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Haven, 1700-1766, New Haven, 1776; Dissertation on Man's Fall, Ephrata, Penna., 1765. $30.00.

The Curse of Cowardice, a Sermon Preached to the Hanover County Militia of Virginia, London, 1758; Extracts from a Letter to the President of Congress, by Hon. Arthur Lee, in Answer to a Libel by Silas Deane, Williamsburgh, 1779; Confiscation of British Property, Annapolis, 1779; Cunningham's Case of the Whigs who Loaned their Money on the Public Faith, and others. $10.00.

A Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1755; Reminiscences of Old Gloucester, Philada., 1845; Memory of James Grahame Vindicated, and others. $6.

Washington's Familiar Letters, New York, 1796; Washington's First Campaign, Pittsburg, 1848; O. Rich's Catalogue for 1837; Journal of Charles Carroll, Baltimore, 1845, and others. $5.00.

Congress Circulars, 1779-1783; Tryal of John Peter Zenger of New York, Printer, who was lately Tried and Acquitted for Publishing a Libel against the Government, London, 1738; Bibliothéque Américaine, Paris, -; Proceedings of a Board of General Officers held by Order of General Washington, respecting Major John André, Philada., 1780, and others. $45.00.

Proceedings Respecting the Insurgents, 1794, Philada., 1795; Trial of William Blount, 1797; Wolcott's Address, Boston, 1802; Rutledge's Defence against Calumny, 1803; and Hamilton and Reynolds, 1797. $18.00.

Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey, at the Suit of Robt. Barclay against Wm., Earl of Stirling, and others, Burlington, 1773; Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey, at the Suit of John Hunt against Wm., Earl of Stirling, and others, Philada., 1767; Plea and Answer to ditto, New York, 1770; Letters from Governor Bernard, Gen. Gage, and His Majesty's Council for Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1769; Trial between Campbell Craig and Richard, Earl of Anglesey, London, 1744, and 2 others, 1 vol. folio, half bound. $46.00.

⚫ Chatham's Plan for Settling the Troubles in America, J. Almon, London, 1775; Treaty of Amity and Commerce, Philada., 1778; Conference between the Commissaries of Massachusetts and New York at New Haven, 1767, Boston, 1768; Motions made in the House of Commons, March 27, 1775,

&c.; Proceedings in the case of Maj. Gen. Arnold, Philada., 1779; Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents, London, 1770; Observations on ditto, London, 1770; Proceedings, &c., Relative to the Robbery of the Eastern Treasury, Burlington, 1772; First Measures Necessary to be Taken in the American Department, London, 1768; Common Sense, London, 1775 ; Chatham's Speech, London, 1775, and 4 others. $48.00.

The collection (400 lots) included the usual number of works in general literature, but none of sufficient interest for mention.

The most important sale of the coming season will be that of the LIBRARY OF JOHN A. RICE, Esq, for notice of which see elsewhere in the BIBLIOPOLIST. The sale will

probably occur toward the end of February or beginning of March. The catalogue, now in preparation, will occupy about 300 octavo pages, advance sheets of which will be mailed to distant points on application to J. SABIN AND Sons.

LIBRARY OF

Bachelin-Deflorenne will sell in Paris, on January 24th and five following days, the THE MARQUIS D'ASTORAGA, Compte d'Altamira, Duc de Lesa, etc., consisting of MSS. of the XIIth to the XVth centuries, books printed on vellum, rare mathematical and fine art volumes, and some books on the Indies and America.

T. O. Weizel, Leipzig, will sell, by auction, March 7 and following days, "Bibliothèque de feu Mr. le Dr. C. F. Ph. de Martius," author of "Flora Brasiliensis," "Historia Naturalis Palmarum," etc. catalogue contains 3180 lots, consisting chiefly of works on Natural History-Botany being the specialty.

The

Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, of London, are preparing catalogues of two interesting collections; first, a private colond, the Shakespearian library of H. O. lection of Early English Typography; sec Halliwell, the commentator.

