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Page 1, The Accomplished Whore Translated from the Puttana Errante of Pietro Aretino, by Mary Wilson, spinster
Page 3, An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus... ...To which is added A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus"
Page 5, A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, ... ...To which is added "An Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers" during the Middle Ages of Western Europe
Page 9, Le Culte de Priape ...Suivi d'un "Essai sur le Culte des Pouboirs Generateurs durant le Moyen Age"
Page 13, The Adventures of an Irish Smock, Interspersed with Amatory Anecdotes of a Nankeen Pair of Breeches
Page 15, The Adventures of a School-Boy, Contes et chansons
Page 16, The Adventures of a Specialist In a Tour through England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Page 22, The Adventures of Sir Henry Loveall, Ober liebe und genus
Page 23, Alcibiade Enfant a l'Ecole Or a Journey through London
Page 30, Aline et Valcour or Cupid's Miscellany
Page 40, Les Amans Cloistre's (sic), Or the Freaks of Youthful Passion
Page 42, Les Amies or, The Intrigues of a Convent
Page 43, The Amorous Friars, Ou Le Roman Philosophique
Page 45, Amorous Quaker ou L'Heureuse Inconstance
Page 45, Cupid's Miscellany or Life of an Amorous Quaker
Page 46, Amors Wege Scene d'amour sapphique Sonnets
Page 48, Les Amoureuses, Traduit pour la premiere fois de l'Italien de Ferrante Pallavicini
Page 49, The Amours, Adventures, and Intriques of Tom Johnson
Page 50, Les Amours de Charlot et Toinette
Page 52, Les Amours de Napoleon III, Par l'auteur de la Femme de Cesar
Page 63, Les Amours d'Eugenie Kirkpatrik
Page 64, Les Amours de Sainfroid Jesuite, et d'Eulalie fille Debote
Page 70, The Amours of Sainfroid and Eulalia, Being the intrigues and amours of a Jesuit and a Nun....
Page 71, Anicient Symbol Worship Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity
Page 72, L' Annee Galante
Page 72, L' Annee Galante, ou Les Intrigues Secretes du Marquis de L***
Page 73, Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus Being an Epitome of some of the most remarkable and leading tenets in the faith of that people
Page 77, Anthologie Erotique d'Amarou Texte Sanscrit, Traduction, Notes et Gloses, par A. L. Apudy
Page 81, Antonii Panormitae Hermaphroditus Primus in Germania edidit et apophoreta adjecit Frider Carol Forbergius
Page 82, Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction.
Page 89, Apparution de Therese-Philosophe a Saint-Cloud ou Le Triomphe de la Volupte
Page 90, Arlequin Democratique Oeuvre collective d'une societe de litterateurs sous la direction de Louis Baudier
Page 95, L' Art de Peter, Essai Theori-physique et Methodique.
Page 98, L' Art de plumer la poule sans crier
Page 99, Atrocious Acts of Catholic Priests Who have lately committed the most Horrid and Diabolical Rape and Murders in Ireland and France,...
Page 102, Aus den Memorien einer Sangerin
Page 110, Aventures Matrimoniales ou Le Mariage de la Belle Sophie
Page 113, The Bagnio Miscellany, Containing Three Interesting Dialogues between a Jew and a female Christian
Page 115, Banquier Peirotte et la Derbieur Histoire peu morale, extraite du Parc aux Cerfs, avec figure fac-similee sur celle de 1790, suivi de L'Autrichienne en Goguette
Page 115, The Bar Maid of the Old Point House, Being the Secret History of the Amours and Intrigues of a Bar Maid...
Page 117, The Battles of Venus, A Descriptive Dissertation on the Various Modes of Enjoyment...
Page 118, The Battles of Venus, A Descriptive Dissertation of the Various Modes of Enjoyment of the Female Sex...
Page 126, The Bed-Fellows or Young Misses Manual, In Six Confidential Dialogues between Two Budding Beauties who have just fledged their teens
Page 126, The Bed-Fellows or Young Misses Manuel (sic), In Six Confidential Dialogues between Two Budding Beauties who have just fledged their teens
Page 128, La Belle Leontine
Page 129, Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste, ou Choix de pieces Desopilantes et Rares reimprimees en 1869
Page 130, Bibliotheque Bibliophilo-Facetieuse
Page 132, Les Bijoux du Petit Neveu de l'Aretin ou Etrennes Libertines dediees aux Femmes ci-devant de qualite, & sensibles, s'il s'en trouve;...
Page 133, The Blowen's Cabinet of Choice Songs A beautiful, bothering, laugher, provoking, collection of spiflicating, flabbergasting smutty dittes...
Page 138, Le Boudoir d'Amaranthe, ou Les Nouveaux Plaisirs de l'Isle de Cythere
Page 140, The British Don Juan Being a Narrative of the Singular Amours, Entertaining Adventures, Remarkable Travels, &c. of the Hon. Edward W. Montague
Page 142, The British Phoenix or, the Gentleman and Lady's Polite Literary Entertainer...
Page 143, Bruxelles la Nuit. Physiologie des Establissements Nocturnes de Bruxelles
Page 147, The Buck's Delight Being a Collection of Humorous Songs, Sung at the several Societies of Choice Sprits, Bucks, Free-Masons...
Page 148, A Cabinet of Amourous Curiosities, In Three Tales. Highly calculated to please The Votaires of Venus
Page 149, The Cabinet of Fancy, or Bon Ton of the day
Page 150, La Cacomonade, Histoire Politique et Morale
Page 151, Cancionero de Obras de Burlas Proborantes a Risa
Page 154, Charges et Decharges Diaboliques
Page 156, The Charm, The Night School, The Beautiful Jewess and The Butcher's Daughter
Page 156, Le Chassepot
Page 158, The Cherub or, Guardian of Female Innocence
Page 158, TheCherub, or Guardian Angle of Female Innocence. An Exposition of the Schemes and Allurements Practised by Boarding Schools
Page 160, O Cherubim, Fillho de Paes Incognitos. Illustrado com 10 Estampas Volumes 1 e 2
Page 161, De Uxore Theotisca Bon der Ieutfchen Frau
Page 165, Confession Galante d'une Femme du Monde
Page 166, Confession Galante d'une Femme du Monde
Page 167, O Confissionario ou O Proveito dos Frades por Mar Ohlarac, Doutor na faculdade da Redof...
Page 168, Courier Extraordinaire des fouteurs Ecclesiastiques Piece revolutionnaire reimprimee textuelement sur l'edition originale publiee en 1790 et devenue tres-rare...
Page 168, Courrier Extraordinaire des fouteurs Ecclesiastiques Piece revolutionnaire reimprimee textuelement sur l'edition originale publiee en 1790 et devenue tres-rare...
Page 174, Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae or, Tabooed Subjects Freely Treated
Page 185, Cythera's Hymnal or, Flakes from the Foreskin. A collection of Songs, Poems, Nursery Rhymes, Quiddities, etc., etc.
Page 188, The Dark Side of New York Life, and its Criminal Classes from Fifth Avenue down to the Five Points. A complete Narrative of the Mysteries of New York
Page 189, Don Leon A Poem by the late Lord Byron, Author of Chlde Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c....
Page 194, L' Ecole des Biches, ou Moeurs des Petites Dames de ce Temps
Page 198, An Essay on Woman
Page 216, An Essay on Woman, A Poem
Page 219, An Essay on Woman, in Three Epistles
Page 220, Essai sur la femme [Essay on Woman] en Trois Epitres. Traduit de L'Anglois
Page 223, Essay on Woman
Page 224, An Essay on Woman
Page 224, An Essay on Woman by the celebrated John Wilkes, Esq., M.P., Alderman, Lord Mayor, and Chamberlain of the City of London...
Page 224, An Essay on Woman
Page 225, An Essay on Woman, By the celebrated John Wilkes, Esq. M.P.
Page 227, Essay on Woman
Page 229, An Essay on Woman, and Other Pieces printed at the private press in Great George-street....
Page 236, Un Ete a la Campagne Corresondance de Deux Jeunes Parisiennes recueille par Un Auteur a la Mode
Page 236, Un Ete a la Campagne Corresondance de Deux Jeunes Parisiennes recueille par Un Auteur a la Mode
Page 238, Exhibition of female flagellants in the Modest & Incontinent World Proving from indubitable Facts that a number of Ladies take a secret Pleasure in whipping...
Page 239, Exhibition of female flagellants in the Modest & Incontinent World Proving from indubitable Facts that a number of Ladies take a secret Pleasure in whipping...
Page 243, Exhibition of female Flagellants Suus cuique mos. Printed at the Expense of Theresa Berkley, for the Benefit of Mary Wilson by John Sudbury
Page 244, Exhibition of female Flagellants Suus cuique mos. Printed at the Expense of Theresa Berkley, for the Benefit of Mary Wilson
Page 245, Part the Second, of the Exhibition of female flagellants in the Modest and Incontinent World Proving from indubitable Facts that a number of Ladies take a secret Pleasure in whipping...
Page 245, Part the Second, of the Exhibition of female flagellants in the Modest and Incontinent World Proving from indubitable Facts that a number of Ladies take a secret Pleasure in whipping...
Page 249, Part the Second, The female flagellants in the Beau-Monde and the Demi-Monde proving from indubitable facts that the Secret Pleasure of Whipping their own children and those of others,...
Page 257, Fashionable Lectures Composed and delivered with Birch Discipline, By the following, and many other Beautiful Ladies...
Page 258, Fashionable Lectures Composed and delivered with Birch Discipline, By the following, and many other Beautiful Ladies...
Page 261, Geneanthropeia Io. Benedicti Sinibaldi Archiatri et Professoris
Page 264, Rare Verities. The Cabinet of Venus Unlocked And Her Secrets laid open. Being a Translation of part of Sinibaldus his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things...
Page 266, The Genuine and Remarkable Amours of the Celebrated Author, Peter Aretin
Page 267, Les Heros d'Amour
Page 268, History of the Sect of Maharajas or Vallabhacharyas in Western India
Page 280, The Index Expurgatorius of Martial, Literally translated; comprising all the epigrams hitherto omitted by English translators...
Page 282, Kama-Shastra Or, The Hindoo Art of Love (Ars Amoris Indica). Tranlsated from the Sanscrit, and Annotated by A.F.F. & B.F.R.
Page 300, Lady Bumtickler's Revels A Comic Opera, In Two Acts, As it was performed at Lady Bumtickler's Private Theater, in Birch-Grove...
Page 300, Lady Bumtickler's Revels A Comic Opera, In Two Acts, As it was performed at Lady Bumtickler's Private Theater, in Birch-Grove...
Page 301, Life, Adventures, Intrigues, and Amours of the celebrated Jemmy Twitcher Exhibiting Many striking Proofs To what Baseness the Human Heart is capable of Descending...
Page 303, Madame Birchini's Dance A Modern Tale. With Considerable Additions, and Original Anecdotes collected in the Fashionable Cirlces.
Page 305, Le Mari Feroce, Collection Louis Jaugey Le Mari Feroce avec Six Eaux-fortes
Page 305, Merry Order of St. Bridget Personal Recollections of The Use of the Rod
Page 311, Mysteries of Flagellation Or, A History of the Secret Ceremonies of the Society of Flatellants...
Page 315, New Epicurean Or, The Delights of Sex, Facetiously and Philosophically Considered, in Graphic Letters Addressed to Young Ladies of Quality
Page 319, Nocturnal Rebels Or, the History of King-Place, and other Modern Nunneries...
Page 321, Les Serails de Londres, ou Les Amusemens Nocturnes...
Page 322, L' Espion Anglois, ou Correspondance Secrete entre Milord All'eye et Milord All'ear
Page 322, L' Obserbateur Anglois, ou Correspondance Secrete entre Milord All'eye et Milmord Alle'ar (sic)
Page 323, L' Espion Anglois, ou Correspondance entre deux milords sur les moeurs publiques et privees des Francais
Page 324, Anecdotes Echappees a L'Obserbateur Anglois et aux Memoires Secrets, en forme de correspondance; pour servir de suite a ces deux ouvrages
Page 326, Phoebe Kissagen or, the Remarkable Adventures, Schemes, Wiles, and Devilries of Une Masquerelle; being a sequel to the "New Epicurean"
Page 328, Phoebe Kissagen or, the Remarkable Adventures, Schemes, Wiles, and Devilries of Une Masquerelle; being a sequel to the "New Epicurean"
Page 328, The Phoenix of Sodom, or the Vere Street Coterie. Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah...
Page 342, The Picadilly Ambulator or, Old Q: containing Memoirs of the Private Life of that Ever-green Votary of Venus!...
Page 343, Quinque Illustrium Poetarum Ant. Panormitae; Ramusii, Ariminensis; Pacifici Maximi, Asculani...
Page 344, The Romance of Chastisement or, The Revelations of Miss Darcy
Page 345, Romance of Chastisement or Revelations of the School and Bedroom
Page 355, Plums without Dough or 144 Quaint Conceits
Page 357, Satan's Harvest Home or the Present State of Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Procuring, Pimping, Sodomy, And the Game at Flatts
Page 367, The Sealed Letter
Page 369, Selections from the Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Including all the Passages Hitherto suppressed
Page 370, Sublime of Flagellation In Letters from Lady Termagant Flaybum, of Birch-Grove, to Lady Harriet Tickletail of Bumfiddle-Hall
Page 371, Sublime of Flagellation In Letters from Lady Termagant Flaybum, of Birch-Grove, to Lady Harriet Tickletail of Bumfiddle-Hall
Page 376, Tutti gli Epigrammi di M. Val. Marziale Fedelmente Trasportati in Italiano da Giuspanio Graglia, Torinese
Page 379, The Ups and Downs of Life, A Fragment
Page 395, Venus School Mistress Or Birchen Sports ...with a Preface by Mary Wilson, containing some Account of the late Mrs. Berkley
Page 397, Venus School Mistress or, Birchen Sports. By R. Birch, Translator of Manon's Memoirs.
Page 398, Venus School Mistress Or Birchen Sports ...with a Preface by Mary Wilson, containing some Account of the late Mrs. Berkley
Page 402, Wolluft im Lande der Venus
Page 402, Wolluft im Lande der Venus
Page 403, Yokel's Preceptor or, More Sprees in London!...
Page 407, Zoloe et Ses Deux Acolytes Discours aux Manes de Marat. L'Auteur des Crimes de l'Amour a Villeterque

NOTES
on
CURIOUS AND UNCOMMON
BOOKS.

INDEX
LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM

being
Notes Bio-Biblio-Icono-graphical and Critical,
on
Curious and Uncommon Books

by

PISANUS FRAXI.

.....Qab enlm non vicus abundat
Triitibus obcooenis ? Jov.» Sat. a.

LONDON:
Privately Printed

MDCCCLXXVII.

EPIGRAPHS.

" A nation's books are her vouchers. Her libraries are her monuments. Her wealth of
gold and silver, whether invested in commerce, or bonds, or banks is always working for her;
but her stores of golden thoughts, inventions, discoveries, and intellectual treasures, invested
mainly in print and manuscript, are too often stored somewhere in limbo unregistered,
where, though sleek and well preserved, they rather slumber than fructify. The half of them
are not recorded, and the resting places of many are not known."

H. Stbvsns. Bibliotheca Gtcgraphica, p. i.

♦

11 La literature actuelle est, a-t-on dit, une grand dame qui a ses jours de carnaval, et
dont elle use jusqu'fc oublier entterement la dignitl de sa mission : le bon goftt et les saines
lettres ne sont que trop souvent sacrifils k ses hearts."

Qu*rard. Les Supereheria Littbraira Dtvoilets, 1865^ p. xv.

M Fontenelle disait: 'II n'est point de chagrin qui tienne contre uneheure de lecture.'
Or, de toutes les lectures, la plus entratnante est celle des ouvrages Irotiques, surtout lorsqu'ils
sont aocompagnls de figures expressives."

Ristif os la Bn eton nx. VAnti-Justine, Introduction.

"CUmbu.—R a une obsctaitl qui n'est pas supportable.
&lise.—Comment dites-vous ce mot-U, madame ?
<3sfit£ne^Obsc4nit4, madame.

fitise.—Ah I mon dieu, obsclnitl. Je ne sais ceque ce mot veut dire; mais je le trouve le
plus joli du monde."

Moli&rx. La Critique de VScoUdts Femmest Scene III.

PREFACE.

Far from deprecating criticism, or spurning the opinion of
friends, I court, on the contrary, their judgment, and solicit
their corrections. My objects are—truth, the extension of
bibliographical studies, and the accurate description of the
works noticed in the following pages.

To strangers, into whose hands my book may fall, I would
say, in extenuation of my numerous shortcomings, that I am
not an author by profession; but being actively engaged in
pursuits of an entirely different nature, have sought recreation in
compiling this work during my few leisure hours. " Dulce est
desipere in loco."

Whatever reception this compilation may meet with at the
hands of the few bibliophiles and students for whom it is

PREFACE.

intended, I may say that the pleasure I have experienced in
making it has already amply rewarded me for my labour.
" The struggling for knowledge (aptly observes the Marquis of
Halifax) hath a pleasure in it like that of wrestling with a
fine woman.11

INTRODUCTION.

"The infant science of Bibliographyas Hartwell Horne(')
not inappropriately terms it, has never been cultivated in England
with the same love or success as by our neighbours doutre
manche. With the noblest and richest literature in the world
few men of genius have come forward to be its chroniclers, and
to devote their talent and labour to the unremunerative,(a) if not
thankless(5) task of recording the works of others.

1 Introduction to the Study of Bibliography, vol. i, p. viii.

a In one of his letters M. Paul Lacroix humourously compares biblio-
graphy to a vast plain which produces nothing but potatoes.

3 " The Common World (writes White Kennet) will judge, that it is
much more of Reputation to be an Author than to be a bare Collector : And
this will be a standing Reason, why the Multitude of Writers shall aim at the
more creditable Name, and why so few seem willing to submit to that lower
Character. But however, to write for Praise and Popularity is one Thing, and
to write for Publick Use and Service is a different Thing: The first is indeed
more natural, the latter has somewhat of Self-Denial and Mortification in it.

" The Author has not only the Pleasure of hunting after the
Applause of others, but he enjoys a quicker Taste of pleasing himself,

being at Liberty to indulge his Invention, his Judgment, his Fancy,
Wit, Oratory, or any other prevailing Talent in him; While the
dull Collector is confin'd to the sort of mechanick Drudgery, to the running,

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INTRODUCTION.

In spite of a long list of respectable names which might be
cited, we have in truth no bibliographers who dare measure
themselves besides such giants as Qudrard, Barbier, J. C.
Brunet, or even as Peignot, Nodier, or Le Bibliophifc Jacob

stooping, searching, poring, picking out, and patting together, a Mass of
Authorities; and often revising, collating and transferring of them, without
being able to bring them soon into any regular Form and Fashion. As in-
glorious, as for the Day-Labourer to be throwing up an Heap of Stones and
Rubbish, while the noble Architect alone has the Satisfaction and Credit of
raising and perfecting his own Model.

"And yet in compiling any History fit to be read, the proper Materials are to be
sought out with Diligence, and before they are compacted, they must be examin'd,
compar'd, corrected, and adjusted in due Order, and mark'd out for the re-
spective Use and Application of them." SUgfetcr an* C$ronfclt, 1728, Preface.

Mr. H. Stevens somewhat bitterly remarks: " From the days of Hipparchus
to the present time the stars have been catalogued, and to-day every bird,
beast, fish, shell, insect, and living thing; yea even tree, shrub, flower, rock and
gem, as they became known are scientifically, systematically and intelligently
named, described and catalogued. For all these departments of human know-
ledge there is a well ascertained and generally acknowledged system which is
dignified as a science. A man who can correctly describe in a dead language
a live beetle, or a fish, or a humming bird is very properly deemed a philoso-
pher, a man of science, becomes a fellow of learned societies with a respect-
able OPQ handle to his name, and may once a year spend a week with
other severe philosophers in Scientific Associations.

"But as yet no such honour awaits the bibliographer, the cataloguer of our
books, the registrar of our mental offspring. There is no acknowledged
system of &rt or science to dignify and honour his labours. Bibliography as
yet is a mere jackall, or packhorse, or some other patient beast of burden
doomed to work for other arts and sciences, content with small emoluments
for itself and smaller praise. This ought not,to be so, and will not probably
be so much longer. There will doubtless, as in every" thing else in this rapid
age, be a favorable change whenever the importance of the subject is fairly
so brought home to our business and bosoms as to make it pay and become
respectable." BftUotytca Otograpfjta, p. 2.

xiii. INTRODUCTION.

(M. Paul Lacroix). Some good work has, of course, been
done, but English bibliographers are deficient for the most
part in scope, depth, and frequently in exactitude.(4) Qudrard
and Barbier, for instance, disdain not to notice minor books and

4 In that part of his " Avertissement" to the second edition of " Les
Supercheries Litt6raires, 1865/* where he passes in review the various
countries in which the subject he has in hand has been treated, Qu6rard
makes no mention whatever of England. Ebert remarks: "Restricted
bibliography has been as yet attended to in its entire extent by the French
alone (at first by Debure in the Biblvographie instructive), and Brunet's
Manuel du libraire is on the whole the most useful and successful work,
which we possess in this branch of bibliography. The English, Italians, and
Germans must not be mentioned here, when we speak of a whole, since they
have advanced bibliography only by monographies or, as is particularly the
case with the Germans, having a particular reference to other objects."
dmtral Bftl{ograj$(cal &ic.f Preface, p. iv.

Bridgman says: u Our nation has been too inattentive to bibliographical
criticisms and enquiries, for generally the English reader is obliged to resort to
foreign writers to satisfy his mind as to the value of authors. It behoves us
however to consider, that there is not a more useful or a more desirable branch
of education than a knowledge of books, which being correctly attained, and
judiciously exercised, will prove the touchstone of intrinsic merit, and have
the effect of saving many a spotless page from prostitution/' legal Siblio*
SUtf* P- v.

"There is now nothing as we have said (observes Mr. H. Stevens) ap-
proaching a complete bibliographical record of the books of the English
language, that is, of Great Britain, America, India, and Australia. Germany
and France are a little better off, but not much. Other bookprinting nations
are we believe behind even England/' Htbliotfjeca 6tograj$ua, p. 6.

" In that useful section of labour (bibliography) we have, as a nation (Mr.
Edwards remarks), very little to boast of. Dibdin's writings have given a
stimulus to more systematic effort than his own. And doubtless the pupils
will, as usual, climb up on the shoulders of the master, and think themselves
wonderfully tall fellows.'* Itbrarif* onto jfoun&er* of libraries, p. 422.

Passing now to the study of biography, it may not be out of place to note

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INTRODUCTION.

obscure pamphlets, which would be deemed unworthy of men-
tion by our Dibdin,(5) Lowndes, Watt, or by Allibone.

Bibliography with us has been looked upon as an inferior
pursuit, scarcely worthy of a man of original parts; how erron-
eously, and with what injustice, every one who has really taken
this difficult and absorbing study seriously in hand will readily
own.

It was Southey, I believe, who said that next to writing an
epic poem was the talent to appreciate one; and this remark
may not inappropriately be applied to bibliography. It is not
in the competency of every one, however fond of books,
adequately to catalogue, describe, and classify them. But to
extract from them their pith and marrow, and to put the same

here that we are indebted to a Foreigner and to a Foreign press for our first
dictionary of living authors. The first work of the kind was " 3) ad geletyrte
(Englanb obex Serifon bet ietjtlritnben ®c^ripftellet in ©rofrtrttannlen, 3rlanb unb
1790. ©on Seremia* $ A supplement, in 2 vols, followed in 1804, See 9 8tograpi)tral Bit. of tf)t
lifting 9utf)or* of ©reat Britain an* frelantt, kc., London, 1816, p. vi. ;
and Bftliotyeta »tblu>grapf)ua, p. 347.

* What Crapelet wrote at the time about Dibdin is worth reperusal to-day:
" The luxurious English Bibliographer is astonished at the publication of the
' Manuel' without the accompaniment of Plates, Fac-similes, Vignettes, and
other graphic attractions. It is because intrinsic merit is preferable to form
and ornament: that at once establishes its worth and its success. * * ♦ It
would be lucky for him, if, to the qualities he possesses, M. Dibdin would
unite those which he praises in M. Brunet: his work and the public would
x be considerable gainers by it: his books would not be so costly, and would be
more profitable. The English Author describes nothing in sang-froid man-
ner: he is for ever charging: and, as he does not want originality in his
vivacity, he would seem to wish to be the Callot of Bibliography." Quoted

INTRODUCTION.

xiii.

in a useful, convenient, and readable form, so as to be a lasting
and trustworthy record (and this I take to be bibliography in
its highest sense), is a noble and elevating pursuit, which

by Dibdin himself at vol. 2, p. 2.34 of his SftUograpf)tcaI Cour. Since that
date, 1818, Dibdin's books have increased in value very considerably.
Here are the prices which some of them have recently fetched. At the
Perkins sale in 1873, "Bibliomania," large paper £56. o. o., "Bibliotheca
Spenceriana " and the " Cassano Catalogue," together, £22, o. o., " Biblio-
graphical Decameron," £17. o. o., "Bibliographical Tour," large paper,
with Lewis's etchings inserted, £43. o. o., "Library Companion," large
paper, £4. 10. o., "Introduction to Greek and Latin Classics," large vellum
paper, £3. 12. 6., "Typographical Antiquities," large paper, £44. o. o.,
" JEdes Althorpianae," large paper, £11. 5. o.; and at the Benzon sale, 1875,
"Typographical Antiquities," £13. o. o., "Bibliographical Decameron,"
£5$. o. o., " Bibliographical Tour," £27. o. o., and another copy £16. o. o.,
"Bibliotheca Spenceriana," "Cassano Library," and " Mdes Althorpianae,"
together, £24. o. o., "Bibliomania," with plates added, £46. 10. o., "Remini-
scences of a Literary Life," large paper, £12. 5. o.

Mr. Edwards*s strictures on Dibdin and his performances, although severe,
are in the main just: " His well-known books have had the curious fortune
to keep their price, without keeping their reputation. They are lustily abused,
and eagerly bought. Nor is the cause far to seek. Want of method, fan-
tastic raptures about trifles, indiscriminate emphasis, innattention to minute
accuracy, petty but provoking affectations in style, and wearisome repetitions
of pointless anecdotes, are drawbacks which need very eminent merits to
countervail them. That Dibdin had eminent merits is certain. But his works
bring high prices chiefly because they are very decorative, and of small im-
pressions. The author's acquaintance with books was large, and his love for
them real. As a writer, he had powers which under due restraint might
have become considerable. He had a highly cultivated taste in the arts of design.
He had much industry. He had seen a good deal of the world, under varied
aspects. But his mind seems always to haye lacked the power of graduation.
Much as be had mixed with society, his writings evince plainly that he could
as little mark degrees in his estimates of men, as he could mark them in his
b

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INTRODUCTION.

requires tact, delicacy, discrimination, perspicuity, not to men-
tion patience, and untiring assiduity.(6)

In special bibliographies the English are signally deficient.
We possess no adequate dictionary of authors who have written
anonymously, or under assumed names; for the modern work(7)
of Olphar Hamst (Mr. Ralph Thomas), excellent so far as it
goes, can certainly not be qualified as an adequate performance

estimates of books. The petty, the conventional, and the merely external
qualities of both, so ingrossed his attention, that the vital and intrinsic
qualities usually escaped him. When he had to catalogue a library, magnificent
in condition and bindings, abounding in rarities, and affording ample means for
artistic illustration, he did his work to the delight of the book-loving reader as
well as to his own. When he attempted to guide other men, not in collecting
fine books, but in choosing instructive and elevating ones, he showed plainly
that he had been so busy about type and colophon, uncropped margins and
morocco bindings, copies with proof plates and copies on vellum, as to allow
the spirit of the author and the essence of the book to evaporate under his manipu-
lations. In like manner, when you read his Reminiscences of the men with
whom he had mixed in life, you are left in considerable doubt whether or not he
quite understood the difference between two men, both of whom were ' Rox-
burghians,' and editors of black-letter rarities—Walter Scott and Joseph
Haslewood." (Aram* an* dfoun&er* of iftrarie*, p. 418.

6 The Marquis du Roure has already fully expressed what I would con-
vey 5 he says: " Le talent de r6sumer et d'appr6cier les pens^es d'autrui, le soin
p6nible de recherches qu'il exige, le discernement prompt et stir qu'il suppose,
tout cela n'est ni common, ni m6prisable, et rentre d'ailleurs dans le domaine
de Tart, quand un style vari6, avec line simplicity 616gante, vient y joindre ses
agr6mens, ce qui s'est rencontr6 plus d'une fois." flnalectabtblton, vol. 1, p. 5.

1 feanttbook of dfuttttou* Jiamerf, London, 1868. This work
embraces the fictitious names of the present century only, although
a few literary impostors of all times are included.

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in so extensive and interesting a field.(8) Of persons punished
for writing or publishing works contrary to the law, whether
political, religious, or moral; of books destroyed by the
executioner, (9)or annihilated by the elements, no other records
exist than such as may be found buried at the Record Office, or
scattered through the columns of the journals of the time, or

The late Samuel Halkett, keeper of the Advocate's library, Edinburgh, de-
voted much time and labour to this subject, and at his death, left a rich store
of MS. notes, which it has since been proposed to publish in % vols.,
demy 4to., under the editorship of Mr. T. H. Jamieson, Halkett's suc-
cessor, with title: " A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous
Literature of Great Britain, Including the Works of Foreigners written in, or
translated into, the English Language."

The premature death of Mr. Jamieson, at the early age of 32 years, will, it
is to be feared, further retard the publication of Halkett's work.

Thomas Hill Jamieson was born (according to the Scotsman of January
10, 1876) in August, 1843, and died January 9,1876. In £ote* antf (fiumr*,
5th S.V. p. 64, appeared a kindly tribute to his memory from the pen of Mr.
Ralph Thomas $ from it are extracted the above facts concerning him.

8 The remarks of Querard,upon this point may not be out of place here:
u Depuis 1670, il y a pr&s de deux si&cles, que parut le premier ouvrage

d6voilant les anonymes et pseudonymes, celui de Fr6d. Geisler, combien de
travaux semblables ont 6t6 publics jusqu'& nos jours, d'abord en Allemagne,
ensuite en Italie : en France pour la premi&re fois par Adrien Baillet, qui fit
paraltre, en 1690, ses Auteurs degvisez; en Su&le, et tout recemment en
Belgique et en Russie ! C'est que la recherche des auteurs anonymes et pseudo-
nymes est la plus attrayante partie d'une sp6cialit6 des connaissances humaines,
sp6cialit6 qui n'offre pas en g6n6ral de grands charmes & ceux qui s'en occu-
pent, la Bibliographies 1*0 £upmf)crurf ittterafrf* 9ftoflfa, 2nd. edit.
1865, "Avertissement," p. 5.

9 An attempt to supply this deficiency is being at present made in the
Infcq; Cflpurgatoriutf fingluanu*, by W. H. Hart, F.S.A., now at its
3rd part.

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in the pages of " Notes and Queries,"(IO) or here and there in a
few minor and almost forgotten bibliographical books;(") and
it has even been left to a foreigner(") to suggest the interest
and utility(13) of such investigations.

But although the French are the bibliographers par excellence,
even they can scarcely be said to possess a thoroughly satis-
factory catalogue raisonni of their exceedingly rich erotic
literature.

10 First series, vols. 8,^, 11, ia j and 2nd Series, vols. 1, a, 8, 9, 10, ia.

11 Especially those pleasant little volumes of W. Davis, the <©lfof and

the two 3ourntr* rounti tf>e fcftrarp of a Bibliomaniac.

13 M. Octave Delepierre, in his most interesting studies : Se6 libvti
contiamne* au Ceu en 9ngleterre, and He la 333>ltopf)agte, published for the
Philobiblon Society.

For a list of works on condemned books see Peignot's flu. Store*
contiaimu* au feu, vol. 1, p. xxix.

*3 " S'occuper des principaux ouvrages qui ont ete condamn6s au feu,
supprim6s oii censures (Peignot writes) ; e'est rassembler des materiaux pour
THistoire des erreurs de l'esprit humain j e'est marquer les ecueils dangereux
qu'il serait & souhaiter que tout6crivain eiit la ferme r6solution d'eviter lorsqu'il
prend la plume. Rien ne serait peut-&tre plus utile qu'un tableau m6thodique
et bien fait de la fatale influence qu'ont eue sur les troubles civils, politiques
et religieux, les principes exag6res repandus dans la plupart des livres proscrits,
et meme dans quelques-uns qui ne l'ont pas et6." He adds : " Vouloir donner
un Catalogue raisonn6 de ces sortes de livres qui n'ont point ete condamn6s,
mais qui ont m6rit6 de T6tre, ce serait une enterprise considerable et qui serait
utile.'* Su. tie* itbre* ronKamne* au feu9 vol. 1, "Discours,' pp. 1 and xxvi.

The Marquis du Roure bears similar testimony. Speaking of works analo-
gous to his own, the glnalertabtblton, he remarks (at vol. 1, p. 5): "Quant
d leur utilite, rien ne semble moins contestable, si ce n'est qu'on trouve
indififerent de faire connaltre l'esprit des neuf dixi£mes des gens dont il
est important de retracer le nom, la patrie, la naissance, la vie et la mort, ainsi
que le font tous les dictionnaires historiques si curieusement recherch6s j
autrement qu'il est superflu de savoir ce que tels et tels ont 6crit, pourvu
qu'on sache qu'ils ont 6crit j proposition difficile k soutenir."

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The only work indeed which exists, in any language, devoted
to that branch, is the " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs k
FAmour, aux Femmes, au Mariage et des Livres Fac6tieux,
Pantagru61iques Scatologiques, Satyriques, etc. par M. Le C.
D'l * * *" published (if not also edited) by M. Jules Gay.
It purposes to embrace the erotic books, not only of the
French, but of all European languages, ancient and modern.
As far as French and Italian literature is concerned, it is useful
and necessary, but for English books it is little better than
worthless. Besides, it has grave defects both of commission
and omission; it is at once redundant and defective, being
padded with a vast mass of matter foreign to its purpose and
design, while many books, which properly belong to it, are
omitted altogether, or passed over with a bare noting of their
titles. The fact is M. Gay has collected his materials and in-
formation from the four corners of the globe, from imperfectly
informed contributors, from booksellers' catalogues, indeed
from any and every available source, and has passed these varied
gleanings into his pages without thorough verification or
digesting. The work is however unique, and although
not perfectly reliable, is indispensable for the student of foreign
literature.

That English erotic literature should never have had its biblio-
grapher is not difficult to understand. First and foremost the
English nation possesses an ultra-squeamishness and hyper-
prudery peculiar to itself,(M) sufficient alone to deter any author

" But there is a superficial morality among the English of the present day
(justly remark the talented authors of the Cf)f InHej: Cfjmrgatoriu* of
jftarttal), which unhappily bears all before it, and those who dare to write
in the teeth of this bring upon themselves most unmerited obloquy; the con-
c

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INTRODUCTION.

of position and talent from taking in hand so tabooed a subject;
and secondly English books of that class have generally been
written with so little talent, delicacy, or art, that, in addition to
the objectionableness of the subject itself, they would undoubt-
edly be considered by most bibliographers as totally unworthy
of any consideration whatever. For while in France, in Italy,
and even in Germany, some of the most esteemed authors have
not hesitated to write licentious books, with us the veriest
grubbians only have, as a rule, put their pens at the disposal of
Venus and Priapus. The greatest name of which England can
boast is John Cleland, and he is, after all, but a star of very
inferior magnitude. These remarks apply equally to artists.
Thomas Rowlandson has certainly produced a great number of
obscene drawings and etchings, generally in his best manner ;(,s)
there are some excellent mezzotints by John Raphael Smith;
some others, designed (probably) by George Morland, and exe-
cuted by his brother-in-law William Ward, might be mentioned;
and although a few indecent engravings by Hogarth,(l6) and at
least one set of illustrations to " Fanny Hill" by one perhaps
equally great with him, and still living, exist: yet here we must

sequence of this is shewn in all our translations of the classics. Mr. Bohn's
classical series might have been a most splendid introduction to the pursuit of
Latin and Greek Literature, but unfortunately when an obscene passage occurs,
it is either omitted without asterisks or simply and purposely mistranslated."
" Address to the Reader/1 p. vi. This is not absolutely true, for in the jKarttal
the obscene passages are sometimes given, but in Italian.

In the course of this work I propose to give a list, as complete as possible,
of Rowlandson's free productions.

,6 T allude to " The complicated R—n," and the " Frontis—Piss," given
by S. Ireland in his 6rapf)tc Kultratioitf of feogarty, 1794.

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also give the palm to foreigners, and own that England has pro-
duced no artists equal to Giulio Romano, Augusto and Annibale
Caracci, Fragonard, Boucher, Binet, Elvin, Borel, Denon, F£licien
Rops, and a host of others who might be mentioned, some oi
whose happiest efforts and most beautiful work will be found
in their lewdest compositions.^7)

This branch then has been hitherto entirely overlooked or
despised by English bibliographers; and the present work is, I
believe, the first of its kind in our language.

I hold that for the historian(18) or thfe psychologist these

l* Bat if we are deficient in artists who use the pencil, brush, burin, or
etching needle, we at any rate stand unrivalled in our photographers. A notable
instance of this is Mr. Henry Hayler, whose photographic studies from life
enjoy an European reputation. The officious Mr. Collette however has
succeeded in putting an end to his career. On the 31 March 1874, a raid was
made upon his houses, No. 20 Bloomfield Terrace, and No. 61 Pimlico Road,
Pimlico, and no less than 130,248 obscene photographs, and 5,000 slides
were seized and destroyed. Hayler himself absconded, and thereby escaped
punishment 5 he went to Berlin, but has not been heard of publicly since. It
was stated at the time that: " in the more offensive pictures were discernible
the portraits of the owner of the house, his wife, and two sons. Letters were
found in reference to the supply of the pictures to the trade all over Europe
and America." See "The Morning Advertiser0 of April ij u The Daily
Telegraph " of April 4 5 "The Times " of April 20, 1874.

18 The necessity for the historian to take vice equally with virtue into con- •
sideration is now generally acknowledged \ and the able remarks of Buckle
upon this point should be considered. He says : " The actions of men are by
an easy and obvious division separated into two classes, the virtuous and the
vicious; and as these classes are correlative, and when put together compose
the total of our moral conduct, it follows that whatever increases the one, will
in a relative point of view diminish the other 5 so that if we can in any period
detect a uniformity and a method in the vices of a people, there must be a

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INTRODUCTION.

books, whether in accordance with, or contrary to the preju-
dices and tendencies of the age, must be taken into account
as well as, if not in preference to those in many other and
better cultivated fields of literature.(19)

corresponding regularity in their virtues or if we could prove a regularity in
their virtues, we should necessarily infer an equal regularity in their vices 5 the
two sets of actions being, according to the terms of the division, merely
supplementary to each other." Further on he continues, "For the main
object of legislation being to protect the innocent against the guilty, it naturally
followed that European governments, as soon as they became aware of the
importance of statistics, should begin to collect evidence respecting the crimes
they were expected to punish." ftfctorp of Cfotltjatfon, vol. i, pp. 20 and ai.
These propositions granted, it naturally follows that all books which throw
light upon crime must be valuable to the historian.

»9 Mr. H. Stevens's remarks upon this head are-worth perusal: " So
far nothing has been said of trash or natural selection in our works, the
bugbear of half the critics. It is natural that every man should select such
books as he fancies, but it is only fair that he should leave the same right to
others. We all know that in books, what is trash to one person is nuggets to
another, and that the tastes of mankind in this respect are as varied as in every-
thing else. Our notion is that every book, big and little, that is published,
like every child that is born, should be registered, without inquiry into its
merits or character. We are no Malthusian [either in population or books.
Who shall pronouce on the progeny of a mother or an author, and declare that
this or that should not have been ? Certainly not the registrar or the cataloguer.
A human soul that is once in existence, or a book that is once in print and
published, you cannot well put out of existence. You may kill it, or cut it up
in a review, but it exists nevertheless, and should be provided for. If villainous,
watch and impound it. Ask a hundred men who read as they run, to each
exclude a hundred of the worthless volumes from a library of ten thousand,
and the chances are that no single book would receive five black balls. You
have a perfect right to turn up your nose at my poems and pronounce them
trash, while I may if I please indulge in the like luxury of calling your sermons

xxiii. INTRODUCTION.

Our knowledge of the manners and customs of the Romans
under their emperors would be limited indeed, had not the
works of their satiric poets been handed down to us ;(■•) where
shall we find a more truthful and striking picture of the rotten-
ness and depravity of the old French noblesse, which undoubt-
edly hastened, if they did not produce the first revolution, than in

stuff and nonsensej yet we are individual critics, and our opinions go exactly
for what they are worth, while our books perhaps .rival in the rapidity of
sale the Proverbial Philosophy, proverbially vitupperated annually at twelve and
sixpence per column by the professed critic who has it in hand. Not every
one is robust enough to relish Bacon, or indulge pleasantly or profitably in the
Novum Organum, for his mind may be better adapted to enjoy Peter
WUkins or Mother Goose's Melodies. Indeed it is amusing, looking up
and down our streets and markets, to see how light is the mental pabulum that
best nourishes some minds, and what dry and hard meat others require. The
lighter a balloon the higher it will rise, even so sometimes the thinner the
matter of a book the higher it goes in the estimation of some of our
neighbours, whose tastes and opinions are to be respected. No man or person
ever wrote a book, probably, so weak and wishywashy but that some mental
stomach might be found just strong enough to thrive upon it. We therefore,
in view of the general fitness of things, vote for the cataloguing of every book
printed as it turns up, leaving the selection to the selectors. There is no fear
of being papered up if we arrange, sort and systematise our stores.
Stbltotyua 6eograpf)fca, p. 6.

90 I quote again from Ci)f fnfcej; (fypurgatoriutf, p. iv.: " The poems
of Martial, more especially the grosser ones, contain a vivid picture
of the worst side of the private character of the Romans of the age of
Domitian; and we do not hesitate to say, that the abnormal vices of a highly
civilized though extraordinarily demoralized society, form an interesting and
important study for the historian, moralist, or legislator, for it must be re-
membered that the vices of an age, not its virtues, point out most strongly
the moral of that age, and these are best shewn and exposed by its literature.'*
d

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INTRODUCTION.

the memoirs of the time,(,x) or in the novels of Mirabeau, De
Sade,(M) Andrea de Nerciat, Choderlos de Laclos, and others;
or what history will make us so well comprehend the vices,
follies, and venalities which disgraced the courts of our
Georges, as the lampoons, scandalous biographies, and scur-
rilous periodicals with which that period abounded ? Such writers
undoubtedly reflected the times in which they lived, if they were
not, as some historians maintain, the actual necessities and
complements of their respective epochs.('*)

11 " The light portraits (says Hallam) of the Court of Versailles, in some
of the memoirs about the end of Louis XV's reign, almost cause a blush at
perusal, but in them we have before us the handwriting on the wall, the
winter whitened whirlwind hushed in its grim repose and expecting its prey,
the vengeance of an oppressed people and long forbearing Deity." fntrotftution
to literature of frurope.

11 A modern German writer remarks: " Uefeigenl liefent unl Mefe feiben
®dnbe (Justine) ein gttrucf SBlIb bet (Entfittll^ung ber frangftflftyett 9MfUtratle
tat xviii. 3a$r$unbert ®le n&$t!t$en Sagben auf SRAbdjen unb Anafeen, bie
in Uefen SBdnben gu wiebet^oltm SRalen Bef^rteBen roetben, laffen unf bie SRadjt
biefer fcerrudjten {Race erfemten, bot welder bie $oli}ei ofytmd^tig mx." Supine
tin* 9uUette fct RrtttW&e jabe, p. 46.

u This theory is warmly advocated by Buckle, who, basing his arguments
in great part upon the facts adduced by M. Quetelet (Sur Vhomme, Paris,
1835, v°l« *> P« 7> ^^ v°l« PP« i<54> a47> 325)> ^ illustrating them by the
frequent and regular recurrence of two crimes, murder and suicide, arrives at
" the conclusion, that the offences of men are the result not so much of the
vices of the individual offender as of the state of society into which that indi-
vidual is thrown." In a foot note he quotes M. Quetelet's own words :
"que c'est la soci6t6 qui prepare le crime,et que le coupable n'est que l in-
strument qui l'ex6cute." ftfetorp of Cibdt|at{on9 vol. 1, p. 27. This I take
to be the meaning of Mr. Thomas Carlyle when he says of his Hero as a man
qf letters: " Looking well at his life, we may get a glance, as deep as is readily

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xxiii.

I maintain that no production of the human brain should be
ignored, entirely disregarded, or allowed to become utterly
lost ;(H) for every writing, however trifling or insignificant it

possible for us, into the life of those singular centuries which have produced
him, in which we ourselves live and work.'1 Itrturt* on fttrot*. The hy-
pothesis is still further amplified by Th6ophile Gautier, who, in the preface to
JKattemofeellf fct tfUupiit, makes the following pointed remarks: " Les livres
suivent les moeurs et les moeurs ne suivent pas les livres.—La R6gence a fait
Cr6billon, ce n'est pas Cr6billon qui a fait la Rlgence. Les petites bergdres
de Boucher 6taient fard6es et d6braill6es, parce que les petites marquises
£taient fard6es et d6braill6es.—Les tableaux se font d'apr&s les modules et non
les modules d'apr&s les tableaux. Je ne sais qui a dit je ne sais oil que la
litt£rature et les arts influaient sur les moeurs. Qui que ce soit, c'est
indubitablement un grand sot.—C'est comme si l'on disait: Les petits pois
font pousser le printemps $ les petits pois poussent au contraire parce que c'est
le printemps, et les cerises parce que c'est Y€t6. Les arbres portent les fruits,
et ce ne sont pas les fruits qui portent les arbres assur6ment, loi 6ternelle et
invariable dans sa vari6t6 ; les sidcles se succ&dent, et chacun porte son fruit
qui n'est pas celui du sidcle pr6c6dent j les livres sont les fruits des moeurs."

*4 Although the able and liberal observations of Lord Macaulay upon
this point will no doubt present themselves to my reader's mind, yet they
cannot be too often perused, and I venture to reproduce them: " We cannot
wish that any work or class of works which has exercised a great in-
fluence on [the human mind, and which illustrates the character of an
important epoch in letters, politics, and morals, should disappear from the
world. If we err in this matter, we err with the gravest men and bodies of
men in the empire, and especially with the Church of England, and with the
greatest schools of learning which are connected with her. The whole liberal
education of our countrymen is conducted on the principle, that no book
which is valuable, either by reason of the excellence of its style, or by
reason of the light which it throws on the history, polity, and manners
of nations, should be withheld from the student on account of its im-
purity. The Athenian Comedies, in which there are scarcely a hundred
lines together without some passage of which Rochester would have

xxiv. INTRODUCTION.

may seem, has a value for the true student, in estimating the

been ashamed, have been reprinted at the Pitt Press, and the Clarendon
Press, under the direction of syndics and delegates appointed by the Univer-
sities, and have been illustrated with notes by reverend, very reverend, and
right reverend commentators. Every year the most distinguished young men
in the kingdom are examined by bishops and professors of divinity in such
works as the Lysistrata of Aristophanes and the Sixth Satire of Juvenal.
There is certainly something a little ludicrous in the idea of a conclave of
venerable fathers of the church praising and rewarding a lad on account of
his intimate acquaintance with writings compared with which the loosest tale
in Prior is modest. But, for our own part, we have no doubt that the great
societies which direct the education of the English gentry have herein judged
wisely. It is unquestionable that an extensive aquaintance with ancient
literature enlarges and enriches the mind. It is unquestionable that a man
whose mind has been thus enlarged and enriched is likely to be far more
useful to the state and to the church than one who is unskilled, or little skilled,
in classical learning. On the other hand, we find it difficult to believe that,
in a world so full of temptation as this, any gentleman whose life would have
been virtuous if he had not read Aristophanes and Juvenal will be made
vicious by reading them. A man who, exposed to all the influences of such
a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to
the influences of a few Greek or Latin verses, acts, we think, much like
the felon who begged the sheriffs to let him have an umbrella held over his
head from the door of Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzling
morning, and he was apt to take cold.

" The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian
virtue, a virtue which can expose itself to the risks inseparable from all spirited
exertion, not a virtue which keeps out of the common air for fear of infection,
and eschews the common food as too stimulating. It would be indeed absurd to
attempt to keep men from acquiring those qualifications which fit them to
play their part in life with honour to themselves and advantage to their
country, for the sake of preserving a delicacy which cannot be preserved, a
delicacy which a walk from Westminster to the Temple is sufficient to destroy."
tttfaj; on Ittgi) feunt'* Dramatic OBorit* of QSpcfjerbg, fcc.

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indvidual who wrote it,(") or the period in which it was produced.

Let me not be misunderstood. I do not mean to say that
books either blasphemous, immoral, indecent, or written to
inflame the passions should be put into the hands of young
people, far from it, but I do assert that it is as necessary and
profitable for the student to know such books,(*) as it is for the
naturalist to be acquainted with the less known and less lovely
members of the animal kingdom, or for the astronomer to
watch the obscurer and minor celestial bodies—the wood-louse
being (in my opinion) as worthy of study as the elephant, or
the transit of Venus as the daily rising and setting of the sun.(a')

" £D?enfd?ftd)etf foil un« fremb Mei&en: wottm n>lt bie 9Mt unb un6
fet&fl redjt aetfletyen, fo mftffen wit ben fRenfd?en audj auf ban $fabe feitur
3rrt$ftmer fcegletten, nicfyt um feincn Sertrrungen na<$§ua$men, fonbern undivor
i^ren ju Ben>a$ren." 9lu« ben Wemolren einet ©dngerin, ffiornrtort 5.

* M. B6rard, in the introduction to his Catalogue fce Setting, fftamu
rfcrttrf et liferti qu'on e*t obltgf He cacf)tr, MS., makes the following con-
fession : " Le gotit des livres remonte chez moi & ma tr&s grande jeunesse. Je
poss6dais quelques uns de ceux qui composent ma bibliothique lorsque j'&ais
encore au college, et je suis forc6 d'avouer que ce ne sont pas les meilleurs.
Ces livres toutefois n'6taient pas dangereux pour moi et je les consid6rais plus
dans leurs acceptations philosophiqueset litteraires que sous les autres rapports.
Je croyais et je crois encore, que de la plus mauvaise lecture on peut obtenir un
bon risultat. On serait done tout & fait injuste si Ton jugeait de mes goftts et
surtout de mes moeurs d'apr&s les livres contenus dans ce catalogue, "qui d'ailleurs
n*est pas destinl & recevoir de la publicity. A peine doit il &tre communiqu6
ft quelques amis des livres rares, et des curiosit6s bibliographiques."

>7 It is Thlophile Gautier's opinion that the present age is so immoral
that any consideration for its false and hypocritical susceptibilities is entirely
out of place. He is at a loss to understand what induces the critics, " vrais
sergents de ville litt6raires, & empoigner et & bltonner, au nom de la vertu,
toute idle qui se prom£ne dans un livre la cornette pos6e de travers ou la jupe
e

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INTRODUCTION.

To the bibliomaniac, the real lover of books for their own
sake, these unknown and outcast volumes, these pariahs of
literature, are infinitely more interesting than their better known
and more universally cherished fellows, and acquire additional
value for him in proportion to the persecution they have suf-
fered, (*) their scarcity, and the difficulty he experiences in
acquiring them. (*)

troussle un peu trop haut." In another place he writes: " Toujours est-il que
le monde a passl 1'dge od Ton peut jouer la modestie et la pudeur, et je le
crois trop vieux barbon pour faire l'enfontin et le virginal sans se rendre
ridicule. Depuis son hymen avec la civilisation, la soci6t6 a perdu le droit d'etre
ingenue et pudibonde. II est de certaines rougeurs qui sont encore de mise
au coucher de la marine, et qui ne peuvent plus servir le lendemain; car la
jeune femme ne se souvient peut-6tre plus de la jeune fille, ou, si elle sen
souvient, c'est une chose tr&s-ind6cente, et qui compromet gravement la repu-
tation du man." Preface to 0Uttoiu>(*elle Hr flftauptn.

* " La Mothe-le-Vayer, raconte le Carpenteriana, ayant fait un livre de
dur d6bit, son libraire vint lui en faire ses plaintes, et le prier d'y rem6dier par
quelque autre ouvrage. II lui dit de ne se point mettre en peine, qu'il avait
assez de pouvoir & la cour pour faire d6fendre son livre j et qu'6tant d£fendu,
il en vendrait autant qu'il voudrait. Lorsqu'il 1'eut fait dlfendre, ce qu'il
prldit arriva j chacun courut acheter ce livre, et le libraire fut oblig6 de le
reimprimer promptement, pour pouvoir en fournir & tout le monde."
Curiofftt* J8tbltograpf)tqiu#, par L. Lalanne, p. 401.

•9 The desire to possess that which is forbidden is as strong in the man as
the child, in the wise as the foolish; instances innumerable might be adduced;
I will cite but one. Goethe " witnessed in the market-place of Frankfort the
burning of a French romance of ill fame and could not rest until he had
hunted up a copy. That copy, he adds, was to his own knowledge very far
indeed from being the only copy which owed both its acquisition and its
circulation to the anxious care of the magistrates." lArarirf antt dFountoertf
of fArarie*, by Edward Edwards, p. 8j.

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Improper books, however useful to the student, or dear to
the collector (^J, are not " virginibus puerisque; " they should,
I consider, be used with caution even by the mature; they
should be looked upon as poisons, and treated as such ; should
be (so to say) distinctly labelled, and only confided to those
who understand their potency, and are capable of rightly using
them. (SI) The present work, of which the part object is the
labelling or pointing out such books, is not intended, any more
than the volumes of which it treats, for the young and imma-
ture ;(si) and the hope is here expressed that it may be kept out
of the hands of those for whom it is not destined.

To handle this branch of bibliography with any degree of

" Nor pass we by that shameless band,
" Dispensing with a lib'ral hand,
" Large sums, indecent books to buy,
" And prints disgusting to the eye :
" Witness from Duke oijirst degree,
" E'en to old sporting Colonel 7—:
" In fine, full many none suspect,
" On themes like these alone reflect,
" Disgracing thus the manly name,
" And blazon'd sons of guilt and shame/'
C$alcojpapf)tmania, (by James Caulfield), 1814, p. 177.

3* My idea is thus aptly expressed by The Rev. R. A .Willmott 1 "Books,
of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the
shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses.
They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy. But they ought to
be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a
scoffer. We may admire the brilliant .spots and eyes of the viper, if we
acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile." ifcatfuretf of £ iterator*, p. 390.

3* In the preface to his ftfctotr* tte* libit* itapulatre*, M. Charles
Nisard is of opinion that although many of the books (livres de colportage)
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success is most difficult; everything connected with it being
involved in obscurity, and surrounded with deception. The
author writes, for the most part, anonymously, or under an
assumed name; the publisher generally affixes a false impress
with an incorrect date; and the title is not unfrequently worded
so as to mislead with regard to the real contents of the book.
To discover these authors is frequently impossible; not so
much in foreign literature, where Barbier and Qu£rard have so
ably opened up the path; but in English literature nothing has
been done, and the task is now almost hopeless. I have, how-
ever, been able to unveil the names of some modern authors at
least, which cannot, I think, fail to be interesting. To trace
the booksellers who have set the law at defiance, who have
sometimes made large profits, and at others succeeded only in
getting into prison, is a pursuit equally interesting, but quite as
difficult. Some information, however, concerning them will be
found in the following pages, from the sanctimonious, hypocri-
tical, stingy Griffiths, to the industrious, clever, but not always
reliable John Camden Hotten,(w) who, in spite of his numerous

should be kept out of their hands, yet " cette prohibition ne regardait pas les
gens d l'6preuve des mauvaises lectures, c'est-d-dire, les 6rudits, les bibliophiles,
les collectionneurs et mfcme les simples curieux de literature excentrique. J'ai
done cru faire (he adds) une chose qui serait agreable aux uns et aux autres,
en rassemblant tous ces livrets sous un seul point de vue, et en les sauvant en
masse du naufrage oh ils allaient p6rir isol6ment."

33 I was at first reluctant to place the name of Mr. Hotten on my pages,
his death being so recent an occurrence, and " de mortuis nil nisi bonum; "
also out of consideration for his worthy successors ; but, as immediately after
his demise, all his books of a doubtful character, whether acquired br of his
own publication, were at once disposed of as those gentlemen have entirely
relinquished that branch of his business; and, as after all John Camden
Hotten now belongs to the history of literature, I see no inconvenience in
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shortcomings, produced some really well got up books.(w) He
took a special interest in this branch of his business, and was
wont to call it his "flower garden." Since his death little
worthy of commendation has been produced; from time to time,
it is true, a volume or so is issued, but without plates, or if it
is illustrated, the old stones, which have not been destroyed,
are reworked.(w)

In France the trade has also greatly declined, the present
laws against it being very stringent. During the first
revolution the most objectionable books, with the lewdest
plates, were publicly catalogued, and openly exposed for sale
in the booksellers' windows of the Palais Royal ;(*6) but that is
now entirely changed, it is almost as difficult to purchase

« His reprint of R. Paine Knight's "Worship of Priapus," and his pro-
duction of the " Panier aux Ordures/' for instance j both to be noticed
specially in the course of this work.

It may not be out of place to note here the last prosecution for vending
obscene books which occurred in London j it was that of Mr. F. H. Molini,
grand nephew of the well-known Florence publisher of that name, who, under
the auspices of Mr. C. H. Collette, was, on the 9th Dec., 1875, sentenced, at
the Middlesex Sessions, to two months imprisonment and a fine of o. Mr.
Molini occupied part of the shop of Messrs. Dulau and Co., No. 37 Soho
Square, where the seizure was made, but was not otherwise connected with
the firm.

36 « Dans ma jeunesse (says M. B6rard), c'est-d-dire & l'6poque de notre
premiere r6volution, les ouvrages licencieux et m&me obsc&nes se vendaient
publiquement sans la moindre difficult6 ; leurs titres se trouvaient dans beaucoup
de catalogues de libraires et m&me sur ceux des cabinets de lecture. Je me
souviens qu'une femme respectable par sa conduite et par son &ge, me priant
de lui procurer quelques ouvrages pour emporter & la campagne et 'les faire
lire d ses enfants, avait compris sur la liste : Justine ou les malheurs de la
vertUf que d'apr&s son titre elle supposait un ouvrage de morale et d'6ducation."
Catalogue, Dibdin bears similar testimony, and in his StbUograpi)tral

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such books at Paris as in London, and France is no longer the
chief place of production, or the grand emporium of livres
dtfendus. Even a couple of years ago (1875), a bookseller^*) in
Paris was punished for republishing the plates of the " fermiers
genlraux " edition of La Fontaine.

In Germany a few years back, erotic books were produced
in large quantities, not only in the language of the country, but
also in French, by Fischaber, and by J. Scheible of Stuttgart,
and by others in Berlin and Hamburg^38) but the business
has much declined since the Franco-German war. Such books,
it is true, still continue to appear, but they are generally badly
printed, on the commonest paper, and are altogether worth-
less publications.

Of Austrian production two or three books only are known
to me, and these are works of minor importance.

Holland, the home of the Elzevirs, and stronghold of
contrefagon during the last century,(S9) produces absolutely

Cour, vol. 2, p. 218, speaks of "the torrent of those trivial or mischievous
productions which swarm about the avenues of the Palais Royal."

39 M. A. Barraud, who had expended, it is said, 300,000 frcs. upon the un-
dertaking. Although the " Ministre de l'intlrieur" had authorised the
publication and sale of the book, M. Barraud was fined, and the plates
destroyed. A short account of the matter was given in the September-October
No., 1875, of the SuOetui ftu »tblu>pf)tlt, p. 489.

3* Throughout the whole of Germany great freedom is allowed to book-
sellers, and their operations are seldom checked 5 yet in the free city,
Hamburg, a bookseller named Benny Glogau, was, in August 1875, convicted
of selling obscene literature, and condemned to pay a fine of 200 marks.

39 In the Soumal tie la ftegftue, vol. a, pp. 8 and 173, are given two lists
of 42 works, chiefly political and satirical, "que Ion disait toe sous la presse
en Hollande " in the year 1720.

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nothing at present. Mr. R. C. D'Ablaing van Giessenburg
of Amsterdam, has done much good work in the field of free
thought, but his able publications, always well done, hardly
come within the scope of the present work.

Of Spain little can be expected. While the presses of Paris
and Leipzig are called into requisition to supply the demand
for its current literature, we can scarcely look for publications
such as we are considering from that unfortunate country;
and yet I shall have occasion to notice at least one very
remarkable book which has lately been printed at Madrid.

In Portugal, on the other hand, many books of this class
have been produced, and if not always original compositions,
are at any rate curious, as I trust, some of my articles will show.

Italy has always held a prominent position in erotic literature,
and some of the greatest and best known works are in that
beautiful language; but the Italian publications of the present
century are generally very inferior productions.

America, as in other branches of industry, has made of late
years great progress in the production of books, and not the
least in those of an improper character. Until 1846 the
Americans produced nothing, but merely imported such books;
when an Irishman, W. Haines, began to publish, and soon
became a rich man. Up to 1871 he had published not less
than 320 different works, and we are told that the number of
such books sold annually in New York amounts to 100,000.
But America has also its Mr. Collette in a Mr. A. J. Comstock,
who " has succeeded, in the course of a few years, in con-
fiscating and destroying over thirteen tons of this class of
publications."(4°) The American laws respecting this traffic

®f)t Barb of {Mo $ork life, New York: 1873. See post p. 158.

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have lately been rendered more stringent, and such publications
are now as difficult to procure there as they are here.

In Belgium the trade is at its zenith; and it would seem as
if the production of French immoral books had centered
itself in Brussels. Not only however are French books
there published, but English ones also, and the Belgians even
print at present books in English for London booksellers.
Although the laws against this industry are in Belgium much
the same as in France, yet they appear seldom to be en-
forced, and booksellers with open shops, issue catalogues, and
vend their publications to any and every customer. The
reason of this impunity may perhaps be partly explained by the
peculiar and marked state of the two political parties, the
liberals caring not to meddle in such matters, and the conser-
vatives, or Roman Catholics, fearing by so doing to raise the
cry of intolerance, and, true to their old traditions, they prefer
a little immorality rather than loss of power.

Be this as it may, scarcely a month, or a week, passes without
the production from the printing presses of Brussels of some
such book ; many will be found noticed in this work ; I shall
only mention here a collection, nicely printed, on good
paper, and with portrait and fairly executed plates, of the chief
works of Andrea de Nerciat"; and a new edition of " Justine et
Juliette," which reached its termination in October 1875.
The most prominent publishers are Ch. Sacre-Duquesne of
No. 76 Rue du Midi, A. Christiaens of the Galerie Bortier,
Vital Puissant, and Hartcupp et Cie.

To each country has been ascribed, in a somewhat arbitrary
manner it must be acknowledged, the peculiar lech, favourite
passion, or pet crime, to which its inhabitants are addicted ; and

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as the books into which we are about to look deal largely in
these human frailties, it may not be inappropriate to take a
rapid glance at the distribution.

Sodomy, so prevalent among the ancient Greeks, and brought
into modern Europe by the Bulgarians,(4I) has found, accord-
ing to popular belief, a permanent home in Turkey and
Italy.^) From Italy it was soon introduced into France,

41 Whence the French word bougre, and our bugger. At p. 175 of the
C**aj> on tf)e VRortf)ip of tf>e denrrattoe 9ober* touring tije fkiitolt «jje< of
VHetfttrn Curop*. (vide p. 5, post.) we read : " They (the Bulgarians) began to
cause alarm in France at the beginning of the eleventh century, in the reign
of King Robert, when, under the name of Popelicans, they had established
themselves in the diocese of Orleans, in which city a council was held against
them in 1022, and thirteen individuals were condemned to be burnt. The
name appears to have lasted into the thirteenth century, but the name of
Bulgarians became more permanent, and, in its French form of Bolgres,
Bougres, or Bogres, became the popular name for heretics in general. * * *
These early sects appear to have professed doctrines rather closely resembling
modern communism, including, like those of their earlier sectarian predecessors,
the community of women; and this community naturally implies the abolition
of distinctive affinities. * * * They were accused, beyond this, of indulging
in unnatural vices, and this charge was so generally believed, that the name
of Bulgarus, or heretic, became equivalent with Sodomite, and hence came the
modern word French word bougre, and its English representative."

4* The Popes even have been addicted to this crime. Julius III is a notable
instance. " Dans le conclave m&me, il pratiquait l'acte de sodomie avec les
jeunes pages attaches & son service, et loin d'en faire un myst&re, il affectah
de se laisser surprendre en flagrant dllit par ses collogues." ftftftotre Iff*
9ape0, vol. 7, p. 197. One of the first acts of his reign was to force upon the
sacred college his bastard son and mignon, Bertuccino with whom he con-
tinued to live. " Ce gar$on (says Bayle) n'avoit rien que de d6go&tant.
except£ qu'il avoit acquis 1*habitude de boufonner." Stfttonnatrt, vol. 2, p. 875.

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where societies for practising it were formed. (*) During the
second empire it was also much in vogue,(") and one has but to
promenade the Paris boulevards any evening to find that it is
even now by no means extinct.(4<) It has also had its votaries in
England^46) although, I believe, to a much more limited
extent.

Tribadism, we are told, is chiefly indulged in by Turkish(^)

43 See the memoirs of the times of Henri III. 9e*cri?tion He I'M* tot*
llermapfjroHtte*, Cologne, 1724. SiudloU* pour ittbit I TOtooire &ecrett
M Cbugor*, Medoso m m m cccxxxiii. The Heraeil Hit He iKaurepatf is full
of allusions to this vice as practised by the greatest persons in the kingdom.

44 See post p. 25.

4* "A distinguished surgeon in New York city, twenty-five years ago,
said, when Dupuytren's operation for relaxation of the sphincter am was in
vogue, every young man who came from Paris found every other individual's
anus too large, and proceeded to pucker it up. The result was that New
York anuses looked like gimlet-holes in a piece of pork." Extract from the
address of Dr. W. D. Buck, President of the New Hampshire State Medical
Society for 1866. Quoted in the fleio $orft #UttuaI Journal, for August,
1867, vol. 5, p. 464.

4* As witnessed in the abominable Vere Street Coterie, of which an
account will be given in the course of this work. From the Steport* of t$e
trial* at tfp Bail*?, from 1720 to 1730, there appear to have been
regular houses kept for carrying on the trade. Some curious particulars are
given in fl ^ree examination into tf)e Venal JtUtate*, xxv Henr vm, cap. 6.
and v Eliz, c. 17, addrest to Both Houses of Parliament by A. Pilgrim. London
vdcccxxxiii." printed probably in Paris.

4f Brantome, no mean authority in such matters, tells us that: " Les
Turques vont aux bains, plus pour cette paillardise que pour autre chose, k s'y
addonnent fort." He adds: "en nostre France, telles femmes sont asses
communes, k si dit-on pourtant, qu'il n'y a pas long-temps qu'elles sen sont
m&slees, mesme que la fa^on en a est6 port6e d'ltalie par une Dame de qualitl
que je ne nommeray point." Brant6me gives several anecdotes of women

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and French women^4®) It has however always existed, more
or less, in nunneries, wherever they may have been established.
Abortion is undoubtedly much practised in France, and to a

addicted to tribadism, from among which I select the following: M. Clermont
Tallard, when a student at " Thoulouse, vid, par une petite fente, dans un
autre cabinet deux fort grandes Dames, toutes retrouss6es, k leurs callegons
bas, se coucher l'une sur l'autre, s'entrebaiser en forme de colombe, se frotter,
s'entre-frotter, s'entre-friquer, bref se remuer fort, paillarder k imiter les
hommes, k dura leur abbatement pr£s d'une bonne heure, s'estant si fort
eschauff6es, k lassies, qu elles en demeurerent si rouges, & si en eau, bien
qu'il fist grand froid, quelles n'en peurent plus, k furent contraintes de se
reposer autant." I find place for one more of his anecdotes which is not
devoid of a certain grim humour: " II y en avoit une veufve k l'autre
marine, k comme la marine un jour d'une grandefeste k magnificence se fut
fort bien parde k habill6e d'une robbe de toile d'argent, ainsi que leur Maitresse
6toit all6e & Vespres, elles entrerent dans son cabinet, k sur sa chaise perc6e
se mirent & faire leur fricarelle si rudement k si imp6tueusement, qu'elle en
rompit sous elles, k la Dame marine, qui faisoit le dessous, tomba avec sa belle
robbe de toile d'argent & la renverse tout & plat sur l'ordure en bassin, si bien
qu'elle se gasta k souilla si fort, qu'elle ne sceut que faire que s'essuyer le
mieux qu'elle peut, se trousser k sen aller & grand haste changer de robbe
dans sa chambre, non sans pourtant avoir est6 apperceue k bien sentie & la
trace, tant elle puoit." Tit* tie* 9ame* Aalante*.

«* A very noteworthy example was the actress Raucourt, about whom
anecdotes will be found in the JKemotrt* &errtt*, in I'Ctyton UngUitf, in
Cljronique &cantoalni*t, and other publications. The following lines I ex-
tract from the latter work (vol. 3, p. 32):

" Pour te ffcter, belle Raucourt,
" Que n'ai-je obtenu la puissance
" De changer vingt fois en un jonr
" Et de sexe k de jouissance!
" Oui, je voudrois, pour t'exprimer
" Jusqu'A quel degr6 tu m'es ch&re,
" Etre jeune homme pour t'aimer,
" Et jeune fille pour te plaire."

Several novels bearing on this question have of late years issued from the

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greater extent than is generally supposed in England ; (*)
although the palm must be given to the Americans. It has
been estimated that the number of abortionists, male and
female, in the city of New York alone, amounts to over two
hundred ; and " the respectable physicians say with disgust that
the demands made upon them in wealthy families, and which
amount to nothing less than to degrade themselves to the
position of Abortionists, are every year becoming more
numerous." (5°)

Paris press, not the least remarkable of which is " Mademoiselle Giraud Ma
Femme." by M. Adolphe Belot. These books, it may be urged, are mere
fictions—granted—they express notwithstanding the feelings and tendencies
of the times.

Cases occur occasionally in the Criminal Courts, but they give no idea of
the extent to which the practice is carried on. " I know (writes a gentleman
who has carefully studied the question) of one recent case, where the girl on
going to the operator, a medical man in the West end, was shewn into a
waiting room where there were six or seven young women waiting to be
operated upon in their turn. The same thing occurred on two separate occa-
sions when she attended. They were chiefly ballet girls, or females connected
with the theatres. The charge for operating, payable in advance, was

CJ)e Bark at Jkto $orb life, p. 462. The whole chapter,

"The Abortionists," is most interesting, and reveals startling facts connected
with this crime; the practitioners are named, their residences, modus operandi,
&c., are described, and the whole matter laid open in the most thorough
manner. " It has become the fashion (observes the Rev. John Todd) for parents
to be leading round a solitary, lonely child, or possibly two, it being well un-
derstood, talked about, and boasted of, that they are to have no more. The
means to prevent it are well understood instrumentalities shamelessly sold and
bought, and it is a glory that they are to have no more children." " If it is
true (Dr. G. H. Napheys remarks) that the native American population is
actually dying out, and that year by year the births from couples born in this
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Corpse profanation, a crime so strange and so utterly con-
trary to nature that its very existence will possibly be unknown

are of European birth, as many have asserted, then we must seek the expla-
nation of this startling fact either in a premature decay of virility, or a naturally
diminished virility in middle life in the husbands, or to an increased tendency
to sterility in the wives, or else, and this has been the, perhaps, hasty con-
clusion of most writers, we must suppose there is a deliberate and wide-spread
agreement between those who are in the bonds of matrimony, that American
women shall be childless or the next thing to it.*' He adds: " This flagrant
abuse (abortion) is not confined to immoral circles of society, nor to the
corrupt atmosphere of our great commercial centres, but extends into remote
country hamlets, and throughout all grades of social life." Counsel* on t$e
feature antt ftpgtate of tf)e JKaltuluu function, 1871, pp. 193 and 195.
The same opinion (but without abortion) is entertained by nearly the whole
French nation.

" What with burning and cauterising, cutting and slashing, and gouging, and
spitting and skewering and pessarying, (observes Dr. W. D. Buck) the old-
fashioned womb will cease to exist, except in history. The Transactions of the
National Medical Association for 1864 has figured one hundred and twenty-three
different kinds of pessaries, embracing every variety, from a simple plug to a
patent threshing machine, which can only be worn with the largest hoops.
They look like the drawings of turbine water-wheels, or a leaf from a work on
entomology. Pessaries, I suppose, are sometimes useful, but there are more
than there is any necessity for. I do think that this filling the vagina with
such traps, making a Chinese toy-shop of it, is outrageous. Hippocrates said
that he would never recommend a pessary to procure abortion—nay, he swore
he never would. Were he alive now he would never recommend one at all.
If there were fewer abortions there would be fewer pessaries, and if there
were fewer pessaries there would be fewer abortions. Our grandmothers
never knew they had wombs only as they were reminded of it by the struggles
of a healthy foetus; which by the by they always held on to. Now-a-days,
even our young women must have their wombs shored up, and if a baby
accidentally gets in by the side of the machinery, and finds a lodgment in the
uterus, it may, perchance, have a knitting-needle stuck in its eyes before it has
any/' ffcrfo $orft jfirtftral Journal, vol. 5, p. 464.

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to many of my readers, is practised, as some affirm,(*') in Italy,
and even in France.

Bestiality, so dear to the Romans, is undoubtedly yet per-
petrated in Italy, especially among the rural population.^')
With the Italian soldiers of the 16th century it passed into
France.(53)

A taste for Black Women is perhaps peculiar to the French.

"«§iet (in Italy) $errfd)en Dnanie, Sfldberaftte unb Seidjenftydnbung in
fdjredenerregenbet STCenge. 3a, e« trerben fogar SWorbtyaten berfibt bon fotc^en
ffiufttingen, bie bann bie faum ertyaltenen Dpfer fur tyre tffijte mijjbraucfjen. ®er
$ro$e§ gegen ben ©alaniifafcrifanten in ®erona §at §u btefer 3«i* grofie* 2tuffe$en
uub attgemeine (Sntruftung erregt. (5r fcegnugte fid) nityt bie 2Rdbd?en, bie er in6
©ant Iocfte, ju ermorben, fonbern er fd)dnbete einige fogar bor, anbere nadj
fcegaitgener (Srmorbnng. ®enn in Stalien ein Srauenjimmer tyingericfytet rairb, wad,
namentlid) im.tfirdjenjtaate efcen nidjt ju ben grdjjten ©eltentyeiten gety&rt, fo !ann
matt aid geroij? anne^men, bag e$, mcnn fte nod) &ot tyrem $obe eine 3ungfrau
gewcfen, 24 ©tunben nad? intern $obe fidjerlidj nid)t metyt ift unb ba§ dtyemdnner,
Die ber 3ufatt &or «§atynreifdjaft gefdjufct $at, wenn tyre ©attinen {ung unb fd)5n
geroefeti, ben ^ornerfdjnnuf naty ty rer ffietfcer $ob ertyalten." 9t u « benSWemoiren
e i u e r @ a n g e r i n, vol. 2, p. 197. I give the authority for what it may be worth,
whether true or false, it is at any rate curious. Instances of the commission
of this crime in France are also adduced.

s* " 9lod) tyeut ju $age fatten, trie Sfcefcget fcerfidjert, bie 3t«fl*itylrten in ©icilien
iut allgemeinen jRuf fle^en, bap fte fid? mit tyren afrgetyen." ttro*, art.

"Styeriiefce."

