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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. v. MARCH 31, 1900.

with a few alterations, they were reprinted in the Athenaeum for 9 July, 1831, the editor of which journal supposed them to have been written by Lanib, who declared in a letter to Moxon, dated August, 1831, that he envied the writer, because he felt he could have done something like them (Lamb s l Letters/ Ainger's edition, ii. 273, 352). Another slightly differing copy was discovered some years ago in a commonplace book belonging to the late Archdeacon Allen, with the heading "E. F. G.," and the date " Naseby, Spring, 1831."

Fulcher's Poetical Miscellany. Published by G. W. Fulcher, Sudbury, and iSuttaby & Co., Lon- don [1841]. 'Chronomoros,' signed "Anon.," p. 236.

This little book, of which a copy of the second edition, issued in May, 1841, will be found in the British Museum, is made up with a few exceptions, according to the pre- face, of selections from the seventeen volumes of Fulcher's ' Sudbury Pocket Book/ of which no example appears to exist in the national collection. I am therefore unable to say whether the poem of ' Chronomoros,' which has been reprinted by Dr. Aldis Wright in the ' Letters and Literary Kemains of Edward FitzGerald,' iii. 461, appeared originally in the ' Pocket Book ' or the ' Miscellany.'

The Table-Talk of John Selden, Esq. With a Biographical Preface and Notes by 8. W. Singer, Esq. London, William Pickering, 1847. At the head of the Notes, p. 235, it is stated :

" Part of the following Illustrations were kindly communicated to the Editor by a gentleman to whom his best thanks are due, and to whom it would have afforded him great pleasure to be allowed to name." This gentleman is understood to have been Edward FitzGerald, and Dr. Aldis Wright states that he has in his possession a copy of the 'Table-Talk' which FitzGerald gave him about 1871 or 1872, with annotations in his own handwriting, and these are almost literally reproduced in the notes to Singer's edition. Of this copy FitzGerald wrote to Dr. Wright :

" What notes I have appended are worth nothing, 1 suspect ; though 1 remember that the advice of the present Chancellor [Lord Hatherley] was asked in some cases."' Letters,' i. pp. 230, 231.

The notes exhibit extensive reading, but there is nothing of an original character in them. It is curious that the word " emer- gencies," to which FitzGerald had so strong an objection, and of which he thought Blake might have made a picture as he did of the flea ('Letters,' ii. 162), is used by Selden himself in the phrase : " A Man must do according to Accidents and Emergencies' (p. 227).

Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard

barton. Edited by his Daughter. London : Hall,

irtue and Co., 25, Paternoster Row. MDCCCXLIX.

To this volume FitzGerald contributed a memoir (pp. ix-xxxvi, signed "E. F. G.") which, in the opinion of competent judges, anks as a little masterpiece of biography, [n "delicacy of style, justice of appreciation, and rightness of proportion," it has been held }O be " a model of what such memoirs should

" (Lucas, ' Bernard Barton and his Friends,' Drefatory note). FitzGerald himself thought aut little of it. In a letter to Frederick Tennyson, dated 7 December, 1849, he says :

"I have been obliged to turn Author on the very smallest scale. My old friend Bernard Barton

chose to die in the early part of this year We

lave made a Book out of his Letters and Poems, and

published it by subscription and I have been

obliged to contribute a little dapper Memoir, as well as to select bits of Letters, bits of Poems, c. All that was wanted is accomplished : many people subscribed. Some of B. B.'s letters are pleasant, 1 think, and when you come to England I will give you this little book of incredibly small value." ' Letters,' i. 251.

This memoir has never been reprinted, but the book in which it appeared is not a scarce one, and may be often met with in book- sellers' catalogues.

The Gentleman's Magazine. 'The Rev. George Crabbe.' Signed " E. F. G." (vol. cciii. pp. 562, 563, November, 1857).

This memoir of FitzGerald's old friend the Vicar of Bredfield, who died at the age of seventy-two, on 16 September, 1857, is marked by all the insight into character and felicity of expression which seem to have been native to FitzGerald whenever his pen touched a biographical theme. It has never been re- printed, and is probably known but to few of his admirers.

The East Anglian; or, Notes and Queries on subjects connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, and Essex. Edited by Samuel Tymms, F.S.A., F.G.H.S., &c. Lowestoft: Samuel Tymms, 60, High Street. London: WhittakerandCo. : Ave Maria Lane.

'Play-stalls,' signed "F.," vol. i. p. 71 (April, 1860).

'Orwell Wands,' signed "F.," vol. i. p. 76 (April, 1860).

East Anglian Songs,' signed "F.," vol. i. p. 139 ' ?, 1860).

he Vocabulary of the Sea-Board,' signed " F.," vol. i. p. 141 (July, 1860).

' Sea Words and Phrases along the Suffolk Coast,' preceded by a letter to the Editor, signed "E. F. G.," vol. iii. pp. 347-363 (December, 1868, No. 95).

' Sea Words and Phrases along the Suffolk Coast,' preceded by a short letter to the Editor, signed "E. F. G.," vol. iv. pp. 109-120 (pp. 116-118 contain some notes by Dr. Aldis Wright, which were com- municated by him to FitzGerald).

' Additions to Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia,' signed "E. F. G.," vol. iv. pp. 128-129.