PSEUDONYMS.

A.

A., initialism. [Matthew Arnold.]

The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems (signed A.) 1848.

A. (Major), see A * * * * * (Major), pseud.

A——. pseudonym [Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe].

St. Jonathan; the Lay of a Scald. New York, 1838.

Semi-anonymous, the dedication is signed.

A * * * * * (Major), pseudo-titlonym [C. B. Coles.]

Short Whist, its Rise and Progress, by, &c., to which are prefixed Precepts for Tyros, by Mrs. B * * * * * (Battle, apocryph), 1835, 18th edit., with an Essay ... by Professor P[ole]. Longmans, 1865.

The practical part of this book, consisting of about 25 pages, which it was intended should be taken for the work of Major Aubrey, a celebrated whist-player, is a réchauffé of Matthews: one instance will suffice:—

Matthews, edit. 1808. Major A., edit. 1865.

Be particularly cautious not to deceive him [your partner] in his or your own leads, or when he is likely to have the lead—a concealed game may now and then succeed in the suits of your adversaries; but this should not be attempted before you have made a considerable proficiency; and then but seldom, as its frequency would destroy the effect. p. 16. Be cautious not to deceive your partner in his or your own leads, or when he is likely to have the lead; a concealed game sometimes succeeds in the suits of your adversaries, but this should not be attempted before having made considerable proficiency, and if too frequently resorted to, will destroy its own effect. p. 30.

In an edition published in Paris by Galignani, these two works, Matthews and Major A. are put together.

Mrs. Battle’s opinions on Whist are also to be found in the Monthly Magazine for Feb. 1821, signed “Elia.” (q.v.)

A and L, semi-initialism [A. and L. Shore].

War Lyrics, 1855.

A BARRISTER, titlonym [Barron Field].

Hints to witnesses in a Court of Justice, 1815.

A very valuable and useful pamphlet, which we imagine might be remuneratively reprinted.

A BARRISTER, titlonym [Sir J. T. Coleridge].

Notes on the Reform Bill, 1831.

A BARRISTER, titlonym [Frederick Lawrence].

Culverwell v. Sidebottom. Effingham Wilson, 1857.

This had a second edition in 1859, to which Lord Derby’s celebrated letter to the Jockey Club was added. It was a most notorious trial.

A BARRISTER, supposed-author [James Fitz-James Stephen, Q.C.].

Essays reprinted from the “Saturday Review,” 1862.

A BEEF EATER, phraseonym [George Vasey, Wood-Engraver, author of a Monograph of the Genus Bos].

Illustrations of Eating, displaying the Omnivorous Character of Man, and exhibiting the Natives of various Countries at Feeding-time, with woodcuts by the author. J. R. Smith, 1847.

A BIRD AT BROMSGROVE, ironym [John Crane].

Rhymes after Meat, 1800. An Address to Bachelors, and The Apron Farmer. Birmingham [1802], 5th edition, 1816. The Bromesgrove Constables, 1802.

A. B. M., initialism [Arthur Bache Matthews].

The Riots at Birmingham, July, 1791 ... [edited with a preface by A. B. M.], 1863.

A BRITISH SUBJECT, geonym [Sir Francis Bond Head Bart.].

Three Letters to Lord Brougham, on the execution of Lount and Matthews, 1838.

A. C. C., initialism [Coxe], and see A——. pseud.

Saul, a Mystery, by the Author of Christian Ballads, &c. New York, 1845.

ACHETA, phrenonym [Miss L. M. Budgen].

March Winds and April Showers, 1854.

ACHETA DOMESTICA, phreno. [Miss L. M. Budgen].

Episodes of Insect Life, by A. D., M.E.S., 1849 and ’51, a new edition by the Rev. J. G. Wood, in 1867.

A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, disguised-author [Oliver Goldsmith].

The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London, to his Friends in the East, 1762. First appeared in “The Ledger.”

Frequently reprinted and generally with the author’s name on the title-page, as if it had been published autonymously. All lovers of books should condemn this increasing practice. If the name must be given, it should be put in a note or preface, so that we may have the title-page as the author bequeathed it.

A CHURCHMAN, titlonym [Rev. Edward Smedley, M.A., was the editor of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana].

Religio Clerici, 1819; 2nd edition, 1821. Lux Renata; a Protestant’s Epistle, by the author of Religio Clerici, 1827.

A CITIZEN, see J. D., disg.-aut.

A CITIZEN OF THE WEST, disguised-author [R. Mackay].

Pocahontas, an historical drama; with an introductory Essay and notes. By, &c. New York, 1837.

A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, demonym [M. Margoliouth].

The Anglo-Hebrews: their past wrongs and present grievances, etc., 1856.

A CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER, demonym [E. F. Lloyd]; see also E. F. L.

Readings for the Sundays, etc., 1862.

A CLERGYMAN’S WIFE, demonym [S. E. Mapleton].

A Letter to my Class. Addressed to Young Women attending a Sunday School. Leeds, 1859.

A COMPANION TRAVELLER, phrenonym [Miss Harris, of Windsor].

From Oxford to Rome; and How it fared with some who lately made the journey. 1st and 3rd editions, 1847.

The authoress subsequently became a Catholic, and publicly expressed her deep regret for many of the unauthorised statements, or false impressions concerning the Church of Rome in the above work.

F. C. H. in N. & Q.

A CORNET IN THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY’S SERVICE, titlonym [the Eldest Son of T. J. Pettigrew. He was a Lieutenant in the Madras Light Cavalry, and died in 1837, at the early age of 24].

Lucien Greville. By a, etc., with Etchings by George Cruikshank. Saunders and Otley, 1833, 3 vols.

“It gives the events of his short life, and it has served him for a vehicle to give an account of Indian scenery and Indian manners and customs.”

A CORONER’S CLERK, ps. [Rev. Erskine Neale].

The Note-book of a, etc., reprinted from “Bentley’s Miscellany.”

A COUNTRY PARSON, disguised-author [H. Moule].

My Kitchen Garden, and half an acre of Pasture. ’60.

A COUNTRY PARSON, disg.-aut. [A. K. H. Boyd].

Autumn Holidays, 1864.

A COUNTRY PASTOR, demonym [Archbishop Whately].

Lectures on Scripture Revelations, 1855. Prayer, 1860. And others.

A DELVER INTO ANTIQUITY, phraseonym [William Barclay David Donald Turnbull].

Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica. Edin., 1842.

Only 70 copies printed, one L.P., one on vellum.

A DETECTIVE, phrenonym [Andrew Edmund Brae, of Leeds, author of Collier, Coleridge, and Shakespeare, A Review, etc.].

Literary Cookery, with reference to matter attributed [by J. P. Collier] to Coleridge and Shakespeare. A letter addressed to “The Athenæum” [by a Detective], with a P.S. containing some remarks upon the refusal of that journal to print it. J. R. Smith, 1855.

As this publication gave great offence to many persons, it was immediately withdrawn by its author, who was unknown for some time after. No more than twenty-five copies got into circulation, some of which fetched ten shillings.

On the 17th Jany., 1856, Sir F. Thesiger, on behalf of Mr. Collier, moved for a rule against Mr. Russell Smith for publishing it; but Lord Campbell said that Mr. Collier in an affidavit which he had made, had cleared himself of the alleged “cooking” of dates in a most satisfactory manner, and, with many just compliments to the veteran bibliograph and bibliophile, refused the rule.

A. E. L., initialism [Lee].

The Fruits of the Valley (Song of Solomon), 1855.

A FISHER IN SMALL STREAMS, disguised-author [William Linn Brown, an American].

Scribblings and Sketches, Diplomatic, Piscatory, and Oceanic. Phil., 1844.

J. R. S.

A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, pseudonym [William Ayrton].

The Adventures of a Salmon in the River Dee, etc. Pickering, 1853.

AGAPIDA (Antonio) Friar, apocryph [Washington Irving].

A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. From the MSS. of, etc., 2 vols, 1829. Later editions.

A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS LEFT HIS LODGINGS, pseudonym [John Earl Russell].

Essays and Sketches of Life and Character. By, etc. Longman, 1820.

The preface is signed “Joseph Skillet,” the lodging-house keeper, who is supposed to publish these letters to pay the rent the gentleman had forgotten. This preface is left out in the 2nd edition, which is dedicated to Thomas Moore.

A GENTLEMAN RESIDENT IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, who has made the Amusement his Study for upwards of Twenty Years, phraseonym [Charles Snart, an Attorney of Newark].

Practical Observations on Angling in the River Trent, Newark, 1801. Lond., 1812.

J. R. S.

A GAOL CHAPLAIN, demonym [Rev. Erskine Neale].

Recollections of a, etc. Reprinted from “Bentley’s Miscellany.”

A GLOWWORM, pseud. [John Loraine Baldwin, editor of the Laws of Short Whist as framed by the Whist Committee of the Arlington Club].

A Glimpse at Whist, published at the Glowworm Office, [1866] on a card.

This is a plagiarism of the Pocket Guide to Whist by Cavendish.

See the Field, 6 Oct., 1866.

A GRADUATE OF OXFORD, tit. [John Ruskin].

Modern Painters, their superiority in the Art of Landscape painting proved by examples, &c. 1844.

Several editions. The author’s name occurs on the title-page of vol. 3, in the edition of 1846.

A GRANDFATHER, demonym [Sergius St. John].

First Impressions, or Tales of, etc.

A HARROW TUTOR, demonym [Cecil Frederick Holmes].

A Vocabulary to Bland’s Latin Hexameters and Pentameters, 1863.

A HAÖLE, geonym [A. Liholiho].

Sandwich Island Notes, 1854.

A. H. G., initialism [Grant].

Contributions to “London Society,” chiefly poetical.

This gentleman is also author of a pseudonymous two volume work, which we are not at present at liberty to give the title of.

A. J. K., initialism [Kemp].

A few words to Tradesmen, 1842.

A JUSTIFIED SINNER, apocryph [James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd].

The Private Memoirs of ——, written by himself, with a detail of curious traditionary facts, and other evidence, by the editor [J. H.], 1824.

A HERTFORDSHIRE INCUMBENT, geo-demonym [the Rev. Canon J. W. Blakesley, Vicar of Ware].

Contemporary Memoirs of Russia, 1727-44. By General Manstein, edited by Hume, and re-edited by, etc. 1856.

Also author of numerous letters in The Times, under this signature during the Crimean War.

A. K. H. B., init. [Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson Boyd]. The Critical Essays of a Country Parson, 1865.

A LADY demonym [Mrs. Rundell].

A New System of Domestic Cookery. Several editions, from 1808 to 1859.

The most popular work of its kind ever printed.

A LADY, demonym [Mrs. Anna Jameson].

The Diary of an Ennuyée, 1826. Several editions since.

Accident caused this work to be published, and we may also say that accident made the authoress. A gentleman who knew her and her husband well, was looking over some of her papers, and found this Diary; he was so pleased with it that he offered to publish it, which he did; but about that time (1825) abandoning the bookselling for the Bar, where he afterwards took rank, he transferred the work to Mr. Colburn, who put a fresh title-page, altering it from A Lady’s Diary to that which it at present bears. The running title of the 1st edition is A Lady’s Diary. It was pretended that it was published “exactly as it was found on the death of the author.”

“The chief portion of Mrs. Jameson’s volumes [Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, 1833] is, however, only a reprint of the Diary of, etc.—a delightful book, with an affected title, which has, it is hard to say why, only attained the honours of a second edition, in this almost surreptitious and certainly not very flattering re-appearance.”—Edinb. Review, 1835.

A LADY, demonym [Miss Gunn, of Christchurch].

Conversations on Church Polity. Westley, 1833.

See N. & Q. 3rd S. x. 38.

A LADY, demonym [Mrs. Palmer, a Sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds].

A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect, 1837.

J. R. Smith. Bib. List. Dialects.

A LADY, demonym [Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper, daughter of the celebrated American novelist, has added to the family laurels, and thereby proved that no salique law exists in the Republic of Letters. Allibone.]

Rural Hours, 4 edit. New York, 1854.

A LADY, demonym [Julia Ward, afterwards Howe].

Passion Flowers, Poems. Boston, 1854.

A LADY, demonym [Miss E. M. Sewell].

Amy Herbert, by a Lady, edited by Rev. W. Sewell. Longman, 1865.

Perhaps the ladies will take compassion on a poor bibliophile, when we state that he has upwards of fifty works in his list, whose authors are unknown, all “By a Lady.”

A LADY OF NEW YORK, phreno-dem. [Mrs. S. Haight].

Letters from the Old World. New York, 1840.

ALASTOR, pseud. [James Orton].

