July 10. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



This startling title is succeeded by an excellent 

 sermon, in no wise alluding to the announcement 

 bv hint or innuendo. This sernicm, or sermons, is 

 simply an earnest call to repentant e (or sin, and a 

 declaration of the better oriouiids for hai)piness, 

 both in this world and the next, for those who live 

 a irodly life here. The " Epistle to the Header " 

 begins as follows : 



" Reader, when I preached the following sermons, I 

 had not tlie least thoiijrht of publishing them : they 

 were taken from my moutli hy a dexterous and nimble 

 hand, that wrote ahnost every word I uttered : I was 

 very much solicited to print them, and tlie notes being 

 written out fair, and brought to me, I have looked 

 them over, and now they are presented to tliee, with a 

 design that they may be beneficial, and not without 

 hope they will be so. The joibjicts liere handled are 

 awakening ; and in tliis secure age, what need is there 

 of startling sermons," &c. 



I do not see (from a hasty glance) that either 

 Lowndes or Watt allude to tliis work. 



In my copy there is a loose print inserted of the 

 following' character: a long bodied dnigon, whose 

 carcase is shaped like a cannon, is discharging 

 serjients, daggers, scourges, &c., at a divine of the 

 Cliiirch of Enjrland, who iiolds in his hind an open 

 Bible, on which is the text: "On this rock I will 

 build my church," &c. On the forked tail of this 

 monster is seated a female figure playing on a 

 fiddle, and inscribe I " the wliore of Babylon." 

 The beast has seven hi^ads, with a label on each ; 

 ■on one of which is written, " A Sliove to y^ Heavy 

 Arst Cliristian." A devil is applying (with evi- 

 dent caution airainst the recoil) a lonir red-hot 

 rod to the touch-hule. Underneath this precious 

 print are twenty-one lines of verse. The print is 

 iieaded " Faction display 'd." Bonsaxl. 



JOHN HOPE. 



(Vol. v., p. 581. ; Vol. vi., p. 18.) 



Your interesting Notes tend greatly to bring 

 one better acquainted with his own library. 



On reading that of your correspondent F. R. A. 

 Cp. 581.) I reached me down my copy of Hope's 

 Thoughts, and began to turn it over with increased 

 interest; coming upim his "Northern Pastoral," 

 it occurred to me that I had seen it elsewhere, 

 and drawing forth anoilier volume from iny shelf 

 of" Anonymes," I found it to be the oii<rinaI stem 

 of Mr. H.'s Thoughts, under the title of Occasional 

 Attempts at Sentiiiwiital Poetry, hy a Man in 

 liusiiiess ; ivith some Miscelluneovs Compositions 

 by his Friends, 8vo., London, 1769.* Besides 



* Tile discovery, if on« at all. is unimportant, except 

 in so far as it affords an example of the practical appli- 

 cation of the capital hint of your correspondent M, 

 (Vol. v., p. 971.), that you may sometimes find at 

 home what you may seek tar in vain farther a.£eld. 



these, Mr. H. wrote The New Brighthelmstane 

 Guide; or, Sketches in Miniature of the British 

 Shore, London, 1770, in the style of Anstey; and 

 Watt assigns him Letters on Certain Proceedings 

 in Parliament during the Session of 1769 and 70, 

 London, 1772. 



The bibliography of Hope's Thoughts is curious, 

 inasmuch as the same publication seems to have 

 issued from three different places, with new titles, 

 the same year ; that of F. R. A. bearing London ; 

 another Edinburgh, C. Elliott, 1780 ; while mine 

 has the following title and imprint, viz., Thoughts 

 in Prose and Verse, started in his Walks, by J. H. 



" Together let us beat this ample field," &c. 

 Stockton, printed by R. Christopher, and sold at 

 Ltm Ion by W. Goldsmith, &c., 1780, 8vo., pp. 349, 

 dedicated to "the officers of the Northampton- 

 shire militia," by way of return for the " infinite 

 pleasure" he had enjoyed in their company. As 

 the London publishers have few friends at the 

 moment, one hit at them, more or less, will do no 

 harm ; here, then, is Mr. H.'s opinion of them 

 seventy years ago, in explanation of his provincial 

 imprint : 



" If my book should not meet with a ready sale, I 

 have, to those of the critics, two reasons to add, which 

 will save my vanity some little pain. The first ijB, 

 tliat my printer could not provide me with as good a 

 paper as I wished for, without waiting a longer time 

 for it than I meant to remain at Stockton. The second 

 deserves to be generally known : there is in London 

 a certain combination of booksellers who discourage 

 everything that comes from a country press, and would 

 willingly make a monopoly of their own. But though 

 I would always show a proper respect to polite com- 

 pany by introducing myself to them in my best suit, I 

 am never displeased at obtruding myself on a parcel of 

 purse-proud fellows with my rusti/ coat on." 



As an extract from the poetical part of Mr. H.'s 

 amusing volume will afford at once a sample 

 thereof, and a peg upon which to hang a biogra- 

 phical note for F. R. A., allow me to introduce 

 to your readers the following " Picture of my 

 Family in 1767:" 



" When daub d and bespjutter'd with mud and with 

 mire, 

 In riding from town to my own country fire, 

 I enter the house (in like dirty condition 

 As was fatty Slop, the Shandyan physician, 

 When he fell from his poney, with projectile force, 'I 

 At the terrible sight of Ob'diah's coach- horsej — 

 My two stoutest lads, with a thundering din. 

 Come galloping to me, to welcome me in. 

 In each hand a prattler, I march to the parlour; 

 There Madam sits suckling her dear little snarler ; 

 The youngest, I mean, whos got snuffling his nose* 

 Where 1 my dull noddle would gladly repose. 

 Tlio' dirty 1 look'd as the Doctor 'foresaid, 

 Pray, let not the simile farther be read ; 

 For, in grandeur, I seem'd as the arms of this land. 

 That tw«ea two supporters illustrioAUily stand; 



