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I have had the privilege of seeing a copy of this quarterly, in the possession of Messrs. Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge, which has the authors' names filled in in_manuscript, and, as far as I can see, correctly. I have made my list quite independently of Knight's, only working from the names written in this copy. My objects in giving the full contents are, (1) that it may be a complete index of the authors' contributions to this interesting quarterly, and (2) that a more correct index than Knight's own in the magazine should be printed, so as to be easily accessible when the book is even scarcer than at present. In many cases the articles themselves are not signed, yet the author's nom de plume is against the article in the contents; when it so happens I have placed an * against the article. The third volume has no names at all in the con tents, and a great number of the articles not signed, Sonnet, written on the First Leaf of Keats's Poems, To M--, (2) ii. 233. Narenor, a Tale, ii. 274; iii 81. *Sonnet to A. T. on her Birthday, ii. 368. Coleridge, Derwent, 1800-52. Davenant Cecil.-Beauty, a Lyrical Poem, i. 77. To Mary, on repeating the foregoing Poem to her, i. 84. When Fortune forsakes me, i. 223. To Anna, ii. 227. [Four] Sonnets, ii. 236. [With Paterson Aymer] Lord Byron: Past and Pre- Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 1800-43. The English Constitution, ii. 100. The Long Parliament, ii. 369. Cunningham, Allan, 1785-1842. John Tell.-*Arise and come wi' me, i. 94. *Quentin Durward. By the Author of Waverley, i. 200. On Mosque and Tower [C.], i. 336. De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Archibald Frazer.-The Raven, a Greek Tale, i. 349. The Black Chamber, an Anecdote from the German, i. 353. Anon.-The Incognito; or, Count Fitz-Hum, iii. 143. The Somnambulist, iii. 443. Gaspey. Anon.-Behind the Scenes; or, a Breakfast in Newgate, iii. 274. Hill, Matthew Davenport, 1792-1872. Martin Danvers Heaviside.-On Duelling, i. 57. Recollections of Abraham Gentian, Esq., ii. 223. William Payne.-My Maiden Brief, i. 273. Anon.-Confessions of a Duellist, ii. 12. M. H.-Dawn in London, ii, 235. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Frederic Vernon.-*The Editor, i. 13. Paterson Aymer.-*A New Depository for Literary The Burial of Charles the First, i. 106. The Eton Montem, i. 193. On the Theatrical Monopolies of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, i. 427. The Editor. No. 2, ii. 1 [P. A, Sub-Editor]. Knight, Charles, 1791-1873. Paterson Aymer.-The Editor. No. 3, ii. 213. A Craniological Invitation to Contributors, iii. 238. Paterson Aymer and Davenant Cecil.-*Lord Byron, Past and Present, i. 337. Richard Mille.-On Quadrilles, i. 235. Charles Pendragon.-*An Unpublished Episode of Vathek, i. 309. *Cockney Balaam. A Dinner at the Johnson's Head, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, i. 331. Oliver Medley.-On the Idleness of Authors, i. 314. Oliver Medley and Reg. Holyoake.-On the Sixth, or Boeotian Order of Architecture, ii. 446. Peter Ellis-What you Will. No. 2, i. 443. R. M.-The Old Man of the Mountain, ii. 310. The Spring Shower, i. 48. Ripperda: a Dramatic Sketch. i. 103. The Anniversary, iii. 178. Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1800-1859. Tristram Merton.-Fragments of a Roman Tale, i. 33. On West Indian Slavery, i. 85. On the Royal Society of Literature, i. 111. Oh Rosamond, i. 219. By thy love, fair girl of France, i. 219. Scenes from "Athenian Revels," a Drama, ii. 17. Criticisms on the Principal Italian Writers: I. Dante, Songs of the Civil War: I. The Cavaliers' March to Some Account of the Great Lawsuit between the A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and On the Athenian Orators, iii. 117. On Mitford's History of Greece, iii. 285. A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic Poem to be entitled "The Wellingtoniad," and to be published A.D. 2824, iii. 434. Anon.-A New Translation [Tarver's] of Dante's Inferno, iii. 239. Maginn, William, 1793-1842. Anon.