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Tom Moore's First ! 



CONTENTS. 



Page 

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503 

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 569 



Notr-s on several Misunderstood Words, by the Rev. 



W. R. Arrowsmitli . . . - - 



Verney Papers: tlie Capuchin Friars, &c., by Thompson 



Cooper ..----- 

 Early Satirical Poem . . - - - 



The Letters of Atticus, by William Cramp 



MiNoii Notes : — Irish Bishops as English Suffrasans— 

 Pope and Buchanan — Scarce MSS. in the British 

 Museum— The Royal Garden at Holyrood Palace — 

 The Old Ship " Royal Escape " - - - 509 



Queries : — 



" The Light of Brittaine" - - - - - 570 



Minor Queries: — Thirteen an nnlucliy Number — 

 Quotations — " Other-some " and " Unneath " — 

 Newx, &c. — "A Joabi Alloquio" — Illuminations — 

 Heraldic Queries — Jolin's Spoils from Peterborougii 

 and Crowland— " Elementa sex," &a — Jacli and Giil : 

 Sir Hubbard (ie Hoy — Himiplirey Hawarden — '■ Po- 

 pulus vult decipi " — Sheriffs of Huntnigdonshire and 

 Cambridgeshire— Harris ----- 671 



*2eplies : — 



Bishop Butler, by J. H. Markland, &c. - - - 572 



Mitigation of Capital Punishment to Forgers - - 573 



Mythe versus Myth, by Charles Thiriold - - 575 



" Inquiry into the State of the Union, by the Wednesday 



Club in Friday Street," by James Crossley - - 57G 



Unpublished Epigram by Sir Walter Scott, by William 



Williams, &c. ..---- 



Church Catechism ------ 



Jacob Bobart, &c., by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 

 " Its," by W. B. Rye _ . - - 



Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by Henry T. Riley - 

 Books of Emblems, by J. B. Yates, &c. - 



Thotographic Correspondence: — Mr. Pollock's Di- 

 rections for obtaining Positive Photographs upon 

 albumenised Paper — Test for Lenses — Washing Col- 

 lodion Pictures ------ 



llEPi.iEs TO Minor Queries : — Cremonas— James Cha- 

 loner— Irish Convocation— St. Haul's Epistle to Seneca 

 — Captain Ayloff— Plan of London— Syriac Scriptures 

 — Meaning of" Worth" — Khond Fable — Collar of S3. 



Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian — Pic Nic — Canker 



or Brier Rose — Door-head lnscript:ons— " Time and 

 I "— Lowbell — Overseers of Wills— Detached Belfry 

 Towers — Vincent Family, &c. - - - . 



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Vol. VII. — No. 189. 



TOM MOORE's riEST ! 



It is now generally understood that the first 

 poetic effusion of Thomas Moore was entrusted to 

 a publication entitled Anthologia Hibernica, wliich 

 held its monthly existence from Jan. 1793 to 

 December 1794, and is now a repertorium of the 

 spirited efforts made in Ireland in that day to 

 establish periodical literature. The set is com- 

 plete in four volumes : and being anxious to see 

 if I could trace the " fine Roman " hand of him 

 whom his noble poetic satirist, and after fast 

 friend, Byron, styled the " young Catullus of his 

 day," I went to the volumes, and give you the 

 result. 



No trace of Moore appears in the volume con- 

 taining the first six months of the publication ; 

 but in the "List of Subscribers" in the second, 

 we see '■'■ Master Thomas Moore;" and as we find 

 this designation changed in the fourth volume to 

 '•'■Mr. Thomas Moore, Trinity College, Dublin!" 

 (a boy with a black ribband in his collar, being as 

 a collegian an " ex officio man ! "), we may take it 

 for ascertained that we have arrived at the well- 

 spring of those effusions which have since flowed 

 in such sparkling volumes among the poetry of the 

 day. 



JMoore's first contribution is easily identified; 

 for it is prefaced by a note, dated " Aungier Street, 

 Sept. 11, 1793," which contains the usual request 

 of insertion for " the attempts of a youthful miise^* 

 &c., and is signed in the semi-incognito style, 

 " Th — m — s M — re ; " the writer fearing, doubt- 

 less, lest his fond mamma should fail to recognise 

 in his own copy of the periodical the performance 

 of her little precocious Apollo. 



This contribution consists of two pieces, of 

 which we have room but for the first : which is a 

 striking exemplification (in subject at least) of 

 Wordsworth's aphorism, that " the child is father 

 to the man." It is a sonnet addressed to "Zelia," 

 " On her charging the author with writing too much 

 on Love!" Who Zelia was — whether a lineal 

 anccBtress of Dickens's "Mrs. Harris," or some 

 actual grown up young lady, who was teased by, 

 and tried to check the chirpings of the little pre- 



