Chapter II: Part 2

“Mr. Fred. G. Kitton ... has done his work with remarkable
thoroughness, and consequently with real success. It is a subject on
which I may fairly claim to speak, and I may say that all I know,
and a great deal I did not know, about Dickens is to be found in Mr.
Kitton’s work.”--“Atlas,” in the _World_.

“DICKENSIANA.”

“If with your Dickens-lore you’d make
Considerable headway,
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This book brought out by REDWAY.
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Both well arranged and written;
A mine of anecdote and fact,
Compiled by F. G. KITTON.”--_Punch._

_In preparation._

DICKENS AND THE STAGE.

By T. EDGAR PEMBERTON, author of “Dickens’s London.”

With new portraits of Mr. Irving as “Jingle,” Mr. Toole as “The Artful Dodger,” and Miss Jennie Lee as “Jo.”

_Uniform with “Hints to Collectors,” price 6s._

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWINBURNE.

A Bibliographical List arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Verse and Prose of ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1857-1887).

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

Born on April 5, 1837, in the year of Queen Victoria’s accession, of which the whole nation is now celebrating the Jubilee, Algernon Charles Swinburne to-day attains the jubilee or fiftieth year of his own life, and may be therefore claimed as an essentially and exclusively Victorian poet. Of the half-century of life now completed, more than a quarter of a century has been devoted to fruitful and noble work in song and to work hardly less fruitful and noble in the field of criticism.

In issuing this new edition, revised throughout and brought down to date, of a bibliographical record originally published nearly four years ago, the compiler cannot deny himself the pleasure of associating with the date the coincidence, not only of a double jubilee, but also of a double birthday, viz., his own.

Long distant may the day be when this record, already so goodly an one, can be made complete in a final sense, and collectors of the books of our greatest Victorian poet and critic be able to echo Lord Melbourne’s callous expression of grateful relief that they can bind him up!

As on former occasions, the compiler invites the co-operation of literary correspondents, and will be grateful to anyone who will correct an error or supply an omission.

_A few large-paper copies, with India proof portrait, in imperial 8vo., parchment-paper covers, price 7s. 6d._

AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

By “THETA” (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY), with all the original woodcut illustrations, a new portrait of CRUIKSHANK, etched by PAILTHORPE, and a prefatory note on THACKERAY AS AN ART CRITIC, by W. E. CHURCH.

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from the _Westminster Review_, is a piece of work well calculated to
drive a critic of these days to despair. How inimitable is its touch!
At once familiar and elegant, serious and humorous, enthusiastically
appreciative, and yet just and clear-sighted; but, above all, what
the French call _personnel_. It is not the impersonnel reviewer who
is going through his paces ... it is Thackeray talking to us as few
can talk--talking with apparent carelessness, even ramblingly, but
never losing the thread of his discourse or saying a word too much,
nor ever missing a point which may help to elucidate his subject
or enhance the charm of his essay.... Mr. W. E. Church’s prefatory
note on ‘Thackeray as an Art Critic’ is interesting and carefully
compiled.”--_Westminster Review._

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rare, this re-issue will, no doubt, be welcomed by
collectors.”--_Birmingham Daily Mail._

“The new portrait of Cruikshank by F. W. Pailthorpe is a clear, firm
etching.”--_The Artist._

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HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

By CHARLES PLUMPTRE JOHNSON.

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are collecting first editions of his works. The dainty little
volume, bound in parchment and printed on hand-made paper, is very
concise and convenient in form; on each page is an exact copy of
the title-page of the work mentioned thereon, a collation of pages
and illustrations, useful hints on the differences in editions,
with other matters indispensable to collectors.... Altogether it
represents a large amount of labour and experience.”--_Spectator._

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care that we feel entire confidence in his statements. The prices
that he has affixed in every case form a valuable feature of
the volume, which has been produced in a manner worthy of its
subject-matter.”--_Academy._

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interest to Thackeray collectors. His preliminary remarks go beyond
this not very narrow circle, and have a value for all collectors of
modern works.”--_Notes and Queries._

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Mr. Charles Plumptre Johnson, treats the subject with evident
knowledge and enthusiasm.... It is not a Thackeray Bibliography,
but a careful and minute description of the first issues, with
full collations and statement of the probable cost.... Mr. Johnson
addresses collectors, but is in addition a sincere admirer of the
greatest satirist of the century.”--_Book Lore._

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HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF

CHARLES DICKENS.