“Excelsior,” or the Realms of Poesie, 2 edition. Pickering, 1852; Poems, 1857; Caleb Redivivus, 1858.

A LATE LEARNED AND REVEREND DIVINE, phraseonym [Samuel Pegge, LL.D.].

Anonymiana, or Ten Centuries of Observations on various subjects, Compiled by ——. 1809.

A LATE NOBLE WRITER, impostor [Rt. Honble. Edmund Burke, q.v.].

It was intended that the above should be supposed to be Henry St. John Viscount Bolingbroke.

A LAYMAN, demonym [James Allan Park, a King’s Counsel, and Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn].

An earnest exhortation to a frequent Reception of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, 1804.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Sir John Bayley, Bart.].

Prophecies of Christ, etc., selected from the Old and New Testament, 1828.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Sir Walter Scott].

Religious Discourses, 1828.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton].

One Tract more, etc., 1841.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Frederick John, Fifth Baron Monson].

Four Sermons. Lond., 1842. Priv. Print., see Martin.

A LAYMAN, dem. [F. Bolingbroke Ribbans, F.S.A.].

Doctrines and Duties; Faith and Practice. Whittaker, 1843.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Sir W. Domville, Bart.].

The Sabbath, etc., 1849.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Sir Edward Hall Alderson].

A second letter [in reference to the Gorham Case]. (Privately printed), 1851.

A LAYMAN, demonym [Samuel Austin Allibone, Author of a Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, 1859, a work to which we are much indebted].

A review by a Layman of a work entitled “New Themes for the Protestant Clergy: Creeds without Charity, Theology without Humanity, and Protestantism without Christianity” (by S. Colwell). Phil., 1852.

ALETHINOS, phrenonym [Rev. Hardinge Furenzo Ivers].

The Audibleness of Thought demonstrated, and its use explained. 2nd edit., 1866.

The author of this most extraordinary pamphlet contends that the organs of speech are called into action when we think, that thought speaks in the head, otherwise there is no thought; and he also contends that this inaudible thought is capable of being audible to others.

ALICE (Cousin), prenonym [Alice B. Neale].

Helen Morton’s Trial, juvenile tale. New York, 1852.

A LINCOLNSHIRE GRAZIER, pseudo-titlonym [Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne].

The circumstances under which this pseudonym was employed, if they were not rather distressing, would be highly amusing. The reverend gentleman, who afterwards raised his name to such a high position in literature, was in 1805 in great distress, and glad to work for the booksellers. Having obtained an introduction to Crosby, the publisher, upon the hard condition that he would give half his earnings to his introducer, Horne was offered £50 for a work of 400 pages (!) on the Management of Grazing Farms, to be called “The Complete Grazier.” The bargain was struck, and in nine months our barrister’s clerk reduced the mass of materials set before him by the publisher, and they were ushered into the world as by “A Lincolnshire Grazier,” and the book was pushed through several editions. The poor booksellers’s hack was in want, but what excuse is there for Crosby, the then opulent publisher, of Paternoster Row, for his share of this imposition?

A LITERARY ANTIQUARY, phreno-demonym [F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A., author of Costume in England].

Holbein’s Dance of Death, edited by, etc. J. R. Smith.

A. L. O. E., enigmatic-initialism (A Lady of England) [Miss Charlotte Tucker].

This Aloe is not at all in keeping with her cognomen, for she has produced upwards of fifty pieces, or volumes, since 1854, under the above initials, and we commend them to the reader as of exceeding beauty.

A LONDON ANTIQUARY, pseud. [John Camden Hotten].

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, etc. 1859 and 1860.

The third and subsequent editions are anonymous.

A LONDON PHYSICIAN, supposed-author [James Howard].

The Evils of England, Social and Economical. Parker, 1848, 12mo.

A LOVER OF LITERATURE, phraseonym [Thomas Green, Barrister-at-Law, of Ipswich].

In this “Diary of a Lover of Literature,” on June 2nd, 1797, we have:—“Visited the Royal Exhibition. Particularly struck with a sea-view by Turner; fishing vessels coming in, with a heavy swell, in apprehension of a tempest gathering in the distance.... The whole composition bold in design, and masterly in execution. I am entirely unacquainted with the artist; but if he proceeds as he has begun, he cannot fail to become the first in his department.” J. M. W. Turner was then twenty-five. The continuation was contributed by Mr. Green’s son to the Gent. Mag., 1834.

W. Bates, N. & Q.

ALVAREZ ESPRIELLA (Manuel) Spanish-pseudonym [Robert Southey, Poet Laureate].

Letters from England, translated from the Spanish, in 3 vols., 1807.

Written by Southey: not translated.

A. M., pseudonym [Thaddeus O’Mahony].

Questions on Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding, by A. M., 1860.

He also signs himself T. O’M.

A MANCHESTER MAN, titlonym [Rev. J. Lamb].

Free Thoughts of a, 2 vols, 1866, from “Fraser’s Magazine.”

A MANCHESTER MANUFACTURER, geo-demonym [Richard Cobden].

England, Ireland, and America. 1836. Russia. Edinburgh, 1836.

A MAN OF BUSINESS, pseudonym [T. Dicker, of Lewes].

The Christian Life exemplified in the Memorials and Remains of, etc. Hatchard, 1852. Privately printed. Has a portrait of the author signed.

A MAN OF BUSINESS, phren. [William Rathbone].

Social Duties considered with reference to the Organisation of Effort in Works of Benevolence and Public Utility. Macmillan, 1867.

AMELIA, ps. [Mrs. Welby, of Louisville, Kentucky].

Poems. New York, 1842.

A MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, phraseonym [Sir John Bayley, Bart.].

The Book of Common Prayer, with Notes. 1813. A second edit., with the author’s name, was published in ’16; the notes are very useful. “The author withheld his name, not from any wish improperly to conceal it, but because it was no part of his object to draw himself into notice.”

A MEMBER OF THE VERMONT BAR, disguised-author [Daniel P. Thompson].

The Adventures of Timothy Peacock, Esq., or Freemasonry Practically Illustrated, etc. Middlebury, U. S., 1835.

AMICUS CURIÆ, phraseonym [John Payne Collier].

Criticisms on the Bar, 1819 (first published in the Examiner).

A MIDDLE AGED CITIZEN, phras. [R. Russell].

London Railways. 1867.

A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER, phrenonym [Rev. Charles Kingsley].

Hints to Stammerers, reprinted from Fraser’s Mag., July, 1859. London, 1864. Subscribed C. K.

The Irrationale of Speech. Another copy of the above with a new title-page.

A MODERN GREEK, phreno-geonym [Robert Mudie, of Dundee].

The Modern Athens: a dissection and demonstration of Men and Things in the Scotch capital. 2nd edit., Knight and Lacy, 1825.

A MOTHER, demonym [Sarah Bird].

Amy’s First Trial. 1854.

On the cover only the author’s name is given. It is a little Book for Children.

AN AMATEUR, pseudonym [Pierce Egan the Younger].

Real Life in London, or the Rambles and Adventures of Rob Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis ... with coloured prints. 1821, 1822.

AN AMATEUR, demonym [C. K. Sharpe].

Portraits by an Amateur, etc. Edin., 1832.

Not published for sale.

AN AMATEUR, demonym [W. Cox].

Crayon Sketches, by, etc., edited by T. S. Fray. New York, 1833.

AN AMERICAN, geonym [James E. de Kay].

Sketches of Turkey. New York, 1833.

AN AMERICAN, geonym [J. Fenimore Cooper].

Sketches of Switzerland. Philadelphia, 1836. 2 vols.

Gleanings in Europe: England, 1837.

AN AMERICAN, geo. [General L. Cass, LL.D.].

France, its King, Court, and Government. New York, 1840.

AN AMERICAN, geo. [Geo. Henry Calvert].

Scenes and Thoughts in Europe. 1847.

We have numerous titles of other works written by Americans, whose real names we do not know.

AN ANGLER, phrenonym [Sir Humphry Davy].

Salmonia; or Days of Fly-fishing. 1828.

AN ANTIQUARY, demonym [Col. De la Motte?]

The principal historical and allusive Arms borne by Families of the United Kingdom, collected by, etc. 1803.

AN ANTIQUARY, demonym [Richard Thomson, Librarian of the London Institution].

Chronicles of London Bridge. 1827 and 1839.

AN ANTIQUARY, demonym [Alexander Maxwell Adams].

The Crawfurd Peerage. Edinb., 1829. Printed for the Author.

A NATIVE OF CRAVEN, phreno-geonym [Rev. William Carr, B.D., of Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire].

... The Craven Dialect exemplified, etc. 1824 and 1828.

A NATIVE OF THE SOUTH, phras. [Dr. Cooper].

Memoirs of a Nullifier, written by himself. [A political fiction]. Columbia, 1832.

AN ATTORNEY, titlonym [Sir G. Stephen].

See Emptor (C.) ps.

AN EAST ANGLIAN, geonym [Charles Feist].

Thoughts in Rhyme. 1825.

R. Inglis, N. & Q.

AN ENGLISHMAN, geonym [J. C. Hobhouse, Lord Broughton].

The substance of some letters, written by, etc., resident at Paris during the last reign of the Emperor Napoleon. 1816.

AN ENGLISHMAN, pseudo-geonym [John Gough, Bookseller of Dublin].

A Tour in Ireland, in 1813 and 14, etc. Dublin, 1817.

AN ENGLISHMAN, geonym [Lord Holland].

Letter [on Constitutional Government] to a Neapolitan [the Duke di Gallo], from, &c. 1815 and 1818.

AN ENGLISHMAN, supposed-author [J. Dallinger].

The General Use of Machinery at a time when the poor are starving for want of employment, proved to be destructive to the Morals and Happiness of the Nation. Dallinghoo. 1821. Signed “An Englishman.”

AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER, phreno-geonym [Thomas de Quincy].

Confessions of an, etc. 1845.

This work seems to have been translated into French in 1828, by A. D. M. Charles Joliet in his Pseudonymes du Jour, 1867 (Pseudonymes des Journaux would have been a more correct title), says that it is not all translation, as “Alfred de Musset” inserted some autobiography.

AN ENGLISHWOMAN, geonym [Miss Waldie].

Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo, 1817.

ANGLICANUS, geonym [R. S. Ellis].

The Traveller’s Handbook to Copenhagen and its Environs, etc. Copenhagen, 1853.

AN ILL-USED CANDIDATE, sup.-aut. [J. C. Caley].

Indignant Rhymes, etc. 1859.

AN INHABITANT, disguised-author [Henry Pownall].

Some Particulars relating to the History of Epsom ... Mineral waters, Palaces, etc. Epsom, 1825.

AN INVALID, phren. [Hon. Robert Fulke Greville].

Outlines selected from the blotting book of, etc. 1825. Only 50 copies privately printed.

AN INVALID, phrenonym [Miss Harriet Martineau].

Life in the Sick-room, essays. 1844.

AN IRISH LADY, geonym [Mrs. S. D. Greer].

Vindication of Friends (by one not a member), from Slanders contained in a book just published entitled “Quakerism, or the story of my Life.” (By Mrs. J. K. Greer). Phil., 1852.

AN IRISHWOMAN, geonym [Miss Anna Perrier].

The Irishman. S. O. Beeton, 1866.

Republished from “The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine,” in which it appeared as, The Irishman in Reality and Romance. This fact is not stated in the reprint.

In a review of “a Walking Tour Round Ireland by an Englishman” in The Times for the 9th Oct., 1867, the above work was mentioned as an authority for some points. The following day the authoress wrote complaining that the passages from her work ought to have been in inverted commas! The editor justly remarked that she seemed “the most unreasonable woman in the world.”

ANN, prenonym [Mrs. Ann Thomas].

The Dovecot. From the Journal of Prätzel. In Cobbett’s Mag., Feb. 1834.

AN OCTOGENARIAN, disguised-author [James Roche, a learned and copious contributor to the Gentleman’s Mag. In “The Prout Papers” he is called the Roscoe of Cork].

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Cork, 1850.

Only 100 copies privately printed. See Martin C. of P. P. B.

AN OLD ANGLER AND BIBLIOPOLIST, phreno-demonym [Thos. Boosey].

Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings. 1835.

AN OLD MAID, phraseonym [Miss Phillips].

My Life and what shall I do with it? A question for young gentlewomen. 1860.

AN OLD MAN, dem. [Sir Francis Bond Head, Bart.].

Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau. 6th edit. 1841.

AN OPERA GOER, phraseonym, [D. G. Mitchell].

The Lorgnette; or, Studies of the Town. New York, 1832. “Set off with Mr. Darley’s designs.”

