Chapter M: W. R., init. ROONEY, Bookseller, of Dublin (1)

The Last Leaf of the lately discovered copy of Hamlet, first edit. (1603) ... reprinted Dublin, 1856.

See Lowndes by Bohn, p. 2276.

MYRTLE (Harriet) Mrs., _pseud._ [LYDIA F. F. MILLER].

This lady has written a number of Children’s Tales and _booklettes_ since 1846, under this pseudonym.

MYRTLE (Harriet) _pseud._ [MARY GILLIES].

More Fun for our Little Friends. London, 1864.

One person employing a pseudonym already used by another, is
much to be deprecated. We have not stigmatised the above as an
_allonym_, as we do not believe this lady had any intention to
deceive.

MYRTLE (Lewis) _pseud._ [ ].

Cap-sheaf, a fresh Bundle. New York, 1853.

MYRTLE (Minnie) _pseud._ [ ].

The Myrtle Wreath, or Stray Leaves recalled. New York, 1854. The Iroquois, or the Bright Side of Indian Character, 1855.

N.

NAPEA (Oloff) _fictitious name_ [ ].

Letters from London. Observations of a Russian during a Residence in England. Lond., 1816.

Of home manufacture; they are imitations of Espriella’s Letters.
See Quarterly Review, 1816, p. 53.

NAPOLEON I., Emperor of the French.

The Following works have been falsely, and with a fraudulent intent to deceive, published as the writings of Napoleon.

Private Hours of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his earliest years to the period of his Marriage with the Arch-Duchess Maria Louisa. Written by himself during his residence in the Island of Elba. 2 vols., Paris. London, (printed) 1816.

An edition in French also printed in London the same year.

Confessions de Napoléon, with the motto, “Un homme et toute l’Europe.” Paris, 1816.

This is by P. G. S. Dufey, a French Barrister, and a prolific
author. On account of the police of Paris having seized this bad
novel, it has become scarce. See J. M. Quérard, La France Litt.

Manuscrit venu de St.-Hélène d’une manière inconnue. Lond., J. Murray, 1st and 3rd editions, 1817.

These two anonymous works are attributed by Quérard to Bertrand,
an officer in the French Army.

Manuscrit de l’île d’Elbe, etc. Londres, _Ridgway_, 1818.

Napoleon his own Historian. Extracts from the original MS. of Napoleon Bonaparte, by an American [ ]. London, _H. Colburn_, 1818.

French edition the same place and year.

Quarante Lettres inédites de Napoléon, recueillies par L. F. [written by Dourille de Crest]. Paris, 1825.

Love letters supposedly written to a lady at Valence, on
Napoleon’s first visit to that town, when he was only a
lieutenant.

J. M. Q.

NAVA (Franz) _ps._ [EDWARD FRANCIS RIMBAULT].

A number of Musical Compositions, Arrangements, etc., under this pseudonym since 1853.

NIMROD, _pseud._ [CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY].

Nimrod’s Northern Tour (in Vol IX of the New Sporting Magazine. London, 1835.)

The Chace--The Road--The Turf, 1852.

Remarks on the Condition of Hunters (reprinted from the Sporting Mag.) 4th edition, 1855.

The Horse and the Hound. Edinburgh, 1858.

Memoir of the Life of John Mytton.

NORTH (Christopher) _pseud._ [JOHN WILSON, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh].

Heart-Break; the Trials of Literary Life, or recollections of C. N. [a novel]. 1859.

Blackwood’s Magazine was edited by him under this pseudonym.

NORTH (Danby) _pseud._ [DANIEL OWEN MADDEN].

The Mildmayes, or the Clergyman’s Secret; a Story of Twenty Years ago. London, 1856.

O.

O---- (W----) Esq., _disguised-author_ [WILLIAM OWEN].

A Brief Memoir of W---- O----, Esq. Lond., [1841].

O’DOHERTY (Sir Morgan) Bart., _pseudo-titlonym_ [WILLIAM MAGINN].

Maxims of Sir M. O’Doherty. Edinburgh, 1849.

He was a constant contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine under this
pseudonym.

OLDACRE (Cedric) of Saxe Normanby, _pseudonym_ [JOHN WOOD WARTER].

The Last of the Old Squires, a Sketch. Lond., 1854.

OLD CHATTY CHEERFUL, _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM MARTIN].

The Boy’s Own Annual. Lond., 1861 (signed W. M.)

OLD-NICK, _ironym_ [EMILE DAURAN FORGUES].

Jane Eyre, imités par, etc. Paris, 1846.

See BELL (Currer) _ps._

M. Forgues has translated or “imités” several other English
novels.

OLDSCHOOL (Oliver) _phren._ [JOSEPH DENNIE].

The Portfolio. Philadelphia, 1801-15.

OLDSTYLE (Jonathan) _phren._ [WASHINGTON IRVING].

Letters on the Drama. New York, 1802.

The author’s earliest production.

OLD TRAVELLERS. See Trusta (H.) _pseud._

OLIVER (Stephen) the Younger, of Aldwark, _pseud._ [W. A. CHATTO].

Scenes and Recollections of Fly Fishing in Northumberland, etc. London, 1834.

OMNIUM (Gresham) _pseud._ [ ].

A Handy Guide to safe Investments, etc., 1858 and 1860.

OMNIUM (Jacob) _pseud._ [MATTHEW JAMES HIGGINS].

Is Cheap Sugar the Triumph of Free Trade? 3 Letters to Lord John Russell, London, 1847 and 1848. Light Horse, 1855. Letters on Military Education, 1856.

ONE OF NO PARTY, _phraseonym_ [JAMES GRANT, editor of the Morning Chronicle].

Random Recollections of the House of Commons. London, 1836.

ONE OF THE FANCY, _phras._ [THOMAS MOORE].

See Crib (Tom) _ph._, 1819.

ONE OF THEM, _phraseonym_ [ ].

Who shall be President Next? addressed not to the Politicians but to the People. 8vo, 16 pp.

ONE OF THE MIDDLING CLASSES, _phraseonym_ [ ].

Three Letters to the People, by ----. Lond., Southampton (printed) [1835].

ONE OF THE PARTY, _phraseonym_ [F. TAYLOR].

Ella V----, or the July Tour. New York, 1841.

ONESIMUS, _pseud._ Numbers of authors have written under this pseudonym, but they are all unknown.

ONE WHO HAS NEVER QUITTED HIM FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, _phraseonym_ [C. DORIS].

Secret Mémoires of Napoleon Bonaparte. Written by, etc. Translated from the French. 1815. German Translation, 1817.

An Historical Survey of the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1815.

ONE WHO HAS WHISTLED AT THE PLOUGH, _phraseonym_ [ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE].

The Autobiography of a Working Man. Lond., 1848.

This was first published in the Manchester Examiner. He signed
himself “The Whistler” in the newspapers.

ONE WHO IS BUT AN ATTORNEY, _enigmatic phraseonym_ [GEORGE BUTT, of Salisbury].

A Peep at the Wiltshire Assizes, a Serio-Ludicrous Poem. _Brodie & Dowdney_, Salisbury [1820], price 13s. 4d.

“This was published in 1819: its circulation was limited to
Wiltshire and the adjoining counties: except that Mr. John Long,
the High Sheriff, in that year presented two, by his own wish to
Graham and Best, on the Circuit.... I do not know how to obtain 3
more copies of this.”--_MS. Note in the B.M. copy._

See Notes and Queries, 2 S. ii., 229. 277.

