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It is thus entitled: "List of parliamentary papers, from session 1836 to ses sion 1852-3 inclusive, with the prices affixed; and an alphabetical list. 1854." 8vo. pp. 194+32+50=276. Price 2s. 6d. The non-political reader may here interpose the query, What is a blue-book? I must therefore attempt a definition of the term. A blue-book is a document printed by order of the House of Commons, or presented thereto by royal or other command, and of such thickness as to require a - which being always blue, gives the docu ment its equivocal designation. It is chiefly applied to Reports with minutes of the evidence; and, as many must remember, has sometimes been used jeeringly. cover Another query may perhaps be made, Is bluebook a cant word? I reserve my opinion on that nice philological point; affirming only with Swift, as a hint to orators and writers of every class, that the multiplication of cant words is "the most ruinous corruption in any language." On a novel subject a touch of circumlocution may be pardonable, and with this apology for the above queries and remarks, I proceed to the despatch of business. The first publication of a parliamentary paper took place in 1641, and the first committee for the purpose was appointed in 1642. I give the resolution as a curiosity: "Die Sabbati. 4 Junii. 1642. "Sir Walter Erl, sir Peter Wentworth, sir Samuel Rolle, master Arthur Goodwyn, master Pury, master Noble. "This committee, or any three of them, are appointed to consider of the best way of putting the publike orders and votes of the House in execution, and of divulging, dispersing, and publishing the said orders and votes, and also the declarations of the House, through the kingdom, and of the well and true printing of them: and have power to imploy messengers, as they shall see occasion, and to make them allowances, and to sit, when and where they please."— Hen. Elsinge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. The papers must have been printed in vast numbers, as they were placed in the hands of every constable, headborough, or tithingman, to be read to the inhabitants of each town or parish! The first collection of such papers, whence take the above resolution, was published in 1643. It is entitled An exact collection of all remonstrances, declarations, votes, orders, etc. It contains about 400 papers, with a table of contents; and is a very important volume. From that date the publication of parliamentary papers appears to have been continued, under various modifications, till the year 1834.. In 1835 the House resolved that the parlia mentary papers "should be rendered accessible to the public by purchase," and in 1836 a committee was appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in such matters. Arrangements were made accordingly, and from that time lists have been printed for each session. For these statements I rely on the Report of 1837. The volume above described is a reprint of those lists. It is in three sections. The first section gives the titles of the papers printed by order; the second, of the papers presented; and the third is called An alphabetical list. I shall give the number of the papers of each session in a tabular form, and afterwards attempt to convey some idea of their nature and variety. Sessional Papers: The exact number of papers is 13,776; but, as there are some groups of reports relative to local acts, we may call it 14,000. Now comes the task. How shall I describe the contents of a volume which indicates 14,000 subjects? I must give two or three items to each. letter of the alphabet, and leave the discovery of the rest to the purchaser of the volume. Here follows my limited specimen : Acts of parliament-Army estimates-Assurance companies-Bank of England-Baths and wash-houses British Museum-Census of Great Britain - Charitable trusts-Church preferments-Colonies-Corn-Corporation of London-Court of chancery-Dissenters-Dock-yards -Dramatic performances-East India - Education — Established church- Emigration-Exchequer Factories-Finance accounts-Fine arts-Friendly societies -Game laws-General board of health Grammar schools- Harbours of refuge Highways-Hop duties Houses of parliament-Insolvent debtors - International copyright-Joint-stock companies-Justices of the peace-Juvenile offenders-Kafir war-Kew gardens Legacy duties-Letters patent-Lighthouses-Lunatic asylums-Malt made-Merchant seamen-Metropolitan police-Militia-Museum of practical geology-National gallery-Navy estimates-Newspaper stamps-OathsOrdnance survey Oyster fisheries - Packet service Poor law act-Post office- Prisons-Probate of willsPublic libraries and museums-Public walks-Quarantine -Quarter sessions-Railways-Royal palaces-Savings banks-Slave trade-Stamp duties-Steam vessels Tariffs-Thames conservancy-Tithes-Trade and navigation-Transportation-Trinity-house-Turnpike trusts Union workhouses-Universities-Vaccine institution -Ventilation-Vestries-Wheat imported-Wine duties -Woods and forests-Wool-Works and public buildings -X-Yarn-Yeomanry-Zante-Zinc. The titles of the papers ordered to be printed are entered in the Votes and proceedings, and so is the date of delivery. The offices for the sale are at No. 6. Great-turnstile, and at No. 32. Abingdon-street. The prices are very moderate. In 1852 a select committee was appointed to inquire into the expediency of distributing the papers gratis to literary and scientific institutions, &c. Had I been examined on that occasion, I should have been inclined to offer this advice: Give away no entire sets: you will