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 9*S.V. MARCH 24, 1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SA TURD A Y, MARCH 24, 1900.

CONTENTS.-No. 117.

NOTES: Bibliography of Edward FitzGerald, 221 Regi- mental Nicknames, 224-The Pigeon Cure "Yam," 226- Curzon Chapel, Mayfair 'Punch 'Harvest Festivals- Thomas Watson Green Coooons from India, 227.

QUERIES : ' Fables Nouvelles ' of Lamotte Picture of Marquis de la Fayette Ackland or Acland Adderley Trollope Widow 'Blackacre " Jullaber " "Worst " Shares in Merchant Ships Town Gates outside London Arms of Wales, 228 Mitford's 'Our Village ' Pick- wickian Phrase" To swim in golden lard "Waterproof Clothing Forshaw Volant as Christian Name Sir John Weld ' Claverhouse's Lament ' Fahrenheit Thermo- meter Lines by Ingelow Douglas the Black, 229 Thomas Salisbury Wisdom Family Nelson's House at Merton Battle Sheaves Dominican Order, 230.

REPLIES : Unclaimed Poem by Ben Jonson, 230 French Society of the Lust Century, 232 " Petigrewe " Alum Trade, 233 Gladstone's Height Twenty-four Hours on Clocks 'Ye King of Arms' Lyddite " Irish Feara- gurthok "White Cattle " Dozzil "Sir Henry Carey, 234" Bird-eyed " Edward Carey Poe's ' Hop-Frog ' "None " ' Expostulation' Plashed Hedges "Childer- pox," 235 'Naming the Baby ' Woore, in Salop-Griggs and Gregorians " Kaross " Wife of the Third Viscount Bourke " Prince " Boothby " Slim," 236 Dedication by Author to Himself Picture by Lawrence No. 17, Fleet Street " Grimgibber " Son of George II. Win- stanley's Wonders Carriage of a Sword-belt, 237 Cyclops Drawings by Sir J. Gilbert, 238.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Sayce's 'Babylonians and Assyrians' Cobbe's ' Luton Church ' Dimock's ' Cathedral Church of St. Paul ' ' Clergy Directory and Parish Guide '

Notices to Correspondents.

NOTES FOR A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD FITZGERALD.

( Continued from p. 204. ) 1856.

Salaman and Absal. | An Allegory. | Translated from the Persian | of | Jami. | London : | J. W. Parker and Son, West Strand. | MDCCCLVI.

Collation : Small quarto : Frontispiece, copied from a MS. in the Bodleian, representing the " Royal Game of Chugan "; pp. xyi and 84, consisting of Title-page as above, with imprint on verso, "John Childs and Son, Bungay,"pp. [i, ii] ; dedica- tion to Prof. Cowell, pp. iii-viii; "Life of Jami," pp. ix-xvi, with note of Errata at bottom of p. xvi ; Text, pp. 1-75 (p. 76 blank) ; Appendix, pp. 77-84. Issued in plain blue cloth boards, with the title " Salaman | and | Absal" lettered in gold on the upper cover.

The dedication, which is in the form of a letter to " My dear Cowell," was not reprinted in the second or any subsequent addition, but some extracts from it have been given in appendices. The appendix to the first edition consists of detached notes on the game of Chugan, &c. ' Salaman and Absal ' was the first Persian poem that FitzGerald ever read ('Letters,' ii. 324, 325). He had bought a copy in 1854 at Oxford, and began the trans- lation with the aid of Prof. Cowell (ibid., i. 318). Of the version of 1856 FitzGerald wrote to Mr. Schiitz Wilson in March, 1882 (ibid., ii. 325) :

" When Parker disappeared, my unsold Copies, many more than of the sold, were returned to me some of which, if not all, I gave to little Quaritch, who, I believe, trumpeted them off to some little profit : and I thought no more of them."

This edition has now become very scarce. In 1871 it was reprinted at Cowell's Steam Printing Works, Butter Market, Ipswich, pp. xvi and 45, but I am ignorant of the cir- cumstances under which the work was done. FitzGerald seems to have ignored this issue, though it is difficult to believe that it could have been printed without his knowledge and consent,

1859.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayydm | The Astronomer Poet of Persia | Translated into English Verse | London | Bernard Quaritch, 1 Castle Street, Leices- ter Square. | 1859.

Collation : Small quarto : pp. xiv (las tpage blank and unnumbered) and 22 (last page blank and unnum- bered), consisting of : Title-page as above [p. i, ii] ; Introduction, headed " Omar Khayyam, the Astro- nomer Poet of Persia," pp. iii-xiii ; Text, pp. 1-16 ; Notes, pp. 17-21. Issued in a brown paper wrapper, with the Title printed on it as above.

Of this, the best known of FitzGerald's works, 250 copies are said to have been printed, of which 200 were made a present to the pub- lisher. It was originally published at the price of five shillings, and, after having en- dured the indignity of the twopenny box, has fetched as much at auction as twenty guineas. This first edition contained only seventy-five quatrains. The history of the translation, as recorded in FitzGerald's letters and from other sources, has been so fully given by Mr. Edward Heron-Allen in the introduction to his admirable edition of the 'Kubai'yat,' that it would only occupy un- necessary space to say further on the subject here. It need only be added, as a biblio- graphical fact, that Dr. Aldis Wright informed Mr. Edmund Gosse that he had ascertained that this pamphlet was issued on 15 Feb- ruary, 1859.

In 1862 this edition of the ' Rubaiyat ' was privately reprinted at Adiyar, Madras, with no indications of editorship. The volume also contained Garcin de Tassy's ' Note sur les Ruba'iyatde Omar Khai'yam ' (Paris, 1857), and Prof. E. B. Cowell's article in the Calcutta Review for January, 1858, together with a few additional quatrains. As I have not met with a copy of this edition, I am unable to give an exact collation.

1865.

[Two Dramas from Calderon : ' The Mighty Magician ' and ' Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of.']

Collation : Small octavo : pp. 1-132 (last page unnumbered), consisting of : Half - title, The Mighty Magician. | [Line.] | Dramatis Personas. j