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The Song of Solomon in the Dialect of East Cumberland. From the authorised English Version. By JOHN RAYSON. [Londres, 1858.] (Geo. Barclay.) In 16 de cinq huitièmes de feuille. Edition tirée à 250 exemplaires, dont un seul en papier épais.—(Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.)

Lamplugh Club by a Looker-on intended to assist in preserving a faithful record of the dialect of the neighbourhood of Whitehaven. Whitehaven Callander & Dixon 1856. 12mo., pp. 11. (At p. 10 is a poem, entitled 'The Cracks of an Ore-Carter's Wife,' signed D.)

Another edition, 1858.

*A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland. By WM. DICKINSON, F.L.S. 12mo. Whitehaven Callander and Dixon. London J. R. Smith, 1859. Preface, Authorities and Dialect Poem The Words of Oald Cummerlan' pp. xii., Glossary pp. 138, Appendix pp. 1

*A Supplement to the Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland with illustrative examples By WM. DICKINSON, F.L.S. 12mo., Whitehaven Callander and Dixon London J. R. Smith, 1867. Preface pp. viii., Glossary pp. 43, Addenda pp. 4.

A 'Tail' for Joe and the Geologist By Another Hand Sm. 8vo. Whitehaven Callander and Dixon 1866. pp. 8.

This piece, in prose, is signed 'D.' Two poems, by the same, are added, entitled Scallow Beck Boggle,' and 'Merry Charley.'

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 1866 (full title previously given), contains 'The Cracks of an Ore Carters Wife,' and 'How Laal Bobby Linton gat oot of a Whol,' both by WILLIAM DICKINSON.

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 2nd Edition, 3rd Series, 1874 (full title previously given), contains the two pieces whose titles are above given, and The Words of oald Cummerlan,' by WILLIAM DICKINSON.

Cumberland Farm Life - Memorandums of Old Times Sm. 8vo. Whitehaven Callander and Dixon 1869. To which is added Crossyat's Boggle (Lamplugh) which always fore-set folk,'-signed, D.

pp. 23.

(Announcement, Aug. 1874). Cumbriana, or Fragments of Cumberland Life, a Book of Breks, &c., by the Compiler of the Cumberland Glossary. Whitehaven, Callander and Dixon.

The Song of Solomon in the Dialect of Central Cumberland. From the authorised English Version. By WILLIAM DICKINSON. [Londres] 1859. (George Barclay.) In-16 de cinq huitièmes de feuille. Edition tirée à 250 exemplaires, dont un seul en papier épais.—(Prince L. Lucien Bonaparte.)

Joe and the Geologist, a short story in the Cumberland Dialect. (First printed in the 'Whitehaven Herald,' March 14th, 1857.)

Joe and the Geologist ; a short story in the Cumberland Dialect, Revised by the author. 12mo. Carlisle: G. Coward, 1866. pp. 7.

This edition was printed with the author's sanction to supersede the unauthorized ones which had been largely circulated. A very large impression taken in the Spring of this year was immediately exhausted, and another and larger was struck off.

Joe and the Geologist a short story in the Cumberland Dialect, Revised by the author. 12mo. Whitehaven, Callander and Dixon, pp. 7.

'Joe and the Geologist;' and 'T' Reets on't,' being another Supplement to Joe and the Geologist.' by Joe his-sel. 12mo. Carlisle: G. Coward, 1867. pp. 16. N.B. 'T'Reets on't' was first printed in the Whitehaven Herald,' in 1866.

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'Joe and the Geologist;' and 'T' Reets on't,' being another Supplement to 'Joe and the Geologist.' by Joe his-sel. New Edition, 12mo. Carlisle, G. Coward, 1868. pp. 16.

Branthet Neuk Boggle, a Teahl for a Winter Neeght. (First printed in the Whitehaven Herald,' 5th Jan., 1861.)

Branthet Neuk Boggle, a Teahl for a Winter Neeght; on a Broadsheet.

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 1866 (full title previously given). In which five new Dialect pieces by the author of Joe,' appeared in 1866. (See that work.)

Bobby Banks' Bodderment, a sup of coald Keàl het up agèan. (First printed in the 'Whitehaven Herald,' June 2nd, 1866.)

Bobby Banks' Bodderment, and Dialect Ballads. by the author of 'Joe and the Geologist' 12mo. Carlisle: G. Coward, 1866. pp. 24.

This includes The Branthet Neuk Boggle,' and 'Ben Wells,' from the 'Whitehaven Herald,' 'Remonstance' from the 'North Longdale Magazine,' in the dialect of High Furness, and A Courting Chase.' (New.)

Three impressions, amounting in the aggregate to several thousand copies, were speedily exhausted.

Bobby Banks' Bodderment, and Dialect Ballads. By the author of 'Joe and the Geologist.' 12mo. Carlisle: G. Coward, 1867. pp. 24.

Contains same as the foregoing edition.