-Impromptu written for a Design of a Fountain, iii. 96. Batrachomyomachia, and Hymn to Pan, iii. 342. Malden, Henry. Hamilton Murray.-Agostino della Monterosa, i. 117. Imitation of the Excursion, i. 220. Complaint of a Poet, i. 222. Now thou may'st not fickle be, i. 222. On the Pastoral Romance of Longus, i. 277. Farewell, i. 453. Sonnet to Minna i. 455. The Evening Star, i. 455. The Later Ages of Heathen Philosophy, ii. 158. Eros and Anteros, ii. 199. Sonnet to Elinore, ii. 234. Taylor. Lewis Willoughby.-The Lady Alice Lisle, ii. 46, 393; iii. 395. Flowers. From Schiller, iii. 110. The Grief of the Maiden, iii. 111. A Foreigner.-On the English Character, i. 369; ii. 36. Opening of the Eleventh Iliad, iii. 97. On Contemporary Italian Writers.-I. Ippolito Pin- Walker, Sidney, 1795-1846. Horæ Albanæ, i. 319. The Cause of the Greeks, i. 435. Stanzas, i. 447, 448. Preparations for the Battle of Salamis, from Persæ of Eschylus [R. G.], i. 449. Fragments, i. 450, 451; ii. 464. To a Great Coat, i. 451. Extracts from Polybius, ii. 62. *Sonnet, i. 448; ii. 80. To the Harp of Denmark, ii. 234. The Broad Stone of Honour, ii. 287. Lines on Meeting Miss Eliza Rivers in a Coach, ii. 467. Stanzas, ii, 468. Walker, Sidney, 1795-1846. Edward Haselfoot.-To Risine, by a Fifth Poet, ii, 470. logues of the Dead, "Martin has spawned a strange The Silk Handkerchief, ii. 470. Shelley's Posthumous Poems, iii. 182. The Irruption of Vesuvius, 1819, by Martin Lovell, ii. 53. A Recollection from my Travels-Leonora, by Irving On Eastern and Classical Poetry, more particularly on iii. 9. Sonnet. Scotch Quadrilles [? A. Cunningham], iii. 177. Roscoe's Edition of Pope's Works, iii. 304. 1770), after quoting from Lord Lyttelton's Diabrood of fellows called Methodists, Moravians, Hutchinsonians, who are madder than Jack was in his worst days," asks, "Could his lordship shew me in England many more sensible men than Mr. Gambold and Mr. Okely? And yet both of these were called Moravians." There can be little doubt that the blank in Wesley's entry, Aug. 1, 1757, is to be filled with Okely's name : (whom, against a thousand appearances, I will believe to be an honest, though irresolute man). While I was very uneasy,' said he, 'in the year 1741, my brother brought me to Mr. Spangenberg, and then to others of the German brethren, to whom I was more and more attached till, in the year 1743, I went over to Marienborn. There I saw many things which I could not approve, and was more and more uneasy till I returned to England. I was afterwards much employed by the brethren. I was ordained deacon. But still I had a sore and burdened conscience, and gained no ground in my spiritual warfare: rather having laid aside prayer, and searching the Scripture, I was more and more dead to God. But in 1750 I awoke again, and was under great agonies of mind. And from this time I wrote to "Mon. Aug. 1.--I had much conversation with Mr. the Count again and again, and to most of the labourers, but to no purpose. Andrew Frey's account is true. The spirit of levity and frolicsomeness, which he justly describes, broke out in about 1746, and is not yet purged out. In May last I wrote and delivered a declaration to the brethren met in conference at Lindsey House, that The Ionian Islands. (By T. Kendrick, Esq.) A Review, I did not dare to remain in their connexion any longer. iii. 321. I may not look upon thy face 3, Pembroke Street, Cambridge. G. J. GRAY. FRANCIS OKELY.-He is known by notices in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, in the journals and biographies of John Wesley, and in Mr. Abbey's excellent life of William Law. He entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, as sizar for Mr. Salisbury, June 26, 1736, æt. eighteen. He is described as eldest son of Francis Okely, wig-maker (capillamentorum sutoris); born at Bedford, educated at Charterhouse School under Mr. Hotchkis. The same declaration I made to them here a few days ago. What farther I am to do, I know not; but I trust God will direct me.' Tues. 2.