By CHARLES PLUMPTRE JOHNSON.

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P. Johnson for his useful and interesting ‘Hints to Collectors of
Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens’ (Redway). The book
is a companion to the similar guide to collectors of Thackeray’s
first editions, is compiled with the like care, and produced with the
like finish and taste.”--_Saturday Review._

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The works of Dickens, with a few notable ‘Dickensiana,’ make up
fifty-eight numbers, ... and Mr. Johnson has further augmented the
present volume with a list of thirty-six plays founded on Dickens’s
works, and another list of twenty-three published portraits of
Dickens. As we are unable to detect any slips in his work, we must
content ourselves with thanking him for the correctness of his
annotations. It is unnecessary to repeat our praise of the elegant
_format_ of these books.”--_Academy._

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST;

OR, A ROUGH OUTSIDE WITH A GENTLE HEART.

By CHARLES LAMB. Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1811, with Preface and Notes by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

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TAMERLANE,

And Other Poems. By EDGAR ALLAN POE.

First published at Boston in 1827, and now first republished from a unique copy of the original edition, with a preface by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

_100 copies printed. Two copies only remain._

_An édition de luxe in demy 18mo., price 1s._

JOHN LEECH, ARTIST AND HUMOURIST.

A Biographical Sketch by FRED. G. KITTON. New edition, revised. The only published biography of JOHN LEECH.

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Kitton’s interesting little sketch.”--_Notes and Queries._

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this touching monograph well worth careful reading and
preservation.”--_Daily Chronicle._

“The very model of what such a memoir should be.”--_Graphic._

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SULTAN STORK,

And other Stories and Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1829-44), now first collected, to which is added the Bibliography of THACKERAY, revised and considerably enlarged.

The _Athenæum_ says:--“Admirers of Thackeray may be grateful for a
reprint of ‘Sultan Stork.’”

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resurrectionists. Writers in the _Athenæum_ have been gloating
over them, and Mr. George Redway, a London publisher of peculiar
and quaint literature, has issued a handsome volume of Thackerayan
fragments.”--_Glasgow Herald._

“Thackeray collectors, however, have only to be told that none of
the pieces now printed appear in the two volumes recently issued by
Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., in order to make them desire their
possession. They will also welcome the revision of the Bibliography,
since it now presents a complete list, arranged in chronological
order, of Thackeray’s published writings in prose and verse, and also
of his sketches and drawings.”--_Daily Chronicle._

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thousand and second of the ‘Arabian Nights,’ is undoubtedly the work
of Mr. Thackeray, and is quite pretty and funny enough to have found
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in its way as Mr. Thackeray’s analysis of Alexander Dumas’ ‘Kean’
in the ‘Paris Sketch-Book.’... There are other slight sketches in
this volume which are evidently by Mr. Thackeray, and several of his
_obiter dicta_ in them are worth preserving.... We do not assume to
fix Mr. Thackeray’s rank or to appraise his merits as an art critic.
We only know that, in our opinion, few of his minor writings are so
pleasant to read as his shrewd and genial comments on modern painters
and paintings.”--_Saturday Review._

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SITHRON, THE STAR STRICKEN.

Translated (_Ala bereket Allah_) from an ancient Arabic Manuscript, by SALEM BEN UZÄIR, of Bassora.

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and the never-failing skill of its writer.”--_St. James’s Gazette._

_Handsomely printed and tastefully bound, 436 pages, large crown 8vo., cloth extra, 7s. 6d._

ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF FOLK-SONGS.

By the COUNTESS EVELYN MARTINENGO-CESARESCO.

“A pleasant volume on a pleasant topic.... The Countess, with her
sincere enthusiasm for what is simple, passionate, and sensuous in
folk-song, and with her lucid and unaffected style, well understands
the mode in which the educated collector should approach the shy
singers or story-tellers of Europe.... Her introduction is perhaps,
to the scientific student of popular culture, the best part of her
book.... Next to her introduction, perhaps her article on ‘Death in
Folk-Poetry’ is the most serviceable essay in the volume.... ‘Folk
Lullabies’ is perhaps the most pleasant of the remaining essays in
the admirable volume, a volume remarkable for knowledge, sympathy,
and good taste.”--Extracts from a page notice in the _Saturday
Review_, April 24, 1886.