The Opera Goer, or Studies of the Town, by —— (with a preface signed John Timon, pseud.) [D. G. M.]. 2nd edition. New York, 1850.

By the way “an English play-goer” now (Oct. 1867) writing from America, is the dramatic critic of “The Times,” (where the letters appear,) Mr. John Oxenford.

A NORTH COUNTRY ANGLER, phreno-geonym [Thomas Doubleday].

Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs, now first collected and edited by, etc. Edinb., Blackwood, 1852.

ANTHONY (Grey) pseudonym [Henry Carl Schiller].

Christmas at the Grange. Graham, 1845, 2 vols.

The Illustrations are by the author.

We may also notice from the pen of this gentleman, the libretto of “Bride of Kynast, a Grand Romantic Opera in three acts. Lond., printed by J. Miles & Co., 1864.” Only a few copies were printed at the expense of the late Alfred Mellon, who intended to compose the Music to it. He abandoned it because the author would not part with his copyright for less than fifty pounds above the one hundred Mellon offered him. It is one of the best librettos we have read.

A PASTOR’S WIFE, titlonym [Mrs. Martha Stone Hubbell].

The Shady Side; or, Life in a Country Parsonage. Boston (America) and Lond., 1853.

40,000 copies were sold within a year of its publication.

A PHILADELPHIAN, geonym [W. Williams, author of Travellers thro’ New England].

A Handbook for the Stranger in Philadelphia. Phil., 1849.

A PHYSICIAN, titlonym [Dr. J. Ayrton Paris].

A Guide to the Mount’s Bay, and the Land’s End. 2nd edition. 1824.

A PHYSICIAN, titlonym [S. Dickson?]

London Medical Practice, its Sins and Shortcomings. 1860.

A PHYSICIAN, titlonym [J. Hoskyns].

A Commentary on “The Revelation of Jesus Christ....” 2nd edition. Dublin, 1863.

A POET, dem. [James Montgomery, of Sheffield].

Prose by a Poet. 2 vols, 1824.

A POET, pseudonym [L. Osborn].

Confessions of a Poet (a Novel). 2 vols, Phil., 1835.

APTOMMAS (Mr.), scenonym [Mr. Thomas, the well known harpist. This gentleman Welshified his name, probably for the sake of euphony].

A History of the Harp, published by the Author in numbers, at the Conservatorie de la Harpe, New York. 1864.

ARACHNOPHILUS, phrenonym [Adam White, of the British Museum].

A contribution towards an argument for the Plenary Inspiration of Scripture ... as proved by ... Egyptian and Assyrian remains, etc. 1851.

ARISTIDES, pseudonym [Francis William Blagdon].

A pamphlet reflecting on the naval administration of Earl St. Vincent, which was suppressed, and the author imprisoned for six months. 1805.

ARNET (John Andrews), pseudonym [John Hannett].

Bibliopegia, or the Art of Bookbinding in all its Branches. 1835 and 1837.

Afterwards published under his real name.

A ROMAN CATHOLIC, demonym [H. F. Ivers].

Important Questions affecting the existence of the Roman Catholic Church in England, etc. 1854.

A. S., initialism [Anna Swanwick?]

The Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by A. S., 1851.

A. S., initialism [Anna Shipton].

The Child Minister. By the author of Tell Jesus. 1866.

A SAILOR, pseudonym [Rev. Joshua Larwood, Rector of Swanton Morley, Norfolk].

Erratics by, etc., containing Rambles in Norfolk and elsewhere. 1809.

J. R. S.

A SOUTHERNER, geonym [Seymour R. Duke].

Osceola, or Fact and Fiction. A tale of the Seminole War. New York, 1838.

A STUDENT AT LAW, dem. [Fredk. Knight Hunt].

The Fourth Estate; or, the Moral effects of the Press. Ridgway, 1839.

A. T., initialism [Mrs. Ann Thomas].

Clavigo: a tragedy, from the German of Goethe, in the Monthly Mag. for Sept. and Oct., 1834.

The Steam Excursion by “Boz” is in the number for October.

A TRAVELLER, phrenonym [Henry Salt].

Egypt, a descriptive Poem. Alexandria, 1824.

Only 50 copies printed. It is the first English work carried through, in Alexandria; and the compositor was entirely ignorant of the language in which it is written.

See Martin, Cat.

A TRAVELLER, phrenonym [John Banim].

Contributions particularly on “Theatrical Topics” in the Limerick Evening Post.

A TRAVELLER, phren. [Mrs. A. Royall].

Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States. New Haven, 1826.

A TRAVELLING BACHELOR, phrenonym [James Fenimore Cooper].

Notions of the Americans, picked up by, etc. Phil., 1838.

We lately saw a very nice copy of these two volumes at a book-stall, marked at a price which unmistakably betrayed ignorance of their authorship.

A TRINITY MAN, disguised-author [J. M. Wright, Mathematician].

Alma Mater, or Seven Years at Cambridge University. Black, 2 vols, 8vo.

This is believed to have been suppressed.

A VIRGINIAN, geonym [William Carruthers].

The Kentuckian in New York, or the adventures of three Southerners. New York, 1834.

See Allibone.

A VIRGINIAN, geonym [R. Tyler].

Ahasuerus, a poem. New York, 1842.

A VOYAGER, phrenonym [G. Hill].

The Ruins of Athens, with other poems. Washington, 1831.

A WALKING GENTLEMAN, phraseonym [Thomas Colley Grattan, the Irish Novelist].

High-ways and Bye-ways; or Tales of the Road-side, picked up in the French Provinces by ——. 1825.

A WONDERFUL QUIZ, ironym [J. R. Lowell].

Reader! Walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate, a fable for critics.... By ——. New York, 1st and 2nd edition, 1848. (In verse).

A YANKEE, geonym [J. H. Ingraham].

The South West [Travels]. New York. 1835.

A YOUNG AMERICAN, phreno-geonym [Alexander Slidell, afterwards Slidell Mackenzie, Admiral U. S. Navy].

A Year in Spain, 1836. Spain revisited, 1836.

B.

B. pseud. [Rt. Hon. Geo. Canning].

He signed “B” articles in The Microcosm, a Journal entirely edited by Etonians.

Biog. Dic. of Liv. Aut., 1816.

B. initialism [Mr. Black]. See, also Q.

Readings by Starlight in the “Evening Star,” signed B.

B——. (Lord) disguised-author [F. R. Chichester, Earl of Belfast].

Masters and Workmen, a tale. T. C. Newby, 1851.

B * * * * (Lieut.-Col.) disguised-author [Henry Charles Bunbury].

The Whist-Player. Laws, and Practice of Short Whist. Addey & Co., 1857. 2nd edition. Chapman & H., 1858.

B * * * * * (Colonel) disg.-aut. [ ].

A Handbook to the Game of Billiards, addressed to the notice of the Proficient, with the Laws, etc., and 44 diagrams. T. & W. Boone, 1841. 12mo, pp. 72. Dedicated to H. R. H. Prince Albert.

B * * * * * * * (Lord) disguised-author [F. R. Chichester, Earl of Belfast].

The Farce of Life, a novel. T. C. Newby, 1852. Wealth and Labour, a novel, 1853. The County Magistrate.—Naples; Political, Social, and Religious. ’56. The Fate of Folly, 1859.

BADHAM (Rev. C.)

This gentleman figures in our list for plagiarism, committed in his “History of All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk,” of which he is convicted by W. Hastings Kelke, author of Sepulchral Monuments, from which work he plagiarises—they will be found at pp. 4, 41, of the latter and pp. 44, 60, of the former.

N. & Q, 1st S. vi. 504

BALDWIN (Rev. Edward) pseudo-titlonym [William Godwin, bookseller, publisher, novelist: author of “Caleb Williams,” and others].

The Pantheon ... Gods of Greece, 1806. A new and improved Grammar by W. Hazlitt, to which is added a Guide, etc., by E. B., 1810. Fables, Ancient and Modern, 9th edit., 1821. The History of England, 1827. History of Greece, 2nd edit., 1828 and 1862. History of Rome, 6th edit., 1835 and 1862.

Several of these works have been reprinted in America, and most of them have had editions up to the present time.

BANTRY (Ign. L.) see: The Catholic Bishop of.

BARBER (George) abbreviation, see Beaumont, George.

BARCLAY (J. T.) M.D., Missionary to Jerusalem.

The City of the Great King; or, Jerusalem as it was, as it is, and as it is to be. Philadelphia and London, 1859.

Dr. Barclay has been accused of piracy, plagiarism, and theft from Bartlett’s Jerusalem Revisited. The correspondence, which we shall simply point out in this instance, will be found in the Athenæum for 1859.

BARROW (Rev. S.) pseudo-titlonym [Sir R. Phillips].

Another pseudonym which this gallant knight fabricated to give more credit to the following than he probably thought his own name would obtain. The Poor Child’s Library. Questions on the New Testament. Sermons for Schools, 1812.

BEAUMONT (George) abbreviation [George Duckett Barber Beaumont].

This gentleman has written several works, chiefly legal, in some he calls himself as above, in others George Barber.

BEDE (Adam) pseud. [ ].

The Natural History of Puseyism, with a short account of the Sunday Opera at St. Paul’s, Brighton. Brighton [1860].

BEDE (Augustin) pseud. [ ].

Letters ... on ... the Book of Common Prayer. Baltimore, 1859.

BEDE (Cuthbert) pseud. [Rev. Edward Bradley].

The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, 1857.

This gentleman is the author of a great number of works under this pseudonym, and a constant letterist in “Notes and Queries.”

BEDE (Seth) pseud. [Samuel Evans].

Seth Bede, “the Methody,” his life and labours; chiefly written by himself. Lond. Ryde [printed] 1859.

BEE (Hookanit) Esq. pseud. [S. R. Wigram].

Flotsam and Jetsam: a cargo of Christmas Rhyme. Saunders & Otley, 1853.

BEE (Jon) pseud. [John Badcock].

Slang. A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the pit of bon-ton, and the varieties of Life, forming the completest Lexicon Balatronicum of the Sporting World. Interspersed with Anecdotes and Whimsies. 1823.

A living picture of London for 1828.

BELL (Acton) pseud. [Anne Brontë].

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 2 edit., 1848.

BELL (Currer) (Ellis) and (Acton) polynym [Charlotte, Emily Jane, and Anne Brontë].

Poems by C. E. and A. Bell, 1846.

The “Athenæum” thought these were by three brothers. They were always in fact taken for men, and in letters used the masculine gender. Charlotte Brontë gives the following account of the assumption of these pseudonyms:

“Averse to publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple of assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not declare ourselves women, because—without at the time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called ‘feminine,’—we had a vague impression that authoreses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.”—Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Brontë, 1858, p. 240.

Having written a letter in the masculine gender to Miss Martineau, the latter, in her reply, began “Dear Madam,” but addressed it to “Currer Bell, Esq.”

BELL (Currer) pseud. [Charlotte Brontë, afterwards Nicholls].

Jane Eyre, an Autobiography, 1847.

The Professor, a tale [edited by A. B. Nicholls], 2 vols., 1857. Shirley, a tale, 1849. Villette, 1853.

BELL (Ellis and Acton) polynym [Emily Jane and Anne Brontë].

Wuthering Heights [by E. B.] and Agnes Grey, [by A. B.], 1847.

BENENGELI (Cid Hamet) oriental-pseud. [Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay].

A squib printed at Leicester in 1826, entitled “Fragment of an Ancient Romance.”

Reprinted in Lowndes by Bohn, 1861.

BENSON (Carl) pseud. [Charles Astor Bristed, grandson of the founder of the Astor Library].

BENSON (Edgeworth) pseud. [John Scott, author of a Visit to Paris, etc.].

Articles in the London Magazine, of which he was editor.

John Scott’s career was cut short at the age of 37. In a literary quarrel Mr. Scott considered himself injured or insulted, and challenged Mr. Christie. They fought by moon-light at Chalk Farm, and Scott was shot dead! The survivors were tried for murder, but acquitted. See Gent. Mag., 1821. An apology, in the virulent language of the time, for Mr. Christie will be found in Blackwood’s Magazine, xix.

BIGLOW (Hosea) apocryph [James Russell Lowell].

Melibœus-Hipponax, The Biglow Papers, edited with an Introduction, notes, glossary and copious index, by H. Wilbur. Camb, U.S., 1848, and Lond. [1st and 2nd series, 1865].

BIGLY (Cantell A.) enigmatic-pseudonym Can tell a Big Lye. [ ].

Aurifodina, or Adventures in the Gold Region. New York, 1849.

BILLINGS (Josh.) pseud. [A. W. Shaw].