S3 Consult Bayle's 9uttonnatre &ttftorique et Critique, where, under article
" Bathyllus," a note containing some very remarkable information upon this
point is given. The Italian soldiers, who in 1562, laid siege to Lyons under the
Duke of Nemours, brought with them goats to satisfy their brutal lust. " Ces
Troupes d'ltaliens envoiez & soldoyez par le Pape firent beaucoup de maux par
oil ils passerent, & pillerent jusques aux souliers des pauvres ladres qu'ils
trouvoient, & au reste si vilains & detestables en leur vie, qu'ils trainoient avec
eux des chevres, pour s'en servir k leurs vilenies plus que brutales \ qui fut
cause que puis aprds en tous les lieux par oh ils avoient pass£ les chevres

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In several brothels of Paris, and even in the provinces, specimens
of these coloured beauties may be constantly found. Nor is
this penchant of recent date. At the commencement of the
republic we read(54) of a " Bordel de Negresses. Chez madem-

furent tu6es & jett6es en la voyerie par les pay sans." These goats, it appears,
were " couvertes de caparagons de velours verts, avec de gros galons d'or j" and
one, the mistress of the general, was " men£e en pompe avec des ornemens
depoupee." The following extract from jfMemm're* tie fSP. B'Srtagnan, Cologne,
m.dcci. (vol. 3, p. 466), is to the same effect. At the siege of Candia by the
Turks, " La Feuillade & lui (Le Comte de St. Paul) trouv6rent en arrivant des
choses surprenantes de toutes fagons, & particulierement la vie que menoient
quantity d'Officiers, qui parmi les perils, dont ils etoient environnez de toutes
parts, vivoient dans un desordre si effroyable que cela fait horreur seulement k
rapporter. L'Histoire de France nous rapporte que le Due de Nevers passant
d'ltalie en France pour venir au secours du Roi, dont la Maison de Guise
t&choit d'envahir la Couronne, sous pr6texte de Religion, y amena avec lui deux
mille Ch6vres couvertes de caparagons de velours vert, avec de gros galons d'or.
Elle ne nous laisse pas en meme tems lieu de douter k quel usage servoient
ces Ch6vres, puis qu elle nous dit qu'autant qu'il y avoit d'Officiers c'6toient
autant de Maltresses pour eux, & pour lui. Or c'6toit presque la m&me chose 1&,
si ce n'est que le nombre de ces b&tes n'y 6toit pas si grand que dans le Camp
du Due. La Feuillade n'etoit pas un homme k s'effrayer de bien des choses,
lui qui avoit dit une fois au Roi que si sa Majestl se faisoit Turc, il prendroit
tout aussi-t6t le Turban. Cependant, il ne put voir entrer tous les matins une
de ces Ch6vres dans la chambre d'un des G6n6raux, sans en sentir dresser les
cheveux & sa t&te, tant il en cong&t d'borreur. Elle n'6toit pas caparagonn6e
de vert comme 6toient celles du Due de Nevers, mais de velours noir, en
broderie d'or. Elle changeoit m&me d'habit de fois k autre, parce que quand
on est bien amoureux, e'est la co&tume d'aimer k voir que sa Maitresse soit
magnitique. Aussi lui faisoit-il mettre encore quantity de rubans, tantot d'une
couleur, & tantot d'une autre, ce qui ne donnoit que plus d'horreur du crime
horrible que l'on soupgonnoit. En effet, plus il prenoit de plaisir k l'ajuster,
plus c'6toit une marque de ce que Ton n'ose dire."

54 In le* ttorftel* be ftarf*, 1790, p. 17.

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oiselle Isabeau, ci-devant rue neuve de Montmorency,
aujourd'hui rue Xaintonge, maison de M. Marchand pr6teur
sur gages. Le prix n'y est point fixe, la negresse, la mistife(sic)
et la mulatresse y sont marchandees, comme on marchande
les femmes d'une caravane."

The propensity which the English most cherish is undoubtedly
Flagellation. That the rod has been used in all Roman
Catholic countries by the priests as an instrument to serve their
own lubricity(^) is of course not to be denied; and although
the subject has been most seriously and scientifically treated by
a Dutch doctor; (*6) yet this vice has certainly struck deeper
root in England than elsewhere, and only here, I opine, can be
found men who experience a pleasure rather in receiving than
in administering the birch. Nevertheless this is a fact, and
did not discretion forbid, it would be easy to name men of the
highest positions in diplomacy, literature, the army, &c., who,
at the present day, indulge in this idiosyncracy, and to point
out the haunts they frequent.

Books innumerable in the English language are devoted to
this subject alone; no English bawdy book is free from de-
scriptions of flagellation, and numerous separate plates(*')

Si Two cases only need be mentioned here, viz., that of Father Girard and
the girl Cadidre at Toulon, the other of Cornelius Hadrien at Bruges. A sketch
of both will be found in 8 ftfctorg of tf)e Slotf, published by Hotten. The
former will be treated fully in the course of this work.

s6 Thomae Bartholini, Joan. Henrici Meibomi, Patris Henrici Meibomi,
Filii Be Mau jHagrorum tit *te jfHetrfca fc Vnuria, &c. Francofurti, cIdIdclxx.
small 8vo., pp. 144, concerning which curious treatise, and two or three others
"ejusdem farinae," I refer my readers to the interesting article in the
9naltftabtbIion, vol. 2, p. 316.

j7 In the course of this work both the books and the plates will figure
prominently.

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exist, depicting whipping scenes; it has caused the separation
of man and wife; the genteelest female schools have been
made subservient to the passions of its votaries; (58) and for-
merly it was spoken of without reserve on the public stage.(5f)
Flagellation anecdotes frequently occur in the pages of "The
Rambler's," "The Original Rambler's," "The Bon Ton," and
other similar Magazines. " Notes and Queries," contains many
communications on the subject. Only a few years back a
remarkable and lengthened correspondence filled the columns
of such domestic periodicals as " The Family Herald," " The
Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine,'X60) &c. That the topic
has not lost its interest with the present generation may be
estimated by the rapidity with which the first edition of Hotten's
" History of the Rod " was sold; and at the present moment a

*8 Vide " Observations on the bad consequences of educating daughters at
boarding schools," in two letters appended to Cf)f ConfeMion* of J. Lack-
ington. London: 1804. See also post p, 159.

59 I extract the following lines from: Cfje Soartfing*£ri)OOl• or, the
Sham Captain. An Opera. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-
Lane By His Majesty's Servants. London mdccxxxiii. (By Charles Coffey).

" While she is stripping to get a good whipping,
" I'll away, dance and play,
"Yes I will, that I will;

" While she is stripping to get a good whipping,
" I'll go and romp with the Girls and the Boys: &c."

60 The correspondence which passed through the columns of this latter
journal was afterwards issued in a separate pamphlet entitled: litter*
AftreAttft to tf>e Cttitor of tf>e tfngtt^fooutan'* Sonutftu JBaga^iiu on the
Whipping of Girls, and the General Corporal Punishment of Children. London:
Office; Warwick House, Paternoster Row. Price Two Shillings. These
letters were written during the months of April to December, 1870.

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work,(if) intended to ran into five volumes, is in course of pre-
paration, in which the subject is handled in the freest manner.

Although their productions have not been printed, it is well
known that some of our most eminent poets and novelists of
the present day have employed their pens on the subject.

At the early part of this century very sumptuously fitted up
establishments, exclusively devoted to the administration of the
birch, were not uncommon in London; and women of the town
served, as it were, an apprenticeship in oitfer to acquire the art
of gracefully and effectively administering the rod. It would
be easy to form a very lengthy list of these female flagellants,
but I shall restrict myself to the mention of a few only. Mrs.
Collett was a noted whipper, and George the IV is known to
have visited her; she had an establishment in Tavistock Court,
Covent Garden, whence she removed to the neighbourhood of
Portland Place, and afterwards to Bedford Street, Russell Square,
where she died. She brought up her niece in the same line,
who, as Mrs. Mitchell, carried on a successful business in
various places, among others at No. 22 (afterwards 44)
Waterloo Road, and finally at St. Mary's Square, Kennington,
where she died. Then came Mrs. James, who had been maid
in the family of Lord Clanricarde; she had a house at No. 7
Carlisle Street, Soho; she retired from business with a good
fortune, and dwelt at Notting Hill in luxury, her house being de-
corated with pictures, and her person covered with jewels. There

61 Curiosities of ;flagtllation, A series of Incidents and facts collected
by an amateur flagellant, and published in 5 volumes. London, 1875.'
book is being printed at Brussels, for a London bookseller, and has reached at
present the completion of the first volume.

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were, further: Mrs. Emma Lee, real name Richardson, of No.
50 Margaret Street, Regent Street; Mrs. Phillips, of No. 11
Upper Belgrave Place, Pimlico; Mrs. Shepherd, of No. 25
Gilbert Street; Mrs. Sarah Potter,(6a) alias Stewart, of various
addresses, who died in 1873; and, were it not indiscreet, I
might add the names of one or two other ladies who still carry
on their calling. But the queen of her profession was un-
doubtedly Mrs. Theresa Berkley, of No. 28 Charlotte Street,
Portland Place; she was a perfect mistress of her art, under-
stood how to satisfy her clients, and was, moreover, a thorough
woman of business, for she amassed during her career a consider-
able sum of money. " She possessed the first grand requisite
of a courtizan, viz., lewdness; for without a woman is positively
lecherous she cannot long keep up the affectation of it, and it
will soon be perceived that she only moves her hands or her but-
tocks to the tune of pounds, shillings, and pence. She could
assume great urbanity and good humour; she would study
every lech, whim, caprice, and desire of her customer, and had
the disposition to gratify them, if her avarice was rewarded in
return. Her instruments of torture were more numerous than
those of any other governess. Her supply of birch was extensive,
and kept in water, so that it was always green and pliant: she
had shafts with a dozen whip thongs on each of them; a dozen
different sizes of cat-o-nine-tails, some with needle points
worked into them ; various kinds of thin bending canes; leather
straps like coach traces; battledoors, made of thick sole-leather,
with inch nails run through to docket, and currycomb tough
hides rendered callous by many years flagellation. Holly brushes,

Of whom an account will be given in the course of this work.

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INTRODUCTION.

furze brushes; a prickly evergreen, called butchers bush; and
during the summer, glass and China vases, filled with a constant
supply of green nettles, with which she often restored the dead
to life. Thus, at her shop, whoever went with plenty of money,
could be birched, whipped, fustigated, scourged, needle-pricked,
half-hung, holly-brushed, furse-brushed, butcher-brushed, sting-
ing-nettled, curry-combed, phlebotomized, and tortured till he
had a belly full.

" For those whose lech it was to flog a woman, she would
herself submit to a certain extent; but if they were gluttons
at it, she had women in attendance who would take any number
of lashes the flogger pleased, provided he forked out an
advalorem duty. Among these were Miss Ring, Hannah Jones,
Sally Taylor, One-eyed Peg, Bauld-cunted Poll, and a black
girl, called Ebony Bet.

" The machine represented in the frontispiece(63) to this work,
was invented for Mrs. Berkley to flog gentlemen upon, in the
spring of 1828. It is capable of being opened to a considerable
extent, so as to bring the body to any angle that might be
desirable. There is a print in Mrs. Berkley's memoirs, repre-
senting a man upon it quite naked. A woman is sitting in a
chair exactly under it, with her bosom, belly, and bush exposed:
she is manualizing his embolon, whilst Mrs. Berkley is birching
his posteriors. The female acting as frictrix, was intended
for Fisher, a fine, tall, dark haired girl, all must remember who
visited Charlotte Street at that day, as well as the good humoured
blonde, Willis; the plump, tight, frisky, and merry arsed
Thurlow; Grenville, with the enormous bubbies; Bentinc, with
breadth of hip and splendour of buttock; Olive, the gipsy,

6J Which I reproduce.

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whose brown skin, wicked black eye, and medicean form, would
melt an anchorite; the mild and amiable Palmer, with luxuriant
and welljledged mount, from whose tufted honors many a noble
lord has stolen a sprig; and Pryce, the pleasing and complaisant,
who, if birch was a question, could both give and take.

told her it would bring her into notice, and go by her name
after her death; and it did cause her to be talked of, and
brought her a great deal of business. She died in September,
1836, having funded ten thousand pounds during the eight
years she had been a governess. The original horse is among
the models of the Society of Arts at the Adelphi, and was
presented by Dr. Vance, her executor. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

" Mrs. Berkley had also in her second floor, a hook and
pulley attached to the ceiling, by which she could draw a man
up by the hands. This operation is also represented in her
memoirs. Many persons feel disappointed at her promised me-
moirs being so long delayed, but the publication was suspended
at the request of Dr. Vance, of Cork Street, her executor. His
recent death, however, will enable the firm, who hold the copy-
right of her autobiography, speedily to put it to press.w(64)

This account of Mrs. Berkley is, it must be acknowledged,
curious, and, being substantially true, I have ventured to give
it in full. Shortly after her death, her brother, who had been a

«4 At the end of the vol. Tniu* &cf)00tm(*trt**, (see that title, post) from
which the above extracts are made, is advertised as, " in the press," " The
Auto-biography of the late Theresa Berkley, of Charlotte Street, Portland Place,
containing Anecdotes of many of the present Nobility, and others, devoted to
erotic pleasures, with numerous Plates." The work was never published.
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missionary for 30 years in Australia, arrived in England, but
when he learned the source from which the property she had left
him had been derived, he renounced all claim, and immediately
went back to Australia, In default, the property was be-
queathed to Dr. Vance, her medical attendant and executor;
but he refused to administer, and the whole was escheated
to the crown. Dr. Vance came into possession of her
correspondence^6*) several boxes full, which, I am assured
by one who examined it, was of the most extraordinary
character, containing letters from the highest personages, male
and female, in the land. The whole was eventually destroyed.

Many of these women, there can be little doubt, took an
interest, if not a pleasure, in their vocation^66) It is a well
known fact that women are, and always have been, even more

See previous note.

66 The following is extracted from the correspondence of a gentleman
still living, a passionate devotee of the birch, and one who is worthy of all
confidence in matters connected with flagellation: " In my experience I have
known personally several ladies of high rank who had an extraordinary
passion for administering the rod, and that too with merciless severity. I
knew too the wife of a clergyman, young and pretty, who carried the taste to
excess. I have known one only who liked receiving it, and she was quite of
the lowest order; when excited by drink, she would allow herself to be
birched until her bottom was utterly raw, and the rod saturated with blood,
she crying out during the operation ' harder ! harder!' and blaspheming if it
was not well laid on. At the establishment I have named (existing at present
in London, but of which I suppress the name) there come twenty young
girls who go through all the phases of schoolmistress, and whip fearfully
severely. The programmes sent by the pupils are extraordinary—some like to
be whipped as children on the knee, some on the back of a servant, others to
be strapped down."

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li.

fond of wielding the rod than men, and this passion pervades
the higher, rather than the lower classes. (•»)

Let us now return to the bibliographical^) phasis of our
study, and give a moment's consideration to the way in which
it is proposed to carry out the present work.

** Brantome recounts: '* J'ay ouy parler d'une grande Dame de par le
monde, mais grandissime, qui ne se contentant de lascivet6 naturelle j car elle
estoit grande putain k estant marine k veuve, aussi estoit-elle tr6s-belle j pour
la provoquer & exciter d'avantage, elle faisoit despouiller ses Dames & Filles, je
dis les plus belles, k se delectoit fort & les voir, k puis elle les battoit du plat
de la main sur les fesses, avec de grandes clacquades & blamuses assez rudes,
k les filles, qui avoient delinqu6 en quelque chose, avec de bonnes verges, k
alors son contentement estoit de les voir remuer, k faire les mouvements k
tordions de leurs corps & fesses, lesquelles selon les coups quelles recevoient, en
monstroient de bien estranges k plaisantes. Aucunes fois, sans les despouiller,
les faisoit trousser en robbe car pour lors elles ne portoient point de calgons,
k les clacquetoit k fouettoit k sur les fesses, selon le sujet qufelles luy
donnoient, ou pour les faire rire, ou pleurer, k sur ces visions k contemplations
s9y aiguisoit si bien ses appetits, qu'apr6s elle les alloit passer bien souvent & bon
escient avec quelque galant homme bien fort k robuste." Virt tot? Samtl
ftalanttd.

68 In the excellent Bure's 8ibUograpf)U fnltructtfee, N6e de la Rochelle clearly defines the talents
and acquirements which a bibliographer ought to possess. His standard, like
that of Buckle for a historian, is much higher than is likely to be attained.
However, his strictures are well worth attention. Those who take an interest
in particulars concerning bibliographers and book collectors, will find both
instruction and recreation in Dibdin's Sibltomania. I cannot refrain from
specially mentioning here the worthy bibliomaniac with whom Dibdin begins
his list, Richard de Bury, nor from recommending to my readers the pleasant
translation, by J. B. Inglis, of his |)I)ffobiblon. In it occur many passages,
the most eloquent and curious specimens of book madness with which I am
acquainted. "You only, O Books, (exclaims the enthusiastic bishop) are

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INTRODUCTION.

Bare catalogues, containing the titles of books only, are after
all comparatively useless performances^) to all except perhaps
the bookseller; what we want to know is what the book contains,
and not merely its title, size, or price.

But worse than dry catalogues are those so-called biblio-
graphical works—boohs made out of books—in which the author
(and in this the French are great adepts), taking some rare or
curious volume for his foundation, raises thereupon a super-
structure which gives no positive or tangible information about
the volume in question ; indeed what that volume really does
contain is often carefully and artfully hidden, and the modern
writer not unfrequently sucks the goodness out of his
predecessor's production, and serves it up in a modern form of
his own, without even frankly owning whence he has derived

liberal and independent. You give to all who ask, and enfranchise all who
serve you assiduously. * * * You are golden urns in which manna is laid
up, rocks flowing with honey, or rather indeed honey-combs; udders most
copiously yielding the milk of life, store-rooms ever fullj the tree of life, the
four-streamed river of Paradise, where the human mind is fed, and the
arid intellect moistened and watered; the ark of Noah, the ladder of
Jacob, the troughs by which the foetus in those who look upon them is
coloured, the stones of the covenant, and the pitchers preserving the lamps of
Gideon; the bag of David from which polished stones are taken that Goliath
may be prostrated. You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the
arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are
destroyed, fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility;
burning lamps to be ever held in hand. And, if it please us to speak
figuratively, we shall be able to adapt the best sayings of every writing what-
ever to books."

** Mr. H. Stevens observes : " Bibliography is fast becoming an exact
science, and not a whit too soon. It is high time to separate it from mere
catalogue making. It is becoming a necessity to both the scholar and the
collector (they are not always identical.)" fifl>liotf)era 6tograpf)fca.

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liii.

his information or ideas; or the old volume is taken, like the
text of a sermon, as an excuse for the writer to display his wit
or his fine writing. " Castrant alios, ut libros suos, per se graciles,
alieno adipe suffarcinent." Such jejune performances—" words!
words! words! "—cannot be too severely deprecated; (7°) they
are worse than the bare catalogues, for they not only do not
give reliable information, but they actually mislead.(71)
" A quoi bon mettre au jour tous ces discours frivoles,
" Et ces Riens enfermes dans de grandes paroles ?" (*a)
I have endeavoured to avoid tHis kind of book making, or
pretended biographical writing, altogether; facts and facts only
are wanted, and these, not spread out and interlarded with fine
words, or wrapped up in pretty sentences,(73) but condensed,

1° " Lucian happily describes the works of those who abound with the
most luxuriant language, void of ideas. He calls their unmeaning verbosity

• anemone-words for anemonies are flowers, which, however brilliant, only
please the eye, leaving no fragrance. Pratt, who wis a writer of flowing but
nugatory verses, was compared to the daisy ; a flower indeed common enough,
but without odour." Ctirtotfitietf of literature, vol. i, p. 96.

ll The pleasant image of the Rev. R. A. Willmott may not be unac-
ceptable here: " Literature is a garden, books are particular views of it, and
readers are visitors. Much of their pleasure depends on the guides. It is
very important to obtain the assistance of those only who are familiar with
the beauties they show, and able, from feeling and practice, to appreciate lights
and shades and colours." |Mea*ure* of literature, p. 81.
»a Boileau. Sat. ix, 155.

Although his own style was not perfect, being, according to his editor,
La Monnoye, " enfl6, guind6, alambiqu6, rempli de mauvaises phrases, & sur
tout d'idiotismes," (vol. 1, part 1, p. xi) yet Adrien Baillet knew well
enough what were the requisites of good writing for bibliographical works,
and erects the following standard : " il faut 6viter sur toutes choses tout ce
qui y a l'air d'affectation, s'61oigner 6galement des extr6mites de l'el6vation k
de la bassesse, k fuir les exc&s de la contrainte k du rel&chement, de l'af&terie
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INTRODUCTION.

and brought into as small a compass as is compatible with
clearness and utility.(74) Butler aptly says:

" As 'tis a greater mystery in the Art
"Of Painting to foreshorten any part
" Than draw it out, so 'tis in Books the chief
" Of all perfections to be plain and brief."

The object of the present work is to catalogue, as thoroughly,
and at the same time, as tersely as possible, books which, as a
rule, have not been mentioned, or mentioned but superficially
by former bibliographers, and to notice them in such a way
that the student or collector may be able to form a pretty just
estimate of their value or purport, without having recourse to
the books themselves.(75) This is the more necessary inasmuch

& de la n6gligence, du scrupule & de la licence." (vol. i, part i, p. xliv).
SMtgemeitrf lied &afeanrf.

" The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; (truly remarks
S. T. Coleridge) if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault 5 in the
very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page, without noticing the
medium." Cable Cafe.

** Let me quote here the words of Mr. J. F. Boyes, who, in the pre-
face (p. ix) to his life anil Sooft*, observes: " There are now so many
writers, so many calls on the attention of the public, that it becomes almost
a duty for a man who professes to add nothing of the artist to the author, to
say as briefly as may be, what he has to say. There has been, in the case of
the present work, a desire to avoid verbiage, even to the degree of hazarding
the charge of abruptness. * * * With abruptness there is generally, at any
rate, plain speaking. The reader, too, can quit me at any moment; at least
the longest call made upon his patience, on any one subject, will not exceed
five or ten minutes at the utmost."

W " It not unfrequently happens (Mr. H. Stevens justly points out) that
students exhaust their energies in mastering the materials of their subjects,
before they put pens to paper. Not every historian has the pluck, persistence
and toughness of Gibbon." Sftltotfjeca deograpfn'ca.

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lv.

as the works to be catalogued are frequently very scarce, expen-
sive and difficult to procure; besides they are generally of such
a nature that, independently of any other reason, many students
will not be displeased to find the work done.(76) Although my
purpose is to deal more particularly with English literature,
yet I do not exclude from my pages the forbidden books
of any country, language, epoch, or branch of literature. My
object is to collect into a common fold the stray sheep, to find
a home for the pariahs of every nation. I do not then hesitate
to notice the catchpennies(M) hawked in the public streets, as
well as the sumptuous volumes got up for the select few, and
whose price is counted in guineas. I embrace indeed that

T6 In speaking of his own admirable catalogue of Poetical Works, M.
Viol let le Due remarks: " Je n*ai pas la vanit6 de croire que mon catalogue,
comme on a bien voulu me l*6crire, peut tenir lieu d'une biblioth£que po6tiquej
mais je sais qu'il est tr&s facile et parfois agr£able de trouver une besogne faite.
Les journaux ont habitu6 beaucoup de personnes & trouver des jugements
tout port6s sur des oeuvres de l'esprit d'autrui, et & les adopter sans controle.
La vie occup6e de nos jours ne permet pas aux personnes m&mes qui aiment
les lettres, dy donner tout le temps que leur 6tude exige. Je sais ce qu'il m'a
fallu de volont6 pers6v6rante pour lire ces livres que je catalogue, les analyser,
les extraire. Je puis affirmer, car il n'y pas (sic) de quoi se vanter, qu'il fallait
un vieillard qui, comme moi, eht employ6 consciencieusement sa vie dans des
occupations arides et contraires & ses gotits, pour trouver de la distraction dans
une lecture et dans un travail qui, tels fastidieux qu ils paraissent, avaient au
moins un cot6 litt6raire et dont l*appr6ciation exigeait une certaine applica-
tion de l'esprit." Catalogue, 1847, Introduction, p. vi.

11 " The most worthless book of a bygone day (exclaims Pr ofessor De
Morgan) is a record worthy of preservation. Like a telescopic star, its ob-
scurity may render it unavailable for most purposes; but it serves, in hands
which know how to use it, to determine the places of more important bodies."
flrttymettral ttoofc*, p. 11.

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which should be avoided (*8) as well as that which should be
sought. In this work will be found books in every branch of
literature, and I have purposely selected works as various as
possible, in order to show through what widely spread ramifica-
tions erotic literature extends, and what a vast field has to be
traversed. The field indeed, even in this restricted portion of
bibliography, is so extended, and the books so numerous, that
I have no hope of ever exhausting my subject.(79) In the
present volume we, if I may be allowed a simile, merely enter
the library, and taking down from the surrounding shelves such
volumes, in each department, as may strike us, or which are
within reach, note them as thoroughly as our means or time
permit. The real labour, the exhausting of each branch, each
subject, or the writings of every author, has yet to be done, and,

No book collector will, I think, deny the utility of this, for careful and
well versed in titles and editions as he may be, he cannot fail sometimes to
be deceived. That ardent collector, Richard de Bury, has said : " that no
expense ought to prevent men from buying books when what is demanded for
them is at their command, unless the knavery of the seller is to be withstood,
or abetter opportunity of purchasing is expected/* $f)tlobtblon, p. 17. Five
hundred years however have vastly altered the book trade, and were the good
bishop of Durham to direct us to day he would modify his instructions. It is
scarcely conceivable that the high prices, which spurious editions of unimportant
works not unfrequently fetch at present, would be given, did the purchasers
really know what they were buying. See post, pp. 220 and 223.

19 M. Gustave Brunet iemarks: "la science des livres offre une
carri&re si vaste qu'il est impossible de tout connaltre, et qu'il y aura con-
stamment bien des lacunes et m&me plus d'une m6prise & relever dans les
travaux les mieux faits." fmprimeurrf Imaginatrtrf, p. 11.

" Le domaine de la bibliographie est d'une telle 6tendue qu'il est & peu prfcs
impossible & un seul chercheur de ne pas laisser quelque coin inexplor6."
BuQftin *u »{blwpf)tlt, 1875, P* 4^8.

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should my undertaking be found useful, I trust that some abler
bibliographer than myself, one with greater opportunities and
more time at his disposal, may take up the work where I leave
it, and bring it to a complete and thoroughly satisfactory
conclusion^80)

In planning out my book I had at first intended to classify my
material under subjects, but this I soon found impracticable,(8l)
the titles of this kind of books being so specially deceptive ;(*')

80 I would apply to my own book the words which Adrien Baillet did
to his : " Car je ne considere ce Recueil que comme une premiere ebauche, &
comme un essai asses 16ger & superacid, ou comme une 6preuve encore toute
brute & fort imparfaite, de ce qu'on pourroit faire dans la suite sur un sujet si
important & si n6cessaire." 3fugemen0 tort £afeanrf, vol. 1, part 1, p. xliii.

81 At p. 315 of his Curiotftte* Stbltograpijtquerf, M. L. Lalanne ha«
pointed out many curious errors in classification.

Some judicious remarks as to catalogue making, and some amusing blunders
in that of the British Museum will be found in a small tract, now scarce,
by Mr. James Bohn, entitled: <&brferfaattonrf on tf)t an aril $rogre*rf 0f
tf)t Catalogue of tf)e library of C|)t Srittef) fiSutfettm by a Bookseller, 1855.

As I have just mentioned the British Museum, it may not be altogether out
of place to note here, if only for the sake of record, a tract replete with
personal abuse of its officers, entitled: Cf)e Actual Contrition of ti)e Sritttj)
fHuleum. A Literary Expostulation, by Stefan Poles. London: 1875.
pp. 55, which was hawked for several months before its doors at 1/-. The
unfortunate author, a Polish refugee, did not long survive his intemperate
attack, but expired early in November, 1875, at Middlesex Hospital,
without a friend to close his eyes, or even to claim his body. See " The Pall
Mall Gazette," Nov. 9, and " The World," Nov. 24.

Those who are interested in our noble institution (and what Englishman is
not ?) may peruse with profit the strictures of Mr J. Payne Collier in the
preface, p. viii, to his )8ibliographical antt Critical Account of tf)e Hare**
Soofetf of tf)e ©nglutf) language.

•• Who would expect, for instance, to find in "The Toast," written by
m

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for I should in many instances have placed books, had I gone
by the titles, in a division to which they did not belong, or,
had I been guided by the real nature of the contents, under
headings where they would with difficulty be found. I have
adopted, then a strictly alphabetical arrangement.(®3)

I have ventured, I believe, further than any previous biblio-
grapher in giving frequent and copious extracts^®4) and in
allowing the authors, as much as possible, to tell their own
stories in their own words; a few lines by the author himself
being, in my opinion, a better guide for the appreciation of him
and his book than a page of description from another pen. I
have nevertheless endeavoured to collect the opinions of pre-
vious critics and bibliographers, so that the reader may estimate
the books rather from their remarks than from my own.

a Rev. Dr., a vile and indecent satire upon a lady of rank ; or under the title
" Le Parallele vivant des deux Sexes," an eulogy upon Louis XV ? One would
certainly not look for obscene novels under the modest titles : " Un Et6 k la
Campagne," and " Letters from a Friend in Paris."

On this subject Menken observes: " On ne sauroit nier que les Sots &
les Ignorans ne soient ordinairement les Dupes de grands Titres. Attentifs k
la seule beaut6 du Frontispice, incapables m&me de porter leur vtles plus
loin, ils congoivent une idee plus ou moins grande d'un Livre, k mesure que le
Titre en est plus ou moins specieux. C'est ce que n'ignorent pas nos petits
Auteurs, dont les Productions ont un si grand besoin de ces Titres favorables."
9f la Cf)arlatanerte tied £afeanrf, p. 30.

This arrangement is however, in the present work, of minor impor-
tance, as everything is recapitulated in the final alphabetical index.

This will no doubt be objected to by some on account of the nature
of the passages cited. To such objections I would reply in the words of
Pierre Bayle: " que 1'on condamne Catulle, Lucrece, Juvenal, & Suetone
tant qu'on voudra, on ne pourra point condamner un Ecrivain qui les cite. Ce
sont des Auteurs exposez en vente chez tous les Libraires; ils ne peuvent pas

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Further I have sought to cluster together, taking each several
book as a stand point, such information connected with its
subject as I may have deemed relevant and illustrative.

Of the books noticed I could have wished to have used the
original or at any rate the best editions, but such were not
always procurable, and I have preferred to describe only such
books and editions as I have actually had in hands, rather than
accept the ipse dixit of any other writer however accurate.(8s)
Indeed I have laid down this invariable rule, never to criticise
a work which I have not read, nor to describe a volume or an
edition which I have not examined.(w)

faire plus de mai par les passages que Ion en rapporte, que dans leur source;
& il 7 a une difference extreme entre les premiers Auteurs d'une Obsc6nit6, &
ceux qui ne la rapportent que comme la preuve d'un fait ou dune raison que la
mati&re qu'ils traittent les oblige de mettre en avant. * * * Le droit qu'on a de
citer ce que j'ai cite se fonde sur deux raisons : Tune, que s'il est permis &
toute la terre de lire Catulle & Martial, &c., il est permis & un Auteur de
rapporter de ces Poetes les passages que bon lui semble : l'autre, que s'il est
permis aux Historiens de rapporter une action impure commise par Caligula,
il est permis k un Auteur de rapporter une pensle ou une remarque obsc&ne de
Montaigne ou de Brantome; car cette remarque n'est pas une action & beaucoup
pr&s aussi criminelle que les infamies de Caligula. Quiconque a droit sur le
plus a droit sur le moins, & il seroit contradictoire ou absurde de vouloir bien
que Petrone, et Suetone, & les Poetes les plus lascifs, soient imprimez & vendus
publiquement avec des Notes qui en expliquent les Obscenitez les plus brutales,
& de d6fendre & 1'Auteur d'un Dictionaire Historique comment6 de se servir
d'un passage de ces Ecrivains pour confirmer ou pour 6claircir quelque chose."
Btc. ftfotortqitt. Art. "Eclaircissement sur les Obsc6nitez."

44II serait souhaitable, dit Vigneul-Marville, que ceux qui se m&lent de
nous donner des bibliotheques ne parlassent que des livres de leur m6tier, ou
que des livres qui leur fussent tout & fait connus. Quand on marche & l'aveugle
dans ces sortes de catalogues, on ne manque pas de se tromper et de tromper
les autres." Quoted at p. 314 of Curiorfitft Sftliograpfjique*.

86 I might indeed with truth adopt the words of Mr. J. Payne Collier,

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For any information which is not from my own knowledge and
experience I always give my authority.(8?) This manner of
working must necessarily limit the scope and extent of my
book, but will, I trust, be found to insure a proportionate
amount of exactitude. Were all bibliographers to adopt the same
scheme, oft repeated blunders would soon be wiped away, and
bibliography would ere long attain a degree of precision, certainty
and correctness, which it does not, especially with the books I
am about to consider, at present possess.(M)

who, at p. xi of the Preface to his Bibliographical an* Critical Account ot
tf)e ftaretft Boofetf in tfje tfngltef) Sanguage, writes: " I can assert, without
the chance of contradiction, that there is no one book, the merits or peculiar-
ities of which are discussed in these volumes, that has not passed through my
own hands and been carefully read by my own eyes: there is no extract, no
line, that has not been copied by my own pen and although I cannot for an
instant suppose that I have altogether avoided mistakes, I hope that I have
made as few as possible:" &c.

®7 I would say with the Rev. C. C. Colton : " Where I am ignorant,
and know that I am so, I am silent. That Grecian gave a better reason for
his taciturnity, than most authors for their loquacity, who observed, ' TVhat
was to the purpose I could not say; and what was not to the purpose, I would not
say/ " Preface to Sacon.

88 Were every bibliographer to confine himself to describing such volumes
only as he had actually seen, and devote his attention specially to books in those
languages or branches of literature with which he is best acquainted, it would
afterwards only require a few clerks and a careful publisher to combine these
various labours, and, by a simple alphabetical arrangement and an exact noting
of authorities, to produce an universal bibliography, at once useful and reliable.

I would further suggest to gentlemen having fine libraries, and possessing, in
addition to the books themselves, the faculty of understanding and appreciating
them, the boon they would confer upon the book-loving world were they to de-
vote a part of the time they spend in their libraries to the description of their rare
and remarkable volumes. Such an occupation would soon ripen into an absorb-
ing enjoyment, and could not fail to prove of inestimable bibliographical value.

An analogous idea, applied to the kindred study of biography, has been

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In no instance have I made an attempt at translation, but
have invariably reproduced all citations in the language in which
the authors wrote them. The very best rendering into another
tongue can but weaken the original^89) In carrying out
rigourously this determination I act, I think, in accordance
with the spirit of the age, which tends undoubtedly to-
wards a more universal knowledge of languages^90) both

propounded as follows by Josef de Rezabal y Ugarte: " Ademas yo pienso
que el medio mas seguro de que la nacion logre tener una Biblioteca completa
es el de que se forme por partes, dedicandose cada provincia, o cuerpo eclesias-
tico 6 politico & publicar la respectiva i los escritores que han florecido en cada
uno de ellos 5 pues siempre les son mas domesticas y faciles de adquerir las
noticias, asi de sus empleos y ocupaciones, como de sus tareas literarias. Por
otra parte, siendo su plan mas limitado, puede desempefiarse con mayor acierto
y puntualidad." Bftltoteca tte lotf tt*mtore* &c. " Prologo," p. xii.

Upon this point the Rev. R. A. Willmottaptly remarks: "The first
duty of a reader is to study the genius of his own country. But whosoever has
leisure and opportunity may profit by the speech of other lands, since it en-
larges the Pleasure of Literature, and because translations imperfectly reflect
the original. They are landscapes or portraits transferred to the wood. Out-
line, and grouping, and features may be preserved, but colour and life escape.
By what process of skill can the copyist produce, in their full splendour, the
epithets of St. Paul, the silvery lights of Livy, or the picture-words of
Aeschylus. The weather-stains of Dante disappear in the modern fabric.
The bloom of Petrarch melts under the touch. The polish rubs off from
Massillon and Racine, and the crowded thoughtfulness of Pascal is scattered."

Utonure* of literature, p. 274.

90 Southey calculates: " that a man who shaves himself every day, and
lives to the age of threescore and ten, expends during his life as much time in
the act of shaving, as would have sufficed for learning seven languages." He
works his proposition out by actual figures and with no little humour, and
adds: " It is strictly true that in the time specified a man of good capacity
might add seven more languages to the seven for which that computation was
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ancient and modern. Besides, this work is, as before stated,
not intended for the general public, but for students, who, if
they will know their authors properly, must be masters of the
language in which they wrote.(9') One phase of translation in
which the French are special sinners, cannot be too strongly
condemned ; it is the conversion from one idiom into another
of book titles and proper names ; in the first instance, all alpha-
betical, and sometimes subject reference is destroyed; in the
second, blunders and confusion are frequently created.(9S) Let
me add that all extracts given are transcribed with every fault
and peculiarity, whether of spelling or punctuation; this should
be borne in mind, so that errors which belong to the original
may not be attributed to me or my printer. Gross blunders,

formed ; and that a person who has any remarkable aptitude for such studies
might in that time acquire every language in which there are books to be
procured." "Whatever may be the worth of this theory, there can be no doubt
about the truth contained in the paragraph with which Southey concludes the
chapter: "See, Reader, what the value of time is, when put out at simple
interest. But there is no simple interest in knowledge. Whatever funds you
have in that Bank go on increasing by interest upon interest,—till the Bank
fails." Cf)e Sartor, Chaps. 154 and 155.

91 Again I quote from the fibatfurttf of literature (p. 273). " Of course

every new language is a new instrument of power. He who has the widest
knowledge may be said to possess the amplest capacity of enjoyment. Each
dialect introduces him to a fresh country, with all its beauties of scenery and
fruitfulness of production. He is a traveller over the world."

9* In his Curiolitfr litter aire*, M. L. Lalanne has made an interesting
chapter on translators and their blunders, I will instance but one: Loves
last Shift was rendered into French by Dernierr Chemise de VAmour. And
yet M. Lalanne has, in his Curiodtte* 2hbliograpi)ique* (p. 403), committed as
gross a blunder as any he has pointed out, by converting the Fleet Prison into

" prison de la Flotte."

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or noteworthy peculiarities I have pointed out by a (sic). This
system I have adopted with titles as well as with quota-
tions^93) Its utility, I think, cannot be questioned, for by a
peculiarity of diction, a special manner of punctuation, the
omission or improper use of an accent, an author may be
detected, the genuineness of an edition determined, or even in
some instances the place and date of the publication fixed.f94)

A word may not be out of place here as to the way in which
I have noted the sizes of books. The nomenclature of this
subdivision appears to be uncertain and confused even among

93 Among other useful instructions as to the best mode of making
catalogues, given by Mr. B. Sobolstchikoff in his excellent little volume,
fta'nripetf pour ('organisation et la con&rbatton toe* Aratttoe* Sibliotfjeque*,
we read the following: " La carte (or slip on which the rough draught of
the catalogue is to be made) doit &tre 6crite dans la m&me langue que le titre
du livre. La carte doit conserver scrupuleusement l'orthographe du titre avec
toutes ses fautes ou irregularis. Dans le dernier cas il faut mettre apres la
faute le mot (sic), afin qu'un jour le lecteur neprennepas une irregularite r6elle
du titre pour une erreur de copiste, et ne soit expos6 k la tentation de d6truire
rexactitude de la carte en voulant la corriger. L'ann6e imprim6e en chiffres
romains ne doit pas &tre copi6e en chiffres arabes. Sur quelques livres anciens,
l'ann6e est d6sign6e d'une manure tres-6trange, par exemple : cid. io. cxiic,
ce qui veut dire 1688 5 ce n'est quelquefois qu'une faute d'impression, et une
analyse approfondie vient prouver par exemple que ce devait fctre l'ann6e 1713
et non 1688, l'auteur du livre n'6tant pas encore n6ou bien n'6tant encore qu'un
enfant. ♦ # # Eviter les omissions et les abreviations en copiant le titre en
entier." &c. (p.51).

94 " Were I to begin this work again (says Professor De Morgan in the
Introduction to Arithmetical Sooftl), I would in every instance make reference
to some battered letter, or defect of lineation, or something which would be pretty
certain not to recur in any real reprint. Ordinary errata would not be con-
clusive: for these might be reprinted for want of perceiving the error."

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paper makers and publishers.^) I have simplified the matter

9S Nearly every bibliographer has said something on this subject, which has
resulted generally in adding another difficulty to an already complicated ques-
tion j the remarks however of Professor De Morgan (although I have not exactly
adopted his plan) appear to me so well worthy of consideration that I venture
to reproduce them: a A folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, or smaller work, is
now generally known by its size, though not always. In the folio the sheet of
paper makes two leaves or four pages, in the quarto four leaves, in the octavo
eight, in the duodecimo twelve, and so on. But even the publisher thinks
more of size than of the folding of the sheet when he talks about octavo or
quarto $ and accordingly, when he folds a sheet of paper into sir leaves, making
what ought to be a sexto book, he calls it a duodecimo printed in half sheets,
because such printing is always done with half-sized paper, or with half sheets,
so as to give a duodecimo size. From a very early period it has heen universal
to distinguish the sheets by different letters called signatures. In the book
now before the reader, which is a half-duodecimo (or what I call a duodecimo
in threes), the first sheet which follows the prefatory matter, B, has B on the
first leaf, and B2 on the third; which is enough for the folder's purpose. But
in former times the signatures were generally carried on through half the sheet,
and sometimes through the whole. Again, in modern times, no sheet ever
goes into and forms part of another $ that is, no leaf of any one sheet ever
lies between two leaves of another. But in the sixteenth century, and even
later in Italy, it was common enough to print in quire-fashion. Imagine a
common copybook, written through straightforward, and the string then cut:
and suppose it then separates into four double leaves besides the cover. It
would then have sixteen pages, the separate double leaves containing several
pages 1, 2, 15, 16; 3, 4, 13, 14; 5, 6, n, 12; 7, 8, 9, 10.

" If a book were printed in this way, it would certainly be a folio, if the four
double leaves of any one quire or gathering were each a separate sheet: and
if the sheet were the usual size, it would give the common folio size. But
if each gathering had the same letter on all its sheets, if the above for instance
were marked Ai on page 1, A2 on page 3, A3 on page 5, and A4 on page 7 j
the book, when made up, would have all the appearance of a more recent
octavo in its signatures." Arithmetical Bootttf, p. xi.

Let me add that in many books of the last century, especially those printed
abroad, the paper seems to have been used indiscriminately in sheets or half-
sheets, for in the same volume are sometimes found signatures of 8 and 16
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as far as possible. A book with 4 leaves (not pages) from
signature to signature, I call 4to., 8 leaves 8vo., 12 leaves i2mo.,
&c.; but if half sheets of paper have been used, then the
count is diminished by half, and an 8vo. book counts as a 4to.
In such instances I maintain the size which the book has,
and add in parenthesis its exact count, thus : 8vo. {counts 4),
12mo. {counts 6), &c. Further I add, when necessary, one
word of description, such as square, small, tall, &c. If I use, in
rare instances, any special technicality, I quote it from a pub-
lisher's or bookseller's catalogue for a purpose.

In a few instances I facsimile by photo-lithography title
pages or even pages of the text, in which beauties or peculiari-
ties occur which it would be impossible to reproduce in type.
I should indeed be pleased to see photography applied in a
thorough and complete manner to bibliography. It would be
an absolute guarantee of correctness, and would surely be an
adornment as well^96) A biographical work is certainly em-
bellished by good and correct portraits of the persons whose
memoirs it contains, why not a bibliography by exact pictures
of the books described ? The real utility would be greater in
the latter case, because the portrait of a man who is dead can
serve no practical purpose; it cannot assist us in recognising
him, as we shall never see him. Whereas with books it is dif-
ferent : they are longer lived than their authors, do not become,
except in rare instances, extinct, and we may hope, however
scarce they may be, to meet with them one day or other; to

96 Mr. H. Stevens claims to be the originator of this application, and in his
"Bibliotheca Geographica' * gives a long and minute description of it under
the title " Photobibliography." His remarks are well worth consideration.
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possess then their exact likeness must aid us most materially in
their certain recognition.

Nothing need be said about abbreviation. I have employed
none that cannot be at once understood, without any special
explanation, by every reader, whether English or Foreign. As
economy has not been considered in getting up this work, so
space was no material object, and I have preferred to employ a
few more lines, or even pages, rather than subject my readers
to the necessity of consulting a table of contractions.

The scarcity of books is so much a question of guess-work
and of comparison, based for the most part on individual ex-
perience, or personal opinion^97) that I have preferred to remain
silent on that point when I have no certain and precise infor-
mation to offer. Such indications as " uncommon," " scarce,"
" very scarce," &c.^9®) made by a judicious and experienced

9* For instance, one collector may have been vainly seeking, during several
years, to possess a work, which may have been offered more than once to
another collector in the same town, known as an amateur of the class of litera-
ture to which the work in question belongs. I have known such instances.
The one would pronounce the book very scarce, while the other would con-
sider it moderately common.

9s In the preface to his Btbltotyequt ntrieu*, David Clement gives a scale
for the different degrees of rarity of books, and indeed treats the matter vefy
exhaustively; but his remarks, after all, embody only his own opinion, and can-
not be accepted as binding or decisive. Granting however what he propounds,
viz., that a book of which there are only 50 or 60 copies shall be called
" extr&mement rare," one of which there are but 10 copies u de la derni&re
raret6," &c., how is it possible, let me ask, for any bibliographer to determine
positively (except in rare instances) that only a certain number of copies of a
particular book actually exist at present ? May there not be, hidden on the un-
visited shelves of private, and even of public libraries, or in forgotten lumber
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bibliographer, may be useful in a dictionary of general biblio-
graphy, but are of little value in a work like the present. The
greater part of the books which I notice have been printed,
either privately or surreptitiously, in small issues, for special
classes of readers or collectors, and may, as a rule, be designated
as scarce or uncommon.(") Furthermore, in addition to "the
thousand natural shocks " that books are heirs to, this particular
kind is subject to other dangers. They do not usually find
their way into public libraries, where they would be compara-
tively secure, but are for the most part possessed by amateurs,
at whose death they are not unfrequently burned; and they
are always liable to destruction at the hands of the law. Their
scarcity then, supposing their original issues to be identical, is
very much in proportion to their age; and as society is con-
stantly, so to say, at war with them, the natural course is for
them to die out altogether. So that rather than hazard an un-
founded opinion, " vox, et praeterea nihil," I have endeavoured
to give some definite and exact data, such as: number of copies
issued of an edition ;(,0°) number of copies destroyed by the
law or otherwise, number of copies sent to a foreign country,(ICI)

99 " Les Livres condann£s ou condannables (observes Clement, ut supra)
sont ordinairement raxes. Je mets de ce nombre, Les Livres qui traitent des
Arts superstitieux. Les Livres Paradoxes ou Het6rodoxes. Les Livres remplis
d'obsc6nit6s. Les Livres qui traitent des mati6res sacr6es d'une maniere qui
les deshonore. Les Livres seditieux ou pr6judicables & quelque grande Maison.
Les Satires, & les Libelles difamatoires.*'

100 Not of the work itself. "Avant toutes choses (Clement urges, ut supra)
il faudra bien prendre garde, de ne pas confondre les Ouvrages m&mes, avec les
diverses Editions qu'on en a faites. Un Livre peut &tre tr&s-commun, dont il
y ait des Editions trh-rares

101 A book may be common in one country and scarce in another. For

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when such destruction or transportation has taken place. The
reader can then form his own opinion as to their rarity.(,oa)

I have not attempted to generalise or draw to a head the
various and diverse materials which I have manipulated; this
is the province of the historian rather than of the biblio-
grapher, and requires a more comprehensive grasp and an abler
hand than mine. Should I have been in any way useful in
preparing for a future historian matter difficult to meet with, or
which, from its nature, he would possibly prefer that another
rather than himself should collect, or should I have thrown out
any suggestion which may lead to the more liberal and
thorough treatment of bibliography, all that I aimed at when I
undertook the present work will have been attained.

The title may perhaps not seem altogether well chosen.
" llrtJtr Itbrortim ^rojnbttorum " is of very ancient date,
and has been frequently employed, particularly by the Church
of Rome.(103) A title which would indicate clearly, and yet

instance, the issue of the " History of the Sect of Mah&rijas" (see post, p. 268)
was 500 copies, of which 450 were dispatched to Bombay, while 30 only were
retained by the London publishers. The volume may then be considered rare
in Europe and plentiful in India. Of the " Curiositates Erotica " (noticed at
p. 174) 250 copies were struck off, of which 200 were sent to New York, and
50 kept in London. The work is then commoner in America than in England.

Ioa The above remarks are nearly summed up in the following observations
of Clement: " L'on trouvera facilement un Livre aujourd'hui, qui sera rare
dans vint ans. Un autre se pr6sentera tous les jours en Espagne, que l'on
chercheroit inutilement en France. Le troisi6me ne sauroit 6chaper aux
recherches d'un homme, dont les Correspondances s'etendent jusqu'au bout
de 1'Europe; tandis qu'il restera invisible pour un autre, dont les liaisons ne
vont pas au deli des boraes de la Patrie." Btbliotyeque curitu*e, preface.

l°s The first ftltfcfj; was drawn up at Rome by Pope Gelasius I, in 494;

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without offence the books which these pages embrace was not
easy to devise. The few English words with which I qualify
the Latin heading will, I trust, obviate any confusion or
ambiguity.

I cannot hope, nor do I for one moment expect that my
work will pass uncensured. Many will justly proclaim it in-
complete^104) But what bibliographical work is there which is

the first Inttej: published at Venice dates t543 ; and in Spain the Inquisition
published the first Inttej: for that country in 1559. See Curtotfitetf JSfbUo*
jrap|)ique*, pp. 355 and 369. For lists of the various Inlftcetf consult jHanuel fctt
libraire, and »fl>ltoti)fca »tbltojrapf)tca; refer also to the Rev. Joseph Mendham's
two works C^e literarg ?)oltfp of t^e Cfjurcf) of Rome e^ibitetr in an flccotmt
of I)er Samnatorp Catalogues or Intoejre*, &c., London : 1830, and ®n fitilejr
of ffrof)tbtteto )3oott0, by command of the present Pope, Gregory XVI. In
1835; &c. London: mdcccxl. An alphabetical list of the principal
authors condemned in Pope Gregory XVIth's Index, will be found
reproduced at p. 88 of the first vol. of Cf)t BooMRKorm. Should the student
desire to pursue the subject further, he will do well to glance through a
i6mo. volume, entitled letf jKaubat* libretf, le* jKaubai* Sloumaujr et
taf ftomantf, published at Brussels, in 1842, anonymously, but of which
the author is the Jesuit father, Jean Baptiste Boone. It may be con-
sidered as a commentary on, or enlargement of the Papal Indices; and
an idea may be formed of the length to which the book-prohibitors are
prepared to go when such publications as t% La Revue des Deux-Mondes,"
the " Bibliotheque universelle d'6ducation," the " Tr6sor historique et
litt6raire," &c.» are forbidden, or when the names of Hallam, Guizot, Thiers,
Captain Marryat, and even Oliver Goldsmith figure among, the authors to be
avoided. " Bishop Barlow advises the scholar in search of good books to look
for them in the ' Index Expurgatorius,' published by the Roman Catholic
Church." Vide SootuVHorm, ut supra.

Let me here borrow the observations of Dr. Graesse: " En tout je
prie de tout mon cceur Mss. les critiques de vouloir bien tenir compte de
l'impossibilit6 d'un auteur quelconque de satisfaire k toutes les pretentions, et
de se souvenir de l'axiome que rien n'est parfait dans ce monde. Or, si
quelqu'un, aprgs avoir pris note des difflrents mat6riaux nlcessaires k son

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not unfortunately open to the same complaint ? Some
object to my having touched books of such a nature^1*) and
will wonder why I have not turned my attention to works on

ouvrage, croit en£n fctre parvenu k un certain terme de ses investigations et les
pr6sente au monde litt6raire, il n'en r6sulte pas qu'il ait produit un ouvrage
parfait." Cretor be libre* SUcetf, u Avant-propos " to " Supplement."

tot " fa public demande k un Icrivain dont il ach&te le livre, de lui donner
du neuf; et le public 9e f&che quand on lui donne quelque chose qui choque les
id6es re$ues$ cette contradiction est sur-tout bien sensible en morale, oil tout
ce qui est re$u, est excessivement commun, et oil tout ce qui ne Test pas, fait
rejaillir toujours un certain degr6 de bl&me sur l'6crivain qui le hasarde.

" Qui osera dire que les seules actions coupables sont celles dont il r&nlte
quelque mal $ et qu'une action utile est toujours vertueuse ? Qui osera le dire ?
Ce ne sera pas moi." J. B. Say, JJettt Volume, p. n.

106 This objection is humorously answered by the Abb6 Lenglet du
Fresnoy: " Vous auriez pft, me dira-t-on, vous occuper de choses pins
serieuses -y qui en doute ? Mais elles m'auroient ennuy6, 8c j'avois besoin de
m*6gayer -y n'est on pas heureux quand on le pent faire tout seul, 8c se tenir lien
par-l& d'une bonne compagnie ? Alors on n'a rien ft craindre; c'est le tem-
perament qu'il me faloit prendre, 8c c'est aussi ce que j'ai trouv6 de plus utile
dans mon travail. Qu'on ne s'avise done point de s'en scandaliser ; car si je
prenois un ton plus s6rienx, je dirois avec un bel esprit (M. Pellison, Discours
sur les CEuvres de Sarasin) qui s'est trouv6 dans un cas pareil. ' Qui ne s^ait
que des raisons tr^s-solides nous attachent quelquefois & des ouvrages qui
aemblent ne l'&tre pas, 8c qu'un devoir cach6 & obscur l'emporte souvent sans
injustice sur cet autre devoir public 8c 6clatant ? Cet homme que vous blamet
a trouv6 peut-fctre que pour r6tablir sa sant6 qui est ruin6e pour se d6fendre de
la mauvaise fortune, pour le bien d'une famille, dont il est l'apui, il lui est plus
utile de travailler & des Chansons, qu'& des traits de morale & de politique.
Si cela est, je le dirai hardiment j la morale 8c la politique elle-m&me lui
ordonneront de faire des Chansons, & c'est une injustice sans exemple de
condamner les occupations d'autruy, dont on ne s$ait ni les motifs, ni les
circonstances.' '* Be I'&tfage tie* SUmurn*. Preface.

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subjects, in their opinion, more profitable. (io7) To these I
might reply:

u I'll not answer that:
But, say, it is my humour j Is it answered) '*

My book is not intended for you. " Zapatero k tuzapato" If
in discord with your feelings, convictions, or prejudices,(Io8)
put it down, " II ne tient qui vous de lire ou de ne pas lire
ce qui n'est pas assez chaste k votre gr6. * * * Faites
reconnoitre les lieux par des personnes affiddes, avant de vous
embarquer dans cette lecture; dites-leur qu elles vous indiquent
par oil il n'est pas bon de passer." (I09)

x°f " II n'y a presque point d'occupation (says Bayle) qui ne soit bl&mable
par Targument que l'on en pouvoit ^choisir une meilleure; k de toutes les
occupations de la vie il n'y en a presque point de plus condamnable, si on la
juge selon les regies de la Religion, que celle qui est la plus ordinaire, je veux
dire que celle des gens qui travaillent k gagner du bien, soit par le negoce, soit
par d'autres voies honnfctes. Les moiens humainement parlant les plus
legitimes de s'enrichir sont contraires, non seulement k l'Esprit de l'Evangile,
mais aussi aux defenses litt6raires de J6sus-Christ, 8c de ses Ap6tres. II est
done de l'int6r&t de tons les hommes que Dieu leur fasse mis6ricorde sur
l'emploi du terns," Sic. fcfatartque, " Eclaircissement sur les Obsdnitez."

i«6 "There are some people (observes Mr. J. F. Boyes) who would not
only destroy all wickedness in the world, but almost all goodness, when it
does not make its appearance under the form, or with the sanction of their
own particular opinions." life antf Sooit*, p. n.

"» Bayle's 9it. ftittorique, " Eclaircissement sur les Obsc6oitez." I
have made frequent use of this remarkable article, and have freely drawn from
it passages in illustration of my meaning or confirmation of my opinions or
assertions. It is, in my humble judgement, one of the most just, liberal and
forcible strictures Jcver written—clear, terse, to the point, exhaustive, com-
parable for the closeness of its reasoning and the conclusiveness of its argu-
ments to nothing less than a proposition of Euclid, It should be read from
the first to the last word and attentively considered by every student

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To those however for whom the present work has been
compiled, and who will, I have no doubt, at once acknowledge
its desirableness, if not its utility, I would offer the following
remarks:

I. In treating of obscene books it is self evident that
obscenities cannot be avoided. Nevertheless, although I do
not hesitate to call things by their right names,("°) and to

no "Ne vous trompez pas, monsieur mon amy; (writes Beroalde de
Verville) les parolles ne sont point sales; il n'y a que 1'intelligence. Quand
vous oiriez une parolle, recevez-la, & la portez & une belle intelligence ; te lors
elle sera belle, nette et pure. Mais cela fasches les oreilles. Si les oreilles
estoient pures te nettes j cela ne les incommoderoit point. Un estron in-
commode-t-il le soleil, bien que ses rayons s'y jettent ? S^achez aussi, mon pere
se puisse tuer, que, si on ostoit ces parolles d'icy, ce banquet seroit imparfaict.
Seriez-vous bien aise que l'on vous ostast le cul, pource qu'il est puant, & ce
jusqu'l la mort ? Vous seriez un bel homme sans cul! II faut suivre nature;
ainsi nostre discours le suit." He narrates the following anecdote, which is
sufficiently to the the point to warrant my giving it place here: " Les filles de
nostre pais disant en parolles couvertes, parlent bien autrement, tesmoin la
fille de chambre de madamoiselle la Forest, femme d'un conseiller. Un
paisan luy apporta un lievre, qu'il mit, en l'absence de monsieur, &s mains de
la fille de chambre nomm6e Andr6e, laquelle il prie affectueusement de le
presenter & monsieur, te lui recommander son procez, dont il estoit rapporteur,
te qu'il avoit nom le Vit. Durant le disner, Andr6e s'advisa de son message,
te dit: 'A propos, monsieur, il est venu icy un homme, qui vous a apporte un
grand lievre. Oh est-il ? Je le vais querir. Le voyU. Vroiment il est beau;

il le faut mestre en paste. Monsieur, il vous recommande ses affaires, ce
pauvre homme. Comment a-t-il nom ? Je ne l'oserois dire; il est trop sale.
Si vous ne le dites, je ne s^auray qui m'aura donn6 ce lievre. Ardez, mon-
sieur, vouz s$avez bien qui il est; je n'oserois dire ce nom-l&, il est trop sale.
Madamoiselle luy dit: Dites-le en parolles couvertes. Bien done, mada-
moiselle, il a nom comme cela avec quoy on fout.'" JHopen tit Starbentr, chapts.
74 and 76. Bayle has also touched this point with some humour. He writes:
" J'ai lu quelque part, ce me semble, que la pruderie a 6t6 pouss6e jusques au

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employ technical terms when necessary, yet in my own text I
never use an impure word when one less distasteful but equally
expressive can be found-C")

2. I do not commend the authors I notice, nor laud their
lewdness, immorality, or irreligion. If I do not directly censure
them (and it is no part of my programme to preach or moralize)
I at any rate merely lay their turpitudes or blasphemies before
my readers as a .truthful and unbiassed historian would do.(x")

point qu'on ne disoit pas fed mangi des confitures, mais des fitures. On retran-
cheroit par ce moien plus de la moit6 des mots du Dictionaire de l'Acadl-
mie, apr&s quoi les autres ne serviroient plus de rien, car ils manqueroient de
liaison, k ainsi Ton seroit r6duit k ne s'expliquer que par des signes, ce qui
seroit des Obsc6nitez encore plus scandaleuses k plus dangereuses que celles
qui n'entrent que par les oreilles." Sic. ftitftorfqut, "Eclaircissement sur les Ob-
sc6nitez." Refer to similar remarks of Mr. John Davbnport, in the preface
to his Curiolttate* ttrotfrae, quoted post, p. 175.

111 Let me again employ the words of Bayle: "En premier lieu (he says),
par-tout oCt j'ai parl6 de mon chef, j'ai evite les mots k 1 c 3 expressions qui
choquent la civilitl k la biens6ance commune. Cela suffit dans un Ouvrage
tel que celui-ci, m&6 d'Histoire, k de Discussions de toute esp£ce j car de
pr£tendre qu'une Compilation oCl il doit entrer des matieres de Litt6rature, de
Physique, k de Jurisprudence, selon les divers sujets que Ton a en main,
doit &tre 6crite conformement k l'6troite biens^ance d'un Sermon, ou d'un
Ouvrage de Pi6t6, ou d'une Nouvelle galante, ce seroit confondre les limites
des choses, k 6riger une tyrannie sur les Esprits. Tel mot, qui sembleroit
trop grassier dans la bouche d'un Pr6dicateur, k dans un petit Roman destin6
pour les ruelles, n est point trop grassier dans le Factum d'un Avocat, ni dans
le Procds verbal d'un M6decin, ni dans un Ouvrage de Physique, ni m&me dans
on Ouvrage de Literature, ou dans la Version fiddle d'un Livre Latin, comme
est par exemple la Relation de l'lnfortune de Pierre Abelard. II y a done du
haut k du bas dans la biens6ance du Style: les plus hauts degrez conviennent
i un certain nombre d'Ecfivains, k non pas k tons." 9u. Rirtarique, art.
" Eclaircissement sur les Obsc6nitez."

in « yous m6prenez pas sur mes intentions, (writes J-B Say) Je ne

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3. The passions are not excited. Although the citations I
produce are frequently licentious, being as a matter of course,
those which I have considered the most remarkable or most
pungent in the books from which they are extracted; yet I give
only so much as is necessary to form a correct estimate of the
style of the writer, of the nature of the book, or the course of
the tale, not sufficient to inflame the passions. This could
only be accomplished by the perusal of the books in their en-
tirety, by the reader giving himself up in fact to the author.

My extracts on the contrary will, I trust and believe, have
a totally opposite effect, and as a rule will inspire so hearty a
disgust for the books they are taken from, that the reader will
have learned enough about them from my pages, and will be
more than satisfied to have nothing further to do with them.("*)
As little, it is my belief, will my book excite the passions of
my readers, as would the naked body of a woman, extended on
the dissecting table, produce concupiscence in the minds of the
students assembled to witness an operation performed upon her.

I recapitulate the foregoing remarks, in so far as they have
special reference to the present work, and condense them into
a succint plan.

vous dis pas : Enseignex le pice, mais ne le dissimulez pas 5 poor qu'il s6duise

il faut y etre ploog6: il n est pas aimable lorsqu'il est vu de dehors. Montres-
le avec toutes ses consequences et toutes ses difformit£s, mais sans le calomnier:
on vous soup9onnerait plus tard d'avoir charg6 le tableau et l'on ne croirait plus
la v6rit6 elle-m&me." f)etit Volume, p. 80.

"J This remark applies more particularly to the general reader $ I cannot
admit so much in the case of the mature and serious student, for whom in
many instances it will be necessary to read the works themselves, and not base
his knowledge upon my extracts or strictures.

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Plan.

1. The books noticed in the body of this work are arranged
in a strictly alphabetical order, according to the first word of
their titles (not title pages), ("4) with exclusion only of the
articles A, The, Le, Un, $cr, <8fn, &c.

2. Each notice comprises:

a. The title of the book, literatim et in extenso,("s) without
interpolations,("6) but with all errors and peculiarities, those of

1x4 The distinction should be observed, because sometimes the title page
is headed by the name of the author unconnected with the title, sometimes
with the price of the book, with a quotation, or even with an advertisement.
In such instances the first word of the title proper regulates the alphabetical
position of the book, and the matter which forms no actual part of it is given
in the description of the book. Only when the author's name is incorporated
with the title, and actually forms part of it, do I take it as the beginning of
the title, as in "Antonii Panormitae Hermaphroditus,'' under A; "Christian
Ulrich Grupen De Uxore Theotisca," under C; &c.

" But, as a general rule, (remarks Mr. Edward Edwards) it is impossi-
ble to lay too much stress on the propriety of copying title-pages, in full, * * *.
The most minute distinctions of a ' William Jones,' or a * Thomas Brown/
may be essential to identification j and the names, both of printer and pub-
lisher, may for some thousands of volumes be as important, as their title-
pages." ftmoixi of Iftrarto, vol. a, p. 843.

116 Interpolations, whether in parenthesis, or in brackets, although they
may have the merit of brevity, are decidedly apt to confuse, if not to lead to
errors. I have prefered to interpolate nothing, except an occasional (sic), after
a blunder or a peculiarity, to point out that they are not mine, which (sic)
cannot possibly be confounded with the words of the author's title. Any in-
formation as to the size, paging, place of publication, date, author or publisher,
I give m my notice of the book, and keep entirely distinct from the title.
Mr. Ralph Thomas has justly remarked that " nothing whatever must be
interpolated between the first word of the title and the last." See Jtote* an*
Qnirto, 4th. S., vol. 9, pp. 8 and 373, art. " How to describe a book."

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a noteworthy character being pointed out by a (sic). The title
of each book noticed is printed in red, the essential part of it in
bl&tk UtttV and the names of the author, artist and publisher
in small capitals, the more readily to strike the eye. Further,
I have endeavoured as far as possible to use capital letters, italics,
&c., where such are employed in the titles themselves.

b. Description of the volume:("') its size, paging, number

The following astute remarks of N6e de If Rochelle are worthy of
special attention by every one who undertakes to describe a book : " II est
assez difficile de donner en bons termes la description d'un Ouvrage rare k
curieux. C'est le titre qu'il faut rendre fid61ement; la date, le nom de la
Ville 8c de 1'Imprimeur qu'il est essentiel de specifier; le nom de 1'Auteur
qu'il importe de d6couvrir & la t&te ou & la fin d'une d6dicace, lorsqu'il n'est
pas dans le titre. Souvent on le trouve au milieu d'une pr6face ou dans la
souscription qui termine un Livre; quelquefois il convient de le chercher dans
le privil6ge accord6 par un Souverain, dans les vers qui ont €t€ adressls &
1'Auteur par ses amis, ou dans des acrostiches 8c des devises, au milieu desquels
1'Auteur s'est pM lui-m&me & le cacher. On doit ensuite compter les feuillets
qui pr6c6dent le corps de l'Ouvrage, 8c dire & quoi ils sont employes. II est
n6cessaire d'indiquer si le Livre est imprim6 & longues lignes ou par colonnesj si
le caractere en est gros ou menu, romain, gothique, demi-gothique ou italique.
Quand 1'Edition est ancienne, on doit annoncer si les chiffres, les r6clames 8c
les signatures s'y rencontrent ou ne s'y trouvent pas. II faut encore v6rifier 8c
compter les feuillets 8c les figures, s'il y en a j en prescrire soigneusement le
nombre j terminer enfin la description par l'annonce des Index, Tables ou
R6pertoires 8c Registres de signatures, qui sont ordinairement & la fin d'un
Livre, quand ils ne se trouvent pas au commencement. C'est dans la con-
noissance 8c la pratique de toutes ces choses, que consiste la partie technique
de la Science Bibliographique; 8c l'on doit &tre convaincu de la necessity oik
est un Bibliographe de s'en instruire parfaitement. Si cette partie est pen
satisfaisante 8c tr^s-minutieuse, ce n'est pas une raison de la n6gliger; car elle
caracterise particuli6rement le Bibliographe, 8c le distingue des simples con-
noisseurs de Livres. D'ailleurs les Arts & les Sciences ont toujours quelques

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of plates (if illustrated), &c. I also point out any irregularity
in paging, printing, &c.; date ; place of publication ; &c.

c. The various editions, or if these are very numerous, and
have been already noted, then references to the best authorities.

d. A critical analysis of the work itself, with extracts, when
desirable, and opinions, as far as I am acquainted with them,
of other authors who have previously noticed the book; also
any relevant information concerning the subject of which the
work itself treats.

e. A concise biographical notice of the author, artist, pub-
lisher or any other person connected with the book, or, when
these are well known men, the dates of their births and deaths
only, with references to the best authorities.

3. A list of Authorities("8) consulted, alphabetically ar-
ranged, with specification of the editions used, and an occasional
note added.

4. A general Alphabetical Index("9) comprising: the names

difficult6s, qu'il est glorieux de vaincre; & si les sentiers de l'6rudition sont
parsem6s d'epines, c'est ft leur extr6mit6 que les roses se cueillent."
B&liograpfjie fnatructtbe, vol 8, " Discours," p. xxii.

118 Of these I do not give the titles in full, but only so much as is ne-
cessary to ensure recognition of the work and the edition. Any very rare or
curious book consulted will be found noticed in its proper place in the body
of the work.

"9 The importance of a clear and copious alphabetical index cannot
be overrated. When we consider that England alone produces about 6000
volumes annually (seethe Book Census for 1875 m "The Times" of Jan?. 4
and 5, 1876), it is quite evident that no student can really peruse all the books
issued during each single year. Should he succeed in mastering all the new
works of any particular branch, he will, as a rule, have achieved a great
labour. But this is not sufficient j he must, of necessity, glance through many
books which are not actually in his special field in order to ascertain whether
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(and pseudonyms) of authors, artists, publishers, and book-
sellers ; writers quoted; persons incidentally mentioned; tides
of books noticed, or mentioned only, taken with regard to their
subject or salient feature ;("°) bastard titles(,M) when they differ
in wording (which is sometimes the case, as in the present
work for instance) from the real title; books referred to; places
of publication, real and fictitious; spurious impresses; (IM)
$ubjects.("J)

they do not nevertheless contain something which may be of interest to him}
and this can only be done by the aid of indices. It is absolutely necessary then
that every historical or scientific work, indeed every work of reference what-
ever, be furnished with an index, and the student's first question, when pur-
chasing a book of reference, whether modern or a reprint of an old book,
should be has it an index ?

Ia0 Thus "The Accomplished Whore," which is placed under letter A,
will in the index come under W, Whore, and under subject, Prostitution;

An Acccount of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus,** placed also
under A, will be found in the Index under * P, Priapus, subject, Worship $
" Christian Ulrich Grupen de Uxore Theotisca,'' in the body of the work
under C, in the index under U. &c.

1,1 It not unfrequently happens that the title page of an old and rare
volume is found mutilated, cut down by the binder, or even entirely lost,
while the bastard title remains; by giving reference to the bastard title the
edition may be determined, and the exact words of the real title supplied.

IM It may appear superfluous to index places of publication and impresses,
but I trust that it will nevertheless be found useful by those who interest
themselves in the statistics of book publishing, or who are inclined to pursue
those studies which have already been entered upon by M. Gustave Brunet, in
his " Imprimeurs Imaginaires et Libraires Suppos6s," and " Essai sur les
Biblioth&ques Imaginaires.'*

"J By sticklers for form I shall possibly be censured for thus throwing
together persons, books, and things. I am willing to own that it would be
more artistic had I made several rather than one index. What is wanted
however in an index is the readiest and surest means of getting at the contents

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Among my notices will be found some criticisms in the
French language, enclosed in brackets, thus [ ]. These
have been communicated to me by one of the most ardent of
living bibliophiles, and esteemed of modern philologists and
bibliographers, to whom I would here offer, together with the
expression of my admiration for his talents and learning, my
hearty thanks for the assistance he has afforded me. (IM)

I desire further to express my obligation to another geiN
tleman, who has furnished me with many particulars con-

of the volume, and this is undoubtedly better attained by one general index
than by several minor ones, however correctly they may be classified.

" Mais e'est k la charge, mon cher Terentianus, que nous reverrons
ensemble exactement mon Ouvrage, k que vous m'en direz votre sentiment
avec cette sincerit6 que nous devons naturellement k nos Amis. Paroles de
Longin, Chap. I.

" Longin nous donne ici par son exemple un des plus importans
pr6ceptes de la Rh6torique $ qui est de consulter nos Amis sur nos Ouvrages, k
de les acco&tumer de bonne-heure k ne nous point Hater. Horace k Quintilien
nous donnent le m&me conseil en plusieurs endroits; k Vaugelas, le plus sage,
k mon avis, des Ecrivains de notre Langue, confesse, que e'est k cette salutaire
pratique qu'il doit ce qu'il y a de meilleur dans ses Ecrits. Nous avons beau
toe 6clair6s par nous-m&mes: les yeux d'autrui voi'ent to&jours plus loin que
nous dans nos d6fauts $ k un Esprit mediocre fera quelquefois appercevoir le
plus habile homme d'une m6prise qu'il ne voioit pas. On dit, que Malherbe
consultoit sur ses Vers jusqu'd l'oreille de sa Servante ; k je me souviens, que
Molfcre m'a montr6 aussi plusieurs fois une vieille Servante (nommle La Forest)
qu'il avoit chez lui, k qui il lisoit, disoit-il, quelquefois ses Comedies j k il
m'assftroit, que lorsque des endroits de plaisanterie ne l'avoient point frapp6e,
il les corrigeoit: parce qu'il avoit plusieurs fois 6prouv6 sur son Th6atre, que
ces endroits n'y r6iississoient point. Ces exemples sont un pen singuliers $ k
je ne voudrois pas conseiller k tout le monde de les imiter. Ce qui est de
certain, e'est que nous ne saurions trop consulter nos Amis." Boileau,
Xttflrriontf tux longin, R6fi6xion, r.

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cerning English booksellers, and has brought to my notice
several editions of works, both English and Foreign, with
which I was unacquainted. His rich and extensive collection
of erotic books has been most liberally placed at my disposal.

I will now bring to a conclusion this introduction, which has
assumed proportions not originally intended, matter having
crept in not perhaps strictly in keeping with the introduction
to a bibliographical work, and which will, 1 fear, have sorely
taxed the patience of some of my readers. But still, as Pulci
has written:

" Convien che varie cose al mondo sia,

" Come son varj volti e vario ingegno,
" £ piace a l'unoil bianco,a l'altro il perso,
" O diverse materie in prosa o in verso."

I throw myself then on the indulgence of my readers, and
submit with resignation to their verdict.

" Un Auteur & genoux, dans une humble Preface,
" Au lecteur, qu'il ennuie, a beau demander grace ;
" II ne gagnera rien sur ce Juge irrit6,
" Qui lui fait son proems de pleine autorit6."(ia*)

Boileau. Satire ix, 187.

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€f)t arrompll^eb WHfcort Translated from the Put-
tana Errante of Pietro Aretino, By Mary
Wilson, spinster, London: Printed for the
Translator. 1827.

There is a second title page: " La Puttana Errante di
Pietro Aretino. Londra. 1827."

i2mo.; pp. 108, including titles; 5 engravings, nicely
executed, although the drawing is sometimes faulty, and a por-
trait of Aretino.* The vol. was published by Cannon at 15s.
It does not profess to be a literal translation. In the " Adver-
tisement,** signed " Mary Wilson, Tonbridge Place, New-road,
St. Pancrass. June 1, 1827," we read: " If I were translating a

* Taken probably from a medal. Aretino is represented as a stout man

with a curling and flowing beard, age about 50, dressed as a Greek philoso-
pher. Another portrait by Titian and engraved by Petre de lode represents
Aretino as a beardless young man of about 20 years, dressed in a tight-fitting
coat, buttoned to the throat, and with a chain round his neck. The expression
of countenance is very marked^ denoting a character at once firm and caustic,
fervent yet calm. This portrait was reproduced by M. Gay, by a photographic
process, and inserted at p. 12 j of his " Fantaisiste, 1 Ao&t, 1873."

