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LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1911,.

CONTENTS. No. 248.


 * 'The Diary of Larly Willoughby,' 241 'The

Coining K ' Danteiana : Michael Scot, 242 Holcroft Bibliography, 244 Siege of Namur Mons : Biblio- graphical Hoax The Jews and the War Colonists in Bermuda, 1620 "Perisher" : " Cordwainer" " As cool as a clock," 247 The 1618 Edition of Stow's 'Survey' " A sandy pig for an acorn," 248.

QUERIES : Scrope Colquitt ' Wharton Hall : the Lady's Rest ' " The Hero of New Orleans," 248" Bango was his name, O!" "Jolly Robbing" Dene Holes, Little Thurrock Admiral Lord Rodney Dukedom of Cleveland St. Pancras. 249 Author Wanted Periodicals pub- lished by Religious Houses' The Illustrated London News ' and Postage' The Quaver 'Renaming London Streets Skye Terriers Frescoes at Avignon Forests of Argonne and Compiegne Latin Jingles, 250.

REPLIES : Hugh Peters: 'Tales and Jests,' 251 "Left his corps "Early Railway Travelling, 252 Result of Cricket Match given out in Church " Rack-rent " Geography of 'Tom Jones ' Palmerston in the Wrong Train. 253 -Patron Saint of Pilgrims, 254 Carlyle's ' Past and Present ' British Coins and Stamps " Startups " ' Almanach de Gotha,'255 St. George's Chapel, Windsor, F.ast Window Johannes Renadaens Author of Quotation Wanted Sir Stephen Evance Earls of Derwentwater,

256 Epitaph, Christchurch, Hampshire Lawyers in Literature Descendants of Catherine Parr, 257" Bar- ring-out," 258.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Calendar of Patent Rolls of Edward III.' 'Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon' ' The Pedigree Register."

"Notices to Correspondents.

"THE DIARY OF LADY .WILLOUGHBY.'

THE full title-page of this book as issued in 1844 is as follows :

" So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her Domestic History and to the Eventful Period of the Reign of Charles t e First. Imprinted for Longman, Brown, Green & Long- mans, Paternoster Row, over asrainst Warwick Lane, in the City of London. 1844."

The book is in post 4to, pp. iv-f- 174, and was printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswiok Press. The narrative ends with 30 March, 1648.

A sequel was issued four years later, the titlo-page being :

" Some Further Portions of the Diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her Domestic History a d to the Stirring Events of the Latter of the Reign of King harles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration. Imprinted for Lontrrnan, Brown, Green & Longmans, Pater- nnsliT Row, over against Warwick Lane, in the <"ity of I/mdon. 1848."

The narrative ends with 29 Aug., 1663. The book is in post 4to, pp. iv+ 178, and was printed by Charles Wiiittingham at the Chiswick Press.

The following notice appears at the com- mencement of the 1844 volume :

" To the Reader. The Style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted, as will be inferred from the date on the Title-pa.ge, merely to be in accordance with the Character of the Work."

At the commencement of the 1848 volume the following notice appears :

" Preface. The Style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted as they were in the First Part of the Diary, merely to be in accordance with the Design of the author, who in this work personates a lady of the Seven- teenth Century."

These two books were very successful, and were reprinted in one volume, crown 8vo, as lately as 1873, the original style being followed. The author was Hannah Mary Rathbone, 1798-1878. See ' D.N.B.,' vol. xlvii. p. 308.

The following quotation is from the Grolier Club monograph ' The Charles Whit- tinghams,' issued in 1896 :

"Longman, meanwhile, had engaged Whitting- ham to reprint ' The Diary of Lady Willoughby,' a novel of seventeenth-century life. The first edit on of the book had come from another printing house, and it had not been a success. Mr., after- wards Sir, Henry Cole .... suggested to the Longmans t':e preparation of a new edition of the WUloughby, rewritten in old-style phrases, printed with ' old-face ' type specially designed, and upon old-style paper, bound in the fashion of two centuries before. He also urged the pub- lishers to give Whittingham a free hand in the production of the book. The suggestion waa adopted in part only, but the new attempt was sufficient for success. Whittingham used the old-face great primer for the Willoughby. The paper, however, though good enough in quality, was a rather poor mechanical imitation of seven- teenth-century hand-made stuff, and whatever effect its regular, horizontal rucks may or may not have had upon the sight of the generation of 1844, it is exceedingly distressing to eyes of later date. Whittingham was for having hand-made paper, and for imitating in the most artistic way the best work of the period to which the book related. But the publishers would not follow him so far as that, although they did permit his daughter Charlotte [afterwards Mrs. B. F. Stevens] to change the author's spelling and phrasing from the modern to the old style. In these circumstances the book made a success, and within the last fifty years it has been several times reprinted."

I may note with reference to the above that the B.M. has no copy of any edition of the book previously to the issue of 1844, and there is no mention of any previous edition in any of the catalogues to which I