I should be happy to name _the authors, as soon as I
had obtained their permission, and could apportion the shares of
merit to which their respective ingenuity and industry entitle
them_; but as the ‘interests of literature’ do not appear to me
to be, in the slightest degree, affected, I shall not take any
trouble to destroy the anonymous reserve under which these tales
were written.” Here is an instructive peep into a factory of
novels for the halfpenny press, the showman of the sight being
himself the master of the mill. The operatives of the workshop
are duly classified as suggesters, planners, writers; and it
appears that, though the novels thus turned out are the patchwork
of many “hands,” the watchful director of the factory could, if
it pleased him to do so, “apportion the shares of merit to which
their respective ingenuity and industry entitle them.” With
discreet reticence, that stands in strong contrast against the
indiscretion of his frankness, Mr. Maxwell says nothing about
his plans for distributing the goods made in his factory. He
does not tell us how it came to pass that one of the novels thus
manufactured was called ‘The Black Band’ in England, and ‘What is
this Mystery?’ in America; how it came to be falsely attributed
to Lady Caroline Lascelles in this country, and (Miss Braddon’s
denial of its authorship being our evidence) no less falsely
attributed to Miss Braddon on the other side of the Atlantic;
how ‘Diavola’ came to be attributed to “the author of ‘The Black
Band’” in the _London Journal_, whereas early sheets of the tale
appear to have been sold through Mr. Maxwell’s agency in New
York as early sheets of a new tale by Miss Braddon; and how it
comes that the proprietors of the New York _Sunday Mercury_ can
exhibit papers that purport to be Miss Braddon’s receipts for
money paid to her for early sheets of this novel _by_ the author
of ‘The Black Band,’ though she has indignantly repudiated the
authorship of ‘What is this Mystery?’ _alias_ ‘The Black Band.’
All these and other like matters are mysteries, and we are
content that they should remain so. We concur with Mr. Maxwell in
thinking that the interests of literature do not require him to
publish the names of all the suggesters, planners, writers, and
other journeymen who ply their craft in his factory. He has told
everything that persons immediately concerned in the interests of
literature can need or care to know about the matter.
March 14, 1867.
I have this day received a copy of a New York paper, the
_Sunday Mercury_, dated February 27, in which are three or four
chapters of a serial tale, entitled ‘Nobody’s Daughter; or the
Ballad-Singer of Wapping,’ by Miss M. E. Braddon, together with
an abstract of published chapters; and as these are identical
with the tale now publishing in the _London Journal_, under the
title of ‘Diavola,’ by the author of ‘The Black Band,’ I think
with Mr. Morgan, there can be no difficulty in identifying under
the _nom de plume_ of Lady Caroline Lascelles the Miss Braddon of
_Belgravia_.
M. B.
4, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, March 18, 1867.
It is sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to raise a tempest
in a tea-pot; and, it appears to me, that under the title of
“Manufacture of Novels,” you are trying to solve the difficulty.
In last Saturday’s _Athenæum_ you ask “how it comes that the
proprietors of the New York _Sunday Mercury_ can exhibit papers
that purport to be Miss Braddon’s receipts for money paid to her
for early sheets of this novel (‘Diavolo’)” by the author of ‘The
Black Band’? Allow me to say that the proprietors of the New York
_Sunday Mercury_ do not exhibit any paper whatever purporting to
be Miss Braddon’s receipt, although they can exhibit mine, and
that most honourably too, for they have honestly paid to me the
amounts for which I have given them receipts; and, I regret to
add, they have not always been left in peaceful possession of
their advance-sheets by rival American publishers, who live on
the policy of stealing as much literature as they can, reckless
of all considerations beyond their own expectations of gain. As
illustrating this latter class of sharp practitioners, it is
necessary to recall Messrs. Hilton and Co., of New York. These
people announce ‘What is this Mystery?’ as reprinted from Miss
Braddon’s advance-sheets, when it was reprinted from nothing of
the kind; and they advertise the work as being Miss Braddon’s
“latest and best,” when they well know it is neither the one nor
the other. Against this Miss Braddon protested. Had she no right
to do so? Was everything quite as it should be on the part of
Messrs. Hilton and Co.? And was Miss Braddon altogether wrong in
intimating that she knew nothing whatever about Messrs. Hilton
and Co.’s enterprise beyond their advertisement; she never had,
directly or indirectly, the smallest approach to a communication
from or with them? If you think Miss Braddon in the wrong, and
Messrs. Hilton and Co. in the right in this transaction, let it
be so; others may differ from you.
Another point--the “inconvenience to readers, and perplexity,
if not substantial loss, to ‘the trade,’” as the result of
republication. Of course, if no republication has happened, no
inconvenience to readers, and no perplexity and loss to “the
trade” can arise. Now this is precisely the case with the tales
assumed to be by the author of ‘The Black Band’--a series which
I hope will one day challenge criticism as romances of strong
and popular interest, quite as worthy of republication as any
of the tales reproduced from halfpenny and penny journals by
Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, and by other equally well-esteemed
novel-publishers. Although these tales are not reprinted, you use
against them the word “convicted,” and you apply that term to
them in common with “the system” of Mrs. Wood and Mr. Wills, both
of whom admit, and rather defend, the republication of reprints
with emendations. Is this fair on your part? You are wholly
unsustained in the use of the word, and its application is alike
unnecessary and uncalled for.
Next as to the _nom de plume_ of Lady Caroline Lascelles. This
title was suggested by my late literary colleague, who was also
at the time a writer in the _Athenæum_, poor Sir C. E. Lascelles
Wraxall, Bart. He claimed a family right in the names. For five
weeks the _nom de plume_ was adopted. At the end of that time
it was discarded, as it was found that “fine words butter no
parsnips;” and the tale of “The Black Band” was thenceforth
published anonymously, and its publication, and that of the
series of tales which succeeded, went on uninterruptedly for
years. In all this, what deduction is to be drawn? simply that
a series of tales have been written for the cheap periodical
press so very attractive as to occasion their reprint in America,
and so very profitable as to induce both literary pirates
and purchasers of advance-sheets to make the most of their
adventures. Surely in this there is little to excite acrimonious
controversy.
JOHN MAXWELL.
[It is difficult to understand why the following letter should
be written in such a vulgar tone. We regret the necessity of
inserting it here.]
ENGLISH AUTHORS IN AMERICA.
128, Nassau Street, New York, April 25, 1867.
Our attention having been called to a communication in your
issue of March 23, wherein one “John Maxwell” has been pleased
to stigmatize us as “sharp practitioners,” as well as to bestow
upon us other not very complimentary epithets, in relation to
the manner in which the immaculate trader in Miss Braddon’s
productions conceives we have maltreated that lady’s reputation,
we deem it incumbent upon us to ask your indulgence in placing
the true facts of the case before your readers, inasmuch as your
correspondent has managed adroitly to dodge the real offence
attempted to be fastened upon us in our business capacity.
We do not pretend to justify our custom of the American trade
in appropriating Transatlantic literature without rendering
some recompence to the original authors. Still, in the absence
of an international copyright, publishers are not inclined
to court extra risks, as they cannot be protected against
ruinous competition in any enterprise undertaken on a basis of
remuneration. It may suit the purpose of a newspaper with a
stable circulation to secure the advance sheets of a story from
the pen of a popular English writer, but in the matter of a cheap
publication of a completed romance, there can be no guarantee
against its reproduction by a competing house, possibly from
a copy secured at a rational cost within a few days after its
emission.
In our series of cheap publications, we saw fit to reprint,
under the title of ‘What is this Mystery?’ a romance originally
published in London as ‘The Black Band.’ A similar designation
had been bestowed upon a local romance, written in this city
some years back, and of which we hold the copyright. To prevent
confusion, we took the liberty of changing the title of Miss
Braddon’s work, but affixed her own proper name to maintain
identity as to authorship. Almost instantly, we were assailed
by the city journals, and charged with having imposed upon the
reading public, through palming off, as a work of Miss Braddon’s,
the production of some obscure novelist. The lady herself,
or some person representing her interests, thought proper to
encourage presumption of fraud until this period, when the Sunday
Mercury advertising under precisely similar circumstances,
‘Diavola,’ avowedly from the same source as ‘The Black Band,’
Miss Braddon hastens to the rescue of its editors, and
reluctantly acknowledges authorship of both romances, the latter
one of which Mr. Maxwell contends to have been “honourably”
obtained through purchase of so-called “advance sheets;” whereas
our offence appears to have consisted in the fact of reprinting,
without her express sanction, from a London publication, a work
for which the London publisher had, as we presume, paid its
market value. Assuredly, if any party be entitled to recompense
for “advance sheets,” it should be the individual purchasing
Miss Braddon’s literary wares, and seeking repayment through
their publication. Besides, we are frank enough to consider it
as a poor compliment to the manager of a periodical, investing
in goods of that nature, to suggest that the “latest” published
productions of any author are not the “best,” especially when a
multiplicity of similar commodities are in the field. We regret
that Miss Braddon or her friend should be compelled to protest
against our critical judgment as to the work reprinted by us
being her “latest and best;” but must extenuate our interested
opinion on the ground that a declaration to the contrary might
prove detrimental to the reputation of the fair authoress, and
decidedly inimical to her future chances of disposing of “advance
sheets.”
HILTON & CO.
4, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, May 11, 1867.
To judge from the tone of their letter in this day’s _Athenæum_,
Messrs. Hilton & Co. appear to think that, by adding insult to
injury, they can extenuate their conduct and cast aside the
opprobrium which their dishonesty should entail. They do not
attempt to deny the charges made against them, which may be
briefly stated as follows:--
1. That they appropriated a tale, changed its name, and announced
it as reprinted from the author’s “advance sheets,” when they
well knew the reprint was from nothing of the kind, and that,
in fact, they never had, either directly or indirectly, the
slightest communication from or with the author or the publisher
of the tale they so “smartly” laid their hands upon.
2. That they described this tale as Miss Braddon’s “latest and
best,” when they well knew it was neither latest nor best; and
that, beyond their own audacity, they had no justification for
ascribing the authorship to Miss Braddon.
For their own purposes Messrs. Hilton & Co. did all this; and
as they advertised the tale to have achieved a sale of 18,000
copies within a week of publication, Messrs. Hilton & Co. might
have been content with the gains of the operation. No one here
expected anything from them. Instead, however, of being satisfied
with the fruits of their rapacity, Messrs. Hilton & Co. have
thought fit to turn round upon Miss Braddon, whose name they most
unfairly used for their own dishonest purpose, and now they try
their best to insult her by declaring “assuredly, if any party
be entitled to recompense for ‘advance sheets,’ it should be the
individual purchasing Miss Braddon’s literary wares, and seeking
repayment through their publication.” The sheer insolence of this
declaration transcends the old story of the attorney who had
no defence to an action, and therefore instructed counsel--“No
case; abuse plaintiff’s witnesses.” In England the value of Miss
Braddon’s literary wares is well understood; and in America
the importance of her “advance sheets” commands an adequate
recompense, a circumstance with which the “business capacity” of
Messrs. Hilton & Co. cannot make them acquainted. I refrain from
noticing the other statements in Messrs. Hilton & Co.’s letter,
because they are, so far as the matter in issue is concerned,
simply untrue.
JOHN MAXWELL.
‘Rupert Godwin, by Miss M. E. Braddon,’ it appears was originally
published in the _Halfpenny Journal_, under the title of ‘The
Banker’s Secret,’ by the author of ‘The Black Band.’
C. R. Jackson, Athenæum, 2073, p. 82.
The manufacture of Novels now occupies so many writers, and is a
system that so deeply concerns the public, that we have devoted a
large space to the above exposure: larger, in fact, than we wished;
but fairness demanded that the whole or none of the controversy
should be inserted.
LATHY (T. P.) Esq., _plagiarist_.
The Angler, a poem, in ten Cantos. With proper instructions in the
Art, Rules to Choose Fishing Rods, Lines, Hooks, etc. 1819.
This poem is only a rifacimento of the Anglers’ Eight Dialogues
in verse, without acknowledgment; some copies are dated 1819,
with the following title, ‘The Angler, a Poem, in ten Cantos, by
Piscator.’
J.R.S.
See Westwood Bib. Piscatoria, 1861.
LAUDER (William) _literary forger_.
“Mr. Isaac D’Israeli, in his ‘Curiosities of Literature,’ has
remarked that some of the most sinister literary forgeries
in modern times have been perpetrated by Scotchmen, and he
instances Lauder and Bower--two of the _blackest_ sheep of the
world of letters. The disgraceful fraud of which the former
stands convicted, so unparalleled for its meanness, baseness,
and dishonesty, has justly condemned him to eternal infamy, and
rendered his name a by-word of contempt. To the credit of English
literature, it did not indeed long remain undiscovered, and it
may at least be said to have had one beneficial result--that
of placing the unwary on their guard against an unscrupulous
disputant, and of demonstrating the importance and necessity
of occasionally verifying a quotation and testing a doubtful
assertion.
“In 1747 he commenced his attack on the reputation of Milton in
various communications to the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine,’ in which
the great poet was denounced as an unprincipled plagiarist.
“These papers having led to some controversy, and excited some
attention, Lauder was induced to collect them, and in 1750 he
republished them in a volume, entitled ‘An Essay on Milton’s Use
and Abuse of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost;’ with the motto
taken from Milton, “Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
The work is preceded by a characteristic advertisement from
Lauder, which states that “Gentlemen who are desirous of securing
their children from ill example, or are themselves disposed to
gain or retrieve the knowledge of the Latin tongue, may be waited
on at their own houses by the author of the following Essay,” an
announcement certainly calculated to convey the idea that the
“canny Scot” regarded his erudite performance as an excellent
mercantile speculation, and favorable medium of publicity. To
render the work more remarkable, the preface and postscript were
contributed by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Johnson contributed prefaces
and postscripts to works he had never read with the greatest
ease, as his collected works show.
“The authors from whom Lauder accused Milton of borrowing without
acknowledgment, were some of them all but unknown in what was
then called the learned world. Among them was Masenius, a Jesuit
of Cologne, Taubmann, a German, and Staphorstius, a learned
Dutchman. From these and other authors passages were quoted in
some of which there was a general resemblance, and in others a
close similarity to the most admired portions of ‘Paradise Lost.’
“But Lauder’s triumph was of short duration. The detection
of the imposition, and the chastisement of the impostor fell
into able hands. Upon its publication the work attracted the
attention of the Rev. John Douglas, afterwards Bishop of
Salisbury, whose jealous regard for the reputation of Milton,
induced him to investigate its contents. Confident of the great
poet’s integrity, and not content with Lauder’s assertions, he
proceeded, with considerable pains, to search for the passages
which had been quoted from Masenius, Staphorstius, Grotius,
and others. The result was most triumphant: in nearly every
instance he found that Lauder had tampered with the text, and
had impudently inserted several lines of a translation of the
‘Paradise Lost’ in Latin hexameters by William Hogg, and others
of his own manufacture. The detection was so complete that the
impostor had no alternative but confession. A full avowal of
the fraud was accordingly drawn up by Dr. Samuel Johnson, who
naturally enough considered his reputation somewhat involved in
the transaction, and after some demur signed by Lauder. Upon a
calm review of the whole circumstances of the case, we cannot,
however, absolve Johnson from all blame. That he was the dupe
of the impostor, and entirely innocent of the fraud, will be
readily admitted; but can it be said that he exercised a proper
discretion, in giving his sanction and support to a charge the
accuracy of which he had not taken the trouble to investigate?...
“After the appearance of Dr. Douglas’s reply the following
advertisement (which we quote as a literary curiosity in its way)
was inserted in the public newspapers by Lauder’s publishers:--
“White Hart in Paternoster Row, London, Nov. 28, 1750.
“Upon the publication of the Rev. Mr. Douglas’s Defence of
Milton, in answer to Lauder, we immediately sent to Lauder, and
insisted upon his clearing himself from the charge of forgery
which Dr. Douglas has brought against him, by producing the books
in question. _He has this day admitted the charge_, but with
great insensibility.
“We therefore disclaim all connexion with him, and shall for the
future sell his book ONLY as a masterpiece of fraud, which the
public may be supplied with at 1s. 6d., stitched.
“JOHN PAYNE.
“JOSEPH BOUQUET.”
For further particulars refer to the article quoted (Sharpe’s
Lond. Mag., 1849), to Allibone, to Lowndes by Bohn, Poule’s Index
to Periodical Lit., Notes and Queries, etc.
L. E., _init._ [Mrs. EDWARDS].
Dial of Meditation and Prayer. Lond., 1858.
L. E., _initialism_ [Hon. ELEANOR EDEN].
Easton and its Inhabitants; or, Sketches of Life in a Country Town.
London, 1858.
LEIGH (Cousin) _pseud._ [ ].
The Co-Heiress of Willingham. London, 1854.
L. E. L., _initialism_ [LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON, afterwards MACLEAN].
The Improvisatrice, 1824. The Troubadour, 1825. The Golden Violet,
1827. The Venetian Bracelet, 1829. Romance and Reality, 1831.
Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832. The Easter Gift, 1832.
Francesca Carrara, 3 vols, 1834 and 1862. Poems from the English
Bijou Almanack, 1835. A Birthday Tribute, 1837. Ethel Churchill, or
The Two Brides, 1837, 3 vols. Flowers of Loveliness, 1838. All London.
L. F. F. M., _init._ [MILLER].
Cats and Dogs, Nature’s Warriors and God’s Workers, or Mrs. Myrtle’s
Lessons in Natural History. Lond. and Edinb., 1857.
LIMNER (Luke), Esq., _pseud._ [F. S. LEIGHTON, F.A.S.].
London Cries and Public Edifices. [Lond., 1847], 16mo. London out
of Town; or the Adventures of the Browns by the Sea-side [1847],
oblong 16mo. Suggestions in Design ... for the use of Artists and Art
Workmen, 185-23, 4to.
Christmas Comes but Once a Year. London, _Tegg_ [1847?], 16mo.
A “card” to suspend in the library. The rules on this card are
excellent and reprinted in Notes and Queries, 1 s. vi. 94, to
which periodical he contributed under the above pseudonym.
LITTLE (Thomas) Esq., _pseud._ [MOORE].
The Poetical Works of the late T. L., Esq. 1801.
Editions up to the present time.
LITTLE (Thomas) Junior, _pseud._ [ ].
The Poetical Works of, etc. Sunderland, 1816. The preface is signed
J. H. H. H.
LITTLEJOHN, _pseud._ [FREDERIC GUEST TOMLINS].
Wrote a series of articles in the Weekly Times under this
signature.
LITTLETON (Mark), _pseud._ [_John P. Kennedy_].
Swallow Barn. Philadelphia, 1832.
L. N. R., _initialism_ [Mrs. RANYARD].
The Book and its Story; a Narrative for the Young: on occasion of the
Jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, by L. N. R., with
an introductory preface by T. Phillips. 1853, 10th edit., 1857.
Nearly 50,000 copies of this work have been sold--or given away.
The Missing Link, or Bible-Women in the Homes of the London Poor,
1859. Nineveh and its Relics in the British Museum. Birmingham, 1855,
and Opportunities [same, both], by the Author of the Border Land, and
others.
This lady has been convicted of _plagiarism_ by Mr. E. H.
Plumptre, in _The Athenæum_, April 1866, p. 531. Dr. Smith’s
Dictionary of the Bible is the work which L. N. R. has freely
used in her “Stones Crying Out. 1866.”
LOT, Parson, _pseud._ [Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY].
Cheap Clothes and Nasty. London, 1850.
LOTHRUP (Amy) _pseud._ [Miss ANNA B. WARNER].
Dollars and Cents. Lond., Edinb., and New York, 1854. And a great
many other works.
LOVECHILD (Louisa) _phrenonym_ [ ].
Natural History ... for Little Folk. Lond., [1833].
LOVECHILD (Solomon), _pseud._ [LADY FENN].
Sketches of Little Boys and Girls, 1852. And others.
M.
M. (Eleanor), _disguised-author_ [ ].
Edith of Graystock. _H. Lindsell_, Wimpole Street, 1833.
M. (Rose C.), _init._ [MONCKTON].
Letters from Futtehgurh. Clifton, [1858].
MAC-SARCASM (Rev. Sir Archibald) Bart., _pseudo-titlonym_ [ ].
The Life of Hannah More, with critical review of her Writings.
London, 1802.
MAC-SHIMI (Gillespie) _ps._ [ARCHIBALD SIMSON].
Annals of such patriots of the distinguished family of Fraser,
Frysell, Sim-son, or Fitz-simon, as have signalised themselves in
the public service of Scotland; from the time of their first arrival
in Britain ... until their settlement as Lords of Oliver Castle and
Tweedale, etc. Edinburgh, reprinted, 1805.
M. A. K., _init._ [KELTY].
Emma; or, Recollections of a Friend. Lond., _Longman_, 1850.
Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. Lond., 1852.
See: the Author of ‘Visiting my Relations,’ 1867.
MALAGROWTHER (Malachi), _ps._ [Sir W. SCOTT].
Thoughts on the proposed change of Currency, as they are intended to
affect Scotland. Edinb., 1826.
MANNERS (Motley), _phren._ [A. J. DUGANNE].
Parnassus in Pillory, a Satire. New York, 1851.
MARCLIFFE (Theophilus), _pseud._ [WILLIAM GODWIN, author of “Caleb
Williams,” &c.].
The Looking-glass; A true History of the Early History of an Artist,
etc. 1805.
“Circumstances point to Mr. Mulready; and that well known
collector of artistic gossip, J. T. Smith, quoting an anecdote
from the _Looking-glass_, in his account of the sculptor Banks
(_Nollekins and his Times_, ii. 200) affirms, without hesitation,
that the artist is Mr. Mulready.”
_N. & Q._, 3 _s._
MARIOTTI (L.) _pseud._ [A. GALLENGA].
Several Pieces on Italy, 1847-51.
A Historical Memoir of Fra Dolcino and his Times. 1853.
Italian Grammar, 1858. All London.
MARKHAM (Mrs.) _pseud._ [Mrs. ELIZABETH PENROSE].
A History of England, 182--? of France, 1828; new editions up to the
present time.
New Children’s Friend, consisting of Tales and Conversations for
Young Persons, 1836. Sermons for Children, Lond., _J. Murray_. 1837.
Posthumous.
MARTEL (Charles) _pseud._ [THOMAS DELF, editor of “Appleton’s
Librarian’s Manual”].
Has translated Chevereul’s Principles of Harmony ... of Colors, from
the French, 1847; and Flourens on Human Longevity, 1855. His original
publications are: The Principles of Colouring in Painting, 1855; same
of Form in Ornamental Art, 1856. Love Letters of Eminent Persons,
1859. A Better Patrimony than Gold, 1864. The Detective’s Note-book,
1860. Diary of an Ex-Detective, 1860. A Dictionary of Love. Halifax,
1860.
MARVEL (Ike) _pseud._ [DONALD GRANT MITCHELL].
The Battle Summer: being transcripts from personal observations in
Paris, during the year 1848. New York, 1850. Reveries of a Bachelor,
or a Book of the Heart, 12th edition, 1851; other editions. Dream
Life, a parable of the seasons.
The dedication is signed D. G. M. It has been translated into
French, with the author’s permission. He has written other works.
MAY (Edith) _pseud._ [ANNA DRINKWATER, a Native of Pennsylvania, has
obtained considerable distinction as a Poetess.--_Allibone_].
Katy’s Story. Philadelphia, 1855.
MAYNARD (Walter) _pseud._ [WILLIAM BEALE].
The Enterprising Impresario. _Bradbury & Evans_, 1867.
In his remarkably free gossip about managers and opera-singers,
Mr. Walter Maynard certainly has done his best to satisfy the
curiosity which desires to get behind the scenes and into the
green-room, and to discover the complicated machinery which works
out our public amusement.--_The Chronicle, Sept. 7, 1867._
M---- B----, _ps._ [ ].
To-Morrow (a religious tale). Wellington, Salop, 1817.
M. B., _pseudonym_ [MARY LAMB].
Mrs. Leicester’s School. 4th edition, Lond., 1814.
M. B., _initialism_ [MONA DREW, afterwards BICKERSTETH].
Poems. Wales, 1856.
J. P.
M. D., initialism [MARCUS DAVIS].
Startling Revelations; or, where shall we seek Justice? A lesson in
Law. Dedicated to the Foreign and English Investor, to Legislators,
and to Everybody. Sold Everywhere [1867]. Signed M. D.
M * * * e. (T * * * y) [THOMAS MOORE].
See The Editor of the New Whig Guide.
MEANWELL (Edward) _fictitious name_ [ ].
The Dialogists; or the circuit of Banco Regis, a serio-comic Sketch
... exhibiting a true and interesting picture of Men and Things, set
forth in interlocutory observations between Mr. E. M. and Mr. T.
Wellbred, etc. London, [1810?]
MEANWELL (Margery) _fictitious name_ [ ].
Goody Two Shoes; or, the History of Little M. M. in Rhyme. London,
1825.
MEIRION, _ps._ [W. OWEN] in Monthly Mag., 1803.
M. E. M. J., author of Waldenburg, _initialism_ [MARGARET ELIZABETH
MARY JONES].
Jubal, a poem, 1839.
Waldenburg, which was written when the authoress was only in her
fourteenth year, has been dramatised under a different title.
N. & Q.
MERCUTIO, _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM WINTER].
MEREDITH (Owen) _pseud._ [Hon. EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON].
The Wanderer, a Poem, 1859. Lucill, 1860. The Ring of Amasis. From
the papers of a German Physician (Dr. N----.) edited by O. M., Lond.,
1863, 2 vols., and others.
MERTON (Ambrose) _pseud._ [THOMS].
Gammer Gurton’s Pleasant Stories of Patient Grissel, etc., newly
revised by ----, 1846.
MERTON (Tristram) _pseudonym_ [THOMAS BABINGTON Lord MACAULAY].
Several Sketches and Ballads in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine.
This pseudonym is not mentioned by Mr. Bohn who gives a list of
these pieces in his edition of Lowndes.
M. H., _initialism_ [Mrs. HULLAH].
A few Words about Music, containing Hints to Amateur Pianists.
London, _Novello_, 1851.
First appeared in _The Lady’s Newspaper_.
MILLER (Joe) _allonym_ [JAMES BALLANTYNE].
Old Joe Miller, by the Editor of New J. M., two Jest Books. London,
1801, 3 vols.
MONTGOMERY (Gerald) _pseud._ [Rev. GEO. MOULTRIE].
In _The Etonian_ and in Knight’s Quarterly Magazine.
MORAR, _pseud._ [Sir WILLIAM AUGUSTUS FRASER, Bart.]. Poems. 4to,
with an etching by George Cruikshank, dated 1866. Privately printed,
not for sale. No imprint.
MORE (Margareta) _pseud._ [MISS ANNE MANNING].
The Household of Sir Thomas More, 1851.
MORELL (Sir Charles) _pseudo-titlonym_ [JAMES RIDLEY]. See Horam,
_ps._
M. M. M., _pseud._ [W. TOOKE].
Verses, edited by ----, (only 80 copies privately printed). London,
1860.
MURPHY (Dennis Jasper) _pseud._ [Rev. C. MATURIN].
Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montaro; a romance. London, 1807.
Several pieces under this pseudonym. See Biographical Dictionary
of Living Authors, 1816.
M. W. R., _init._ [ROONEY, Bookseller, of Dublin].
The Last Leaf of the lately discovered copy of Hamlet, first edit.
(1603) ... reprinted Dublin, 1856.
See Lowndes by Bohn, p. 2276.
MYRTLE (Harriet) Mrs., _pseud._ [LYDIA F. F. MILLER].
This lady has written a number of Children’s Tales and _booklettes_
since 1846, under this pseudonym.
MYRTLE (Harriet) _pseud._ [MARY GILLIES].
More Fun for our Little Friends. London, 1864.
One person employing a pseudonym already used by another, is
much to be deprecated. We have not stigmatised the above as an
_allonym_, as we do not believe this lady had any intention to
deceive.
MYRTLE (Lewis) _pseud._ [ ].
Cap-sheaf, a fresh Bundle. New York, 1853.
MYRTLE (Minnie) _pseud._ [ ].
The Myrtle Wreath, or Stray Leaves recalled. New York, 1854. The
Iroquois, or the Bright Side of Indian Character, 1855.
N.
NAPEA (Oloff) _fictitious name_ [ ].
Letters from London. Observations of a Russian during a Residence in
England. Lond., 1816.
Of home manufacture; they are imitations of Espriella’s Letters.
See Quarterly Review, 1816, p. 53.
NAPOLEON I., Emperor of the French.
The Following works have been falsely, and with a fraudulent intent
to deceive, published as the writings of Napoleon.
Private Hours of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his earliest years to the
period of his Marriage with the Arch-Duchess Maria Louisa. Written by
himself during his residence in the Island of Elba. 2 vols., Paris.
London, (printed) 1816.
An edition in French also printed in London the same year.
Confessions de Napoléon, with the motto, “Un homme et toute
l’Europe.” Paris, 1816.
This is by P. G. S. Dufey, a French Barrister, and a prolific
author. On account of the police of Paris having seized this bad
novel, it has become scarce. See J. M. Quérard, La France Litt.
Manuscrit venu de St.-Hélène d’une manière inconnue. Lond., J.
Murray, 1st and 3rd editions, 1817.
These two anonymous works are attributed by Quérard to Bertrand,
an officer in the French Army.
Manuscrit de l’île d’Elbe, etc. Londres, _Ridgway_, 1818.
Napoleon his own Historian. Extracts from the original MS. of
Napoleon Bonaparte, by an American [ ]. London, _H. Colburn_, 1818.
French edition the same place and year.
Quarante Lettres inédites de Napoléon, recueillies par L. F. [written
by Dourille de Crest]. Paris, 1825.
Love letters supposedly written to a lady at Valence, on
Napoleon’s first visit to that town, when he was only a
lieutenant.
J. M. Q.
NAVA (Franz) _ps._ [EDWARD FRANCIS RIMBAULT].
A number of Musical Compositions, Arrangements, etc., under this
pseudonym since 1853.
NIMROD, _pseud._ [CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY].
Nimrod’s Northern Tour (in Vol IX of the New Sporting Magazine.
London, 1835.)
The Chace--The Road--The Turf, 1852.
Remarks on the Condition of Hunters (reprinted from the Sporting
Mag.) 4th edition, 1855.
The Horse and the Hound. Edinburgh, 1858.
Memoir of the Life of John Mytton.
NORTH (Christopher) _pseud._ [JOHN WILSON, Professor of Moral
Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh].
Heart-Break; the Trials of Literary Life, or recollections of C. N.
[a novel]. 1859.
Blackwood’s Magazine was edited by him under this pseudonym.
NORTH (Danby) _pseud._ [DANIEL OWEN MADDEN].
The Mildmayes, or the Clergyman’s Secret; a Story of Twenty Years
ago. London, 1856.
O.
O---- (W----) Esq., _disguised-author_ [WILLIAM OWEN].
A Brief Memoir of W---- O----, Esq. Lond., [1841].
O’DOHERTY (Sir Morgan) Bart., _pseudo-titlonym_ [WILLIAM MAGINN].
Maxims of Sir M. O’Doherty. Edinburgh, 1849.
He was a constant contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine under this
pseudonym.
OLDACRE (Cedric) of Saxe Normanby, _pseudonym_ [JOHN WOOD WARTER].
The Last of the Old Squires, a Sketch. Lond., 1854.
OLD CHATTY CHEERFUL, _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM MARTIN].
The Boy’s Own Annual. Lond., 1861 (signed W. M.)
OLD-NICK, _ironym_ [EMILE DAURAN FORGUES].
Jane Eyre, imités par, etc. Paris, 1846.
See BELL (Currer) _ps._
M. Forgues has translated or “imités” several other English
novels.
OLDSCHOOL (Oliver) _phren._ [JOSEPH DENNIE].
The Portfolio. Philadelphia, 1801-15.
OLDSTYLE (Jonathan) _phren._ [WASHINGTON IRVING].
Letters on the Drama. New York, 1802.
The author’s earliest production.
OLD TRAVELLERS. See Trusta (H.) _pseud._
OLIVER (Stephen) the Younger, of Aldwark, _pseud._ [W. A. CHATTO].
Scenes and Recollections of Fly Fishing in Northumberland, etc.
London, 1834.
OMNIUM (Gresham) _pseud._ [ ].
A Handy Guide to safe Investments, etc., 1858 and 1860.
OMNIUM (Jacob) _pseud._ [MATTHEW JAMES HIGGINS].
Is Cheap Sugar the Triumph of Free Trade? 3 Letters to Lord John
Russell, London, 1847 and 1848. Light Horse, 1855. Letters on
Military Education, 1856.
ONE OF NO PARTY, _phraseonym_ [JAMES GRANT, editor of the Morning
Chronicle].
Random Recollections of the House of Commons. London, 1836.
ONE OF THE FANCY, _phras._ [THOMAS MOORE].
See Crib (Tom) _ph._, 1819.
ONE OF THEM, _phraseonym_ [ ].
Who shall be President Next? addressed not to the Politicians but to
the People. 8vo, 16 pp.
ONE OF THE MIDDLING CLASSES, _phraseonym_ [ ].
Three Letters to the People, by ----. Lond., Southampton (printed)
[1835].
ONE OF THE PARTY, _phraseonym_ [F. TAYLOR].
Ella V----, or the July Tour. New York, 1841.
ONESIMUS, _pseud._ Numbers of authors have written under this
pseudonym, but they are all unknown.
ONE WHO HAS NEVER QUITTED HIM FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, _phraseonym_ [C.
DORIS].
Secret Mémoires of Napoleon Bonaparte. Written by, etc. Translated
from the French. 1815. German Translation, 1817.
An Historical Survey of the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1815.
ONE WHO HAS WHISTLED AT THE PLOUGH, _phraseonym_ [ALEXANDER
SOMERVILLE].
The Autobiography of a Working Man. Lond., 1848.
This was first published in the Manchester Examiner. He signed
himself “The Whistler” in the newspapers.
ONE WHO IS BUT AN ATTORNEY, _enigmatic phraseonym_ [GEORGE BUTT, of
Salisbury].
A Peep at the Wiltshire Assizes, a Serio-Ludicrous Poem. _Brodie &
Dowdney_, Salisbury [1820], price 13s. 4d.
“This was published in 1819: its circulation was limited to
Wiltshire and the adjoining counties: except that Mr. John Long,
the High Sheriff, in that year presented two, by his own wish to
Graham and Best, on the Circuit.... I do not know how to obtain 3
more copies of this.”--_MS. Note in the B.M. copy._
See Notes and Queries, 2 S. ii., 229. 277.
ONE WHO IS REALLY AN ENGLISHMAN, _phraseonym_ [C. W. SMITH].
Letters published in The Sun, by C. W. S[MITH] justifying the Coup
d’Etat of the 2nd Dec., and condemning the ... attack of the “Times,”
and other journals in their comments upon the policy of the Emperor
Napoleon III., by ----. Lond., 1853.
ONE WHO LOVES THE SOULS OF THE LAMBS of Christ’s Flock, _phraseonym_
[Rev. _Richard Marks_, Vicar of Great Missenden, Bucks?]
English History for Children, from four to ten years of Age. London,
_J. Nisbet_, 1832-3.
We dare not allow ourselves to comment upon a person who uses
such a pseudonym as this.
ONE WHO THINKS FOR HIMSELF, _phraseonym_ [ ].
Metropolitan Grievances; or a serio-comic Glance at Minor Mischiefs
in London, &c. Plate by G. Cruikshank. _Sherwood_, 1812.
We could not find a better instance of the careful manner in
which books are read through, when required for the purpose of
cataloguing them at the British Museum, than this little work.
At p. 42 we read “Here I am, Thomas Truewit, Esq., the renowned
author of the ‘Grievances,’” etc., and from this the work is
catalogued under ‘Truewit.’
O’REILLY (Miles) _ps._ [Colonel CHARLES G. HALPINE].
The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services ... of Private ----.... With
comic illustrations by Mullen. From the authentic records of the New
York Herald. New York, 1864.
Baked Meats of the Funeral ... Essays, etc. By Private M. O’Reilly.
New York, 1866.
OSBORNE (Edward) _fictitious name_ [Miss ANNE MANNING].
The Colloquies of E. O., Citizen and Cloth Worker of London, as
reported, By ye author of “Mary Powell” (q.v.), 1860.
OUIDA, _pseudonym_ [Miss RAME].
Cecil Castlemane’s Gage. Chandos, 3 vols., 1866. Randolph Gordon.
Strathmore. Held in Bondage, or Granville de Vigne, 1863.
Idalia--Under Two Flags, 1867. Mostly in 3 vols., all London.
We do not gather from this lady’s works that any of them have
appeared in periodical publications.
OWEN (Ashford) _pseudandry_ [ANNIE OGLE].
A Lost Love. Lond., Edinb. (printed). 1855.
OXFORD MEMBERS, _geonym._
See Contributors to Tracts for the Times.
P.
P. (Professor). See A * * * * * (Major) _init._ [POLE].
P---- (P----) Poet Laureate [i.e., Peter Pindar] _allonym_ [GEORGE
DANIEL].
R----l [Royal] Stripes, or a Kick from Yar----h [Yarmouth] to Wa----s
[Wales, afterwards George IV.], with particulars of an expedition to
Oatlands, and the Sprained Ancle, 1812.
This was suppressed.
PARLEY (Peter) _pseudonym_ [SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH, an American
bookseller, who afterwards devoted himself entirely to Authorship.
“In 1851, the President of the United States--his excellency Millard
Fillmore--conferred a deserved compliment upon Mr. Goodrich by
appointing him consul at Paris.”]
In the history of the world it would be impossible, we think, to
find a more popular pseudonym than that of Peter Parley. Since
1828, one hundred and seventy volumes, bearing that name, or
edited under it, have been issued. Of all these about 7,000,000
of volumes have been sold: about 300,000 volumes are now sold
annually. Our plan precludes our giving the titles of these
works, on almost every subject; but the curious reader will
find a complete list in S. A. Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of
English Literature, 1859.
PARLEY (Peter). This pseudonym has been claimed, but without cause,
and after his death, for the late Mr. S. Kettell (of America) the
only pretext being that he had worked for the real “Simon Pure.” But
the claim was as unjust as that now set up by Mr. Pugin that his
father designed the Houses of Parliament.
PARLEY (Peter) _impostor_.
As we have before observed that it would be almost impossible to
find a name under which more popular and useful works have been
written than this; so we think it would be difficult to find one
which has been more the subject of barefaced and open robbery,
both on the part of literators and publishers.
Among the most notorious we have Peter Parley’s Annual, _Darton &
Co._ (publishers), continued from 1841 to 1855, 14 vols. And 12
others by the same publishers, all spurious. Life of St. Paul,
_Simpkins_, 1845. Visit to London, 1838, and Twelve Apostles,
_Bogue_, 1844. 8 published by _Tegg_, 1837-40. Bible Geography,
_J. S. Hodson_, 1839. Child’s First Step, _Clements_, 1839.
PARLEY (Peter) _impostor_ [WILLIAM MARTIN].
Peter Parley’s Annual: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for Young
People. Edited by William Martin. (Darton & Co.) Lond., 1867. This is
one of the spurious works above referred to.
The author who has so long traded on a dead writer’s _nom de
plume_ avows himself. His name is William Martin. To those who
care for Samuel Goodrich’s honest fame in the world of letters,
it will be interesting to know that his impersonator has again
flung away a piece of his mask, and stands revealed as William
Martin, Holly Lodge. Mr. Martin, you have taken one step in
the right direction, and we congratulate you on that sign of
uneasiness, if not of penitence. Why not take another step, and
desist altogether from using Peter Parley’s title, to which you
have no kind of right that can be recognised in a court of honour.
Athenæum, Jan. 5, 1867, No. 2045, p. 29.
P. P’s Peeps at Paris, 1848. Our Oriental Kingdom, or Tales about
India, 1857. The Travels, Voyages and Adventures of Gilbert Go-Ahead,
1857. The Hatchings of me and my Schoolfellows, edited by W. Martin
1858. P. P’s. Own Favourite Story Book, edited by W. M., 1864. The
Holiday Keepsake, 1865.
We do not believe this list to contain anything like the number
of spurious works.
PARLEY (Peter) _impostor_ [GEORGE MOGRIDGE].
Tales about Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, 1827.
Great Britain and Ireland. Tales about Greece, 1837. Tales about Rome
and Modern Italy, 1839.
These are imitations of the real P. P.’s tales about Ancient and
modern Greece. This seems to be the earliest thief.
PARLEY (Peter) _allonym_ [ ].
The Lives of the Twelve Apostles, 1844. The Life and Journeys of Paul
the Apostle, 1845. The Travels and Adventures of Thomas Trotter,
of Boston, U.S. [_apocryph_], as told by himself. Edited by Peter
Parley, 1845.
This edition was revised by the Rev. T. Wilson.
“There are still other counterfeits of Parley’s works, issued by
various parties in London. The utter disregard of truth, honour,
and decency, on the part of respectable British authors and
publishers in this wholesale system of imposition and injustice,
is all the more remarkable when we consider that the British
public and especially the British authors and booksellers are
denouncing us in America as pirates, for refusing international
copyright.
“The conduct of all these parties places them, morally, on a
footing with other counterfeiters and forgers: public opinion,
in the United States, would consign persons conducting in this
manner to the same degree of reprobation. Can it be that, in
England, a man who utters a counterfeit five-pound note is sent
to Newgate, while another may issue thousands of counterfeit
volumes and not destroy his reputation?”--S. G. GOODRICH, _see
Allibone_.
PARTINGTON (Mrs.) _pseudonym_ [B. P. SHILLABER].
The Sayings and Doings of ----. Lond., 1854. Mrs. P.’s Tea Party and
Trip to Paris, 1856.
PASQUIN, _pseud._ [ ].
Legendes ofe the 19th Century. The Dragone ofe Oxforde ande St.
George ofe Sainte Stevene’s. Part the first. Writ by Pasquin. Lond.,
Bath, printed 1853. No more published.
PASQUIN (Adolphus) _pseud._ [ ].
The Age of Lead. A Satire ... with an Introduction by G. Gilfillan.
Lond., 1858.
PASTORINI (Sig.) _pseud._ [CHARLES WALMESLEY, Bishop of Rama].
The General History of the Christian Church, from her Birth to her
final triumphant state in Heaven. 4th edition, New York, 1846.
PAUL, _pseud._ [Sir W. SCOTT].
Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk. Lond. and Edinb., 1816.
The copy in the British Museum has MS. corrections by Sir W.
Scott.
P. B. St. J., _initialism_ [PERCY B. ST. JOHN (pronounced Sinjen)].
These initials are signed at the end of a story called “Quadroona,”
in the London Journal. _G. Vickers_, Nos. 599-627, 1856-7.
He signs “Blythe Hall,” the tale before the above in full.
PEACOCK (Timothy) _fictitious name_.
See A Member of the Vermont Bar.
PELHAM (M.) _pseudonym_ [Sir R. PHILLIPS].
The Parent’s and Tutor’s first Catechism (with a clockface and moving
hands.) Printed for R. P., the author.
We have been unable to ascertain whether this “authoress,” as he
calls her in the preface, was married or not, and, in fact, the
gallant vegetarian was somewhat in doubt himself, we think.
See N. & Q., 3 S. xii. 394.
PENDENNIS (Arthur) _pseud._ [WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY].
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a most respectable family, edited by ----.
Lond., 1854.
PENFEATHER (Amabel) _pseud._ [ ].
Elinor Wyllys; or, the Young Folk of Longbridge, a tale, by ----.
Edited by J. F. Cooper. Phil., 1846, 2 vols.
PENN (William) _pseud._ [JEREMIAH EVERTS].
Essays on the present crisis in the condition of the American
Indians; first published in the National Intelligencer, under the
signature of ----. Phil., 1830.
PENROSE (Llewellyn) _fictitious name_ [JOHN EAGLES].
Journal of ----, a Seaman. Lond., 1815, 12mo, 4 vols. Since
republished.
PEPPER (K. N.) _phrenonym_ [JAMES W. MORRIS].
PEPPERCORN (H.) M.D., _supposed-author_ [Rev. R. H. BARHAM].
Some verses as above, entitled “The Dark-Looking Man,” first
published in the _Globe and Traveller_, of which the following is the
moral:
Merchants, East and West India, now list to me, pray,
Attend to the moral I draw from my lay--
Shun strife, nor let Port e’er your senses trepan;
Above all, don’t fall out with a dark-looking man!
See N. & Q. 3 S. xii.
PEPPERCORN (Peter) M.D., _phren._ [THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK].
Some capital verses, “Rich and Poor, or Saint and Sinner,” also first
published in _The Globe and Traveller_, beginning:--
“The poor man’s sins are glaring
In the face of ghostly warning;
He is caught in the fact
Of an overt act,
Buying greens on Sunday morning.”
_S. Blyth, N. & Q._
PERCY (Sholto) _pseud._ [J. C. ROBERTSON].
Sir W. Scott, his Novels, &c., abridged, &c.
PERCY (Sholto) _pseud._ [ROBERTSON].
The Percy Anecdotes, by SHOLTO [J. C. ROBERTSON] and REUBEN PERCY
[THOMAS BYERLEY] Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont. Berger
[_pseudo-titlonym_]. Lond., 1820-3, 12mo, 20 vols.
The History of London, by the same, 1824.
Notes & Queries 1 S. vii. 214.
PERSIC (Peregrine) _pseud._ [JAMES MORIER].
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. Lond., 1824.
PETER, _pseud._ [JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, Sir Walter Scott’s son-in-law].
Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk. Edin., 1819. 3 vols.
First appeared in Blackwood’s Mag.
P. H., see W. D.
PHILALETHES, M.A., Oxon., _phrenonym_ [ROBERT FELLOWES].
History of Ceylon from the earliest period to the year 1815,
religion, laws, and manners of the People, their Maxims and ancient
proverbs. By ----, to which is subjoined Robt. Knox’s historical
relation of the Island, and his Captivity for nearly 20 years, &c.
Lond., 1817. 4to.
