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 io- s. ii. AH;. 20, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDOX, SATL'IWAY, Al'GUST ?0,

CONTENTS.-No. 34.

UOTES : FitzGerald Bibliography, 141 -Locke's Music for ' Macbeth ' Cobden Bibliography, 142" Sanguis," 14.H Cambridge Family, 144 Cricket 'Magazine of Art' Broom Squires First Bishop const-crated in Westminster Cathedral, 145- "The great reaper. Death "" Working Class" 'Chanson de Koland ' John Owen and Arch- bishop Williams Jacobin Soup Caxton and " Richter," 14*.

QUERIES: "Hoosier" Hagiological Terms, 1500, 147 'The tongue in the cheek" Regiments at Bo miplatz "Trylle upon my Harpe" 'The Purple Vetch' Shrop- shire and Montgomeryshire Manors Longfellow, 149 Liber Landavensis ' Duchess Sarah Axstede Ware Madame Mondanite Eel Folk-lore Holme Pierrepont Parish Library Author Wanted Cowper Pitt Club " First kittoo'" Graham "Cuttwoorkes," 149.

REPLIES : Dog- Names, 150 Swan - Names Joseph us Struthius-Old Bible, 151 Fingal and Diarmid Bpitaph on Ann Davies Tideswell and Tideslow William Hartley Eton Lists, 152 Scandinavian Bishops Saucy English Poet " Peek-bo " " Get a wiggle on " " Come, live with me "" Reversion " of Trees, 153 Coutances, Win- chester, and the Channel Islands Hone Closets in Edin- burgh Buildings 'God save the King,' 154 Shelley Family Inscriptions at Orotava Las Palmas Inscriptions Mr. Janes, 155 Lady Elizabeth Germain Names common to both Sexes The Kvil Bye, 158 First Ocean Newspaper " Was you?" 157 "A shoulder of mutton brought home from France" Gipsies: "Chigunnjl" Authors Wanted, 15$.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Burgoyne's Facsimile and Tran- script of an Elizabethan MB.' The Jacobite Peerage,' &c.

Notices to Correspondents.

FITZGERALD BIBLIOGRAPHY.

(See 9 th S. iii. 441 ; iv. 15.) MORE than five years ago a valued corre- spondent of 'N. & Q.' communicated to these columns a couple of poems which he had extracted from 'The Keepsake' for 1835, under the impression that they were the composition of Edward FitzGerald. I endea- voured to show not, I trust, without success that they were written by Edward Marl- 'borough Fitzgerald, who left Cambridge about the time that the author of 'Euphranor' entered into residence, and who was for long the latter's pet aversion. In his recent 'Life of Edward FitzGerald,' Mr. Thomas "Wright, overlooking the two poems of 1835, has printed in the Appendix a couple of effusions which he has found in 'The Keep- sake ' for 1834, and which, on the strength of the signature appended to them, he has attributed to the subject of his biography. Biographers have often strange vagaries, but to credit their victims with the composition ->f somebocly else's indifferent verse is an unusual proceeding, which is hardly likely to form a precedent. A short correspondence on the subject took place in the Atkenmuii (6 Feb., I>. 178 ; 13 Feb., p. 212 ; 20 Feb., p. 241), in

which Mr. Aldis Wright conclusively showed that FitzGerald had no claim to the author- ship of these verses.

The odd part of the matter is that Mr. Thomas Wright was no stranger to the name of Edward Marl borough Fitzgerald. On one occasion ('Life,' i. 76) he says that he left Cambridge "in ill odour" when E. F. G. entered it (Feb., 1826) ; on another (' Life,' i. 312) he refers to him as "the man with the tarnished reputation." It would be interesting to know Mr. Wright's authority for this hard language, because from his letter to the Athenceum of 13 February it is evident he really knows nothing about him. FitzGerald certainly disliked his namesake, and resented being mistaken for him ; but that may have been because he considered he wrote bad verses. It may, therefore, be interesting to quote a passage from Sir George's Young's Introduction to his edition of Praed's ' Poli- tical and Occasional Poems/ 1888, p. xxiv, which treats his literary achievement with some severity, but affords no ground for the imputation of misconduct which is made by Mr. Wright. He was a contemporary of Praed's at Cambridge, and remained his friend through life :

" The present appears a suitable occasion to set at rest certain doubts as to the authorship of poems, which were by Praed's last American editor, Mr. W. H. Whitmore, erroneously ascribed to his pen, and were excluded by Derwent Coleridge from the collected edition. The error has recently been repeated, with less excuse, by a London publisher. The difficulty, such as it is, arises out of the common use, at the same time and in the same periodicals, of one and the same initial by way of signature, the Greek uncial 4>, by Praed and by his friend Edward M. Fitzgerald. This Fitzgerald is by no means to be confounded with the 'hoarse Fitzgerald' of Byron's ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' who was parodied in the first piece of the ' Rejected Addresses'; and still less with the Edward Fitz- Gerald who rewrote Omar Khayyam and the 'Agamemnon' of JSschylus in English. He was a cousin of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, whose defeat for the County Clare in 1828 converted the Duke of Wellington to Catholic Emancipation ; he was an Irishman, possessed of some talent for verse, and some social gifts, and he died some years after Praed's death, which happened in 1839. Two or three poems of his, written in imitation of Praed, have been included by Mr. Locker-Lampson in his 'Lyra Elegantiarum'; he has also left some good political pieces ; but apart from Praed's inspiration, I do not think there is anything of his composing which merits notice, unless it be a bitter lampoon on Thomas Moore, which appeared in the Mommy 'nxf. of 25 September, 1835. In distinguishing his ieces from Praed's it has been impossible for me to ignore in him a certain ingrained vulgarity, a Icliciency of accurate knowledge of Latin, an im- perfect mastery of metre, an indifference to grammar, nui a laxity in rhyming, which, together with a fondness for musical slang, for Irish allusions, and