This last collection contains the finest known copy of the third folio edition of Shakespeare. Both sales will occur early in the season.

Messrs. Leavitt, Strebeigh & Co. are preparing a catalogue of an extensive collection of "Americana," to be sold in February or March. Some rare American imprints will make the sale an interesting and important one.

"THE NOSEGAY."—A Satire.

The subject of the satire called "The Nosegay," was B-, a profligate and villain, who, expelled from the society of London and Paris, sought a new career of villainy in Ireland. B. had amassed enormous wealth by gaming, and after some years' residence in Ireland became a banker.

In 1810, Tom Grady applied to Bfor a loan of £1300, offering good security. The transaction was completed, and Blet Grady have the money for two years. At the end of that time he suddenly and uncivilly demanded it. He was too wealthy to be in any strait for a sum so moderate, and it is likely he called it in with the abrubtness he did in retaliation for some freely uttered sarcasm of Grady's. The money was at once repaid, and the two men quarreled. Grady revenged himself on B by saying bitter things of him, and the feud between them grew deadly. B- was the first to use pen in it. Gentlemen of Limerick and the metropolis continually received anonymous letters, in which the character of Grady was assailed, and there can be no doubt but that B was the author of them. At length a foul lampoon appeared, in which Grady was charged with robbing the postoffice and murdering his nephew. The lampoon was circulated through the post, and respectable witnesses said on their oaths that they had heard a printer named Monk acknowledge he had printed it for B— ; but when search was afterwards made for this man, it was discovered that had bribed him to leave Ireland. His Grady sharpened his scalping-knife. revenge was delayed, but it was terrible. It took the form of a satirical poem mockingly called The Nosegay. Grady's name as author was on the title-page, and that Bwas the subject of it there could be no mistake, for he was all but named. It created an immense sensation in Irish society, and the first issue of one thousand copies was bought up in a few weeks.

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B. immediately commenced an action for libel; but Grady, nothing daunted, brought out a second and enlarged edition, embellished with a portrait of his enemy, and three other engravings, illustrative of the poem. He had contrived to have a sketch made of B- by a practiced hand, and from it a portrait was made.

The cast

of the man's face was mean, and the expres

sion cunning and sensual. Grady had its ugliness and evilness heightened, without impairing the correctness of the likeness. With half-closed eyes and protruding tongue, this portrait of B had a most repulsive look. In the other pictures-which, by the way, are copper-plate, and very well done

the likeness of him is preserved. One of them portrays the scene in Miles' Club. Another, B as a fox escaping from the chastening hand of Nellie Casack, a peasant girl celebrated for her beauty and good luck in life; and the third represents him alone at midnight in the agony of a horrid vision. Spectres and infernal shapes are around his bed, and seem about to carry him off body and soul to the place of torment. picture well conceived and well drawn. Grady dedicated his satire to Tom Moore. It contains many passages of violent sarcasm, written in a style which is sufficiently vigorous, and which Irishmen think worthy of Pope or Swift.

It is a

The poem supposes a court of justice, before which B- is summoned for trial: Come, 00000 for tardy justice takes her seat, Convicted usurer! convicted cheat!

In every mischief, actor or abettor,
Self-vaunted infidel, and tampering traitor,
In daring prim-in principle unbuckled;
Reluctant subject-voluntary cuckold.

The poem then proceeds to paint with graphic force the crowd of witnesses assembled for the prosecution. A passage follows which will not bear reprinting here. It refers to unhappy women seduced by the prisoner, and charges him with revolting crimes. The affair at Miles' Club is next dwelt upon :

But see aloft, and near the sheriff's box,

The black-browed spectre of poor Charles Fox;
See, with one hand his angry eyes he rubs,
And in the other holds-the five of clubs,
While on the front, in burning letters shines,
Thy wealth and infamy-THE GAME OF QUINZE,
He thought (for all your bonnet) you played fair,
Nor once supposed a sharper could get there,
Till, to his cost, the sad reverse he found;
In six nights lost you sixty thousand pound!