Ceylon being seceded to the English, caused Knox’s long-forgotten
book to be resuscitated. The publisher no doubt considered that a
second edition of a work originally published in 1681 would not
be likely to attract attention; he therefore got an introduction
written, and appended the work of Knox, which forms the staple of
the book.
PHILALETHES, _phren._ [Sir R. J. W. HORTON].
On Colonies. Lond., 1839.
N. & Q. 3 S. vii. 449.
PHILIP (Uncle) _pseud._ [FRANCIS L. HAWKS].
A number of American Histories and Tales for Children, published in
New York.
See Stevens’ Cat. of Am. Bks., 1859.
PHILO-JUNIUS, _pseud._, see Junius.
PHIZ, _pseud._ [HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE], one of the most popular
draughtsmen of the day. He succeeded Seymour in the illustrations to
the Pickwick Papers, and afterwards illustrated several of Charles
Dickens’ other works.
PHŒNIX, _pseud._ [Sir HENRY MARTIN, Bart.].
Archbishop Murray’s Douay and Rhemish Bible, &c. Lond., 1850.
PHŒNIX (John) _pseud._ [Captain GEORGE H. DERBY].
Phœnixiana, or Sketches and Burlesques. New York, 1856. 11th edit.
The Squib Papers, with comic illustrations by the author. New York,
1865.
PHOTIUS, junior, _pseud._ [SHERLOCK, a young barrister of Dublin].
Letters on Literature. 2 vols. Brussels, 1836.
S. Redmond, N. & Q.
PINDAR (Paul) _pseud._ [JOHN YONGE AKERMAN].
Legends of Old London. 1842.
First published in Bentley’s Miscellany.
PINDAR (Paul) _pseud._ [ ].
Jew-De-Bras (a Burlesque Poem). Lond., _Newby_ [1850].
PINDAR, (Peter) _pseud._ [JOHN WALCOT].
The Lamentations of the Porter-Vat [occasioned by the bursting of one
at Meux and Co.’s]. 1814.
The Fat Knight and the Petition; or, Bits in the Dumps. 1815.
And numerous others of the same kind. He had a number of
imitators. It is said that he had a pension given him, on
condition that he should write no more in abuse of the King,
George III.
PINDAR (Peter) _impostor_ [C. F. LAWLER].
A poetaster of little or no art unwarrantably assumed this name,
merely to deceive the public [how easily that is done sometimes,
this work amply proves] and to bring profit to the writer and his
bookseller.--Biog. Dict. 1816.
PINDAR (Peter) Esq., _allonym_ [ ].
Hymn to the Virgin [Joanna Southcott].
PINDAR (Peter) _allonym_ [ ].
A Peep behind the Curtain. 1816.
Royalty Bewitched; or, the Loves of William [Duke of Gloucester] and
[the Princess] Mary. A [satirical] poem. 1816.
The Contest of Legs; or, Diplomatics in China. In a Letter from
Zephaniah Bull to John Bull at home. 1817.
Bubbles of Treason, &c., &c. 1817.
The Bath Pump Room; or a Sovereign Remedy for Low Spirits. A
[satirical] poem [on Queen Charlotte]. 1818.
The Disappointed Duke [of Clarence]. 1818.
PISCATOR, _phrenonym_ [T. P. LATHY, q.v.].
PISCATOR, _phren._ [ ].
Practical Angler. Lond., _Simpkin_ [Launceston, printed]. 1842.
PISCATOR, _phren._ [ ].
A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish. 1854.
We have given these two unknown ones, lest they should be
fathered on the _known_.
PLYMLEY (Peter) _pseud._ [Rev. SYDNEY SMITH].
Letters on the Subject of the Catholics to my Brother Abraham, who
lives in the Country. 21st edit. Lond., 1838.
POLYPUS, _ps._ [E. S. BARRETT].
All the Talents. A satirical poem, in three dialogues. 1st (?) and
17th edition. Lond., 1807.
PORCUPINE (Peter) _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM COBBETT, of political
celebrity].
The Rush-Light. New York, 1800.
PORCUPINE (Peter) _allonym_ [ ].
The Pop-Gun Plot; or, Shots in the Air, &c. Lond., 1817.
P. P. C. R., _pseudonym_ [THOMAS WATTS, Keeper of the Printed Books,
British Museum].
Under these initials, Mr. Watts wrote letters in the Mechanic’s
Magazine, 1836-7, on the British Museum Library. He has himself
carried out the suggestions for the improvement of the library
that he thus made. What the initials mean we do not know, though
we do know that they mean something. “S. S.” [Solomon Secundus]
writes about the same time on the same subject.
PRESBYTER, _demonym_ [SAMUEL HENRY TURNER].
Strictures on Archdeacon Wilberforce’s Doctrine of the Incarnation,
&c. New York, 1851.
PRESBYTER ANGLICANUS, _phrenonym_ [J. H. HARRIS].
Auricular Confession not the Rule of the Church of England. 1852.
PRESBYTER CATHOLICUS, _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM HARNESS].
Visiting Societies and Lay Readers. Lond., 1844.
PRIOR (Samuel) _pseud._ [JOHN GALT].
All the Voyages round the World ... [abridged and] ... collected by
----. Lond., 1820.
PROUT (Father) _pseudonym_ [F. S. MAHONY].
The Reliques of Father Prout.... collected and arranged by Oliver
Yorke [F. S. MAHONY], illustrated by A. Croquis [D. MACLISE]. Lond.,
1849.
PRY (Paul) _pseud._ [ ].
London Joke-Book, or New Bon-Mot Miscellany. Lond., _J. Weston_,
1835. Vignette of Paul Pry on the title-page, and underneath:
“Beg pardon--just popp’d in to shew
My Book of Jokes and smart Bon-Mots.”
Oddities of London Life. 1838.
PSALMANAZAR (George) _pseudonym_.
The most extraordinary impostor on record. He himself would
never divulge his real name, wishing only to be known as an
impostor. So degraded and vagabondish had his life been, that he
assumed the above name, and bore it with him to the grave, having
faithfully kept the secret of his birth and parentage.
He is now only remembered as the author of a strange fabrication,
entitled:--
An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an island
subject to the Emperor of Japan. Giving an account of the Religion,
Customs, Manners, &c., of the Inhabitants. Together with a relation
of what happen’d to the author in his Travels; particularly his
Conferences with the _Jesuits_, and others, in several parts
of _Europe_. Also the History and Reasons of his Conversion to
Christianity, with his Objections against it (in defence of
Paganism), and their Answers. To which is prefixed a Preface in
vindication of himself from the reflections of a _Jesuit_ lately
come from _China_, with an account of what passed between them. By
GEORGE PSALMANAAZAAR, a native of the said Island, now in _London_.
Illustrated with several cuts. Lond. Printed for Dan Brown, at the
Black Swan without _Temple-Bar_, &c. 1704. 8vo; 8 + xiv. + 2 + 131 +
4.
“Without having travelled out of Europe, he invented an account
of an Asiatic island, and preserved sufficient consistency in
his narrative to obtain for it, for a time, almost universal
credence. Long after the imposture was discovered, the book was
_quoted_ as _genuine_, and it is admitted to carry with it an
air of fact and reality, which does credit, at any rate, to the
ingenuity of the author.”
But Psalmanaazaar, “who is still in England, hath long since
ingenuously owned the contrary, tho’ not in so publick a manner
as he might perhaps have done had not such an avowment been
likely to have affected some few persons, who for private ends
took advantage of his youthful vanity, to encourage him in an
imposture which he might otherwise never have had the thought,
much less the confidence, to have carried on. Those persons
being now dead, and out of all danger of being hurt by it, he
now gives us leave to assure the world that the greatest part
of that account was fabulous ... and he designs to leave behind
him a faithful account of that unhappy step ... to be published
after his death, when there will be less reason to suspect him of
having disguised or palliated the truth.”--_A Complete System of
Geography._ By Emanuel Brown. 1747. Fol. ii. 251.
It is said that Psalmanazar himself wrote the genuine account of
Formosa in the above work as a compensation for his fabrication.
But in the work itself the account is acknowledged to be taken
from another author who resided there, but whose account is
admitted to be almost as bad as Psalmanazar’s.
But little interest now attaches to a fabrication once so famous.
There was, however, a completeness about the imposture which
renders it remarkable. Psalmanazar’s great difficulty was to
support the character he had assumed.
There was nothing Asiatic in his appearance; he was surrounded
by sceptical inquirers, and frequently puzzled with questions
and objections; but his hardihood and ingenuity enabled him to
maintain his ground, and baffle his most pertinacious opponents.
In the narrative of his life, which, in a spirit of penitence, he
drew up in after-years, he has given an interesting account of
the strange adventures of his youth. For this we must refer the
reader to that work, or to any of the biographical dictionaries,
or to the source whence we have adopted much--namely, Mr.
Lawrence’s article in Sharpe’s London Magazine.
The first edition of the remarkable romance of which we have
given the full title-page was soon exhausted, and another
called for. The second edition contains “a new preface, clearly
answering everything that has been objected against the author
and the book, and a map and a figure of an idol not in the former
impression.” Many editions of the translation were published in
France. In spite of its improbabilities, the book was devoutly
believed. Psalmanazar was sent to Oxford, and maintained there by
the Bishop of London.
The first period of Psalmanazar’s life was, as he himself
confessed, sufficiently infamous: in the second he endeavoured,
by sincere repentence, to atone for his youthful errors and
disreputable impostures. Dr. Johnson, who at the latter period
knew him well, often stated that he was the best man he had ever
known, and that he would as soon have thought of contradicting a
bishop as George Psalmanazar.
During the latter portion of his life he supported himself
entirely by literary pursuits. He wrote part of “the Universal
History.”
A Dialogue between a Japonese and a Formosan about some Points of the
Religion of the Time [laid down in a book entitled _The Growth of
Deism_]. By G. P----m----r. Lond., _Lintott_, 1707. 12mo; 10 + 41. 1s.
“To vindicate the Japoneses from that unjust character this part
of the world is pleased to give them--viz., of being a people
much given to superstition.”
Eclaircissemens nécessaires pour bien entendre ce que le Sr. N. F.
D. B. R., dit être arrivé à l’Ecluse en Flandres, par rapport à
la Conversion de Mr. George Psalmanaazaar, Japonois dans son livre
intitulé “Description de l’Isle Formosa.” Donné au public par ISAAC
D’AMALVI, Pasteur de l’Eglise Wallonne de ladite Ville. A la Haye.
_P. Husson_, 1707.
An Enquiry into the Objections against G. Psalmanazar, of Formosa, in
which the accounts of the people ... are proved not to contradict his
accounts; with ... map ... and the other very particular description
of Formosa. To which is added G. P.’s Answer to Mons. D’Amalvy of
Sluice. Lond., _Lintott_ [1710].
The Potter hates another of his Trade
If by his Hand a finer Dish is made;
The Smith his brother Smug with scorn does treat
That strikes his Iron with a brisker beat.
Essays on the following subjects: I. ... Miracles.... II. ...
Balaam’s disappointment.... III. On Jabin’s Defeat.... IV. and V.,
&c., &c., written some years since, at the desire, and for the
use of a young clergyman in the country. By a Layman, in Town [G.
Psalmanazar].... Lond., for A. Millar, 1753. 8vo.
Memoirs of * * * *, commonly known by the name of George Psalmanazar,
a reputed native of Formosa. Written by himself, in order to be
published after his death.... Lond., printed for the Executrix, 1764.
2nd edition, 1765, with portrait. Another edition, Dublin, 1765. 12mo.
For French translations see Quérard, _La France Litt._ and _Les
Supercheries Litt. Dévoilées_.
He died on the 23rd of May, 1763, at his lodgings in Ironmonger
Row, Old Street, St. Luke’s, London.
PUBLICOLA _ph._ [Mr. SMITH wrote under this pseudonym in the
_Dispatch_ in 1838].
PUBLICOLA, _ph._ [JOHN WILLIAMS].
Letters of ----, 1st series. Lond., 1840.
We have a number of other works by Publicola, all unknown.
P. W. [Rev. PIERCE WILLIAM DREW, Vicar of Youghal, Cork, Ireland].
An Account of the Present State of Youghal Church, &c. Cork, 1848.
J. P----r.
Q.
Q, _ps._ [ ]. You have heard of them. By Q. New York, _Redfield_.
Lond., _Trübner_, 1854.
Q., _pseud._ [EDMUND YATES].
Mr. Yates never wrote “Readings by Starlight” in the _Evening Star_,
but he wrote, under this initial, about sixteen papers in the
_Evening Star_, the continuation of which papers have borne the title
of “Readings by Starlight.” 1866. See F., _init._
Q IN THE CORNER, _ps._ [ ].
Epistles from Bath. Lond., _Meyler_, 1817.
Q IN THE CORNER, _pseud._ [ ].
Epistolatory Stanzas ... to E. Peel, Esq., with a copy of my
recently-published work, entitled “The Lions of the Isle of Wight.”
Hammersmith, 1851.
Q. Q., _pseud._ [Miss JANE TAYLOR].
Contributions to the Youth’s Magazine, or Evangelical Miscellany.
1816-22.
Republished 1824. 13th edition, 1866.
QUALLON, _pseud._ [S. H. BRADBURY, Editor of the Nottingham Review].
Poetry under this signature.
QUEERFELLOW (Quintin) _phren._ [CHARLES CLARK].
A Doctor’s “Do”-ings, or the entrapped Heiress of Witham. Totham,
printed by Charles Clark (an amateur) at his private press, 1848.
A satirical poem. A very limited number reprinted from the
suppressed edition.
QUERY (Peter) Esq., _phrenonym_ [MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER].
Rides and Reveries of the late Mr. Æsop Smith. Edited by ----. Lond.,
1858.
QUINCE (Peter) _pseud._ [ISAAC STORY].
A Parnasian Shop, opened in the Pindaric style. [Satires in verse.]
Boston, 1801.
R.
RAETZEL (W.) _fictitious name_. See Ternaux-Compans.
RATTLER (Morgan) an apprentice of the law, _phrenonym_ [PERCIVAL
WELDON BANKS, Barrister-at-Law].
Articles in Fraser’s Magazine to the time of his death, in 1851.
RAUSSE (J. H.) _pseud._ [H. F. FRANKE].
Miscellanies to the Græfenberg Water-Cure. Translated by C. H.
Meeker. New York, 1848.
R. B. J., Barrister-at-Law, Temple, _init._ [JONES].
The Vision of Mary; or, a Dream of Joy. Poems in honour of the
Immaculate Conception. 1856. 16mo.
R. C. H. _init._ [RICHARD COLT HOARE].
Hints to Travellers in Italy. Lond., 1815.
RETNYW (Werdna) Esq. _ananym_ [ANDREW WYNTER].
Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer. 1855.
Pictures of Town from my Mental Camera. 1855.
REVILO (E. B.) _anastroph_ [OLIVER BYRNE].
The Creed of St. Athanasius Proved by a Mathematical Parallel. 1839.
W. B. H. Athenæum, 1864.
R. H. _init._ [ROBERT HAWKER].
The Plant of Renown, &c. 1805.
The Friend that Loveth at all Times. By the author of the Brother
born for Adversity. 4th edit., 1810. 24mo.
R. H. _init._ [HARVEY].
Hymns for Young Persons. London, 1834.
R. H. _init._ [ROBERT HOBSON].
The Guide to Dovedale, Ilam, and Scenes adjacent. Ashbourn, 1841.
RHYMER (Thomas) a City Bard, _phrenonym_ [ ].
The Petition, A Poem; Being an Extract from the Record of the
Transactions of a Convention held by various Animals, &c., &c.
Heretofore peaceably residing within the City of Edinburgh, and
expelled the said City by order of the L * * * D * * * of G * * * *
[Lord Dean of Guild]. The whole turned into English metre. By ----.
Edin., 1806.
RIDDELL (Mr.) _fictitious name_. See Ternaux-Compans.
RINGLETUB (Jeremiah) _pseud._ [JOHN STYLES].
The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, in a series of Letters to my
Brother Jonathan, who lives in the Country. 1815.
This is a Reply to “the Velvet Cushion. By the Rev. J. W. Cunningham,
A.M. 1814.”
In the same year was published *“A New Covering to the Velvet
Cushion, Lond., _Gale & Co._,” by Dr. F. A. Cox, D.D., LL.D., of
Hackney.
_See N. & Q._, 2 s. x. xi.
RIPON (John Scott) _geonym_ [JOHN SCOTT BYERLEY, of Ripon, York].
Buonaparte; or, the Freebooter. A Drama. Lond., 1803.
ROCHESTER (Mark) _pseud._ [WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT, poet and
journalist].
The Derby Ministry. A series of Cabinet Sketches. Lond., 1858. A
Duplicate, with a new title-page, put forth in 1866, as “Lives of
Eminent Statesmen,” &c.
ROCK (Captain) _pseudo-titlonym_ [THOMAS MOORE].
Memoirs of ----, the celebrated Irish Chieftain, with some Account of
his Ancestors. Written by himself. Lond., 1824, and Paris, 1824.
Captain Rock Detected. By a Munster Farmer [ ]. Lond., 1824.
ROCK (Captain) _pseudo-titlonym_ [ROGER O’CONNOR].
Letters to His Majesty King George the Fourth. Lond., 1828.
ROCKINGHAM (Sir Charles) _French pseudo-titlonym_ [Le Comte de JARNAC
DE ROHAN-CHABOT].
Le Dernier d’Egremont. Paris, 1851. 2 vols.
J. M. Q.
ROCKINGHAM (Sir Charles) _pseudo-titlonym_ [ ].
Cécile; or, the Pervert. By ----, &c., author of Rockingham, Love and
Ambition, &c., &c. Lond., _Colburn and Co._, 1851.
RODENBERG (Julius von) _German pseud._ [JULIUS LEVY].
The Island of the Saints, a Pilgrimage through Ireland (translated
from the German by Sir F. C. L. Wraxall). Lond., 1861.
RODMAN (Ella) _abbre._ [ELIZA RODMAN MCILLVANE, afterwards CHURCH].
Several works, see Allibone Dict. of Eng. Lit.
ROWLEY (T.) _apocryph_. See Chatterton (Thomas).
R. P. _init._ [ROBERT PALTOCK]. See Wilkins (Peter) _apocryph_.
R. S. _tetonism_? See Wilkins (Peter) _apocryph_.
R. T. _init._ [RALPH THOMAS, Serjeant-at-Law].
Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt.
In the Monthly Mag., April, 1832. Strongly advocating its total
abolition.
An Old Acquaintance, in the _Court Magazine_.
Reprinted in Holt’s Mag. for 7th Sept., 1836. Wrote also:--
Autobiography of an Artist [JOHN MARTIN] in the _Town and Country
Mag._, 1838.
RUNNYMEDE, _pseudonym_ [Rt. Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI].
The Letters of Runnymede. Lond., _J. Macrone_, 1836.
Addressed to all the celebrated Statesmen of the time.
RUSTICUS (Mercurius) _pseud._ [Rev. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, LL.D.].
Bibliophobia. Remarks on the present languid and depressed state of
Literature.... Addressed to the Author of the Bibliomania [Rev. T. F.
Dibdin]. By ----, &c. With notes by Cato Parvus [Richard Heber]. 1832.
The learned and rev. author of this, and the champion of
bibliomanes, succumbed to the apparently inevitable destiny
of all who have been engulphed in the vortex of bibliographic
pursuits. Let the juvenile reader inclined to pursue bibliography
as a science, avoid it as he would a pest, for it will blight his
prospects and shatter his constitution if pursued, as it must be,
when once entered upon. But once entered upon, it is the broad
path that leads to endless labour, no reward but fame amongst
a few men of science. Let Robert Watt, his sons, Lowndes, and,
above all, J. M. Quérard, be his warnings.
S.
S---- (W----) Esq. See Scott (Sir W.)
SAND (George) _pseudandry_ [AMANTINE LUCILE AURORE DUPIN, afterwards
DUDEVANT].
Consuelo, translated by F. G. Shaw. Boston, 1847.
Histoire de Ma Vie. 20 vols, Paris, 1854-5.
The list of her works in Quérard’s _Supercheries_ amounts to 118.
This was in 1852.
On the covers of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, I have remarked,
observes Charles Joliet, that after the title of her novel these
words follow:--M. George Sand and not “Mme.,” Genius has no sex.
She has also used the signature “Blaise Bonnin.”
Letter to M. Regnier, of the Théatre Français, upon his adaptation to
the French stage of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. By ----. Translated
by Lady Monson, 1856.
SAND (J.) _disguised-author_ [JULES SANDEAU].
(With Mme. Dudevant): Rose et Blanche, Paris, 1833.
This novel has only the name of J. Sand on the title-page.
J. M. Q.
SAND (Maurice) _pseud._ [MAURICE DUDEVANT].
Six mille lieues à toute Vapeur (with a preface by G. Sand.) Paris,
1862, and others.
SAVONAROLA (Jeremy) Don, _Spanish-pseud._ [FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY].
Facts and Figures from Italy ... addressed during the last two
Winters, to C. Dickens, being an Appendix to his “Pictures,” 1847.
S. B. P., _init._ [SAMUEL BROWNING POWER, of Swansea].
Some School and Children’s books, under his initials.
J. P--r.
SCHNUSE (C. H.), _plagiarist_.
GERMAN PLAGIARISM.
We are apt to charge one another with copying from the Germans,
and there may be some among us who assume the credit of research
upon materials which are found to hand in some German book.
There may also be some who do nothing more than translate, and
pass themselves off as authors. The following account will show
that the converse may be true; that a German may translate
scores of pages, one after another, from an English writer, and
present them as his own. The theft is eight years old, but it is
not likely that such a thing should be noticed immediately in
England; and, moreover, it is desirable it should be known that
lapse of time does not spell impunity. The owner in this case is
Mr. J. R. Young; the appropriator is Dr. C. H. Schnuse, then of
Heidelberg. Mr. Young began writing on the theory of equations
in 1823, when he was the first elementary writer who saw the
value of what is now current as _Horner’s method_, the great
completion of the imperfect labours of Vieta, Briggs, and Newton
in the numerical solution of equations. Mr. Young was afterwards
the author of a long chain of well-known elementary works, and
was for many years professor at Belfast. When the Institution of
that place was converted into a Queen’s College, he was made to
fall to the ground between the two stools, in a manner which he
explained at the time in a pamphlet. Belfast is a place of many
religious sores. Mr. Young was also unequally used in reference
to his retiring pension; but this matter was afterwards righted
by the Government, and, we believe, arrears were paid. We
remember this by the opposition made by some honourable member,
who rather suspected that a Belfast payment must be a job. The
following dialogue ensued:--
_Hon. Member._--Is Mr. Young a professor of theology?
_Current Minister._--No! of mathematics.
_Hon. Member._--I withdraw my opposition.
Mr. Young, who has written largely on the theory of equations,
published his “Algebraical Equations of the higher order” in
1843. Dr. Schnuse published his “Theorie der höhen Algebräischen
und der Transcendenten Gleichungen,” at Brunswick, in 1850. We
have not troubled ourselves to reckon how much more than 100
pages, or less than 300, are taken from Mr. Young’s book. We dip
into the chapter on Sturm’s theorem, and we find page after page,
and example after example, as in Young: not merely the method
and examples transcribed, but the intermediate paragraphs. Thus,
having finished one example (Young, p. 242; Schnuse, p. 180),
they both start off into the same other example in the following
way:--
_Young._ _Schnuse._
We shall now give an example Wir wollen diese allgemeinen
that will in some measure illustrate Bemerkungen gleichsam noch
the preceding observations. durch ein Beispiel erläutern.
And so on to the end of the chapter. We amused ourselves by
finding out how a person without any German might detect the
copying. By the examples, of course: the Arabic numerals are
common to both nations. But at the end of this chapter the
English reader sees that the _method of Fourier_ has a _practical
value_, while at the end of the German this same English reader
catches sight of _Fourier Methode_ and _Praktischen Werth_. Then,
in the first sentence of the next chapter, on Horner’s method,
the English eye may still see something in the German text:--
_Young._ _Schnuse._
The method of approximation Die Methode zur näherungsweisen
to the real roots of numerical Berechnung der reellen Wurzeln
equations to be discussed in the der Zahlengleichungen welche
present chapter, is that which was wir in diesem Kapitel auseinan-
first proposed by Mr. Horner, and dersetzen wollen, rührt von Horner
published by him in the her, welcher sie im Jahre 1819 in
_Philosophical Transactions_, den _Philosophical Transactions_
in the year 1819. veröffentlicht hat.
Then follows many and many a page of examples and illustrations
common to both writers. Dr. Schnuse mentions Mr. Young’s name in
reference to another matter, at the end of the work: alluding to
him, not as a _writer_, but as the _inventor of a method_.
The facetious Hierocles tells the story of a man who, having a
house to sell, carried about a brick as a specimen. The bricks
of which books are built _are_ specimens; and seldom is it that
two or three bricks are piled together in two different books
in exactly the same way, by nothing but coincidence. The same
_ideas_ often strike different persons fairly; it is very rare
indeed that the same _sentence_ occurs to both, if of ten or
fifteen words. It has been noted that Terence says, _I præ,
sequar_, and that some modern dramatists have hit on, _Go
before, I’ll follow_. This is, perhaps, nearly the utmost extent
to which different writers fall on the same collocations of
words: four, five, or six at a time.
The unscrupulous man whom we have exposed might have been an
honourable translator; he has chosen to be a dishonourable
transformer. We dismiss him with the remark that he has added one
to the number of inconvertible identities: _Schnuse_ is German
for Young, but _Young_ is not English for _Schnuse_.--_Athenæum_,
5th March, 1859, p. 321.
SCOTT (Sir Walter) Bart.
The following works have been falsely, or fraudulently with intent to
deceive, attributed to England’s greatest novelist. The reader will
look in vain for them in Lockhart’s Life of Sir W. Scott:
The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a tale of Havre de Grace. Supposed
to be written by Walter Scott Esq. First American from the fourth
Edinburgh Edition. New York, 1813. [By James Kirke Paulding.]
The Bridal of Caölchairn, and Miscellaneous Poems. By Sir Walter
Scott, Bart. 5th edition, London, _Hurst & Co._ and Edinburgh,
_Constable_, 1822, 8vo. [By J. H. Allan.]
“This pretended ‘5th edition’ differs in the title-page only
from the first edition [same year], bearing the name of the real
author, J. H. Allan.”--_Note in B. M. Cat._
Die Erstürmung von Selama, oder die Rache. Eine schottische Sage von
Walter Scott. 3 Bde, Quedlinburg und Leipzig, 1825.
Walladmor. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott, von W....s, 3
Bde., Berlin, _F. A. Herbig_, 1824. [By G. W. H. Haering, known in
Germany under the pseudonym, Willibald Alexis].
“James Ballantyne’s satisfaction went on increasing as the MS.
flowed in upon him; and he at last pronounced The Talisman such
a masterpiece that The Betrothed might venture abroad under its
wing. Sir Walter was now reluctant on that subject, and said
he would rather write two more new novels than the few pages
necessary to complete his unfortunate Betrothed. But while he
hesitated, the German newspapers announced “_A new Romance by
the Author of Waverley_” as about to issue from the press of
Leipzig. There was some ground for suspecting that some of the
suspended sheets might have been purloined and sold to a pirate,
and this consideration put an end to his scruples. And when the
German did publish the fabrication entitled _Walladmor_, it
could no longer be doubtful that some reader of Scott’s sheets
had communicated at least the fact that he was breaking ground in
Wales.”--_Lochhart’s Life of Scott._
Walladmor: “Freely translated into German from the English of Sir
Walter Scott,” and now freely translated from the German into
English. In 2 vols, London, printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825.
This fabrication which is full of gross anachronisms, was
translated into French [by A. J. B. Defauconpret] from the
English version. Paris, 1825, 3 vols. A long account will be
found in the Lond. Magazine, x. 353 (says Bohn’s Lowndes which
gives the title incorrectly from that journal.) It seems Sir
Walter did not supply novels in sufficient numbers for the German
appetite, or else they were too expensive for the frugal German
pockets. At all events here is another by the same author, who is
still living:--
Schloss Avalon. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott vom
Uebersetzer des Walladmor. 3 Bde. Leipzig, _F. A. Brockaus_ [a very
celebrated firm by the way], 1827.
Aymé Verd, roman inédit de, etc., précédé d’une lettre du capitaine
Clutterbuch [written in French by _M. Calais_, assisted, Quérard
says, by Théod. Anne]. Paris, 1842, 2 vols.
Allan Cameron [by the same]. Paris, 1842, 2 vols, a German
translation, published in 1841.
Le Proscrit des Hébrides, roman inédit. [Written by _Jules David_].
Paris, 1843.
La Pythie des Highlands, roman inédit [same]. Paris, 1844.
Moredun; a tale of the Twelve Hundred and Ten. [Edited by E. de Saint
Maurice Cabany, who attributes the authorship to Sir W. S.]. 3 vols,
London, published for the proprietor (Cabany) by Sampson Low, 1855.
This novel is not put forth under any false pretences. The
proprietor believes it to be a genuine work of the _great
unknown_.
SCRIBBLER (Blank) _phren._ [ ].
J. Donoghoe’s Visit to the Great Dublin Exhibition. 1854.
SCRIBE (Simon) _pseud._ [ADAM BLACK].
Maynooth, in three Letters to Mrs. Hadaway. Lond., 1852.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [CHARLES JERRAM].
Letters to an Universalist, containing a review of the controversy
between Mr. Vidler and Mr. Fuller, on the doctrine of Universal
Salvation. Clipstone, 1802.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [HORLOCK].
Letters on the Management of Hounds, 1852. Horses and Hounds, 1855
and 1858. The Squire of Beechwood, 1857. The Master of the Hounds,
1859 [or rather 1858]. Lord Fitzwarine, 1860. Recollections of a Fox
Hunter, 1861. The Country Gentleman, 1862. The Heronry, a tale, 1864.
Practical Lessons on Hunting and Sporting, 1865. All London.
SCRUTATOR. See The Author of the Church in Danger, (1855).
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [DAVID MACALLAN].
The Mode of Christian Baptism, etc., appendix in reply to Arch.
Whately and Lord Lyttleton. Lond., 1858.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [CHARLES RIVINGTON].
Strictures on Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Inquiry into the Genuineness
of the MS. Corrections in Mr. J. J. Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare,
Folio, 1632. London, _J. R. Smith_, 1860.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [C. P. MEASOR?]
Irish Fallacies and English Facts, etc., on the Convict System, etc.
Lond., 1863.
We have above a dozen “Scrutators,” who are unknown to us in
their real presence.
SCULPTOR (Satiricus) Esq., _phrenonym_ [W. H. IRELAND is the reputed
author].
Chalcographimania, or the Portrait Collector and Printseller’s
Chronicle, with infatuations of every description. A humorous poem.
_R. S. Kirby_, 1814. Dedicated to James Bindley, and dated from
Cambridge.
Thomas Hartwell Horne, in his Introduction to the Study of
Bibliography, p. 521, says: The deserved popularity of the
Bibliomania (by T. F. Dibdin) suggested to some anonymous writer
the idea of satirizing the mania for prints in a volume....
Of this the less is said the better. The poem is anything but
humorous, and to the notes may justly be applied the author’s
motto _Caeoethes Carpendi_: it is throughout tinctured with
malevolence. The cut prefixed purports to be copied from an
unique print of Will Somers, the jester, which _has no existence_!
Lowndes says that it was written from information mostly
furnished by T. Coram. If it was written by Ireland, it seems
strange that the following verses should occur:--
In autographs as ably vers’d,
As Chatterton the poet erst;
Or he that later wielded fire-brand,
The impudent and forging Ireland.--p. 35.
And others which will be found in this volume under Ireland (W.
H.)
SEARCH (John) _pseud._ [ARCHBISHOP WHATELY].
Considerations on the Law of Libel. London, 1833.
A reply to this was published by “S. N.” [The Bishop of Ferns].
Religion and her Name, a Metrical Tract, 1841.
In this the author says:--“In resuming on this occasion the
signature prefixed by him some years ago to a pamphlet on the
subject of Religious Libel, the author of these stanzas takes
the opportunity of stating that, except in the present instance
and in that of the pamphlet alluded to, he is not accountable
for anything that may have appeared under the signature of
JOHN SEARCH. He is led to mention this from the circumstance
of some other writer having assumed the same signature about
a twelvemonth, more or less, after he had adopted it; and
forthwith prefixed it to sundry publications of his own. He would
also deprecate, could he think it necessary, the supposition
that he could have meant by such title to imply any sort of
pretensions as regards the peculiar qualifications for learned
research.”--_Preface._
_Ralph Thomas_, _N. & Q._, 3 S., xi. 429.
SEARCH (John) _phrenonym_ [W. HENRY ASHURST, Solicitor, is said to
have written under this phrenonym, about 1833. See Notes and Queries,
3 S., Gen. Index].
SEARCH (John) _phrenonym_ [The Rev. Mr. MURSELL, of Leicester, wrote
under this name. See N. & Q., ibid.].
SEARCH (Sarah) _pseud._ [F. NOLAN].
Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister proved to be forbidden in
Scripture. London, 1855.
SEARLE (January) _phrenonym_ [GEORGE PHILIPS].
Memoirs of W. Wordsworth, compiled from authentic sources. London,
1852. Emerson, Life, etc., 1855.
This gentleman has written numerous other pieces under the above
name.
SEATSFIELD, _cryptonym_ [CHARLES SEALSFIELD].
Life in the New World; or, Sketches of American Society. Translated
from the German of G. C. Hebbe and J. Mackay. New York, [1844].
Tokeah, Phil., 1845.
North and South; or, Scenes and Adventures in Mexico, translated by
J. T. H[eadley]. New York, [1845?]
SEAWORTHY (Gregory) Captain, _phren._ [ ].
Nag’s Head, or two months among “The Bunkers,” a story of Sea-shore
Life and Manners. Phil., 1850.
Bertie, or Life in the Old Fields, a humorous novel, with a letter to
the Author from W. Irving. Phil., 1851.
_See Trübner’s Am. Bib. Guide._
S. E. B., _init._ [Sir SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES, Bart., calling
himself, _per legem terræ_, Baron Chandos of Sudeley].
Arthur Fitzalbini, a novel. 1810.
Sir Ralph Willoughby, a tale. 1820.
Sir Egerton Brydges is a gentleman well known to be devoted
to literature,--and now a traveller, who may emphatically be
said _to drag at each remove a lengthening chain_. It has also
happened to us lately to be travellers, and wherever we went
we found vestiges of Sir Egerton,--remnants of his mind, in
the shape of English books, printed in foreign parts, for the
benefit, we presume, of the natives. At Geneva, early last year,
we encountered Sir Egerton’s volume on Political Economy, with
Packhoud’s imprint--drawn from our countryman, no doubt, by his
breathing the same air with Sismondi. At Florence he had dropped
a volume of tales and poetry. In the autumn we were at Rome,
and heard from our valet de place, as his first piece of news,
that Sir Brydges had established a printing press in the eternal
city, under the protection of a cardinal. At Naples, almost the
first book we met with was the work, the title of which stands at
the head of this notice, and which is the commencing number of
a series, which the Chevalier _Du Pont_ (as Sir Egerton Brydges
was called at Paris) intends perseveringly to continue, unless
he should be stopped by an invasion or an eruption. Every man
has his hobby, says Sterne; a printing press seems to be Sir
Egerton’s:--but that he should go abroad to print and publish
English books, is surely strange! His ambition was once to “witch
the world” with smart volumes “_from the private press at Lee
Priory_;” but as if a private press in his own country was not
sufficiently secluded from the interference of the impertinent
curiosity of readers, he has now allowed his love of obscurity
as an author to carry him away to strangers altogether,--amongst
whom he may reasonably hope to be able to print and publish once
a month or oftener, without running any very imminent hazard of
having his modest pages rumpled or fluttered by the eagerness of
perusal.--_Blackwood’s Mag., Feb., 1821._
SEVERAL AMERICAN AUTHORS, _polynym_ [C. M. SEDGWICK, J. K. PAULDING,
W. C. BRYANT, W. LEGGETT, and R. C. SANDS].
Tales of Glauber-Spa. New York, 1832.
SEVERAL YOUNG PERSONS, _phraseonym_ [A. and J. TAYLOR, and others].
Original Poems for Infant Minds. London, 1854.
S. G. O., _initialism_ [The Rev. Lord SIDNEY GODOLPHIN OSBORNE].
His letters on social and philanthropic subjects in the _Times_, have
made these initials celebrated, and, as is justly remarked in “Men of
the Time,” “the terror of wrong doers.”
S. H., _initialism_ [SPENCER HALL].
Suggestions for the Classification of the Library now collecting at
the Athenæum [Club]. Lond., 1858, privately printed.
SHAKESPEARE (William).
The spurious or doubtful plays of Shakespeare occupy six closely
printed columns in the new edition of Lowndes by H. G. Bohn, to
which we refer the reader.
It is not often that we have occasion to praise this work, nor
have we been much indebted to it. The bibliogram on Shakespeare
is really so thoroughly worked up, that we have very great
pleasure in testifying to its usefulness; and whenever we mention
Shakespeare, if further information is required, Lowndes by Bohn
should be referred to.
SIDNEY (Edward William) _ps._ [BEVERLY TUCKER].
The Partisan Leader; a tale of the future. Printed for the publishers
by James Caxton, 1836, 2 vols.
This is the original edition, another was published with this
title: The Partisan Leader. By Beverly Tucker, of Virginia.
Secretly printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff
Green, for circulation in the Southern States, but afterwards
suppressed. New York, 1864, 3rd edition.
SILVERPEN, _pharmaconym_ [ELIZA METEYARD].
This pseudonym was appended by Douglas Jerrold himself to a leading
article in the first number of his newspaper (?) (_Men of the Time_)
for this talented authoress.
The Little Museum Keeper, Lond., 1861.
SIMEON (South) _pseud._ [J. MCGREGOR].
Simeon’s Letters to his Kinsfolk: written chiefly from France and
Belgium. Lond., 1834.
Severely reviewed in the Edin. R. for 1835, xxii. 512.
SINGLETON (Arthur) _ps._ [ ].
Letters from the South and West. Boston (U.S.) 1824.
SKETCHLEY (Arthur) _scenonym_ [GEORGE ROSE].
Mrs. Brown at the Play--in fact, Mrs. Brown all over the world, has
been immortalized by the comic wit of Mr. Rose. He has contributed to
“Fun” and “Cassell’s Magazine,” and several other periodicals under
this signature.
SLICK (Sam) of Slickville, _pseud._ [THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON, of
Nova Scotia].
The Clockmaker, or sayings and doings of ----, 1840.
Numerous others. See Allibone.
SLINGSBY (Jonathan Freke) _pseud._ [JOHN FRANCIS WALLER].
The Slingsby Papers. Dublin, 1852.
The Dead Bridal, 1856.
SLOP (Dr.) _phrenonym_ [Sir J. STODDART].
* Slop’s Shave at a Broken Hone (in verse). Lond., 1820.
This nickname was given by The Times to Dr. Stoddart in 1815. See
Jerdan, _Autobiog._ i. 94.
SLOPER (Mace) _pseud._ [C. G. LELAND].
S. M., _anastroph_ [MENELLA SMEDLEY].
Seven tales by seven Authors, etc. A Very Woman. By S. M., 1846. The
Maiden Aunt (from Sharpe’s Miscellany), 1849. Nina; a tale for the
Twilight, 1853. The Use of Sunshine, 1852. Story of a Family, 1850.
Only part of this was published in Sharpe’s London Magazine; but it
was all published, in 2 vols, in 1855.
SMITH (Gamaliel) _pseud._ [JEREMY BENTHAM].
Not Paul but Jesus. London, 1823.
SOMNAMBULUS, _phrenonym_ [Sir W. SCOTT].
The Visionary. Edinb., 1819. These are Political Satires, first
published in the Edinb. Weekly Journal.
SPARROWGRASS (Mr.) _pseud._ [FRED S. COZZENS].
The Sparrowgrass Papers; or, Living in the Country. New York, 1856.
SPERANZA, _phrenonym_ [Mrs. WILLIAM ROBERT WILDE, of Dublin,
afterwards Lady WILDE].
Ugo Bassi, a tale of the Italian Revolution (in verse). London, 1857.
SPROUTS, _phrenonym_ [E. WHITEING].
The “Costomonger” of the Evening Star, 1867.
S. R. P., _initialism_ [Miss POWERS].
Why do not Women Swim? a Voice from many Waters. Lond.,
_Groombridge_, 1859.
Remarks on Woman’s Work in Sanitary Reform. Lond., 1862.
And many other sanitary tracts of a useful kind.
STANLEY (Reginald Fitz-Roy) M.A., _pseud._ [R. COWTAN, of the British
Museum].
Passages from the Auto-Biography of a “Man of Kent” [R. Cowtan],
1817-65. Edited by ----. Lond. _Whittingham & Wilkins_, for
subscribers only, 1866.
St. ANN, _pseud._ [ ].
The Castles of Wolfnorth and Monteagle. London _Hookham_, 1812.
STEIN (Johann Saville) _ps._ [JOHN SAVILLE STONE].
Fantasia [1855]. “Nicette” Mazurka [1856]. Home, Sweet Home, arranged
for the piano [1859]. The March of the Cameron Men [same], and
several others.
STONEHENGE, _ps._ [JOHN HENRY WALSH, M.R.C.S.].
The Greyhound: being a treatise on the Art of Breeding, Rearing, and
Training Greyhounds for Public Running, their Diseases and Treatment.
London, 1853, 2nd edition, 1864. Manual of British Rural Sports,
1856, 4th edition, 1859. The Dog in Health and Disease, 1859. The
Shot Gun and Sporting Rifle; and the Dogs, Ponies, Ferrets, etc.,
used with them in the various kinds of Shooting and Trapping, 1859,
2nd edition, 1862. Riding and Driving, 1863. Archery, Fencing,
Broadsword, 1863. The Handbook of Manly Exercises. (Forming part of
Routledge’s Sixpenny Handbooks.)
STOTHARD (Mrs.) afterwards BRAY (A. E.)
These letters (to the poet-laureate Southey) were originally
published by Mr. Murray, in 1836, and called “The Borders of
Tamar and Tavy.” Mr. Bohn purchased the remaining copies of Mr.
Murray, and, I am sorry to state, gave the work a new title-page,
calling it “Traditions of Devonshire.” It relates only to the
neighbourhood of Tavistock and Dartmoor. _Works_, 1845, 10 vols.
SUMMERFIELD (Charles), _phrenonym_ [THEODORE FOSTER].
The Desperadoes of the South-West. New York, 1847.
SUMMERLY (Felix) _pseud._ [HENRY COLE, K.C.B.].
Home Treasury, of Books, Pictures, Toys, &c., proposed to cultivate
the affections, fancy, imagination and taste of Children. Lond.
_Cundall_, 1844.
A series of about 21, for list see The Publishers’ Circular, vii.
70, viii. 205.
Pleasure Excursions to Croydon, Guildford, Harrow, Reigate, Shoreham,
Walton [1846]. Heroic Tales of Ancient Greece, translated from the
German of B. G. Niebuhr, 1849. Handbook for Canterbury, 1855; for
Architecture, Tapestries, 1859.
This gentleman’s pseudonym, though longer, is much pleasanter
than his own name. He is so well known under both, that it is
superfluous for us to say anything.
SUMMERLY (Mrs. Felix) _pseud._ [Mrs. HENRY COLE].
The Mother’s Primer, 1844.
SURREBUTTER (John) Esq., _phren._ [JOHN ANSTEY, son of the author of
the celebrated “New Bath Guide”].
The Pleader’s Guide, a didactic poem, in two books, containing
the conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor
Bother’um and Counsellor Bore’um in an action betwixt John-a-Gull and
John-a-Gudgeon. By the late ----, Special Pleader.
This witty little poem which contains so many hits at the
author’s own profession, has been frequently reprinted since 1796.
Lord Campbell, in his Lives of the Justices, quotes these lines:--
Three years I sat his smoky room in,
Pens, paper, ink, and pounce consuming.
And observes that “Tom Tewkesbury” was the Hero of the _Guide_,
which he thinks has become almost unintelligible, from the
changes in our legal procedure. The noble lord relates that he
had heard Professor Porson, at the Cider Cellars, in Maiden Lane,
now no more, recite the whole from memory, and that he concluded
by relating that when buying a copy of it, and complaining that
the price was very high, the bookseller said, “Yes, Sir, but you
know _Law-Books_ are always very dear.”
S. W. P., Bookseller, London, _initialism_ [PARTRIDGE].
Rhymes worth remembering for the Young. By the author of “Important
truths in Simple Verse.” Lond., 1848.
SYNTAX (Dr.) _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM COOMBE].
Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, with coloured
plates. London, 1821.
A very popular poem.
The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem, in 15 Cantos, by ----, with
30 coloured engravings by George Cruikshank, 1815.
T.
T., _init._ [MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER].
A Hymn for all Nations, 1851, single sheet.
T---- (J----) Esq. _allonym_? [J. W. CROKER].
Second edition. * An intercepted Letter from J---- T----, Esq.,
written at Canton, to his friend in Dublin, Ireland. [a satire upon
the City of] Dublin, 1804.
TAG, RAG, and BOBTAIL (Messrs.) _pseud._ [I. D’ISRAELI].
Flim-Flams! or the Life and Errors of my Uncle and the Amours of my
Aunt. With illustrations and obscurities, by ----. Lond., 1805, 3
vols.
TALVI, _pseud._ [THERESE ALBERTINE LOUISE VON JACOB, afterwards Mrs.
EDWARD ROBINSON].
Heloise, or the Unrevealed Secret, 1850. Life’s Discipline, 1851. The
Exiles, a tale. New York, 1853.
T. B., _init._ [THOMAS BRIGHTWELL, Solicitor, Norwich].
Journal of a Tour, etc., in 1825, through Belgium, etc. Norwich,
Lond., 1828.
Privately printed. See Martin’s Catalogue.
TEMPLE (Neville) _ps._ [Hon. JULIAN CHARLES HENRY FANE] and TREVOR
(Edward) _ps._ [Hon. EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON].
