Bridge, with the Pasquinade on its Removal, and Reply. Ib., 1826 -La Belle Assemblee, or the Tinmouth Bathers, a Poem, inscribed to the Ladies of Newcastle, by G. K. Ib., 1828-Verses on the E. of Northumberland Restoring Alnwick Castle, and Elegy on the Quakers' Burial Ground at Cullurcoats. Ib., 1829-Accounts of the Rebellions in 1715-16 and '46, as far as relates to the Counties of Northumberland and Newcastle and Berwick. Ib., 1831-Account of the Dreadful Explosion at Wallsend Colliery, in Northumberland and Durham. Ib., 1835. Collected in 1 vol, 8vo, boards.

This appeared in a bookseller's catalogue; but it probably contains very little that is dialectal.-W. W. S.

A Collection of Songs on the intended Branch Custom House at North Shields. 12mo. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, J. Marshall [1822 ?] A Complete Collection of original Newcastle Coronation Songs, comprising all that have been written on the Coronation of George IV. 12mo, pp. 16. Newcastle, 1822.

A Complete Collection of original Newcastle Coronation Songs, comprising all that have been written on the Coronation of Geo. IV., and on the intended removal of the Custom House. 12mo, pp. 76. Newcastle, 1822.

A Collection of original Local Songs and other pieces. By Wм. OLIVER. 12mo, pp. 24. Ib., 1824.

-An enlarged edition in 8vo, pp. 70. Ib., 1829.

The Tyne Side Minstrel; being a Collection of original Local Songs, arranged to popular airs. 12mo, pp. 72. Gateshead, 1824.

The Tyne Side Songster; a choice Collection of Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive Songs, in the Newcastle dialect. 18mo, pp. 108. Alnwick [1826.]

-A Collection of Comic and Descriptive Songs, chiefly in the Newcastle dialect. 12mo. Alnwick, W. Davison, n. d.

The Tyne Songster; a choice Collection of Songs in the Newcastle dialect. 12mo, pp. 72. North Shields, 1827.

The Tyne Songster; a choice selection of Songs in the Newcastle Dialect. 12mo. Newcastle, W. and T. Fordyce, 1840.

The Songs of the Tyne; being a choice Collection of Popular Local Songs, comic, satirical, and descriptive, chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect. 10 nos, 12mo. Newcastle upon Tyne, John Ross, n. d. Songs of the Tyne, a collection of Local Melodies. By JOSHUA BAGNALL. 12mo. Gateshead, R. Rankin.

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The Tyneside Minstrel; being a collection of Original Local Songs arranged to popular airs. 12mo, pp. 72. Gateshead, W. Stephenson, 1824.

A Collection of Original Songs, Local and Sentimental. By ROBERT GILCHRIST. Sm. 8vo. Newcastle upon Tyne, W. A. Mitchell, 1824. Stanzas on the Intended new line of Road from Potticar Lane to Leyburn Hole, &c. 12mo, pp. 16. Newcastle, J. Sykes, 1825. (The

Address to the Reader is signed JOHN SYKES; the Verses are signed LUBIN LEVEL.)

The Black Garland; containing The Holy Puzzle; Meikle Black Deil; The Child wi' the Swinging Tail; L-t's Speech; Presbyterian Minister's Prayer for the Deil; The Cardiometer, &c. 8vo. Newcastle, 1827.

From a bookseller's catalogue; which adds-A curious collection of scarce and curious legends of the north country, in the dialect of those parts.

The Pitman's Pay, or a Night's Discharge to Care. [By THOMAS WILSON.] 12mo, pp. 16. Gateshead, G. Watson, 1830.

The Pitman's Pay, and other Poems. By THOS. WILSON. Pp. xxxvi and 168. Gateshead, W. Douglas, High St.; Newcastle, Charnley; London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1843.

The Glossary occupies pp. 17-34.

The Poetical Works of JOHN FARRER, Netherwitton. Sm. 8vo. Blyth (J. Robinson), 1831.

Most of the poems are in ordinary English.

The Newcastle Song Book; or Tyne-Side Songster, being a collection of Comic and Satirical Songs chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect. 12mo. Newcastle upon Tyne, W. and T. Fordyce, 1842.

A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers. Sm. 8vo. Newcastle, E. Charnley, 1842.

Local Historian's Table-book of Remarkable Occurrences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. By M. A. RICHARDSON. 3 vols. royal 8vo. Newcastle,

1841-6.

(re-issued as) The Borderers' Table-Book, or Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border. London, H. G. Bohn, 1846.