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classical author, I should consider myself bound to pay a reli-
gious deference to the text before me; but in a work of this
kind, I felt myself at liberty to make any alterations or improve-
ments that might suggest themselves to me; and I have, con-
sequently, endeavoured to heighten every voluptuous description,
and to render the whole in a manner suitable to our ideas and
phrasiology at the present day. In some places I have intro-
duced whole pages of new matter: such as the Dream, related
by Magdalen, &c; and have, throughout, studied to season it
for the most voluptuous palates."

In addition to the Advertisement there is a short notice of
Aretino and of his works.

The dialogue begins:

" Magdalenf Oh, Julia, have you seen how fine our
neighbour Pandora was this morning ?" etc.

And ends with (Julia speaking):

" I will in return, on some future day, relate to you my
experience, for an accomplished whore cannot be too deeply
learned in the mysteries of her trade. Adieu."

There is another and earlier English translation, which is
exceedingly rare, entitled Cftt QBSaifrfrtng WBti)0tt % I have
never seen it. Gay* describes it as pet.-in 40, published about
1660, and adds: " Un exemplaire indiqul comme unique, Itait
port£ k 16 guin£es sur le cat. de la maison Longman pour 1818/*

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs a 1'Amour, Arc., vol. 6, p. 445.

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3

2to grrotmt of tht »tmam* of tf)t Wtonfhty of $riapit0,

lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples: In
Two Letters; One from Sir William Hamilton, K. B.
His Majesty's Minister at the Court of Naples, to Sir
Joseph Banks, Bart. President of the Royal Society;
And the other from a Person residing at Isernia: To
which is added, 8 BtitOUr&t 0!t tt)t WU)Vtii)\p Of
$riapU0, And its Connexion with the mystic Theology of
the Ancients. By R. P. Knight, Esq. London: Printed
by T. Spilsbury, Snowhill. M.DCC.LXXXVI.

4to.; pp. 195 ; 18 plates, of which 6 are in the text; but to
render the work in every respect complete, an extra plate, which
was published separately, must be added; this engraving,
which measures X 6£ inches (the plate only), bears the
following description: " This fragment in alto Releivo 2 feet
6 inches long and 1 foot 6 inches high, was detached from one
of the ancient temples, which are excavated in the solid rock
upon the island of Elephanta near Bombay, and was brought
to England in the year 1784 by William Allen Esq*.
Captain of his Majesty's Ship the Cumberland. &c.it is a
completement of Plate X ;* and contains, instead of two, five
figures (three male, two female), with the lower parts of their
bodies traced, which is not done on the plate in the book; the

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woman to the left of the illustration (the scene represented in
Plate X) has the man's member in her mouth, while to the
right, stands a woman between two men, one of whom sodomises
her, while she presses the member of the other between her
breasts.

In the reserved library of the British Museum is a copy of
the original edition of Knight's Essay ; the extra plate is
inserted at the end of the volume.

Allibone* states that the book has been sold for ^20.

Parisot -f- says : " L'auteur, dans cette publication, semble,
comme Mirabeau dans l'Erotica Biblon n'avoir cherch6 qu'une
occasion d'dtre prolixement obsc&ne et cynique, sous pr6texte
d'erudition. Outre les details sur les restes du culte de Priape,
il s'y trouve un discours ex professo sur ce culte lui-m£me et
sur sa liaison avec les doctrines theologiques mystiques des
anciens. En somme, l'ouvrage est faible, bien que contenant
beaucoup de faits et des rapprochements exacts; mais ces
rapprochements, ces faits sont si connus aujourd'hui des
mythologues, qu'il serait inutile pour eux d'ouvrir le livre de
Knight. Nous ne regrettons done point que, c£dant au haro
universel soulev6 par ce Maid-Work peu virginal, l'auteur ait

* Crit. Die. of English Literature, vol. 2, p. 1041.
f Biographie Universelle (Michaud), vol. a a, p. 63.

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bien vite cess6 de le donner et plus encore de le vendre, quoique
fort 6l6gament imprim6, et qu'il ait mis l'Sdition k peu pr£s
enti&re au pilon. II en reste cependant quelques exemplaires
de par le monde, et ceux qui les poss6dent peuvent se ffiliciter
d'avoir un morceau rare et curieux."

Mathias* pronounces it: " One of the most unbecoming
and indecent treatises which ever disgraced the pen of a man
who would be considered as a scholar and a philosopher."

More recent and maturer deliberation, less fettered by pre-
judice, has reversed these cramped judgements, and rendered
justice to the masterly production of Knight.

In 1865 John Camden Hotten, of Piccadilly, reprinted the
work with addition of another essay, reproduction of the
original plates, and illustrations to the new essay, with the
following title:

"3 JBtsfcoursfc on tbt ©Korsfttp of $rfapud, and its

connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. By
Richard Payne Knight, Esq. (A new edition). To which
is added <3n on tf)t of fi)t
ipoiotnf during the Middle Ages of Western Europe. London:
Privately Printed. 1865."

4to.; pp. xvi and 354; fleuron on title page; 40 plates
executed by Henry James Bellars.

* Pursuits of Literature, 14th Ed., 1808, p. 1195 quoted by Allibone.

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Issue 125 copies only, of which 6 on large paper; price, to
subscribers (only), small paper -£4. 10s., large paper ^10.10s.;
Roxburg binding.

I reproduce Hotten's circular, as afterwards enlarged and
adopted by Mr. J. W. Bouton of New York :

" Printed for Private Circulation only, 4to, on toned paper, a
beautiful example of typhography;—Two Discourses on the
Worship of Priapus: tne first showing its connection with
the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. The Second concerning
The Adoration of the Generative Powers during the Middle
Ages of Western Europe.

" This is a very extraordinary volume upon a subject that is
now attracting the almost universal attention of tne learned
and curious in Europe.

u Ever since the revival of learning, strange objects have from
time to time been discovered—objects which, although they
may amaze or amuse the weak-minded, have induced earnest
students to inquire into their origin and true meaning. Various
matters and discoveries assisted in

and the outlines of an extraordinj y

was the Divinit6 G6n6ratrice—the worship or adoration of the
God Priapus—the ancient symbol of generation and fertility.
The Round Towers in Ireland ; similar buildings in India; the
Maypole in England, and even the spires of our churches are
now shown to be nothing more nor less than existing symbols of
this pagan and strange worship. Almost all the great relics
of antiquity bear traces of this impious adoration—the rock
caves of Elephanta, near Bombay, the earth and stone mounds
of Europe, Asia, and America (North and South), the Druidical
piles and the remains of the so-called Fire-worshippers in every
part of the world. Even existing popular customs and beliefe
are full of remnants of this extravagant devotion; the horse-

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shoe placed over a stable or other door, or nailed to the orchard-
gate (occasionally hung upon the branches of the fruit-bearing
trees), is nothing more nor less than a bent priapus—the twisted
and perverted emblem of an ancient creed, that numbered,
probably, more devout followers than any other humanly-
devised system of worship. Priapus, as the symbol of lively
fructification, was esteemed the God of Gardens.

"Some years ago Mr. George Catlin discovered that the
Mandan North American Indians still indulged in an extra-
ordinary dance—a relic of the pre-Hispanic period—which was
in reality only a violent and coarse display of the old Phallic
dance of classic times, so exquisitely treated in the engravings
of Salviati, and in the sculptures of the Italian masters. Mr.
Catlin's account was very recently privately printed (fifty copies
only) in London for the Philobiblon Society, and the coloured
drawings which he made of these Phallic exercises are now
deposited in the new ' secret * chamber of the British Museum.
Throughout all our Indian tribes traces of the worship may be
discovered ; in the Mounds of Ohio, Illinois, and in those on
the banks of the Mississippi, curious potterv and carvings
bearing these—what we should now regard as obscene—devices
and figures may be found. In Central and throughout South
America numerous objects of this character have been dis-
covered, and in all parts of Europe relics of this strangely
extravagant creed are being continually dug up in the form of
charms for ladies' necks or rings for the finger. Generally they
appear to have been worn as protectives against the 4 Evil
Eye'—i.e.y the eye, or evil influence, of the Devil.*

* In the " Bibliographie Alsacien," vol. i, p. 160, mention is made of a
curious remnant of phallic worship existing in 1851 in France. " Pr6s de
Saverne, au dessus d'un rocher, est un autel consacr6 & saint Wit; les pajsannes
y viennent en pllirinage; on lui attribue le pouvoir de gu£rir les femmes de

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" R. P. Knight, the writer of the first4 Essay/ was a Fellow
of the Royal Society, a Member of the British Parliament, and
one of the most learned antiquaries of his time. His Museum
of Phallic objects is now most carefully preserved in the
British Museum. The second ' Essay,* bringing our know-
ledge of the worship of Priapus down to the present time, so
as to include the most recent discoveries throwing any light
upon the matter, is said to be by one of the most distinguished
English antiquaries—the author of numerous works which are
held in high esteem. He was assisted, it is understood, by
two prominent Fellows of the Royal Society, one of whom
has recently presented a wonderful collection of Phallic objects
to the British Museum authorities, who are fitting up an
especial chamber for their reception and private display.*

" As only one hundred and twenty-Jive copies have been
privately printed, and the great libraries of Europe have
absorbed many of these, the volume will soon become one of
the rarest op modern books. Five or six copies, it is under-
stood, have been printed on large paper."

l'hysterie et des maladies de matrices elles Tinvoquent aussi pour devenir
fecondes et elles deposent sur l'autel ce qu'elles appellent une grenouille de Jet.
C'est une image grossiere de cet amphibie, et sa forme rapelle tout & fait
quelques-uns des phallus de l'antiquite. Avant Introduction du christianisme,
un autel 6tait, dans ces m&mes lieux, consacr6 au dieu des jardins." See also
" M6moires de l'Acad6mie de Metz," 1851, p. 205.

* The objects left to the nation by Knight, and Witt, now form one
collection, which, to the shame of the British Museum authorities, is consigned
to a dark room in the basement, difficult of access, and where the interesting
specimens it comprises can be inspected only under the greatest disadvantages.

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The " Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers"
is fully as interesting and erudite as that on "Priapus;"
in it are a full account of the rites of the Gnostics, Knights
Templars, &c., a vivid picture of the abominations of the
Sabbath, and other kindred topics.

It is from the pen of Mr. Thomas Wright, assisted by
Sir James Emerson Tennent, and Mr. George Witt.

The book has been translated into French with following
title:

" ix Cultt to $rtapt et ses rapports avec la Th6ologie
Mystique des Anciens par Richard Payne Knight suivi

d'un Cs«ai' sfur It Cultt toss ^oubmrss ©Inerateur*

durant le Moyen Age Traduits de l'Anglais, par E. W.
Luxembourg Imprimerie Particuli^re 1866 "

4to.; pp. viii and 224; fleuron on title page; 40 plates issued
in a separate wrapper. " Tir6 & 110 exemplaires num6rot6s : 97
sur papier de Hollande, 8 sur pap. de Hollande fort (frcs. 60),
3 sur pap. de Chine (frcs. 90), et 2 sur peau velin (frcs. 200)."
The extra plate, as above described, is not included, nor is
the engraving of those accompanying the work nearly so well
done as in the English issue. The French translation is by
Mme. Yga.* Ihe book was published by Mertens,
Brussels, for J. Gay.

* Author of " L'Education rationnelle de la premiere enfance (Pet. in 18,
public k Geneve en 1869). " vide L'Interm6diaire, vol. vii, no. 146, col. 136.
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Richuld Paynb Knight, born 1750, died 1824. Poet as
well as archaiologist, he lived a long time at Naples, visiting
the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompei, and where his large
fortune enabled him to lay the foundation of that collection of
antiquities, which became the pride of his life, and which he
bequeathed to the British Museum. "Dou6 d'infiniment
d'esprit, de souplesse, de goftt pour les lettres, Knight, en
m6me temps savant et poSte, homme d'imagination et homme
d'6tude, Stait et surtout avait 6t6, comme les antiquaries ses
confreres, un gentleman fort original &c."* For list of his
works, consult Loundes's Bibliographer's Manuel, &c.

Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., born April 21, 1810.
One of the founders of the Camden Society, and of the British
Archaeological Association; while at Cambridge, where he took
his degree B.A. in 1834, and M.A. in 1837, he contributed on
historical and antiquarian subjects to " Fraser s Magazine,"
" Foreign Quarterly Review," &c.; he has edited a large number
of reliques of the Middle Ages, &c., and has written several
valuable books, among others: "The Celt," 1852, "Do-
mestic Manners, &c, in England during the Middle Ages,"
"Wanderings of an Antiquary," "Archaeological Album,"
1861, uHistory of Caricature, &c." 1869, "Caricature

* Biographie Unhrerselle (Michaud).

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History of the Georges,111 1867, " Narratives of Sorcery and
Magic, 2 vols," &c.*

Sir Jambs Emerson Tennbnt, born 1804, died March
6, 1869; graduated LL.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and was
called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1831; was secretary to the
Board of Trade, to the Indian Board, to the Poor-Law
Board, and to the Governor of Ceylon, on proceeding whither
he was Knighted; was M.P. for Belfast 1833 to 45> an(* for
Lisburn in 1852; author of "History of Modern Greece,"
" History of Ceylon," " Natural History " of the same island,
&c.f

Henry James Bbllars, was a native of Chester; originally
a schoolmaster, he came up to London about the year 1862,
and lived in Bedford Court, Co vent Garden (over a milk shop).
He died about 1868, or 69, at perhaps 40 years of age, in
great poverty, leaving a widow and several small children. He
was one of the most industrious of men, and perhaps the best
facsimilist (not even excepting the famous Mr. Harris, who
lost his sight through over work) that ever lived. His first
work was a pamphlet on Conchology, entitled:

"Illustrated Catalogue of British Land and Fresh-water
Shells, by H. J. Bbllars, Hon. Sec. and Curator of Chester

* Vide Men of the Time, 1872, p. 980; and Allibone's Crit. Die. of
English Literature.

t Men of the Time, 186a, and 187a.

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Nat. Hist. Soc. Chester, Minshull and Hugh 1858." 8vo.;
pp. 30; 4 plates.

Bellars also drew upon a large stone "The Historical
Numismatic Atlas of the Roman Empire;" it contains 216
heads of Emperors, with their dates and comparative rarity of
their coins, and was published by Peter Whelan of London.*

He did much work for Mr. Hotten, among which may be
particularised:

" Panier aux Ordures."

" Joe Millers Jests."

" Early Newspaper relating to the Russian Invasion of
Poland."

" Columbus's Letter on the Discovery of America."

" Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell."

" Reynolds's Display of Welsh Coat Armours."
besides many separate sheets, titles, &c.

He also worked for Mr. Ellis, and did many facsimiles of
the early 4*0 Shakespeares for Mr. Halliwell.

His work was invariably good—genuine, truthful, reliable—
and it is strange that with so much industry and such real
talent he should not have made his mark. Although his death
occurred but six or seven years ago he is already forgotten;
but many are yet living who must have known him personally,
and it is to be hoped that his memory may yet be rescued from
oblivion.

* Notes and Queries, 5th S. 11, Oct 17, 75, p. 314.

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CI)t aibmturre; Of an irtSl) £>U10rk ; Interspersed with

Amatory Anecdotes of a Nankeen Pair of Breeches!

Now I lie folded in Corinna's arms,
And all her soul is mine, and all her charms!
I now am to her panting bosom pressed,
And now, if ever lover was, am blessed.

My neck she folded with a soft embrace,
Now kissed my cheek, now wantoned o'er my face
Now loved to dart her humid tongue to mine,
And soothe by thousand ways, the sweet design!

Ovid.

By Terence O'Tooleywag, Esq. Embellished with
Coloured Plates. London: Printed and Published by J.
Duncombe, 19, Little Queen Street, Holborn.

i2mo.; pp. 94; issued in a fancy card-board cover, with the
title (first part of it only), a wood cut representing an old oak
tree with a house in the distance, and " London Printed by and
for Mitpord, 19, Little Queen Street Holborn," on the face:
and the announcement, on the back, of the following works:

The vol. contains 4 coloured plates which, without being of
good execution, are nevertheless not wanting in spirit and

The Haut-Ton Herald. No 3.
New Rambler's Magazine. No 19.
The Man of Pleasure's Song Book.
Madame Vestris. The Singular Life &c.
Horn Tales : or The Art of Cuckoldom.

if-
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2/.

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character, they are free, but not indecent, and correspond with
the matter they illustrate.

Although not badly written, " The Adventures of an Irish
Smock" is a flimsy and trivial work; the smock and breeches
are used, as is the guinea in " ChrysaV but the invention is
clumsy, and serves only to trammel the author, and embarrass
the story. Story however, properly 90 called, there is in reality
none, the book is made up of a series of loose adventures, and
digressions, which have no proper connection; the adventures
are all licentious, although obscenity is invariably avoided. A
glimpse is now and then obtained of peculiar customs then in
vogue; at p. 32 a good and minute description is given of the
" E and O99 gambling tables; the use of umbrellas is ridiculed
at p. 48 ; and at p. 38 the state of the book trade in Ireland,
and the way in which English books were then smuggled into
that country, are sketched. One of the heroines obtains (pp.
51 and 53) a confession from the Chevalier, Madame D'Eon,
which is curious.

Gay* designates the book as : " Ouvrage contenant une
grande varietd de liaisons curieuses entre les filles les plus
dl&bres et les beaux gar?ons, les intrigues privies de lady W—
et Mme N—> non encore pubises, &c99 The indication:
"entre les filles les plus c£l£bres et les beaux gar^ons,99 is
devoid of foundation; however persons distinguished as " Lady

* Bibliographic, vol. 1, p. 36.

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W—rs—y, Lord D—h—st," and "the celebrated Mrs.
Newton," as well as "Mr. Brett the actor" figure in the
book.

Further, Gay gives as rubric: "London, Randall (1785?)
2 vol. in-12." and does not mention any plates, by which it
would seem that his notice refers to another edition.

€bt afotanturetf Of a £tfrOOMBOp} or the Freaks, of
Youthful Passion.

The tender spring upon thy tempting lip

Shews thee unripe, yet mays't thou well be tasted.
Make use of time 5 let not advantage slip,

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
Fair flowers that are not gathered in their prime.
Rot and consume themselves in little time.

Shakspbars.

London: Printed for the Booksellers. MDCCCLXVI.

8vo.; 2 parts; the paging runs through both parts, pp. 125
in all; price Two Guineas; 8'coloured lithographs, badly
drawn and executed, they were designed by Edward Sellon,
the original drawings still exist, bound up in a copy of the
work in the cabinet of a London collector.

u The Adventures of a School-Boy" is by no means badly
written, and is from the pen of one well versed in the art
of composition, the author's name must for the present remain

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a secret, the narrative is not without interest, and the scenes are
natural and lascivious. Dugdale thus catalogues it: " A very
natural and powerfully written tale, describing in vivid colours
the seduction of two young and delicious creatures by two
sprigs of fashion, Eaton (sic) scholars, and the gradual transition
from the most refined voluptuousness to the grossest sensuality
are (sic) richly and lusciously depicted."

Cfte gtofaeitture* Of a &>petttll«t; or, a Journey through
London. Compiled from Papers written by George
Alexander Stevens, (author of a lecture upon heads)
with his Life, a Preface, Corrections, and Notes, by the
Editor. Exhibiting a Picture of the Manners, Fashions,
Amusements, &c. of the Metropolis at the Middle of the
Eighteenth Century: and including Several Fugitive
Pieces of Humour, By the Same Author, now first collected
and published. In Two Volumes. London, Printed for
the Editor: and sold by S. Bladon, No. 13, Paternoster-
Row. M DCCLXXXVI11.

8vo.; pp. vol. 1, xxviii, including contents, and 268 ; vol.
2, 286, and title and contents unnumbered The first vol.
contains a short Life of the author.

"The Adventures of a Speculist" is a book worthy of
being better known; a more truthful and striking picture of
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difficult to find; and who knew it better than Stevens, a
regular man about town, and constant frequenter of its most
doubtful haunts!

The " Speculist" begins his journey in the City, and visits the
Fleet Prison, Exchange Alley, Jonathan's, and Bedlam Hospital,
all which he describes with force and humour; characters are
introduced, evidently taken from life. His friend, Flight, whom
he has assisted, places in his hands a manuscript:

" aut&ottft lib of a ®&omait of t&e Gotoiu" (Vol. i.

p. 129 to end of vol. 2) adding: " The adventures are genuine,
the scenes real, and the observations just.—They will furnish
an excellent sequel to what you have yourself seen, and from
both you may form an authentic and founded opinion of the
moral depravity of mankind." Here we get very humourous
and interesting sketches of the taverns and night cellars, and
their frequenters; some clubs, to wit the Jolly Dogs, Damn'd
High Fellows, (vol. 2, p. 15), and Momus Court, held at the
White Horse, Fetter Lane (vol. 2, p. 16). Covent Garden is
described " as it was and what it is " (vol. 1, p. 258); also the
Brothels of Jenny Douglas (vol. 1, p. 243), and Bob Derry
(vol. 2, p. 51).*

There are further, anecdotes of Kept Women, Prostitutes
&c. Here is a type, the " Tavern plyer," extinct at the present

* Refer also to " Nocturnal Revels," &c., noticed in its alphabetical
order in this work.
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day. A party of young gentlemen having drunk freely at a
tavern, the waiter enters to " acquaint their Honour, that four
or five fine Women have stopped in chairs to ask after their
Honours, and left word they'll call again; upon which an order
is immediately dispatched to the Bar, to signify, that when such
and such ladies call again they are to be shewn up. Now these
very Women are plyers at that tavern, and have been waiting
shut up in a little room (like so many sheep penned up in
Smithfield) to be sent for. This is these unhappy Women's
nightly dependance; and as these are reckoned to be some of
the best, what must the life of some of the worst be." (Vol. 2,
p. 213).

Into the " Life of a Woman of the Town " are introduced
in a similar way two other tales : viz.
" feisftorp of a Etformtng Constable" (vol. 1, p. 218).
"lift of a gorntg Criminal/' (vol. 2, p. 196).

These three narratives are admirable in their way, pithy, life-
like, entertaining.

The whole book is written with ease, wit, and sprightliness;
the observations are by no means superficial, but display a just
appreciation of the follies of the age, and of mankind generally;
at times one fancies oneself with Addison in one of his lightest
moods, at others we come across sentiment which might have
been written by Mackensie, and anon a chapter worthy of the
" Whore's Rhetoric."

Some other trifles by Stevens are inserted, viz.

" Cfce ^upptt jMboto," (vol. 2, p. 32).

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" Comic $arapbra*t upon JWfjafttaptare'a &>tbm ggt**"

(vol. 2, p. 38).

" C|)t fefjftorp of ;femalt ;fasfl)iontf fa 1762.° (vol. 2,
p- 79)-

"3n fctfroiiuttfon to fbt ^refatt of a Sfettrtation
upon 4£ratorjn" (vol. 2, p. 114).

" feonwttp atft iUtabttp: An Allegory." (vol. 2, p. 122).
^iHelanrftolp #arrattbt of &>uffitrfaga of an tfngM
Companp of ComtWana fa ftwmS* (vol. 2, p. 127).
"€\)t Contention brttomt $obtrtp anto [>«; with

the SMentured Of yiatttrp: An Allegory." (vol.2, p. 138).

" Cfot amour* of 339ft anil ©etottomp: A Fragment."
(vol. 2, p. 145).

George Alexander Stevens was bom in London, about
1720,* and died at Baldock in Hertfordshire, September 6,1784.

Although of an amiable character, he seems to have been a
sad reprobate—strolling player, sailor, poet, dramatic author,
and performer at convivial societies, and withal considered by
his friend Sparks, as the best Greek scholar in England; always
in want, sometimes in prison, " he experienced the extremes of
mirth and jollity, as well as want and dependance; and led a
life, if unstained by crimes, yet despicable for its meanness and
irregularity." (p. xxi). In April, 1764, at the Haymarket he
made his great hit in his " Lecture upon Heads," " greatly to
the advantage of his fortune and reputation." Although
" The Adventures of a Speculist" " furnish the only collection

* Hole's Brief Biographical Dictionary.

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that has yet been formed of his miscellaneous productions;
which, beyond every degree of comparison (positive, compara-
tive, or superlative, as he would himself have phrased it) are his
most valuable ones," (p. x) yet he is also the author of five
dramatic pieces, one or two poems, " The History of Tom
Fool," 1760, a novel, and other entertainments besides his
famous " Lecture upon Heads."* He has been compared to
Hogarth, " what Hogarth was with his pencil, George seems
evidently to have been with his pen." (p. xi). In his poem
called " Religion, or the Libertine Repentant," 1751, he gives
a sketch of his own career:

" By chance condemn'd to wander from my birth
" An erring exile o'er the face of earth;
" Wild through the world of vice,—licentious race !
" I've started folly, and enjoy'd the chace :
" Pleas'd with each passion, I pursu'd their aim,
" Cheer'd the gay pack, and grasp'd the guilty game;
" Revel'd regardless, leap'd reflection o'er,
" Till youth, till health, fame, fortune, are no more.
" Too late I feel the thought-corroding pain
" Of sharp remembrance and severe disdain :
" Each painted pleasure its avenger breeds,
" Sorrow's sad train to Riot's troop succeeds j
" Slow-wasting Sickness steals on swift debauch ;
" Contempt on pride, pale Want on waste approach."

And in the work before us will be found the following picture
of himself by his own hand : (vol. 2, p. 20). " That fresh-

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coloured fellow who follows him is an unaccountable being.
He has wrote some tolerably droll songs, but spoils them by
his attemtping to sing them. He has belonged to both
Theatres, and never could make himself of any consequence
in either: he has too much sense for a fool, and too little
to be prudent. He might be either better or worse than he
is, if he would take any pains to bring it about. George,
however, is either unable or unwilling to think as he should do,
but lets things come or go, just as they may happen; too care-
less to consider Qf any moment but the present, and, grasshopper-
like, merry one half the year, the other half miserable."

In a small volume, now rather difficult to procure, entitled :
" The Humours of London, A choice Collection of Songs:
for all those who would render Themselves agreeable, divert
Company, kill Care, & be Joyous :" &c., will be found several
capital specimens of the muse of Stevens. Further in 1801
was published: " Songs, Comic and Satyrical, written by
George Alexander Stevens," &c., with numerous wood cuts
after the manner of Bewick on the page. Of this collection
there are, I believe, several editions.

The following tribute to Stevens's power over his audiences
is furnished us by William Davis : * " Stevens is said to have
been the first instance that can be produced of the same person,
who, by his writing and reciting, could entertain an audience
for a continued space of four hours."

* An Olio of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes, p. 47.

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C|)t ftfttttturt* Of Mr feenrp lobtall, In a Tour through
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Embellished
with Ten Superb Coloured Plates.

Forsc ae tu gustassi una sol volta
La millessima parte della giaja,
Che gusta un cor amato riamando,
Diresti ripentita sospirando,
Perdutto e tutto il tempo
Che in amar non si spendo.

Tasso.

Price Three Guineas and a Half.

8vo.; 2 vols, or parts; pp. 68 in each vol.; there are twelve
coloured lithographs (6 in each vol.) very badly done; this is
the edition of Dugdalb, produced about i860, and catalogued
by him sometimes at two and sometimes at three guineas. The
book was first issued at the beginning of the present century,
and several good old editions exist, but are very scarce ; one of
the earliest is with " 6 superb copper-plates, price 18/- " * In
these illustrations the women wear large round hats, and high
head dresses, the drawing and engraving are good, the plates are
not coloured; there is another issue dating about 1830, known
as " Mrs Dawson's Octavo Edition, w for which were done 12
coloured plates, measuring 5 to inches X 7 to 7^ inches, of
which one plate is excessively scarce, the collection rarely con-

* Publisher's catalogue of the time.

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sisting of more than eleven plates, most of them, especially those
which are signed, are well done and very spirited, the signatures
(fictitious of course) are Mary Wilson, Sophia Cary, Bolano,
Pardon, J Thompson, Grogan, Bruno, Maria Vincent,
Paravicini, Boiardo, Golbani, Goldoni ; from this set the
lithographs in Dugdale's edition are badly imitated.

" Sir Henry Loveall " is by no means the worst book of its
class; the adventures, it must be owned, are improbable, and
neither striking nor original, but they are never crapulous or anti-
natural, and obscenity of language is as much as possible avoided,
one or two flagellation scenes occur, as in every English erotic
work, but they are not made too prominent, the style is flimsy,
but withal sprightly and entertaining, and the book is interspersed
with snatches of verse. Dugdale in his catalogue not inappro-
priately says of it: "A great variety of incident is here intro-
duced, and it is stamped with a life-like interest, that proclaims
it at once to be the production of a man of fashion, of
gallantry, and of adventurous daring."

ftlrituatte tifttfaitt a INSfOlf. Traduit pour la premiere fois
de P Italien de Ferrantb Pallavicini Amsterdam chez
T ancien Pierre Marteau 1866.

Small 8vo.; pp. xv, 124, and 4 unnumbered at end of the vol.
containing four sonnets ; title in red and black ; papier vergd;
550 copies; published at Brussels by Gay ;* price 10 francs ;

* See Die. des Ouvrages Anonymes, 187a, vol. 1, col. 91 $ and Liste des
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The Avant-Propos by M. Poulet Malassis, is able and
instructive.

"Alcibiade" is almost a treatise in dialogue on sodomy, and was
doubtless intended as a blow to the priests. " Vous y apprendrez
i veillei attentivement sur vos enfants pour les soustraire k
Tinfluence pernicieuse des mauvais maitres, ddtestable engeance
qui n'abonde que trop par le temps qui court." (p. 6).

Alcibiade, a youth of almost feminine beauty, is sent to school,
where Philotime his preceptor becomes violently enamoured of
him. The book consists of Philotime's arguments to induce his
pupil to submit to his wishes, and of Alcibiade's questions,
replies, and attempts at refutation. Alcibiade is at length per-
suaded, and Philotime " sut si bien faire, que quand Alcibiade
n'avait pas le vit de son maltre dans le cul, il ne savait pas ce
que c'dtait que le plaisir," &c. (p. 124).

It must be confessed that Alcibiade, considering his youth
and innocence, displays a strange knowledge of his subject, and
argues more like a professor than a school-boy. The reasoning
throughout is very specious, and the pleasures which the
patient is to enjoy are most wonderfully imagined, glowingly set
forth, and subtly urged. The book displays research, and is
indeed very enticing. The author's love of his subject is
strong, and would lead to the supposition that he was not
a stranger to the delights which he so warmly portrays.

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Gay :* " estim6e; elle est claire, concise, et rend assez bien le
sens du texte."

Sodomy, a vice much indulged in by the Ancients, has
undoubtedly continued in greater or less degrees up to the
present day, for although the laws of all civilised countries are
at present so strict against it, there can be no doubt that both
amateurs and catamites do still exist, and that there is no capital
in Europe where the debauchee cannot satisfy his depraved
taste.

The chain indeed can be carried through clearly enough. One
has but to read the Greek and Latin authors to be convinced to
what extent this vice was indulged in both in Greece and Rome
of antiquity; the Knights of Malta were most certainly addicted
to it, and coupled with it other and even more filthy practices
which they had formed into a kind of heathen worship.
In monasteries and among soldiers it was in all times more
or less practised, and is even among the French army of the
present day, derived as the Marquis de Boisy supposes from
the Arabs. In the East it is, without possibility of contra-
diction, generally indulged in, and the worshippers of Brama
are greatly given to it. J

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs & 1'Amour &c., vol. i, p. 55.
t Consult " An Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers/* &c,
published together with "A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus,M &c. by
R. P. Knight, 1865.

t In a dictionary of erotic topics, published by Scheible, Stuttgart, in
184.9, and entitled "Eros," a vols., will be found under the heading " Stna*
bentelfre " a short sketch of the history of this vice. Consult also " Nouveau
Voyage aux Indes Occidentales," par Bossu, vol. 3, p. 108.

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Sodomy is a constant and favourite theme with the erotic
writers of France and Italy, and the infamous Marquis de Sade
harps on it continually.

But although it is evident that sodomy has always been
practised where bodies of men, deprived of communication with
the other sex, have been massed together, more perhaps in
such cases to satisfy the demands of nature than to infringe
her laws, or from taste or inclination, and although it is equally
certain that there are still to be found debauchees who have a
predeliction for sodomy, both active and passive, yet I believe
that to Italy and France alone must be reserved the honour
(or rather dishonour) of having possessed societies of men
of fortune, influence, and position, banded together under
oaths of secrecy and obedience, and with codes of defined rules
&c., for the sole purpose of indulging with one another in this
heinous vice, to the total exclusion of the opposite sex.

Mirabeau* affirms that during the reign of Henry III " les
hommes se provoquaient mutuellement sous les portiques du
Louvre," and that under Louis XIV " la p€d6 rastie" had its
fixed rules and regulations.

In support of these assertions, will be found in a rare and
curious little book entitled " La France Galante &c 1695," a
chapter headed, " La France devenue Italienne," in which is
given the account of a society of which the Due de Grammont*

* Erotika Biblon, Chapt. Kadhlsch.

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the Chevalier de Tilladet (of the order of Malta), Manicamp,
the Marquis de Biran, were leading members. In their rules,
drawn up by these worthies, it is enacted : that all new members
should be visited," pour voir si toutes les parties de leurs corps
6toient saines, afin qu ils pussent supporter les austeritezthat
they should all maintain a strict chastity with regard to women ;
that each new member should submit to the " rigueurs du
Noviciat, qui dureroit jusques k ce que la barbe fut venue au
menton." &c. This society appears to have had but a short
existence, for a young prince of the blood having joined it, and
the king being informed of the same, he had the offender chas-
tised in his presence on the very part through which he had
sinned, and a curious print represents the interesting ceremony.

To obtain an idea of the state of sodomy (at least in France)
at the present day the student should consult the able work of
Dr. Tardieu, " Etude &c., sur les Attentats aux Moeurs" edit.
1873, where will be found a most clear and interesting treat-
ment of the subject. To show the extent to which the crime is
spread, Dr. Tardien says, " un coup de filet jet6 dans cette
fange ramena une premiere fois quatre-vingt-dix-sept, et une
seconde fois cinquante-deux individus pris en flagrant, delit, et
que je fus appel6 k visiter; si j'ajoute qu'en y joignant les autres
explorations du m£me genre que j'ai eu k faire, le nombre des
p£d€rastes que j'ai examines dans quatre-vingt affaires atteint
presque trois cents." (p. 201).

I have been told by a Parisian, whose word I cannot doubt,
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the time of the Carnival, balls of sodomites and catamites
where women were not admitted, but where the men came in
male or female attire indiscriminately; they danced, kissed, and
behaved to each other with even more licence than in similar
reunions of both sexes. My friend assured me that he had
witnessed these infamous assemblies, and that they were tolerated,
and even encouraged by the police, in order to keep up their
knowledge of the persons addicted to the crime, and to learn
year by year what new members were added to their ranks.

But to return to the Ancients, and to "Alcibiade." In a
clever and interesting little book entitled:" Un Point curieux des
Moeurs privets de la Gr6ce" M. Octave Delepierre expresses
his opinion that "TAlcibiade Fanciullo n'est pas une complete
fiction, et que Fauteur a trait6 la question d'apr^s des elements
que l'on trouve dans le 6crits des philosophes les plus respectes
and that "il suffise de dire que la discussion entre le
prdcepteur et son 61eve roule toute entire sur les avantages que
presente l'amour dans le sens que nous avons vu les philosophes
grecs donner k ce mot."

" Un Point Curieux" should be consulted upon the pre-
valence of this vice generally among the Greeks. Consult also
" Dictionnaire Philosophique " de Voltaire, Art. " Amour Socra-
tique."

" Alcibiade " is one of the works for the publication of which
Gay was punished in 1863; it was farther condemned in 1868
by the tribunal of Lille.* It must not be confounded with the

* Proc&s des Raret6s, p. 130.—Cat. des Ouvrages Condamnes, p. 63.

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classical novel, in 4 vols, or parts, 8vo, " AthenSs et se trouve k
Paris, 1789," entitled successively "Alcibiade Enfant—Jeune
Homme—Homme-fait.—Viellard;" with plates.

The Italian original " aOWWafce faim'tlllO a *tOla » is men-
tioned in the " Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di
scrittori italiani." " L'edition qui passe pour la plus ancienne
porte Tindication supposee : Oranges, par Juan Wart, cbbclij
(1652); e'est un petit in-8° carre de 102 pages chiffr£es, y
compris 3 feuillets prdliminaires, et a la fin un feuillet non
chiffre contenant quatre sonnets signes M. V. La reimpression,
portant la m6me date, est un petit in-12 de forme un peu
allongee, ayant 124 pages, plus 2 feuillets pour les sonnets."*
In 1850 was published at Bassano an 8vo pamphlet, " Dis-
quisizione intorno il rarissimo libro intitolato Alcibiade fanciullo
a scola" by Giamb. Baseggio, 25 copies only struck off. This
interesting notice, addressed by its author to Gaetano Melzi
of Milan, the object of which was to discover the authorship of
" Alcibiade," has been translated into French by M. Gustav
Brunet, " Dissertation sur L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola-traduite
de ritalien," &c, Paris, J. Gay, 1861. Ts/L. Brunet has added a
"Postface " and notes which comprise not only a history of the
book itself, but a list of other works, and a vast amount of
historical and legal information upon the sanle subject.

" Qui vult posse, suum digitos intrudat in anum;

" Sic perhibent Helenae consuevisse Parim."

Antonii Panormitae Hermaphroditus.

* M. G. Brunet ut supra.

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glint et tfabour, ou Le Roman Philosophique. Ecrit k la
Bastille un an avant le Revolution de France. Orn€ de
Quatorze Gravures. Par le Citoybn S * * *. A Paris,
Chez Girouard, Libraire, rue du Bout-du-Monde, no.

47- l793-

On the tide-page is a vignette representing a lyre enclosing
the letters J. G., surmounted by a crown, and supported by
laurel branches, with motto " Impavida Veritas."*

There is another edition two years later, the body of the book
is identical, and the tide-pages differ only in the following items:
the fleuron and a Par le Citoyen S * * * w are omitted, u Seize
Gravures" are indicated instead of " quatorze,** the publisher
and his address become " Chez la veuve Girouard, Libraire;
maison l£galit6, Galerie de Bois No. 196;** finally the date is
changed from 1793 to 1795.

18 mo.; 8 pts. forming 4 vols., the paging running through
the parts; vol. 1, pp. xiv, and 315 ; vol. 2, pp. 503 ; voL 3, pp.
575 ; vol. 4, pp. 374. In the same set are frequendy found
both tide pages. There should be 16 engravings, not signed,
and of no great merit; they are not obscene; that facing
p. 216 of vol. 3, is generally wanting, although, according to

* In "Les Supercheries Litt6raires D6voil6es," vol. 3, col. 488, this vignette

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M. Cohen,* it is not obscene; the plate at 3rd part, p. aoo,
represents three naked women, the pudenda of two of Whom
are fully carried out, a man dressed touching one of them,
and four negro attendants, two of whom brandish dubs; it is
free, but scarcely obscene.

At the back of most of the title pages, or of the false titles,
are seven lines, beginning "Nam veluti pueris, &c.,w quoted
from Luc., lib. 4.

Author, the Marquis de Sade.

The work has been condemned, and " destruction ordonn£e
par arrAt de la Cour royal de Paris, du 19 mai, 1815.^

"Aline et Valcour" is a powerful and original work, and con-
sidering that it was written before the French Revolution, must
be pronounced a very remarkable one. Steeped as he was in
all the vices of his class, S^de foresaw clearly, and prophecied
plainly what would be the result. " O France! tu l'6claireras un
jour, je l'esp^re: l'6nergie de tes citoyens brisera bient6t le
sceptre du despotisme et de la tyrannie, et foulant k tes pieds les
sc£16rats qui servent l'un et l'autre, tu sentiras qu'un peuple
libre par la nature et par son glnie, ne doit £tre gouvern£ que
par lui-mime." (Vol. a, p. 41). "Une grande revolution se
prepare dans ta patrie (France); les crimes de vos souverains,

* Guide de 1*Amateur de Livres & vignettes du 18 siScle. Also Bibliogra-
phie des Ouvrages relatifs & l'Amour, &c., vol. 1, p. 59.

t Catalogue des Ecrits &c. condamn6s depuis 1814 jusqu'au 1 Janvier
1850, p. 87.

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leurs cruellcs exactions, leurs debauches et leur ineptie ont lassi
la France; elle est exc6d£e du despotisme, elle est k la veille
d'en briser les fers." (vol. 2, p. 448). and many other similar
passages.

The work from an artistic point of view has grave defects, it
is altogether too long; making every allowance for the digres- /
sions and philosophical tirades, the tale itself is told with too
much verbosity, and is drawn out to a length altogether out of
proportion to its importance; besides, by adopting the epistolary
form, the author has fettered himself, and the narration becomes
frequently awkward and improbable.

Throughout, and at nearly every page, Sade indulges in the
exposition of his various theories on government, morality,
education, political economy, relation of the sexes, &c., and,
extravagant and outrageous as his notions frequently are, some
of them are well worth consideration.

In vol. 2 are depicted two kingdoms, the entire opposites of
each other—Butua, the epitome of all that is vile and degrading,
where every conceivable crime is practiced, and openly en-
couraged ; and Tamoe, a communistic Utopia, where virtue,
prosperity, and happiness flourish without alloy. Both descrip-
tions are remarkable; that of Butua is especially forcible.

The editor informs us (p. x) that the work includes the
" trois genres: comique, sentimental, et 6rotique of the former
there is but little, if any, the sentiment is generally forced,
unnatural, stilted, but the erotic portion demands a closer
consideration.

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In " Aline and Valcour" we find much the same characters
as in " Justine et Juliette "—the president de Blamont, cruel,
sophistical, and indulging in every vice, even to incest; Aline
virtuous, obedient, modest, persecuted constandy, until she
destroys herself rather than suffer the embraces of an old liber-
tine, to whom the father intends to marry her, in order that he
may share with his friend the possession of his own daughter;
Sophie has much the same character as Aline, and suffers
equally with her; whereas Rose and L£onore are vicious by
nature, and love depravity for its own sake; the latter prospers,
and may be classed as a pendant to Juliette.

But we do not here assist at the wild, sickening, impossible
orgies of " Justine et Juliette," but view libertinism rather in
the family circle, and see its effects upon a wife and daughters;
it is here less revolting, but more capable of being practised,
and therefore far more dangerous.*

Qu6rard -f- tells us, "l'auteur s'y peintsous le nom de Valcour,
et y raconte parfois sa propre histoire." Valcour, however, is
but "a sorry hero, who is entirely passive throughout the whole
book, and displays no decided quality, either positive or neg&-
tive.

Extracts from " Aline and Valcour " were afterwards incorpo-

* This opinion is expressed by Qu6rard. See La France Litt6raire, vol. 8,
P- 303-
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rated in two other novels, viz., " Valmor et Lydia," 1798; and
u Alzonde et Koradin, 1799."*

Donatien Alfonse Francois Marquis (really Comte) de
Sade was born at Paris, June 2, 1740; and died in the hospital
of Charenton, December 2, 1814, " d'une mort douce et calme,
et presque sans avoir 6t6 malade."

The Marquis de Sade is perhaps one of the most extraordi-
nary men who ever lived, and a very interesting subject for
psychological study; nature has produced some strange abor-
tions, both physical and mental, but probably never a greater
mental monstrosity than Sade.

Sprung from a stock which tiras most pure and honourable,
reared and educated with the greatest care and simplicity, this
mental monster burst forth suddenly, as it were without appa-
rent cause, and became at once the most depraved libertine,
the cruellest debauchee, the lewdest writer, and the most persis-
tent propagator of immorality the world ever saw. The list of
authors who have had their weak moments is not small, as the
pages of this work sufficiently show, but as a rule erotic com-
position was with them the exception—the delirium of the
moment, soon to be forgotten and expiated by nobler pursuits 5

* Petite Bibliographie biographico-romanciere, par M. Pigoreau, cited by
Qudrard in " La France Litt6raire," vol. 8, p. 303.

t The beautiful Laura of Petrarque was an ancestress of his; for a sketch
of her and of the other members of the Sade family consult " Le Marquis de
Sade," par Jules Janin.

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whereas it was the occupation, the all-absorbing labour of Sade's
whole life., from his school days to the hour of his death, at the
age of 75 years, he continued practising (when he could), and
teaching continually the most abominable licentiousness; to his
dominant passion he sacrificed everything—family, fortune,
position, friends, liberty, and died in prison, still labouring at his
infamous writings, and perverting every one who approached
him. No life of idleness was his, numerous as are the works
which have been printed, he left a great quantity of MSS.
which have never seen the light.*

* M. B6rard has left the following note:

" Angles 6tait Prefet de Police lors de la mort du Marquis de Sade. Je lui
ai entendu dire qu'on avait trouv6 dans sa chambre un grand nombre de vers
licencieux ' dignes de Voltaire/ qu'il s'6tait empress6 de faire brfller. Si ces
vers 6taient en effet dignes de Voltaire, leur destruction serait une perte -y
mais je crois pouvoir en douter, d'abord parceque Angles se connaisait mieux
en administration qu'en poesie, en suite parceque les vers que Ton connait de
M. de Sade sont plus que m&liocres." Catalogue de Dessins, Manuscrits, et
Livres qu'on est oblig6 de cacher, &c., MS.

In his " Melanges Bibliographiques " (p. 186). Le Bibliophile Jacob has
reproduced a letter of Sade in which he mentions a tragedy by himself " lue au
Th£dtre-Francais, le 24 novembre, 1791," the heroine of which appears to have
been Jeanne Hachette. That tragedy is not noted among the works of the
Marquis de Sade.

Before I terminate this book I shall have occasion to speak of another and
more important work of Sade, which is still unpublished and I may say un-
known.

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Monsieur Paul Lacroix,* who has treated his memory with
great leniency, endeavours to prove that the Marquis considered
himself justified in attempting to pervert the whole human race;
indeed it would seem that he did " force his soul so to his own
conceit." He was undoubtedly a man of a naturally vicious
organisation, who, giving himself up to the strange idiosyncrasy
which possessed him, and growing rabid during his frequent

* In his " Curiositi6s de l'Histoire de France, Paris, 1858," a S6rie, p. 226.
" Je parviendrais (says he) sans doute k prouver que ce malheureux n'6tait pas
d'abordtel qu'on le repr6sente, un monstre prodigieux de sc616ratesse, et qu'il ne
Test devenu en veillissant, que pour se venger de la soci6t6 k la quelle il impu-
tait les malheurs de sa vie.

" Car il y a deux divisions bien tranch6es dans l'existence du marquis de Sade:
l une appartient k l'histoire des mceurs de son temps, l'autre k l'histoire des plus
hideuses maladies de Time; celle-ci est la consequence de la premiere ; chacune,
k differents degr6s, offre la satire des pr£jug£s, des regies, des lois de la nature
civilis6e.

" C'est la passion qui a commence la chute morale du marquis de Sade ; ce
sont l'orgueil et le d6sespoir qui ont achev6 de le pr6cipiter dans un abime infect

oil il eht voulu entralner ses contempyains, de m^me que Satan peuplant
l'enfer oil la main de Dieu l'a plong6." Monsieur Lacroix concludes his ar-
gument with : " je ne me sens par le courage d'entreprendre une justification en
faveur de 16crivain qui forma l'absurde projet de pervertir l'esp^ce humaine et
consacra ses plus nobles facult6s k Tex6cution de ce qu'il regardait comme des
repr6sailes.M

M. Brunet expresses himself to the same effect: " Sade, rest6 sous le verrous,
fut atteint d'une v6ritable alienation causae par le d6sespoir j sa t^te s'6chauffant
de plus en plus dans une longue oisivetl, il fut un proie k une monomanie qui le
jeta dans un abime oil il aurait voulu entralner le genre humain. En s'effor9ant
de r6pandre la corruption la plus infecte, il croyait user de repr6sailles envers la
societ6." " Le Marquis de Sade, l'homme et ses ecrits," &e.

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imprisonments, became a confirmed monomaniac—a mad man
in fact.

It is unnecessary to repeat here the events of his marvellous
but degrading career—his cruelty to the unfortunate Rose
Keller, whom he induced to accompany him to his house at
Arcueil, and there, stripping her naked and binding her hand
and foot, he and his valet beat her almost to death;—the ball he
gave at Marseilles, where he caused to be distributed chocolates
drugged with cantharides, creating thereby an orgie which ter-
minated in the death of several persons;—his abduction of his
own sister-in-law;—his pandering to the revolutionary ten-
dencies;—his neglect of his wife, who was ever devoted to
him, &c.

Notices of him will be found both in the " Biographie
Universelle de Michaud," and the "Biographie G£n6rale
further the student can consult:

1. " Le Marquis de Sade 1'homme etfees ecrits £tude bio-biblio-
graphique," from the pen of M. Gustav Brunet.

2. " Curiosities de FHistorie de France par P. L. Jacob," art.
" Le Marquis de Sade."

3. " Le Marquis de Sade par Jules Janin," &c., 1834, in which
pamphlet is given a list of the principal works of the Marquis.

These three works I have already cited. In the " Lettres de
Mme. de Sevign6," in the " Memoires de Bachaumont," in " La
Gazette Noire par un Homme qui n'est pas blanc," 1784, in the
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Fanchette " of Restif de la Bretonne, anecdotes are given about
Sade.*

J6rome de Lalande f says of him : " Je voudrais bien
pouvoir citer M. de Sade ; il a bien assez d'esprit, de raisonne-
ment, d'lrudition; mais ses inf&mes romans de Justine et de
Juliette, le font rejeter d'une secte (atheists) oil Ton ne parle
que de vertu."

Monsieur B#### of Paris has amassed a rich and interesting
collection of autographs of the Marquis de Sade, and other
documents connected with him and his family, not the least
curious of which are: the ground plan of a brothel in which the
Marquis has designed with his own hand the disposition of the
whole house—vestibule, apartments of the women, chambers of
torture, each of which is devoted to a special torment, even
the cemetery for the disposal of the victims sacrificed during
the orgies; passages run round the outer walls of the building
so that its frequenters can pass out without having to return
through the interior rooms;—and, a "Menu d'un Diner
irritant" in Sade's own writing.

No authentic portrait of Sade, either painted or engraved, is
known; those lately issued in Brussels—the one, very badly en-
graved, in an oval frame, said to be " De la collection de M. De

* Most of these anecdotes are reproduced at length in the " Bibliographic et
Iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne," to which excel-
lent work the student should refer concerning Sade.
t Dictionnaire des Ath6es, Supplements, p. 84.

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la Porte,** the second fairly engraved, representing the Marquis
surrounded by demons who are blowing into his ears, signed H.
Biberstein. sc, and subscribed, "De la collection de Mr.
H*## de Paris —are pure inventions.

The Marquis de Sade was a man of mild and pleasing
aspect, " il avait la figure ronde, le yeux bleus, les cheveux
blonds et frisls. C6tait ce qu on appele un joli homme." *

A modern German writer -f- has still more minutely por-
trayed him as44 Don fo au£etgeu)61)nli<$et <5$&n1)ctt, baf? alle ©amen,
bie etblicften, felbft old et no$ ein Jhtabe u>at, fleljen blieben, um
fljn ju berounbexn. 3Wtt feinern tetjenben 9teu^eren aetbanb et
eine natfltli^e 3lnmutlj in alien feinen SBetaegungen unb fein Organ
max fo woljflingenb, baf? f($on feine ©iimme alien gtauen ind

Smtetfie tijteS ^erjeng btingen mu^te.

*****

" £>e* jwtfle JTOann tpat feit frfiljeftet Jtinbljeii ein SBfi^ewurm unb
gtftnbete fi$ fo ju fagen ein eigeneS £ljilofoj>ljif<$e8 S^ftem auf
auSgebreitetfi ej>ifutfiif<$e* SBafig. Sieben feinen @<$ulftubien lag et
ben f($5nen Jtfinften ob; et xoax ein tfi<$tiget SWufifet, ein getsanbiet
SSnjer, $e$tet unb *>etfuc$te auc$ in SBilMjauetei. (St b*a<$te
ganje $age in ben ©emfilbegaHetten, namentli<$ in Jenen bed Soufcre,
Don gontainbleau unb SSetfaiOed ju, n>obut($ fein fflnftlettf^et
®ef<$ma
* Melanges Bibliographiques, p. 189.

t Justine und Juliette, see post.

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3tnan0 Cloi0trr'0, (sic) ou L* Hcurcuse Inconstancc.

A Cologne. M.DC.XCVIII.

12 mo.; pp. 84; On the title page is a fleuron representing
a basket of flowers.

Doraste is sent by his parents to study in Paris, and per-
ceiving Celonte at the theatre, falls in love with her. Through
his valet he discovers her abode, into which he finds no better
means of introducing himself than by becoming himself valet to
Celonte's father. His superior education soon causes him to be
preferred to the other servants, and being an excellent musician,
he is allowed to aid his young mistress in her musical studies.
An affection now springs up on her part, and Doraste discloses
to her his real station, and motive for transforming himself into
a servant. The young lovers now pass their days pleasantly
enough in each other's society until a letter from Doraste's
father commands him to repair to Lyons to visit an uncle there.
On his departure Doraste begs his friend Philoprode to keep
his memory green with Celonte, but this false friend falls him-
self in love with the young lady, and to further his purpose
intercepts letters, and forges others. Celonte's confiding
nature will not however allow her to credit her lover's infidelity,
and she resolves to go to Lyons in search of him; this she
accomplishes dressed as a man, and accompanied by her
governess Philax. She finds Doraste, and an explanation
convinces the young people of their mutual faithfulness, and
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Celonte's departure goes himself to Lyons, confesses his guilt,
and is pardoned. Doraste and Celonte now set out for Paris
together; but in a wood on the road they are attacked by a
band of armed men, who prove to be Philoprode and some
hired bravos. However, instead of injuring Doraste, the
brigands assassinate their employer, and Doraste, after giving
them the greater part of the money he possesses, continues his
journey. The young lovers now find great difficulty in en-
joying each other's company, and one night after her parents
have retired to rest, Celonte, with her governess, sallies forth to
spend a few hours in her lover's society. Her absence is dis-
covered, and being too terrified to return to the paternal house,
she secretes herself in a convent. In the meantime Doraste,
having witnessed a duel in which both combatants were killed,
becomes disgusted with the vanities of this world, and deter-
mines to spend the remainder of his life in a monastery. This
resolution he communicates to Celonte by letter, and she on
her part continues in her convent, and eventually takes the veil.
" Voilk quelle fut la fin de ces deux Amans cloltres, qui
s'aimerent sur la fin selon Dieu, & ainsi trouverent leur repos
& leur salut dans un changement d'amour, qu'on peut appeller
avec justice une heureuse inconstance."

" Les Amans cloistrds " then may be called a religious novel,
and must be pronounced by modern readers very tiresome.
The date when it was written must not however be forgotten,
and for that epoch it is not so unworthy a production.

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Gay* calls it a "nouvelle insignifiante," adds "par M.
P * * *," which does not appear on the title of the copy before
me; further Gay writes " cloitrez," while the title of my copy
has " cloistress,w from which it would seem that the book was
printed twice in the same year. There were subsequent editions,
viz., Bruxelles 1706; Cologne 1739.

gmfotf seine d'amour sapphique Sonnets Par le licencid
Pablo de Hbrlagn£z Slgovie MDCCCLXX.

In-18; pp. 16; papier vergd; 4 fires; 100 copies only
struck off; on title page is a figure of a Cupid running; a
frontispiece, poorly done, represents two women,

" La plus jeune 6tend les bras, et se cambre,
" Et sa soeur, les mains sur ses seines, la baise."

The original edition is of 1867; 8vo.; pp. 20; 50 copies
only, of which 44 papier de Hollande 4 frcs., 4 grand papier
de Hollande 6 frcs., 2 papier Chine 8 frcs., all numbered; Gay
gives the original edition as dating 1871, which is an error.
Both editions are of Brussels.

These sonnets, 6 in number, are pretty, but display no great
talent, they are "en rimes feminines sur l'amour sapphique,
par un poete de l'6cole de M. Leconte de Lisle ; ils sont fort
singuliers."-f*

The author's real name is Paul Verlaine.J

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs k 1'Amour, &c. vol. 1, p. 101.
t Bulletin Trimestriel, No. a.
t Supercheries Litt. D6voil6s, vol. a, col. 259.

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ttftt Smorotttf friar*: or, the Intrigues of a Convent.
London: Printed for J. Fleming, opposite Norfolk-Street
in the Strand. MDCCLIX.

i2mo.; pp. 220 ex titles; fleuron on title page.

The title is not quite appropriate, the vol. contains six
distinct tales, viz.:

"€f)t fctetorp of Borata iHtrantia &>o\W
)t fctttorp of ftMam<"

w3eal0Utfp ©Ut4Dtttt&: An Italian Novel."
anil Clara, An Italian Novel."

"iHtWUIOt anil iftannoa, A French Novel."

u Cfte (Cnterprttfmff ^narsf^ A French Novel."

The scene of the first tale only is partly laid in a convent;
in each novel however priests play prominent parts, and are
invariably represented as licentious scheming rogues. These
tales are all of adventure and intrigue, are by no means badly
written, and, although scenes pretty free are depicted, objec-
tionable words and expressions are invariably avoided.

Here is the description of the convent, from the first novel:

" I was soon after convinced, that the Habit of a Nun and
Friar, are but like Charity, a Cover for a Multitude of Sins.
That they are themselves a Pack of Wolves in Sheeps Cloathing ;
who, however meekly they carry it to the Eye of the World, are
in their own dark Cells so many ravenous Beasts of Prey, a
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licentious and shameful Manner; considering nothing but their
brutal Appetites, and the readiest Way to satisfy them.

" The Friars were constantly among us, and you might easily
observe that their Assiduity about the young Nuns, had more in
it than mere Devotion. In fine, they generally were acquainted
with their female Penitents Confession before she made it; and
charitably gave her Absolution for those sins, which they helped
her to commit.

" Indeed it was plain, that the Flesh had a greater Share than
the Spirit, in the Works of this Convent; which seemed to me
a Temple dedicated to Cupid \ ♦ # # ♦

" By Means of a Passage under Ground, they (the friars)
made their Way into our Convent. Young and Old did not
fail, by this Means, to perform the pious Offices of their
Ministry. This could not be done without sometimes leaving
behind them very evident Marks of their Zeal; but this was
easily concealed from the Eyes of the World. The young
Sisters who were thus become Mothers, exempted themselves
from the Scandal by absconding from the Grate before their
Pregnancy was visible. A separate Apartment was allowed
them, where they waited patiently the happy Moment of their
Delivery; and the Burdens, of which they were eased, were
privately entrusted to Persons of approved Discretion."

This extract will suffice to give a notion of the book, which,
if of no great literary merit, is at any rate noteworthy, and as
uncommon as it is curious.

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Cftt 3mormt0 Quaker; or Cupid's Miscellany.

Shove her down on the bed, or up against the wall,
Shove her backwards, forwards, or any way at all.

London: Printed for the Lovers of Venus, by J. Boldenough.

Small square 8vo.; pp. 79 in all; 6 obscene lithographs,
very badly done, and which have no reference to the text

The same work exists with title:

"Cttpft'tf ittfeteOaitp; or, Life of an Amorous Quaker.9*
quotation and rubric as above, but without publisher's name;
iamo.; pp. 80; 4 badly done plates.

There is an American publication entitled :

"ttftt 3mottr0 of a dttaktr; or, the Voluptuarypro-
bably the same work.

" The Amorous Quaker " is a series of insipid and common-
place adventures, badly told, very obscene, but without any
special character or merit. The hero might as well belong to
any other sect as to that of Fox, and only occasionally is the
Quaker phraseology made use of. The book, which has no
literary worth whatever, is interspersed with snatches of dog-
gerel ; that concluding the vol. I give as a specimen :

" Reader ! if Pox unto thee sticks,
" And F—ing fire controls,
" Endure your punishment like bricks,
" And keep from dirty holes.'*

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ttllltft ftBege otat iitU unb eenuf. Kent unb $aril, gebnuft
in Mefent 3«$te.

8vo.; pp. 143; published at Berlin in 1867; price th. 1. 10 s.g.

This volume contains four distinct tales.

In the first, the landlady of a country inn narrates to two
students, who visit her house, the story of her life, and her
amours; the episodes are erotic, but neither striking nor
original.

The second tale has for title, " 3tHeS ift eitel f A young man
is struck at the theatre by the beauty of a woman whom he
sees there. He finds that she is married, obtains an introduc-
tion, makes her a present, and enjoys her in the same room
where her old husband is absorbed by playing the violin. But
alas she gives him a souvenir, to rid himself of which he has
to keep his room for some weeks, during which time he vows
he will have nothing more to do with the sex. His cure
however effected, curiosity leads him one evening to the house
of an old acquaintance, Augusta, where unobserved, he witnesses
an unnatural scene between a Graf and his page, who have
come to seek Augusta's favours. On their departure he enters
Augusta's boudoir, she tells him the story of her life, he takes
her to a masked ball, sups with her, and again gets into trouble.
The tale is disjointed and'devoid of literary merit.

Tale 3. A girl of the middle class is seduced under promise
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father. The intrigue is discovered by her parents, who forbid
the seducer their house. Our heroine finds that she is pregnant,
and applies to a monk, who frequents her parents' house, to get
her out of her difficulty, offering her favours as the price.
He fulfils her wish, and a constant intercourse is maintained
between them. The monk introduces another of his order,
and our heroine, after some persuasion, consents to gratify
both. She now hears that the Baron is about to wed another,
upon which she discards all thoughts of constancy, and deter-
mines to live only for sensual enjoyment. The two monks
propose to her a visit to their convent, dressed as one of
themselves; she consents, and passes during the first day
through the arms of some twelve holy men. She repeats her
visits until the whole of the convent have enjoyed her. Her
father now marries her, but her husband fails to satisfy her
cravings, and she continues to have recourse to the monks
for solace, until: " ©o ttitb fi<$ bo* fftfce 3Jltnneft>tel fort hit in We
rctferen Saljte, ido rnefn SBIut etoaS rugger tuutbe, abet nte ganj
etfaliete. $fc fronroten Dtbenfileuie ruaren fo bmtfbat, mi$ au<$ be*
Ijetannaljenbem 30tet nify ju fcetgefien. ®8 fanb fi$ tatmet ftgenb
efttet unter fljnen, bet We fltaucn £aate fifcetfalj, unb jufrfeben mat,
roenn er nut mtt feinern $funbe um<$etn fonnte, oljne fi<$ Mel gu
beffimment, m et e8 anleflte"

The heroine, it will be observed, tells her own story. The
tale, which at the beginning is somewhat sentimental, is fairly
told, and is not without interest.

Tale 4. A student arrives at a town where he has to study,

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and puts up at an inn. In the morning he sees through the
key-holq of his bed room door the landlord amusing himself in
the adjoining room with one of the servant maids. He thinks
this may be made the means of helping him to the favours of
the landlady, who has taken his fancy. He accordingly com-
municates to her what he has seen, and begs her to watch with
him on the following day her husband's infidelity. She
accepts; and while mine host is enjoying the maid in one room,
the hostess and her gallant, excited by the scene they are wit-
nessing, are equally happy in the next. Our hero now deter-
mines to possess the maid as well, so going bftldly into her
bed room one night, he, under pain of revealing what he has
seen, induces her, nothing loth, to submit to his embraces.
After this he leaves the inn, but continues his intimacy with
both mistress and maid at his own lodgings, where both pay
him regular visits.

In no one of these tales is there any special merit—gene-
rally they are tedious; although the scenes are very free, any-
thing contrary to nature is either eschewed or vituperated. v

1*0 Smoureufttf contes et chansons Liige F. Renard
£diteur Paris E. Dentu Libraire 1861

Small square 8vo.; pp. 55, and one unnumbered page of
Table; the author's name, Leon Jacques, heads the title page.

These little poems are sprightly, nothing more; " Inez," the

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longest, is not the best, the ideas are too disjointed; perhaps
" L'Estrange Fille," and the patriotic song, aLa Perle du
Monde," possess most merit.

Cfte amours, afobntture*, attto Intrigued of Com

90&n*0IU Written by himself.

" Si quis in hoc artem populo non novit amaudi (sic)}
" Me legat."

Ovid.

London. Printed 1770—Revised and re-printed 1870.

8vo.; 2 vols.; pp. vol. 1, 64, vol. 2, 48.
In the two vols, are together 16 coloured plates very badly
executed. Plates which have no reference to the text, and
belong to other works are frequently inserted in lieu of the
right ones.

" Tom Johnson" is written in a stiff, tedious style, the ad-
ventures are very free, but commonplace, stale and insipid;
the book is full of printer's, and other faults, and is devoid of
literary value. At the end of vol. 2 are two other pieces, viz:

" H(s»uiff; or fbt MmtUrn of ®--r &--iu" and

" Smour* of WLfbttb aift &antott+"

This latter is a translation of the well known tale by Boccacio,
of putting the Devil in Hell.

In the first chapt. of vol. 2, the hero describes an adventure

he had with " the celebrated Harriet W-n." (Wilson).

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" Tom Johnson w is not mentioned by Gay.

The book is catalogued by the publisher at i is. 6d.

The same book has also been produced under the title:

"ttfte etmint an* rrmarkatolt 2toumnf of tt)t celtbrateb
author fitter Qxttixu"*

It* amour* Ut Chariot et Ctflttttt Piece ddroWe A
y#*****#

Scilicet is superis labor est, ea cura quietos

sollicitat Virg. iEneid.

1789.

pp. 8. The original edition is, Paris (Londres) 1779. Rare.
V******* is Versailles.

This little satirical poem is written by no weak hand. Louis
XVI is accused of impotence:

" On sait bien qne le pauvre Sire,
" Trois ou quatre fois condamn6,
" Par la salubre faculty
" Pour impuissance tr^s-complette,
" Ne peut satisfaire Antoinette.
"De ce malheur bien convaincu,
" Attendu que son allumette
" N'est pas plus grosse qu'un f6tu j
" Que toujours molle & toujours croche,
" II n'a de Vit que dans la poche;
" Qu'au lieu de foutre, il est foutu
" Comme feu le prelat d'Antioche.

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Marie Antoinette is described as:

"Une Reine jeune & fringantej
" Dont 1'Epoux tr&s Auguste 6tait mauvais fouteur,
" Faisoit, de tems en tems, en femme tr£s-prudente,

"Diversion k sa douleur,
" En mettant k profit la petite industrie
" D un Esprit las d'attendre & d'un Con mal foutu.

" Dans une douce reverie
" Son joli petit Corps ramass6, nu, tout nu,
" Tantot sur le duvet d'une molle bergere,
" Avec un certain doigt, le Portier de 1* Amour,
" Se d61assoit la nuit des contraintes du jour;
" Et bdiloit son Encens pour le Dieu de Cyth&re :
" Tantot mourant d'ennui au milieu d'un beau jour,
" Elle se trlmoussoit toute seule en sa couche j
" Ses t6tons palpitans, ses beaux jeux, et sa bouche
" Doucement haletante, entrouverte k demi,
" Sembloit d'un fier fouteur inviter le defi."

Her amours with the Comte d'Artois are touched on, and
the worn out incident of the " cordon de sonette " is brought
into requisition.

Gay* notices the work as follows: Pidce en vers assez
spirituelle, mais obscene. On ne connait de F£dit orig. que quel-
ques exemplaires echapp€ (sic) au pilon de la Bastille; l'ddition
fut achet6e par ordre de la cour et pay£e par Goetzmann au
libraire Boissiere, k Londres, la somme enorme de 17,000 fr.
non compris les menus frais et le pot-de-vin. L'exempl. de
Leber, no 2281, cfontient un des dessins destines k ce libelle, et

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs k YAmour, &c., vol. 1, p. 167 5 quoted
incorrectly from " Cat. de Leber," vol. 1, p. 35a.

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qui n'ont jamais paru; il reprisente la reine couchi (sic) sur un
sofa. Reimprim6 dans le Momus redivivus de Mercier de
Compi£gne, tome II, p. 105"

I have seen another edition dated 1779, with an engraving
in the style of Marillier, and two medallion portraits on one
plate, over each of which are the names "Chariot" and
" Toinette."

It* Smottr* toe ftapolton HI* Par i/Auteur de la
Fbmmb de Cbsar. Geneve.—Bruxelles.—Milan.—Turin
etc. Londres. Libraire et Imprimerie Universelle.

Square 8vo.; 4 vols. The work is not easy to be procured
and is expensive.

Paging. That of the first vol. is very irregular; Avant Propos
pp. vi (including title but not bastard title) continued through
into first part, which begins (including three unnumbered
pages) with p. 10, and runs through regularly to end of first
part stopping with p. 64; the second part has new numbering,
which should start (including three unnumbered pages) with p.
4, but in reality begins only with p. 8, and then runs regularly
to end of fourth part, terminating with p. 264; the fifth part
has again fresh paging, viz., Avant Propos vi running through,
first page numbered being p. 10 (it should be p. 8), and con-
tinuing regularly till p. 158, end of vol. 1. The other vols, are
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face pp. iv. (one title not counted) and pp. 338; vol. 4, pp.
394 (two titles not counted).

There are numerous errors of various kinds throughout all
four vols., but the first vol. contains the most; e.g. the page 48
of the second part in first vol. is not concluded, but terminates
thus: " d'etre m£content de Lucien sous"

Dating. Vol. 1 bears no date on the title, but the Avant
Propos of the fifth partis dated 1863. Vol. a, 1864. Vols. 3 and
4 no.dates. The four vols, have been published at different times
and places, the titles are in various types and of unequal exe-
cution, as are the yellow paper wrappers in which the work was
issued. There have been 3 editions, concerning which consult
" Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs k 1'Amour," vol. 1, p. 185.

Authorship. Several hands have doubtless been employed
on the work, in the Avant propos to vol. 1, we find : " Ce livre
ne porte aucun nom d'auteur; c'est qu'il n'appartient pas k un
seul: d'anciens chambellans des ambassadeurs, des courtesanes
dllaissles, des complices, les coupables eux-m£mes, ont fait leur
part de ce travail, dont une plume sans mlrite a rapprochl les
morceaux 6pars et a fondu les couleurs diverses." And again
(vol. 1, Avant Propos to pt. 5, p. iv): "depuis la fin de la
seconde partie des femmes galantes,* c'est k dire depuis l'histoire
des amours de Napoleon III., nous avons pri6 notre 6diteur, de
ne plus mettre sur le titre le nom de l'auteur des deux premieres
parties qui ne sont pas de nous." Besides the writing is very

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unequal, the way in which the subject is treated and episodes
introduced vary so materially that it must be the production of
different pens. The first vol. is the worst, and the last perhaps
the best as far as literary merit, if any, is concerned.

It would seem that another vol. was contemplated, as vol. 4
concludes with : " Dans un autre volume vous continuerons
Thistoire des amours de Napollon III* et nous esplrons alors
avoir la satisfaction de le faire apr&s la chute de ce tyran, dont
le rdgne odieux touche k sa fin , et qu il aura requ le chAtiment
mille fois mdritd de tous ses crimes." Gay says that vol. 4 is
" une speculation de libraire. Ce volume est une r6p£titio .
des chapitres contenus dans les trois premiers avec l'addition de
quelques autres details sur divers membres de la famille de
Napollon 111." This is entirely incorrect, the fourth vol.
repeats nothing contained in the previous vols., it continues
the tale of Lodoiska and Ludovic, one of the most improbable,
but perhaps the best in the whole work, and transports the
reader in the third part to Brussels, where the court of that
capital, scarcely mentioned in the preceding volumes, is
roughly handled.

Altogether the work is worthless in a literary point of view,
and the scandalous details are too gross and absurd to be
believed. The abuse is not confined to Napoleon III and his
court; those of Russia, Spain, and Belgium come in for
their share; England alone is spared, for the few lines
(vol. 4, p. 386^ about Sir Brown (sic), and Victoria's par-
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The following extracts will give a sufficient idea of the style
and absurdity of the book. Napoleon III desires to make
Mademoiselle de Montijo his mistress instead of his wife, but
she spurns his offer and leaves him abruptly with these words:
4" Vous permettez, Sire, que je me retire, car ma m£re m'attend.*
" Louis Bonaparte, stuplfait de cette brusque disparition, en
proie aux plus violents d£sirs, rentra en toute hftte dans ses
appartements. Ce fut en vain, quand il fut couchi, qu'il
chercha k Itiendre le feu br&lant, qui le d^vorait, par
les moyens de la plus violente masturbation; les excercises
auxquels il se livra, loin de calmer son ardeur, augmentaient au
contraire sa passion. Une surlxitation febrile s'empara bientdt
de tout son 6tre, le spectre imperial, envelopp£ dans son drap,
semblable k un linceul, se dressa effirayant sur sou lit; k la
pftle clart£ des bougies il 6tait efFroyable k voir; ses jambes
amaigries dtaient roug6es par d'affreuses dartres, qui les
dlvoraient, les pustules verdatres dont son corps Itait couvert,
suintaient k travers le drap, qui l'enveloppait k demi et laissait
apercevoir k l'Spine d'orsale (sic) plusieurs ulcdres d£goutants,qui
lui rougeaient (sic) les reins; sa peau tannle dtait partout pliss^e et
jaunie comme un vieux parchemin; sa face livide se viola^ait;
ses yeux hagards s'injectaient de sang; ses temps battaient avec
force; ses mains crip£es (sic), ses bras tendus, s'emblaient (sic)
vouloir saisir un 6trt invisible, une forme fantastique; il poussait
d'abord de faibles gemissements, des sons inarticul6s sortaient
de sa poitrine haletante et opressla, puis, bient6t aprds, devenant
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dans toute son affreuse nuditd, hideux de pustules et de dartres,
en s'dcriant dans son ddlire: Eugenie! Eugenie! ma belle
chasseresse! je t'aime! . . . . je t'aime! . . . . viens k moi ma
chaste Diane! . . . . viens k moi, ma cruelle Lucr£ce! . . .
Viens! . . . . viens! . . . . donne moi des tendres baisers! . . . .
Viens!—Laisse moi jouir un (sic) bonheur ineffable et mourir
d'amour dans tes bras!

" Et saisi d'une extase, la bouche couverte d'£cume, les yeux
effrayants de fixit£, hors de leur orbite, injects de sang, en
proie k une fureur €rotique, il retombait sur son lit attaqu£ de
convulsions." (vol. i, p. 208.)

Madame de Solms, accompanied by M. James Fazy, goes
to the brothel of Mme. AdSle at Turin, and astonishes the
inmates of the house by proving to them that she is a Her-
maphrodite ; she thus describes her wonderful attribute : " par
un privilege exceptionnel, (h£r£ditaire chez les femmes, dans
la race des Bonapartes, mes grandes-tantes Elise, Elisa, Pauline,
Caroline, en £tait (sic) d6jk douses, quoique k un degr£ moindre
que moi,) quand je suis en contacte imm€diat avec un homme, je
jouis de tous les attributs de la femme la plus accomplie, la
plus propre k l'amour; si, au contraire, je suis mise en rapport
sexuel avec une personne du sexe tfSminin, ma nature change,
mes attributs se transforment, je sens se d£velopper des charmes,
qui avant gtaient tout internes ; ils prennent une forme virile et
la sensuelle jeune femme, qui un instant auparavant €tait propre
k recevoir les caresses de son amant, devient alors un beau
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les belles les plus rudes assauts. J'offre d'en donner la preuve
k toutes ces Dames et k tous ces Messieurs* jo les d€fie tous
dans d'amoureux combats que je soutiendrais alternativement
sous les deux sexes." (Vol. i, p. 87, pt. 5).