Tannhäuser; or, the Battle of the Boards, a poem. Lond., 1861.
TEMPLETON (Laurence) _pseud._ [Sir W. SCOTT].
Ivanhoe, a Romance. By the author of Waverley. The preface signed L.
T. Edinb., 1820.
TEMPLETON (Timothy) _pseud._ [CHARLES ADAMS, an American].
The Adventures of my Cousin Smooth. Lond., 1855.
TEMPLETON (Tristram) _ps._ [N. F. F. DAVIN].
Charles Kavanagh, a story of Modern Life, Character, and Adventure.
1866.
This story was published in the Monthly Journal, Nov., 1866
to Feb., 1867, a periodical, written by Mr. Davin, with the
exception of a story by Mr. John Blackman. The Journal then
ceased.
TERNAUX-COMPANS (Henri).
Catalogue des livres et MSS. de la bibliothèque de feu M. Rætzel.
Paris, 1836.
When this gentleman wished to dispose of a portion of his curious
collections, he took a fancy to be enigmatic on the occasion,
and part was offered for sale as the property of a fictitious
Englishman, Mr. Riddell, and part as the property of a fictitious
German, Herr Rætzel. “Räthsel” in German is the equivalent of
“riddle” in English, and the riddle has remained a riddle to many
bibliographers to this day. The Athenæum, from whose number for
March, 1860, we take this, gives an instance of a very learned
German bibliograph, Dr. Graesse, being thus misled. As he more
than once in his _Trésor des Livres Rares, etc._, quotes the
prices at the sale of “M. Rætzel.” This last is mentioned by
Harrisse in his Bib. Americana, 1866. See also Quérard La France
Litt. ix. 374.
TEUFELSDROECKH (Herr) _fictitious name_ [THOMAS CARLYLE].
Sartor Resartus: the Life and Opinions of Herr T. 3rd edition, 1849.
First appeared in Fraser’s Magazine, 1830. It was reprinted for
Friends in 1833-4, and in 1836 and 1841.
_See Allibone._
TEUTHA, _pseud._ [WILLIAM JERDAN].
The signature of “Teutha,” the ancient name of the Tweed, was used by
him from the period of his earliest to his latest contributions to
the press.
See Autobiography, 1852, i. 189.
T. F. S., an Old Piscator, _init._ [SALTER].
Hints to Anglers, &c., in verse. Lond., 1808.
T. H., _initialism_ [HAMILTON].
See The author of Cyril Thornton.
THE AMATEUR LAMBETH CASUAL, [JAMES GREENWOOD].
The Wilds of London, with a full account of the natives. London, _J.
C. Hotten_, 1866.
The True History of Little Ragamuffin, 1866.
THE AUTHOR [EVANS].
Six Letters of Publicola on the Liberty of the Subject; and the
Privileges of the House of Commons. Originally published in The
Times, and now collected and illustrated by the Author. Lond., 1810.
THE AUTHORESS OF Ellen Fitzarthur, and the Widow’s Tale [CAROLINE
BOWLES, afterwards SOUTHEY].
Solitary Hours, poems. Lond., 1826.
Chapters on Churchyards. London, 1829.
---- Flirtation [Lady CHARLOTTE SUSAN MARIA BURY].
A Marriage in High Life [by Lady Scott], edited by ----, 1828.
Journal of the Heart, edited by ----, 1830. Separation, a novel,
1830. The Disinherited and the Ensnared, 1834. Love, 1837.
---- Hungarian Tales [Mrs. GORE].
The Tuileries, a tale. London, 1831.
---- Little Things, [H. WILSON].
Things to be Thought of. Addressed to the Young. Edinburgh, 1853.
---- Mothers and Daughters. See The Author of, &c.
---- The Bride of Sienna [Mrs. GORDON SMYTHIES].
Fitzherbert; or, Lovers and Fortune Hunters. Lond., 1838.
---- The Disinherited [Lady CHARLOTTE BURY].
The Devoted. Lond., 1836.
THE AUTHOR OF Abbeychurch [Miss YOUNG].
Scenes and Characters, or Eighteen Months at Beechcroft. London,
_Mozley_, 1847.
---- A Handbook to Hastings [Miss ANNE HOWARD].
Hastings Past and Present, Lond., 1855.
---- Alice Wentworth, etc. [NOEL RADECLIFFE].
The Lees of Blendon Hall, 1859.
See Polypus.
---- All the Talents [Eaton Stannard Barrett].
The Talents run Mad. London, 1816.
---- All the Talents in Ireland [ ].
A letter to ... Viscount Castlereagh upon the present Political State
of Ireland.... Lond., 1807.
Signed “Scrutator.”
---- A Marriage in High Life [Lady C. L. SCOTT],
Trevelyan. Lond. 1831. Several editions.
This is ascribed to Lady Scott in the London Catalogue of
_Hodgson_, 1851, and it is given to both her and Lady Dacre in
the English Cat., _Sampson Low_, 1864. Allibone gives it to the
latter.
Trevelian, par l’auteur de Elisa Rivers et du Mariage dans le grand
Monde, traduit de l’Anglais [par Mme. la Comtesse Molé]. Paris,
_Guyot_, 1834.
_De Manne_ (3103), who attributes “Elisa Rivers” to Miss Kelly.
Quérard, in his corrections, says this is an error, which we
believe is true, but he makes a worse one, for he says it is by
Mary Brunton. “Alice Rivers” is by Miss M. A. Kelty, but who is
“Elisa” by?
---- Amy Herbert [Miss E. M. SEWELL].
History of the Early Church. _Longman_, 1866. See A LADY. 1865.
---- An Essay on Light Reading [Rev. EDWARD MANGIN].
A Letter to Thomas Moore on the subject of Sheridan’s School for
Scandal, 1826.
A Letter to the Admirers of Chatterton. Bath, 1838.
---- Angelina [T. PREST].
Mary Clifford; or, the Foundling Apprentice Girl. A Tale Lond. [1842].
---- A Night in a Workhouse [JAMES GREENWOOD].
An unauthorised copy, with this title-page--
Startling Particulars! A Night in a Workhouse, from the Pall
Mall Gazette. How the Poor are Treated in Lambeth! The Casual
Pauper! “Old Daddy,” the Nurse! The Bath! The Conversation of
the Casuals! The Striped Shirt! The Swearing Club!! “Skilly” and
“Toke” by Act of Parliament! The Adventures of a Young Thief!
&c., &c., &c. _F. Bowering_, &c. [1866]. 12mo; 16. 1d.
A Night in a Workhouse first appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette,
1866, when that excellently written paper was, like the author of
these papers, almost unknown. They created an immense sensation
at the time, and numbers of pirated copies of the story were
printed.
---- Annals of the Parish [JOHN GALT].
The Ayrshire Legatees; or, the Bingle Family. Edin., 1821.
The Spaewife. A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles. 1823.
---- Anne Grey [THOMAS HENRY LISTER].
Hulse House. A Novel. Lond., _Saunders & Otley_, 1860.
---- Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life [ ].
Talents Improved; or, the Philanthropist. By ----. 4th edit.,
corrected by the author. Lond., Bradford [printed] 1837.
Third edit. [1810?] is anonymous.
---- A Skeleton in Every House [C. WATERS].
Two Love Stories. An Anglo-Spanish Romance. Lond., 1861.
---- A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam [MATILDA ANNE PLANCHÉ, afterwards
MACKARNESS].
A Merry Christmas, 1850 and 1865. The Dream of Chintz, 1851. The
Cloud with the Silver Lining, 1852. Influence, 1853. The Star in the
Desert, 1853. Thrift, 1855. Sibert’s Wold, 1856. A Ray of Light,
1857. Coming Home, 1858. The Golden Rule, 1859. When we were Young,
1860. Amy’s Kitchen, 1860. Minnie’s Love, 1860. Sunbeam Stories,
1860. Little Sunshine, 1861. A Guardian Angel, 1864. Charades for the
Drawing Room, 1866. All London.
---- Blondelle [ ].
The Island Empire; or, the Scenes of the First Exile of the Emperor
Napoleon. Lond., 1855.
---- Brambletye House [HORACE SMITH, Stockbroker].
Tales of the Early Ages. Lond., 1832.
---- Calavar [Dr. BIRD].
The Infidel, or The Fall of Mexico, a Romance. New York, 1835. 2nd
edit. Phil., 1835.
Also published in London as “Cortes, or,” &c.
Peter Pilgrim, or a Rambler’s Recollections. Phil., 1838.
The Adventures of Robin Day. 1839.
See Allibone for other works.
---- Cavendish [W. JOHNSON NEALE].
The Lauread. A Literary, Political, and Moral Satire, in Four Books.
Book the First. Lond., 1833.
The second edition the same year. No more published.
The Naval Surgeon [1858] and 1861. The Lost Ship, 1860. The Port
Admiral [1861]. The Captain’s Wife, 1862.
These form part of the Naval and Military Library.
---- Charles Auchester [Miss SHEPPARD].
Counterparts, or the Cross of Love. Edin. (printed), Lond., 1850 and
1866.
Rumour (a Novel). 1858.
Almost a Heroine. Lond., 1859.
---- Conrad. A Tragedy, lately performed at the Theatre Royal,
Birmingham. 1819. [ALFRED BUNN, Manager of the Theatre].
Tancred, a Tale, and other Poems.
---- Corruption and Intolerance [THOMAS MOORE].
The Sceptic. A philosophical satire. Lond., 1809.
---- Counterparts [Miss SHEPPARD].
My First Season, by Beatrice Reynolds. Edited by ----. Lond., 1855
and 1864.
---- Cousin Geoffrey [Mrs. GORDON SMYTHIES].
The Matchmaker, 1842. The Jilt, 1844.
Courtship and Wedlock; or, Lovers and Husbands. Lond., _Newby_, 1850.
Married for Love, 1857.
A Lover’s Quarrel; or, the Country Ball. 1858.
---- Cyril Thornton [Captain THOMAS HAMILTON].
Men and Manners in America. Edin., 1833.
Signed T. H.
---- Darnley, De L’Orme, &c. [G. P. R. JAMES].
Philip Augustus; or, the Brothers in Arms. Lond., 1831.
---- De Foix, The White Hoods (Mrs. A. E. STOTHARD, afterwards BRAY).
The Protestant. A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary. Lond., 1828.
---- Doctor Antonio [G. RUFFINI].
A Quiet Nook in the Jura. 1866.
---- Doctor Hookwell [Rev. ROBERT ARMITAGE, of Easthorpe, Salop].
The Penscellwood Papers. Lond., 1846.
Ernest Singleton. A novel. 1848.
See _N. & Q._, 2 S.
---- Doing and Suffering [Miss C. BICKERSTETH].
The Creation and Deluge. Lond., 1866.
---- East Lynne [Mrs. HENRY WOOD].
Lady Adelaide’s Oath. Lond., _Bentley_, 1867.
Most, if not all, of Mrs. Wood’s novels, before being published
in the usual form, first appeared, in a more or less abbreviated
state, in the _New Monthly Mag._
See Athenæum, 1867.
---- Emilia Wyndham [Mrs. ANNE MARSH].
Angela, 1847. The Rose of Ashurst, 1857. Norman’s Bridge.
---- Eugene Aram [Lord LYTTON].
The Student. Lond., 1835.
---- Evelina, Cecilia, &c. [FANNY BURNEY, afterwards D’ARBLAY].
Camilla, or a Picture of Youth. Lond., 1840.
---- First Love [MARGRACIA LOUDON].
Fortune-Hunting. A Novel. Lond., 1832.
---- Frankenstein [Mrs. MARY WOOLSTONCRAFT SHELLEY].
Lodore, Lond., 1835. Falkener, a novel, 1837.
---- Friends in Council, &c. [ARTHUR HELPS].
A Letter on Uncle Tom’s Cabin. _Camb._, U.S., 1852.
---- Granby [T. H. LISTER].
Epickaris, an Historical Tragedy. Lond., 1829.
---- Guy Rivers [W. G. SIMMS].
The Yemassee. 1835.
---- Handley Cross [R. S. SURTEES].
Plain or Ringlets. London [1859] 1860.
---- Headlong Hall [THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK].
Melincourt, London, 1856. Gryll Grange, 1861.
---- Heartsease [Miss YONGE].
The Castle Builders, Lond., 1855. The Lances of Linwood, 1855.
---- Henrietta’s Wish [Miss YONGE].
The Two Guardians, or Home in this World. London, 1852.
---- Heroes, Philosophers, and Courtiers of the Time of Louis XVI.,
etc. [Mrs. A. E. CHALLICE].
French Authors at Home. Episodes in the Lives and Works of Balzac,
Made. de Girardin, George Sand, Lamartine, Gozean, Lamennais, V.
Hugo. Lond., 1864, 2 vols.
---- Homeward Bound [J. F. COOPER].
Home as found. By ----. Phil., 1838.
---- Hope Leslie [Miss C. M. SEDGWICK].
The Linwood’s: or, “Sixty Years Since,” in America. London, 1835.
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, 1841. Live and Let Live; or,
Domestic Scenes illustrated. New York, 1844. Tales and Sketches, New
York, 1846. The Poor Man and the Rich Man, 1845. Clarence: or a Tale
of Our Times, 1856. Redwood, a tale, 1856.
---- Hypocrisy, a Satire [Rev. C. C. COLTON].
Remarks, Critical and Moral, on the Talents of Lord Byron, and the
tendencies of Don Juan. By ----, with notes and Anecdotes, political
and historical. Lond., 1819, signed C. C. C.
---- Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land
[G. STEPHENS].
Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, and Poland. London, 1838.
---- Joanna of Naples [LOUISA JANE PARK, afterwards HALL].
Miriam, a dramatic Poem. London, 1849.
---- “John Halifax,” Gentleman [Miss DINAH MARIA MULOCK, afterwards
CRAIK].
Numbers of Works as above. See _Men of the Time_.
---- Kings of England [Miss YONGE].
Langley School, 1850, 16mo. Landmarks of History. Ancient History,
1852. Middle Ages, 1853. Modern History, 1857.
---- Lady Audley’s Secret [Miss BRADDON].
The Doctor’s Wife, London, 1864. Aurora Floyd. Henry Dunbar, 1864.
Sir Jasper’s Tenant, 1864. See Lascelles (Lady C.) _pseud._
The opening chapters of Lady Audley’s Secret were first published
anonymously in Robin Goodfellow, a journal conducted by Charles
Mackay, in 1861. It ceased at the twelfth number. Four octavo
pages of the latter, in double columns, make 24 pages in the
three volume reprint, in which the fact of its having previously
appeared is not mentioned.
Henry Dunbar, the Story of an Outcast. By the Author of Lady Audley’s
Secret. _Maxwell & Co._, 1864.
On the publication of this work the “Athenæum” made the following
remarks:
“The Publication of a new novel by Miss Braddon seems to bring,
as a matter of course, a renewal of the old puffery. We shall
take the liberty of telling all parties concerned that the thing
is over done. People are growing suspicious of books which
begin--as far as they can see--with a second edition.”
This novel was first published in a serial form in the London
Journal in 1864, under the title of “The Outcast,” though this
fact is not mentioned in the re-issue. With regard to the second
edition being the first, the latter was doubtless a very small
one, and this may not unjustly be considered as part of the
“puffing system,” which we by no means condemn, if carried on
honestly. A certain amount of puffing for an unknown writer is
necessary to bring him into notice; but our readers may judge for
themselves of the following paragraph, sent by the publishers of
the novel to the “Athenæum” for publication:
“_Henry Dunbar_--The publishers state that the whole of the 1st
edition of this _new novel_, by the author of ‘Lady Audley’s
Secret’ has been completely exhausted on the first day of
publication; and that a second edition is in the press, and will
be ready on Monday next. Admirers of Miss Braddon’s prolific pen
have much cause to rejoice in her popularity, the growth of which
is now made more manifest than ever by the simultaneous issue of
her writings in the French, German, and English languages, etc.”
Mr. Maxwell has the sanction of the law for this
proceeding:--“the Vice-Chancellor apprehended that if a publisher
chose to print 20,000 copies, keeping in his storehouse a
large quantity, and periodically issuing them to the world,
by thousands, for instance, every such issue would be an
edition.”--_Reade_ v. _Bentley_, Phillips, p. 73.
A romance called “The Outcasts” was translated from the German by G.
Soane, and published in 1825.
Only a Clod, London, 1865. The Lady’s Mile, 1866.
---- Literary Cookery [A. E. BRAE].
Collier, Coleridge, and Shakespeare. A review by ----. Lond., 1860.
---- Little Henry and His Bearer [Mrs. M. M. SHERWOOD].
The Lady and her Ayah, an Indian Story. Dubl., 1816.
Little Henry has been translated into Origa, and published at
Cuttack, 1838 and 1842.
---- Little Things [Miss H. WILSON].
Homely Hints from the Fireside. Edinb., 1860.
---- Lorenzo Benoni [G. RUFFINI].
Dr. Antonio, a tale. Edinb., 1855.
---- Lois Weedon Husbandry [SAMUEL SMITH].
A Word in Season; or How to grow Wheat with Profit. 18th edition,
Lond., 1861.
---- Manners of the Day [Mrs. GORE].
Pin-Money. Lond., 1831.
Numerous other works of this authoress will be found in these
pages.
---- Margaret Maitland [Mrs. OLIPHANT].
Lucy Crofton. Lond., 1860.
This is a sequel to a former one volume story.
---- Martin Faber, Atlantis [W. G. SIMMS].
Guy Rivers, a tale of Georgia. New York, 1837.
---- Mary Barton, tale of Manchester Life [ELIZABETH CLEGHORN
GASKELL].
The Moorland Cottage, Lond., 1850. Cranford, a tale (reprinted from
Household Words), 1853. North and South, 1855. The Round Sofa, 1859.
Right at Last, 1860.
---- Mary De-Clifford [Sir S. E. BRYDGES, Bart.].
Lord Brokenhurst, or a Fragment of Winter Leaves, a tragic tale.
Paris, etc., 1819.
---- Mary Powell [Miss ANNE MANNING].
Deborah’s Diary, a fragment by ----. _Hall, Virtue & Co._, 1860. A
Noble Purpose Nobly Won, 1862. Belforest, 1866.
The edition of [1859] is:-- * D.D., a Sequel to Mary Powell.
The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell, afterwards Mistress
Milton, was first published like the above in Sharpe’s London
Magazine, 1850. This is not mentioned in the reprint.
There was a rumour that the Diary of Lady Willoughby was by
the author of Mary Powell. Miss Manning therefore wrote to the
Athenæum, Nov. 13th, 1858, p. 620, acknowledging the latter.
---- May Martin, or the Money Diggers [DANIEL P. THOMPSON].
Locke Amsden, or the Schoolmaster, a tale. Boston, 1847. The Green
Mountain Boys, Boston, 1848.
---- Means and Ends [Miss SEDGWICK].
Memoir of Joseph Curtis, a model Man. New York and London, 1859.
---- Morals of May Fair [Mrs. EDWARDS].
Creeds, Lond., 1859, 3 vols.
---- Morning and Night Watches [J. R. MACDUFF].
Evening Incense. Lond., 1856. Memories of Bethany, 1857 and 1859. The
Bow in the Cloud, 1858. Grapes of Eschol, 1861.
---- Mothers and Daughters [Mrs. GORE].
The Opera, Lond., 1832, 3 vols. The Sketch Book of Fashion, 1835.
Mrs. Armitage; or Female Domination, 1836. The Heir of Selwood, 1838.
The Cabinet Minister, 1839.
---- Mount Sorel [Mrs. ANNE MARSH].
Father Darcy. Lond., 1845.
A Country Vicarage and Love and Duty, or Tales of the Woods and
Fields. 1847.
Vol. 36 of the Parlour Library.
Tales of Woods and Fields, a second series of “The Two Old Men’s
Tales.”
Vol. 12 of the Parlour Library.
---- “Mr. Arle” [Miss JOLLY].
Caste, a novel. Lond., 1857, 3 vols.
We have also, Cypresses, in 2 vols., and Cumworth House, in 3
vols., both novels “By the Author of Caste.” Caste is a favourite
title. We need scarcely remind our readers of Mr. Robertson’s
play of that name.
---- My First Season [BEATRICE REYNOLDS].
The Double Coronet, a novel. Lond., 1856.
---- My Note Book; or, Sketches from the Gallery of St. Stephens [ ].
Travels of my Nightcap, or Reveries in Rhyme; with scenes at the
Congress of Verona. Lond., 1825.
---- Nothing [W. P. SCARGILL].
Truth, a novel. Lond., _Hunt_, 1826, 3 vols.
---- Old Joliffe [Miss PLANCHÉ].
A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam, 1850 and 1863.
---- One and Twenty [F. W. ROBINSON].
Grandmother’s Money. Lond., 1860.
---- Our Farm of Four Acres [Miss COULTON].
My Eldest Brother, a tale. Lond., 1861.
---- Outlines of Social Economy [W. ELLIS].
Outlines of the History and Formation of the Understanding. Lond.,
1847.
---- Paul Ferroll [Mrs. ARCHER CLIVE].
Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife. Lond., 1860. Year after Year;
a tale, by the author of Paul Ferroll, and “IX. Poems by V.” 2nd
edition, Lond., 1858. John Greswold (a novel), 1864.
---- Paul Pry [JOHN POOLE].
Sketches and Recollections. Lond., 1835.
Douglas Jerrold also wrote a “Paul Pry,” published anonymously.
It in no way resembles the above.
---- Pelham [Lord LYTTON].
The Disowned. 2nd and 3rd edition, Lond., 1829.
Eugene Aram. Lond., 1832.
---- Peter Simple [Captain FREDERICK MARRYAT].
Jacob Faithfull. Lond., 1856.
---- Picciola [XAVIER BONIFACE].
The Solitary of Juan Fernandez [Alexander Selkirk], or the real
Robinson Crusoe. By ----. Translated from the French by Anne T.
Wilbur. Boston, 1851.
M. Boniface writes under the pseudonym of “Saintine.”
---- Queechy [Miss WARNER].
See Wetherell, E., _pseud._
---- Random Recollections [JAMES GRANT].
Travels in Town. Lond., 1839. The Bench and the Bar, 1837.
---- Recollections in the Peninsula [Major SHERER].
Notes and Reflections during a Ramble in Germany. Lond., 1826.
---- Recollections of a New England Housekeeper [Mrs. CAROLINE
GILMAN].
Love’s Progress. New York, 1840.
---- Redwood, Hope Leslie, Home, Poor Rich Man, etc. [Miss SEDGWICK].
Means and Ends, or Self-Training. New York, 1845.
---- Richard Hurdis [W. G. SIMMS].
Katherine Walton, or the Rebel of Dorchester, an historical romance
of the Revolution in Carolina. Phil., 1851.
---- Richelieu, [G. P. R. JAMES].
Life and Adventures of J. M. Hall. Lond., 1834.
The Gipsey, 1835 and 1844.
---- Sayings and Doings [THEODORE HOOK].
Love and Pride. Lond., _Maxwell_, 1834.
Parson’s Daughter, 1835.
Jack Brag, 1837. Edition of 1839 autonymous. With illustrations by
John Leech, evincing the early talent of that artist for caricatures,
which was afterwards so wonderfully developed.
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 1839.
All the above have been republished autonymously.
Sayings, Saings and Doings Considered, with On Dits, Family
Memoirs, &c. Lond., 1825.--This is an invective against Hook, as
the editor of the John Bull newspaper.
---- Scenes and Characters [Miss YONGE].
Kenneth, or the Rear Guard of the Grand Army.
---- Select Female Biography [MARY ROBERTS].
The Annals of My Village; being a calendar of nature for every month
in the year. Lond., 1831.
---- Self-Control [Mrs. MARY BRUNTON].
Discipline. A Novel. Edin., 1814. Lond., 1847.
The authoress began writing this in 1812, the year in which
Waverley burst upon the novel world. In a letter, she says of her
work:--
“It is very unfortunate in coming after Waverley, by far the most
splendid exhibition of talent in the novel way which has appeared
since the days of Fielding and Smollett. There seems little
doubt that it comes from the pen of Scott. What a competitor
for poor little me! The worst of all is, that I have ventured
unconsciously on Waverley’s own ground, by carrying my heroine to
the Highlands!”
“Till I began Self-Control [1811] I had never in my life written
anything but a letter or a receipt, excepting a few hundreds of
vile rhymes, from which I desisted by the time I had gained the
wisdom of fifteen years; therefore I was so ignorant of the art
on which I was entering, that I formed scarcely any plan for
my tale. I merely intended to show the power of the religious
principle in bestowing self-command, and to bear testimony
against a maxim as immoral as indelicate, that a reformed rake
makes the best husband.”--Mary Brunton to Joanna Baillie.
---- Sir Victor’s Choice [ANNIE THOMAS].
Bertie Bray. A novel. Lond., 1864.
---- Sketches of India [Major MOYLE SHERER].
Recollections of the Peninsula during the late War, 1823.
---- Spartacus [R. M. BIRD, M.D.].
Nick of the Woods; a Story of Kentucky. 1837.
---- Tales of Kirkbeck [Miss H. S. FARRER].
Our Doctor’s Note Book. Lond., 1857.
---- Tales of the Wars of Our Times [Major SHERER].
The Broken Font; a Story of the Civil War. Lond., 1836.
---- The Ayrshire Legatees [JOHN GALT].
The Earthquake; a Tale. Edin., 1820.
---- The Bishop’s Daughter [Rev. ERSKINE NEALE].
The Closing Scene; or Christianity and Infidelity Contrasted. Lond.,
1848.
---- The Black Band.
See Lascelles (Lady Caroline) _ps._
---- The Black Fence [Rev. JOHN MOULTRIE].
Saint Mary the Virgin and Wife. Lond., 1850.
---- The Buccaneer [Mrs. A. M. HALL].
The Outlaw. Lond., 1835.
---- The Church in Danger [ ].
The Question of the Irish Church. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord
Stanley. By ----. Lond., 1835.
Subscribed Scrutator.
---- The Cigar [CHARLES CLARKE].
The Every Night Book; or, Life after Dark. By ----. Lond.,
_Richardson_, 1827.
Three Courses and a Dessert. The decorations by George Cruickshank.
Lond., _Vizetelly_, 1830.
Twelve Maxims on Swimming. By ----. Lond., CHARLES TILT, Fleet
Street, 1833. 16mo, 30 pp. Vignette on title-page. (The preface
signed C.)
---- The Cottage on the Common [ ].
The Vicar and his Poor Neighbours. _W. J. Cleaver_, 1848, 32mo, price
2d., or 1s. 9d. per dozen. Signed C. M.
---- The Curiosities of Literature [ISAAC D’ISRAELI].
The Literary Character Illustrated. Lond., 1818.
---- The Dairyman’s Daughter [Rev. LEGH RICHMOND].
The Young Cottager [1826]. 32mo.
La jeune villageoise, histoire véritable. Société des traités
religieux de Paris. Paris [1830?]
A translation of No. 51 of the series issued by the Religious
Tract Society of London.
---- The Discipline of Life [Lady E. C. M. PONSONBY].
The Two Brothers. Lond., 1858, 3 vols.
A Mother’s Trial. Lond., 1859.
---- The Dominie’s Legacy [A. PICKEN].
The Club Book; being original Tales, etc., by various authors. Edited
by ----. Lond., 1831.
---- The Dream of Chintz [Miss PLANCHÉ].
The House on the Rock. Lond., 1852.
---- The Duchess [ARCHIBALD BOYD].
The Cardinal. Lond., 1854 and 1858.
---- The Earl of Gowrie [Rev. JAMES WHITE].
The King of the Commons; a Drama. Lond., 1846.
---- The Eclipse of Faith [HENRY ROGERS].
A Vindication of Bishop Colenso (reprinted from “Good Words,” with
corrections). By ----. Edin., 1863.
There are remarks of “Vindex” in refutation of the work entitled
“The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined.”
---- The Expositions of the Cartoons of Raphael [R. H. SMITH].
Twigs for Nests; or, Notes on Nursery Nurture ... with illustrations
in graphotype. Lond., Edinb. (printed) 1866.
---- The Fairy Bower [H. MOZLEY].
Family Adventures. Lond., Derby (printed) 1852.
---- The Faithful Promiser [J. R. MACDUFF].
Altar Stones [a collection of hymns]. Lond., 1853.
Family Prayers, 1853.
Look at the Clock [1855].
---- The First of the Knickerbockers [P. HAMILTON MYERS].
The Young Patroon; or Christmas in 1690. _New York_, 1849.
---- The Gambler’s Wife [Mrs. E. C. GREY].
An Old Country House. Lond., 1850 and 1859.
The Gipsey’s Daughter; a Tale [by A. M. Grey]. Edited by ----. 1852.
2 vols.
---- The Gentle Life [HAIN FRISWELL].
About in the World. Lond., 1864.
Francesco Spira, and other Poems. 1865.
A Splendid Fortune. Lond., 1865.
There is a “Gentle Life” series of essays reprinted from the
Saturday Review.
---- The Hartley Wintney Tracts [F. O. GIFFARD].
Worn-out Neology; or Brief Strictures upon the Oxford Essays and
Reviews. Basingstoke, 1861.
---- The Heir of Redclyffe [CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE].
Daisy Chain, Lond., 1856. The Apple of Discord, 1864. The Clever
Woman of the Family, 1865. The Dove, etc., 1866.
The Six Cushions. Lond., Derby (printed) 1867.
This lady is author of about 30 works.
---- The Henpecked Husband [Lady SCOTT].
Hylton House and its Inmates, 1850.
---- The Jilt [Mrs. GORDON SMYTHIES].
The Breach of Promise. Lond., 1845.
The Life of a Beauty, 1846.
---- The Kentuckian in New York [WILLIAM CARRUTHERS].
The Cavaliers of Virginia. New York, 1835.
---- The Lamplighter [MARIA S. CUMMINS].
Mabel Vaughan. By ----. Edited by Mrs. Gaskell, 1857.
This has been translated into German.
---- The Lamp of Life [FANNY ELIZABETH BUNNETT].
The Hidden Power; a tale illustrative of youthful influence, 1857.
---- The Letters of Junius, _allonym_? [ ].
The Vices; a Poem, in three Cantos, now first published from the
original MS. in the presumed handwriting of the ----, etc. Lond.,
1829.
---- The Lettre de Cachet [Mrs. GORE].
Hungarian Tales. Lond., 1829.
---- The Life of Chatterton. See J. D., 1851.
---- The Linwoods, etc. [Miss CATHERINE M. SEDGWICK].
A Love Token for Children. Lond., 1838 _New York_, 1844.
Leslie Hope; or Early Times in Massachusetts, 1842.
Live and Let Live, 2 vols., 1842.
---- The Lollards [THOMAS GASPEY].
The Witch Finder. Lond., 1824.
The Dream of Human Life, 1849.
---- The Marrying Man [Mrs. G. SMYTHIES].
A Warning to Wives. Lond., 1847.
---- Memorials of Captain H. Vicars [Miss CATHERINE MARSH].
English Hearts and English Hands. 1858.
---- The M.P.’s Wife [Lady CAROLINE LUCY SCOTT].
The Henpecked Husband. Lond., 1847.
---- The Mystery [THOMAS GASPEY].
Calthorpe; or Fallen Fortunes, a novel. Lond., 1826.
---- The O’Hara Tales [JOHN and MICHAEL BANIM].
Croppy, a tale of 1798. Lond., 1828. Chaunt of the Cholera, Songs for
Ireland. Lond., 1831.
---- The Owlet, of Owlstone Edge, S. Antholins, &c., [FRANCIS EDWARD
PAGET].
The Curate of Cumberworth, and the Vicar of Roost, tales by, etc.
1859. See Churne (W.) _pseud._
---- The Partisan [W. G. SIMMS].
The Kinsman, or the Black Riders of Congaree. 1841.
---- The Peep of Day [Mrs. J. MORTIMER].
The Cottagers reading without tears. Lond., 1857.
---- The Pioneers, Pilot, etc. [JAMES FENIMORE COOPER].
Lionel Lincoln. New York, 1825.
---- The Political House that Jack Built [WILLIAM HONE, Bookseller].
The Showman. Lond., 1821.
---- The Recollections of a New England Housekeeper [Mrs. C. GILMAN].
Love’s Progress. New York, 1840.
---- The Recreations of a Country Parson.
Leisure Hours in Town, 1862. See A. K. H. B., _init._
---- The Rollo Books [Rev. JACOB ABBOTT].
Rodolphus, a Franconia Story. New York, 1852.
See Allibone for list of Works.
---- The Semi-Detached House [Hon. EMILY EDEN].
The Semi-Attached Couple. 2nd edition, 1865.
These two very excellent works were for some time attributed to
Lady Theresa Lewis; but the real author afterwards acknowledged
them.
---- The Spaniards [RYMER].
The Senator of Venice. In the Town and Country Magazine. Oct. 1838.
---- The Spy [J. F. COOPER].
Gleanings in Europe. Phil., 1837.
---- The Subaltern [Rev. GEORGE ROBERT GLEIG].
Chelsea Pensioners, Lond., 1829. The Country Curate, 1830. The
Chronicles of Waltham, 1835. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the
British Army at Washington, Baltimore and New Orleans ... in the
years 1814-15 ... By an Officer who served in the Expedition ...
Phil., 1821. The 4th edition. Lond., _J. Murray_, is by the author
of the Subaltern. Self-Devotion ... by H. Campbell, edited by ----,
1842. The Light Dragoon, by ----, (signed also G. R. G.), 1844.
---- The Three Houses [Mrs. W. POTTER].
Present and Afterward, addressed to the Afflicted Sick. Lond. and
Ipswich (printed) 1857.
---- The Topography of Hallamshire and South Yorkshire, [Rev. JOSEPH
HUNTER].
Antiquarian Notice of Lupset, the Heath, etc. York, 1851.
---- The Treatise on Manufactures in Metal (3 vols.) in the Cabinet
Cyclopædia [JOHN HOLLAND].
The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries and Coal
Trade of Great Britain. 2nd edition, _Whittaker & Co._, 1841.
---- The Voyage of the Constance [MARY GILLIES].
Great Fun for Little Friends. Lond., 1862.
---- The Wide Wide World.
See Wetherell (E.) _pseud._
---- The Yemassee [WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS].
The Partisan; a tale of the [American] Revolution. New York, 1835.
Martin Faber, the story of a Criminal, 1837. The Wigwam and the
Cabin. Mellichampe, a Legend of the Santee, 1836.
---- Thoughts on Devotion [JOHN SHEPPARD, of Frome].
Words of Life’s Last Years, etc. Lond., 1862.
---- Three Courses and a Dessert [CHARLES CLARKE].
The Fresh Water Whale, in the Month. Mag., May, 1832, signed “W. C.”
---- Three Experiments of Living [Mrs. HANNAH F. LEE].
Sketches of Painters, 1840. Life of Luther, 1840. The Huguenots in
France and America, 1843. Familiar Sketches. Boston, 1854.
---- Tom Brown’s School Days [THOMAS HUGHES].
Tom Brown at Oxford. Lond., 1861.
---- Tom Cringle’s Log [MICHAEL SCOTT].
First published in Blackwood’s Magazine.
---- Tremaine [R. PLUMER WARD].
De Vere; or, the Men of Independence. Lond., 1827.
---- Two Old Men’s Tales [Mrs. ANNE MARSH].
Mount Sorel. Lond., 1845. Emilia Wyndham, and The Triumphs of Time,
1847.
---- Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE].
Numerous pieces under this pseudonym.
In an excellent article in that very excellent English
Cyclopædia, of the enterprising Charles Knight, on the
British Museum, it is stated that Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been
translated into Armenian, and “It may be worth while to mention
that advantage has been taken (at the British Museum) of the
polyglot popularity of Uncle Tom’s Cabin to afford students an
opportunity, not otherwise procurable, of studying the colloquial
and familiar idiom of different countries. Versions have been
procured in almost every European language; and there are some,
Welsh and Wallachian, for instance, in which there are double or
triple versions of this particular book, while there is hardly a
double version of any other except the Bible.”
See also an article in _The Atlantic Monthly_ for Oct. 1867,
which says that the United States has permitted this lady to
be robbed by foreigners of 200,000 dollars by not agreeing to
international copyright.
---- Uriel [T. DE POWYS].
Poems, Lond., 1858.
---- Vathek. [WILLIAM BECKFORD, of Fonthill Abbey].
Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and
Batalha. Lond., 1835.
---- Verdant Green [CUTHBERT BEDE, _pseud._ q.v.].
College Life. Lond., 1862.
---- Visiting my Relations [MARY ANN KELTY].
A Devotional Diary. Lond., 1854. Waters of Comfort, 1856. The Real
and the Beau Ideal, 1860. Loneliness and Leisure, etc. (signed M. A.
K.) 1867.
---- Vivian Grey [Rt. Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI].
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, 1828. The Young Duke, 1831. See
Edin. Rev., 1835. The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, 1833. Henrietta Temple,
a love story, 1837.
---- Waverley [Sir WALTER SCOTT].
The Antiquary, 1816, 3 vols. Rob Roy (Robert MacGregor). Edinb.,
1818, 3 vols. Ivanhoe, 1820. See Templeton (L.) Quentin Durward.
Edinb., 1823, 3 vols. Tales of the Crusaders. Edinb., 1825.
Lockhart does not give a list of the works published by Sir
Walter Scott simply as “the Author of Waverley.”
Waverley was offered, anonymously, to Sir Richard Phillips
for publication. The price asked for it he refused. It then
appeared as _W. Scott’s_; but in a few days the name and placards
were withdrawn, and the author said to be _unknown_.--_Sir R.
Phillips._ _Million of Facts_, 1842, p. 648.
---- Whitefriars [Miss JANE ROBINSON].
Whitehall; or, the Days of Charles I., an Historical Romance, 1845.
The Maid of Orleans, 1849. Owen Tudor, 1849. Whitefriars (dramatised)
by W. T. Townsend, 1850. The Gold Worshippers, 1851 and ’58. The
Prohibited Comedy, Richelieu in Love, 1852. Cæsar Borgia, 1853 (this
was translated into French, 1847). The City Banker; or, Love and
Money, 1856.
A writer in the Athenæum, in 1861, says that this is a reprint
or a condensation, without acknowledgment, of the story which
appeared anonymously in the London Journal, under the title of
Masks and Faces (1855-6), and that it was commenced by J. F.
Smith (a writer of some very interesting tales in that journal,
but who wrote himself out); and, after a few chapters, was
finished by this lady.
Mauleverer’s Divorce. _C. J. Skeet_, 1858 and 1863. Cynthia Thorold,
1862.
Which Wins: Love or Money. Lond., 1863.
This novel was commenced anonymously, but not finished, in Robin
Goodfellow, a periodical conducted by Charles Mackay, 1861. This
is not mentioned in the reprint.
Christmas at Old Court, 1864. Madeleine Graham, 1864. Dorothy
Firebrace, 1865.
Eleven chapters of a romance entitled, The Star in the Dark,
by the author of Whitefriars, appeared in the London Journal
in 1856. The story was then discontinued. This matter does not
appear to have been afterwards utilised by the authoress. Sir
Muspratt, Butterworth, Mangold, and De Lacy, are some of the
names in it.
---- Wildflower [F. W. ROBINSON].
One and Twenty. Lond., 1860.
---- Zohrab [JAMES MORIER].
Ayesha, the Maid of Kars. Lond., 1834.
THE AUTHORS OF Original Poems. _polynym_ [A. and JANE TAYLOR and
others].
Hymns for Infant Minds, by several Young Persons, Lond., 1818. Rhymes
for the Nursery, 8th edit. Lond., 1814. Limed Twigs to catch Young
Birds ... 3rd edit., 1815.
Rhymes for the Nursery. Lond., 1854.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON, _titlonym_ [ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT].
The Dangers and Safeguards of Modern Theology. Lond., 1861.
THE BLACK DWARF, _pseud._ [THOMAS JONATHAN WOOLER, editor of the
Black Dwarf, of which he was both the author and the printer; it
was frequently his habit to dispense with MS., and to compose his
articles in type].
A Political Lecture on Heads. Lond., 3rd edit., 1820.
Sir J. Emerson Tennant, N. & Q.
THE CATHOLIC BISHOP OF BANTRY, _ironym_ [T. DICKER, of Lewes].
An Appeal for the Erection of Catholic Churches in the Rural
Districts of England, &c. By, &c., on behalf of the Society “De
Propoganda Fide.” _J. R. Smith_, 1852.
A Satire upon the Church of Rome. At page 22, he signs “Ign. L.
Bantry.” [Ignatius Loyola, Bishop of, etc.].
THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR, _titlonym_ [GILPIN GORST].
A Narrative of an Excursion to Ireland, &c. 1825.
Privately printed.
THE EDITOR OF A QUARTERLY REVIEW [WILLIAM FREDERICK DEACON].
Warreniana, with Notes Critical and Explanatory by ----. Lond., 1824,
(signed W. G., _allonym_,) and Boston [U.S.] 1851.
THE EDITOR OF Bell’s Life in London [FRANK L. DOWLING].
Fights for the Championship, 1860. Fistiana, 21st edition, 1860.
---- Calmet’s Dictionary of the Holy Bible [C. TAYLOR].
Facts and Evidences on the Subject of Baptism, etc., 1815.
---- Notes and Queries [WILLIAM J. THOMS “is the able editor of that
successful little farrago of learning, oddities, absurdities, and
shrewdnesses.”]
We are under great obligations to Notes and Queries, as must be
every future bibliographer, or biographer.
---- Tabart’s Popular Stories [Miss L. AITKEN?]
Dramas for Children, imitated from the French of L. F. Jauffert.
Lond. [1810?]
R. Inglis, Notes & Queries 2 S. 248.
---- The Athenæum [WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON, Barrister-at-Law, author
of “New America,” etc.].
See Men of the Time, and Allibone for list of Works.
---- The Quarterly Review.
Mr. Macpherson was editor, but retired in the early part of
1867, and Dr. William Smith, of Encyclopædic fame and learning,
succeeded him.--_Athenæum_, No. 2055.
THE EDITOR OF THE NEW WHIG GUIDE [ ].
The Fudger Fudged; or, the Devil and T * * * y M * * * e [Tommy
Moore]. M.DCCC.LXXXVIII. London, _Wright_, 1819. In verse.
THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD, _geonym_ [JAMES HOGG].
The Altrive Tales. The Queer Book, being a collection of Poems by
----. Edin., 1832.
THE FLANEUR, _phrenonym_ [EDMUND YATES].
Letters in the Morning Star, which appeared periodically, but have
now ceased, 1867.
The Flâneur is now writing in Tinsley’s Magazine, which he
conducts.
THE KING (George IV.) _allonym_ [ ].
A Letter from the King to his People [purporting to be a Defence of
his Conduct with regard to Queen Caroline], 1820, above 20 editions
published. A second Letter, 1821.
A Letter from the King to his Catholic Subjects, 1825.
THE LATE AUTHOR OF The Exemplary Mother [Mrs. COOPER].
The Wife; or Caroline Herbert. Lond., 1813.
(Posthumous.)
THE LORD AND LADY THERE, _titlonym_ [Lord and Lady NUGENT].
Legends of the Library at Lilies, in two vols. Lond., printed for
_Longman_, 1832.
Preface and end of second vol. signed “G.” This work has been
catalogued by a London bookseller under: “There’s (Lord and Lady)
Legends, &c.”
N. & Q. 1 S. vi.
THEMANINTHEMOON, _enig.-pseud._ [The Man in the Moon, Rev. JOHN
EAGLES].
Felix Farley; Rhymes, Latin and English. Bristol, 1826.
THE O’HARA FAMILY, _polynym_ [JOHN and MICHAEL BANIM].
The Nowlans, 1847. The Peep O’Day, 1865. Peter the Castle, 1866.
For others, see Allibone.
THE OLD SAILOR, _phrenonym_ [MATTHEW HENRY BARKER, Master in the
Royal Navy].
Tough Yarns. Nights at Sea, Lond., 1852. Sheet Blocks, 1859. Land and
Sea Tales, 1860. The Warlock, 1860.
THE OLD SHEKARRY. See H. A. L.
THE PRESIDENT, _titlonym_ [THOMAS SANDEN, M.D.].
Three Discourses:-- 1. On the Use of Books. 2. On the Result and
Effects of Study. 3. On the Elements of Literary Taste. Delivered at
the Anniversary Meetings of the Library Society at Chichester. By
----. Lond., 1802.
THE ROVING ENGLISHMAN, _geonym_ [E. C. G. MURRAY].
Pictures from the Battle-Fields, 1856. First published in Household
Words, 1854.
The R. E. in Turkey, 1855, is also this gentleman.
THETA, a lineal descendant of the Hereditary Standard Bearers of
Normandy and England. “The Knights of the Swan,” _pseud._ [WILLIAM
THORN].
The Thorn-Tree: being a History of Thorn Worship of the Twelve Tribes
of Israel, but more especially of the Lost Tribe and House of David.
By ----. Lond., _J. Nisbet_, 1863.
Dedicated to the Bishop of Natal, by ☉.
THE TIMES BEE-MASTER, _phraseonym_ [JOHN CUMMING, D.D.].
Bee-Keeping. By ----, &c. 1864.
The result of some letters written by Dr. Cumming in the Times,
which caused a great deal of controversy at the time.
“‘Bee-Keeping’ is one of the most remarkable specimens of
book-making which we have met with for a long time. The author,
Dr. Cumming, sent to the Times an account of a successful honey
harvest about the end of July last (1864). This led to various
inquiries by different writers addressed to that journal, which,
having been forwarded to the ‘Bee-Master,’ a series of six
other letters on bees and wasps was subsequently published....
They occupy 50 pages of the volume before us, which consists of
224.... All this was written, printed, and published, with a
number of woodcuts, by the end of September!” The writer (in the
_Athenæum_) concludes by saying that it is “an amusing addition
to the bibliography of the hive.”
THE TRANSLATOR OF THE NIBELUNGEN TREASURE [Miss PHILLIPS, afterwards
Madame de PONTES].
