Derbyshire.

1653. TAPPING, THOMAS. The Rhymed Chronicle of Edward Manlove (reprinted from the original edition of 1653 for the second time). By Thomas Tapping. Reprinted among the E. D. S. Publications for 1874, and revised by Mr. Tapping. See E. D. S. Book List, p. 43.

1681. HOUGHTON, THOMAS. Rara Avis in Terris; or the Compleat Miner. By Thomas Houghton. The Glossary of Mining Terms contained in this work was reprinted among the E. D. S. Publications for 1874, and edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. See E. D. S. Book List, p. 43.

1802. MAWE, J. The Mineralogy and Glossary of Derbyshire. By J. Mawe. The Glossary of Mining Terms in this volume was reprinted among the E. D. S. Publications for 1874, and edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. See E. D. S. Book List, p. 43.

Devonshire.

1865. Pixy-led a Devonshire Tale, partly in the Devonshire dialect. A poem of three pages, signed L. G., in the Shilling Magazine, edited by Samuel Lucas. Vol. I., pp. 251-253.

1869. BLACKMORE, R. D. Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor: Three volumes. London, Sampson Low.

Contains a large number of North Devon words and phrases.

1874. Fox, S. P. Kingsbridge and its Surroundings. Plymouth, Friend.

Contains a "list of some of the provincialisms which may still be heard among the working classes in the rural districts surrounding Kingsbridge."

Dorsetshire.

1874. HARDY, THOMAS. Far from the Madding Crowd: a novel. 1876. HARDY, THOMAS. The Hand of Ethelberta a Comedy in

Chapters.

In reply to an inquiry, Mr. Hardy was good enough to write me as follows:-"The dialect of the peasants in my novels is, as far as it goes, that of this county [Dorset]; but it is necessary to state that I have not, as a rule, reproduced in the dialogues such words as would, from their approximation to received English, seem to a London reader to be mere mispronunciations. But though I have scarcely preserved peculiarities of accent and trifling irregularities with such care as could have been wished for purposes of critical examination, the characteristic words which occur are in every case genuine, as heard from the lips of the natives. 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' should be excepted from this explanation. The scene of that story is laid in Cornwall, with the dialect of which I am imperfectly acquainted."—J. H, N.

East Anglia.

1858-69. The East Anglian. Three volumes.

In the E. D. S. Book List, at p. 51, is a mention of the publication named The East Anglian. Three volumes, dated 1858-69, are there mentioned. I have been since informed that a part of vol. iv. was published, beginning with No. 98, April, 1869, and ending with No. 120, February, 1871; and breaking off at p. 276. There is no further trace of it; it seems to have been discontinued on the death of the editor.-W. W. S.

Gloucestershire.

1873. The late Old Clerk's Humourous Description of the Painted Glass Windows of Fairford Church. In the Gloucestershire dialect. 12mo. Fairford.

Kent.

1736. PEGGE, SAMUEL. An Alphabet of Kenticisms, to which is added a Collection of Proverbs and Old Sayings, which are either used in, or relate to, the same County. By Samuel Pegge, A.M. Edited from the original MS., dated 1736, by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, among the E. D. S. Publications for 1876. Gloss. C. 3.

See

This work was first printed in vol. ix. of the Archeologia Cantiana. to which it was contributed by the same editor.

Lancashire.

1788. CLARKE, HENRY, LL.D. The School Candidates: a Prosaic Burlesque. Reprinted from the original, and edited, with a Memoir of the author, by John Eglington Bailey, F.S. A. Pp. cxvii. and 113. Manchester, T. J. Day, 1877.

Contains a speech in the dialect, pp. 24-5, and some remarks on the same by the editor, pp. xix.-xxi.

1852. HIGSON, JOHN. The Gorton Historical Recorder. Pp. 227. Droylsden.

The Introduction gives, on pp. 11 to 17, several Lancashire dialect words, and illustrations of their use.

