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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1904.

CONTENTS.-No. 8.

NOTES:- Merry Thoughts in a Sad Place,' 141-Bibliography of Publishing and Bookselling, 142-The Ploughgang and other Measures, 143-W. Stephens, President of Georgia, 144-Chaplain to the Edinburgh Garrison-Poe: a Supposed Poem-Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature,' 145-Epigram on Reynolds- -"Sassaby Anagrams on Pius X.-Richard Fitzpatrick and C. J. Fox

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-The Oxford English Dictionary,' 146. QUERIES:-Babar's Memoirs-Water of Jealousy-Spanish Doggerel, 147-Book Collectors-Sundial Motto-Earl of Egremont Ferdinando Gorges of Eye-"An Austrian army"-Audyn Family-W. H. Kidd-Melancholy-Rue and Tuscan Pawnbrokers, 148-" Drug in the market Clavering: De Mandeville-"King of Patterdale Knight Templar-Monastery of Mount Grace le Ebor'Bt. Dunstan, 149.

REPLIES:-Addison's Daughter, 149-'Address to Poverty,' 151-Werden Abbey - Comber Family-Seion-BagshawHalley's Comet-Immurement Alive, 152-John Lewis, Portrait Painter-"Moose," 153-Tickling Trout-" Fide, sed cui vide," 151-Aylmer Arms-Flaying Alive-Arms Wante, 155-Felt-names, West Haddon-Rev. S. Fisher

-Penrith-William Hartley-"Gimerro"-Glowworm or Firefly, 156-Crowns in Tower of Church-Cardinals and Crimson Robes-St. Mary Axe: St. Michael le Querne, 157-"Going the round":"Roundhouse "-Carved Stone -Relics of St. Gregory the Great-Sir Henry ChauncyFrost and its Forms - Right Hon. E. Southwell, 158Imaginary Saints, 159.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-Bell's 'Lives and Legends of the English Bishops and Kings'-Saintsbury's 'John Dryden -English Historical Review '-' Edinburgh Review.' Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.

"MERRY THOUGHTS IN A SAD PLACE.' AN expansion, by Col. Le Strange, of Lovelace's 'To Althea from Prison,' copied into a note-book, in 1649, by Thomas Plume, undergraduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, may be worth preserving in the pages of 'N. & Q.':

MERRY THOUGHTS IN A SAD PLACE. Beat on, proud billows! Boreas, blow! Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof! Your incivilities will show

That innocence is tempest-proof;

Though surly Nereus frown, my thoughts are

calm.

Then strike, afflictions! for your wounds are

balm.

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The Cynick hugs his poverty;
The pelican, her wilderness;
And 'tis the Indian's pride to be
Naked on frozen Caucasus.*
Contentment cannot smart. Stoicks (we see)
Make torments easy to their Apathy.
The manacles upon my arme

I, as my sweetheart's bracelets, wear:
And then, to keep my ancles warme,

I have some iron shackles there.

The walls are but my garrison. This cell,
Which men call jayll, doth prove my Cittadell.
So he that strooke at Jason's life,
Thinking t have made his purpose sure,
By a malicious-friendly knife
Did only wound him to a cure.

Malice wants witt, I see; for, what is meant
Mischief, oft-times proves favour by event.
I'm in this Cabinet lock'd up,
Like some rich prized margarite;
Or, like some great Mogul, or Pope,
I'me cloysterd from the publique sight.
Retirdness is a peece of majesty,

And (proud Sultàn) [I] seem as great as thee.
Here sin for want of food must sterve
Where tempting objects are not seen;
And these strong walls doe onely serve
To keep sin out, and keep mee in.

Malice of late 's growne charitable, sure.
I'm not committed, but am kept secure.
When once my Prince affliction hath,
Prosperity doth treason seem:

And then, to smooth so rough a path,
I can learn patience from him.

Now not-to-suffer shewes no loyall heart.
When kings want ease, subjects must learn to
smart.

What though I cannot see my King,
Either in 's person or his coyn:
Yet contemplation is a thing
Which renders that (which is not) mine.

