April 7. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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unworthy of the author and his friends;" and 

 that " the parties concerned in it became heartily 

 ashamed of it," C. 



''The Dunciad" (Vol. xi., p. 86.). — When I 

 penned the Query above referred to, as to a small 

 edition of The Dunciad published in 1750, I was 

 misled into that date by the date of Warburton's 

 letter announcing it, Feb. 24, 1750; but I have 

 since found in Nichols's Illustrations, that the date 

 on the title-page was 1749 ; and under this new 

 date I beg leave to renew my Query. C. 



Pope and Donne's Satires. — These Satires, Mr. 

 Carbuthers says, were first published in the folio, 

 1735. But I have a copy of the fourth Satire, 

 published separately, entitled The Impertinent, or 

 a Visit to the Court : a Satyr. By Mr. Pope. 

 The third edit. : London, printed for G. Hill, in 

 White-Fryers, Fleet Street, 1737. So far as I 

 have hurriedly compared these editions, there are 

 difierences, and some important omissions, in The 

 Impertinent. This would be strange, no matter 

 whether The Impertinent were genuine or spurious, 

 i( first published a/ter the edition of 1735. What 

 are the facts ? P. D. S. 



Lucretia Lindo. — Can any reader of " N". & 

 Q." favour me by references to passages in co- 

 temporary writings in which allusion is made to 

 Lucretia Lindo, who is thus spoken of by Curll, 

 in a note to his address " To the Sifters," prefixed 

 to his fourth vol. (12mo., 1736) of Mr. Pope's 

 Literary Correspondence : 



"A noted cast-off-Punk of his (Pope's) pious Saint- 

 John, Mrs. Griffiths, alias Butler, alias Lucretia Lindo, 

 who has several letters of Mr. Pope's not worth printing." 



M. G. 

 Pope and 'Handel. — The following occurs in 

 Anecdotes of G. F. Handel and J. C. Smith (the 

 friend of Handel), published in 1799 by Smith's 

 relatives. The book not being a very common 

 one, I thought the anecdote might possibly be new 

 to many interested in Pope and The Dunciad : 



" At Dr. Arbuthnot's house he (J. C. Smith) frequently 

 met Swift, Pope, Gay, and Congreve ; a society highly 

 improving to a young man. He observed that they never 

 seemed desirous of uttering wise sayings, or witty re- 

 partees, but the conversation usually turned upon inte- 

 resting subjects, when their talents were displayed without 

 ostentation. Sensible that Pope had no taste for music, 

 he took an opportunity of inquiring what motive could 

 induce him to celebrate Handel's praise so highly in his 

 Dunciad. Pope replied, that merit, in every branch of 

 science, ought to be encouraged ; that the extreme illi- 

 berality with which many persons had joined to ruin 

 Handel,in opposing his operas, called forth his indignation ; 

 and though nature had denied him being gratified by 

 Handel's uncommon talents in the musical line, yet when 

 his powers were generally acknowledged, he thought it 

 incumbent upon him to pay a tribute to genius." — See 

 p. 40. 



A. ROFFE. 



BOOKS BURNT — WRITINGS OP DUGALD STEWART 

 AND COL. STEWART. 



[With reference to the articles on "Books burnt," 

 which have appeared in the columns of " N. & Q.," Mr. 

 Henry Foss (formerly of the well-known house of Payne 

 & Foss) has placed in our hands the following interesting 

 letter from the late Col. Stewart, son of Dugald Stewart; 

 in which he informs Mr. Foss of the burning of several 

 of his own works, as well as those of his distinguished 

 father. Mr. Foss informs us that Col. Stewart was the 

 author of a quarto volume of about five hundred pages, 

 entitled, Remarks on tlie Subject of Langitage, with Notes 

 Illustrative of the Information it may afford of the History 

 and Opinions of Mankind, London, 1850. One of the 

 twenty-five copies to which the impression was limited 

 is in the library of the British Museum.] 



Sir, 



Catrine, March 30, 1837. 



You were so obliging, some time since, as to 

 say that you would mention the literary property 

 that I wished to publish in your intercourse with 

 the other members of your profession, in whose 

 line such business lay. You need not however 

 farther trouble yourself on this head ; because, 

 finding myself getting on in life, and despairing 

 of finding a sale for it at its real value, I hiive 

 destroyed the whole of it. To this step I was 

 much induced by finding my locks repeatedly 

 picked during my absence from home, some of my 

 papers carried off, and some of the others evi- 

 dently read, if not copied from, by persons of 

 whom I could procure no trace ; and in the pur- 

 suit or conviction of whom, I never could obtain 

 any efiicient assistance from the judicial function- 

 aries."" 



As this may form at some future period a 

 curious item in the history of literature in the 

 present century (as a proof of the encouragement 

 and protection afforded to literary labour during 

 the present reign, by a people reckoning them- 

 selves amongst the most enlightened and civilised 

 communities of the earth), I subjoin a list of the 

 works destroyed as unsaleable, written by my 

 father, Dugald Stewart, author of the Philosophy 

 of the Human Mind, &c. : — 



1st. The Philosophy of Man as a Member of a 

 Political Association. (Incomplete.) 



2nd. His Lectures on Political Economy, de- 

 livered in the University of Edinburgh ; reduced 

 by him into books and chapters, containing a very 

 complete body of that science, with many impor- 

 tant rectifications of Adam Smith's Speculations. 



3rd. One hundred and seventy pages of the 

 Continuation of the Dissertation prefixed to the 

 Encyclopasdia Britannica. 



Written by me : — 



1st. My work upon India. That part printed 

 by Longman alone extant. 



2nd. An Account of the Life and Writings of 



* I believe there was not any foundation for the Colonel's 

 suspicions respecting his locks having been picked. 