-On his expressing a desire to be present at our conference. I invited him to it: and on Wednesday, 3rd, in the evening, he came to the Foundery. Our conference began the next morning, and continued till the Thursday following. From the first hour to the last there was no jarring string, but all was harmony and love." Cambridge. JOHN E. B. MAYOR. THE LATE HOWARD STAUNTON.-It is due to intending purchasers of Messrs. Routledge's édition de luxe of Shakespeare to note that everything in this edition which is not in that of 1853, in 3 vols. royal 8vo., is the work of a second editor. This caution is rendered expedient by certain notices of the press, in which Mr. Staunton is praised, exactly as if he were alive, for " his present edition," and especially for its collection of "critical opinions" and other matter for which my late friend was not responsible, seeing that he died on June 22, 1874. I well know that he had amassed a quantity of notes of all sorts with a view to get out a second His tutor was Dr. Philip Williams. His works edition, under the name of a "Student's Edition," may be seen in Nichols, Watt, Lowndes, and but the obstacles he encountered induced him to Darling. Watt has not Dawnings of the Ever- select from the mass those which were published lasting Gospel Light glimmering out of a Private in the Athenæum under the name of "Unsuspected Heart's Epistolary Correspondence, Northampton, Corruptions of Shakspeare's Text," and to com1775, small 8vo. John Wesley (Journal, Aug. 30, | mit the rest to the flames. He was engaged in correcting the proof of the last of these papers when he received his death stroke. This paper appeared in the Athenæum of the following Saturday. It will be a convenience to students in this department of criticism to give the dates of all these papers, viz., Oct. 19 and 26; Nov. 2, 16, and 23; Dec. 14 and 28-all in 1872. Jan. 25; March 29; April 12 and 26; June 14; Nov. 8; Dec. 6-all in 1873. Jan. 3 and 31; March 14; April 4; and June 27-all in 1874. Besides these papers Mr. Staunton did not leave a scrap of criticism affecting the text of his author, or in any way modifying or adding to the notes of his own edition. C. M. INGLEBY. Athenæum Club. GIPSY BIBLIOGRAPHY.-Messrs. Bath, Smart, and Crofton's Dialect of the English Gipsies (London, Asher & Co., second edition, 1875), contains a list of works on the Anglo-Romani dialect. To this I furnish a few out-of-the-way addenda, as also the titles of some books, magazine articles, &c., on the subject of the gipsies generally :— 1. The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register, vol. xlvi., December, 1818, pp. 393-4, "Mr. D. Copsey, of Braintree, on the Dialect and Manners of the Gipsies." -The vocabulary contains seventy-three words, and is of some little value, though often very corrupt, the words being misspelt and run into one another. Thus, Kyshinka jásha kata devús? (Whither are you going to-day?) was probably intended for Kei shan te jása kaia devús? it. Where art that goest this day?) The accentuation of devus, it may be noticed, corresponds with that of modern Welsh, but not of English, gipsies. 2. Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1845, article "Gypsy." By the Rev. Cecil Renouard, M.A., F.L.S., late Fellow of Sidney Sussex Coll., Cambridge.-This includes a list of fifteen gipsy words collected near Cambridge in 1809 or 1810. Of these, only ftá, seven, has any value. 3. Memoir of the late Rev. John Baird, Minister of Yetholm. By W. Baird, M.D., F.L.S., &c.; London, Jas. Nisbet & Co., 1862.-An appendix gives one hundred and fifty-three words used by the gipsies of Yetholm, many of which are cant, not Romani, e.g., strammul, straw; smout, butter; neddies, potatoes; loge, a watch; lagan, transporting, &c. 4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, vol. xxi., 1871-72, pp. 20-26, 99-103, 198-203, "Slang Terms and the Gipsy Tongue." By J. C. M. H.-These three articles contain seventy-three Romani words, not always genuine, e.g., bhul, a blunder; dhab, dexterity; dol, a bucket; donkee, bellows; hullar, an uproar; katna, to cut; raik, loose in morals; rushto, angry,' &c. According to this writer, muttram engre, tea, means literally sober creature"; mushroom he derives from the gipsy mush, man, and rom, wandering; and chandelier from the Hindostanee chandna, light. 