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The American War. A tale of two Cornish Miners, or the humorous Adventures of Nicky Polglase and Willy Pender in the United States of America. Their interview as they thought with Old Abe, how he wanted to make them sogers, their escape from the draft, and their opinion of the Yankees. Camborne, printed by T. T. Whear, Market Place, n.d. [186-]. 12mo, pp. 12.

West Cornwall Almanac and Advertiser, containing local and general information. Redruth, printed and published by J. S. Doidge, 1868. 8vo. And since continued annually.

Note.-Several Cornish Tales are to be found in this series of Almanacs. Cornish Tales, in verse and prose; being specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialects. Truro, J. R. Netherton, 1858. 12mo.

Another ed., 1859. 12mo.

Four Tales in verse and prose in the Cornish Dialect. 'Lizbeth Jane's Courtship; the Cornish Farmer and the Squire; Luke Martin's could; Tom Teague, or Zebedee Jacka. Truro, printed and published by J. R. Netherton, n.d. [18-]. 8vo, pp. 42.

Capt. Tom Teague's Humorous and Satirical Remarks on Zebedee Jacka's real adventures at the Exhibition in July, 1872.-'Lizbeth Jane's Courtship.-Luke Martin's Cowld.-The Cornish Farmer and the Squire. 12mo. Truro; J. R. Netherton.

*Cornish Tales and Poems. Vol. II. By Various Authors. lb., J. R. Netherton. 12mo.

This collection, which had been previously published in parts, contains the following. Cousin Jan's Courtship and Marriage.-Gracey's Tea Party.—The Exhibition. Found Drowned, a Tale founded on Fact.-A Cornish Ghost Story. The Bâl; or 'Tes a Bra Keenly Lode; Cousin Jan's Story.--The Great Grizzler; Siah's Story.-Edwin Lukey's Trip to London.-Betty White; Jimmy's Story.-A Dialogue between Gracey Penrose and Mally Treviskey.— Rozzy Trenoodle and his Leatheren Bag.-Penna's Van.-A Christmas Play.— The Telescope.-We be Ten av ees.-Oysters.-A Dialogue between Betty Penstraze and Sally Trembath; Jimmy's Letter from the Gould Diggings, *Cornish Tales in Prose and Verse. By Various Authors. With a Glossary. Ib., J. R. Netherton, 1867. 12mo, pp. 151.

Another ed. London, Houlston and Sons, 1873. 8vo, pp. 101.

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Note. The wrappers of some of the editions read, The Exhibition, and other Cornish Poems.'

Jimmy Trebilcock, or the humorous Adventures of a Cornish Miner at the Great Exhibition, what he saw, and what he didn't see. Camborne, printed and published by T. T. Whear, Market Place, 1863. 12mo, pp. 16. 6d.

A Cornish Dialogue between Jan Trundle and Job Mungler. Falmouth, R. J. Oliver, s. sh.

Cumberland.-See also Westmoreland.

The following list of books relating to the Cumbrian dialect has been compiled for the E. D. S., with very few exceptions, from the works themselves in his own collection, by Mr W. JACKSON, of Fleatham House, St Bees. It may be taken to be an exhaustive list, at any rate as far as regards all that is of any value.

The books which specially or incidentally treat of the dialect are

placed first. The general collections of Dialect Pieces, especially the Songs and Ballads, follow. The works of various authors who have written in the Cumbrian dialect are next enumerated, and are arranged for the most part in chronological order, keeping, however, the productions of each author together as far as practicable; so that the order of precedence is determined by the date of each writer's first publication. A few undated, or unprinted, pieces are mentioned at the end.

Mr JACKSON wishes to draw attention to the Glossaries by RAY and BOUCHER, the full titles of which have been already given in the list of books relating to Dialects generally.

Mr Boucher (he writes) was a native of Blencogo, in the parish of Bromfield, in Cumberland. His linguistic studies probably took their origin from his familiarity with, and attachment to, his native dialect, and though his illustrations are derived from the most spacious survey of our early writers, he quotes the dialect-writers, and includes specially the dialect-words, of Cumberland and Westmoreland, with a frequency sufficient to cause his work to be of special value as illustrating those dialects.

Ray's grandfather sprang from the family of the Reays of the Gill in the same parish of Bromfield, Cumberland. His botanical works show his familiarity with North-country habitats as much as his Glossary does with North-country dialect words. He acknowledges in his Preface special obligations to Mr Tomlinson and to the Rev. William Nicolson (subsequently Bishop of Carlisle), both Cumberland men. Brockett's Glossary also deserves especial mention.

A collection of three hundred and twenty-seven words, taken from a MS. in the Chapter Library of Carlisle, entitled 'Glossarium Brigantinum, collectore Guil. Nicolson, Coll. Reg. Oxon. A.B. 1677.' Printed, with notes by Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Second Series; vol. 9, part 2; pp. 303-323.