A Selection from the Poems and Dramatic Works of Theodor Körner.
Lond., 1850.
X. Y. Z., N. & Q.
THE WRITER OF A GLANCE BEHIND THE GRILLES [Mrs. WILLIAM PITT BYRNE].
Flemish Interiors. Lond. [1856].
THINKS-I-TO-MYSELF, _WHO?_ _phraseonym_ [Rev. EDWARD NARES, D.D.].
Thinks-I-to-Myself. A serio-ludicro-tragico-comico tale. Written by
----. 1811, 2 vols., 9th edition, 1813, and _Allman_, 1858.
The author complained of others writing under this pseudonym, if
it can be so called.--See _British Critic_, 1813.
THORNBURY (George Walter).
The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Founded on Letters and Papers
published by his friends and fellow Academicians. Lond., _Hurst,
&c._, 1862.
MR. THORNBURY’S “LIFE OF TURNER.”
(To the Editor of the _Athenæum_.)
Hutton, Brentwood, Dec. 2, 1861.
“Turner hated plagiarism,” says Mr. Thornbury in his recently
published life of our great landscape painter (vol. ii. p. 256);
and he endeavours to show, in no very graceful terms, in his
preface, that plagiarism in literature is as repugnant to his
feelings as a man of letters, as plagiarism in art was to the
artist. “Mr. Timbs,” remarks the biographer, “with little of
that courtesy which should distinguish literary men, plying his
scissors with his usual industry, has lately cut out a dozen or
two of trite or erroneous Turner stories, and published them in
a catchpenny form, for which--as partly fulfilling Job’s wish--I
thank him.”
I may very fairly exclaim with Gratiano, “I thank thee, Jew, for
teaching me that word”; for Mr. Thornbury has plied his scissors
on a short memoir of Turner of mine with a prodigality that seems
almost incredible. Mr. Timbs, the prolific compiler, publishes
his Turner stories as a compilation. Mr. Thornbury prints all the
best of my Turner stories, scattered over many pages, as his own.
In the last edition of Turner’s “Rivers of France,” published in
1853, by Mr. Bohn, there is a memoir of the artist by Mr. Alaric
Watts, in which is included six pages of extracts from my memoir,
with honourable mention of me as the author. I need only refer to
Mr. Watts’s extracts, because it is from these that Mr. Thornbury
has helped himself. Out of the six pages (p. xlii. to xlviii.)
containing them, he has appropriated three; the contents appear
in vol. i. pp. 67 and 198-199, and in vol. ii. pp. 130-131, 141,
161, 217-218 and 318. The first extract Mr. Thornbury takes the
trouble to rewrite:--
_Reeve_, 1851. _Thornbury_, 1861.
“He would walk through portions “He walked twenty to twenty-five
of England, twenty to miles a day, with his baggage
twenty-five miles a day, with his tied up in a handkerchief, and
little modicum of baggage at the swinging on the end of a stick.
end of a stick, sketching rapidly He sketched quickly all the good
on his way all striking pieces of pieces of composition he met. He
composition, and marking effects made quick pencil notes in his
with a power that daguerrotyped pocket-book, and photographed
them in his mind. There were into his mind legions of transitory
few moving phenomena in clouds effects by aid of a stupendous,
shadows which he did not fix retentive, and minute memory.”
indelibly in his memory.”
Mr. Thornbury, thinking probably that my style was now
sufficiently elegant for his purpose, lays down the pen for the
scissors. His next extract, commencing “An intimate friend,
while travelling in the Jura,” vol. i. p. 198-199, is printed
_verbatim_. The next cutting is manipulated with the skill of an
accomplished penny-a-liner. It occupies an entire page of Mr.
Thornbury’s work, vol. ii. pp. 130-131, commencing “One element
in Turner’s success was his indifference to praise,” and ending
“He felt keenly the ignorant criticisms and ridicule with which
his own pictures were sometimes treated.” The ingenuity exercised
to give originality to this paragraph consists in half a dozen
lines in one part of it being printed between turned commas,
and attributed to Mr. Peter Cunningham! The fourth extract,
p. 141, commencing “He never would tell his birthday,” is
printed _verbatim_. Of the next interpolated paragraph, p. 161,
commencing “He wrote few letters,” I have less to complain of.
Mr. Thornbury does not print this, similar to the rest, as his
own, but, like a vast number of other collectanea in his book,
between turned commas, without acknowledgment or reference. The
next extract occupies an entire page, p. 217-218, and is printed,
also, _verbatim_; it commences, “Turner was always on the alert
for any remarkable effects,” and ends, “in which the great
artist’s attention had been caught by the hissing and puffing and
glowing fire of the locomotive.” The seventh and last clause in
my indictment against Mr. Thornbury is a short one; and as it is
altered I must ask permission to give it entire:--
_Reeve_, 1851. _Thornbury_, 1861.
“There is yet another portrait “There is yet another portrait
to record: Mr. Charles Turner, to record. Mr. Charles Turner,
A.R.A., the mezzotint engraver A.R.A., the mezzotint engraver
of his Liber Studiorum, and his of his Liber Studiorum, and his
oldest and most constant friend, oldest and most constant friend,
was so desirous of securing a like- was so desirous of securing a like-
ness of him, that he offered to pay ness of him at all hazards, that he
Sir Thomas Lawrence, or any other availed himself from time to time
artist that Turner should name, of every opportunity of collecting
if he would only consent to sit, memoranda for the purpose. He
but he was not to be prevailed at length obtained a most
upon. Mr. C. Turner was, however, characteristic portrait in oil,
determined to have a likeness small, half-size, in the act of
of him at all hazards, and sketching. The singularity of his
availed himself from time to time dress and figure _have_ been
of every opportunity of collecting scrupulously attended to, and it
memoranda for the purpose. He has been pronounced an admirable
at length obtained a most charact- and faithful likeness. I believe
eristic portrait in oil, small, that Mr. C. Turner engraved this
half-size, in the act of sketching. portrait.”
The singularity of his dress and
figure _have_ been scrupulously
attended to, and it has been
pronounced an admirable and faithful
likeness. It will be gratifying to
Turner’s friends to know that Mr.
C. Turner intends to engrave the
portrait.”
If anything were needed to show the worthlessness of Mr.
Thornbury’s “Life of Turner,” it is the unnecessary appropriation
of this passage. One would think that a chapter devoted
especially to “The Turner Portraits,” about which so much
curiosity prevails, would be at least marked by some research.
But Mr. Thornbury cuts out my paragraph in all its detail, as
related to me by Charles Turner himself, bad grammar--a common
failing with Mr. Thornbury (here printed in Italic)--included;
and having run his pen through the rash assertion of the
engraver, that he had offered to give a commission to Sir Thomas
Lawrence, winds up simply with the remark, “I believe that Mr.
C. Turner engraved this portrait.” Mr. Thornbury, perceiving in
my statement of ten years ago that Mr. C. Turner intended to
engrave it, assumes that he did engrave it. By happy accident, in
no way, however, due to Mr. Thornbury’s research, he has hit the
mark; for on the death of Charles Turner, about three years ago,
the secret came to light, at the sale of his effects, as every
_dilettanti_ knows, of his having engraved this portrait as long
back, apparently, as twenty years before. What criticism, then,
can be too strong to denounce Mr. Thornbury’s random assertion,
“I _believe_ Mr. Charles Turner engraved this portrait”? A
print from this plate, which it is suspected the sly engraver
destroyed, may be seen at Mr. Graves’, the eminent publisher of
Pall Mall.
My memoir of Turner, it may be added, was drawn up from vivâ voce
information imparted to me by some of the great artist’s most
intimate friends within three days of his decease,--Mr. Charles
Turner, one of his executors, and Mr. Leslie, both of whom have
since followed him to the grave; Mr. Windus, and others.
Speaking of dear old John Britton, the well-known author of many
beautiful works of vast and original research on the Cathedrals
of England--a man whose memory is cherished by every true-hearted
antiquary with homage and respect--Mr. Thornbury says (vol. ii.
p. 151)--“There is a story told of Turner’s love of concealment,
which connects him with Britton, the publisher of so many
architectural works; a plausible and, I fear, a very mean man;
one of those bland, selfish squeezers of other men’s brains
that still occasionally disgrace literature.” To whom should
this scandalous observation be addressed? I trust that some new
biographer of Turner will arise to board this piratical craft,
and rescue the valuable freight which the painter’s bosom friends
have committed to its keeping. It must be painful, indeed, to
these gentlemen, to Mr. Trimmer, and to Mr. Ruskin especially,
to find their precious reminiscences mixed up with such an
unlettered commentary. How light the manner, how flippant the
treatment, how utterly unworthy of a great subject!
LOVELL REEVE.
It may be as well to observe that Mr. Thornbury in no way
spares other writers in _his_ criticisms: will any one, twenty
years hence, quote Mr. Thornbury’s own words in regard to
himself:--“Tawdry rubbish--now all but forgotten, and soon to
sink deep in the mud-pool of oblivion.”
Mr. Thornbury’s preface is good--indeed, we believe he never
writes anything badly, but it reminds us of Dr. Johnson, who
wrote capital prefaces to works which, if he ever read, he
never wrote. It is written in his richest style, redolent with
word-painting: he uses adjectives in the happiest manner.
Unfortunately this use of adjectives is apt to lead a writer
from dry facts; and the above “Life” appears to have got him
into a little trouble, for the details of which we must refer
to the _Athenæum_, 1861, vol. ii, where Mr. Masson complains of
Mr. Thornbury’s disrespect (p. 808), “Inventions about Turner,”
from Mr. Henry M‘Connel (848)--“Turner and Girtin,” a refutation
from Mr. W. H. Carpenter, Keeper of the Prints and Drawings at
the British Museum; 1862, vol. i., p. 19--from Mr. John Pye,
and (296, 331)--from Mr. Henry Elliot (G. Lewis, 334), all
complaining.
A captious letter from Mr. Thornbury in the number for 22nd
February, 1862, leaves him in a worse light than if he had
been silent. We therefore omit it. He ends by saying that “no
falsehood and no intentional plagiarism shall ever stain a single
page I write,” which probably referred to the future, for “The
Life of Turner” disproves these words.
Mr. Thornbury, amongst other works, has written “The Monarchs
of the Main, 1855.” In the preface to this he claims at least
“originality,” which seems to consist, according to his own
account, in his having taken it, more or less, from three other
works, without, as Professor De Morgan somewhere remarks, any
evidence being left as to whether it is more or less. The same
observations will apply to “British Artists, from Hogarth to
Turner; being a series of Biographical Sketches, by W. T.,
&c., 1861,” which seems to be compiled almost entirely from
(apparently) original sources.
THURSTON (Henry J.) _pseudonym_ [FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE].
The Passionate Pilgrim; or, Eros and Anteros. Lond., 1858.
TIM (Uncle). See Cladpole (Tim).
TIMON (John) _pseud._ [D. G. MITCHELL].
Preface to “The Lorgnette.” See An Opera Goer.
TINTO (Dick) _pseud._ [S. C. GOODRICH, jun., son of Peter Parley].
TITCOMB (Timothy) Esquire, _ps._ [Dr. J. G. HOLLAND].
Titcomb’s Letters to Young People, Single and Married. 12th edit.,
1859.
Letters to the Joneses. 11th edit., New York, 1864.
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The Paris Sketch Book, 1840. The Second Funeral of Napoleon, 1841.
Mrs. Perkins’ Ball [1847]. Our Street, 1848. Doctor Birch, &c., 1849.
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TOBY (Simeon) _pseud._ [GEORGE TRASK].
Thoughts and Stories on Tobacco, for American Lads, or Uncle Toby’s
Anti-Tobacco Advice to his Nephew, Billy Bruce. 5th edit., Boston,
1852.
TODHUNTER (Isaac).
Compiled an Algebra [first edition 1858, 2nd edit. 1860]
admittedly a good one, but it appears from the following
pamphlet, which accuses him of _plagiarism_, that it is not all
his own book:--
An Exposure of a Recent Attempt at Bookmaking in the University of
Cambridge. By T. Lund. Lond., _Spottiswoode_, 1858.
An Answer to Mr. Lund’s Attack on Mr. Todhunter. Cambridge, _Palmer_,
1858.
The copyright of Wood’s work having expired, it is public
property, so far as law is concerned. Mr. Lund in his pamphlet
proves that Mr. Todhunter has taken, without acknowledgment,
what he had a legal right to take, to the extent of under
one-thirtieth of his whole book.
Mr. Todhunter admits the charge, but defends his course on the
ground that Wood is so well known that any use made of him would
at once be recognised, that the omission was out of consideration
for Mr. Lund.
But, as the writer in the _Athenæum_, from whence we take
this note (1858, ii. 81, 110), observes, a person already in
possession of Wood, and wishes to have another author, would
be grossly deceived if he bought the same under another name:
he adds that there is a very lax view of such things taken at
Cambridge, and instances a case, but, we regret to say, gives no
names.
TOMKINS (Isaac) Gent., _ps._ [Lord BROUGHAM?]
Thoughts on the Aristocracy of England, with a postscript and a
letter to J. Richards, Esq., from P. Jenkins. 1st and 5th editions.
Lond., Hooper, 1834; 23 pp.
See Edin. Rev., April 1835, p. 65.
A Letter to Isaac Tomkins, Gent., author of the Thoughts on the
Aristocracy. With a postscript and a letter to J. Richards, Esq.,
M.P., from Mr. P. Jenkins. 5th edition, Lond., 1835; 11 pp.
The pamphlet upon “The Aristocracy of England” is announced as
the first of a series.... The publisher is one of the regular
agents for that _system_ of societies, of which the eldest
assumed the title of “The Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge,” and the latest has not feared to proclaim itself
“The Society for the Diffusion of _Political_ Knowledge.” The
founder and president of all these ultra-philanthropic societies
is Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux; and common report has ascribed
to his lordship’s versatile pen the pages which his lordship’s
agent, Mr. Hooper, has just published as the production of “Isaac
Tomkins, Gentleman.”
We have, from internal evidence, no sort of doubt that the public
report is in this instance correct.--Quarterly Review, liii. 540.
A Letter to Isaac Tomkins (against Lord Brougham). By Peter Wilkins
[_pseud._]. Lond., 1839.
TOUCH’EM (Timothy) _phren._ [THOMAS BECK].
The Age of Frivolity. A poem. 2nd edit., Lond., 1807.
TOUCHSTONE, _phren._ [M. BOOTH].
Roadside Sketches in the South of France, with 24 illustrations by
----. Lond., 1859.
TREBOR (Eidrah) _anastroph_ [ROBERT HARDIE].
Hoyle made Familiar. Edin., 1830.
TRUCK (Bill) _pseud._ [ ].
Man-o’-War’s Man. Lond., _Blackwood_, 1843.
In Blackwood’s Magazine, 1822, signed S.
TRUSTA (H.) _phren._ [Mrs. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS].
The Tell-Tale; or Sketches of Domestic Life in the United States. By
H. T. and Grace Greenwood [_ps._], 1852.
A Peep at “Number Five.” _Boston, U.S._, 1852.
The Tell-Tale; or Home Secrets told by Old Travellers. Boston, 1853.
And several others.
TWO BROTHERS, _demonym_ [ALFRED and CHARLES TENNYSON].
Poems. Lond., _Simpkin_, 1832.
N. & Q. 3 S. ix. iii.
TWO BROTHERS, _demonym_ [JULIUS CHARLES HARE and AUGUSTUS WILLIAM
HARE].
Guesses at Truth. Lond., 1847; _Macmillan_, 1866.
TWO BROTHERS, _demonym_ [A. MONEY and GEORGE HENRY MONEY].
Sevastopol: our Tent in the Crimea. Lond., 1856.
U.
URBAN (Sylvanus) _pseudonym_ under which, for upwards of one hundred
years, the Gentleman’s Magazine has been edited. It contains an
enormous mass of biography (and _fiction_) in its very useful
obituary notices. The Rev. Edward Walford is its present editor.
“In the summer of 1825 I had apartments in the Rue Verte,
Brussells. My _locataire_ was a Monsieur _Urbain_; and his not
very youthful daughter took much pride in telling me of their
lineal descent from an Englishman of that name--a distinguished
writer, she said, in prose and in verse. Seeing me somewhat at a
loss to identify this ancestor of her’s, she further informed me
that his prænomen was _Sylvain_. I of course recognised our old
acquaintance of St. John’s Gate, and delighted Mademoiselle with
the assurance that her great-grandfather’s names, as well as his
talents, had been transmitted through his descendants to that
day.”--E. L. S. in _N. & Q._
V.
VALDARFER (Cristofer) _ps._ [JOSEPH HASLEWOOD].
Bibliomaniac Ballad. [Lond., 1815?]
VAN DEUSEN (Increase) and MARIA, his Wife, _ps._ [ ].
Spiritual Delusions, being a Key to the Mysteries of Mormonism,
exposing the particulars of that astounding Heresy, the spiritual
wife system. New York, 1854.
V. B. _init._ [Vincent Brooks].
A skilled chromo-lithographer, who generally signs these
initials. The drawing and colouring of some of his pictures in
Cinderella and other children’s books published by Mr. Routledge
is very good indeed.
VERDELLO (Cordrac) _phrenonym_ [RICHARD HARRIS].
The English Press and its Poets, a satire. Lond., printed by Charles
Whittingham, 1856.
VINDEX, _phrenonym_ [ ].
Considerations on the Policy, Justice, and Consequences of the Dutch
War. Lond., _Effingham Wilson_, 1832.
Vindex is a well-known public character. He was the colleague
of “Civis” during the greater part of the American war, and
afterwards joined with “Politicus” in opposing the French
Revolution.--_Edin. Rev._ Jan. 1833.
VINDEX. See the Author of the Eclipse of Faith [HENRY ROGERS].
W.
W. A. C. _initialism_ [CHATTO].
Views of Ports and Harbours, Watering Places, Fishing Villages....
Lond., 1838.
WALFORD (Flora) _pseud._ [G. W. BESSEY?]
Sketches from Flemish Life. Lond., 1843.
WALNEERG, _ananym_ [THOMAS KNOX].
Rhymed Convictions in Song, &c. Lond. and Edin. [1852].
The ananym of the author’s birthplace, Greenlaw.
W. and R. C. _init._ [CHAMBERS].
Shipwrecks and Tales of the Sea. Edited by ----. Lond., 1860.
Tales for Home Reading [1865].
Tales for Young and Old, 1865.
WARD (Artemus) _pseudonym_ [CHARLES F. BROWNE, an American author
of English birth. He returned to England, and died here in 1867,
when nothing was wanting to his fame but himself. The style of the
following work, the one chiefly known in England, is inimitable.]
Artemus Ward, His Book of Goaks. _J. C. Hotten_, 1865.
Travels among the Mormons, edited by E. P. Hingston, 1865.
Artemus Ward in London, a New Comic Book. New York, 1867.
WARD (Betsy Jane) _allonym_ [ ].
Betsy J. Ward, Her Book of Goaks [Better half to Artemus] (_sic_).
Lond., _Routledge_, 1867.
WARDEN (William), Surgeon on Board the Northumberland.
Letters written on Board His Majesty’s Ship the Northumberland, and
at St. Helena, in which the conduct and conversations of Napoleon
Bonaparte and his suite during the voyage, and the first months of
his residence in that island, are faithfully described and related.
By ----. Lond., published for the Author [1816]. 8vo.
Cursory Remarks on the Article in the Edinburgh Review relative to
Mr. Warden’s Letters from St. Helena [Lond?], 1817. Signed “Waterloo.”
“... That which is best known in England are the letters of
Mr. Warden, who has been made (we will not say the innocent,
but) the ignorant tool of the cabal. Our readers will recollect
that in our review of this man’s work [xvi. 208] we ventured
to assert--1st, _that no such letters were ever written_; and
2d, that Mr. Warden only brought home with him certain notes of
conversations with Buonaparte and his followers of which the tone
and substance were made to fit, not the truth of the facts, but
the object which Buonaparte had to accomplish.
“These suspicions have been fully realized.--Mr. Warden, though
he affects in an advertisement to a new edition of his work to
take notice of our animadversions, does not venture to affirm
that such letters ever were written. He confesses indeed that he
employed a literary man to correct his work, but alleges that
this person added nothing of his own: but we repeat it, he does
not and he cannot deny that the character of letters _written
from_ St. Helena, which was intended to give authority to and
to vouch for the authenticity of his work, is false, and that
the whole foundation and substance of his apology for Buonaparte
(for such it is) was information given him by that person and his
followers, and _given by them for the purpose of publication_.
“We have been informed that when Mr. Warden had left St. Helena,
it was well known to all the French that he was carrying home
notes for publication: and that, on the arrival of a ship from
England which brought newspapers and books, Buonaparte heedlessly
asked if _Warden’s book_ was come. Unluckily, Mr. Warden’s book
was only published in London about the time when Buonaparte
asked the question, and was not known at St. Helena for six
weeks after. Whether it was by Buonaparte’s desire that Warden
gave his publication the shape in which we see it, or whether
the surgeon acted from a natural tendency to sophistication,
we cannot pretend to say,--it is enough for us to repeat, that
his book is a gross imposition; the substance of which are the
falsehoods of Las Cases and Buonaparte, and the shape of which is
the fabrication of the anonymous editor.”--_Quarterly Review_,
xvi. 486.
* Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, in reply to Mr. Warden; with
Extracts from the great work now compiling for publication under the
inspection of Napoleon. 1817; 8vo; 206.
It is just as we expected--and our readers will have been
prepared by the ninth article of our thirty-second number for
this publication. We have here another of the series of tricks
with which Buonaparte endeavours to keep himself alive in the
recollection of Europe. It is, like all the rest, fraudulent
in its title, shape, and pretensions; false in its facts; and
jacobinical in its object. But it has this claim to consideration
beyond its predecessors, that it comes from a source so nearly
connected with Buonaparte as to give it in some degree the
authority of being his _own apology made by himself_. It tells
us, indeed, little or nothing in the way of fact that is not
familiar to our readers; but it speaks in a more decisive
tone--it shows by the subjects on which it attempts its apologies
whereabout (to use a vulgar phrase) the _shoe pinches_; and it
proves by the futility of them....
We have said that the very form of this publication is
fraudulent. The author has, in this particular, closely imitated
Mr. Warden. It pretends to be a series of _Letters_: no such
letters were ever written. It is addressed to a Dear Lady C----:
the Dear Lady C---- is not in existence. It affects to be
originally written in _English_: it was written in _French_, and
the pretended original is only a translation; and to crown the
whole, the author assumes the character of an Englishman, while
in fact he is a Frenchman, and no other, we are satisfied, than
the notorious Count de las Cases, of whose veracity and honour
our readers have already had some tolerable specimens.
We shall not waste much time in explaining the _ear-marks_ by
which (in addition to their own solemn and repeated assertions
to the contrary) we recognize these Letters to be a translation
from the French. The most careful and adroit translator cannot
always escape the intrusive treachery of gallicisms: but every
page of this work abounds, with them; half a dozen out of as many
hundreds will more than suffice to convince our readers....
The facts, or rather, the falsehoods, might indeed have been put
together by Montholon, or any other of the clique; but the style
of the pamphlet, and several circumstances connected with Las
Cases, leave, as we have said, little doubt in our minds that
he is, immediately or remotely, the author of it. But, whoever
be the writer, it must be considered as coming from Buonaparte
himself; and assured, as we are, that it is derived from him, and
published, if not with his knowledge, at least in concurrence
with his wishes, we shall persist in considering it as the
_apology_ of the ex-emperor dictated by himself.
Our readers will have observed that the work is entitled “a
_Reply_ to Mr. Warden.” We find in the outset a complete
substantiation of our charges against that person....
But though this work is thus announced as a _reply_ to Mr.
Warden, our readers will smile to hear that there is hardly one
_substantial_ contradiction of his statements; in fact the book
is merely a postscript to Warden’s, repeating all his apologies
for Buonaparte, but with greater care and skill--softening down
passages which had excited indignation--strengthening points
which had been found weak--reconciling contradictions which had
been detected--supplying eulogies and panegyrics upon themselves
which had been omitted--and, in short, publishing Mr. Warden’s
letters as Buonaparte and Las Cases originally intended that they
should have been published by him.--_Quarterly Review_, 1817,
xvii. 507, _et seq._
Allowance must be made for the political bias of the reviewer.
WAUCH (Mansie) _fictitious name_ [D. M. MOIR].
The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself.
Edin., 1828.
“Part of this autobiography originally appeared in Blackwood’s
Magazine.”
WAVERLEY (Edward Bradwardine) _pseud._ [JOHN WILSON CROKER].
Two Letters [in reply to Malachi Malagrowther, Esq., _pseud._ q.v.].
Lond., 1826.
W. B. D. D. T., _initialism_ [TURNBULL].
Remarks on the Hussey Peerage. Edin., 1842.
W. C., _init._ [WILLIAM COWLEY?]
Don Juan Reclaimed; or his Peregrination continued from Lord Byron.
Sheffield, 1840.
W. C., _init._ [WILLIAM CHAMBERS].
Poems for Young People. Edinburgh, 1851; 16mo.
W. C. C., _init._ [WILLIAM C. COWARD].
Victoriaism; or, a Re-organisation of the People. Lond., 1843.
W. D. _pseudonym_ [RICHARD DERBY NESS].
For many years a _letterist_ in Notes and Queries (3 S. xii. 326)
under the signatures of P. H. in the early numbers, and W. D. in the
latter.
WETHERELL (Elizabeth) _pseud._ [Miss SUSAN WARNER].
The Wide Wide World. New York, 1852.
Queechy. New York, 1853. London editions also.
W. F. T., _init._ [TAYLOR].
Suitable Bathing Dresses, as used in Biarritz, with instructions,
whereby any lady (self-taught) (sic) may learn to swim. Windsor, 1864.
WHARTON (Grace) _ps._ [Mrs. KATHERINE THOMPSON].
The Wits and Beaux of Society, by Grace and Philip W. [J. C.
Thompson]. 1860.
The Queens of Society. 1860.
The Literature of Society. Lond., 1862, 2 vols.
WHATSHISNAME, _pseud._ [E. C. MASSEY].
The Green-Eyed Monster; a Christmas Lesson. Lond., _Cooke_, 1854.
He is also said to have been editor of the _Amateur_, which had
an existence of 9 months, 1855-6, eight numbers.
Cuthbert Bede, N. & Q.
WHIPEM (Benedick) _phrenonym_ [RICHARD HARRIS, Barrister-at-Law].
New Nobility; a Novel. _Newby_, 1867, 3 vols.
WHISTLECRAFT (Deuteros) Gent., _phren._ [ ].
The Origin of Rome, a poem, translated from the Italian of G. B.
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WHISTLECRAFT (Nathan), _phren._ [ ].
The Reform Ministry, &c., in verse. Lond., 1834.
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Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work. By, etc.
Intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to
King Arthur and his round table. 1818.
“Doubtless suggested to Lord Byron his disreputable poem of Don
Juan.”--_Allibone._ Frequently reprinted.
WHITE (Babington) _pseudonym_: _plagiarist_.
The plagiarism committed by “Mr. B. White” is in a novel first
published in a serial form in _Belgravia_, a monthly magazine, of
which Miss Braddon is “conductor,” and Mr. Maxwell proprietor.
No sooner was “Circé” republished in the usual form by Messrs.
Ward, Lock, and Tyler, the publishers, than the press exposed the
plagiarism. The _Pall Mall Gazette_ of the 16th September, 1867, in
an article entitled “Dalila” and “Circé,” after noting that “Dalila,”
by M. Octave Feuillet, was published in 1855, gave parallel passages,
which completely proved the theft from “Dalila”:
“Even the title of the English book is due to a suggestion of M.
Feuillet: ‘Omphale, CIRCÉ Dalila! ces noms de magiciennes qui
flamboient comme des phares dans la tradition du monde, comment
ne m’ont-ils pas éclairé’? One can fancy the English author
divided between the merits of the titles ‘Omphale’ and ‘Circé,’
and ultimately deciding in favour of the shorter one; especially
as there could be little question about the method of pronouncing
it--‘Omphale’ suggesting difficulties of quantity to many. And
then the author has had the effrontery here and there to head his
chapters with garbled quotations from the French work, taking
care of course to suppress all mention of the source of his
extracts!
“The crying offence of the book, however, is its absolute
dishonesty. Its adapter is simply attempting to palm off upon
the English public as an original novel a book stolen from the
French, altered in some respects, lengthened and much maltreated
altogether, but with its origin still clearly to be traced by
those who will trouble themselves to examine into the matter.
We claim a right to protest against a proceeding so fraudulent.
In all cases of adaptation--let it be a play from a play, as
‘The Streets of London,’ from ‘Les Pauvres des Paris’--or a play
from a novel, as ‘Still Waters Run Deep,’ from ‘Le Gendre’--or a
novel from a novel, as ‘The Doctor’s Wife,’ from ‘Madame Bovary,’
and ‘Circé’ from ‘Dalila’--it is the merest justice that the
obligation to the foreign and original author should be publicly
acknowledged and formally placed upon record.”
The very severe remarks made by the _Pall Mall Gazette_ excited
much controversy.
A letter appeared the next day (17th Sept.) signed “M. E.
Braddon,” expressing regret that she should have been imposed
upon. This letter, Miss Braddon wrote to say, was a forgery. In
addition to this, she offered to add 100 guineas to any reward
the _Pall Mall Gazette_ might offer for the discovery of the
forger. The _Pall Mall Gazette_ declined to offer any reward, and
thus placed itself in a false position; and general opinion, we
believe, considered that it was wrong in not carrying out Miss
Braddon’s proposal.
The _Spectator_ wrote upon the subject, and its remarks were
commented upon in the _Pall Mall Gazette_ of the 28th Sept.,
1867. In the same number it also published an advertisement
extracted from a Dutch newspaper, of
“A new novel of Miss Braddon’s, derived from the French of
Octave Feuillet, by Babington White.”
This, Miss Braddon contended, was spurious. The _London Review_
(Oct. 5), in an article entitled “Miss Babington,” plainly said
it believed this to be another of Miss Braddon’s pseudonyms.
We will conclude with one or two passages from an article
entitled “Good-Natured Criticism” in the _Pall Mall Gazette_:--
“Not for the purpose of recurring to the particulars of the
significant ‘Circé’ business, but to show how the regular
manufacture of such productions is fostered by good-natured
critics, do we notice the matter now. The case itself is
thoroughly and indisputably bad. The author of the imposture
was not indebted to a contemporary writer for an idea or a
situation merely--what he did was to steal by wholesale--plot and
language, body and bones. And (this is particularly significant)
he plundered on system, and where one author failed fastened
on another. Having exhausted Feuillet, he turns to Balzac, for
instance, and ekes out the incidents of his second volume by a
scene taken bodily from that writer’s ‘Chef d’Œuvre Inconnu.’ The
story produced in this artistic way was printed in a magazine
generally considered to be respectable. It was afterwards
republished, and the publisher announced by advertisement that
it had won the favourable opinion of the _Edinburgh Review_.”
[Mr. Maxwell had struck out the word “Daily” in the _Edinburgh
Daily Review_, a practise which he defended in a letter to the
_Morning Star_. _See P. M. G. Sept. 27th._] “This was dishonesty
heaped upon dishonesty. The _Edinburgh Review_ had no more
noticed the story than Mr. Babbington White had invented it. That
person unknown had filched from M. Feuillet, from Balzac, from
Heaven knows whom beside, and his publisher ticketed the stolen
goods with a false warranty. Is there nothing reprehensible in
that--nothing deserving of exposure and reprobation? One would
think so who cared to maintain the integrity of literary men as
a body, to elevate, and not yet further to degrade, the standard
of literature, and to expose the tricks of unscrupulous traders.
It seems, however, that opinion may differ even upon such a
matter as this; that the offences we have permitted ourselves
to make known, though acknowledgedly indefensible, are yet not
such as a discreet critic would notice with asperity; in fact,
that asperity in such a case is itself improper, and subject to
suspicions of private malice. Nor is this view of the matter held
only by shoddy novel writers themselves, nor by those who employ
them, nor by such journals as are governed by the golden rule,
‘Never offend a publisher.’”
“... It [the manufacture of novels] is founded on the beautiful
modern principle of division of labour, and this is the method
of it. You catch a literary man who has failed in making either
a reputation or a fortune in writing stories. He must, however,
have some literary skill, and the sort of invention which in
one chapter blows up all the characters in a steamboat, and
in the next brings them down miraculously escaped. He must be
facile in French, and have a good acquaintance with novels in
that language. To these novels, guided by his own fancy, if
he happen to have any, he goes for ideas, situations, plots
complete; and then, at hack pay, sketches out his work, and
fills it in, to the best of his ability. The work is now ready
for an ‘eminent hand.’ A touch here by the eminent hand, a
touch there, a chapter rewritten, an incident subordinated, a
scene heightened--behold your new novel, turned out with the
rapidity of machine work, and with about as much pretension to
be ‘English literature.’ ‘Favourable notices’ can always be got
from journals of the starved apothecary stamp, and the trade
pays. Of course we know what the observation upon that will be:
Michael Angelo painted pictures on a similar plan, and Alexandre
Dumas is said to have fabricated his romances in like manner.
But there is a distinction between a combination of various
kinds and degrees of skill, and a conspiracy to blend into a
new shape selected plunder from the produce of other people’s
skill; and this distinction is one which cannot be bridged by
the most good-natured criticism in the world. However, we only
refer to the existence of this new branch of industry as an
additional reason for giving no encouragement to _industriels_
of Mr. White’s order, and to show that there are general as well
as particular reasons for objecting to him. It is upon general
grounds that we write now, thinking not so much of one offence
as the danger to an already enfeebled literature of tolerating
the offenders. Our contemporary the _Spectator_ not only
tolerates--it defends them; and we hope we have done no wrong in
protesting against the use of its influence in that way.”--_Oct.
3, 1867._
A writer in _Belgravia_, under the pseudonym of Captain Shandon,
attempted, in a somewhat coarse and vulgar article, to defend
literary piracy, and Mr. G. A. Sala also made some intemperate
remarks in an article that might have been excellent if it had
advocated a good cause. On both the above the _London Review_
commented in an article entitled “The Knight of Belgravia.” The
_Pall Mall Gazette_ vouchsafed no reply: probably considering the
tone of the articles too coarse to deserve notice.
See also the _Globe_, the _Evening Star_, and several other
newspapers during September, October, and November, 1867.
It affords matter for reflection when we find two of the most
popular novelists of the day--Miss Braddon and Alexandre
Dumas--continually having accusations brought against them of
literary _supercheries_.
W. H. R., _init._ [WILLIAM HARRIS RULE].
The Wesleyan Methodist Sunday Hymn-Book. Lond., [1851].
Religion in its relation to Commerce, 1852. The Law of the House, by
E. Henderson [with a preface by W. H. R.]. 1858.
W. H. R., _init._ [ROYSTON].
The Rowing Almanack. Lond., 1861-8.
WILKINS (Peter) _fictitious name_ [ROBERT PALTOCK, of Clement’s Inn,
Gentleman].
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man, taken from
his own mouth, in his passage to England, from off Cape Horn in
America in the ship Hector. By R. S., a passenger in the Hector
[_apocryph_]. Lond., 1750, 2 vols. Frequently reprinted. The
dedication is signed R. P., [_initialism_, Robert Paltock].
R. S. is probably a _telonism_ of Peter Wilkins. Nothing is known
of the author of this delightful little fiction: he was probably
a lawyer. The note of sale of the work is printed in Notes and
Queries, 1 S. See also 3 S., xii. 445.
WILKINS (Peter) _ps._ See TOMKINS (Isaac) _ps._ 1839.
WILLS (W. G.).
Having written an exposure of the “hashing up” of novels system,
with regard to the novels of Mrs. Henry Wood (q.v.) the Pall
Mall Gazette next took a novel called “The Wife’s Evidence”
in hand, and called attention to a similar enterprise on the
part of Mr. W. G. Wills, its author. “In 1859 Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett published a novel called ‘Life’s Foreshadowings.’ A few
weeks ago Messrs. Tinsley published a new novel entitled ‘The
Love that Kills,’ by W. G. Willa. This book is simply ‘Life’s
Foreshadowings’ reproduced. The names of the _dramatis personæ_
are changed, and possibly--for we must own that after closely
comparing the first two volumes of both publications we wearied
of the task and abandoned it--there may be some variation in
the catastrophe; but otherwise the plot is the same, the scenes
are the same, the characters are the same, page after page and
chapter after chapter being reprinted verbatim. In a preface to
‘The Love that Kills,’ the author notes down certain objects he
had in view in that work; he is careful, however, to give no
hint that he was reproducing an earlier book, which he probably
conceived was altogether forgotten.” [It then gives parallel
passages.]
“Upon the fairness of this system of publication--and it would
really seem to have become a system--it is scarcely necessary to
comment. It is to our minds just as culpable as the practice of
the dog-fancier who, after selling you a dog, steals it, trims
his ears and otherwise disguises him, and then sells him to you
again. We may also be permitted to ask how far the publishers
of these books are acquainted with their origin, history, and
constitution; for of course the publishers are equally with the
author responsible to the public.”
[Mr. Wills’ reply we quote in full.]
Sir,--I beg some space in your paper to reply to a charge which
your industrious contributor has preferred against a novel of
mine entitled “The Love that Kills.” His attack is short, but
contains mis-statement. I beg therefore to offer to your readers
the following justification:
1st. The whole bent of the work is altered--the first volume
being wholly reconstructed, not “page for page the same,”
but full of new matter. The third volume is almost wholly
new, containing the rising and rebellion of ’48. In “Life’s
Foreshadowings” the leading character is a scientific man, whose
end is to discover a certain planet, the presence of which he
suspects. In “The Love that Kills,” the leading character is an
Irish agitator, who takes part in the rebellion of ’48, from its
first rising to its close; and this change is radical throughout
the book.
2nd. The material I have employed was taken from an obscure and
ephemeral work, my first crude effort, in the three-volume form
for which I never received a shilling, and which with the reading
public was a failure.
I believe I was thoroughly justified in using such material,
and endeavouring to throw it into a readable mould; and also I
believe that the work is newer than many a new drama.
In no conceivable way have I wronged my late publishers, Messrs.
Hurst and Blackett, who have had from me the best I could offer
in literary work.
Finally, I have to exonerate Mr. Tinsley from any knowledge
whatsoever of the imported materials in the work, and if there be
blame in what I have done, I take the whole responsibility.--I
am, Sir, yours obediently,
W. G. WILLS.
* * * * *
OUR NAUGHTY NOVELISTS.
II.--MR. W. G. WILLS.
This gentleman is in rather a worse case than Mrs. Wood. In the
first place he has not the advantage of being a woman. In the
next place he has the extraordinary disadvantage of having “taken
in” his publisher as well as the public. Mr. Tinsley informed
us yesterday that every line of “The Love that Kills,” when he
bought the copyright was _in manuscript_; though to give it that
marketable appearance Mr. Wills must have copied page after
page--whole chapters verbatim--from “Life’s Foreshadowings,” a
book which he had already sold to Messrs. Hurst and Blackett. The
“explanation” which Mr. Wills favours us with to-day can have
no weight, however, with anybody who has had an opportunity of
comparing the two books. His own view of the matter is better
explained in a second letter (addressed to us), which runs as
follows:
To assist your critic in detecting the perfectly new matter in
Vol. 1.--_apart from reconstruction and the many modifications_
by which I have endeavoured to obtain story interest--I give the
pages herewith:--
From page 1 to 7
” 17 -- 35
” 57 -- 90
” 112 -- 120
” 146 -- 160
” 211 -- 216
Making up 82 pages, nearly one-third of volume of absolutely new
matter.
This is the best Mr. Wills can say for himself.--_Pall Mall
Gazette_, March 6th, 1867.
W. J. F., _init._ [WILLIAM JOHN FITZPATRICK].
Who wrote the Waverley Novels? Lond., 1856.
See N. & Q., 2nd S.
W. K., _init._ [WILLIAM KINGSFORD].
Impressions of the West and South. Toronto, 1858.
W. M., _init._ [MARSH].
Jehovah’s Ancient Temple, City and Land. Dublin, 1863.
W. M. R., _init._ [RUSSELL].
The Truth, comprising an Inquiry if Man is justified in proving the
Truth of his Religious Tenets? London, Nottingham [printed 1852].
WORDSWORTH (Walter) _phren._ [ ].
Every One’s Book: or Weeds of Wit from Worldly Ways wove in one.
Lond., 1858.
W. P. P., _init._? [ ].
Jottings on Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London, _Longman_;
Stamford, _Newcomb_, 1856.
W. R. [ ] and B. [B. BAILEY?]
Lines addressed to W. WORDSWORTH, Esq. Colombo [Ceylon] 1835.
WRAXALL (Lascelles) _abbreviation_ [Sir F. C. LASCELLES WRAXALL,
Bart.].
A prolific author. He also translated a number of Gustave Aimard’s
works, to some of which he signed his initials.
WRITEWELL (A. M.) _phren._ [JOHN CLOSE].
See Dowell (S.), _pseud._
W. S., _allonym_ [ ].
Moredun, a Tale. See SCOTT (Sir W.).
W. S., _init._ [Professor SPALDING].
Letter on Shakespeare’s authorship of the Two Noble Kinsmen, a Drama,
commonly ascribed to John Fletcher. Edinb., 1833.
W----s, _disguised-author_ [WILLIBALD ALEXIS, _pseud._ G. W. H.
HAERING].
Walladmor, 1824. See SCOTT (Sir W.)
WOOD (Mrs. HENRY).
Lady Adelaide’s Oath. By, &c., Author of East Lynne, The Channings,
&c. London, _Bentley_, 1867.
The Castle’s Heir; a Novel in Real Life. Philadelphia, _T. B.
Peterson and Brothers_.
[_From the Pall Mall Gazette._]
NOT AT ALL A NEW NOVEL.
The rapidity with which certain novelists produce what are
called their “works” has long been a matter of astonishment. To
write two, three, or four stories a year has become a common
achievement, though not so common yet that we have ceased to
wonder at the facility of a Braddon or the fertility of a
Wood, and to tremble lest the fine brains of those esteemed
writers should suffer through their feverish anxiety to keep on
amusing, and elevating, and instructing mankind. Never without
a pang have we read that a “new novel” from the author of “Lady
Audley’s Secret” or of “East Lynne” was in the press--confident
as we are that those ladies write more than they ought, really.
Nor have their best friends been silent on the subject. Again
and again have the most favourable critics suggested that such
rapid workmanship imperilled the writers’ reputation, and must
inevitably tell upon their faculties.
But it is not our object now to expatiate upon the inevitable
mischief of over-production. On the contrary, our glad task
is to show that the most fertile novelist may be contemplated
without the slightest apprehension that the clever creature is
killing herself. It may be, of course, in any particular case,
that a constant and abounding efflorescence of genius is tending
to early exhaustion. Nevertheless, he is not human who will
not rejoice with us in the discovery that there is no necessary
connection between producing three novels a year and descent to
an early tomb. No, not even in the case of female novelists--of
weak woman. Nay, less in their case apparently; a bit of
information which will cause every manly breast to swell with
satisfaction.
The explanation of all this is curiously simple. There is a
modest little domestic virtue known as _management_--a virtue
which has hitherto been thought to culminate in such a revival
of cold mutton as will please a palate tolerably dull. It is
pre-eminently a female virtue; and, from constant exercise
throughout the round of woman’s life, is often brought to a high
pitch of perfection. Now, strangely enough, it seems never to
have occurred to the critics that a quality which in female hands
performs wonders in the kitchen, miracles in the wardrobe, may
(also in woman’s hands) be turned to good account in literature.
Nobody seems to have reflected that management, a dexterous
dealing with cold characters as with cold mutton, may explain
the surprising number of stories which our most admired female
novelists turn out. To be sure, we have seen some such suspicion
set down in black and white in the case of Miss Braddon lately,
but there is a good deal of confusion here; and no adequate idea
of what may be done by management in novel-making seems to have
been caught. We are fortunate in the discovery of another case,
which is not only beautifully clear in itself, but one that may
be found to illustrate the whole art and mystery of the matter.
We have before us two novels. One is ‘Lady Adelaide’s Oath,’ by
the Mrs. Henry Wood, a story which is only this month concluded
in a London magazine, and which also has just been published as
a new novel. The other is the “The Castle’s Heir,” by Mrs. Henry
Wood, published in Philadelphia “from the author’s manuscript”
five years ago. ‘Lady Adelaide’s Oath’ is issued in three
well-printed volumes, for which the public is charged thirty-one
shillings and sixpence. ‘The Castle’s Heir’ is published in
two volumes at fifty cents apiece; and this “entire new and
copyright” work is illustrated into the bargain. No doubt the
volumes are stitched in a horrible paper cover; no doubt the work
itself is printed in the large-page double-column form which
has been hideously vulgarized in England by the ‘Mysteries of
London,’ ‘Ada the Betrayed,’ and scores of other publications
which have been the delight and the destruction of factory girls
for a long generation. Moreover, it must be conceded that the
illustrations are of the wretchedest kind--of precisely the
same character, in fact, as those which appear in our own penny
romances, only a little more feeble, a little more vulgar. But
consider the difference in the price! Both, be it remarked,
are by the same author; and what is more, they are the same
story! ‘Lady Adelaide’s Oath,’ the new novel just published by
Mr. Bentley, is ‘The Castle’s Heir,’ originally published in
Philadelphia five years ago. The plot is the same, the scenes are
the same, the characters are the same. There is no difference but
the difference which comes of “rewriting”--that is to say, of
padding out here, touching up there, curtailing in another place:
the padding being by far the most obvious operation.
[The Reviewer here quotes parallel passages].
