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NOTES:-Bibliography of John Gay, 241-The Forged Speeches and Prayers' of the Regicides, 242-Crab, the Pretended Astrologer, 243-Webster and Sir Thomas Overbury, 244-Egerton's Faithful Memoirs of Mrs. Oldfield,' 245-Cambridge University Nicknames-"Mark This sub-head, Fables complete,' has Rutherford" as a Practical Astronomer-Town Clerk's mention of Austin Dobson's 1882 edition Signature-Epigram-Court Influence on Letters, 246. of the 'Fables,' and it is described as having QUERIES:- Armour - Serial Issue of Two Stories Authors Wanted Spilman Monument in Waltham Abbey, 247-Nairne-John and Benjamin Mosse-Biographical Information Wanted-Historical Manuscripts -Despicht-Dr. Nehemiah Grew, 248-"Fairy-Tales Quotation Wanted-Graham's Last Links with Byron' Confessions of a Catholic Priest'-'Gadara'-"Aukendale"-" Queen's Trumpeter"-Oldest Living Railway Traveller-"Slav scholar," 249-Emeritus Professors "Men, women, and Herveys"-Sons of the Clergy; 'Who's Who'-Death of John Wilkes-Ferguson of Kentucky, 250. 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Under (1) Collected editions,' sub-head 'Poems,' the compiler cites the edition of 1727. To the best of my knowledge such an edition does not even exist. The item was probably given on the authority of the British Museum Catalogue, but if the compiler had used the copy in the Reading-Room of the Museum at any time within the last year and a half, he would have noted a pencilled correction by the cataloguer, and on calling for the book would have found the date to be 1737. The following sub-head is Gay's Chair ...with a sketch of his life from the Even manuscripts of Butler, p. student of Gay might be excused for failing to recognize Gay's nephew, Joseph Baller, under that misprint. The noteworthy omissions in the section of Gay's Poems published separately' are (1) A Panegyrical Epistle to Thomas Snow,' 1721; and (2) Molly Mogg' (1727 ?). Not noted here by the compiler are some ten other poems of Gay's, which made their first appearance in other places before being gathered into any collected edition of his works; but a strict definition of the heading of this section might properly keep them out. No mention is made of Gay's prose contributions to The Guardian, and to Swift and Pope's Miscellanies'; or of his five pamphlets, the most important of which is The Present State of Wit,' 1711. Of this, the late J. Churton Collins said : "It is written with skill and sprightliness, and certainly shows a very exact and extensive acquaintance with the journalistic world of those times." The fourth and last section, that on Biography and Criticism,' is especially notable for what it omits. None of the numerous contemporary pieces which relate entirely to Gay's Achilles,' The Beggar's Opera," 'Three Hours after Marriage,' and the What d'ye call it?' and which are indispensable to a correct understanding of them, is even hinted at. Nor does the compiler mention that some one hundred of the letters to and from Gay are to be found in Arbuthnot's Works,' ed. Aitken; Pope's Works,' ed. Elwin and Courthope; Suffolk Letters'; and Swift's 'Correspondence,' ed. Ball. Needless to say, Gay's correspondence throws much valuable light on his own life. 6 |