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    Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
    Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
    Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
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    Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850

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      Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February

      2, 1850, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850

      A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,

      Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.

      Author: Various

      Release Date: September 30, 2004 [EBook #13558]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 14. ***

      Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the PG Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team, and The Internet Library of Early Journals

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      CONTENTS

      ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REPRINTS OF OLD BOOKS

      Most people are aware of the great demand there is for English literature, and indeed for all literature in the United States: for some years the anxiety of persons in that part of the world to obtain copies of our early printed books, prose, poetry, and plays, has been well known to such as collect and sell them on this side of the water. Where American purchasers could not obtain original editions they have, in all possible cases, secured reprints, and they have made some themselves.

      Not very long since a present of a most creditable and well-edited republication of Four Old Plays was sent to me from Cambridge, U.S., consisting of "Three Interludes: Thersytes, Jack Jugler, and Heywood's Pardoner and Frere; and Jocasta, a tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh." They are preceded by a very well written and intelligent, and at the same time modest, Introduction, signed F.J.C., the initials of Mr. Francis James Child; who in fact was kind enough to forward the volume to me, and who, if I am not mistaken, was formerly a correspondent of mine in a different part of the republic.

      My particular reason for noticing the book is to impress upon editors in this country the necessity of accuracy, not only for the sake of readers and critics here, but for the sake of those abroad, because Mr. Child's work illustrates especially the disadvantage of the want of that accuracy. It so happens that two, if not three, of the pieces included in the Cambridge volume, are absolutely unique, and are now in the library of the Duke of Devonshire. They went through my hands some years ago, and as they had been previously reprinted in London (two of them for the Roxburghe Club), I took the opportunity of collating my copies of them. The third interlude, which was not reprinted for any society, but as a private speculation, by George Smeeton, in St. Martin's Church-yard, is Heywood's Pardoner and Frere, the full title of which is "A mery playe betwene the pardoner, and the frere, the curate and neybour Pratte. The original copy has the following imprint: Imprynted by Wyllyam Rastell the v. day of Apryll, the yere of our lorde, M. CCCCC. xxx III."

      The reprint by Smeeton is in black letter, and it professes to be a fac-simile, or as nearly so as possible; and although it consists of only eight leaves, it contains no fewer than forty variations from the original, all more or less important, and one of them the total omission of a line, so that the preceding line is left without its corresponding rhyme, and the sense materially injured.

      Unfortunately, Mr. Child reprinted in America from this defective reprint in England; but his sagacity prevented him from falling into some of the blunders, although it could not supply him with the wanting line; and his notes are extremely clear and pertinent. I shall not go over the thirty-nine other errors; but I shall just quote the passage as it stands in the (as far as

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