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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 1 



Volume Ninth of the " Spectator," by James Crossley - 

 Readings in Shakspeare, No. VI. . . . - 



Tlie lirst genuine Edition of Junius's Letters 

 Notes on Newspapers - - - - 



Minor Notes : — Christmas-day on a Thursday — Cliro- 

 nognim— Clieshire Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings 

 — Matter-of-Fact Epitaph .... 



Queries : — 



Queries on Locke's " Essay on the Understanding," &c. 

 ^ Discovery of the Body of a Beheaded Man 



" The Spectator," No. L, June 13, 1716, by J. Yeowell 



Minor Queries:— Guide-books — Whipping-post— Sir 

 Edward Osbadiston — Sir John Hynde Cotton — Lists 

 of M.P.'s —The Word " off"— The Verbs " lay" and 

 "lie"—" Wind in and wind out"— What was the 

 Origin of the Pointed Arch? — Eva, Princess of 

 Leinster—" Music has charms," &c — Monument at 

 Modstena — Alioquin— The River Erethenus — Dis- 

 pensator— Hollar's Tree at Uampstead — The Bell of 

 St. Iltuteus— Dr. Wm. Read— Singing-bread— Robert 

 Heron — People talking in their Cotiins 



Minor Queries Answered : — Sin-eater — " Nine 

 Tailors make a Man " — Picture of Ciiarles L — 

 Heraldic Devices and Mottoes— Misprint in Prayer 

 Books— Exchequer — African House — The Tumble- 

 down Dick - . . - . - 



Replies : — 



" The Good Old Cause," by James Crossley 

 The Hereditary Standard Bearer, Scotland 

 The Barlow Family, by George Barlow - . - 



" Chomer " and " Guidon " in Shakspeare 

 Emaciated Monumental Effigies - . - - 



Anti-Jacobite Song, by Llewellynn Jewitt 

 Photography a]iplied to Archasology, Sec 

 Guano and the Lobos Islands, by W. B. Rye, &c. 

 Guano and Terra Britannica, by Thos. Rowlandson 

 Replies to Minor Queries: — Eiebreis — Lady-day in 

 Harvest — Walter Haddon — Sir Kenelm Digby — 

 Official Costume of the Judges — Armorial Bearings 

 of Cities and Towns — English Catholic Vicars Apo- 

 stolic— Irelnnd's Freedom from Reptiles — Harvest 

 Moon — "Up, boys, and at them!" — Gotch — Bare 

 Cross —Waller Family—" Lord Stafford mines," &c. 



WlSCElLANEODS : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - . . . 



Notices to Correspondents - . - . 



Advertisements -..._. 



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Vol. VL — No. 156. 



VOLUME NINTH OF THE *' SPECTATOR." 



Of this continuation, which is left out of all the 

 later editions, Eudgell, whose information was 

 pretty certain to be correct, tells a story in his 

 Bee, vol. i. p. 27. (Lond. 1733, 8vo.) : 



" When the old Spectator was laid down by those 

 hands which at first composed it, the paper was imme- 

 diately set on foot again by some of the fireatest wits 

 in England, several of whoso writings of different kinds 

 had been received with the utmost applause by the 

 public ; yet even these gentlemen, to their great sur- 

 prise, found the thing would not do, and had the good 

 sense not only to drop their design, but to conceal their 

 names. The late Mr. Addison said, upon this occa- 

 sion, that he looked upon the undertaking to write 

 Spectators to be like the attempt of Penelope's lovers 

 to shoot in the bow of Ulysses ; who soon found that 

 nobody could shoot well in that bow but the hand 

 which used to draw it." 



Now, who were these contributors, whom 

 Budgell styles " some of the greatest Avits in 

 England?" Mr. William Bond, who it appears 

 was the editor, speaks of " two excellent essays 

 being presented to him by a friend celebrated for 

 his vast genius, and who furnished, I won't say the 

 former Spectator, but the Tatler, with a better 

 fame than they would perhaps have obtained if he 

 had not lent his hand." This seems to point at 

 Swift ; and if so, which are the two papers he con- 

 tributed ? Dr. Drake " cannot discover a single 

 paper in the smallest degree entitled to the appel- 

 lation of witty " (Essays on the Rambler, ^c, vol. i. 

 p. 30.) ; and Alexander Chalmers observes {British 

 Essayists, vol. vi. Pref, p. 73., edit. 1802) of this 

 continuation, that it is far " inferior to the spurious 

 Tatler, and indeed to any imitation whatever of 

 the works of Steele and Addison." In these 

 opinions I do not altogether concur, and, without 

 denying its general inferiority to the preceding 

 einjht volumes, yet still think it deserving^ of beinof 

 ^"^ I included in any edition of the Spectator. The 

 eighth volume, in which the genius of Addison had 

 blazed almost more brightly as it approximated to 

 the close of his work, and in which he had no 

 regular assistance except that of Budgell (Bee, 