The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland. By JOSEPH NICOLSON, Esq. and RICHARD BURN, LL.D. 2 vols. 4to. London; printed for W. Strahan and J. Cadell, 1777. 2nd vol. (Cumberland) contains pp. 615 and Index, with a Glossury at pp. 609-615.

The History of the County of Cumberland and some Places adjacent, &c. By WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, F.A.S. 2 vols. 4to. Carlisle, printed by F. Jollie, 1794. Contains a Glossary of Antiquated Words occurring in the work.

This and the preceding Glossary principally relate to words of a legal nature. A Glossary of Provincial Words used in the County of Cumberland. 12mo. London, J. Gray Bell, 1851. pp. 19. (Only 60 copies.) The Lake Country. By E. LYNN LINTON. 4to. London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1864. Pp. xl. and 351. [Appendix I. (pp. 295-317) contains a Glossary of Provincialisms of the Lake District.]

*A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Cumberland; by Wм. DICKINSON. (See full title of this work and its supplement further on in this list.)

Glossary of Words in the Cumbrian Dialect. By MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, B.D., F.S.A., &c., Præcentor and Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral. (Not printed.)

The People and Dialect of Cumberland and Westmorland, containing the first chapter of a new History. By J. SULLIVAN. 12mo. Kendal, 1855.

Cumberland and Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: the people, dialect, superstitions and customs. By J. SULLIVAN. 8vo. London: Whittaker and Co. 1857. Dedication, Preface, and Contents, pp. iv. ; Text, pp. 171.

The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland.

By ROBERT FERGUSON. Small 8vo. London: Longman & Co. 1856. Dedication, Preface, and Contents, pp. iii.; Text, pp. 228.

At pp. 167-225 is a list of Cumberland and Westmoreland Words of Scandinavian origin.

The Dialect of Cumberland; with a chapter on its Place-names, by ROBT. FERGUSON. Crown 8vo. London: Williams and Norgate; Carlisle Steel Brothers. 1873. Dedication, Preface, and Authorities, pp. xi.; Glossary and Observations, pp. 230.

The Lake Dialect; a letter from THOMAS DE QUINCEY in Titan, 1857. No. 142, pp. 89—92.

Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects.-Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, by various Writers, in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, now first collected; with a Copious Glossary of Words peculiar to those Counties. 8vo. London: John Russell Smith, 1839. Preface, Dedication, and To the Reader, pp. xii.; General Contents, pp. 403, including A Glossary of the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialect, pp. 321-403.

The contents of this volume are specially referred to under the headings of each author.

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, to which are added Dialect and other Poems; with Biographical Sketches, Notes, and Glossary. Edited by SIDNEY GILPIN, of Derwent Cottage. 12mo. London: Geo. Routledge & Sons; Edinburgh: John Menzies; Carlisle: Geo. Coward, 1866. Preface and Contents, pp. xiv., General Contents, Glossary (pp. 541—554), and Index, pp. 560. Frontispiece, Portrait of Susannah Blamire.

The contents of this volume are specially referred to under the headings of each author.

The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. With Biographical Sketches, Notes, and Glossary by SIDNEY GILPIN. Second Edition. 12mo. London: Bemrose & Sons. Carlisle: G. & T. Coward. 1874.

First Series. Prefaces to first and second Editions and Contents,

pp. xvi.; General Contents, pp. 232, with newly engraved Portrait of Susannah Blamire as frontispiece.

Second Series. Contents, pp. viii.; General Contents, pp. 226, with newly engraved Portrait of Anderson as frontispiece.

Third Series. Contents, pp. viii., General Contents, pp. 231, including Glossary (pp. 219-231).

The contents of these volumes, like the preceding, are specially referred to under the headings of each author.

(Announcement, Aug. 1874.) The Popular Poetry of Cumberland and the Lake Country. With Biographical Sketches, Notes, &c., by SIDNEY GILPIN. London: Bemrose & Sons. Carlisle: G. & T. Coward.

Will contain several Dialect and other Poems printed for the first time, also a portrait of John Stagg, the Blind Bard; the whole forming a companion and supplementary volume to The Songs and Ballads, &c.'

A Miscellany of Poems, consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals, in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams. By the late Reverend JOSIAH RELPH, of Sebergham, Cumberland. With a Preface and a Glossary. 8vo. Glasgow, printed by Robert Foulis for Mr Tomlinson in Wigton. 1747. Preface (including Biographical Notice), and List of Subscribers, pp. xlix.; Poems and Glossary, pp. 168.