tax the parties in the shape of house-rent. Give away no selections: you will deceive those who are in search of full information. Give rather a compendious catalogue of the papers, and offer the articles at a reduced price: you will then do the parties a real service, and commit no waste. The list in question is very like the gift which I should have proposed. While admitting the utility of this volume, which only wants a descriptive announcement to become better appreciated, I claim the liberty of pointing out some of its defects, and of offering some suggestions towards its improvement on a future occasion: 1. Where was the volume printed? By whom? By whose order? I assume that it was printed at London, in the office of Mr. Henry Hansard, by order of the Speaker of the House of Commons; but there is no information on those points, and I consider the omission as an editorial defect. 2. The book has no preface! It should have been described as a reprint of the annual lists, under a new arrangement of their contents. The number of the parliament and of its session, and the regnal year, should also have been given as before. I need not dwell on these defects, as they may be remedied at the expense of fifty lines. 3. I must come to matters of more importance. We are authorised to expect that this volume should record, in juxtaposition, the titles of all the papers which pertain to a given session, and should promptly direct us to all those which relate to a given subject. Now, it fails in both particulars. The papers printed by order, and the papers presented, are in separate sections; each section having its series of pages. Synchronism is therefore set aside; and for the papers of any one session, we have to search in two places. The third section of the volume is announced as an alphabetical list. The promise is more than performed. We have nineteen alphabetical lists. These lists should have been incorporated, with the sessional date of each item prefixed to it. We should have then seen at a glance, and in the order of time, all that has been printed on a given subject in the course of eighteen years. What a hand-book would it have been for the statesman! What a help to the statistical inquirer! What a guide to the future historian! In the lists for the sessions of 1854 and 1854-5 -which should be procured in continuation of the volume-a new arrangement of the papers has been adopted. We have now: 1. Reports and papers; 2. Bills; 3. Papers presented by command; 4. Alphabetical list. I entirely approve of this classification, as it gives more prominence to the reports and papers. Bills are mere projects; and, if they are so fortunate as to receive the royal assent, we soon have them in the authoritative shape of Acts. The lists are first printed about three months after the commencement of each session of parliament, and are re-issued with successive additions. Those only can be relied on as complete which are dated about six months after the close of the session. This is unavoidable, as some of the papers are furnished with elaborate indexes; and those which I have examined, or partially tested, strike me as models in that useful branch of compilation. BOLTON CORNEY. June 3, 1742. 700 proposals for Mr. Fielding, paper print." Again Millar is subsequently charged"Nov. 23, 1746. 500 8vo. page proposals for Miss Fielding, 6s." The following have not much interest in themselves, but contain that sort of information about obscure and anonymous works often sought for to be met with in Watt, or Chalmers, or Nichols, through the pages of "N. & Q.", and not, I think, the only authorities I can at the moment even hurriedly refer to. Not to occupy space needlessly, I shall only extract the name of the writer, the title of the work, and when printed. Оссаsionally the writer is known, but not known as author of the particular work here mentioned. "Dr. Andrew Hooke, Dr. July 22, 1734. Oct. 17, 1734. Printing Thomson's Seasons, 8vo., No. Nov. 1, 1734. 1500, 164 shts. Reprinting sht. July 17, 1735. Dec. 15, 1746. Mr. Collins's Odes, 8vo., No. 1000, 3 shts." There is an account of the first edition of Joseph Andrews, "with alterations" sufficient to be recorded in the printer's bill. Fifteen hundred, it appears, were first printed, and in three months a second edition ordered of 2000. The "700 proposals " I must leave to the interpretation of the better informed. "Feb. 15, 174. History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, &c., 12mo., in 2 vols., Printing Christianity Revived, &c., 4 shts. An Essay on Physick, 6 shts. (wants). Mr. Erasmus Jones, Dr. Printing Pretty Doings in a Protestant Country, 4 shts. Trip through the Town, 4 shts. Printing a Trip through the Town, 4th edit., 4 shts. Printing Luxury, Pride, and Vanity the Bane of the British Nation, 4 shts. Ditto, 4th edit. Printing the Man of Manners, 8vo., 4 shts. Printing the Modern Christian, or Practical Sinner, 8vo., 4 shts. Ramble through London, 4 shts. Mr. Minshull, Dr. The Miser, a Poem, 6 shts. Captain Joseph Bertin, Dr. Printing the Game of Chess, 8vo., 5 shts. Mr. Dibery, Dr. Preservatif contre Concile National, 4to., 12 shts. Printing Motifs pour changer la Religion, &c., 4to., 8 shts. The Rev. Mr. John Peters, Dr. Dec. 27, 1735. June 15, 1736. No. 1500, with alterations. May 31, 1742. The 2nd edit. of Joseph Andrews, 12mo., May 28, 1737. No. 2000, 27 shts. Printing Thoughts concerning Religion, &c., 4to., 16 shts. J. Hutchinson, Esq., Dr. Rev. Printing Mr. Catcott's Sermon at Bristol, 4to., 5 shts. Printing the Religion of Satan, or Anti- |