“This is a very delightful book, full of information and thoughtful
suggestions. It deals principally with the Folk-songs of Southern
peoples, Venetian, Sicilian, Armenian, Provence, and Greek Songs
of Calabria, but there are several essays devoted to the general
characteristics of Folk-Poetry, such as the influence of Nature, the
Inspiration of Death, the idea of Fate, the numerous songs connected
with the rites of May, Folk-Lullabies, and Folk-Dirges. There is also
an interesting essay on what is called the White Paternoster, and
Children’s Rhyming Prayers. This is one of the most valuable, and
certainly one of the most interesting, books which have been written
on a subject which has of late years been exciting an ever-increasing
attention, and which involves many important problems connected with
the early history of the human race.”--_Standard._

“‘Folk-Songs,’ traditional popular ballads, are as tempting to me
as King Charles’s head to Mr. Dick. But interesting as the topic
of the origin and diffusion and literary merit of these poems may
be--poems much the same in all European countries--they are rather
caviare to the general. The Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco is, or
should be, a well-known authority among special students of this
branch of literature, to whom I heartily commend her ‘Essays in
the Study of Folk-Songs.’ The Countess is, perhaps, most familiar
with Southern _volksleider_, as of Greece, Italy, and Sicily. Her
book is a treasure-house of Folk-lore of various kinds, and the
matter is handled with much poetic appreciation and a good deal of
learning.”--_Daily News._

“A kind of popular introduction to the study of Folk-lore.”--_St.
James’s Gazette._

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THE HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS;

OR, THE STORY OF THE FORTY MORNS AND EVES.

Written in Turkish by SHEYKH-ZADA, and now done into English by E. J. W. GIBB, M.R.A.S.

“The interest of this compilation is naturally not to be compared to
that aroused by the ever-fresh ‘Thousand and One Nights;’ but it has
had high reputation among particular admirers, and the gentleman to
whom we are indebted for this English version--apparently the most
complete in any language of Western Europe--merits the thanks of the
reading public for the work performed.”--_Athenæum._

“A delightful addition to the wealth of Oriental stories available to
English readers is ‘The History of the Forty Vezirs’ (Redway), done
into English by Mr. E. J. W. Gibb, from the Turkish of Sheykh-Zāda.
The collection comprises 112 stories. To the forty told by the
Lady and those of the forty Vezirs, Mr. Gibb has added four from
Belletête, twenty from a MS. in the India Office, six from Dr.
Behrnauer’s translation, and two from a MS. recently purchased by
Mr. Quaritch. The results of collation are admirably summarized in a
comparative table that analyzes the contents of the various texts.
In the preface Mr. Gibb deals with the bibliography of the French
and German versions, and indicates some of the more interesting
parallels suggested by those old stories in the ‘Gesta Romanorum,’
the ‘Decameron,’ the ‘Thousand and One Nights,’ the ‘Mabinogion,’
and other treasures of old-world fable. In short, Mr. Gibb has
considerately done everything to help the reader to an intelligent
appreciation of this charming book.”--_Saturday Review._

“In my opinion the version is definite and final. The style is light
and pleasant, with the absolutely necessary flavour of quaintness;
and the notes, though short and few, are sufficient and satisfactory.
Mr. Gibb does not write only _ad clerum_; and thus he has been
obliged to ‘leave in the obscurity of an Eastern language’ three
whole tales (pp. 353, 366, and 399), No. 2 being exceedingly witty
and fescennine. He has the good sense, when he supplants a broad
joke by a _banal_ English phrase, to subjoin in a note the original
Turkish (pp. 109, 140, 199, 215, and 382). Yet some of the _novelle_
are highly spiced enough: see the amorous princess in the Eleventh
Wazir’s story (pp. 381-3); and the truly Turkish and unspeakable
version of modest Æsop’s ‘Countryman and his Son.’ Of the less
Milesian I would especially commend the story of the Venus-star and
the magical angels, Harut and Marut (p. 167); the explanation of the
proverb, ‘Take counsel of the cap that is on thy head’ (p. 362),
and the Thirty-seventh Wazir’s tale, showing why ‘men have beaten
their wives since the days of Saint Adam’ (p. 349).”--Sir RICHARD F.
BURTON, in the _Academy_.