My king from mee what adamant can part,
Whom I doe wear engraved on my heart?
My soul is free as th' ambient aire,
Although my baser part 's immur'd.
While loyall thoughts doe yet repair
My company is solitude.

And, though rebellion doe my body bind,
My king can only captivate my mind.
Have you not seen the nightingale,
A pilgrim coopd up in a cage,
In that, her narrow hermitage?
How she doth sing her wonted tale

Even such her chanting melody doth prove,
That all her barrs are trees, her cage a grove.

I am that bird, whom they combine
Thus to deprive of liberty.

So, though they doe my corps confine,
Yet (naugre hate) my soul is free;

And, though immurèd, I can chirp and sing
Disgrace to rebels, glory to my king.

Made by Colonell le Strange, imprizoned by the
Parliament.
ANDREW CLARK.

*The Scythians were all face.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND BOOKSELLING. (See ante, p. 81.)

Carlile, Richard, 1790-1843.-The Life and Character of Richard Carlile. By George Jacob Holyoake. London, 1848.

The Battle of the Press, as told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile. By his Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell. London, 1899. Caspar, C. N.--Directory of the Antiquarian Booksellers and Dealers in Second-hand Books in the United States......a List of Bibliographies, Trade Catalogues, &c. Milwaukee, Wis., 1885.

Directory of the American Book, News, and Stationery Trade, Wholesale and Retail. Milwaukee, Wis., 1889.

Cassell, John, 1817-65.-The Life of John Cassell. By G. Holden Pike. Crown 8vo, London, 1894. Bookseller, April and May, 1865.

Publishers' Circular, 13 January, 1894.

Catalogues.

The First Part of the Catalogue of English Printed Books, which concerneth such matters of divinitie as have bin either written in our owne tongue, or translated out of anie other language; and have bin published to the glory of God, and edification of the Church of Christ in England. Gathered into alphabet, and such method as it is, by Andrew Maunsell, Bookseller. London, printed by John Windet for Andrew Maunsell, dwelling in Lothburie, 1595. Maunsell's Catalogue was the first ever issued in England, and therefore deserves to be noted here. The systematic enumeration of catalogues is rendered superfluous by the recent publication of Mr. Growoll's Three Centuries of English Book-trade Bibliography,' 1903. Sec forward.

The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709. With a Number for Easter Term, 1711. A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the Reigns of Charles II., James II., William and Mary, and Anne. Edited from the very rare Quarterly Lists of New Books and Reprints of Divinity, History, Science, Law, Medicine, Music, Trade, &c, issued by the Booksellers, &c., of London. By Edward Arber, F.S.A. 3 vols, 4to. Vol. I., 1668-82; Vol. II., 1683-96; Vol. III., 1697-1709 and 1711. Privately printed, London, 1903.

A collection of Trade Catalogues referring to sales of books and copyrights, ranging from 1704 to 1768, giving details of prices and purchasers, is in the possession of Messrs. Longmans & Co. An account of these will be found in N. & Q.,' 7th S. ix. 301.

Catnach, James, 1792-1841.-The Life and Times of

James Catnach (late of Seven Dials), Ballad
Monger. By Charles Hindley. With 230
Woodcuts, of which 42 are by Bewick. 8vo,
London, 1878.

The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwickupon-Tweed, Alnwick, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London. By Charles Hindley. With many Illustrations. 4to, London, 1886.

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Cave, Edward, 1691-1754. The Life of Edward Cave. By Samuel Johnson. Gentleman's Magazine, February, 1754, and reprinted with Johnson's 'Works."

Cave's Life will be found in Johnson's Lives of the English Poets' and 'Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons,'

Tilt's edition, crown 8vo, London, 1831. See also Nichols's 'Literary Anecdotes,' vol. v.

Boswell says: "Cave was certainly a man of estimable qualities, and was eminently diligent and successful in his own business, which, doubtless, entitled him to respect. But he was peculiarly fortunate in being recorded by Johnson, who of the narrow life of a printer and publisher, without any digressions or adventitious circumstances, has made an interesting and agreeable narrative.” Caxton, William, 1422-91.