ONE WHO IS REALLY AN ENGLISHMAN, _phraseonym_ [C. W. SMITH].

Letters published in The Sun, by C. W. S[MITH] justifying the Coup d’Etat of the 2nd Dec., and condemning the ... attack of the “Times,” and other journals in their comments upon the policy of the Emperor Napoleon III., by ----. Lond., 1853.

ONE WHO LOVES THE SOULS OF THE LAMBS of Christ’s Flock, _phraseonym_ [Rev. _Richard Marks_, Vicar of Great Missenden, Bucks?]

English History for Children, from four to ten years of Age. London, _J. Nisbet_, 1832-3.

We dare not allow ourselves to comment upon a person who uses
such a pseudonym as this.

ONE WHO THINKS FOR HIMSELF, _phraseonym_ [ ].

Metropolitan Grievances; or a serio-comic Glance at Minor Mischiefs in London, &c. Plate by G. Cruikshank. _Sherwood_, 1812.

We could not find a better instance of the careful manner in
which books are read through, when required for the purpose of
cataloguing them at the British Museum, than this little work.
At p. 42 we read “Here I am, Thomas Truewit, Esq., the renowned
author of the ‘Grievances,’” etc., and from this the work is
catalogued under ‘Truewit.’

O’REILLY (Miles) _ps._ [Colonel CHARLES G. HALPINE].

The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services ... of Private ----.... With comic illustrations by Mullen. From the authentic records of the New York Herald. New York, 1864.

Baked Meats of the Funeral ... Essays, etc. By Private M. O’Reilly. New York, 1866.

OSBORNE (Edward) _fictitious name_ [Miss ANNE MANNING].

The Colloquies of E. O., Citizen and Cloth Worker of London, as reported, By ye author of “Mary Powell” (q.v.), 1860.

OUIDA, _pseudonym_ [Miss RAME].

Cecil Castlemane’s Gage. Chandos, 3 vols., 1866. Randolph Gordon. Strathmore. Held in Bondage, or Granville de Vigne, 1863. Idalia--Under Two Flags, 1867. Mostly in 3 vols., all London.

We do not gather from this lady’s works that any of them have
appeared in periodical publications.

OWEN (Ashford) _pseudandry_ [ANNIE OGLE].

A Lost Love. Lond., Edinb. (printed). 1855.

OXFORD MEMBERS, _geonym._

See Contributors to Tracts for the Times.

P.

P. (Professor). See A * * * * * (Major) _init._ [POLE].

P---- (P----) Poet Laureate [i.e., Peter Pindar] _allonym_ [GEORGE DANIEL].

R----l [Royal] Stripes, or a Kick from Yar----h [Yarmouth] to Wa----s [Wales, afterwards George IV.], with particulars of an expedition to Oatlands, and the Sprained Ancle, 1812.

This was suppressed.

PARLEY (Peter) _pseudonym_ [SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH, an American bookseller, who afterwards devoted himself entirely to Authorship. “In 1851, the President of the United States--his excellency Millard Fillmore--conferred a deserved compliment upon Mr. Goodrich by appointing him consul at Paris.”]

In the history of the world it would be impossible, we think, to
find a more popular pseudonym than that of Peter Parley. Since
1828, one hundred and seventy volumes, bearing that name, or
edited under it, have been issued. Of all these about 7,000,000
of volumes have been sold: about 300,000 volumes are now sold
annually. Our plan precludes our giving the titles of these
works, on almost every subject; but the curious reader will
find a complete list in S. A. Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of
English Literature, 1859.

PARLEY (Peter). This pseudonym has been claimed, but without cause, and after his death, for the late Mr. S. Kettell (of America) the only pretext being that he had worked for the real “Simon Pure.” But the claim was as unjust as that now set up by Mr. Pugin that his father designed the Houses of Parliament.

PARLEY (Peter) _impostor_.

As we have before observed that it would be almost impossible to
find a name under which more popular and useful works have been
written than this; so we think it would be difficult to find one
which has been more the subject of barefaced and open robbery,
both on the part of literators and publishers.

Among the most notorious we have Peter Parley’s Annual, _Darton &
Co._ (publishers), continued from 1841 to 1855, 14 vols. And 12
others by the same publishers, all spurious. Life of St. Paul,
_Simpkins_, 1845. Visit to London, 1838, and Twelve Apostles,
_Bogue_, 1844. 8 published by _Tegg_, 1837-40. Bible Geography,
_J. S. Hodson_, 1839. Child’s First Step, _Clements_, 1839.

PARLEY (Peter) _impostor_ [WILLIAM MARTIN].

Peter Parley’s Annual: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for Young People. Edited by William Martin. (Darton & Co.) Lond., 1867. This is one of the spurious works above referred to.

The author who has so long traded on a dead writer’s _nom de
plume_ avows himself. His name is William Martin. To those who
care for Samuel Goodrich’s honest fame in the world of letters,
it will be interesting to know that his impersonator has again
flung away a piece of his mask, and stands revealed as William
Martin, Holly Lodge. Mr. Martin, you have taken one step in
the right direction, and we congratulate you on that sign of
uneasiness, if not of penitence. Why not take another step, and
desist altogether from using Peter Parley’s title, to which you
have no kind of right that can be recognised in a court of honour.

Athenæum, Jan. 5, 1867, No. 2045, p. 29.

P. P’s Peeps at Paris, 1848. Our Oriental Kingdom, or Tales about India, 1857. The Travels, Voyages and Adventures of Gilbert Go-Ahead, 1857. The Hatchings of me and my Schoolfellows, edited by W. Martin 1858. P. P’s. Own Favourite Story Book, edited by W. M., 1864. The Holiday Keepsake, 1865.

We do not believe this list to contain anything like the number
of spurious works.

PARLEY (Peter) _impostor_ [GEORGE MOGRIDGE].

Tales about Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, 1827.

Great Britain and Ireland. Tales about Greece, 1837. Tales about Rome and Modern Italy, 1839.

These are imitations of the real P. P.’s tales about Ancient and
modern Greece. This seems to be the earliest thief.

PARLEY (Peter) _allonym_ [ ].

The Lives of the Twelve Apostles, 1844. The Life and Journeys of Paul the Apostle, 1845. The Travels and Adventures of Thomas Trotter, of Boston, U.S. [_apocryph_], as told by himself. Edited by Peter Parley, 1845.

This edition was revised by the Rev. T. Wilson.

“There are still other counterfeits of Parley’s works, issued by
various parties in London. The utter disregard of truth, honour,
and decency, on the part of respectable British authors and
publishers in this wholesale system of imposition and injustice,
is all the more remarkable when we consider that the British
public and especially the British authors and booksellers are
denouncing us in America as pirates, for refusing international
copyright.

“The conduct of all these parties places them, morally, on a
footing with other counterfeiters and forgers: public opinion,
in the United States, would consign persons conducting in this
manner to the same degree of reprobation. Can it be that, in
England, a man who utters a counterfeit five-pound note is sent
to Newgate, while another may issue thousands of counterfeit
volumes and not destroy his reputation?”--S. G. GOODRICH, _see
Allibone_.

PARTINGTON (Mrs.) _pseudonym_ [B. P. SHILLABER].

