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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1916.

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NOTES : Foreign Editions of Dr. Edward Browne's 4 Travels,' 461 Bordeaux in 1739 Phillip James Bailey, 464 Piscina, 465 -Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' Smuggler's Hell-Fire Clubs Erasmus Saunders, 466 Casanova in England, 467.

QUERIES : Vanity Fair 'Wright : Payne : Wilder Eli Comyn of Newbold Comyn ' Wanted a Governess ' Authors of Quotations Wanted Pictures by George Robertson, 467 Bandello in Spanish, 1584 Portrait of Sir George Downing Pin-Pricked Lace Patterns Playing Cards Sixty Years Ago ' A Working-Man's Way in the World 'Latin Contractions. 468 Flemish Motto The Lumber Troop, Fetter Lane Robert Southey, 469.

BEPLIES : " Descendants' Dinners," 469 Contributions to the History of European Travel: Wunderer Book- worms : Remedies against Them 'King Edward III.': Heraldic Allusion, 470 The Effect of Opening a Coffin, 471 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles Eliza- beth Evelyn Authors of Quotations Wanted Italian Opera in England John Ranby. F.R.S.. 473 British Herb : Herb Tobacco " Laus Deo " : Old Merchants' Custom Village Pounds, 474 " Stateroom "= a Passen- ger's Cabin, 475 Wellington at Brighton and Rottingdean "Erzenim "Coronation Mugs Oyster Tables Temple -Grove, East Sheen, 476-Emendations of Shakespeare- John Hamilton Mortimer, R. A. John Miller, M.P. for Edinburgh " Have " : Colloquial Use, 477 English Carvings of St. Patrick" Galoche " : " Cotte," 478.

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FOREIGN EDITIONS OF T>R. EDWARD BROWNE'S ' TRAVELS.'

FOR some years past I have been making notes of the various editions (especially foreign translations) of Dr. Edward Browne's ' Travels,' and MR. MALCOLM LETTS' s excellent articles on ' Seventeenth-Century "Travel in Europe ' in the last volume, and his equally admirable ' Contributions to the History of European Travel ' in the current volume of ' N. & Q.,' lead me to think that the subjoined bibliographical and other particulars may prove to be of some interest.

The first book published by our author was a ' Discourse of the Original Country, Manners, Government, and Religion of the Oossacks,' a translation issued anony- mously in London in 1672, which Dr. Browne, in his next book, owns to having " caused to be printed in English."

The next book was his ' A Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungaria ' and elsewhere, published by Benjamin Tooke in London, 1673, 4to. A French translation of this followed the next year, and a reprint of this appeared in the second volume of A. A. Barba's ' Metallurgie ' in 1751.

Then came Browne's ' An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany in Four Journeys,' also a quarto volume, published by Tooke in 1677.

The copies of both these quartos having been sold, the same " bookseller hath thought fit to reprint them together " in a folio volume, with the author's additions, and " adjoyning another Journey through the delightful Country of Lombardy." On the title-page this is described as " the second edition with many additions." Its abridged title is ' A Brief Account of Some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe.' The original title- page had the imprint " London, Printed for Benjamin Tooke. . . .MDCLXXXV." ; that of a reissue, " London, Printed for Benjamin Tooke, and are to be sold by Thomas Sawbridge 1687."

The book became very popular, and was translated into Dutch, and from Dutch into German. The English text itself was re- published in Dr. J. Harris's ' Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca ' in 1705 and 1744.

The only Dutch translation I have so far seen is the one made by Jacob Leeuwe Dirkx and published at Amsterdam in 1696, with plates engraved by J. Luijken, which, with two exceptions, differ from those of the English editions. Some of them are a great improvement from an artistic point of view, as, e.g., the one representing the Elector's bear-garden at Dresden. The number of the plates differs in the various copies offered for sale in modern Continental booksellers' catalogues. It was evident to me that there must have been an earlier Dutch edition, because the German version published at Nuremberg in 1686 was, according to the title-page, translated from the Dutch, and has Luij ken's plates. On inquiry I am told by Mr. Martinus Nijhoff, the well-known second-hand bookseller at The Hagjue, that the first Dutch edition was published in 1682 ; it has also plates, he informs me, by Luijken, but they differ from those of the 1696 edition, which I doubt, as the plates in the German edition of 1686 agree with those of the later Dutch edition, though signed by another artist. Other German editions offered for sale are those of 1685 (offered in a catalogue with a copy of the 1686 edition),