a weak one. There is a Glossary of 3 pages. The first edition (same size) was published at Sheffield in 1839.

(C) Bradford District.

The Dialect Poems of BENJAMIN PRESTON. With a Notice of the Author. 16mo, pp. 64. With a glossary of phrases, and some account of the various poems. Saltaire: 1872. The Glossary of Words and Phrases comprises 11 full pages, the letterpress being run on.

The second collected ed. of Mr. Preston's Dialect poems. The additional ones are the following:

1. Poll Blossom, or t' Folly o' Pride. The first Dialect poem of the author, written in 1854, and published at Bradford the same year, 16mo, pp. 8, under the title of 'A Poetical Sarmon, preycht to t' White Heathens o' Wibsa, i' ther Native Tongue. Be a Latter-Day Saint.' Two more editions followed.

2. Owd Moxy. First published in the Bradford Observer,' some years ago.

3. T' Lancashire Famine. This appeared as a broadside at the time, under the title An Appeal to the English and Irish in Yorkshire, on behalf of the starving in Lancashire.'

4. T' Sacred Drawer,

5. Uncle Ben. First published in the Leeds Dialect Almanac Tommy Toddles,' in 1865.

6. T' Short Timer. Published in the 7. T' Maistur o't' Haase: A Pictur.

1859. 16mo, pp. 8.

Bradford Observer,' 1870.
Published at Bradford, in

8. Stand up Lads, an' let's hev a Feyt. Published in the Yorkshire Christmas Annual, 1871.

9. Come to thi Gronny, Doy! Published in the Peterborough Times,' and afterwards (1871) in a Yorkshire journal.

All Mr. Preston's poems are very faithful to their phase of Dialect, and several are noticeable for their literary merit.

A Poetical Sarmon, on t' Folly o' Pride, preycht to t' White Heathens o' Wibsa, i' ther native tongue. Be a Latter-Day Saint. 16mo. pp. 8. N. D. See preceding.

(A) Aw niver can call hur my Wife. Broadside. 1860. By B. PRESTON. This afterwards appeared under the title of 'T' Poor Weyver,' in the collected edition of the writer's Dialect Poems Pp. 32. 1864.

(B) An Injured Woman's Complaint. By R. CHIPPINDALE. Broadside. N. D.

(D) Huddersfield.

Jim o' th' Pan's Journey to London, with the New Poor Law to mend. By a Collector. 12mo, pp. 45. Huddersfield: 1842. Sold also by the Relieving Officers and Assistants of the Huddersfield Union. Partly in the Dialect of Huddersfield. It is the only existing publication illustrating this interesting phase of dialect, and is very faithful. I have never seen or heard of another copy. Remarkable for showing the vigorous use of an old participial form-" Knawn" know;

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"thinken "think; "surpris'n "surprise, &c. Twenty years ago, no Huddersfield bookseller knew of this publication, nor did any other bookseller in the county, as I bought up all their dialect publications at that time. My copy was picked up in a farm house in the NorthRiding.

(E) Barnsley.

The Bairnsla Foak's Annual an' Pogmoor Olmenack. Be Toм TREDDLEHOYLE. 8vo. Leeds.

Has appeared for upwards of thirty years, in the Barnsley Dialect. It has been increased from 40 to 60 pages, and enlarged in size recently to Crown 8vo. To the No. for 1847 was appended a Glossary of one and a half pages, double columns. The writer was the late Mr. C. Rogers, of Barnsley.

Annual issues for 1844, 6, 7, 9, 50, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 60, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. These early Nos. contain the most characteristic specimens of the Dialect. In late years the idiom is sacrificed to a great extent as a means of obtaining a more general circulation.

Sum Thowts abaght Nan Bunt's Chresmas Tea-Party; Bairnsla Feastin; A Owd Maid's Pocket, an' Tom Treddlehoyle's Lament. Be Tom Treddlehoyle. 8vo, pp. 24. Barnsley: 1839. Barnsley Dialect. Tom Treddlehoyle's Thowts, Joakes, an' Smiles, for Midsummer Day; settin' foarth his jont ta Lunnan, ta see t' League Bazaar. 8vo, pp. 48. Leeds: 1845. Barnsley Dialect.

Tom Treddlehoyle's Trip ta Lunnan, ta see Paxton's Great Glass Lantern. 8vo, pp. 56. Leeds: 1851. Barnsley Dialect.

A Visit ta t' Great French Exhibition. Be Tom Treddlehoyle. 8vo, pp. 56. Leeds: 1855. Barnsley Dialect.

A Peep at t' Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition. Be Tom Treddlehoyle. 8vo, pp. 36. Leeds: 1857. Barnsley Dialect.

(F) Dewsbury.

The Bome Miln Olmenac, an' T' West Riding Annual. Be Timothy Shoddygull. Cleckheaton: 16mo, pp. 16. First No.