The Sayings and Doings of ----. Lond., 1854. Mrs. P.’s Tea Party and Trip to Paris, 1856.

PASQUIN, _pseud._ [ ].

Legendes ofe the 19th Century. The Dragone ofe Oxforde ande St. George ofe Sainte Stevene’s. Part the first. Writ by Pasquin. Lond., Bath, printed 1853. No more published.

PASQUIN (Adolphus) _pseud._ [ ].

The Age of Lead. A Satire ... with an Introduction by G. Gilfillan. Lond., 1858.

PASTORINI (Sig.) _pseud._ [CHARLES WALMESLEY, Bishop of Rama].

The General History of the Christian Church, from her Birth to her final triumphant state in Heaven. 4th edition, New York, 1846.

PAUL, _pseud._ [Sir W. SCOTT].

Paul’s Letters to his Kinsfolk. Lond. and Edinb., 1816.

The copy in the British Museum has MS. corrections by Sir W.
Scott.

P. B. St. J., _initialism_ [PERCY B. ST. JOHN (pronounced Sinjen)].

These initials are signed at the end of a story called “Quadroona,” in the London Journal. _G. Vickers_, Nos. 599-627, 1856-7.

He signs “Blythe Hall,” the tale before the above in full.

PEACOCK (Timothy) _fictitious name_.

See A Member of the Vermont Bar.

PELHAM (M.) _pseudonym_ [Sir R. PHILLIPS].

The Parent’s and Tutor’s first Catechism (with a clockface and moving hands.) Printed for R. P., the author.

We have been unable to ascertain whether this “authoress,” as he
calls her in the preface, was married or not, and, in fact, the
gallant vegetarian was somewhat in doubt himself, we think.

See N. & Q., 3 S. xii. 394.

PENDENNIS (Arthur) _pseud._ [WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY].

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a most respectable family, edited by ----. Lond., 1854.

PENFEATHER (Amabel) _pseud._ [ ].

Elinor Wyllys; or, the Young Folk of Longbridge, a tale, by ----. Edited by J. F. Cooper. Phil., 1846, 2 vols.

PENN (William) _pseud._ [JEREMIAH EVERTS].

Essays on the present crisis in the condition of the American Indians; first published in the National Intelligencer, under the signature of ----. Phil., 1830.

PENROSE (Llewellyn) _fictitious name_ [JOHN EAGLES].

Journal of ----, a Seaman. Lond., 1815, 12mo, 4 vols. Since republished.

PEPPER (K. N.) _phrenonym_ [JAMES W. MORRIS].

PEPPERCORN (H.) M.D., _supposed-author_ [Rev. R. H. BARHAM].

Some verses as above, entitled “The Dark-Looking Man,” first published in the _Globe and Traveller_, of which the following is the moral:

Merchants, East and West India, now list to me, pray,
Attend to the moral I draw from my lay--
Shun strife, nor let Port e’er your senses trepan;
Above all, don’t fall out with a dark-looking man!

See N. & Q. 3 S. xii.

PEPPERCORN (Peter) M.D., _phren._ [THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK].

Some capital verses, “Rich and Poor, or Saint and Sinner,” also first published in _The Globe and Traveller_, beginning:--

“The poor man’s sins are glaring
In the face of ghostly warning;
He is caught in the fact
Of an overt act,
Buying greens on Sunday morning.”

_S. Blyth, N. & Q._

PERCY (Sholto) _pseud._ [J. C. ROBERTSON].

Sir W. Scott, his Novels, &c., abridged, &c.

PERCY (Sholto) _pseud._ [ROBERTSON].

The Percy Anecdotes, by SHOLTO [J. C. ROBERTSON] and REUBEN PERCY [THOMAS BYERLEY] Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont. Berger [_pseudo-titlonym_]. Lond., 1820-3, 12mo, 20 vols.

The History of London, by the same, 1824.

Notes & Queries 1 S. vii. 214.

PERSIC (Peregrine) _pseud._ [JAMES MORIER].

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. Lond., 1824.

PETER, _pseud._ [JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, Sir Walter Scott’s son-in-law].

Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk. Edin., 1819. 3 vols.

First appeared in Blackwood’s Mag.

P. H., see W. D.

PHILALETHES, M.A., Oxon., _phrenonym_ [ROBERT FELLOWES].

History of Ceylon from the earliest period to the year 1815, religion, laws, and manners of the People, their Maxims and ancient proverbs. By ----, to which is subjoined Robt. Knox’s historical relation of the Island, and his Captivity for nearly 20 years, &c. Lond., 1817. 4to.

Ceylon being seceded to the English, caused Knox’s long-forgotten
book to be resuscitated. The publisher no doubt considered that a
second edition of a work originally published in 1681 would not
be likely to attract attention; he therefore got an introduction
written, and appended the work of Knox, which forms the staple of
the book.

PHILALETHES, _phren._ [Sir R. J. W. HORTON].

On Colonies. Lond., 1839.

N. & Q. 3 S. vii. 449.

PHILIP (Uncle) _pseud._ [FRANCIS L. HAWKS].

A number of American Histories and Tales for Children, published in New York.

See Stevens’ Cat. of Am. Bks., 1859.

PHILO-JUNIUS, _pseud._, see Junius.

PHIZ, _pseud._ [HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE], one of the most popular draughtsmen of the day. He succeeded Seymour in the illustrations to the Pickwick Papers, and afterwards illustrated several of Charles Dickens’ other works.

PHŒNIX, _pseud._ [Sir HENRY MARTIN, Bart.].

Archbishop Murray’s Douay and Rhemish Bible, &c. Lond., 1850.

PHŒNIX (John) _pseud._ [Captain GEORGE H. DERBY].

Phœnixiana, or Sketches and Burlesques. New York, 1856. 11th edit.

The Squib Papers, with comic illustrations by the author. New York, 1865.

PHOTIUS, junior, _pseud._ [SHERLOCK, a young barrister of Dublin].

Letters on Literature. 2 vols. Brussels, 1836.

S. Redmond, N. & Q.

PINDAR (Paul) _pseud._ [JOHN YONGE AKERMAN].

Legends of Old London. 1842.

First published in Bentley’s Miscellany.

PINDAR (Paul) _pseud._ [ ].

Jew-De-Bras (a Burlesque Poem). Lond., _Newby_ [1850].

PINDAR, (Peter) _pseud._ [JOHN WALCOT].

The Lamentations of the Porter-Vat [occasioned by the bursting of one at Meux and Co.’s]. 1814.

The Fat Knight and the Petition; or, Bits in the Dumps. 1815.

And numerous others of the same kind. He had a number of
imitators. It is said that he had a pension given him, on
condition that he should write no more in abuse of the King,
George III.

PINDAR (Peter) _impostor_ [C. F. LAWLER].

A poetaster of little or no art unwarrantably assumed this name,
merely to deceive the public [how easily that is done sometimes,
this work amply proves] and to bring profit to the writer and his
bookseller.--Biog. Dict. 1816.

PINDAR (Peter) Esq., _allonym_ [ ].

Hymn to the Virgin [Joanna Southcott].

PINDAR (Peter) _allonym_ [ ].

A Peep behind the Curtain. 1816.

Royalty Bewitched; or, the Loves of William [Duke of Gloucester] and [the Princess] Mary. A [satirical] poem. 1816.