His Book of Sayings. 1866.

BLACKMANTLE (Bernard) phren. [Charles Molloy Westmacott].

The English Spy, an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. 1826, 2 vols, and continued by the same editor under the title of “The St. James’s Royal Magazine.”

BLAIR (Rev. David) pseudo-titlonym [Sir Richard Phillips, author of, amongst numerous very useful and valuable works, “A Million of Facts”].

The Class-Rook.—English Grammar.—Models of Juvenile Letters.—Reading Exercises.—Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy.—The Universal Preceptor, 1816—Mother’s Question Book.—Reading Exercises.—School Dictionary.—Tutor’s Key to Questions.—Editions to the present time.

BLUEBELL, [Lady Hester G. Browne], KINGCUPS [Misses Knatchbull], and MIGNIONETTE [Miss Hume Middlemass], polynym.

The Bouquet culled from Marylebone Gardens by ——, and arranged by Thistle [pseud.] [1851-55]. Printed for private circulation.

BOGUE (David) Publisher.

In 1846, Henry G. Bohn, the well known publisher, obtained an injunction against Bogue for pirating part of a work published by him entitled, “Illustrations of the Life of Lorenzo de Medici by William Roscoe.” It appeared that William Hazlitt had “gutted” this work, rejecting what he had not quoted as worthless. Bogue was therefore restrained from publishing his work in “The European Library,” entitled “A Life of Lorenzo de Medici.” The case is one of great interest, and will be found in “The Jurist,”—vol. x.

BOSSUT (M. l’Abbé) Professor of Languages pseudo-titlonym [Sir Richard Phillips].

The first French Grammar.—A Key to French Conversation and Idiom.—The French Syntax, 1807.—3,000 Words.—2,000 Phrases.—Easy Exercises.

Another pseudonym we have to record against Sir Richard. He did it in a good cause—that of education—so perhaps it is not right to blame him as if he had used them in a less worthy cause.

“Bossut’s Philological Works.”

“Early in the present century the Abbé Bossut developed that simple natural system of acquiring languages, which, with slight variations, has been seized on by Hamilton and others. It is exactly described in the Preface to his little French Grammar printed in 1805, and is the system by which every language is acquired in the nursery, etc., etc.”

It was no doubt his intention that the Abbé Ch. Bossut, the celebrated Mathematician, who died in 1814, at Paris, should be taken for the above.

BOZ, pseud. [Charles Dickens].

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of Every-day Life. 1836. 1837. Memoirs of Grimaldi. 1838. Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, in German, 1838-40. Frequently republished.

BROWN (Thomas) the Younger, ps. [Thomas Moore].

Intercepted Letters, or the Two-penny Post Bag. 8th edit., 1813. The Fudge Family in Paris. 8th edit., 1818. The Fudges in England, 1835. The latter was reviewed in The Edinburgh, 1836.

BRYANT (William Cullen).

A literary hoax was played off in the name of this celebrated American poet by the editor of the Buffalo Republic in order, as he alleged, to establish what we believe to have been fully established long since, viz., that no matter how atrocious an effusion might be, the name of a known poet appended to it, would render it true poetry in the eyes of a large majority of poetry readers. Having succeeded in deluding his readers, who, no doubt felt delighted with the amusing trick, it afterwards came out that the trashy verses were the editor’s own.—Notes & Queries, 2 s., vii.

BUNTLINE (Ned) pseud. [Edward Z. C. Judson].

The King of the Sea, 1848. The G’hals of New York, 1850. Grassbeak Mansion, a Mystery of New York, 1864. Life in the Saddle, New York, 1866. And others.

BURKE (Edmund) imitator [Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke].

A Vindication of Natural Society.... In a letter to Lord * * * * by a Late Noble Writer [impostor], 1756.

In this Burke imitated the style of “A late Noble Writer” so closely, that Mallett, his executor, went to Dodsley’s, the publisher’s shop, when full, and publicly disavowed it. Burke had also written in 1749, some pieces in imitation and ridicule of Dr. Charles Lucas. The “imitation” was so complete as to deceive the public.—Life by Peter Burke.

Burke’s “imitation,” as it is mildly termed, of Lord Bolingbroke was a cheat and fraud on the public, and is so highly to be condemned, that any writer of the present day who attempted a deceit of this kind, would deserve the utmost censure.

BURNS (Robert), Poet.

Many readers will doubtless wonder why this name figures in our list. It is not a pseudonym! and surely Nature’s Poet could not have been a plagiarist, or impostor! No. Burns was no impostor, but he was himself deceived by an imposture, and as is generally the case, for the sake of gain. We have it on the very excellent authority of Mr. William Chappell, that the result of the deception practised upon Burns and the Scottish public is, that whereas Burns intended to write only to Scotch tunes, literally one half of his songs, were written, and are still published to English or Irish airs—principally to English.

See Notes and Queries.

C.

C., init. [Arthur Cleaveland Coxe].

Christian Ballads. New York, 1840.

C., initialism [Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker].

Notes in “Notes and Queries,” see 2nd s., viii. 52, 1859.

C * * * * * * (Hugh) disg.-aut. [Hugh Carew].

Life of Sir R. Carew. 1811.

CŒLEBS (of the Portland Club) demonym [Carlyon].

The Law and Practise of Whist. Hardwicke, 1851. Several editions.

CAM, pseud. [Waller Lewis, M.D.].

Whist: what to Lead. 3rd edit. Longman, 1866.

C. A. M. W. initialism [Charles Wooley].

Uncle Clive, a tale, 1865. My Sister Dagmar, 1867.

CARLTON (George) Admiral, pseudonym [George IV., King of Great Britain and Ireland].

The Voyage of —— in search of Loyalty, a poetic Epistle. 2nd edition, 1820.

CASTEL CHIUSO (Giorgione di) ps. [Peter Bayley].

Sketches from St. George’s Fields. 1st Series. Stodart, 1820. 2nd S., 1821. Illustrations. Ded. of 2nd S. signed: An Unknown Author.

CAVENDISH pseud. [ ]

To all who smoke: a few words in defence of Tobacco. 1857.

CAVENDISH, ps. [Henry Jones, M.R.C.S.].

The Laws and Principles of Whist. Eighth edition. De La Rue & Co., 1864. This work has been pirated by D. Appleton & Co., of New York.

The Pocket Series of Whist, and several others.

In London Society, 1865 and 1866. Chamber’s Encyclopædia, Art.: Whist. And numerous Articles in the Field, commencing Dec., 1862, under other pseudonyms.

CAXTON (Pisistratus) pseud. [Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton].

My Novel, 1853. What will he do with It? 1859.

Caxtoniania; a series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners, 2 vols., 1863. The Boatman, a poem. 1864.

Lord Lytton frequently publishes in Blackwood’s Magazine first.

CAXTON (Tim.) ps. [John Close]. See Dowell (S.) ps.

C. B., initialism [Charles Bathurst].

Remarks on the Differences in Shakespeare’s Versification, in different periods of his Life. 1857.

Selections from Beaumont and Fletcher. Parker.

C. C., init. [Charles Clark, of Great Totham Hall, Essex].

Tiptree Races: a comic punning Poem, à la Hood’s celebrated “Epping Hunt.” By “C. C.” or,

Longman & Co. 1834.

C. E., initialism [Charlotte Elizabeth, q.v.].

Maternal Martyrdom, a fact, illustrative of the Improved Spirit of Popery in the 19th century. [1830].

CECIL, pseud. [William Hone].

Cecil’s Sixty Curious, Interesting, and Authentic Narratives. Lond. Beckley, 1824, and Boston, U.S., 1825.

CECIL, pseud. [Cornelius Tongue].

The Stud Farm, 1851 and 1856.—Stable Practice, 1852.—Records of the Chase, 1854.—Hints on Agriculture, 1858.—Hunting Tours, 1864.

C. E. K., init. [Kelly].

Little Apple Blossom. Boston, 1863.

CELATUS, pseudonym [Owen].

The Public Pearl, or Education the People’s Right and the National Glory. 1854.

C. F. G., initialism [Mrs. Gore].

Quid Pro Quo: or the Day of Dupes; the Prize Comedy. 3rd edit. [1844].

C. G. H., initialism [Hamilton].

The Exiles of Italy, Edinb., 1837. The Curate of Linwood, 1845. Margaret Waldegrave, Edinb., 1846. Amy Harrington, or a Sister’s Love, 1848. Constance Lindsay, or the Progress of Error, Edinb., 1849.

CHAM, pseud. [De Noé, second son of the Comte de Noé, “pair de France”].

A Parisian draughtsman and author, of great celebrity for the comicality of his Characters, chiefly in the “Charivari,” “l’Illustration,” &c.

CHARFY (Guiniad) pseud. [George Smeeton, printer of St. Martin’s Lane, who, with his wife, was burned to death].

The Fisherman, or the Art of Angling made easy [1800?] A Compilation, of no value.

J. R. S.

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH, prenonym [Phelan, afterwards Tonna].

Under her Christian names this lady wrote upwards of fifty books for children, tales, etc. 1825-62.

CHATTERTON (Thomas) literary forger.

When very young, his sister says, a manufacturer promised to make Mrs. Chatterton’s children a present of some earthenware; on asking the boy what device he would have painted upon his—“Paint me (said Chatterton) an angel, with wings, and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world.”—Life by Dr. Gregory, 1803.

The Execution of Sir C. Bawdin [a poem]. By Thomas Rowley. 1772. 4to.

Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley [a monk], and others in the 15th Century; the greatest part now first published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen of one of the MSS., to which are added a preface, an introductory account of the several pieces, and a glossary [edited by T. Tyrwhitt, with a frontispiece]. Lond. 1777. 8vo. Numerous editions.

For much of the following brief notice of the impostures of this unfortunate, mad genius, we are indebted to an article by our respected friend, Mr. Frederick Lawrence, who has kindly given us permission to make such use of his articles in Sharpe’s London Magazine as suit our purpose.

“Chatterton’s first forgery, although of the nature of an innocent hoax—a mere schoolboy’s trick—is deserving of some little attention, as illustrating in a striking manner, not merely his profound skill in the art of deception, but his ready insight into human character, and quick perception of individual weakness and peculiarities. A pewterer of Bristol, named Burgum, had taken some notice of him, and whilst treating him as a mere boy, had encouraged a degree of intimacy which gave Chatterton an opportunity of practising on his credulity. He soon found that Burgum was a vain man, and just the person to be tickled and inflated with the pride of ancestry; so he set to work and deduced his pedigree from one of the companions of the Conqueror. From documents which he pretended to have discovered in the muniment room of the Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, he compiled a history of the ‘De Bergham’ family; and furthermore produced a poem, entitled ‘the Romaunt of the Cnyghte,’ written by one John de Bergham, who flourished in the 14th century. As Chatterton had suspected, the worthy pewterer was too well pleased to permit himself to doubt the authenticity of the document which conferred on him such an amount of ancestral dignity; and thus auspiciously commenced the course of Fraud which ended in the production of Rowley.”

Then came the forged account of the opening of an old bridge, sent to the printer of Farley’s Bristol Journal, introduced by a letter, signed ‘Dunhelmus Bristoliensis,’ intimating that it was taken from an old MS.

This again went down, and the game went on merrily: it was followed by another. Chatterton was found out, and told a good round lie to account for his possession of the MSS.

His next fraud was perpetrated at the expense of a Mr. Catcott, who was then writing a history of Bristol, and for whose benefit Chatterton manufactured an account of Bristol, by Turgot or Turgotus, “translated by T. Rowley, out of Saxon into English.”

Chatterton emboldened by success, next wrote to Horace Walpole, who, though at first deceived, soon discovered the cheat, and gave him kindly advice. “Too cautious and sensitive to become the dupe of a lawyer’s apprentice, he now drew back, and wrote the young enthusiast an edifying homily on the danger and disgrace of forgeries, and urged him to stick to his business, and relinquish his poetical aspirations.”

Horace Walpole had just before been made the instrument of introducing into the world the Macpherson forgeries. Chatterton, instead of following it, was indignant at the advice given—advice which certainly did not come from one who himself had acted on it; for, be it remembered, “The Castle of Otranto” was said in the preface to have been discovered “in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England, and printed at Naples, in black letter, in the year 1529!”

“Chatterton took his revenge on Walpole, and expressed his resentment in some spirited lines, which have been published in a recent memoir. We select a few couplets as apropos to our remarks:

It is not our purpose to linger on Chatterton’s ultimate unfortunate fate. That of literary forgers seems almost as sure and inevitable as those of a commoner order, and though not visited upon them physically by the law of the land, the punishment has hitherto been unerring, and even more severe.

