Rhymes and Sketches. To illustrate the Cleveland Dialect. By Mrs. G. M. TWEDDELL. 12mo, pp. 68. With an appended Glossary of 16 pp. Prose and verse. Stokesley: 1875. Consisting chiefly of reprinted pieces, and embodying many refined pronunciations, of which several frequent ones are unindicated orthographically, but, as a work, meritorious and faithful.

5.-MIXED DIALECT.

(A) Mixed Dialect, (Towns.)

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Temperance Recitations and Dialogues, in the Yorkshire Dialect. By J. G. CARTLEDGE, of Lincoln. 16mo, pp. 16. Leeds: 1872-73. A hash-up of West-Riding phases; words and forms being used merely because of their being heard in dialect speech of some kind. A second series was published in 1873, but only partly in Yorkshire Dialect;" and a third, of the same character, was announced to follow.

(B) Mixed Dialect, (Rural.)

Oops an' Doons an' Sayin's an' Doin's o' Timothy Goorkrodger, His Aud Deeame, an' Darter Meary, at Whoame an' Abroad. 1st Series. Crown 8vo, pp. 183. Printed for the Author, F. W. FETHERSTON, of Knaresbro, Yorks., and pub. at York: 1870. Curious, and worthless. The author explains that he believes that he has authority for most expressions,' but he has visited north, south, east, and west, and compounded the whole.' There is a Glossary of 9 pp., double columns. Yorkshire Lyrics, by the same author, is in preparation.

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(C) Mixed Dialect, (Town and Rural.)

The Factory System, or Frank Hawthorn's Visit to his Cousin, Jemmy Cropper, of Leeds. 12mo, pp. 12. Leeds: 1881. A dialogue, introducing the Dialect of the rural west, and that of Leeds, but in a loose, faulty manner.

6.-GENERAL.

Manuscript Glossary. "Old World Lumber, being a Glossary of Common Words, with Peculiar Meanings, gathered from Dialectspeech in various parts of the County of York. By C. CLOUGH ROBINSON, Author of "A Grammar and Glossary of the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire," &c.

An unpublished MS. Glossary of 117 sm. quarto pages, and containing nearly 500 entries, with examples of the use of each term. Together with a Preface by Archbishop Trench.

"This collection of words, divested of orthographic peculiarities, in order that their meanings, so different from those in common acceptation, may be more strictly appreciated, is the result of accident rather than of purpose. Most of the words were jotted down singly, at long intervals, during the period of 25 years in which the writer was engaged in investigating the dialects of the county."

Extract from Introduction.

Yorkshire Riddles.

Collected at Horbury, West Riding, in 1864, by S. Baring Gould.

1. Goes up white, comes down yellow.

An Egg.

Pot Steals (handles).

A Bird.

A Mouse.

Teeth and Tongue.

Reek (smoke).

Woman carrying a water can on her head crossing a bridge.

As I were going over London Bridge,
I peeped into a winder,

I saw four and twenty ladies bright
A-dancing on a cinder.

9. Black and breet, runs wi'out feet.
What goes up stairs on t'head?

10.

11. Black within, red without,

Four corners round about.

12. As I went over London Bridge,

I met a load of soldiers,

Some in nickets and some in nackets,

And all in yellow jackets.

Sparks. An Iron.

Nail in a shoe.

A Chimney.

Swarm of Wasps.

13.

As round as an apple,

I met a boy. I asked him where he were barn',
He said, to his father. And his father died (dyed)
Seven years before he was born.

16. As I was going over London Bridge, I saw a house,
'Twouldn't hold a mouse,

Of windows it had more

Than all King George's palace.

A Well.

Andrew.

A Thimble.

17. It whistles i' t' wood, it rattles i' t' town,

It addles it' master many a crown.

18. There was a man, he had no eyes,

And he went out to view the skies;

He saw a tree with an apple on,

He took none off and he left none on.

A Fiddle.

Man with one eye took one apple.

19. Two legs sat a' top of three legs, one leg laid by,
In comes four legs, sams up one leg,

Up gets two legs, throws three legs at four legs,
And gets one leg back.

Man. Leg of Mutton. Three-legged Stool. Dog.
20. As I went through a corn field, I seed sum'at white,
It was neither flesh, bone, nor fowl. I took it home
And kept it till it ran about.

21.