The Contest of Legs; or, Diplomatics in China. In a Letter from Zephaniah Bull to John Bull at home. 1817.

Bubbles of Treason, &c., &c. 1817.

The Bath Pump Room; or a Sovereign Remedy for Low Spirits. A [satirical] poem [on Queen Charlotte]. 1818.

The Disappointed Duke [of Clarence]. 1818.

PISCATOR, _phrenonym_ [T. P. LATHY, q.v.].

PISCATOR, _phren._ [ ].

Practical Angler. Lond., _Simpkin_ [Launceston, printed]. 1842.

PISCATOR, _phren._ [ ].

A Practical Treatise on the Choice and Cookery of Fish. 1854.

We have given these two unknown ones, lest they should be
fathered on the _known_.

PLYMLEY (Peter) _pseud._ [Rev. SYDNEY SMITH].

Letters on the Subject of the Catholics to my Brother Abraham, who lives in the Country. 21st edit. Lond., 1838.

POLYPUS, _ps._ [E. S. BARRETT].

All the Talents. A satirical poem, in three dialogues. 1st (?) and 17th edition. Lond., 1807.

PORCUPINE (Peter) _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM COBBETT, of political celebrity].

The Rush-Light. New York, 1800.

PORCUPINE (Peter) _allonym_ [ ].

The Pop-Gun Plot; or, Shots in the Air, &c. Lond., 1817.

P. P. C. R., _pseudonym_ [THOMAS WATTS, Keeper of the Printed Books, British Museum].

Under these initials, Mr. Watts wrote letters in the Mechanic’s
Magazine, 1836-7, on the British Museum Library. He has himself
carried out the suggestions for the improvement of the library
that he thus made. What the initials mean we do not know, though
we do know that they mean something. “S. S.” [Solomon Secundus]
writes about the same time on the same subject.

PRESBYTER, _demonym_ [SAMUEL HENRY TURNER].

Strictures on Archdeacon Wilberforce’s Doctrine of the Incarnation, &c. New York, 1851.

PRESBYTER ANGLICANUS, _phrenonym_ [J. H. HARRIS].

Auricular Confession not the Rule of the Church of England. 1852.

PRESBYTER CATHOLICUS, _phrenonym_ [WILLIAM HARNESS].

Visiting Societies and Lay Readers. Lond., 1844.

PRIOR (Samuel) _pseud._ [JOHN GALT].

All the Voyages round the World ... [abridged and] ... collected by ----. Lond., 1820.

PROUT (Father) _pseudonym_ [F. S. MAHONY].

The Reliques of Father Prout.... collected and arranged by Oliver Yorke [F. S. MAHONY], illustrated by A. Croquis [D. MACLISE]. Lond., 1849.

PRY (Paul) _pseud._ [ ].

London Joke-Book, or New Bon-Mot Miscellany. Lond., _J. Weston_, 1835. Vignette of Paul Pry on the title-page, and underneath:

“Beg pardon--just popp’d in to shew
My Book of Jokes and smart Bon-Mots.”

Oddities of London Life. 1838.

PSALMANAZAR (George) _pseudonym_.

The most extraordinary impostor on record. He himself would
never divulge his real name, wishing only to be known as an
impostor. So degraded and vagabondish had his life been, that he
assumed the above name, and bore it with him to the grave, having
faithfully kept the secret of his birth and parentage.

He is now only remembered as the author of a strange fabrication,
entitled:--

An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan. Giving an account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, &c., of the Inhabitants. Together with a relation of what happen’d to the author in his Travels; particularly his Conferences with the _Jesuits_, and others, in several parts of _Europe_. Also the History and Reasons of his Conversion to Christianity, with his Objections against it (in defence of Paganism), and their Answers. To which is prefixed a Preface in vindication of himself from the reflections of a _Jesuit_ lately come from _China_, with an account of what passed between them. By GEORGE PSALMANAAZAAR, a native of the said Island, now in _London_. Illustrated with several cuts. Lond. Printed for Dan Brown, at the Black Swan without _Temple-Bar_, &c. 1704. 8vo; 8 + xiv. + 2 + 131 + 4.

“Without having travelled out of Europe, he invented an account
of an Asiatic island, and preserved sufficient consistency in
his narrative to obtain for it, for a time, almost universal
credence. Long after the imposture was discovered, the book was
_quoted_ as _genuine_, and it is admitted to carry with it an
air of fact and reality, which does credit, at any rate, to the
ingenuity of the author.”

But Psalmanaazaar, “who is still in England, hath long since
ingenuously owned the contrary, tho’ not in so publick a manner
as he might perhaps have done had not such an avowment been
likely to have affected some few persons, who for private ends
took advantage of his youthful vanity, to encourage him in an
imposture which he might otherwise never have had the thought,
much less the confidence, to have carried on. Those persons
being now dead, and out of all danger of being hurt by it, he
now gives us leave to assure the world that the greatest part
of that account was fabulous ... and he designs to leave behind
him a faithful account of that unhappy step ... to be published
after his death, when there will be less reason to suspect him of
having disguised or palliated the truth.”--_A Complete System of
Geography._ By Emanuel Brown. 1747. Fol. ii. 251.

It is said that Psalmanazar himself wrote the genuine account of
Formosa in the above work as a compensation for his fabrication.
But in the work itself the account is acknowledged to be taken
from another author who resided there, but whose account is
admitted to be almost as bad as Psalmanazar’s.

But little interest now attaches to a fabrication once so famous.
There was, however, a completeness about the imposture which
renders it remarkable. Psalmanazar’s great difficulty was to
support the character he had assumed.

There was nothing Asiatic in his appearance; he was surrounded
by sceptical inquirers, and frequently puzzled with questions
and objections; but his hardihood and ingenuity enabled him to
maintain his ground, and baffle his most pertinacious opponents.
In the narrative of his life, which, in a spirit of penitence, he
drew up in after-years, he has given an interesting account of
the strange adventures of his youth. For this we must refer the
reader to that work, or to any of the biographical dictionaries,
or to the source whence we have adopted much--namely, Mr.
Lawrence’s article in Sharpe’s London Magazine.

The first edition of the remarkable romance of which we have
given the full title-page was soon exhausted, and another
called for. The second edition contains “a new preface, clearly
answering everything that has been objected against the author
and the book, and a map and a figure of an idol not in the former
impression.” Many editions of the translation were published in
France. In spite of its improbabilities, the book was devoutly
believed. Psalmanazar was sent to Oxford, and maintained there by
the Bishop of London.

The first period of Psalmanazar’s life was, as he himself
confessed, sufficiently infamous: in the second he endeavoured,
by sincere repentence, to atone for his youthful errors and
disreputable impostures. Dr. Johnson, who at the latter period
knew him well, often stated that he was the best man he had ever
known, and that he would as soon have thought of contradicting a
bishop as George Psalmanazar.

During the latter portion of his life he supported himself
entirely by literary pursuits. He wrote part of “the Universal
History.”

A Dialogue between a Japonese and a Formosan about some Points of the Religion of the Time [laid down in a book entitled _The Growth of Deism_]. By G. P----m----r. Lond., _Lintott_, 1707. 12mo; 10 + 41. 1s.

“To vindicate the Japoneses from that unjust character this part
of the world is pleased to give them--viz., of being a people
much given to superstition.”