For the controversy which these forgeries excited, we must refer our readers to the works mentioned in Lowndes by Bohn, and to the article in Allibone’s Dictionary of English Literature.

CHRISTABEL, pseud. [Miss Mahony, of Kenmare].

Poems on various subjects and occasions.

CHURNE (William) pseud. [F. E. Paget].

The Hope of the Katzekopfs; a fairy tale, 1845.

C. H. R., init. [Ross].

Ye Comical Rhymes of Ancient Times Dug up into Jokes for small folks [1862]. Roundabout Papers, and Roundabout Stories, with square about pictures by —— [1866].

CIVIS, pseud. [George Thomson].

Statement and Review of a recent Decision of the Judge of Police in Edinburgh, authorising his Officers to make domiciliary visits in private to stop Dancing, etc. Edinb., 1807.

“This statement is by George Thomson, the correspondent of Burns and the editor of his songs. The judge was a hot-headed blockhead of the name of Tait, who first rode on the rigging of his commission, till he spoiled the first police system, and then had the good luck to get about £300 a year to give up his office.” H. C.

MS. note in the copy at the British Museum by Lord Cockburn.

CIVIS, pseud. [A. Peterkin?]

A Letter to the Rt. Hon. E. Erskine ... relative to the act ... for regulating the Police of Edinburgh. Edinb., 1806. A second Letter, 1807.

CIVIS, pseud. [Baron Stowell].

Some Observations upon the Argument drawn by Mr. Huskisson and the Bullion Committee from the High price of Gold Bullion ... 1811.

CIVIS, pseud. [John Coles].

The Corporation Commission and the Municipal Companies of London. Letters of Civis on the Opinions of Sir J. Scarlett, Mr. Follett, and Mr. Rennell. 1834.

C. K., see A Minute Philosopher. [Kingsley].

CLADPOLE (Tim) phrenonym [Richard Lower, of Chiddingly].

Tom Cladpole’s Journey to Lunnun, told by himself, and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim. Brighton, 1831. The sixth thousand, 1849. New edition, 1850.

J. R. S.

Jan Cladpoles’s Trip to ’Merricur ... written all in rhyme by his Father, T. C. Hailsham [1844].

CLARIBEL, pseud. [Mrs. Barnard].

Fireside Thoughts, Ballads, etc. 1865. This lady is well known for numerous popular songs.

CLARK (Rev. T.) pseudo-titlonym [John Galt, the Novelist. and Traveller].

A tour of Asia, abridged from the most popular modern Voyages and Travels, etc. 2nd edition, Souter [1820]. Modern Tour of Europe.—The Wandering Jew, or The Travels and Observations of Hareach the Prolonged. 1820.

The first letters of the last four sentences in the book make the author’s name: G[reatness], A[ll], L[iterally], T[o].

CLARKE (Rev. C. C.) pseud. [Sir R. Phillips?]

The Hundred Wonders of the World, by ——, Author of Readings in Natural Philosophy. 1818.

CLARKE (John) pseud. [Rev. T. H. Horne].

Bibliotheca Legum. 1810.

It is said that the materials were collected by the publisher Clarke, but that the whole were arranged, corrected, and edited by Horne. The materials for this volume might have been easily collected in a single day. Clarke’s name has no right to appear as the editor.

CLEISHBOTHAM (the Younger) [ ].

A Handbook of the Scottish Language. Edinb., 1858.

CLEISHBOTHAM (Jedediah) Schoolmaster and Parish Clerk of Gandercleugh, ps. [Sir Walter Scott, Bart.]. Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by ——. Edinburgh, 1817-1832.

The reader may search and search in vain, in Lockhart’s Life of Scott, which is as miserably deficient of bibliography as it is replete with biography, for information as to the Tales of my Landlord having been sent forth under a pseudonym.

“Why he [the author of Waverley] should industriously endeavour to elude observation by taking leave of us in one character, and then suddenly popping out upon us in another, we cannot pretend to guess without knowing more of his personal reasons for preserving so strict an incognito than has hitherto reached us. We can, however, conceive many reasons for a writer observing this sort of mystery; not to mention that it has certainly had its effect in keeping up the interest which his works have excited.”—Quar. Rev., Jan. 1817.

CLERICUS, dem. [Rev. W. Cartwright].

Rambles and Recollections of a Fly-fisher. 1854.

J. R. S.

CLIFFORD (Charles) pseud. [W. H. Ireland].

The Angler, a Didactic Poem. 1804.

CLINKER (Humphrey) pseud. [ ].

The History of the Haverel wives.... To which is added an oration on the virtues of the Old Women, and the pride of the Young, dictated by J. Clinker, etc. Glasgow, 1805; another edition, Stirling [1820?]

C. M. See the author of The Cottage on the Common. 1848.

C. M., ps. Scraps in Poetry (religious). Hope & Co., 1852.

C. M., J. H. G., M. R., polynym [Campbell Mackinnon, now of Jamaica] [Joseph H. Gibbs] [Montgomerie Ranking].

The Quadrilateral.

Saunders, Otley & Co., 1865.

Poems dedicated by the three authors, who sign the preface, to C. M. Crawford, who makes the fourth.

COFFIN (Joshua) pseud. [Henry W. Longfellow].

A sketch of the History of Newbury. Boston, Mass., 1845.

COLLETT (Stephen) pseud. [Thomas Byerley].

Relics of Literature. 1823.

COLWAN (Robert Wringham) pseud. [James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd].

The Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner. 1824.

COMMON SENSE, phrenonym [Sir R. Phillips, in the Monthly Magazine, of which he was formerly editor and proprietor for about 30 years, 50 years ago].

CONTRIBUTORS TO TRACTS FOR THE TIMES, phraseonym, Plain Sermons. 10 vols. Rivington, 1840-8.

A. [John Keble]. B. [Isaac Williams]. C. [Dr. Pusey]. D. [J. H. Newman]. E. [Thos. Keble]. F. [Sir Geo. Provost, Bart.]. G. [Rev. R. F. Wilson, of Oriel].

N. & Q., 3 s.

CONWAY (H. Derwent) pseud. [Henry David Inglis, of Edinburgh]. Tales of Ardennes. 1841.

CORNWALL (Barry) [Poet], crypto. [Bryan Waller Procter, Barrister-at-Law].

A Sicilian Story, with Diego de Montilla, and other poems, 1820.—Mirandola, a tragedy, 1821.—English Songs, 1832, several editions of the above; and others.

C. O. S. See: a Priest of the Church of England. 1862.

COUR (T. E.) anagram of the Author’s name in Spanish [W. G. T. Barter, Barrister-at-Law].

Two Essays, in: Life, Law, and Literature, 1863, were signed by the author as above. See the preface.

COURTENAY (Peregrine) pseud. [William Mackworth Praed]. In Knight’s Quarterly Magazine. 1823-4.

C. P. M., initialism [Christopher Parr Male].

Have you any fear of Death? Birmingham, 1851.

CRAWLEY (Rawdon) Captain, pseudo-titlonym [George Frederick Pardon. He generally dates from the Megatherium Club; we need scarcely say, therefore, that he takes his pseudonym from Thackeray, whom, in one of his dedications, he calls his biographer].

Several Handbooks on Billiards, Chess, Draughts. Under both his names. We fear this is a use of a pseudonym we should condemn, for it savours of book-making, as for example in:—The Book of Billiards. Longman, 1865.

Chess: its Theory and Practice, to which is added a Chapter on Draughts. 3rd edition. Clarke, 1858.

To C. Hardwicke, Esq., author of the “History of Preston,” this little book is affectionately dedicated by his friend and collaborateur, the author.

CRAYON (Crotchet) pseud. [ ].

The Rival Houses of the Hobbs and Dobbs; or Dress-Makers and Dress-Wearers. 1854.

CRAYON (Geoffrey) Esq., pseud. [Washington Irving].

The Sketch Book, 1820 (Written in England, and sheets sent to America for publication.) Bracebridge Hall, or the Humourists, a Medley. New York, 1822. Tales of a Traveller, 1824. The Alhambra. 1832. Editions to the present time both in England and America.

C. R. E., initialism [ ].

Buried Treasures. 2 parts, London, 1851, no more published.

The first contains: The Law of Liberty ... by J. Locke, with a life by the editor (C. R. E.) The second: On the Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes ... by J. Milton, with a historical sketch and notes.

CREYTON (Paul) pseud. [J. T. Trowbridge].

Father Brighthopes, or an old Clergyman’s Vacation. Boston (U.S.) 1853.

Martin Merrivale, his × mark, 1854. Hearts and Faces. 1855. Boston (U. S.) 1855.

Burrcliff, its Sunshine and its clouds.... 6th thousand, 1855.

CRIB, phrenonym [ ].

Secret Love; or the Phantom Barber: a burletta, adapted by Crib. [1859]. In verse.

CRIB (Tom) phren. [Thomas Moore].

Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, with a preface.... By one of the Fancy. 4th edition. London, 1819 (in Verse).

CRIBB (Tommy) phren. [ ].

To the Electors of the Borough of Southwark. The Presentation of the Pipkin, etc. The whole taken in shorthand by ——. Lond., 1819.

CROFT (Zachary) pseud. [Charles Kelsall].

The first sitting of the Committee on the proposed Monument to Shakespeare. 1823.

CROQUIS (Alfred) pseud. [Daniel Maclise, R.A.].

Portraits in Fraser’s Magazine.

CROWQUILL (Alfred) pseud. [Alfred Henry Forrester, Artist and Author].

Leaves from my Memorandum Book.

His first publication under this pseudonym. For numerous others we must refer to Men of the Time, and Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature, 1859, under Crowquill.

CRUISER (Benedict) pseud. [George A. Sala].

How I tamed Mrs. Cruiser. By, etc. Edited by G. A. S., with illustrations by Phiz [pseud.]. 1858.

CRUSOE (Robinson) fictitious name [Daniel Defoe].

The Life and surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Written by himself. 1st edition, 1719.

The most popular fiction in our language.

“It is remarkable that two of the most interesting tales that ever were written,—‘Robinson Crusoe’ and ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’—are without that which forms the chief source of interest in most other tales—a love story.

“Robinson Crusoe” and “Gulliver,” are two works which probably will remain as long as the English language. One of them has even introduced a new word into our language; for lilliputian is often used to denote something excessively minute. And it is remarkable that the authors of these works, Defoe and Dean Swift, who have never been surpassed—perhaps never equalled—in any age or country in their own peculiar art of giving to fiction the air of reality, were contemporaries, and held each other in the greatest contempt and abhorrence. Their designs were different. “Gulliver” was, of course, not expected to be believed, but affords part of its amusement from the striking contrast between the sober, matter-of-fact style of the narrative, and the monstrous extravagance of the matter; as where mention is made in his quiet way of the house in Redriff, which brought in a rent of £30 a year; and of the little daughter Betsy, who was sewing her sampler, and who afterwards married and had children.

“Robinson Crusoe,” on the contrary was originally put forth as a true history (Defoe not being very scrupulous on that point) and long after, and probably even down to the present time, was by many considered as substantially true, and as being merely the history of Alexander Selkirk, on the Island of Juan Fernandez; only a little dressed up, and with a change of names. It is possible that Defoe may have heard that history, and that it may have suggested to him the idea of his tale; but if this be so, it is the very utmost that could be said; for the two histories are totally unlike, except that in each there is an island in the South Sea, with goats upon it. Alexander Selkirk had no tools, or stores, or arms, saved from a wreck; he had no implements, save a pocket knife; and used to capture the goats, on whose flesh he fed, by running them down. He never met with any savages, nor had any friendly intercourse with the Spaniards; and there were only two remarkable incidents that occurred during his sojourn on the island, neither of which is found in the history of Robinson Crusoe. One was, his being pursued by a party of Spaniards who had landed on the island, and from whom he fled for his life, well knowing that their design was to murder him, as was the practice of the Spaniards with all strangers found in those seas. He escaped by climbing into a tree with thick foliage, where he lay hidden like King Charles in the oak.

His other adventure was catching hold of a goat.... Now both these remarkable incidents being wanting in “Robinson Crusoe,” it is plain that the notion above alluded to, of the one history being taken from the other, is altogether groundless.

One part of the art by which Defoe gives his tale the air of reality, consists in the frequently recording minute particulars and trifling occurrences which lead to no result.... Another apparent indication of reality is that such improbabilities as there are lie precisely in the opposite quarter from that in which we should expect to find them. A writer of fiction would have been likely (as we may see for instance, in some of the imitations of “Robinson Crusoe”) to attribute to the hero more ingenuity and greater success than is accordant with the rules of probability. With Robinson Crusoe it is just the reverse....