66 5. Round the Tower; or, the Story of the London City Mission. By John Matthias Weylland. London, S. W. Partridge & Co., 1875.-A dialogue, containing fifty-six Romani words, is given on pp. 227-9, the writer of which had evidently studied Mr. C. G. Leland's English Gipsies, but to no great purpose. 6. Johnston's Universal Cyclopædia (New York, 18761877), vol. ii., pp. 743-45, article " Gypsies"; vol. iii, pp. 1712-14, article "Rommany Language." Both by Charles G. Leland. 7. Playbill of Zillah: a new romantic drama. By Messrs. J. Palgrave Simpson and Claud Templar, Royal Lyceum Theatre, August 2, 1879.-With Romani song of twenty-nine lines by Charles G. Leland. Works on the gipsies generally must stay over much obliged to any one who can add to the for a future article; but meanwhile I should be above, or who can give me exact references to (1) a series of articles on the gipsies by Mr. Vernon S. Morwood that appeared in the Victoria Magazine some thirteen years ago; (2) a single article by Mr. Geo. Wotherspoon; and (3) an article on in the Cheltenham College Magazine (circa 1872), the Potters of the northern counties that was published two years ago in a Cumberland antiquarian magazine. The last I am especially anxious to see. An unpublished Anglo-Romani vocabulary, by the Rev. T. W. Norwood, F.G.S., is described on p. 195 of the Report of the Meeting of the British Association at Leeds in 1858. It seemingly has a high value. F. H. GROOME. 2, Osborne Terrace, Portobello, N.B. 1797. COLMAN'S "NEWCASTLE APOTHECARY." George Colman the younger published his Broad Grins in 1802; but it included his previous work, My Nightgown and Slippers, which was issued in Probably-for I have not the latter book to refer to-the well-known humorous piece "The Newcastle Apothecary" first appeared in the earlier work. If so, it quickly attracted notice; for in the six-shilling volume, The Encyclopædia of Wit, published in 1801, by R. Phillips, 71, St. Paul's Churchyard, the poem has been turned into prose, thus :— "SHAKE UPON SHAKE.-An apothecary at Newcastle having a patient lying at death's door, sent him a bottle of medicine, and wrote on the label, when taken, to be well shaken. Next day, he repaired to his patient's house, and inquired of the servant who opened the door how his master was. The servant shook his head. 6 What! is he worse?' said the apothecary. Did he take the draught?' Yes, sir,' was the reply.-Well, what then, John?' 'Why, then, sir, we shook him shake won't do, friend.' 'No, sir, so we thought, and once.'-Shook him? What! shake a patient! why, a therefore shook him twice.'- Why, d-n it, man! that would make him worse.' 'So it did, sir (said John), and we tried a third.'-'A third! zounds! and what then? Why, then, sir, master died.'”—P. 337. If "The Newcastle Apothecary" did not make its appearance in the earlier work of Colman, it seems probable that he derived his poem from the source that I have quoted. Perhaps some correspondent who can refer to My Nightgown and Slippers will put this matter right. CUTHBERT BEDE. Les Psaumes de David. Mis en Vers François. Avec les Cantiques qui se chantent dans l'Eglise de Genève. A Amsterdam, 1708.-The air of the tune of each versified psalm is given. Psalms and Hymns for the Use of the Chapel of the Asylum for Female Orphans. London, 1793. This contains the rendering of the Dies Ira by the Earl of Roscommon, who died in 1684. Christian Psalmody; or, Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. By Edward Bickersteth. Enlarged edition. 122nd thousand. No date.-Authors' or versifiers' names given. Hymns for Use at King's College, London. 1859. Psalms and Hymns for Use in Churches in Reading. 1835. versifiers stated. The Church Hymnal. 1832.—In this the hymn "On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry" varies in almost every line from the version in Hymns Ancient and Modern. A Church Psalter and Hymnal. By Edward Harland, M.A. 1856. Fortieth thousand. Psalms and Hymns adapted for the Service of the Church. Banbury, 1816.