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

Collation : Small octavo : pp. xvi and 242, co sisting of: Title-page as above, pp. [i, ii, ver blank] ; Introduction, pp. iii-xiv ; Tw

wo pages, p A Note, with quotation from a Tale not included

[xv, xvi, blank and unnumbered] ; Text, pp. 1-24

the volume, is pasted on p. 242, above the Imprin "Billing and Sons, Printers, Guildford, Surrey Issued in green cloth boards, lettered "Crabbe."

Messrs. Billing & Sons have been gooc enough to inform me that they printed 35 copies of 'Tales of the Hall' for Mr. Fitz Gerald in May, 1879 ; but the publication o: the work had been contemplated some yeai previously. As far back as 1865 FitzGeralc asked his friend W. B. Donne to "sounc Murray at some good opportunity about Selection from Crabbe" ('Letters,' ii. 67 Mr. Murray, however, would not meddl (ib., ii. 214). In December, 1876, FitzGeral wrote to Prof. C. E. Norton :

" I wish some American publisher would publis my Edition of Tales of the Hall, edited by mean of Scissors and Paste, with a few words of plai Prose to bridge over whole tracts of bad Verse ; no meaning to improve the original, but to seduc hasty Readers to study it " (ib., ii. 211).

By 15 Oct., 1878, the project had really go under way, for writing to Mr. J. R. Lowel on that date FitzGerald said :

" Here am I back again at my old Desk for al the Winter, I suppose, with my old Crabbe once more open before me, disembowelled too ; for . positively meditate a Volume made up of ' Read ings' from his Tales of the Hall, that is, all hi better Verse connected with as few words of my own Prose as will connect it intelligibly together (ib. ii. 258).

In May, 1879, he was able to send copies o: his ' Handbook ' to his American friends (ib., ii 264, 266), and a year later one was given to Archbishop Trench (ib., ii. 284). On 7 March 1883, FitzGerald wrote to Prof. Norton :

" The Crabbe is the same I sent* you some years ago ; left in sheets, except the few copies I sent to friends. And now I have tacked to it a little In- troduction, and sent forty copies to lie on Quaritch's counter : for I do not suppose they will get further. And no great harm done if they stay where they

are.

1883.

Readings in Crabbe. | 'Tales of the Hall.' | Lon- don : Bernard Quaritch. | 1883.

Collation : Small octavo : pp. xvi and 244 (two last pages unnumbered), consisting of: Title-page as above, pp. [i, ii, verso blank] ; Introduction, pp. iii-xvi ; Text, pp. 1-242 ; a leaf containing the note which in the issue of 1882 had been pasted on the last page above the imprint, pp. [243, 244, both unnumbered and last page blank]. Issued in crim- son cloth boards, lettered " Crabbe."

Tnis issue is not a new edition. The text is made up of the remainder of the 350 copies which were printed in May, 1879 j but just before his death FitzGerald directed Messrs. Billing & Sons to print 200 copies

of a new and revised introduction, which he had rewritten chiefly in order to intro- duce a quotation from one of Newman's ' Discourses,' which had been brought to his notice by Mr. Leslie Stephen (' Letters,' ii. 341). In doing this he enlarged to four pages the two and a half at the end of the introduction beginning at "I feel bound to make all apology." He also intro- duced a foot-note on p. v. FitzGerald died on 14 June, 1883, and these sheets were not ready for delivery till the following month. Most of the copies seem to have come into possession of the late Mr. Quaritch, from whom I remember buying a copy for a shilling or two almost immediately after the writer's death. The introduction, in its revised form, has been reprinted by Dr. Aldis Wright in his ' Letters and Remains of Edward Fitz-

Gerald.'

.- W. F. PKIDEAUX. (To be continued.}

REGIMENTAL NICKNAMES OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

(Continued from p. 162.)

" Geraniums " is a name for the 13th Hussars.

The " German Legion " was a name given bo the 109th, which is now part of the Leinster Regiment.

The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) are formed )f the former 26th Foot (Cameronians) and 90th Light Infantry. The latter were often called " Gray Breeks."

The 13th Hussars were styled " Great Run- away Prestonpans," in allusion to the panic which seized some of the men in the fight with the Jacobite rebels.

The "Green Howards" was a former nick- lame of the Princess of Wales's Own York- hire Regiment, and also of the former 66th Princess Charlotte of Wales's Royal Berk- hire Regiment).

The " Green Jackets " was a term invented ? or the King's Royal Rifles ; it is also the name r or the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). Green Linnets" was a name for the 39th, now the Dorsetshire Regiment.

" Guards of the Line" was the designation f the 29th, now the Worcestershire Regi- nent.

"Guise's Geese" is the nickname for the loyal Warwickshire Regiment.

The Royal Regiment of Artillery is known y the nickname if such it can be deemed f the "Gunners."

The 14th Hussars were once called "Hamil- ton's Runaways."

The Royal Fusiliers have been called the