It would be a curious and not unprofitable task to draw up a criticism of Robinson Crusoe, showing that there are, in a tale which, beyond all others, has been the oftenest mistaken for a true history, such improbabilities as amount to complete disproof. Such a work would be a kind of companion and supplement to the “Historic doubts respecting Napoleon Bonaparte” [published anonymously by Archbishop Whately].... His culture of rice may be pronounced an absolute impossibility. He threw out, it seems, before the entrance of his habitation, among dust and husks, some unperceived grains of barley and rice, which grew and came to perfection, and enabled him thenceforward, to cultivate those crops. Now this is probable enough as far as regards the barley; but Defoe was probably ignorant that rice, when designed for human food, is divested of its husk by a process which destroys its power of germinating; so that to sow rice in the state in which it comes to market would be as vain as to sow pearl-barley.... When Friday is pursued by three savages, and they come to a creek, one of them turns back, as being unable to swim.... A Brazilian sea-coast savage, unable to swim, may be pronounced a total impossibility.... When Robinson Crusoe comes forward to rescue the Spaniards who are about to be slaughtered, he addresses one of them in Spanish.... Alexander Selkirk, after only three years, could scarcely express himself even in his own mother-tongue.

But the most wide-spread (if I may so speak) of the improbabilities; though the one the most likely to be overlooked by the generality of readers, is the character ascribed to savages ... if we examine attentively all the accounts that are given of savages by those who have had actual intercourse with them, we shall inevitably come to the conclusion that the representation of savages, as given by Defoe, involves a complete moral impossibility.—Miscellaneous Remains of Archbishop Whately, to which the reader is referred for the whole of this interesting discussion.

We greatly regret that want of space prevents our giving the whole of the Archbishop’s essay, as we consider it conclusive.

C. S., initialism [C. Staunton].

Life and Humours of Falstaff. 1829.

J. R. S.

C. S. C., initialism [C. S. Calverley].

Verses and Translations. Camb., 1862. 3rd edit. 1865.

CUMBERMERE (Lord Claudius Hastings) pseudo-titl. [Alfred Assolant].

Les Aventures de K. Brunner, docteur en Théologie par Lord, etc. Paris, 1861.

C. W. S., init. [Charles William Short, a Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, Coldstream Guards].

A Treatise on Swimming, as taught at Berlin, in the Military College. From a German MS. Ollivier, 1846.

Preface signed.

C. W. S., init. [Smith].

The Big Bulls of Europe and the Blasphemous “Te Deum” (two letters reprinted from the Morning Post) [1855].

CYCLA, pseud. [Mrs. Ellen Clacy].

Aunt Dorothy’s Will, a novel. 1860.

D.

Δ, Greek pseudonym [D. M. Moir].

Biographical Memoir of the late Mrs. Hemans. 1836.

Memoir of Galt.

Δ, initialism [Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli].

Venetia, 1857. The Tragedy of Count Alarcos. By the author of Vivian Grey. 1839.

Δ, pseud. [F. Barham].

A loyal Address to the Queen [1840].

D. (Dr.) init. [Dr. N. Deluis].

Shakespeare, edited by ——. 1854.

D—— (J. R.) disguised-author [James Reid Dill].

A Sermon from the Grave. 1862.

DAGOBERT (Chrysostôme) pseudonym [Jean Baptiste Alphonse Led’huy].

A bon Chat bon Rat, Tit for Tat, a new and idiomatic course of instruction in the French language. 1855.

We have numerous other works on teaching French from the pen of this gentleman, all under this pseudonym.

DASH (La Comtesse) pseud. [the Vicomtesse de Saint-Mars].

A great number of Novels (French) from 1853 to the present time. Amongst other masks this lady has “Henri Desroches” and “Jacques Reynaud.”

DE BERNARD (Charles) abbreviation [Charles Bernard Dugrail de la Villette].

The Lion’s skin, and the Lover Hunt [from the French]. New York, 1853.

DE BOSCOSEL DE CHASTELARD (Pierre) aristonym [W. H. Ireland].

Effusions of Love from Chatelar to Mary Queen of Scotland. Translated from a Gallic MS. in the Scotch College at Paris. Interspersed with songs, sonnets, and notes explanatory by the Translator. To which is added Historical Fragments, Poetry, and Remains of that most unfortunate Princess. 1808.

DECANUS, titlonym [Very Reverend Edward Newenham Hoare, M.A., Dean of Achonry].

English Settlers’ Guide through Irish Difficulties. 1850.

DE COMYNE (Alexander) aristo. [Charles Thomas Browne, of Trinity College, Dublin].

See Men of the Time.

DEENE (Kenner) pseudandry [Charlotte Smith].

The Dull Stone House, 1862. Christmas at the Cross Keys, 1863. The Schoolmaster of Alton, 1863. Anne Cave, 1864. Rutly Rivers, a story in four books. 1864.

DE K—— (E.) Madame, disguised-author [Madame Emma de K?]

Holly Grange, a tale, by ——, edited by William Hazlitt Esq. Joseph Cundall, 1844.

One of Hazlitt’s Holiday Library.

DELTA, greek-pseudonym [D. M. Moir].

Poems, 1852. First published in Blackwood’s Mag.

DE MIRECOURT (Eugene), aristonym [Charles-Jean-Baptiste Jacquot, de Mirecourt, Vosges, France].

Fabrique de Romans. Maison Alexandre Dumas et compagnie. Paris, les marchands de nouveautés. 1845.

Dumas brought an action against the author for this tremendous attack, provoked by his own unfair treatment of its author.

Histoire Contemporaine. Paris, 1867.

Under this title he is writing a series of biographical sketches of celebrated or popular Frenchmen.

DE PEMBROKE (Morgan) aristonym [Morgan Evans].

The following letter to the editor of the “Athenæum”, from the number for Oct 4th, 1862, requires no comment:

Mabus, Pembrokeshire, Sept. 20th, 1862.

I read with great interest your notice of Mr. Kendall’s [MS.] “Verses.” In the Poem called “Kiama” the following line occurs:

A white sail glimmers out at sea—a vessel walking in her sleep.

In the Athenæum for the 17th Nov., 1860, you noticed a small volume of mine, viz., “Poems, by Morgan de Pembroke,” Bennett.

In your review of my book under that name, one of the verses favourably noticed contained two lines, which you printed thus:

The similarity between my two lines and Mr. Kendall’s one line is remarkable. I write this to forestall any accusation against me of plagiarism should I reproduce my poem in another form at some future time.—Yours, etc.

Morgan Evans.

DE PONTAUMONT (M. E. Lechanteur, inspector of the Imperial Marine, Cherbourg) plagiarist.

La Rosïere de Bricquebec. Liege, 1861.

The above is translated, word for word, from “The Pride of the Village,” by Washington Irving.—De Manne.

D——G, anastroph [George Daniel, author of the Modern Dunciad].

Cumberland’s British Theatre, with Remarks biographical and critical, by D——G. 1829-43.

D. G. M. init. [Mitchell]. See Marvel Ike, ps.

DOBLADO (Don Leucadio) Spanish-pseudonym [James Blanco White]. Letters from Spain. 1822.

DODD (Charles) pseud. [Hugh Tootell].

Dodd’s Church History of England, etc. 1839-43. 5 vols.

DOESTICKS (Q. K. Philander) P.B., (i.e., Perfect Brick) phren. [Mortimer Thompson, son-in-law to “Fanny Fern”].

Doesticks, what he says. New York. 1855.

Plu-Ri-Bus-Jah: a song that’s by no author. Perpetrated by, etc. 1857. The Witches of New York. 1859.

DOLORES, pseudonym [Miss Dickson].

Music to numerous songs, upwards of 50, since 1854.

DOWELL (Samuel) pseud. [John Close].

A Month in London, or the select adventures of S. D., the Village Bard, edit, by A. M. Writewell [pseudonym]. Appleby, 1844. Four numbers of another edition were published as follows:

Adventures of an Author [S. D.], or the Westmoreland Novelist. Edited by T. Caxton [pseud.] 1846.

DOWNING (Jack) Major, ps.-titlonym [Seba Smith].

The Life and writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine, written by himself. Boston, 3rd edition, plates. 1834.

Letter of J. D., Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old friend, Mr. Dwight, of the New York Daily Advertiser. 1834, and Lond., 1866.

DRYDOG (Doggerel) phren. [Charles Clark].

September; or Sport and Sporting! Colchester, 1856.

Privately printed at the Great Totham Press.

DUMAS (Alexandre Davy) calling himself Marquis de la Pailleterie.

Aventures de John Davy. Paris, 1840. 4 vols.

This romance, borrowed from the “Revue Britannique,” is said to be superior to many productions of Dumas of the same kind. “John Davy” is an English sailor, having a close relationship to Captain Marryat’s of the same name. In a somewhat prosy letter of Michael Angelo Titmarsh [Thackeray] to the most noble Alexandre Dumas, Marquis Davy de la Pailleterie, in Fraser’s Magazine, for 1846, he directly accuses him of having adopted it from the English.

Les Trois Mousquetaires [written by Auguste Maquet], Paris, 1844. 8 vol. Vingt ans après suite des Trois Mousquetaires [by the same]. Paris, 1845, 10 vol. Dix ans après, ou le Vicomte de Bragelonne, deuxième suite des Trois Mousquetaires, 6 vols [by the same].

Dumas is said to have taken the idea of his almost interminable novels from Richardson. Twenty-four volumes! When, however, the ample margin is reduced, the type decreased in size, and the blank paper extracted, these 24 vols are reduced to something like reasonable proportions.

As he acknowledged in his preface, Alexander Dumas, or rather, Aug. Maquet, made free use of the “Mémoires d’Artagnan,” capitaine-lieutenant des Mousquetaires, [written by Sandraz de Courtilz, 1702]. He also gives the title of a MS. he found:—Mémoires de M. le Comte de la Fère, etc.—from which he had also drawn much matter. This latter announcement induced a learned French bibliograph to mention “the Three Musqueteers” as a reprint of an old MS. The first-mentioned work exists, but the MS. is a creation of the fertile novelist.

The great and deserved success of this romance, though in point of morals it is not as unexceptionable as Monte Christo, drew attention to an historical personage who had been totally neglected, viz. Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known by the title of the “comte d’Artagnan.”

Le Comte de Monte Christo. 1844-5. 18 vols.

The first part, the Château d’If, published separately, is written by P. A. Fiorentino. Monte Christo, which is a sequel to it, is written by Aug. Maquet. Two episodes are said to be literally taken from Mémoires, etc., de la Police de Paris, by J. Peuchet, 1837-8. They are “François Picaud, histoire contemporaine,” and “Madame de Vartelle, ou un crime de famille.” The only alteration in the last being in the title and names. “La Roue de fortune,” of Auguste Arnould was made to contribute the completion of the history of “M. Morel.” And there are probably other “conquests” of the same nature undiscovered. Many pages are said to have been taken from the German.

Our readers are doubtless aware that this most successful and interesting piece of manufacture, was dramatised by the author, and occupied two nights in representation.

Innumerable are the tales of Dumas’ method of allotting and selling his manufactures. He himself explains one: “Mr. Véron came to me and said, ‘We are lost if we do not give in a week from this, an amusing, brilliant, and sensational romance’ ... You want a volume, that is 6,000 lines; 6,000 lines are 135 pages of my writing. Take this paper, number, and divide into paragraphs 135 pages....”

We have contented ourselves with the dates when these works were first published. They have been reprinted in every imaginable form; and three different translations sometimes published in the same language at one time.

The number of authors who claim or are said to have written for Dumas is upwards of seventy. August Maquet alone furnished him with twenty-four volumes: the Chevalier d’Harmental, Sylvandire, the Guerre des Femmes, the Reine Margot, Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, Mémoires d’un Médecin, those mentioned above, and others.

The new editions of Monte Christo, Twenty Years After, etc., have the joint names of Dumas and Maquet on the title-page.

In 1845 he published sixty volumes, whereupon de Mirecourt (see Dumas Père, 1867) makes this calculation:

The most skilful copyist, writing 12 hours a day, can with difficulty do 3,900 letters in an hour, which gives him at the end of a day 46,800 letters, or 60 pages of a romance. Thus he could copy five volumes octavo a month, and sixty a year, supposing that he does not lose a second during the time.

For the facts above we are indebted to Quérard and De Mirecourt. Some interesting notes on Dumas will be found in our “notice of the life and works of Quérard, 1867.”

DUNDREARY (Lord) pseudo-titl. [Charles Kingsley].

Speech of Lord D, in section D ... on the great Hippocampus Question. Cambridge, 1862.

There have been numerous other publications under Mr. Sothern’s representative name.