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THE BLOOD COVENANT:

A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture, by H. CLAY TRUMBULL, D.D.

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utmost importance in considering the growth of civilization.”

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the cannibalism of savages to a religious impulse not essentially
different in its symbolical aspect from one of the most vital
principles of Christianity. In the details of the work will be found
much to attract the attention of the curious. Its fundamental and
essential value, however, is for the student of religions; and all
such will be grateful to Dr. Trumbull for this solid, instructive,
and enlightening work.”--_Scotsman._

_Demy 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d._

SERPENT-WORSHIP AND OTHER ESSAYS,

With a Chapter on Totemism, by C. STANILAND WAKE, Member of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Contents:--Rivers of Life--Phallism in Ancient Religions--The Origin of Serpent-Worship--The Adamites--The Descendants of Cain--Sacred Prostitution--Marriage among Primitive Peoples--Marriage by Capture--Development of the Family--The Social Position of Woman as affected by “Civilisation”--Spiritism and Modern Spiritualism--Totems and Totemism--Man and the Ape.

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PRIMITIVE SYMBOLISM

As illustrated in Phallic Worship; or, The Reproductive Principle, by the late HODDER M. WESTROPP. With an Introduction by MAJOR-GENERAL FORLONG, author of “Rivers of Life.”

“This work is a _multum in parvo_ of the growth and spread of
Phallicism, as we commonly call the worship of nature or fertilizing
powers. I felt, when solicited to enlarge and illustrate it on the
sudden death of the lamented author, that it would be desecration
to touch so complete a compendium by one of the most competent and
soundest thinkers who have written on this world-wide faith. None
knew better or saw more clearly than Mr. Westropp that in this oldest
symbolism and worship lay the foundations of all the goodly systems
we call Religions.”--J. G. R. FORLONG.

“A well-selected repertory of facts illustrating this subject, which
should be read by all who are interested in the study of the growth
of religions.”--_Westminster Review._

_In crown 8vo., 676 pages, cloth, price 10s. 6d._

MYTHS, SCENES, AND WORTHIES OF SOMERSET.

By MRS. E. BOGER.

The author has somewhat departed from her original intention of making a collection of the myths and legends of Somerset. Unwittingly fiction glided into fact, and the story developed into history, and it was found difficult, if not impossible, to define their respective limits. For instance, though Arthur is an impalpable and shadowy personage, while Alfred is a most real and substantial one, yet the mingling of truth and fable in the story of each--as connected with Somerset--is only one of degree; and even in later times, myth is so intertwined with the lives of St. Dunstan, of Sir John de Courcy, of Roger Bacon, &c., that, if one tries rudely to tear away the accretions of myth and fable, a maimed and distorted picture is all that is left.

Among the legends of Saints are some of rare beauty, full of earnest thought and quaint suggestiveness. It has been endeavoured to show that, instead of being, as they are generally and conveniently classed--with a charming simplicity--as the “lying inventions of the monks,” they are in most cases but the loving exaggerations of a simple age, to which every unexplained wonder was a miracle.

Some of the articles may be thought to be of undue length; but St. Dunstan is a character so strangely misrepresented in most histories, that the author was anxious to prove incontestably his claim to be one of the worthiest of the worthies of Somerset; again, as to the unhappy Duke of Monmouth, though the story of his rebellion is of necessity taken chiefly from Macaulay, the story of his quasi-royal progress is little known, and Macaulay studiously omits any palliating or softening circumstance in the terrible record of the battle of Sedgmoor and the Bloody Assize.

_In Preparation._

HOW TO TRACE A PEDIGREE;

OR, THE SCIENCE OF HERALDRY EXPLAINED.

By CHARLES WORTHY, Esq., late of the College of Arms.

Introductory.--Science of Heraldry, Coats of Arms, Varieties of Arms, Partition Lines, Tinctures, Furs, Ordinaries, &c., &c.--Common Charges, Lions and other Beasts, Heraldic Monsters, &c., &c.--Miscellaneous Objects Alphabetically arranged.--Technical Terms used in Heraldry.--The Rules of Blazon.--The Marshalling of Arms, Hatchments, &c., &c.--Crests, Mottoes, Helmets, Mantlings, Supporters, and Coronets.--The Rules of Precedence.--Peers, Baronets, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen.--Advice to Pedigree Hunters, How to Trace a Pedigree, Parochial Registers, Public Documents, Probate Court, Fees, &c., &c.--The College of Arms, Officers of Arms, Heraldic Records, Heraldic Fees, Grants of Arms, Change of Name.--Liveries, with some Remarks upon Cockades, and those who are entitled to use them.--General Remarks, Drawing and Illuminating, Taxes in respect of Arms.

