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partially a second edition, to supplement the new part.

\\ V find in The Monthly Review, Oct., 1794 (15: 149), a critical notice which gives " The Adventures of Hugh Trevor. By Thomas Ilolcroft. 12mo, 3 vols., 10s. Qd. sewed. Shepperson and Reynolds. 1794"; and in the July, 1797, number of the same periodical (23: 281) a review of vols. iv., v., and vi., published by the Robinsons. Watt's ' Bibliotheca Britannica ' notes these three 17!>7 volumes. The work was reviewed as early as July, 1794, in The British Critic (4: *71), and the poem 'Gaffer Gray' was reprinted iu the 1794 ' Annual Register ' (p. 414).

A French translation exists :

" Les A ventures de Hugues Trevor, ou Le Gilblas

Anglais, par Thomas Holcroft. Traduit de

1'anglais par le Cit. Cantwell. Tome Premier.

\ Paris, Chez Maradan, Libraire, rue du Cime-

tiere-Andre-des-Arts, n. 9. An VII 1798."

Duodecimo. I., p.l.+front.+iii-xi + 1-238 ; II.,

p.l.+front,+2 + l-222 ; III., p.l.+front.+2 +

1-244 ; IV., p.l.+front.+2 + l-213 pp.

The title-pages of vols. ii. and iii., in the

British Museum copy, vary from the above

in having a semicolon instead of a comma

after Le Gilblas Anglais. These copies in

the British Museum had been catalogued as

"X"<>. 1003 du Cabinet de Lecture, de

G. Dufour et Co., Libraires sur le Rokin,

Xo. 139 a Amsterdam."

I found in the Bibliotheque Nationale that this man Cantwell also translated Gibbon's 'Roman Empire' (1789-95) and some of the works of Priestley and Mrs. Radcliffe.

We can assume a translation into German from the following entry : " Hugo Trevor, sein Leben u. Schicksal. 8. Leipz.

Breitkopf,"

which I find in " Vollstandiges Biicher-Lexi-

con Christian Gottlob Kayser. Leipzig,

1835'' (3: 175). There is no copy of this in the British Museum nor the Bibliotheque Xationale, nor elsewhere that I know of, so I fear this item will have to await the end of the present war in order to obtain confirma- tion in German libraries.

1795. " A narrative of facts, relating to a prose- cution for high treason ; including the address to the jury, which the court refused to hear :

with letters and the defence the author had

prepared, if he had been brought to trial. London, Printed for H. D. Symonds, Pater- noster Row. 1795." Octavo, 4 + 1-136 + 1-79 pp.

The preface to this work was dated 29 Dec., 1794. There is a second edition, 1795, but paged 2+3-215 pp. The two are identical apparently from the same set of type up

to p. 112. From that point on there is a gradual shifting of type, so that for 113- 215 of the new edition, no two pages corre- spond. This publication resulted from the famous indictment for treason of 1794. It is probable that Holcroft put his material into print as a vindication, rather than for the remuneration, and that the type was already being distributed when it appeared that a second edition would be needed. The- copy from p. 112 to the end then had to be set over again. Notice of its publication, appears in The Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1795 (65: 582) ; in The Universal Magazine for Feb., 1795 (96: 151); and in The Monthly Review for Jan., 1795 (16: 79).

1795. " A Letter to the Right Honourable William Windham, on the Intemperance and Dangerous Tendency of his Conduct. By Thomas Holcroft. London : Printed for H. D. Symonds, No. 20, Paternoster Row. 1795." Octavo, 1 p.l.+4+5-50 pp.

The preface to the above was dated 16 Jan., 1795. It was reviewed in The British Critic for June, 1795 (5: 673) ; but even earlier it was criticised in The Monthly Review for Feb., 1795 (16: 204), and followed by a notice of a " reply " the next month (1C: 340). Another notice of the " reply " is in The Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1795 (65: 582). The work followed the ' Narrative of Facts ' to the press, and was written in condemnation of a phrase used by Windham anent the late trial, " acquitted felons." There are copies noted as " second ' r and " third " editions, but outwardly iden- tical. Close examination, however, shows many typographical changes, though broken letters persist in all three editions. I have found variations enough to warrant the division of the copies I have examined, into the following classes :

First edition, first issue (I. 1). First edition, second issue (I. 2). First edition, third issue (I. 3). First edition, fourth issue (I. 4). Second edition (II.). Third edition (III.).

The variations are as noted in all copies which I have examined, and after I had estab- lished six classes, the copies began to dupli- cate one another, and on the basis of these types I have made my classification. Notes from readers concerning these or other variations in other copies will be gratefully received.

In the interval of time, however short, between the printing of I. 1 and I. 2, decree of the Convention was added at the beginning of the paragraph on p. 50. This matter,