Of this publication, but four numbers were issued, in 1855, 6, 7, and 8, and one of these was printed at Sheffield. The Dialect is that of Dewsbury, fairly rendered. They were written by Mr. John Firth, of Cleckheaton. Few printed and excessively scarce 25 years ago. Mine was the author's file copy.

A Dictionary of the Dialect of Batley. (And twenty other neighbouring villages are specified on the title-page.) Anonymous, 16mo, pp. 16. Batley: 1860.

Pretentious. The words of every kind number 115, and the explanations attached are mostly inaccurate.

The Dewsbre Back at Mooin Olmenac. Crown 8vo, pp. 16. Dewsbury. Annual issues for 1864,5,6,7,8. The number for 1867 has 24 pp. T' Bag o' Shoddy Olmenac. 12mo, pp. 16. Batley: 1866, 7, 8. In the Dialect of the place.

T'owd Original Coddy Miln Olmenack. 12mo, pp. 16. Heckmondwike: 1870. In the Dewsbury Dialect. Very poor.

T' Laffable Adventurs i' t' Militari Kareer a Tom Wallop. Rittan bi T'Authar. Full a Picturs. Price Three Hawpens. 18mo, pp. 16. Batley: 1870. In the Dialect of the place (Dewsbury district). (G) Halifax.

Polly's Gaon, and other pieces in verse. By EZRA DOYLE. 32mo, pp. 50. Halifax: [n. d.]

Professedly in the Halifax Dialect. Worthless, every way. This publication has been recently reprinted at Wakefield.

Nancy o' Johnny's Visit to th' Thump. To which is added, Nancy's Wedding. By WILLIAM HEATON. 32mo, pp. 16. Halifax: 1866.

The Halifax Original Illuminated Clock Almanack. In the Yorkshire Dialect. By JOHN HARTLEY. 12mo, pp. 48. Halifax: 1868, 71. In the Dialect of Halifax. Later numbers have been enlarged.

Yorkshire Ditties. By JOHN HARTLEY. 16mo. Halifax: 1868. In the Dialect of Halifax. Has been recently reprinted at Wakefield.

Th' Beacon Almanack. 12mo, pp. 56. Halifax: 1873. In the Dialect of Halifax. Remarkable for the use of refined terms which have no existence in the people's speech. By A. W. BICKERDIKE. (H) Wakefield.

À List of Provincial Words in use at Wakefield. STOTT BANKS. 16mo, pp. 82. London: 1865.

Collected by Wм.

The Wakefield Free Press' Almanac. 6 12mo, Dialect pp. 24. Wakefield: 1872. In the Dialect of Wakefield. The Dialect matter is curiously mixed up with the advertisements.

(I) Keighley District.

Bill oth' Hoylus End's Vizit t' th' Glory Band, wi' a full and pertic'ler accaant of an owd man's story. By Bill hissel. (WM. WRIGHT, of Keighley). 12mo, pp. 16. Enlarged ed. Keighley: 1867. Prose and verse. In the Dialect of the place.

Bill oth' Hoylus End's second visit to t' Glory Band. 12mo, pp. 12. Keighley: 1867. Prose and verse.

Bill oth' Hoylus End's vizit to t' City o' Howarth, an' his recepshun among t' natives. By Bill Hiz Sel. 12mo, pp. 15. Keighley: 1867. Prose and verse. A Part Two' appeared immediately afterwards, with the same title.

Th' History o' Haworth Railway, fro' t' beginin' t' th' end. [By W. WRIGHT]. 12mo, pp. 16. 3rd ed. Keighley: 1867. Prose and verse. John o' Sham Wutherin's akeaant o' th' oppenin' o' way; in a letter to his brother Jamie, i' Wibsey. Keighley: 1867. Verse. In the Dialect of Keighley. native of Haworth.

Haworth Rail12mo. pp. 15. Written by a

T' Stoary o' th' pudding macking un eiting; a Defence fer Howarth. Be Sammy Slyman, o' Wuthering Heights. 12mo, pp. 16. Cullingworth: 1867. Prose and verse. In the Dialect of Keighley.

Lund's Excursion to Windermere. By W. Wright. 24mo, pp. 16. Keighley 1867. Prose and verse. In the Dialect of Keighley.

The Dialect exampled in Jane Eyre, Shirley, Wuthering Heights, and other works of the sisters Brontë is unadulterated in the above. (J) Otley to Tadcaster District.

(B) T' Country Chap, or T' Yorkshar Plewboy. A Poem, in his own Dialect. (By MR. Wм. TODD.) 18mo, pp. 22. Heckmondwike: 1856. In the Dialect of the rural west.

(K) Rural South-west. (From between Wakefield and Barnsley to near Huddersfield.)

(c) The Rev. Jabez Bunting, or, Begging. With other Poems. By a Lady. 12mo, pp. 14. Leeds: 1833. The first-named poem, one of 6 pages, is in the Dialect of the rural south-west-a phase I have never known appreciated, save by this accidental writer.

The mixed forms are striking, and very faithful to the locality. A very rare publication.

2.-UPPER CRAVEN.