Eclaircissemens nécessaires pour bien entendre ce que le Sr. N. F. D. B. R., dit être arrivé à l’Ecluse en Flandres, par rapport à la Conversion de Mr. George Psalmanaazaar, Japonois dans son livre intitulé “Description de l’Isle Formosa.” Donné au public par ISAAC D’AMALVI, Pasteur de l’Eglise Wallonne de ladite Ville. A la Haye. _P. Husson_, 1707.

An Enquiry into the Objections against G. Psalmanazar, of Formosa, in which the accounts of the people ... are proved not to contradict his accounts; with ... map ... and the other very particular description of Formosa. To which is added G. P.’s Answer to Mons. D’Amalvy of Sluice. Lond., _Lintott_ [1710].

The Potter hates another of his Trade
If by his Hand a finer Dish is made;
The Smith his brother Smug with scorn does treat
That strikes his Iron with a brisker beat.

Essays on the following subjects: I. ... Miracles.... II. ... Balaam’s disappointment.... III. On Jabin’s Defeat.... IV. and V., &c., &c., written some years since, at the desire, and for the use of a young clergyman in the country. By a Layman, in Town [G. Psalmanazar].... Lond., for A. Millar, 1753. 8vo.

Memoirs of * * * *, commonly known by the name of George Psalmanazar, a reputed native of Formosa. Written by himself, in order to be published after his death.... Lond., printed for the Executrix, 1764. 2nd edition, 1765, with portrait. Another edition, Dublin, 1765. 12mo.

For French translations see Quérard, _La France Litt._ and _Les
Supercheries Litt. Dévoilées_.

He died on the 23rd of May, 1763, at his lodgings in Ironmonger
Row, Old Street, St. Luke’s, London.

PUBLICOLA _ph._ [Mr. SMITH wrote under this pseudonym in the _Dispatch_ in 1838].

PUBLICOLA, _ph._ [JOHN WILLIAMS].

Letters of ----, 1st series. Lond., 1840.

We have a number of other works by Publicola, all unknown.

P. W. [Rev. PIERCE WILLIAM DREW, Vicar of Youghal, Cork, Ireland].

An Account of the Present State of Youghal Church, &c. Cork, 1848.

J. P----r.

Q.

Q, _ps._ [ ]. You have heard of them. By Q. New York, _Redfield_. Lond., _Trübner_, 1854.

Q., _pseud._ [EDMUND YATES].

Mr. Yates never wrote “Readings by Starlight” in the _Evening Star_, but he wrote, under this initial, about sixteen papers in the _Evening Star_, the continuation of which papers have borne the title of “Readings by Starlight.” 1866. See F., _init._

Q IN THE CORNER, _ps._ [ ].

Epistles from Bath. Lond., _Meyler_, 1817.

Q IN THE CORNER, _pseud._ [ ].

Epistolatory Stanzas ... to E. Peel, Esq., with a copy of my recently-published work, entitled “The Lions of the Isle of Wight.” Hammersmith, 1851.

Q. Q., _pseud._ [Miss JANE TAYLOR].

Contributions to the Youth’s Magazine, or Evangelical Miscellany. 1816-22.

Republished 1824. 13th edition, 1866.

QUALLON, _pseud._ [S. H. BRADBURY, Editor of the Nottingham Review]. Poetry under this signature.

QUEERFELLOW (Quintin) _phren._ [CHARLES CLARK].

A Doctor’s “Do”-ings, or the entrapped Heiress of Witham. Totham, printed by Charles Clark (an amateur) at his private press, 1848.

A satirical poem. A very limited number reprinted from the
suppressed edition.

QUERY (Peter) Esq., _phrenonym_ [MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER].

Rides and Reveries of the late Mr. Æsop Smith. Edited by ----. Lond., 1858.

QUINCE (Peter) _pseud._ [ISAAC STORY].

A Parnasian Shop, opened in the Pindaric style. [Satires in verse.] Boston, 1801.

R.

RAETZEL (W.) _fictitious name_. See Ternaux-Compans.

RATTLER (Morgan) an apprentice of the law, _phrenonym_ [PERCIVAL WELDON BANKS, Barrister-at-Law].

Articles in Fraser’s Magazine to the time of his death, in 1851.

RAUSSE (J. H.) _pseud._ [H. F. FRANKE].

Miscellanies to the Græfenberg Water-Cure. Translated by C. H. Meeker. New York, 1848.

R. B. J., Barrister-at-Law, Temple, _init._ [JONES].

The Vision of Mary; or, a Dream of Joy. Poems in honour of the Immaculate Conception. 1856. 16mo.

R. C. H. _init._ [RICHARD COLT HOARE].

Hints to Travellers in Italy. Lond., 1815.

RETNYW (Werdna) Esq. _ananym_ [ANDREW WYNTER].

Odds and Ends from an Old Drawer. 1855.

Pictures of Town from my Mental Camera. 1855.

REVILO (E. B.) _anastroph_ [OLIVER BYRNE].

The Creed of St. Athanasius Proved by a Mathematical Parallel. 1839.

W. B. H. Athenæum, 1864.

R. H. _init._ [ROBERT HAWKER].

The Plant of Renown, &c. 1805.

The Friend that Loveth at all Times. By the author of the Brother born for Adversity. 4th edit., 1810. 24mo.

R. H. _init._ [HARVEY].

Hymns for Young Persons. London, 1834.

R. H. _init._ [ROBERT HOBSON].

The Guide to Dovedale, Ilam, and Scenes adjacent. Ashbourn, 1841.

RHYMER (Thomas) a City Bard, _phrenonym_ [ ].

The Petition, A Poem; Being an Extract from the Record of the Transactions of a Convention held by various Animals, &c., &c. Heretofore peaceably residing within the City of Edinburgh, and expelled the said City by order of the L * * * D * * * of G * * * * [Lord Dean of Guild]. The whole turned into English metre. By ----. Edin., 1806.

RIDDELL (Mr.) _fictitious name_. See Ternaux-Compans.

RINGLETUB (Jeremiah) _pseud._ [JOHN STYLES].

The Legend of the Velvet Cushion, in a series of Letters to my Brother Jonathan, who lives in the Country. 1815.

This is a Reply to “the Velvet Cushion. By the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, A.M. 1814.”

In the same year was published *“A New Covering to the Velvet
Cushion, Lond., _Gale & Co._,” by Dr. F. A. Cox, D.D., LL.D., of
Hackney.

_See N. & Q._, 2 s. x. xi.

RIPON (John Scott) _geonym_ [JOHN SCOTT BYERLEY, of Ripon, York].

Buonaparte; or, the Freebooter. A Drama. Lond., 1803.

ROCHESTER (Mark) _pseud._ [WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT, poet and journalist].

The Derby Ministry. A series of Cabinet Sketches. Lond., 1858. A Duplicate, with a new title-page, put forth in 1866, as “Lives of Eminent Statesmen,” &c.

ROCK (Captain) _pseudo-titlonym_ [THOMAS MOORE].

Memoirs of ----, the celebrated Irish Chieftain, with some Account of his Ancestors. Written by himself. Lond., 1824, and Paris, 1824.

Captain Rock Detected. By a Munster Farmer [ ]. Lond., 1824.

ROCK (Captain) _pseudo-titlonym_ [ROGER O’CONNOR].

