Nov. 6. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



437 



458 pages exclusive of index. Third volume be- 

 gins with January, 1694, and ends, in ray copy, 

 with April, 1694, containing 140 pages. This is 

 one of the scarcest in the series of literary journals. 

 The editor, as appears from Dunton's Life and 

 Errors, was R. Woolley. 



14. — 1692. The Gentleman's Journal, or the 

 Monthly Miscellany : London, printed by Richard 

 Baldwin, 4to., to be continued monthly. This in- 

 teresting work, which may be considered the first 

 English magazine, and which partakes more of the 

 character of a magazine than a review, was edited 

 by Peter Motteux. First volume begins January, 

 1691-2, and ends with the year 1692. Vol. ii. 

 begins January, 1692-3, and ends with the year 



1693. I have only these two volumes ; but there 

 appear to be two more (Reed's Cat. 2431.). Per- 

 haps some of your correspondents may have a per- 

 fect series, and would give a description of it. 



15. — 1693. Memoirs for the Ingenious, in mis- 

 cellaneous letters by J. de la Crose, Eco. Ang. 

 Presb., to be continued monthly : printed for 

 Rhodes and Harris, 1693, 4to. Here we see this 

 laborious editor, nothing daunted by previous mis- 

 haps, commencing again. The first volume begins 

 January, 1692-3 : it was continued to June, 1693, 

 in 196 pages. Whether it was continued beyond 

 June I do not know. The editor complains that 

 no contributions come in, and laments that he is 

 not in a fit state to reward contributors. " Those 

 who shall be so generous as to send me any papers, 

 are desired to direct them to my lodgings, at Mr. 

 Page's, a turner, in Playhouse Yard in Black- 

 friars." 



16. — 1694. Memoirs for the Ingenious, or the 

 Universal Mercury, in miscellaneous letters, by 

 several hands, to be continued monthly : printed 

 by Randal Taylor, 1694, 4to. I have the fii-st 

 Number of this for January. It appears to be 

 made up of miscellaneous observations, without 

 any reviews. 



17. — 1694. Miscellaneous Letters, giving an ac- 

 count of the Avorks of the learned both at home 

 and abroad, published weekly : London, printed 

 by J. D. for William Lindsay, 1694, 4to. This 

 work was published weekly, from October 17, 



1694, to December 19, 1694 (ten Numbers), after- 

 wards monthly, to the end of December, 1695, 

 when the first volume, containing 578 pages ex- 

 clusive of index, ends. The second volume begins 

 January, 1 696 ; February and March follow, con- 

 taining together 96 pages. I have no more of it. 

 It is one of the best periodicals in the series, and 

 one of the least common. 



18. — 1694. History of Learning, o^mn^ an ac- 

 count of the choicest new books : London, printed 

 by J. M., and sold by Randal Taylor, 1694, 4to. 

 The first Number contains 36 pages. How far it 

 extended I have been unable to ascertain. 



19. — 1697. Theosophical Transactions by the 



Philadelphian Society, consisting of memoirs,"&c. 

 for the advancement of piety and divine philoso- 

 phy : London, 1697, 4to. In this rare periodical, 

 which was started to disseminate the doctrines of 

 Mrs. Lead, and of which the learned F. Lee was 

 the editor, there are reviews of books of a mystic 

 and ascetic description. I have six Numbers of it, 

 which form a thin 4to. volume. 



20. — 1698-9. The History of the Works of the 

 Learned, or an imperfect Account of Boohs lately 

 printed in all parts of Europe, done by several 

 hands : London, printed for H. Rhodes, 4to. The 

 first Number was published 1698-9. Thirteen 

 entire volumes were issued, ending with the year 

 1711, and one Number for January, February, 

 and March, 1712, being the commencement of a 

 fourteenth volume ; but there it appears to have 

 stopped. Ridpath was one of the editors of this 

 journal, which is an important and indeed indis- 

 pensable one in forming a series of English Lite- 

 rary journals. Complete sets rarely occur. 



In a future communication I will continue the 

 list from 1700 to 1749. J. Crossley. 



HYDKOPHOBIA. 



(Vol. vi., p. 298.) 



In the year 1805 the writer saw a case of hy- 

 drophobia at Kensington, with several other 

 medical men, and was one of those who, with 

 great solicitude, visited the patient till his death. 

 The case excited great interest and commiseration, 

 the more so because the sufferer was not quite six 

 years old, a fine, gentle, and affectionate child, 

 and the injury he had received from the dog was 

 not a positive bite. He was fondling a favourite 

 little dog in his lap, when the animal held up its 

 head as if desiring to be caressed, and pressed one 

 of his teeth upon the child's upper lip so firmly as 

 to abrade the skin. No immediate alarm was 

 taken, but the sudden disappearance of the dog 

 created fears which led to a free application of 

 caustic to the lip ; the horrid complaint, however, 

 broke out in a few weeks' time, and, notwithstand- 

 ing every conceivable care, soon proved fatal. 

 The child was wonderfully good and patient, even 

 when suffering from spasms and convulsions ; but 

 his strength was soon worn out and exhausted, 

 and after two or three days of suffering, he calmly 

 breathed his last. 



It almost surpasses belief that such a case as 

 this, occurring in a respectable family, attended 

 by several medical men of reputation, and in 

 which many of the principal inhabitants of the 

 town took great interest, should by any possibility 

 be converted into a case of feather-bed suffocation ; 

 yet so it was. In a short time after the child's 

 death, the writer, visiting a patient near Curzon 

 Street) met a lady who was giving full particulars 