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POPE JOAN

(THE FEMALE POPE).

A Historical Study. Translated from the Greek of Emmanuel Rhoïdis. With Preface by CHARLES HASTINGS COLLETTE.

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Joan has not yet lost interest,’ he said no more than the truth.
The probability is that the topic will always have its attractions
for the lovers of the curiosities of history. Mr. Baring-Gould has
declared that ‘the whole story of Pope Joan is fabulous, and rests
on not a single historical foundation;’ but others are not so firmly
convinced in the matter, and at all times there are those who are
anxious to investigate singular traditions.... Rhoïdis discusses
the topic with much learning and ingenuity, and Mr. Collette’s
introduction is full of information.”--_Globe._

“It is interesting enough, and is accompanied by curious
illustrations.”--_Notes and Queries._

_In crown 8vo., about 450 pages, with illustrations, and historico-symbolical binding, price 7s. 6d._

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

Founded on their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Members, by ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, author of “The Mysteries of Magic: a Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi.”

Influence of the Secret Societies.--Derivations of the name Rosicrucian.--On the State of Mystical Philosophy in Germany at the close of the Sixteenth Century.--The Prophecy of Paracelsus.--The Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross.--The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.--The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz.--The Connection of the Rosicrucian Claims with those of Alchemy and Magic.--On the Antiquity of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.--Theories as to the Authorship of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes.--Progress of Rosicrucianism in Germany.--Rosicrucian Apologists: Michael Maier, Robert Fludd, Thomas Vaughan, &c.--Rosicrucianism in France.--Connection between the Rosicrucians and Freemasons.--Modern Rosicrucian Societies, &c., &c.

In the present work every important and available fact has been carefully collected, and the manifestoes and other documents of the Fraternity are republished in revised versions. The Rosicrucians as represented by themselves are, therefore, offered to English readers for the first time in the literature of the subject. The task has been performed by a sympathetic but impartial writer, purged from the bias of any particular theory, and above all uncontaminated by the pretension to superior knowledge, which claimants have never been able to substantiate.

_A few copies only remain of the following important work, by the author of “The Rosicrucians.”_

PHALLICISM:

Its connection with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics, and its Foundation in Buddhism, by HARGRAVE JENNINGS, author of “The Rosicrucians.”

“This book is written _ad clerum_, and appeals to the scholar only,
and not to the multitude. It is a masterly and exhaustive account
of that worship of the creative powers of nature which, under
various names, has prevailed among all the nations of antiquity and
of mediæval times, alike in Egypt and India, in Italy and Gaul,
among the Israelites of old, and among the primitive inhabitants
of Great Britain and Ireland ... a most valuable auxiliary to
all who care to pursue such a subject of inquiry, a subject for
which Mr. Jennings is the better fitted on account of his long and
intimate acquaintance with the Rosicrucians, their tenets, and their
practices.”--_Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer._

“Unpleasant as this subject is, we are quite prepared to agree
that in its scientific aspect, as a form of human worship, it has
considerable importance.... Mr. Jennings deals almost entirely
with the subjective part of his inquiry, and he has evidently
made a considerable amount of research into the literature of
early religions.... He has produced something which is, at
all events, worth the attention of the student of comparative
psychology.”--_Antiquary._

“This book ... is profoundly learned, and gives evidence on each page
of deep thought, intense powers of research, clear and unmistakable
reasoning, and thorough mastership of the subject. The appendix
also contains much very curious matter which will interest those
who desire to study the subject under all its different aspects and
bearings.”--_Reliquary._

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THE DANCE OF DEATH

In Painting and in Print, by T. TINDALL WILDRIDGE. With Woodcuts.

