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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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" Regulus's writings." P. 78.
" l'\ lhagoras's knowledge." P. 91.
" Deprived of Achilles's armour." P. 133.
II.
" Horace his Odes." P. 114. " Horace did so highly esteem Terence his comedies." P. 125.
' Horace his judgment." P. 126. " Sophocles his Ajax." P. 133.
It will be noticed that both forms occur on p. 133. I am convinced that Ben Jonson could not have been guilty of such an incon- sistency, and that the few examples of the vicious possessive which have been enume- rated must be attributed to the editors of the folio of 1640, in which his ' Timber ; or, Discoveries,' is found, though it is dated a year later.
The quotation from the ' Grammar ' is taken from the one-volume edition of his works published in 1860 by Routledge & Co. JOHN T. CURRY.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS
HOLCROFT.
(See ante, pp. 1, 43, 83, 122, 163.)
1785. " The Choleric Fathers ; a comic opera, performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent- Garden, by Thomas Holcroft. London : Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Pater- noster-Row. MDCCLXXXV." Octavo, 4 + 70-1 pp. This play was produced 10 Nov., 1785, and the book was noticed in The Town and Country Magazine (17: 563), November, 1785, in The English Review, December, 1785 (6: 436), and inThe Monthly Review (1 4: 231), March, 1786; cf. 'Memoirs,' p. Ill f. Five of the songs were reprinted on the monthly page of poetry in The Town and Country Magazine (17: 607-8), November, 1785. I have located only one other edition :
" The Choleric Fathers, a comic opera, performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Thomas Holcroft. Dublin : Printed by John Exshaw, for the Company of Booksellers. MDCCLXXXVI." Octavo, 4+1-71'pp.
The Dublin edition is a new impression, in smaller formes and with smaller type, but evidently set from a printed copy of the London edition. In five places (pp. 4, 22, 35, 42, 45) there is variation of less than six liiifs soon evened up so that pagination continues the same. A variation of six lint's retained from p. 46 on causes the Inclining of the third act to vary by a whole page of type. The difference is held regularly, page for page, up to pp. 67-8 ; a further four-line variation here continues
to the end. It is obvious on inspection that
the Dublin issue is a new edition, but typo-
graphical similarities in setting indicate a-
most palpable piracy.
Accompanying a notice in The Universal Magazine for November, 1785 (77: 266-7 r 279), are reprints of four of the songs:
" Of ups and downs we daily see." " My Sancho was the dearest youth." " When gloomy thoughts my soul possess." "When o'er the wold the needless lamb."
(Cf. also 'The Comic Songster,' 1789, infra.)
1785. " Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing: the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea r during the late war with Russia. With nume- rous anecdotes, facts, and observations, on the manners and customs of the Turks and the Tartars. Translated from the French. In two volumes. London : Printed for G. G. J and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row. 1785. ' r 2 vols., octavo.
The above work, of which I have examined' the second volume only, was reviewed in The New Review for November, 1785, and The Town and Country Magazine for June r 1785 (17: 309). In the second magazine- there appeared from time to time what seem to be extracts from Holcroft's trans- lation. The Robinsons issued The Town and Country Magazine, and such a course would not be unusual. The articles were :
' Remarks on the city of Constantinople and the Turks, in a late tour to the East.' April and May, 1784 (vol. 16: pp. 175-6 r 254-6).
' Observations on the administration ot Turkish justice.' July, 1785 (17: 351-2),
4 A Sketch of the Memoirs of Baron de Tott.' October, 1785 (17: 516-22).
In The Universal Magazine for the same year there appeared ' Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of the Turks and Tartars (from the Memoirs of Baron de Tott),' as follows : June (76: 292-6), ' Supplement ' (76 : 349-52), July (77: 22-5), August (77: 93-5).
I have not yet carefully compared these passages.
The original French by De Tott (1733- 1793) was issued in four octavo volumes at Amsterdam, 1784, and Paris, 1785 (2 vols.), and was translated into Danish in 1785, and German in 1786 (Querard, 9: 506 ; La- rousse, 15, 1: 328 ; ' Biographic Generate/ 45: 522).
In ' A Catalogue of Books, of Thomas Holcroft, Esq., (Deceased) Sold on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1809,' there is an item,
" 154. Memoires de Tott, 3 torn. 1784," referring to the book which Holcroft pro- bably used for his translation. There ia
