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 10 s. viii. DEC. 28, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1007.

CONTENTS.-NO. 209.

NOTES : Longfellow, 501 Fetter Lane Chapels, 502 Shakesperiana, 503 Rood-loft Piscina at Eastbourne "Polony" Vocabulary of Peasant Nelson and Wei. lington, 506 Agnes and Ann "Till the cows come home " Pre-Ref ormation Tabernacle " Stale," 507.

QUERIES : St. Andrew's Cross Collar for Reprieved Criminal Marks and Inder Families, 507 Authors of Quotations Wanted Life in Bombay " Parsley Peel " ' The Face of Clay ' " ffree Roberds " : " The Chequers " Beulah Spa, Upper Norwood, 508 Firing a Beacon near Hemsworth Sir Richard Weston : Soap-making Crowe Family Home Tooke S. Gregory, Portrait Painter German Translation, 509 Bate Family King Family Beaconsfield on Protection Greeks and Block and Tackle Simon Family, 510.

REPLIES : The Treaty of Tilsit : Colin Mackenzie, 510 Literary Allusions, 512 Scully Family of Tipperary, 513 Rotherhithe Chauceriana Littlecote House, Wiltshire, 514 American Magazine conducted by Factory Workers, 515 'The Political House that Jack Built' Men of Family as Parish Clerks, 516" Pot-gallery "Authors of Quotations Wanted, 517 Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee 'Rinordine,' Irish Song English Players in Germany Erra Pater, 518.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Napoleon and the Invasion of England ' ' Folk-lore of the Holy Land ' The Society of Jesus in North America.

Notices to Correspondents.

LONGFELLOW.

<See 10 S. vii. 201, 222, 242, 261, 282, 378.)

LONGFELLOW may not, perhaps, be ranked amongst the great creative minds of poetry, but that he approached very near the heart of humanity is shown by the great popu- larity which his works enjoyed during his lifetime as well as by the numberless phrases with which he has enriched the common language of the Anglo-Saxon race. The appreciative notes of MB. JOHN C. FRANCIS, which were welcomed with delight by every reader of this journal, were confined to what may be termed the poetical life of this gifted writer. While at Bowdoin College, he published one or two works of a more educational nature, which are omitted from MB. FRANCIS'S list. I am informed on good authority that no exhaustive biblio- graphy of Longfellow's works has yet been compiled, but copies of the works referred to were in the Rowfant Library ; and as that collection has now been dispersed and

the catalogue has become scarce and expen- sive, I will venture to quote from it the following titles :

" Syllabus de la Grammaire Italienne. Par H. W. Longfellow, Professeur de Langues Modernes a Bowdoin-College. A 1'usage de ceux qui possedent la langue francaise. Boston : Gray et Bowen : 1832." 8vo, pp. 104.

Locker-Lampson's copy which was given to him by Mr. B. H. Stoddard of New York, had been presented with an auto- graph inscription to the author's brother, the Rev. Samuel Longfellow.

"Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique, translated from the Spanish with an introductory essay on the moral and devotional poetry of Spain. By Henry W. Longfellow, Professor of Mod. Lang, and Lit. in Bowdoin College. Boston : Allen and Ticknor. 1833." 8vo, pp. 89.

To these may be added the following book, which was not in the Rowfant collection :

"Saggi de Novellieri Italiani d'Ogni Secolo. Boston, 1832." 12mo.

Another little book of great interest was the following :

" The Waif : A Collection of Poems. [Quotation from ' The Faerie Queene.'] Fifth Edition. Boston : William D. Ticknor & Co. 1846." 8vo, pp. xi, 144. Locker-Lampson notes that " it was a trick of the publisher to put ' Fifth Edi- tion ' on the title. Only one Edition was printed." But is this statement correct ? My own copy of this scarce little volume bears " Third Edition " on the title-page, and the imprint is " Cambridge : Published by John Owen," the date being 1845, a year earlier than the Rowfant copy. On the reverse of the title is the following statement :

" Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by John Owen, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts." It is therefore possible that the book was originally issued in 1844. Perhaps some American bibliographer may be able to settle this question.

' The Waif,' which was edited by Long- fellow, is a tiny anthology containing only 50 poems, with a ' Proem,' written by the editor, and dated " Cambridge, December, 1844," which explains the object of the work. The collection is representative, including among the earlier poets three pieces by Herrick, three by Marvell, three by Lovelace, and one apiece by Churchyard, Daniel, Vaughan, Crashaw, Quarles, and Habington. Among the moderns there are two poems by Hood one of them ' The Bridge of Sighs ' one by Emerson, one by Shelley, one by Browning (then almost