DUNSHUNNER (Augustus) pseudonym [William Edmonstoune Aytoun].

Contributions to Blackwood’s Magazine.

E.

E. A. M., initialism [Mrs. Maddock].

The Liturgy of the Church of England catechetically explained. 3 vols. Winchester [1845?]

EBEN-EZER, ps. [Rev. Eben. Aldred, Unitarian Min.].

The Little Book, etc. Derbyshire, 1811.

An extraordinary book by an eccentric character. See Martin.

E. C. A., initialism [Agnew].

Geraldine, a tale. 1837, 3 vols.

E. F. L., initialism [Lloyd].

John Brown’s Trouble; and the good that came of it. Founded on Fact. By a Clergyman’s Daughter (q.v.) 1863.

Susan Brown’s Victory, a sequel to J. B., etc., by the author of J. B.’s trouble. 1864.

E. H. C. M., enigmatic-pseudonym (Editor of the Hebrew Christian’s Magazine) [Rev. Nathan Davis].

Israel’s true Emancipation (two letters to Dr. Adler). 1852.

E. H. R., pseud. [Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell].

First Fruits, Poem. Hurst & Blackett, 1827.

Athenæum, No. 1757.

E. H. S., init. [Lord Stanley].

Six Weeks in South America. 1850.

Privately printed, only 150 copies. See Martin’s Cat.

E. L., initialism [E. Lord].

Discursive Remarks on Modern Education. Lond., 1841.

ELIA, pseud. [Charles Lamb].

Essays which first appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. 1823.

ELIOT (George) pseudonym [Marian Evans].

Scenes of Clerical Life (originally in Blackwood.) 1858.

Adam Bede. 1858, 3 vols.

Mill on the Floss. 3 vols., 1860. Silas Marner. 1861. Romata, 1863. Felix Holt, the Radical. 1866. All Edinb. and Lond.

Nor can we omit, in concluding this notice of a most remarkable book, some notice of the disputes as to its authorship. The newspapers have been full of them. Mr. Anders, rector of Kirkby, writes early in April of this year to assure the world that “the author of Adam Bede is Mr. Liggins, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and the characters whom he paints in Scenes of Clerical Life, are as familiar there as the twin spires of Coventry.” But just as we have satisfied our minds that this is the true state of the case, and are feeling greatly obliged to Mr. Anders, a wrathful letter from “George Eliot” disturbs us; asking (not unreasonably) whether “the act of publishing a book deprives a man of all claim to the courtesies usual amongst gentlemen?”... Then some gentleman is “receiving subscriptions” as the ill-used author of Adam Bede. Finally, the Messrs. Blackwood, turning at last to throw a stone, declare that, “those works are not written by Mr. Liggins, or by any one with a name like Liggins.” ... Now upon all this we have only to remark, that we cordially agree in the dictum of Mr. Eliot, that “the attempt to pry into what is obviously meant to be withheld,—his name,—is quite indefensible.”—Edinb. Rev., 1859.

E. M., initialism [Magrath].

A Letter on Canada, in 1806 and 1817, during the administration of Governor Gore. 1853.

EMPTOR (Caveat) Gent. One, etc., Latin pseud. [George Stephen, Solicitor].

The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of a Horse. Longman 1835. 2nd edit., 1861.

This gentleman was afterwards called to the Bar, and is now Sir George Stephen.

E. O. A. B., initialism [Mrs. Bull].

A sequel to Mrs. Sherwood’s Easy Questions. 1848.

EPHEMERA, phrenonym [E. Fitzgibbon].

Handbook of Angling. 1866, 8vo.

Several editions. He is also a contributor to Bell’s Life under the above pseudonym.

E. R. C. init. [Eustace R. Conder].

An Order for the solemnization of Matrimony. 1854 and 1859.

ERITH (Lynn) pseud. [Edward Fox, of Wellington, Somerset]. Poetical Tentatives. 1854.

E. S. A., init. [Ernest Silvanus Appleyard].

Principles of Protestantism. 1849. My Country: the History of the British Isles. 1859-62.

And several others under these initials.

E. S. L., initialism [Hon. Elizabeth Susan Law, afterwards Lady Colchester].

Giustina; a Spanish tale: a Poem. 1853.

ESPRIELLA. See Alvarez.

E. V. B., initialism [Hon. Mrs. Boyle].

These initials have long been made familiar by delightfully delicate and artistic illustrations to numerous works, chiefly to children’s books.

F.

F., init. [Flood, i.e., Nicholas Francis Flood Davin].

Mr. Black, Mr. E. Yates [see Q.], and this gentleman were the first to write “Readings by Starlight” in the Evening Star. 1866.

F. A., initialism [Rev. Frederick Arnold].

In London Society, Leisure Hour, etc. 1867.

FAG (Frederick) phrenonym [Dr. James Johnson].

The Recess, or Autumnal Relaxation in the Highlands and Lowlands ... a serio-comic tour to the Hebrides. 1834.

FAIRLEIGH (Frank) pseud. [F. E. Smedley].

Under this pseudonym the name of the hero and title of one of his own novels, he edited Sharpe’s London Magazine, 1848-9, vol. 7 and 8, in which Frank Fairleigh and Lewis Arundel were first published. On relinquishing the editorship he says:

The discovery which many a literary man has made before us, that the labours of editing and of composition are not only incompatible, but diametrically opposed to each other; the latter requiring a mind

“Studious in meditation, fancy free,”

The former necessitating a ceaseless routine of active business.

Sharpe’s Lond. Mag. viii. 256.

FALCONER (Edmund) scenonym [Edmund O’Rourke].

Extremes; or, Men of the Day. A comedy. 1859.

FELIX (Minutius) pseud. [George Hardinge].

The Essence of Malone. 1800 and 1801.

Semi-anonymous: dedication subscribed.

FELIX (N.) [Nicholas Wanostrocht the Younger].

Felix ... on the use of a Cricket Bat; together with the history and use of the Catapulta, 1845. 4to. Several editions to the present time.

FELIX (Charles) pseud. [ ].

The Notting Hill Mystery. Compiled by Charles Felix, [ps.] from the papers of the late R. Henderson, Esq. [apoc.], Saunders & Otley, 1865.

Reprinted from Once a Week.

FELIX (Frank) Captain, pseud. [ ].

Musings on Guard (Poems). 1858.

F. E. P., init. [Francis Edward Paget].

Caleb Kniverton, the Incendiary, a tale. Oxford, 1833. Privately printed.

FERN (Fanny) pseud. [Sarah Payson Willis, afterwards Eldredge, afterwards Farmington, now Parton, an American Authoress of much celebrity].

Fern leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio. Cincinnati, 1853.

Rose Clark. 1856.

About 30 pieces under this pseudonym.

F. F., init. [Frederick Fysh].

Nature’s Voice in the Holy Catholic Church, a series of Designs. London and Derby, 1864.

FIGARO, pseud. [Mariano Jose de Larra].

Obras completas de Figaro. 2 tomes, Paris, 1848.

Figaro is a pseudonym adopted by numberless writers.

FISHER (P.) Esq., pseud. [William Andrew Chatto, Author of the History of Wood Engraving].

Angler’s Souvenir. London, 1835.

See J. R. Smith’s Cat. on Angling.

FITZ-EUSTACE Father, a Mendicant Friar, ps.-titlonym [ ]. Essays, London, 1822.

FLETCHER (Grenville).

LITERARY BORROWING. [To the Editor of the Athenæum].

Ivy Cottage, Ballard’s Lane, Finchley, Jan. 1, 1867.

May I utter a complaint touching a Mr. Grenville Fletcher, late editor of the Kentish Champion, Court Journal, Mirror of the World, Hants Standard, &c. Looking, as I always do, in old bookshops, I came across a volume, the other day, professing to be a third series of “Parliamentary Portraits,” by this gentleman. A very small piece of silver secured for me possession of the prize. On taking it home and examining it, I find page after page reprinted from my “Modern Statesmen,” without a single word of acknowledgment. Mr. Fletcher gives a sketch of Viscount Palmerston, almost entirely mine. He devotes eight pages to Sir James Graham; and more than six of them are mine. I wrote an article on Mr. Brand; Mr. Fletcher reprints it, slightly altering it. Thus he commences: “It was during the lull of an evening debate I once beheld Lord John Russell carrying on a friendly and good-natured conversation, on the Government benches of the House of Commons. To see his lordship smile is a very unusual circumstance, for he is mostly so excessively cold in his manner—added to which there is a rigid demeanour about him—as one would only expect to be evinced by a great man, knowing that he is part and parcel of that wonderful machine the British Constitution.” I had written: “It was once my good fortune to behold Lord John Russell smile, and carry on a friendly conversation, on the Government benches of the British House of Commons. Generally his lordship is cold and dignified in his demeanour, as becomes a man who is part and parcel of that wonderful machine the British Constitution.” In like manner Mr. Fletcher has helped himself to my Sketches of Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Lindsay. This gifted work is dedicated to Lord Llanover, and bears on the title-page the respectable name of Mr. James Ridgway, Piccadilly. In his Introduction the author expresses his gratitude to the members of his own craft (the public press) for the truthful, generous, and impartial mode in which his portraits have been critically noticed. Surely Mr. Fletcher might have expressed his gratitude to, amongst others, yours, &c.

J. Ewing Ritchie.

F. M., initialism [Sir Frederick Madden].

How the Goode Wife thaught hir Doughter [edited by F. M.], 1838.

FORREST (George) Esq., M.A., translationym [Rev. J. G. Wood, author of numerous very popular works on Natural History, and editor of the best book ever published for boys].

Every Boy’s Book: a complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements. Routledge, 1855. And Handbooks of Swimming, Skating, Gymnastics, etc.

FORRESTER (Frank) ps. [Henry William Herbert].

An Englishman by birth, but an American by adoption. Under the above pseudonym he has written numerous sporting works and novels. Died 1858.

See Allibone’s Dict. of Eng. Lit. Sampson Low’s Cat. of American Books.

FOX (Charles James).

Histoire des deux derniers Rois de la Maison de Stuart Par ——. Suivie de Pièces originales et Justificatives; ouvrage traduit de l’Anglais; auquel on a joint une notice sur la Vie de l’Auteur [By the Abbé D’Andrezel]. Paris, 1809.

This anonymous translator “violated the fidelity which he owed to his author” by suppressing numerous passages, without taking the slightest notice of such, and by altering other passages, and in fact “cooking it up” to serve the then prevalent French notions. A full account will be found in the Edinburgh Rev., 1810. Quérard in his France Littéraire, quotes a passage which intimates that Napoleon himself had a hand in the mutilation and suppression of the obnoxious passages.

FRANCO (Harry) phren. [Charles F. Briggs].

The Adventures of H. F., a Tale. New York, 1839. The Trippings of Tom Pepper, or the Results of Romancing. 1847.

FUME (Joseph) phrenonym [W. A. Chatto].

A Pipe of Tobacco, treating of the rise, progress, pleasures, and advantages of Smoking, &c. 1839.

FUNNIDOS (Rigdum) Gent., ph. [ ].

The Comic Almanack, with cuts by G. Cruikshank London [1834, 1846].

American Broad Grins. London, R. Tyns, 1838.

Writers before 1800 assumed this name.

FUNNYFELLO (Abel) phren. [ ].

A Shy at the “Great Gun.” The Blue-Coat Boy, or Domestic Reminiscences of Mister T. Bounce, Driver of “The Turnabout” [i.e. T. Barnes, editor of “The Times”]. With Illustrations by A. Crookedshinks. No. 1 and 2, London, 1837.

G.

G * * * * * * * * (A. B.) M.D., initialism [Augustus Bozzi Granville?]

Critical Observations on Mr. Kemble’s performances at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool. Liverpool, 1811.

GAULTIER (Bon) polynym [Theodore Martin and W. E. Aytoun].

The Book of Ballads. 1845. First published in Blackwood’s Magazine.

G. D., initialism [George Dunbar, Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh].

Herodotus. Græce et Latine. Edinburgh, 1806.

G. D., init. [George Darley (?), Mathematician and Poet].

The Life of Horace. British Poets, vol. 97. 1822. Life of Virgil, 1825.

Athenæum, Jan. 6, 1866, p. 22.

G. F. P., init. [George Frederick Pardon].

The Little Traveller, by the Author of the “Christmas Tree.” 1857. Games for all Seasons, a sequel to “Parlour Pastime.” 1858. And several others.

GIFFORD (John) literary name [John Richards Green].

A History of the Political Life of ... Pitt. London, 1809, 4to.

Blackstone’s Commentaries abridged for the use of Students. By ——, the author of the Life of ... Pitt. London, 1823.

