1822. The Scotch Haggis; consisting of Anecdotes, Jests, curious and rare Articles of Literature. Small 8vo. Published by D. Webster and Son, Edinburgh.

1823. The Beauties of Scottish Poets, Ancient and Modern, with Biographical Sketches of their Authors, and Notes illustrative and explanatory of the Ancient Poems. Embellished with Engravings. Pp. 288. Glasgow, Richard Griffin and Co., Hutchesonstreet; and Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, London.

Contains in modern Scotch, "Scotland's Skaith, or the History of Will and Jean," "The Waes o' War, or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean," and "The Links of Forth, or a Parting Peep at the Carse of Stirling," by Hector Macneil, 1746-1818; also several poems of Allan Ramsay.

1823. The Pocket Songster; or Caledonian Warbler: a Collection of Popular Scotch Songs and a Selection of new ones. 12mo. Published by J. Anderson, jun., Edinburgh.

1825. The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, with an Introduction, and Notes, historical and critical, and Characters of the Lyric Poets. By Allan Cunningham. Four volumes, 8vo. Published by J. Taylor, London.

1828. Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, with an Historical Introduction and Notes. By William Motherwell. Quarto. Published by John Wylie, Glasgow.

1828. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished, with explanatory notes by Peter Buchan. Two volumes, 8vo. Edinburgh.

1832. Scottish Proverbs, collected and arranged by Andrew Henderson, with an introductory essay by W. Motherwell. 12mo. Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.

With a Scottish glossary, pp. 169-254.

1835-40. WILSON, JOHN MACKAY. Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders and of Scotland; with an Illustrative Glossary, by Captain Thomas Brown. Six volumes, quarto. Manchester, James Ainsworth.

Originally published in monthly parts, Manchester, 1835-40; reprinted in New York, 1848 and 1854; new edition, revised by A. Leighton, Manchester, 1857-9, twenty volumes small 8vo; again, 1863-4, twenty volumes; new edition, with four new volumes, Edinburgh, Nimmo, 1869, twenty-four volumes small 8vo. The GLOSSARY was re-issued apart from the "Tales," and afterwards reprinted in a smaller form.

1845. WHITELAW, A. Book of Scottish Ballads, with Historical and Critical Notices. Square foolscap 8vo.

1853. Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for the Social Circle. Two volumes, small 8vo. Published by David Robertson, Glasgow.

1854. Ten Scottish Songs, rendered into German by W. B. Macdonald. Scottish and German. (Zehn Schottische Lieder.) 8vo. Published by W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh.

1855. STIRLING-MAXWELL, Sir WILLIAM, Bart., M.P. The Proverbial Philosophy of Scotland: an Address to the School of Arts. Stirling and Edinburgh.

1855-7. The Modern Scottish Minstrel; or the Songs of Scotland of the past half century, with memoirs of the Poets, by Charles Rogers, LL.D. Five volumes, small 8vo. Published by A. and C. Black, Edinburgh.

1858. AYTOUN, WILLIAM E. Ballads of Scotland. Two volumes,

8vo.

1858. Andromeda, and other Poems. By the Rev. Charles Kingsley. Published by John W. Parker and Son, London.

Contains two poems in Lowland Scotch, "The Oubit," p. 58, and "The Outlaw," p. 163.

1858. RAMSAY, Dean. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character. Edinburgh.

Nineteenth edition in 1871. Contains much information scattered throughout the book concerning the Scottish dialects, and especially in regard to the contrasts and peculiarities of the several varieties. The fifth chapter is devoted to illustrations of the "Humour proceeding from Scottish Language, including Scottish Proverbs."

1859. Scottish Ballads and Songs. Edited by James Maidment. Published by T. G. Stevenson, Edinburgh.

Another edition in two volumes, small 8vo, published in 1867 by W. Paterson, Edinburgh.

1861. The Legendary and Romantic Ballads of Scotland. Edited by Charles Mackay. 12mo. Published by Griffin, Bohn, and Co., London.

1862. The Proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with notes explanatory and illustrative, and a glossary. By Alexander Hislop. 12mo. Published by Porteous and Hislop, Glasgow. 1871. Two hundred and twenty-two popular Scottish Songs; with Music in the Tonic Sol-fa notation. Small 8vo, pp. 188. Glasgow, John S. Marr, Buchanan-street; Edinburgh, John Menzies. 1875. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland. With explanatory Notes, by Peter Buchan. Two volumes, 8vo.

1876-7. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland from the earliest period. to the present time, comprising selections from the works of the more noteworthy Scottish Poets, with biographical and critical notices by James Grant Wilson. Illustrated with portraits engraved on steel. Vol. I. Thomas the Rhymer to Richard Gall. Vol. II. Thomas Campbell to the Marquis of Lorne. Published by Blackie and Son, London.

Very complete in its specimens from modern poets.

IRELAND.

BY WILLIAM H. PATTERSON, BELFAST.

General.

A Statistical Account, or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the Clergy. By William Shaw Mason, M.R.I.A. Three volumes, 8vo. 1814, 1816, 1819.

This work contains many short notes on the language or dialect in different parishes, chiefly referring to the disuse of Irish.

The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places.

By P. W. Joyce, LL.D., M.R.I.A. Second edition, 8vo. Dublin, 1870. Pp. 571. Third edition, pp. 592. Fourth edition, 1875. Second Series of the same. Dublin, 1875. 8vo, pp. 509. Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts. By Patrick Kennedy. London, 1866. 8vo, pp. 352.

Contains a GLOSSARY of two pages.

The Fireside Stories of Ireland. By Patrick Kennedy. Dublin and London, 1870. Pp. 174.

Contains a short GLOSSARY of words in common use, chiefly corruptions of Irish words.