The Old Printer and the Modern Press. By Charles Knight. Crown 8vo, London, 1854.

Life and Typography of William Caxton. By William Blades. London, 1861-3.

Chambers, William, 1800-83; Robert, 1802-71.

Memoir of Robert Chambers, with Autobiographic Reminiscences of William Chambers. Crown 8vo, 1872. 12th Edition, with Supplementary Chapter, 1884.

No mention is made in this book of the fact that Robert Chambers was the author of The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' (1844), and William Chambers wished the secret to die with him. An account of the authorship and publication of this once famous book will be found in Mr. Alexander Ireland's Introduction to the twelfth edition,

1884.

See James Payn's Some Literary Recollections,' 1886, for a chapter on the two brothers. Payn never concealed his dislike of William Chambers, and it is understood that the Sir Peter Fibbert of 'For Cash Only' is to some extent a portrait of him.

The Story of a Long and Busy Life. By William Chambers. Crown 8vo, Edinburgh, 1884.

Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotsmen, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Robert Chambers. With Portraits. 4 vols. 8vo, Glasgow, 1833-5.

Supplement [and continuation to 1855]. By the Rev. Thomas Thomson. Svo, Glasgow, 1855. Chambers's Encyclopædia. Vol. II. New Edition. Royal 8vo, Edinburgh, 1888.

See article Book-trade,' by Robert Cochrane. Chapman, John, 1822-94.

Cheap Books and how to get them: being a reprint from the Westminster Review, April, 1852, of the article The Commerce of Literature,' together with a brief account of the origin and progress of the recent agitation for free trade in books. Svo, London, 1852.

The Bookselling System. 8vo, London, 1852. A Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting (consisting chiefly of Authors) held May 4th, 1852, at the House of Mr. John Chapman, for the Purpose of hastening the Removal of the Trade Restrictions on the Commerce of Literature. 8vo, London, 1852.

See also Life of George Eliot,' vol. i. p. 225. Childs, George William, 1829-93.--The Recollections of G. W. Childs. 12mo, Philadelphia, 1890. A Biographical Sketch of G. W. Childs. By James Parton. Philadelphia, 1870.

Clarke, Adam, 1760-1832.-A Bibliographical Dic tionary, containing a chronological account, alphabetically arranged, of the most curious, scarce, useful, and important Books, which have been published in Latin, Greek, Coptic, Hebrew, &c., from the Infancy of Printing to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. With Biographical Anecdotes of Authors, Printers, and Publishers. 6 vols. and supplement 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1802-6.

Clegg, James (Editor).-The International Direc-
tory of Booksellers, and Bibliophile's Manual.
Including Lists of the Public Libraries of the
World, Publishers, Book Collectors, Learned
Societies, and Institutes, also Bibliographies of
Book and Library Catalogues, Concordances,
Book-plates, &c. Crown 8vo, Rochdale, 1903.
Cobbett, William, 1762-1835.-The Life of William
Cobbett. By his Son. London, 1837.

Cobbett was in business as a bookseller in Philadelphia; also in Pall Mall at the sign of "The Crown, the Bible, and the Mitre."

Collet, Collet Dobson.-History of the Taxes on
Knowledge. 2 vols. London, 1899.

·

Publishing before the Age of Printing.

uary, 1864.

Jan

Bookselling in the Thirteenth Century. April, 1864.

persons. See N. & Q.,' 6th S. xi. 381-2, for Curll's Biblio-
graphy by W. Roberts.
Curwen, Henry, 1845-92.-A History of Booksellers,
the Old and the New. With Portraits. Crown
8vo, London, 1873.

Curwen was editor of the Times of India. See 'N. & Q.,"
9th S. vi. 288, 338, 376, 454.
WM. H. PEET.

(To be continued.)

THE PLOUGHGANG AND OTHER

MEASURES.
(See ante, p. 101.)

