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CONTENTS. No. 138.
- The Pseudonym "Jacob Larwood," 441
Extracts from the Aldeburgh Records : Chamberlain's Account Books, 443 Notes on the Early De Redvers, 445 The Tragedy of New England, 446 ' The Tommy- Knockers "The Strand Law Courts Epitaph Arms of England and France, 447.
(QUERIES, A Letter of Thackeray Jacobite Marriages abroad English Verses by Canaletlo Mile. Mercandotte Renoleau The " Language Question " " Elect " Epitaphs Fair Maids of Foscott, 448 Comnenus The Burial of the Unknown Warrior Dixons of Furness and Leeds Sarah Wilkes Commandant's House Sandhurst Land Tenure Foreign Shields of Arms, 449 Francis Burn ' Quarters of the Army in Ireland ' Armorial Roarings upon Tombs Gold Bowl Gift of George 1 William Sanderson Incumbents of Ambleside Thomas Fuller : Matthew Arnold : References Wanted Authors of Quotations Wanted, 450.
UKPLIES : " Set the Assize Weekly." 450 Domestic History in the Nineteenth Century The Original War Office Will Proved before Burial of Testator, 452 Earliest English Poetess Diocesan Calendars and Ga zettes Corry Paravicini Mawhood Caravan Date of the Death of Pope John XXIII. H. Hainsselin, 453 Dorothy Vernon Elder Brewster of the Mayflower The Belfry at Calais, 454 Leonard Bilson "H " aspire, 455 Jocelyn Flood Quarr Abbey : Foundation Charter, 456 " That" and " Wnich " Canaletto Poems by J. G. Grant Anglesey House, Drury Lane: Cradle Alley English Army List of 1740 457 Etymology of " Sajene " nd " Arschine " Poet Laureate's ' Essay on Keats' Cheval or Chevall, 458 Place-name : Hyde (Cheshire) Authors of Quotations Wanted, 459.
- NOTES ON BOOKS :' Chats on Old Sheffield Plate'
4 A Day-Book of Benjamin Disraeli.' ^Notices to Correspondents.
THE PSEUDONYM "JACOB
LARWOOD."
PROF. W. A. CRAIGIE has drawn my atten- tion to a biographical notice of the Dutch 'writer J. van Schevichaven which is of more than passing interest to English letters and "bibliography. This biography appears in the 'Handelingen van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden ' ( 1919)
- and is compiled by Dr. J. Prinsen from
materials given him by Van Schevichaven himself.
The chief interest of this biography for the English reader lies in the statement, here for the first time made public, that Van Schevichaven was the author of a number of English books appearing under the pseudonym of Jacob Larwood. The follow- ing works, most of them mere compilations
and consisting of "the fruitage of many
pleasant recreative hours spent in the high-
ways and byeways of literature," were
published under this pseudonym :
" ' The History of Sign-boards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.' By Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten, with one hundred illustrations by J. Larwood. Hotten, 1866.
" ' The Story of the London Parks.' By Jacob Larwood, with numerous illustrations by the Author [in two volumes], Hotten, 1872.
" ' The Book of Clerical Anecdotes. By Jacob Larwood [with an Introduction by the Author of ' Salad for the Social,' i.e., Frederick Saundersl. Hotten [1871].
" ' Forensic Anecdotes.' By Jacob Larwood. Chatto and Windus, 1882.
" ' Theatrical Anecdotes.' By Jacob Larwood. Chatto and Windus, 1882."
This pseudonym and the works appearing under it have been assigned to L. R. Sadler by certain bibliographers, as Gushing, 'Initials and Pseudonyms ' (1885) : Weller, 'Lexicon Pseudonymorum ' (1886): and Allibone, 'Diet. English Literature,' Supp]. (1891); and finally by Brewer 'Reader's Handbook ' (1896) to S. L. Sadler, the alteration of the initials in the last named being no doubt a simple clerical error. I have been unable to discover on what grounds this attribution was made or to find any trace of L. R. Sadler's separate exist- ence, and Messrs. Chatto & Windus, the successors to Hotten as a publisher, kindly inform me that they cannot find any corre- spondence addressed to Mr. Sadler in their letter-books.
Perhaps some of the readers of N. & Q. ' will be more fortunate.
Van Schevichaven claims the pseudonym in the following note written in English in his copy of ' The History of Signboards ' :
" This was the first work I wrote in English. Hotten paid me 10 for it and corrected the proofs. He considered that sufficient reason to place his name along with my nom-de-plume on the title- page."
This note is signed "Van Schevichaven." He further explains the choice of this thoroughly English-looking name in a note left among his papers :
" J>it was de naam van een yoorzaat, Jacobus Larwood van Schevichaven uit Arnhem : hij studeerde te Harderwijk in 1674,"
and quotes an 'Album Studiosorum Aca- demiae ' in support of the latter statement.
Reference to the book itself shows that particular attention was paid to Dutch signs, two early Dutch works on the subject being largely drawn upon, viz., Jeroen
