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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Corrections adopted by Pope from the Dunces, by James 



Crossley ------- 



Notes on several misunderstood Words, by tlie Rev. 

 W. R. Arrowsmith . . - - . 



Devonianisms -._.-. 



The Poems of Rowley, by Henry H. Breen 



Fot.K Lore :— Legend of Llangefelach Tower — Wedding 

 Divination -..--. 



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642 

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545 



Shakspeare Correspondence: — Shakspearian Drawings 



— Thomas Shakspeare — Passage in Macbeth, Act I. 

 Sc. 5 " Discourse of Reason " ... 



Minor Notes : — The MSS. of Gervase Hollis — Ana. 

 grams— Family Caul — Numerous Progeny 



Queries : — 



Smith, Young, and Scrymgeour MSS. - - . 



Mormon Publications, by W. Sparrow Simpson 



Minor Queries: — Dimidiation — Early Christian 

 Mothers— The Lion at Northumberland House — The 

 Cross in Mexico and Alexandria— Passage in St. James 



— " The Temple of Truth" — Santa Claus — Donny. 

 brook Fair — Saffron, when brought into England — 

 Ispiug Geil— Humbug— Franklyn Household Book — 

 James Thomson's Will — "Country Parson's Advice 

 to his Parishioners " — Shakspeare : Blackstone 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Turkey Cocks — 

 Bishop St. John — Ferdinand Mendez Pinto — Satin — 

 Carrier Pigeons ...... 



" Pylades and Corinna : " Psalmanazar and Defoe, by 

 James Crossley .-...- 



Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh 



Seal of William d'Albini, by E. G. Ballard, &c. . 



" Will" and " Shall," by William Bates, &c. 



Inscriptions in Books, by Honore de Mareville, &c. 



Bacon's " Advancement of Learning," by Thomas 

 Markby 



Photographic Correspondence : — Test for a good 

 Lens — Photography and the Microscope— Cement for 

 Glass Baths— Mr. Lyte's Mode of Printing 



Replies to Minor Queriks : — Eulenspiegel or Ulen- 

 spiegel—Lawyers' Bags—" Nine Tailors make a Man " 

 — " Time and 1" — Carr Pedigree — Campvere, Privi- 

 leges of— Haulf-naked — Old Picture of the Spanish 

 Armada — Parochial Libraries— How to stain Deal — 

 Roger Outlawe — Tennyson — Old Fogie — Errata cor- 



rigeniia — Anecdote of Dutens — Gloves at Fairs 



Arms: Battle-axe— Enough — Feelings of Age Op- 

 tical Query— Cross and Pile, &c. 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



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Vol. VII. — No. 188. 



COKBECTIONS ADOPTED BY POPE FROM THE DUNCES. 



In Pope's "Letter to the Honourable James 

 Craggs," dated June 15, 1711, after making some 

 observations on Dennis's remarks on the Essay 

 on Criticism, he says — 



" Yet, to give this man his due, he has objected to 

 one or two lines with reason ; and I will alter them in 

 case of another edition: I will make my enemy do nie 

 a kindness where he meant an injury, and so serve in- 

 stead of a friend." 



An interesting paper might be drawn up from the 

 instances, for they are rather numerous, in which 

 Pope followed out this very sensible rule. I do 

 not remember seeing the following one noted. 

 One of the heroes of the Dunciad, Thomas Cooke, 

 the translator of Hesiod, was the editor of a 

 periodical published in monthly numbers, in Svo., 

 of which nine only appeared, under the title of 

 The Comedian, or Philosophical Inquirer, the first 

 number being for April, and last for December, 

 1732. It contains some curious matter, and 

 amongst other papers is, in No. 2., " A Letter in 

 Prose to Mr. Alexander Pope, occasioned by his 

 Epistle in Verse to the Earl of Burlington." It is 

 very abusive, and was most probably written either 

 by Cooke or Theobald. After quoting the follow- 

 ing lines as they then stood : 



" He buys for Topham drawings and designs. 

 For Fountain statues, and for Curio coins. 

 Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone, 

 And books for Mead, and rarities for Sloane," 



the letter-writer thus unceremoniously addresses 

 himself to the author : 



" Rarities ! how could'st thou be so silly as not to be 

 particular in the rarities of Sloane, as in those of the 

 otlier five persons? What knowledge, what meaning 

 is conveyed in the word rarities ? Are not some draw- 

 ings, some statues, some coins, all monkish manuscripts, 

 and some books, rarities? Could'st thou not find a 

 trisyllable to express some parts of nature for a collec- 

 tion of which that learned and worthy physician is 

 eminent ? Fy, fy ! correct and write — 



• Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone, 

 And books for Mead, and butterflies for Sloane.' 



