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Notes : — 



The early Piratical Editions of Junius - - - 



Different Productions of different Carcases 

 Riifiis' Oak, by Josiali Cato . . - - 



Extracts from old Newspapers relating to Cliaring Cross 



and King Cliarles's Statue . . . - 



Johanna Soiithcott ------ 



Napoleon's Birthday - - - - - 



Minor Notes: — Belon du Mans' Observations — "The 



Chain of Salvation " — Manumission of Villeins 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



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 2f)3 

 264 



264 



265 

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- 267 



Queries : — 



Query on a corrupt Passage in " Love's Labour's Lost," 

 Act V. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer . - - - 



Larix or Larch Trees - - - - - 



Minor Queries : — Burials and Funerals — Title of 



James I Coins placed in Foundations — John Eeve's 



Psalms — Marriage Ceremony — Where was the first 

 Prince of Wales born ? — Shakspeare Query — Witch 

 Jugs— Bishops' Lawn Sleeves — Baptist May — Harvest 

 Moon — " St. Luke's Day " — Lalys — Roman Road in 

 Berkshire — " Cap of Maintenance " — Dr. Swiney — 

 The Irvingites — " Works of the Learned," &c — The 

 Fern Osmunda ; and old Books on Plants — Passage 

 in Tennyson .-.-._ 



Minor Queries Answered :— Cavaliers abroad— " He's 

 tall and he's straight as a Poplar Tree " — Third Decla- 

 ration of the Prince of Orange — Chadderton Family 



— Scriveners' Company of London— Dr. John Donne 272 



Replies : — 



Burial of Sir John Moore, by Rev. H. J. Syraons, LL.D. 

 Macaulay's " Young Levite " - - . - 



The Haemony of Milton, by G. Munford - - - 



Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger, by 



R. J. Allen ..--.. 



Photography applied to Archaeology, and practised in the 



Open Air, by Dr. H. W. Diamond - _ - 



Replies to Minor Qiieries : — Scottish Monumental 



Brasses — Wolsey and his Portraits— Heraldic Queries 



— Harvesting on Sundays — Scotch Psalms — Quaint 

 Lines by Alain Chartier — Flemish Words in Wales 

 — The Crystal Palace : Who designed it ? — Venice 

 Glasses — Fell Family — Voydinge Knife — John de 

 Huddersfield — The Application of Toads to Cancers 



— Keel-hauling — Greville's Ode to Indifference — 

 Wilton Castle and the Bridges Family — Latin Epi- 

 grams—The true Maiden-hair Fern —Chalmers' 

 '• Revolt of the American Colonies " — " Blue Bells of 

 Scotland"—" I bide my time" — Biting the Thumb — 

 The Word Nugget— Dr. Thomas Watson— Umbrella 



— Women whipped in 1764 — Cambridge Prize Poems 



— Brasses in Dublin— Mrs. Duff — Rhymes upon 

 Places — Remarkable Trees — Muffs worn by Gentle 

 men - . . - - 



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V0L.VI. — No. 151. 



THE EARLY PIRATICAL EDITIONS OF JUNIUS. 



I believe the next publication was Letters of 

 Junius : London, printed In the year 1770. 



This anonymous edition was, I think, put forth 

 by Wheble, and was followed in 1771 by two 

 editions with his name ; the later of which forms, 

 I suspect, the first volume of the London Library 

 manufactured copy (see ante, p. 224.), 



In an "advertisement" prefixed to what I take 

 to have been the 2nd edition, there is announced 

 among other improvements : " 1. Insertion of Let- 

 ters signed Poetlkastos, Junia, &c., that were 

 omitted in the first edition." " 2. The dates to 

 each letter." Now as the letters of Poetlkastos, 

 Junia, &c., are in both Wheble's editions of 1771, 

 neither could have been the first edition here 

 referred to ; and as they are not in this anony- 

 mous edition. It may have been. I have indeed 

 no doubt, from many minute circumstances, with 

 which I need not trouble you, that it was ; and 

 further, that this was the edition which served 

 Junius as copy for the edition of 1772. I have 

 compared many pages, and could refer to twenty 

 or more typographical errors to be found in both , 

 but one example will be as conclusive as a hun- 

 dred. The following Is a passage from the letter 

 of 21st of Jan. 1769, as printed in the Public 

 Advertiser : 



"... by the power oi government, or masked under the 

 forms of a court of justice." 



This is correctly printed In every edition I have 

 seen, except this anonymous edition, where, by an 

 obvious oversight, it ran : 



"... by the power of a court of justice." 



So it was printed In the copy used by Junius, 

 and the omitted passage was inserted by him In 

 the margin. Simple, however, as this question 

 appears to be, there are difficulties. Type admits 

 of no variation, and yet there are minute difier- 

 ences. 



Wheble tells us in the "advertisement" pre- 

 fixed to his second edition, that the first was pub- 

 lished " at the request of several patriotic and 

 literary gentlemen." This sort of booksellers 



