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NOTES:-Eton College Library, 61-Australasian Dramatic Authors, 62-Books on Special Subjects, 63-Statute Fairs called Mops," 64-Dr. Hook and Evangelicalism: an Unpublished Letter-The City of London Regiment "Ghetto," 65-Harrisons of Norfolk-" Manitology," 66Stalwart-Greeting the New Moon in Fiji-Appleby, Westmoreland-Surrey Folk-lore-Singular Surnames, 67. QUERIES:-Lists of Emigrants-Metrical Date to be Inter: preted, 67-Blairquhan-Archer of Welland-"Bred and born"-"Parker of Hunnington"-Dibdin, 68-Old Portrait of Sir William Wallace-"Waltham disguises"-Croye Family-Kerr-Deva's Vale-W. Carlton-"Inn" as a Verb -Penrith Church-Authors Wanted, 69. dino's commentary, 1507. This edition has curious woodcuts and pretty initials. The book once belonged to De Thou, and has his initials inscribed at the beginning and end. 3. With Landino's commentary, and also that of Vellutelli, 1578. Besides these we have the first Aldine, 1502, the "Terze Rime," and that of 1515, "col sito et forma dell' Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del Poeta." Two Florentine editions, one a Juntine octavo of 1506, the other with improved readings, 1595, both with Manetti's very curious sketch - maps, may be added. With the second of the above Aldines there is bound up Sannazaro's Sonetti e Can REPLIES:-Hereward le Wake: the Countess Lucy, 69-zoni, 1534, Aldus. "The Green Bag"-The Metrical Version of the Psalms, 71 -"Appointed to be read in Churches "-History of Lincolnshire, 72-Fairfowl of Lathallan-Peculiar VersificationSteynour-Irish Marriage Settlement-The Dog Rose, 73In the midst of life, &c.-New Words-The Gate of Boulogne at Hardres-David Garrick-" Lying cold floor""Noils "A Cure for "Pins and Needles," 74-Stubbs Family-Estel - Milton Queries, 75-"Inveni portum Jewesses and Wigs-Coffin Breastplates, 76-Curious Christian Names-Honorificabilitudinity, 77-Lime Trees "Basket"-"Ladykeys"-"Cut over"-A Warwickshire Phrase-Was William IV. an Author?-" "Dray"-Authors Wanted, 78. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Sully's "Illusions "-Payne's "Poems of Master Francis Villon"-Rutherford's New Phrynichus"-Bunsen's "Angel Messiah of Buddhists," &c. Notices to Correspondents, &c. Notes. ETON COLLEGE LIBRARY. (Continued from p. 43.) Foreign Literature.-Much of this has come before us under the heads of Theology, History, or Travels. Of the best French authors there is a very handsome collection, but, beyond the great number of good impressions by Didot, nothing that calls for particular notice. As a good specimen of early typography we may name Homelies sur la Separation de Nature Humaine, in gothic type, Thielman Kerver, Paris, 1538. The standard works in German were the gift of R. H. W. Ingram, Esq., but the only book of any special interest is the Flötetraverserie, by Johann Joachim Quanz (Berlin, 1752). The author is known in the musical world as an improver of the flute, in which instrument he instructed Frederic the Great. Of the Italian literature it is necessary to speak at greater length. Dante is represented in several forms, of which the following three Venetian folios have each their special interest:-1. Vindelin di .Spira, 1477. The readings of this edition agree very much with the Eton MS. ("N. & Q.," 6th S. iii. 262). With its ample margin, ruled red lines, and crimson morocco binding by Derome le jeune, this is indeed a noble volume. 2. The text with Lan The Of Petrarch there is no " fifteener," " but the following Aldines are here:-1501, 1533, and 1546; also the text with Vellutelli's commentary, a copy once in De Thou's library. The Triompho dello Amore is an octavo sine loco aut anno. earliest impression in the library of the Orlando Furioso is a Venetian one in gothic type, 1536, with a portrait of Ariosto on the title-page. There are many others, including that in eight volumes printed expressly for the Earl of Bute, 1772, and Baskerville's of the following year, containing exquisite engravings by Bartolozzi, Launcy, and Moreau. We note further Fornari's Commentary (Florence, 1549), and a fine folio copy of Sir John Harrington's translation, 1634, with some good woodcuts. There are also the five comedies of Ariosto and his seven satires (Venice, 1537), a very scarce edition with a curious frontispiece. Tasso is represented by a Genoa folio edition of the Gierusalemme Liberata, 1617, "figurata di Bernardo Castello," and some handsome Paris impressions. Of one by Didot, 1784, with fortyone plates after designs by Cochin, only two hundred copies were issued. Bodoni's impression of the Aminta is a fine quarto, and this early specimen of the pastoral drama is of interest from its success having led to the Pastor Fido of Guarini, the prototype of the Italian opera. Fifty editions were issued of this last work in the author's lifetime. A copy in this library (Venice, 1602), has a coloured frontispiece and some woodcuts. Largepaper copies of Il Pastor Fido, of which this is one, are by no means common. Machiavelli's complete works fill two handsome quartos, 1550, sine loco. There are also separate editions of most of them, among them his Asino Doro, an imitation of Apuleius (Rome, 1588). Some of these volumes belonged to De Thou, and contain three different portraits of Machiavelli, all of them very striking ones. Few departments of Italian literature are unrepresented. The number of tragedies and comedies is far too great to be enumerated here. Some impressions of Pietro Aretino, e.g., Il Filosofo (Venice, 1546), are scarce. The Timon and after the Renaissance. This is a fine Aldine Venice, 1545, small folio. Eton College. FRANCIS ST. JOHN THACKERAY. (To be continued.) AUSTRALASIAN DRAMATIC