See also the writings of William Carleton, Gerald Griffin, John Banim, Charles Lever, Samuel Lover, Lady Morgan, Mrs. C. S. Hall, and other novelists.

Ulster,

1815. NOотH, CHARLOTTE. Original Poems, including Ballads written in the Dialect of the Northern Parts of Ireland, with a Play. By Charlotte Nooth. 8vo.

The Provincialisms of Belfast and the surrounding districts, pointed out and corrected; to which is added an essay on Mutual Improvement Societies. By David Patterson, industrial teacher of the blind at the Ulster Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, and a resident of Belfast for the last forty years. Pp. 28. Belfast, 1860.

Mr. Patterson is himself blind.

The Ulster Journal of Archæology. Nine volumes. Edited by Robert Macadam, Esq. Belfast, 1853 to 1862.

These volumes contain articles on the ethnology, dialect, folk-lore, proverbs, &c. of the inhabitants of Ulster.

A Collection of Poems and Songs on different subjects. By Robert Huddleston, of Moneyrea, county of Down. Belfast. Vol. I., 1844., 8vo, pp. 147; and Vol. II., 1846, 8vo, pp. 164.

The two volumes contain a number of poems and songs in the Ulster dialect.

Poor Rabbin's Ollminick for the Toun of Billfawst, containing varrious different things which ivvery parson ought t’be acquentit with. 1861. Wrote doun, prentet, an' put out, jist the way the people spakes. By Billy Mc.Cart, of the County Doun side that uset to be; but now of the Entherim road, toarst the Cave hill. Price sixpence. 1861.

The same for 1862 and 1863.

All published. This almanac is entirely in Ulster dialect, and contains many short tales and ballads, as well as popular sayings and proverbs.

Poems, Songs, and Ballads. By Henry Mc.D. Flecher. Belfast, 1866. Pp. 240.

Contains pieces in Ulster dialect, and a short "GLOSSARY of Provincial Terms, &c."

A History of the County of Down, &c.

By Alexander Knox. M.D. Pp. viii. and 724. Dublin, 1875.

Contains at pages 49, 50 a short list of dialect words in common use. Origin and Characteristics of the People in the Counties of Down and Antrim. Read in the sub-section of Anthropology at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Belfast, August 22, 1874. By the Rev. Canon Hume, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A.

Notices the dialect of Ulster.

Wexford.

The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archæological Society for 1862.

Contains two long articles, edited by Herbert F. Hore, Esq., on the dialect and other characteristics of the inhabitants of the baronies of Forth and Bargy, county of Wexford. An address, written in the local dialect, to Earl Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who visited Wexford in 1836, is printed in the notes to one of the papers. The same journal, for October, 1876, has a paper by Lady Wilde, p. 129.

The Banks of the Boro: a Chronicle of the County of Wexford. By Patrick Kennedy. London and Dublin, 1867. 8vo, pp. 373. Contains a GLOSSARY (pp. 6) of some words in common use. Evenings on the Duffrey. By Patrick Kennedy. Dublin and London, 1869. 8vo, pp. 404.

Contains a short "GLOSSARY of Irish and Corrupt Expressions." Transactions of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. Paper on the Dialect of Forth and Bargy, by J. A. Picton, in the volume for Session lvi., 1866-7.

A Glossary, with some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland; formerly collected by Jacob Poole. Edited by William Barnes, B.D. London, J. Russell Smith. 1867. Pp. 139.

SLANG AND CANT.

In preparing this list I have been much assisted by the catalogue of Cant and Slang works in Bohn's edition of Lowndes, and by the Bibliography appended to Mr. J. Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary. I have, however, arranged the several publications in chronological order, revised and verified the titles, and made considerable additions. J. H. NODAL.

Date of Publication.

1565. AWDELEY, JOHN. The Fraternitye of Vacabondes, as well of ruflyng Vacabones as of beggerly, of Women as of Men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, with their proper Names and Qualities, with a Description of the Crafty Company of Cousoners and Shifters, also the XXV. Orders of Knaves, confirmed by Cocke Lovell. 8vo. Imprinted at London by John Awdeley, dwellyng in little Britayne streete without Aldersgate.

Reprinted in 12mo in 1813; and by the Early English Text Society, in its Extra Series, in 1869 (price 7s. 6d.).

1566. HARMAN, THOMAS. Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, vulgarly called Vagabones, set forth for the utilitie and profit of his naturall countrey, augmented and inlarged by the first author thereof; whereunto is added the tale of the second taking of the counterfeit Crank, with the true report of his behaviour and also his punishment for his so dissembling, most marvellous to the hearer or reader thereof. Newly imprinted. Quarto.

Contains the earliest known Dictionary of the Cant Language, under the title of the "Peltinge Speche or Peddeler's Frenche." Four editions were printed, viz., the first in 1566, the second and third in 1567, and the fourth, "augmented and inlarged by the first author," by Henry Middleton, in 1573. One hundred copies were reprinted by Triphook in 1814, and a copy of this reprint was priced by Mr. Quaritch in 1874 at 27s. The book, however, was issued along with Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, in the Extra Series of the Early English Text Society for 1869 (price 7s. 6d.), edited by Mr. E. Viles and Mr. F. J. Furnivall, M.A.

1577. HARRISON, WILLIAM. Description of the Island of Britain (prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicle). Two volumes, folio.

The Second Book, edited from the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicle, 1577, 1587, by F. J. Furnivall, M.A., was reprinted for the New Shakspere Society in 1877, under the title of Harrison's Description of England in Shakspere's Youth. An account of Beggars and Vagabonds appears in Chap. 10 "Of provision made for the poore," and Chap. 11"Of sundrie kinds of punishment appointed for malefactors," pp. 212-233.