This edition, including seven poems, the earliest recorded productions in the dialect, viz. Harvest Home, or The Bashful Shepherd,' ' Hay Time, or the Constant Lovers,' 'A Brand New Ballat,' Saint Agnes Fast, or the Amorous Maiden,' and translations of the 8th Ode of the 1st Book and the 7th Ode of the 2nd Book of Horace, and the 19th Idyll of Theocritus, was edited, and the Biographical Sketch written, by the Rev. Thomas Denton, the friend and pupil of Relph. Relph (says the Rev. Jorathan Boucher in his Biographical notice, in Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, published in 1794,) drew his portraits from real life, and so faithful were his transcripts that there was hardly a person in the village who could not point out those who had sate for his Cursty and his Peggy. The Amorous Maiden was well known and a very few years ago was still living.'

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with the Life of the Author, and a Pastoral Elegy on his Death. By THOMAS SANDERSON. New edition. 12mo., pp. 187. Carlisle, printed by Wm Thompson; and sold by R. Faulder, J. Ribson, W. Clarke, and J. Bell, London. 1797. Title, and Dedication to Rev. Jonathan Boucher, pp. iv.; Life, Poems, and Glossary, pp. 104.

Contains the same Dialect pieces enumerated under the first edition. with the Life of the Author. Embellished with picturesque Engravings on wood, by Mr T. Bewick, of Newcastle. 8vo. Carlisle, printed by and for J. Mitchell; and sold by T. W. Longman, Paternoster Row, London, 1798. Dedication to Sir Wilfred Lawson; Life and Contents, pp. xxiv.; Poems and Glossary, pp. 147.

Contains the same Dialect pieces enumerated under the first edition. Poems, Humorous and Sentimental, consisting of Cumberland Pastorals, Translations and Imitations from the Classics, Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams. By the Rev. JOSIAH RELPH. Third edition. London: Vernor & Hood. 1805.

A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lan

cashire. By the author of 'The Antiquities of Furness.' (The Rev. THOMAS WEST.) The Second Edition, Revised throughout and greatly enlarged. 8vo. London: Richardson and Urquhart, J. Robson; Kendal: W. Pennington, 1780. Title, Preface, and Contents, pp. viii.; Guide, pp. 1-190; Addenda, pp. 191–292.

This edition was edited by Wm. Cockin of Burton, who wrote the preface and made the addenda to the same. In the latter are included Two Specimens of the Cumberland Dialect, taken from the poems of the Rev. Josiah Relph of Sebergham, namely, Harvest, or the Bashful Shepherd,' and a translation of the 7th Ode of the 2nd Book of Horace. These specimens are included in, I believe, all the subsequent editions of this Guide; certainly in the third, sixth, ninth, and the eleventh, the latter published in 1821.

A Choice Collection of Poems in Cumberland Dialect: I. The Harvest, or Bashful Shepherd, a Pastoral by the REV. MR ROBERT NELSON, late of Great Salkeld, near Penrith, in Cumberland. II. Haytime, or the Constant Lovers, a Pastoral. III. St Agnes' Fast, or the Amorous Maiden, a Pastoral; and other subjects no less entertaining. 12mo. pp. 16. Sunderland: printed by R. Wetherald, n. d. (Wetherald began business in Sunderland in 1762, and died June 19, 1791.)

These pieces are generally attributed to the Rev. Josiah Relph, and are to be found in his Poems, first published in 1747; but, from the following note prefixed to them in this collection, a doubt is raised as to the authorship:

"The following Pastoral was composed about one hundred years since by the Rev. Mr Robert Nelson, a worthy clergyman at Great Salkeld in Cumberland; I am persuaded the judicious readers who understand the Dialect will discover as true pastoral simplicity, and as many natural beauties in it, as can be met with in the best of Ramsay's Poems; I am sensible it was published some years since under the title of "The Harvest, or Bashful Shepherd." But, as I apprehend, some of the greatest beauties are lost by the alterations and omissions which are made in that edition.'

The only piece beyond those mentioned in the title-page in this collection, is the very common ballad of the 'Farmer's Blunder,' commencing with

A farmer once to London went,

To pay the worthy 'squire his rent, &c.-Note by Sir F. MADDEN. With reference to the above note, it ought to be stated that the name of Nelson does not occur in the list of Rectors of Great Salkeld; that research has failed to find any record of a dissenting minister of that name having ever lived there; and it is believed that any one familiar with Relph's poems and his life (of which we possess authentic records written by contemporaries) can scarcely fail to be convinced that this was a fraudulent or, at any rate, a baseless claim.

Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, &c., 1839 (see full title previously given), containing the same Dialect Pieces enumerated under the head of the first edition of Relph's Poems, except 'The Brand New Ballat.'

Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 1866 (see full title previously given), containing the whole of Relph's Dialect Pieces enumerated under the head of the first edition.

Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, &c., 2nd edition, 1st Series, 1874 (see full title previously given), containing 'The Brand New Ballat,' and 'Translation of the 8th Ode of 1st Book of Horace,' by Relph.

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