Letters to His Majesty King George the Fourth. Lond., 1828.

ROCKINGHAM (Sir Charles) _French pseudo-titlonym_ [Le Comte de JARNAC DE ROHAN-CHABOT].

Le Dernier d’Egremont. Paris, 1851. 2 vols.

J. M. Q.

ROCKINGHAM (Sir Charles) _pseudo-titlonym_ [ ].

Cécile; or, the Pervert. By ----, &c., author of Rockingham, Love and Ambition, &c., &c. Lond., _Colburn and Co._, 1851.

RODENBERG (Julius von) _German pseud._ [JULIUS LEVY].

The Island of the Saints, a Pilgrimage through Ireland (translated from the German by Sir F. C. L. Wraxall). Lond., 1861.

RODMAN (Ella) _abbre._ [ELIZA RODMAN MCILLVANE, afterwards CHURCH].

Several works, see Allibone Dict. of Eng. Lit.

ROWLEY (T.) _apocryph_. See Chatterton (Thomas).

R. P. _init._ [ROBERT PALTOCK]. See Wilkins (Peter) _apocryph_.

R. S. _tetonism_? See Wilkins (Peter) _apocryph_.

R. T. _init._ [RALPH THOMAS, Serjeant-at-Law].

Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt.

In the Monthly Mag., April, 1832. Strongly advocating its total
abolition.

An Old Acquaintance, in the _Court Magazine_.

Reprinted in Holt’s Mag. for 7th Sept., 1836. Wrote also:--

Autobiography of an Artist [JOHN MARTIN] in the _Town and Country Mag._, 1838.

RUNNYMEDE, _pseudonym_ [Rt. Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI].

The Letters of Runnymede. Lond., _J. Macrone_, 1836.

Addressed to all the celebrated Statesmen of the time.

RUSTICUS (Mercurius) _pseud._ [Rev. THOMAS FROGNALL DIBDIN, LL.D.].

Bibliophobia. Remarks on the present languid and depressed state of Literature.... Addressed to the Author of the Bibliomania [Rev. T. F. Dibdin]. By ----, &c. With notes by Cato Parvus [Richard Heber]. 1832.

The learned and rev. author of this, and the champion of
bibliomanes, succumbed to the apparently inevitable destiny
of all who have been engulphed in the vortex of bibliographic
pursuits. Let the juvenile reader inclined to pursue bibliography
as a science, avoid it as he would a pest, for it will blight his
prospects and shatter his constitution if pursued, as it must be,
when once entered upon. But once entered upon, it is the broad
path that leads to endless labour, no reward but fame amongst
a few men of science. Let Robert Watt, his sons, Lowndes, and,
above all, J. M. Quérard, be his warnings.

S.

S---- (W----) Esq. See Scott (Sir W.)

SAND (George) _pseudandry_ [AMANTINE LUCILE AURORE DUPIN, afterwards DUDEVANT].

Consuelo, translated by F. G. Shaw. Boston, 1847.

Histoire de Ma Vie. 20 vols, Paris, 1854-5.

The list of her works in Quérard’s _Supercheries_ amounts to 118.
This was in 1852.

On the covers of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, I have remarked,
observes Charles Joliet, that after the title of her novel these
words follow:--M. George Sand and not “Mme.,” Genius has no sex.
She has also used the signature “Blaise Bonnin.”

Letter to M. Regnier, of the Théatre Français, upon his adaptation to the French stage of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. By ----. Translated by Lady Monson, 1856.

SAND (J.) _disguised-author_ [JULES SANDEAU].

(With Mme. Dudevant): Rose et Blanche, Paris, 1833.

This novel has only the name of J. Sand on the title-page.

J. M. Q.

SAND (Maurice) _pseud._ [MAURICE DUDEVANT].

Six mille lieues à toute Vapeur (with a preface by G. Sand.) Paris, 1862, and others.

SAVONAROLA (Jeremy) Don, _Spanish-pseud._ [FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY].

Facts and Figures from Italy ... addressed during the last two Winters, to C. Dickens, being an Appendix to his “Pictures,” 1847.

S. B. P., _init._ [SAMUEL BROWNING POWER, of Swansea].

Some School and Children’s books, under his initials.

J. P--r.

SCHNUSE (C. H.), _plagiarist_.

GERMAN PLAGIARISM.

We are apt to charge one another with copying from the Germans,
and there may be some among us who assume the credit of research
upon materials which are found to hand in some German book.
There may also be some who do nothing more than translate, and
pass themselves off as authors. The following account will show
that the converse may be true; that a German may translate
scores of pages, one after another, from an English writer, and
present them as his own. The theft is eight years old, but it is
not likely that such a thing should be noticed immediately in
England; and, moreover, it is desirable it should be known that
lapse of time does not spell impunity. The owner in this case is
Mr. J. R. Young; the appropriator is Dr. C. H. Schnuse, then of
Heidelberg. Mr. Young began writing on the theory of equations
in 1823, when he was the first elementary writer who saw the
value of what is now current as _Horner’s method_, the great
completion of the imperfect labours of Vieta, Briggs, and Newton
in the numerical solution of equations. Mr. Young was afterwards
the author of a long chain of well-known elementary works, and
was for many years professor at Belfast. When the Institution of
that place was converted into a Queen’s College, he was made to
fall to the ground between the two stools, in a manner which he
explained at the time in a pamphlet. Belfast is a place of many
religious sores. Mr. Young was also unequally used in reference
to his retiring pension; but this matter was afterwards righted
by the Government, and, we believe, arrears were paid. We
remember this by the opposition made by some honourable member,
who rather suspected that a Belfast payment must be a job. The
following dialogue ensued:--

_Hon. Member._--Is Mr. Young a professor of theology?

_Current Minister._--No! of mathematics.

_Hon. Member._--I withdraw my opposition.

Mr. Young, who has written largely on the theory of equations,
published his “Algebraical Equations of the higher order” in
1843. Dr. Schnuse published his “Theorie der höhen Algebräischen
und der Transcendenten Gleichungen,” at Brunswick, in 1850. We
have not troubled ourselves to reckon how much more than 100
pages, or less than 300, are taken from Mr. Young’s book. We dip
into the chapter on Sturm’s theorem, and we find page after page,
and example after example, as in Young: not merely the method
and examples transcribed, but the intermediate paragraphs. Thus,
having finished one example (Young, p. 242; Schnuse, p. 180),
they both start off into the same other example in the following
way:--

_Young._ _Schnuse._

We shall now give an example Wir wollen diese allgemeinen
that will in some measure illustrate Bemerkungen gleichsam noch
the preceding observations. durch ein Beispiel erläutern.

And so on to the end of the chapter. We amused ourselves by
finding out how a person without any German might detect the
copying. By the examples, of course: the Arabic numerals are
common to both nations. But at the end of this chapter the
English reader sees that the _method of Fourier_ has a _practical
value_, while at the end of the German this same English reader
catches sight of _Fourier Methode_ and _Praktischen Werth_. Then,
in the first sentence of the next chapter, on Horner’s method,
the English eye may still see something in the German text:--

_Young._ _Schnuse._

The method of approximation Die Methode zur näherungsweisen
to the real roots of numerical Berechnung der reellen Wurzeln
equations to be discussed in the der Zahlengleichungen welche
present chapter, is that which was wir in diesem Kapitel auseinan-
first proposed by Mr. Horner, and dersetzen wollen, rührt von Horner
published by him in the her, welcher sie im Jahre 1819 in
_Philosophical Transactions_, den _Philosophical Transactions_
in the year 1819. veröffentlicht hat.