“The origin of the Dance has been conjectured to have been one of the religious mysteries, moralities, or dramatic exhibitions which at the same time supplied a comedy and a homily. There certainly was an acted processional dance in which the players one by one were snatched away; Cervantes in ‘Don Quixote’ mentions it as the ‘Cortes of Death.’ ... The earliest painting of the Dance of Death is said to be that at Basil, though it is probable that many of which we have information are as old. The German and Swiss bridges, so often, too, the site of religious buildings, were decorated with the representation; an example is upon the Pont des Moulins leading into Lucerne, where is a fine Dance, restored within the last few years.” The blocks illustrating this work are a series found in a northern printing office many years ago. They seem to be of considerable age, and are somewhat close copies of Holbein’s designs.

_Monthly, 1s. Volumes I. to XI., now ready, price 7s. 6d. each._

WALFORD’S ANTIQUARIAN MAGAZINE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.

Edited by G. W. REDWAY, F.R.Hist.S.

The following are the Contents of the first Four Numbers published this year. ARTICLES:--Domesday Book.--Frostiana.--Some Kentish Proverbs.--The Literature of Almanacks.--“Madcap Harry” and Sir John Popham.--Tom Coryate and his Crudities.--Notes on John Wilkes and Boswell’s Life of Johnson.--Rarities in the Locker-Lampson Collection.--A Day with the late Mr. Edward Solly.--The Defence of England in the 16th Century.--The Ordinary from Mr. Thomas Jenyns’ Booke of Armes.--A Forgotten Cromwellian Tomb.--Visitation of the Monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.--The Rosicrucians.--The Seillière Library.--A Lost Work.--Sir Bevis of Hampton.--More Kentish Proverbs.--Cromwell and the Saddle Letter of Charles I.--Recent Discoveries at Rome.--Folk-Lore of British Birds.--An Old Political Broadside.--Notes for Coin Collectors.--Higham Priory.--Byways of Periodical Literature.--How to Trace a Pedigree.--The Curiosities of Ale.--The Books and Bookmen of Reading.--The Language of the Law.--Words, Idioms, &c., of the Vulgar.--Notes on Old Chelsea.--The Romans in Cumbria.

COLLECTANEA.--Early Italian Prints.--Tercentenary of the Potato.--Chaucer Discovery.--Sir John Soane’s Museum.--Copyright in Government Publications.--Pausanias.--The Loan of Manuscripts.--Paper Making in 1588.--Portraits of Charles Dickens.--Hopton Castle.--A very Ancient Watch.--The Value of Antiquarian Study.--Curious Forestry Privilege.--A “Factory.”--Thimbles Old and New.--Mrs. Glasse’s Cookery Book.--A Bucks Estate.--Chalfont St. Giles.--Greek Coins.--Shakespearian Literature.--Geography in the Sixteenth Century.--Welsh Place Names.--Japanese Art.--Duelling in 1760.--Shelleyana.--English Archers.--Oriental Porcelain.--South Italian Folk-Lore.--Serpent-Lore.--Modern Witches.--The Domesday Plough.--A Bishop of the Olden Time.--Historical Treasures in the Upsala Cathedral.--The Witches Ladder.--Old Prayer-Book.--A Relic of James II.--Pontefract and Ripon.--Old Shoes.--Love Charms.--County Families.--A Roman Fire Brigade.--Parish Registers.--Border Raiding.--Peasant Proprietors.--Queen Mary’s Tree.--The Turks and Persians as Book-lovers.--Epitaph of John Ruskin’s Parents.--Quakers.--“Yankee” and the “Stars and Stripes.”--Gipsies.--The Royal Academy.--Chigwell Church, Essex.--Printers’ Errors.--A Village Club.--An Historical Fishery.--A Survival.--A Cock Match.--Early Publishing.--Pancakes at Westminster School.--The Archbishop’s Palace at Croydon.--The Art of the Saracens in Egypt.--The Early Custody of Domesday Book.

CORRESPONDENCE.--The late Bishop Hannington’s Ancestry.--A Reader of Curious Books.--Throwing the Dart in Cork Harbour.--The De la Poles.--The Family of John Hampden.--The “Olla Podrida” and T. Monro.--Life of Bertram Montfichet.--Magdalen College, Oxford.--Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.--A Forgotten Society.--Latin Verses by Dr. Johnson.--“Merchet” and the “Jus Primæ Noctis.”--Hanna, Hanet, and Wallace.--Another Book Bound in a Murderer’s Skin.--Humorous Portrait of Charles Dickens.--Beating Boys at Parish Boundaries.--Destruction of National Antiquities.

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