Original Tyneside Songs. By J. P. ROBSON. 12mo. Newcastle on Tyne, M. Ross, 1849.

*Songs of the Bards of the Tyne, or a Choice Collection of Original Songs chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, with a Glossary of 800 words. Edited by J. P. ROBSON. 12mo. Newcastle, P. France & Co., n. d. [1849.]

The Howdy and the Upgetting. Two Tales of Sixty years sin seyne, as related by the late THOMAS BEWICK, of Newcastle, in the Tyne Side Dialect. 12mo. London (printed for the admirers of

native merit), 1850. *A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham. Second edition. 8vo. London, J. Gray Bell, 1851. The Coquet Dale Fishing Songs, now first Collected and edited by a North-Country Angler. Sm. 8vo. Edinburgh, W. Blackwood,

1852.

The Noble Laird of Thorny burne; a Northumbrian Border Ballad

in three fyttes; with Introduction and Glossary. Sm. 8vo. London, Saunders & Otley, 1855.

Proverbial Folk Lore of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Com. Ebor), J. Bell, 1855.

4to. Richmond (in

The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs, of the County of Berwick, with illustrative notes. By GEORGE HENDERSON, Surgeon. 12mo. Newcastle on Tyne, W. S. Črow, 1856.

Geordy Brown's Budget of Laughables, containing a Collection of original comic songs, medleys, and recitations, in the Newcastle Dialect. By R. P. SUTHERLAND. Very small. London, Webb, Millington, & Co., 1857.

Folk-Lore or a Collection of Local Rhymes, Proverbs, Sayings, Prophecies, Slogans, &c. relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-onTyne and Berwick-on-Tweed. Sm. 8vo. Richmond in Com. Ebor. J. Bell, 1858.

The Song of Solomon in the Newcastle Dialect. By JOHN GEORGE FORSTER. 16mo. [London, 1858.]

Only 250 copies printed for H. H. Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.

The Song of Solomon in the Newcastle Dialect. By JOSEPH Philip ROBSON. Author of 'Bards of the Tyne,' etc., etc. [London, 1859.] Only 250 copies printed for H. H. Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.

The Book of Ruth, in the Northumberland Dialect. By J. P. ROBSON. London, 1860.

Only 250 copies printed for H. H. Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.

The Song of Solomon in the Northumberland Dialect. By JOSEPH PHILIP ROBSON; author of Tyneside Songs,' etc., etc. London [1860].

Only 250 copies printed for H. H. Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.

The Song of Solomon, versified from the English Translation of James of England, into the Dialect of the Colliers of Northumberland, but principally those dwelling on the banks of the Tyne. By J. P. ROBSON. 4to. [London,] 1860.

Northumberland and the Border. By WALTER WHITE. 8vo, pp. xii and 472. London, 1859.

Chater's Illustrated Comic Tyneside Almanac for 1862 . . . . written in the Northumberland Dialect egzackly hoo the Newcassel Foaks tawk. By J. P. ROBSON,. . . . an' uthor clivvor cheps a' owthor belangin Newcassel, G'yetsid, or sumways else. 12mo. Newcastle upon Tyne, J. W. Chater, 1862.

the same, for 1863.

the same, for 1866.

The Keelmin's Comic Annewal for 1869, gi'es ye the best bits o' wit an' wisdim be the clivvorest cheps aboot Tyneside. by J. L. MARCKE an' C. H. Ross. 12mo. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, J. W. Chater. Northumberland and its Neighbour Lands. Illustrated by engravings from Richardson, Carmichael, &c. By S. S. JONES.

4to.

pp. 295 and 76. Hexham, 1871. (Contains several pieces written in the dialect.)

Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs: original and selected. By GEO. RIDLEY, NED CORVAN, &c. 12mo. Newcastle, T. Allan.

The Newcastle Songster, being a choice collection of Songs in the Newcastle Dialect. 12mo. Newcastle, D. France & Co.

A Garland of Newcastle Songs. 12mo. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Marshall.

POSTSCRIPT. Owing to some difficulty experienced in obtaining information concerning Northumberland, it is to be feared that the preceding list is very imperfect. One correction came too late to be made in the right place, but may be noted here, viz. that the Poems on Several Occasions, &c. by John Jackson, London, 1797' contains nothing that is dialectal, and should have been omitted. The following work is announced for publication, which ought to give much information. Preparing, in 1 vol. 8vo., Bibliotheca Northumbriensis et Dunelmensis: a Bibliographical Account of Books, Pamphlets, Prints, Maps, &c. printed on the History, &c. of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham. By WILLIAM DODD (of Newcastle). Nottinghamshire. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire. ROBERT THOROTON, Doctor of Physick. Folio. London, 1677. -Republished, with large additions. By JOHN THROSBY. 3 vols, 4to. 1797.