Then follows many and many a page of examples and illustrations
common to both writers. Dr. Schnuse mentions Mr. Young’s name in
reference to another matter, at the end of the work: alluding to
him, not as a _writer_, but as the _inventor of a method_.

The facetious Hierocles tells the story of a man who, having a
house to sell, carried about a brick as a specimen. The bricks
of which books are built _are_ specimens; and seldom is it that
two or three bricks are piled together in two different books
in exactly the same way, by nothing but coincidence. The same
_ideas_ often strike different persons fairly; it is very rare
indeed that the same _sentence_ occurs to both, if of ten or
fifteen words. It has been noted that Terence says, _I præ,
sequar_, and that some modern dramatists have hit on, _Go
before, I’ll follow_. This is, perhaps, nearly the utmost extent
to which different writers fall on the same collocations of
words: four, five, or six at a time.

The unscrupulous man whom we have exposed might have been an
honourable translator; he has chosen to be a dishonourable
transformer. We dismiss him with the remark that he has added one
to the number of inconvertible identities: _Schnuse_ is German
for Young, but _Young_ is not English for _Schnuse_.--_Athenæum_,
5th March, 1859, p. 321.

SCOTT (Sir Walter) Bart.

The following works have been falsely, or fraudulently with intent to deceive, attributed to England’s greatest novelist. The reader will look in vain for them in Lockhart’s Life of Sir W. Scott:

The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a tale of Havre de Grace. Supposed to be written by Walter Scott Esq. First American from the fourth Edinburgh Edition. New York, 1813. [By James Kirke Paulding.]

The Bridal of Caölchairn, and Miscellaneous Poems. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 5th edition, London, _Hurst & Co._ and Edinburgh, _Constable_, 1822, 8vo. [By J. H. Allan.]

“This pretended ‘5th edition’ differs in the title-page only
from the first edition [same year], bearing the name of the real
author, J. H. Allan.”--_Note in B. M. Cat._

Die Erstürmung von Selama, oder die Rache. Eine schottische Sage von Walter Scott. 3 Bde, Quedlinburg und Leipzig, 1825.

Walladmor. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott, von W....s, 3 Bde., Berlin, _F. A. Herbig_, 1824. [By G. W. H. Haering, known in Germany under the pseudonym, Willibald Alexis].

“James Ballantyne’s satisfaction went on increasing as the MS.
flowed in upon him; and he at last pronounced The Talisman such
a masterpiece that The Betrothed might venture abroad under its
wing. Sir Walter was now reluctant on that subject, and said
he would rather write two more new novels than the few pages
necessary to complete his unfortunate Betrothed. But while he
hesitated, the German newspapers announced “_A new Romance by
the Author of Waverley_” as about to issue from the press of
Leipzig. There was some ground for suspecting that some of the
suspended sheets might have been purloined and sold to a pirate,
and this consideration put an end to his scruples. And when the
German did publish the fabrication entitled _Walladmor_, it
could no longer be doubtful that some reader of Scott’s sheets
had communicated at least the fact that he was breaking ground in
Wales.”--_Lochhart’s Life of Scott._

Walladmor: “Freely translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott,” and now freely translated from the German into English. In 2 vols, London, printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825.

This fabrication which is full of gross anachronisms, was
translated into French [by A. J. B. Defauconpret] from the
English version. Paris, 1825, 3 vols. A long account will be
found in the Lond. Magazine, x. 353 (says Bohn’s Lowndes which
gives the title incorrectly from that journal.) It seems Sir
Walter did not supply novels in sufficient numbers for the German
appetite, or else they were too expensive for the frugal German
pockets. At all events here is another by the same author, who is
still living:--

Schloss Avalon. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott vom Uebersetzer des Walladmor. 3 Bde. Leipzig, _F. A. Brockaus_ [a very celebrated firm by the way], 1827.

Aymé Verd, roman inédit de, etc., précédé d’une lettre du capitaine Clutterbuch [written in French by _M. Calais_, assisted, Quérard says, by Théod. Anne]. Paris, 1842, 2 vols.

Allan Cameron [by the same]. Paris, 1842, 2 vols, a German translation, published in 1841.

Le Proscrit des Hébrides, roman inédit. [Written by _Jules David_]. Paris, 1843.

La Pythie des Highlands, roman inédit [same]. Paris, 1844.

Moredun; a tale of the Twelve Hundred and Ten. [Edited by E. de Saint Maurice Cabany, who attributes the authorship to Sir W. S.]. 3 vols, London, published for the proprietor (Cabany) by Sampson Low, 1855.

This novel is not put forth under any false pretences. The
proprietor believes it to be a genuine work of the _great
unknown_.

SCRIBBLER (Blank) _phren._ [ ].

J. Donoghoe’s Visit to the Great Dublin Exhibition. 1854.

SCRIBE (Simon) _pseud._ [ADAM BLACK].

Maynooth, in three Letters to Mrs. Hadaway. Lond., 1852.

SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [CHARLES JERRAM].

Letters to an Universalist, containing a review of the controversy between Mr. Vidler and Mr. Fuller, on the doctrine of Universal Salvation. Clipstone, 1802.

SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [HORLOCK].

Letters on the Management of Hounds, 1852. Horses and Hounds, 1855 and 1858. The Squire of Beechwood, 1857. The Master of the Hounds, 1859 [or rather 1858]. Lord Fitzwarine, 1860. Recollections of a Fox Hunter, 1861. The Country Gentleman, 1862. The Heronry, a tale, 1864. Practical Lessons on Hunting and Sporting, 1865. All London.

SCRUTATOR. See The Author of the Church in Danger, (1855).

SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [DAVID MACALLAN].

The Mode of Christian Baptism, etc., appendix in reply to Arch. Whately and Lord Lyttleton. Lond., 1858.

SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [CHARLES RIVINGTON].

Strictures on Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Inquiry into the Genuineness of the MS. Corrections in Mr. J. J. Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare, Folio, 1632. London, _J. R. Smith_, 1860.

SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [C. P. MEASOR?]

Irish Fallacies and English Facts, etc., on the Convict System, etc. Lond., 1863.

We have above a dozen “Scrutators,” who are unknown to us in
their real presence.

SCULPTOR (Satiricus) Esq., _phrenonym_ [W. H. IRELAND is the reputed author].

Chalcographimania, or the Portrait Collector and Printseller’s Chronicle, with infatuations of every description. A humorous poem. _R. S. Kirby_, 1814. Dedicated to James Bindley, and dated from Cambridge.

Thomas Hartwell Horne, in his Introduction to the Study of
Bibliography, p. 521, says: The deserved popularity of the
Bibliomania (by T. F. Dibdin) suggested to some anonymous writer
the idea of satirizing the mania for prints in a volume....
Of this the less is said the better. The poem is anything but
humorous, and to the notes may justly be applied the author’s
motto _Caeoethes Carpendi_: it is throughout tinctured with
malevolence. The cut prefixed purports to be copied from an
unique print of Will Somers, the jester, which _has no existence_!