1852. Hollowyoke un Infidelity: a Dialogue between Owd Edmun un Jonn, two Yewud chaps. Heywood.

This tract is of very small importance dialectally. Mr. Holyoake apparently did not think it upset his views, as the author intended, for he reprinted it in the Reasoner for the same year, pp. 199 and 237.W. E. A. A.

1852. RICHARDSON, R. J. . In Notes and Queries, Second Series, vol. xii., 1861, p. 444, there is an extract from J. G. Bell's Catalogue, describing a manuscript for sale, as follows:-"Lancashire Dialect, etc. Etymolgia Comitatus Lancastriensis. Etymology of the names of the Towns, Villages, Hamlets, and other places in the County of Lancaster, compiled by R. J. Richardson;

original unpublished MS. Lonkyshar Laygens: The Incontation o' Spirits wi' Sam Bamforth i' Boggart Hoyle Cloof; original unpublished MS., and other similar matters, neatly written by the late Mr. Richardson. All unpublished, about 114 pages, folio. 24s."

This MS. is now the property of Mr. Joseph Mayer, F.S.A., of Bebington, Cheshire, by whom it has been lent to the E. D. S. for the use of the authors of the Lancashire Glossary.

1875. LAHEE, Miss M. R. Mally Cass's Savings Bank, or the Quaint Folk of Huntley Brook. Pp. 39. Rochdale, Schofield and Hoblyn.

1875. LAHEE, Miss M. R. Robin o' Dick's Charity Coat. Pp. 20. Rochdale, Schofield and Hoblyn.

1875. NODAL, J. H., and MILNER, GEORGE.

A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect. Part I. A to E. Pp. xv. and 123. Published conjointly by the E. D. S. and the Manchester Literary Club.

1876. BANKS, Mrs. G. LINNEUS. The Manchester Man: a Novel. Three volumes. London, Hurst and Blackett.

Scene laid in Manchester, of which the authoress is a native, and the events extend over a period of about thirty years from 1799. Much of the dialogue is in the dialect.

1875-7. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club. Vols. I. to III. Contain some papers on, and references to, the dialect. Vol. I. George Milner on the Dialect of Lancashire considered as a Vehicle for Poetry, pp. 18-34; J. H. Haworth on the word "Thisne,” pp. 35-39. Vol. II. Edward Kirk on a Nook of North Lancashire (has a notice of the dialect, p. 115). Vol. III. J. E. Bailey on John Whitaker, the Historian of Manchester (contains notice of observations on dialect of last century); Wm. E. A. Axon on a Manchester Will of the Fifteenth Century (dialectal words and forms).

1877. BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON. That Lass o' Lowrie's; a Lancashire Story. Pp. 206..

The

First published in Scribner's Monthly Magazine, New York. authoress, Mrs. Burnett, was born in Manchester in 1850. She is now resident in the United States. The scene of her story is laid among the Wigan colliers. A dramatic version of the novel, under the title of Liz, has been produced on the London stage.

Lincolnshire.

1877. PEACOCK, EDWARD, F.S.A. A Glossary of Words used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire. E. D. S. Publications, No. xv.

Norfolk,

1855. Norfolk Words, collected by Anna Gurney, of North Repps Cottage, near Cromer. In the Transactions of the Philological Society for 1855. Pp. 29-39.

Northumberland,

1870. ROBSON, JOHN PHILIP. Evangeline, or the Spirit of Progress, with other Poems. By J. P. Robson, the Bard of the Tyne. Newcastle, J. M. Carr.

Contains fifty-three pages of "Local Poems and Songs," which are some of the best specimens extant of Newcastle dialect.-J. A. H. M.

Oxfordshire.

SHORTER, R. Village Literature, a newly-written, whoamly-
spun tale.
London, printed for and
published by R. Shorter, Wych-street, Strand.

Pp. 8, 8vo.

Twopence.

Mr. Wm. E. A. Axon sends the above title to Notes and Queries (Fifth Series, vol. v., May 13th, 1876, p. 385), and adds :- "The dialectal value of the tract is not very great. The words unked, mun, and e-na-store are the most curious. Many are simply mis-spellings. There must be a great dearth of dialect literature in Oxfordshire, for this tract appears to be all that has been written in the folk-speech of the county."

