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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. DEC. 19,

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TECHNICAL

TERMS. (See ante, p. 81.)

THE abbreviations used in the following list are :

S.L.D. = 'Les Supercheries litteraires de- voilees : galerie des auteurs apocryphes, supposes, deguises ....,' par J. M. Querard, 1847-60.

H. = ' Handbook of Fictitious Names, by O. Hamst> 1868.

M.E.B. = 'Modern English Biography' <1850 to 1900), by Frederic Boase.

O.E.D. = ' The Oxford English Dictionary,' edited in chief by Dr. Sir J. A. H. Murray.

Abbreviation. Some of the authors names only.

Examples : George Beaumont or George Barber [George Duckett Barber Beaumont, see H. pp. 22-3] : Ella Rodman [Eliza Rodman Mclllvane, H. p. 110]: Anthony Hope [Hawkins].

Adulterism. Name altered or adulterated. This word is in the O.E.D., vol. i. p. 130, and O. Hamst quoted.

Examples : Veyrat [i.e., Xavier Verat, dramatic author, 1841] : d'Alembert for Dalembert ( J. Le Rond) : de Foe for Defoe. English names do not lend themselves to this kind of ennobling.

Allonym, allonymous. False proper name. Work published in order to deceive, under the name of some author or person of reputa- tion, but not by him. This word is in the ' Dictionnaire raisonne de bibliologie,' par G. Peignot, 1802, p. 12 ; and O.E.D., vol. i. p. 237, and O. Hamst quoted.

Examples : the pseudonym of Peter Parley when taken by others than S. G. Goodrich: The King (i.e. George IV.), 'A Letter from the King to his People ' [by J. W. Croker], 1821, see H. p. 149 : ' Cam- bridge Free Thoughts,' by H. H. Bernard, Ph.D., 1862. [by Rev. George Skinner, who died 1871, see H. p. 183 ; Dr. Bernard died in 1857] : John Hampden [i.e. Lord Nugent, see H. p. 185]. Most great men have been subject to this kind of fraud, see H. under Napoleon ; and the British Museum Cata- logue under Byron and Brougham, sub-head- ing Supposititious Works.

Alphabetism. Letters of the alphabet in proper order. This word is in O.E.D. vol. i. p. 253, and O. Hamst quoted.

Examples : ' An Argument,' &c., signed A. B. C. D. E. F. G. [by J. Trenchard and W. Moyle], 1697 : 'A Lay-man's Letter to a great Divine, Dr. A. B. C. D.' [F. Atter-

bury, 1710]. The stops after the alpha- betisms are incorrect, but are in the

originals. X Y Z, see H. p. 175. There are few pseudonyms of this class whose authors are known ; and it is noticeable that there are two columns of X Y Z in the B.M. Catalogue, but not a single author's name is known ; so this alphabetism seems to offer a safe retreat for those who are determined never to be found out.

Anagram. The letters of the name arbi- trarily transposed, with or without meaning. The word anagram has long been in use (1589 is the earliest date in O.E.D.), not only for names, but also phrases when another word or phrase results. A good anagram should be composed of the letters only that are in the name anagrammatized. But Namur in his ' Manuel du bibliothecaire,' Bmxelles, 1834, p. 76, says : " II est permis de changer une lettre, pourvu que 1' ana- gramme soit heureuse ; car au fond, c'est un pauvre metier." Incidentally I may ob- serve that Jean Pie Namur (b. 1804, d. 1867)

ives titles of books without capitals ; he

.as none (see p. 271) even to the first word of the titles. There is a good treatise on anagrams, reviewing Mr. Wheatley's book, in The Athenaeum, 9 Aug., 1862, p. 173.

Ananym. The real name written back- wards. This word is in ' O.E.D.,' vol. i. p. 307, and O. Hamst quoted.

Examples : ' An Epitome of Logic,' by N. Dralloc, 1795, the preface signed J. C. "by John Collard] : ' Werdna Retnyw ' only way Mr. Wheatley had of describing the ananym Telliamed was to call it "a retrograde anagram " of Demaillet (see
 * Andrew Wynter, H. p. 108]. In 1862 the

Of Anagrams,' p. 69).

Anastroph. An inversion or unusual ar- rangement of the name. This word has Deen in use since 1577 (see O.E.D.), but not as a technical bibliographical word. In my

Handbook ' I have not appreciated the difference between an ananym and an anas-
 * roph. Yemrof is an anastroph of Formet,

which would be an ananym if the t had not Deen changed to y.

Andronym. A man's name. This word las never yet been used in English, and not in O.E.D. nor in Littre. Although J. De Le Court instances this as a technical word used by Querard, I have not been able to find it in S.L.D.

Examples : E. Evelyn Barren is an andronym. Thus in the B.M. Catalogue we find this entry : " Barren (E. Evelyn), Wassail, a four part song. . . .London and York [1889]." This might be by a