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I have had experience......I appointed) with usury, enriched with annotations counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library against S. T. C." Dr. Haney, in his recent essay on 'German Influences on Coleridge' (Philadelphia, 1902, p. 43), observes that "the story of Coleridge's intellectual development awaits the pen of a critic whose conclusions will stem the tide of biassed and superficial criticism. REPLIES:-" Kaimakam"-U and V: W: Double-U Earliest English Newspaper, 70- "Cabinet - Single Tooth Clare Market, 71-Ancient Demesne, 72-"I" with Small Letter-Charles I. and the Episcopate, 73Authors of Books Wanted" Welter"-Shakespeare's Religion, 74-Ineen Dubh-Hampden's Portrait-Grotto at Margate Penreth," 75-Napier and Field Sports-... Many of his letters are unpublished, the prose Lushington, 76-Montagu - Bell: Lindley: Perryworks are for the most part badly edited, and he Potatoes, Whisky, and Leprosy-Kurish German, 77. still lacks a biography to serve as a fitting memorial of his greatness." NOTES ON BOOKS :-' Jewish Encyclopædia,' Vol. IV.— Burlington Magazine'-Browne's Treatise of Reformation without Tarying for Anie-Transactions of the Glasgow Archæological Society'- Harris's 'Alfred the Great-Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. Hotes. COLERIDGE MARGINALIA. scraps are so well worth preserving as those us, "often spoiled a book; but, in the course of doing this, he enriched that book with so many and so valuable notes, tossing about him, with such lavish profusion, from such a cornucopia of discursive read ing, and such a fusing intellect, commentaries so many angled and so many-coloured, that I have envied many a man whose luck has placed him in the way of such injuries." Mr. J. P. Anderson enumerated no fewer than sixty-six volumes containing precious marginalia by S. T. Coleridge in the Library of the British Museum alone. Many other books so enriched are known to exist elsewhere, and some of them are mentioned in Shepherd and Prideaux's Bibliography.' Now Dr. John Louis Haney, of Philadelphia, is about to issue a Coleridge Bibliography, in which he gives references to 340 volumes containing such marginalia. The poet's habit of annotation extended to the most diverse kinds of literature. Nothing came amiss. A dialogue on parliamentary reform, a funeral sermon for George IV., received attention, as And, whilst fully acknowledging the excellence of Dykes Campbell's work, he says: "It is this biography that we now await from the pen of the poet's grandson, Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge." If the approaching completion of the edition of Byron's 'Poetical Works' give Mr. Coleridge the necessary leisure for such an enterprise it will be a matter of rejoicing. Meantime, it may be well to mention Mr. E. H. Coleridge's essay on S. T. C. as a Lake poet which appears in the latest issue of the Transac contains some hitherto unpublished memotions of the Royal Society of Literature. It randa, and is followed by a bibliographical appendix differing apparently in respects from Shepherd and Prideaux. Not the least interesting part of the essay is that which points out certain partial anticipations by Coleridge of one or two famous phrases in Wordsworth. Certainly a critical edition of Coleridge, accompanied by a biography also critical, and dealing with his philosophical and literary development as well as with the external incidents of his remarkable career, would be a boon; and Dr. Haney's forthcoming bibliography-the amplest yet madewill be a great aid in such an undertaking. some Dr. Lloyd Roberts, of Manchester, is the fortunate possessor of two editions of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici,' that of 1658 and that of 1669, each with marginal notes by S. T. C. Mr. James Speirs of the Swedenborg Society has also some Coleridge marginalia. I am not so lucky as to possess any books "spoiled" by him, but I have a relic from his library. It is said to be a very scarce work : “Smarra; ou, les Démons de la Nuit, Songes Romantiques, traduites de l'Esclavon du Comte Maxime Odin. Par Ch. Nodier. Paris, Ponthieu, 1821." On the half-title is the inscription: "S. T. Coleridge, Esqre. From T. C. Grattan" a somewhat remarkable conjunction of names. Apparently these fantastic imaginings of Nodier* did not appeal to Coleridge; yet it would have been interesting to have his opinion on 'Le Bey Spalatin' and 'La Femme