Poor Bobby Banks' Bodderment, describing his visit to Keswick Market and his troubles in getting home. By the author of 'Joe and the Geologist,' 'A sup of cauld keal het up agean.' 12mo. Cockermouth published by E. Thwaites; no date.

Wise Wiff, a Sketch of Cumbrian Character, by the Author of 'Joe and the Geologist.' Appended to 'A Guide to the interesting places in and around Cockermouth, &c.,' By JOHN ASKEw. 8vo. Cockermouth: Isaac Evening. 1866. pp. 4.

Kindly given to a literary brother to assist his work, but who died before its publication.

Wise Wiff, in the Cumberland Dialect, By the author of 'Joe and the Geologist.' 12mo. Carlisle: G. Coward, 1869. pp. 12. *The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and some districts adjacent; being

Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties. By ALEX. CRAIG GIBSON, F.S.A. 8vo. London: J. R. Smith; Carlisle Geo. Coward, 1869. [Remarks on the Dialect, pp. 183-188; Glossary, pp. 189-232.]

This volume includes all the pieces previously published, and several new

ones.

Another similar edition. London, Bemrose and Sons; Carlisle, G. and T. Coward, 1873.

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland. 2nd edition, 3rd Series, 1874, (full title previously given), contains eight Dialect Pieces by Gibson (two of them-Nature's Church and Breezy Saint Bees-being new), and a Critical Notice of the Works of the author. JOLLIE'S Sketch of Cumberland Manners and Customs, partly in the Provincial Dialect, in prose and verse, with a Glossary. 12mo. Carlisle. F. Jollie and Sons for Longman & Co. London. 1811. Preface and Introduction pp. iv., General Contents pp. 48.

This collection contains 'Th' Upshot,' by Mr MARK LONSDALE, (here first published), and 'The Letter from Dublin, by the Borrowdale Shepherd,' written by Mr Isaac Ritson.

Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, &c., 1839 (full title previously given), contains, The Upshot,' with the explanatory notes, and a new Dialect Piece, entitled 'Love in Cumberland.'

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 1866 (full title previously given), contains The Upshot,' and 'Love in Cumberland.' With a Biographical Sketch of the author.

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 2nd Edition, 2nd Series, 1874, (full title previously given), contains Love in Cumberland,' with the same Biographical Sketch as in the First edition. The Poll Book of the Election of a Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Whitehaven, containing a list of the electors, and the candidates for whom they voted. To which is prefixed a collection of squibs, &c. Election, xii Dec. MDCCCXXXII. 8vo. Whitehaven, R. Gibson 1832. Address pp. iv., Electioneering Squibs &c. pp. 68.

Contains Jack and Bill, a dialogue between two country labourers, seated at the Cow and Snuffers, in Whitehaven. Time-seven o'clock in the evening. Ale and Pipes.' (A capital sketch in the Cumberland Dialect.) The Wigton Advertiser (qu. date ?) contains 'Joe and the Landlord,' an excellent specimen of the Dialect spoken in the neighbourhood of Penrith, by the Rev. W. WHITELOCK, Vicar of Hutton in the Forest.

Joe and the Landlord, a story in the Cumberland Dialect. 12mo. Wigton: T. McMechan, n. d. pp. 8.

Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg; a Novel. 8vo. London; Tinsley Brothers.

By E. LYNN LINTON. 3 vols.,

Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg; a Novel, By E. LYNN LINTON. 8vo. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867. pp. viii. and 470.

This powerful story has achieved a popularity which renders it all the more necessary to remark that, though its pictures of Dale life and character possess much merit, yet the dialect given in it is quite unreliable.

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Joe the Buits or Nobbut a Cumberland Lad. a Comediette. A. WHEATLEY. 12mo. Carlisle Mason & Barnes, 1869. pp. 24. Borrowdale in the Old Time; as gathered from the conversation of the late Sarah Yewdale, Queen of Borrowdale, who died February, 1869, in her 101st year. 12mo. Keswick and Cockermouth, R. Bailey, 1869. pp. 8. (By the Rev. JAMES DIXON, a native of the Dale.) Borrowdale in the Old Time; as gathered from the conversation of the late Sarah Yewdale. 2nd edition. Small 8vo. Keswick and Cockermouth, R. Bailey, 1870. pp. 13.

Willie Wattles Mudder By a Tourist 12mo. Whitehaven Callander and Dixon 1870. pp. 8.

The Muncaster Boggle 12mo. Whitehaven Callander and Dixon 1870. pp. 8.

Cummerland Talk; being short Tales and Rhymes in the Dialect of that County: together with a few Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse. by JOHN RICHARDSON, of St John's. Pp. viii. and 199. London: J. R. Smith, Carlisle G. Coward. 1871. (See 'Saturday Review,' 2nd

March, 1872.) Mary Drayson's Honeymoon; being a short account of her visit to London the sights she saw there and the scrapes she got into By a Cumberland Lad, 12mo. Carlisle, printed by Halstead & Beaty, 1872. pp. 32.