Madame de Solms has a special taste for Negros, after having
spent the evening with, and tired out, one lover, an European,
she conducts him to the door, giving him a " rendez-vous pour
le lendemain; elle rentra alors dans sa chambre k coucher,
sonna son n6gre Alexandre, car c'est ainsi qu'elle appelait
l'Africain, dont nous avons parl£, quand il entra, elle lui fit
signe de s'approcher d'ellfe et entrouvrant voluptueusement
son lSger vitement, qui se d€boutonnait par devant, elle lui
montra tous ses charmes: ' tu vois ces tr€sors, lui dit-elle,
viens leur faire la fSte qu ils m£ritent, car ces blancs blasts sont
incapables de les servir comme il le faut; viens mon h£rcule
noir, viens sur cette couche qui nous attend, viens mllanger
l'ivoire et l'6b£ne, fais couler ta lave africaine dans mes flancs
de lis et de rose, viens toi seul es digne de calmer mon ardeur
d£vorante, viens tous mes tr£sor d'amour sont k toi, viens
Ipuisons l'ivresse!'

" Le vigoureux ndgre ne lui eu laissa pas dire d'avantage,
la saisissant de la faqon la plus voluptueuse, il l'enleva
comme une plume, la pla?a sur le lit, la couvrit d'une
pluie de baisers, d'une avalanche de carresses; et avec une
vigueur d'hercule, il la fit p&mer cinq ou six fois de suite, il
l'inonda d'une telle volupt6, lui causa de tels transports, qu'elle
faillit mourir de plaisir, elle demenda (sic) gr&ce k son tour, n'en
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pouvant plus; mais son galant bourreau ne lui fit grdce qu'aprds
deux ou trois nouveaux assauts, qui la rendirent fourbue pour
quelques jours." (vol. a, p. 287.)

The emperor and empress are desirous of having an heir to
the throne, but: Cetait en vain que la Montijo, au su et au vu
de toute sa cour, et presque sous les yeux de son imperial
6poux, qui affectait de ne pas s'en apercevoir, se livrait sans
retenue aux plus vigoureux etalons de son entourage; c'etait
envain (sic) qu'elle consultait les plus savants docteurs sur sa
sterilite, qu elle employait k la fois toutes les ressources de Fart
et de la science; ses organes g£n£rateurs, vici6s par la ddbauche,
corrompus par les r£sidus syphilitiques, les nombreux medica-
ments mercuriels qu elle avait absorbs, detruits en partie par
les potions violentes, les remides corrosifs, que sa mire lui avait
fait prendre dans sa jeunesse, poure faire disparaltre les
consequences compromettantes des ses prlcoces debauches, et
surtout complement rendus impropres k la generation depuis
que son epoux l'avait brutalement fait avorter, ne laissaient k
leurs Majestes plus aucun espoir de guerison." (Vol. 1, p.
114, dernier chap.) The way in which a child was procured,
and passed off as the Prince Imperial, is then described.

" L'lmperatice.....pousse assez loin le mepris pour les

accoutrements d'une pudeur exageree, elle croit avec raison,
que la decence la plus reelle d'une jolie femme reside dans sa
beaute et que rien n'est aussi convenable que le naturel, aussi
nous avons dejk vu souvent quelle n'a jamais cherche k aug-
menter le charme des attraits extraordinaires dont la nature
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coquetteric raffin6e qui se dissimule sous une fausse pruderie;
non, elle a toujours montr6, dans toute la simplicity de sagr&ce,
des tr£sors qui ont peu de rivaux. Un jour qu'elle fatigu€e, elle avait pri6 S. M. l'Empereur de vouloir bien lui
permettre d'assister du haut du balcon des Tuileries k un d6&\6
de troupes, ce qui lui fut accords avec le plus grand plaisir.
Elle vint done s'asseoir, nonchalamment penchle en arriire, les
pieds appuyls sur la grille du balcon du pavilion de l'horloge,
k Theure indiqu£e et elle assista dans cette position pleine de
gr&ce et de laisser-aller k un d£fil£ considerable, et comme elle
ne met jamais ni caleqons, ni aucun dessous, pour lesquels elle
a la plus grande horreur, et qu'elle avait alors une large crin-
oline, les soldats de chaque compagnie, qui d£filaient devant le
pavilion de l'Horloge, levaient naturellement les yeux pour voir
leur auguste souveraine, on comprend facilement ce qu'ils voy-
aient alors. La noble compagne de l'Empereur admirait de
son c6t£ la belle tenue et Fair martial des h€ros de Sdbastopol,
d'ltalie et du Mexique qui passaient au-dessous d'elle, sans se
douter certainement qu'elle se trouvait placle de telle fa trente mille hommes pouvaient affirmer aprds la revue que
l'imp^ratrice Eugenie avait la jambe tris bien faite, un mollet
andaloux et bien d'autres charmes secrets, plus beaux encore
qu'elle avait ainsi 6tal6s dans toute leur Iclatante nudit6 k leurs
regards d6vorants; car comme nous l'avons fait observer S. M.
n'avait pas le moindre maillot. Aussi toute la garnison de Paris
et un grand nombre de curieux pouvaient dire avec la plus
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" L'Empereur lui-meme quand il passa sous le balcon k la t£te
d'un brillant 6tat major, pour se faire voir k son Ipouse adorle
jouit aussi de ce spectacle plein d'attrait.

" Quelques uns de ses jeunes aides de camp rougirent timide-
ment pendant que les plus Ages dissimulaient mal un sourire
d'admiration comique.

" Quand Napoleon III rentra aux Tuileries, il raconta k l'lm-
peratrice, sur un ton de tendre reproche, ce qu'il avait vu avec
toute l'arm£e.

4" Que veux-tu, cher ami, il n'y a pas grand mal k cela, lui
rlpondit la belle Eugenie en ninaudant, sans doute que jamais
ces braves n'avaient assist^ k un aussi beau spectacle, main-
tenant ils m'aimeront encore d'avantage en songeant quels trdsors
d'amour je poss&de et je te prodigue!"' (vol. 3, p. 198.)

"La reine des Beiges est, comme nous l'avons dit, une
duchesse autricienne, de la famille des Hapsbourg, si connue
pour la lubricitl de la dissolution des moeurs de ses femmes,
dont Marie-Antoinette et Marie-Louise furent deux types;
l'£pouse de Leopold II est une femme de vingt-cinq ou
trent ans, assez forte, ni belle ni laide, k l'air commun, k la
figure sensuelle, sans distinction, aux l&vres grosses, aux narines
bien d€velopp£es, au regard cynique, k l'allure fort peu distin-
guee; elle regarde et fixe les hommes avec effronterie et ne
baisse jamais les yeux devant eux. Habitude k monter k cheval,
elle est, dit on, excellente 6cuy6re et se plait beaucoup avec les
chevaux. Elle a des petits poneys apprivois£s et dresses comme
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pare et lui courent apr£s jusque dans ses appartements; elle
fait avec ces gentilles b£tes mille folies et leur donne sa bouche
k baiser; il est parmi ses petits chevaux deux jolis et gentils
6talons, qui semblent prendre le gotit le plus vif k folatrer avec
leur maltresse. Quand ces jeunes poneys sont d l'6curie et
qu'ils entendent la reine, ils hennissent et se d£battent comme
des furieux, si on ne les ddtache pas et, aussit6t laches, ils
courent apr£s elle, l'embrassent, et lui font mille carresses. On
se demande comment le Roi tolSre Tintimit€ de sa femme avec
ses €talons; car cela fait beaucoup jaser au palais, surtout parmi
les domestiques et les palefreniers. Mais il parait que Sa
Majestd est impuissante k emp£cher ce scandale et que la Reine
pr6fere, et pour cause, ses chevaux k son man; ce qui ne lui
empfiche pas d'avoir de nombreux adorateurs qui n'appar-
tiennent pas k la race chevaline." (vol. iv p. 380).

The above extracts are copied exactly as they stand in the
work, without any correction of their faults.

In the " Dictionnaire des Ouvrages Anonymes," vol. 1, col.
149 e, Pierre Vesimier is given as the author, but for reasons
before stated I think the work is by several hands. Date there
given 1865-1869.

The first vol. of this edition of " Les Amours de Napoleon
III" exists with title :

"leg ftmmta Galantesf bed Secrets de

Cour et de Palais, Documents et Conversations Authentiques.
Toutes reproductions, contrefaqons, traductions sont s£v£re-

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ment interdites, dans tons les pays qui ont des trait6s sur la
propriety littSraire, avec la Prusse, la Suisse, la Belgique,
l'Angleterre et Tltalie etc. oil notre pr6sente publication est
£dit£e par nous et nos Correspondants, pour sauvegarder nos
droits. Berlin 1862. Jules Abelsdorpp, Libraire-l£diteur.n

8vo.; 5 parts; pp. pt. 1, 72 in all, pts. 2, 3 & 4together, 264,
pt. 5f 158 ; the work forms then 3 vols.; the title pages differ,
those for the 2nd. & 3rd. vols, bearing as author Eugene de
Mirecourt, and in addition to Berlin and the publisher's
name, "Genive 1862. Ghisletty Libraire-Editeur," that of
vol. II has further, " Le droit de traduction est r6serv£."

The matter is virtually the same as in "Les Amours de
Napoleon III," although in places the arrangement differs;
further, to part 2 of "Les Femmes Galantes," there is an
Avant-propos, dated " Londres, au mois d'aotit, Tan X de Texil."
and signed Engine de Mirecourt, which is not given in the
former work; on the other hand an orgie between Napoleon III,
some of his friends and " des prfitresses de V£nus," which in
u Les Amours (pt. 3, chapt. 2, p. 117). is given with full details,
is in " Les Femme Galantes " (pt. 3, chapt. 2, p. 117). indicated
only by asterisks.

I have perhaps noticed this vile and trashy publication at
too great a length, but as it is the most important work which
the libellers of the ex-emperor and his court have yet produced,
and as it is becoming scarce, I have thought well to afford it
more space than it would otherwise deserve.

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amount fc'Cugfnte lUrkpatrflt* Th6ba de Montijo
Implratrice des Franqais depuis sa haute naissance,
jusqu'avant, pendant et aprfcs son mariage par I'Auteur
du Pilori 1865 Nouvelle Edition. Londres W. Jeffs,
Libraire-Editeur, Burlington-Arcade. 1871

8vo. 5 pp. 36; stout paper; price 3 frcs.

On the title page is a vignette of a devil dancing, and on
the verso a wood cut of a tiger dressed as a woman and
smoking a cigar; at foot of the last page is representation of a
piece of two sous, with the Prussian helmet put on the head
of Napoleon. During the Franco-German war of 1870—1871
many of these pieces were so engraved in Belgium, and sold at
1 frc. each for the benefit of the wounded.

Author, according to the publisher's catalogue, H. Magen.

In this brochure the character and career of the Empress
Eugenie are treated much in the same way as in the " Amours
de NapoKon 111,^—her obscure origin, her being a natural
daughter of Lord Clarendon, her devotion to tauromachia, her
amours with three princes of the house of Orleans, with
General Navarez, Olympio Aguado, the Marquis of Alcanirez,
the Duke of Ossuna, the Prince Camerata, Rothschild, General

* In "Notes and Queries/* 4th S. XI, May 31, 1873, p. 453, will be found
a note upon "The Scottish Ancestors of the Empress Eug&iie."

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Fleury, Cardinal Molet, &c; and finally her Lesbian connection
Madame de Contades. The circumstances attending Napoleon's
first seeing her, and marriage &c., are also given.
This pamphlet has no literary value.

It* amour* toe &afofroft 3t*u\ti, et 9'tfulalte fttlt

SebOte* Histoire Veritable. Suivie de quelques Nouvelles

Nouvelles. A La Haye, chez Isaac van dbr Kloot.

M. D. CCXXIX.

l2mo.; pp. xx & 159 ; title printed in red and black, with a
fleuron of suspended flowers; the frontispiece is fairly executed,
and represents a bed room, Sainfroid and Eulalie are seated at
a small table, opposite each other, the priest having his right
hand on the breast of his penitent which is bare, a woman is
drawing the curtains of the bed, and through an open door in
the back of the design is visible the lower part of the figure of
a man reclining, in the immediate fore-ground left, a small dog
is asleep on a square stool; under the design is, " Les Amours
de Sainfroid & D' Eulalie. A La Haye chez I. van der Kloot 1729.

The vol. contains, in addition to a preface (pp. xx), and
" Les Amours de Sainfroid." in 12 chaps:
" It iWariaffe tit $&efioin" p. 385 to p. 416.
"fce Coupafile Innocent" p. 417t0 P- 443-
" Wtv* $ar la lecture besfquelsf on peut connoltre *i
Pon ataie*" p. 444 to p. 453.
" It Salouj; be *ott p. 454 to p. 459-

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There are three other editions, viz. 1743, 1748, 1760.*
It has been translated into English with title "The Amours of
Sainfroid and Eulalia:

There can be little doubt but that " Les Amours de Sainfroid
et d'Eulalie" is based upon the Girard-Cadiere scandal; at
first the date (1729) of its publication (if strictly correct) would
seem to oppose that supposition, as the account of the pro-
ceedings of that trial was not actually published until
1731. But the connection of Girard with his penitent
begun in 1728, X and was undoubtedly more or less talked
of in Toulon during 1729. A rough outline of the
jesuit's doings might easily have been transmitted to Holland,
where such stories were eagerly received and worked upon, and
where books of the kind were then mostly produced ; a few
weeks or a couple of months would suffice for writing and
publishing such a tale, and its success in a commercial point
of view greatly depended upon its being got quickly into cir-
culation.

The story of Sainfroid and Eulalie is very dissimilar from the

* See Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs h 1'Amour 8cc., 1871, vol. 1, p. 191.
t See post, p. 70.

t Girard arrived at Toulon in the month of April 1728, and his direction
of Marie Cadiere lasted two years and a half, her first official confession before
the authorities sent to her by the Bishop of Toulon bears date November 18,
1730, so that he must have become acquainted with her in April or May, 1728.
See " Factum/1 pp. 5 & 33 j noticed in this work. Post.
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history of Girard and Cadiere, and its date is put back into the
previous century, but this need not affect the hypothesis that
one was founded on the other; because until the case -had
actually been heard, an accurate knowledge of its details was
not easily obtainable; moreover the author or publisher may
designedly have disguised and altered the facts, and have
antedated the story in order to avoid any difficulty with the
French authorities on the importation of the book into France.

The tale of Sainfroid and EulaUe runs thus:

Sainfroid is the spiritual director of Eulalie, and gains entire
possession of her will and confidence. He seduces her in the
house of her deceased uncle, while the corpse, which he has
been called in to watch, is yet lying in the adjoining chamber,
and he administers opium to Therese the servant in order to
prevent observation or interruption on her part. Eulalie, having
inherited some money from her uncle, " se met en son particu-
lier," Sainfroid visits her as his mistress, and on her being
dissatisfied with her ignominious position, he gives her a paper
(dated May, 1696) in which he abjures the errors of the Romish
Church, and promises her marriage within 15 months, when he
and she shall have quitted France, and have reached a country
" oil Dieu soit servi en esprit & en verit6."

EulaUe becomes enceinte and communicates her position to
her seducer, who induces her to allow him to procure abortion ;
this he does by means of drugs which he administers to her;
she has a miscarriage, and Sainfroid carries off the foetus. This
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They jiow determine to leave France, and Eulalie proceeds
alone to Brussels, where Sainfiroid joins her six months afterwards,
having escaped in disguise from his convent, carrying with him
a cross ornamented with precious stones, and worth 2000 frcs.
From Brussels they journey to Rotterdam, and thence to
London. Here they live together as people of fortune, Sainfroid
always making excuses to postpone marrying the deluded
Eulalie. Their money being nearly at an end, they separate,
and Sainfroid obtains a situation as teacher in a school, but
visits Eulalie as his sister once a week.

He soon forms the acquaintance of an English girl, daughter
of a clergyman, and marries her, always keeping Eulalie in the
delusion that she is to be his wife. But Eulalie, hearing of her
lover's perfidy, goes on the wedding day to the house of the
bride's father, and after the ceremony, favours the guests assem-
bled with the following sketch of her seducer's career: " Oui,
scelerat, dit-elle k Sainfroid, s'approchant de lui avec assez de
tranquility, e'est toi, qui £tant Jesuite, & mon Confesseur, as
trouvl, par une morale que l'Enfer a dictle k ton abominable
Society, le secret de me s^duire. Tu as joui de moi, tu m'as
fait 'deux enfans, tu m'as fait avorter du premier k six semaines
de grossesse, & apr&s m'avoir servi de sage femme au second,
dont tu me fis dllivrer par force k quatre mois & demi, tu
baptisas cette innocente creature, ou tu me le fis croire, & tu
l'emportas en me disant que tu l'enterrerois secrettement, &
que tu te chargeois de tout le crime qu'il pouvoit y avoir en
abrlgeant les jours d'un si petit enfant, dont alors le bonheur est

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certain, au lieu que ce m6me enfant pourroit se perdre en vivant
dans le monde sans connoitre son Pere & sa Mere, & itant
confix k Education de ceux que le hazard leur feroit le relever,
si on l'exposoit. J*6tois dans un 6tat si foible, que je ne pus
m'opposer k ton abominable dessein, tu emportas cet enfant
mort, & tu m'as dit que tu Tavois enterr6 dans une cave de ton
Convent, oil Ton enterre les Peres de ta Society quand ils
viennent k mourir. Pouvois-je dans un pareil cas Iclatter sans
me perdre, & sans texposer sur un €chafaut dans le lieu de ta
naissance, & au milieu de tes propres parens ? Je ne me tran-
quilisai un peu que lorsque je te vis r€solu k passer dans les
Pais Strangers, & je n'ai plus eu d'habitude avec toi, que depuis
que tu m'es venue joindre k Bruxelles. Mais le Ciel a permis
que ce commerce que j'ai encore eu la 14chet6 d'avpir avec toi
n ait produit aucun fruit. Peut6tre aurois tu eu encore Tame
assez noire pour le faire p€rir. J*aurois d£k d&s lors te regarder
avec horreur, j'aurois dA t^viter comme Thomme du monde le
plus indigne de vivre. Mais si Ton doit croire aux Philtres il
faut que tu m'en aies donn€ un, lorsque tu as veill£ mon Onde
mort, que tu l'aies renouvell6 dans mes acouchemens forcez,
comme quand tu m'es venu trouver k Bruxelles, & peut- que ces quatre tablettes que tu me fis prendre apr^s ma seconde
fausse couche m'ont rendue sterile; car il n'est pas naturel que
je ne sois pas devenue (sic) grosse depuis plus de dix huit mois
que nous sommes ensemble. Mais quelque Philtre que tu m'aies
donnl pour 6tre attachee k toi, Taction que tu fais aujourd'hui
est plus forte que ce Philtre. Je te regarde comme un monstre

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parmi les autres hommes, & je t'abandonne sans aucune
pretention k la Demoiselle que tu as 6pous6e. Mais je veux
que tu me donnes de quoi satisfaire la personne oil je suis log & pour m'en retourner en France. JPy ai du bien; j'y pleurerai
les desordres d'une jeunesse que tu as corrompue : j'y detesterai
le moment oil j'ai eu le malheur de te connoltre; & du precipice
dans lequel tu m'avois conduite, je trouverai le chemin de mon
salut & de mon bonheur 6ternel."

As the marriage is really consummated, the best course to
adopt is to get rid of Eulalie with as little scandal as possible.
The bride's father gives her 50 guineas, and, to ensure her
departure from England, sends a nephew of his with her as far
as Holland.

Eulalie got rid of, Sainfroid lives on apparent good terms
with his wife until she becomes pregnant. This seems most
distasteful to him, and although his school is prospering, he
resolves to abandon it and his wife. With his own hand he
sets his house on fire, and then obtains from the Bishop of
London permission to beg in London and Canterbury to repair
his loss. Having made his collection, he administers a slow
poison to his wife, and disappears with the money. His wife
expires in child-bed, her constitution being undermined by the
drugs he had given her.

The book is not badly written; its object is to vilify the
priests, and especially the jesuits.

The four small pieces which terminate the volume are not
worthy of any special notice.

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€t)t amour* Of £a(ttfroftl anil Malta: being the intrigues
and amours of a Jesuit and a Nun ; developing the Pro-
gress of Seduction of a highly educated young Lady,
who became, by the foulest Sophistry and Treachery, the
Victim of Debauchery and Libertinism. New York: Pub-
lished by Henry S. G. Smith & Co.

This is the title; but the outer (yellow) wrapper is worded
differently, and moreover supplies the date, it runs thus:

" Cfr Itttrtffut* anil amount of S>&fnfroto anto eulalta,

or Venus in the Cloister. Developing the gradual and imper-
ceptible Progress &c. Translated from the French. New
York &c. 1854." Published at 25 cents.

i2mo. 5 pp. 204; there is a half title before the com-
mencement of Chap. 1 ; viz.: u and two very badly done wood cuts, free, but not obscene.

This is a translation (minus the preface, and additional pieces
at end of the vol.) of " Les Amours de Sainfroid et d'Eulalie,
&c."* Its literary merit, as may readily be supposed, is not
great, but yet the book is readable enough, and being an
American production, as uncommon on the other side of the
Atlantic as it is here, it becomes of interest to the bibliophile,
and to the student of the history of the Romish Church. The
paper and printing are respectable. It is possibly a reprint of
an earlier English publication.

♦See ante, p. 64.

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gtttfott J^pmbol Influence of the Phallic Idea in

the Religions of Antiquity. By Hodder M. Westropp
and C. Staniland Wake. With an Introduction, Addi-
tional Notes, and an Appendix. By Alexander Wilder,
M.D. New York: J. W. Bouton> 706 Broadway.
London: Trubner & Co., 59 Ludgate Hill. 1874.

Large 8vo.; pp. 98 in all 5 cloth wrapper; the bastard title
reads: " til fttrttltt 5 Triibner's name

appears without permission; some of the matter being copyright,
the book cannot be sold in England. " Second Edition Illus-
trated"; Trubner's name omitted; " 1875.*; title and contents
otherwise identical; 11 engravings, including frontispiece, of
mediocre execution.

The two papers by Mr. Westropp and Mr. Wake were
read before the Anthropological Society of London, April 5,
1870. To them are added in the volume before us a Preface,
an Introduction, and an Appendix (themselves forming a third
paper) by Dr. Wilder. These three essays together form a
most interesting and exhaustive treatise upon their subject.
The influence of the phallic idea in the Jewish and Christian
religions is clearly proved, and its connection traced to the
present time. The book throughout is written in a scientific
spirit, and the researches are made for the purpose of arriving
at truth. The vol. itself is clearly printed on excellent paper,
and does credit to its enterprising American publisher; it may
be classed as a worthy sequel to the " Worship of Priapus." *

* See ante, p. 3. A carious note on Phallic Worship in Mysore will be found
in " Notes and Queries," 5th S., nr., p. 463.

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l9$XUlit ®alante; ou Les Intrigues Secretes du Marquis de
L ♦ ♦ #

Coeurs sensibles, cocurs fidelles
Qui bl&mez l'amour 16ger ;
Cessez vosplaintes cruelles!
Est-ce un crime de changer ?
Si rAmour porte des ailes,
N'est-ce pas pour voltiger ? ins.

Figaro.

A Londres, Et se trouve d, Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente.
M.DCC.LXXXVI.

iamo. (counts 6); pp. 168 ex titles; on title page a very
small fleuron; and on the verso of the bastard title we read:
" A Liege, chez Lemarig, Imprimeur-Libraire, proche l'Hdtel-
de-Ville.M There is a reprint, without date; the imprint, " A
Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau.," and a fleuron of two garters
interwoven; the title worded as above with addition of two
accents; small 8vo.; pp. 129 in. all; done by Fischabbr of
Stuttgart, about i860.

Worthless and tedious as this little book may now appear, it
must have found favour when written, for editions were issued
in the three consecutive years 1785, 1786, 1787.* In some
points it resembles "Ma Conversion, ou le Libertin de qualite,"
and notably in the conduct of the hero, who generally makes
the ladies whom he honours, pay him for the favours he

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages Relatifs k 1'Amour, &c., vol. 1, p. 257.

The above work must not be confounded with "L'Annie galante, ou
Etrennes & l'amour, &c."

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bestows. But it possesses neither the point, force, nor—obscen-
it of " Ma Conversion."

The book is divided into 12 chapters, each bearing the name
of a month, for which there seems to be no raison d'etre, as
the adventures have no affinity to the season in which they
are told.

The author and hero is the Marquis de L'Etorierr,* Gay
gives the name otherwise, he says: " de L'Etuvi^re officier
aux gardes, dou£ des qualitis eminentes et qui passa, dans un
certain monde, pour l'homme le plus capable de son temps."

annotation* on tfyt JtatrtU OBhrttingtf of tibt fefafcutf,

Being an Epitome of some of the most remarkable and
leading tenets in the faith of that people, by Edward
Sbllon, Author of the "The Monolithic Temples of
India," &c. &c. and Editor of an English translation of the
"Gita-Radhica-Krishna," a Sanskrit Poem. London:
M.DCCC.LXV. (Printed for private circulation).

8vo.; pp. 72 including tide, annotations, &c; printed by H
Weede, 13a High Road, Knightsbridge.

This is a fairly written and instructive pamphlet, the narrow
limits of which do not of course admit of its being exhaustive
of its subject.

* Die. des Ouvrages Anonymes, 1872, vol. col. 201.

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" It is a singular fact (observes Mr. Sellon), that upon this
adoration of the procreative and sexual Sacti (or power) seen
throughout nature, hinges the whole gist of the Hindi! faith,
and notwithstanding all that has been said by half-informed
persons to the contrary, the puja (worship) does not appear to
be prejudicial to the morals of the people."

Mr. Sellon thus describes the sect of the KauchUuas, and
the Newtek women:

" The KauchilUas are another branch of the Sactas sect, their
worship much resembles that of the Caulas. They are how-
ever distinguished by one peculiar rite not practised by the
others, and throw into confusion all the ties of female relation-
ship, natural restraints are wholly disregarded, and a community
of women among the votaries inculcated.

" On the occasions of the performance of divine worship the
women and girls deposit their Julies or boddices in a box in
charge of the Gurii or priest. At the close of the rites, the
male worshippers take each a julie from the box, and the female
to whom it belongs, even were she his sister, becomes his
partner for the evening in these lascivious orgies. Dancing
formed an important part of the ceremonial worship of most
Eastern peoples. Dancing girls were attached to the Egyptian
temples, and to that of the Jews. David also, we are told,
4 danced before the Lord with all his might.' And to every
temple t>f any importance in India we find a troop of Nautch
or dancing girls attached.

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are early initiated into all the mysteries of their profession.
They are instructed in dancing and vocal and instrumental
music, their chief employment being to chant the sacred hymns
and perform nautches before the God, on the recurrence of
high festivals.

" But this is not the only service required of them, for besides
being the acknowledged mistresses of tjie officiating priests, it
is their duty to prostitute themselves in the courts of the temple
to all comers, and thus raise funds for the enrichment of the
place of worship to which they belong.

" Being always women of considerable personal attractions,
which are heightened by all the seductions of dress, jewels, accom-
plishments and art, they frequently receive large sums in return
for the favours they grant, and fifty, one hundred, and even
two hundred rupees have been known to be paid to these syrens
in one night. Nor is this very much to be wondered at as
they comprise among their number, perhaps, some of the
loveliest women in the world.

" It has been said already, that among the classes from which
a medium for Sancti is selected, is the courtesan and dancing-
girl grade; they are indeed more frequently chosen for this
honour than the others before enumerated. A Nautch woman
esteems it a peculiar privilege to become the Radha Dea on
such occasions. It is an office indeed which these adepts are,
on every account, better calculated to fulfil with satisfaction to
the sect of Sacteyas who may require their aid, than a more
innocent and unsophisticated girl."

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This latter paragraph refers to a peculiar custom adopted by
some sects of the Vaishnavas.

" Another of their sects adore Krishna and his mistress Radha
united. These are the Lingionijas whose worship is perhaps the
most free of all the Pujas. A third, the Radhar-ballubhis,
dedicate their offerings to Radha only. The followers of these
last-mentioned sects have adopted the singular practice of
presenting to a naked girl the oblation intended for the Goddess,
constituting her the living impersonation of Radha. But when
a female is not to be obtained for this purpose, the votive
offerings are made to an image of the Yoni, or emblem of the
feminine Power. These worshippers are called Yonijas in
contradistinction to the Lingayats or adorers of the Krishna
(Vishnu) Linga."

" Radha, assumed to be an incarnation of Laksmi, (but as
the Sancti of Krishna, adored by the Sactas sects of Radha-
ballabhis,) is invariably nude, with the Yoni uncovered."

Mr. Sellon, as will be seen further on,* spent many years in
India, his descriptions are consequently from personal obser-
vation, or from study and enquiry made on the spot, and
therefore the more worthy of consideration. His little volume,
which is now very scarce, is full of information and thoroughly
readable.

* See " The Ups and Downs of Life/' noticed in its alphabetical order,
post.

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aittfcologfe (tfrotfqut B'^marotu Tcxtc Sanscrit, Traduc-
tion, Notes et Gloses, Par A. L. Apudy.

Me legat.....non frigida virgo.

Ovid. Amor. II, i.

Paris. Dondry-Dupr* Pdre et Pils, Imp.-Lib., Rue
Richelieu, No. 47 bis. MDCCCXXXI.

Large 8vo.; pp. xii and 94, with one unnumbered page at
the end of the vol. bearing this inscription,

" Mollia sunt parvis prata terenda rotis."

The tide page has a heading in the Sanscrit character, and a
vignette of a seated Cupid holding a torch.

A. L. Apudy is a pseudonym for Anthon L£on Ch£zy.*
In his introduction M. ChSzy tells us:
44 L ouvrage sanscrit dont j'ai extrait les petites pieces sui-
vantes, au nombre de cinquante-et-une, porte dans l'original le
titre AmaroO-Satacam, c'est k dire Cbnturie d'Amaro£,
parce que ce charmant recueil, que Ton peut appeler proprement
une Anthologie £rotique, consiste en cent quatrains ou stances
de la composition d'un po£t indien, nomme Amaroti. * * *

" On ne sait pas au juste k quelle Spoque florissait Tauteur;
mais les Br&hmanes s accordent k lui assigner une origine fort
ancienne.

* Les Supercheries Litt6raires Devoil6es, vol. 1, col. 372.

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" II existe k son sujet une Cable assez originale : on pretend,
conformdment au systdme de la m£tempsycose, que son ame a
passl successivement dans le corps de cent femmes, et que c'est
dans ces diverses transmigrations quil a 6t6 initio k tous les
mystdres de 1'Amour.

" Ce conte agitable prouve du moins le cas que ses com-
patriotes font de ses polsies, et milite en faveur de l'extr^me
v6rit6, du naturel exquis avec lesquels il a su rendre toutes les
nuances d'une passion qui, k ce qu il paralt, est aussi vivement
sentie sur les bords du Gange, que sur ceux de la Seine. # # #
Ne dirait-on pas en effet que c'est rAmour lui m£me qui a
fondu les teintes de ces tableaux ? Quelle v6rit6 d'expression,
quel brillant colons, quelle chaleur dans les scenes varices
qu'Amaroti pr6sente tour k tour k nos regards!"

Two or three specimens will prove that M. Ch6zy does not
over-laud his poet, and that his own renderings are worthy of
his original.

" Le Raccommodement."

u Ce couple boudeur, dos k dos sur la m£me couche, les
Ifevres closes, tout ce qu'ils ressentent d'amour l'un pour l'autre
cachd soigneusement au fond de leur coeur, et gardant chacun

son quant-4-soi le plus gravement du monde.....voyez

comme insensiblement ils se recherchent du coin de l'ceil,
comme leurs regards viennent k se confondre, comme ils
sentent mollir leur colore, comme ils s'enlancent tout-it coup
dans leur bras amoureux!"

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"La Premiere Nuit"
"'II dort: dors k ton tour, 6 notre douce amie . . .
Ainsi me dirent mes compagnes, et elles me laisserent.

" Et moi, remplie de l'amour le plus pur, et dans toute mon
innocence, j'approche doucement mes livres de la joue de mon
jeune Ipoux. Aussit6t je le sens fr6mir, et je reconnais que le

traltre faisait semblant de c6der au sommeil..... Oh! que

je devins honteuse! Eh bien, il parvint insensiblement k dissiper
ma frayeur."

" L'Amant Soumis."
" i La haine, 6 ma belle, a done pris d£cid£ment dans ton
coeur la place de l'amour! . . . Eh bien! soit: puisque tu le
veux, il faut bien s'y soumettre. Mais rends-moi, je te prie,
avant notre rupture, toutes les caresses que je t'ai faites et tous
les baisfe que je t'ai donnas."'

"Le Triomphe."
" Le sein afFaissl k la suite de mes caresses r£it£r£es, tous ses
membres dans un doux abandon, fr6missant de voluptl, son
dernier voile tout en dlsordre, tomb£ dans nos transports
amoureux : € Ah! ah! ah! trop charmant ami, finis, de grftce,
e'est assez!' me dit-elle d'une voix etouffiSe; et ces mots sont

suivis du plus profond silence..... Eh quoi! pensai-je

alors, serait-elle done morte, ou simplement endormie ? serait-
elle absorble dans la meditation, ou p&mle de plaisir ?"

" Sur une Nouvelle Spouse."
" Cette nouvelle Spouse au regard tendre comme celui de la
gazelle, aux cuisses fermes et polies comme la tige du bananier,

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k la gorge incomparable..... N'est-ce pas pour servir au

sacre de 1'Amour lui-m£me, que son sein commence k se remplir
de la plus douce ambroisie ?w *

" Notes et gloses " are appended which display much erudition,
and are almost as pleasing as the translations of the poems
themselves. The work of Amaroft, together with a commentary,
was published, M. Chgzy informs us, at Calcutta about 1819.

The " Revue Encyclopgdique " thus noticed the " Anthologie
Erotique " on its appearance:

"Amarou vient enfin de paraitre devant nous. Si nous
ne le possgdons qu'en abrggg, ce n'est du moins qu'un
abrggg de sa richesse et non de sa grftce, et Textrait de
rjmarou Satacam, pour 6tre resserrg dans une gtroite
mesure, ne perd ni de son charme ni de son importance.
Ces pieces lgg£res, dgtachges et capricieuses, sont des pgtales
de rose que la fantaisie rgveuse du pofite a effeuillges et
repandues sur le sol. II voltige de pensges en pensges, les
effleurant k la hdte et sans cesse entraing par de nouveaux

* " Quelle image ravisante !M (exclaims M. Ch6zy) Le sein d*une jeune
femme enceinte, gonfl6 de lait, compar6 k une coupe 616gante remplie de la
liqueur pr6cieuse, destin6e & un sacre 5 et quel sacre ! . . . . non pas celui
d'un roi, mais celui de 1*Amour; l'enfant dont bientot elle recueillera avec
ivresse le premier sourire ne pouvant 6tre qu'une incarnation de ce petit dieu
lui-m&me!

" Une comparaison du m&me genre, mais bien moins heureuse, & mon avis,
se trouve dans le Mritchtchhakati, drame indien fort curieux, dont le savant
Wilson, qui d£j£en avait pr6c6demment donn6 la traduction, vient derni&rement
de publier le texte & Calcutta £ la grande satisfaction des indianistes. C'est
vers la fin du cinqui&me acte.**

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parfums ... Le livre d'Amarou est puisi dans ce monde
infini de merveilleux phlnomdnes et d'incalculables mysterds
que Tftme d'une femme renferme dans sa profondeur ... Le
lecteur pourra apprtfcier tout le natural, respirer tout le parfum
de cette essence d'amour venue des bords du Gange."

antonff llano rmftat fetrtttapftrObttU** Primus in Germania
edidit et apopboreta adjecit Fridbr. Carol. Forbergius.
Coburgi Sumtibus Meuseliorum. 1824.

8vo.; pp. xvi and 406, and 10 unnumbered including tide.
The volume contains:

" Lectori &c., F. C. Forbergius." . pp. iii to xvi.
" Testimonia de Hermaphrodito." . „ 1 to 32
" Praefatio Editoris Parisiensis.". „ 33 to 36

" Hermaphrodites" (in 2 Books). „ 37 to 167
" Appendix HermaphroditL" „ 168 to 202

" Apophoreta." " De Figuris Veneris." „ 203 10378
" Figurarum Veneris enumeratio." . „ 379 to 383
" EIKOSIMHXANON " with a separate
full title page, and enumeration of
the postures in the plates, (which
immediately follow) 4pp. in all unnumbered.

" Series epigrammatum Hermaphroditi
Veneta cum nostra collata." preceded
by one unnumbered leaf," Barbatum
fiirem Tertia Mensa manet." . pp. 385 to 386
" Scriptores laudati." . „ 387 to 406

" Corrigenda et Addenda." . . 2 pp. unnumbered.

m

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Although the list of plates numbers only to xx, there are in
fact 21 engravings, the No. xvi being repeated as xvi.® and xvi.b

These plates are all oval, and encircled with fancy borders,
the figures are thrown up on a perfectly black ground, as if
taken from gems, and much resemble the plates in " Veneres et
Priapi," they are well executed. The volume is generally found
without the illustrations.

This is the best edition of the " Hermaphroditus," it is more
correct and complete than the edition of Paris,* and the ample
notes, which have been pronounced more scandalous than the
text/f- are scholarlike and helpful. It is an edition which every
student should seek to possess.

Parnomita was born at Palermo in 1394, and died in 1471.

flpbrQbfetettf an* StottopftrObfetettf: Three Essays on the
Powers of Reproduction; with some account of the
Judicial " Congress" as practised in France during the
Seventeenth Century. By John Davenport.

Ubi stimulus, ubi fluxus.—Hippocrates.
London : Privately Printed. 1869.

Square 4to.; pp. xii and 154; small fleuron on title page;
eight plates, including the frontispiece, neatly executed; Rox-
burghe binding.

♦ See " Quinque Illustrium Poetarum," &c., post,
f Manuel du Libraire, vol. 4, col. 346.

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This volume was prepared for the press by the late Mr. J. C.
Hotten, and although it bears an earlier date, was not issued
until 1873, after his death; it is an able and erudite work, well
written, and fairly exhaustive of the subjects it treats of; it
is to a certain extent a sequel (as indeed Mr. Hotten intended
it to be) to his edition of Payne Knight's work on the Worship
of Priapus,* but the subject of stimulants to, and preventives
of venery is new. A clear notion of the object of the work,
and of the matter it contains, will be best arrived at by a
glance at the circular in which Mr. Hotten announced the
book, and at the contents of each essay :

" A Supplement to (and uniform with) Payne Knight on i The
Worship of the Generative Powers.'

" Beautifully printed on toned paper, and only One Hundred
Copies,")* for pnvate distribution. Small 4to, half morocco, gilt
top, <3^2. 1 os.

'" The reproductive powers of Nature were regarded by the
nations of remote antiquity with an awe and reverence, so great
as to form an object of worship, under a symbol, of all others
the most significant,—the Phallus; and thus was founded a
religion, of which traces exist to this day, not in Asia only, but
even in Europe itself.

€M That scarcely any notice of this worship should appear in
modern works, except in the erudite pages of a few antiquarians,
may be accounted for by considering the difference of opinion
between the ancients and moderns as to what constitutes

* See ante, p. 5.

t The edition was in reality ajo copies (no large paper), of which about
130 copies were distributed in Europe, and the remainder were sold en bloc in
1873, to Mr. Bouton of New York.

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—modesty; the former being unable to see any moral turpitude
in actions they regarded as the designs of Nature, while the
latter, by their over-strained notions of delicacy, render them-
selves, in some degree at least, obnoxious to the charge that, in
proportion as manners become corrupt, language becomes more
guarded,—modesty, when banished from the heart, taking refuge
on the lips.

'"To supply, to some extent, this lacuna in our popular
literature, has been the object of the present work, in which, it is
hoped, may be found much curious and interesting physiological
information, interspersed with recherche anecdotes/—Preface.

" Mr. Davenport has made a valuable contribution to liter-
ature, which will be acceptable alike to the antiquarian and the
general scholar. The Phallic worship, of which the first Essay
treats, once prevailed throughout tne whole world, among a
people probably different in race from ourselves, but fully our
equals in culture, and our superiors in architectural skill, as well
as in purity of thought. They adored the Sun as possessing
and diffusing the divine potencies of Heat, Light, and Actinism:
they cherished the Bull as representing the Sun at the Vernal
Equinox, when the world is annually resusciated; and they
with equal aptness and propriety employed as symbols the
human organs of sex, to represent Divine Love, and the Per-
petuation of Animated Existence.

" Mr. Davenport shows how the pillar, the cross, the mystic
letter Tau, the monumental shaft, and the church spire, were
all derived from this archaic symbolism, and mean the virile
symbol and the life everlasting. So also the sacred ark or ship,
tne crescent, the font, the lamp, and the grotto, were types of
the organ and principle that denote the Female, and were com-
memorated by the Bona Dea, the Great Mother, Anna Puma,
Sara Ismati, Isis, Juno, and Cybele. Abraham's servant placing
his hand at his master's thigh, and Jacob setting up and
anointing a pillar at Bethel, performed Phallic worship, as Mr.
Davenport has shown. It pervaded all the ancient faiths, and
is to be perceived in modern creeds and superstitions.

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" The two essays on Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs are
very curious in their way, and may be read with profit."

essay 1.

"Ancient Phallic Worship :—Phallic Worship the most
ancient and general—Phallic Worship found to exist in
America—Indian Trimourty or Trinity—Lingham—Yoni or
Cites, or Pulleiar—Taly, Anecdote of the—Leaden Phalli
found in the river Rhone—Round Towers in Ireland—Phallic
temples—The May-pole a relic of Phallic Worship—Phallus
held in reverence by the Jews—King David—Le Prerogativi
de* Testicoli — An Egyptian rhallic Oath — Ancient
Welsh Phallic Law—London Costermonger's Oath, 4 By my
taters' — Bern bo (Cardinal), his saying — Priapus, deri-
vation of the word—Priapus, how reverenced by Roman
women—Priapus, decline of nis worship—The cross (| ) known
to the Buddhists and the Lama of Thibet—The Cross re-
garded by the Ancients as the emblem of fruitfulness—Rev.
Mr. Maurice quoted—The Tau, Crux-Ansata, or Tripple
Phallus—Remains of Phallic Worship in Europe—Lampsacus,
the Birth-place of the deity Priapus — Saint Foutin — The
Phallus of Foutin at Embrun—The holy vinegar—Curious
Phallic Customs—Godfrey de Bouillon and the Holy prepuce—
II Santo membro—Sir W. Hamilton's account of the Worship
paid to Saints Cosmo and Damianus—Ex rotas.

essay 11.

"Anaphrodisia,or Absence op the Productive Power:—
Impotency, three kinds of, according to the Canon Law—
Impotency, Causes of, proper to Man—Impotency, Causes of,
proper to Women—Sterility and its causes—Morgagni quoted
—Clitoris, its length sometimes prevents the sexual union—
case quoted by Sir Everard Home—Columbus, Martial, Haller,
Juvenal, and Ariosto quoted—Impotency, Moral Causes of—

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Montaigne's Advice—Impotency caused by too great warmth
of Clothing—Hunter's Opinion—Point-Tying—Voltaire's Pu-
celle d'Orldans quoted—Point-Tying known to the Ancients—
instances quoted—Point-Tying among the moderns recognized
by James I. — Counter-Charm to Point-Tying — Agreeable
Mode of curing such Enchantment—Case of Point-Tying
related by Venette—Montaigne's curious Story—Judicial Con-
gress in Cases of alleged Impotency—Manner of conducting
the Congress—Judicial Congress originated with the Church—
Judicial Congress practised in France during the 16th and
17th Centuries—Forbidden in 1677—Boileau quoted—Cases
determined by the Judicial Congress—Willick, Dr., his remarks
and Advice upon the Sexual Intercourse.

essay iii.

" Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs :—The Mandrake
or Dudaim the most ancient aphrodisiac—Rachel and Leah—
Solomon's Song—Pliny the Elder quoted—Sappho's love for
Phaon accounted for—Superstitious ideas respecting the man-
drake during the Middle Ages—The Knights Templars accused
of adoring it—Mandrake, Weir's description of it—Mandrake
under the name of Mandragora used as a charm—Machiavell's
Comedy of La Mandragora and Voltaire's account of it—Love
potions, Venetian law against them—Richard III. accuses Lady
Grey of Witchcraft—Maundrell's account of the Dudaim—
Singular Aphrodisiac used by the Amazons—Philters, or love
potions used by the ancients—Hippomanes, wonderful powers
of, as an aphrodisiac—Recipes for love potions—Fish an aphro-
disiac—Hecquet's anecdote—Mollusca, truffles, and mushrooms
used as aphrodisiacal—George IV.'s appreciation of truffles
—Effect of truffles described by a lady—Latin epigram
on the vices of the monks—Naivete of a monk on the score
of adultery—Curious Quatrain in the Church of St. Hyacinth
—Madame Du Barris secret—Tablettes de Afagnanhnite
—Poudre de joie—Seraglio Pastilles—Musk, Cantharides—

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effects of the latter—Cardinal Dubois* Account of a Love
Potion—Caricature upon Dubois—Indian Bang—Stimulating
powers of Odours—Cabanis quoted—D'Obsonville quoted—
rotable Gold—Shakespeare quoted—Bourchard's Account of
Aphrodisiacal Charms—Flagellation—Graham's Celestial Bed—
Lady Hamilton, Lord Nelson, &c.—Burton quoted.

" Anti-Aphrodisiacs :—Refrigerants—Recommendation of
Plato and Aristotle—Sir Thomas Browne quoted—Origen—
Camphor an anti-aphrodisiac—Coffee an anti-aphrodisiac—
Abernethy's saying—Infibulation, Holyday quoted—Bernasco
Padlocks—Voltaire's poem of the Cadenas—Rabelais' anti-
aphrodisiacal remedies.

John Davenport was born in London, June 8, 1789, at
No. 8, Huggin Lane, City. His father came from Stafford-
shire, and established himself in 1780 as a silk warehouse-
man at above address, but eventually became bankrupt,
leaving his family in difficulties; John's mother was a Miss
Forbes, daughter of a Common Councilman of Cripplegate
ward. Their first child was William, born in 1781, who be-
came ensign in his Majesty's 58 Regiment (the Devil's Own).
John was brought up as a business man, and in due course
entered his father's counting house. When between 15 and 16
years of age the state of his health gave great uneasiness to
his friends, and a cessation of business and short sea voyage
were recommended; he started accordingly by the packet on a
visit to his brother, who was stationed with his regiment at
Jersey, and sojourned there about two months. On his way
home, in the coach between Southampton and London, he

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travelled with a young lady and her brother. "The lady
(wrote Mr. John Davenport in later years) appeared to me
between eighteen and twenty years of age, her figure and tour-
nure most attractive, and her face, without being beautiful, was
so interesting as to equal Belinda's (Pope's heroine in his Rape
of the Lock).

' If to her share some female errors fall
' Look in her face and you'll forget them all.'"

Young John was at once smitten with his travelling com-
panion, and shortly after his return to London had the good
fortune to meet her again at a ball, and to be introduced to
Miss Quick, daughter of the celebrated comedian of that
name his admiration of her soon ripened into love, and in
spite of much opposition on the part of the parents he event-
ually married her, at Islington Parish Church.

Mr. Davenport's tastes were not commercial, he studied hard,
became proficient in several Oriental languages, besides Greek,
Latin, and the leading modern tongues of Europe. He ob-
tained a living by writing and compiling books, and by teaching
languages, chiefly Oriental. His career is uneventful but sad.
Unable to earn sufficient money to make provision for his
declining years, he fell, after the death of his beloved wife, into
very straightened circumstances, and his eyesight failing him,
he became incapacitated from pursuing his calling as teacher,

* See The Thespian Dictionary.

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or as a literary man, and declined into a state of complete
penury. Like his father before him, Mr. John Davenport was
a liveryman of the Cooks' Company.

Separation to SI &>autt-etouir, ou Le

Triomphe de la Volupt6. D6di6 k la Reine. Ouvrage
vol6 dans la poche d'un Aristocrate par M. Barnavb,
President, & Directewr-gtntral de nos augustes Stnateurs.
A Saint-Cloud, Chez la Mere des Graces. 1790.

Small 8vo. (counts 4); pp. 24 in all; small fleuron on title
page. This is a political pamphlet, and has nothing to do with
the well known novel "Th6r6se Philosophe." It is a violent
tirade against the elder Mirabeau, La Fayette, &c., and an ironi-
cal eulogy of Marie-Antoinette, described as: "une femme
charmante, doule de toutes les graces de la jeunesse, de la
sensibility d'un sexe fait pour l'amour, pour la volupt6," &c.
The greater part of the pamphlet is devoted to a vision in
which Th6r£se appears to the author. He exclaims: " O ciel
que vois-je 5 douce voluptd, tu p^netres mes sens. Je vois la
Reine mollement couch6e sur un sopha; les chefs de nos
guerriers sont k ses pieds & lui jurent un amour, une
iid61it6 Sternel! Quel charmant tableau! des femmes k
demi-nues offrent k ces guerriers pour prix de leur courage,
les appas dont la nature les a orndes."

There is a copy in the British Museum P.C. if7. In noticing
it, Gay* incorrectly transcribes the first word of the title as
"Apparition " instead of "Apparution."

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs k 1'Amour, voL i, p. 283.

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Srlrquui Dtmocratiqut CEuvrc collective d'une soci6t6 de
litterateurs sous la direction de Louis Baudibr.

Et c'est moi le croyant, pr&re, et c'est toi l'ath6e.

(Victor Huoo.)

Ajoute le poete au vrai, l'art est la somme.

(August* Vacuums.)

Paris Libraire de Madame Veuve Milli&rb 67, Rue d$
Turbigo, 67 1873

i2mo.; pp. 240, and 12 unnumbered including titles, 252
pages in all; on the tide page is a vignette of a man beating a
drum ; fancy paper wrapper with a design signed A. Sartini ;
published "Mars 1873;" 550 copies (including an "Edi-
tion d'amateur tir£e £ 70 exemplaires, Prix: 2 fr. 50") were
struck off, of these 420 copies were afterwards seized by the
police.

This volume, which is dedicated to Victor Hugo, contains
the following pieces:

"It* ItoftSf&fe at! Xixe idtltt A. S. Morin (Miron)."

"jtom prrmtrr amour, 6\6g\es: Victor Packet."

" tit la &ait: N. Blanpain."

" ^CTfifltSf: Alphonse Lbclbrco."

All of mediocre merit, and without interest for the present
work. It is with the last piece in the volume, a novel by Louis
Baudier, entitled,

" &>ur It* notv tit

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that we have to do. This litde sketch, the object of which is
to shew the prevalence among priests 'at the present day of
sodomy, and the abominations to which choirs of singing boys
can be made subservient, was condemned 16 Dec., 1873, by the
" Cour d'Assises de la Seine," as, " un outrage & la morale
publique et religieuse," and its author and publisher both fined
and imprisoned, the former being condemned to " six mois de
prison, 200 francs d'amende," the latter to " quatre mois de
prison, 200 francs d'amende, et tous deux solidairement aux
ddpens."*

The passages upon which the court based its condemnation
were the following:

" i° Pages 141, 142, 143, un paragraphe commenqant par
ces mots: ' O raffinement de voluptds,' et finissant par ceux-ci:
' Que e'est catholique!'

"20 Pages 157, 158, un paragraphe commenqant par ces
mots: 4 Les autres sont de vrais bonshommes,' et finissant
par ceux-ci: 4 Comment trouvez-vous mon vin ?'

"3° pages 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, un paragraphe commen-
qant par ces mots: ' lis s'assirent,' et finissant par ceux-ci:
* Dire toutes ces choses;'

"40 Pages 171, 172, un paragraphe commenqant par ces
mots: 6 L'abb£ Jacquin,' et finissant par ceux-ci: ' Nous en
reparlerons;'

* Gasette des Tribunaux, No. for 15/16 Dec. 1873; and Catalogue des
Ouvrages Condamnes, p. 66.

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"5° Pages 172, 173, 174, 175, un paragraphe commenqant
par ces mots: 4 De ce jour, leurs entretiens,' et finissant par
ceux-ci: 4 Ne pouvait s'empgcher de les rechercher;'

"6° Pages 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, un paragraphe commen-
ceux-ci: 4 Vers le point du jour seulement il s'assoupit;'

44 70 Pages 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 2io,un paragraphe com-
menqant pStr ces mots: 4 O tourment infernal,' et finissant par
ceux-ci: 4 Ddvier k tout jamais;'

44 8° Pages 213, 214, 215, un paragraphe commenqant par ces
mots: 4 Le cimeti£re dtait situd,' et finissant par ceux-ci:4 Sous
ses 16vres brtdantes l'dtre aime ;'

44 90 Pages 237, 238, un paragraphe commenqant par ces
mots: 4 L'amour que Ton est convenu,' et finissant par ceux-ci:
4 Satisfaction brutale.'"

The plot of 44 Sur les Genoux de l'Eglise" is very simple.
Thdophile and Marie, two young peasants, mutually love, and
are engaged to marry one another. A new curd, of about the
same age as Thdophile, arrives at the village, between whom
and Thgophile an intimacy, guilty on the part of the priest,
springs up. For the sake of his new friend, who, on account
of his superior knowledge and education, has much influence
over the young peasant, Thdophile neglects his destined bride,
and a jealousy arises between Maurice (the curd) and Marie.
But in spite of the intrigues of the priest, the young lovers
become reconciled, and Maurice has the grief of witnessing
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gens croisent maintenant des regards clairs et brillants d'un
bonheur indetermind mais charmant; sur leurs l&vres s'lpanouit
le plus ddlicieux sourire; la vie est pour eux tout enti£re dans
cet instant oil ils se contemplent avec extase; leurs yeux se
disent qu'ils s'aiment plus que jamais. La paix est faite sans
qu'un mot ait 6t6 dchangd. Thdophile franchit d'un bond le
bassin, se jette aux pieds de son amie, lui prend les mains,
1'attire pr£s de lui, visage contre visage. Puis un tendre baiser
donn6 et rendu signe la reconciliation . . . Oh! dlchire ta
poitrine avec tes ongles, verse des larmes de rage, ces plaisirs
ne sont pas faits pour toi, 6 pr^tre, il te faut £tre chaste comme
un saint Bernard, ou sacrilege comme un Borgia, ou infdme
comme un Jules III. Admire ce rlsultat de tes soins. La
crise prdcddente a jetd dans I'd me de ces enfents une clartd
nouvelle. Ils ont connu le vrai caract£re de leur amour et
d£chir£ le voile qui couvrait leurs yeux. Th£ophile instruit
par tes leqons, inspire par l'occasion qui s'offre k lui, devient
hardi comme le page le plus libertin. Ils se croient seuls sous
les regards de 1'Amour, rien ne les retient... Ah ! ferme les
yeux, homme de peu de courage! le spectacle de leurs joyeux
Ibats te serait trop cruel!"

In this passage the author would show the evil influence of
the priest upon the peasant, and the anguish felt by the former
on seeing his pupil enjoy what he himself coveted.

With one other extract, the first on the list of passages con-
demned by the -court, I will conclude this notice.

"O raffinements des volupt£s hypocrites! On £loigne du

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choeur et de la sacristie, c'est-iUdire des prfitres, les jeunes et
jolies filles, voire mime les dames.—lis ne les voient qu'au
confessional.—Rien k craindre, n'est ce pas? Louez leur
retenue . . . Mais on remplit le presbyt£re et l'lglise de jeunes
et beaux garqons, ayant au moins quinze ans, n'en ayant pas
plus de dix-huit,—enfants frais et roses, k la tournure molle,
aux regards matins, aux voix fSminines, aux livres 6paisses et
bien rouges, 61dves ardents et disciples fiddles qui apprennent
tout ce qu'on leur enseigne et n'oublient rien de ce qu'ils ont
appris; troupeau vou€ k la corruption par des calculs inf&mes,
d'oii sortiront k vingt ans les jeunes prltres k qui vous confierez
vos femmes, les ignorantins k qui vous confierez vos enfants,
6 pdres de famille. Certes, la religion catholique est en progr&s
sur le paganisme. Celui-ci avait ses confr6ries de vierges;—les
catholiques y ont ajoutl les maltrises de jeunes 6ph£bes. Et
avec quels soins, avec quel tact, avec quel art ils les ont choisis!
On dirait les cohortes des s£raphins et des archanges descendus
du ciel oil leur imagination cr6atrice les a fait naltre et qu ils
ont donnls comme entourage k Dieu, sans doute pour avoir
pr6texte k s'entourer eux-m£mes denfants de choeur. Cr6er le
module pour paraltre ensuite copier et imiter, e'est fort sournois:
ne suffit-il pas de dire que e'est catholique ?"

Louis-Etienne Baudier was born April 27,1854, at Semur,
Cdte-d'Or.

Jos£phinb-Louisb Four&s, Veuve Millars, was born at
Paris, June 15, 1834; her husband was a communist, and exe-
cuted by the French troops on their entrance into Paris, 1871.

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I'Srt lit $ettr* Essai Th6ori-physique et M&hodique A
I'usage des personnes constiples, des Personnages graves
& austdres, des Dames m£lancoliques, & de tous ceux qui
sont esclaves du pr6jug£. Suivi de l'Histoire de Pet-en-
l'Air & de la Reine des Amazonnes, ou Ton trouve Torigine
des Vuidangeurs. Nouvelle Edition. Augment€e de la
Soci6t£ des Francs-Pdteurs, pour ceux qui d&ireront y
6tre invitls; avec deux gravures k l'eau forte. En West-
phalie, Chez Florent-Q, rue Pet-en-Gueule, au Soufflet.
M.DCC.LXXVI.

8vo.; pp, 182 ex tides; this is a Paris reprint of about
1870; the vol. contains:

" fipitre D6dicatoire.w. . . . pp. 1 to 4.
" Avis au Lecteur." . . . 5 to 8.

" L'Art de P6ter.M . . . 9 to 93.

" La Soci6t6 des Francs-P6teurs.w
" fipitre Dddicatoire." . . . 97 to 102.

u Preface.".....103 to 111.

" La Sociltl des Francs-P£teurs.w . 113 to 182.

There is a frontispiece to each work, that to " L'Art de P£ter w
(and probably that to the second work also) is imitated (and
turned) from the frontispiece of the old edition bearing the
same date. The matter is identical, except that the first 78 lines
of the "Preface- to "La Soci£t6 des Francs-P£teurs* are
omitted, and an anecdote which does not exist in the old

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edition is added at the end of the vol.; further, the name
" Docteur Swith " in the old edition, is in the reprint corrected
to Swift; published (in a yellow paper wrapper) at 3 frcs. There
have been several editions, viz.: 1751, 1771* 1775, 1776, same
date about 1800, 1832, and another edition without date. It
also forms part of "Le Conservateur de la Sant6"

" L'Art de Pdter " " n'est quune traduction de la dissertation
latine: De peditu ejusqiie speciebus. L'idle premiere du titre
semble appartenir k Rabelais, car parmi les livres imaginaires
que Pantagruel trouve dans la librairie de Saint-Victor nous
remarquons ddja Ars honeste pettandi in societcUe, per M.
Ortuinum (Rabelais, iiv. II, ch. 7.)**

The author is P-T-N. Hurtault, " maltre de pension k
Paris, ancien professeur de I'ficole militaire, et pensionnaire du
Roi.w The date of his birth and death, as well as details of
his life seem to be unknown; but a list of his works is given
in " La France Littdraire," and in the " Biographie Universelle
(Michaud)."

"La Socidtd des Francs-Peteurs " was first published in 1743
with title:" Zdphyrc-Artillerie, ou la Socidtd des Francs-Peteurs'f*
and again as: " L'Esclavage rompu, ou la Socidtd des Francs-
Peteurs. Libertd est notre Devise. A Porde Polis, k l'Enseigne
de Zdphyre Artillerie. mdcclvi." 8vo.; pp. 96. It is by

* See Bibliotheca Scatologica, Arts. 67, 89, 138, and 164 j Bibliographie
des Oavrages relatifs & TAmour, vol. 1, p. 317, vol. 6, p. 460$ La France

Littfraire, vol. 4, p. 168 ; Biographie Universelle (Michand), vol. 20, p. 191

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Pibrrb-Jban Lbcorvaisier, born at Vitr6, August 22, 1719,
died at Angers, August 12, 1758. He studied under the
Jesuits at Rennes, and had an inclination to job their order,
but becoming enamoured of a lady at Angers, he wedded her,
took up his residence in that town, and became perpetual
secretary of its academy. He is the author of various works
which are noted in the "Biographie Universale," and "La
France Litt£raire.w

These two works are not the least curious and amusing of
the numerous books upon kindred topics which in the French
language alone are sufficiently numerous to form a library of
themselves, and have afforded matter enough for a whole biblio-
graphical volume, to wit the Bibliotheca Scatologica> already
referred to. Prose and verse have been alike pressed into the
service, and one of the cleverest series of scatological poems
was published only three years back at Brussels.*

In this the French are peculiar, they delight in making the
Cloacinan rites the subject of their wit, and even the most
respectable French women of the present day do not hesitate
to listen to jokes, and even to make them, upon subjects which
among females of the corresponding class in England would be
deemed highly improper.

" Tussis pro crepitu, an art
0 Under a cough to slur a fart.*'

Hudibras.

• "Du Neuf et du Vieux." see post.

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2/8rt He plumer la ^oule am* crier* A Cologne, chez
Robert le Tunc, au Cocq hardi. M.DCC.X.

12mo.; pp. 224, preceded by " Avertissementw 2 pp.f
" Explication de l'Estampe w 4 pp., " Preface M 3 pp., " Table w
3 pp., all unnumbered.

On the Tide page, which is printed in red and black, is a
square figure with Chinese design inside; a neady executed
frontispiece represents a view of Paris with figures, and Mercury
bearing the tide of the book.

Violet le Due * mentions this work as: " Recueil de vingt-et-
une histoires de courtisanes, de fripons et de partisans. Anec-
dotes de moeurs, dont la plus grande partie est fort piquante."

The Marquis Du Roure f considers the vol. rare; he gives
an analysis of each adventure and says: " La lecture de ces
historiettes, invraisemblables pour la plupart, est n£anmoins
amusante, parce que les details en sont racontls avec facilite.
On y pourrait trouver le sujet de plus d'une com£die d'intrigue.
Les fripons faiseurs ou faiseuses des tours qu'on y voit con-
signs s'appellent les plumeurs des poules sans crier, k cause du
succ£s qui les suit toujours. Cela n'est pas moral, mais cela
est assez historique."

The work is better written than most of its kind, and is
entertaining, apart the picture that it affords of the manners of
the time.

* Catalogue, 1847, P-
t Analectabiblon, yol. 2, p. 428.

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Stronou* art* Of Catfeolir prirstaf, Who have lately com-
mitted the most Horrid and Diabolical Rape and Murders
in Ireland and France, that were ever known in Civilized
Society. London: Printed and Published by John
Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill. [Price Sixpence.]

This 8vo. pamphlet contains two tracts, which had been
issued singly, they hav? separate full title pages, and paging, as
follows:

"Rape and Assassination!! ^arratfof Of tf)t ftorrtWt
&ape anil g&aggfnatton of ittarte rtn, a beautiful young
Female, by Mingrat, A French Catholic Priest, to whom she
went to confess; Translated from the French Papers of July
21, 1824."

"Fanaticism! Cruelty!! Bigotry!!! Cf)t flartttularsf Of
tf)t frorriblt iHurtor of Catfeeruw Mrrntt, A Child under
Four Years of Age, by the Rev. John Carroll, an Irish
Catholic Priest, Under Pretence of performing A Miracle, by
casting devils out of the child, Which took place at Killinick, in
the County of Wexford, on Friday, July 9, 1824; Including
the Coroner's Inquest, and Reflections on the Influence of
Catholic Priests over the Minds of the People, as exemplified
in this melancholy Case."

Each of these tracts is of pp. 14, and each has on the title
page the publisher's name &c., " Price Threepence," and an
extract from the evidence.

The priest Mingrat was a man of low extraction-but of Her-
culean strength, he was Curate of St. Quentin, and had become

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enamoured of Marie Gerin, wife of a disbanded soldier residing
at Get, near St. Quentin, a woman of remarkable beauty.

After making some amorous advances to Marie, hidden
under pretended pious discourses, Mingrat desired her to call
on him the next time she went to St. Quentin; this she did,
" and entered the church about six o'clock in the evening.
On seeing Mingrat she saluted him respectfully, and said
she came to confess to him. He, -on some pretext or
other, got her into the Presbytery, where he lived, adjoining
the church. There, it appears, he consummated the double
crime of violation and assassination, in doing which he must
have gagged the mouth of his victim, as low, inarticulate, and
stifled moans were heard by his servant maid."

In order to get rid of Marie's body, Mingrat cut it to pieces,
and threw it into a neighbouring stream. On being suspected,
the priest declared that his victim was possessed by the Devil,
and that he saw Satan carry her away in his arms, and plunge
with her into the abyss of hell.

Mingrat was condemned to death by the Court of Assize
of Grenoble, December 9, 1822.

The crime of the Rev. John Carroll, Roman Catholic Curate
of Ballymore was of a different' nature.

After committing acts of violence on several people by
jumping upon them, under pretence of casting out Devils,
with which, as he said, they were possessed, Carroll, accom-
panied by about fifty persons, visited the house of one Thomas
Sinnott, a nailer. " At this time a child (a fine little girl between

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three and four years of age), then in bed in the room in which
he was, began to cry: he consulted his breviary, and imme-
diately affirmed that there was a devil in the child. • ♦ • He
jumped into the bed, and on the body of the infant! The
father of the little innocent entered at the time—the child
piteously cried out, 4 Oh save me! save me!' which he was
proceeding to do, but some miserable fanatics present actually
held him back!!! It may be asked who was holding the
mother of the child? No one—she was as free as any of
the spectators, and, like them, had a full conviction that her
child was, as the Priest had stated, ' possessed,9 and that he
was performing a miracle to drive out the evil spirit!!! Nay,
the infatuated mother was not only without restraint, as to any
relief she might have been inclined to have afforded her
infant, but actually assisted the Priest in the performance of
his horrible work!!! He ordered her to get a tub of water
and some salt; these she instantly procured. The innocent
little sufferer lay bleeding and insensible in bed ; he poured the
contents of the tub upon her; and as the water mingled with
the stream of life, he cried out with enthusiasm to those
around him, ' Behold a miracle! I have turned the water into
blood!!!' He then turned the tub over upon his victim, the
edge of it coming upon the child's neck, mercifully completed
the tragedy by putting an end to its sufferings!! Having
desired the parents of the child not to allow any one to enter
the room, nor to touch the child till his return, he departed
for Wexford."

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Carroll, let me add, was pronounced by two competent
medical gendemen to be insane. "Surprise, (continues the
writer of the pamphlet) of course, vanishes as respects his con-
duct ; but how shall be designate (sic) that of the crowd of
spectators who surrounded him, some of whom lent their aid
to the furtherance of his designs, and all of whom, to the last
moment, full of that reverential awe with which a Roman
Catholic peasant looks upon a clergyman of his communion,
placed implicit faith in the propriety and efficacy of the wild
and dreadful proceedings of the unhappy maniac!"

bett aWeutottett titter ®ttttgetitn SBoftm.
iKccjtn alb (S^ejter fielb

Small 8vo.; 2 vols.; pp. vol. i,viiand 244; vol. 2, 251, in
all; published in Berlin; the first vol. appeared about 1868, the
second was not issued until July 1875 ; they are not serial, the
paper of the second vol. is thinner and larger, and the letter-press
is longer than of the first vol.; there is no vol.-indication on
the tide page of vol. 1, whereas on the title of vol. 2 there
is " II. Band.,w also a small fleuron; the first vol. was sold
for Th. 1. 10 sgr, the second for 2 Ths.

These memoirs are affirmed to be an auto-biography of the
celebrated and notorious Frau Schroder-Dbvribnt ; they
are in the form of episdes addressed to an old friend, a doctor,
among whose papers at his death, they were found by his
nephew, the editor.

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Although the singer's various professional engagements are
noted, yet the object of the book is not to trace her artistic
career,* but to portray, and that with the minutest details, her
progress in the " Art of Loveher mental and physical deve-
lopment are both laid open, and the book is certainly as much
a psychological study as it is a collection of the most lascivious
episodes. It is fairly well written and is thoroughly readable.
The first is the better vol.; it is more naive, contains nothing
improbable, and is free from crapulous details which frequently
disfigure the second vol., and which are evidently inspired by
* Justine," mentioned at the commencement and harped upon
throughout the whole second volume.

The singer represents herself as a very clever person, most
desirous of information, of an exceedingly amorous nature, and
yet withal endowed with sufficient force of character to enable
her to curb her passions and to remain strictly quiet when her
interests dictate the necessity of so doing.

The first vol., occupied chiefly with her early life and with
the development of her young mind, brings our heroine to the
acceptance of an engagement at Frankfort one year after her
debut at Vienna, and to—the loss of her maidenhead.

She now becomes an active and responsible person, and here
(with the opening of vol. II.) I will attempt a slight sketch of
her career.

* The best book on this point is: " ffiifyelmim @d)r5bcr*®mient. (gin
Selttflg jut @e$d)id)te M mu«tfatt«$m 2>tama*. $on aifreb grtetymn
3BoI}O0ttt. £ctyjig: SBwtyau*. 1863 a notice of her will also be fonnd in
the "OartentauBe."

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At Frankfort she sojourns two years, studying her art, and
living a perfectly steady life. The manager of the opera at Pest
now visits Frankfort and offers her an engagement which she
accepts. He is accompanied by a young Hungarian gentleman
named Arpad, with whom she at first sight falls in love and
whom she determines to seduce ; this she does as soon as she
reaches Pest. But this pleasant liaison lasts but a short time,
as Arpad is called away to a distant province.

She now becomes friendly with Anna, a woman steeped in
every kind of debauchery, and thoroughly acquainted with the
vices of the Hungarian capital. She asks Anna's opinion about
" Justine " (which she had acquired at Frankfort, and which
had rather repulsed than attracted her), and whether any en-
joyment can really be derived from flagellation. Anna advises
her to witness the flogging of a girl who is shortly to be thus
punished for theft, and who finds delight in her own castigation.
They go together, and the girl is by permission of the jailer,
whom they bribe, brought, after the execution, to the singer
and her friends, an orgie ensues, and our heroine becomes
enamoured of the culprit Rosa. " wax tint fo au8fdjUefjK$c
reine Siebe, ba$ mt$ alle anberen SCBetber anefelten unb bit SWdnner
not) fctel meljt." (p. 84).

She determines to take Rosa into her service, and does so
after having obtained by bribery her release from prison. She
takes her at once to the Kaiserbad, properly to prepare her for
the Lesbian duties to which she is destined, and is delighted to
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Rosa's maidenhead is a pleasure which our songstress at once
determines herself to enjoy, and in fact indulges in that gratifi-
cation the same evening in company of her two friends, Anna
and Nina, she using a double dildo, while Anna "Iecfte bot
SungferMut ouf" after the operation.

She now, in company with Anna, and dressed as a youth, visits
the brothels of Pest, and describes a flagellation scene, accom-
panied with very crapulous details, of which she is allowed to
be an unseen witness.

Having fallen desperately in love with a gendeman (a sort
of admirable Crichton) whom she meets at a rehearsal, she deter-
mines to acquire his affection, but Ferry (so he is named) holds
eccentric opinions upon the chapter of love, and has laid down
a rule of never taking the initiative, but of favouring only such
women as give themselves up to him unasked, and who make
no claim of fidelity from him. In this dilemma our heroine has
the good fortune to meet Ferry at the brothel of Resi Luft,
where a grand annual orgie has been arranged by the ladies of
Pest, who, as well as the gentlemen invited, appear masked,
but entirely nude. Ferry is at once struck with the surpassing
beauty of her body, quits the other women in whose company
he is, and has connection with her then and there, in presence
of the whole assembly. A monster debauch ensues, the details
of which savour strongly of " Justine."

Ferry and she now become close friends, and as, through her
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determines to recompense her by giving her a share of Ferry's
caresses, at the same time affording herself the gratification of
witnessing Rosa's real defloration, that attempted with the
dildo not having been thoroughly effected, or having to a
certain extent been made good again. This scene is, as may
be supposed, one of great warmth, but it is spoiled by the in-
troduction of some unnecessarily filthy episodes, without which
it would be voluptuous and pleasing. After having placed her
friend in her lover's arms, and experienced the satisfaction of
thus sharing his embraces, she becomes a thorough convert to
his doctrine of " free love," and jealousy is once and for ever
discarded from her mind.

It is now for Ferry to make a return for such unselfish de-
votion to him and his teaching. During a recess at the theatre
he takes his mistress for a journey. After some travelling, and
mysterious changes of conveyances, they reach the middle of a
forest, where our heroine is alarmed at the appearance of some
suspicious-looking armed men. Ferry tells her plainly that
they are robbers, but to have no fear, and being arrived at a
retired place he selects two of the band,—a youth of great beauty,
and a maturer man of Herculean appearance and strength—and
informs his companion that they are destined for her enjoyment.
Knowing her lover's principles, and that the more "auSgelaffcn "
she is the more she will please him, she does not for a moment
hesitate, but stripping to the skin she takes the youth's member
in her mouth, while the giant enjoys her from behind, in each
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to bed and allowed some time to recruit her overtaxed forces.
Her lover, be it understood, stands by and witnesses the scene
with the greatest interest and satisfaction. In the forest they
remain some days, joining the bandits and peasant women in
their daily debaucheries.

Our songstress, now in her 27th year, and at the full bloom
of her beauty, loses both her parents, and Ferry being called
away to America, she finds herself almost alone. For some
time she remains, as she did at Frankfort, " chaste." Having
accepted a theatrical engagement in Italy, she meets at Florence
Sir Ethelred Merwyn, an Englishman, 59 years of age,
possessing much knowledge of the world, a thorough epicurean,
and whose way of thinking accords entirely with her own. He
shows her much friendship but nothing more, she how-
ever, in spite of his age, loves as well as respects him, and
as he appears too timid to make the desired advances,
she takes him by storm. They live most contentedly together,
she much profiting by Sir Ethelred's universal information.
He tells her about the infamies practised in Italy, and promises
her, when they go to Rome, to make her eye-witness of what
he has described to her. He keeps his word, and after having
shewn her the capital execution of a man and woman, conducts
her to a church in which takes place an impossible orgie with
priests, nuns, boys, and several kinds of animals, and which
terminates in the profanation of the corpses of the two delin-
quents above mentioned. This is quite in the spirit of Sade,
and as revolting as any chapter of his.

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Shortly after Sir Ethelred dies, his mistress tending him
with all care, and finally closing his eyes; by his will he leaves
her a good sum of money, jewels, &c.

From Italy our heroine passes to Paris, to sing there, and
although her adventures in the French Capital are passed over
as unimportant and common place, she gains further experience,
and forms some acquaintances with members of the demi-
monde, the career of one of whom, Camilla, mistress of a
Russian Nobleman, is sketched. She continues to dilate on
the subject of corpse-profanation, which appears to be of great
interest to her, and gives details of some instances of that
crime which have occurred in France.

With Sarolta, one of her theatre companions, she undertakes
a professional journey to London, where she remains with great
satisfaction three years, residing during the time at St. John s
Wood.

In London she visits Mrs. Meredyth, cousin of her deceased
lover, a woman possessing a good income and enjoying herself
thoroughly; she is acquainted with most of the kept women of
London, and frequents its places of public resort; she takes
our heroine the entire round—Vauxhall Gardens, Piccadilly
Saloon, Holborn Casino, Portland Rooms—and they even walk
the streets as prostitutes in search of adventures. Our Song-
stress refuses nevertheless all offers from the English nobility,
thereby preserving her reputation, and solaces herself in the
arms of her ever beloved Rosa.