d'Asan.' WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Manchester. BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.' (See 9th S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441; xii. 2.) THERE is a noticeable slip on p. 29 of vol. i. in Shilleto's edition. Burton, after complaining that "Any scurrile pamphlet is welcome to our mercenary Stationers in English...... but in Latin they will not deal," adds "which is one of the reasons Nicholas Car, in his oration of the paucity of English writers, gives, that so many flourishing wits are smothered in oblivion, lie dead and buried in this our nation." Shilleto makes the author's marginal note (1) state that this oration was printed in 1676! In Cooper's 'Athenæ Cantabrigienses' (vol. i. p. 263; cf. Mr. Thompson Cooper's life of Nicholas Carr in the D.N.B.') is a list of Carr's works, including 'De Scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate, et studiorum impedimentis oratio,' London, 8vo, 1576, edited by Tho. Hatcher. At first sight Shilleto's 1676 might be regarded as a misprint pure and simple; but it is at least a singular coincidence that the date is misprinted in the sixth edition of the Anatomy (p. 11, note d), where it appears as 1976. I cannot but surmise. Forgive me, friend, that somebody hastily assumed 1976 to be an error for 1676. Burton continues: "Another main fault is, that I have not revised the copy, and amended the style, which now flows remissly," &c.; and there is but too much evidence in these volumes of "remissness" on the part of Burton's modern editor, or whoever was responsible for "revising the copy." Vol. ii. p. 231, 1. 7 (Part. II. sect. iii. mem. vii.; p. 357, 1. 16 from foot, in 6th edit.), "humanum est errare." Shilleto's note is "An Cic. Phil. xii. ii. § 5? Cujusvis est errare." [Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.] See, however, the inter [* Afterwards included in the same volume with "Trilby,' 'Les Tristes,' and 'Hélène Gillet.'] esting article in Büchmann's 'Geflügelte Worte' (20th ed., pp. 450, 451), where the thought is quoted in the words of various writers, the earliest being Theognis, and the modern form " errare humanum est" derived from St. Jerome's errasse humanum est' ["quia et errasse humanum est; et confiteri errorem, prudentis"], 'Epist.,' lvii. 12. It is instructive to compare the more fiery St. Augustine's version which Büchmann cites, Humanum fuit errare, diabolicum est, per animositatem in errore manere" (Sermones,' clxiv. 14). Vol. ii. p. 235, n. 20 (Part., sect., and mem. as before; p. 360, note k, in 6th edit.), "Bis dat qui cito dat" (by quoting which John Jobling, M.R.C.S., gained the reputation of being a "classical scholar"). Shilleto adds the reference "Alciatus, 'Emblemata,' No. 162." The emblem is that of the three Graces, and the words occur in lines 9 and 10:— Addita cur nuper pedibus talaria? bis dat Qui cito dat. Minimi gratia tarda pretii est. (P. 241 in the edition in Latin and French published at Paris, 1574.) with advantage. Here again Büchmann may be referred to After quoting (p. 400) the should be noted, persists in giving the incorline of Publilius Syrus (to whom Shilleto, it rect name of "Publius"), Inopi beneficium bis dat qui dat celeriter (245), he traces the form "Bis dat," &c., to Erasmus, Adagia,' I. viii. 91-"Memini, nisi fallor, apud Senecam alicubi legere: bis dat qui cito dat"-observing that the saying is not found in Seneca. [There is a somewhat similar thought in Seneca's 'De Beneficiis,' II. i. § 1, "Sic demus, quomodo vellemus accipere. Ante and § 3, "Gratissima sunt beneficia parata, omnia libenter, cito, sine ulla dubitatione"; facilia, occurrentia, ubi nulla mora fuit nisi in accipientis verecundia."] Several editions of Erasmus's 'Adagia' had been published when Alciatus's 'Emblemata' first appeared, but, as I write in a state that has been appropriately called "the Paradise of the working man and the Sahara of scholars," the libraries in which contain few older books, Erasmus used the words before Alciatus. I am unable at this moment to prove that Vol. iii. p. 24, 1. 9 from foot (Part. III. sect. i. mem. ii. subs. ii.), “Ovid in [A. R. S. inserts bitter." This is an instructive example of his"] Ibis, Archilocus himself, was not so the way the text has been handled in this edition. Shilleto's proposed insertion of "his" is due to the fact that he has failed in the first instance to reproduce correctly the reading of ed. 6, which has (p. 421, 1. 10) “Ovid. in Ibin, Archilocus himself was not so bitter" |