Lowndes says that it was written from information mostly
furnished by T. Coram. If it was written by Ireland, it seems
strange that the following verses should occur:--

In autographs as ably vers’d,
As Chatterton the poet erst;
Or he that later wielded fire-brand,
The impudent and forging Ireland.--p. 35.

And others which will be found in this volume under Ireland (W.
H.)

SEARCH (John) _pseud._ [ARCHBISHOP WHATELY].

Considerations on the Law of Libel. London, 1833.

A reply to this was published by “S. N.” [The Bishop of Ferns].

Religion and her Name, a Metrical Tract, 1841.

In this the author says:--“In resuming on this occasion the
signature prefixed by him some years ago to a pamphlet on the
subject of Religious Libel, the author of these stanzas takes
the opportunity of stating that, except in the present instance
and in that of the pamphlet alluded to, he is not accountable
for anything that may have appeared under the signature of
JOHN SEARCH. He is led to mention this from the circumstance
of some other writer having assumed the same signature about
a twelvemonth, more or less, after he had adopted it; and
forthwith prefixed it to sundry publications of his own. He would
also deprecate, could he think it necessary, the supposition
that he could have meant by such title to imply any sort of
pretensions as regards the peculiar qualifications for learned
research.”--_Preface._

_Ralph Thomas_, _N. & Q._, 3 S., xi. 429.

SEARCH (John) _phrenonym_ [W. HENRY ASHURST, Solicitor, is said to have written under this phrenonym, about 1833. See Notes and Queries, 3 S., Gen. Index].

SEARCH (John) _phrenonym_ [The Rev. Mr. MURSELL, of Leicester, wrote under this name. See N. & Q., ibid.].

SEARCH (Sarah) _pseud._ [F. NOLAN].

Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister proved to be forbidden in Scripture. London, 1855.

SEARLE (January) _phrenonym_ [GEORGE PHILIPS].

Memoirs of W. Wordsworth, compiled from authentic sources. London, 1852. Emerson, Life, etc., 1855.

This gentleman has written numerous other pieces under the above
name.

SEATSFIELD, _cryptonym_ [CHARLES SEALSFIELD].

Life in the New World; or, Sketches of American Society. Translated from the German of G. C. Hebbe and J. Mackay. New York, [1844]. Tokeah, Phil., 1845.

North and South; or, Scenes and Adventures in Mexico, translated by J. T. H[eadley]. New York, [1845?]

SEAWORTHY (Gregory) Captain, _phren._ [ ].

Nag’s Head, or two months among “The Bunkers,” a story of Sea-shore Life and Manners. Phil., 1850.

Bertie, or Life in the Old Fields, a humorous novel, with a letter to the Author from W. Irving. Phil., 1851.

_See Trübner’s Am. Bib. Guide._

S. E. B., _init._ [Sir SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES, Bart., calling himself, _per legem terræ_, Baron Chandos of Sudeley].

Arthur Fitzalbini, a novel. 1810.

Sir Ralph Willoughby, a tale. 1820.

Sir Egerton Brydges is a gentleman well known to be devoted
to literature,--and now a traveller, who may emphatically be
said _to drag at each remove a lengthening chain_. It has also
happened to us lately to be travellers, and wherever we went
we found vestiges of Sir Egerton,--remnants of his mind, in
the shape of English books, printed in foreign parts, for the
benefit, we presume, of the natives. At Geneva, early last year,
we encountered Sir Egerton’s volume on Political Economy, with
Packhoud’s imprint--drawn from our countryman, no doubt, by his
breathing the same air with Sismondi. At Florence he had dropped
a volume of tales and poetry. In the autumn we were at Rome,
and heard from our valet de place, as his first piece of news,
that Sir Brydges had established a printing press in the eternal
city, under the protection of a cardinal. At Naples, almost the
first book we met with was the work, the title of which stands at
the head of this notice, and which is the commencing number of
a series, which the Chevalier _Du Pont_ (as Sir Egerton Brydges
was called at Paris) intends perseveringly to continue, unless
he should be stopped by an invasion or an eruption. Every man
has his hobby, says Sterne; a printing press seems to be Sir
Egerton’s:--but that he should go abroad to print and publish
English books, is surely strange! His ambition was once to “witch
the world” with smart volumes “_from the private press at Lee
Priory_;” but as if a private press in his own country was not
sufficiently secluded from the interference of the impertinent
curiosity of readers, he has now allowed his love of obscurity
as an author to carry him away to strangers altogether,--amongst
whom he may reasonably hope to be able to print and publish once
a month or oftener, without running any very imminent hazard of
having his modest pages rumpled or fluttered by the eagerness of
perusal.--_Blackwood’s Mag., Feb., 1821._

SEVERAL AMERICAN AUTHORS, _polynym_ [C. M. SEDGWICK, J. K. PAULDING, W. C. BRYANT, W. LEGGETT, and R. C. SANDS].

Tales of Glauber-Spa. New York, 1832.

SEVERAL YOUNG PERSONS, _phraseonym_ [A. and J. TAYLOR, and others].

Original Poems for Infant Minds. London, 1854.

S. G. O., _initialism_ [The Rev. Lord SIDNEY GODOLPHIN OSBORNE].

His letters on social and philanthropic subjects in the _Times_, have made these initials celebrated, and, as is justly remarked in “Men of the Time,” “the terror of wrong doers.”

S. H., _initialism_ [SPENCER HALL].

Suggestions for the Classification of the Library now collecting at the Athenæum [Club]. Lond., 1858, privately printed.

SHAKESPEARE (William).

The spurious or doubtful plays of Shakespeare occupy six closely
printed columns in the new edition of Lowndes by H. G. Bohn, to
which we refer the reader.

It is not often that we have occasion to praise this work, nor
have we been much indebted to it. The bibliogram on Shakespeare
is really so thoroughly worked up, that we have very great
pleasure in testifying to its usefulness; and whenever we mention
Shakespeare, if further information is required, Lowndes by Bohn
should be referred to.

SIDNEY (Edward William) _ps._ [BEVERLY TUCKER].

The Partisan Leader; a tale of the future. Printed for the publishers by James Caxton, 1836, 2 vols.

This is the original edition, another was published with this
title: The Partisan Leader. By Beverly Tucker, of Virginia.
Secretly printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff
Green, for circulation in the Southern States, but afterwards
suppressed. New York, 1864, 3rd edition.

SILVERPEN, _pharmaconym_ [ELIZA METEYARD].

This pseudonym was appended by Douglas Jerrold himself to a leading article in the first number of his newspaper (?) (_Men of the Time_) for this talented authoress.

The Little Museum Keeper, Lond., 1861.

SIMEON (South) _pseud._ [J. MCGREGOR].

Simeon’s Letters to his Kinsfolk: written chiefly from France and Belgium. Lond., 1834.

Severely reviewed in the Edin. R. for 1835, xxii. 512.

SINGLETON (Arthur) _ps._ [ ].

Letters from the South and West. Boston (U.S.) 1824.

SKETCHLEY (Arthur) _scenonym_ [GEORGE ROSE].

Mrs. Brown at the Play--in fact, Mrs. Brown all over the world, has been immortalized by the comic wit of Mr. Rose. He has contributed to “Fun” and “Cassell’s Magazine,” and several other periodicals under this signature.

SLICK (Sam) of Slickville, _pseud._ [THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON, of Nova Scotia].