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 ii. JULY so, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, Jl'LY SO, 190U.

CON TENTS. -No. 31.

NOTES : Coleridge Bibliography, 81- Letters of Cowper, 82 " Peek-bo " " Requiem/' a Shark " Words that burn," 85 Bohemian Villages Owen Brigstocke The Spaniards of Asia Irresponsible Scribblers, 86.

QUERIES : Fingal and Diarmid " Failles fete" "A singing face " " An old shoe " Breeches Bible " Saint " as a Prefix, 87 Woftington Lady Blizabeth Germain "Reversion" of Trees George rfteinman Steinman Cottyngham Will 'God save the King' Parodied Edmund Halley, Surgeon R.N. T. Raynolds-Twerton Vicars, 88 Sporting Clergy before the Reformation " Come, live with me" Harlsey Castle, co. York Closets in Edinburgh Buildings, 89.

JRKPLIKS : Pamela, 89 -Richard Pincerna, 90-" Sun and Anchor" Inn Gray's 'Elegy' in Latin, 92 Runeberg, Finnish Poet-Storming of Fort Moro " Talented," ^3 Rebecca of 'Ivanhoe' Mary Shakespere Ramie King of Sweden on the Balance of Power, 94 The St. Helena Medal Sir Thomas Fairbank Tidewell and Tideslow The Vfighnatch, 95 English Cardinals' Hats First Ocean Newspaper Coachman's Epitaph Wolverhampton Pul- pit, 9t5 Ainsty " Hanged, drawn, and quartered," 97 Bennett Family of Lincoln, 98.

NOTES ON BOOKS: The Oxford Dictionary Sidney's Defence of Poesie ' ' Leycester's Commonwealth ' Scottish Historical Review ' 'Yorkshire Notes and Queries' 'Reliquary.'

Death of Mr. J. Loraine Heelis. Notices to Correspondents.

COLERIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY. (See 9 th S. x. 310.)

AT this reference I wrote that a friend, whose knowledge of Coleridge was second to that of no one, had pointed out that the very scarce pamphlet of * Poems,' containing * Fears in Solitude,' 'France : an Ode,' and 'Frost at Midnight,' was really a tirage-a-part from "The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry, for 1808-1809. London : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-yard ; By Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. 1812." This statement was quoted by Dr. John Louis Haney at p. 8 of his ' Bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,' Philadelphia, 1903.

In a notice of Dr. Haney's ' Bibliography ' which appeared in the Athenaeum for 16 April, p. 498, the reviewer remarked that the pam- phlet was not a tirage-a-part, or offprint, but a reprint, done by the printers, and in the type, of ' The Poetical Register,' the text of which was also followed. I was at first inclined to question this correction, not only because the authority on which I based my statement seemed too good to be discredited, but because it hardly seemed worth while for Coleridge, or any one else, to incur the expense of resetting the type from which the
 * Poems' had been printed, in order that a

few fresh copies might be struck off. The poems had been previously printed in 1798, and on their reissue must have had a wide circulation in ' The Poetical Register,' which is a comparatively common book. The pam- phlet of 'Poems ' is, on the 'contrary, exceed- ingly scarce, not more than three or four copies being recorded.

I communicated my doubts to the Editor of the Athenaswn, who very kindly forwarded to me a letter from the reviewer, giving in the most courteous manner his reasons for con- sidering the pamphlet a reprint, by which term it is implied that after the type of ' The Poetical Register ' had been distributed, the text of the three poems was reset. As I was abroad at the time, I had no opportunity of comparing the two texts, even if I had had a copy of the pamphlet in my possession. Immediately on my return to England, how- ever, I had the good fortune to acquire a copy at the sale of the late Mr. J. Dykes Campbell's books, which took place at Sotheby's on 13-14 June, and I have there- fore been enabled to subject the two texts to a rigorous examination, the result being that I am disposed to think (though I am not absolutely certain) that the reviewer may be right, and that my original state- ment was wrong, to the extent that one, at least, of the poems is not an offprint, but a reprint, of the text in ' The Poetical Register.'

The chief points on which the reviewer relied for his assertion were :

1. Several differences in the distribution of the lines, e.g., in ' The Poetical Register ' (which for the sake of brevity I will call A) on the first page [227] there are printed lines 1-20, while in ' Poems ' (which I will call B), [p. 3], there are lines 1-25. On the second page of A [228] there are printed lines 21-54, and on the corresponding page of B [4], lines 26-60. And so on throughout the three poems.

2. Several minor textual variations, e.g., in A the sub-heading of 'Fears in Solitude 'is, Written, April, 1798, during the Alarm of an Invasion. In B Alarm is altered into Alarms. In line 32 of ' France : an Ode,' A runs, "Tho 1 dear her shores," while in B " Tho' " is changed into " Though," and in line 83 "To insult" (A) is printed " T' insult " (B). In 'Frost at Midnight,' line 30 runs in A :

Not uninvited. Ah there was a time, while in B it appears as Not uninvited.

Ah ! there was a time,

the line being broken up into a new para- graph, and a note of admiration inserted after "Ah." In 'Fears in Solitude,' line 17, the