The narrative here suddenly breaks off, the writer, as she says,

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having acquainted her correspondent by word of mouth with
the rest of her career.

These memoirs are evidently written, in great part, from
personal observation, but whether we are to give them credit
for being in reality what they profess to be, I will not under-
take to pronounce. Intermixed with circumstances, adventures,
and observations which bear the impress of truth, are details
impossible of execution, and frequently incredible on account of
improbability, crapulousness, and repulsiveness; among these
may be particularised the orgie in the prison, in the brothel,
in the forest at Pest, and in the church at Rome, and another in
the garden of Mrs. Meredyth, where a company of women
remain for three days naked, and that in the climate of England.
As before mentioned, Sade's " Justine" is frequently spoken about
in the second vol., and indeed its influence is plainly manifest
in most of the scenes there described in which several persons
take part. The remarks of the writer (whether Frau Schrodrr-
Devrient or another) about London, its women and institu-
tions, are in the main correct; blunders there are, but not
such as need affect the genuineness of the work, which was
evidently written some years ago, as many of the places visited,
such as Vauxhall Gardens, the Piccadilly Saloon, Holborn
Casino, &c., no longer exist.

Besides "Justine " some other erotic works are briefly noticed:
at p. 177 of vol. 1, she speaks of the " SDenfwfirMgfeiten beS
$ctm . .," of " Le Portier des Chartreux," of " Faublas," of
" Felicia," &c., as 11 roafyreS ©fft fur un&erljeitatljete grauen, &c.,"
but what then is her own book ?

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£f* 9foenturwf iMatr(monfaIeC( ou Le Manage de La Bbllb
Sophie Par Nabar Lucerne chez tous les libraires
MDCCCXLV

Small square 8vo.; pp. 64 ex bastard tide, which has only
ittariafft tit gbovbit," a frontispiece, prettily engraved
and subscribed " Sophie et ses Compagnes," but which has no
further reference to the text, it represents seven naked women on
a river's bank trying to catch winged phalli, which, in the form
of aquatic birds, are coming up out of the water, a cupid with
erect member is directing them, and watching the sport;
published at Brussels in 1874, by Puissant, at 10 frcs; issue
52 copies, of which fifty on papier de Hollande, and two on
papier rose. Probably a reprint of a work noted by Gay* as:
" Le Mariage de Sophie, ses aventures galantes le jour de ses
noces, pr6c6d£ de portraits de la belle Soci6t6. Paris, chez Tiger,
an xi, pet. in-18 de 108 pp., frontispice grave."

This can scarcely be ranked as a tale, but rather as a series
of sketches of manners of the time, satirical, and at times
amorous, never obscene or even immodest, it is somewhat after
the manner of the younger Cr6billon, but without his wit, pun-
gency, or cynical voluptuousness.

The " d6but dans le grand monde " of the young St. L6ger
is the ostensible subject of the book. After some Chesterfieldian

* Bibliographic, vol. 4, p. 408.

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advice from his mother, he is placed under the guidance of a
young spark called Folville, to be by him initiated in the ways
of the world. Folville takes St. Ldger the round of the theatres,
gaming houses, balls, &c., and introduces him into various
societies, and to several women of easy virtue, &c.; terse
sketches are given of these institutions and persons.

St. Ldger soon becomes an adept in vice, and obtains great
success with the fair sex. Folville having however wounded
his pupil's pride with respect to one of his conquests, St. Ldger
determines to punish both friend and mistress. The lady he
takes as " maltresse en titre " for a couple of months, and then
suddenly abandons her. His friend he corrects in a more
severe manner, for he having married Sophie, St. Ldger
manages to seduce her on the nuptial evening between the
wedding and bedding, (hence the tide of the book). On their
return to the room where the guests are assembled, Folville
meets them, and perceiving what has happened : " II approcha
de St-Ldger: je vous aime, lui dit-il k l'oreille: vous 6tes divin,
et votre vengeance est des mieux imaginde. Ne croyez pas que
cela altfcre notre amitid : je sais mon monde."

The book ends abrupdy, and is altogether a dull and unskilful
production.

Bagnio ittfereUanp: containing Cftree Inttr*
wftfag JBtaloffuta between a Sfeto anil a /tmalt
Cferfettam Cfet afcbwturtsf of ittts® fcatt

fcObtCOtft, at Miss Twig's Boarding School. Cl)t fortt
Of InsftlWt, a droll story, developing an odd contrivance
to facilitate the growth of the " Lanugo " on the " Labia *
of a young lady. Erotic Anecdotes; iHaria SbttOfttfttt,
Queen of France—Cftt ffl2tttboto anil tfyt $ar*On'* SBull,
or the Benefit of Flagellation.

De gustibus non est disputandum.
London: Printed by John Jones, in the Whitefriars. 179a.

iamo. (counts 6); pp. 142 in all; 8 illustrations well drawn,
and finely engraved by Siddons or Seddon ;* published by
Cannon about 1830. Still more recently we have:

u The Bagnio Miscellany, containing the Adventures of Miss
Lais Lovecock written by herself; And what happened to her
at Miss Twig's Academy, and afterwards. Dialogues between
A Jew and a Christian: A Whimsical Entertainment, lately

* He also engraved the plates for " The Accomplished Whore " (see ante,
p. 1), for which he was paid three guineas and a half each $ indeed he did the
engravings for most of the books published by Cannon.

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performed in Duke's Place. The Force of Instinct: A True
Story, wherein is detailed the Curious Experiment resorted to
by a Young Lady in order to make the Hair grow on the
Bottom of her Belly, with other Droll Matters and Quaint
Conceits. Price Two Guineas. Printed for the Society of Vice."

8vo.; pp. 84; 8 coloured plates of infamous execution,
not imitated from those of the earlier edition; besides the matter
mentioned on the title page there are the two " Erotic Anec-
dotes," as above, viz.: " Marie Antoinette, Queen of France."
and "The Widow and the Parson's Bull."

There is another edition of about the same date, title identical
except that it has imprint, " New York : Printed for the Book-
sellers." 8vo.; pp. 77; the same plates are used in this
edition; but the two anecdotes last mentioned are wanting.

Both editions are by Andrew White.

" The Bagnio Miscellany" is a filthy and worthless publi-
cation, one of the very basest of its kind, and not deserving any
more particular notice.

George Cannon, formerly a lawyer's clerk, afterwards a
publisher of obscene books. He had various places of busi-
ness : in Ryder's Court, in Leicester Square, in Maiden Lane,
at No. 11, afterwards No. 2 May's Buildings St. Martin's Lane.
He carried on business from about 1815 until his death in
March, 1854. His widow continued the business till she was
accidentally burned to death about 1864.

Andrew White had a shop in Holywell Street. He died
about 1868. His business was afterwards (and probably is
still) continued by his widow and son.

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tX Smtqufrr $tffOttr et la Berbfrur Histoire peu morale,
extraite du Pare aux Cerfs, avec figure fac-similde sur
celle de 1790, suivi de I'&VArithttmt Ml GOffUtttt ou
L'Orgie Royale Opdra Proverbe. 1790

Large square 8vo.; pp. 26 unnumbered ; price frcs. 5.; pub-
lished at Brussels in 1867, by Sacr£-Duquesne. Condemned
by the tribunal of Lille May 6, 1868*

The object of this pamphlet, as stated on the title page, is to
reproduce the notorious engraving belonging to, but generally
wanting in " Le Pare au Cerf, ou L'Origine de TAffreux Deficit.
Paris 1790.," the fac-simile is well done. The plate rep-
resents Peixotte seated, his breeches open, and holding his
member in his right hand, while with his left he points to Mile.
Dervieux, who stark naked, and with a large plume of peacock's
feathers stuck in her anus, is going on all fours round the
room; two men are looking on through a glass door at the
back of the room.

Peixotte was a rich banker, " qui ne haissoit pas les jolies
femmes, mais qui ne les aimoit que d'un certain c6t£. La
Dervieux etoit une fille de ce bas monde, jolie comme l'amour,
toute jeune et tr&s-connue."

Peixotte makes the fair Cyprian an infamous proposal,
which she communicates to two of her admirers, who advise
her to pretend compliance and get what she can out of the old

* Cat des Ouvrages Condamn£s, p. 67 ; and Le Moniteur, Sept. 19, 1868.

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lecher, while they will be hidden, and come to her assistance if
necessary.

u Rendez-vous donn6, et cent autres louis apportls et recjus,
Peixotte demande pour toute gr&ce qu'on lui laisse placer entre
ces belles fesses qu'il idolAtre, un petit 6tui de nacre de perle
tr^s-mignon et trds-joli. AprSs bien des contorsions risibles, la
Dervieux laisse placer ce qu'on lui pr6sente. Les deux amis
dtaient caches, mais quel est leur etonnement de voir le sapajou
tirer six grandes plumes de paon, deboucher l'6tui et les faire
entrer dans des trous fais (sic) exprds. II se met ensuite k un
bout de la chambre, la fait promener k quatre pattes,et commence
avec lui-m6me l'op6ration d'Onan, en contemplant la jolie
perspective qu'il s'6toit faite."

The amorous banker now proposes " de remplacer l'£tuy (sic).
La belle se montre moins difficile, mais propose un autre rendez-
vous, et met cet Strange pucelage k 500 louis."

" L'Autrichienne en Goguette " was first produced in 1789 ;
8vo.; pp. 16 ; it is from the pen of Mayeur de Saint-Paul.

"Pamphlet ordurier dans lequel l'auteur a mis en sc&ne
Louis XVI, la reine, le comte d'Artois et la duchesse de
Polignac."* It is in the form of a dialogue.

Franjois-Marie Mayeur de Saint-Paul, born at Paris,
1758, was a famous actor, poet, and dramatic author. For list
of his works consult Biographie Universelle, vol. 27, p. 402.

* Supercheries Litt. D6voilees, vol. a, col. 136 a.

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Cf)t Mr iHaftr Of C&t Ollr $Ofat Being the Secret

History of The Amours and Intrigues of a Bar Maid,
whose Amorous Disposition and Voluptuous Achievements
on the Couch of Cupid, made her the envy of her own sex,
and the Admiration of the World. By the Author of
"Tales of Twilight"—"The Adventures of a French
Bedstead," " Julia, or where is the Woman that wouldn't,"
etc. Translated from the French. New York 2 For Sale
by all Booksellers.

8vo.; pp. 112; double columns; a frontispiece representing
two girls, almost naked, on the bank of a river; it is, as the
imprint indicates, an American publication; date about 1852 to
1855 ; a bad translation from the French of La Comtesse de
Choiseul-Meuse ; the book is badly printed, has not a few
typographical errors, and is unworthy of any special notice.

Wl)t fattiest of A Descriptive Dissertation on the

Various Modes of Enjoyment: Comprising Philosophical
Discussions of the most interesting and affecting Questions.
Demonstrative that the loosest Thoughts and Sensations
may be conveyed without an Expression verging on
Immodesty. Translated from the Posthumous Works of
Voltaire. Printed at the Hague in the Year 1760.

i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 36; printed in London; there are no
plates in the copy before me, but in a bookseller's catalogue of
about the beginning of this century I find the same work noted

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as with: " 2 coloured prints, i8mo. 7/-" this I take to be another
edition.

About 1850—60 W.Dugdale republished the work in i6mo.;
pp. 64; altering somewhat the text, and adding, as was his
custom, a little spice to the title, which runs as follows:

"The Battles of Venus a Descriptive Dissertation of the
Various Modes of Enjoyment of the Female Sex, As practised
in different Countries, with some curious Information on the
Resources of Lust, Lechery, & Licentiousness, to Revive the
Drooping Faculties and Strengthen the Voluptuous and Ex-
hausted. From the French.

Wine, Women, Warmth, against our lives combine,
Bat what is Life without Warmth, Women, Wine.

London : Printed for the Booksellers."

This edition Dugdale* advertises in his catalogue as: "A
handsome pocket volume, Illustrated with numerous engravings,
Price Two Guineas."

It would appear that Dugdale even issued two editions of
the work, the second enlarged, and in two vols., for in a later
catalogue of his I find:

" Battles of Venus; &c. as described in the history of a young

?

lady, giving her experiences of all classes of society, rich and
poor, high and low. In the pay of Bishops and Princes she
gives herself up to every species of Licentious Revelry, and
Debauchery, with some curious Information &c. Two hand-
some pocket volumes, illustrated with sixteen engravings, price
three Guineas."

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This taw-volume edition I have not seen, nor does the de-
scription apply to that which I am about to analyze, there being
no mention of a young lady, or her experiences.

The work forms part of "The Young Maid's Library, or
Funny Miscellany."

"The Battles of Venus" is a philosophical disquisition on
physical love making, cleverly and pleasandy written, each point
being argued out with logical accuracy, k is superfluous to
add that it is not translated from Voltaire.

The author holds that, in spite of the numerous modes which
have been invented for enjoying a woman, the two most
natural ones are the most agreeable. "The first and most
obvious mode of enjoyment was undoubtedly that practised by
the generality of mankind, and which is perhaps the most con-
ducive to generation."

" To behold the naked body of a beautiful woman in front,
(he continues) her juicy mouth, her heaving breasts, her firm
pouting belly, will be allowed part of the finest gratifications
of a voluptuous fancy; and consequently to feel and enjoy those
parts must be ranked amongst the sweetest delights of sensual
fruition.

" Now, supposing that in the other modes of fruition, a man is
in actual enjoyment of the ultimatum in a woman, and ex-
periences emission either in or out of her body, yet he enjoys
not that delightful pressure on those parts above mentioned, he
feels not that delicious heaving, neither can insinuate his tongue

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within her warm lips, kiss or suck them, nor catch her ardent
sighs created by her convulsive motion.

" The next in degree of pleasure to this mode is perhaps
that of enjoying her in the rear.

" In this species it must be confessed that, besides the plea-
sure of novelty and variety, the breast and belly of the woman
are not unenjoyed by the roving and pressure of the man's
hands; and moreover there are certainly two additional gratifi-
cations not known in the former instance, namely, the feeling
of her plump, warm buttocks planted in his lap, and the plea-
sure of handling the delightful mount of Venus, at the same
time that he is fixed in, and enjoying it behind."

A woman may be enjoyed by two men at the same time:
"The performance would, doubtless, require an extent of
parts; but whoever reflects on their proverbial extensive quality,
will not doubt of their admitting with ease two guests, after a
trial or two, and with sufficiency of natural or artificial lubri-
cation, provided themselves could accommodate their entrance
to the convenience of each other.

"And in the way above alluded to, I am confident that
might be effected. The woman must lie straight, on either
side, and the man who attacks her in front must, after entering
her, lift her uppermost leg on his buttock. The antagonist in
the rear must then accommodate himself to her posture, and
glide in likewise.

" The men may knock her as hard as they will; so as the
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withdraw from one or the other, their violent shocks will only
serve to make her more fixed and steady."

The author argues that " the enjoyment of a woman is more
luscious when dressed than naked," provided that stays, "so
effectually unpropitious both to dalliance and enjoyment," and
other similar encumbrances be removed.

The delight a woman experiences in the act of coition is
more exquisite than that felt by a man: " First, it is a probable
conjecture, that nature would bestow the sensation of the most
pleasure on that sex, which was to undergo all the pain and
hardship annexed to the fruition. And whoever considers the
collection of misery comprized in the whole period of gestation,
commencing from conception, and not even terminating with
that dreadful and unspeakable agony which effects the delivery,
will allow, that twice the pleasure of enjoyment were but an
inconsiderable compensation for the consequent sufferings.
From all which, man, the author of them, is utterly exempt.

" Secondly, the restraints of education, having operated more
powerfully upon the female sex, render a woman, when she is
emancipated from them, and come to the enjoyment of the
bliss, more susceptible of delight, than a man who has not been
bound by those restraints, and whose curiosity and lust have
been early gratified. Add to this, that these restraints also
create in the mind of women a curiosity after things so
cautiously hidden from them, that concurs with the corporal
restriction they have suffered to aggravate their delight.

" And thirdly, it is self-evident, that the party which enjoys

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the pleasure of emitting and of receiving emission, must feel
just twice the pleasure that is perceived by the party which only
emits. Consequently, the woman being in the former pre-
dicament, must enjoy the effects attending it.

The desire to deflower a virgin is an acquired taste, but it is
nevertheless the acme of sensual delight.

"Is the prevalent desire of enjoying female virginity, in
preference to charms that have been already surrendered, an
original dictate of natural lust ? or is it a symptom of refined
experience, or impotent fastidiousness ?

" For my part, I am disposed to impute this to observable
desire, to the two last causes; since any man may, I fancy,
recollect the time when, upon the birth of his first and earliest
wishes after woman, all he sighed for was the possession of one
of the sex, abstractedly from the circumstance of her virginity.
The object of his warm imagination was only fruition; and one
handsome woman at that time would have been the same to
him as another. Nay, I question whether a youth not initiated
into the mysteries of Venus, would not prefer a woman who had
been accustomed to dalliance, before one as shy and modest as
himself. For in men (as well as women) there is at first a
timidity towards familiarity with the other sex, which requires
to be dissipated by the lively airs of a courtezan, ere the
stripling can enjoy or exert his vigour,* and which would damp

* In the edition (1760) from which I transcribe, the two words "his
vigour," fall at the bottom of p. 24, and are repeated at the beginning of the
first line of the following page, although the correct catch word is " and.'*

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his efforts, if encountered by a female equally reserved and
inexperienced.

"The youth himself is conscious of that shame respecting
certain actions, implanted by education and custom, he secredy
wishes to receive confirmation and encouragement in what he is
going about, and he is gradually warmed into delight by the
boldness and familiarities of the practised fair, in the same
manner as the innocent yet wishful virgin is artfully seduced
into enjoyment by the contrivance of her fortunate admirer.

" That this eagerness after virginity is not an original lust, I
must, indeed, prove from the opinion of a certain remote people,
who esteem the taking of a maidenhead, as a laborious and
illiberal practice, which they delegate to mei) hired for that pur-
pose, ere themselves condescend to lie with their wives; who
are returned with disgrace to their friends, if it be discovered
that they have brought their virginity with them.

"How fortunate would the men of pleasure esteem them-
selves, in countries where the opinion chances to differ, to act
as the precursors even without fee or reward, of these squeamish
and delicate gentlemen!

" This lust, then, after the untouched morsel, I take not to be
an original dictate of nature; but consequendy to result from
much experience with women, which has been demonstrated to
lead to novelty of wishes, from fastidious impotence, which,
indeed, is only a farther degree or effect of that experience, or
from both united.

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respect both to the mind and body of the enjoyer, the highest
aggravation of sensual delight.

" In the first place his fancy is heated with the prospect of
enjoying a woman, after whom he has perhaps long sighed and
had been in pursuit, who he thinks has never before been in bod
with man, (in whose arms never before man has laid) and in
triumphing in the first sight of her virgin beauties, and first
fruition of her virgin charms. This precious operation, then,
of fancy, has been shewn in the highest degree to prepare the
body for enjoyment.

" Secondly, his body perceives, in that of a virgin, the cause of
the greatest aggravation of delight. I mean not only in the
coyness and resistance which she makes to his efforts, but
when he is on the point of accomplishing them: when arrived,
as the poet sings, € on the brink of giddy rapture,' when in pity
to a tender virgin's sufferings, he is intreated not to break
fiercely in, but to spare ' fierce dilaceration and dire pangs.'
The resistance which the small, and as yet unopened mouth of
bliss makes to his eager endeavours, serves only, and that on
a physical principle, to strengthen the instrument of his attack,
and concurs with the instigation of his ardent fancy, to reinforce
his efforts, to unite all the co-operative powers of enjoyment,
and to produce an emission copious, rapid, and transporting.

" Fancy has been repeatedly observed to heighten fruition. In
this case, part of the delight arises from considering that the
lewdest part of your body is fixed in the delicious centre of her
body, that you feel the convulsive wrigglings of the chaste nymph
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juice throughout her dewy sheath, and moisten the hot, ruby
crest of your firm-fixed instrument."

The author then animadverts on the pleasures of rape.

" I cannot conceive a higher banquet to a man of lustful
humour, than to see a modest and beautiful woman forcibly
stripped naked: to observe her struggling, and discording (sic)
her hidden beauties by degrees, until she comes to her last shift,
and then to lay her down, and, notwithstanding her efforts, rifle
all her charms, and "penetrate even into her honeyed treasure!
For here are supposed resistance of both kinds, with modesty
and beauty; and on the man's side, an imagination prepared by
lust, and a body disposed to make the utmost advantage of its
mandates."

Time when a virgin should be enjoyed.

" The time of enjoying immature beauty, seems to be a year
ere the tender fair find on her the symptoms of maturity :
whilst yet no ringlets deck the pouting mount, but all is like her
lily hand, both bare and smooth, before the periodical lustration
hath stained her virgin shift, whilst her bosom boasts only a
general swell rather than distinct orbs, and whilst her tender
mind is ignorant of what man can do unto her, excepting what
she has gathered from novels, and the information of nature,
her young companions, and the maids."

The various " leches " to which men of pleasure are addicted
are reviewed, the gambols of young girls in boarding schools
are peeped at, and indeed the little treatise is pretty exhaustive
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Cfte $trs*ftUa\xi*t or gounff iHanuel (sic), in

Six Confidential Dialogues between Two Budding Beauties,
who have just fledged their teens. Adapted to the capacity
of every loving virgin who has wit enough in her little
finger to know the value of the rest

Would it not make one almost wild,
If it was not so very common ;

To see one punished like a child,
Only for acting like a woman.

Crazy Talbs.

Printed and Published on Mons Veneris: and may be
had by all who seek it there.—

i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 150 in all; 8 obscene engravings,
very thin and poor, generally coloured.

There are at least four editions. The first was published by
Dickenson about 1820, with 8 line engravings, well drawn and
nicely executed ; that of which the title heads this notice comes
next in point of date, about 1830; shortly afterwards appeared
another edition of which I am unable to give any particular
description; finally W. Dugdale reprinted the work about
i860, in 8vo., pp. 120 in all, with 8 badly done coloured litho-
graphs, inspired by, but not exactly copied from the original
engravings. The title pages of all these editions are identical
with exception of slight variations in the punctuation, &c. In
the title of the last mentioned edition the word " Manual" is
correctly spelt.

The work used to be thus catalogued by Dugdale 2 " The
Bedfellows, or Manual for Young Ladies in the highly inter-
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their subjects. An interesting narrative, most vividly and richly
written; supposed to be the Auto-Biography of Lady Ann
Hamilton, whose personal experience alone could have suggested
such glowing scenes. Numerous Plates. Two Guineas."

Lady Hamilton may be put out of the question, still the
book is very well written, is thoroughly interesting, and much
above the general run of similar works.

Lucy and Kate mutually relate their amorous experiences
each night as they retire together to rest; distant at first, and
coy as far as Kate is concerned, they gradually warm into com-
plete confidence, and end by narrating their separate deflorations
with every minute and voluptuous detail. Their conversations
are interspersed with caresses which at fitting moments grow
into thorough tribadism.

Dickenson was beadle of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and
added to that respectable calling a limited trade in obscene
literature. "The History of Father Saturnin" is also his
publication. He died in 1849 or J85o.

William Dugdale, one of the most prolific publishers of
filthy books, was born at Stockport in 1800; he was implicated
in 1819 in the Cato Street conspiracy, together with Thistle-
wood and others; was repeatedly imprisoned, and for the last
time in 1868; he died in the House of Correction, Nov. 11, of
that year. He carried on business at 23, Russell Court, Drury
Lane, at 3, Wych Street, at 5, at 16, and at 37, Holywell
Street, and at 44, Wych Street, under the names of Turner,
Smith, Young, and Brown.

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©efenntitiffe titter SItttetifattevitt* ©on tfyr fclbft er^lt.
SJKt 5 Jtupfern. $ljrtat>ety1jta 1970.

8vo.; pp. 85; printed, probably at Berlin, in 1870; the plates,
5 in number and obscene, are of the most abominable descrip-
tion both as to drawing and engraving; published at 2 Ths.

A worthless book in every respect, it appears to be translated
from some American work, as such words as "street,"
" gentleman," &c., remain untranslated.

2,a Belle leontmr

i6mo.; pp. 32 ; in a yellow paper wrapper, on which is
printed, " Collection Louis Jaugey La Belle L£ontine avec Six
Eaux-Fortes A Forest, Lez-Bruxelles.," with monograms L.J.;
one of the illustrations is a portrait of Leontine, of the others,
three are free, but not obscene ; published in 1868, at 3 frcs.
The book is written, published, printed and illustrated by
Louis Jaugey.

" La Belle Leontine" is merely an adventure of the most
ordinary kind with a street walker. Leontine accosts the
author-artist in the open street; at first he repulses her, but
recollecting that he is in want of a model for a painting he is
at work upon, and judging his "raccrocheuse" to be "crdnement
b&tie," he accompanies her to a house of accommodation in order
to see her naked. She pleases him, he asks her if she has
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chambers, where L6ontine relates the story of her seduction,
quite the usual tale; and they sleep together.

The book and illustrations are on a par—both utterly
valueless.

Louis Jaugey, a Frenchman by birth, by profession " gra-
veur en lettres," is at present 35 or 40 years old; he passed
into Belgium in the year 1863.

One of his friends has favoured me with the following por-
trait of him: " Aussi sale au moral qu'au physique, de taille
moyenne, il est noir de peau et de cheveux, un type tr£s juif,
grand nez couronn€ d'une paire de lunettes; toutes les caricatures
qu'il fabrique sont les portraits de sa famille; ambitieux &
l'excds, il trouve ses ceuvres admirables, et engagerait le pari le
plus 61eve pour prouver qu'il est k m6me de faire aussi bien,
sinon mieux que les meilleurs graveurs."

We have of him, " Le Mari F6roce," " Les H£ros d' Amour,"
12 plates for the "Tableaux des Moeurs," 24 for "Faublas,"
and 13 (including the frontispiece) for " L'Ann6c Galante,"
these latter are perhaps his most successful achievement.

It $ftl(0pfyflt futltatetett ou choix de pieces D et Rares r6imprim6es en 1869 Turin J. Gay et pils,
fiditeurs rue Alfieri, 22

Small i2mo,; pp. 576 ex-titles; issue 175 copies numbered;
published at frcs 36; on title page is vignette of a satyr's bust
on a pedestal with children dancing round it.
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A curious and interesting collection of literary rarities of all
kinds, prose and verse. The bibliographical notices are useful
and generally cleverly written. The work appeared in monthly
parts. In his " Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs k 1'Amour
&c.," Vol. 1, p. 4 jo, Gay gives an ample notice of the contents
of the volume.

fcfoltotfrrqut«ftltop&tlo^atltl'eufift. fiditee Par Les Fr&res
G£b£od£. Premiere Publication. Tire k 60 Exemplaires
pour le Commerce. 1852.

8vo.; 3 vols., printed in London, at different dates, com-
plete the work; the first publication, 1852, pp. xii and 116,
consists of a reprint of " It $tmitr gCtt &U £>ptttrtJe

#orturro tea Imami, ®nelmane«, ^ropetftie*, a Ia
3Ruine to* 35tfna, Wit, et feonneur De Caltantfot*

(Spoliatis arma supersunt.' mdcviii. ; the second publi-
cation, 1854, pp. 129, comprises a review and analysis of 14
rare and curious French and Italian books; the third pub-
lication, 1856, pp. viii and 125, contains a most interesting
collection of " Cfransttm* fefetortquest et £>attriquea *ur
Ia COtir lie Jfratltt," with illustrative notes to each song;
the whole issue did not probably exceed 70 copies.

The Brothers Geb6od6 are MM. Gustave Brunet, and
Octave Delepierre, the first four initials of each name
composing the pseudonym.

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the interesting nature of its contents, is much sought after. It
has a further attraction for the collector as being the only joint
effort of the two talented and erudite authors.

" Le Premier Acte du Synode Nocturne" is by Guillaume
Reboul, and is, according to J. Ch. Brunet, an "Ouvrage
d'un genre tr&s singulier oil l'auteur a prodiguS une Erudition
immense dont il aurait pu faire un meilleur emploi, livre fort
rare et k peine connu." And Gay * thus notices it: " ouvrage
hardi, spirituel et tr£s-rare, du genre rabelaisien; il a 6t€
r6imprim£ de nouveau et plus correctement, k 100 exemplaires,
k Paris en 1862" His own publication.

Gay confounds the contents of the second and third volumes,
putting the " Chansons " into the second, and the reviews into
the third vol., which is incorrect.

Guillaume Reboul was born at Nlmes towards the latter
part of the 16th century, and was executed Sept. 25, 1611, at
Rome. A zealous protestant, and secretary to the Marshal de
Bouillon, he lost his employment from theft, and was after-
wards excluded from his own church; he then went over to the
Church o^Rome, and wrote against his former persuasion. Later,
he went to Rome to solicit a reward for his conversion, and for
the services he had rendered to the Romish Church, but being
disappointed, he wrote a satire against the Pope, and was con-
demned to death.

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs & 1'Amour, &c., vol. 2, p. 2.

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It* $tjOUr Uu petft #tbtU He V&Xltin, ou fltrennes

Libertines dediees Aux Femmes ci-devant de qualit6, &
sensibles, sil sen trouve; Aux honn£tes Representants
de la Nation, dont le nombre est limit6; Aux chastes
Ecclesiastiques, dont l'&ge cdde au plaisir; Enfin, aux
Sectateurs voluptueux des plaisirs de 1'Amour, & par-tout il
sen trouve. Pour le courant de l'Ann£e 1791. Avec
Seize Figures en Taille-douce. A Paris, De rimprimerie
de la Delaunay, connoisseuse, si jamais il en fut. 179*-

8vo.; pp. 84 in all; nos. 1 to 21 are found on the tops of
the pages in addition to the usual paging.

A collection of tales in prose and verse, all very free, but
not specially remarkable. The sixteen engravings are the chief
attraction of the volume, they are obscene, well drawn, bold in
treatment and fairly engraved ; a particular description is unne-
cessary as they are enumerated on the last page. This work
must have been altered and reproduced two years later, for
Gay* mentions an edition of 1793, which he says is full of
faults, and of which the vignettes are " d6testables pour le
dessin et la gravure;" further he notes it as a "recueil des
diverses pieces en vers," not mentioning the prose tales which
occupy the greater part of the vol., and adds " on y remarque
une parodie libre du 4*ne livre de l'Eneide," which does not
exist at all in the edition before me.

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs & 1'Amour,&c. Vol. 2,p. 18,and vol.6,p. 13.

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[Dans "Les Bijoux du Petit Neveu de l'Ar&in" les gravures
sont ce qu'il y a de mieux. Le texte est peu elegant et tr£s
d£vergond£.]#

Cfct JJIofont'* Cabimt of €bo(tt A beautiful,

bothering, laughter, provoking, collection of spiflicating,
flabbergasting smutty ditties, now first printed, among
which will be found the:—Great Plenipotentiary!! A
most outrageously good amatory stave. Oh, Miss Tabitha
Ticklecock!!! A slashing smutty ballad. The Magical
Carrot or the Parsley Bed Katty O'More, or the Root!
My Mot's in the Lock! two famous flash parodies. Roger
in all its Glory!!! The Smutty Billy Black! A truly
delicious chaunt. The Lost Cow!!! Or, the Bulling
Match under the Tree. The Glass Eye! A right down
regular rummy ditty, never before printed The Soft
Fart! A capital flash stave. Peggy and the Ball Cock;
or thawing the Water Works! Beetroots! Beetroots!
My Woman is a Rummy Whore! Going a Nesting!
The Essence of Lanky-Doodle!!! The Pego Club!
The Height of Impudence, or the T—d & the Muffin
An out-and-out ditty. The Invisible Tool! The Randy
Dinner! The Tremendous Tail! The Butcher's Boy
with a Mot is Gone, &c, &c.

Small 8vo.; pp. 48 (?); the verso of the tide page gives us
"W. West, Printer, 57, Wych Street, Strand."

* See the introduction.

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Serial in every respect with " The Blowen's Cabinet" are :

" Cfre Cotftrfjafer." "©be Comtr g>onff£fter." " Wbt
CutkoRi'* #e*t" ©eltrious Cfcanter," "die

Jftesfo Counter*" "€&e Gentleman'* £>pi'rtp £>ong#ter,"
" €i)t fcfibertme'* &ong*ter*" " €l)t £>ong*ter*"
u €&e SRanrtiUr'sJ tflaxt) ^oitgsrter*" " €&e Corftolorum
J&onfffitter»tr "©be Secret £>onff*ter*"

The following were also published by W. West, some of
them larger in form, and " the whole of them embellished with
the most curious coloured plates," generally a folding frontis-
piece only, and not always coloured:

"®be Gentleman'* 5>ptcep fteriter." " Cfce Coiftatoo'*
#ote Boofe*" " £&e Gentleman'* £>anrtum 5>anrtorunu"
"C&e Curious £>onffsfter anil jfttimp Cabinet" "C&e
iHaften Cane Compantom" " €i)t iHafoen Cane £>onff*
srter*" " £&e Gentleman'* steeple C&ajser/' " ©be Gen*
tleman'* 5>parfclmff &onff*ter»" " ©be Jfrfeftp fcJorah'at"
" #antp 3Bato*on'* Cabinet" " ©be Xmotouig Cbaunter
anU Hftfop'* Cabinet" "©be Jtfep TOi'efep £>ong*ter,"
" ©be fcu*riou* 5>ong*ter*" "©be Sanbp 5>ong*ter*"
"©be jRWum Jfi-tum &ong*ter»" "©be ©trfelt*b ifflm--
*treL" HC(ie Regular Bang-up Seefter," "©be Gen*
tleman'* Curious Softer*" " ©be Gentleman'* Bmorou*
Seriter/' " ©be £>parfelmg Seriter*" Some of these books
were sold at 6d., others at i/-, according to their size.

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By " H. Smith (W. Dugdale), 37 Holywell Street, Strand."
we have:

"Cfif Coal ®Ole Cotnpanfon" (several series). "Cfte
Cfoer Cellar £>ongstm" 4€Wbt fri&y £>oitffs!ter*"
u Cfte ®2aaterfi)rli £>ongstm" 0 €f)t 3BIark Soke " (two
series, if not more). "Captain iWorrtyflf £>ongattr*"
"aaaiteon'* &um CoUfftr^ Collection*" "ma$on>* &t\n
/Iasfft £ong&" "Cfie 3oIIp Companion*" "lit
SHBanton WlzvbUv"Cfte Cu^pmu^p £>onffs!ter*"

Most of these should also have folding frontispieces, some
very fairly done; prices go up to 2s. 6d. each.

There are further : " ©umomfce'fl! 3BroIIerie&" " Itfotttl'fi
(^rtfftnal Comic £>Ong Book., written by John Labern."
" Kabmtf0 #eto Jfuratp £>ong$oofc, popular Comic £>ong
3Boofc, #eto Comic £>ong Book, ©ton Comic £>ong Soolu"

All published by "John Duncombe & Co., 17, Holborn Hill,"
at 6d. each, with a folding frontispiece.

Ample as this list appears there are certainly many others.

It will be found useful to have in extenso the title page of
one at least of these curious, and now very scarce little song
books, for it serves, not only as an index to the principal songs
given, but also as a vocabulary of the slang then in vogue.
All the title pages of the collections published by W. West
and W. Dugdale are in the same extended form.

These are the songs which, some 30 years ago, were sung
publicly by J. H. Munyard, H. Hall, Ross, Sharp, and others, in

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the various music halls of the Metropolis. Of one of these
establishments Thackeray has left us a truthful sketch in the
first chapter of " The Newcomes;" but

"Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,"
and the death blow to these jovial, smutty ditties was struck when
the doors of the Canterbury and Weston's Music Halls were
opened to women; the entertainment had then to be modified,
and suited to female ears ; vice was not checked, but its aspects
changed; and instead of being places of resort where men could
indulge in coarse and bawdy songs, the music halls became
meeting-places for prostitutes.

A certain force and rough humour pervade all these effusions,
but they are always coarse and lewd, and many are written in
a slang which is now obsolete.

William West was an artist as well as a publisher; his
theatrical prints, many of which were executed by himself, are
valuable to those interested in stage matters, and furnish one of
the best records of the costume adopted in that day, besides
being fair portraits of the actors and actresses themselves.
" West's prints (observes Mr. Ralph Thomas), for execution,
and accuracy of drawing and general get-up, carried the palm
over all others." West flourished from about 1815 to 183 j ;
he had a shop at 13 Exeter Street, whence he removed to "37
Wych Street, opposite Olympic Theatre Strand."* In 1870

* See the interesting notice of him headed, " West's Toy-Theatre Prints," in
" Notes and Queries/' 4th S., xiii, p. 463.

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Mr. John Oxenford* wrote of him: " Poor Willy West! he
has long been gathered to his fathers, and his plates have long
been broken up. A complete collection of his engravings
would be an invaluable addition to our knowledge of the aspect
of the stage towards the beginning of this century, and more
particularly of the condition of pantomime in its most palmy
days"

For publishing these bawdy songs West must not be too
severely censured, nor must we forget that these "rummy staves"
and " flash chaunts," although they would at the present day
scarcely be tolerated in a private assembly of bachelors, were
then (as before stated) sung openly in places of public resort,
where youths could obtain admission equally with adults. In
producing them he merely supplied the requirement of his time;
his " intent, although he did ill, was innocent." He was a man
of artistic feeling and good repute. " Actus non facit reum,
nisi mens sit rea."

John Duncombe was born at No. 10 Middle Row, Holborn,
and died there in 1852. He seems to have carried on his busi-
ness as M. Metford, at No. 10 Middle Row, and No. 19 Little
Queen Street, Holborn (1830); as J. Turner, at No. 50 Holywell
Street, and as John Duncombe & Co., at No. 17 Holborn Hill.
He had a brother Edward, who sold obscene books at No.
28 Litde St. Andrew Street, Upper St. Martin's Lane, and at
No. 78 Long Acre, under the name of John Wilson.

* Era Almanack for 1870, p. 67.

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le Botrtiotr ll'amarantfet, ou Les Nouveaux Plaisirs de
l'lsle de CythSre. A Paris, Au Palais-Royal. 1803.

i2mo.; pp. 134, and 6 of " avant-propos" and titles; 3 erotic
engravings, poorly done, irregular in execution, and having no
reference to the text, they evidently belong to other works.

Gay* notices the book, but incorrectly; it is not in " 3 tomes,"
but in 1 vol., subdivided into 17 "chapitres."

Amaranthe tells her own tale. Corrupted at the convent
where she is educated, she is deflowered there by the brother of
one of her schoolmates, and has further connection with a priest.
She returns to the house of her parents, whence she soon after-
wards elopes to Paris with a young gentleman who has got her
with child. Shortly after her confinement she separates from
her lover, and is kept by various men, until catching the pox,
and being reduced to the last " sou," she enters the hospital of
the Capucins. After her recovery she determines to lead a more
chaste life, and obtains a situation as companion to an old lady;
but, tiring of this monotonous employment, she returns to her
parents. She now gets married, but, not finding her husband
to her liking, she leaves him, and goes back to her old haunts at
Paris. Not meeting with the same success as formerly, she
becomes an inmate of the brothel of Madame d'Estinville,
which she describes. Finding that she is wasting her youth,
not for her own profit, but for that of the old bawd, she leaves,

* Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs & 1'Amour, &c., vol. a, p. 48.

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and going into a church to confess, falls in by hazard with the
same priest with whom she was intimate at the convent.

" Je crus le reconnoitre k la voix.

" Je lui demandai: N^tes-vous pas de......ex-Bernardin ?

. . .—Comment, vous me connoissez . . .—Certainement....
je suis cette jeune pensionnaire que vous avez foutue chez la
Sainte-Cecile . . . .—Oh! Oh! ne vous servez done pas de
termes grossiers dans ce lieu . . . .—Allons, allons, caffard, crois-
tu avoir affaire k tes vieilles folles ? Je parie que tu m'enfilerois
aussi bien dans ce lieu que dans la chambre de Sainte-Cecile.
N'est-ce pas toi qui m'as d€bauch£e? . . . Je gage que tu
bandes encore actuellement.

" Quand il vit que je lui parlois avec autant de hardiesse, il
quitta son ton de confesseur, et reprit celui qui lui 6toit naturel,
c'est-&-dire, celui de libertin. II me dit que Sainte-Cecile de-
meuroit avec lui; qu'il avoit deux enfans, et qu'il la faisoit
passer pour sa sceur, restde veuve, depuis la revolution.

"Le plaisir deme revoir l'enflamma; il passa la main pardessous
le rideau qui nous separoit, me t&ta la gorge, et ne voulut jamais
que je sortisse avant de l'avoir branle.

" Oh! lui dis-je, sans respect pour ce saint lieu ! . . . Je lui
fis quelques observations . . .—Faites, faites toujours ; il n'y a
que les sots qui croient dans les absurditds que nous enseignons
... Le plaisir que je gotite ici est aussi pur qu'ailleurs
Je le branlai; il me donna son adresse, en m'invitant k aller
diner le lendemain."

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Amaranthe now takes up her abode with the ex-Bernardin
and his mistress ; but his tastes not being confined to her own
sex, she leaves him in disgust, and induces Sainte-Clcile to
accompany her ; they take together " une boutique en lingerie,"
and Amaranthe renounces her vicious life, " prenant la resolution
de ne plus £tre au service du public."

Throughout the volume priests are invariably held up to
scorn; the depraved tastes of the men with whom Amaranthe
has to do are described; but the book is badly written, and is
worthless from a literary point of view.

Cfrt Brftl'sty Sort 3uan ; Being a Narrative of the Singular
Amours, Entertaining Adventures, Remarkable Travels,
&c. of the Hon. Edward W. Montague, Son of the
celebrated Lady Mary Wortly Montague. By Henry
Coates. London: Published by Jam^s Grippin, Middle
Row, Holborn. 1823. Five Shillings, extra boards.

Large i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 211 ex title; four illustrations.

A trashy worthless book, poor and pointless, neither serious
enough to make it a reliable piece of biography and travel, nor
sufficiently free to render it an amusing piece of scurrility.
Some of the adventures may be true, but the greater part are
doubtless apocryphal. According to Mr. Coates, Montague
took a wife in every country he visited.

Edward Wortley Montague was born atWharncliffe 1713,
and died at Padua 1776. His life was one series of strange adven-

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tures in nearly every country of Europe, and even in Asia; forgiven
several times by his parents, the continued extravagance of his
conduct at length entirely disgusted them 5 his father left away
from him what property he could, while his mother, who died
the year afterwards, left him only one guinea. On the death
of his parents he left England entirely, and having already
changed his religion more than once, definitely adopted that of
Mohammed, in which persuasion he died. Besides several Letters
to the Royal Society, " he published a book on The Rise and
Fall of the Ancient Republics, the merit of which was after-
wards claimed by his tutor Mr. Foster." Mr. Coates asserts
that the Sultan (Achmet) was Montagu's father, but as his
mother did not visit Constantinople till 1716, three years after
our hero's birth, this assertion falls to the ground. Although
several children, by women with whom he had cohabited abroad,
were born to him, he had no legal heir; and eventually this
became his desire. " His scheme was, to marry some young
woman of indigent circumstances, who was pregnant, that the
child, being born in wedlock, might become his heir. For he
was too sensible of his own imbecility, from age and infirmities,
to suppose he should ever have a child of his own." (p. 209).
Accordingly a few months before his death he advertised, pro-
mising to marry " any widow or single lady, of genteel birth
and polished manners, and five, six, seven, or eight months in
her pregnancy."*

* Encyclopaedia Britannica vol. 15, p. $ Chalmer s Biographical Die. j and
Nichols* History of Leicestershire, arid Life of Boyer.

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€fft 3Brftfe& $&Oettljr: or, the Gentleman and Lady s Polite
Literary Entertainer. Consisting Of a great Variety of
all such Scarce and Valuable Literary Amusements, as have
either long since been buried in Oblivion, and out of print;
or such others, at least, as are not to be purchased singly.
Amongst which will be interspersed, Some of the most
shining Essays, that have hitherto appeared in the World;
together with some select detached Pieces, in Prose and
Verse, never before published, but artfully filched from
the Closets of the Curious. By Mercurius Typo-
graphic us, alias The Printer's Devil.

We, like th' industrious Bee, range round the Fields,
And each collected Flow'r fresh Odour yields.

London: Printed for, and sold by H. Serjeant, at the Star

without Temple Bar 1762.

A second half page title gives " Cfte $QQlt*WlOm t or the

British Phoenix."

8vo.; there is a fairly executed folding frontispiece signed B.
Cole Sc., representing the gods offering the book to Britannia,
and dedicated to George Prince of Wales.

This miscellany, which by no means fulfils the promise of
the title page, contains nevertheless some curious pieces, among
others: "Cfte forte Of lQbe; or, the Sylph's Revenge,
A Numidian Novel, humourously illustrating the Origin, &
Antiquity of Cuckoldom." "Cftt iHafftt Of Beautp; or,

the Happy Savage." "Cfee 6ra&atf0tt Of a 35Utft ttOXtt
a &reen*£ortt, sometimes free, but never indecent.

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The following song is not bad s
"Wbt JUtaliatton; or the Biters Bit/*

" From the oldest of dates our Grand Order began,
" Mother Eve made a Back of the first honest man,
" And so thro' the sex the contagion has ran.

" Chorus "
"Then since things are so,
" As you very well know,

" Resolve with your wives to be quit;
" At your loss ne'er repine,
" But with women and wine,

" A race of young foundlings beget,

" My brave boys
" A race of young foundlings beget." &c.

" The British Phoenix" is noticed at some length in " The
Book-worm" (vol. 1, p. 140), where it is stated that the " very
curious introduction is acknowledged as the work of Mr.
Adam Fitz-Adam."

SrurrUr* la £tutt* $bp*tologte %t* ^tablwtstfmente ^Orturntsf if UrurtUttf Par Mario Aris. Bruxelles
chez Tous les Libraires. 1868

8vo.; % vols ; price frs. 6 ; published in Nos.; yellow paper
wrapper with title and representation of a drunken woman;
vol. 1 contains, according to the paging, 176 pp., but there are
in reality only 160 pp., as the paging skips from p. 144 to
p. 161; this error is pointed out in the "Table des Ma-
tures,M which, by the bye, is further incorrect in several places ;
Gay says 156 pp. which is incorrect; vol. 2 pp. 79, paging
regular, but no Table, nor Fin.

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Ail account of the various night resorts of Brussels, with
anecdotes and conversations of the prostitutes and men about
town who frequent them.

M. Poulet-Malassis* thus notices the publication: " Malgr6
le style cavalier, Bruxelles la Nuit laisse une impression bien
sinistre. II ne nous souvient pas d'avoir lu, sur la prostitution
d'une grande ville, rien d'aussi repugnant et n&vrant. Trois
mois durant, et plus, ce livre s'est cri€ et vendu dans les rues
de Bruxelles. Nlanmoins, il a comparu k la sixidme chambre
du tribunal correctionnel de la Seine dans 1'afFaire memorable
du libraire Gosselin. Si les magistrats qui Font condamnl
l'ont aussi parcouru, et s'y sont £moustilles, ce que leur arr£t
fait craindre,il faut plaindre cette postdrite de Partarrieu-Lafosse."

Mario Aris, real name Bizonnet-Derivau, "est un homme
de lettres franqais, ancien r^dacteur de la Gazette verte."*f-

The following pamphlets are on the same subject:

1. "lt& Cotottwf tit i&rUjrtllMf* in-16; Ubelle contre
Bruxelles la Nuit, anonyme, mais de M. Emile Alexis."

2. " lt& ptttt* iWptfhrt* amoureup tit V
llrit£, d£di6s aux maris et aux pdres de famille, par Mario
Aris ; Bruxelles, 1868, in-16 de 8 p."

3. "aimanatfc tit i&rujrellt* Ia pour 1869, ridige

♦ Bulletin Trimestriel des Publications d6fendues en France, No. 5, supplement,
t Supercheries Lit. D€v., vol. 1, col. 3805 and Bulletin Trimestriel, See., No. 4.

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par une socidte de noctambules bavards, illustr6 par Fr^d^ric
Poublon; Bruxelles, Mario Aris Sditeur; 1869, in-16 de
64 PP "

4. "ix* Cotottwf, 3bUbt* tt lortturfponse des
cocottes de Bruxelles k la Physiologie des 6tablissements noc-
turnes; Bruxelles, imp. Vandenhouten. In-16; cinq series
de 16 pp. moinsla cinquidme qui en a 8, sign6es Henri Coel
(M. Emile Alexis)."

5. " Cri li'InMjjnatfon tst* Wt&it* Corotte* tit 25rujr*

t\lt&; Molenbeck, imp. Decock. In-16, six series de 8 pp.
chacune, sign^es Octavie de Saint-Phar (M. Mario Aris) "

6. "jRtponsfr a jBomitUt 3u*tm Cadet, par Mario
Aris."

7. "ContMWfolt tst iHarfo arisf, auteur de < Bruxelles la
Nuit,' etc., etc. Bruxelles, Sacr£-Duquesne, editeur; in-16
de 8 pp."

8. anil $ru*£ttl* after Isatk by Wideawake
Paris Published for the Author and sold by the Continental
Booksellers" on outer wrapper. The tide proper reads:

" Cfee Gentlemen'* tot. Cfje Gap Offlumen of

$art'0 & Bruftafefe commonly called Cocottes or Lorettes
Their haunts, their habits, their regulations, &c To which is
added a faithful description of the night amusements in those
gay capitals. Paris: Published for the Author, and sold by all
Booksellers on the Continent. Copyright, any infringement will
u

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be prosecuted." iamo.; pp. 58 in all; price frc. 1. 50. "Cest
une liste sommaire des institutions de joie de ces trois grandes
villes (Paris, Brussels, Antwerp), i 1'usage des gentlemen
fralchement d6barqu£s. L'impression est Beige." The prin-
cipal Cafes &c., are also mentioned, and the book is interspersed
with anecdotes of fast women, their tricks, &c.

This list does not certainly exhaust the publications proper
concerning the demi-monde of Brussels; and if we add some
novels, such as: " SLfS £>tait&afr3 tit BrUjrtHtSf, roman de
mceurs," " iHpgtmg lit* tOUrsf tit g>t**®U&Ule,M its suite,
both in 8vo., and at 2 frcs. the volume, by M. Mario Aris ; or
the numerous works by M. Lebrun, from which may be
selected : " lt# frtnmt* tit &01UW fortune, aventures joyeuses
galantes et amoureuses," " Hl'StOfrf ll'UIW tOUrtUSt tie rut£f
dite accrocheuse," "la ftmmt pubttqtlt, ou la vie d'une
prostitute de la Haute Society" " lt& 2mOUfS it imp J0ll>Sf
femmesf, suite et fin de ' la femme publique,'" " ltd abmturejf

galanfrs fc'une prositituer la Haute £>ot(etf," " Wit*

turieuft* it fiDHwf it JO it, 6crites d'aprds leurs dict6es,"
wC01tf««fott£f Courtl'cfaneg, avec remise moyennant
argent de leurs p£ch£s incestes," "It* Ctltq gr&ettttf asWOftrKf
pour plotter le* fcomims," " Wit 5'imt entrettmw, ses
ruses, dupes, etc.," " ItrtitmuSf ITune femmt afcultert,"
" Sttntturwf tt ffalaittrrir* Uwf ®tte* it plaissirsf,» and
several others, all "in-18," and issued at 60 centimes per
volume; a tolerably correct notion may be formed of the de-
pravity of Brussels, which, considering its size, is undoubtedly
one of the most vicious capitals in Europe.

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Cftt Sudt'0 fittfff&t being a Collection of Humorous Songs,
Sung at the several Societies of Choice Spirits, Bucks,
Free-Masons, Albions and Antigallicans, with universal
Applause. Among which are A great Variety of Choice
Originals, that never appeared in Print before. Containing
also The new Songs, sung this last Season at the Publick
Gardens and Theatres, and all other polite Places of
Resort. To which is added, A Collection of the most
celebrated Toasts now in Taste. The Second Edition
with great Additions. London: Printed for T. Know lbs,
behind the Chapter-House, in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.
[Price is. 6d. neatly bound in Red.]

iamo. This collection comprises some very good songs, to
which, in many instances, the names of the composers and singers
are attached, as: Mr. Moor, Mr. Jagger, Mr. Heemskirk, Mr.
Dunstall, Mr. G. Rollos, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Beard, Mrs. Vincent,
&c. Although of a much earlier date, and by a different pub-
lisher, the general remarks made concerning "The Blowen's
Cabinet" * and other similar song books are equally applicable
to "The Buck's Delight."

* See ante, p. 133.

a Cabinet of amourou* Cur(b0ftfe& in Three
Tales. Highly calculated to please The Votaries
of Venus. Tale I. €f)t tflUafft *UlL Tale II.
iHemota of a ftztbtr&tii. Tale ill. attoenture* of
a Broil (9ltt; or the Broke Open Casket. Printed for
R. Borewell, South-Audley-Street. mdcclxxxvi.
(Price Two Shillings.)

i2mo.; pp. 38 in all. This is the original edition; there is a
reprint by W. Dugdale.

These three tales are diverting, although written without
much art or plot; they all turn on the same subject—the
defloration of their several heroines. In the first tale, two rustic
lasses, having taken their heifer to bull, are ravished by two country
swains while watching the operation. In the second, Julia, the
daughter of a country squire, is enticed from her home by
Alexander, a town spark, and debauched in London on a
feather bed. In the third, an innocent village maiden has her
casket broken open by a strolling quack doctor, the droll one,
under pretence of explaining to her how the casket of her
grandmother, who had been robbed, had been broken open.

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C&t Cafcfaet Of fmtQ, or Bon Ton of the day; A Whim-
sical, Comical, Friendly, Agreeable Composition; Intended
to please All, and offend None; suitable to amuse Morning,
Noon, and Night, w ritte (sic) and compiled by Timothy
Tickle-Pitcher.

With songs, and strange extravagancies.

He tries to tickle all your fancies.

London : Printed for J. Mc Labn, Ship-Alley, Wellclose-
Square; T. Sudbury, No ji6, Tooley-Street, Borough;
and sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country.

mdccxc.

i2mo.; pp. 60; an engraved frontispiece, fairly executed,
subscribed, "Lady L * * # #,s whim, or the naughty Boy in
Dumps." represents a lady in a large cap receiving a birch
from a lad whom she is about to castigate; a serving maid,
standing by, is beginning to unbutton from behind the boy's
breeches; the plate is not indecent, but only suggestive.

This is a curious and amusing collection of pieces in prose
and verse—anecdotes, advertisements, epigrams, songs, &c.,
generally facetious, but not licentious or indecent; there are two or
three flagellation stories, to one of which (in verse) the frontis-
piece refers. The vol. is very scarce. One specimen must suffice :
"An old bawd being taken before Justice W—s for keep-
ing a disorderly house, strongly denied what was charged upon
her. 4 Housewife! Housewife!' said the justice, < how have you
the assurance to deny it; you keep a bawdy-house, and I will
maintain it.' «Will you ?' replied the old bawd, < the L—d
bless you, I always took you to be a tender-hearted man.'"

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la Catonumato: Histoire Politique et Morale. Traduite De
TAllemand du Doctrur Pangloss, par le Docteur lui-
m£me, depuis son retour de Constantinople. A Cologne.
1766.

121110.; pp. xxiii and 120. This is the original edition of
Paris, and is scarce. Other editions, 1767, 1797, and Cologne
1756 (Brussels 1866).

Author S. N. H. Linoubt.

This is a humourous history of the mal de Naples (pox);
it traces its origin, progress, effects, and gives an account of
the imperfect remedies which then existed for its cure. The
origin of the work appears to have been the 4th Chapt. of
Voltaire's " Candide."* Harmless as the book seems to us
now-a-days, it was nevertheless condemned, as were many of
Linguet's other writings, f

Gay X has noticed the work at unusual length, his resumt is
exact, and worth consulting.

Simon-Nicolas-Hbnri Lingubt, born at Reims 1736,
executed at Paris by the revolutionary tribunal in 1794,
" pour avoir encens6, dans ses Merits, les despotes de Vienne et
de Londres."

Linguet was a man of vast genius and industry, but of a

* France Litt6raire vol. 5, p. 316.
t Die. des Livres condamn6s au feu, vol. 1, p. 244.
t Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs & 1'Amour &c., vol. 2, p. 84.

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turbulent and arrogant nature; his powers and talents were
spent in constant disputes with the great men of his time,
against whom he, as it were, declared war after his quarrel with
D'Alembert. " Linguet (observes Peignot) 6tait fort pour le
paradoxe. Je ne sais dans lequel de ses ouvrages il soutient
que le pain est un poison ; que les gouvernemens de l'Asie, si
monstrueux par leur despotisme atroce, sont prlfSrables k ceux de
TEurope, etc." By profession he was an " avocat," and his
successes were great, for he boasted of never having lost but
two suits, and: " Encore, disait-il, ai-je bien voulu les perdre."
But he was eventually excluded from the bar, after which he
devoted himself entirely to literature. He resided for some
time in London, Vienna, and Brussels. His works are very
numerous; consult " La France Litt6raire," and " Biographie
Universelle and for those condemned to be burnt, " Die. des
Livres condamnds au feu," vol. I, p. 241.

Canrfonrro Bt 0bra0 ta Itarlas $robocantwf a Stfea

Cum Privilegio, En Madrid, Por Luis Sanchez.

8vo.; pp. xiii and 255 ex titles ; the title, printed in red and
black, has a fleuron of a small leaf and is surrounded by a
fancy border. This is a reprint from the only known copy of
the original edition, Valencia, 1519, black letter, 4to, in the
British Museum; it was done in London by William
Pickering, for Sr. Luis Usoz y Rio, in 1841; the issue
consists of 250 copies on white paper at 21/- each, 12 on
green paper, and 2 on vellum.

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Many of the freest poems of this collection are contained in
the earlier editions of the "Cancionero General,"* but they
have been gradually expunged from later issues of that work; two
however, viz., the " apOfittlttO til tl gorfco jubtri," and " una
especulativa obra intitulada CarajltOtnt&ta, compuesta por el
Reverendo Padre Fray BugIso Montesino," are not included
in that, or in any other collection. Of these two poems the
editor remarks: " Estas dos composiciones, pues, son las mas
raras y notables de este libro, y las que en ninguna otra edici6n
posteri6r de Cancioneros, se atrevieron k copil&r."

The avowed object of the above publication is to throw a
stone into the garden of the Romish Church; these poems,
the editor maintains, must have been written by priests,they
being the only men of learning, or indeed of education, at that
time. Here are his own words :

* For various editions of the "Cancionero General" see " Manuel du
Libraire," vol. i, col 1531. Consult also Ticknor's "History of Spanish
Literature," where (vol. 1, p. 442), a complete list of authors in the
"Cancionero General" will be found. "The 'Burlas provocantes a Risa*
(remarks Mr. Ticknor) follow, in the edition of 1514, after the poems of Luduena,
but do not appear in that of 1 j26, or in any subsequent edition. Most of
them, however, are found in the collection referred to, entitled ' Cancionero
de Obras de Burlas provocantes a Risa' (Valencia, 1519, 4to)."

t This opinion is shared by Mr. Ticknor, who observes : " the general
tone of the work, which is attributed to ecclesiastical hands, is as coarse as
possible." In noticing the publication which forms the subject of the above
article, he says: " It has a curious and well-written Preface, and a short, but
learned Glossary. From p. 203 to the end, p. 246, are a few poems not found
in the original Cancionero de Burlas; one by Garci Sanchez de Badajoz,
one by Rodrigo de Reynosa, etc."

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"Pues bien: aqufse presenta, impreso en Valencia en 1519*

y copilado, y en parte escrito, segun todas las apariencias, por

algfin hombre de iglesia, un libro en el cu&l, lo que menos

lastima, es el cinismo espantoso, y la obscenidid de ideas y

palabras que en 61 rebosan: pues tales son las blasfemias exe-

crables, las aplicaciones increibles k torpes y nefandos prop6sitos,

en 6\ hechas, de la Escritura y aun de las palabras del Redent6r;

que se disminuyen el horr6r, y la ndusea causada por las unas,

con el espanto que inspiran las otras. Este libro, y sus obras, se

escribieron, copilaron, y publicaron en Espafia, en una €poca,

en la que, puede decirse, solo los eclesidsticos y letrados, sabian y

podian le6r, y solo ellos componian la repfiblica literaria de la

Naci6n; fuera del cortfsimo ntimero, delos que se consagraban

k la medicina, y ciencias del c&lculo. Y esto, en aqu6l tiempo,

no sucedia solo en Espafia: pues no serfa dificil probdr, que

aquellos cl6rigos espafioles eran jente mas leida que Gibbon, si

se los compara con los clerigos franceses contemporineos, 6

otros estranjeros; y que en escala de igudl inferiorid&d, estaban

las dem&s clases de jente en esos paises, respecto k nuestros

antepasados. Es un hecho, no desmentido hasta ahora : que

bien pocas eran las personas que supfesen \e6r en los pasados

siglos, y que la may6r parte de esas personas, pertenecia al

estado eclesi^stico. De aqui dimana, por consecuencia, que

rarfsimo es el escrit6r de aquella 6poca, que no fuese cl6rigo.

Aun mas dificultoso era entonces el que hubiese qui6n supiera

latin sin ser cl6rigo, y hasta 6stos tenian grin dificult^d en

leerle y entenderle medianamente."
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Whatever his object may have been, every bibliophile must be
thankful to Sr. Usoz y Rio for this excellent reprint. The poems
it comprises possess an intrinsic merit, and an interest for every
student of the literature and history of the time (particularly of
the Romish church), which fully warrant their reproduction. As
far as the crudity of their language is concerned, it must not be
forgotten that they were written in the 16th century.

One specimen must suffice; I transcribe a few lines from the
beginning of the " Carajicomedia

" Tus casos falazes, carajo, cantamos,
" tus ferozidades, bravezas no pocas:
" dizes que sueles romp6r por las rocas,
" Y d'esto mil cofios, quejosos hallamos,
"que jtintanse y dizen, 'No le creamos,
" puesque le vemos mas flojo qu'espuma:
" dem£s d'esto tiene tan blanca la pluma
" que solo de verlo, descuido tomamos.' "

€bnr$t* tt Sparged JBinboliqnt*.

A set of 13 coloured lithographs (including the tide) measur-
ing inches high X 7f inches wide; each plate is headed
"Charges et Uncharges diaboliquesand contains various
subjects, with a motto underneath every one, all humorous and
obscene, the devil being generally one of the figures; on the
title are two devils firing off a canon which discharges male and
female pudenda; the drawing is bold and effective, but the
finish is rough; the work was done probably in Paris.

This edition is the best and most complete, but the same
designs have been produced, in part or in whole, at various

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times and in different forms. Here is the indication of several:
ttbri SUfram ®r0Uqw Compost de plusieurs Litho-
graphies executes par nos premiers Artistes. Paris, Londres,
Bruxelles." The set consists of 12 uncoloured lithographs, mea^
suring 7f x inches; various subjects on each plate; each plate
is headed " Charges et Uncharges Diaboliques ;" the set is in a
green paper wrapper, on which only is the title and a vignette
representing Mephistopheles observing a couple in the act on a
couch; the execution is respectable.

Another set of 12 lithos. coloured; 7 X inches; various
subjects in each plate; execution very mediocre.

Another set of 12 lithos. coloured; 4 X 5i inches; 3 and 4
subjects on a sheet; badly executed.

Another set of 12 lithos. coloured; small; one subject on
each page; well done; enclosed in a green paper wrapper, on
which is a design of four girls dressed, climbing a pole to get
at some dildoes suspended at the top; under this design is the
title "foutatet* triafcoltquf/' (sic), and above " Etrenne
aux beau con " (sic).

Another set, in a fancy paper wrapper, on which is the title,
"9Hmm II* Bfabltritf firotiques & Comiques ReprSsentant
46 Sujets colori£s k Taquarelle. Prix: 12 Francs." 12 plates
4$> X 5 inches, each plate containing various subjects under
each of which is its name; execution bad. There is a still
inferior issue of this set, " Prix 8 Francs."

Although none of these plates have any real merit from an
artistic point of view, yet they are very curious and possess much
cynical humour. The above list is doubtless incomplete.

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d)t Cfcarm C&t »tbool C&t 3BtautfM 3ttots«
and Cfit 3Butdf)tr'* Sautter—All Rights reserved.

iamo.; pp. 30; no title page; the title, as above noted, being
on the outer wrapper only; published in Brussels, 1874, at
8 frcs., by Hartcupp & Co.

The subject of these four doggerel poems is flagellation;
" The Charm " is the best, or rather the least bad, of the four;
but none of them possess sufficient merit to warrant an extract.
The publication is curious by the fact of its being printed at
Brussels. The author, an ardent devotee of the rod, is still
living, and his name must consequently yet remain hidden.

It C&agftpot Jeffs, Libraire-fiditeur, Burlington-Arcade.
Londres Libraire Universelle.
Small 8vo.; pp. 28, and one page of "Avis;" published in 1865
or 1866; the title is enclosed by lines; the words, "Le Chassepot,"
are printed across the title page from the left bottom to the
right top corner, the vacant corners are filled with the remaining
words of the title, viz., " Jeffs, &c.," " Londres &c "

We read in a bookseller's catalogue :* u Ce livre a 6t6 saisi k
rimprimerie par la police beige, k Tinstigation de l'ambassade
franqaise; il n'a pu ainsi paraltre, ni 6tre distribu6/f-—II raconte
des choses affreuses sur la haute soci6t6, hommes et femmes,

* Issued in 1871 by V. Puissant, see next page.

t This remark would lead to the supposition that the vol. was printed in
Belgium, which is not the case 5 the verso of the title bears: " Imprimerie
Universelle, Saint-Hblier, Dorsetstreet, ia." The remark is a supercherie
of Puissant.

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qui composait la Cour de Cesar-Badinguet.* Quelle immoralite
parmi toutes ces grandes dames et tous ces hauts personnages !"

The abuse in this pamphlet is not confined to the Napoleon
family; other persons of inferior rank are more abominably
vilified. Madame Georges Sand is represented as more
depraved than Messalina, in fact an utter slave to Lesbian
passion; Mile. L£onie Leblanc, the actress, is accused of
selling a little girl of 10 years to the Duke of Persigny; the
countess of Goyon and the duchess of Persigny are censured
for bestiality with an ass; and the great Rachel is branded as
a common whore. Yet to all these scandals the author appends
the following: " Avis. Tous les faits que nous publions dans
cette brochure sont authentiques. Nous les tenons de sources
certaines et des personnes memes qui sont mises en cause."

William Jeffs established himself in 1838, at No. 15,
Burlington Arcade, as foreign bookseller, to which trade he
afterwards added the more important business of publisher; he
remained at the same address until 1867, when he failed; and the
greater part of his stock was sold to V. Puissant, bookseller, at
Brussels. Jeffs did a small trade in foreign erotic books, but his
speciality was political and satirical pamphlets against Napoleon
III and his court. His best publication was " Le Bibliophile," of
which he published Nos. 4 to 12 for J. Ph. Berjeau.

* In the columns of " L'Interm6diaire99 (1874) appeared several notes
concerning this sobriquet. I extract the following : " Badinguet est le nom
du ma$on dont le prince Louis-Napol6on emprunta le costume pour sortir du
ch&teau de Ham. Comme il franchissait la porte, le concierge dit: ' Qu'est-
ce qui passe ?'—Le fugitif r6pondit, en ayant soin de tenir une planche devant
son visage: 'C'est Badinguet.' Le nom lui est rest6. Falco." L'Inter-
mediate vii., 142, 185.

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Cftt &)tt\lb X or, Guardian of Female Innocence. Exposing the
Arts of Boarding Schools Hired Fortune Tellers Corrupt
Milliners Apparent Ladies of Fashion. London : Printed
for W. Locke, No. 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn. 1792.

Large 8vo.; pp. 57 in all; on the title page, under the word
" The n and above " Cherub," is a cherub's head winged. A
cleverly done frontispiece, signed " J Cruikshanks. Delrepre-
sents a young girl stripped to the waist, standing before an old
fortune telling woman, who is pointing with a stick to a mark
upon her body, a third woman stands in the back ground, while
the face of a man, peeping through a window, is visible at the
top of the picture (left); on the table are cards, a cat, a globe,
and books; the design is oval, is surmounted by a cherub, and
subscribed as follows: " The Corrupt Fortune Teller, and the
Artful Seducer, with The Litde Cherub sitting up aloft
Published as the Act directs, by W. Locke, March 15th 1792."

The volume is scarce; it is noticed in " The Bon Ton Maga-
zine" (No. 14, p. 56) as, "just published, price is.," and
extracts from it are there given.

There is a reprint by W. Dugdalb in 8vo. ; pp. 39 in all;
containing the same matter as the original edition, but with a
slighdy different tide: " The Cherub ; or Guardian Angel of
Female Innocence. An Exposition of The Schemes and Allure-
ments Practised by Boarding Schools—Hired Fortune Tellers
—Servants—Milliners—And Apparent Ladies of Fashion, To
Inveigle the Unwary and Unsuspicious. London: Henry
Young, 37, Holywell Street."

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The title explains the object of the work; each class of abuse
is illustrated by one or more appropriate anecdotes; here is one
of the best:—" An old debilitated Croesus, of Broad-street,
whose riches are as extraordinary as his present propensity, has
for some years past supported a kind of sensual traffic with the
mistresses of two Boarding Schools; * one near Hackney, and
the other in the neighbourhood of Stratford, to whom he pays
large weekly sums, merely for the enjoyment of visual prospects,
which, among the generality of mankind, one would imagine
rather disgusting than gratifying.

"To each of these accommodating matrons he pays his
visits in regular rotation, and the indulgence is carried on as
follows.—

" All the faults of the preceding three or four days, are kept an
exact account of, and that upon which Croesus makes his visit
is always set apart for general punishment. He is fixed in an
adjoining closet, and the infant convicts are called in, one by
one, stretched upon a long low table, made for the purpose,
and flogged upon their bare posteriors, in proportion to their
several transgressions;—from the position in which they lie,
they cannot possibly know of being observed by any other
than the mistress; and Croesus, who, upon every fresh occasion
steals from his lurking hole, with the assistance of a pocket

* Some curious anecdotes illustrative of the abuses of female boarding
schools will be found in " Two Letters on the bad consequences of having
daughters educated at boarding-schools/' appended to "The Confessions of J.
Lackington, 1804."

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glass, examines the progressive effects of the several flagellations;
towards the end of the scene, and which seems to be the winding
up and summum bonum of his passion, he assumes the office of
executioner himself; and then departs with every appearance of
composure and happiness" (p. 17.)

Isaac Cruikshank (or Cruikshanks), by whom the frontis-
piece was designed and etched, was the father of Robert, and
the more celebrated George Cruikshank; he did much good
work, chiefly caricatures and book illustrations. A short notice
of him will be found in the " Die. of Artists of the English
School," but it is incorrect and incomplete.

<& <®I)fruI)ftn ou O Filho de Paes Incognitos Illustrado com
10 Estampas Volumes i° e a°. Preqo 1 $ 000 Rs.

i6mo.; 2 volumes in 1 ; pp. 99 and 94; the full title is on the
outer wrapper only, and to each volume there is simply a bastard
title. The volume ends with a poem entitled, "iltttOtttttt
Kerreario de um Poeta por A. M. T. F." pp. 12, with separate
pagination; the 10 plates are badly done lithographs; those to
vol. 1 are imitated from the French originals, those in vol. 2
are from original designs.

The first volume is a free translation of " L'Enfant du Bor-
del," the second is a continuation of that work. This is curious
and interesting, because, although at the end of the second
volume, of the first edition, of " L'Enfant du Bordel," a con-
tinuation is promised, no such continuation, as far as I have
been able to ascertain, exists in French.

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Christian Vlrich Grvpen tu SljTOtt CfttOtUfCS, ©Olt btt

Sndfcefonbete: I. Dk virginum prjegu-
statoribus, Jure Deflorationis, Jure Primae No&is
Maiden-Rents, Marcheta. II. Son ©taut unb SBt&utigam
unb tljten SBenennungen. III. SB on bet 3ungftftuli<$en
jleuer, Jtiften^fanbe unb Sngebomte. IV. filia in capillo
& casa, »on bet uufcetatijenen Xo<$tet. V. ffion bet Slngcl*
©&c$ftf<$en ©taut. VI. Son ben ffllaweWtinbem. 2Hit etnet
Prjeliminair-Dissertation ©on bet ©etm&ljUmg ^erfcogd
Henrich bed Seuend mit bet tfBniglic^Sngliftyen SPttnfcefHn
Mathildis, aid bet ©tamm4Kuttct bed gefammten (S^utmnb
gurfiL «§aufe8 ©taunf<$n>. S&nebutg; unb guglei<$ ©on bet
ffietm&ljhmg tf a^fetd Otten bed IV. mit bet tfa^fetl. SPtinfcefitn
Beatrice, unb «§ert}ogd Henrici Palatini mit bet $ttnfce§m
Agnes. @5ttinflen, be^ So^ann SEBtl^elm ©(^mibt. 1748.

4to.; pp. 64 unnumbered of ride, "ffiottebe," &c.; 64 of
" Dissertatio Praeliminaris," numbered in the middle of the
page-headings; 290, beginning with Cap. 1, and numbered in
the corners; finally, 46 of "Index," and "SBetf<$t an ben
9Bu(tybinbet wegen bet tfupfet."; three copper plate engravings,
besides one folding wood cut, and several wood cuts on the page.

This remarkable, but little known book embraces, as the tide
indicates, matter of various kinds, a part of which only, that in
Chap. 1, has interest for us at present. " De Uxore Theotisca,"
which is a strange conglomeration of German, Latin, English,
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in fact of almost every language (the title is not a bad specimen),
contains a vast amount of curious information, and is done in
that careful and thorough manner which renders such compile
tions by German authors valuable, if litde attractive. It is
furnished with a good alphabetical index, and the matter
it comprises can be easily got at. I leave a closer analysis to an
abler pen than mine.*

[Le livre de Ch. Ulrich Grupen, De Uxore Theotisca, est une
trds (et peut-£tre trop) savante dissertation sur la femme, dans
ses difF6rentes conditions de jeune fille et de femme marine.

L'introduction est peu interessante et ne renferme dans ses
64 pages que des d6tails g6n£alogiques et de famille, sur la
Princesse Matilde et le Due Henri le Lion, son Ipoux, chef de
la Maison Brunswick Lunebourg.

Un avant propos d'une cinquantaine de pages pr6sente une
sorte de table des matteres des six chapitres dont se compose
Touvrage, paragraphe par paragraphe: i° De Virginum
Praegustatoribus. 20 Des Droits des Fiancds. 30 Des Biens
paraphernaux de la Femme. 40 De la Chevelure de la Femme.
50 De Torigine du mot Fianc6 et Fianc6e en Allemagne, et chez
les Anglo-saxons. 6° Des Enfants naturels.

Le premier chapitre renferme assez de details int6ressants
pour nous tenter den donner une analyse. Les autres chapitres
ne sont curieux que pour les 16gistes et les antiquaires.

Le titre de ce chapitre explique toute la question.

* See Introduction, ante.

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D'aprds un passage de Lactantius, de Mart. Persecutor, cap. 38,
l'Empereur Romain Maximianus, nomm^ Daca avant son nova-
tion k Tempire, aurait d6]k eu Fid 6c de rendre l£gal 1 ejus prima
noctis. " Postremo hunc jam induxerat morem, ut nemo
uxorem sine permissu ejus duceret, ut ipse in omnibus nuptiis
praegustator esset

Peut-Atre qu'H6rodote avait pu sugg£rer ce projet, lorsqu'en
parlant d'une des nations d'Afrique, il dit que c'6tait chez elle la
coutume: " cum quis primum duxit uxorem, prima nocte ut
Sponsa singulos convivas obeat veneris gratia, & ut quis cum ea
concubuit donum det illi."