An Egg.
As I was going over London Bridge, I saw a man standing.
I pulled off his head and drank up his blood,
And left his body standing.

22. All round t'cloise, all round t'cloise,

And never touches t'cloise.

23. Swimmin' out at' water,

And never touches t' water.

24. As round as a cup,

And all t' water it' world
Would na' fill it up.

25. Eleven men riding by,

Eleven pairs hanging high;

Each man took a pear

And left eleven hanging there.

A bottle of Wine.

A Calf in its mother's womb.

An Egg in a Duck.

A Riddle (sieve).

26. What goes round t' house and ligs i' every corner?

27.

Dust.

I went to t' wood and I got it. When I had got it, I looked for it.
The more I looked for it, the less I liked it. I brought it home

32. The King of Agripp'
He built a great ship
An' at the one end
His daughter did sit.

If I had to tell her name
I should be much to blame,
For I've told you the same;
Now, prithee what is't?

33. As I went over Ummi Jumli (field)
Umli jumli jarni,

I saied an old rag-a-ma-jag (shepherd)
Taking away my comparni (sheep).
If I had my itti-kitti (gun)
Itti-kitti-karni,

I would have slain the rag-a-ma-jag
For taking away my comparni.

34. There was a man rode thro' the sun,
Grey grizzle was his name,

His saddle bow was gilt with gold,
Three times I've told his name.

35. Long legs, short thighs,

Little head, no eyes.

36. As white as snow and isn't snow, As green as grass and isn't grass,

37.

As red as fire and isn't fire,

As black as coal and isn't coal.
As I went over London Bridge,
I saw a piece of paper,

I nipped it up, and flung it down,
It danced like a quaker.

38. Black and white and read all over.

39. Three feet upwards, dead as a stone,

Ann.

(Irishman stealing a sheep).

Was. Tongs.

A blag (blackberry).

A Toad in a piece of paper.
Newspaper.

Two feet downwards, flesh, blood and bone, The eyes of the living are under the dead, Tell me the riddle if you've wits i' your head. 40. Under the earth I go,

41.

42.

43.

Upon oak-leaves I stand;

I ride on a filly that never was foaled,
I carry a bridle cost dearer nor gold,
And I carry the mare's skin in my

hand.

A man with a posnet on his head.

A man going to be hung, put earth in his cap, leaves in his shoes. The filly is the gallows, the bridle that costs so dear is the rope that costs his life, in his hand is a leather whip.

A little house with a long entrance.

Wick at both ends: deead i' t' middle.

A little house, all in it good.

A Pipe. A Plough.

Nut.

MR. RICHARD EDLESTON, of Heywood, died August 1887. His name appears in the minutes of the Conference for 1844 as leader of the Bolton New Church Society, which Society applied for his ordination in 1846. Mr. Edleston became the minister of the Society at Leeds in the year 1847, when the Society entered upon the occupation of Albion Chapel. At Leeds, Mr. Edleston gathered round him a band of zealous young men, and for several years the cause of the New Church prospered in the town as it has never done either before or since. The later years of Mr. Edleston's ministry in Leeds were not so successful, and he removed from thence in 1857 to become the minister of the Society in Heywood, an office which he held for about three years. At the close of his engagement at Heywood, Mr. Edleston retired from the active work of the ministry, and in the year 1864 requested the Conference to remove his name from the list of ministers. Mr. Edleston had a pleasing and fertile pen. For some time he was editor of the Juvenile Magazine. Among his publications, the best known is the little work on The Immortal Fountain; or, The Travel of Two Sisters to the Fountain of Beauty, which has passed through several editions in English, and has been translated into French. His Infants in Heaven deserves to be better known, and would well bear republication, as would his other little volume on the subject of Marriage.

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THE REV. ELKANAH HOYLE, 1792, Master of Stockport Grammar School, died March 5, 1829, aged 63, and was buried at Stockport. He was of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and had held the Incumbency of Poynton and Norbury. He had held the Grammar School for 37 years, which station he filled with devoted attention and unquestioned ability. He was a native of Halifax parish.

DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.-Mrs. Dinah Leake, of Great Driffield, died March 1892, at the residence of Mrs. Hostick, her daughter, in the 103rd year of her age. Deceased until six weeks since walked downstairs every day, and she retained consciousness to the last. According to the register at Thwing Parish Church, she was born on February 14th, 1790.