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The Gossips Flummock't by the Queen. (The title of the Shevvild Chap's Annual for 1840.) 16mo, pp. 24. `Sheffield: 1839.

An Infallible cure for the Cudn't-help-it Organization of the Owenites. 16mo, pp. 12. Sheffield: 1840.

In the Dialect of Sheffield.

Dame Flatback's Advice to t' Queen uppa hahce keepin', t' weddin' supper; hah shoo's to manage her husband, and several other queer subjects. With old Dame Balsam's Oration. Being the supplement to the Shevvild Chap's Annual for 1840. 7th ed. 24mo, pp. 12. Sheffield: 1840. The Prince of Wales Almanack for 1842 ; Oration on the Birth of the Prince of Wales. the Shevvild Chap's Annual. 16mo, pp. 24. The Shevvild Chap's second Letter to the Conference. Being a Challenge of the Faith of that Body, to the length, breadth, and depth of the 40-horse-power faith of an undepraved Atheist. 24mo. Sheffield: 1843.

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with Dame Flatback's Being a Supplement to Sheffield: 1841.

Sheffield: 1847.

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A reprint of selected pieces, partially in the Dialect, with many changes and refinements of previous spellings. These are, however, not out of character, the phase of dialect being, from various causes, a weak one. There is a Glossary of 3 pages. The first edition (same size) was published at Sheffield in 1839. The Song of Solomon. In the Sheffield Dialect. By ABEL BYWATER, Author of the Sheffield Dialect.' London: 1859.

Printed for H. H. Prince L. L. Bonaparte, for private circulation. Wadsley Jack, or the Humours and Adventures of a Travelling Cutler; an amusing tract in the Yorkshire Dialect. 8vo. Sheffield :

1866.

A Glossary of Sheffield words has appeared in various numbers of the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, during 1874 and 1875; wherein have also appeared several additional and critical remarks upon the same.

A Glossary of Sheffield Words is in course of preparation for the E. D. S.; to be edited by R. E. LEADER, Esq.

Mixed Dialect.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Temperance Recitations and Dialogues, in the Yorkshire Dialect. By J. G. CARTLEDGE, of Lincoln. 16mo, pp. 16. Leeds: 1872.

A hash-up of West Riding phases; words and forms being used merely because of their being heard in dialect speech of some kind. A second series was published in 1873, but only partly in Yorkshire Dialect;' and a third, of the same character, was announced to follow.

Unclassifiable Glossary.

Collection of West Yorkshire words. By

PARRY.

Privately

printed. Vide p. 24 of Mr J. R. Smith's Bibliographical List, 1839.

WALES.

In those parts of Wales where Welsh is most spoken, the children who learn English doubtless acquire it in a form free from dialectal peculiarities. But in other parts, especially of South Wales, the English spoken is marked by local characteristics. These are not, perhaps, very strongly exhibited; but there seem to be grounds for believing that the English of Gower (in Glamorganshire) and of Pembrokeshire resembles that of Somersetshire. The following short list is as long as I can make it.-W. W. S.

Caermarthenshire.-A list of Words in use here has been contributed, in MS., by Mr Spurrell.

Glamorganshire.-A list of Words from the Gower dialect of Glamorganshire. By the Rev. J. COLLINS. Printed in the Philological Society's Transactions, 1849-50, pp. 222, 223.

Montgomeryshire.-Archaic Words, Phrases, etc., of Montgomeryshire. By the Rev. ELIAS OWEN. In a series of articles contributed to the Collections Historical and Archæological relating to Montgomeryshire. Issued by the Powys-land Club for the use of its members.' The first article appeared in vol. iv, at p. 49, the fifth in vol. vii, at p. 117; and they are to be continued.

Pembrokeshire.-A few specimens of local expressions in use in Pembrokeshire have been kindly communicated, in MS., to the

E. D. S.

ISLE OF MAN.

The Manx Language: its Grammar, Literature, and Present State. By HENRY JENNER, Esq. In the Transactions of the Philological Society, 1875-6, pp. 172-197.

This essay contains a list of publications in the Manx language, and is accompanied by a map shewing the districts in which Manx is most spoken. Mr Jenner says-The English spoken by those to whom it is the native tongue is good, and, as may be imagined, is proper modern English, and not a provincial dialect derived independently from Old English. There is, however, a tendency towards Scotticisms.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SCOTTISH DIALECTS.

BODLE

BY J. H. NODAL.

THE present bibliographical list of works illustrative of the Scottish dialects is believed to be the first attempt of its kind. To a large extent, therefore, it is imperfect; but it will at least serve as a provisional list, and a foundation for a more complete one hereafter.

The first section is devoted to dictionaries, glossaries, and general treatises; the second catalogues the writings of Scottish writers under their several counties, etc.; and the third is a list of collections and miscellaneous books and pamphlets, which pertain more or less to the subject, and which are otherwise not capable of classification. The second section may possibly be open to the criticism that many of the works included do not closely represent the dialect of the counties or divisions under which they are enumerated. It is questionable, for example, whether it is entirely right to imply, even inferentially, that the songs and poems of Robert Burns are to be regarded as exclusively illustrative of the dialect of Ayrshire, or those of Allan Ramsay and William Motherwell of the dialect spoken in Lanarkshire. But, speaking generally, there can be no doubt that an author's dialectal writings will reflect in some considerable measure the peculiarities of the folk-speech of his native district; and this division into districts may perhaps lead to a more careful and extended examination of such local peculiarities than they have yet had given to them. A

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