Grupen continue k d^ployer ses connaissances en cette
mati&re: outre que c'6tait une coutume tr£s-r£pandue jadis,
il cite k Tappui de son opinion : Alianus, lib. iv, c. 1 ; Justinus,
xviii, 5 ; Strabo, lib. xi, in fine; Stus Augustinus, de Civit.
Dei, iv, 10; Pomponius Mela, lib. 1, c. 8 ; &c., &c. Notre auteur
discute ensuite la legende, cit6c par quelques auteurs, du Roi
d'Ecosse, Eveno III, qui, s'il a jamais exist6, est plac6 quatorze
ann£es avant l'Sre chr6tienne. II ordonnait: u Ut nobiles &
domini suorum villicorum & clientum filiabus ad libidinem
abuterentur earumque pudicitiam & virginitatis * primitias
prius delibarent, quam libero legitimo matrimonii contrahendi
jure fruerentur."

Nous arrivons alors k Implication des Maidens-rents, Marcheta
ou Maritagia, en Cambrie, en Ecosse, en France, en Savoie, et
chez quelques populations Allemandes. A cette occasion il

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donne les difflrents noms par lesquels ces nations ont dlsignl
ce droit de premiere nuit, et il en examine la valeur.

Cette discussion renferme vingt-six feuillets oil Grupen
d£veloppe en savant jurisconsulte les noms, les usages et les lois
du droit de probation. De nombreux renseignements sont
pr£sent6s aux curieux; mais il serait difficile d'en donner des
extraits, vu l'accumulation d'autorit6s cities dans ces vingt-
six pages.

II y a lieu de s'6tonner que dans la longue discussion littlraire
entre M. Louis Veuillot et M. Jules Delpit, sur le droit du
seigneur, discussion qui a produit trois ouvrages remarquables,
aucun des champions n'ait jamais cit£ le savant travail de
Grupen. *

D6s 1817 un c616bre jurisconsulte Beige, J. J. Raepsaet, avait
traits dans un de ses ouvrages, la question, " de Torigine et de la
nature des droits connus anciennement sous les noms de droits
des premieres nuits, de Markette, d'Afforage, de Maritagium, et
de Bumede." Comme Raepsaet prltend que ces droits ne sont
qu une fiction, il est tout naturel qu'il n'ait pas cit£ le livre de
Grupen.]

Christian Ulrich Grupen was born in Harburg
1692,-^ and died in Hanover, May, 1767. He studied the law

* Voici les titres de ces ouvrages: i° Le droit du Seigneur au moyen &ge
par Louis Veuillot, Paris, Louis Viv&s, 1854. in 1a0., de 467 pages.
2° R6ponse d'un campagnard & un parisien, &c., par Jules Delpit, Paris, 1857,8°.
30 Le Droit du Seigneur, &c., par le mfcme, Bordeaux, 1873, 8°.
t Phillips's Die. of Biographical Reference, p. 461.

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at Rostock, and Jena; began to practice in Hanover, in
1715 ; became " ©tynbffttS "in 1719; burgomaster in 1725; and
in 1734 was appointed "Jtit<$en4mb Gonjlftorialrat^." His rich
library, including his own MSS., he left to the town of Zelle.

Hirsching * remarks concerning him: " @r Wax etner toon ben
fonberbotcn 2W4nnern, roelc^e ft<$ beffer ntfinbli^ auSbtucfen, old fie
ftytetben, (nbent fetn f<$Ttftlt<$er ©til efote afcftytetfenbe 2)utre unb
ginfftrmiflfcit 1)at. 3n bet Jtenntntfc bed mittlern 3eitalter8 Ijatte et
etne fcotjftglt^e ©tdtfe unb ft($ auc$ bte metytere ©<$riften auS bem
t6mtf<$en unb beutftyen $Prtoatte<$t mit bet ®ef<$ic$te fcefannt gema<$t."

Grupen has also written " De Uxore Romana;" and many
other works which do not come within the scope of the present
bibliography; a tolerably complete list will be found in the
" Biographie Universelle (Michaud)."

Cflttfc&rfon (Salante d une Pemme du Monde Au Temple
de Volupt6 L'An des Plaisirs

i2mo. (counts 6); 3 parts, with continued pagination, in 1
vol.; pp. 108 in all; title in red and black; on title page
is a vignette representing posture No. 17 of the "Dessins de
Jules le Romain," or No. 4 of the " Ar6tin Franqais," or No.
5 of the " Ar6tin de A. Carache;" published in Brussels at the
end of 1872, or beginning of 1873 ; price 6 frcs; issue 500 copies,
of which 400 were destroyed ; shortly after the publication of the
book, a set of 62 engravings (including 4 frontis and tail

♦ 4iftortd?*Uterarifd?ed <$atftfcu$, vol. 2, p. 184.

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pieces) were issued, at 40 fcs.; these illustrations, without being
of superior execution, are fairly designed, and are sketchy
and pretty; they have no numbers, and are obscene.

In 1875 A. Christiaens of Brussels re-issued the work
as: " Confession Galante d'une Femme du Monde Illustr6e
de 60 Gravures. Tome 1. Au Temple de VoluptS L'An des
Plaisirs." 8vo.; the 3 parts in 2 vols.; pp. vol. 1,56, vol. 2 (com-
prising parts 2 and 3) 87, including tides; tides in red and
black; prices (with the 60 engravings), "papier verg6" 25 fcs.,
" papier v61in " 20 fcs, and with the plates coloured 30 fcs. The
plates used for this edition are not the original ones, but
copied from them; they are surrounded by lines, and have page
indications, while those of the first issue are simple vignettes.

The " Confession Galante " is a modern book, cleverly written,
and thoroughly pleasant and readable. Without a positive
plot, and in spite of the repetition of scenes which much re-
semble one another, the interest is well sustained, and the abrupt
conclusion is disappointing.

The work would almost seem to have been written with a
purpose, viz., that of displaying the evils of the present system
of marriage in France, where a young girl is linked in matrimony
to a man whose age or inclinations may not in any way
correspond with hers. The heroine, a girl possessing a very
ardent nature, is wedded to a man, not unsuitable in point of
age, but of a very frigid temperament; she is consequently not
satisfied in her conjugal desires, and throws herself into the
arms of another man, an officer, who is in a position to gratify

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her utmost cravings. The heroine tells her own story. The
scenes, which perhaps follow each other too rapidly, are simply
but very forcibly described, not a superfluous word being used,
and every word having its full weight. The motto: " Dans la
femme aim£e tout est con.," which appears on the frontis-
piece, is literally carried out in the last part of the tale, which
is however much too fragmentary.

[Ce volume, assez bien £crit, offre de Tint£r6t au commence-
ment, mais & la fin (si fin il y a, car ce n'est qu'un fragment) est
commun, et invraisemblable dans quelques details. Les
gravures valent mieux que Touvrage.] *

4 COtriMmarto ou O Proveito dos Frades por Mr.
Ohlarac Doutor na faculdade da Redof, lente da i«
cadeira de Racinruf, auctor do methodo repentino de tirar
sogriv, etc. Bruxelles Typ. Bruylant-Christophie
et C« Rue Bias, 31 1862.

8vo. 5 pp.37; 12 obscene lithographs, poor in design and
execution. A publishing firm, Bruylant-ChristopAe & C»e., really
exists at 33 (not 31) Rue Blaes; but they never published the
book, which moreover is not known at Brussels in the trade.
The impress is then evidently a supercherie, and the volume was
probably printed in Portugal.

* See Introduction, ante.

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This book, as its title indicates, is mostly occupied with the
vices and misdemeanours of the priests, who are throughout
roughly handled. The volume is thoroughly irreligious.

It Cmirrttr ^raorttnatrr tat* Jfouttur* ®ttltstfasfttqnt*

Pi£ce rlvolutionnaire rlimprimlee textuellement sur
Tldition originale publile en 1790 et devenue tr£s-rare
Pr6c£d£e d'une Notice Bibliographique Imprim6 par les
Presses de la Socilte A Neuchatel 1872

Small 8vo. (counts 4); pp. vn and 39 including titles; on
title page is a sphere; the " Notice " is adorned with a heading
and a square tail piece ; and on the verso of p. 39 is a vignette qf a
fountain with: " BibliothSque Libre vn Le Courrier Extraordi-
naire Achevl d'imprimer le 31 Janvier 1872."; published by
Gay, at fcs.3. 50.; "tir6 k 100 ex (plus 100 de tirage extra-
ordinaire) ; * the title of the original edition is reproduced in
extenso and on a separate page.

This edition of Gay was again reproduced at Brussels by
A. Christiaens in September 1875, at 10 frcs.; 8vo.; toned
paper; title and contents identical; all the head and tail pieces are
omitted, and the verso of the last page is blank; further, the
word " Courrier" in the title, given as exact copy of that of the
original edition, is spelt with two r's, whereas the same word in
the reprint of the old title by Gay is printed, as in the original,
with one r only. In the reproduction of the early title page

* Liste des Publications, p. 30.

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169

slight discrepancies occur in both reprints, several stops
are omitted, and the cipher & of the original tide is
rendered by et in both the reprints. This title page is also
given in extenso in the " Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatife k
F Amour," consequendy I do not reproduce it. *
The edition of Christiaens contains 4 engravings from

original designs by F. L...... of which the engraving is

better than the drawing.

The notice which precedes the reprint of Gay, and which is repro-
duced in that of Christiaens, gives some interesting information
concerning the scarce original edition, and as it was printed a year
later than the vol. of the " Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs
k F Amour " in which the book is noticed, and is consequendy
not given in that work, I think it worth reproducing here:

" Nous r£imprimons aujourd'hui une des pieces les plus
curieuses et les plus effront£es de la Collection r6volutionnaire;
on en trouvera le titre entier reproduit exactement en t£te de
ladite rSimpression. Cette pi£ce est un in-8° de 47 pages avec
3 figures libres. L'une de ces figures est en regard du titre et
peut s'appliquer k ce titre aussi bien quk Favant-derni£re phrase
de Fouvrage. Elle repr£sente F Amour k cheval sur un 6norme
Priape, avec ces deux vers au bas:

" UAmour est le courrier des galantes nouvelles,
" Et son fringant coursier le fait choisir des belles.

" Elle a probablement 6t6 prise ailleurs, car elle porte en haut

# With the misspelling in the word " Courrier."

X

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rindication xvm. Les autres gravures sont assez jolies et
finement gravies; elles repr6sentent, celle de la page 31, Tabb6
Renaud surprenant le fils du jardinier exploitant Kakvelle dans
le jardin. Au bas sont ces deux vers de la page 31:

" Quel tableau, cher abb6, deux amants dans l'ivresse
u Savouraient de Tamoor le prix et la tendresse!

" Et celle de la page 45 montre Durand, valet de chambre,
culotte d£boutonn£e et vit bandant, tandis que plus loin
Th£r6se i genoux sur une chaise, jupes troussles, et retournant
son visage vers son jouteur, lui prSsente le post£rieur. On lit au
bas les vers de cette mAme page 45:

" Grands dieux, le joli col! Quel col! quel cul charmant!

" Qu'il ofiEre de plaisir an plus fiddle aznant!

" Comme le Courrier extraordinaire est excessivement rare
(nous nfen connaissons que trois exemplaires, dont Tun est au
British Museum), * nous avons pens6 que la copie trSs-exacte du
texte Itait Fessentiel en ce moment, et nous n'avons pas era
utile de retarder la publication par la reproduction desdites
figures.—Quant au nom de Machault, 6v6que d'Amiens,
comme auteur suppos6 du libelle, il est presque surabondant de
dire que cette attribution est supposle aussi bien que les pieces
mimes qui le composent."

t The copy in the British Museum (of which the press mark is F'V or
PC's*) is without the plates.

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" Le Courier Extraordinaire" is composed of dialogues and
correspondence between priests, prostitutes, &c.; it is through-
out very obscene, and its object is to vilify the cloth; it is in-
terspersed with short snatches of verse; the few persons intro-
duced are named in full. The style generally is flat and poor;
in parts it is peculiar and affected, the redundant manner of
Aretino being apparently imitated. One quotation will serve
to show my meaning, and the worth of the book.

" Ce n'est pas par cette vieille £dent£e que je suis cocufil k la
campagne, mais c'est par Thlrdse, sa femme de chambre, que
tu as pu voir k Paris. Au surplus, si tu ne te la remets, je
vais te la peindre: ceil furtif et aga9ant l'appltit, en un mot un
oeil k la fouterie, et, comme on le dit assez vulgairement, un ceil
demandant l'aum6ne au pont-levis d'une culotte; taille svelte
et £l£gante; des tltons d'une tournure admirable et plus que
sufRsantsr pour remplir la main d'un honn£te homme; une
Croupe divine; enfin Th6r£se est un compost de perfections.
Voilkj mon cher abb£, voiIk ce que tu as pu remarquer; mais
void, moi, ce que j'ai reconnu en elle. Le conin de VSnus
n'aurait pas obtenu la pomme de discorde, si ThlrSse etit
montre le sien. Figure-toi la plus jolie motte des mottes
ombragle d'un poil noir fris6, et abondamment fournie; les
lfcvres de ce joli con sont fralches, vermeilles, et le disputent k
sa bouche; mais c'est le bouton d'amour, ce charmant bouton
sur lequel le doigt pos6 provoque, en branlotant, des sensations

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si douces et si agr£ables; e'est, dis-je, ce prdcieux bouton, qui,
parvenant & se roidir par Fimpulsion de l'index masculin,
s'allonge, et forme Tassemblage de l'attrait le plus rare."

F. L., the artist who illustrated the edition of Christiaens,
was born at Paris in 1813. His father was German,
and his mother French, but he became a naturalised French-
man. He began his career as an actor, anfl made his debut at
the Porte St. Martin theatre; he also interested himself gener-
ally in theatrical matters, and was the first to give the idea of
applying electric light to stage effects. Afterwards he became
professor of declamation and pronunciation. Not finding this
occupation sufficiently remunerative, he abandoned it, and de-
voted his attention to photography, in which he acquired a cer-
tain success, being the inventor of those caricature photographs
called " grosses t6tes et petits piedsuntil, becoming involved
in a lawsuit with the landlord of the passage Brady, who had
darkened his atelier by some new buildings which he had con.
structed opposite it, he lost his suit, and was ruined. During
the Commune he was appointed " membre du conseil de legion
de la garde nationale " but his character was too upright to
find permanent favour with those under whom he served, and
he narrowly escaped being shot. Escaping, almost by a miracle,
from the Commune, he fell into the hands of the army of Ver-
sailles, who held him in prison during fifteen months. Liber-
ated at last, he became a journeyman photographer in the
Faubourg St. Honore, and created the well-known caricatures

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of M. Thiers. A new accusation was being prepared against
him, but kindly warned by a member of the police, he fled to
Brussels, where he has since resided, and where he gains a living
as best he can, chiefly by designing illustrations for the
erotic books published there, and in which he has already made
considerable progress since his first attempts. Several of his
productions will be noticed in the course of this work. His
troubles have had their effect upon him ; he stoops, his hair is
white as snow, and he is further afflicted by deafness; in spite of
which all he manages to support by his industry a young wife
and several indigent relations.

CttrfoMfe ®tf>rufltttt* Amsterdam. De Firma R. C. Mbijer.

(Kalverstraat, 64.) 1875.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 96 ex titles ; price 60 cents.; the title
page is headed u CurtOtfftrftClt ban ailtrlfi (N° 24—

25)." This little volume forms one of a most interesting
series, edited and published by Mr. R. C. D'Ablaing van
Giessenburg of Amsterdam; it contains some curious infor-
mation on subjects within the scope of the present work.
Among the chapters which specially interest us are: " De
Proefnachten," " Het 4 Droit de Prelibation,'" " Het < Droit de
Jambage' en het ' Droit de Marquette,"* " Verschillende
Plichten en Gebruiken by het Huwelyk in den Leenheerlyken
Tyd," " Het Congress," &c. The whole series (still in course
of publication) is cleverly edited, and well printed.

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CurfoaftatHf tfrotfrat ^ftpstfotofffe; or, Tabooed Subjects
Freely Treated. In Six Essays, viz.: i. Generation. 2.
Chastity and Modesty. 3. Marriage. 4. Circumcision. 5.
Eunuchism. 6. Hermaphrodism, and followed by a closing
Essay on Death. By John Davenport, Author of " Aphro-
disiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs" " An Apology for Mo-
hammed and the Koran" C^c., &c.9 C^c. London: Privately
Printed. 1875.

Small 4to.; serial with " Aphrodisiacs pp. xviii and 216
including titles; small fleuron on tide page; toned paper; the
whole issue consisted of 250 copies, of which 200 were sold in
sheets and dispatched to Mr. Bouton of New York, the ren-
maining 50 copies, bound in half morocco Roxburg, gilt tops,
remained in Europe, and were placed in the hands of Mr.
George Rivers, Aldine Chambers, No. 13 Paternoster Row, for
sale at ^i. 16s. per copy.

It is much to be regretted that so many errors of the press
should have crept into a volume otherwise so well got up, but
when the sheets were passing through the printer's hands the
unfortunate author had almost lost his eyesight, and as he
undertook notwithstanding to correct the press himself, blun-
ders were let pass which would have been detected had Mr.
Davenport preserved the use of his eyes.

In this his last work Mr. Davenport has brought to bear
upon the different topics he has chosen the erudition and

* See ante, p. 82.

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general knowledge acquired during a long life of study and
labour. If he has not exhausted his subjects, (and this could
hardly have been his intention or hope in seven brief essays)
he has at any rate drawn together much curious, interesting,
and congruous matter, and his book may be read with profit
and pleasure by the student or by the general reader.

The book was casually mentioned in " The Civil Service
Review," (No. for March 27, 1875, p. 198) 5 and a short notice
of it appeared in the "Bulletin du Bibliophile," (Juin, 1875,

A notion of the light in which Mr. Davenport regards the
subjects he has treated, and of the varied information which he
has amassed to illustrate them, will be best obtained by an ex-
tract from his preface and contents of the vol. s

"Of all the subjects included under the term Physiology,
there is not one so interesting, curious, and important as that
Of human generation and its subsidiary branches. A few works of
the kind have, it is true, been published at long intervals, but
their language has, in deference to a pseudo modesty, been so
veiled and disguised as to render these works spiritless, jejune,
and destitute of all interest, the inevitable consequence being
that the wearied and impatient reader casts the volume aside in
utter disappointment.

" Fastidiousness such as this was despised by the ancients,
who, as they regarded the productive powers of nature, and
consequently, the reproductive organs and functions themselves,

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with the greatest awe and reverence, so they could afford to call
a spade a spade.

" Now, the moderns, on the contrary, influenced, we suppose,
by outrd and ridiculous notions of delicacy, look upon the
same parts with aversion and disgust, as if they had been the
work of some filthy and obscene spirit, rather than that they
had been fashioned by the Almighty hand of a pure and divine
Demiurgos.

" An exaggerated delicacy must always be regarded as sus-
picious, it being found that the possession of a virtue is the
less, in an inverse ratio to the boast of having it.

" Thus Dean Swift remarked that the greater the squeam-
ishness of a man's ears, the nastier were his ideas and thoughts.

" Now, if this observation be true, as we believe it is, what
is to be said of those would be linguistic purists who recom-
mend mutilating the brave old English word cocky and thus
metamorphose it into co., on account of its indecency, a sen-
tence which is to be extended to all the unfortunate words
compounded of it, as Turncock, which must be read Turnco,
&c., &c. The absurdity of this proposed change, as well as
its injustice to poor Chanticleer, the husband of Dame Partlet,
is the greater, since it is well known that hens are fecundated,
not by intromission but by compression.

" Of a truth, M. de Voltaire was right in saying that—'c La
Pudeur setail enfuite du coeur pour se rtfugier sur les Ihjres.'
Modesty has fled from the heart to take refuge on the hps.

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"Let it not be supposed from these remarks that the
author's intention has been that of writing an obscene book,
or even to employ obscene words. He holds that the grand
subject—the Reproduction of the Human Race—which runs
more or less through all the Essays in this volume, is, in itself,
most pure, and that the words which are necessary, adequately
and correcdy to describe it in its various phases and ramifica-
tions, have acquired the stigma of obscene only in modern
times, and, through an ultra-fastidiousness, which would hesi-
tate to apply the word breech to a man's small clothes, but
would rather designate them as unmentionables, indescribables,
or femoral habiliments."

"Essay I.—Generation:—Generation, definition of—Ex-
clusively confined to organised beings—The comparison of
generation with crystallization, untenable—Generation, different
modes of—Germination—Germ, various opinions respecting
it—Notice upon some of the systems invented to explain
many extraordinary facts connected with generation—
Aristode's opinion—Researches and discoveries of Hartsoker,
Lewenhoch, and Harvey—Description of the product of the
male organ of generation—Descnption of the spermatozoa—
Different modi operandi employed by different animals for per-
petuating their species—The Empress Catherine II. of Russia
—Love postures—Number of ictus per noctem—Old Parr—The
love tariff* fixed by the Rabbis to prevent the waste of semen
among God's chosen people—Woman's carnal desire more un-
controllable than those (sic) of men. Men are obliged, in
some climates, to wear a kind of girdle to protect themselves
against their amorous assaults (note).

" Essay II.—Virginity and Chastity :—Virginity greatly
esteemed by the Eastern nations, especially by the Jews

y

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(Deuteronomy quoted)—Virgins greatly honoured b the
Romans—Law in their favour—Sejanus's daughter—The Lom-
bards and the morging cup (sic)—Shrewd remark of Gibbon—
Chastity advantageous to the vital powers and to all the func-
tions of the body—Why the muses were represented by the
ancients as virgins—Nations produce less celeorated characters
in proportion to the number of depraved ones among them—
Corporeal strength follows the same law as mental vigour—
Moses interdicted the Jews from all connubial intercourse when
they were summoned to the battle-field—Virginity not much
respected among the negroes, the native Americans, and the
South Sea Islanders—Story of the missionary ship € Duff*—
Effects of the abuse of the venereal act—Remarkable instances
of chastity among the Jesuits and others—Most Asiatic coun-
tries exact the proofs of virginity, a proof by no means satis-
factory (Buffon quoted)—The Virgin Mary, names and titles
given her by the Roman Catholics—Questions and answers
from a French catechism—The title of Immaculate first given
to Mary the mother of Christ in the Koran in the 7th century
—Attempts to explain the immaculate conception—Celibacy,
evils of; opinion of the Emperor Augustus respecting it—
Effects of celibacy on longevity—Chastity often confounded
with continence; tne difference between them.

" Essay III.—Marriage :—Marriage defined—Object of—
Burke's observations on—Marriage esteemed by the Jews and the
Christians far before virginity—Palev's remarks on the use of
marriage—Observations of Toland, Grotius, Erasmus, Lubrity
(sic), Hume, Robert Owen, adopt the same view of marriage—
Different opinion of Shelley—Agreement of the Canon and the
Roman law as to the object of marriage—Little respect shown to
Matrimony in the feudal times—The number of marriages de-
creases in proportion as a nation hastens to its decline, instances
—Marriage protects morality, society, and the* laws; celibacy
necessarily produces adultery, prostitution, and, in many cases,
irregular and unnatural desires—Bossu's remarks and note—
The French revolution of 1789 chiefly caused by the licen-

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179

tiousness of the two preceding reigns—Bussy Rabutin quoted
—A regular college for the accommodation of the detestable
vice of Sodomy instituted in Paris, and to which belonged
many of the highest nobility, including Monsieur the King's
brother—Indignation of the King, Louis XIV., who orders one
of the royal princes to be horsewhipped in his presence-
Punishment 01 the offenders, &c.—Breaking up of the society
—Monogamy generally prevails in the cold and temperate
regions—No marriage contracted in many countries of the
globe—The midwives' petition to Parliament-—Polygamy, evils
of—Precocious marriages unfavourable to population—Effects
of marriage upon the animal system.—-Importance of the
semen, as the loss of one ounce of it is more debilitating than
would be that of forty ounces of blood—The tabes dorsales(sic)

~ f too great an evacuation of

by too great an evacuation ot the seminal fluid, described in
several cases—Dispute between Jupiter and Juno as to which
of the two sexes receives the greatest pleasure in the conjugal
embrace decided—The subject considered physiologically—
Monogamy and Polygamy.

" Essay IV.—Circumcision s Circumcision defined.—Prac-
tised by the Egyptians, Colchians, Phoenicians, and Syrians—
Considerations ot health originated it among the Egyptians,
who communicated it to the other nations—The Bible silent upon
—The Jews practised, originated it in Egypt—Opinion of
Gibbon—Abraham's compromise on his return from Egypt—
Curious reason given for the introduction of circumcision
among the Jews—None of the Antediluvian patriarchs were
circumcised, nor was Noah himself—Circumcision practised
by other nations besides the Jews—St. Paul contended in
favour of circumcision against St. Peter—The Copts and
Asiatic Christians considered circumcision as advantageous to
their women on the score of cleanliness—Mohammed declared
circumcision to be indispensable for men and honourable for

tendency to epilepsy caused

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women—Attempts made by modern writers to account for so
general a practice as that of circumcision throughout the East
—Some children born with so short a prepuce as to render
circumcision unnecessary—Cause for this irregularity assigned
by Blumenbach—Other motives assigned by writers for the
introduction of the practice—The Romans considered circum-
cision as barbarous and disgraceful—Horace and Juvenal quoted
—Manner and time of performing this rite varies in different
countries—Circumcision observed in India by the Mohammed-
ans and the Hindoos, when they conquered that country,
brought with the worship of the Phallus—Circumcision of
women—remarks by Balon (sic), Thevenot, Bruce, and other
Roman Catholics in Egypt—The Capuchin missionary at
Pondicherry—The symbol of Christian salvation united with
the symbols of the male and female pudenda—Sonnini's account
of the circumcision of girls—Sterility, observations on—Clitoris,
excessive size of—A husband's great surprise on his wedding
night.

" Essay V.—Eunuchism :—Eunuchs, different appellations
given to them, and meaning of the same—Castration, how
effected—Self castration by the wild boar—Eunuchism, meaning
of the word—Castration practised from time immemorial by
the Egyptians and other Eastern nations—Castration regarded
as a heinous offence by the ancient laws of England (note)—
bemiramis, Queen of Assyria, the first who introduced castra-
tion—Her reasons for so doing—Andramyhs (sic), King of
Lydia, introduced the castration of females by destroying the
ovaria—Causes assigned by various writers—Gibbon's remark
—Classification of eunuchs—Persons bom eunuchs—Singular
case—Monorchides or persons provided with one testicle only
allowed to marry—Such was Timour the Tartar, or Tamorlane
—Curious cases quoted—Boileau, the celebrated French poet,
deprived of his testicles by a Turkey cock—Term of eunuch
applied to persons filling high offices of state—Gibbon's opinion
of eunuchs—Castration a punishment for military crimes—

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Curious historical facts related by a French historian—Castra-
tion reprobated by Juvenal—Wanton cruelty has not unfre-
quently prompted this practice—Geoffrey, the father of our
Henry II—Horrible cruelty of Pantalon (sic)—Instances of self-
castration—Story of Cambobus (sic) Heliogabulus (sic)—Gib-
bon's description of him—Lampridius (sic) quoted—Origen, his
extraordinary tenets—A eunuch's description of his feelings—
Young eunuchs—Liaison with eunuchs—Martial's epigram—
Eunuch made so by compression not always impotent—
Niebhur (sic) quoted—Anecdote—Reason assigned by Ama-
rath (sic) III, for introducingcastration into his country—St.
Basil's opinion of eunuchs quoted—Curious and quaint
poem by an old French dramatist in opposition to the
above opinions—Chardin's remarks—Pietre (sic) delle Valle's
opinion to the contrary—Castration among the Hottentot
tribes—State of eunuchism produced by other means than by
castration—Lory's (sic) remark—Effect of castration upon
animals—Estimation in which eunuchs have been held at
different times—A striking description of a eunuch by M.
Bedor—St. John the Evangelist a eunuch—The validity of
marriage contracted with eunuchs discussed by theologians of
the Roman Catholic religion—Opinion of Sanchez—Pope
Sextus V. expressly forbade the marriage of the castratas for
musical purposes—Commendatory epistle, in verse, addressed to
His Holiness Pope Clement XIII. (sic) (Ganganelli) on the oc-
casion of his having suppressed castration throughout the
Roman States.

" Essay VI.—Hermaphrodism.—The word hermaphrodism
explained—Opinions of rabbis and other learned men, as
Pluto (sic), Origen, St. Thomas, St. Chrysostoms (sic) upon
Moses's account of the creation of the world—A second Eve in
the person of Lilas—History of Lalas—Greek account of the her-
maphrodite—Plato's idea upon hermaphrodism—In former times
the existence of hermaphrodites was not doubted—Observations
of M. Virey—At an early period of existence the sex of no living
animal can be recognised—Sir Everard Some's (sic) opinion re-

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specting the ovum—The above opinion contested—Singular
case quoted—Cases quoted in opposition—Opinions of English
medical writers—Dr. Drake, Dr. Parsons, &c.—Classification
of hermaphrodites—Singular description of an hermaphrodite
at Toulouse—Laws concerning hermaphrodites—The civil and
canon laws regarding hermaphrodites—Brief account of the
celebrated Chevalier d'Eon, who was so long believed to have
been an hermaphrodite.

"Essay VII.—Death:—Death—Priests and physiologists
wholly differ as to the cause, &c., of its origin into the world—
Blind attachment of priests to dogmas—Right and duty of all
men to investigate any proposition proposed for their belief and
adoption—St. Paul's dogma, " By sin first came death into the
world," considered (note)—Philosophy of the priesthood—
Persecution of unbelievers by the priests—Misrepresentation of
the deaths of celebrated deists—Cases quoted—Cases in which
the mere apprehension of death has proved fatal—Second
meaning of tne word—death—not such an object of terror as
generally imagined—Horace, Juvenal, Shakspeare, Dr. Young,
Dr. Swift, &c., quoted—Great improvement in the science of
anatomy in the schools of Berlin, Bologna, Paris, and London
—A scientific description of what death is—Why should death
be feared ?—Saying of the ancients respecting life—There is no
death for nature, she is eternal—Plutarch quoted—Suicides
considered—Pliny's assertion that the Deity cannot commit
suicide—The facetiae of death—Epitaphs—Pope quoted—
Beazley—Job Orton—Esther Orton—Mrs. Dorothy Birch—
Epitaph to the Memory of Mynheer Van Klaes, an inveterate
smoker — Dr. Young quoted — And lastly — Food For
Thought."

No complete list of Mr. John Davenport's works having yet
appeared in any bibliographical dictionary I give one, drawn up
by the author himself, and corrected by me from copies in the
British Museum, of which I add the press marks.

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1. La Prononciation Angloise rendue facile par des Tableaux

et des Thames. &c. par John Davenport. Londres:
Boosey et fils. 1820. i2mo. ("j*. g. 4).

2. The Life of Ali Pacha of Jannina, late Vizier of Epirus,

surnamed Asian, or the Lion. Including a Compendious
History of Modern Greece. London: Lupton Relfe.
1823. 8vo. (1452. i). This work passed through 2
editions; it is illustrated with 4 plates, viz., two portraits
of Ali Pacha, a "View of Yannina," and map of the
" Environs of Janina," the two latter folding 5 the vol.
sold for 12/- in boards.*

3. A New Dictionary, English and Italian and Italian and Eng-

lish, with the equivalents in French. By J. Davenport
and Stefano Egia Petroni. London, 1824. 8vo. 2 vols.
(627. h.).

4. Memoirs of the Court of France, from 1684 to 1720, now

first translated from the diary of the Marquis de Dangeau.
With historical and critical notes. In two volumes.
London: Colburn 1825. 8vo. (1058. k. 19).

5. Nuovo Dizionario Italiano—Inglese—Francese, di S. E.

Patronj e Giovanni Davenport. 1828. 8vo. (2116. c.).

♦ Not to be confounded with " The Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepeleni,
Vizier of Epirus: surnamed Asian, or the Lion. By R. A. Davenport. London:
Teggand Son.' mdcccxxxvii." Small 8vo.jpp. xn and 4185 portrait of
Ali Pacha by Haywood. British Museum press mark 2103. b. In his
" Advertisement" Mr. R. A. Davenport mentions the work noted above.

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6. The Historical Class Book ; or Readings in Modern History,

with chronological tables, etc. London, 1839. I2mo-
(799. b. 29.).

7. A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages

based upon that of Baretti &c., .... Compiled by J.
Davenport and G. Comelati. 1854. 8vo. 2 vols. (2116. c.).

8. First Principles of General Knowledge Explained in a

Simple and Easy Manner, by S. M. Paull. Third Editon,
revised &c by John Davenport. Relfe, London, (i860).
12 mo. (12203. a.).

9. The Historical Class Book; or Readings in Modern History,

Third edition, to which are first added, specimens of English
Poetry of each country. London. 1861. i2mo. (9007. c.).

10. Gawthrop's Elocutionary & Rhetorical Class Book. &c.
Revised by John Davenport. 1862. 8vo. (12270. b.).

11. Aide-M£moire to the History of India, etc. London. 1864.

8vo. (9056. aa.).

12. An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran, etc. London.
1869. 8vo. (4505. cc.).

If we add to the above apbnfttel'atf Sift 3ntf*ap&roM0fat0*

noticed at p. 82, and the volume that heads this notice we shall
have a complete list of Mr. Davenport's published books.

One of his best works is yet in MS. It is entitled 8 $ttp
at $0})td aiti) ^Opttp, and is at once a succinct, terse
history, and a bitter satire of the Church of Rome.

INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM.

185

Cptf)tra*£f Optimal; or, Flakes from the Foreskin. A Collection
of Songs, Poems, Nursery Rhymes, Quiddities, etc., etc.
Never before published. Oxford: Printed at the Univer-
sity Press, For the Society for Promoting Useful
Knowledge, mdccclxx. [Cum Privilegio.]

Small 8vo. (counts 4); pp. 85 in all; the date is correct, but
the book was printed in London ; issue 150 copies, on toned
paper. On the tide page, as at first worded, between
" Knowledge " and the date, the following words were inserted :
"Sold at the Society's Depository, Holywell-street, Strand,
London." but this title page was, I believe, not used.

In " Cythera's Hymnal" we have a gathering of cleverly
written parodies and imitations of popular songs, well-known
hymns, &c. 5 they are by different hands, and generally, as may
be seen by the associations and allusions, by Oxford men; they
are not all of equal merit, but many display vigour, and no
little humour; the articles in "The Saturday Review" against
" The Girl of the Period " called forth the poem bearing that
tide, and "Lear's Book of Nonsense" inspired the "Nursery
Rhymes;" one piece, "No more,"* is from the pen of
Edward Sellon; with the exception of one or two pieces
they are original, all are excessively blasphemous and obscene,
the poem by Sellon being by far the least objectionable of the
collection.

* Reproduced in extenso,post, see "The Ups and Downs of Life."
z

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[Ce recueil de po&ie contient des pieces fort bien faites, entre
autres "The Rev. PimlicoPoole," "The Strong-backed Minister,"
" The Sensual Reverie," et deux ou trois autres. II est f&cheux
que l'auteur, (ou les compilateurs), ait donn£ tant de place k
des morceaux d'un genre sale et d£sagr£able]* I would add
to the above " Chordee," a parody on " Excelsior," as beyond
the average; I transcribe it:

" CHORDEE."

rrThe shades of night were falling fast,
" As up and down the High-street passed
" A youth, who bore inside his gown
" A prick-stand he could not keep down—
Chordee! Chordee !

" His brow was sad, beneath his eye
" Was blackness he could not deny,
" And like a silver clarion rung
" The accents of that well-known tongue,
Chordee! Chordee!

" Try not my arse, the old Don said,
" The Proctor looks down overhead $
" I can't, he cried, if I be hung,
" And from his lips escaped a groan—

Chordee! Chordee!

" Oh, stay, a strumpet said, and rest
"Thy greasy head upon my breast,
" A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
" As he said No, but with that sigh,

Chordee! Chordee!

* See Introduction, ante.

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" Beware the Proctor's stealthy walk,
" Beware the dirty smut you talk,
" This was a Peeler's last good-night,
" A voice replied, though out of sight,
Chordee! Chordee!

"At dead of night, as down the Corn
" The Proctors walk about till morn,
" They heard that oft repeated cry
" That echoed up and down the High,
Chordee! Chordee!

" A student by that faithful hound,
" I mean the 'Bulldog,' there was found,
" Still grasping in his hand so tight
" His prick most ghastly to the sight,
Chordee! Chordee!"

ith one other specimen I will conclude the notice:

• EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY WHO WAS BIRCHED
TO DEATH."

" They laid her flat on a goosedown pillow,

And scourged her arse with twigs of willow,
" Her bottom so white grew pink, then red,
"Then bloody, then raw, and her spirit fled."

Cl)f JBarfe £>fot of $Orfe lite and its Criminal
Classes from Fifth Avenue down to the Five Points.
A Complete Narrative of the Mysteries of New
York. New York: Fred'k Gerhard, Ag't. 1873.

Large 8vo.; pp. 831 in all.

This book was written no doubt for a good purpose, but, as
the information it contains runs much on tabooed topics, I give
it place here. Among the subjects treated are: " Prostitution
and its Victims," " Dance Houses," " Abortionists," " Quack
Doctors," " Matrimonial Offices," " Obscene Literature," &c.;
and, as names, addresses, and dates are generally given in full,
there is no internal evidence to cause us to doubt the writer s
veracity. I have used the book in my introduction.

Be* Mytittvt* toe fcaektn* Bruxelles, Typographic de J.-H.
Dehou, Rue Grande lie, 6. 1853.

12 mo.; pp. 20 in all; small fleuron on title page.

Author Oscar Hardy of Liege.

This is an insignificant little tract against Leopold I. and his
court. Its only attraction is that it is couched in good French
and speaks highly (and in consequence, justly) of the queen; it
contains some scandal which is perfectly well known, and which
the King himself scarcely endeavoured to hide.

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200II fcfOtl; A Poem by the late Lord Byron, Author of

Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. And forming Part of

the Private Journal of his Lordship, supposed to have been

entirely destroyed by Thos. Moore.

" Pardon, dear Tom, these thoughts on days gone by;
Me men revile, and thou must justify.
Yet in my bosom apprehensions rise,
(For brother poets have their jealousies)
Lest under false pretences thou shoulds't turn
A faithless friend, and these confessions burn."

To which is added Leon to Annabella ; an episde from

Lord Byron to Lady Byron. London: Printed for the

Booksellers, mdccclxvi.

Small 8vo.; pp. " Don Leon" 52 pp. ex tides, " Notes to
Don Leon" 57 pp., " Leon to Annabella " 17 pp.; published by
W. Dugdale; price 10/6.

"Don Leon," which consists of 1,455 lines, is entirely in
defence of sodomy; in it Lord Byron is represented as describ-
ing his various poederastic amours, and excusing his antiphysi-
cal proclivity. His practising this propensity on his wife is put
forth as the cause of their separation.

" That time it was, as we in parlance wiled
u Away the hours, my wife was big with child.
" Her w^ist, which looked so taper when a maid
" Like some swol'n butt its bellying orb displayed,
u And Love, chagrined, beheld his favourite cell
" From mounds opposing scarce accessible.
"' Look, Bell/ I cried 5 'yon moon, which just now rose
u' Will be the ninth j and your parturient throes
"' May soon Lucioa's dainty hand require
"' To make a nurse of thee, of me a sire.
"41 bum to press thee, but I fear to try,

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4 Lest like an incubus my weight should lie;
44 4 Lest, from the close encounter we should doom
444 Thy quickening foetus to an early tomb.
"4 Thy size repels me, whilst thy charms invite j
"' Then, say, how celebrate the marriage rite ?
"4 Learn'd Galen, Celsus, and Hippocrates,
" 4 Have held it good, in knotty points like these,
"4 Lest mischief from too rude assaults should come,
44' To copulate ex more pecudum.
444 What sayst thou, dearest ? Do not cry me nay ;
444We cannot err where science shows the way.'
44 She answered not; but silence gave consent,
" And by that threshold boldly in I went.
44 So clever statesmen, who concoct by stealth
" Some weighty measures for the comonwealth,
" All comers by the usual door refuse,

" And let the favoured few the back stairs use.
* * * * * *

" Who that has seen a woman wavering lie
" Betwixt her shame and curiosity,
44 Knowing her sex's failing, will not deem,
" That in the balance shame would kick the beam ?
" Ah, fatal hour, that saw my prayer succeed,
" And my fond bride enact the Ganymede.
" Quick from my mouth some bland saliva sprfead
" The ingress smoothed to her new maidenhead,
44 The Thespian God his rosy pinions beat,
u And laughed to see his victory complete.
44 'Tis true, that from her lips some murmurs fell—
44 In joy or anger, 'tis too late to tell $
" But this I swear, that not a single sign
44 Proved that her pleasure did not equal mine.
44 Ah, fatal hour! for thence my sorrows date:
44 Thence sprung the source of her untying hate.
44 Fiends from her breast the sacred secret wrung,
C4Then called me monster 5 and, with evil tongue,
" Mysterious tales of false Satanic art
" Devised, and forced us evermore to part"

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The notes are copious, curious, frequently erudite, and give
much information about the scandalous doings of the times.

" Leon to Annabella " was printed a year sooner, and has an
introduction and separate title pages:

u Iton to Stmafctll; an epistle from Lord Byron to Lady
Byron, explaining the real cause of eternal separation, and
forming the most curious passage in the Secret History of the
Noble Poet. € Lady Byron can never cohabit with her noble
husband again. He has given cause for a separation which
can never be revealed ; but the honour due to the female sex
forbids all further intercourse for ever.' Opinion of Dr.
Lushington on the Question of Divorce. London: 1865"

It is a much shorter and less offensive poem than " Don
Leonalthough the cause given for the separation is the same,
it is only hinted at:

11 Oh, lovely woman! by your Maker's hand

" For man's delight and solace wisely planned.

" Thankless is she who nature's bounty mocks,

" Nor gives Love entrance wheresoe'er he knocks.
* *****

u Matrons of Rome, held ye yourselves disgraced

" In yielding to your husbands' wayward taste ?

" Ah, no!—By tender complaisance ye reign'd:

" No wife of wounded modesty complained."

There is a reprint, 8vo., pp. 14, price one shilling, the title a
little more spiced ; it runs:

" Cfct <©reat Jfctcret Btbtaltfc ! Suppressed Poem by Lord
Byron, never before published, Leon to Annabella. Lord

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Byron to Lady Byron, An Epistle explaining the Real Cause of
Eternal Separation, And Justifying the Practice which led to it.
Forming the most Curious Passage in the Secret History of
the Noble Poet, Influencing the whole of His Future Career. &c."

"Leon to Annabella" was again reprinted in 1875, at
Brussels; small 8vo.; pp. 15 in all; price 3 frcs.; no date

It is superfluous to state that neither of these poems are by
Lord Byron. The following note by a gentleman personally
acquainted with the publisher will be found interesting:

" I cannot give you any information as to the author of Don
Leon. The publisher, W. Dugdale, had no idea who he was.
In fact, he believed, when he purchased the MS., that it was
really written by Lord Byron. About the year i860 he brought
it to me as a great literary curiosity, and wanted me to advise
him as to how he could best approach Lady Byron, from whom
he expected to get a large sum to suppress the publication. I had
not read two pages before I said it could not have been written
by Lord Byron. I think it was the rhymes soul and prowl
that first staggered me. On going on I pointed out to him
that there were references to several events which I was certain
occurred after Byron's death. He would not believe me, and
was very angry, from which I suppose he had paid a consider-
able sum for the MS. Of course I gave him no assistance,
and advised him to be very cautious about any application to
Lady Byron, as, although they would only laugh at him for
being so credulous, he might be charged with attempting to

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extort money if the matter came to the ears of ' The Society.'
He subsequently admitted that he believed I was right and
allowed me to take a copy of it, which I still have; and I heard
no more of it till it was printed some years after.

" The copy he showed me must, from its appearance, have been
written some years previously, but it was evidendy not the
original written by the author. It had been copied by some
illiterate person, and the Latin and 'Greek quotations were full
of errors, as may be seen in the printed copies."

While we are considering one charge against Lord Byron it
may not be out of place to note another, that of incest with his
half sister, Mrs. Leigh, raked up by the officious Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, and first brought before the world in the pages
of " The Adantic Monthly" and " Macmillan's Magazines."*
It is not likely that Mrs. Stowe was acquainted with " Don
Leon," the crime she imputes to the noble poet however is
equally heinous and preposterous with the one put forth in
that poem.

* Afterwards reprinted with new matter in a volume entitled: 4t Lady
Byron Vindicated, &c., by Harriet Beecher Stowe. London : Samson Low.
1870." To this should be added : "Medora Leigh; A History and Autobio-
graphy. Edited by Charles Mackay. London: Bentley 1869./* and "The
True Story of Lord and Lady Byron in answer to Mrs. Beecher Stowe,
London: Hotten." (1869).

aa

IMftoIe torsf SufttS ou Moeurs des Petites Dames de
ce Temps. Paris mdccclxiii

8vo.; pp. 274 ex titles; title in red and black; " tirage k 64
exemplaires num6rot6s k la presse, tous de ni6me format: 50
papier de Hollande, 6 papier de Hollande fort, 2 papier anglais,
4 papier de chine, 2 papier de couleur;" published at 30 frcs.
by Blanche of Brussels, and issued in 1868. Condemned
by the " Jugement du tribunal de Lille du 6 Mai 1868." *

The work consists of 16 dialogues and an epilogue, and was
intended by its authors as a pendant to the work of Nicolas
Chorier. It is the joint production of three gentlemen who " ont
rempli les principaux r61es," and who, at the opening of the
book, give sketches of themselves, as well as of the four " petites
dames," Caroline Deschamps, Marie Auber, Louisa, and Antonia,
by whom they were assisted. In the book the author-actors
are known as " Le Comte Henri de Sarsalle, Martin Duvernet,
rentier, Adrien Lebel, artiste peintre;" but they have further

* Cat. des Ouvrages Condamn6s, p, 78.

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favoured us with the following pseudonyms: Chapuys, Bokel,
d'Enghien, which contain the exact letters of their real names.
The chief of the trio was the late Edmond Duponchel ; the
other two gentlemen are still alive, and I leave their names veiled

Before it was printed, " L'Ecole des Biches " was frequently
copied by hand, and MSS. of it are not uncommon. The
original MS., in the caligraph of the artist Ulm, done for
Duponchel and under his special direction, is now in the
possession of a London amateur; it is adorned with a frontis-
piece by Ulm (the two female figures being portraits), and a
set of twelve designs in outline by J. Chauvet; of these
thirteen designs a facsimile copy, executed by a clever draughts-
man in London, exists in the cabinet of another English biblio-
phile. J. Chauvet has illustrated another copy for the same
collector, and adorned it with a frontispiece, fourteen designs,
and a vignette on the title page, in sepia; these are very prettily
done, and far superior, both in drawing and composition, to the
twelve designs in outline above mentioned; the volume is bound
by Hardy of Paris, in full morocco, old red, gilt top, uncut.

" L'Ecole des Biches " is a series of scenes in which the Les-
bian penchant strongly predominates. It is not remarkable
either for force or originality; but although entirely erotic, it is
never crapulous or disgusting; further, it has a perfume of
politeness and good breeding, and is indited with a delicacy of
expression which atones to some extent for its other short-
comings.

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[Ce livre est assez bien 6crit, mais monotone k la lecture.
C'est la r£p£tition de toutes les poses que l'on trouve dans tous
les livres de ce genre. Pour qu'un pareil livre se fasse lire sans
ennui, il faut qu'il y ait une intrigue, des 6vdnements, une his-
toire enfin, comme dans la " Putain errante," "l'Ecole des filles,"
et autres semblables.]*

Edmond Duponchel,-J- was born at Paris about 1795, and
died in April 1868. In early life he studied architecture,
and afterwards went to England to learn the goldsmith's
craft, in which he became a proficient, and executed the
bas reliefs of the " Minerva" of Simart. In 1835 Duponchel
was appointed Director of the Opera at Paris in place of
Vdron. This post he carried on single handed until May,
1840, when he obtained the assistance of L6on Pillet,
royal commissionaire at the theatre since 1838; after
eighteen months of co-administration Duponchel resigned
his office in favour of Pillet. Pillet's reign lasted till 1847, when
he was replaced by Duponchel and Roqueplan.

Jules Adolphe Chauvet, was born at Pdronne (Somme)
29 Sept. 1828. A pupil of P—L—C. Cic6ri, he first studied
landscape, but abandoned that branch of his art in order to devote

* See Introduction, ante.

t Consult Diet, des Contemporains, Vapereau j L'Intermedia ire vn. 414,
444; L*Artiste de 1837 serie, t. xn.) art. "Une Chambre Catholique &
rOp6ra" par Roger de Beauvoirj Petits M6moires de l'Op6ra par Ch. de
Boigne, Paris, 1857 > Histoire de l'Op£ra par Alphonse Royer.

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himself entirely to the illustration of "livres d'amateur." He is
comparatively little known, as most of his productions are in the
libraries of collectors, and have not been published. His friend
and protector, M.P. of Paris, possesses some of the most exquisite
efforts of his pencil. He has most particularly studied the engra-
vings of the eighteenth century, and inspired himself from the
" petits grands maltres" of that epoch. M. Chauvet works with ease
and facility, is quick of conception and rapid in execution. He is
known to the public chiefly by a set of 175 etchings for the
Works of Horace, and another of 53 etchings for the Dialogues
of Erasmus; both sets are much esteemed. He has also done
10 etchings, erotic, to illustrate "La Guerre des Dieux"
Among the most charming of his unpublished efforts may be
noted: a copy of Balzac's " Physiologie du Mariage," in which
every available space has been filled up with appropriate designs;
" Point de Lendemain," copied in extenso and illustrated; both
these works are in the library of M. P.; the latter was done by
M. Chauvet during the siege of Paris by the Prussians; and
"La Sultane Rozrda," which covers nine leaves of vellum,
including two tides; the whole poem is copied in the clearest
caligraphy and is adorned with 15 designs, of which seven
are obscene; it terminates with: " Les dessins in£dits ont 6t6
composes et executes k la plume par J. Chauvet. Paris,
Octobre 1866." This beautiful composition is in the cabinet of
an English bibliophile.

Jean-Pierre Blanche was born at Blois, June 25, 1820,

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and died at Brussels, Nov. 10, 1875. He went to Brussels
about 1864, and established himself as a bookseller at No. 11
Rue de Loxum. Some two years before his death his reason
deserted him, and his business was conducted by his son, M.
Abel Blanche, who still continues it.

Sin Notes by Rogerus Cun^us, Vigerus Mutoniatus, &c.
And A Commentary by the Rev. Dr. Warburton.
Inscribed to Miss Fanny Murray.

119 ovk aivorcpov tccu Kvircpov (sic) aWo ywatKOt.

Horn. Od. 11. b. 6.*
Ex Archetypo saepe in Femoralibns (sic) Reverendissimi
Georgii Stone, Hiberniae Primatis, Saepius in Podice
Intrepidi Herois Georgii Sackville.

Small 8vo.; pp. 30 in all; title in red and black, as is also
the half title at the beginning of the poem. The volume con
tains: "Advertisement by the Editorw (pp. 3 to 8), "The
Design" (pp. 9 to 12), " An Essay on Woman " (pp. 13 to 22),
"€f)t «nfl)tr*al $raptr" (pp. 23 to 26), "Cfrt Spfoff
fcober to irtsf $ridt99 (pp. 27 to 28), €i Wtni Creator; or,
tbt iftaft'd tiraper" (pp. 29 to 30); there are copious notes
signed "Warburton," "Vigerus Mutoniatus,w "Rogerus
Cunaeus," and "Burman."^

* I am unable to reproduce this quotation exactly; u ovk " and " ywauooe"
are spelt in the old abridged manner, for which no type is at present pro-
curable ; further, the reference should be Horn., Od. xi, 427.

f Intended no doubt for the celebrated Petrus Burmannus.

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The "Essay on Woman" consists of 94 lines, and is
divided into an invocation and three divisions; it begins:

" Awake my Fanny !* leave all meaner things 5
" This morn shall prove what rapture swiving brings!
" Let us (since life can little more supply
" Than just a few good fucks, and then we die)
" Expatiate free," &c.

and terminates:

" Hope humbly then clean Girls.; nor vainly soar ;
"But fuck the Cunt at hand, and God adore.
11 What future Fucks he gives not thee to know,
" But gives that Cunt to be thy Blessing now."

" The Universal Prayer" has notes, and consists of 13

stanzas of 4 lines each, of which the first and last are:

" Mother of all! in every Age,

" In ev'ry Clime ador'd,
" By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage,

" If modest, or if whor'd.
" To thee whose Fucks thro'out all space,

This dying World supplies,
" One Chorus let all Beings raise!
All Pricks in rev'rence rise."

"The Dying Lover to his Prick," with one note, has but 18
lines; it begins:

" Happy Spark of heavenly Flame 5
" Pride and Wonder of Man's Frame!

* For particulars concerning Miss Fanny Murray, see " Notes and Queries,"
and. S., No. 79, July 4, 1857, p. 15 and No. 81, July 18,1857, p. 41.

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and ends:

" Fanny your Murmur rings:
" Lend, lend your Hand ! I mount! I die !
" O Prick, how great thy Victory ?

" O Pleasure, sweet thy Stings."

" Veni Creator; or, The Maid's Prayer " is in 5 stanzas, the

first two of 6 lines, the last three of 5 lines each; it opens thus:

44 Creator Pego, by whose Aid,
" Thy humble Suppliant was made;" &c.

and terminates:

" Immortal Honour, endless Fame,
" Almighty Pego! to thy Name 5
" And equal Adoration be
" Paid to the neighbouring Pair with Thee,
" Thrice blessed Glorious Trinity.0

This edition, although undoubtedly printed at the time, is
not the original one. Were there any question upon this point,
two peculiarities in the volume itself would suffice to settle it.
Firstly, the mistakes on the title page and throughout the
text; and secondly, the volume concludes with "The end
of Mr. Wilkes's Book;" moreover it is not printed in red,
and has no design on the title page. It appears, how-
ever, to have been printed from the original edition,
because on the title page, between the quotation and the
impress, an unusually large space is left, which in the
original was occupied by an " obscene print." * * The con-
tents then I am inclined to accept as genuine. In spite of
every search and enquiry, I have never been able to see one of

* See post, p. 203.

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the 12 copies struck off by Wilkes himself. Mr. W. F. Rae
remarks that: " no authentic copy of it is known to exist." *

However this may be, one undoubtedly did exist some 20
years ago, for I have before me a copy of the edition which I
am at present noticing, on the tide page of which the present
owner has facsimilied from a copy of the original, which he had
then in his hands, the design in question, consisting of an
erect phallus with a scale of ten inches underneath, and the
following inscription.

"Imrrfp Kcxr/xov."

"In recto Decus."

It is a remarkable fact that most of the Bibliographers and
Authors who have written about the "Essay on Woman,"
generally in no measured terms, are in error respecting it, as
will be shown hereafter; probably none of them had ever seen
a copy of the work as issued from Wilkes's own press.

Lowndes^ mentions an edition, " London, printed for the
Author, and sold by Mr. Gretton in Bond street, and Mr.
Pottinger in Paternoster Row, 1763, 8vo. pp. 40. Printed in
red, with an obscene print on the title page. Also, with a
French translation, 1763." I have never seen this vol. as
Lowndes describes it; indeed I have reason (as I will show anon)
to think that Lowndes is inaccurate.

* " Fortnightly Review," Sept. 1868. This opinion is shared by a con-
tributor to " Notes and Queries." See " N. and Q.," and S., No. 79, July
4» i8j7, p. 1, and No. 108, Jan. 23, 1857, p. 77.

t Bibliographer's Manual, vol. j, p. 2920.

BB

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Martin, in his "Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately
Printed Books," has two notices on the " Essay on Woman,"
superficial, and, as I shall prove presently, incorrect. Qulrard,
Barbier and Berjeau are all in error. Finally, Earl Stanhope,
who, in his "History of England," accords a somewhat promi-
nent place to the poem, is altogether wrong.

With regard to the " Essay on Woman," although a very
curious production, it scarcely merits the great notoriety it has
achieved; the notes are perhaps the most remarkable part
of it. Had it not been for the shameful and persistent
pursuit of Wilkes by the Government on its account, it
would probably never have come down to us, or at any rate
never have emerged from that obscurity which it merits, and
from which Wilkes himself certainly never intended to drag it.

Hard names enough were heaped upon it at the time.* It
was, by the House of Lords, designated as: " a most scan-
dalous, obscene, and impious libel, a gross profanation of many
parts of the Holy Scriptures, and a most wicked and blasphe-
mous attempt to ridicule and vilify the person of our Blessed
Saviour." Bishop Warburton spoke of it in the house as a
performance which " consisted of the most horrid insults on
religion, virtue, and humanity, and the most shocking blas-
phemies against the Almighty;" with a " series of notes which

* On the other hand a partisan of Wilkes wrote that in it, " at least in
point of sentiment he is supposed to have equalled, if not excelled, both a
Rochester and an AristotleSee " The Life of John Wilkes, Esq. London:
J. Wilkie. m.cc.lxxiii." (sic).

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countenance and even outdo the bestiality and blasphemy of
his doggrel, in which there is so foul a mixture of sensuality
interlarding his fearful blasphemies that the hardiest inhabitant
of hell would blush, as well as tremble to hear repeated."
Horace Walpole called it: " the most blasphemous and indecent
poem that ever was composed;" and again: " a performance
bawdy and blasphemous to the last degree, being a parody of
Pope's ' Essay on Man,' and of other pieces, adapted to the
grossest ideas, or to the most profane." But the analysis of
Kidgbll, given in his " Narrative,"* is too remarkable not to be
quoted in extenso:

" This Essay on Woman is a parody on Mr. Pope's Essay on
Many almost line for line, printed in red.

" The frontispiece, engraved curiously on copper, contains the
title of the poem, 'An Essay on Woman;' a motto, very suitable
to a work which is calculated to depreciate the sex; a most
obscene print, by way of decoration, under which is engraved,
in the Greek language and character, The Saviour of the
World; beneath that inscription, something too scandalous
and defamatory of private character to endure repetition; and
it is added, with an effrontery and ungentleman-like scurrility
which I confess myself too dull to comprehend the humour of,
that there is also a Commentary, to which is affixed the Name

# As Kidgell had the poem in his hands, his account of it, however one-
sided it may be, is nevertheless worthy of consideration, especially as so many
authors who never saw it have written about it.

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of a personage, one of the most distinguished and eminent for
learning and character this day in England.

" The tide is succeeded by a few pages entided Advertise-
ment and Design} in which every degree of decency is renounced,
in order to prepare a welcome and familiar reception to the
foulest of all language, and a species of impiety which is
incredible; to expressions, throughout the whole work, in every
page, and almost every word of it, shameful and obscene,
without any manner of concealment or reserve; to a most
descriptive representation of the lewdest thoughts in nature; to
scurrility beyond all precedent; to reflections upon the fair sex
opprobrious, immodest, insulting, and infinitely degrading; to
observations upon animal increase ineffably impure, descending
even to the minuteness of a description, truly brutal, of the
nudities of beasts and reptiles; and this in a style and language
of so copious an indelicacy that the slender share of praise,
which the luxuriancy of the author's imagination might expect,
is taken from him by the excess of his impurity.

" In the variations and notes upon this obscene parody, the
Holy Scriptures are illiberally prostituted to illustrate the gross
ideas of a libidinous blasphemer.

"The profaneness throughout the whole work is of a
shocking, new, and wonderful invention. Many of the
most serious and interesting passages of the gospel are
dishonoured to serve the low, lascivious purpose of an impure
double entendre, which I am persuaded the reader will excuse
me if I do not defile my pen with: more particularly that

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pathetic exclamation of Saint Paul, 0 death, where is thy sting f
0 grave, where is thy victory f is impiously debased into a
brutal signification at which infernal angels might rejoice.

" In another of his horrid € elucidations/ the natural abilities
of the ass are made the subject of an unclean description—the
blameless Scripture being still hauled in to be responsible.
Then, with a degree of confidence unheard of in any Pro-
testant community, the unknowing reader is informed that€ that
animal was once held in great esteem, but that, since he had
been the vehicle of the Godhead into Jerusalem, he was become
ridiculous.'

" To crown this united effort of obscenity and profaneness,
the sense of the Universal Prayer, written by Mr. Pope, is per-
verted to serve the vilest purpose of unchastity; and that
memorable soliloquy of the Emperor Adrian, which Mr. Pope
has considered in a paraphrase, as the words of the Dying
Christian to his soul, this shameless author entides without a
blush, The Dying Lover to his Pudenda.

" And as if he was determined, experimentally, to be convinced
to what an extravagancy of insult the lenity of the Govern-
ment, the candour of the public, and the mercy of God
Himself may be abused, he boldly presumes upon an inimi-
tably profane paraphrase of Veni Creator, which he ludicrously
affects to call The Maids Prayer.

"Here is the supreme exertion of his original abilities to blas-
pheme. The holy Name and Attributes of the Deity are vilified

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in an unexampled manner; the blessed Spirit of God is ludibriously
insulted by a repetition of the most carnal obscenities in the
form of a supplication; and the sacred expression, ' Thrice
blessed, glorious Trinity, is compelled, by an impious similitude,
to convey an idea to the reader, impure, astonishing, and horrible.

" With this extreme hyperbole of lewdness and impiety,
behold an affectation of vivacity and humour, the volatile, saline
effluvia of the unchaste imagination of a prurient debauchee."

In "The Gentleman's Magazine,"for the year 1763 (vol. 33,
p. 526,) a full account is given about the " Essay on Woman "
and the proceedings connected with it. We are there told that s
" In the work itself, the lewdest thoughts are expressed in terms
of the grossest obscenity; the most horrid impurity is minutely
represented; the sex is vilified and insulted; and the whole is
scurrilous, impudent and impious to an incredible degree. In
the variations and notes, the inspired writings are perverted into
illustrations of the gross ideas of a libidinous blasphemer, with
an invention new, wonderful, and horrid. The most solemn
and important passages of the Gospel are tortured into the
oblique obscenity of double meanings, worthy only of him, ^
who is at once the enemy of God and man." &c.

Wilkes's Letter to the Electors of Aylesbury, which will be
found in Gent. Mag. Vol. 34, p. 580, in which he defends
himself against the " pious peer" and "the neat, prim, smirk-
ing chaplain," is eloquent, and well worth perusal.

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all,* is doubtful; the Government did not prove it, nor did
Wilkes ever absolutely father the poem. Walpole -f- says:
" Wilkes and Potter, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury,
had formerly composed this indecent patchwork in some of
their bacchanalian hours; and Wilkes, not content with pro-
voking the vengeance of the King, of the Princess, of the
favourite, of twenty subaltern Ministers, and of the whole Scot-
tish nation, had, for the amusement of his idle hours, consigned
this innocent rhapsody to his own printing press—a folly
unparalleled, though he had intended to restrain the edition to
twelve copies" This Thomas Potter was the paramour of
Bishop Warburton's wife, which adds a zest to the affair,
and was not calculated to diminish the resentment of the
bishop.

Of the conduct of the government in the prosecution of
Wilkes there can be no two opinions; it was illegal, cowardly,
and done for party motives only. " The peers were too much
the King's friends to refuse assent to any suggestion made by
the King's Ministers. In consequence of this, Wilkes was ^tried and convicted of publishing a poem of which the copies

* In "Notes and Queries/' Series 2, Vol. 57, pp. 1, 21, 41, and 113,
.will be found some interesting articles upon the "Essay on Woman/* the
writer, Mr. Dilke, strives to prove, from actual dates, that Wilkes could not
have written it at all. This opinion is shared by Mr. W. F. Rae. See " Wilkes,
Sheridan, Fox, The opposition under George the Third/1 p. 48. At page 49 of
his Life of Wilkes, Almon mentions the " Essay on Woman/*
t Memoirs of King George HI.

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were filched from him under an illegal warrant, and the contents
made public for the first time by Lord Sandwich in the House
of Lords. No evidence was then advanced, nor has any been
yet adduced, proving him to have written the poem." *

Walpole thus sketches the infamous business: "One of
the copies had been seized among his (Wilkes's) papers by
Philip Carteret Webbe. Still was even that Ministry ashamed
to accuse Wilkes on evidence which had fallen into their hands
by such illegal means—unanswerable proof that they were
conscious of their guilt, and knew they could not justify their
proceedings. But the bloodhounds, having thus fallen on the
scent, were not to be turned aside by delicacies. Could they
procure another copy, the business would be effected—and
effected it was. Carteret Webbe set his tools to work, for even
hangmen have deputies. There was one Kidgell, a dainty,
priggish parson, much in vogue among the old ladies for his
gossiping and quaint sermons, and chaplain to the Scotch Earl
of March. This fellow got at a proof sheet; and by the
treachery of one of Wilkess printers,-f- who thought himself
ill-used, and by the encouragement of his patron, who con-
sulted Lord Bute and Lord Sandwich, and was egged on by

* Fortnightly Review, Sept. 1868, paper by Mr. W. F. Rae.
t Michabl Curry, who died in 1778 aged 56, at Norwich. See " London
Chronicle M Aug. 14,17785 and "Notes and Queries/* 2nd S. No. 84, Aug,
8, 1857, p. 113.

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them to proceed, Kidgell and Webbe purchased the whole
poem: and now did Sandwich, who had hugged this mischief
in his breast, lay open the precious poem before his brother
Lords, in strains of more hypocrisy than would be tolerable in
a professed Methodist. Parts of it were read, most coarsely and
disgustingly blasphemous. Lord Lyttelton groaned in spirit,
and begged they might hear no more. Bishop Warburton,
who had not the luck, like Lord Lyttelton, to have his con-
version believed by any one, foamed with the violence of a
Saint Dominic; vaunted that he had combated infidelity, and
laid it under his feet; and said the blackest fiends in hell
would not keep company with Wilkes, and then begged Satan's
pardon for comparing them together.

" Lord Temple had got no intelligence of this bomb,
and knew little what to say; but concluding, justly, that the
piece had been found among Wilkes's papers, condemned the
means by which it was obtained. It was instandy voted blas-
phemous, and a breach of privilege against the person of the
Bishop of Gloucester. Lord Sandwich then moved that
Wilkes should be voted the author; but even Lord Mansfield
condemned so hasty and arbitrary a course, and said it was
previously necessary to hear the accused person in his own
defence : on which the proceeding was adjourned to the next
day but one. I was in a division in the lobby of the House of
Commons when I heard what was passing in the other House,
and immediately informed Mr. Pitt. He replied, with indigna-
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tion, €Why do not they search the Bishop of Gloucester's
study for heresy?'

" Events now thickened so fast, that, to avoid confusion, I
will here say little more on this head. The plot so hopefully
laid to blow up Wilkes, and ruin him in the estimation of all
the decent and grave, had, at least in the latter respect, scarce
any effect at all. The treachery was so gross and scandalous,
so revengeful, and so totally unconnected with the political
conduct of Wilkes, and the instruments so despicable, odious,
or in whom any pretensions to decency, sanctimony, or faith,
were so preposterous, that, losing all sight of the scandal con-
tained in the poem, the whole world almost united in crying
out against the informers." *

The agents in this conspiracy against Wilkes were men for
whom equals in immorality, villany, or hypocrisy could scarcely
again be found, certainly not united in the same plot. Wilkes
himself, bad as his moral character undoubtedly was, could not
hold a candle to them.

Lord Sandwich, nicknamed by Churchill Jemmy
Twitcher, -J- one of the monks of Medmenham Abbey, where,
if there be any foundation for the anecdote in u Chrysal; or the

* Memoirs of King George III.

t Vide Hush's u Memoirs of George the Fourth," vol. i, p. 239$ also a
scarce volume entitled: " The Life, Adventures, Intrigues, and Amours of the
celebrated Jemmy Twitcher, exhibiting many striking proofs To what Baseness
the Human Heart is capable of Descending. &c. London : Jonathan Brough,
at the Bible, near Temple Bar, Strand." Published about 1770*

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Adventures of a Guinea," Wilkes played a practical joke on
him at his installation, was one of the most notorious repro-
bates of the age.*

Sir Francis Dash wood Lord lb De Spencer, founder ot
Medmenham Abbey, and from whom the Monks took their
name of Franciscans, " was noted for singing profane and lewd
catches; and, what aggravated his hypocrisy, scarce a fortnight
had passed since this holy Secretary of State himself had been
present with Wilkes at a weekly club to which both belonged,
held at the top of Covent Garden Theatre, and composed of
players and the loosest revellers of the age."-j~ " He had travelled
in Italy, and had acquired taste and skill in the fine arts, as even
now the frescoes at his house of West Wycombe, though
mouldering with damp and neglect, remain to show. But his
profligate morals are no less denoted by another painting also
still preserved. In this he allowed himself to be deliniated in
the habit of a Franciscan friar, and upon his knees, but with
the Venus de Medici before him as the object of his adoration.
He was in truth and almost professedly what is termed a man
of pleasure; an associate of Wilkes and Lord Sandwich; a
partaker in the orgies of Medmenham Abbey." J

The Earl op March, afterwards the notorious Duke op
Queensberry, or old Q, " whose life lasted into this century,

* See also " Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox, The Opposition under George the
Third, by W. F. Rae. 1874." p. 58, &c.

t Walpole's Memoirs of King George III, vol. 1, p. 309.
X History of England, by Earl Stanhope.

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and who certainly, as earl or duke, young man or greybeard,
was not an ornament to any possible society," was in fact
a perfect monster of depravity and folly. " The legends
about old Queensberry are awful. In Selwyn, in Wraxall,
and contemporary chronicles, the observer of human nature
may follow him, drinking, gambling, intriguing to the end of
his career, when the wrinkled, palsied, toothless old Don Juan
died, as wicked and unrepentant as he had been at the hottest
season of youth and passion. There is a house in Piccadilly
where they used to show k certain low window at which old
Queensbury sat to his very last days, ogling through his senile
glasses the women as they passed by/ *

" He appears to have indulged without restraint, in all the
animal gratifications of human life; but his passions outlived
his power to gratify them. At his mansion in Piccadilly, he
had a regular harem, formed by the most infamous means, in
which females of all ages and all ranks were included."

William Warburton, Bishop op Gloucester, whose
honesty and sincerity seem to have been doubted by both Pitt
and Walpole, is said to have associated with the reprobates of
his time, and to have given countenance to their depravities in
order to advance his own interests. " His sense of humour,
like that of most men of very vigourous faculties, was strong,

* The Four Georges by W. M. Thackeray.

t 4 Wonderful Characters, &c., compiled by G. H. Wilson," p. 205, where
his portrait is also given. Consult also "The Piccadilly Ambulator, or
Old Q." See that title.

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but extremely coarse; while the rudeness and vulgarity of his.
manners as a controvertist removed all restraints of decency or
decorum in scattering his jests about him." He " combined
the powers of a giant with the temper of a ruffian," says Dr.
Johnson.* Although of a " large and athletic person," doubts
seem to have been entertained as to his capability of performing
certain conjugal duties, which will go far to excuse the conduct
of his wife with Potter, -f

John Kidgell, Rector of Home, author of "The Card,"J
chaplain and toady to the Earl of March, appropriated to his
own use money of which he was trustee, and absconded to
Flanders, where he died, after having turned Roman Catholic. §
Churchill ironically writes: ||

" Kidgell and I have free and modest souls:
,f We scorn preferment which is gained by sin,
" And will, though poor without, have peace within."

The scandal caused by the prosecution of Wilkes created a
demand for Essays on JVoman^ and spurious versions sprang

* Chalmer's Biographical Dictionary, vol. 31, p. 123.

t In " The Duellist M Churchill most fiercely satirized both Bishop War-
burton, and the Earl of Sandwich,

J " The Card. London : Printed for the Maker, and sold by J. Newbery,
at the Bible and Sun. in St. Paul's Church-yard mdcclv." A more tedious
and insipid novel cannot well be conceived j it is weak and disjointed, and
possesses neither point nor interest.

§ Vide "Tooke's Notes to Churchill's Poems and "Wilkes, Sheridan,
Fox, The Opposition under George the Third." p. 54.
II In his poem u The Author."

% Refer to Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, Vol. 4, under "Woman."

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up in all directions; several of these will be found in the en-
suing pages. Kidgell's " Narrative" too called forth answers not
a few. To give a full account of these several replies would
take more space than I can afford; here are the titles however of
some of them; for fuller particulars I must refer my readers to
the reviews, &c., of the time, particularly to the "Monthly
Review" for 1763 and 1764.

1 " Cfte ipriestt in a doggrell Versification of
Kidgell's Narrative, relating to the Essay on Woman. By a
Member of Parliament, &c. London : Printed for the Author,
and sold by Mr. Gretton, and Mr. Pottinger. 4to.; is.n

2 " 53 full Siufoer to a $ampftlet calk* a geitumt atft
fifurrinrt #arrattbe of a ftantoaloit*, obaieite & erieeiunfflp
propfeane libel, entitle*, 8n Map on ®29oman+ By a

Friend op Truth. 4to.; 6d.; Griffin."

3 " an ®rpoatulatorp letter to tfie »ek iWr* itfofftU

$Ct+ By a Layman. London: Printed by J. Burd at the
Temple Exchange, Fleet Street, 1763. 4to.; pp. 11 ;

4 " a letter to 3 HfoffelL Containing a full Answer to his
Narrative. London : Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre
Tavern, Fleet Street, 1763. 4to.; pp. 21; ij."

5 "Cfte ipiam Cnitf) : Being a genuine Narrative of the
Methods made use of to procure a Copy of the Essay on
Woman. With several Extracts from the Work itself. By

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Thomas Farmer, Printer into whose hands the original Copy
accidentally fell. London : Printed for the Author, and sold by
J. Pottinger, in Paternoster Row, and J. Seymour in
Threadneedle Street, 1763. 4to.; is"

6 " Cfct Cbaplaut, a Poem. 4to.; i* 6d.; Ridley."

Let us now pass to the consideration of several editions of
the " Essay on Woman," both real and spurious. But before
doing so I must note a work which I have not seen myself,
but extract, both title and notice, verbatim from "The
Monthly Review" for 1763, vol. 29, p. 465.

" ittuntiusf iHttltebrtfit; or ait on Wlomam 4*0. 6d.

Jackson."

" O yes! If any Author, Bard, or Versifier, or other person,
hath by him any poem, or copy of verses, relating to the fair sex,
(no matter whether for or against them, provided it hath but
Woman in the title-page) either new or old, in MS. or in print,
let them repair to any Hedge-Printer, or Hedge-Bookseller, in
London or Westminster, and they shall receive a reasonable
gratuity for the same.

"Note. If very obscene, the consideration will be greatly
enhanced; and if a due portion of blasphemy, no encourage-
ment shall be wanting: there being now a great demand for
any thing of this kind.

%* Secrecy most religiously observed, if required."

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I <®£f$ap Oil Wlom&tu A Poem. By J. W. Senator.
With Notes, by the Bishop of G.