However, we never intended to enter into any criticism of the
story. All we proposed to do we have done, in showing that the
wonderfully “fertile resource” and the astonishingly “facile
pen” may, in some cases at any rate be explained by a knack
of furbishing up old trash and selling it on the strength of
a reputation. About the honesty of this mode of business we
express no opinion; an admiring public may decide for themselves
whether it is fair dealing to pass off to-day as a “new novel,” a
réchauffée of rubbish written for the readers of penny romances
years ago. We simply note the fact--and utter the warning. Who
will guarantee that Mrs. Wood has not managed her publishers
and her public in this way before? Who will undertake to say
that she will not attempt the operation again? Here is a story,
‘The Castle’s Heir,’ which was unknown in England till it was
re-issued as something else and as quite new. Now we observe that
on the title-page of the American edition Mrs. Wood is set down
as the author of three other stories which also, we believe, are
unknown in England: by which we mean that they are not inscribed
under their original titles in the publisher’s list of her
productions. These are--‘Life’s Secret,’ ‘The Mystery,’ ‘Earl’s
Heirs.’ The question now arises, Have we had these books also
under other names? Is “Life’s Secret” “Elster’s Folly” perchance?
Is “The Mystery” “Oswald Cray?” We have a right to ask these
questions--a right which the authoress cannot deny. Should she,
happily, be able to answer them in the negative, we may then
perhaps venture to demand that those stories shall not be foisted
upon the public at any _future_ time as “new novels” by the
author of “East Lynne.”--_Pall Mall Gazette, Feb. 28, 1867._
We have devoted a great deal of space to this matter, as coming
under the head of “Literary Frauds” (we are aware the term is
severe). If it admitted of more abbreviation, we should have been
better pleased; after all, it is a most disagreeable task.
The lady defended herself in a long letter, which revealed some
interesting particulars, but, as the reviewer (P. M. G., March 6)
observed, left the matter much in the same state. The letter was
answered in the same paper. The answer concluded thus:--
“Therewith we dismiss the whole subject, in the enjoyment of a
tolerable confidence that Mrs. Wood may think it worth while in
future to tell the world whether any work of hers really is new
or not. If anything remains to be said it is this: that when a
woman takes to writing for the public, she must be dealt with as
a writer alone. We must always be sorry when to do justice upon a
woman’s works is to be severe, but justice must be done all the
same.”
W. U. R. _init._ [WILLIAM UPTON RICHARDS].
Familiar Instructions on Mental Prayer, by Courbon, with a Preface by
the Editor [W. U. R.]. Lond., 1852.
The Great Truths of the Christian Religion, 1862. Edited by ----.
WYSEMAN (Demetrius) Gent. _phrenonym_ [DUKE WILLIS, an Articled
Clerk. He never practised, but went to America].
The Quality Papers, edited [written] by, &c. 1827.
W. C. in N. & Q.
X.
X. Y. Z. _alphabetism_ [ ].
Spain, Tangier, &c., visited in 1840 and 1841. Lond., _S. Clarke_,
1845.
Y.
YENDYS (Sydney) _anastroph_ (of the Christian name) [SYDNEY DOBELL].
The Roman; a Dramatic Tale. Lond., 1850.
YORICK (Mr.) _pseud._ [Rev. LAURENCE STERNE].
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Lond., 1768.
Frequently reprinted.
YORKE (Oliver) _pseud._ [FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY].
Originally assumed by him to edit Fraser’s Magazine, and under which
it is still edited.
Y. S. _pseud._ [ ].
Sketches and Scraps. Lond., _Simpkin_, 1854.
Z.
Z. _pseud._ [HANNAH MORE].
The Lady and the Pye, &c., and the Plumcakes. Lond., 1800.
Cheap Repository: the Carpenter, or the Danger of Evil Company, 1800.
And numerous others before 1800.
Z. _pseud._ [Colonel G. W. PROSSER].
A Letter, &c., on the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, 1848.
Signed Z.
ZADKIEL, the Seer, _pseud._ [Lieut. RICHARD JAMES MORRISON].
The Horoscope. Edited by ----. Lond., 1834 and 1841.
ZADKIEL, Tao Sze, _pseud._ [same].
Zadkiel’s Almanack for 1851, &c.
The Handbook of Astrology; by which every question of the future on
which the mind is anxious may be answered. 1861, &c.
ZADKIEL, _pseud._ [same].
An Essay on Love and Matrimony, 1851, 24mo.
On the Great First Cause, his Existence and Attributes, 1867.
ZETA, _ps._ [ ].
Mary Dhu, ballad [begins, “Sweet is the Rosebud”], the words written
by D. Moir [_anagram_, Mori?] (Delta), set to music by Zeta. Lond.
[1856].
Zeta has written several songs.
Z. P. _pseudo-initialism_ [L. W. MANSFIELD].
Up-Country Letters, edited by Prof. B----, National Observatory. New
York, 1852.
ADDENDA.
A.
A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, _geonym_ [A. H. EVERETT].
Europe; or, a General Survey of the present situation of the
principal powers, with conjectures on their future prospects. Boston
[U. S.], 1822. London, 1822, another edition.
A CLERGYMAN, _titlonym_ [Rev. JOHN MORRISON].
Australia as it is. Lond., 1867.
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, _phras._ [Rev. LEGH RICHMOND].
The Dairyman’s Daughter; an authentic and interesting narrative.
Communicated by ----. 1822.
Two Russian Translations, 1815 and 1831. The Funeral of the,
etc., being the fifth part of her history [1820?]. It was
severely ridiculed in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1822.
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, _phraseonym_ [W. PEEBLES].
The Crisis; or, the progress of Revolutionary Principles, a Poem.
Edinb., 1803.
A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER, _demonym_ [Mrs. ELLEN CLACY].
Wonderful Works, or the Miracles of Christ. [1864].
A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER, authoress of Chapters on the Shorter
Catechism [Miss ELIZA SMITH].
The Battles of the Bibles. Edinb., 1852.
A COSMOPOLITAN, _geonym_ [JOHN DIX, afterwards ROSS].
Pen and Ink Sketches of Eminent English Literary Personages, (edited
by George Tweddell). Lond., _J. S. Pratt_, 1850.
This work forms a volume of the “New Popular Library,” and is
substantially the same as the “Pen and Ink Sketches of Poets,
Preachers, and Politicians,” though with many differences. B.M.C.
A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN, _demonym_ [J. W. CUNNINGHAM].
Morning Thoughts, in prose and verse, on single verses in the Gospel
of St. Matthew. Lond., 1825.
A COUNTRY CURATE, _demonym_ [Rev. ERSKINE NEALE].
The Living and the Dead. 1st Series, London, 1827. 2nd Series, 1829.
A. F. G., _init._ [GASTON].
Our Maid Servants; a few Friendly Hints and Counsels. Lond., _S. W.
Partridge_, 1866.
A FREEMAN, _demonym_ [LOUIS BLANC].
French Correspondence in The Spectator, 1867.
A. F. T., _init._ [ANNE FRASER TYTLER].
Mary and Florence, or Grave and Gay, 1835.
A JOURNEYMAN PRINTER, _demonym_ [SMITH].
The Working Man’s Way in the World, being the autobiography of, etc.
Lond., 1853.
A LATE RESIDENT, _phrenonym_ [ ].
Six Weeks at Long’s [Hotel, Bond Street]. 3rd edit., printed for the
author, 1817.
The following are a few of the characters mentioned: Vol.
I., 220--This gentleman [Wordsworth?]; p. 226, another Poet
[Southey]; Vol. II. 2, Lord Yardlip [Col. Berkeley]; 3, a Girl of
fifteen [Miss Foote]; Vol. II. 206, Lady Charlotta [Bury].
See Barrett, E. S., Biog. Index.
A LAYMAN [S. ROBINSON].
An Appeal to serious Dissenters concerning the practice of sitting
while singing, etc., in public worship. 1805.
A LAYMAN [W. FALCONER].
Observations on the words which the Centurion uttered at the
Crucifixion of our Lord. Oxf., 1808.
Dissertation on St. Paul’s Voyage, Oxford, 1817.
A LAYMAN [HARDINGE].
Sermons, 1813. See Martin’s Cat. Priv. Print. Books.
A LAYMAN [T. SANDEN].
A Second Letter to the Rev. Dr. Goddard. Chichester, 1815.
A LAYMAN [T. COGAN].
Letters to W. Wilberforce, 1816.
A LAYMAN [W. FALCONER].
See 1808.
A LAYMAN [W. WITHERBY].
A Review of Scripture, etc., 1818.
A LAYMAN [J. POYNDER].
Observations upon Sunday Newspapers, 1820.
A LAYMAN [J. BEVANS].
A Vindication of, etc., the first two chap. of, etc., St. Matthew,
&c. 1822.
A LAYMAN [P. HOARE].
Manual of the Latin Words, etc., of the Church Service. 1822.
A LAYMAN [J. SKINNER].
A Layman’s account of his Faith and Practice. Edinb., 1836.
A LAYMAN [W. F. HOOK].
Letters to the Authors of the Plain Tracts for Critical Times. 1839.
A LAYMAN [R. B. SEELEY].
Essays on the Church. 1840. 7th edition, 1859.
A LAYMAN [T. IRVING].
The Fountain of Living Waters. New York, 1850.
A LAYMAN [J. TAYLOR].
Armageddon; or, Thoughts on Popery, Protestantism, and Puseyism.
1851, 2nd edition, 1857.
A LAYMAN [JOHN LAVICOUNT ANDERDON].
Life of T. Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells. 1851.
A LAYMAN [J. NORTON?]
Essays and Reflections in Australia. Sydney, 1852.
A LAYMAN [J. D. CHAMBERS].
A Companion to Confession, &c. 1853.
A LAYMAN [WILLIAM RIVINGTON].
Church Extension in the Diocese of London, 1853.
The late payment of Weekly Wages considered in Reference to Sunday
Trading, 1854.
The Extent, Evils, and Needlessness of Sunday Trading, 1855.
A LAYMAN [D. ROWLAND].
An Inquiry concerning the Principles of the Constitution of Human
Nature, 1856.
A LAYMAN [J. WATTS DE PEYSTER].
A Discourse on High Church Doctrines. [Poughkeepsie, 1860?]
A LAYMAN [H. R. BUSH].
David’s Choice of Three Evils, etc., 1862.
ALCIBIADES, _pseud._ [ALFRED TENNYSON, Poet-Laureate].
See The Leisure Hour, Oct., 1867. Also under his initials.
ALIQUIS, _phrenonym_ [The Rev. RICHARD MARKS, Vicar of Great
Missenden, Bucks].
Morning Meditations, etc. By Aliquis, formerly a Lieutenant in the
Royal Navy, and now a Minister in the Established Church. [1832?]
A MINISTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, [G. E. WEBSTER].
Marriage with the Sister of a Deceased Wife unlawful in the sight of
God. Ipswich, 1846.
A MODERN PYTHAGOREAN, _titlonym_ [R. MACNISH].
The Book of Aphorisms. Glasgow, 1834.
A MUNSTER FARMER, _dem._ [O’SULLIVAN].
See Rock, Capt.
AN AMERICAN, _geonym_. See NAPOLEON I., 1818.
AN AMERICAN IN LONDON, _geonym_ [Rev. CALVIN COLTON].
The Americans. 1833.
ANDRE (W. J.) _anagram_ [W. JERDAN].
Under this anagram he wrote a little poem in commemoration of the
fiftieth year of the Reign of George III.
See Autobiography, 1852, i. 119.
AN ENGLISH CRITIC, _phrenonym_ [G. H. TOWNSEND].
Shakespeare not an Impostor. Lond., 1857.
AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD, _geonym_ [ALEXANDER TIGHE GREGORY].
A Practical Swiss Guide, 1856. Several editions.
Practical Paris Guide. 3rd edit., Lond., 1858. 4th edit., 1860.
Leipzig [printed], 1857.
The edition of 1858 is a duplicate of the 1857 edition, with a
new title-page.
A Practical Rhine Guide, 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860.
Practical Through Routes ... 1860.
Practical Guide for Italy ... 1860, 1862, and 1863.
AN ENGLISHWOMAN, _geonym_ [FRANCES WRIGHT].
Views of Society and Manners in America, 1821.
AN EX-M.P., _disg.-aut._ [O’NEIL DAUNT].
Memoir of Ireland in 1850, by ----. Lond., _Ridgway_, 1851.
ANGELINA, _prenonym_ [LEVY, afterwards GOETZ].
Music to the following Songs:--
My Dream through all the night art thou. The English version by J.
Oxenford [1854].
The River and the Star (words by Shirley Brooks) [1857].
Sir Marmaduke [1858].
The Stream of Life (written by Bryant) [1858].
AN IRISHMAN, _geonym_ [THOMAS MOORE].
Corruption and Intolerance; two Poems, with Notes addressed to an
Englishman. Lond., 1808 and 1809.
AN OFFICER WHO SERVED IN THE EXPEDITION. See The Author of the
Subaltern [G. R. GLEIG].
AN OLD SAILOR, _phren._ [M. H. BARKER].
Greenwich Hospital, a series of Naval Sketches descriptive of the
Life of a Man-of-War’s Man. By ----, with illustrations by G.
Cruikshank. 1826. 4to.
A NORTHERN MAN, _geonym_ [_Charles J. Ingersoll_].
The Diplomatic Year; being a review of Mr. Seward’s Foreign
Correspondence of 1862. By ----. Philadelphia, 1863.
A Review of Mr. Seward’s Diplomacy. [no imprint].
ANTI-HARMONICUS, _pseud._ [A. PETERKIN].
A Poetical Epistle to J * * * T * * * [JOHN TAIT] Esquire, on his
Suppression of Music and Dancing within the City of Edinburgh. Edin.,
1807. See CIVIS.
A PASTOR, _dem._ [Rev. T. F. DIBDIN].
A Word of Caution and of Comfort to the Middle and Lower Classes of
Society; being a Pastor’s Advice to his Flock in Time of Trouble.
Lond., 1831.
A. P. F. _init._ [ALEXANDER PENROSE FORBES].
The Duties of Society [subscribed A. P. F.]. 1853.
And others of a religious nature.
A PRIEST OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH, _phraseonym_ [CLEMENT OGLE SMITH].
Family Prayers for Morning and Evening. Compiled by a Priest of the
English Church. Lond., Norwich [printed] 1862.
A READER THEREIN, _demonym_ [ANDREA CRESTADORO].
The Art of Making Catalogues of Libraries; or a method to obtain
in a short time a most perfect, complete, and satisfactory printed
Catalogue of the British Museum Library. By ----. Lond., 1856.
See Athenæum, Jan. 31, 1857, p. 145.
A WATER DRINKER, _phrenonym_ [BASIL MONTAGU].
Inquiries into the Effects of Fermented Liquors. 1814.
A YANKEE, _geonym_ [RICHARD GRANT WHITE].
American Correspondence in The Spectator, 1867.
B.
BALWHIDDER (Rev. Micah) _pseudo-titlonym_ [JOHN GALT].
The Annals of the Parish during the Ministry of the Rev. M. B.,
written by himself, and arranged and edited by the author of the
Ayrshire Legatees. Edinb., 1821.
BARD (Samuel A.) _ps._ [EPHRAIM GEORGE SQUIER].
Waikna; or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore. Lond., 1854.
Republished under the title: Adventures on, &c., 1856. It is
said that this book was undertaken for a wager to be written,
produced, and sold within three weeks, and that by that time its
sale exceeded by several thousands the number required.
BERNARD (H. H.) Ph. Dr., _allonym_ [Rev. GEORGE SKINNER, of
Cambridge].
Cambridge Free Thoughts and Letters on Bibliolatry, translated from
Lessing. Lond., _Trübner_, 1862.
We have it from authority that Dr. Bernard never wrote one word
of this work. It was, in fact, published after his death. We
have also been informed that Mr. Skinner had the permission of
a relative of Dr. Bernard to use his (Dr. B.’s) name. We do not
understand what right the relative had to give the permission.
Dr. Hermann Hedwig Bernard was author of The Guide of the Hebrew
Student, Lond., 1839, and The Book of Job as Expounded to his
Cambridge Pupils, 1864.
BISHOP (Thomas) _ps._ [HAYES].
Koranzzo’s Feast; or the Unfair Marriage. A Tragedy. 1811; 4to.
This most extraordinary production (doubtless the work of a
madman) was written by one Hayes, a footman to Lord Belgrave.
150 copies were printed, of which more than 130 were burnt
at Smeeton’s fire. The 16 plates are quite as unique as the
text.--M. S. Note by George Daniel, in his own copy.
BOWER (Archibald) _plagiarist_.
History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome to the
Present Time, 1748-66. 7 vols., 4to.
Bower and Tillemont Compared; or the First Volume of the Pretended
Original and Protestant History, &c., shewn to be chiefly a
translation from a Popish one [Tillemont], with some further
particulars relating to the true character and conduct of the
translator.... By the Author of Six Letters ... illustrated [J.
Douglas] 1757.
Dr. Douglas, who exposed the Lauder forgeries, charged Bower
with a piece of shameful plagiarism, appropriating to himself
the work of De Tillemont, a French historian, without notice or
acknowledgment. In order that there might be no mistake, Dr.
Douglas printed a few chapters of De Tillemont, page by page,
with Bower, and thus triumphantly exposed the fraud. Twenty
pamphlets were written in a controversy which followed.
The reader can refer for further particulars to Mr. Lawrence’s
article (see Biog. Index), to Chalmers’ Gen. Biog. Dict. 1812.
C.
CALIBAN, _pseud._ [ROBERT BUCHANAN].
Poems in The Spectator, 1867.
CAMLAN (Goronva) _pseud._ [Rev. ROWLAND WILLIAMS, D.D.]. Lays for
the Cimbric Lyre, with various verses. Lond., _Pickering_, Camb.
(printed) 1846.
Orestes and the Avengers; and Hellenic Mystery in three acts (and in
verse). Lond., 1857.
CATO, _ps._ [GEORGE BURGESS].
Cato to Lord Byron on the Immorality of his Writings. 1st and 3rd
editions, Lond., 1824.
CAUSTIC (Christopher) LL.D., _phrenonym_ [THOMAS G. FESSENDEN].
Democracy Unveiled; or Tyranny Stripped of the Garb of Patriotism.
Boston, 1805.
CERVANTES, _pseud._ [ ].
The Death of Bonaparte; or One Pound One. A Poem, in four cantos.
Printed at York, 1812.
A desperate attempt to make a witty poem out of the circumstance
of a wager on the death of Bonaparte.--Monthly Review, lxx. 431.
D.
DUFFLE (Thomas) _pseud._ [JOHN GALT].
The Steam-Boat. Edin., 1822.
G.
GABBLE (Gridiron) _phrenonym_ [JOSEPH HASLEWOOD].
Green Room Gossip, or Gravity Gallinipt: a Gallimaufry, consisting of
Theatrical Anecdotes ... with Appendix of grave subjects. [Lond.,]
1809.
GRANT (James), novelist.
Memoirs of James Marquis of Montrose, K.G., Captain-General of
Scotland. By James Grant, author of The Romance of War, etc. With
illustrations. Lond., _Routledge_, 1858; 8vo; viii, 396.
The _Athenæum_, in showing this work to be little more than a
wretched, badly written _plagiarism_ of “Memoirs of Montrose,
by Mark Napier,” begins with these observations:--“It is time
that some inquiry were made into the ethics of cheap publishing.
As far as such a movement furnishes (without the infringement
of private rights) good literature at a moderate price to the
public, every sensible person will give it approbation and
encouragement. But is the pretence of cheapness and free use of
that favourite term ‘the million’ to justify practices which
are condemned in all trades, and in literature are peculiarly
dangerous. Is a dear book, of whatever merit, to be looked on
simply as raw material for the manufacture of cheap books?
“The plain fact is, that Mr. Grant has borrowed from his
predecessor all that he dared, and ignored his existence as much
as he could.”--Part I., 1858, p. 364.
H.
HAMPDEN (John) _allonym_ [Lord NUGENT].
True and Faithful Relation of a Worthy Discourse between Colonel
John Hampden and Colonel Oliver Cromwell. Preceded by an Explanatory
Preface.
One of those clever imitations of the political and oratorical
literature of the 17th century, which could only have been
written by one to whom its books and men were familiar, and being
put forth (of course anonymously) in the quaint old-faced letter
of its period, Lord Nugent took great delight in the success
with which he was able, by means of a copy elaborately stained
with tobacco-juice, to pass it off upon his uncle, Mr. Thomas
Grenville, no indifferent judge of such matters, as a genuine
piece of Commonwealth literature.--_Memoir_, p. lxix. See J. F.
HEINFETTER (Herman) _pseud._ [PARKER, of Tunbridge Wells].
This gentleman has been in the habit, for the last twenty years,
of putting advertisements over the leader of the _Athenæum_.
They are upon religious controversial subjects, generally being
in the form of what, in slang, would be a “poser” for our
clergy. He must have spent several hundreds of pounds in these
advertisements. No one has turned up with sufficient talent or
money to answer him after his own fashion, so Mr. Heinfetter
has it pretty nearly all his own way. He always dates from 17,
Fenchurch Street.
I.
INGOLDSBY (Thomas) Esquire, _pseud._ [Rev. RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM].
The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth and Marvels. By ----. Lond., 1840.
Several editions.
First contributed to Bentley’s Miscellany. See N. & Q. 1 S. 609.
Some Account of my Cousin Nicholas; to which is added the Rubber of
Life. 1841.
INGOLDSBY, _allonym_ [JAMES HILDYARD].
Reply to the Bishops in Convocation.... 1858.
The Ingoldsby Letters in Reply, &c., 1st, 2nd, and 3rd vols., 2nd
edit., 1860; 3rd edit., 1862-63.
Our omitting this pseudonym in the body of the work is curious,
and reminds us also of one of the greatest plagiarists of the day
having escaped our notice, until too late for insertion.
J.
J. F. _init._ [FORSTER].
Memorials of John Hampden. By Lord Nugent. 4th edit., with a Memoir
of the Writer [signed J. F.]. _Bohn_, 1860.
J. O. H. _init._ [HALLIWELL].
A Newel which may turn out to be anything but a Jewel. Suggested by
J. O. H. [Lond.], 1865.
Only ten copies privately printed.
JONES (T. Percy) _pseud._ [W. E. AYTOUN?]
Firmilian; or, the Student of Badajoz. A Spasmodic Tragedy (in
fifteen scenes and in verse). Edin., 1854.
J. Y. A. _init._ [AKERMAN].
Tales of Other Days, with Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Lond.,
1830.
K.
KIRBY (C.) publisher.
In 1803 Hogg, the publisher, filed a Bill to restrain Kirby from
pirating one of his works. It appears that Hogg was proprietor
of a work published in monthly numbers, commencing in August,
1802, under the title of “The Wonderful Magazine,” by William
Granger, Esq., that name being (according to the Bill), as is
usual in works of that description, inserted in the title-page,
merely as the nominal author; and, under an arrangement for
that purpose, the name of the defendant, Kirby, was used as
the publisher, and the numbers were sold at his shop upon
commission, but the publication was under the management and
at the expense of the plaintiff. The undertaking proceeded in
this manner until the publication of the fifth number, when a
dispute arose in consequence of an alteration in the title. Kirby
refused to permit his name to appear to the work any longer.
In December a final settlement of accounts took place, and the
plaintiff circulated hand-bills, dated 20th Dec., stating that
the succeeding numbers would be published by him, and the 6th
No. would be published by him on Friday next, and that number
was accordingly published by him on the 31st of December. On
the 1st January, 1803, the 1st No. of a periodical work was
published by the defendants Kirby and Scott, under a similar
title, described as a “New Series Improved.” One of the arguments
used by the defendants was that the plaintiff was not entitled
to protection, as he, on his title-page, practised an imposition
on the public by using the name of Granger, who did not exist.
On the other hand, it was contended that the assumption of a
fictitious name could not be considered a fraud upon the public,
because it had to be done by “the most respectable authors.” But
Lord Eldon said he had considerable difficulty as to the false
colours under which the original publication appeared. Though it
was very usual, he could not represent it to his mind otherwise
than as something excessively like a fraud on the public. Kirby’s
publication was restrained as a _piracy_ and a breach of faith.
Vesey’s Reports, viii. 222, 43 G. III.
See GRANGER (W., Esq.)
O.
“OLD UN” _phrenonym_ [FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE].
Stray Subjects Arrested and Bound over, being the fugitive Offspring
of the “Old Un” and the “Young Un” [G. P. BURNHAM], that have
been “lying round loose,” and are now “tied up” for fast keeping.
Philadelphia, 1848.
Q.
QUID, _pseud._ [ROBERT ALLAN FITZGERALD].
Jerks from Short-Leg. By Quid. Illustrated by W. H. Du Bellew. Lond.,
1866. 4to.
R.
REDNAXELA, _ps._ [Hon. Mrs. CROPPER].
The Hermit of the Pyrenees, and other Miscellaneous Poems. Lond.,
1858.
T.
THE AUTHOR OF A BON CHAT, BON RAT, TIT FOR TAT [C. DAGOBERT, _pseud._
q.v.].
Hints on the Right Way of Learning, Pronouncing, Speaking,
Translating, and Writing French. Lond., 1855.
THE AUTHOR OF MR. SPONGE’S SPORTING TOUR [R. S. SURTEES].
Handley Cross; or Mr. Jorrocks’s Jaunt. 1854.
THE AUTHOR OF PAUL MASSIE [JUSTIN M‘CARTHY]. The Waterdale
Neighbours. Lond., 1867.
THE AUTHOR OF SEVEN YEARS ON THE SLAVE COAST OF AFRICA [Sir H. V.
HUNTLEY].
California, its Gold and its Inhabitants. Lond., Woking (printed).
1856.
THE AUTHOR OF SLIGHT REMINISCENCES [Mrs. BODDINGTON]. The Gossip’s
Week, with woodcuts. Lond., _Longmans_, 1836.
Dedicated to Samuel Boddington, Esq.
THE AUTHOR OF THE GAOL CHAPLAIN [Rev. ERSKINE NEALE].
Scenes where the Tempter has Triumphed. Lond., 1849.
THE OLDEST SCHOOL INSPECTOR [J. BENTLEY].
The Best Uninspired Book for Teaching Children how to become “Well
Off” in this World, and Happy in the Next, prepared during the Years
1830 to 1864. By ----. Lond. [1864]. 16mo.
T. S. H., of Highbury, _init._ [THULIA SUSANNAH HENDERSON].
The Head and Heart enlisted against Popery. 1852.
ASTERISMS.
* [HENRY WARD BEECHER].
In _The Independent_, American newspaper.
☉. See THETA. 1863.
☉, _enigmatic-pseudonym_ [ ].
The Book of God. The Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes. By ☉. Lond., _Reeves
and Turner_ [1866].
The Book of God. An Introduction to the Apocalypse. By ☉. Lond.,
_Trübner and Co._ [1867].
Some explanation of ☉ will be found at p. 478. This gentleman
desires for the present to keep his secret. He must not be
confounded with the above.
* * * [ ].
Life: a Romance. By * * *. Lond., _Newby_. (Woking, printed) 1844. 3
vols.
* * * [ ].
On a “Sketching Club or Society,” Notes and Queries, 3 S. iv. 296,
1863.
* * * (l’Abbé) titlonym [DELÉON].
Under the Ban, 1865. Translated from the French _Le Maudit_. 1864.
See Quérard, Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées, 2nd edit.,
1865:-- A * * * (l’Abbé) L’Homme ou drap mortuaire, ou la Parole
d’un Maudit. Paris, 1864. A pamphlet written against the above
novel.
La Religieuse: The Nun (a novel), translated from the French of ----,
1864.
Le Curé de Campagne. Paris, 1867.
There is also The Nun by Mrs. Sherwood, and numerous works have
been published with a like title.
* * * [ ].
A Few Thoughts on Woman’s Rights. L. BOOTH [1866].
* * * * (Lord) _titlonym_ [ ].
See BURKE (Edmund). 1756.
* * * * [never discovered].
See Psalmanazar (G). 1764.
* * * * * * [DEMONT?]
The Journal! translated from the original of *, &c. With an Appendix
containing the letters of Madame De Mont. Lond., _T. A. Turner_,
1820; 8vo; 43; 2s.
This relates to Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV.
* * * * * * (Lady) [ ].
Copy of a Letter to ----. London, _Hatchard_, 1863, 8vo, 12 pp.
Signed R. J. M. On some of the Doctrines of the Church of Rome.
* * * * * * * * * (Esq.) [ ].
The Life of *, &c., with the circumstances of his Conversion at
Providence Chapel, in London, &c. Bath, 1801.
2nd edition, Bath, printed for Meyler & Co., London, _Priestley,
&c._, 1801.
“It appears to us that under the _similitude_ ... of memoirs of
a Methodistical chimney-sweeper, a severe attack is here made on
the principles of certain sectarians, the _predestinarian_ tribe,
which are here painted in the most horrible colours!--and this
is done under such guise that some credulous readers may imagine
the pamphlet to have really been written by a person of the
description announced in the title-page. Other ideas, however,
may be excited by perusing the _Remark_ printed at the end of
this _apocryphal_ performance.”--_Monthly Review_ xxxv. 215.
* * * * * * * * * * [JOHN MURRAY].
Letter to *, &c., on the Rev. W. L. Bowles’s Strictures on the Life
and Writings of Pope. By the Right Hon. Lord Byron. London, 1821.
Paris edition, _Galignani_, 1821.
* * * * * * * * * * [ ].
Letters of Advice [on a wife, a husband, the marriage ceremony,
acquaintances, &c.] from a Lady of Distinction to her Niece, the
Duchess of *, &c., shortly after her Marriage. London, _Colburn_,
1819.
“The following letters were written by the Countess * * * * * *
* to her niece, the late Duchess of * * * * * * * * * *, shortly
after her marriage, which took place in the year 1774. The
internal evidence of their genuineness is so strong, and must
be so satisfactory to the minds of all who peruse them with the
attention they deserve, that the Editor is content,” etc.
Which, we suppose, means that these pretended letters are an
imposture, in as much as they pretended to come from a person of
rank, while in reality they are the work of some literary hack.
It would by no means be the first that issued under Colburn’s
auspices.
* * * * * * * * * * (The Rev.) [JAMES PYCROFT, Oxford, M.A.].
The Collegian’s Guide; or Recollections of College Days, setting
forth the Advantages and Temptations of a University Education. 1845.
INDEX OF AUTONYMS.
It will perhaps be useful to some of our readers who may desire
further information with regard to the authors herein mentioned,
that such may be found in Watts’ Bibliotheca Britannica, which
contains an entry of almost every book published up to about
1820: after this, Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual, by Bohn,
should be searched, and for religious pub. Darling’s Cyclo. will
be found useful; The English Catalogue, 1864; Stevens’ Cat. of
American Books; and Roorback and Trübner’s American Bib. Guides.
Allibone’s Dict. of Eng. Lit. to 1859 will generally inform the
reader whether an author is in any of these. We frequently refer
to Men of the Time when an author is given in that work: our
reference by no means implies that our remarks are taken from
that useful publication. The number of names occurring in this
work, not in any of the above, is remarkable. Several of our
biographies are from original sources. We must acknowledge the
very great assistance we have received from the Rev. C. Hole’s
Brief Biographical Dictionary.
A.
ABBOTT, Rev. Jacob, b. 1803, America. _The Author of the Rollo
Books._
ADAMS, A. M. _An Antiquary_, 1829.
ADAMS, C. _Templeton, T._
AGNEW, E. C. _E. C. A._
AITKEN, Miss L. _The Editor of Tabart, &c._
AKERMAN, J. Y. _J. Y. A._--_Pindar, Paul._
ALDERSON, Sir E. H. Life, by his Son, 1858. _A Layman_, 9.
ALDRED, Rev. E. _Eben-ezer._
ALLIBONE, S. Austin. He has been working on his Critical
Dictionary of Eng. Lit. for about fifteen years. The first
volume, pp. 1005, was published in 1859. The other is anxiously
expected, but has not yet (Jany.) appeared. _A Layman_, 1859.
ANDERDON, J. L. _A Layman_, 1851. _J. L. A._
ANSTEY, J. Life and Works, by his Son, 1808. _Surrebutter, J._
APPERLEY, C. J. _Nimrod._
APPLEYARD, E. S. _E. S. A._
ARMITAGE, Rev. R., b. 1796; educated at Oxford, B.A., 1829, M.A.,
1836; rector of Easthope, Salop, 1843, where he died, 1852. A
Sermon, 1834. Education of the People [Manchester], 1849. The
Religious Life of Dr. Johnson. The Primitive Church in its
Episcopacy. _The Author of Dr. Hookwell._
ARNOLD, Rev. F., Author and Journalist, B.A. of Christ Church,
Oxford, one of the Editors of the Literary Gazette. The Public
Life of Lord Macaulay, 1862. The Path on Earth to the Gate of
Heaven, 1866. _F. A._
ARNOLD, M., eldest son of the Rev. T. A., Head Master of Rugby,
b. 1822. See _M. of T._, 1868. _A._
ASHURST, W. H., Solicitor. He also wrote: Obs. on Bky. and
Insolvency, 1838, and probably other things; but, like hundreds
of others, not a scrap of biog. inf. has been left behind, d.
1855. _Search, J._
ASSOLLANT, Jean-Baptiste-Alfred, b. 1827, France, journalist and
author. Vapereau, Dict. _Cumbermere, Lord._
AYRTON, W. _A friend of the Family._
AYTOUN, William Edmondstoune, 1813-1865. Memoir by T. Martin,
1867. _Dunshunner, A._--_Gaultier, Bon._
B.
BADCOCK, J. _Bee, Jon._
BADHAM, Rev. C. (q.v.).
BAILEY, B. See _W. R._
BAIRD, H., of Devonshire. _Hogg, N._
BALDWIN, J. L., Editor of the Glowworm newspaper. _A Glowworm._
BALLANTINE, James. _Miller, Joe._
BANIM, John, Irish novelist, born 1800-1842. Life by P. J.
Murray, 1857. _A Traveller._--_The Author of the O’Hara
Tales._--_The O’Hara Family._
BANIM, Michael. See _John_.
BANKS, P. W. _Rattler, Morgan._
BARCLAY, J. T., p. 22.
BARHAM, F. Δ, p. 40.
BARHAM, Rev. R. H., b. 1788-1845. _Ingoldsby, I._--_Peppercorn,
H._
BARKER, M. H. Writer of Sea Stories. He used to write or rewrite
all the naval part of Lord William Lennox’s novels. For list of
works see the English Cat., 1864. _An Old Sailor._--_The Old
Sailor._
BARNARD, Mrs. J. _Claribel._
BARRETT, E. S. A man of great promise and talent, and author
of numerous works, chiefly anon. or pseudm., a complete list
of which we have attempted, as none is to be found elsewhere.
His works seem to be in comparative obscurity, doubtless in
consequence of the early death of the author. Books are like
children: they require fostering and bringing up with the
greatest care: to give them birth is not alone sufficient.
Fortunate, therefore, is a departed author whose works obtain
intelligent editing. He was of Irish birth, though educated in
England, and a student of the Middle Temple, but his time was
eventually devoted to literature, for at the age of twenty-one he
published two satirical poems--see _Polypus_ and _Hogg_ (_C._);
but even while at school he wrote a play, with prologue and
epilogue, which was performed before the master and his family
with so much success that the master prohibited any future
dramatic performances, fearing that he might incur blame for
encouraging too much taste for the theatre. (N. & Q. 1 S. viii.)
The Comet, a mock newspaper, 1808 [anon?]; The Tarantula, or
Dance of Fools, a Squib, 1809 [anon?] is also attributed to him;
Woman, a poem, 1810, published, as he says in his preface to the
2nd edit., 1818, “not at the ‘request of friends,’ but contrary
to their opinion, ... it met with no success”; The Heroine, or
Adventures of [a fair romance-reader, 1st edit.] Cherubina,
(motto) “L’Histoire d’une Femme est toujours un Roman,” 1813. 2nd
edit., 1814. It is in letters, and the Biog. Dict., 1816, says,
has been pronounced not inferior in wit and humour to “Tristram
Shandy.” “The absurdities of a school of fiction, at that time
in high favour, are happily ridiculed; and a novel which had
great success in its day, and is still to be found in some of the
circulating libraries, called _Six Weeks at Long’s_” (N. & Q. 1
S. viii. 423). “My wife! what a wife?” a comedy ... performed at
the Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1815. See _The Author of all the
Talents_. In private, his worth and attractive manners are said
to have gained him the esteem of his friends. He died, 1820, in
Glamorganshire, of a rapid decline, occasioned by the bursting of
a blood vessel, when in about the thirty-sixth year of his age.
_Hogg, C._--_Polypus._--_The Author of All the Talents._
BARTER, W. G. T. _Cour, T. E._
BATHURST, C. _C. B._
BAYLEY, Sir J., Bart., 1763-1841. _A Layman_, p. 9.--_A Member
of, &c._, p. 12.
BAYLEY, P., author of Orestes in Argos, a tragedy in five acts
[and in verse]. Lond., 1825. _Castel Chiuso._
BEALE, Willert (not William). _Maynard._
BEAUMONT, G. D. Barber. _Barber, G._
BECK, Thomas, a Dissenting Minister in Lond. Died in the early
part of this century (?). Poetic Amusements, consisting of a
sample of sonnets ... London, 1809. The Age of Frivolity, a poem,
3rd edit., 1809. An Elegy on the lamented Death of H. R. H. the
Princess Charlotte [London], 1817. _Touch’em._
BECKFORD, W., b. 1760, England -1840, son of the well-known Lord
Mayor of London, who left him a fortune of upwards of £100,000
per annum. William was a most eccentric character. See any Biog.
Dict. _The Author of Vathek._
BEECHER, Rev. H. W., * p. 189.
BELFAST, Earl. _B----._ and B * * * * * * *, Lord.
BELL, Catherine D. _Kate, Cousin._
BELL, Major. _Indicus._
BENTHAM, Jeremy. _Smith, G._
BENTLEY, J. _The Oldest School Inspector._
BESSEY, G. W. _Walford, F._
BEVANS, J. _A Layman_, 1822.
BICKERSTETH, Miss C. _The Author of Doing and Suffering._
BIRD, Dr. Robert Montgomery, b. 1803, America; educated in
Philadelphia, where he became a physician. Began his successful
literary career in 1828. See Duyckinck, Cyclo. _The Author of
Calavar._--_The Author of Spartacus._
BIRD, Sarah. _A Mother._
BLACK ( ). _B._, 1867.
BLACK, Adam. _Scribe, S._
BLAGDON, F. W. _Aristides._
BLAKESLEY, J. W. _A Hertfordshire Incumbent._
BLAKEY, R., author of several works on angling. _Hackle, P._
BLANC, Jean-Joseph-Louis, b. 1813, Spain. M. of T. _A Freeman._
BODDINGTON, Mrs. _The Author of Slight Reminiscences_ (of the
Rhine, Switzerland, and a Corner of Italy).
BONIFACE, X. _The Author of Picciola._
BOOSEY, T., bookseller. _An Old Angler, &c._, p. 16.
BOOTH, M. _Touchstone._
BOWER, Archibald (q.v.), 1686-1766.
BOYCE, J. C. _J. C. B._
BOYD, Archibald. _The Author of The Duchess._
BOYD, Rev. A. K. H., a Clergyman of the Church of Scotland, b.
1825, Scotland. M. of T., 1868. _A Country Parson._--_A. K. H. B._
BOYLE, Hon. Mrs. _E. V. B._
BRADBURY, S. H., Poet and Journalist. _Quallon._
BRADDON, Miss M. E. The most popular authoress of the day of
sensation novels. The daughter of a solicitor. She was born,
according to _M. of T._, in 1837. We have only been able to
give two of her pseudonyms. Whether through her own or her
publisher’s fault, we cannot tell, but somehow or other Miss
Braddon has frequently been in literary “hot water.” It seems to
be the privilege of a certain class of novelists. _Lascelles,
Lady._--_The Author of Lady Audley’s Secret._
BRADLEY, Rev. E., b. 1827, son of Thomas B., of Kidderminster.
He is a somewhat prolific writer, and contributor to the
periodicals. _M. of T._, 1868. _Bede, Cuthbert._--_The Author of
Verdant Green._
BRAE, A. E., of Leeds. _A Detective._--_The Author of Literary
Cookery._
BRAY, Mrs. Anna Eliza, daughter of John Kempe, Esq., of Cornish
extraction. Some of her novels were published under the name
of her first husband, Alfred Stothard, who died in 1821. A
collected edition of her works, with a portrait and a general
preface giving a minute description of the composition of
each publication, was published in 10 vols., 1845-6. Mr. Bray
was a clergyman at Tavistock. See _M. of T._, 1868. Her first
publication was Letters written during a Tour through Normandy,
&c., in 1818, by Mrs. Chas. Stothard. Lond., 1820. 4to.--See
Stothard, Mrs., p. 122. _The Author of De Foix._
(About half-a-dozen copies of this work have De Foin instead of
De Foix. It was then corrected.)
BRIGGS, C. F. _Franco, H._
BRIGHTWELL, T. _T. B._
BRINDLEY, C. _Hieover, H._
BRISTED, C. Astor, b. 1820, New York, of Yale College. He came to
England, and passed five years at Cambridge. B.A., Trinity, 1845,
and published his experience at college under the title of “Five
Years in an English University.” Duyckinck, Cyclo. _Benson, Carl._
BRONTË, Anne., b. about 1820-1849. Biog. Notice by her sister
Charlotte. _Bell, Acton._
BRONTË, Charlotte, afterwards NICHOLLS. b. 1816-1855. Life, by
Mrs. Gaskell, 1857. _Bell, Currer._
BRONTË, Emily, b. about 1818-1843. Biog. Notice in Wuthering
Heights. _Bell, Ellis._
BROOKS, Vincent. _V. B._
BROUGHAM AND VAUX, Lord. 1779, Edinburgh. M. of T., 1868.
_Tomkins, J._
BROUGHTON, Lord. _An Englishman_, 1816.
BROWN, W. L. _A Fisher, &c._, 5.
BROWNE, C. T., b. 1825, England; educated Trinity College,
Dublin. _De Comyne._
BROWNE, C. F. Obituary Notice in The Bookseller for March, 1867.
_Ward, Artemus._
BROWNE, Hablot Knight. Caricaturist of celebrity, b. about 1815.
M. of T. _Phiz._
BROWNE, Lady Hester. _Blue-Bell._
BRUNTON, Mrs. Mary, b. 1778. In a memoir prefixed to her last
novel, “Emmeline,” published posthumously in 1819, we learn that
she was the only daughter of Colonel Thomas Balfour, of Ewick.
She was born in the Island of Burra, both in Orkney. The story
of her short life, written by her husband, is one of domestic
duties combined with the authorship of her novels: She died in
childbirth, Dec. 19, 1818. _The Author of Self-Control._
BRYANT, W. C. _Several American authors._
BRYANT, W. C. (q.v.)
BRYDGES, Sir E. b. 1762-1837. Autobiography, Lond., 1834. _S. E.
B._
BUCHANAN, Robert Williams, poet, b. 1841, Scotland. First work,
“Undertones,” published in 1863. _Caliban._
BUDGEN, Miss L. M. _Acheta._
BULL, Mrs. E. O. A. _E. O. A. B._
BUNBURY, Lieut.-Col. H. C. _B * * * *._
BUNN, Alfred. Author of several works, chiefly theatrical. _The
Author of Conrad._
BUNNETT, F. Eliz. _The Author of The Lamp of Life._
BURGESS, G. _Cato._
BURKE, Rt. Hon. E. (q.v.) 1728-1797. _A Late Noble, &c._, p. 9.
BURNEY (afterwards Madame D’ARBLAY). _The Author of Evelina._
BURNHAM, G. P. See Old Un. p. 187.
BURNS, Robert. (q.v.) b. 1759-1796.
BURY, Lady. Amongst numerous works, chiefly anonymous, she
published Poems, &c., by a Lady. Edin., 1797. _The Authoress of
Flirtation--The Disinherited._
BUSH, H. R. _A Layman_, 1862.
BUTT, G., Solicitor. _One who is but an Attorney_, p. 94.
BYERLEY, J. S. _Ripon._
BYERLEY, T. _Collett._ See Percy, S.
BYRNE, Oliver, Mathematician. _Revilo, E. B._
BYRNE, Mrs. W. P. _The Writer of A Glance behind the Grilles._
BYRON, Lord, b. 1788-1824. _Hornem, H._
C.
CALEY, J.? C.? _An Ill-used Candidate._
CALVERLEY, C. S. _C. S. C._
CALVERT, G. H., great-grandson of Lord Baltimore, b. 1803, in
Maryland. See Allibone Dict. _An American_, 1847.
CANNING, George. 1770-1827. See Allibone Dict. _B._--_Griffin, G._
CARLYLE, Thomas, b. 1795, Scotland. M. of T. _Teufelsdroeckh._
CARLYON, of the Portland Club. _Cœlebs._
CARR, Rev. W. _A native of Craven._
CARRUTHERS, W. A., of Virginia.--_A Virginian._--_The Author of
the Kentuckian._
CARTWRIGHT, Rev. N. _Clericus._
CASS, General Lewis, American barrister, soldier, and statesman,
b. 1782. See Allibone Dict. and Duyckinck Cyclo. _An American._
CHALLICE, Mrs. A. E. _The Author of Heroes, &c._
CHAMBERS, J. D. _A Layman_, 1853.
CHAMBERS, W. _W. C._
CHAMBERS, W. and R. C., the publishers and authors, the former b.
1800, the latter 1802, Scotland. M. of T. _W. and R. C._
CHANTER, Charlotte. See next.
CHANTER, J. M. _J. M. and C. C._
CHATTERTON, Thomas (q.v.).
CHATTO, W. A. _Fisher, P._--_W. A. C._--_Fume, J._--_Oliver, S._
CHICHESTER, F. R. See Belfast, Earl.
CLACY, Mrs. Ellen. _A Clergyman’s daughter._--_Cycla._
CLARK, Charles, of Great Totham Hall, Essex, farmer, and lover of
belles lettres. _C.C._--_Queerfellow._
CLARKE, Charles, (d. about 1837?) _The Author of The
Cigar._--_The Author of Three Courses, &c._
CLAY, J., M.P. _J. C._
CLINTON, De Witt, a distinguished American statesman, 1769-1828.