Colman, George, the Younger, 1762-1836. Eccentricities for Edinburgh (containing a poem 3. AMONG the words by which the English entitled Lamentation to Scotch Booksellers ').hide, higid, hiwisc, or hiwscipe, was translated 8vo, 1816. into Latin was casata. Now just as carucata Constable, Archibald, 1774-1827.-Archibald_Con- is derived from caruca, a plough, and is the stable and his Literary Correspondents. By his ploughland, so casata is derived from casa, a Son, Thomas Constable. 3 vols. 8vo, Edin-house, and is the houseland. It is plain burgh, 1873. that our four measures come from a pair of Cornhill Magazine. oxen, a rod, a plough, and a house. And if the first three are measures of much larger areas, so the fourth may have been. There may have been a lesser, as well as a greater, casate, the lesser casate being an acre and the measure of a hide. In Domesday Book a bishop is described as holding at Latesberie in Buckinghamshire "one hide less five feet."+ This cannot be square feet, and it must refer to the breadth of the acre or messuage which measured the hide. It will be seen in the note below that a placia of land is said to have a length of half an acre and 4 feet. If the carucate refers to the breadth of a full-sized team, the casate may very well have referred to the breadth of a full-sized homestead, the breadth of such a homestead being regarded as the breadth of an acre.t

And see s.n. George Smith.
Cost, The, of Production. (Society of Authors.)
Crown 8vo, London, 1891.
Cottle, Joseph, 1770-1853.
Coleridge, Southey, &c.
1847.

Reminiscences of
Post 8vo, London,

Cottle was a bookseller in Bristol from 1791 to 1798.

Creech, William, 1745-1815.- Edinburgh Fugitive
Pieces. New Edition, with Memoir. Edinburgh,

1815.

A famous Edinburgh Bookseller. Published for Burns,
Blair, Dugald Stewart, and Beattie-Lord Provost, 1811-13
Creech, William, Robert Burns' Best Friend.
By the Rev. J. C. Carrick, B.D., Minister of
Newbattle. Fcap. 8vo, Dalkeith, 1903.
Critic, The (Weekly Newspaper).-Mr. F. Espinasse
contributed a series of articles on various pub-
lishing houses as follows (see his 'Literary
Reminiscences,' chap. xx., 1893) :—.

Charles Knight. May (two articles), 1860. Longman, House of. 24 March, 7, 21 April, 1860.

John Murray, House of. 7, 14, 21, 28 Jan., 1860.

Blackwood, House of. 7, 14, 21, 28 July, 4, 11 Aug., 1860. Curio, The, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine.4to, New York, 1887-8.

The Great Booksellers of the World. By Max Maury. Bernard Quaritch, of London; Ludwig Rosenthal, of Munich; Damascène Morgand, of Paris; Henry Sotheran, of London; E. Bonaventure, of New York. With 2 Portraits.

Eminent Publishing Houses, by G. Hedeler.
Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747.

The Curll Papers. By W. J. Thoms.
See N. & Q., 2nd S. ii. iii. iv. ix. x., and privately

reprinted, 1879.

Pope's Literary Correspondence, 1704-34. (Curll's Edition.) 4 vols. 12mo, 1735-6. This edition contains much interesting matter by Curll respecting his connexion with Pope and other eminent

We can rear an acre of 4,800 square yards (a juger and a half) from a rod of 15 feet,

* One of the words by which hiwisc is represented in Latin is familia, family, household. See on this point the Crawford Charters,' ed. by Napier and Stevenson, p. 127.

+ "Tenet episcopus Lisiacensis de episcopo Baiocensi j hidam v pedes minus." If the messuage of the hide is taken as 60 feet in breadth, the hide was diminished by one-twelfth, or ten acres, and the messuage was also diminished by one-twelfth. The word hiwise is found in place-names, as in Huish Episcopi, bishop's hide.

We have evidence that tofts or messuages were half an acre, &c., in breadth. In a charter dated circa 1206 we have: "Unum toftum in Ledestona latitudinis dimidie acre cum crofto ejusdem latitudinis qui jacet juxta toftum meum versus solem, et latitudinis duarum rodarum et dimidie, et longiunam placiam juxta eundem toftum versus north, tudinis dimidie acre et quatuor pedum."-Pontefract Chartulary,' p. 235. The perticata terræ (rood) was also used as a linear measure.-Ibid., p. 233.

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