Dux Faemina Facti. Virg.
London : Printed for the Editor; And sold by J. Freeman, in
Avemary-Lane. mdcclxiii

4to. pp. 28; fleuron and 5 lines on title page; mentioned
by Watt; there is a copy in the British M^useum with press mark
840. k. 5. This " Essay on Woman" contains a " Dedication
to the Fair Sex," " Advertisement," in which reference is made
to the " reverend and sagacious Kidgell," and " Design/* The
poem itself is divided into u Invocation," Two Cantos, u Con-
clusion," and " Epilogue." There are no other poems except
the " Essay on Woman," which is not a parody upon Pope's
Poem, nor does it any way resemble or imitate the pro-
duction of Wilkes. The author's object is the defence of
Wilkes and the condemnation of his enemies and persecutors;
and it may consequently be regarded rather as a reply to
Kidgell's Narrative than as a spurious " Essay on Woman."
The " Invocation " begins thus:

" To thee, O Venus, daughter of the Sea,
" These votive lines, th' effusion of my heart,
" Enraptured I indite j — accept my lays;
" They sing to thee." &c.

Then Canto I:

" But to our purpose, Invocation — stop !
" Now recollect the theme I meant to write on,
" My ever faithful and obedient muse.
" O it is woman ! lovely ! beauteous Woman!

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" Say, what is Woman ? what ? what is she not ?
" Life of this world ! the cordial of existence !
" The grot of bliss ! the alcove of delight! "

Woman is then more minutely described:

"The hairy honours of the well formed head,"

the " thin" upper, and "thick " under lip, the " dimpling cheeks,"

" The turret head is on a column propt,
" Exceeding those from parian marble rais'd $
" Its wondrous flexures charm a lover's eye.
" But a more charming object strikes our view 5
" O! the red-rose-tipt globes on her white breast,
" That rise and fall alternate ! sweet vicissitude!
" To them a lover's heart beats sympathy,
" His fond soul gazing thro' enraptur'd eyes,
" And ev'ry fibre throbbing for enjoyment 5
" Essay on Woman instantly to make :
" Essay on Woman be this Poem nam'd.
" Down o er the velvet plain, Abd-o-men call'd,

" The hand slides, glowing, to the zone of bliss----

" Stop hand, stop muse, nor farther now proceed,
" But, from th' extreme below, resume thy plan.
" On foot that's small, not large, she stands erect.
" Neat moulded legs shoot upwards to the knee;
" Whence (cones invers'd) the thighs alluring swell,
" Plump instruments in amorous debate,
" With pow'rs re-active fraught, when close imping'd
" To bound resilient, and give Quid pro Quo.
" Her turning arms hold fast th* impulsive culprit,
" Till ample satisfaction be effus'd
" For the bold inroad; and till fall'n his crest
u Submissive he withdraws, and sins no more."

The first seven lines of Canto 2 are addressed to the Muses;
after which the author returns to earth again:
" Where last we halted is a mystick ring,
" As oft the source of evil as of goodj

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" Evil ne'er flows but thro' the vice of others,
" As the dire sack of Troy, old Priam's Fall.
" Tis a fond pouting puss, means good to all;
" And thereby hangs----no----oft'ner springs a tail.1'

The writer now arrives at the point of his poem. Wilkes,

under the name of Florio, is apostrophised as :

u fair Freedom's voluntary champion, 1

" Unbrib'd, unpension'd, he stept forth, the cause
" Of ev'ry true born subject to maintain 5 &c."

" Now guess the mighty charge they brought against him;
" He had a poem, ay, a bawdy book 5
" Nay, a profane one, left him by a friend,
" Its merry theme sweet Tuzzi of the vale ! &c."

The blame of bringing this book before the public is then

thrown on the shoulders of Wilkes's persecutors; the matter is

discussed between the men and the women, and the latter are

for acquitting Wilkes because his crimes were not against

nature:

" the Women, furious grown,
" Exclaim'd, 'Ye can't say Florio sodomiz'd;
" • Some merit, sure, in these degen'rate days.' "

A council is held on the subject in Olympus, and Mercury is

dispatched to earth to set things straight:

" Eftsoons precipitant to Gotham's senate
" He flew; there gaz'd on the grave masks of dullness:
a Thrice wav'd his wand, and thrice the seniors felt
" (The cause unknown, invisible the God)
" An instantaneous twinge in ev'ry groin,
" Like an electric stroke in breast or arm.
" While th' oafs stand anxious by the sudden cramp,
t( Off fall their Vis, to all gape Cons in lieu—
" What shuffling, waddling, shambling in their gait,

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" For Bungs, for Plugs, for Spunges, all cry out,
" To fill the new made void; their steps to ballast:
" And be more steady in their walk, than principles

The " Epilogue " consists of two lines only:

" Thus sang Wanlovius ; thus GrenobUfs Bishop,
" With learned Notes, elucidates the Song.*'

with the following notes concerning the two personages:

" Julio Wardovl, Senator of Lucca? and " A prelate notorious

in France for his friendship to the Jesuits, and some very

sanguine letters written in their behalf------"

The verses of this poem are certainly not brilliant, the wit is
not pungent, nor are the author's point and purpose clear.
Copious Notes are appended, which in no way resemble those
attached to Wilkes's production.

2 " an iffstfap on Wlomdn, in Three Epistles. London:
Printed for the Author. (Price One Shilling and Sixpence.) "

Small 4to. (counts 2); pp. 17 in all; fleuron on title page ;
published at the time by Freeman.

This version, which consists of 253 lines in all, is based upon
the " Essay on Man," but is in no way obscene; there are no
notes whatever; nor does the volume contain any other poem
than the " Essay on Woman." There is a copy in the British
Museum with press mark 1. 1 5.

It was thus noticed at the time: *

* Monthly Review for 1763, vol. 29, p. 465.

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"A foolish catch penny parody on a few lines in Pope's
Essay on Man; such as the following couplet:

' Why have not women microscopic eyes ?

' For this plain reason, women are not flies!

" There is very litde more deviation from the words of the
Author, in any of the verses: but we suppose the industrious
Grubean thought anything would do to humbug the curiosity of
the public, so violently excited by Mr. Kidgell's narrative of an
unpublished, obscene, and exceedingly prophane libel."

The same poem exists in another form, and with a French
translation as follows:

3 " &t tiftgap on Wlomm, in Three Epistles. London:
Printed for the Author. And Sold by Mr. Grrtton, in Bond-
Street. And Mr. Pottingrr, in Pater-Noster-Row."

There is the following tide in French en face :

" Cfctfat Jfur la ftvmt, en Trois Epitres. Traduit de
L'Anglois. Londres: Impriml pour L'Auteur. Et se vend

( M. Gretton, dans le Bond-Street,
Chez < &

( M. Pottingrr, in Pater-Noster-Row."

8vo.; pp. 40 in all; a fleuron on each tide page; no other
poem than the " Essay," and no notes; evidendy printed at
the time. A copy sold for £1.8. o., in 1876, at Sotheby's*

* Cat. of the Library of W. T. B. Ashley Esq., No 1470.

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This is the version which Martin* accepted as the genuine
composition of Wilkes 5 he gives the tide exact and in full, the
size, and correct quantity of pages, and says even: " There is a
Tide page in French." But he adds with some naivett: " Tlie
Editor has never seen a copy of this volume; and his attention
has been drawn to it by a friend who has made great enquiries
into the political transactions of the time, especially as relating
Junius."

This I take also to be the poem alluded to by Lowndes-f- as:
" In three Epistles, London, printed for the Author, and sold
by Mr. Gretton in Bond Street, and Mr. Pottinger in Paternoster
Row, 1763, 8vo, pp. 40. Printed in red, with an obscene print
on the tide page." It differs, however, from his description in
three respects: it is not printed in red, is without date, and
there is no obscene print on the tide page. It would seem that
Lowndes has muddled up this " Essay " with that by Wilkes,
which had a " frontispiece, engraved curiously on copper con-
taining the tide of the poem." J Qu6rard, and Barbier^
have also been misled in this respect: " Cette Edition d'une
poem qui fit beaucoup de bruit en Angleterre, pr^sente
en regard de l'anglais une traduction fran9aise, qui, k en

* Bibliographical Catalogue of privately printed Books, 1854, p. 58 and
addenda p. 565.

t Bibliographer's Manual, vol. 5, p. 2920.

X See p. 203, ante.

§ La France Litt6raire, vol. 10, p. 514.

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juger par le style, ne peut Atre que l'ouvrage d'un Anglais.
II est k prlsumer qu'elle a 6t6 faite par Wilkes lui m£me,
ou par son ami Churchill,* auquel le fougueux Icrivain
s'adresse dfts son debut, en le designant par lalettre C."

This version is then a spurious one, and is moreover entirely

devoid of literary merit; throughout the whole poem, page

by page, there runs en face, a prose translation in French. The

opening lines are:

" Awake my C.....t leave all things beside,

" To low ambition, and to Scottish pride :
u Let us (since life can little more supply,
" Than, just to fight a duel}:.... and to die)
" Expatiate, freely, upon Woman-kind;
" And trace, the mighty errors of her mind j *' &c.

Thus put into French:

"Reveilles-toi, cher C .... abandonnes tout k la basse ambi-
tion k l'orgueil Ecossois. Puisque la vie ne peut gudres
fournir que des occasions de se battre en duel.., & de mourir.
Etendons librement nos reflections sur le Sexe;" &c.

The poem terminates as follows:

" In Men we various ruling passions find,
" In Women... two alone divide the mind$
" Those only fixed, they, first or last, obey,
44 The love of pleasure, and the love of sway."

* This remark is absurd, for if the poem be addressed to Churchill, it
could not be written by him.

t Intended probably for Churchill.

t Alluding to that between Wilkes and Martin.

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4 44 G&I&P on tBBtomait* London: Printed for Gbo&gb
Richards, mdcclxix."

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 37 ex title; on the title page is
fleuron of a rose, with a single line above, and double lines
below it; the book is printed throughout, title and text, in red;
no frontispiece. This volume contains the " Essay on Woman,"
and " The Maid's Prayer" (of which the two first stanzas are in
a smaller type than the others). There are no notes except
the two names "Churchill" and "Lloyd" referring to the
second and fourth words of the second line of the " Essay."

This is the edition noticed by Bergeau* as: " in-8° de quarante-
huit pages, impriml en encre rouge, et soi-disant public par un
libraire du nom de George Richards, k la date de 1769." This
copy which the writer of the article says he has " sous les yeux,"
is without frontispiece. The writer continues: " Quelquefois la
po^sie en est pure, harmonieuse, 6lev6e: mais alors e'est Pope
lui-m6me qui parle, et non son affreux singe." Bergeau
tacitly accepts it as the genuine production of Wilkes, which
it is not. A copy of this comparatively worthless little
volume fetched the enormous sum of 563. 5. o., at Sotheby's
in 1876. -f-

* Le Bibliophile, p. 101.

t Cat. of the Library of W. T. B. Ashley, Esq., No. 1471.

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Of the same version there are several reprints,* viz.:

5 " Bit tiftgap on ®23oman, by J Wilkes, Esa. Aberdeen,
Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town
and Country. m,dcc,lxxxviii "

8vo.; pp. 23; contains the "Essay," and "The Maid's
Prayer " as in edition No. 4.

6 This vol. was reprinted in every respect exact, title and text,
(excepting numerous printer's blunders) by J. Scheiblb of
Stuttgart, in 1872, issue 100 copies only, at 1 thaler each.

The same poem was also reprinted in London some 10 or 15
years back, "The Maid's Prayer" being omitted, with the
following tide:

7 u$Xl tfstfap on ®Moman, by the celebrated John
Wilkes, Esa., M.P., Alderman, Lord Mayor, and Chamberlain
of the City of London. Suppressed by Authority. Price
Half-a-Crown. London: Printed and Published by R. Smith,
Drury Lane."

Small square 8vo. or i2mo.; pp. 24; this is probably
reprinted from another old edition which I have not had in
hand. There is other edition with tide:

* Mention is made in u Notes and Queries" (2nd S. No. 79, July 4,
1857, p. 2) of an edition with impress: "Printed for George Richards
mdcclxxh," in red, " and not a single note throughout." This I have not
seen, but it appears to be a reprint of the edition above noticed as No. 4.

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8 "<3n dftewap on ®Koman By the celebrated John
Wilkes, Esq. M.P. London Printed for the Booksellers "

8vo.; pp. 18; contains the " Essay on Woman " only.

This " Essay on Woman" (as contained in Nos. 4, 5, 6,
7, 8) is divided into 4 books, and commences thus :

" Awake my Sandwich, leave all meaner joys,
" To Charles* and Bob,f those true poetic boys j
" Let us, since life can little more supply,
" Than just to kiss, to procreate, and die,
" Expatiate free o'er all the female sex,
" Born to subdue, and studying to perplex 5** &c.

There are many indecent passages, but none blasphemous as
in Wilkes's poem; it is poorly written, and lacks wit and point.

This version is nevertheless particularly interesting, inas-
much as it is that against which Earl Stanhope stumbled. He
says : J " It appears that Wilkes had several years before, and
in some of his looser hours, composed a parody of Pope's
'Essay on Man.' In this undertaking, which according to

* " Churchill." f " Lloyd." These two names are omitted in the London re-
print which I have just mentioned as No. 7, although the signs appear in the
text over " Charles " and " Bob," indicating that the notes should be at the foot
of the page; they are however given in the edition which I have noticed as No.
8. On the other hand a foot note which is given to the name " Rock " (Book
4, line 1,) in the editions numbered 5 and 6, is wanting in Nos. 4, 7, and 8.

% History of England, vol. 5, p. 66.

be

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his own account (Examination of Michael Curry at the Bar of
the House of Lords, Nov. 15, 1763), cost him a great deal of
pains and time, he was, it is said, assisted by Thomas Potter,
second son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, who had
been secretary of Frederick Prince of Wales, and had since
shown ability and gained office in the House of Commons, but
was (as well became one of Wilkes's friends) of lax morals in
his private life. The result of their joint authorship, however,
has litttle wit or talent to make any amends for the blas-
phemy and lewdness with which it abounds. As the original
had been inscribed by Pope to Lord Bolingbroke, so was the
parody by Wilkes to Lord Sandwich ; thus it began,f Awake
my Sandwich !' instead of € Awake my St. John!' Thus also,
in ridicule of Warburton's well known Commentary, some
burlesque notes are appended in the name of the Right
Reverend the Bishop of Gloucester." In the version in
question there are no notes, except in the explanation of three
names, as before mentioned.

" The Maid's Prayer," as given in Nos. 4, 5, and 6, is also
spurious; it contains 5 four-line stanzas, the first and last of
which run thus:

" To the propitious God of Love,
" A Maid prefers her pray'r,

" Reclin'd she lies in Venus' Grove,
" And hopes her darling there.

" Then send him, send the sturdy youth,
" To ease a maiden's care;

" And grant that all who love with truth
" Some Damon—split their hair."

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9 " <$0£fap Olt Oman London Printed for F. Sumpter
in Fleet Street 1764."

8vo .; pp. 3a. I transcribe the " Advertisement" in extenso:

" It is of little importance to the public to know how the
following pages came into the hands of the publisher; suffice it
to say that they are genuine, Mr. Wilkes character as a patriot
is universally known—perhaps this Pamphlet may set his
character as a Man in a new light. Certain persons, eminent
for their exalted stations and for nothing else, have taken great
pains to represent Mr. Wilkes as a Devil incarnate; whether he
is or is not the person he has been represented, will in some
measure appear from this publication. The frontispiece to
this Essay is now engraving by the only Person who could be
found hardy enough to undertake it, and it will be delivered
gratis to the purchasers of this Pamphlet as soon as it is finished.
London Feb. 14 1764."

The publisher has evidently a favourable bias towards
Wilkes, but the spurious poem which he gives to the world is
not calculated to raise his reputation, at any rate as an author,
for weaker trash can hardly be imagined; it is a pointless, ram-
bling effusion on Woman, in unitation of the " Essay on Man."
Wilkes's name does not occur throughout the poem, which
begins:

"Awake my Celia, leave all meaner things,
" And seek the source from whence all pleasure springs,

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" Let us, since life can little more supply
" Than just to love awhile and then to die,
" Expatiate free this scene of Woman o'er,
" No matter whether virtuous or a
"A garden in whose centre takes root,

" A tree that tempts us *vith forbidden fruit,
" Together let us beat the ample field
a And try what toys can yield.'1 &c.

The poem terminates thus:

" Cease then, nor more love fault or folly name,
" Our highest bliss springs from the sacred flame,
" Know thy felicity, the due degree
" Of ajnourous joys that heaven bestows on thee,
" Submit, or marry'd or unmarry'd still
" Thou'rt always sure of love to have thy fill,
" The coldest pride can love unknown to thee,
" All scolding's fondness quite misunderstood
" Wenching, though thought an evil, is a good:
" And spight of pride in erring natures spight,
" Man's in the wrong and woman's in the right."

There are a commentary and notes signed "Bendey and
" G." Here is a specimen note to the last line I have quoted
from the opening of the poem :

"Ver. 10 'And try what toys, &c/ Many critics of great
learning and sagacity have despared of restoring the words .here
omitted. After having scrutenized the passage according to
the strict canons of verbal criticism, I without the least scruple
or doubt propose the following reading

' And try what toys such luscious fruits can yield.*

Sic lege meo periculo. g."

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The " Essay" is followed by ten other poems, viz:

€€VbtJ!te(ttf*$r*vttff « faxmp* €hatm*>''
Gartrr," " 3»aoman>* ^Resolution," " Cfct ^roffrtsw of
fcobt* «C|)e$(ou* #un» "Whtlobtt too\%» "Ct)t
Art of Wloom" u»ol(H toortft te a WHitf and "Cfct

&tOttf) none of which have any connection

with Wilkes or his productions. The first, "The Maid's

Prayer," is similar in name only; it is in 6 stanzas, of 4 lines

each, the first and last of which are:

" Come Venus queen of soft desires

" Unloose a virgin's vest
" And fan oh fan those holy fires
u Which e'er can make her blest.

" Then help oh Venus help the maid

" Who firm on thee relies
" And guided by thy mighty aid

" Through love's soft lab'rinth hies."

10 "Bit tifrtfap Ott 0®oman and Other Pieces printed at
the private press in Great George-street, Westminster, in 1763,
and now reproduced in fac-simile from a copy believed to be
unique To which are added Epigrams and Miscellaneous
Poems Now first Collected By the Right Hon. John Wilkes
M.P. for Aylesbury, and afterwards Lord Mayor of London
Preceded by" an introductory narrative of the extraordinary
circumstances connected with the prosecution of the author in
the House of Lords, digested and compiled from contemporary
writers London Privately Printed, September mdccclxxi "
" Crown 4to." ; pp. v, xvi, and 263. ex bastard title; toned

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paper 5 published by J. C. Hotten; price 564. o. 0., bound
Roxburgh; issue 250 copies, of which 225 were, in 1873, ^^
to Mr. Bouton of New York.

This volume contains what I take to be the genuine " Essay
on Woman," and the three other poems with the notes as in
the edition which heads this notice; also twenty-two other short
poems by Wilkes, not obscene, nor of importance or special
merit; all these poems, with a separate full title, are printed in
red, the remainder of the volume being in black. There
are further, an Introduction, and an Appendix comprising
twenty-seven various historical extracts concerning Wilkes, his
works, character, and doings, many of which I have used in
the present notice. The whole forms a handsome library
volume. This edition was not, as stated on the title page, " re-
produced in fac-simile from a copy printed at the private press
in Great George-street," but from some reprint, which I have
not seen, but from which the edition heading this notice was
probably in its turn reprinted.

Before closing this notice let me recapitulate. I have made
mention of thirteen different works and editions all bearing
the same title, " Essay on Woman viz., eleven which I
have personally examined, the one noticed in " Notes and
Queries,"* and that last alluded to which Hotten used for
his impression. Of these thirteen publications three only

* See ante, p. 224.

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contain what I suppose to be the poem written by Wilkes.
There are doubtless several other editions, besides that struck
off by the author himself, with which I am not acquainted.
Let me add in conclusion that no copy can be considered
original which does not answer to the following requirements:
viz. 1 It must be " a parody on Mr. Pope's i Essay on Manf
almost line for line." 2. It must be " printed in red." 3. It
must have a "frontispiece engraved curiously on copper,"
which " contains the title of the poem:' An Essay on Woman;'
a motto, very suitable to a work which is calculated to depre-
ciate the sex; a most obscene print, by way of decoration,
under which is engraved in the Greek language and character,
The Saviour of the World." 4. " The title is succeeded by a
few pages of Advertisement and Design." *

John Wilkes was born in St. John's Street, Clerkenwell,
Oct. 17, 1727, O.S., and died at his house in Grosvenor
Square, Dec. 26, 1797.

Of his marvellous career, of the persecution he underwent on
account of the notorious No. 45 of the " North Briton,"-f- of his
imprisonments, his exclusion from the House of Commons,
and his final triumph over that body, of his^xird-Mayoralty,
and the idolatry with which the people regarded him, I shall
say nothing here; those episodes belong rather to the history of

* Kidgell's Narrative, cited ante, p. 203.

t Refer to (among numerous other books) " Copies taken from the Re-
cords of the Court of King's-Bench."

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his country, and find a fitter place there than in a book devoted
to bibliography.

Although a man of pleasure, and a libertine, Wilkes's public
career, it must be owned, was bold, and disinterested. " His
conduct as a magistrate was not only unexceptionable, but
spirited and exemplary; and as a guardian of the city youth,
he has not been excelled by any of his predecessors."*
Although not a model husband he was a loving and devoted
father, and possessed the respect and affection of his daughter.
His manners were gendemanly and affable, and despite his
ugliness he was highly successful with the fair sex; of his wit,
high spirits, and powers of conversation, there is but one
opinion; finally he was no hypocrite.

Lord Broughanrf- thus sketches him: " He had received a
good education; was a fair classical scholar; possessed the
agreeable manners of polished society; married an heiress half
as old again as himself; obliged her by his licentious habits
and profligate society, to live apart from him; &c. Indeed, it is
only justice towards him to remark that there was so litde
about him of hypocrisy—the 4 homage due from vice to virtue *
being by him paid as reluctantly and as sparingly as any of his
other debts—that, even while in the height of his popularity,
hardly any doubt hung over his real habits and dispositions."

* City Biography, p. 104.

t Historical Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the Time of
George III, 3rd series, London, 1843.

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Charles Johnson* gives us the following admirable portrait:
" He had such a flow of spirits, that it was impossible ever to
be a moment dull in his company. His wit gave charms to every
subject he spoke upon; and his humour displayed the foibles of
mankind in such colours, as to put folly even out of countenance.
But the same vanity which had first made him ambitious of
entering into this society,-J* only because it was composed of
persons of a rank superior to his own in life, and still kept him
in it, though upon acquaintance he despised them, sullied
all these advantages. His spirits were often stretched to ex-
travagance, to overpower competition. His humour was
debased into buffoonery; and his wit was so prostituted to the
lust of applause, that he would sacrifice his best friend for a
scurvy jest; and wound the heart of him, whom he would at
that very moment hazard his life and fortune to serve, only to
raise a laugh; in which he was also assisted by a peculiar
archness of disposition, and an unlucky expertness in carrying
his jests into practice, as he proved on this occasion." %

Gibbon^ says: "I scarcely ever met with a better com-
panion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour,
and a great deal of knowledge."

Nichols,|| who also knew Wilkes, has left record that he

* Chrysal 5 or the Adventures of a Guinea, vol. 3, chap. ao.

t The Fraternity of Medmenham Abbey, see post, p. 234.

X Alluding to the practical joke played by Wilkes on the Earl of
Sandwich, mentioned at p. 211, ante.

§ Miscellaneous Works.
II Literary Anecdotes, vol. 9, p. 477.

PF

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was: " Full of wit, easy in his conversation, elegant in his
manners, and happy in a retentive memory, his company was a
perpetual treat to his friends."

Wilkes was a " Monk of the Order of St. Francis," one of
the brotherhood who assembled at Medmenham Abbey to
perform, what have been termed, the " English Eleusinian
Mysteries." Of that once notorious establishment he has
himself left us a short account.* In the third volume of
" Chrysal," will also be found a description of the abbey and of
the rites therein performed; but the best notice with which I
am acquainted, is that contained in the introduction to the first
volume of a scarce and curious book, entided "Nocturnal
Revels; or the History of KingVPlace, &c., By a Monk of
the Order of St. Francis. London 1779."

The following characteristic anecdote I extract from the
"City Biography" (p. 110). "Wilkes performed every act of
debauchery, political and female, with much pleasantry and
caution. He once took the opinion of counsel (the late Sir
Fletcher Norton) how he should avoid an action for seduction,
if he took a certain girl from her father into keeping. A
lawyer who cannot advise a client how to evade a law, as well
as to secure himself by the law, has but half-learnt his profession.
Sir Fletcher, who knew both, advised Wilkes to «take the girl
as an upper servant, and give her double wages,—extra wages

* See Notes to Churchill's Poem, The Candidate.'

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denoting that something more than common services were ex-
pected to be performed by her.' Wilkes took the hint, and
actually kept his JUle de joie and chamber-maid at twenty pounds
per annum, at the same time anathematising the whole
profession,—swearing by his Goddess Venus, that the name of
a lawyer was but another for a scoundrel."

As a member of the "Beef-Steaks," Wilkes, we are told,
presented to that " Sublime Society " a copy of his " Essay on
Woman." " To his great surprise, however, the grossness of its
language, and the unblushing blasphemy that pervaded it, excited
the disgust of every member, and it was unanimously rejected.
Wilkes did not visit the Club afterwards; but when he left the
kingdom, he was made an honorary member, as a compliment
justly due to the wit, spirit, and humour which had so long
delighted the table."*

" In his person, Mr. Wilkes was tall, agile, and very thin.
His complexion was sallow, and he had an unfortunate cast of
his eyes, that rendered his face particularly liable to be carica-
tured."-^ How thoroughly this has been done we all know
through Hogarth's famous portrait, which, although a gross
caricature, probably gives a correct though exaggerated re-
presentation of his features; this caricature Wilkes had the
good sense not to be offended with. " His personal appearance

* The Clubs of London; &c., London, 1828, 2 vols., vol. 2, p. 22; See
also Clubs and Club Life in London, by John Timbs, p. 114.

f City Biography, p. 102, see also The Georgian Era, vol. 1, p. 312.

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(says Lord Brougham) was so revolting as to be hardly
human." Here is an epigram which appeared at the time :

" Says John Wilkes to a lady, pray name if you can,
" Of all your acquaintance, the handsomest man ?
" The lady replied, if you'd have me speak true,
" He's the handsomest man that's the most unlike you."*

an ®tf a 1& CfltnpSgltt correspondance de Deux Jeunes
Parisiennes recueillie par Un Auteur a la Mode.

mdccclx viii

Large i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 227 ex titles; prices: " Papier
de Hollande frcs. 20, Grand papier de Hollande (6 ex) frcs. 30.,
Papier de Chine (6 ex) frcs. 40."; on the tide page, which
is printed in red and black, is a small satyr's head; a spirited
frontispiece d, feau forte by F. Rops ; published in Brussels,
end of 1867, by Poulet-Malassis. Condemned in France
by the tribunal of Lille, May 6, 1868.^

In October, 1875, A. Christiaens of Brussels reprinted the
work in 2 vols.; i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 122, and 128 ex titles;
titles identical, except that they are in black only, have vol.-
indication, and " Avec 8 gravures sur acier;" these engravings
(two of which are allegorical frontispieces, one for each volume)
are prettily done; they are by F. L.; price of the 2 vols. 20 frcs#
[" Un fit6 k la Campagne " est un des livres les mieux Merits
dans ce genre. Le rdcit est naturel et sans exag£ration, et

* The Cabinet of Fancy, or Bon Ton of the Day, see ante, p. 149.
t Cat. des Ouvrages Condamnls, p. 83 ; and Le Moniteur, Sept. 19, 1868

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mcme dans les trois ou quatre passages les plus scabreux le
language n'est pas trop (MpouilM (Cartifice comme dirait
Boileau.]*

" Roman erotique, moderne et in6dit, qui peut soutenir la
comparaison avec les plus agr£ables productions du 18me sidcle
en ce genre."-^

These commendations are not unmerited. Although the epi-
sodes are neither very striking or novel, they are natural and
agreeable ; and the book is written throughout with that delicacy
of expression only attainable in the French language. The
letters pass between two girls of entirely different natures—the
one of decidedly male proclivities, the other thoroughly femi-
nine ; they have been intimate at school, and now mutually com-
municate their experiences; Albertine tells chiefly her conquests
among her own sex, while Addle narrates her discoveries gained
by peeping through key holes and windows, until she willingly
sacrifices her own virginity, and this she writes to her friend
with all the details. They both get married, and though the
tender Addle soon becomes reconciled to domestic life, Albertine
" n'a pas r£ussi k se rallier entidrement k l'amour orthodoxe;
elle est rest6e quelque peu heretique, et ne peut se d^fendre
d'une predilection marquee pour celles de ses jeunes pension-
naires (she keeps a school) qui, k une jolie figure, joignent des
formes notablement accusees."

* See Introduction, ante,
t Bulletin Trimestriel, No. a.

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" Un l§t6 k la Campagne " has been ascribed, but falsely, to
M. Droz ; the author's name is not known, but the origin of
the book is as follows: A young man called one day on M.
Poulet-Malassis, then in partnership with M. L£crivain, and
offered him an erotic novel which he had written, and which
the enterprising publisher purchased for a trifling sum. On
looking the MS. through, M. Poulet-Malassis found that
although the style was dull, the tale was capable of improve-
ment ; he set to work, rewrote the book, and made of it what
he afterwards gave to the public. If then he did not conceive
the work, M. Poulet-Malassis may at least claim the honour
for being its part author.

®JTfcffn'tfon Of female Jflafftllante, in the Modest & In-
continent World, Proving from indubitable Facts that a
number of Ladies take a secret Pleasure in whipping their
own, and Children comitted (sic) to their care, and that
their Passion for exercising and feeling the Pleasure of a
Birch-Rod, from Objects of their Choice of both Sexes, is
to the full as Predominant as that of Mankind. Now
First Published, from Authentic Anecdotes, French &
English, found in a Lady's Cabinet. Embellished with
six beautiful Quarto Prints, Superior to any thing of
the kind ever Published. London. Printed for G.
Peacock N® 66. Drury Lane.

8vo; pp. 51; the title page is engraved, and the letters
are mostly in italics; there is a pretty oval vignette representing

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39

Cupid bound to a tree, and a young girl seated, preparing a
birch to chastise him.# The work as it stands is complete in
itself, although a second part was afterwards published.

In 1872 J. C. Hotten reprinted this vol. (in 8vo., pp. 67,
adding date 1777, and omitting any mention of the "plates," X
the title in other respects printed verbatim) and six other works
on Flagellation, to be specified anon, which he classified as:
" Library Illustrative of Social Progress. From the Original
Editions collected by the late Henry Thomas Buckle, Author
of c A History of Civilization in England.' " He further had
printed on separate sheets, and distributed among his private
customers, the following circular and list:

" the mania for flogging and thb birch."

" It is well known that the the late Henry Thomas Buckle,
author of € A History of Civilization,' collected a large library
of curious books. Amongst the many topics that engaged his
attention was the subject of Chastisement, viz., Discipline
with a Birch or other implement. By rare good fortune, he
collected an almost complete set of the astounding books issued
by George Peacock, in the last century, and as no other ex-
amples of some of these rarities are known to exist, it is
proposed to privately print a few copies as c Curiosities of

* I have only seen one copy of this tract, which had been much cut down
by the binder, it is probable that the title began with " The," and there may
have been a date. The copy in question was unfortunately without plates.

t See post, p. 245.

t This remark applies to the whole series, given on next page.

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Literature.' Apart from their extreme rarity, the works are
remarkable for the light they throw upon the state of society
in the last century, and the mania that possessed all classes for
chastising and being chastised.

"Accompanying this is a list of the 7 volumes already
proposed. The price will be 15s. per volume, or for the
series, payable in advance. A volume will be issued each
month, commencing with January 1872.

" The paper will be made expressly, and ribbed or wire-laid,
precisely as the paper of the last century. The printing will be
of the very choicest description; in fact, neither expense nor
pains will be spared in the production.

" Should collectors of curious books care to pursue Mr.
Buckle's studies farther, it is proposed to continue with the
4Dancing' and other Manias that have in other times
possessed society.*

" 1. Exhibition op Female Flagellants in the Modest
and Incontinent World.

" 2. Part Second of the Exhibition op Female Flagel-
lants in the Modest and Incontinent World.

" 3. Lady Bumtickler's Revels. A Comic Opera, as
Performed at a Private Theatre with unbounded Applause.

" 4. A Treatise of the U.se op Flogging in Venereal
Affairs. Also in the Office of the Loins and Reins. By
Meibomius.

* No other series except that at present under notice was done.

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241

" 5. Madam Birchini's Dance. A Modern Tale, with
Original Anecdotes collected in Fashionable Circles. By Lady
Termagant Flaybum.

" 6. Sublime op Flagellation : in Letters from Lady
Termagant Flaybum to Lady Harriet Tickletail.

"7. Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered
with Birch Discipline, by the following Beautiful Ladies."

Now in all this there is not a word of truth; the original
tracts did not come from the library of Buckle, nor had he, in
all probability, ever seen them. All seven had been for many
years, and are still, in the possession of a well known London
collector. They are bound together in one volume half calf,
and in exacdy the order in which Hotten reproduced them, but
which is certainly not in accordance with the dates of their
original publication. The fact is the present possessor of the
volume in question lent it to Hotten, who had it surreptitiously
reprinted, without the owner's permission or knowledge.

Hotten's edition consists of 250 copies of each vol., not more
than 30 of which had been sold at the time of his death, the
remainder of the issue was then disposed of in 1873, to Mr.
J. W. Bouton, of New York.

Two remarks may at once be made concerning the whole
series (excluding of course the able tfork of Meibomius,
No. 4 of Hotten's reissue, which should not be associated with
the other rubbish). In a literary point of view they are
generally worthless, and are insufferably dull and tedious,—one
00

\

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idea—one only—is harped upon throughout all of them, and
this is not true to nature. Flagellation, if it has any value, is a
preparation for, an incentive to, a higher pleasure (for it can
scarcely be called a pleasure itself), a means towards an end,
not the end itself. Now, in no single anecdote throughout the
series is the flagellation immediately followed by anything else;
the chastisement begins and ends each performance.

Further, it is always the woman who wields the rod, never
the man, and this, to say the least of it, is entirely one sided ;
for there can be no doubt that men have as strong a predilec-
tion for whipping girls (and even boys) as for being whipped
themselves.

With regard to the volume under consideration, " Exhibition
of Female Flagellants," it is a collection of anecdotes in prose,
illustrative of the passion for the birch when administered by
the woman to the man; and in birching, as in most other things,
skill and delicacy are necessary : u Know then thou silly girl,
(said Flirtilla) there is a manner in handling this sceptre of
felicity, that few ladies are happy in: it is not the impassioned
and aukward brandish of a vulgar female that can charm, but
the deliberate and elegant manner of a woman of rank and
fashion, who displays all that dignity in every action, even to
the flirting of her fan, that leaves an indelible wound. What a
difference between high and low-life in this particular ! To see
a vulgar woman when provoked by her children, seize them as
a tyger would a lamb, rudely expose their posteriors, and

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correct them with an open hand, or a rod more like a broom
than a neat collection of twigs elegantly tied together; while a
well-bred lady, coolly and deliberately brings her child or pupil
to task, and when in error, so as to deserve punishment, com-
mands the incorrigible Miss to bring her the rod, go on her
knees, and beg with uplifted hands an excellent whipping;
which ceremony gone through, she commands her to lye across
her lap, or to mount on her maid's shoulders, and then with
the loveliest hands imaginable removes every impediment from
the whimpering lady's b—e, who all the time, with tears, and in-
treatiesof the sweetest kind implores her dear mother or governess,
to pardon her; all which the lovely disciplinarian listens to with
the utmost delight, running over with rapture at the same time
those white, angelic orbs, that in a few minutes she crimsons as
deep as the finest rose, with a well-exercised and elegantly-
handled rod!" (p. 4). Compare with this a passage at p. 181
of " The Merry Order of St. Bridget,'* in which the same idea
is reproduced, and which I transcribe under that title.

Of the " Exhibition of Female Flagellants " there are two
other editions, viz.:

®rt)ffutfon of ftmnlt Jflaffellante, Suus cuique
mos. London : Printed at the Expense of Theresa Berkley,
for the Benefit of Mary Wilson, by John Sudbury, 252, High
Holborn."

On this title page there is a vignette of a hand brandishing a

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rod. A second tide page, decorated with a small Roman lamp,
gives us: " (Ejrfofibttto ;fIagtUanttunu

Delicias pariunt Veneri crudelia flagra ;

Dum nocet, ille juvat, dum juvat, ecce nocet

Londini: Apud Nourse et Wingrave. 1793"

Tall i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 58 including one title page only;
4 coloured folding plates of fair execution, and a well engraved
frontispiece,* representing a very pretty girl wielding a birch,
under which is the name " Mary Wilson." This edition,
which was published about 1830, by John Cannon, contains the
same matter as the original, plus an " Advertisement," signed
Theresa Berkely, in which is given a short account of Mary
Wilson, and in which the first edition is mentioned as " origi-
nally published about fifty years since, and is now become so
very scarce as seldom to be obtained, and then not under Five
Guineas a copy."

The other edition is in the well known Holywell Street form,
8vo, pp. 64 in all, with 8 badly done lithographs; the tide is
identical with the English one of the edition immediately above
mentioned, minus "John Sudbury, 252, High Holbornit
contains all the matter in the original, the "Advertisement"
mentioned above, and an addition entitled "Fragmenta" (p. 55
to end of vol.), which comprises an anecdote from "The

* Reproduced by Hotten as Frontispiece to his publication, " The Ro-
mance of Chastisement/' see that title.

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Cherub," # and one or two other anecdotes of the same class.
This reprint was done about i860, by W. Dugdale.

44 part t&t &>ttoxils. of tfyt Wflbttton of ;ftmalt Jflaffri*

Iattt^ In the Modest and Incontinent World. Proving from
Indubitable Facts, That a Number of Ladies take a Secret Plea-
sure, In Whipping their own, And Children committed to their
care; and that their Passion for Exercising and Feeling the ex-
quisite Pleasure of a Birch-Rod, from objects of their Choice,
of Both Sexes, is to the full as Predominant, as that of Man-
kind. Now First Published from a Lady's Manuscript, and a
Number of Letters sent to the Editor of the First Part of this
original Work. Embellished with Six highly-finished Prints,
from beautiful Paintings. Price One Guinea Plain, or a Guinea
and a Half in Colours. London : Printed for George Pea-
cock, No. 66, Drury-Lane. mdcclxxxv."

8vo.; pp. viii and 60; letter-press title. Reproduced by Hot-
ten as No. 2 of the " Library Illustrative of Social Progress,"-J*
8vo.; pp. 84; from the title however is omitted the paragraph
referring to the illustrations and price; further Mr. Hotten cut
out of the "Preliminary Address" two passages in which
prints are mentioned, and suppressed in toto a curious and
facetious letter (covering, in the original, four pages), in which a
correspondent, " Philopodex," communicates to the editor his

* Given in this work, see p. 159.
t See p. 240, ante.

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opinions and advice respecting illustrations for " a very superb
work to be forthcoming very soon, entitled, 4 An Exhibition of
Female Flagellants.'" " In the first place then, (he observes)
I hope (a hope the title seems to encourage me in,) it will
consist of a display of Female Backsides, for though I think a
Ladies Bum uncovered an agreeable and diverting object, I
would not give a farthing to see a man's A—, this I believe is
only agreeable to persons of a certain description, too bad to be
countenanced: But to see the representation of an agreeable
young Lady having her petticoats pulled up, and her pretty
pouting Backside laid bare, and seeming to feel the tingling
stripes of a rod, is amusing enough : such is that excellent print
of yours, the Countess Du Barre's Whim, which is nearly
perfect in its kind—I would therefore, have your book contain
such subjects and such descriptions—Now a word or two to
the engraver. Let him pourtray the Lady's Backside, which no
doubt will be the principal figure in the piece, round, plump,
and large; rather over than under the size, which the usual
proportion of painters and statuaries would allow; let him in
general present it full and completely bared to the eye; though
in some plates for variety, he may give it us sideling, or a little
bit of the Ladies under petticoat or shift, shading some part of
it, and, let it be remembered, that if he has that complete
knowledge of his subject I imagine he has, and is a man of
genius, a large field is open before him to display it in. He may
show us several different sorts of Backsides, all of them natural,

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and proper; all of them elegant and handsome (for there is
almost as much difference in tails as in heads) but not all alike;
he certainly will not give the little round firm backside of fifteen
to five and thirty, nor the full mellow bum of the middle aged
Lady, to the boarding school Miss." Philopodex proceeds to
give directions as to the implement to be used, not " a great
wisp of something which they suppose will do to represent a
rod," but a "stinging tickle-tail, the dread of naughty Miss—
a tingling rod, which the admirers of this diversion might know
to be made of their darling birch," and he hints: " It is pro-
bable that in some of these prints, there will be other figures
besides the principal, the bare a—'d Lady; now though we
cannot have the satisfaction of seeing the pretty bums of them
all, an ingenious delineator might so contrive it, to heighten
the lusciousness of the whole piece, that one by some careless
posture might show her legs, another her breasts, and the dress of
others might be so managed, as to give us the idea of a very large
and full backside, concealed under the swelling drapery. Thus
would each plate present us with a very beautiful and enter-
taining tout ensemble, and these little circumstances and
adjuncts prove a seasonable relief to the eye, fatigued and
overpowered by the blaze of beauty, from the naked a—e of
the Lady enjoying the sweets of the Birch, darting full upon
us, without the least bit of petticoat, or smock interposing, by
way of cloud, to ease our scorched senses." "Philopodex" con-
cludes in a " P.S. I thought it unnecessary to advise you, that

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all the figures should be dressed ; every Lady should have her
shift on at least; nakedness must always in these matters
be partial, to give the highest degree of satisfaction."*

The second part of the " Exhibition of Female Flagellants "
is similar to the first—a collection of anecdotes about birchings
administered by female hands; the use of flowers-^ in" re
Veneria " is dilated upon : " After she had done (whipping her)
she took Miss N. to the garden, and picked for her a beautiful
nosegay, but so monstrously large that she was almost ashamed
to wear it. However as her friend wore one of an equal size,
she pinned it to her bosom; I see, my dear, said she, you are
not acquainted with the secret influence of flowers; know my
dear girl that their sweet perfume has an uncommon effect on
many men and women; but to have that effect on men they
must adorn a lovely bosom like yours." (p. 3).

According to the correct fashion the bouquet should be very
large, and worn on the left side of the breast.

* Some other passages relating to illustrations, but of no material im-
portance, have been expunged in Hotten's reprint.

t Refer on this subject to Mr. J. Davenport's " Aphrodisiacs and Anti-
aphrodisiacs " (p. 107), in which he quotes Cabanis to the following effect:
" Odours act powerfully upon the nervous system, they prepare it for all the
pleasurable sensations 5 they communicate to it that slight disturbance or
commotion which appears as if inseparable from emotions of delight, all which
may be accounted for by their exercising a special action upon those organs
whence originate the most rapturous pleasures of which our nature is susceptible.
In infancy its influence is almost nothing, in old age it is weak, its true epoch
being that of youth, that of love."

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There is yet another modern edition of the work, the title
slightly altered:

" ^art tfte Settovto. Cfce ftrnalt ffaQtllmte ut tin Beau*

jBOlltlt anJ tf)t MmUj&Otittt J proving from indubitable facts
that the Secret Pleasure of Whipping their own children and
those of others, and that the Delights of the Birch Rod are as
powerful in the female as in the masculine part of humanity.
Now First Published from the Manuscript of a Lady, and from
Original Correspondence addressed to the Editor of the First
Part. With highly Coloured Engravings. Two Guineas."

8vo.; pp. 62; 8 plates in all, fairly drawn and coloured, the
frontispiece is a fancy design, a winged arse in clouds, encircled
by male and female pudenda, with the words " Anecdotes of
Female Flagellants." This edition, which was published by
W. Dugdalb in 1866, contains the whole of the matter in the
original, including the letter of " Philopodex."

John Camden* Hotten was born in London 1832, and died
at his residence on Haverstock Hill, June 14, 1873. He was
the son of William Hotten, of Probus, and Maria, daughter of
Mr. Crowling, of Roche.-f-

" I was born (writes Mr. Hotten)^ in London, on the 12th of
September, 1832, in an old house, long since pulled down, ad-
joining the gate of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, formerly

* He was not christened " Camden/' but assumed that name,
t Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, vol. 1. p. 255.

J In a MS. still existing in his own hand-writing.

hh

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the head quarters of the English branch of the Knights Tem-
plars. My father and mother were from Probus, in Cornwall,
the churchyard of which little village is nearly full of the
tomb stones of the Hotten, Hotton, Hutton families. This
branch of the Hottens came from Gloucestershire, where a mem-
ber of the same branch had intermarried into the Camden family;
another branch had become connected with the Wren family,
from which came Sir Christopher Wren, the famous architect
of St. Paul's Cathedral. I was educated at the Manor House,
a collegiate school upon the estate of the Marquis of North-
ampton. At a very early age I showed a great passion for
books, and when 11 years old possessed a respectable library
of 450 vols., a catalogue of which is still preserved. This
library was stored in an old chamber of Dr. Adam Clarke's
residence, which my father had just purchased from the Clarke
family, adjoining the Palace of Bishop Berkeley.

"At 15 I exhibited such a strong love of books that Mr.
Petheram, the author of an Anglo-Saxon Grammar, and
kindred works, readily allowed md to spend a few hours each
day in his book store, which contained an extraordinary gather-
ing of curious old works. Mr., afterwards Lord, Macaulay
used to make daily visits to Mr. Petheram's shop for the
purpose of securing any old books and tracts which might suit
his collections. I used to lay aside anything which I thought
might interest the historian, and would often submit to him me-
moranda of books I had seen elsewhere. These litde attentions

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made me a favourite with ^Macaulay, who however, on one
occasion when in an irritable mood, threatened me with
chastisement for not speedily obtaining change for a ^5.-
Note, and in the heat of the moment actually did topple upon
me a large quarto volume which he held in his hand at the time.

" Soon after this I was prevailed upon to accompany my
elder brother to one of the West India Islands, which was to
be the field for a Robinson Crusoe scheme of adventure. The
family did all in their power to prevent our wild and romantic
determination, but we exhibited so much resolution that our
friends at length gave a reluctant consent for our departure.
After a narrow escape from shipwreck upon the reefs near the
Tortuga Islands, we landed at the Belize, with two chests of
books, and two chests of tools and fire-locks—the latter we
thought necessary to build and protect there a wooden house
or castle we decided upon building. After six weeks of the
realities of * adventure/ we found out the impracticability of our
scheme, and we separated at New Orleans, my brother Chris-
topher having selected Minnesota, and I having accepted the
offer of a gentleman to accompany him to Galena, Illinois.
My friend—who had been teaching in the south, and I took
passage in the ill-fated Unde Coby, out of whose 120
passengers 45 died of the cholera and where buried in egg
boxes on the Mississippi banks before Galena was reached.

"In Galena I made the acquainance of Captain Orrin
Smith's family; and it was in the Galena Gazette, conducted

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by Mr. Houghton, that my first literary contributions were
published. The Tannery of Mr. Grant, now President Grant,
lay just below my rooms, near Fever River. I knew him very
well, and certainly never supposed from his quiet manner that
he would reach his present position. With Mr. E. B.
Washburne I formed a warm friendship, and when in 1854 I
revisited my native country, and the present Minister to Paris,
with Millard Filmore, and Senator Morgan came to Europe"—
Here Mr. Hotten's own narrative abrupdy terminates.

In 1855 he commenced business in a very small shop, No. 151b
Piccadilly, directly opposite the larger establishment which
acquired a world wide renown under his rule; and a few years
later married a Miss Charlotte Stringer, by whom he had three
daughters now living, and a son who died in infancy.

Mr. Hotten was not only an enterprising publisher and clever
editor, he was also an author not destitute of merit, and would
no doubt have done better things had not his business so
completely absorbed his time. He was almost the only
respectable English publisher of tabooed literature, and in this
he took great delight His private library of erotic literature
was extensive, and was, at his death, purchased en bloc by a
London amateur.

Allibone* gives an imperfect list of his numerous publica-
tions, including, of the privately printed class, " Knight's

* Crit. Die. of English Literature, Vol. 2, p. 2325, art. " Syntax/'

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Worship of Priapus " only; most of the others of that kind
will be found noticed in these pages. I have no space to com-
plete Allibone's list of his general publications, but will mention
one book only, entirely written by Mr. Hotten, viz., " Literary
Copyright. Seven Letters addressed to Earl Stanhope. 1871."

Mr. Hotten was buried at Highgate Cemetery, and a modest
tombstone was erected to his memory by the London
booksellers.

At the time of his death there appeared in the colums of the
" Bookseller," a letter, truthful as it is kind and sympathetic,
from the pen of his friend, Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd ;
I venture to reproduce it here:

"As a caterer during the last fifteen years for the great
reading public in England, the name of John Camden Hotten
will not soon pass out of memory, and his early death
seems to call for some further notice than the brief announce-
ment in the obituary column of the Times.

" The career thus prematurely closed was in every sense a re-
markable one. Without either capital or friends to back him,
he succeeded, in an incredibly short space of time, in combating
all the disadvantages and drawbacks of his start in life; and, by
steady and indomitable perseverance, placed himself, in a few
years, at the very summit of his calling.

" During the last eight years he occupied a position as a pub-
lisher second to none in the trade. His acuteness in feeling the
pulse of the bookmarket, in gauging the public taste, and supply-
ing it with exactly the sort of literary pabulum it required, was
truly extraordinary. No public event or topic of general interest
but found him prepared with his book or brochure. No new
humourist or poet appeared among our Transatlantic brethren

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but he was imported and naturalized here for the delectation of
English readers. Artemus Ward, Lowell, Holmes, Walt
Whitman, Hans Breitmann, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, owe
nearly all their reputation here to him.

" Of late years he was extensively resorted to as publisher
by some of the most rising and promising of our younger
generation of poets. This branch of his business steadily
increased since 1866, when, it should be remembered to
his honour, he came forward as the champion of a young
genius against whom the reviews were then raising and
echoing a clamour of obloquy that caused a leading West-end
publishing firm to stop the sale of his books. It must
not be forgotten that he alone at that time had the courage
to offer himself as Mr. Swinburne's publisher, and by his
sturdy and persistent attitude, enabled the young poet to
weather the storm of abuse.

" A noticeable feature in his career was the kindness and
encouragement he was always ready to extend to young
beginners in literature, many of whom got a fair start
under his auspices which they would have found it difficult
to obtain elsewhere. When he saw they possessed talent,
and were willing to exert it, he at once put them into
harness; and if they sometimes rebelled against the yoke, and
thought they could ascend from the bottom to the top of the
ladder without the slow and painful process of mounting the
intermediate steps, that, surely, was their fault, and not his.

" When leisure sufficient presented itself, which was not often,
he would occasionally take the pen in hand himself, act as his own
editor, and write an amusing preface or biography like that of
William Coombe ; rarely lacking a certain pungency and verve,
but exhibiting generally the fatal defect of haste. The atmo-
sphere of hurry and worry in which he lived and moved and had
his being was, indeed, hardly compatible with the contemplative
habit of mind necessary for original composition; nor do I
suppose he would ever have attained much excellence in that

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department. His letters, however, of which some two hundred,
addressed to myself during the brief space of four years, now
lie before me, form an important exception to this remark 5
they were admirable in their kind—always graphic, terse, pithy,
epigrammatic, and to the point.

" He would often playfully allude to some humorous incident
in his past career, or himself quiz some odd quaint trait in his
own character, and laughingly say to me, ' That will do for a
page of my biography when you come to write it.' I little
thought then that I should so soon be called upon to pen a
memorial of him.

" No one who was ever privileged to enjoy a walk in his
company on the breezy heights of Hampstead, on one of those
rare occasions when he would throw off for an hour or two the
everlasting cark and worry of business, could have failed to notice,
or can easily forget, his keen enjoyment of the scenery and the
sunlight, or to understand how great was the sacrifice he im-
posed on himself in resolving

' To spurn delights and live laborious days.'
At such moments the better side of his nature would expand
itself in happy genial intercourse, and he would pour forth
a stream of anecdote and humour, of keen observations on
men and manners, and on the books that he loved so .well.
Nor shall I be transgressing the limits of a wise reserve when I say
that it was equally delightful to see him in his own house, in
the midst of whose modest happiness he would unbend as he
seldom allowed himself to do elsewhere. In such suburban
rambles, and in his own domestic circle, he seemed for a while
to regain all the joyous spirits and insouciance of a schoolboy.
Back at his business again, you scarcely recognised the same
man, and those who only knew him there knew only the less
amiable half of his character. In his indefatigable zest for
work he had little tolerance for anything like fainSantism or
shirking in those about him. He expected a loyal concurrence
and co-operation in all his plans, from the greatest to the least,

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and where he failed to get it, would not infrequently express
his displeasure in no measured terms.

" What a faculty for work he had was a lasting wonder even to
those who knew him best. He would reach Piccadilly at ten, read
and answer a mass of correspondence, sometimes extending to
fifty or sixty letters in one morning; he would see customers,
authors, artists, printers, stationers, binders, going into elaborate,
complicated details with each, and then, snatching half-an-hour
for a hasty meal in the neighbourhood, would go through the same
programme again in the afternoon, rarely leaving his shop much
before nine o'clock in the evening, and then frequently taking
some young writer or artist half the way home with him, to
discuss a new plan, or give instructions for fresh work. There
was something heroic in all this, if of a degenerate modern kind.
His fertile brain seemed never to be at rest. He overtasked it, and
it has at last given way under the strain. Essentially ' a man of
the time,' he felt he must keep pace with the railroad speed of
the age, or leave others to outstrip him in the race. As a loyal
servant to the public, untiring and unresting, he lived and died
in harness. Over his newly closed grave the little jealousies
and quarrels of the moment—' envy, hatred, and all unchari-
tableness'—must be silent. Whatever may have been his
faults and shortcomings, this is no place or tirtie to mention
them. The active brain has ceased from its labours; the dust,
the turmoil and the fever of life are over;—the impetuous
torrent of his existence is absorbed in that ocean of eternity
whither we all are hastening so fast. R. H. S."

;fasf)t0nable lectured: composed and delivered with
Birch Discipline, By the following, and many other
Beautiful Ladies, Who have filled with universal ap-
probation, the characters of Mother, Step-Mother, Govern-
ess, Lady's Maid, Kept-Mistress, House-Keeper, &c. &c.

Mrs. R—nson,
Lady G—r,
Mrs. M—h—n,
Mrs. B—n—11,
The late Miss Kennedy,
Kit Frederick,
Lady W—ley,
Mrs. R—pe,
Madame B—lli,
Charlotte Hayes,
Mrs. Rudd,
Miss C—t—
Mrs. H—nter,
Mrs. Miller,
Mrs. Bridgeman,
Mrs. Baker,
Mrs. Lessingham,
Mrs. Watson,
Mrs. Dal—pie,

Mrs. Price,
Miss C—ver—ng,
Clara Hay—d,
Mother Birch,
Mrs. Arm—d,
Mrs. Coxe,
Mrs. L—w—ce,
Mrs. Hughes,
Miss Scott,
Miss Villers,
Kitty Fisher,
Mrs. Austin,
Lucy Cooper,
Sally Harris,
Lady L—n—er,
Signora S—i,
Kitty Cut-a-dash,
Mrs. Car—,

Mrs. Booker,
Charlotte Spenccr,
Mrs. Corbyn,
Mrs. Judge,
Mrs. Far—ar,
Signora Frasi,
Signora G—lli,
Fanny Murray,
Fanny Herbert,
Miss Faulkner,
Mrs. Woff—gton,
Nancy Parsons,
Signora Z—lli,
Mrs. Badd—ly,
Miss Oliver,
Miss Goldsmith,
The Countess of Mediua,
Mrs. Wil—n,
Miss Ray,

Mrs. Bulk—y,

With Preliminary Observations on the Pleasures of Birch,
administered by the lovely hand of a Favourite Lady.
Embellished with a fine half-sheet Print of a Step-mother
whipping her Son.

Philosophers who've studied Nature,
And all our holy Fathers swear,
A Rod's the best invigorator,

A Rod applied upon the Rear. Vide, Madame Birchini's Dance.
'Tis as great a Provocative as Cantharides or Viper Broth, for it irritates
the Blood, and gives new vigour to the flagging Spirits.

The Wanton Jesuit, an Opera.

The Fourth Edition, With Considerable Additions.

London: Printed for G. Peacock, No. 66, Drury-Lane.

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8vo.; pp. 42; although only*one "print" is mentioned on the
title page, others seem to have been added, for in the catalogue
terminating " Madame Birchini's Dance," as well as in that at
end of " Lady Bumtickler's Revels," I find the book advertised
"With six prints, plain 1. o., or coloured ^£1. 11. 6."

Reprinted by Hotten as the seventh and last vol. of the
"Library Illustrative of Social Progress ;"* 8vo.; pp. 120 and2
unnumbered of catalogue; title page verbatim, except that the
quotations and mention of the print are omitted.

This is the most curious, original, and, as I take it, ope of the
first published tracts of the series.-f- It may be called the drama
of flagellation, the action being conveyed entirely by dialogues or
monologues. My reasons for supposing that it was the first of
the series are these : 1 The " Exhibition of Female Flagellants,
part 1," begins with an allusion to the work : "Mere fiction (says
Clarissa, closing the Fashionable Lectures, which she had been
just reading), ridiculous nonsense!" And an advertisement at
the end of Part 2 of the same work intimates that " Fashionable
Lectures " can be had with " a new edition of the first part of
this Work just published." 2. "Fashionable Lectures" figures
in the Catalogue terminating " Madame Birchini's Dance."
3. At the end of the "Sublime of Flagellation," appears
this very curious:

* Refer to p. 241 of this work.

t I mean of course the first edition of the book, the one which heads
this notice, be it remarked, is the fourth edition. The quotation from " Madame
Birchini's Dance " on the title page which I have transcribed over leaf may have
been added to that late edition.

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" CARD,

" Addressed to Gentlemen Flagellants.

" A short while after the Fashionable Lectures appeared in
Paris, the following Card was delivered by the booksellers to
every purchaser of the work.

" All those purchasers of the Lectures, who may have a
curiosity to judge of their effect when delivered with propriety,
will be referred to a lady of distinguished personal and mental
accomplishments, who, on a proper compliment being made
her, will deliver any one of the lectures, with all the eloquence
and energy of impassioned voice and action happily united.

" The Lady has a house of her own, and her Lecture Room is
furnished with rods, cat-o'-nine-tails, and some of the best
prints on Flagellation. The lady has a stout woman in her
house, able to take a man on her back, when he chuses to be
treated like a school-boy; and she and her maid are willing to
be passive sometimes in the use of the rods, when required.
Price of the delivery of the first lecture, a guinea—every lecture
after half-a-guinea, and half a crown to the maid, if employed
as a horse on the occasion.

" N.B. Single gentlemen, who are fond of representing
school-boys, waited on by mistress and maid at any hour, before
they are up in the morning, at their own houses, where the
delightful divertissement of being taken out of bed, horsed and
whipt, for not going to school, will be played to admiration."

(ffeneaittftropeta Io. Benedicti Sinibaldi Archiatri
et Professoris Romani

Allegorical title page (which I reproduce), well designed, and
finely engraved, measuring inchesjhighx6£ wide, signed in
right hand corner " C. C. F." On a second printed tide page,
embellished with a small square vignette, we read:

Io. Benedicti Sinibaldi Leonissani Archiatri, & in Romano
Archigymnasio Medicinae Practicae Professoris tSflttantfrfO;
priat siue De Hominis Generatione Decatevchon Vbi ex
ordine quaecunque ad Humanae Generationis liturgiam, eius-
demque Principia,Organa, Tempus, Vsum, Modum,Occasionem,
Voluptatem, aliasque omnes affectiones, quae in aphrodisijs acci-
dere quoquomodo solent, ac possunt Dedita Opera PlenS,
methodic^, & iucund£ pertractantur. Opvs Nimirvm Philoso-
phis, Philiatris, Philomusis apprimS vtile. Ad Eminentiss. et
Reverendiss. Principem Raynaldvm S. R. E. Principem Card.
De Este. Romae, Ex Typographia Fkancisci Caballi.
M.DC.XLII. Svperiorvm Permissv.w

Folio (counts 4); double columns; 1050 cols., and 53 pp.
unnumbered, besides 2 title pages ut supra, and a full tide page
to each of the 10 books except the first 5 there is a copious

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alphabetical index; original edition;* noted by Bauerf* as
" opus infrequens."

Second edition: 4to.; letter-press tide and bastard title; the
title is in red and black, slightly abridged, but with addition of:
"Adjecta est Historia Foetus Mussipontani", the impress
becomes, "Francofurti, Sumptibus Johannis Pietri Zubrodt,
Anno M.DC.LXIX."; ^ a well executed engraving, headed
"Iusta & Deo Roganda.," decorates the title page; pp. 851,
preceded by 28 preliminary pages including titles, and followed
by 70 pages of Index, all unnumbered ; the " Historia Foetus *
follows on after the Index, with separate pagination, and full
tide pages; it is composed of 6 books, or rather separate works,
each with a new full title, as follows:

"©fetorfa fattu0 JHUtfsrtpOntajtf extra uterum in
abdomine reperti et lapidescentis Cum Adiectis Variorvm
Excellentissimorvm Virorvm Commentis. Francofurti Sump-
tibus Ioannis Petri Zubrodt. Anno m.dc.lxix."

" Antonii Deusingii Med. ac Philos. tflltf, Extra Vterum In Abdomine geniti, Secundinae detect®:
Quibus multa Naturae admiranda & abstrusa in lucem eruuntur.
Accessit llfetorta partUfiE h\Mm$ Quo Gemellorum ex utero
in Abdominis cavum elapsorum, Ossa sensim, multis annis p&st,

* There is a copy in the British Museum with press mark 778 i 5.
t Bibliotheca Librorum Rariorum, 3rd Supplement, p. 240.
t There is a copy in the British Museum with press mark 778 o n.

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per Abdomen ipsam in Jucem prodierunt. Elenchus generalis
adjectus est."

The paging runs through both divisions, and consists of
172 pages (the last being numbered in error 158) ex titles, and
1 page unnumbered of Index. The colophon gives us the
date 16 Sep. Ann 1662, and signature "A. Devsingiv" (sic).

"flroWjjmm unum et multiplex, visum et incredibile, Foetum
Humanum extra loca conceptvm, triginta annos Gestatuni,
Lapideum & viventem Natura Rerum Ludit, Orbis Terrarum
obstupescit, Muscipontana exhibet Civitas, Aquae-Sextiae
diluunt, Rationesque eius et mechanicam foelici referat stylo
D. Honoratvs Maria Lavtier, Doctor Medicinae apud
Aquenses purpuratus." PP. 70 in all.

" Antonii Devsingii Med. & Philosoph. ©mfclriff Foetus
Extra Uterum Geniti. Contra Tenebrionem, Bernhardum k
Doma, Sub Blottesandaei Personati Vexillo Larvato Gregarium
Stratioten." PP. 70 in all, the last page being unnumbered.

u ibUlria tt^aria Celeberrimorum Virorum De Foetus
Mussipontani Explicatione k Lavrentio Stravssio Institvta."

" Johann. Christoph. Eisenmengervs Mt JfOftb JMttfil&U
pontanO Extra uterum in abdomine genito. Ad Ioh. Danielem
Horstivm."

The paging, 72 pp. in all, runs through these last two
divisions.

The transcription of the above six tides will suffice to show
the nature and importance of the additions made to the

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Frankfort edition. Let us now return to the original work of
Sinibaldus.

" Geneanthropeia" is certainly one of the most remarkable
works upon its subject, viz, physical love and its aberrations.
Here is a brief synopsis of the principal topics discussed in the
ten books into which it is divided: I. Concerning love and its
physical effects, considered under all its aspects. II. Of man
and woman in their sexual connections. Of animals and birds.
Cento Nufitialis of Ausonius. III. On the shape of the
Phallus. On Eunuchism. On Aphrodisiacs. IV. Concerning
the female organs of generation. V. On the seed of both
sexes, and on pollution. VI. On menstruation and sterility.
VII. On copulation, and on the influence of the stars upon
conception. VIII. Concerning the effects and manner of copu-
lation. On dwarfs, giants and monsters. IX. On the ills, and
bad results produced by copulation. X. Discussion on the
pleasure of copulation as enjoyed by man and woman. Of
certain symptoms which accompany that act.

The bare enumeration however of the subjects treated of
gives but a faint idea of the varied and amusing erudition with
which the book abounds. Here are a few of not the least
curious and interesting items scattered through its pages:
"Conceptio sine coitu" (col. 83); " Fcemina est animal imper-
fectum" (col. 113); " Principi& tria hominum erant genera"
(col. 129); Thirty points necessary to perfect beauty (col. 147);
History of the birth of Priapus, and " Cur Priapus mutone rigido
pingeretur" (col. 154); "De viris et mulieribus obscenaelibidinis"

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(col. 227) 5 " Antiquorum ceremoniae quaedam pend ridiculae in
celebrandis nuptiis" (col. 277); "Plutarchi precepta connubialia"
(col. 282); History of Candaules King of the Lydians, ac-
cording to Herodotus (col. 287) 5 Alphabet of the defects of
woman by Antonino bishop of Florence (col. 295); " Cenfo
nuptialis Ausonij" (col. 297) 5 " De Eunuchismo, de Spadonibus,
de Frigidis et Maleficiatis" (col. 385); " Cur amantes qui ama-
siam diii exarserint, si detur fruendi licentia, frigent aliquando "
(col. 407); " De Venere pendula, alijsque Veneris figuris"
(col. 841); "De Veneris multiplici detrimento, ac summA
pernicie" (col. 917); "De ijs, qui in re Veneris fuerunt extincti"
(col. 976); " Quid sit voluptas Veneris" (col. 1003). *

Sinibaldus is not altogether unknown in England ; his book
has, in a very emasculated form, been rendered into our lan-
guage in a rare and curious little volumef- of which the
following is the title:

0 ftare Wtritit*. €f)t etibimt of Wtnvti anlocktli, and

Her Secrets laid open. Being a Translation of part of
Sinibaldus his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things
out of other Latin Authors, never before in English.

Lascwa est nobis pagina, vita proba.

Horat.

Omne tulit function qui miscuit utile dulci.

Mart.

Lex hcec carminibus data est jocosis,

Non possint, nisi pruriant, juvare.

London, Printed for P. Briggs, at the Dolphin in St. PauTs
Church-yard, 1658."

* The references are to the original edition.

f There is a copy in the British Museum with press mark P.C. 23 a 8.

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349

Small 8vo. 5 pp. 72, preceded by 30 unnumbered pages of
tide, epistle " To the Amorous Readers.", " An Episde to his
Friend concerning the publishing his Book.", and "His
Friend's Reply", and followed by 5 unnumbered pages of
"Index;" although the title page is dated 1658, the date
appended to the first epistle "To the Amorous Readers,"
signed "Erotodidascalus," is "Aug. 24, 1657."

I extract a few of the most curious chapter headings:
" Whether females may change their Sex." " Which is most
lustfull, a man or a beast." " Which of the two is most lustfull,
a Man or a Woman." " Which is most lustfull, a Maid or a
Woman ?" " Examples of such Men and Women that have
been very lustfull and lecherous." " How to inlarge the pudenda
to a fit proportion, in case it be neither long, nor thick enough."
" How to shorten the Yard being too long." " A particular
relation of such things as will increase seed and lust." " How
to contract the Vulva being too large and wide."

Concerning the life of Sinibaldus, or Sinibaldi, few records
have been handed down to us; he seems to have spent a
tranquil life, devoted to study and his profession. Riccio* gives
him a place among his Neapolitan celebrities, but tells us no
more than we can learn from Sinibaldus's book, viz., that he was
born at Lionessa, and was a doctor at Rome; about the date
of his birth, or when or where he died, Riccio is silent. He

* Memorie Storiche degli Scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli.
kk

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adds however that, in his " Geneanthropeia," Sinibaldus pro-
pounds the doctrine, " che il seme della donna sia l'istrumento
principale della generazione, mentre il seme virile non sia altro
che lo stimolo a svolgere il seme della donna ovvero il germe."

The engraved tide was undoubtedly done by Camille
Congius, whom Brulliotf' notices as: " bon dessinateur et
graveur n€ k Rome vers 1604. II a grav6 un grand nombre
d'estampes dans la mani&re de Corneille Cort." He generally
used the initials C C, or C C F, the latter not unfrequently with
a line through them.

Cfr etrnint ana fcrnarftahlt amoursf of fbt Celebrate*

author, $tttT 3rttUt+ Printed in the Year m,dcc,lxcvi.(s1c).

12mo.; pp. 84 ; printed in London; the date, as it is given,
is not intelligible, a c appears to be put instead of an x, it
should probably read m,dcc,lxxvi. ; there should be plates.

The title is entirely false 5 the story has nothing whatever to
do with Aretino, but is in truth (after the first three and a half
pages), simply that which was afterwards reprinted as "The
Amours, &c., of Tom Johnson,"* with slight alterations in the
names, "Francis" of this original being converted into uTom,'»
& " Featherbrain " into " Johnson." Unknown to Gay.

t Diet, des Monogrammes, &c., Part 1, p. 144.

* See ante, p. 49.

II

fcero* to'Stawur*

Engraved title (in duplicate) prettily designed, the wording
interspersed with male and female pudenda, without place or
date; isssued at Brussels in 1872, price frcs. 25.; form as
square 8vo.

The text is on 24 detached sheets, numbered, and printed on
one side only.

The engravings, " sur acier," of indifferent execution, 24 in
number, were done by Louis Jaugey from the photograplis of
the celebrated paintings, executed in i860 by Ch. Herbes-
toffer of Paris, for the King of Italy, and known as the
" Collection (or HeuresJ de Victor Emmanuel?*

The letter press, from the pen of the engraver, Jaugey, is
poor trash. Some students and artists, assembled after the
vacation, recount the adventures they have had since their
separation, by which means descriptions, suitable to the designs
of Herbestoffer, are introduced.

* Vide Iconographie des Estampes, &c., col. 359.

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$fdtorp of tfyt &trt of iHa&arajasf, or tfaUabftaftarpa*,

in Western India.

" Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather

reprove (or expose) them."—Ephesians V. 2.

London: Trubner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row. 1865.

Large 8vo.; pp. xv, 182, and appendix 183; monogram
on title page; a frontispiece of " A Group of the Bombay
Mah&r&jas," five in number, from a photograph; one full page
wood cut, and two wood cuts in the text.

Of this book, which has now become scarce, 500 copies
were struck off, of which 75 only were reserved for sale in
Europe, the remainder were sent to Bombay.

The author is Karsandas Mulji, a Banii Hindu of talent
and education, a perfect master of the English language, and
author of several books and pamphlets; he was superintendent
of the Rajkote State, where he died, about 38 years of age, on
the 29th August, 1871.

The volume contains a sketch of the " Primitive Elements of
the Hindu Religion," with " Classification of Religious Books;"
" Religious Sects of the Hindus," with " Causes which gave
rise to various sects;" " Origin of the Sect of Mah&r&jas,"
" Chief Authority of the Sect," their " Religious Doctrines,"
" Worship," and its effects; " Profligacy of the Mah&r&jas,"
and their " Oppressive Exactions," an account of the " Mah4r£j
Libel Case," with specimens of the Evidence pro and con,
which was an action brought in 1862, by Jadun&thji Brizrattanji,

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Mah&r&j of Surat, about 40 or 42 years of age, against
Karsandfis Mulji, author of the volume before us, for an article
written by him in the "Rast Goftdr and Satya Prakfish," a
paper of which he was the Editor,

A few extracts from the evidence given by various reliable
witnesses at the trial will show the enormities practised by the
Mah&rdjas, and the servile doctrines believed in by their
followers.

"It is said that the Kah&n or Krishna (the Mah&r&j) is
the descendant of Vallabh. That is the belief entertained
by the sect. I (Karsand£s Mulji the defendant) am some-
what familiar with and know the history of Krishna. He
is the subject of several avat&rs (incarnations). God (Krishna)
came to this earth in the shape of man; and 16,000 'Gopis*
(female cowherds) obtained salvation by falling in love with
Krishna. ' R£s Lil4' means amorous and wanton sport with
women. There is no sport imputed to Krishna, which is not
amorous sport. When a Mahar&j dies, he is said to extend his
journey to the other world in amorous sport. The Mah&r&j&s
have neglected the instruction of the sect in their peculiar
doctrines. In the strict sense of the word, they are not the
preceptors of religion. The kanthi is applied to males and
females at the age of eight or ten. Both in the songs and in
the vow, reference is made to the tan, man, and dhan (body,
mind, and property). A person who makes a vow to give all
his i dhan,' binds himself to give his property, his wife, his son,

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and his daughter to the Mah&r&j or Th&kurji. I have heard of
instances in which these offerings have been practically made
by the most devoted followers to the Mah&r&j&s. It is a matter
of general reputation in the sect that all the Mahar&j&s have
carnal intercourse with the wives and daughters of their more
zealous devotees. Girls are sent to the Mah&r&j&s before being
touched by their husbands. I know of such instances."
(Appendix, p. 13).

" According to the Hindu religion * * * Adultery is a great
sin. Handling the breasts of females and throwing gul&l on
their persons is considered as a sin equal to adultery, according
to the Sh£stras. ' Red powder * (gul&l) is a sign of a bad design,
of an adulterous character. During the Holi holidays, the
Mah&raj throws gul&l on the breasts of female and male de-
votees, and directs the current of some water of a yellow colour
from a syringe upon the breasts of females. During the ' Ras
Mandali,' wives and husbands collect promiscuously in a room,
and have carnal intercourse promiscuously among them. The
4 Ras Mandali * is held about three or four times in a month.
The Mah&r&j has actual sexual intercourse with many women,
and is called the husband of many women." (p. 14).

"I have seen Mah&r&j&s put their feet on the breasts of
dying men, with the view of purifying them of sin. Rewards
are paid for this, from Rs. 5 to Rs.iooo." (p. 17).

" In addition to the Marjidis, there are the c Varkats,' who
are considered the most zealous of the Mahirijds' followers
They generally act as the procurers of Women for the Mahir&j&s.

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Every Varkat is necessarily a pilgrim: they form a distinct caste."
(p. 17)-

" The Mah&r&j pretends to be, and is believed to be, the per-
sonification of God. In respect to salvation of souls the
Mah&r&j is superior to God, for it is said that when the
Mah&r&j gets angry with any one, God cannot save him from
the Mah&r&j&s' displeasure: but the Mah&r&j can save one
from God's displeasure." (p. 17).

" I have seen the females bow to the Mah&rij&s, at the time
of worship in the temples, and I have seen the Mah&rdj&s
touch the toes of females of whom they are fond. Touching
the toe is indicative of a desire for carnal intercourse. The
females go into the zen&n&, and the Mah&r&j&s go after
them. I have seen the managers of the Mah&r&j&s giving
water to Vaishnavas to drink, the water which fell from the
Mah&r&j&'s dhotid (loin cloth). I have seen the leavings of the
Mah&r&j&s' food eaten by some Vaishnavas." (p. 18).

" As the females were the source of great income to the
Mah&rdj&s, it was rather a serious matter, he (the Mah&r£j)
said, to stop that source of income, and thus deprive them of
the means of defraying their expenses. He added that, like an
opium-eater, a man could not give up the practice of lust, and
therefore it was not possible to put a stop at once to the
practices of the Mah&r&jas." (p. 35).

