By the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth, M.A. . 367 



1845. Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Edinburgh, 

 W. & Rob. Chambers, ii., No, 17. From the American edition. 



1849. The Gem, Nelson, Edinburgh. (With the "week's" 

 journal appended.) 



1846. Wiley & Putnam's Library of Choice Beading conta,ius 

 Tales from the German of Zschokke, by Parke Godwin. The 

 Leaves from the Journal of a Poor Vicar in Wiltshire occurs in 

 Series ii., pp. 201 — 37. The editor repeats Zschokke's note with 

 the wrong date," 1772," for Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which 

 really appeared 27th March, 17G6, and the German author's 

 suggestion that Goldsmith " took the idea of his excellent work 

 from the fragment of the [week's] Journal of a Vicar [Curate] in 

 Wiltshire, which had been published in the British Magazine in 

 [Dec] 1766." Mr. Godwin tells us that he made his version with 

 the two previous American translations before him — " the first of 

 which, by Mrs. Ellet, appeared in a monthly magazine of this city, 

 and the second, by the Rev. William Furness, was put in the Gift, 

 an annual," p. 205, n. 



1856. Julitis, and other Tales from the German, by W. H. Furness, 

 Philadelphia. (See Transactions, B.S.L., xix. (2), 95.) 



1894. Elementary German Exercises, by W. E. Mullins, 5th 

 edition, London, D. Nutt. The Leaves from the Vicars Journal 

 appear on pp. 8 — 69 (an English version, and on the opposite pages 

 the original German, only with verbs relegated to the foot of each 

 page for educational purposes) as a feature introduced for the first 

 time in this edition, as Mr. Mullins informs me. In the present 

 paper I cannot claim to have added anything to what others have 

 pointed out, but merely to have collected scattered facts and ob- 

 servations from earlier writers. 



It remains to be enquired (1) concerning the Wiltshire Curate's 

 Week, whether experts consider that Goldsmith may have penned 

 it, and (2) concerning Zschokke's Wiltshire Vicar's Month, wliether 

 he acquired his local names from a gazetteer or from some other 

 source ; and likewise I should be glad if someone versed in German 

 literature would tell me at what date his tale was written ; for I 

 suppose it had been published, separately, before 1825. He does 