Grady thus alluded to the wretched victims of B's scheming:

See, round the court some gibbering phantoms glide
By thee to reason urged, who traitors died.
Can none remember when, in ninety-four,
High Treason's standard through the state you bore,
At every post thy darling theme rehearsed,
And manifestoes through the crowd dispersed ;
And, while sedition round your horses smoked,
Your hoarse harsh voice like horrid raven croaked?

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Thus far the foe of God-now let me scan
How stands the dread account 'twixt thee and man,
Is there one evil word you have not spoken?
Is there one human tie you have not broken?
Is there one vice a stain to moral reason?
Is there a crime from swindling up to treason?
Produce the catalogue and let me hear
Even one exception in your black career.
Or take the decalogue and read it through,
Is there one line inviolate by you?

Is there, through all this wilderness of doom
One virtue found to glimmer o'er the gloom?

Thus, justly charged, irrevocably stained,
My task is done-and now you stand arraigned.

Culprit, make ready; how will you be tried?
God and your country! both you have denied.
What! not a word! how dare you cringe to me?
Well, then, I'll save you by a special plea.
By Magna Charta, as the law appears,
You must be tried by twelve men of your PEERS;
But if none such why then you may defy all,
Elude Grim Justice, and refuse a trial.
My Lords, how say you? Is not this the law?

THE COURT.

The law is so-you've saved him by a flaw;
The objection's fatal, and, howe'er depraved,
For want of peers the culprit's life is saved.

THE SENTENCE.

But lest, henceforth, the country's peace he vex,
For SALUS POXULI SUPREMA LEX,

The court awards, he quits forthwith the nation,
Under strict rules for instant transportation,
Such sentence once before condemned to meet-
Banished Great Britain-BANISHED AS A CHEAT!
No power of money competent to overwhelm
The indignant feelings of that moral Realm:
We cite the precedent so sound and true,
And for our character, transport him too.

poured brine on his victim's bleeding wounds, and in the dedication to Moore, he says: "What apology shall I make you for drawing off your mind for a moment from the contemplation of everything that is beauti-, ful in the moral and physical world, from lovely nymphs on beds of roses, inspiring bliss and breathing perfume, delighting earth, and resembling heaven, to the perusal of a portrait such as mine? It is said of Salvator Rosa, that his monstrous powers in the delineation of savage nature were acquired by having passed the early part of his life with a banditti in the most hideous forests, and amidst the most formidable mountains; and if I have any merit in the execution of my picture, it is entirely to be attributed to having, for a long time, minutely considered and deeply studied my original,"

Blaid his damages at £20,000. The trial absorbed the public attention. The foremost men of the Irish Bar were retained on either side. For B- were three men who afterwards reached the Bench-one of them is still remembered as a great judge. Grady had O'Connell, who was even then the chosen leader of a people marching to victory; Burton, afrerwards a judge, and one of the most famous names of the Irish Bar and Bench; O'Regan, the friend and biographer of Curran, and two other men of talent.

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Grady's counsel could have taken advantage of a blunder of their opponents and had the trial stopped, but that would have baulked him of a full revenge, and though he ran the risk of ruinous damages, he would O'Connell, roused by the case, delivered a smiting invective against B -. "I shall follow him," he said, from his first ill-omened dawn above the horizon, until I show him culminating in his meridian, and emitting thick pestilential flashes through the darkness that envelopes. his western career;" and he did so without mercy. The evidence of witnesses from the county aristocracy and the Clubs of Dublin went to establish as matters of fact or of general report, many of the charges and imputations contained in the satire. Burton, whose oratory had not the terrors of O'Connell's, but was more refined, reviewed this evidence in a speech that added to his reputation. He described Bas "affrighted by his own hideousness, rushing for relief upon society, and by horrified In the numerous notes to the satire Grady society thrown back upon himself.”