He wrote all his numerous works under the above name, mostly before 1800.

GIFFORD (John) pseud. [Edward Foss, the learned author of that sterling and very valuable work, the Judges of England].

An Abridgment of Blackstone’s Commentaries. 1821.

Did Mr. Foss intend that the public should be deceived? or was he not aware of another, the real Richmond being in the field.

We believe he was not. It is most extraordinary that two persons should, about the same time, write abridgments of the same work, under the same pseudonym. But another extraordinary point is that John Richard Green died in 1818, five years before his abridgment was published! Mr. Foss seems to have been translated into German.

GIFFORD (John) Esq., ps. (we acquit this gentleman of being an impostor) [Alexander Whellier].

The English Lawyer. 14th edition, London, 1827. 17th edition, 1830. 21st, 1837. 30 editions.

It is almost impossible to suppose that he was not aware of a “John Gifford” being the author of numerous works long before he took the name.

G. L. M., Esq., init. [G. Laing Meason].

On the Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy. 1828. Only 150 copies privately printed.

See Martin.

GLYNDON (Howard) pseudandry [Laura C. Ridden].

G. M., initialism [Gervase Markham].

The Young Sportsman’s Instructor. 1820. Eight copies printed on vellum.

GOLDSMITH (Rev. J.) pseudo-titlonym [Sir Richard Phillips] see Blair (Rev. D.) ps.

Biog. Class Books. Grammar of British Geography. Wonders of the United Kingdom, and several others.

Five Hundred Questions deduced from (Rev. J.) Goldsmith’s History of England, etc. By James Adair.

In the preface he says:—The author [James Adair, pseud. Sir R. Phillips] long meditated to write a new History of England, in which more anecdote, and more information relative to manners and social improvements, should have had place, than are to be found in Goldsmith’s ... which he believes is generally adopted because there is no other in the same compact form [this is frank—of his own book] ... (as that) which passes under the name of the late Dr. Goldsmith. The italics are his. See Notes and Queries, 3rd S. xii.

GRANGER (William) Esq., pseud. [ ].

The Wonderful Magazine. 1802. See Kirby, Publisher.

GRAY (Barry) ps. [Robert Barry Coffin].

My Married Life at Hillside. New York, 1865.

GREEN (John) pseud. [George Henry Townsend].

Evans’s, Covent Garden, Minutes of Evidence taken before the select Committee on Theatrical Licenses. Mr. John Green called in and Examined [Lond., 1866].

Evans’s Music and Supper Rooms.... Odds and Ends about Covent Garden and its vicinity, the Ancient Drama, the early English Divinity and Controversial Plays, compiled by Mr. ——, also a selection of Madrigals, Glees, etc. [Lond., 1866].

GREENDRAKE (Gregory) Esq., phren. [J. Coad, editor of the Dublin Warder, 1824].

Angling Excursions of, etc., with additions by Geoffrey Greydrake, Esq. [Thomas Ellingsale, of Dublin.] 4th edition, Dublin, 1832.

We are not quite certain of the spelling of Ellingsale; it may be Ellingsate.

GREENWOOD (Grace) ps. [Mrs. Sarah Jane Clarke, afterwards Lippincott].

History of my Pets, 1853. A Forest Tragedy, 1856. Recollections of my Childhood, with Illustrations by H. Billings, 1858.

Numerous other works, for which see Allibone.

GREYLOCK (Godfrey) phrenonym [J. E. A. Smith?]

Taghonic; or Letters and Legends about our Summer Home. Boston, 1852.

GRIFFIN (Gregory) phren. [George Canning].

The Microcosm, a periodical, by G. G., of the College of Eton [assisted by J. Smith, J. H. Frere, R. Smith, and others]. Windsor, 1809.

GRIFFINHOOF (Anthony) Gent., phrenonym [John Humphreys Parry].

The Maskers of Moorfields; a vision. By the late A. G., Gent, (edited by W. Griffinhoof, ps. J. H. P.) 1815.

GRIFFENHOOF (Arthur) phren. [George Colman, the Younger, the well known dramatic author].

Songs, etc. in the Gay Deceivers, a musical farce, in two acts, performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market. Written by A. G., author of The Review and Love Laughs at Lock-Smiths. Dated from Turnham Green. [1804].

GRINGO (Harry) pseud. [Lieutenant Wise].

Tales for the Marines, by ——, author of Los Gringos. Boston, 1855.

GULLIVER (Lemuel) fictitious [Jonathan Swift, D.D.].

Travels into several remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships. 1726. Frequently reprinted.

A lost leaf of Gulliver’s Travels will be found in “Miscellaneous Remains of Archbishop Whately,” 1865; and in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1867, was one which completely deceived several persons.

GULLIVER, allonym [ ].

G’s last Voyage, describing Ballymugland, or the floating Island. 1825.

GULLIVER (Lemuel) jun., pseud. [ ].

Voyage to Locuta; a fragment, with etchings, etc. (a grammatical Tract). 1818.

There were numbers of spurious Gullivers though chiefly before 1800.

G. W. M., init. [George Wilson Meadley].

Memoirs of Mrs. Jebb. 1812.

H.

HACKLE (Palmer) pseud. [Robert Blakey].

Hints on Angling. 1846.

H. A. L., the Old Shekarry, init. [Major Leveson].

The Camp Fire. The Forest and the Field. 3rd edit. Longman, 1865. Sauders, Otley & Co., 1867. With photographic portrait of the Author. The Hunting Grounds of the Old World. 1st series, 1860. Wrinkles, or Hints to Travellers and Sportsmen upon Dress, Equipment, etc. 1867.

HALLER, (Joseph) pseud. [Henry Nelson Coleridge].

In Knight’s Quarterly Magazine. 1823-4.

HAMILTON (Gail) pseud. [Miss M. A. Dodge].

Gala Days. Boston, 1863. A Call to my Countrywomen. New York, 1863. Skirmishes and Sketches. Boston, 1865. Stumbling Blocks, 1864. Wool-Gathering, 1867.

HAPPY (John) phren. [J. P. Roberts].

HARDBARGAIN (Henry) phren. [ ].

Hints to Subalterns of the British Army, by H. H., late of the —— Regiment. 1843.

HARDCASTLE (Daniel) pseud. [Richard Page].

Letter to the Editor of “The Times,” on the Bank of England, etc., 1826.

HARDCASTLE (Daniel) junior, pseud. [ ]

Banks and Bankers. 1842 and 1843.

HARDCASTLE (Ephraim) pseud. [William Henry Pyne, artist].

Wine and Walnuts; or, After Dinner Chit-Chat, 1823. 2 vols.

HARLAND (Marion) ps. [Mary Virginia Hawes, afterwards Terhune, American Authoress].

Alone, 1854. The Hidden Path, 1855. Moss Side, 1858. Sunnybank, 1866. Christmas Holly, 1867.

HARRIET, prenonym [Balduck].

Pious Harriet; or, the History of a Young and Devout Christian. By the Author of the Retrospect, etc. London, 1820.

HARRIET, prenonym [Miss White, of Cashel].

Verses, sacred and miscellaneous. 1853.

J. P—r.

HAYDEN (Sarah Marshall) pseud. [Mary Frazaer].

Early Engagements: ... and Florence. Cincinnati, 1858 (1854?)

H. B., pseud. [Doyle, Father of Richard Doyle].

Reform Caricatures. London, 1830.

H. C., Esq., author of the Fisher Boy [W. H. Ireland].

The Fisher Boy, a poem, comprising his ... avocations during the four seasons of the year, by H. C., Esq., Lond., [1808].

The Sailor Boy, a poem in four cantos, illustrative of the Navy of Great Britain, by ——. 1809.

H. D., of Cheltenham, Publisher, init. [Henry Davies].

Hours in the Picture Gallery of Thurlstone House. Cheltenham, 1846.

H. E. M., init. [Manning].

Dies Consecrati: or a New Christian Year with the Old Poets. London, 1855.

H. G., init. [Hudson Gurney].

Cupid and Psyche, a mythological tale (rendered into English Verse, from Apuleius). London, 1844.

HIBERNICUS, pseudo-geonym [De Witt Clinton].

Letters on the Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of New York. 1822.

HIEOVER (Harry) pseud. [Charles Brindley].

Practical Horsemanship. Longmans, 1856. Hunting Field. The Stud for Practical Purposes and Practical Men. Stable Talk and Table Talk, or spectacles for Young Persons; (with a portrait of the author).

See Allibone, under this pseudonym.

HIEROPHILOS, phren. [John Mac Hale].

The Letters of H. on the education of the Poor of Ireland, etc. ... the letters of Bibliophilos (written in reply to Hierophilos). Dublin, printed by P. Blenkinssop, 1821.

Letters of H. to the English People on ... Ireland. London, Keating & Brown, 1822.

This is an enlarged republication of the above.

Catholic Emancipation ... Ireland ... to the Right Hon. G. Canning. Dublin, Keating & Brown, 1824.

The whole of these are republished in:

The letters of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, D.D., under their respective signatures of Hierophilos, John, Bishop of Maronia, Bishop of Killala, and Archbishop of Tuam. Dublin, Duffy, 1847.

HIEROPHILUS, phren. [ ].

A vindication of the ... Bishop of Peterborough from the animadversions of a writer in the Edinburgh Review ... a Letter to the Rev. S—— S—— [Sydney Smith, author of the Review]. Rivington, 1823.

HIS MOTHER, demonym [M. M. Rolls].

Excelsior, a truthful Sketch of a lovely Youth, B. G. L. R.—(Bernard Glanville Lyndon Rolls). By his Mother. London and Birmingham [1855?], 32mo.

HISTORICUS phren. [Hon. E. Vernon Harcourt].

Letters in The Times.

H. K., initialism [Herbert Kynaston].

Commemoration Address in praise of Dean Colet. London, 1852.

H. L. W., initialism [Henry Lovett Woodward].

Poems of a Religious kind in the Christian Observer, London, 1835-6.

H. M., initialism [Harriet Martineau].

The Martyr Age of the United States, etc. Republished from the London and Westminster Review. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1840.

H. M. G., init. [Gunn].

History of Nonconformity in Warminster. Lond., 1853.

H. M. K., disguised-author [Rev. Henry Mackenzie].

The Lay of the Thrings [1849]. Only 250 copies privately printed.

See Martin’s Catalogue.

HOGG (Cervantes) F.S.M. (Fellow of the Swinish Multitude?) pseudonym [E. S. Barrett].

The Rising Sun, a serio-comic satiric romance (with coloured plates). 1807-9. Several editions.

N. & Q., 2 S. ii. 310.

HOGG (Nathan) pseud. [Henry Baird].

Letters in the Devonshire Dialect [in verse]. Exeter, 1847.

HONORIA, pseudonym [ ].

Essays selected from Montaigne, with a Sketch of the Life of the Author [signed Honoria]. Lond., Cadell, 1800.

The Female Mentor, 2nd edition. [18—.] An edition, Philadelphia, 1802.

HONORIA, pseud. [M. A. Power].

The Letters of a Betrothed, 1858, (signed).

HORAM, the Son of Asmar, Persian pseud. [Rev. James Ridley, Chaplain to the East India Company].

The Tales of the Genii; or, the delightful Lessons of ——. Faithfully translated from the Persian MS. ... by Sir Charles Morell [pseudo-titlonym J. Ridley]. Lond., 1764. New edition, collated and edited by Philo-Juvenis [ps. H. G. Bohn, the publisher of it]. 1859.

See Lowndes by Bohn, p. 2570.

In these beautiful tales Mr. Ridley has given an amiable portrait of the Rev. J. Spence, the well known author of an Essay on Pope’s Odyssey, under the character of the “Dervise of the Groves,” whose name is “Phesoj Ecneps,” or Joseph Spence, if read backwards.

HORNEM (Horace) Esq. ps. [George Gordon, Lord Byron].

The Waltz; an Apostrophic Poem, 1813, Sherwood, 4to.

Waltz: an apostrophic Hymn. By ——, (the noble author of Don Juan). W. Clark, 1821, 8vo.

This trifle was written at Cheltenham, in the autumn of 1812, and published anonymously in the spring of the following year. It was not very well received at the time by the public; and the author was by no means anxious that it should be considered as his handiwork. “I fear,” he says, in a letter to a friend, “that a certain malicious publication on waltzing is attributed to me. This report, I suppose you will take care to contradict; as the author I am sure would not like that I should wear his cap and bells.”—Note in Byron’s Works, 1850, p. 456. We have never seen the first edition, but a quotation in the Gentleman’s Magazine, April, 1813, p. 348, shows it to be the same.