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Nores : — Page 
Reprints of Old Books, by J. P Collier - - + 209 
Catacombs and Bone-houses - - - - 210 
Lines attributed to Hudibras - - - - 210 
Notes from Fly-leaves, No. 5. C - - - 211 
The Pursuits of Literature - - - - 212 
QUERIES : -- 
Barryanas- - - - a : - 912 
Nine Queries by Rev. J. Jebb - - 212 
Minor Queries: — Mowbray Coheirs— Draytone and 
Yong — Fraternity of Christian Doctrine — Treatise 
by Engelbert — New Year’s Day Custom — Under the 
Rose — Norman Pedigrees — Dr. Johnson’s Library— 
Golden Frog — Singular Motto — Sir Stephen Fox — 
Antony Alsop — Derivation of Calamity, &c. - - 213 
Repiies:-— * 
Field of Forty Footsteps, by E. F. Rimbault - - 217 
Queries answered, No. 4—Pokership, by Bolton Corney 218 
Mertens the Printer - - - - - 218 
Etymology of Armagh - = - - -y 218 
Masters of the Revels, by E. F. Rimbault - - 219 
Replies to Minor Queries : — Red Maids—Poetical Sym- 
bolism—Fraternitye of Vagabondes—Anonymous Ra- 
vennas — Dick Shore— Travelling in England—Sanuto 
—Darnley’s Birth-place — History of Edward II.,&c. 219 
MisceLtanies:— Gray’s Elegy — Shylock — Sonnet — The 
Devotee — By Hook or by Crook — Macaulay’s Young 
Levite — Praise undeserved — Cowper’s ‘‘ Task ” - 221 
MISCELLANEOUS : — 
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - 223 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 223 
Notices to Correspondents - - - - - a 
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REPRINTS OF OLD BOOKS, 
Most people are aware of the great demand 
there is for English literature, and indeed for all 
literature, in the United States: for some years 
the anxiety of persons in that part of the world 
to obtain copies of our early printed books, prose, 
poetry, and plays, has been well known to such 
as collect and sell them on this side of the water. 
Where American purchasers could not obtain 
original editions they have, in all possible cases, 
secured reprints, and they have made some them- 
selves. 
Not very long since a present of a most credit- 
able and well-edited republication of “ Four Old 
Plays” was sent to me from Cambridge, U.S., 
consisting of “Three Interludes: Thersytes, Jack 
Jugler, and Weywood’s Pardoner and Frere; and 
Jocasta, a tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh.” 
The 
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duction, signed F. J. C., the initials of Mr. Francis 
James Child; who in fact was kind enough to 
forward the volume to me, and who, if Iam not 
mistaken, was formerly a correspondent of mine 
in a different part of the republic. 
My particular reason for noticing the book is to 
accuracy, not only for the sake of readers and cri- 
tics here, but for the sake of those abroad, because 
Mr. Child’s work illustrates especially the disad- 
vantage of the want of that accuracy. It so happens 
that two, if not three, of the pieces included in the 
Cambridge volume, are absolutely unique, and are 
now in the library of the Duke of Devonshire. 
They went through my hands some years ago, and 
| as they had been previously reprinted in London 
(two of them for the Roxburghe Club), I took 
the opportunity of collating my copies of them. 
The third interlude, which was not reprinted 
for any society, but as a private speculation, “by 
George Smeeton, in St. Martin’s Church-yard,” is 
| Heywood’s Pardoner and Frere, the full title of 
which is “A mery playe betwene the pardoner, and 
the frere, the curate and neybour Pratte.’ The ori- 
ginal copy has the following imprint : “ Imprynted 
by Wyllyam Rastell the v. day of Apryll, the yere 
of our lorde, M. CCCCC. xxx III.” 
The reprint by Smeeton is in black letter, and 
it professes to be a fac-simile, or as nearly so as 
possible; and although it consists of only eight 
leaves, it contains no fewer than forty variations 
from the original, all more or less important, and 
one of them the total omission of a line, so that the 
preceding line is left without its corresponding 
| Thyme, and the sense materially injured. 
Unfortunately, Mr. Child reprinted in America 
from this defective reprint in England; but his 
sagacity prevented him from falling into some of 
the blunders, although it could not supply him 
with the wanting line ; and his notes are extremely 
clear and pertinent. I shall not go over the thirty- 
nine other errors ; but I shall just quote the pas- 
sage as it stands in the (as far as I know) unique 
copy, now deposited at Devonshire House, and 
supply in italics the necessary line. It occurs in 
a speech by the Pardoner, near the end, where he 
is praising one of his relics : — 
_ impress upon editors in this country the necessity of 