--În the twenty-third hymn of this collection we have the beautiful metaphor of the 66 sun rising at midnight": "Amid the dismal night that veiled The world in densest gloom, How bright a sun arose this day Resplendent from the tomb." The Psalter, or Psalms of David in English Verse. Dedicated to Richard (Bagot) Lord Bishop of Oxford. This appears to be a new rendering, in indifferent rhyme throughout; e.g., compare Psalm 90 with Wesley's "O God our help in ages past," &c. :— "O Lord of yore to thy redeem'd Thou art a refuge tried Before the hills were born or teem'd This strongly reminds me of Martinus Scriblerus on the Bathos. It contains forty different Glorias. Psalms and Hymns for the Use of the Church of England. 1849. Dedicated to Charles James (Blomfield) Lord Bishop of London. By W. J. Hall. A Collection of Hymns and Psalms for Public and Private Worship. Selected and prepared by Andrew Kippis, D.D., Abraham Rees, D.D., Rev. Thomas Jarvis, and Rev. Thomas Morgan. 1807. A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists. By the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. With new supplement, 1876.-Authors and versifiers stated. The compiler of this edition has availed himself of the labours of Heber, Neale, Keble, Milman, Stanley, Lyte, and other modern hymnologists. The Book of Praise. By Roundell Palmer (Lord Selborne). 1867. Hymns Ancient and Modern. Three different editions. Several Books of Common Prayer, containing the old version of the Psalms, rhyming Creeds, Pater-Nosters, Confessions of a Sinner, &c., by Sternhold, Hopkins, and others; others containing the new version of the Psalms, by Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate, with a few hymns, one of which, "While shepherds watched their flocks by night," is ascribed (conjecturally) by Palmer to Nahum Tate. WILLIAM WING. Steeple Aston, Oxford. THE NAME OF OXFORD.-The origin of the name of Oxford still appears to be one of those matters about which two opinions may reasonably be held. By some antiquaries Oxford is supposed to mean "the ford of oxen" (and such is the explanation to be found in most of the Oxford guides); by others "the ford of the Ouse," Ouse being a common Celtic river-name, and one of the many forms of a word meaning "water." A. The interpretation of "Oxford" as = "ford of oxen " is a very old one, as old as the MS. (Cott., Tiber., B. iv.) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where, Oxena being in outward form a gen. pl., intended A.D. 910, Oxnaford (Oxenaford) is to be found, doubtless by the scribe to convey the idea "of oxen." The same interpretation of the name is to be found on the shield of this ancient city, whereon may be seen a very corpulent ox trotting over some wavy lines, the heraldic mode of denoting water. This explanation of Oxford has been translated by the Welsh Rhydychain (rhyd=ford, ychain oxen), a comparatively modern word, Í believe, occurring in Salesbury's Welsh-Eng. Dict. (1547), and now the ordinary Welsh name for our city. The editor of the Munimenta Academica (Rolls Ser., 50) thinks that this ("the obvious etymology") is probably the correct one (see p. xxvii). B. On the other hand, most modern scholars have come to the conclusion that the A.-S. Oxenaford is an instance of popular etymology (like Beachy Head for Beauchef), and that it stands for an original Ousenford, i.e. "the ford of the Ouse." Ouse is the Old Ir. us-ce (=ud-ce), aqua, cognate with 8-op, Lat. und-a, Goth. vat-o, Slav. vod-a (see Curtius, 248; Fick, i. 766), and occurs in many forms in English river-names; cp. the Ux- in Uxbridge, the Ex- in Exmouth, the Ax- in Axmouth. The same Celtic root is to be found in the name of the Isis and of the suburb Oseney. The Oxford Ouseford etymology has the support of the eminent philologists Max Müller, R. Morris, and Earle, and of the learned Oxford antiquary James Parker. It may be as well to add, in illustration of this etymology, that there is another Welsh name for Oxford besides Rhydychain, namely, Caerwysog, which (like Caerwysg=Exeter) evidently means the "city of water." Oxford. A. L. MAYHEW. |