_Hibernicus._
CLIVE, Mrs. A. _The Author of Paul Ferroll._
CLOSE, J. _Dowell, S._
COAD, J(oseph?). _Greendrake, G._
COBBETT, William. _Porcupine, P._
COBDEN, Richard, b. 1804, Sussex, England, d. 1865. _A Manchester
Manufacturer._
COFFIN, R. B., American. _Gray, B._
COGAN, T. _A Layman_, 1816.
COLCHESTER, Lady. See Law.
COLE, Henry, C.B., b. 1808, Bath, England. For Biog. Notice see
Men of the Time. Mr. Cole’s “latest improvement” is that of an
Universal Art Catalogue, the commencement of the printing of
which brought down a great amount of ridicule. It is now to be
published in Notes and Queries. _Summerly, F._
COLE, Mrs. Henry, wife of above. _Summerly, Mrs. F._
COLERIDGE, H. N., nephew of Samuel Taylor C., born 1843. _Haller,
J._
COLERIDGE, Sir John Taylor. “The name of Coleridge never occurs
without associations of intellectual eminence, whether as poet,
philosopher, biographer, scholar, ecclesiastic, or jurist,” b.
1790, England, educated at Eton and Oxford, Justice of the King’s
Bench, and Knighted 1835. See Foss’ Judges of Eng. for Biog. _A
Barrister_, 1831.
COLES, C. B. _A, Major._
COLES, John. _Civis._
COLLIER, J. P., b. 1789, London, Philologist, Bibliograph, and
Commentator on Shakespeare. See M. of T., 1868. _Amicus Curiæ._
COLMAN, G. the Younger, 1762-1836, one of the most prolific
writers of plays, farces, &c. _Griffinhoof, A._
COLTON, Rev. Charles Caleb, was the son of the Rev. Burfoot
Colton, canon residentiary of Salisbury, Born about 1780, and
educated at Eton and Christ Church College, Cambridge, where he
took his B.A. and M.A., and in due course obtained a fellowship.
He was presented by his College to the Curacy of Tiverton; in
1818 he succeeded to the united livings of Kew and Petersham.
Colton first attracted notice by a pamphlet on the “Sampford
Ghost,” 1810 (for other works see Watt. Bib. Brit.) See _The
Author of Hypocrisy_, 1819. The “Lacon” was first published in
1820-22, and has been frequently republished; it is from the
edition of William Tegg, 1866, that we obtain these particulars
of Colton’s life:--He was a man of ready susceptibility,
but of very infirm principles, eccentric in manner, extravagant
in his habits, and irremediably addicted to gambling and its
attendant vices. Having contracted debts to a large amount
chiefly for diamonds, jewellery, and wines, a fiat of Bankruptcy
was issued against him. Bewildered by the number and gravity
of his pecuniary obligations, Colton secretly embarked for the
United States. This happening about the time of the murder of
Weare, it was at first strongly suspected that he too had fallen
by the hand of an assassin; but the secret of his whereabouts
soon oozed out, and in 1822 a successor was appointed to his
living. Returning to Europe, after a sojourn of some years in
America [where surely he must have published something?] he
took up his abode in Paris, where he was so successful in his
gambling speculations, that in the course of a year or two he
acquired a considerable fortune (it is said £25,000), but it was
soon dissipated. After a life checquered by nearly every phase
of good and adverse fortune, preferring suicide to the endurance
of a painful surgical operation, he blew his brains out at
Fontainebleau, in April, 1832; and this was the act of the man
who, in his ‘Lacon’ utters this aphorism:--“The gamester, if he
die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his
soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide renounces
earth to forfeit heaven.”
COLTON, Rev. Calvin, b. 1789, America -1857. He visited England
in 1801, where he remained for four years as a Correspondent of
the New York Observer. See Allibone. _An American in London._
CONDER, E. R. _E. R. C._
COOMBE, Dr. W., b. 1741-1823. _Syntax, Dr._
COOPER, J. F., novelist, 1789-1851, for interesting biog. and
list of works see Allibone. _An American_, 1836.--_A Travelling
Bachelor._--_The author of Homeward Bound._--_The author of the
Pioneers._--_The Author of the Spy._
COOPER, Mrs. Maria Susanna, mother of Sir Astley Cooper. _The
late author of the Exemplary Mother._
COOPER, Miss Susan F. _A Lady_, 1854.
COOPER, Dr. (Thomas?) _A Native of the South._
COULTON, Miss. _The Author of Our Farm, &c._
COWARD, W. C. _W. C. C._
COWLEY, W. _W. C._
COWTAN, R. _Stanley, R. F._
COX, W. _An Amateur._
COXE, Rev. A. C. _A._--_C._--_A. C. C._
COZZENS, F. S. _Sparrowgrass._
CRAIG, Isa (afterwards KNOX) b. Edinburgh, 1831. At an early age
contributed to periodical literature. Those to _The Scotsman_,
under her Christian name, first attracted attention. In 1859 she
won the first prize for her Ode, recited at the Burns Centenary
Festival.--M. of T. _Isa._
CRAIK, Mrs. G. L. See Mulock, Miss.
CRANE, J. _Jacia._
CRANE, J. _A Bird, etc._, 2.
CERSTADORO, Andrea, Librarian of the Free Libraries, Manchester.
_A Reader Therein._
CROKER, Rt. Hon. J. W., D.C.L., b. 1780, Ireland, d. 1857. M. of
T., 1857. _C._--_T----, J._--_Waverley_, E. B.
CROLY, Mrs. _June, J._
CROPPER, Hon. Mrs. _Rednaxela._
CUMMING, Rev. J., D.D., F.R.S.E., minister of the Scotch Church,
Crown Court, Covent Garden, b. 1810, Scotland. M. of T. _The
Times’ Bee-Master._
CUMMINS, Miss M. S. _The Author of the Lamplighter._
CUNNINGHAM, Rev. John William, b. about 1780, England, educated
at Cambridge, Vicar of Harrow, 1811, d. 1861. * A World without
Souls, 1805. * Sancho, or the Proverbialist, 3 edit., 1817. _A
Country Clergyman._
D.
DALLINGER, J. _An Englishman_, 1821.
DANIEL, George, dramatic author and bibliophile. _D----G._ _P----
P----._
D’ARBLAY, Madame. _The Author of Evelina._
DARBY. _J. N. D._
DARLEY, G. _G. D._
DAVIES, H. _H. D._
DAVIN, N. F. F., of the Middle Temple. _F._--_Templeton, T._
DAVIS, Marcus. _M. D._
DAVIS, Rev. N. _E. H. C. M._
DAVY, Sir Humphrey. _An Angler._
DEACON, W. F. _The Editor of a Quarterly._
DE BOW, J. D. B., b. 1820, America, a prolific author. _J. D._
DEFOE, Daniel. _Crusoe, Robinson._
DE KAY, J. E. _An American._
DE LARRA, M. J. _Figaro._
DE LA MOTTE, Col. _An Antiquary_, 1803.
DELÉON, Abbé. * * *, p. 189.
DELF, Thomas. _Martel, Charles._
DELUIS, Dr. N. _D._, _Dr._, 1854.
DEMONT ( ) * * * * * *, p. 190.
DENNIE, Joseph. _Oldschool._
DE NOÉ, Amadée, b. 1819, Paris. See Vapereau, _Dict.
Contemp._--_Cham._
DE PEYSTER, J. Watts. _A Layman_, 1860.
DE PONTAUMONT, M. E. L. (q.v.).
DE POWYS, T. _The Author of Uriel._
DE QUINCY, T., 1785-1859. See Allibone and Lowndes by Bohn, p.
2026, for biog. and works. _An English Opium Eater._
DERBY, Capt. G. H. _Phœnix, J._
DE SAINT-MARS, Vicomtesse. _Dash._
DIBDIN, Rev. T. F., b. 1775, England -1847. Celebrated for
writing in _bibliomania_ and writing it out again. Reminiscences
pub. 1836. _A Pastor._--_Rusticus_ (this should of course be
under Mercurius Rusticus.)
DICKENS, Charles, the greatest and most popular writer of
fiction, b. 1812, England. M. of T., 1868. _Boz_, and see p. 19,
_A. T._
Dicker, Thomas. _The Catholic Bishop_, &c.
DICKSON, Miss. _Dolores._
DICKSON, S. _A Physician_, 1860.
DILL, J. R. _D----, J. R._
DISRAELI, Rt. Hon. B., son of the following, b. 1805, London, _M.
of T._, 1868. Δ p. 40.--_Runnymede._
D’ISRAELI, Isaac, b. 1766, London, 1848. _Tag Rag._--_The Author
of the Curiosities of Literature._
DISTURNELL. _J. D._
DIX, J. _J. D._
DIXON. W. H., b. 1821, England, called to the Bar I.T. 1854,
but has never practised, being engaged since youth in literary
pursuits. He has been editor since 1852 of the only and most
independent literary journal in England. _The Editor of the
Athenæum._
DOBELL, Sydney, b. 1224, England. M. of T., 1868. _Yendys, S._
DODGE, Miss M. A. _Hamilton, G._
DOMVILLE, Sir W. _A Layman_, 1849.
DORIS, Charles, of Bourges, France, a most determined writer of
libellous pamphlets, etc., against Napoleon the 1st, always under
the veil of anon. or pseud. For numerous works see Quérard La
France Lit. _One who, etc._ p. 93.
DOUBLEDAY, T. _A North Country Angler._
DOWLING, Frank L., b. (?)-1867, appears never to have published
except under his pseudonym. _The Editor of Bell’s Life._
DOYLE, James. _J. K. L._
DOYLE, John, father of Richard Doyle, the caricaturist, d. 1868.
_H. B._
DREW, Mona (Mrs. Bickersteth). _M. B._
DREW, Rev. P. W., of Ireland. _P. W._
DRINKWATER, Anna. _May, Edith._
DUDEVANT, Madame. _Sand, G._
DUDEVANT, Maurice. _Sand, M._
DUGANNE, A. J. _Manners, M._
DUGRAIL, de la Villette, Ch. B. _De Bernard._
DUKE, S. R. _A Southerner._
DUMAS, A. D., the elder (q.v.) b. 1803, France, one of the most
popular novelists of the day. See _Vapereau, Dict. des Contemps_.
DUNBAR, G. _G. D._
DURIVAGE, F. A. _Old Un._
E.
EAGLES, Rev. John. _Penrose, L._--_TheManinthemoon._
EDEN, Hon. Eleanor. _L. E._
EDEN, Hon. Emily. _The Author of the Semi-detached House._
EDWARDS, Mrs. _L. E._--_The Author of the Morals of May Fair._
EGAN, P., the Younger. We do not find any biography of any writer
of this name. Mr. Egan, the son of the above, is a prolific
writer of romances, etc., chiefly, for some time past, in the
London Journal. _An Amateur._
ELLINGSALE, T. See _Greendrake, G._
ELLIS, R. S. _Anglicanus._
ELLIS, W. _The Author of Outlines of Social, etc._
EVANS, (?) _The Author._
EVANS, Miss Marian. _Eliot, George._
Correct “Romata” to “Romola.”
EVANS, Morgan. _De Pembroke._
EVANS, Samuel. _Bede, Seth._
EVERETT, A. H., barrister, politician, and author, b. America,
studied law in the office of John Quincy Adams. _A Citizen of the
United States._
EVERTS, Jeremiah. _Penn W._
F.
FAIRHOLT, F. W. _A Literary Antiquary._
FALCONER, W. _A Layman_, 1808.
FANE, Hon. J. C. H. _Temple, N._
FARRER, Miss H. S. _The Author of Tales of Kirkbeck._
FEIST, C. _An East Anglican._
FELLOWES, Robert. _Philalethes, M.A., Oxon._
FENN, Lady. _Lovechild, S._
FESSENDEN, T. G. _Caustic, C._
FIELD, Barron. _A Barrister_, 1815.
FISHER, J. See J. C. G.
FITZGERALD, R. A. _Quid._
FITZGIBBON, E., author and writer on the Art of Angling.
_Ephemera._
FORBES, A. P. _A. P. F._
FORRESTER, A. H., the celebrated caricaturist, b. 1805, London.
He left an old established business, as notary in the Royal
Exchange, for literature and the arts. _Crowquill._
FORSTER. See _J. F._, suppl.
FOSS, E., son of a solicitor, b. 1787, England. He is author of
several legal, biographical, and historical works, all bearing
the highest character. He is a constant letterist in Notes and
Queries. _Gifford, J._
FOSTER, T. _Summerfield, C._
FOX, E. _Erith._
FRANKE, H. F. _Rausse, J. H._
FRASER, Sir W. A. _Morar._
FRAZAER, Mary. _Hayden, S. M._
FRERE, Rt. Hon. Jo. H., b. 1769, England, 1846. _Whistlecraft._
FRISWELL, J. H., author and journalist. _Jaques._--_The Author of
The Gentle Life._
FYSH, F. _F. F._
G.
GALLENGA, A. _Mariotti._
GALT, Jno., b. 1779, Scotland -1839. Auto. pub. 1835, and a
Memoir is prefixed to the 1844 edit. of the Annals of the Parish.
_Clark, Rev. T_.--_Balwhidder._--_Duffle, T._--_Prior, P._--_The
Author of Annals of the Parish._--_The Author of the Ayrshire
Legatees._
GASPEY, Thos. _The Author of the Lollards._--_The Author of the
Mystery._
GASTON, Mrs. See A. F. G.
GEORGE IV., King. _Carlton, G._
GIBBS, J. H. See C. M.
GILLIES, _Mary. Myrtle, Harriet._ _The Author of the Voyage of
the Constance._
GILMAN, Mrs. Caroline, daughter of Samuel Howard, shipwright,
of Boston, b. 1794, America, published at the age of sixteen:
Jeptha’s Rash Vow, a poetical composition,--followed by: Jairus’s
Daughter. Married Dr. G., who was pastor of an Unitarian Church.
For portrait, etc., see Duyckink’s Cyclo. of Am. Lit. C. _The
Author of the Recollections of a, etc._
GILMORE, J. R. _Kirke, E._
GLASSFORD, J. _J. G._
GLEIG, Rev. G. R., b. 1796, educated at Oxford. Chose the
Military profession, and joined the Army of the Duke of
Wellington in 1813. See Allibone. _The Author of The Subaltern._
GODWIN, W., b. 1756, England -1836. His father was a dissenting
minister. He began writing at an early age, his politics being
of a violent democratic tendency. Political Justice, 1793, is
the first work that brought and kept his name before the public.
In the second edition he considerably modified his statements.
Caleb Williams is his best known novel, upon which the play of
the Iron Chest was founded. In 1797 he married the celebrated
Mary Wollstonecraft. His works are numerous: the last being
the Lives of the Necromancers, 1834. Gent. Mag. _Baldwin, Rev.
E._--_Marcliffe, T._
GOLDSMITH, O. _A Chinese, etc._ 3.
GOODRICH, Frank Booth, son of S. G. Goodrich, b. 1826, America,
under the _pseud._ of _Dick Tinto_, he was for several years
correspondent to the New York Times. Allibone.
GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold, born 1793, America 1860. For some
years a publisher in Hartford. About 1825 he commenced his
literary career as author and journalist. _Parley, Peter._
GORE, Mrs. Catherine Frances, b. at the beginning of this century
an exceedingly prolific authoress of novels of fashionable
life. M. of T., 1856. _C. F. G._--_The Authoress of Hungarian
Tales._--_The Author of Manners of the Day._--_The Author of
Mothers and Daughters._--_The Author of The Lettre de Cachet._
GORST, Gilpin. _The Deputy Governor._
GOUGH, John. _An Englishman_, 1817.
GRANT, A. H., M.A., author and journalist. _A. H. G._
GRANT, James, Editor of the Morning Advertiser, b. 1805,
Scotland, removed to London, 1834, author of numerous works,
chiefly republications from periodicals. M. of T., 1868. _One of
No Party._--_The Author of Random Recollections._
GRANT, James (q.v. Supplement) to distinguish him from his
namesake, he is generally termed the novelist, b. 1822, Edinburgh
-1867, brought up to the military profession, and served
throughout the Peninsula War. Since he left the army he has
devoted himself to literature. M. of T., 1868. _One of No Party._
GRANVILLE, A. B. _G * * * * * * * *_.
GRATTAN, T. C., b. 1796, Ireland, d. 1864. He was British Consul
at Boston, 1839 to 1853. _A Walking Gentleman._
GREEN, John Richards, b. 1758, England -1818. The son of
a barrister, he inherited considerable property, which he
dissipated, and had to retire to France. He recovered his
difficulties, however, and is known as an author of considerable
works under his assumed name of _Gifford, J._
GREENE, T., “a devoted admirer of the Fine Arts, and possessed a
sound and cultivated judgment.” The Diary was published in 1810.
_A Lover of Literature._
GREENWOOD, James, author and journalist. _The Amateur Lambeth
Casual._--_The Author of a Night in a Workhouse._
GREER, J. K. _Quakerism_, p. 16.
GREER, S. D. _An Irish Lady._
GREGORY, A. T. _An Englishman Abroad._ (Addenda.)
GREVILLE, Hon. R. F. _An Invalid._
GREY, Miss A. M. See Mrs. Grey.
GREY, Mrs. E. C. _The Author of the Gambler’s Wife._
GRIMANI, Julia C. _J. C. G._
GUNN, Miss. _A Lady_, 1833.
GUNN, Miss H. M. (probably the same as the preceding) _H. M. G._
GURNEY, H. _H. G._
H.
HAERING, G. W. H. _W----s._
HAIGHT, Mrs. Sarah, formerly Rogers. See Allibone. _A Lady of New
York._
HALIBURTON, T. C., son of the Hon. Mr. Justice H., b. 1796, Nova
Scotia, where he eventually filled the office of Chief-Justice of
the Supreme Court. _Slick, Sam._
HALL, Mrs. Anna Maria (b. Fielding) wife of Samuel Carter Hall,
M. of T., 1868. _The Author of the Buccaneer._
HALL, Mrs. Louisa Jane (b. Park). _The Author of Joanna of
Naples._
HALL, Spencer. _S. H._
HALLIWELL, James Orchard, F.R.S., &c., Shakespeare scholar,
author of numerous scientific, bibliographic, and other works,
b. about 1820, Eng., son of Thomas H., of Sloane-st., Chelsea.
M. of T., 1868. Published several pieces while at Cambridge in
his teens. He and his friend Mr. Thomas Wright were the chief
pioneers to revive the taste for Early English Literature. Mr.
Halliwell has more particularly made Shakespeare the study of his
life. He brought out a magnificent and elaborately annotated and
illustrated edition of his favourite author in 16 folio volumes.
Perhaps no literary man living has ever seen so many books
through the press as writer and editor. Having pecuniary means,
he has followed no profession. A list of upwards of fifty of his
works, &c., will be found in Allibone’s Dict. of Eng. Lit. He has
also been a constant contributor of valuable notes to Notes and
Queries. He is also author of An Introduction to the Evidences of
Christianity, by a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1859. _J. O. H._
HALPINE, Col. C. G. _O’Reilly, M._
HAMILTON, Captain Thomas. _T. H._
HAMILTON, C. G. _C. G. H._
HANNETT, J. _Arnet, J. A._
HARCOURT, W. G. G. V. Vernon, called to the Bar 1854, Inner
Temple, Q.C. _Historicus._
HARDIE, Robert. _Trebor, E._
HARDINGE, G. _Felix, M._, 1800.
HARDINGE. _A Layman_, 1813.
HARNESS, Rev. William. _Presbyter Catholicus._
HARRIS, Miss ( ). _A Companion, &c._, 4.
HARRIS, J. H. _Presbyter Anglicanus._
HARRIS, Richard, author of several poems, b. 1833, England;
called to the Bar, M. T., 1864. _Verdello._--_Whipem._
HARVEY, R. _R. H._
HASLEWOOD, Joseph, solicitor and bibliographer, b. 1769, London
-1833. _Gabble, G._--_Valdarfer, C._
HAWES. See Terhune.
HAWKER, Robert. _R. H._
HAWKS, Francis L. _Philip, Uncle._
HAYES, a footman to Lord Belgrave. _Bishop, T._
HEAD, Sir F. B., Bart., K.C.H., b. 1793, England; enjoys a
literary pension of £100 a year. _A British Subject._--_An Old
Man._ For other works, see Allibone.
HEADLEY, Rev. Joel Tyler, author and politician, b. 1814, New
York. Duyckinck’s Cyclo. of Am. Lit. See Seatsfield, p. 118.
HEBER, Richard, one of the most enthusiastic bibliomaniacs
England has ever produced. See Rusticus.
HELPS, Arthur. _The Author of Friends in Council._
HENDERSON, T. SUSANNAH. _T. S. H._.
HERBERT, H. W. _Forrester, F._
HIGGINS, Matthew James. M. of T., 1868. _J. O._--_Omnium, J._
HILDYARD, James. _Ingoldsby._
HILL, G. _A Voyager._
HOARE, Very Rev. E. N. _Decanus._
HOARE, P. _A Layman,_ 1822.
HOARE, Richard Colt. _R. C. H._
HOBHOUSE, J. C. See Broughton, Lord.
HOBSON, Robert. _R. H._
HOGG, James, 1770, Scotland -1835. A prolific author, poet, and
contributor to magazines. See Allibone and The Georgian Era. _A
Justified Sinner._--_Colwan._--_The Ettrick Shepherd._
HOLLAND, Lord. _An Englishman_, 1818.
HOLLAND, John, of Sheffield. _The Author of The Treatise on, &c._
HOLLAND, Dr. J. G. _Titcomb, T._
HOLMES, C. F. _A Harrow Tutor._
HONE, William, bookseller, publisher, and author, b. 1779,
England -1842. Well known as a freethinker, and for his
“Every-day Book” and “Apocryphal New Testament.” _Cecil._--_The
Author of The Political House that Jack Built._
HOOK, Theodore Edward, F.S.A., novelist, journalist, and
politician, b. 1788, London -1841, son of James H., the musical
composer. _The Author of Sayings and Doings._
HOOK, Walter Farquhar, D.D., Vicar of Leeds, afterwards Dean of
Chichester, &c., and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen, nephew of
the above. M. of T., 1856. _A Layman._
HORLOCK ( ). _Scrutator._ 1852.
HORNE, Rev. Thomas Hartwell. The best biography published is
that in Allibone’s Dict., which was furnished by the learned
author of the “Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy
Scriptures” himself. He was a learned bibliograph, and an ardent
bibliophile, and was much respected at the British Museum, where
he was many years employed in assisting in the arduous duty of
compiling the catalogues. He died in 1861, at the ripe age of 82.
_A Lincolnshire Grazier._--_Clarke, J._
HORTON, Sir R. J. W. _Philalethes._
HOSKYNS, J. _A Physician_, 1863.
HOTTEN, J. C., an enterprising bookseller and publisher of
Piccadilly, and editor of several popular works. _A London
Antiquary._
HOUGHTON, Baron, the Rt. Hon. R. M. Milnes, F.S.A., &c., author
and politician, b. 1809, elevated to the Peerage 1863. M. of T.
_A Layman_, 9.
HOWARD, Miss Anne. _The Author of A Handbook to Hastings._
HOWARD, J. _A London Physician._
HOWE, Mrs. Julia Ward. _A Lady_, 1854. See Allibone.
HUBBELL, Martha S. _A Pastor’s Wife._
HUGHES, Thomas, M.P. for Lambeth, b. 1823, England; educated
at Rugby and Oxford; called to the Bar, L., 1848. M. of T.,
1868.--_The Author of Tom Browne, &c._
HULLAH, Mrs. _M. H._
HUNT, F. K. _A Student at Law._
HUNTER, Rev. J. _The Author of The Topography of, &c._
I.
ILFRACOMBE. _L. A. D._
INGERSOLL, Charles J., b, 1782, America -1862, author and
politician. _A Northern Man._
INGLIS, H. D., b. 1795, Scotland -1835, left commerce for
literature. _Conway._
INGRAHAM, J. H. _A Yankee._
IRELAND, S. W. H., b. London d. 1834. See p. 61, and _Clifford,
C._--_De Boscosel._--_H. C., Esq._--_Sculptor, S._
IRVING, Theodore, b. 1809, New York, nephew of the following. _A
Layman_, 1850.
IRVING, Washington, an American author of great popularity
and world-wide renown, b. 1783, New York -1859. See Allibone
for biog., &c., and Duyckinck. _Agapida._--_Crayon,
Geoffrey._--_Knickerbocker, D._--_Oldstyle, J._
IVERS, Rev. H. F. See:--The Life and Times of the Roman Patrician
Alexis, to which is annexed an account of the Mission founded
in Kentish Town by the Rev. H. Ivers, and a notice of the late
disgraceful attempt at religious persecution. By Miles Gerald
Keon, 1847. _Alethinos--A Roman Catholic._
J.
JACQUOT, C.-J.-B., b. 1812, at Mirecourt, Vosges, France,
Parisian journalist and author, of considerable popularity.
His biographies have given him much trouble, and he has been
frequently mulcted by the French Tribunals. Vaperean Dict.
Contemp. _De Mirecourt._
JAMES, George Payne Rainsford, one of the most prolific
writers of trashy novels of this century, at the beginning
of which (1801) he was born in London. He always held some
official appointment. He was British Consul for the State of
Massachusetts. He was H.M.’s Consul-General for the Austrian
Ports in the Adriatic, and he died 1860, at Venice. _The Author
of Darnley._--_The Author of Richelieu._
JAMESON, Mrs. Anna, daughter of Mr. Murphy, painter in ordinary
to the Princess Charlotte, b. 1796, Dublin -1860. Her husband,
Hon. Robert J., from whom she was separated, for many years held
an official appointment in Canada. M. of T., 1856. For copious
references and other works, see Allibone and The Annual Register.
_A Lady_, 1826.
JERDAN, W., author and journalist, F.S.A., M.R.S.L., b. 1782,
Scotland. Pub. Autobiography, 1852. _André, J. W._--_Teutha._
JOHNSON, Dr. James. _Fag, F._
JOLLY, Miss. _The Author of Mr. Arle._
JONES, Henry. _Cavendish._
JONES, M. E. Mary. _M. E. M. J._
JONES, Robert Baker, called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn, 1854. _R. B.
J._
JUDSON, E. Z. C. _Buntline, Fred._
K.
KEBLE, John, b. 1792, England -1866, educated at Oxford, where
he graduated B.A. in first-class honours when only just 18,
M.A. 1813 (Gent. Mag.), vicar of Hursley, Hants, author of The
Christian Year, 1827. _Contributors, &c._
KEBLE, Thos. _Contributors, &c._
KELLY, C. E. _C. E. K._
KELSALL, C. _Croft, Z._
KELTY, Miss M. A. _M. A. K._
KEMPE, Alfred John. _A. J. K._
KENNEDY, J. P. _Littleton, M._
KENT, W. C. M. _Rochester._
KINGSFORD, W. _W. K._
KINGSLEY, Rev. C., b. 1819 England, Chaplain in Ordinary to the
Queen, Prof. of Mod. Hist. in the University of Cam. M. of T.,
1868. _Dundreary, Lord._--_Lot, Parson._
KNATCHBULL, The Misses, four daughters of Sir Norton K.
_Kingcups_, see BLUEBELL.
KNIGHT, J. C. _K._
KNOX, Mrs. See Craig.
KNOX, Thomas. _Walneerg._
KYNASTON, H. _H. K._
L.
LAIRD, Lieut. F. C. _Howard, G._
LAMB, Charles, b. 1775, London -1835, educated at Christ’s
Hospital. Final Memorials, by Talfourd, 1848. _Elia._
LAMB, Rev. J., of Manchester. _A Manchester Man._
LAMB, Mary. _M. B._
LAW, afterwards Lady COLCHESTER. _E. S. L._
LAWLER, C. F. _Pindar, Peter._
LANDON, Miss Letitia Elizabeth (Mrs. Maclean), b. 1802-1838.
Life, by Blanchard, 1841. There is a portrait of her in the
3rd vol. of W. Jerdan’s Autobiography, who says that to her
the Literary Gazette was, during many years, indebted for its
greatest attractions. Portrait and Notice in the Lady’s Own
Paper, Nov. 9th, 1867. _L. E. L._
LARWOOD, Rev. J. _A Sailor._
LAWRENCE, Frederick, born about 1821, in Berkshire, where his
father was a large farmer; was in the employ of Messrs. Simpkin,
Marshall, and Co., the booksellers and publishers, and afterwards
in the printed book department, British Museum, a short time
after his friend J. Humffreys Parry (now serjeant-at-law).
Having written some articles that were considered clever, he was
advised to go to the Bar. He accordingly entered himself of the
Middle Temple, and was called in 1849. He attended the Berkshire
Sessions, and obtained some success at the Bar. The author of
this little work had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing him a
few days before his death, to ask his permission to make such use
as we required of some of his articles in Sharpe’s Lond. Mag.,
which was readily granted. He published “The Life of Fielding
...” _Hall, Virtue, and Co._, 1855 (with some bibliographical
notes by Mr. Thomas Watts in the Appendix). This is a capital
biography, replete with interesting particulars, and information
on contemporary writers. Mr. Lawrence collected many notes for a
second edition, and also, we have heard, for a Life of Smollett.
He was on the staff of the Weekly Dispatch for many years, and,
we believe, contributed to other periodical publications, and was
also editor of the Lawyer’s Companion, _Stevens and Sons_, 1864
to 1868. During a short stay at Boulogne, he was seized with an
attack of dropsy, which necessitated his immediate return. The
disease had invaded his system for some years, and had rendered
him less active and more disinclined to any kind of work than he
was during his better days of health. He died at his chambers in
the Temple on the 25th of October, 1867. _A Barrister._
LED’HUY, J. B. A. _Dagobert, C._--_The Author of A Bon Chat, &c._
LEE, A. E. _A. E. L._
LEE, Mrs. H. F. _The Author of Three Experiments, &c._
LEFEVRE, Mrs. _L * * *._
LEGGETT, William, a political writer, b. 1802, New York; entered
the navy 1822, resigned 1826; has been editor of several American
newspapers. Duyckinck Cyclo. of Am. Lit. _Several American
Authors._
LEIGHTON, F. S. _Limner, L._
LELAND, C. G., b. 1824, America, barrister. Duyckinck. _Sloper,
Mace._
LENOX, J., American. _L._
LEVESON, Major, H. A., late Colonial Secretary at Lagos, West
Africa. _H. A. L._
LEVY, Miss Angelina (Mrs. Goetz). _Angelina._
LEVY, Julius. _Rodenberg, J._
LEWIS, W., of the Post Office. _Cam._
LIHOLIHO, A. _A haölé._
LIPPINCOTT, Mrs. Sara Jane, born America, married to Mr. L., of
Philadelphia, in 1853. Duyckink Cyclo. _Greenwood, G._
LISTER, T. H., a gentleman of rank and aristocratic connections.
His novels describe the manners of the upper classes, b. 1801
d. 1842, see Chambers’ Cyclo. of Eng. Lit. _The Author of Anne
Grey._--_The Author of Granby._
LLOYD, Miss E. F. _A Clergyman’s Daughter._--_E. F. L._
LOCKHART, J. Gibson, editor of the Quarterly Review, b. 1794,
Scotland -1854. _Peter._
LONGFELLOW, H. Wadsworth, poet, son of the Hon. Stephen L.,
b. 1807, America. Brought up to the law, which he left for
literature. M. of T., 1868. _Coffin._
LORD, E. _E. L._
LOUDON, Margracia. _The Author of First Love._
LOWELL, J. R., b. 1819, America, author and journalist. Duyckinck
Cy. of Am. Lit. _A Wonderful Quiz._--_Biglow, H._
LOWER, R. _Cladpole, T._
LYNE, J. L. _Ignatius_, p. 60.
LYONS, Lady. _L----._
LYTTON, Baron. The Rt. Hon. Sir E. G. E. L. Bulwer, D.C.L., b.
1805, England; educated at Cambridge. M. of T., 1868. _Caxton,
P._--_The Author of Eugene Aram._--_The Author of Pelham._
LYTTON, Hon. E. R. Bulwer, only son of the above, b. 1831,
England, M. of T. _Meredith, Owen._--_Trevor, E._ See Temple.
M.
MACALLAN, David. _Scrutator_, 1858.
M‘CARTHY, Justin, Editor of the Morning Star. _The Author of Paul
Massie._ Supplement.
MACAULAY, Lord., historian, statesman, and essayist, b. 1800,
England -1859. Benengeli, Cid Hamet. _Merton, T._
MCCULLOCH, James Ramsay, political economist and author, b. 1789,
Scotland -1864, author of the Dict. of Commerce. _J. R. M._
MACDUFF, Rev. J. R. _The Author of Morning and, &c._ _The Author
of the Faithful Promiser._
MCGREGOR, J. _Simeon, South._
MAC HALE, J., Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam. _Hierophilos._
MCILLVANE, E. Rodman. _Rodman, E._
MACKARNESS, Mrs. See Planché, Miss.
MACKAY, R. _A Citizen, etc._ 3.
MACKINNON, C. _C. M._
MACLISE, Daniel, one of the most celebrated painters of the
day, b. 1811, Ireland, of Scottish extraction. M. of T., 1868.
_Croquis, Alfred._
MACNISH, R. _A Modern Pythagorean._
MACPHERSON. _The Editor of the Quarterly Review._
MADDEN, D. O., b. 1815, Ireland -1852 the son of a merchant, of
Cork, his short life was entirely given up to literary pursuits,
in which he eventually wore himself out, so that he may almost
be said to have died of exhaustion of the brain. From a whim
somewhat similar to that of Captain Marryat, Madden desired that
no public notice should be taken of his death, and consequently
there is none in any of the newspapers, nor in the Gent. Mag.,
or Annual Register. The Athenæum, however, was not bound to
be silent, and in 1859 (ii. 209, 246) it gave a short but
interesting notice of his literary labors. Ireland and its Rulers
since 1839, appears to be his first autonymous work; but he was
chiefly addicted to the anonymous and pseudonymous. For the sake,
it is said, of distinguishing himself from another Madden he
wrote his name Maddyn. The man who desired no obituary memoirs
changed his name that he might be known! _North, D._
MADDEN, Sir F., R.H., F.R.S., b. 1801, England. Was Keeper of
the MSS. at the British Museum from 1837 to 1866. M. of T. _F.
M._
MADDOCK, Mrs. E. A. _E. A. M._
MAGARTH, E. _E. M._
MAGINN, W., LL.D. author and journalist, b. 1793, Ireland
-1842, entered Dublin University at ten years old, a constant
contributor to Blackwood’s, and afterwards to Fraser’s Magazine.
_O’Doherty, M._
MAHONY, Rev. F. S., Roman Catholic priest, journalist and
author, b. about 1805, Ireland -1866, in Paris. M. of T., 1865.
_Savonarola._--_Yorke, O._
MAHONY, Miss. _Christabel._
MANGIN, Rev. E., b. 1772-1852, of Baliol College, Oxford, A.M.,
1795. _The Author of an Essay on Light Reading._
MANNING, Miss A., b. 1807, see M. of T., 1868. _More,
M._--_Osborne, E._--_The Author of Mary Powell._
MANNING, H. E. _H. E. M._
MANSFIELD, L. W. _Z. P._
MAPLETON, Mrs. S. E. _A Clergyman’s Wife._
MARGOLIOUTH, M. _A Clergyman, etc._ 3.
MARKHAM, G. _G. M._
MARKS, Rev. R. _Aliquis._--_One who Loves the Souls of the Lambs
of Christ’s Flock._
MARRYAT, Capt. F., R.N., the most successful of our naval
novelists, b. 1792, London -1848. For a very interesting notice
see the Cornhill Mag., 1867. _The Author of Peter Simple._
MARSH, W. _W. M._
MARSH-CALDWELL, Mrs. Anne, 4th daug. of James Caldwell, Esq., b.
179-? England, M. of T., 1856 and 1868. _The Author of Emilia
Wyndham._--_The Author of Mount Sorel._--_The Author of Two Old
Men’s Tales._
MARTIN, Sir Henry, Bt. _Phœnix._
MARTIN, John, the artist, b. 1789, England -1854, no separate
life published, except the autobiography. The late Mr. Serjeant
Thomas had prepared a Life of Martin, but it has not yet been
published. _J. M._ and see R. T., p. 110.
MARTIN, Theodore, poet, author and editor of Life of the Prince
Consort, b. 1816, Scotland, practised at Edinburgh as a solicitor
for several years, removed to London, 1846, where he is well
known as one of the leading parliamentary agents and Scotch
solicitors. M. of T., 1868. _Gaultier, Bon._
MARTIN, W., died at Holly Lodge, Woodbridge, October, 1867. _Old
Chatty Cheerfull._--_Parley, P._
MARTINEAU, Miss, b. 1802, England, of French extraction. A long
list of the very excellent works of this lady, both in history
and fiction, will be found in M. of the Time. _An Invalid_,
1844.--_H. M._
MASSEY, E. C. _Whatshisname._
MATTHEWS, A. B. _A. B. M._
MATURIN, Rev. Charles Murphy, _D. J._
MEADLEY. See _G. W. M._
MEASON. See _G. L. M._
MEASOR, Charles Pennell, formerly deputy governor of the Convict
Prison at Chatham, and has filled several other official
appointments. He has also published pamphlets on prisons and
prison discipline. _Scrutator_, 1863.
METEYARD, Miss E., born “early in the present century,” daughter
of a surgeon. First Work, Struggles for Fame, 1845, M. of T.
1868. _Silverpen._
MIDDLEMASS, R. Hume, senior. _Thistle._ See Bluebell.
MIDDLEMASS, Miss Hume, daughter of the above. _Mignionette._ See
Bluebell.
MILLER, Lydia, F. F. _L. F. F. M._--_Myrtle, Mrs._
MILNER, Rev. J. _J. M._
MILNES, R. M. See Houghton, Baron.
MITCHELL, D. G., American. _An Opera Goer._--_Marvel,
I._--_Timon, J._
MITCHELL, Elizabeth H. _E. H. R._
MOGRIDGE, G. _Humphrey, Old._
MOIR, David Macbeth, poet, novelist, and journalist, born 1798,
Scotland -1851. Life by T. Aird. Δ, p. 40. _Delta._--_Wauch, M._
MOLYNEAUX. _J. W. H. M._
MONCKTON, Rose C. _M._, 1858.
MONEY, A. _Two Brothers._
MONEY, G. H. _Two Brothers._
MONK. _J. H. M._
MONSON, Rt. Hon. W. J. Baron, b. 1796, India -1862, author and
antiquarian. _A Layman_, 1842.
MONTAGU, Basil, b. 1770-1851, editor of Bacon’s works and a most
prolific compiler by the aid of scissors and paste. His numerous
pamphlets are totally forgotten in the present day, though they
did much good in their time. He was the natural son of the Earl
of Sandwich by the celebrated Miss Ray, who was shot by Mr.
Hackman in 1779. Educated at Charterhouse, called to the bar,
L., Q.C. and a Commissioner of Bankruptcy. He was a staunch law
reformer and punishment of death abolitionist. _A Water Drinker._
MONTGOMERY, J., 1775, Scotland -1854, poet and journalist. Life
by Holland. _A Poet._
MOORE, Thomas, poet, b. 1779, Ireland -1852, son of a grocer.
Life by Earl Russell. _An Irishman._--_Brown, T._--_Cribb,
Tom._--_Little, T._--_One of the Fancy._--_Rock, Capt._--_The
Author of Corruption, &c._, and p. 6.
MORE, Hannah, 1745-1833, daug. of a schoolmaster, and herself a
schoolmistress. She at one time wrote for the stage, but turning
religious, repudiated her plays. Cœlebs in search of a Wife,
1809, of which 10 editions were published in one year, is perhaps
her most celebrated work. See Biograph. Dic., 1816. Life, by Rev.
H. Thompson, 1838; by A. Roberts, 1859; and see Mac-Sarcasm in
this work. _Z._
MORGAN. _J. M._
MORIER, James, a great Oriental traveller, and writer of tales,
b. 1780-1849. _Persio, P._--_The Author of Zohrab._
MORRIS, James W. _Pepper, K. N._
MORRISON, Rev. J. _A Clergyman_, 1867.
MORRISON, Lieut. R. J. _Zadkiel._
MORTIMER, Mrs. J. _The Author of the Peep of Day._
MOULE, H. _A Country Parson._
MOULTRIE, Rev. G. _Montgomery._
MOULTRIE, Rev. J., b. 1800 (?) England, educated at Eton and
Cambridge. M. of T. _The Author of the Black Fence._
MOUNTAIN. _J. H. B. M._
MOZLEY, H. _The Author of the Fairy Bower._
MUDIE, R. _A Modern Greek._
MULOCK, Miss, b. 1826, married to Prof. Craik, 1865. See M. of T.
_The Author of John Halifax._
MURSELL, Rev. _Search, J._
MURRAY, E. C. G. _The Roving Englishman._
MURRAY, J., the celebrated publisher, 1778-1843. * * * * &c., p.
190.
MURRAY, Rev. _N. Kirwan._
MUIR. _J. M._
MYERS, P. H., b. 1812, America, lawyer and essayist. _The Author
of the First of the Knickerbockers._
N.
NARES, Rev. E., D.C.L., b. 1762, Lond. -1841, son of Sir George
N., Knt. Biog. Dict., 1816, educated at Westminster and Oxford.
_It Matters Not Who._--_Thinks-I-to-Myself._
NEALE, A. B. _Alice._
NEALE, Rev. Erskine, b. 1805 (?) England, educated at Cambridge,
a prolific author and contributor to the magazines. See M.
of T. _A Coroner’s Clerk._--_A Country Curate._--_A Goal
Chaplain._--_The Author of the Bishop’s Daughter._
NEALE, W. Johnson. _The Author of Cavendish._
NESS, R. D., spent the last forty years of his life in the
Reading Room of the British Museum, seldom missing a day unless
kept away by illness. This fact is well authenticated by those
employed at the Museum for thirty years; the other ten we take on
the authority of H. B. C. in N. and Q., before referred to. He
graduated as A.M. at Lincoln’s Coll., Oxford. He died in 1867, at
the age of 71. _W. D._
NEWELL, Robert H., American Author. Early in 1867 he obtained
a divorce from his wife, Adah Isaacs Menken, of “Mazeppa”
notoriety. Law Journal, May 10, 1867. _Kerr, O. C._
NEWMAN, _J. H. N._
NOLAN, F. _Search, Sarah._
NORTON, J. _A Layman_, 1852.
NUGENT, Lord George Nugent Temple Grenville, Baron, 1789-1851,
poet and miscellaneous writer. The only complete list of his
works we know of will be found in the Grenville Cat., Brit. Mus.
_Hampden, John._--_The Lord and Lady there._
O.
O’CONNOR, Roger. _Rock, Capt._
OGLE, Annie. _Owen, A._
OLIPHANT, Mrs. _The Author of Margaret Maitland._
O’MAHONY, T. _A. M._
O’ROURKE, E., talented dramatist and actor. Wrote one of the
most successful “sensational” pieces of the time, called Peep
O’Day. The great popularity of this piece induced him to embark
in a larger speculation at Drury Lane. But here fickle Fortune
forsook him, and after a short partnership with Mr. Chatterton,
he retired from the management. Mr. Falconer writes little,
however, and acts little. He is only known under this name, so
that O’Rourke has almost become his pseudonym. _Falconer, E._
ORTON, J. _Alastor._
OSBORNE, Rev. Lord S. G., b. 1808, England. Educated at Oxford.
M. of T., 1868. _S. G. O._
O’SULLIVAN. _A Munster Farmer._
OWEN, (Robert?) _Celatus._
OWEN, W. _Meirion._--_O----, W._
OXENFORD, John, dramatic author, and critic, b. 1812, England,
M. of T., 1868. _An English Play-goer_ (mentioned under An Opera
Goer).
P.
PAGE, R. _Hardcastle, D._
PAGET, Rev. F. E., son of General the Hon. Sir Edward P., born
in 1806, England, educated at Westminster and Oxford. His novels
are High Church in principle. M. of T. 1868. _Churne, W._--_F. E.
P._--_The Author of the Owlet, etc._
PALGRAVE, F. T., eldest son of the late Sir Francis Palgrave,
born 1824, England, educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. M. of T.
_Thurston, H. J._
PALMER, Mrs. _A Lady_, 1837.
PALTOCK, Robert. _R. P._--_Wilkins, Peter._
PARDON, G. F., journalist and author. _Crawley, Capt._--_G. F. P._
PARIS, Dr. J. A., b. 1785-1856. _A Physician_, 1824.
PARKE, Sir J. A., b. 1763, Scotland -1838, son of a surgeon of
Edinburgh. Middle T., 1784. Law of Marine Insurances, 1787, a
standard legal work. K.G. 1799. Knighted 1816. Judge of C. Pleas.
Foss. Judges of England. _A Layman_, 9.
PARKER ( ). _Heinfetter._
PARRY, John Humffreys, the father of Mr. Serjeant Parry, called
to the Bar. Editor of the Cambro’ Britain, a periodical devoted
to Wales and Welsh Antiquities. He was author of several fugitive
pieces in magazines and newspapers, and of An Essay on the
Navigation of the Britons, 1825. The Cambrian Plutarch, 1834, and
others. _Griffinhoof, A._
PARTON, Mrs., sister of N. P. Willis, b. about 1810, America.
In 1856 she was Sarah Payson Eldridge, when she was married to
Mr. James Parton, author of the Life of Horace Greeley. She has
been an industrious contributor of popular matter to periodical
literature, most of which has been reprinted. See Duychinck,
Cyclo. Am. Lit., under Judson. _Fern, Fanny._
PARTRIDGE, S. W. _S. W. P._
PAULDING, J. K. _Several American Authors._
PAYNE, J. Bertrand, conductor of the business of Moxon & Co., the
publishers. _J. B. P._
PEACOCK, T. L., b. 1783, England -1866. Examiner of the Indian
correspondence H.E.I.C.’s service, and author of several works
of fiction, and contributor to the periodicals. _Peppercorn,
P._--_The Author of Headlong Hall._
PEEBLES, W. _A Clergyman of the Church of Scotland_, 1803.