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Within his range let Nature all appear
A teeming torment, savage, vast, and drear,
Where every noxious growth profanes the ground,
And deadly Nightshade spreads her poison round;
Where, for the myrtle, eglantine, and rose,
Prime minister of Fate, the upas blows;
And while fanged adders nest'e in his breast,
Let ravens croak him from reluctant rest,
And panting toads and hissing serpents there
Exalt the fiercest horrors of despair.

The judge charged, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for five hundred pounds, the fortieth part of the sum claimed. Two reports of the trial that were announced were bought up by Bbefore ever they appeared; but Grady, with unconquerable enmity, issued one himself, with a searing preface, in which he taunted his foe with the poor result of the trial. The charges in the Nosegay, he said, ranged from "swindling up to treason," and were in number about forty. He had, he supposed, proved only thirty-nine of them, and for the unproven one the jury had given the fortieth part of the damages demanded; or, perhaps, it was that they had given the plaintiff sixpence in the pound on his valuation of himself! B- on his side enlisted a mercenary Limerick journal, and through it sought to convince the public that the jury knew Grady could not bear heavier damages than they gave against him.

The Nosegay is now extremely rare. The wretched man, whose ill-fame it perpetuated, had the stock remaining with the publisher

at the conclusion of the trial seized under an order of the Court of the King's Bench, and his emissaries destroyed as many copies as they could make out and buy.

Death has long since put both the satirist and the sinner out of sight, and Time has almost put them out of mind.---From the Springfield Daily Advertiser.

ELIOT'S INDIAN BIBLE. From the Providence (R. I.) Journal. The sale of a copy of this very rare and curious book at auction in New York, for $1,130, deserves more than the brief notice which has appeared in our columns. The work is a remarkable one, first in being a translation of the whole Bible and the New Testament into the language spoken by the Massachusetts Indians, and accomplished by the one man known as the Apostle JOHN ELIOT, who labored as a missionary among the Indians for a long period. He was many years engaged in the labor of translation. It is at all times a task of great great difficulty to render the Bible into a foreign language, even if the language is a written one; but in such a language as that of the Indians, which was never before written, the labor was gigantic. None but a religious enthusiast, such as ELIOT, would ever have attempted it.

This Bible has also a value as a typo

graphical curiosity. In the year 1663, New England was still a wilderness teeming with a great Indian population, and the struggle for existence was by no means an easy one. To print a pamphlet was an event of importance, yet in the infancy of the Commonwealth the whole Bible was printed at Cambridge in this strange language, a monument of aboriginal philology which has never been equaled, notwithstanding all the efforts of our missionary societies to christanize and civilize the Indians for the last 200 years.

The printing of this Bible was begun in 1660, and finished in September, 1663, thus occupying three years. The edition was

one thousand copies, of which not more than fifteen are known to be preserved in the United States. Twenty copies were sent to England, in which there was a Dedication to CHARLES II.

But this is not all that is remarkable about this Bible. A second edition was called for, and the whole work was reprinted at Cambridge by SAMUEL GREENE, the printer of the first edition, in 1685. The art of printing was still in its infancy. The proposition for printing this edition was submitted to the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England for their consideration, in 1678-79, by Mr. ELIOT, who, among his several appeals, said that King Philip had sent to him for books to read.

The work, which was commenced the following year, proceeded but slowly, as there was but one man, the Indian printer, who was able to compose the sheets and correct the proof. In 1684 Mr. ELIOT, writing to Hon. ROBERT BOYLE, says: "We have but few hands, one Englishman and a boy, and one Indian." It was completed the following year, and 2,000 copies printed. The Indian title reads as follows:

"Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe up-Biblum God nanecorve Wuk ne Testament kah wonk wasku Testament," &c.

The following is the full English title:

"The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England. At the charge and with the consent of the Corporation in England for the propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England, Cambridge: Printed by SAMUEL GREENE and MARMADUKE JOHNSON. MDCLXIII." 4to, 424 leaves. The New Testament contains 129 leaves.

