ii s. x. DEC. 19, 19H.1 NOTES AND QUERIES.
1892. Deutsche Weihnachten. Von F. Ort-
wein. Pp. 132.
1893. Beitrage znr Geschichte der deutschen \Veilmaclitsspiele. Von W. Koeppen. Pp. 132.
1893. Die Geschichte der deutschen Weih- nacht. Von A. Tille. Pp. 355.
1901. Christmas Fish Pies. The Antiquary, xxxvii. 370-7.
1901. Christmas in France. By Th. Bentzon. Century, Ixiii. 170-77.
1902. Weihnachten in Kirche, Kunst, und Volksleben. Von G. Rietschel.
1905. Children's Christmas Amusements. By R'dward H. Cooper. Nineteenth Century, January, pp. 78-88.
1906. Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide. By A. E. Ga'rvie. Contemporary Review, Ixxxix. 814-21.
1912. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition. By C. A. Miles. Reviewed by R. R. Marett, Folk- Lore, xxiii. 5046.
1913. Christmas Thoughts. By J. H. Ber- iiHi-d. Pp. 100.
1913. Rustic Speech and Folk- Lore. By Elizabeth Mary Wright. [Customs connected with the New Year and Twelfth Day, pp. 283-6 ; Christmas, pp. 302-4.]
1913. Christmas in a Mediaeval Country House. Country Life, 20 Dec., pp. 879-80.
1913. Christmas Customs. Girl's Own Paper, December.
1913. [Christmas Customs in Sweden.] The Globe, 24 Dec. The Soul of Christmas. 'Id.
1913. Christmas. The Guardian, 23 Dec. Christmas Customs New and Old. Id.
1913. Old Christmas Legends. By A. Watts. Pall Mall Magazine, December.
1913. Christmas Eve at Bethlehem. The Queen, 20 Dec., p. 1151.
1913. Christmas. Saturday Review, 27 Dec., pp. 801-3.
1913. Christmas at St. Albans Abbey, A.D. 1327. The Sphere Christmas Number. See US. viii. 479.
1913. Christmas Eve. Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. By Robert Bridges. Christmas Eve. The Times, 24 Dec. The Miracle of Christmas. Id., 26 Dec. ' Christmas Eve.' The Laureate's medieval poem. Some explanatory notes. By Prof. I. Gollancz, Litt.D. Carols. Words and Tunes. Id., 27 Dec. ' The Feast of Lights.' Some Christmas Survivals. Id., 29 Dec.
1914. Ancient English Christmas Carols. See 118. ii. 502 for first edition. Cheaper issue.
1914. A Gloucestershire Mumming Play. A Popular Survival. The Times, 3 Jan.
1914. Christmas in Rome. By Dr. Giovanni Piol. Contemporary Review, January.
1914. A Corner of the Cotswolds. By M. Sturge Gretton. Oxfordshire Christmas Miracle Play [from ' N. & Q.,' 5 S. ii. 503-5], pp. 217-21.
1914. County Folk-Lore. No. VII. Printed Kxlracts. Examples of Printed Folk-Lore con- n-ruing Fife. [Yule, Hogmanay, New Year, Handsel Monday, pp. 140-51.] Folk-Lore So- rict v, vol. Ixxi.
1914. Christmas Carols. By Edmondstoune Duncan. Musical Times, December, pp. 687-91.
ROLAND AUSTIN. Gloucester.
THE LITERARY FRAUDS OF HENRY
WALKER THE IRONMONGER.
(See ante, pp. 441, 462.)
6. " WONDERFUL PREDICTIONS. BY
SALTMARSH."
THIS is universally attributed to Saltmarsh, and is given among his works in the ' D.N.B/ The tract is the greatest nonsense, and quite unworthy of a writer of Saltmarsh's calibre. The full title runs as follows :
" Wonderful predictions declared in a message, as from the Lord, to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Councell of his Army. By John Saltmarsh, preacher of the Gospell. His severall speeches and the manner of his death. Dec. 29, 1647. [Saltmarsh died on 11 Dec., and was buried on the 15th.] This narrative, concerning Mr. Saltmarsh hath been sent to the Army and there perused and made perfect, to be printed and published for the Kingdomes satisfaction. Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbot. Printed at London by Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, ncere the Queens Head Tavern. 1648."
Mabbott, licenser of the Press and (at the time) a Leveller, was just as dishonest a rascal as Walker himself, and his certificate is worthless. The tract had a political motive. Mercurius Melancholicus, No. 19, for 1-8 Jan., 1648, written by Martin Parker, says of this tract on p. 112 :
" What a damnable piece of impostorisme that matchlesse piece of compounded roguery, Walker, hath put forth concerning that deceiver Saltmarsh. I protest, since I understood letters, I never heard nor read the like, wherein the juggler acts his deceptions to the life and wholly blinds the eyes of the ignorant. Yet, sirrah, though there is craft in your dawbing.all your cunning cannot conceal it from the intellectual eye, the conviction of two- passages is sufficient for all the rest," &c.
Parker then goes on to point out contra- dictions and discrepancies in the narrative at some length.
7. "THE BLOTTDY ALMANACK [for 1648].
BY JOHN BOOKER."
This document (which is fairly common) is always catalogued to John Booker, the Parliament's chief astrologer, after Lilly. The contents of the title-page run :
" The Bloudy Almanack. For this present Jubilee. To which England is directed, to fore- know what shall come to passe, by that famous astrologer, Mr. John Booker. Being a pcrfort ab-tractof the prophecies proved out of Scripture by the noble Napier, Lord of Marchistown in Scotland. And a mysterious monethly ^observa- tion for this present yeere ensuing, 1648."
Two woodcuts, side by side, follow. The first depicts Rome and' London, with the legends, at the top, side, and bottom, of