1876. PARKER, Mrs. A Glossary of Words used in Oxfordshire. E. D. S. Publications, No. xii.

Shropshire.

1700. GOUGH, RICHARD. Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop, written by Richard Gough, A.d. 1700. 4to., pp. 211. Shrewsbury, Adnitt and Naunton, 1875.

Pp. 194-200 contain "the signification, derivation, and etymology of several names of persons and places mentioned in this booke." This, 1875, edition was issued under the care of Mr. H. W. Adnitt. An imperfect edition was printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, at the Middle Hill Press, in 1834.-C. W. S.

Somersetshire.

1855. WILSON, Miss C. E. Somersetshire Dialogues, or Reminiscences of the Old Farm House at Weston-super-Mare. Eight humourous woodcuts. 4to.

1875. ELWORTHY, FREDERICK THOMAS. The Dialect of West Somerset. E. D. S. Publications, No. vii. Also published in Philological Society's Transactions for 1875-6.

1875. MOSLEY, JOHN IVON.

Staffordshire.

"Cockles Aloive": a rhyme. In Ben

Brierley's Journal, September 18, 1875.

Suffolk.

1849. RAINBIRD, WILLIAM and HUGH. On the Agriculture of Suffolk.

8vo. London.

Contains on pp. 287-303 a list of "Local words in use among the labouring classes."

1874. WHINBUSH, JOHN. Tim Digwell; an Episode of the Strike in the Wilford Hundred, Suffolk, in 1874. Second edition. Pp. 48. Price sixpence. Woodbridge, printed by George Booth. Contains dialogues and a song, "The Crow Boy," in the dialect.

Surrey.

1876. GOWER, GRANVILLE LEVESON.

E. D. S. Publications, No. xii.

Warwickshire.

SHARP'S Warwickshire Glossary.

Surrey Provincialisms.

Mr. Halliwell's very scarce edition of Sharp's Warwickshire Glossary ought to have been mentioned. Only twenty-five copies were printed, and of these fifteen were destroyed. One has since, we believe, been lost by fire. A copy sold in the Windus sale, 1868, for 54s.-Westminster Review, April, 1876. Notice of Parts i. and ii. of the E. D. S. Bibliographical List.

1876. FRANCIS, Mrs. South Warwickshire Provincialisms. E. D. S. Publications, No. xii.

Wiltshire.

1794. DAVIS, THOMAS (of Longleat, Wilts). General View of the Agriculture of the county of Wilts; with observations on the means of its improvement. 4to, pp. 163. London.

Contains a GLOSSARY of Wiltshire words. 1811; pp. 287.

1860. [PENRUDDOCKE, Mrs. (of Fyfield)].

Reprinted in 8vo. in

Content or the Day

Labourer's Tale of His Life. Published for the Industrial Exhi

bition in Marlborough. Pp. viii. and 63. Salisbury, F. A. Blake.

Represents the "idioms of the old [North] Wilts style of language, now almost obsolete," but does not, as a rule, attempt to give the dialectal words as pronounced.

1874. SLOW, EDWARD (Wilton). Various Pieces in the Wiltshire dialect, viz :—i. Harvest Worn; ii. Wiltshire Rhymes; iii. Who's to Blame: a dialogue on the late War; iv. Jan Bray; v. Rhymes of the Wiltshire Peasantry, pp. 123. 1s. Salisbury, Blake.

The first three are out of print. The Rhymes of the Peasantry contains fifty pieces, fifteen of which are in the dialect of South Wiltshire, the rest in ordinary English.

1877. BANKS, Mrs. G. LINNEUS. Glory: a novel. Three volumes. London, Hurst and Blackett.

Scene laid chiefly in Wiltshire, the dialect of which is represented in some of the dialogue.

Yorkshire.

1875-6. ROBINSON, F. K. A Glossary of Words used in the Neighbourhood of Whitby. E. D. S. Publications.