PEGGE, S., F.S.A., b. 1732, England -1800, author of Curialia,
1782-1789. _A late Learned, etc._ 9.
PENROSE, Elizabeth, of school history renown, under her pseudonym
of _Mrs. Markham_. For forty years this name has been popular,
and bids fair to endure double that time. We doubt whether
many of the fair readers of the History trouble to read the
advertisement to the later editions, which informs us that she
was the wife of the Rev. John Penrose, and lived at Bracebridge,
near Lincoln. She was the second daughter of the Rev. Dr.
Cartwright, the inventor of the power-loom, and author of ‘Armine
and Elvira,’ and other poems. She died at Lincoln, 24th of
January, 1837.
PERRIER, Miss. _An Irishwoman._
PETERKIN, A., of Edinburgh, miscellaneous writer, b. 1781,
Scotland -1846. _Anti Harmonicus._--_Civis._
PETTIGREW. _A Cornet_, etc. p. 4.
PHELAN, afterwards TONNA, C. E., b. 1792-1846. _C.
E._--_Charlotte Elizabeth._
PHELPS, Mrs. E. S. _Trusta, H._
PHILIPS, George. _Searle, Jan._
PHILLIPS, Miss. _An Old Maid._
PHILLIPS, Miss (Madame de Pontes). _The Translator of the, etc._
PHILLIPS, Sir Richard, Knight, one of the most extraordinary
characters of his time, a man of the world, and of considerable
energy, b. 1767, England -1840. He set out in life with a
pseudonym, for we are told (Gent. Mag.) that his original name
was Philip Richards. He was brought up with an uncle, a brewer,
in Oxford-street, but a passion for literature and philosophy led
him to detach himself from his family connections. He afterwards
became a schoolmaster in Leicester, and it was no doubt from
the experience thus obtained that he was enabled to write the
school books which obtained so much celebrity under the different
names he assumed. Being tired of schooling, however, he opened
a hosiery shop, but, thinking that “politics were as profitable
an article as he could deal in,” he established _The Leicester
Herald_, which was a success. Little is known of the ups and
downs of his life, so little indeed that we cannot vouch for
anything herein contained; the different notices of him appear to
be all unauthentic. Mr. Timbs, however, has promised a _truthful_
account, and until that appears we must be content to propagate
error. It is much to be regretted that he destroyed the journal
of his life which he commenced. He might have put many things
recorded of him in a better light--we doubt whether he could
have put them in a worse. He was through life a vegetarian,
which did not prevent his living the period allotted to man. In
1793 he was prosecuted for selling Paine’s Rights of Man, and
suffered a year’s imprisonment. When his term had expired, he
sold his share in his newspaper. Shortly after his premises in
Leicester were consumed by a fire, and, oddly enough, he was
insured to the full amount--at least, so says our authority. He
then went to London, and opened a hosier’s shop. His next venture
was a literary one, in the shape of _The Monthly Magazine_,
which he owned for thirty years. He was elected sheriff in 1807,
and received the honour of knighthood in 1808. His activity in
office was very considerable, and he did much good. In 1809
he again got into difficulties, and all his copyrights were
sold, though he was enabled to repurchase some. He was a most
extraordinary mixture of principles and no principles, of honesty
and dishonesty. As we have observed in N. and Q., his literary
ventures must be highly curious, particularly those which relate
to the manufacture of books. But we shall probably never know
the real truth on the subject, and shall therefore have to put
up with conjectures, which generally result in a thing being
made out worse than it probably is. Watt, in his Bib. Brit.,
mixes him up with his namesake and contemporary the chemist. The
following are all the works we have been able to collect which
he published in his own name:--1. On the Practices of Anonymous
Critics, 1806; 2. A Letter to the Livery of London, relative to
the views of the writer in executing the office of Sheriff, 1808,
8vo, 294; 3. Social Philosophy, or a New System of Practical
Ethics, ----; 4. Communications relative to the Datura Stramonium
as a Cure for Asthma, 1811; 5. Treatise on the Powers and
Duties of Juries, and on the Criminal Laws of England, 1811; 6.
Golden Rules for Jurymen, 1814, on a sheet; 7. Popular Abstract
of the New System of Philosophy proposed by Sir R. P. (_vide_
his essays, Month. Mag., 1817 and 1818), a folio chart; 8. A
Morning’s Walk from London to Kew, 1817, 8vo, 423; 9. Essays on
the Proximate Mechanical Causes of the General Phenomena of the
Universe (revised from the Month. Mag., for July, 1817), Lond.,
_Souter_, 1818, 12mo, viii. 96, 3s. 6d., and 2nd edit., 1821;
10. Four Dialogues between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of
the Common Sense Philosophy relative to the Proximate Causes of
Material Phenomena, Lond., Sherwood, 1824, 8vo; 11. Golden Rules
of Social Philosophy, or a New System of Practical Ethics, 1826;
12. A Personal Tour through the United Kingdom, Lond., _Horatio
Phillips_, [Derby, printed 1828], 8vo, viii., 220, pts. 1 and 2
only; 13. Protest against the Prevailing Principles of Natural
Philosophy, with the Development of a Common Sense System, 1830,
8vo, 71, with an autograph letter from the author, in the British
Museum; 14. A Million of Facts, serving as a Common Place Book on
all Subjects of Curiosity, Lond. (1832), 12mo, several editions;
15. A Dictionary of the Arts of Life and Civilization, Lond.
(1833), 8vo; 16. Letter on the Theory of Education, 1835.
WRITINGS ABOUT HIM.
1. Statement of a Correspondence with Sir R. P. respecting the
Antiquary’s Magazine, by Thomas Blore, 1807; 2. Memoirs of the
Public and Private Life of ... High Sheriff for the City of
London and County of Middlesex ... by a Citizen of London and
Assistants [?], 1808; 3. Observations on the Memoirs of his
Public and Private Life. Stamford, 1808; 4. A Three Minutes’
Commentary on the Mistakes of Dr. Young [in the Quarterly
Review] in his Observations on Sir R. P.’s Theory of Proximate
Causes, by Philo-Veritatis [George Cumberland?], price five
farthings [Lond.], _Souter_, 1819, 12mo, 12, preface dated
Bristol; 5. A Lecture on Astronomy, adjusted to its dependent
science Geology.... Given ... in consequence of having seen an
Essay on the Astronomical and Physical Causes of Geological
Changes, by Sir R. P., edited by W. D. Saull and Sampson
Arnold Mackey, Lond., 1832. _Barrow, Rev. S._--_Blair, Rev.
D._--_Bossut, M. l’Abbé._--_Clarke, Rev. C. C._--_Common
Sense._--_Goldsmith._--_Pelham, M._
PICKEN, A., b. 1778-1833, author of: Travels ... of ...
Missionaries. Lond., 1830. The Canadas, with general information
for Emigrants, compiled and condensed from documents furnished by
John Galt and other sources, 1832. _The Author of the Dominie’s
Legacy._
PLANCHÉ, Miss M. A. (Mrs. Mackarness) daughter of the well known
dramatic author. A most prolific authoress. _The Author of a Trap
to Catch a Sunbeam._--_The Author of Old Joliffe._--_The Author
of the Dream of Chintz._
POLE, Professor William, F.R.S. See A * * * * *.
PONSONBY, Lady Emily Charlotte Mary. _The Author of the
Discipline of Life._
POOLE, John. _The Author of Paul Pry._
POTTER, Mrs. W. _The Author of the Three Houses._
POWER, Miss M. A. _Honoria._
POWER, Samuel B. _S. B. P._
POWERS, Miss S. R., secretary to the Ladies’ Sanitory
Association. _S. R. P._
POWNALL. _An Inhabitant._
POYNDER, J. _A Layman_, 1820.
PRAED, W. M. _Courtenay._
PREST, T. _The Author of Angelina._
PROCTER, B. W., poet, b. about 1790, England, educated at Harrow
School, where he had Byron for a form-fellow. He married, in
1824, a daughter of Basil Montagu, by whom he had a daughter,
Adelaide Anne, well known as a poetess, who died in 1864. M. of
T. _Cornwall, Barry._
PROSSER, Col. G. N. _Z._
PROVOST, Sir G., Bart. _Contributors, etc._
PSALMANAZAR, G. (q.v.).
PUSEY, Rev. Edward Bouverie, D.D., b. 1800, educated at Oxford.
The founder of the High Church sect called Puseyites, after his
name. M. of T., 1868. _Contributors, etc._
PYNE, W. H., b. 1770, England -1843, more celebrated probably
for the work we give than any other. As an artist, he earned
considerable reputation for his sketches, and as an author, he
has the merit of being an exact and trustworthy biographer.
_Hardcastle, E._
R.
RADECLIFFE, Noell, author of St. Katharine of Alexandria, a
dramatic legend, 1859; Wheel within Wheel, 1861; Bryanston
Square, 1862; Sybilla Lockwood, 1864, and others. Also a
contributor to Notes and Queries. _The Author of Alice Wentworth._
RAME, Miss, a writer of novels abounding in slang and stable
language, and rather popular. We believe that some of her later
novels acknowledge their magazine maternity. _Ouida._
RANKING, M., Barrister-at-Law. See C. M.
RANYARD, Mrs. L. N. _L. N. R._
RATHBONE, W. _A Man of Business_, 1867.
REYNOLDS, Beatrice. _The Author of My First Season._
RIBBANS, T. B. _A Layman_, 9.
RICHARDS, Rev. W. U., incumbent of All Saints, Marylebone,
London. _W. U. R._
RICHMOND, Rev. Legh, b. 1772-1827. A writer in Blackwood’s
Magazine, 1822, says that he never heard this truly evangelical
clergyman but once, and that he then thought him a wishy-washy
preacher. He prosed away apparently with much facility, his
course not being slackened by any distressing burthen of ideas.
He seems to have paid a visit of conversion to Scotland, to show
them “the road to salvation,” and what is his reward? why almost
universal scorn and contempt. “He is obviously a chosen vessel,
without crack or flaw, and overflowing with sound doctrine,”
... “and Scotland will be saved BY THE DAIRYMAN’S DAUGHTER.”
In “Three Days at Turvey, in Bedfordshire (the scene of the
labors of the late Rev. L. R., A.M.), in the summer of 1847, by
a Clergyman’s son, South Shields, 1848,” a memoir of the above,
by F. S. Grimshawe is mentioned. _A Clergyman of the Church of
England._--_The Author of the Dairyman’s Daughter._
RIDDEN, Laura C., American. _Glyndon, H._
RIDLEY, Rev. J., d. 1765. _Horam._
RIMBAULT, E. F., a very popular arranger of musical pieces
chiefly for the Pianoforte. Dr. Rimbault is most honourably
known for “The Organ, its History and Construction, 1855,”
written in conjunction with Mr. Ed. Hopkins, the organist. He has
contributed many valuable notes to N. and Q., and edited many
remains of Old English Literature. _Nava, F._
RIVINGTON, Charles. _Scrutator_, 1860.
RIVINGTON, William. _A Layman_, 1853.
ROBERTS, J. P. _Happy, J._
ROBERTS, Mary, author of Flowers of the Matin and Even Song,
or Thoughts for those that Rise Early, Lond., 1845; Voices of
the Woodlands, descriptive of Forest Trees, Ferns, Mosses, and
Lichens, 1950; A Popular History of the Mollusca, 1851. _The
Author of Select Female Biography._
ROBERTSON, Joseph Clinton, born 1788, projector of the Mechanics’
Magazine, which he edited from its commencement to his death in
1852. _Percy, S._
ROBINSON, Mrs. E., b. 1797, Germany, American authoress of
popularity, the daughter of a professor of political economy at
Halle. Duyckinck Cyclo. Am. Lit. _Talvi._
ROBINSON, F. W., novelist. _The Author of One and Twenty._--_The
Author of Wildflower._
ROBINSON, Miss J., daughter of the publisher, another prolific
lady-novelist, who has seldom thought it necessary to notice the
fact of a reprint being a reprint. _The Author of Whitefriars._
ROBINSON, S. _A Layman._
ROCHE, James. _An Octogenarian._
ROGERS, H., critic and contributor to the Edin. Rev., in which
his Vanity and Glory of Literature was first pub., b. (18--,
Lond.) M. of T., 1868. _The Author of the Eclipse of Faith._
ROHAN-CHABOT, Le Comte de _Rockingham._
ROLLS, Mrs. M. M. _His Mother._
ROSE, George, b. (183-?) England. Mr. Sketchley, who is only
known to the public by this name, few indeed suspecting it to
be assumed, has also contributed articles entitled Mrs. Brown’s
Budget to Cassell’s Mag., 1867. _Sketchley, Arthur._
ROONEY, M. W. _M. W. R._
ROWLAND, David, solicitor, author of A Manual of the English
Constitution ... 1859; Laws of Nature the Foundation of Morals,
Lond., Edinb. (print.) 1863. _A Layman_, 1856.
ROYALL, Mrs. A., The Tennessean, a novel, etc.; New Haven, 1827:
Mrs. R.’s Southern Tour, or 2nd Series of the Black Book ...
Washington, 1830-31, 3 vols. _A Traveller._
ROYSTON, W. H. _W. H. R._
RUFFINI, Giovanni, author of Mémoires d’un conspirateur Italien,
Paris, 1859; Vincenzi, or Sunken Rocks, Lond., Cam. (print.)
1865. _The Author of Doctor Antonio._
RULE, W. H. _W. H. R._
RUNDELL, Mrs. _A Lady_, 1808.
RUSKIN, J., LL.D., the well known writer on Art, b. 1819, London,
Oxford. His nervous style of writing generally excites the
ridicule of our American brothers. English Artists owe much to
Mr. Ruskin’s enthusiasm. M. of T., 1868. _A Graduate of Oxford._
RUSSELL, John, earl, b. 1792, London. M. of T., 1868. _A
Gentleman, etc._ 5.
RUSSELL, R., in the employ of Messrs. Cassell, the publishers. _A
Middle Aged Citizen._
RYMER, Mr. (?) _The Author of the Spaniards._
S.
S’JOHN, Sergius. _A Grandfather._
SALA, George Augustus Henry, journalist and author, b. about
1826, London. M. of T., 1868. _Cruiser, B._
SALT, Henry, b. 1780, England d. 1827, the son of a medical
practioner of Lichfield. While young he made such progress in
drawing that his father was induced to send him to London that he
might study there. In 1801 he set up as a portrait painter; but
he very soon determined to relinquish a profession in which he
had no hopes of success; and a favorable opportunity occurring,
on Lord Valentia’s visiting India, Salt accompanied his lordship,
and did not return to London until 1806, after an absence of four
years and four months. He then prepared an account of his travels
for the press, which he eventually published. He also published
several other works of value. He was Consul-General in Egypt. It
is to him that the nation owes many valuable Egyptian antiquities
at the British Museum. Life by J. J. Halls, 1834. _A Traveller._
SALTER, T. F. _T. F. S._
SANDEAU, Jules. _Sand, J._
SANDEAU, Leonard Sylvain Jules, journalist and author, born
1811, France, elected a member of the Academie Française, 1858.
Vapereau, Dict. Contemp. _Sand, J._
SANDEN, Thomas, M.D., physician at Chichester, died (?) _A
Layman_, 1815. _The President._
SANDS, R. C., one of the most original of American humorists, a
fine scholar, and a poet of ardent imagination, b. 1799, America
d. 1832. Duyckinck. Cyclo. _Several American Authors._
SCARGILL, W. P. _The Author of Nothing._ We observed a writer
publishing under this pseudonym last year.
SCHILLER, H. Carl. It is scarcely necessary to remark that this
gentleman is not related to his namesake and countryman. About
1836 Mr. Schiller, who was then residing at Hull, was associated
with E. J. Loder in producing several songs, which were very
popular at the time, and have been frequently reprinted. Among
them we have The Ivy, The Outlaw, The Forrester’s Bride, Fair
Alice. He was the musical critic to the Manchester Musical and
Dramatic Review, and also contributed anonymously to a serial,
“The Life and Adventures of a British Actor,” and a song, which
we believe was never set to music, on Napoleon I. Mr. Schiller is
also an inventor, and has patented a method for “submerging deep
sea Telegraphic Cables.” He is the father of the accomplished
pianist, Miss Madeleine Schiller. In his profession of an artist
he is more particularly known for producing remarkably successful
likenesses from description of deceased persons. The Bride of
Kynast, founded on a German story, we have mentioned at page 17.
_Anthony, Grey._
SCHNUSE, C. H. (q.v.).
SCOTT, Lady C. L. _The Author of a Marriage in High Life._ _The
Author of the Henpecked Husband._ _The Author of the M.P.’s Wife._
SCOTT, John. _Benson, E._
SCOTT, Michael, born 1789-1835. _The Author of Tom Cringle’s,
etc._
SCOTT, Sir Walter, Bart. (q.v.) _A Layman._--_Cleishbotham,
Malagrowther._--_Paul._--_Somnambulus._--_Templeton, L._--_The
Author of Waverley._
SEALSFIELD, Charles, a German Author of great reputation, though
more in America than in England. See Trübner’s American Bib.
Guide. _Seatsfield._
SEDGWICK, Miss Catherine Maria, b. 1789, America -1867, a very
popular prose writer. See Duyckinck Cyclo. of Am. Lit. _Several
American Authors._--_The Author of Hope Leslie._--_The Author of
Means and Ends._--_The Author of the Linwoods._
SEELEY, Robert Benton, author of numerous tracts, which are all
pseud. _A Layman_, 1840.
SEWELL, Miss Elizabeth Missing, daughter of a solicitor in the
Isle of Wight, where she was born in 1815. She became known as
a writer of High Church fiction by her ‘Amy Herbert,’ first
published in 1844. M. of T., 1868. _A Lady_, 1865.--_The Author
of Amy Herbert._
SHARPE, C. K. _An Amateur_, 1832.
SHAW, A. W. _Billings, Josh._
SHELLEY, Mrs., b. 1797-1851. _The Author of Frankenstein._
SHEPPARD, Miss. _The Author of Charles Anchester._--_The Author
of Counterparts._
SHEPPARD, John. _The Author of Thoughts on Devotion._
SHERER, Major Moyle. _The Author of Recollections in, etc._--_The
Author of Sketches of India._--_The Author of Tales of the Wars,
etc._
SHERLOCK, of Dublin. _Photius._
SHERWOOD, Mrs. M. M., b. 1775-1851. _The Author of Little Henry,
etc._
SHILLABER, B. P. _Partington, Mrs._
SHIPTON, Anna. _A. S._
SHORE, A. and L. _A. and L._ p. 2.
SHORT, Capt. C. W. C. _W. S._, 1846. Also author of a treatise
on the Disposition ... of Outposts, from the German of Baron
Reichlin von Meldegg. A Treatise on Patrolling. Remarks on the
Position of Barracks in the West Indies. On the Health and
Management of European Soldiers. The Advantages of an increase of
the West-India Corps. Vade Mecum ... on Outpost Duty, 1854. Same
on Patrolling, 1855.
SIMMS, William Gilmore, one of the most consistent and
accomplished authors by profession America has produced, b. 1806,
Charlston, South Carolina, the son of a merchant, of Scoto-Irish
descent. At the age of 21 he was called to the Bar, which he
left, however, for literature. He is author of a great number of
works. Duyckinck Cyclo. Am. Lit. _Isabel._--_The Author of Guy
Rivers._--_The Author of Richard Hurdis._--_The Author of the
Partisan._--_The Author of Yemassee._
SIMSON, Archibald. _Mac-shimi._
SKINNER, Rev. G. _Bernard, H. H._
SKINNER, J. _A Layman._
SLIDELL, Mackenzie, A. _A Young American._
SMEDLEY, Rev. E. _A Churchman._
SMEDLEY, Francis E., popular novelist, b. 1819-1864, the only son
of Francis S., High Bailiff of Westminster. M. of T., 1862. Gent.
Mag., N.S. xvi. _Fairleigh, F._
SMEDLEY, Menella, sister of the above? _S. M._
SMEETON, G. _Charfy, G._
SMITH ( ), journalist. _Publicola_, 1838.
SMITH ( ). _A Journeyman Printer._
SMITH, Charlotte. _Deene, K._
SMITH, C. Ogle. _A Priest of the Church, &c._
SMITH, C. W. _C. W. S._, 1855.--_One Who, &c._, p. 94.
SMITH, Miss Eliza. _A Clergyman’s Daughter._
SMITH, Horace, b. 1779, England -1846, stockbroker, the author of
the Rejected Addresses. See Gent. Mag., N. S., xxxii. _The Author
of Brambletye House._
SMITH, J. E. A. _Greylock, G._
SMITH, R. H. _The Author of The Expositions, &c._
SMITH, Samuel. _The Author of Lois Weedon, &c._
SMITH, Seba, American author and journalist. His “Down East”
class of stories have obtained for him a universal reputation.
_Downing._
SMITH, Rev. Sydney, b. 1769, England -1845, educated at
Winchester and Oxford, Canon Residentiary of St. Paul’s, &c., the
original editor of the Edinburgh Review. Life, by his daughter,
Lady Holland, 1855. _Plymley, P._
SMITH, Dr. W. _The Editor of the Quarterly Review._
SMYTHIES, Mrs. Gordon. _The Authoress of the Bride of
Sienna._--_The Author of Cousin Geoffrey._--_The Author of The
Jilt._--_The Author of the Marrying Man._
SNART, C. _A Gentleman, &c._, 6.
SOMERVILLE, A., author of: The Whistler at the Plough, containing
Travels, &c.... Manchester, 1852-3; The Life of R. Mowbray,
Merchant Prince of England, 1853; Living for a Purpose, or the
Contrast, Lond., 1865; 16mo. _One Who, &c._, p. 94.
SOUTHEY, Mrs. (Miss Caroline Anne Bowles), wife of the following,
b. 1787-1854, poet, and author of Chapters on Churchyards. _The
Authoress of Ellen Fitzarthur._
SOUTHEY, Robert, LL.D., Poet-laureate, b. 1774-1843. Life, by his
son, 1849, and Life by C. T. Browne, 1854, and selections from
the letters, by Rev. J. W. Warter. _Alvarez Espriella._
SPALDING, Professor of Logic at St. Andrew’s. _W. S._
SPENCER, Hon. G. _Ignatius._
SQUIER, E. G., of some eminence as an archæologist, author, and
journalist, b. 1821, America, is a lineal descendant of one of
Oliver Cromwell’s lieutenants. He was brought up as a civil
engineer. Duyckinck, Cyclo. M. of T., 1868. _Bard, S. A._
STANLEY, Lord. The Rt. Hon. Edward Henry, eldest son of the Earl
of Derby, b. 1826, England, educated at Rugby and Cambridge. M.
of T. _E. H. S._
STAUNTON, C. _C. S._
STEPHEN, Sir George, Knight, youngest son of the late James S.
M.P., Master in Chancery, b. 1794, England; knighted, 1838; first
an attorney, and then of Gray’s Inn, 1849; now of Melbourne,
Australia. M. of T. _Emptor._
STEPHEN, J. Fitz-James, eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir James S.,
b. 1829, England; educated at Cambridge; called to the Bar, I.
T., 1854. M. of T. _A Barrister_, 1862.
STEPHENS, G. _The Author of Incidents of Travel._
STERNE, Rev. L., 1713-1768. _Yorick._
STODDART, Sir John, political writer and journalist, b.
1773-1856. See the Newspaper Press, I., 204. _Slop, Dr._
STONE, J. S. _Stein, J. S._
STORY, Isaac. _Quince, P._
STOTHARD. See Bray.
STOWE, Mrs. H. B., b. 1814, America. M. of T. There is a portrait
of her in Duyckinck, Cyclo. Am. Lit. _The Author of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin._
STOWELL, Baron. _Civis_, 1811.
STYLES, John. _Ringletub._
SURTEES, R. S. _Jorrocks, J._--_The Author of Handley
Cross._--_The Author of Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour._
SWANWICK, Anna. _A. S._
SWANWICK, Catherine. _L._
SWIFT, Jonathan, 1667-1745. _Gulliver, L._
T.
TAIT, A. C., b. 1811, Scotland; educated in Edinburgh. M. of T.
_The Bishop of London._
TAYLOR, A. and Jane (Ann T., the wife of Isaac T., d. 1830. She
wrote numerous books for the young. Maternal Solicitude is best
known). _Several Young Persons._--_The Authors of Original Poems._
TAYLOR, C., d. 1821. _The Editor of Calmet, &c._
TAYLOR, F. _One of the Party._
TAYLOR, Jane, 1783-1824. Memoirs and Poetical Remains, published
1825, edited by her brother, Isaac Taylor. See also Taylor, A.
_Q. Q._
TAYLOR, J. _A Layman_, 1851.
TAYLOR, W. F. _W. F. T._
TENNYSON, Alfred, Poet Laureate, third son of the Rev. G. C. T.,
b. 1809, England; educated by his father and at Cambridge. M. of
T., 1868. _Alcibiades._--_Two Brothers_, 1832.
TENNYSON, Charles. _Two Brothers._
TERHUNE, Mrs. _Harland, M._
THACKERAY, W. M., b. 1811, Calcutta, his father being a member of
the Bengal Civil Service; descended from an old Yorkshire family.
Sent home in 1817 for education, and placed in the Charterhouse
school: afterwards went to Cambridge. Began his career as an
artist. M. of T., 1862. d. 1863. _Pendennis._--_Titmarsh, M. A._
THOMAS ( ) harpist, brother of John Thomas, the singer.
_Aptommas._
THOMAS, Mrs. Ann, the widow of Ralph Thomas, Serjeant-at-Law.
_Ann._--_A. T._
THOMAS, Miss Annie (Mrs. Pender Cudlip), a novelist of
considerable talent, though by no means exempt from the remarks
generally applicable to our lady-novelists. One critic, for
instance, says, “it is pity lady-novelists persist in writing
about what they do not understand; for we do not really think
Miss Thomas understands--though she certainly affects--the
language of the stable and the club.” Most of her works, we
believe, are republications from magazines, &c. _The Author of
Sir Victor’s Choice._
THOMAS, Ralph, Serjeant-at-Law. _H. S._--_R. T._
THOMPSON, D. P., American. _A Member of the Vermont Bar._--_The
Author of May Martin._
THOMPSON, Mrs. K. _Wharton, Grace._
THOMS, W. J., F.S.A., b. 1803, England, bibliographer, author,
antiquarian, and journalist, deputy librarian to the House
of Lords. Early English Prose Romances ... 1828. 2nd edit.,
1858.--The Book of the Court ... 1838 and 1844.--Shakespeare
... 1865.--Hannah Lightfoot, Queen Charlotte, and the Chevalier
D’Eon, &c., 1867. M. of T., 1868, _Merton, A._ _The Editor of
Notes and Queries._
THOMPSON, M., American author. _Doesticks._
THOMSON, G. _Civis._
THOMSON, R. _An Antiquary_, 1827.
THORN, William. _Theta._
THORNBURY, G. W. (q.v.), son of a solicitor, b. 1828, England, a
very popular writer of fiction, &c. M. of T., 1868.
TODHUNTER, Isaac (q.v.), mathematician.
TOMLINS, F. G., b. 1805-1867, journalist and author of: * Garcia,
a Tragedy [Lond., 1835]. A History of England ... 1st edition,
1834, anon., 1839; another edit. [1857].--A Brief View of the
English Drama ... 1840. His library was sold by Sotheby, 20 Jany.
1868. See The Bookseller, 1867, p. 688. _Littlejohn._
TONGUE, Cornelius. _Cecil_, 1851.
TOOKE, W. _M. M. M._
TOOTELL, Hugh. We have been able to indicate this pseud., a
later edit. of the original work (1737) having been pub. _Dodd,
Charles._
TOWNSEND, G. H. _An English Critic._--_Green, J._
TRASK, G. _Toby, S._
TROWBRIDGE, J. T., American. _Creyton, P._
TUCKER, Beverly, b. 1784, America -1851, professor of law,
novelist, journalist, and jurist. _Sidney, E. W._
TUCKER, Miss C. _A. L. O. E._
TUPPER, M. F., son of a surgeon descended from an ancient
Guernsey family, born in London, 1810 educated at Charterhouse
and Oxford; called to the Bar, L., 1835, but never practised.
“Proverbial Philosophy” is the work for which he is best known,
and probably more ridiculed than any author of the day. M. of T.
_Query P._--_T._
TURNBULL, W. B. D. D. _A Delver into Antiquity._--_W. B. D. D. T._
TURNER, S. Henry. _Presbyter._
TYLER, R. _A Virginian._
TYTLER, Ann Fraser. Lelia at Home, a continuation of L. in
England. Lond., 1852. _A. F. T._
V.
VASEY, G., author of Delineations of the Ox Tribe; or the Natural
History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes, &c., illustrated by
72 engravings on wood. Lond., 1855.--The Excelsior Reading
made Easy, 1855.--Knowledge made Easy, or the Art of Spelling,
Reading, Writing, &c. 1856.--The Beauties and Utilities of a
Library, forming the Student’s Guide to Literature, Science,
and Philosophy, and containing an Analysis of the Canadian
Parliamentary Library. Toronto, 1857.--Individual Liberty, Legal,
Moral, and Licentious, in which the Political Fallacies of J. S.
Mills’ Essay “On Liberty” are pointed out. 1867. _A Beefeater._
W.
WADE, John, Vice-President of the Hist. Section of the “Institut
d’Afrique” of Paris. Hist. of the Middle and Working Classes,
3rd edit. Lond., 1835.--British Hist., chronologically arranged,
3rd edit. Lond., 1844.--Women Past and Present. Lond., 1859, and
several other works. _J. W._
WALDIE, Miss, author of Rome in the XIX. Century. _An
Englishwoman._
WALFORD, Rev. E., editor of Men of the Time, 1862, and Once a
Week, to the end of 1867, and author and editor of a great number
of works. For list, see Crockford’s Clerical Directory. _Urban,
S._
WALLER, J. F. _Slingsby, J. F._
WALMESLEY, Ch., Bishop of Rama. _Pastorini._
WALSH, J. H., editor of The Field. _Stonehenge._
WANOSTROCHT, Nicholas, the younger son of N. W., schoolmaster and
author of numerous school books. _Felix, N._
WARD. See HOWE.
WARD, R. P., b. 1765, Spain -1846, youngest son of John W., a
merchant of Spain. Educated at Westminster School and at Oxford.
Called to the Bar, I. T., 1790, but relinquished the profession
in 1802 to become Under-secretary of State in the Foreign
Department, and he afterwards held other official appointments.
He is author of numerous works of fiction and others. Life by G.
Phipps, 1850. * Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement, was pub. in
1825. _The Author of Tremaine._
WARDEN, W. (q.v.).
WARNER, Miss Anna B., youngest sister of the following:--Author
of Dollars and Cents., 1853, and others. _Lothrup, Amy._
WARNER, Miss Susan, b. America, daughter of Henry W., a member
of the Bar of New York. Her first story, The Wide Wide
World, 1849, brought her into prominent notice, since which
time she has written a great number of novels, tales, &c.,
all pseudonyms. Duyckinck, Cyclo. of Am. Lit. _The Author of
Queechy._--_Wetherell._
WARTER, Rev. J. W., b. 1806, England, son-in-law of Robert
Southey. _Oldacre, C._
WATERS, C. We believe this name to be a pseudonym. Under it have
been written a great number of “Detective Police Officer” class
of tales, which, if not highly creditable, are highly lucrative.
_The Author of a Skeleton in Every House._
WATTS, Thomas, b. in London early in this century. It is quite
impossible to think of Mr. Watts without coupling his name with
that of the British Museum Library. We have so fully given our
opinions on this subject in our Bibliogram on J.-M. Quérard,
that we shall not dilate upon them here. Mr. Watts has been a
contributor to numerous periodicals and cyclopædias, generally,
we believe, anonymously. He was appointed to the important post
of Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum in 1866, and
his chief energies have thus been devoted to the public service,
the value of which literary students fully appreciate. See Men of
the Time, 1868. _P. P. C. R._
WEBSTER, G. E. _A Minister of the Church of England._
WELBY, Mrs. Amelia N., b. 1821, America -1852. An edition of her
Poems pub. in 1850. Duyckinck. _Amelia._
WESTMACOTT, C. M. _Blackmantle, B._
WHATELY, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, 1787, England -1863.
Memoirs by his Daughter. _A Country Pastor._--_Search, John._
WHELLIER, A. _Gifford, J._
WHITE, A. _Arachnophilus._
WHITE, R. Grant. _A Yankee._
WHITE, Rev. J. _The Author of The Earl of Gowrie._
WHITE, J. Blanco. _Doblado._
WHITEING, Richard (not E.), journalist and author. _Sprouts._
WIGRAM, S. R. _Bee, H._
WILDE, Lady. _Speranza._
WILLIAMS, Rev. Isaac, divine and poet, b. 1802-1865.
_Contributors, &c._
WILLIAMS, James. _Contributors, &c._
WILLIAMS, John, journalist. _Publicola._
WILLIAMS, W. _A Philadelphian._
WILLIS, Duke. _Wyseman, D._
WILLS, W. G. (q.v.).
WILSON, Miss H. _The Authoress of Little Things._--_The Author of
Little Things._
WILSON, Professor John, b. 1785, Scotland -1854. He was the son
of a manufacturer at Paisley. Educated at Glasgow and Oxford,
where he took honours, and was celebrated for his skill in
athletic sports. He was some time before he decided on adopting
literature as his profession. He contributed some fine letters
to Coleridge’s _Friend_ under the pseudonym of Mathetes. He was
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh,
where he died. Life, by Mrs. Gordon, 1862. _North, C._
WILSON, John, of Islington. _J. W._
WILSON, Rev. R. F. _Contributors, &c._
WINTER, W. _Mercutio._
WISE, Lieutenant. _Gringo, H._
WITHERBY, W. _A Layman_, 1818.
WOLCOT, Rev. John, b. 1738-1819. See N. & Q. 3 S. xii. _Pindar,
P._
WOOD, Mrs. Henry (q.v.), who is rather severely treated in the
notice of her works, is not one whit worse than numbers of her
contemporaries, only she has been found out, and the others have
not, we regret to say. She is the eldest daughter of the late Mr.
Thomas Price, glove manufacturer, of Worcester, where she was
born about 1820. She was married, at an early age, to a gentleman
connected with the shipping trade. She commenced her literary
career as contributor to the New Monthly Magazine. For further
particulars, see our authority, M. of T., 1868.--_The Author of
East Lynne._ (This lady is not the Mrs. Henry Wood, author of Sir
Cyrus of Stonycleft. Lond., Newby, 1867).
WOOD, Rev. J. G., b. 1827, London, the son of a surgeon, at
onetime chemical lecturer at the Middlesex Hospital, who
afterwards removed to Oxford, where Mr. Wood was educated, at
Merton College. The different appointments he has held will be
found in Crockford’s Clerical Directory. He originally employed a
pseudonym for any bagatelles, as he only desired to be identified
with works on Natural History. We have, however, lately seen
the disguise thrown off. He has distinguished himself by the
production of several goodly tomes yearly since 1853, having
fairly earned the title to belong to what Mr. Edward Edwards
calls “the honourable craft of book-makers.” The latest work
announced is his Bible Animals, 1868, for which we may safely
predict an immense sale. _Forrest, G._ See Acheta Domestica, p. 3.
WOODWARD, H. L. _H. L. W._
WOOLER, F. G. _The Black Dwarf._
WOOLEY, C. _C. A. M. W._
WRAXALL, Sir F. C. L., Bart. (q.v.), b. 1828-1865, novelist and
essayist. M. of T., 1862.
WRIGHT, Frances. _An Englishwoman._
WRIGHT, J. M. In the work given, pub. in 1827, much of the
author’s experience is contained. _A Trinity Man._
WYNTER, Andrew, b. 1819, England, M.D. 1853, M.R.C.S. 1861,
editor of the British Medical Journal. He is also contributor to
our periodical literature. M. of T. _Retnyw._
Y.
YATES, Edmund Hodgson, son of the well-known actor, b. 1831,
England. Holds a public appointment in the Post Office. Editor of
Temple Bar Magazine. M. of T., 1868. _Q._--_The Flâneur._
YONGE, Miss Charlotte Mary, b. 1823, England, only daughter
of W. C. Y., Esq., of Otterbourne, Hants, 52nd Foot, and a
magistrate for Hampshire. Her novels are of the High Church
school. See M. of T. _The Author of Abbeychurch._--_The Author of
Heartsease._--_The Author of Henrietta’s Wish._--_The Author of
Kings of England._--_The Author of Scenes and, &c._--_The Author
of The Heir of Redclyffe._
GENERAL INDEX.
Abbeychurch, 127
A Bon Chat, Bon Rat, &c., 41
About in the World, 141
Adam Bede, 47
Adelaide’s (Lady) Oath, 131
ADLER, Dr., 46
Adventures in Search of a Horse, 47
Adventures of my Cousin Smooth, 125
Adventures on the Mosquito Shore, 183
Africa, Seven Years on the Slave Coast of, 188
Age of Frivolity, poem, 158, 195
Agnes Grey, 24
Agriculture, hints on, 29
Ahasuerus, poem, 20
AIMARD, Gustave, 171
Airs, English, Scotch, and Irish, 27
ALBERT, Prince, 21
Alcobaça and Batalha, 146
Algebra, 156
Alice Wentworth, 127
Allan Cameron, 115
ALLAN, J. H., 114
Alexandria, 20
Algebraical Equations, 113
ALLIBONE, S. A., Dictionary, 32, 193
All Saint’s, Sudbury, history of, 22
Alma Mater, 20
Alroy, the wondrous tale of, 146
Altrive Tales, 149
Almost a Heroine, 129
Aloe, 11
Alone, 57
Altar Stones, hymns, 141
Alvarez, 11
American Authors, Dict. of, 10
Americans, notions of, 20
American Broad Grins, 52
American Authors, several, 119
American Views of Society, 181
American Reprints, xiv
Americans, the, 180
Amy Harrington, 30
Amy Herbert, 8, 127
Amy’s First Trial, 13
Amy’s Kitchen, 129
Ancient Romance, a fragment of, 24
ANDREWES’ Devotions, 71
Angela, 131
Angler, a north country, 17
Angler’s Souvenir, 50
Angler, a poem, 81
Anglers, hints to, 125
Angling, 30, 34, 65, 92
Angling Excursions, 54
Angling, handbook on 48
Angling, hints on, 56
Angling, Practical Observations on, 1801, 6
Anglo-Hebrews, 3
Annals of my Village, 138
Annals of the Parish, 183
Anne Cave, a story, 42
Anne Grey, 128
ANNE, Théod., 115
Anonymiana, 9
Anonyms and Pseudonyms, work on, x
Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, 128
Antiquary, 1816, 146
Antonio, Dr., a tale, 134
Aphorisms, book of, 180
Apocalypse, the, 189
Apple of Discord, 141
APPLETON’S Librarian’s Manual, 87
April Showers, 3
APULEIUS, 57
Architecture Tapestries, 123
Aristocracy of England, thoughts on the, 157
Arlington Club, 6
Arms borne by families, &c., 14
Art of Making Catalogues of Libraries, or a Method to Obtain ...
a Printed Catalogue of the British Museum, 182
Arthur Fitzalbini, 118
Arthur, King, and his Round Table, 165
Asia, a Tour in, 33
Assyrian Remains, 18
Astor Library, 24
Astrology, handbook of, 176
Athenæum, the, 5, 199
Athenæum Club, 119
Aubrey, Major, 1
Audibleness of Thought, 10
Aunt Dorothy’s Will, 40
Aurifodina, 25
Aurora Floyd, 133
Australia, 66, 177
Autumn Holidays, 4
Avery Glibun, 72
Ayesha, the Maid of Kars, 147
Aymé Verd, 115
Ayrshire Legatees, 128, 183
Bachelors, 2
BAILLET, Adrien, on Anonyms, x
Baked Meats of the Funeral, 95
BALDWIN, J. L., 64
Ballads, book of, 52
Ballantyne, J., 114
BALZAC, 132
Bank of England, on the, 56
Banks and Bankers, 56
Baptism, Christian, 116
Baptism, facts on, 148
Bar, criticisms, on, 13
Bar, going to the, 60
BARNES, T., 52
BARTLETT’S Jerusalem, 22
Battle, Summer, 87
Battles of the Bibles, 178
Bathing Dresses, 164
Battle-Fields, pictures of, 1856, 151
BAWDIN, Sir C., 30
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, selections from, 29
Beechcroft, 127
Bee-Keeping, 151
Belforest, 135
Belgium, Anonyms and Pseudonyms, works published in, xi
Belgium, a residence in, 15
Belgravia Magazine, 161
Belgrave, Lord, his footman Hayes, 183
Bell, Currer, 171
Bench and the Bar, 137
Benevolence, works of, 12
BENTLEY’S Miscellany, 4, 6
Berkeley, Col., 178
Bertie Bray, 138
Bertie, or Life, &c., 118
Betrothed, the, 114
Bible Society, 85
Bibliolatry, on, 183
Bibliomania, 116
Bibliomaniac Ballad, 159
Bibliopegia, 19
Bibliotheca Legum, 34
Biglow Papers, 25
Billiards, 21, 36
Billings, H., 54
Bingle Family, 128
Birmingham Riots, 2
Births, Deaths, and Marriages, 138
Black Band, 74
BLACK, Mr., 48
BLACKMAN, John, 125
BLACKSTONE’S Commentaries, abridged, 53
BLAND’S Latin, &c., 6
Blondelle, 129
Blotting Book, outlines from the, 16
Blunham Church, 65
Boatman, a poem by Lord Lytton, 29
BOGUE, D., 26
BOHN, H. G., _v._ Bogue, 26
BOLINGBROKE, Lord, 9, 27
Bolton Abbey, 14
Bonaparte, Death of, a poem, 184
Book and its Story, 85
Bookbinding, 19
Bookmaking, exposure of, 156
Book of God, 189
Book of Job Expounded, 183
Books, on the Use of, 150
Border Land, 85
Borders of Tamar and Tavy, 122
BOSSUT, Abbé Ch., 26
BOSWELL, James, 63
Bouquet culled from Marylebone Gardens, 26
BOWLES, W. L., 190
Boy’s Book, every, 51
Boy’s Own Annual, 92
Boys and Girls, sketches of, 85
Boz, xii
Boz, sketches by, 26
Bracebridge Hall, 36
Brambletye House, 129
Breach of Promise, 141
Bridal of Caölchairn, 114
Bride of Sienna, 126
Bristol Journal, 31
British Museum. See Art of making, &c.
British Artists, 156
British Isles, history of, 48
Broken Font, a story, 139
Brokenhurst, Lord, a tale, 134
Bromsgrove, 2
Brooks, Shirley, 181
BROUGHAM, Lord, Letters to, 2
Brown, Mrs., _fictitious name_, 120, 213
Brunnen of Nassau, 17
Brunner, K., adventures of, 40
Bubbles. See Brunnen.
Buffalo Republic Newspaper, 27
BULLEN, George, xiii
Bullion Committee, 33
Buried Treasures, 36
BURKE, Life, by Peter Burke, 27
Bury, Lady, 178
BYRON, Lord, remarks on, 132, 165
BYRON, Lord, Cato to, 184
BYRON, Lord, to Murray, 190
CABANY, E. de, S. M., 115
Cabinet Lawyer, 71
Cabinet Minister, 135
CALAIS ( ), 115
Calavar, 129
Caleb Kniverton, a tale, 49
Caleb Redivivus, 9
Caleb Williams, 22
California, its Gold, and its Inhabitants, 188
Calthorpe, a novel, 143
Cambridge, Free Thoughts on Bibliolatry, 183
Cambridge, seven years at, 20
Cameron Men, march of the, 122
Camilla, 131
Camp Fire, the, 56
CAMPBELL, Lord John, 5
Canada, on, 47, 64
Canterbury, handbook for, 123
Cap-sheaf, 90
Captain’s Wife, 129
Carolina, political annals of South, 64
Carolina, revolution in, 137
CAROLINE, Queen, letter about, 149
CAREW, Sir R., life, 28
CARPENTER, W. H., 155
Caste, a novel, and a play, 136
CASTI, G. B., 165
Castle Builders, 131
Castle of Otranto, the, 32
Castle’s Heir, a novel, 172
Catalogues. See Art.
Catapulta, on the, 49
CATCOTT, of Bristol, 31
Catechism, chapters on the, 178
Catholic Church of England, 60
Catholic Churches in Rural Districts, 148
Catholic Emancipation, 58
Catholic, a Roman, 19
Cats and Dogs, 84
Cavaliers of Virginia, 142
Cavendish on Whist, 6
Cavendish, a novel, 129
Caxtoniania, 29
Cecil Castleman’s Gage, 95
Cecilia, 131
Chace, the, 91
Chalcographimania, 63, 116
CHALMERS, 63
Cham, xii
Championship, fight for the, 148
Channings, the, 172
Chaplain, recollections of a gaol, 6
CHAPPELL, Wm., 27
Charades, 129
Charivari, the French Punch, 30
Charles Kavanagh, a story, 125
CHARLES I., days of, 146
Charles Anchester, 129
Chase, records of the, 29
CHATTERTON, T., 64, 117, 127, 209
Cheap Clothes and Nasty, 85
Cheap Repository-Tracts by Hannah More, 176
Chelsea Pensioners, 144
Chess, 36, 158
Chevereul’s Color, &c., 87
Chichester Library Society, 150
Child Minister, the, 19
Children, on teaching, 188
Christ, prophecies of, 9
Christian Ballads, 3, 28
Christian Life, 12
Christian Observer, the, 58
CHRISTIE, Mr., 25
Christmas at Old Court, 147
Christmas at the Cross Keys, 42
Christmas at the Grange, 17
Christmas comes but once a year, 84
Christmas, a merry, 129
Christmas in 1690, 141
Christmas Rhyme, 23
Christmas Tree, the, 53
Chronicles of Waltham, 144
Church History of England, 43
Church, history of the early, 127
Church of Rome, on the doctrines of, 190
Churchyards, on, 126
Circé, a novel, 165
Citizen of the World, 3
City Banker, or Love and Money, 147
City of the Great King, 22
Clarence, 132
Class, a letter to my, 4
Clavigo, of Goethe, 19
CLEMENTS, publisher of a spurious Peter Parley work, 96
Clever Woman of the Family, 141
Clifford. See Mary.
