Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850

NOTES

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REPRINTS OF OLD BOOKS

CATACOMBS AND BONE-HOUSES

LINES ATTRIBUTED TO HUDIBRAS

NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, No. 5

THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE

QUERIES

BARRYANA

NINE QUERIES

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

THE FIELD OF FORTY FOOTSTEPS

QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 4.—"POKERSHIP", BY BOLTON CORNEY

MERTENS, MARTINS, OR MARTINI, THE PRINTER

ETYMOLOGY OF ARMAGH

THE OFFICE OF THE MASTER OF THE REVELS

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANIES

SONNET

THE DEVOTEE

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

Отрывок из книги

Most people are aware of the great demand there is for English literature, and indeed for all literature in the United States: for some years the anxiety of persons in that part of the world to obtain copies of our early printed books, prose, poetry, and plays, has been well known to such as collect and sell them on this side of the water. Where American purchasers could not obtain original editions they have, in all possible cases, secured reprints, and they have made some themselves.

Not very long since a present of a most creditable and well-edited republication of "Four Old Plays" was sent to me from Cambridge, U.S., consisting of "Three Interludes: Thersytes, Jack Jugler, and Heywood's Pardoner and Frere; and Jocasta, a tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh." They are preceded by a very well written and intelligent, and at the same time modest, Introduction, signed F.J.C., the initials of Mr. Francis James Child; who in fact was kind enough to forward the volume to me, and who, if I am not mistaken, was formerly a correspondent of mine in a different part of the republic.

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LEE's Alexander the Great.

I wish to ask a few questions, referring to these lines, if you do not think the subject already exhausted by Mr. Rimbault's curious and interesting communication.

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