Among the dances enumerated are the minuet, Tyrol, Sedlak (peasant), Myska (little mouse), Baba (grandmother), and local measures.
J. K. Tyl, who wrote the national hymn Kde domov muj? (Where is my home?) composed a popular opera, 'Strakonicky Dudak'; Karel Bendl treated the same theme; and a German version is 'Die Dorfmusikanten.' A satirical journal bears the name of Svanda Dudak. He wears yellow, but not the motley garb of the Pied Piper. Francis P. Marchant.
John Bellamy, 1755-1842, Translator of the Old Testament.—Four years ago I inquired (see 10 S. xii. 229) for biographical matter concerning this author supplementary to that which I already possessed, but, having received none, I have had to content myself with penning the brief article which appears in The New-Church Magazine for August and September last, On the publication of the prospectus of the new translation in 1814, and especially when, in 1818, the Book of Genesis was issued, Bellamy became the object of fierce attack by theologians of all ranks and of every school. Indeed, throughout the second and third decades of the nineteenth century he seems to have been one of the best-abused religious writers, but he has, nevertheless, eluded the grasp of the 'D.N.B.,' which portrays many a less worthy man. My editor has, I may add, prefixed a portrait of Bellamy. The publication of this article has resulted in my receiving a correction sufficiently important to justify these few additional lines. I stated that only seven parts (out of ten) of the new translation appeared, but I have now before me a copy of Part VIII., dated 1841, and completing the work to the end of Canticles, on p. 1368. Bearing in mind the two sections published posthumously in 1863-7, it now appears that the only portions of Bellamy's translation of the Old Testament which have not yet been printed are Isaiah to Ezekiel, Hosea to Amos, Zechariah and Malachi.
Earliest Railway.—On 1 Jan., 1756, Abiah Darby recorded in her diary: "First Waggon of Pigs came down the Railway," in Coalbrookdale (Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, April, 1913, p. 83). The first instance in 'O.E.D.' is of 1776. Q. V.
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Life of Lord Mansfield.—I am collecting materials for a Life of the above. I should be glad of any information not generally accessible as to his early career, particularly at Perth Grammar School and Westminster, beyond what Campbell gives, and also as to his long vacation abroad in 1730. Any errors in Holliday, Campbell, and other standard sources I should be glad to have pointed out. Campbell himself corrects previous writers as to Murray having been "caught young" by England. He came across the border long after the tender age of three. Particulars of his first love-affair would be acceptable; also of his relations with Wilkes, of whom he, in later years, is said to have expressed to Mr. Strachan a high opinion—not, I fear, reciprocated. Eric R. Watson.
Sir Henry Manwayring's 'Seaman's Dictionary.'—Can any of your readers kindly help me to identify an edition of the above published by Joseph Moxon in 1666? In Watt's 'Bibliotheca Britannica' mention is made of three editions: 1644, 1666, and 1670. I have seen copies of the first and third, but have not succeeded in tracing a copy of the 1666 edition. On p. 98 of Clavel's 'Catalogue of Books printed in England since the Fire of London in 1666 to 1695' I find the following: "Mainwaring's Seaman's Dictionary. J. Moxon." Joseph Moxon (1627-1700), hydrographer and mathematical instrument maker, shortly after 1660 had a shop "At the sign of the Atlas" on Ludgate Hill, where, Timperley records, "he suffered materially by the great fire of London." As the 1644 edition was printed for John Bellamy, and the 1670 edition for Benjamin Hurlock, the entry in Watt, I presume, refers to the edition published by Moxon. I am engaged on the life of the author, and should be grateful if any reader of 'N. & Q.' could furnish me with a transcript of the title-page or any other bibliographical details. A copy of the work not being forthcoming. I assume that it was printed just prior to the Great Fire, and not subsequently as the title of Clavel's 'Catalogue' indicates. G. E. Manwaring.
