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 INDUSTRIES brilliant but unfortunate Christopher Smart, poet, author of the Song of David, and the translator of Horace. Christopher Smart had two daughters by this lady, one of whom married Thomas Cowslade, and the other Chevalier Le Noir, one of the refugees who fled to England during the French Revolution of 1789. On Mrs. Smart's death the paper passed into the possession of her daughters. The firm was styled Smart & Cowslade in 1794, when they published Alter et idem, a new Review, and in 1816 Cowslade & Co. Even- tually the paper passed to the children of Thomas Cowslade, the grandfather of the present proprietor, Mr. William Wallace Cowslade, whose sons now control the paper. Henry's Reading Journal or Weekly Review was published in 1744 as a rival to the Mercury. It was printed by D. Henry and published at his house in Friar Street, and sold at his office at the Upper End of the Church Walk in Winchester. Local news is scarce in this folio sheet, which is mainly filled with extracts from the London Gazette and other London newspapers, with occasional references to the Dutch journals published at The Hague and Utrecht. This printer combined his trade with that of a vendor of patent and other medicines, and at the end of each copy of his paper advertises his sale of Daffey's Elixir, Chymical Drops for Coughs and Colds, etc., etc., as well as Dr. Henry's Nervous Medicines for the cure of all nervous disorders, etc. His press seems to have been very active. He published in 1747 'An Historical Review of the Transactions of Europe from the commencement of the war with Spain in 1 739 to the Insurrection of Scotland in 1745' (two volumes), by S. Boyse, a second work on the History of the Late Rebellion in 1745, Five Discourses by the Revd. Lubbridge Wood, and Plain practical and experimental discourses on the Infinite and Eternal Trinity by A. D. in 1747. He became in 1754 a partner in the Gentleman* 's Magazine. Henry died at Lewis- ham, Kent, in 1792 in the 8znd year of his age. 1 Messrs. J. Newbery and C. Micklewright were established as printers in the market place at the sign of the Bible and Crown in 1744, and published a book of travels by C. Thompson. They published also some lectures on Philosophy entitled Philosophia Micrographia Nova by Benjamin Martin in 1743, and the same writer's Philosophia Britannica in 1747. C. Micklewright printed under his own name Sermons by Dr. Trapp in 1752. Messrs. J. Carnan & Co. were Read- Gent. Mag. 1792, p. 578. ing publishers in 1764, the successors doubtless of William Carnan who in 1736 printed a folio edition of Ashmole's History and Antiquities of Berkshire. They had the honour of publishing the works of James Merrick, scholar, divine and poet, whose youthful essay has been already mentioned. Amongst the worb published by this firm were A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton chiefly relating to the Composition of Greek indexes, Reading, 1764 ; Annotations, critical and grammatical, on Chap. I. v. I to 14 of the Gospel according to St. John, 1764; Annotations, critical and grammatical, on the Gospel according to St. John, to the end of the third chapter, 1767; The Psalms translated or paraphrased in English verse, 1765 (the second edition appeared in 1766) ; Annotations on the Psalms, 1768. A Manual of Prayers for Common Occasions, 1768. The Miscellaneous Works serious and humourous in verse and prose for the fair sex of C. S. Boyse were also issued by this firm in 1740. A little earlier C. Pocock was a printer in Reading and produced the Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Mrs. Mary Latter of Reading, Berks, in 1759. The Life and Sufferings of Henry Grace were published in 1764 at Reading, and in 1777 The Reading Races, a Poem was printed and sold by Carnan & Smart, who also published in 1791 the poems of Christopher Smart, the learned proprietor of the Mercury. Reading printers produced the first edition of Lempriere's Classical Dictionary in 1788. The author was a master at the Reading school. It was entitled Bibliotheca Classics, and was printed at Reading for T. Cadell, London. Various sermons and pamphlets were printed and published in Reading by Dale Ingram, Anthony Addington, Thomas Hull, H. Land, Dr. R. Valpy, W. Vanderstegen, Charles Sturges, Edward Wilson, Edward Barry, and the Hon. W. B. Cadogan. Bar- cham of Reading printed a poor poem on Cranmer by Arabella Georgina Campbell at the beginning of the last century. The Snares were a family of noted Reading printers and booksellers. Robert Snare was the founder of the business in Minster Street. He published an excellent and voluminous catalogue in 1832 of the books current at that time. In 1798 the name of the firm was Snare & Co., who published Poems of W. Lane and other works. In 1811 Robert Snare was publishing on his own account, and a volume of sermons came from his press. Mr. Snare seems to have entered into partnership with Mr. John Man, and the name of the firm, 401