AUTHORS. (Continued from "N. & Q.," 5th S. i. 423; ii. 55, 497; iii. 158; v. 277.) Mr. Henry Barton, author of Tittle Tattle, or The Kiss at St. Kilda, a new farce, acted in April, 1878, at the Academy of Music in Melbourne. Maxwell Brown, author of Crohore of the Bill-hook, dramatized from Banim's tale, acted April, 1867, at the Haymarket Theatre, Melbourne. The author acted the part of Crohore. Grosvenor Bunste, author of Class, a play, acted in June, 1878, at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne. Mr. Dampier, actor, is author of The Yellow Passport, a drama, produced on the Melbourne stage about July, 1874. Mr. Darrel, an actor, is author of The Trump Card and other plays, produced at the Queen's Theatre, Sydney, about December, 1874. of Boiardo is sine loco aut anno. There are many duodecimos containing single plays-e. g., I Gelosi, 1560, the only comedy of Gabianiwhich are literary curiosities. Besides several sixteenth century editions of the Decameron, there are the other tales and poems of Boccaccio published in various Italian towns. Two volumes are sine loco aut anno, the Laberinto d'Amore, and Nimphale Fiesolano. Both are rare, especially the latter, which is assigned to the fifteenth century; of the others, the earliest is Ameto, a fine quarto, Milan, 1520. The Facetie di Poggio, 1547, has some quaint woodcuts. Pulci's burlesque the Morgante Maggiore, 1550, and his poem to Lorenzo de' Medici, 1505, as well as Lorenzo's own poems, Aldus, 1554, are here. There are three Florentine sixteenth century editions of Firenzuola, and a rare impression of the Hercole of Cinthio, 1558, and Trabisonda Hystoriata, Venice, 1518. It would be tedious to go through the list of satires, letters, tales, and novelettes which constitute so large a portion of early Italian literature. Cinthio's Hekatomithi may be mentioned, to which Shakspeare had recourse in his Cymbeline and Measure for Measure. The novels of Bandello fill three volumes, Lucca, 1554-73, and there is also the French translation of them by Belleforest, 1580. Much of Romeo and Juliet, as is well known, is traced to Arthur Brooke's translation of Bandello. But I may take the opportunity of calling attention to a poem, which seems unknown to the Shakspearian commen- A. L. Gordon is author of Ashtaroth, a lyrical drama, tators, with the following title:-"L'Infelice Amore published at Melbourne, 1877; also of Bush Ballads and dei due Fidelissimi Amanti Giulia e Romeo. Galloping Rhymes, a volume of poems, published in Scritto in Ottava Rima da Clitia Nobile Vero-1870, containing some scenes from "The Road to Avernus, an unpublished drama. nese ad Ardeo sua." It was printed at Venice in 1553, forty-three years before Romeo and Juliet was brought out. It consists of about three thousand lines, opening with mention of the feud that had existed between the two families "Cappelletti e Montecchi, illustri e antiche case in Verona," one hundred and fifty years before the writer's time. Charles Dibdin, of Sydney, is author of The Queer Client, a drama in three acts, performed at the Victoria Theatre, Sydney; published 1842, 8vo. The author dedicates the play to Ben. Boyd, Esq., in grateful acknowledgment of the kind favour conferred on his late father. A copy of this dramatic piece is in the British Museum. Miss Josephine Fiddes is author of The Lady in White, a new drama, produced for her benefit at the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney, about the end of October, 1861: the first dramatic attempt of the authoress. See Bell's Life in Sydney, Nov. 2, 1861. Mr. Thomas Harrison is author of an original farce, performed at Melbourne, October, 1856, by the Garrick Club of Melbourne. daughter of Sir Wm. Montagu Manning, Knt., of Mrs. H. Heron (Emily Manning). This lady, the Sydney, LL.D. [formerly Attorney-General of New South Wales], is author of Poems by "Australie," published in 1877 in London. This volume contains "The Balanceof Pain," a dramatic sketch in two scenes, and "The Emigrants," a dramatic cantata in three acts. Fifty Millions of Money, a play, produced at the Theatre Mr. Henry Hughes, music teacher, Melbourne, produced an operetta, entitled Les Fleurs de Savoie, on Nov. 3, 1874, at the Athenæum, Melbourne. I presume that Mr. Hughes is author of the libretto as well as composer of the music of the opera (see Australian Sketcher, The collection of "rime di diversi " is very exMr. Hill, of the Auckland Theatre, New Zealand, was tensive, and comprises some rare volumes. Of author of Villikins and his Dinah, an original burlesque, Vittoria Colonna's poems there are three impres- written for performance during the Easter holidays in sions, one 1539, sine loco. Cecco d' Ascoli's 1858. poem on the order of the heavenly bodies is scarce. The author-physician, astrologer, and mechanicianwas burnt at Bologna, in 1327, for his opinions, by order of the Inquisition. This book is a beautiful small quarto, with large margin and rubricated initials, Venice, 1478, ed. princ. The oldest work on Italian grammar, by Fortunio, is here, Venice, 1533. Italian translations from the classics abound. Balthazar Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano may conclude our selection from these Italian books. It gives the best description of an Italian nobleman as court habits made him, and prescribes the rules for polished life during 1874). Captain Morin Humphreys. In a letter from the Era's correspondent, dated Melbourne, Sept. 4, 1877, Captain Humphreys is mentioned as author of Confessed at Last, a new play, written for the Melbourne stage. White Cat, a pantomime, acted in January, 1875, at the Mr. É. Hutchinson is author of an adaptation of The Victoria Theatre Sydney. |