154 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST. [A. 1. 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 1858. AYTOUN, WILLIAM E. Ballads of Scotland. Two volumes, 8vo. 1858. Andromeda, and other Poems. By the Rev. Charles Kings Contains two poems in Lowland Scotch, "The Oubit,” p. 58, and 1858. RAMSAY, Dean. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Cha- Nineteenth edition in 1871. Contains much information scattered 1859. Scottish Ballads and Songs. Edited by James Maidment. Another edition in two volumes, small 8vo, published in 1867 by 1861. The Legendary and Romantic Ballads of Scotland. Edited 1862. The Proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with notes explanatory and illustrative, and a glossary. By Alexander 1871. Two hundred and twenty-two popular Scottish Songs; with Hislop. 12mo. Published by Porteous and Hislop, Glasgow. Music in the Tonic Sol-fa notation. Small 8vo, pp. 188. Glas 1875. Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland. explanatory Notes, by Peter Buchan. Two volume gow, John S. Marr, Buchanan-street; Edinburgh, John Menzies. 1876-7. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland to the present time, comprisin more noteworthy Scot notices by L engra 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 Archeological 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. 1591. GREENE, ROBERT. Notable Discovery of Coosnage, now daily practised by sundry lewd persons called Conie-catchers and Cross-biters. Quarto, with woodcuts. Printed by John Wolfe. 1592. GREENE, ROBERT. Groundworke of Conny-Catching, the manner of their Pedlers' French, and the meanes to understand the same, with the cunning sleights of the counterfeit Cranke. Done by a Justice of the Peace of great Authoritie. Quarto, with woodcuts. Really a reprint, with variations, of Harman's Caveat. 1592. GREENE, ROBERT. The Defence of Cony-Catching. Quarto. 1595. GREENE, ROBERT. The Black Bookes Messenger. 1608. DECKER, THOMAS. The Bellman of London: bringing to light the most notorious villanies that are now practised in the Kingdom. Quarto, black letter. Gives an account of thieves' and vagabonds' cant language. 1609. DECKER, THOMAS. Lanthorne and Candle-light, or the Bellman's Second Night's Walke. Quarto. A continuation of the previous work. Contains a Canter's Dictionary. 1611. MIDDLETON, THOMAS, and DECKER, THOMAS. Roaring Girl; or Moll Cut-purse. Quarto. One scene is entirely in Pedlar's French. It is given in Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. vi. 1612. DECKER, THOMAS. O per se O, or a new Cryer of Lanthorne and Candle-light, an Addition of the Bellman's Second Night's Walke. Quarto, black letter. Contains a Canter's Dictionary, taken apparently from Harman. 1614. JONSON, BEN. Bartholomew Fair. Act ii., sc., 6 contains some cant words. 1614. JONSON, BEN. Masque of the Gipsies Metamorphosed. Quarto. 1616. DECKER, THOMAS. Villanies discovered by Lanthorne and Candle-light, and the Helpe of a new Cryer called O per se O. With Canting Songs never before printed. Quarto. An eighth edition of Lanthorne and Candle-light appeared in 1648. 1622. FLETCHER, JOHN. The Beggar's Bush: a Comedy. Contains numerous cant words. Usually published in the editions of Beaumont and Fletcher's works, but Mr. Darley is of opinion that Beaumont had no share in it. 1652. BROME, RICHARD. The Joviall Crew;, or the Merry Beggars a Comedie. Quarto. Contains cant words. Printed in Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. x. 1671. HEAD, RICHARD. The English Rogue, described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant. Four volumes, 12mo. Trans. Kirkman. 1671-80. Contains a list of cant words. |