By

The folio edition of 1677 contains no list of provincialisms, but vol. iii. of the quarto edition contains fifty-four provincialisms, under the head of Additional Collections.'

The History of Mansfield and its Environs, in two parts :-I. Antiquities, including an accurate Description of Two Roman Villas, near Mansfield Woodhouse, discovered by H. Rooke, Esqre. in the year 1786; with an account of some late discoveries never before printed. II. The present state. By W. HARROD. Small 4to. Mansfield, 1801.

Contains under the head Dialect' about twenty-seven provincialisms.-R. White.

Adventures of Bilberry Thurland. By C. HOOTON. 3 vols, 8vo. London, Bentley, 1836.

By a

Contains a few Provincialisms. This work is not a 'small Tract,' as described in Mr Russell Smith's Bibl. List, but in 3 vols, 8vo.-R. White. A few Notts. provincialisms occur in Norman Abbey Lady [i. e. MARY ANN CURSHAM]. 3 vols, 8vo. London. *Mr ROBERT WHITE, of Worksop, has a copious Nottinghamshire Glossary in MS.

Oxfordshire.-*Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and adjacent parts in Oxford and Bucks, portrait and folding engravings. By Bp. WHITE KENNETT. 2 vols, 4to. Oxford (Clar. Press), 1818.

Contains an excellent Glossary of obsolete words, with many examples of provincialisms. The original edition is that of 1695. This Glossary is also to be found in the work next described.

*The History and Antiquities of Bicester, in Oxfordshire. To which is added, an Inquiry into the History of Alchester, &c. With an Appendix, and the whole of Bp. Kennett's Glossary of obsolete words and phrases from his Parochial Antiquities. 8vo. London, 1816. Shropshire. The Poems of John Audelay, a Specimen of the Shropshire Dialect in the fifteenth century; edited by JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL. Post 8vo. London, Percy Society, 1844. *Salopia Antiqua, &c.; with a Glossary of Words used in the county of Salop; by the Rev. CHAS. HENRY HARTSHORNE, M.A. 8vo. pp. xxii and 640. London, J. W. Parker, 1841.

The Glossary occupies pp. 293-622.

In Willis's Current Notes, 1855, pp. 98, 99, there is an article entitled " Shropshire Dialect" with the following preface:-" During a residence some years since in Shropshire, I made a list of the principal Provincialisms, which is heartily at the service of 'Current Ñotes."G.-Llangollen, Dec. 12."-W. E. A. A.

All Round the Wrekin. By WALTER WHITE. 12mo. London. 1860. (Contains very little of dialectal interest.)

A History of Market Drayton. By the Rev. J. R. LEE. London, Longmans; Market Drayton, J. Lockett, 1861.

Has a very short Glossary appended to it, which shews some peculiarities of pronunciation.

'Bye-gones' is the title of a reprint from the columns of the Oswestry Advertiser, which contains several notes on the Shropshire dialect.

In 'Bye-gones,' vol. i. p. 79, it is stated that the Ludlow Postman, a local newspaper published in 1719, and preserved in the British Museum, contains some specimens of the Shropshire dialect. Salopian Shreds and Patches. (Uniform with Notes and Queries.) Reprinted from Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal. In parts. Parts I and II appeared in 1874, and Part III in 1875. Part IV is announced for publication. (Contains a few notes on the dialect.)

*Miss Jackson, of Chester (a member of the E. D. S.), has compiled a very copious MS. Glossary of the Shropshire Dialect. Somersetshire. - The Somersetshire-man's Complaint.

See MS.

Lansdowne 674, in the British Museum. This poem was printed, from the Lansdowne MS., in Brayley's Graphic and Historical Illustrator, 4to, 1834, p. 343; and is there stated to have been written by Thomas Davies between 1614 and 1648.-W. E. A. A.

The First and Best Parts of Scoggin's Jests, gathered by ANDREW BOORD, Doctor of Physicke. 16mo. London, F. Williams, 1626.

Contains a few Specimens of West-Country dialect.

Joaneridos, or feminine valour eminently discovered in western women at the siege of Lyme. By JAMĖS STRONG. 4to. 1674.

In verse, preceded by 31 jocular pieces of verse on the author and his work. One of these is in the Somersetshire dialect. An earlier edition in 1645.