CLINKER, J., 34
Clockmaker, the, 120
Closing Scene, 139
Cloud with Silver Lining, 129
Club Book, 140
Cnyghte, the Romaunt of the, 31
Coal Trade, 144
COBBETT, W., Magazine, 16
COCKBURN, Ld. Henry, 32
Cæsar Borgia, 147
Co-Heiress of Willingham, 83
Coinage, on, 63
COLENSO, Bishop of Natal, 140, 151
COLERIDGE, S., 5, 134
COLET, Dean, 58
Collegian’s Guide, 191
COLLIER, J. J., 116
COLLIER, J. P., 5, 134
COLWELL, S., 10
Comic Almanack, 52
Coming Home, 129
Common Prayer, book of, 12
Common Prayer, letters on the book of, 23
Complete Grazier, the, published in 1805. It is not mentioned by
Allibone amongst Horne’s works.
Confessions of a Poet, 18
Confession, a companion to, 179
Conrad, 130
Constance Lindsay, 30
Constitutional Government, 15
Conversations on Church Polity, 8
Cookery, domestic, 7
Copenhagen, handbook to, 15
Copyright Law, xiv
Coquet-Dale Fishing, 17
CORAM, T., 117
Corporation of London, 33
Corruption and Intolerance, poems, 181
Cortes, or the Fall of Mexico, 129
Costermonger, the (Richard Whiteing), 121
Costume in England, 11
Cottagers, the, 143
Counterparts, 129
Country Gentleman, 116
Country Parsonage, 18
County Magistrate, the, 22
COURBON, on Prayer, 175
Courtship and Wedlock, 130
Cousin Nicholas, some account of my, 186
Cranford, a tale, 134
Craven Dialect, 14
Crawford Peerage, 14
Crayon Sketches, 13
Creation and Deluge, 130
Cricket Bat, on the, 49
Crisis, a poem, 177
Critical Essays, 7
Cromwell, Oliver, 185
Croppy, a tale, 143
CROSBY, publisher, 10
CRUICKSHANK, G., 52, 123, 139
Cruickshank, G., 181, 186
Crusaders, tales of the, 1825, 146
CULVERWELL, 2
CUMBERLAND’S British Theatre, 43
Cupid and Psyche, 57
Curate of Cumberworth, 143
Curiosities of Literature, 81
Curious Narratives, sixty, 29
Currency, tracts on the, 71
Currency, the, 86
Currer Bell, 171
CURTIS, J., memoir of, 135
Cushions, the six, a tale, 141. See Velvet.
Cyril Thornton, 126, 130
Cynthia Thorald, 147
Dairyman’s Daughter, 177, 213
Daisy Chain, 141
Dalila, a novel, 165
Dancing in Edinburgh, 31
D’ANDREZEL, Abbé, 51
Daniel, G., 183
Darley’s Designs, 17
Darton and Co., publishers of numerous spurious Peter Parley books,
96
D’ARTAGNAN, mémoires, 44
Dashall, Hon. Tom, 13
David’s Choice of Three Evils, 179
David, lost tribe of, 151
DAVID, Jules, 115
Dead Bridal, the, 120
Deborah’s Diary, 135
DE COURTILZ, S., 44
Dee, river, 5
DEFAUCONPRET, A. J. B., 115
De Foix, 130, 196
DELECOURT, Job, xi
De L’Orme, 130
De Medici, Lorenzo, 26
DE MIRECOURT, 45
Democracy Unveiled, 1805, 184
DE MORGAN, Prof., 155
Design, suggestions in, 84
Desperadoes of the South-West, 122
Detective’s Note-book, 87
DE TILLEMONT, 183
De Vere, a tale, 145
Devonshire Dialect, 8, 59
Devoted, the, 126
Dialogists, the, 88
Diary of a Lover of Literature, 11
Diary of an Ex-Detective, 87
DIBDIN, T. F., 116
Dies Consecrati, 57
DI GALLO, Duke, 15
Discipline, a novel, 138
Disinherited, 126
Disowned, 136
D’ISRAELI, I., 81
Divine Revelation, 66
Dixies’ Land, Life in, 73
Doctor Birch, 156
Doctor’s Wife, the, 133
Doctrines and Duties, 9
Dollars and Cents, 85
Dolcino, Fra, 86
Don Juan, 165
Don Juan Reclaimed, 164
Dorothy Firebrace, 147
DOUGLAS, Dr. J., 82, 184
Dove, the, 141
Dovecot, the, 16
Drama, on the, 92
Dramas for Children, 149
Draughts, 36
Dream Life, 87
Dream of Chintz, 128
Dublin Great Exhibition, 115
Dublin Warder Newspaper, 54
Dull Stone House, 42
Dumas, A., xii
Dumas, Alex., 42, 168
Du Pont, Chevalier (Sir S. E. Brydges), 118
Duport, memoir, 65
Dutch War, on the policy of the, 160
Duties of Society, 182
Earl’s Heirs, 174
Early Engagements, 57
Earthquake, a tale, 139
Easter Gift, 84
Eastern Tourist, 64
East India Co., 4
East Lynne, 172
Easton (Town of), 83
Eating, illustrations of, 2
ECHARD’S History of England, 66
Edith of Graystock, 85
Education, modern, 47
Education, on, 29
Egypt, a poem, 19
Egyptian Remains, 18
Elba, island of, 91
Ella, V--, or the July Tour, 93
Ellen Fitzarthur, 126
ELRINGTON, S. N., viii
Elster’s Folly, 174
EMERSON, R. W., Life, 118
Emma, or, &c., 86
Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 3
England, history, 22
England, Ireland, and America, by Cobden, 12
English Authors in America, 79
English Facts, 116
English Hearts and English Hands, 142
English History, 94
English Lawyer, the, 53
English Play-goer, 17
English Press and its Poets, 160
English Spy, the, 25
English Settlers’ Guide, &c., 41
Englishman, an, 16
Englishman, One who is really an, 94
Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag., 16
Ennuyée, diary of an, 7
Enterprising Impresario, 87
Epickaris, a, tragedy, 131
Epping Hunt, 29
Epsom mineral waters, &c., 15
Erratics, by a Sailor, 19
ERSKINE, Rt. Hon., 33
Erstürmung, von Selama, 114
Espriella, see Alvarez.
Essays and Reflections in Australia, 179
Essays and Reviews, 141
Essays on the Church, 179
Ethell Churchill, 84
Etonians, 21
Etonian, the, 89
Ettrick Shepherd, 7
Eugene Aram, 136
Europe, Gleanings in, 14
Europe, general survey of, 177
Europe, scenes in, 14
European Library, the, 26
Evans’, Covent Garden, 54
Evening Incense, 135
Evening Star, readings in the, 21
Every Night Book, 139
Evils of England, 11
Examiner, the, 13
Excelsior, a poem, 9
Excelsior, a sketch, &c., 58
Exiles of Italy, the, 1837, 30
Exiles, the, a Tale, New York, 1853, 124
Extremes, a comedy, 49
Fables, 1821, 22
Fabrique de Romans, 42
Faith and Practice, 9
FALKENER, 131
FASTAFF, Sir J., Life, 40
Familiar Sketches, Boston, 1854, 145
Family Adventures, 141
Family Prayers, 1862, 182
Farce of Life a novel, 21
Fatal Revenge, 89
Fate of Folly, the, 22
Father Brighthopes, 37
Felix Farley, 150
Felix Holt, the radical, 47
Female Mentor, 59
Fermented Liquors, inquiries into the effect of, 182
Fern Leaves, 50
FERNS, Bishop of, 117
FEUILLET, Octave, 165
Figaro, Works of, 50
FILLMORE, M., 96
FIORENTINO, P. A., 44
Fireside Thoughts, 33
Firmilian, or the Student of Badajoz, 186
First Impressions, 6
Fisher Boy, 57
Fisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book, 84
Fisherman, the, 30
Fishing Songs, 17
Fistiana, 148
Fitzherbert, 126
Fitzwarine, Lond, 116
Flemish Interiors, 151
Flemish Life, Sketches from, 160
FLETCHER, G., 50
Flim Flams, 124
Flotsam and Jetsam, 23
Fly Fisher, rambles of, 34
Fly-fishing, 14, 92
FOOTE, Miss, 178
Forest and the Field, the, 56
Forest Tragedy, a, 54
Fortune-Hunting, 131
FOSDICK, David, viii
Fossil Fuel, History of, 144
Fountain of Living Waters, 179
FOWLER, Frank, 69
France, its King, &c., 14
Frank Fairleigh, a novel, 49
France, roadside sketches in the south of, 158
Francesco Spira, poem, 141
François, Picaud, 45
Fraser’s Mag., 13
FRAY, T. S., 13
Free trade, 93
Freemasonry illustrated, 12
Free thoughts, 12
French Authors at home, 132
French, hints on learning, 188
French school books, 26
French teaching, 41
FRERE, J. H., 55
Fresh Water Whale, a tale, 144
Fourth Estate, the, 19
French Provinces, tales of the, 20
Fruits of the valley, 5
Fudge Family, the, 26
Fudger Fudged, 149
FULLER ( ) Mr., 116
Futtehgurh, letters from, 85
Gala Days, 56
GALT, J., memoir, 40
Gammar Gurton’s pleasant stories, 88
GASKELL, Mrs., Life of Brontë, 24
Gay Deceivers, a farce, 55
Gentleman’s Magazine, 159
Genus Bos, 2
GEORGE III., 180
GEORGE IV., 95
George Sand, xii
Geraldine, a tale, 46
Germany, notes in, 137
Gerontius, dream of, 65
G’hals of New York, the, 27
Gipsey’s Daughter, 141
Giustina, a tale, 48
Gleanings in Europe, 144
Goal Chaplain, the, 188
Gold Bullion, 33
Gold Worshippers, 146
Gold Region, Adventures in the, 25
Golden Violet, 84
Golden Rule, 129
Good-natured criticism, 166
Goody Two Shoes, 88
Gordon, Father, 65
Gorham case, the, 9
Gossip’s week tales, 188
GRAESSE, Dr., Trésor des Livres Rares, &c., 125
GRAHAM, Sir J., 50
Granada, conquest of, 5
Grandmother’s money, 136
Grange, Christmas at the, 17
Graphotype, illustrations in, 140
Grassbreak Mansion, 27
Granville de Vigne, 95
Grayston, M. L., 65
Grazier, the, complete, 10
Great Unknown, the [Sir W. Scott], 115
Great first Cause, on the, 176
Great Fun for little friends, 144
Greece, History of, 22
Greece, Heroic Tales of Ancient, 122
GREEN (Duff), 120
Green-eyed Monster, 164
Green Room Gossip, 185
Greenwich Hospital Naval Sketches, 181
GRENVILLE, Thomas, 185
GREY, Lady Jane, 60
Greyhound, a treatise on the, 122
GRIMALDI, Joe, memoirs, 26
Gryll Grange, 131
Guardian Angel, 129
Guesses at Truth, 158
Guy Rivers, 131, 134
Gymnastics, 51
HADAWAY, Mrs., 115
HAERING, G. W. H., 114
HALKETT, Samuel, x
HALL, J. M., life, 137
Hallamshire Topography, 144
HAMILTON, 26
Hamilton, N. E., S. A., 116
Hamlet, 89
HAMPDEN, John, and Cromwell, 185
Handley Cross, 188
HARDWICKE, C., 36
Harp, History of the, 18
HARRISSE, H., Bib. Americana, 125
Hastings, handbook to, 127
Haverel wives, history of the, 34
Hazlitt, W., 22
Heart-break, 91
HEBBE, G. C., 118
Hebrew Student, Guide to the, 183
Hebrides, Tour in the, 49
Hector, the ship, 168
Held in Bondage, 95
Helen Morton’s trial, 10
Heloise, or the Unrevealed Secret, 124
HEMANS, Mrs., memoir, 40
HENDERSON, E., 168
Henpecked husband, 142
Henrietta Temple, 146
Henry Dunbar, 133
Heraldic Anomalies, 63
Herodotus, 52
Heronry, a tale, 116
Hermit of the Pyrenees, a poem, 188
Hidden path, the, 57
Hidden power, a tale, 142
High Church Doctrines, on, 179
High-ways and Bye-ways, 20
HILTON & Co., publishers, 79
Histoire Contemporaine, 42
History of England, 54, 86
History, Landmarks of, 132
History of my Pets, 54
History of Preston, 36
History of New York, 73
Hobbs and Dobbs, rival houses of the, 36
HODSON, J. S., publishers of spurious Peter Parley book, 96
HOGARTH to Turner, 156
HOGG, William, 83
Holly Grange, a tale, 42
Home as found, 132
HOLBEIN’S dance of death, 11
Holy Sacrament, the, 9
Home, Sweet Home, 122
Home Treasury, 122
HOMER, Mr., 113
HOOD, T., 29
HORACE, life of, 53
HORNE, T. H., 116
Horoscope, the, 176
Horse and the Hound, 91
Horses, on the management of, 116
Horsemanship, 58
Hounds, on the management of, 116
House on the Rock, 140
How the goode wife thought, &c., 51
HUGO, Victor, 132
HOYLE made familiar, 158
Huguenots in France and America, 145
Hulse house, 128
Human Understanding, 12
Human Life, the Dream of, 142
Human nature, inquiry concerning, 179
HUME, David, 7
Hungarian tales, 126, 142
Hunters, remarks on, 91
Hunting Field, 58
Hunting tours, 29
HUSKISSON, Mr., 33
Hussey Peerage Case, 164
Hylton house, 141
Hymn for all Nations, 124
Idalia, 95
Improvisatrice, 84
Incidents of Travel, 132
Indian Character, 90
Indian scenery, &c., 4
Indignant Rhymes, 15
Infidel, or the fall of Mexico, 129
Influence, 129
Ingoldsby legends, 186
Insect life, 3
Intemperance, against, 52
Intercepted letters, 1813, 26
Investments, guide for, 93
Ireland, 58
Ireland, education in, 65
Ireland, excursion to, 148
Ireland, tour in, 15
Ireland, tours in, 65
Ireland, a walking tour round, 16
Irish Church, the, 139
Irish fallacies, 116
Irishman, the, 16
Iroquois, the, 90
IRVING, W., 43, 118
Island empire, 129
Israel’s true emancipation, 46
Italian grammar, 86
Italy, 86
Italy, guide for, 181
Ivanhoe, 1820, 124, 146
Jack Brag, 137
Jack Frost, 66
Jacob Faithful, 137
Jane Eyre, 24
Jasper’s tenant, 133
JEBB, Mrs., memoirs, 55
Jehovah’s ancient temple, 171
Jerks, from Short-Leg, by Quid, 187
JERROLD, Douglas, 120, 136
Jerusalem, 22
Jest Book, 89
Jesus Christ, revelation of, 18
Jesus, Tell (a tale), 1866, 19
Jilt, the, 130
Jockey Club, 2
John Brown’s trouble, 46
John Davy, a sailor, 44
John Greswold, 136
JOLIET, Ch., 15
JONES, J. Winter, xii
Jorrocks’s Jaunt, 70, 188
Journal of the heart, 126
Jubal, poem, 88
Judges of England, 53
Junius, 142
Jura, quiet nook in the, 130
Justified sinner, memoirs of, 35
Katherine Walton, 137
Katy’s story, 87
Katzekopfs, hope of the, 32
KEATS, J., life of, 70
KELKE, W. H., 22
KEMBLE, observations on Mr., 52
KEN, T. life of, 179
KENDALL, Mr., 42
Kenneth, a tale, 138
Kentuckian, the, 20
KETTELL, S., 96
Kickleburys on the Rhine, 156
KILLALA, Bishop of, 58
King of the Sea, 1848, 27
Kingcups, _ps._, 25
Kinsman, a tale, 143
King of the Commons, 140
Kitchen Garden, my, 4
Kitto’s Journal, 72
KNIGHT, Charles, author and publisher of his English Cyclo., 145
---- Quarterly Magazine, 36, 56, 89
Koranzzo’s Feast, a tragedy, 183
KÖRNER, Theodore, poems of, 151
Kynast, the Bride of, 17
Lady Adelaide’s Oath, 172
Lady and her Ayah, 134
Lady’s Mile, the, 133
LAMARTINE, 132
Lances of Linwood, 131
Land and sea tales, 150
Land’s end guide, 18
Landscape painting, 6
Landscape architecture, on, 53
Langley School, 132
LAS CASES, 163
Last of the Old Squires, 92
Lauread, the, 129
LAWRENCE, F., 31, 63, 83, 105
Lays for the Cimbric Lyre, 184
Lay of the Thrings, 59
Leaves from my memorandum book, 37
Ledger, the, 3
LEECH, John, 137
Lee Priory, 119
Legends of the library at Lilies, 150
Leicester’s (Mrs.) School, 87
Leisure Hour, 49
Leisure Hours in Town, 143
Lemuel Gulliver, 38
Leslie Hope, 142
Letters of advice (upon domestic matters) &c., 191
Letters from England, 11
Letters of a Betrothed, 59
Lewis Arundel, a novel, 49
LEWIS, Lady Theresa, 143
Libel, law of, 117
Library, classification of, 119
Life, see Antidote.
Life of a beauty, 141
Life and characters, essays, 6
Life, law, and literature, essays, 36
Life in London, real, 13
Life in the new world, 118
Life, a romance, 189
Life in the saddle, 27
Life’s discipline, 124
Life’s foreshadowings, a novel, 169
Life’s secret, 174
LIGGINS, Mr., 47
Light Dragoon, a tale, 144
Lilies, library at, 150
Limerick Evening Post, 20
Lionel Lincoln, 143
Linwood, the lances of, 131
Linwoods, the, 132
Linwood, curate of, 30
Lion’s skin, the, 41
Literature, English, Dict. of, 10, 193, 218
Literary character illustrated, 140
Literary cookery, 5
Literary forger, Chatterton, 30
Literary frauds, 174
Literary hoax, a, 27
Literary life, trials of, 91
Literary impositions, viii
Literary personages, sketches of, 178
Literary piracies, viii
Literary swindling, viii
Literary taste, elements of, 150
Literature, relics of, 35
Little Apple Blossom, 29
Little Museum Keeper, 120
Little Ragamuffin, history of, 126
Little Sunshine, 129
Little Traveller, the, 53
Liturgy, the, 46
Live and let live, 132, 142
Living and the dead, 178
Locke, Amsden, 135
LOCKE, John, 12, 36
Lockhart’s life of Scott, 34
Locuta, voyage to, 55
Lodare, 131
Lodgings, a gentleman who has left his, 5
London, a picture of, 1828, 23
London bridge, Chronicles of, 14
London cries, 84
London, letters from, 1816, 90
London Magazine, 1821, 25
London Medical Practice, 18
London out of Town, 84
London Railways, 13
London Society, 7, 49
Look at the clock, 140
Looking-glass, the, 86
Lord’s supper, the, 9
Los Gringos, 55
Lost love, a, 95
Lost ship, 129
LOUNT, a criminal, 2
Love, a dictionary of, 87
Love letters of eminent persons, 87
Love laughs at locksmiths, 55
Love and Matrimony, by Zadkiel, 176
Love and pride, 137
Love that kills, a novel, 169
Love token for children, 142
Lover upon trial, 73
Lover’s quarrel, 130
Love’s progress, 143
Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual by Bohn, xi, 119
Loyalty, a voyage in search of, 28
LUCAS, Dr. C., 27
Lucien Greville, 4
Lucill, 88
Lucy Crofton, 134
LUTHER, Martin, life of, 145
Lux Renata, 3
LYTTLETON, Lord, 116
Mabel Vaughan, 142
Machinery, use of, 15
MACKAY, C., 147
MACKAY, James, 118
MACPHERSON, 31
Madeline Graham, 147
Maid of Orleans, 146
Maiden Aunt, the, 121
Malachi Malagrowther (q.v.) and, 163
MALLETT, 27
MALONE, Essence of, 49, 62
Manly Exercises, handbook of, 122
Man-o-War’s Man, 158, 181
Manstein, General, 7
Manufacture of novels, 78, 81, 167, 173
MAQUET, A., 44
March Winds, 3
MARIA LOUISA, Archduchess, 90
Margaret Waldegrave, 30
Marmaduke, Sir (a novel), 181
MARONIA, Bishop of, 58
Marriage with the sister of a deceased wife, 117, 180
Marriage in high life, 126, 127
Married for Love, 130
MARRYATT, Captain copied by Dumas, 44
Martin, Faber, 144
Martin, Merrivale, 37
MARTINEAU, Miss, 16, 59
Martyr Age of the United States, 1840, 59
Mary Clifford, 128
Mary De-Clifford, 134
Mary Dhu, ballad, 176
Mary and Florence, 178
Mary Powell, 95
Mary Powell, 135
Mary Queen of Scotland, 41
Maskers of Moorfields, 55
Massachusetts, early times in, 142
Masson, Mr., 155
Masters and workmen, 21
Matchmaker, the, 130
Matrimony, an order for, &c., 48
Maternal Martyrdom, 29
Matthews, a criminal, 2
Matthews, whist, 1
Maudit, Le, by the Abbé Deléon, 189
Mauleverer’s divorce, 147
Maxwell & Co., 133
Maxwell, J., publisher, 76, 167
Maynooth, 115
Meadows, K., 72
Means and ends, 137
Medical Practice, 18
Melibæus Hipponax, 25
Melincourt, 131
Mellichampe, a legend, 144
Mellon, Alfred, 17
Men and Manners in America, 130
Men and things ... in Europe, 73
Mental prayer, instructions on, 175
Meteor, a farce, 1809, 63
Metropolitan grievances, 94
Mexico, adventures in, 118
Mhow Court-Martial, 66
Microcosm, the, 21, 55
Mignionette, _ps._, 25
Mildmayes, the, 91
Military College, Sandhurst, 176
Million of facts, a, 25
Mill on the Floss, 47
Milton, 81
Milton, J., 36
Minnie’s love, 129
Miracles of Christ, 177
Mirandola, 35
Miriam, a poem, 132
Missing Link, 85
Modern Athens, the, 13
Modern painters, 6
Modern statesmen, 50
Moir, D., 176
Monarchs of the main, 155
Monks and Nuns, 60
Montaigne, essays, 59
Monte Christo, le comte de, 44
Monthly Journal, 125
Monthly Mag., 19, 211
Montholon, count, 163
Montrose, Marquess of, memoirs, 185
Moore, Thos., letter to, 127
More, Hannah, 85
More, Sir T., 89
Moredun, 115
Morgan, Hugh, 76
Mormonism, mysteries of, 159
Mormons, travels among, 161
Morning meditations, 180
Morning thoughts, 178
Moss side, 57
Mothers and Daughters, 126
Mother’s primer, 123
Mount Sorel, 145
Mount’s Bay guide, 18
Moxon’s edition of miniature poets, 64
Mullen, 95
MULREADY, R.A., 86
Music of the soul, 71
Music, on, 89
Music and Dancing in Edinburgh suppressed, 182
Musing on guard, poems, 49
My country, 48
My dream through all the night art thou, 181
My first season, 129
My life, 1860, 17
My note book, 136
My novel, 29
My sister Dagmar, 28
Myrtle wreath, 90
Mysore, the, 61
Mystery, the (a novel), 174
Mytton, J., life of, 91
Nag’s Head, a story, 118
Napier, Mark, 185
Naples, political, &c., 22
Napoleon I., 15, 51, 129, 161
Napoleon I., historic doubts respecting, 39
Napoleon I., secret memoirs, 93
Napoleon I., life of, satirical, 123
Napoleon III., 94
Natural History, 51, 85
Natural society, a vindication of, 27
Nature’s voice in the Catholic Church, 50
Naval administration, 18
Naval surgeon, 129
Neapolitan, a, 15
New Bath guide, 123
Newbury, History of, 35
New Hampshire, 64
New Nobility, 164
New Testament, questions on the, 23
New York, a lady of, 8
New York, natural history of, 57
Newark, Notts, 6
Nicette, a mazurka, 122
Nicholas Nickleby, 26
Nick of the Woods, 138
Niebuhr, B. G., 123
Night-Cap, travels of my, 136
Nina, a tale, 121
Nineveh, 85
Nobody’s daughter, 74
Norfolk, rambles in, 19
Norman’s bridge, 131
North and South, 118, 134
Not Paul but Jesus, 121
Notting Hill mystery, 49
Novels, “hashing up” system, 169-173
Novel manufacture, 45
Novel, not all a new, 172
Novels, the manufacture of, 81, 167, 173
Novel writing, rapidity of, 172
Nowlans, 150
Nursery nurture, notes on, 140
Nursery Rhymes for the, 147
Nun, the, a novel, 189
Old Joe Miller, 89
Old country house, 141
Old world, letters from, 8
Oliver Twist, 26
Olivia, a tale, 73
Omphale, 165
One and Twenty, a novel, 1860, 147
One tract more, 9
Only a Clod, 133
Opera Goer, 17
Opera, Sunday at Brighton, 23
Opera, the, 135
Opium Eater, an, 15
Orestes and the avengers, 184
Osceola, or fact and fiction, 19
Oswald Cray, 174
Our Doctor’s notebook, 138
Outcast, the, 1856, 64
Outcast, the, 133
Owen Tudor, 146
Oxenford, J., 181
Oxford to Rome, 4
Packhard, the publisher, 118
Painters, sketches of, 145
PANIZZI, Antonio, xiii
Pantheon, the, 1806, 22
Paris, a visit to, 24
Paris guide, 180
Paris, an historical notice, 64
Paris sketch book, 156
Parliamentary portraits, 50
Parlour pastime, 53
Parnassus in the pillory, 86
PARR, Dr., 63
Parson’s Daughter, 137
Partisan Leader, 120
Partisan, a tale, 144
Passionate Pilgrim, 156
Passion Flowers, 8
Patriots, Scotch, 86
Paul of the Cross, life, 60
Paul Ferroll, 136
Paul Massie, 188
Paul Pry, 136
Paulding, J. K., 114
Peacock, T., Esq., adventures of, 12
Peep O’ Day, 150, 209
Pelayo, a romance, 63
Pen and Ink Sketches, 178
Pen-Pictures of Preachers, 64
Penscellwood Papers, 130
Pentateuch, the, 140
Perkins’ (Mrs.) Ball, 156
Peter Pilgrim, 129
Peter the Castle, 150
Peterborough, Bishop of, 58
PETTIGREW, T. J., the Physician, 4
Philadelphia, handbook for, 18
Philalethes, 63
Philanthropist, the, 128
Philip Augustus, 130
Philip Hetherington, 73
Phillips, Sir R., 146
Phillpotts, H., 65
Philosophical Transactions, 113
Phiz, xii
Pin-Money, 134
Pious Harriet, 57
Pipe of Tobacco, 52
Piscatorial Reminiscences, 16
Piscatory Scribblings, 5
Pitt, life of, 53
Plagiarism, 50, 66, 152, 165, 183, 185
Plagiarism, German, 112
Plagiarisms--A Glowworm, 6
Plagiarist, 81
Plain or Ringlets, 131
Plain Sermons, 35
Plain Tracts for Critical Times, letters to the authors of, 179
Pleader’s Guide, 123
Pleasure Excursions, 122
Plenary Inspiration of Scripture, 18
Plu-Ri-Bus-Jah, 43
Pocahontas, 3
Poems. There are “Poems” on nearly every page of this work; it is,
therefore, useless to give a list of pages. Nearly all will
be found under their distinctive titles.
Poet Laureate, 95
Poets, sketches of, 178
Police in Edinburgh, 32
Police of Edinburgh, 33
Political Lecture on Heads, 148
Politicians, sketches of, 178
Poole, Index to Periodical Literature, 83
Poor Child’s Library, 23
POPE, life and writings of, 190
Popery, 29
Popery, against, 188
Popes, history of the, 183
Porson, Professor, 123
Port Admiral, 129
Portfolio, the, 92
Portrait Collector, 116
Prätzel, the journal of, 16
Prayer, 4
Prayers, 71
Preachers, sketches of, 178
Present and Afterward, 144
President, who shall be, next, 93
Press, moral effects of, 19
Pride of the Village, 43
Prince Ahmed, 74
Professor, the, a tale, 24
Proscrit des Hébrides, 115
Prose by a Poet, 18
Prout Papers, 16
Providence Chapel, 190
Pseudonymes du Jour, 1867, 15
Public Advertiser, the, 71
Publicola, 126
Puseyism, 23
Pythie des Highlands, 115
Quadrilateral, 35
Quakerism, 16
Quality Papers, 175
Queechy, 164
Queen (Victoria), loyal address to the, 40
Quentin Durward, 1823, 146
Quérard, J.-M., xi, 45, 51, 219. See Dedication.
Quid Pro Quo, or Day of Dupes, 30
Ralph Willoughby, Sir, 118
Randolph Gordon, 95
Random Recollections of the House of Commons, 93
Ray of light, 129
Reader! walk up, &c., 21
Reading, essay on, 127
Readings by Starlight, 48
Real and Beau Ideal, 146
Recess, the, 49
Recollections of the Peninsula, 138
Reeve, Lovell (d. 1865), 155
Reform Caricatures, 57
Re-generation or De-generation, 61
Religieuse, la, a novel, 189
Religio Clerici, 3
Religious Discourses, 9
Religious Controversy, 66
Retrospect, the, 57
Reveries of a Bachelor, 87
Reynolds, Sir J., 8
Rhine Guide, 181
Rhode Island, 64
Richardson and Dumas Compared, 44
Richelieu in Love, comedy, 146
Richmond (America), 73
Riding and Driving, 122
Rifle, sporting, 122
Ring of Amasis, 88
Rising Sun, a satire, 59
Ritchie, J. E., 51
River and the Star, 181
River Dove, 65
Rivers, Guy, 131
Rivers, Eliza, 127
Rivers. See Rutly. (This is a favourite name with novelists. There
is also Lena Rivers, by Mary J. Holmes, 1857.)
Robin Day, 129
Rob Roy, 1818, 146
Robin Goodfellow, a journal, 147
Rodolphus, a story, 143
Roman, the, a dramatic tale, 175
Roman Catholic Church in England, 19
Romance and Reality, 84
Romanism at Home, 73
Romance of War, a novel, 185
Rome, a poem, 165
Rome, history, 22
Romola (not Romata), a novel, 47
Roscoe, W., 26
Roscoe of Cork, 16
Rose Clark, 50
Rose of Ashurst, 131
Rosïere de Bricquebec, 43
Roue de Fortune, la, 45
Round Sofa, 134
Rowing Almanack, 168
Rowley, T., a monk, 30
Royal Academy Exhibition, 11
Royal Stripes, &c., 95
Ruins of Athens, poem, 20
Rumour, a novel, 129
Rural Hours, 8
Russia, 7
Russell, Lord J., 50
Rutly Rivers, a story, 1864, 42
Sabbath, the, 9
Sacred Lyrics, 64
Sadler, M. F., 65
Sailor Boy, 57
St. George’s Fields, sketches from, 28
St. Helena, 91
St. Helena, 161
St. James Royal Magazine, 25
Saint Mary the Virgin, 139
St. Matthew, Gospel of, 178
St. Matthew, vindication, &c., 179
St. Paul’s, Brighton, 23
St. Paul’s, voyage on, 179
St. Vincent, Earl, 18
Sala, G. A., 168
Salmon, a, 5
Salmonia, 14
Sand, George, 132
Sandhurst College, 176
Sandwich Islands, 7
Sanitary Reform, 121
Sartor Resartus, 125
Saturday Review, 2
Saul, a mystery, 3
Scarlett, Sir J., 33
Scenes of Clerical life, 47
Scenes and Characters, 126
Sceptic, the, 130
Schloss Avalon, 115
School Books. See _Blair, Rev. D._, p. 25
School-girls, 72
School for Scandal, 127
Schoolmaster at Alton, 42
Scoto-Monastica, 4
Scottish Fiddle, lay of the, 114
Scottish Language, handbook to the, 34
Scripture, a review of, 179
Scripture Revelations, 4
Sea-shore Life, 118
Secret Love, 37
Self-Control, a novel, 138
Self-Devotion, 144
Selkirk, Alex., 137
Semi-attached Couple, 143
Seminole War, tale of the, 19
Senator of Venice, 144
Sentimental Journey, by Sterne, 175
Sepulchral Monuments, 22
Separation, a novel, 126
Sermons for Children, 86
Sermons, four, 9
Sermons for Schools, 23
Servants, our maid, 178
Seth Bede, 23
Sevastopol, 158
Seven Tales, 121
Sewell, Rev. W., 8
SEWARD, Mr., Foreign Correspondence, 181
Shady Side, the, 18
Shakespeare, 5
Shakespeare, 116
Shakespeare, monument to, 1823, 37
Shakespeare, edited by Dr. D., 41
Shakespeare, 134, 217
Shakespeare Forgeries, 61
Shakespeare’s Plays, 73
Shakespeare’s Two Noble Kinsmen, 172
Shakespeare, works, 19
Shakespeare not an Impostor, 180
Shakespeare’s Versification, 29
Sharpe’s Lond. Mag., 31, 49
Sherer, Major M., xi
Sheridan, R. B., 63, 127
Sherwood (Mrs.), Easy Questions, 48, 189
Shipwrecks and Tales of the Sea, 160
Shirley, a tale, 24
Showman, the, 143
Sibert’s World, 129
Sick Room, life in the, 16
Sicilian Story, 35
Sidebotham, 2
Sikh Army upon India, advance of the, 61
Silas Marner, 47
Simeon’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, 120
Simpkins, publisher of several spurious Peter Parley books, 96
Six Weeks in South America, 46
Six Weeks at Long’s, by a late resident, 178, 195
Skating, 51
Skeleton in Every House, 128
Sketch Book, the, 36
Sketches and Scraps, 175
Sketches in Prose and Poetry, 1838, 73
Sketching Club, on a, 189
Sketch Book of Fashion, 135
Skillet, J., 6
Skirmishes & Sketches, 56
Slang, Dict. of, 11
Slang Dictionary, 23
Smeeton, 183
Smith, G., LL.D., 70
Smith, John Russell, publisher and bookseller, 5
Smith, J., 55
Smith, J. T., 86
Smith, R., 55
Smith, Sydney, 58
Smoke, to all who, 28
Smoking, pleasures of, 52
Social Duties, 12
Society for the Diff. of Useful Know., 157
Solitary Hours, 126
Solitary, the, of Juan Fernandez, 137
Somers, William, 117
Song of Solomon, 5
Songs, fishing, 17
Sothern, the actor, 45
South-West, the, 21
Southern Friends, 73
Southern Lights and Shadows, 66
Southerners, adventures of three, 20
Southey, R., 122, 178
Southwark, electors of, 37
Spaewife, the, 128
Spain, letters from, 43
Spain, a year in, 21
Spain, Tangier, &c., visited in 1840, 175
Speech, 12
Spence, Rev. J., 59
Splendid Fortune, a, 141
Sporting, 43, 116
Sporting slang, &c., 23
Sports, encyclopædia of, 51
Sports, British, 122
Sportsman’s Instructor, 53
Spurgeon, Rev. C., a spur for, 61
Stable Practice, 29
Stable Talk, 58
Stammerers, hints to, 13
Stamp, W. W., 70
Stanley, Rt. Hon. Ld., letter to the, 139
Star in the Dark, a tale, 147
Startling Revelations, 88
Star in the Desert, 129
Steam Excursion, the, by Boz, 19
Story of a Family, 121
Steamboat, by Duffle, 184
Strathmore, 95
Stray Subjects Arrested and Bound, 187
Stream of Life, 181
Stuart, history of family of, 51
Stud Farm, the, 29
Stud, the, 58
Student, the, 131
Study, on, 150
Stumbling Blocks, 56
Subalterns, hints to, 56
Sugar, cheap, 93
Sun, the, newspaper, 94
Sunbeam Stories, 129
Sunbeam, trap to catch a, 129
Sunday Trading, 179
Sundays, readings for, 3
Sunday School, 4
Sunnybank, 57
Supercheries, Litt. Dévoilées, x
Susan Brown’s Victory, 46
Sussex Doggerel, 33
Swallow Barn, 84
Swanton Morley, rector of, 19
Swim. See Why, 121
Swimming, 51
Swimming, as taught at Berlin, 40
Swimming, twelve maxims on, 139
Swiss Guide, 180
Switzerland, sketches of, 14
Taghonic, legends, 55
Tait, John, of Edinb., 182
Talents, all the, 127
Talents Improved, 128
Talents in Ireland, all the, 127
Tales of Other Days, 186
Tales for the Marines, 55
Tales of Ardennes, 35
Tales of My Landlord, 34
Tales of a Traveller, 36
Tales for Home Reading, 160
Tales of the Early Ages, 129
Tales of the Genii, 59
Tales of Glauber-Spa, 119
Tales of Woods and Fields, 135
Talisman, the, 114
Tallyho, Rob., Esq., 13
Tancred, 130
Tannhäuser, a poem, 124
Tavistock, 122
Tegg, publisher of numerous spurious Peter Parley books, 96
Tell-Tale, the, or Home Secrets, 158
Tennessee, 73
Theatrical Licenses, 54
Theology, dangers and safeguards of modern, 147
Thesiger, Sir F., 5
Things to be Thought of, 126
Thistle, _ps._, 26
Thorn-Tree, history of thorn worship, 151
Thoughts in Rhyme, 14
Three Courses and a Desert, 139
Three Musqueteers, the, 44
Thrift, 129
Through Routes, practical, 181
Thurlstone House Picture Gallery, 57
Tillemont and Bower compared, 183
Times, the, 7
Times, the, 17
Times’ Bee-Master, xii
Timon, J., _ps._, 17
Tinsley, the, publisher, 170
Tiptree Races, 29
Title of Book, 3
Tobacco, defence of, 28
Tobacco, thoughts on, 156
Tom Brown at Oxford, 145
Tom Pepper, trippings of, 52
Townsend, W. T., 146
Tracts for the Times, 35
Tradesmen, a few words to, 7
Traditions of Devonshire, 122
Travellers thro’ New England, 18
Travels in Town, 137
Trevelian, 127
Trois Mousquetaires, les, 44
Troubadour, 84
Truewit, T., _ps._, 94
Truth, a novel, 136
Truth of Man’s Religious Tenets, 171
Tuam, archbp. of, 58
Tuileries, a tale, 126
Turkey, sketches of, 13
Turner, J. M. W., 11
Turner, J. M. W., life of, 152
Twenty Years After, by Dumas, 45
Twigs for Nests, 140
Two Brothers, the, 140
Two Guardians, or Home, &c., 131
Two Love Stories, 128
Tyrwhitt, T., 30
Ugo Bassi, a tale, 121
Uncle Clive, 28
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 38
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, letter on, 131
Under the Ban, 189
Under Two Flags, 95
United States, life in, 20
Universal Salvation, doctrine of, 116
Universalist, letters to an, 116
University education, 191
Up-country Letters, New York, 176
Use of Sunshine, 121
Velvet Cushion, 109
Venetia, 40
Venetian Bracelet, 84
Verdant Green, adventures of, 23
Vermont, 64
Very Woman, a, 121
Vicar and his Poor Neighbours, 139
Vices, a poem, 142
Vicomte de Bragelonne, 44
Victoriaism, 164
Vidler ( ), Mr., 116
Views of Ports and Harbours, 1838, 160
Virgil, life of, 53
Visionary, the, 121
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, 8
Vortigern, 62
Voyage of Captain Popanilla, 1828, 146
Waikna, 183
Walladmor, 115
WALPOLE, Horace, 31
Waltz, the, 60
Wanderer, a poem, 88
Wandering Jew, 33
Warminster, history of Nonconformity in, 59
Warreniana, 148
Waterdale Neighbours, 188
Waterloo, field of, 15
Waters of Comfort, 146
WATTS, Thomas, xiii, 205
Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott, 114, 138
Waverley Novels, who wrote them, 171
Wealth & Labour, 21
Weekly Wages, payment of, Sunday trading, 179
Wellbred, Mr. T., 88
Wesleyan Hymn-Book, 168
Wharton, 63
Whately, Arch., 38, 55, 116
What is this Mystery?, 78
What will he do with it?, 29
Wheat, how to grow, 134
Which Wins, Love or Money?, 147
Whist, 1, 6
Whist-player, 1858, 21
Whist, short, 64
Whist, by Cam, 28
Whist, by Cavendish, 28
Whistler, the, 94
Whitefriars, drama, 146
Whitehall, 146
Why do not Women Swim?, 121
Wide Wide World, 164
Widow’s Tale, 126
Wife, or Caroline Herbert, 150
Wife, a pastor’s, 17
Wife’s Evidence, a novel, 169
Wigwam and the Cabin, 144
Wilberforce, W., letters to, 179
Wilbur, Anne T., 137
Wilbur, H., 25
Wildfell Hall, the tenant of, 23
Wilds of London, 126
Willoughby, Lady, 135
Wills, W. G., 78
Wiltshire Assizes, 94
Windsor, Miss Harris of, 4
Wine and Walnuts, 56
Witch Finder, 142
Witches of New York, 43
Witnesses, hints to, 2
Wits and Beaux of Society, 164
Wives, a warning to, 142
Wolfnorth and Monteagle, the castles of (author unknown), 121
Woman’s Work, 121
Woman’s Rights, a few thoughts on, 190
Wonderful Magazine, 54, 187
Wonderful Works, 177
Wonders, the hundred of the world, 33
Wood’s Algebra, 156
Wood Engraving, history of, 50
Wood, Mrs. H., 78
Wool-Gathering, 56
Word of Caution and Comfort, 182
WORDSWORTH, W., memoirs, 118
WORDSWORTH, William, 171, 178
Workhouse, a night in a, 128
Working Man’s Way in the World, 178
Warlock, the, 150
World of Life’s Last Years, 145
Worn out Neology, 141
Wrinkles, or Hints, &c., 56
Wuthering Heights, 24
Yemassee, the, 131
Young Cottager, 140
Young Duke, the, 146
Young Patron, 141
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Pg 102: ‘Hym to the’ replaced by ‘Hymn to the’.
Pg 111: ‘disgnised-author’ replaced by ‘disguised-author’.
Pg 113: ‘Fourier ’sche Methode’ replaced by ‘Fourier Methode’.
Pg 114: ‘3 thle,’ replaced by ‘3 Bde,’.
Pg 115: ‘F. A. Brochaus’ replaced by ‘F. A. Brockaus’.
Pg 123: ‘B. G. Neibuhr’ replaced by ‘B. G. Niebuhr’.
Pg 125: ‘Charles Kavanah’ replaced by ‘Charles Kavanagh’.
Pg 125: ‘1866 to to Feb., 1867’ replaced by ‘1866 to Feb., 1867’.
Pg 127: ‘who is “Eliza”’ replaced by ‘who is “Elisa”’.
Pg 137: ‘Redwoood, Hope’ replaced by ‘Redwood, Hope’.
Pg 149: ‘Encyclopœdic fame’ replaced by ‘Encyclopædic fame’.
Pg 151: ‘ENGLISHMAN, _geongm_’ replaced by ‘ENGLISHMAN, _geonym_’.
Pg 163: ‘a postcript to’ replaced by ‘a postscript to’.
Pg 174: ‘fertils resource’ replaced by ‘fertile resource’.
Pg 174: ‘by a nack of’ replaced by ‘by a knack of’.
Pg 178: ‘A JOUREYMAN PRINTER’ replaced by ‘A JOURNEYMAN PRINTER’.
Pg 185: ‘o course anonymously’ replaced by ‘of course anonymously’.
Pg 186: The missing heading ‘I.’ was inserted.
ADDENDA.
Pg 190: ‘_apochryphal_’ replaced by ‘_apocryphal_’.
INDEX OF AUTONYMS.
Pg 195: ‘1763-1741’ replaced by ‘1763-1841’.
Pg 196: ‘of Self-Coutrol’ replaced by ‘of Self-Control’.
Pg 196: ‘Bugden’ replaced by ‘Budgen’.
Pg 198: ‘he succeded to’ replaced by ‘he succeeded to’.
Pg 198: ‘particulars of of’ replaced by ‘particulars of’.
Pg 198: ‘was a a man’ replaced by ‘was a man’.
Pg 201: ‘Mary Wolstoncraft’ replaced by ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’.
Pg 202: ‘W....s.’ replaced by ‘W----s.’.
Pg 204: ‘to the Qneen’ replaced by ‘to the Queen’.
Pg 213: ‘English Literarure’ replaced by ‘English Literature’.
Pg 213: ‘being a repriut’ replaced by ‘being a reprint’.
Pg 214: ‘Mémoirs d’un’ replaced by ‘Mémoires d’un’.
Pg 214: ‘Ameriean humorists’ replaced by ‘American humorists’.
Pg 217: ‘our lady-novellists’ replaced by ‘our lady-novelists’.
GENERAL INDEX.
Alvarez: New entry inserted ‘Alvarez, 11’.
Baillet: ‘Anonyms.’ replaced by ‘Anonyms, x’.
Caxtoniana: Entry name changed to ‘Caxtoniania’.
De Courtily: Entry name changed to ‘De Courtilz’.
Fiorentino: ‘P. A.’ replaced by ‘P. A., 44’.
Frank: ‘Fairlegh’ replaced by ‘Fairleigh’.
Fuller: ‘Mr.’ replaced by ‘Mr., 116’.
Jesus: ‘1866’ replaced by ‘1866, 19’.
Malachi: ‘Malogrowther’ replaced by ‘Malagrowther’.
Neibuhr: Entry name changed to ‘Niebur’ and moved.
Passion: ‘Flowers’ replaced by ‘Flowers, 8’.
Postcrit: Entry name changed to ‘Proscrit’ and moved.
Roscoe: ‘W.,’ replaced by ‘W., 26’.
Shakespear’s: Entry name changed to ‘Shakespeare’s’.
Theology: ‘of modern,’ replaced by ‘of modern, 147’.
Truewitt: Entry name changed to ‘Truewit’.
Vicomte: ‘de Bragelone’ replaced by ‘de Bragelonne’.
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