Yance a year.-Gwordie Greenup's Cummerland Alminac wid Tide Teable, for 1873; contains numerous Dialect Pieces in Prose and Verse. 12mo. Maryport: printed and published by R. Adair, n. d. pp. 28.

Anudder Batch Firsts an' Secinds. T'firsts being a few heamly Teals Telt at Lingside, and T'Secinds a Reprint o' Rhymes fra Yance-ayear by Gwordie Greenup. 12mo. Maryport: R. Adair. 1873. pp. 32. Poems and Songs; some of which are in the Cumberland Dialect. By JAMES HARRISON. 12mo. Whitehaven, S. Irwin, n. d. English Border Ballads. by Peter Burn. 8vo. Carlisle: G. and T. Coward. London: Bemrose & Sons. 1874. Preface and Contents pp. viii. Poems and Glossary pp. 122. Contains two pieces in the Dialect of Brampton, 'T'Auld Wife's Reason,' and 'T'Hen Egg for T'Duck en.'

(Announcement, Aug. 1874) Echoes of Old Cumberland &c. by Mary Powley. 8vo. Carlisle: G. and T. Coward. London: Bemrose & Sons.

Will contain several Dialect Pieces.

It would be endless to attempt to enumerate the various Dialect contributions which in every form and on every subject have been, and continue to be, made to the Local Press, but to quote the words of Mr Alexander Craig Gibson to whose local authority all will yield,— 'I shall not omit to state that Mr John Christian of London, and a writer who assumed the nom de plume of Jack Todd, have evinced, in their contributions to the local press, a mastery over the dialect of Whitehaven and its vicinity, which makes us wish that their pens had been more prolific.'

Craven. See Yorkshire.

Derbyshire. The Rhymed Chronicle of Edward Manlove (reprinted from the original edition of 1653). By THOMAS TAPPING. 8vo. London, 1851.

Contains a Glossary of Mining Terms at pp. 21–35; and a list of works upon Derbyshire mining customs at p. vii; to be reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 8.

Rara Avis in Terris; or the Compleat Miner. In two Books, &c. BY THOMAS HOUGHTON. 12mo. London, 1681.

Contains a Glossary of Mining Terms, to be reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 9.

Later editions: in three parts, 12mo., 1687; 12mo., 1688 (with the title The Complete Miner); 8vo., 1729; 8vo., 1738 (in a collection of Treatises upon Metals, Mines, &c.; see art. Metals in Bohn's Lowndes' Manual).

Miner's Dictionary. By WILLIAM HOOSON. 8vo. Wrexham, 1747. Letter to William Hooson, a Derbyshire Miner, shewing the mistakes and errors in his 'Miner's Dictionary.' 8vo. Chester, 1747.

*The Mineralogy and Glossary of Derbyshire. By J. MAWE. 8vo. London, 1802. [The Glossary of Mining Terms occupies pp. 201—211, to be reprinted for the E. D. S. as Gloss. B. 10.]

*The Derbyshire Miners' Glossary; or an Explanation of the Technical Terms of the Miners, &c. By JAMES MANDER. 8vo.; pp. xvi. and 131. Bakewell, G. Nall, 1824.

An edition in 1821 is mentioned in Mr Russell Smith's Bibliographical List; but this seems to be a mere misprint.

A Dialogue in the Derbyshire Dialect. Printed in Bosworth's AngloSaxon Dictionary; pref. p. xxx. London, Longmans, 1838.

* An Attempt at a Derbyshire Glossary. By JOHN SLEIGH. Pp. 11. Repr. from the 'Reliquary,' ed. by LI. Jewitt, F.S.A., for Jan. 1865. London, J. R. Smith; Derby, W. Bemrose and Sons, Irongate.

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In the Reliquary' are two separate Glossaries of Derbyshire Words by Mr Sleigh. The first appeared in the Reliquary, vol. v., pp. 156-164; the second in the Reliquary, vol. vi., pp. 92-96 and 157-171. The one reprinted was the former of these.

The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire; with illustrative Notes and Examples of the Original Music, &c. Edited by Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. Sm. 8vo., pp. xvi. and 307. London, Bemrose and Lothian, 21, Paternoster Row; Derby, Bemrose and Sons, Irongate, 1867.

Contains very little that is provincial.

Owd Sammy Twitcher's Visit tut Gret Exibishun e Darby. [By JOSEPH BARLOW ROBINSON.] 8vo., pp. 24. Derby (?), 1870.

Owd Sammy Twitcher's Second Visit tut Gret Exibishun e Darby wi Jim. 8vo., pp. 24. Derby (?), 1870.

Owd Sammy Twitcher's Crismas Bowk for 1870, full a Fun, Tales, an Rhymes suitable for t' Season. By J. B. ROBINSON. 8vo., plates, 1870.

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