Poems in the Craven Dialect. By Tom Twisleton. 18mo, pp. 119. 2nd ed. Settle: 1869. A third edition was published in 1871.

Slaadburn Faar, bein' t' adventurs o' Jacky and Nelly Smith, o' Girston, when they gang'd ta Slaadburn an' back agaan. Put inta' t' Craaven plaan mak o' tawk bi Oliver Cauvert, Greenaw-Hill, Leead miner an Poet. 12mo, pp. 16. In verse. Skipton: 1871.

Mr. Blackah, the faithful renderer of the Nidderdale Dialect, is the 'lead-miner and poet' of Greenhow Hill, but this composition is not his. The prose stories (in the Craven Dialect), of Stephen Jackson,' are understood to be by the same writer.

3.-LOWER NIDDERDALE.

A Memoir of the Life of Peter Barker, the blind Joiner of Hampsthwaite. By William Grainge. 12mo, pp. 13. Pateley-Bridge: 1873. Partly in the Dialect of Nidderdale.

The Nidderdill Olminac, an' Ivvery Body's Kalinder. 12mo, pp. 20. Pateley-Bridge: 1864, 65, 66, (dialect matter only), 67, 68, 75. At its first publication, with but one or two Dialect compositions, but has greatly increased this feature since 1868.

The Tailor and the Ghost. Anonymous. Prose. The supplementary Broadside to a local journal, 1865. Partly in the Dialect of Nidderdale.

The Scottish Pedlar; a tale of the Yorkshire Moorlands. By Wm. Grainge. 16mo, pp. 28. Pateley-Bridge: 1866. Partly in the Dialect of Nidderdale.

Oliver Banks, or St. Thomas's Bounty at Hebden. By THOMAS BLACKAH. 12mo, pp. 16. 2nd ed. Pateley-Bridge: 1867.

Songs and Poems in the Nidderdale Dialect. BY THOMAS BLACKAH. a working-miner, of Greenhow Hill. 12mo, pp. 60. Pateley-Bridge: 1867. Very faithful.

(A) The Near North.

4.-NORTH RIDING.

York Minster Screen. Being a specimen of the Yorkshire Dialect as spoken in the North Riding. By the REV. THOMAS ALEXANDER BROWN, late Vicar of Bilton. 8vo. Malton: 1833. 3rd ed. 8vo, pp. 11. With explanatory notes. Malton: 1860. Exceptionally good. The Poem contains 214 lines. [Reprinted in Yorks. Notes & Queries]. T' Yorkshur Alminac, written accoarding tea nater, e plain English, without Grammar, or onny mak o' beak larning. By NATHANIEL NETTLENASE. 12mo, pp. 72. Leeds: 1861. The publication ended with the issue of a following year's number. In the Dialect of the North Riding, and written by the publisher, Mr. David Green, then of Leeds.

The Landscape, and other Poems. By DAVID LEWIS. Post 8vo, pp. 100. York: 1815. Only two of these poems are in the Dialect, and they are but reprinted here. They are an Elegy on the Death of a Frog,' and 'The Sweeper and Thieves,'-both well-known as stock examples. The Author was resident at Belmont Farm, near Knaresborough, and died in 1858.

Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect; to which is added a Glossary of such of the Yorkshire Words as are not likely to be understood. The Seventh edition, with considerable additions and amendments. 12mo, pp. 36. York: 1811. The usual reprint of rural specimens. There is a whole page engraving, illustrating the poem of 'Awd Daisy.' An eighth edition is noted in Mr. Smith's bibliographical list.

Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect, in various Dialogues, Tales, and Songs, to which is added Aud Isaac. With a Glossary (2 pp.) 18mo, pp. 60. Otley [n. d.] A recent, and the latest publication of this character. In the main, it is a reprint of the usual rural stock specimens. Of the three modern pieces included, two, 'The White Ghost,' and 'Canny Yatton Feast,' are grossly inaccurate. The third, The Parson and Pot,' is a more satisfactory composition.

Specimens of the Yorkshire Dialect, selected from the 'Register Office,' Richard and Betty at Hickleton Fair,' &c. With Glossary. 12mo, pp. 24. Knaresbro: 1843. Reprint of rural stock specimens.

(B) South Cleveland.

The Bard of the Dales, or Poems and Miscellaneous pieces, partly in the Yorkshire Dialect. By JOHN CASTILLO. 12mo, pp. 184. Kirby-Moorside: 1850. In the Dialect of the North Riding, the writer, though Irish by birth, having been reared from childhood in Cleveland. The longest of the compositions (chiefly religious), 'Awd Isaac,' is popular among the peasantry, north and east. A later edition of these poems, together with additional pieces in the Dialect, and an autobiography, was published at Stokesley, in 1858.

North of England Tractates. No. 13. Awd Gab, o' Steers. By FLORENCE CLEVELAND. 12mo, pp. 9. Prose. Stokesley: 1873. In the Dialect of this place. A Glossary of 3 pages is added.