It is well known that there is no Indian

living who can read this Bible or even speak the language in which it is written. Hon. J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL, of Hartford, late Secretary of State of Connecticut, is, we believe, the only person living who understands the language and is able to read this Bible. He has made it a study for many years, and has composed a dictionary of several thousand words from it.

We are glad to learn that fine and perfect copies of both editions of ELIOT's Bible and New Testament are in a private library in Providence, in which is a little volume in the same Indian language, called The Practice of Piety, and a Grammar of the Indian Language, printed at Cambridge in 1666, both the work of the indefatigable ELIOT. The Grammar is far more rare than the Bible, as not more than three copies are known in the United States.

We cannot close our notice of these remarkable books without adding the following letter, a manuscript copy of which is appended to the Manitowompae Pomantamoonk, or Practice of Piety, from JOHN

ELIOT to Hon. ROBERT BOYLE:

ROXBURY, Aug. 29, 1668. (third month of our overthrow. Right Honorable, unweariable and nursing Father Robert Boyle:

I have nothing new to write but lamentations, and I am loath to grieve your loving and noble soul. Our Indian work yet liveth, praised be God. The Bible is come forth, many hundreds bound up and dispersed among the Indians, whose thoughtfulness I imitate and testify to your Honor. The Practice of Piety is also finished and beginneth to be bound up, and my humble request to your Honor is that we may again reimpose the Primer and Catechism, for though the last impression be not quite spent, yet quickly they will; and I [am] old and ready to be gone, and desire to leave as many books as I can. know not what to add in this distressing day of our overthrow; so I commit your Honor to the Lord, and rest

Your Honor's to serve in Jesus Christ,
JOHN ELIOT.

From the Citizen and Round Table (Washington Correspondent.)

In a number of that invaluable monthly periodical entitled the "American Bibliopolist," edited and published by Messrs. Sabin & Sons, of your city, reference is made to a copy of that excessively rare book, "Eliot's Indian Bible," which that firm purchased at a public sale in New York in April, 1868, for $1,130-"the largest sum ever paid for a single book at any auction sale in the United States." If my

memory serves me, but three or four copies of the work are known to be in existence. The one referred to was in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, England, and now graces the "select and elegant library of Mr. John A. Rice, of Chicago, Illinois." Since the sale in your city-eighteen months. ago-a copy of the same work turned up among a lot of old books at the recent public sale in London of the library of the erratic and erring Marquis of Hastings. It was purchased at a comparatively low price by some dealer, as it seems the audience were unacquainted with its market value. The purchaser advertised it in his usual periodical catalogues, but I have never seen any notice what disposition has been made of it. Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia, or "Ecclesiastical History of New England" from 1620 to 1698, published in London in 1702, states:

"Behold, ye Americans, the greatest honor that ever you were partakers of the Bible was printed here at our Cambridge, and it is the only Bible that ever was printed in all America from the foundation of the world. The whole translation he writ with bnt one pen; which pen, had it not been lost, would have certainly deserved a richer case than was bestowed upon that pen with which Holland writ his translation of Plutarch."

It is said that no one now living can read the book. Strange destiny-honored by contemporaries because "writ with but one pen" Sold for its weight in gold now because no person can read it.

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O ye Bibliomaniacs, who, in the year our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, pay such huge prices for Eliot's Indian Bible, how would ye envy the lucky book-hunter who, "with wonderful foresight," bought his copy twenty-five years ago for a pound! You would no doubt have your equanimity seriously disturbed-dangerously, perhaps, if you were by to hear him delightedly chuckle over his fortunate purchase. These "bargains" are amongst the pleasant recollections of the old book-hunter, partly, because they are gratifying evidence of a judicious discrimination and an early appreciation of rarities—a foresight which invari- . ably results to his advantage. It is a fact that a copy of the Indian Bible was bought in London for 1. It is now in a private library in Brooklyn, L. I.

A full description of Mr. Rice's copy of the Bible will be given in the catalogue of his library now in preparation.

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