"At the meeting of the Bh&tti&s held in 1855, several
resolutions were passed, one of which was to prevent females

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from going to the temples at night during the cold season.
The object was to prevent them being defiled by the Mah&rdj&s.
I have seen Gokul&dhisji make signs to females two or three
times about five or six years ago. From their dress I knew the
women belonged to our caste. The place in which the Mah&r&j
females reside is separate from the place where these acts are
committed. I have been to his bed-room, and have seen
females going into and coming out of his bed-room. I have
been there only once, five or six years ago. He has sent for
me, as there was a subscription list to be prepared. Widows
are constandy near the Mah&r&j&s* bed-rooms: it is their
business. I have seen Dw&rk&nathji Mah&r&j giving a signal to
a female to go into his bed-room. On seeing me, he held back
his hand with which he was making the signal. She was
asking something of the Mah&rdj, and the latter said 'take this*
—(witness explains the very indecent attitude and signal made).
The female was a married woman, about twenty years of age."

(P- 37)-

" About twenty years ago I saw a Mah&r&j exhibiting in-
decent pictures to men and women. His conversation was all
about women: it was somewhat indecent. My opinion of the
character of the Mah&r&j&s for morality with women is very
unfavorable. I have attended three Mah£r&j&s (besides the
plaintiff) for venereal disease. (Witness was a doctor). On
one or two occasions a Mahdr&j applied to me for medicine
which would prevent a woman from being pregnant." (p. 40).

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Another doctor deposes: "In December, i860,1 attended
on him (the plaintiff) professionally at his house. He was
suffering from venereal affection; I made an ocular examination
of it and found it to be an ulcer. He gave me the history of the
case; he said he. had suffered from it three or four months
previously and had caught it and had it from an impure in-
tercourse with a woman. I prescribed the blackwash externally,
and mercury internally. Plaintiff said he had suffered some
years ago from the same affection, and had taken a preparation
of mercury, prepared by himself. Plaintiff asked me if I had
read in medical works that the disease would go by having
intercourse with a woman free from it. I said I had not. He
then said he had twice tried the experiment at Surat. He
succeeded once in it but not the second time, because he was
then much reduced." (p. 43).

" There is a temple dedicated to Lakshmi at Beyt, where I
once saw Jadun&thji Mah&r&j. There were females present in
the temple. After throwing gulal on the image, he threw it
upon a number of persons, and in doing so, he pressed the
breasts of a Bh£ttia girl about fourteen years of age. As he
squeezed her breast, she smiled. He threw the guldl upon the
crowd, so that they might not see through it what he was
doing. I used to visit him at the place where he had put up.
My maternal uncle, D&modar Devji, accompanied me. I went
to the plaintiff about one o'clock in the day, when he was in
his bed. My uncle went up and shampooed one of his legs.

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I went up and followed his example. It is a great mark of
respect to shampoo the Mahar&j's legs. The Bh&ttii girl above
alluded to came there with a widow, about a quarter of an hour
after our arrival there. The widow whispered something into
plaintifFs ears, upon which he desired us to go out. We obeyed
the order. The widow came out with us and went in again.
The girl was left in the bed-room. When I went outside, my
uncle informed me of the visit of the females. Afterwards, the
widow came out, shut the door, put up the chain and held it
with her hand. The girl was inside all the time. In con-
sequence of certain conversation I had with my uncle, we both
went in again to see the Ras Lild, i. e. the plaintiff's con-
versation with the girl. We were allowed to go in the moment
we expressed a wish. I saw the plaintifF having carnal connex-
ion with the girl. Several people are often anxious to see
such R4s Lila. Plaintiff asked my uncle what I would pay
for seeing the R&s Lili. My uncle said that I would serve
him (plaintiff). I had to pay some money before I was allowed
to see the R&s Lila. I was then eighteen or nineteen years
old. The followers who are allowed to see the lili, as well as the
female who is defiled, have to pay money for the indulgence. It
is considered a pious act, and sure to lead to the paradise known
as Gowlok. I left the room shortly afterwards from shame;
my uncle remained inside. Two or three days subsequently,
I saw another married Bh&ttid female enter the plaintiff's
bed-room. When I went on a pilgrimage to Gokul Mathuri,

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about eighteen years ago, I first heard of a c Ras Mandali.' I
was present at a Ras Mandali at Beyt about the time I spoke
of. There were twelve or thirteen men and thirteen or fifteen
females. It was held daily for some days at the appointed
place. On these occasions, after the persons had taken their
seats, the stories of the 84 and the 252 were read from a
book. Some offering is then made to the book, and sweetmeat,
fruit, or parched rice is placed upon the book. The sweetmeat
or fruit is then distributed among the meeting. The persons
who are not members, and who came merely to listen to the
stories, then left the room. I was a stranger at the meeting,
and when I retired the men and women were in the room. [The
witness then described the preparations which he saw made for
the Ras Mandali.] My uncle was a member, and was desired
by the other members to ask me to go out. The 4 Ras
Mandalis' are a matter of notoriety; even a child of five years

knows of their existence...... Each member must go to

the meeting with his wife, except ' Varkats,' who are admitted
without their wives. Those followers of the Mahar&jas who
are members of the society are reputed to be pious and
staunch devotees. The Varkats are procurers of women for
the Mahar&j&s. On one occasion, plaintiff told me ' the Varkats
are the persons who have corrupted us (Maharajas).' On
another occasion at Beyt, I was sitting near the plaintiff, when

a female came there..... I saw plaintiff on three or four

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shipped him by touching the soles of his feet. Pressing the
toes is the signal for adultery." (p. 45).

In the body of the book (p. 129) the "R£s* Mandalis" are
more particularly described: "These are ccarnal love meetings.'
The institutions (sic), if it may be so called, or rather the prac-
tice, is derived from the account of the R&s Lild, the ancient
mythological story of the gopis, or female cowherds, mixing,
dancing, and becoming passionately enamoured of Krishna.
The meetings of these societies are held privately at the
residence of some orthodox and rich Vaishnavas. They take
place in the evening, and at them are read stories from (The
Tales of the Eighty-four Vaishnavas,' and from 4 The Tales of
the Two Hundred and Fifty-two Vaishnavas,' which profess to
relate respectively the histories of the converts of Valladh&ch-
&rya and of Vithaln&thji. * # # The reading of these books
excites and stimulates the passions, and we may be prepared to
expect what must follow. Indeed, it is very questionable
whether this stimulation is not the ostensible and main object
of the meeting, rather than any religious motive. These
readings, principally for the purpose of exciting the concupi-
scence, is inculcated by the religion. Friendly Vaishnavas
take their wives, and possibly females of their acquaintance,
with them to these meetings, and a discourse on matters of love

* Throughout the book this word is not always given with an accent over
the &; conformably with my plan of reproducing all peculiarities, I have not
put the accent where it has been omitted.

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and affection is read. It is not to be supposed that these
societies have any resemblance to the Platonic concourse of the
middle ages, entitled Cours cTAmours, a Parliament of Love,
which pronounced its ' arrets,' or sentences determining cases of
conscience, or propounded ingenious subtleties for discussion.
No! These meetings are of a practical character, with but a
step from word to deed. To them sweetmeats are taken, which
are consecrated to the books,* after reading, and these they put
bit by bit into each other's mouth, each feeding another's wife.
" The wife of one Vaishnava will put a morsel into the mouth

* The books above referred to, used by the priests, and sanctioned by
religion, are, as may readily be supposed, not the only amorous or obscene
publications of India. The production indeed of that class of literature was
so great that it was put forward as an objection to female education. The
following is extracted from an Indian newspaper : " The spread of vice, and
especially the open sale of obscene literature, in the different vernaculars,
in defiance of the law, has led to the establishment in Calcutta of a Society
for the Suppression of Obscenity, similar to that in London. Natives and
missionaries head the movement. How serious the evil is may be imagined
from this one illustration, which has been the subject of a confidential corres
pondence between the Governments of India and the North-Western-
Provinces. The Rajpoot State of Ulwur is under our management. Captain
Cadell, who is reforming it, induced the leading natives last year to approve
female education after a full discussion of all the obstacles to it. Granted,
trustworthy teachers and no interference with the seclusion of the women,
the great evil which they brought forward was this, to use their own language:—
" ' The issue of hundreds of Hindee and Oordoo immoral books, containing
many false love and indecent tales. Now, when girls are taught to read, it is
evident books of immoral fables, &c., will also come under their inspection,
and these books are enough to corrupt the morals of males, much less those
of females. If such books were only published at Ulwur, their issue might

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of another Vaishnava, who, in return, does the same to her,
with all the practical manifestations of the most ardent love.
After they have exhausted the sweets of these preliminaries, the
intoxication of delight so overpowers them, and they become
so enrapt with the ardour of the love that inflames them, that,
forgetting the earth and its platitudes, they ascend to the very
summit of celestial beatitude, and blend together in the
ecstacy of superlative bliss."

The rules of the R4s Mandali 4' direct that if one male
Vaishnava wish to enjoy the wife of another Vaishnava, the
latter should give him that liberty with the greatest delight and
pleasure. Not the slightest hesitation is to be made. It is a
primary condition that a Vaishnava who wishes to be a member

have been prevented; but the difficulty is that they are printed even in such
large places as Delhi, Lucknow, Muttra, &c. If the authorities make arrange-
ments to stop the publication of immoral books, the education of girls would
be nothing but advantageous.'

" An examination of the bazaar showed the open sale of, at least, ten of the
most obscene works, with pictures, printed in our ordinary territories, and
hawked about at from 2d. to iod. each. Inquiry showed that some of the
most ' respectable' native presses in the Mahomedan cities chiefly issued
such books in thousands and had the shamelessness to register them under
our Copyright Act. Detectives, under a skilled £nglish officer, were put on
the scent, a few of the worst cases were punished, and others are still before
Government. In a country like this, where the conventionalities of Europe
are unknown, we must not be too squeamish in such matters; but the
obscenity of many of the works exceeds in grossness all imagination. The
law is now becoming known. The Penal Code and Printing Act are
very stern, except towards the indecencies on the temples and in the brothels
attached to them, which, as' religious,' are specially protected by the Code."

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of this Mandali should join it together with his wife. The
Vaishnava who has no wife, or who has not been married, can
also join the Mandali, and enjoy the wives of other Vaishnavas.
There are two or three such R&s Mandalis in Bombay, and
they are found in other parts of India where Vaishnavas
dwell. * # * It is not to be supposed that the Mah&r&jas
permit their votaries to have the exclusive enjoyment of these
Ras Mandalis; for this would be an act of self-denial, not
consistent with their tenets. They themselves perform the part
of Krishna with the gopis, and represent the R&s Lil&."

The able author thus sums up his estimation of the sect (p. 181):
" The history of the sect of Vallabh&ch&rya, which has been here
unfolded, reads like a chapter of romance. It is the history
of a sect in which immorality is elevated to the rank of a
divine law. The immutable distinctions of right and wrong,
the sharp line of demarcation between virtue and vice, human
personality and human responsibility, are lost and confounded
in a system of theology which begins in lewdness and ends in
the complete subversion of the first principles of our common
nature. Such a system has, perhaps, no parallel in the annals
of our race. Its effects can be more easily conceived than
described. It has checked and arrested the healthy growth of
all moral power. It has furnished its votaries with principles
of action, which, if carried out in their integrity, must produce
the dissolution of society; for it treats holiness of life as a
crime, and proclaims to 4 the world of its votaries * that man
becomes acceptable to his Maker in and through sin"

€f)t htotj: ©Vpttrptorutg! of Martial, literally

translated; comprising all the epigrams hitherto

- omitted by English translators. To which is added

An Original Metrical Version and Copious Explanatory
Notes. Printed for Private Circulation. London 2

mdccclxviii.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. xi. and 139 with 1 unnumbered page of
Errata; issue 150 copies (30 on large paper) numbered; toned
paper; Roxburghe binding. The book was never regularly
sold to the public, although Hotten and a few booksellers had
some copies at 10/- for the small, and ^1- for the large paper;
it is now difficult to procure.

In their preface the translators inform us that: "This
present edition has been printed owing to the importunities of
our friends, who suggested that we should supplement the
English edition of Bohn by selecting for translation and illus-
tration exactly those epigrams which he has chosen to omit.

" Since we fully determined to publish these epigrams
separately, we have made considerable alterations, consisting
mainly of the substitution of clear expressions for ambiguous
phrases. The prose translation has also in numerous instances
been rendered more literally, for if our reasons for translating
Martial at all are good, then we are bound to translate him

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fairly and truthfully. Had we clothed or castrated our author,
our object would not have been attained. * * * *

" In our verse translation we have sought to convey to the
non classical reader the idea and force of each epigram, in the
prose to give the literal rendering, and in the notes to comment
on doubtful passages and explain obscure allusions.

" As the verbal puns contained in a few of the poems could
not possibly be given in English, rather than omit them
altogether, we have endeavoured tol reproduce the idea con-
veyed by them as near as possible by a paraphrase or imitation
in our metrical version, appending a full explanation of the
original in the notes.

" In further pursuance of this plan a Latin introduction
containing an account of the principal MSS. of Martial and
their relative value, as also critical notes on the text of our
author, have been omitted, and the explanatory notes have
been given entirely in English, instead of partly in Latin and
partly in English.

" The text we have employed is Schneidewin's last edition in
Teubner's Bibliotheca Script. Graec. et Rom. Leipsic 1866.
The epigrams will be found differently numbered in different
editions, so we beg to add in conclusion, that we have followed
Schneidewin's arrangement throughout."

Of this very excellent work it is difficult to speak too highly;
the verse renderings are the joint production of four friends,
three of whom had at the time just left Oxford, the prose
translation and the notes are by one and the same person.
Although they have only reason to be proud of their labours, I
am nevertheless not at liberty to divulge the authors' names.

mm

Hama~-#ba*tra; or, The Hindoo Art of Love (Ars
Amoris Indica). Translated from the Sanscrit,
and Annotated By A. F. F. & B. F. R.

If bat one thought, by men deemed worthy, gain
Its wished success, our labour is not in vain.

Uhland.

Hoc opus exegi, quod nec nova turba malorum
Nec noceant critici tristes, nec Scommata Morai.

R. Saunders.

For private use of the Translators only, in connection
with a work on the Hindoo religion, and on the manners
and customs of the Hindoos.

Large 8vo.; pp. xii and 83; printed in London 1873/4.

Unfortunately only 4 copies (proofs)* exist, for the printer,
on reading the proofs, became alarmed at the nature of the
book, and refused to print off the edition.

The talented translators are, F. F. Arbuthnot, and R. F.
Burton, the celebrated African Traveller the initials of their
names being reversed.

* As the press has not been corrected, I do not reproduce, in this instance,
the printer's blunders, for which the authors cannot be held responsible, but
give the text with the pen corrections in the copy before me.

t See Men of the Time, 187a, p. 170.

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This is a very remarkable book, containing, among many
things almost incomprehensible to an European, much matter
which would repay his careful study. It is not written to in-
flame the passions, but for the purpose of promoting conjugal
fidelity and satisfaction.

" The following pages (we are informed by the translators)
contain a Hindoo 'Art of Love,* which may fairly be
pronounced unique. From Ovid downwards, western authors
have ever treated the subject jocularly or with a tendency to
hymn the joys of immorality, and the gospel of debauchery.
The Indian author has taken the opposite view, and it is im-
possible not to admire the delicacy with which he has handled
an indelicate theme. As he assures his readers before parting,
the object of the book, which opens with praises of the gods,
is not to encourage chambering and wantonness, but simply
and in all sincerity to prevent the separation of husband and
wife. Feeling convinced that monogamy is a happier state
than polygamy, with this view he would save them from the
monotony and satiety which usually follow possession, by
varying their pleasures in every conceivable way, and by
supplying them with the means of being physically pure and
pleasant to each other—« light and sweetness,* in fact, might be
his motto. * * •

"The author informs us that the treatise was composed
by Kalyana-Mall, a Hindfi poet, for the benefit of a
monarch of the Lodi race. But it is well known that the

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theme had been handled before, and that we have here an
analysis and a compilation of works composed at a much earlier
date. The internal evidence speaks to this point. There are
many references to the poets and philosophers of older days;
and the tone is unequal, in some rare places declining from the
normal high standard; and, finally, it is hardly probable that
so artful and artificial a system sprang full-grown from a
single brain.

" The treatise, originally written in Sanskrit, has been trans-
lated into every language of the East that boasts a 1 iterature,
however humble. It becomes in Arabia and in Hindostani
the Lizzat en 'Nisi—the € Pleasures of Women'; in Mahar&tl,
and Gujratf, it is the Ananga-ranga, or '"Form of the Bodiless
One' (Cupid). Generally, it is known as the Sila Sh&stra, the
' Scripture of Play' (i. e. of Amorous Sport, rb nax&iv) Or
K&ma-Sh&stra the c Writ of Desire' or 4 of the Hindti God of
Love ' (Kama-deva), and the vulgar call it' Koka Pandit,' from
the Prakrit name of the supposed author. Lithographed copies
have been printed by hundreds of thousands, and the book is in
the hands of both sexes and all ages throughout the nearer East."

The subjects treated of are as follows : The Four Orders
of Women. The Various Sorts of Passion in Women.
The Different Kinds of Men and Women. Character-
istics of the Women of various Lands. The different
Signs in Men and Women. External and Internal Enjoy-
ments. Useful Medicines, i. e., Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphro-

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disiacs. Vashikaran, or the Art of Fascination by the use of
Charms.

These heads are divided and subdivided in the minutest
manner, and tables are systematically drawn up for the various
seasons most propitious for making love; of the different parts
of the body in which passion is centered; in what way each
woman, according to her particular organization, is to be
treated; for the various postures in which the act of copulation
should be effected, &c., &c.

"Nothing can be more characteristic of the Indian than
this laboured and mechanical style of love; when kisses are
divided into so many kinds; when there are rules for patting
with the palm and the back of the hand, and regulations for the
several expirations of breath. Regarded in this light, the book
becomes an ethnological treasure, that tells us as much of
Hindd human nature as the ' Thousand Nights and a Night'
of Arab manners and customs in the cinque cento."

Women are divided into four classes according to their
temperaments: i. Padminf, 2. Chitrinf, 3. Shankini, 4. Hastini;
and further subdivided in three kinds, dependant, among other
peculiarities, upon the depth and extent of the Yoni: the
Mreugi or Deer-woman, whose Yoni is six fingers deep; the
Vadvi, or Mare-woman, nine fingers deep ; and the Karinf, or
Elephant-woman, twelve fingers deep.

The same with men : three classes, viz., 1. the Shasha, or
Hare-man, is known by the Lingam, which does not exceed six
finger-breadths, or about three inches; 2. the Vreushabha, or

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Bull-man, nine fingers in length; 3. the Ashwa, or Horse-man,
twelve fingers. Many other peculiarities of both men and
women are denoted under these subdivisions.

Here is the picture, truly poetical, of the Padmini-woman:
" Her face is pleasing as the full moon; her body, well clothed
with flesh, is soft as the Shiras or mustard flower; her skin is
fine, tender, and fair as the yellow lotus, never dark-coloured,
though resembling the cloud about to burst in the effervescence
of her youth. Her eyes are bright and beautiful as the orbs
of the fawn, well-cut, and with reddish corners. Her bosom is
hard, full, and high; her neck is shaped as the conch-shell, so
delicate that the saliva can be seen through it; her nose is
straight and lovely, and three folds or wrinkles cross her middle
—about the umbilical region. Her Yoni resembles the lotus-
bud, and her Love-seed (K&ma-salila) is perfumed like the lily
that has newly burst. She walks with swan-like gait, and her
voice is low and musical as the note of the Kokila-bird ;* she
delights in white raiments, in fine jewels, and in rich dresses.
She eats little, sleeps lighdy, and, being as respectful and
religious as she is clever and courteous, she is ever anxious to
worship the gods, and to enjoy the conversation of Brahmans.
Such, then, is the Padminf, or Lotus-woman." (p. 2).

" The following are the signs by which the wise know that

* " Usually known as the Indian cuckoo; in poetry and romance it is the
bulbul of Persia, and the nightingale of Europe."

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woman is amorous:—She rubs and repeatedly smoothes her
hair (so that it may look well). She scratches her head (that
notice may be drawn to it). She strokes her own cheeks (so as
to entice her husband). She draws her dress over her bosom,
apparently to readjust it, but leaves her breasts partly exposed.
She bites her lower lip, chewing it, as it were. At times she
looks ashamed without a cause (the result of her own warm
fancies), and she sits quietly in the corner (engrossed by con-
cupiscence). She embraces her female friends, laughing loudly,
and speaking sweet words, with jokes and jests, to which she
desires a return in kind. She kissses and hugs young children,
especially boys. She smiles with one cheek, loiters in her gait,
and unnecessarily stretches herself under some pretence or other.
At times she looks at her shoulders and under her arms.
She stammers, and does not speak clearly or distinctly. She
sighs and sobs without reason, and she yawns whenever she wants
tobacco, food, or sleep. She even throws herself in her hus-
band's way, and will not readily get out of his path." (p. 19).

" The following are the twelve periods when women have the
greatest desire for congress, and at the same time are most easily
satisfied:—1. When tired by walking and exhausted with
bodily exercise. 2. After long want of intercourse with the
husband, such as in the case of the Virhinf. 3. When a
month after childbirth has elapsed. 4. During the earlier
stages of pregnancy. 5. When dull, idle, and sleepy. 6. If
recently cured of fever. 7. When showing signs of wan-

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tonness or bashfiilness. 8. When feeling unusually merry and
happy. 9. The Rentu-Sn&t,* immediately before and after the
monthly ailment. 10. Maidens enjoyed for the first time
11. Throughout the spring season. 12. During thunder,
lightning, and rain. At such times women are easily subjected
to men."(p. 21).

"And, moreover, let it be noted, that the desires of the
woman being colder, and slower to rouse than those of the
man, she is not easily satisfied by a single act of congress;
her lower powers of excitement demand prolonged embraces,
and if these be denied her, she feels aggrieved. At the second
act, however, her passions being thoroughly aroused, she finds
the orgasm more violent, and then she is thoroughly contented.
And this state of things is quite reversed in the case of the
man, who approaches the first act burning with love-heat, which
cools during the second, and which leaves him languid and
disinclined for a third. But the wise do not argue therefrom,
that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and
strong, are not to the full as real and urgent as those of the
man. The custom of society and the shame of the sex may
compel her to conceal them, and even to boast that they do not
exist; yet the man who has studied the Art of Love is never
deceived by this cunning." (p. 21).

* " Rentu-sn&t is the woman, who, on the fourth day, has bathed and
become pure."

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" And here it is necessary to offer some description of the
Yonf :* it being of four kinds.

"1. That which is soft inside as the filaments (pollen?) of the
lotus flower; this is the best. 2. That whose surface is
studded with tender flesh-knots and similar rises. 3. That

* In his interesting and erudite essay on Circumcision, Mr. John Daven-
port tells the following story: " A dispute, which arose between the
Capuchin friars and the Jesuits at Pondicherry, and which was also settled by a
compromise, is too curious not to be here reported. Besides the Lingam, the
equally significant Yoni, or Ateis, is to be seen, being the female organ of
generation. It is sometimes single, often in conjunction, for the Indians,
believing that the emblem of fecundity might be rendered more energetic by
combining the organs of both sexes, did so unite them, giving to this double
symbol the name of Pulleiar. This symbol is highly venerated by the sectarian
worshippers of Khiva (the third god of the Trimvurti), who hang it round their
necks, as a charm or amulet, or, enclosing it in a small box, fasten it on their
arms. The Indians have, also, a little jewel called taly, worn, in like manner,
by females, round their necks as a charm. It is presented to them on their
wedding day by their husbands, who receive it from the hands of the Brahmins.
Upon these jewels is engraved the representation either of the Lingam or
the Pulleiars.

" A Capuchin missionary had a serious dispute with the Jesuits residing at
Pondicherry, which was referred for decision to the judicial courts. The
disciples of Loyola, who can be toleration itself when toleration furthers their
crafty and ambitious views, had declined all interference with the above custom.

" M. Tournoae, the Pope's legate apostolic, who regarded the matter as one
not to be trifled with, strictly prohibited the taly, enjoining all female converts
to substitute in its place, either a cross or a medal of the Virgin. The Indian
women, strongly attached to their ancient customs, refused obedience. The
missionaries, apprehensive of losing the fruits of their zealous labours, and
seeing the number of their neophytes daily diminishing, entered into a com-
promise by adopting a mezzo termine with the females in question, and it was
agreed that a cross should be engraved upon the taly $ an arrangement by
which the symbol of Christian salvation was coupled with that of the male
and female pudenda." Curiositates Eroticae Physiology, p. 97. (See ante p. 174).

nn

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which abounds in rolls, wrinkles, and corrugations; and, 4.
That which is rough as the cow's tongue ; this is the worst.

" Moreover, in the Yoni there is an artery called Saspanda,
which corresponds with that of the Lingam, and which when
excited by the presence and energetic action of the latter,
causes the K&nuusalila to flow. It is inside and towards the
navel, and it is attached to certain roughnesses (thorns), which
are peculiarly liable to induce the paroxysm when subjected to
friction. The Madan-chatra, in the upper part of the Yoni, is
that portion which projects like the plantain shoot spouting from
the ground ; it is connected with the Mada-vdhi artery,* and
causes the latter to overflow. Finally, there is an artery, termed
Purna-chandra, which is full of the K&ma-salila, and to this the
learned men of old attribute the monthly ailment."(p. 22).

Here is a piece of advice to the woman concerning the
management of her Yoni during coition: " the wife will re-
member that without an especial exertion of will on her part,
the husband's pleasure will not be perfect. To this end she
must ever strive to close and constrict the Yoni until it holds the
Lingam, as, with a finger,-f- opening and shutting at her plea-

* " The 1 Fons et scaturigo Veneris * of the classics. It need hardly be
remarked that the Hindoos, like the ancients in Europe, believed the K&ma-
salila of women to be in every way like that of men ; the microscope was re-
quired for the detection of the spermatozoa in one sex only."

t " Amongst some races the Constrictor vaginae muscles are abnormally
developed. In Abyssinia, for instance, a woman can so exert them as to
cause pain to a man, and, when sitting upon his thighs, she can induce the
orgasm without moving any other part of her person. Such an artist is called

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sure, and fiinally, acting as the hand of the Gop&lar-girl, who milks
the cow. This can be learned only by long practice, and es-
pecially by throwing the will into the part to be affected, even as
men endeavour to sharpen their hearing, and their sense of touch.
While so doing, she will mentally repeat ' K&madeva! K&ma-
deva,* in order that a blessing may rest upon the undertaking.
And she will be pleased to hear that the art once learned, is
never lost. Her husband will then value her above all women,
nor would he exchange her for the most beautiful Rani (queen)
in the three worlds. So lovely and pleasant to man is she who
constricts." (p. 82).

The indiscriminate congress of the sexes is severely con-
demned; it can only be permitted in case the woman's life
should be endangered through want of copulation. "The
following women, however, are absolutely, and under all circum-
stances, to be excluded from any commerce of the kind. The
wife of a Brahman; of a Schrotri (Brahman learned in the
Vedas); of an Agnihotri (priest who keeps up the sacred fire),
and of a Ptiranik (reader of the Pur&nas). To look significandy

by the Arabs ' Kabbad4h,' literally meaning ' a holder/ and it is not surprising
that the slave dealers pay large sums for her. All women have more or less
the power, but they wholly neglect it j indeed, there are many races in Europe
which have never heard of it. To these the words of wisdom spoken by
Kaly4na-Mall, the poet, should be peculiarly acceptable.**

" Bemftyte micty bie 3Ru«fete mciner «§5$tung in Sewegung gu fetften, fo
bafj fie nadj feinem $fei(e fdjnajtyten, wad eine grope ©elten^eit ijI unb toon ben
DMiuiern fefyr $0$ fleftydtjt wirb." 2lu$ ben gRemoiten einer ©dngerin,
vol. a, p. 19t. (See ante, p. 102).

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at such a woman, or to think of her with the view of sensual
desire, is highly improper. What, then, must we think of the
sin of carnal copulation with her ? In like manner, men prepare
to go to Narak (hell) by lying with the wife of a Kshatrf (king,
or any other man of the warrior caste, now extinct); of a friend
or of a relation. The author of this book strongly warns and
commands his readers to avoid all such deadly sins.

" Indeed there are certain other women who are never to be
enjoyed, however much a man may be tempted. First, a virgin
without marrying her; second, a widow ; third, a woman living
chastely and virtuously with her husband; fourth, the wife of
our friend ; fifth, the wife of our foe; sixth, any of the rever-
end women specified above; seventh, the wife of a pupil or a
disciple ; eighth, a woman born in one's own family; ninth, a
woman afflicted with any serious complaint; tenth, a woman
who has been defiled; eleventh, a mad woman; twelfth, a
woman older than oneself;* thirteenth, the wife of a Gurti,
spiritual tutor, instructor or guide; fourteenth, one's mother-
in-law ; fifteenth, one's maternal aunt (mother's sister); six-
teenth, the wife of one's maternal uncle; seventeenth, one's
paternal aunt (father's sister); eighteenth, one's paternal
uncle's wife; nineteenth,a sister; twentieth,a pregnant woman;

* " Easterns are all agreed upon this point, and the idea is that the embraces
of a woman older than the husband, * burn ' and destroy his strength. It is
certain that when there is a considerable difference of age, the younger of the
two suffers in appearance, if not in health."

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twenty-first, a woman with whom one is not acquainted;
twenty-second, a woman who has committed mortal sins and
crimes; twenty-third, a woman whose complexion is entirely
yellow; twenty-fourth, a woman whose complexion is quite
black. It is laid down in the Sh&stras (scriptures), that the
wise should never, under any circumstances, have connection
with these twenty-four kinds of women, as well as with others
bearing any relationship to one." (p. 59).

After the above list there is but one woman left to be en-
joyed—a man's own wife, doubtless the consummation at which
the poet wished to arrive.

We now come to the "External Enjoyments," or "the
processes which should always precede internal enjoyments, or
sexual pleasure. The wise have said that before congress, we
must develop the desire of the weaker sex through certain
preliminaries, which are many and various, such as the various
embraces and kisses; the Nakhad&n, or unguiculations; the
Dashanas, or morsications; the Kesha-grahanas, or manipu-
lating the hair, and other amorous blandishments. These affect
the senses and divert the mind from coyness and coldness.
After which tricks and toyings, the lover will proceed to take
possession of the place." (p. 64).

" There are eight Alinganas, or modes of embracing," which
our poet carefully describes, and which he urges should be
closely studied; he then passes to the various " modes of
Kisses," which must accompany and conclude the Alinganas.

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He enumerates " the seven places highly proper for osculation, in
fact, where all the world kisses. There are—First, the lower lip,
Second, both the eyes. Third, both cheeks. Fourth, the head.
Fifth, the mouth. Sixth, both breasts; and, seventh, the shoul-
ders. * * * The voluptuaries of S&ta-desha have adopted the
following formula:—Arm-pit Navel Yoni." (pp. 64 to 66).

A further subdivision gives us " ten different kinds of kisses,
each of which has its own and proper name." Rules for " the
various ways of Nakhad&n, that is, of titillating and scratching
with the nails" are minutely laid down. This manipulation
should be applied to eleven parts of the body, viz., the neck,
the hands, both thighs, both breasts, the back, the sides, both
axillae, the whole chest or bosom, both hips, the Mons Veneris,
and all the parts about the Yoni, and both the cheeks; and at
the following times and seasons, viz., " 1, when there is anger
in the mind of the woman. 2, at the time of first enjoying
her or of taking her virginity. 3, when going to separate for
a short time. 4, when about journeying to a foreign or
distant country. 5, when a great pecuniary loss has been
sustained. 6, when excited with desire of congress; and 7,
at the season of Viratf, that is to say, when there is no R£ti, or
Furor venereus. At such times the nails should always be ap-
plied to the proper places. The nails, when in good condition
and properest for use, are without spots and lines, clean, bright,
convex, hard and unbroken." (p. 68). Six different qualities
are enumerated, and seven ways of applying them. " There is

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nothing perhaps," exclaims the poet, "which is more delightful
to both husband and wife than the skilful use of unguiculation.
Furthermore, it is advisable to master the proper mode of
morsication or biting. It is said by persons who are absorbed
in the study of sexual intercourse, that the teeth should be used
to the same places where the nails are applied, with the ex-
ception, however, of the eyes, the upper lip, and the tongue.
Moreover, the teeth should be pressed until such time as the
woman begins to exclaim, Hu! hu! after which enough has
been done." (p. 69).

There are " seven different Dashanas or ways of applying
the teeth," with each its name and full description.

Then come the four kinds of Keshar-grahana or manipulating
the hair, all particularly named and depicted.

After numerous other blandishments, we are introduced to the
" Internal Enjoyment," by which is meant the act of congress
which follows the various external preliminaries already
described. These are portioned out (with proper tables) into
five main classes, viz., 1. "Uttana^bandha," or great division,
u when a woman lies upon her back, and the husband sits close
to her upon his hams." 2. " Tirayak, whose essence consists of
the woman lying upon her side." 3. " Upavishta, or sitting
posture." 4. " Utitha, or standing posture." 5. " Vy&nta^bandha,
which means congress with a woman when she is prone, that is,
with the breast and stomach to the bed or carpet." These main
classes are further subdivided into 29 postures, (pp. 76 to 80).

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" There are many other forms of congress," continues the poet,
" but they are not known to the people, and being useless as
well as very dilflcult of performance, I have, therefore, not
related them to you." (p. 81).

In all the modes of coition described, the man is usually
either seated or standing, rarely reclining, and never under the
woman, which is a position held in great horror by Muslims;
it has however its class name, " Purush&yita^bandha," with
three subdivisions.

Here is a posture much esteemed, and called, "the cow
posture : in this position the wife places herself upon all fours,
supported on her hands and feet (not her knees), and the
husband, approaching from behind, falls upon her waist, and
enjoys her as if he were a bull. There is much religious merit
in this form." (p. 80).

One word, before closing this notice, respecting the two
chapters on " Useful Medicines," and " The Art of Fascination
by the use of charms." The former is the Hindoo code of
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs, but it has less for its
object the raising of lust in an impotent man or an unwilling
woman, or vice vers&, than the more completely suiting the
sexes to each other, and augmenting thereby their mutual,
legitimate embraces. " It is, for instance, clearly evident that
unless by some act or artifice the venereal orgasm of the female,
who is colder in blood and less easily excited, distinctly precede
that of the male, the congress has been vain, the labour of

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the latter has done no good, and the former has enjoyed no
satisfaction. Hence it results that one of man's chief duties in
this life is to learn to withold himself as much as possible, and, at
the same time, to hasten the enjoyment of his partner." (p. 25).

It is unnecessary to transcribe any of the numerous pre-
scriptions given, suffice it to say that they are classified as follows:

For hastening the paroxysm of the woman. For delaying
the orgasm of the man. Which comfort the heart and which
excite desire. For increasing the length and breadth of the
Lingam. For narrowing and closing the Yoni. For perfuming
the Yoni. For destroying the body pile (poil amatoire). For
regulating the monthly ailment. For conceiving and becoming
gravid. For protection from miscarriage and other accidents.
To ensure easy labour and ready deliverance. To limit the
members of the family. For thickening and beautifying the
hair, and for giving it either a good black, or white colour. For
clearing the skin from eruptions, &c. For removing the black
colour of the epidermis. For enlarging the breasts of women.
For raising and hardening pendulous bosoms. Unguents to
breed love. For removing the evil savour of perspiration.
Oils and unguents to be used after bathing. For sweetening
the breath.

The chapter on " Vashikaran," or " the art by which man or

woman is rendered submissive and obedient to the fascinator,"

is remarkable on account of the strange abominations which it

contains. The underlying idea appears to be that if any
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secretion of the body, the fouler the better, can be secretly
administered to a person of either sex, the result ig the sub-
jection of the patient to the "adhibitor."

I transcribe two prescriptions only:

" The man who will levigate the root of the giant Asclepias,
the Jatfim&nsi, or spikenard (Valeriana Jat&m&nsi), Vekhand,
the sweet-smelling grass Nagar-Motha (Cyperus pertenuis seu
Juncifolius), and Costus with the blood from a woman's Yoni,
and applying it to his forehead, shall ever be successful in the
affairs of love, and shall enjoy a long course of happiness." (p. 47).

" The man who, after enjoying his wife, catches some of his
own K&ma-salila in his left hand, and applies it to her left
foot, will find her entirely submissive to his will." (p. 49).

The poet thus closes his admirable book: " And now
having duly concluded the chapter of external enjoyments, it
is good to know that if husband and wife live together in close
agreement, as one soul in a single body, they shall be happy in
this world, and in that to come. Their good and charitable
actions will be an example to mankind, and their peace and
harmony will effect their salvation. No one yet has written a
book to prevent the separation of the married pair, and to show
them how they may pass through life in union. Seeing this,
I felt compassion, and composed the treatise, offering it to the
god Pandurang.

"The chief reason for the separation between the mar-
ried couple and the cause which drives the husband to
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strange men, is the want of varied pleasures and the monotony
which follows possession. There is no doubt about it.
Monotony begets satiety, and satiety distaste for congress,
especially in one or the other; malicious feelings are engen-
dered, the husband or the wife yields to temptation, and the
other follows, being driven by jealousy. For it seldom
happens that the two love each other equally, and in exact
proportion, therefore is the one more easily seduced by passion
than the other. From such separations result polygamy,
adulteries, abortions, and every manner of vice, and not only
do the erring husband and wife fall into the pit, but they also
drag down the manes of their deceased ancestors from the
place of beatified mortals, either to hell or back again upon this
world. Fully understanding the way in which such quarrels
arise, I have in this book shown how the husband, by varying
the enjoyment of his wife, may live with her as with thirty-two
different women, ever varying the enjoyment of her, and thus
rendering satiety impossible. I have also taught all manner of
useful arts and mysteries, by which she can render herself pure,
beautiful, and pleasing in his eyes. Let me, therefore, conclude
with the verse of blessing:—

"« May this treatise,' Ananga-ranga, ' be beloved of man
and woman, as long as the Holy River Ganges springs from
Shiva with his wife Gauri on his left side ; as long as Lakshmf
loves Vishnfi, as long as Bramhd is engaged in the study of the
Vedas, and as long as the earth, moon and sun endure.'

Finis.' n

fcltop Bttmtfrltltr'0 Htbtltf* A Comic Opera, In
Two Acts, As it was performed at Lady Bumtickler's
Private Theatre, in Birch-Grove, with unbounded
applause. The Songs adapted to Favourite Airs. Em-
bellished with Superb Prints.

And were you mad enough, said Clarissa, to go through this torture ?

Rapture! Rapture! my sweet girl, said Flirtilla, call it by no other
term. Female Flagellants. Part i

To fall at the feet of an imperious mistress, obey her orders, have pardons
to ask her, were to me the sweetest enjoyments.

Rousseau's Confessions.

When it is considered how the sight of a captivating woman en flames
the soul, what she can do with her eyes, her motions, and dress, it will
not be wondered at, that any thing from her hand, free from cruelty,
should convey an exquisite pleasure. Fashionable Lectures.

London: Printed for George Peacock, And Sold at

No. 66, Drury-Lane. Price, One Guinea plain, or a

Guinea and an Half in colours.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 75 in all; six engravings.

Reproduced by Hotten as No. 3 of the " Library Illustrative
of Social Progress," 8vo.; pp. 106.

This pamphlet begins with an " Introduction," or dialogue
between Lady Belinda Flaybum and Lady Graveairs, in prose,

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of 16 pages, which introduces the opera itself. The opera,
partly in prose and partly in verse, is, in a literary point of view,
one of the least worthless of the series ;* in parts it is facetious
and fairly amusing. There is a curious catalogue of books
on the verso of the last page.

Cfrr lift, Stobettturrtf, Intrigue*, attta Amours of the

rflebrateb 3fmmp Ctm'trfcrr* Exhibiting Many Striking
Proofs To what Baseness the Human Heart is capable of
Descending. The whole Faithfully compiled from Au-
thentic Materials.

Tho* born to titles, and by fortune blest,
View here a peer, the public scorn and jest:
Yet from his vices we may reap some gain :
—The meanest reptiles do not crawl in vain.

London: Printed for Johnathan Brough, at the

Bible, near Temple Bar, Strand.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 92 ex tide; published about 1770.

This is a weak, trivial, badly written book, which gives no
reliable information about the Earl op Sandwich, nicknamed
Jemmy Twitcher.-f- The first 28 pages detail uninteresting
events which occurred previous to the hero's birth, and are
mainly in eulogy of his parents. Then are narrated some

* See ante, p. 239.
t See ante, p. 210.

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mischievous and malicious pranks of his boyhood: his running
away to Bath, where he forms the acquaintance of a young lady
of easy virtue from whom he catches a disease; his drugging
and debauching the servant girl at the school; his escape from a
ship, bound for New York, on which his father had embarked
him to get rid of him. After these episodes we read of his
marriage, and of his communicating " a disorder to his lady,"
and finally of his entry into parliament. " With all his faults
(the author concludes) and which, perhaps, renders them
greater, he is a man of uncommon sense and penetration.
Suffice it therefore to say, that he lives, a monument of Superior
Abilities, prostrated to the Worst of Purposes!"

ittataamr Btrrftmi'tf Same. A Modem Tale. With
Considerable Additions, and Original Anecdotes
collected in the Fashionable Circles. Now first
published by Lady Termagant Flaybum.

To fall at the feet of an imperious mistress, obey her orders, have pardons
to ask her, were to me the sweetest enjoyments.

Rousseau's Confessions, vol i.

Tis as great a provocative as Cantharides or Viper Broth, for it irritates
the blood, and gives new vigour to the flagging spirits.

The Wanton Jesuit; an Opera.

The Ninth Edition, with Beautiful Prints. London:
Printed for George Peacock, And Sold at No. 66,
Drury-Lane.

8vo.; pp. 47, and one page not numbered, containing a
"Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, and Prints, ancient and
modern, to be had at No. 66, Drury-Lane." Very curious.
From it we learn that the original edition had " prints," and
was sold at: in colours 9/- and plain 6/-. " Merchants, East
India Captains, and others, who wish to send profitable ventures
to foreign markets, will be allowed a considerable discount in
purchasing a number of the above articles." The original
edition must have been published about the same time as.
44 Lady Bumtickler s Revels." This vol. is No. 5 of the "Library
Illustrative of Social Progress," 8vo.; pp. 57.*

* See ante, p. 239.

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The " original anecdotes " are in prose, and are much of the
same order as those in the " Exhibition of Female Flagellants
but "Madame Birchini's Dance" is in verse,generally of a very
doggerel kind; here and there however lines of some force and
warmth occur:

0 To look at her majestic figure
u Would make you caper with more vigour !
" The lightening flashing from each eye
" Would lift your soul to ecstacjf!
" Her milk-white fleshy hand and arm,
" That ev'n an Anchorite would charm,
" Now tucking in your shirt tail high,
"Now smacking hard each plunging thigh,
" And those twin orbs that near 'em lye!
" Then to behold her di'mond rings,
" Ev'n them you'd find delightful things !
" But above all, you'd love that other
" That told you she was your Step-mother!
" Thtn handing you the rod to kiss,
" She'd make you thank her for the bliss:
" No female Busby then you'd find,
" E'er whipt you half so well behind !
" Her lovely face, where beauty smiled,
" Now frowning, and now seeming wild !
" Her bubbies o'er their bound'ry broke,
" Quick palpitating at each stroke!
" With vigor o'er the bouncing bum
u She'd tell ungovern'd boys who rul'd at home!" (p. 17)

It tells of a young nobleman, who, having through excess,
become impotent, was, by Madame Birchini's skilful hand,
restored to his former vigour, and ability to perform those con-
jugal duties for which his young wife pined.

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If ittari ;f rrore*

i6mo.; 3 vols. ; pp. 31, 31, 29; fancy title page without
date, place, or other indication; each vol. is in a fancy yellow
paper wrapper, inscribed : " Collection Louis Jaugey Le Mari
Fdroce avec Six Eaux-fortes A Forest Lez Bruxelles" with
a monogram L. J.; in each volume are six etchings, very
poor, both in design and execution ; diey are nearly all free, but
not obscene. Louis Jaugey is at the same time author, illus-
trator and printer; date of publication 1867 or 1870.

In this tedious, absurd, and incoherent adventure, which
appeared originally as, " ta #Ult bU 28 Sut'lt 3 Xtige/' and
happened (so Jaugey has boasted) to himself, is narrated among
other twaddle, the return of an injured husband, who catches
his wife en flagrant dilit, and his consequent vengeance. The
book is utterly worthless, and the illustrations equally so.

Cfte jBttrj) (BttitV Of &>t. Xrftiget Personal Recollections of
The Use of the Rod By Margaret Anson York:
Printed for the Author's Friends mdccclvii

Square 8vo.; pp. iv and 237 in all; on the tide page is a
fleuron of a hand holding a birch ; toned paper; published by
Hotten in 1868; price 30/-; 500 copies were struck off, of
which only 50 had been distributed at Hotten's death, the re-
mainder was sold in 1873 to Mr. Bouton of New York.

The authorship is attributed to the same gentleman who

wrote for Hotten the " History of the Rod."
pp

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The book consists of i a epistles written by Miss Anson to a
female friend; the first letter is dated 1868, while the title page
bears 1857 *n err<>r'

A number of Ladies, assembled at a French Chateau during
the second Empire, institute, as a pastime, " The Merry Order
of St. Bridget," a society for the mutual application of the
birch; to the practice of which they are all attached. Margaret
Anson is the maid of one of these ladies, and is admitted into
the order as a help. Her description of her own installation
will give an idea of the rites of the order. But first let us
admire her costume: " a chemise of fine lawn, trimmed with
Valenciennes lace and insertion ; a soft white flannel petticoat
worked round the bottom with silk; another of white cashmere,
very fine, with a flounce round the bottom edged with sky-blue
velvet. For bodice I had one of my lady's embroidered ones,
and over all the handsome blue peignoir; with ruchings of
white; no stays or drawers, and nothing on my feet except blue
morning slippers, with tiny white rosettes." (p. 25).

Thus prepared, Margaret is put into a small room adjoining
that devoted to the Merry Order, and blindfolded with a
handkerchief. " It seemed to me a long time I waited, but I
suppose it was only a few minutes, and then some one entered
the room.

" ' Take off your cloak,' a voice said that I knew for that of
Mrs. D—, an English Lady, fat, fair, and forty, full of life and
fun, who had been one of the movers of the scheme—€ Now

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come with me!' The door of the tabagie was opened, and she
led me in; then it was shut and locked, and I heard the sound
of suppressed laughter all around me. Then a voice from the
end of the room called 4 Silence, if you please, ladies!' and
three knocks sounded on a table, and the same voice asked
4 Who comes there ?'

" Prompted by Mrs. D—, I answered, 4 A candidate for a
place in the Merry Order of St. Bridget.'

444 Are you prepared to serve the Merry Order to the best of
your power, and to assist, as bidden by your mistress, in the
ceremonies thereof?'

44 4 1 am.'

44 4 And do you bind yourself never to reveal aught that
you see, hear, or do in this room, on peril of losing your place
without a character ?' ^

"'i do:

44 4 Do you know the object of the Merry Order ?'

44 4 1 do.' 1

44 4 Detail it.' 1

44 Again prompted, I replied, 4 The wholesome and pleasant
discipline of the rod, to be enforced by its members one upon
another during their social meetings in this room.'

44 4 Have you ever been whipped ?'

44 4 1 have.'

44 4 Do you promise to submit to such flagellation as the
Merry Order shall ordain for you without rebellion or mur-
muring thereat V

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do/
Prepare her/

" I heard more tittering when this order was given, and I
could feel that Mrs. D— was shaking with suppressed laughter
as she obeyed the command, and took off my peignoir. She
pinned up the petticoats and chemise to my shoulders, and
then, my dear, I knew what was coming. Then some one else
took hold of one of my hands, and Mrs. D— the other, and
waited the word of command.

"4 Advance/

" They led me forward, and at the first step a stinging blow
from a birch fell on my hips from one side, then from the other,
till I had gone the length of the room. I screamed and strug-
gled, but it was all in vain ; my guides held me tight; and by
the time they stopped I could only sob and writhe.

" Then came another command, c Kneel down,' and I knelt
in front of the square ottoman; the ladies held my hands
across it, and Lady C— came down from her dais and whipped
me till I hardly knew where I was. Then they made me
stand up, and her ladyship said,

"' Ladies of the Order of St. Bridget, do you receive
Margaret Anson as a member and servitor sworn to do your
bidding ? *

" ' We do/ said those who were not laughing.

"' Let her see,' was the next order, and at the word one lady
let my clothes drop, and the other took the bandage from my

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eyes. I was so smarting from the whipping I had received,
that I could see nothing for a while, and Mrs. D— took me by
the arm and led me to the bottom of the room again. When
I recovered myself enough to look about me, I saw a sight
that the newspaper man, whose paragraph I mentioned in my
last, never dreamed of, I am sure. * * *

" Every lady held a rod in her hand, made of lithe and strong
twigs, tied up with ribbons that corresponded with the colours
of her dress. * * * On the ottoman over which I had knelt
to receive my final castigation lay two more rods.

"f Margaret Anson, approach,' said Lady C— once more, and
I went timidly forward, wondering whether any more whipping
was in store for me.

"4 Kneel down.'

" I knelt, and she presented me with a rod, and informed me
that I was now a servitor of the Merry Order of St. Bridget—
allowed to join their ceremonies, and bound to do their bidding;
and then I was made to go and stand at the bottom of the
room ready to do to the next comer as the ladies had done to
me." (p. 27).

But, as may be supposed, the repeated details of females
birching each other can admit of little variety, and must soon
become tedious; to obviate this, reminiscences are called forth
by some of the ladies, into which the male element is intro-
duced. One anecdote, of a gentleman, who, passing himself
off as a government inspector of schools, visits the various

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girls* seminaries, and has the pupils whipped before him, is
racy. (p. 191).

The author adopts the tenet that delicacy and savoir f hire are
requisite in administering the birch. " There is (he writes) a
great differnce in the style of whipping. There is no enjoy-
ment either in the use or endurance of the rod when it is
vulgarly used, like a woman would strike in a passion; but
when an elegant, high-bred woman wields it with dignity of
mien and grace of attitude, then both the practice and suffering
become a real pleasure."* (p. 181).

The following extract from " A History of the Rod " (p. 336),
while purporting to notice " an old French novel," so closely
describes the volume under consideration, that it goes far, in
my opinion, to strengthen the belief that both works are from
the same pen. Certain it is that Hotten got both of them
from the same man.

u An old French novel which we cursorily examined at one
of the quays on the Seine in Paris, contained a graphic de-
scription of a kind of romantic whipping club which existed in
that city a short time previous to ' The Terror.' The ladies
who where members of this gay institution administered the
Rod to each other with charming elegance! A trial preceded
each correction, and if a lady was found guilty, she was
straightway disrobed and birched by her companions. Many
women of high rank, if we can believe what was written in the

* The above is an evident plagiarism upon a passage in " The Exhibition
of Female Flagellants,' cited ante, p. 242.

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book—the title of which was, we think, 'The Chateau at
Tours'—belonged to this society, and received from their
companions personal chastisement. These noble dames were
also described in the book as leaders of fashion and inventors
of new modes, some of which, judging by the description given
of them in the book, must evidently have been not unlike the
dress worn by Mother Eve."

ittpsfttrie* of flagellation or, A History of the Secret
Ceremonies of the Society of Flagellants. The Saindy
Practice of the Birch ! St. Francis whipped by the Devil!
How to subdue the Passions, by the Art of Flogging!
With many Curious Anecdotes of the Prevalence of this
Peculiar Pastime in all Nations and Epochs, whether
Savage or Civilized. Printed by C. Brown, 44 Wych
Street, Strand. Price 2d.

At the head of the title is repeated " Price Twopence " in full,
and the tide has further a large wood cut representing a girl
undressing herself, on either side of her stand an old man and
woman, each holding a birch, the man has in his left hand a
piece of cord, and in the background is a folding ladder.

This publication was issued in 1863, and consists of a single
sheet forming 8 pages. It was called forth by the arrest of
Mrs. Potter on the charge of flogging a girl against her will.

The pamphlet, which, considering its class, is not badly
written, gives a superficial sketch of the History of Flagellation

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from the earliest ages, and notices more particularly some of
the noted establishments of London, among others the " White
House," the " den of Mother Cummins," the " Elysium in
Brydges Street." &c.

The account of the Potter affair I will give in full: " On
that date (July, 1863), under the auspices of the Society for
the Protection of Females, seizure was made at the then
notorious € Academy * of Sarah Potter, alias Stewart, in War-
dour Street,* and a rare collection of Flagellation appurtenances
taken to the Westminster Police Court, when the general
public, for the first time, became aware that young females
were decoyed into Stewart's School of Flogging, to undergo the
ordeal of the birch from old and young Flagellists, for the
benefit of the woman Stewart. These curious specimens of
her stock-in-trade consisted of a folding ladder, with straps,
birch rods, furze brooms and secret implements, for the use of
male and female.

" Her method of conducting business was to get hold of
young girls, board, lodge, and clothe them, and in return they
were obliged to administer to the lust of the patrons of the
boarding-house. They were flogged in different ways. Some-
times strapped to the ladder, at others were flogged round

* This is not strictly correct. The seizure took place at No. 3, Albion
Terrace, Kings Road, Chelsea, to which house Mrs. Potter had removed
from Wardour Street some months previously. She is the same woman as
that mentioned at p. xliii of the Introduction.

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the room—at times they were laid on the bed. Every device or
variation which perverted ingenuity could devise was resorted to
to give variety to the orgies, in return for which the mistress of
the house was paid sums varying from to £1$. The
profits of this school enabled Stewart to keep a country house
and fancy man, to the great scandal of the community."

The above account is exaggerated. It cannot be said that
the girl was flogged against her will, for she was in the habit of
birching gentlemen, and even of submitting to be whipped
herself when well paid. Certain it is that she returned to Mrs.
Potter after her release from prison, and lived with her a con-
siderable time in Howland Street.

Mrs. Sarah Potter, alias Stewart, was a bawd of some im-
portance, and at one time made a good deal of money. During
her chequered career she changed her residence very frequently,
having lived at Castle Street, Leicester Square, where, I believe,
she commenced business, then in Wardour Street, then in
Albion Terrace, King's Road, Chelsea, then in Howland Street,
Tottenham Court Road, where she was convicted of selling
indecent books, and sent to prison, then in Old Kent Road, and
finally in Lavinia Grove, King's Cross, where she died in 1873.

The flagellations which went on under her auspices were
chiefly administered to gentlemen, although girls were of course
at times castigated. Her speciality was for procuring very
young girls, with whose parents she generally managed to make
arrangements before hand, so as to keep herself free from
scrapes. These children she would dress up in fancy clothes
and teach them various tricks for the amusement of her
customers.

oa

fcfet #tto tfptturtan; or, The Delights of Sex,
Facetiously and Philosophically Considered, in
Graphic Letters Addressed to Young Ladies of
Quality.

domi maneas paresque nobis
Novem continuas fututiones."

Catullus. Carmen xxxn.

A New Edition. London: 1740. [Reprinted 1865.]

8vo.; pp. 92 ; 8 coloured lithographs, including a fancy title
page, inscribed "The New Epicurean 1740.;" drawing and exe-
cution very second rate. It is no "reprint," but an original work,
first published by W. Dugdale in 1865, and sold at 11. 6;
about 500 copies were struck off.

Reprinted in 1875; title identical, with exception of slight
alterations in the punctuation, and a change of the termination
of the impress into " (Reprinted 1875)" Small 8vo.; pp. 117 ;
the same 8 lithographs reproduced from the original stones;
this edition was printed in Brussels for a London bookseller.

The author and artist is Edward Sellon.

In " The New Epicurean," under the name of Sir Charles,
Sellon has depicted a course of life and a habitation which were
entirely to his taste. "lama man (he tells us) who, having
passed the rubicon of youth, has arrived at that age when the

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passions require a more stimulating diet than is to be found in
the arms of every painted courtesan.

" That I might the better carry out my philosophical design
of pleasure without riot, and refined voluptuous enjoy-
ment without alloy, and with safety, I became the pur-
chaser of a suburban villa, situate in extensive grounds, em-
bosomed in lofty trees, and surrounded with high walls. This
villa I altered to suit my taste, and had it so contrived that all
the windows should face towards the road, except the French
ones, which opened on the lawn from a charming room, to
which I had ingress from the grounds at the back, and which
was quite cut off from the rest of the house. To render these
grounds more private, high walls extended like wings from
either side of the house and joined the outer walls. I thus
secured an area of some three acres of woodland which was
not overlooked from any quarter, and where everything that
took place would be a secret unknown to the servants in the villa.

" The grounds I had laid out in the true English style, with
umbrageous walks, alcoves, grottoes, fountains, and every
adjunct that could add to their rustic beauty. In the open
space facing the secret apartment before alluded to was spread
out a fine lawn, embossed with beds of the choicest flowers, and
in the centre, from a bouquet of maiden's blush roses appeared
a statue of Venus, in white marble; and at the end of every
shady valley was a terminal figure of the god of gardens in his
various forms; either bearded like the antique head of the

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Indian Bacchus; or soft and feminine, as we see the lovely
Antinous; or Hermaphroditic (sic)—the form of a lovely girl
with puerile attributes. In the fountains swam gold and silver
fish, whilst rare crystals and spars glittered amidst mother o' pearl
at the bottom of the basons.

" The gardeners who kept this happy valley in order were
only admitted on Mondays and Tuesdays, which days were
devoted by me entirely to study, the remaining four being
sacred to Venus and love.

" This garden had three massive doors in its walls, each fitted
with a small lock made for the purpose, and all opened with a
gold key, which never left my watch guard.

" Such were the external arrangements of my Caprae. Now,
with a few words on the internal economy of my private salle
d'amour I have done.

"This apartment, which was large and lofty, was, in its
fittings and furniture entirely en Louis Quinze, that is to say, in
the latest French mode; the walls were pannelled, and painted
in pale French grey, white and gold, and were rendered less
formal by being hung with exquisite paintings by Watteau.
Cabinets of buhl and marqueterie lined the sides, each filled
with erotic works by the best authors, illustrated with exquisite
and exciting prints, and charmingly bound. The couches and
chairs were of ormolu, covered en suite with grey satin, and
stuffed with down. The legs of the tables were also gilt, the
tops were slabs of marble, which, when not in use for the de-

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licious collations (which were from time to time served up
through a trap door in the floor) were covered with rich tapes-
tries. The window curtains were of grey silk, and Venetian
blinds, painted a pale rose colour, cast a voluptuous shade over
the room.

" The chimney piece was of marble, large, lofty, and
covered with sculpture in relief, representing beautiful naked
children of both sexes, in every wanton attitude, entwined with
grapes and flowers, carved by the hand of a master. The sides
and hearth of this elegant fireplace were encrusted with por-
celain tiles of rare beauty, representing the triumph of Venus,
and silver dogs were placed on either side to support the wood,
according to the style in vogue in the middle of the last century.

" To complete the coup d'oeil, my embroidered suit of garnet
velvet, plumed hat, and diamond hilted sword were carelessly
flung upon a chair, while the cabinets and sideboards were
covered with costly snufF boxes and china. Such were some
of the striking features of this delightful chamber. As for the
rest of the house, it was furnished like any other respectable
domicile of our times.

" My establishment consisted of a discreet old house-keeper,
who was well paid, and not too sharply looked after in the little
matters of perquisites and peculations; a bouncing, blooming
cook; and a sprightly trig housemaid; who were kept in good
humour by an occasional half guinea, a holiday, and a chuck
under the chin. Beyond these innocent liberties they were not
molested."

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In this Elysium then Sir Charles indulges in debaucheries of
every kind, chiefly with young girls who are brought to him
by a schoolmistress, a tenant of his. Sir Charles is married,
but his Lady Cecilia in no way interferes with his voluptuous
idiosyncracies, but joins him in his orgies, and indeed enjoys a
little page of her own. However the book is made to finish
quasi-tragically. Cecilia, unknown to her husband, has an in-
trigue with her cousin Lord William; Sir Charles surprises them
en flagrant dflit, a duel is fought on the spot, in which both
combatants are slighdy wounded; after which the lady enters a
convent, and assumes the black veil. Sir Charles now takes a
disgust to his villa, which he sells, and retreats, with Phoebe and
Chloe, his two female servants, Daphnis, my lady's page, and
old Jukes, his housekeeper, to his Herefordshire estate.

He continues: " Haying 4 lived every day of my life' as the
saying is, you will readily suppose that I cannot perform the
feats of Venus I once indulged in, but two or three blooming
litde girls, who pass for the sisters and cousins of Phoebe and
Chloe, serve to amuse me by their playfulness, and tumbling
about showing their beauties, sometimes stir my sluggish blood
into a thrill."

The scenes depicted, many of which are doubtless from the
author's own experience, and may be considered to a certain
extent auto-biographical, are remarkable for an ultra lascivious-
ness, and a cynicism worthy of the Marquis de Sade (barring
cruelty, which is never practised).

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The book, which, for reasons that are not evident, is in the
form of letters to various women, is written with ability. In
accordance with the false indication of the title page, the scene
and costume (of plates as well as text) are thrown back into the
last century, but the delusion is very clumsily carried out.

jftDCtumal Stefaefe: or, the History of Kings-Place,and other
Modern Nunneries. Containing their Mysteries, Devo-
tions, and Sacrifices. Comprising also, The Ancient and
Present State of Promiscuous Gallantry: With the Por-
traits of the most Celebrated Demireps and Courtezans of
this Period : As well as Sketches of their Professional and
Occasional Admirers. By a Monk op the Order op St.
Francis. In Two Volumes. Vol. i. The Second Edition,
Corrected and Improved, with a Variety of Additions.

II vero est, quod ego mihi puto palmarium,
Me reperisse, quo modo adolescentulus
Meretricum iogenia & mores possit noscere:
Mature ut cum cognorit, perpetuo oderit.

Ter. Eun. Act 5. Sc. 4.

London: Printed for M. Go ad by, Pater-noster-Row. 1779.

nmo.; pp. vol. 1, 20 unnumbered of titles, dedication, and
introduction, and 279, vol. 2, pp. 270, excluding the two titles

In the second vol. the Nos. of pages 193 to 252 (inclusive),
and chaps. 37 to 42 have a star attached, indicating probably
new matter added to this second edition.

It would be a boon to the student if this most entertaining

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work, which is also valuable for the vivid picture it gives of the
London life of the period, were rescued from the oblivion into
which it has fallen, carefully reprinted, and edited by one
conversant with the " fast life " of those days, and who could
fill out the names which now are only in skeleton. The title
does not promise too much. The various " Nunneries " and
their inmates are fully described, and some of the entertainments
(see vol. 2, p. 24 and 206) provided by the * Lady Abbesses "
for their patrons, are portrayed in glowing colours. The
houses of rendezvous are not omitted, and sketches of the
careers of the most notorious demireps of both sexes are
given. Some of the tales, especially that of Miss P-lm-r
(vol. 1, p. 76), are quite dramatic. Sam. Foote, George
Selwyn, the Duke of Queensberry (Lord Piccadilly), and
others of note are introduced. Various curious facts and
customs are related; among others: The first brothel on the
Continental principle was founded by Mrs. Goadby, whom the
author calls " the great Goadby," at Berwick Street, Soho (was
Mrs. Goadby any relation to the publisher of the book ? the
names are identical). The filthy and preposterous fashion in
female head-dresses is described, when "the head was not
opened" sometimes for more than a month, and became in-
fested with vermin of all kinds, (vol. 1, p. 102). The origin
of " Cork Rumps" (vol. 1, p. 201). The general sale and
use of Dildos, called here, "Bijoux Indiscrets, Indiscreet
Toys," &c. Here is the author's own quaint and terse summary

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of the contents of his book: " a variety of pictures of Keepers,
Petticoat-Pensioners, Old Virgins, Wives and Widows, troubled
with the furor uterinus, Young Letchers debilitated, and impo-
tent old Dotards flattered into a belief of their vigour and
amorous abilities ; the Portraits of the most celebrated Thais's
and Demi-reps upon the Ton, in a variety of whimsical, las-
civious and meretricious devices; &c." (vol. 2, p. 258).

To this I may add that a very full account of Medmenham
Priory* is given in the introduction to the first volume.

In a catalogue of George Peacock,-f* the two volumes are
offered for 8/-.

The work has been translated into French as:

" ItSf Snraflsf lit lonirretf, ou Les Amusemens Nocturnes.
Contenant Les Scenes qui y sont journellement representees,
les Portraits et la Description des Courtisannes les plus c6l&bres,
et les Caract&res de ceux qui les frequentent. Traduit de l'An-
glais. Tome Premier. A Paris, Chez Barba, Libraire, Palais
Egalite, derriere le Th^tre de la R6publique, no. 51. An ix.
(1801.)"

121T10. (counts 6); pp. vol. 1 xxiv and 150, vol 2 152,
vol. 3 146, vol. 4 160, ex titles; to each vol. there is an en-
graving, as frontispiece, fairly executed and not obscene.J
This translation contains the same matter as the English ori-
ginal, although the arrangement is somewhat altered.

* See ante, p. 234.
f That mentioned at p. 303, ante.
t Bibliographic des ouvrages relatifs k l'amour, &c., vol. 6, p. 267.
rr

fc'#b*rrbatfur Sbtfflofc, ou Correspondance Secrete
entre Milord All'eye et Milord Alle'ar. (sic)
Singula qu&qut notando. Hor.

Tome Premier. A Londres, Chez John Adamson.
mdcclxxvii.

12m o.; 4 vols.; vols. I and 2 date 1777, and have each a
small fleuron on tide pages; vols. 3 and 4 have six stars, placed
triangularly, in place of the fleuron, and date 1778 ; in the title
of the second volume only is the comma righdy placed in the
word " All'ear;M printed at Amsterdam.

These four volumes were written by Pidansat ds Mairo-
bert.* After his death the work was continued by an un-
known hand as:

" I'CgptOtt 9tt£l0&, ou Coirespondance Secrete entre
Milord All'eye et Milord AU'ear.

Singula qtueque notando. Hor.

Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigge & considerablement
augments. Tome Cinquieme. A Londres, chez John Adam-
son. mdcclxxxhi"

i2mo.; identical in form with " L'Observateursmall

• La France Littiraire, vol. 7, p. 150.

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fleuron on title pages; vols. 5, 6, and 7 date 1783, vols 8, 9,
and 10, 1784- Barbier supposes these 6 vols, to contain ex-
tracts from the " Mfimoires Secrets de Bachaumont," which, as
Querard points out, is not the case; he adds: " Les dix volumes
ont 6t6 reimprimes plusieurs fois* sous le titre de I' attfflafc, notamment de 1780—1785. Plus tard, on a ajout£
un volume de supplement." This volume I have never seen.

These 10 volumes contain a vast amount of most curious
and interesting matter, interspersed, it must be owned, with
much which is now effete and comparatively useless. They were
abridged into 2 vols., 8vo., with tide:

" X'Cdpfon 3nglate ou Correspondance entre deux milords
sur les moeurs publiques et privies des Fran§ais. Tome Premier.
A Paris, Chez Leopold Collin, Libraire, rue Glt-le-Coeur, no.
4. 1809 "

These two volumes embrace strictures on the French nobles
and clergy; notices of remarkable law suits, of the opera and
theatres; descriptions of the scenes which were then nightly
enacted at the Palais Royal, of actresses, prostitutes, procuresses,
notably of Justine Paris and of Mme. Gourdan, whose house
and its contents are minutely described; anecdotes of several
remarkable personages, among others Mme. du Barri, d'Alem-
bert, Fr6ron, Voltaire, Rousseau, &c.; account of the pub-
lication of " Parapilla " and " La Foutromanie," together with

* I have seen the following odd volumes, all with the 6 stars, and the
dates in Roman letters : "L'Observateur/* vols, t and a, 1784, vol. 4, 1785.
" L'Espion " vol. 8, 1784, vols. 5, 6, 9, 10, 1785.

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much other interesting matter. They contain in fact the most
curious articles of the 10 vols, above noted.

[Les deux presents volumes sont la collection des articles
les plus inconvenants, pour ne pas dire libres, que renferment
les dix volumes deledition publiee de 1777 k 1784. La table
des matures prouvera combien ces deux volumes-ci sont curieux,
et peu decents.]*

To make the series complete another work should be
added, viz.:

" aitedrotta erijapprra a C'^Wtferbattur angloft et

aux M^moires Secrets, en forme de correspondance; pour
servir de suite a ces deux ouvrages. Tome Premier. A Londres,
Chez John Adamson. 1788."

Large i2mo.; 3 vols rf- pp. 372, and 360 in all. This work
possesses no great merit and little interest; the anecdotes are
neither so original nor so piquant as in the " Observateur " or
" Espionin form these two volumes are not serial with any
edition of the " Espion " I have seen.

Mathieu-Fran§ois Pidanzat de Mairobert was born at
Chaource in Champagne, February 20, 1727, and died at Paris,
March 27, 1779. Brought at an early age to Paris, he was
educated by Madame Doublet de Persan, and admitted into
that circle of literary men who assembled daily in her apart-
ment, and who collected the materials which were afterwards

* See ante, end of the Introduction,
t Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs £ TAmour, &c., vol. 1, p. 244.

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published as " M6moires secrets de Bachaumont.". Mairobert
was " censeur royal," and enjoyed the title of " secretaire du
roi," but becoming implicated in the affair of the Marquis du
Brunoy, he felt the disgrace so keenly that he committed
suicide by shooting himself, after having opened his veins in a
bath. Several details concerning him are given in the " Memoires
de Bachaumont," above mentioned, and a list of his works will
be found in the " Biographie Universelle (Michaud)," " La
France Litteraire," &c.

* At p. 343 of his " Curiosit6s Litt6raires,M M. L. Lalanne gives an
account of the salon of Mme. Doublet, who did not go out of her apartment
a single time during 40 years.

lU'gSfeffeit; or, the Remarkable Adventures,

Schemes, Wiles, and Devilries of Une Maquerelle;

being a sequel to the " New Epicurean."

Sir Toby—" Do'st thou think that because thou art virtuous there
shall be no more cakes and ale ?—
Clown—"Yes! by St. Anne, and ginger shall be hot i'the mouth too!"—
Twelfth Night; or, What you will.

London: 1743. [Reprint.]

8vo.; pp. 96; 8 badly done coloured lithographs; title
printed in red and black; this is not a "reprint," but
an original publication of 1866; price two guineas;
issue 500 copies. The author, Edward Sellon, thinking
that his MS. did not contain sufficient matter to form
a volume, sent the publisher, W. Dugdale, another tale
to make it up, but " Phoebe Kissagen" being found ample,
the second tale was not published; this will however explain
the following remark in Dugdale's catalogue: "to which is
added, Scenes in the Life of a Young Man, a narrative of
amorous exploits;" no such scenes are in the volume.

The work has been reprinted; and was issued in January
1876, in small 8vo.; pp. 99; the title printed in black only, and

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identical in wording, except that the impress becomes: "London,
1743 (Reprinted 1875)" This edition contains the whole of
the matter comprised in the original, but some slight alterations
have been made. There are no illustrations, although the
original stones are still in existence.

M Phoebe Kissagen," which, after the fashion of several French
books of the last century, is put in the form of letters addressed
to a Lady of title, begins with an account of the death of Sir
Charles,* who expires during the moment of copulation with
his favourite concubine Phoebe. The "good gendeman" leaves
Phoebe and Chloe 483000 each, with which they repair to
London, and purchase a bagnio in Leicester Fields. All the
rooms in the establishment are furnished with peep holes,
through which the mistress is enabled to observe, unobserved,
every thing that goes on in her house, and the description of
the various scenes she witnesses, occupies the greater part of
the book.

The rest of the volume is devoted to " The Bagnio Corres-
pondence," or letters received by Phoebe from her numerous
clients, male and female, through which their various and
peculiar tastes are exhibited.

The book ends almost with a moral, for Phoebe, when arrived
at a mature age, falls in love with, and marries a young fellow
calling himself Captain Jackson, " a man of desperate fortunes,

* See ante, p. 314.

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a gamester and duellist." This gendeman soon squanders all
her earnings, and eventually communicates to her a " horrid
disease," so that the unhappy Phoebe has to quit London, and
retires to a "quiet village, where her former career was
unknown."

"Phoebe Kissagen" is cleverly written, and although the
scenes, and the language which describes them, are of the
grossest kind, there is a certain tone about the book which
denotes its author to be a gendeman. As in "The New
Epicurean," the dress and associations are of the last century.

Cbt $bo(ntr of Jtotom, or the ©trt street Cotme*

Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the
Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, embellished
and improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodom-
itical Practices, by the members of the Vere Street Coterie,
of detestable memory. Sold by J. Cook, at
And to be had at all the Booksellers. 1813. Hollo way,
Printer, Artillery Lane, Tooley Street.

Large 8vo.; pp. 71. There is a copy in the British Museum.

This book is written by a lawyer, who signs himself Hollo-
way, 6, Richmond Buildings, Soho (possibly a relation of the
printer); it is in defence of, and for the benefit of James Cook,
landlord of the White Swan Public House in Vere Street, Clare
Market, where the Sodomitical Club assembled. Cook had
been fleeced whilst in Newgate by an attorney named Wooley,

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under pretence of " bringing him through," and had, as Hollo-
way opined, been in many other ways oppressed. It will be
noticed that on the title page a space is left for Cook to fill
in his address. It appears that Cook had not been guilty of
the capital offence, his crime being limited to his keeping a
house for the purpose. He offered, in the hope of mitigating
his punishment, to divulge the names of the noble and wealthy
frequenters of his house, but this only incensed the ministers
the more, and he was ordered to the pillory forthwith. That
Cook's revelation, had it been permitted, would have compro-
mised many men of position, there can be no doubt, " for there
is scarcely any description of men, but some individual is
comprehended in the associates of this vice; even men in the
sacerdotal garb have descended from the pulpit to the gully-hole
of breathing infamy in Vere-street, and other places for similar
vice:" &c. (p. 23).

" The fatal house in question was furnished in a style most
appropriate for the purposes it was intended. Four beds were
provided in one room:—another was fitted up for the ladies'
dressing-room, with a toilette, and every appendage of rouge,
&c. &c.:—a third room was called the Chaple, (sic) where mar-
riages took place, sometimes between a female grenadier, six feet
high, and a petit maitre not more than half the a titude of his
beloved wife! These marriages were solemnized with all the
mockery of bride maids and bride men; and the nuptials were
frequently consumated by two, three, or four couple, in the
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same room, and in the sight of each other 1 incredible as this
circumstance may appear, the reader may depend it is all
provable:—the upper part of the house was appropriated to
wretches who were constantly in waiting for casual customers;
who practised all the allurements that are found in a brothel, by
the more natural description of prostitutes; and the only
difference consisting in that want of decency that subsists
between the most profligate men and depraved women.—Men
of rank, and respectable situations in life, might be seen
wallowing either in or on the beds with wretches of the lowest
description: but the perpetration of the abominable act, how-
ever offensive, was infinitely more tolerable than the shocking
conversation that accompanied the perpetration; some of which,
Cook has solemnly declared to me, was so odious, that he could
not either write, or verbally relate. It seems many of these
wretches are married ; and frequently, when they are together,
make their wives, who (sic) they call Tommies, topics of ridicule;
and boast of having compelled them to act parts too shocking
to think of;—an instance of which I must relate, because the
history of the country furnishes a precedent, that consigned
a peer of the realm, and his infamous associate, to the gallows s
I allude to Lord Audley's case, who was convicted of rape
and sodomy at one time with his own wife.*—The instance I

* Lord Audley was, in 1631, tried before his peers, found guilty, and be-
headed on Tower Hill. See "The Tryal and Condemnation of Merrin, Lord
Audley Earl of Castle-Haven. At Westminster, April the 5th 1631. For

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shall relate was told at Vere-street by the husband, to many of
the wretches, and the partner of his guilt, then present, who
joined in the relation, as if it had been a meritorious act
this ill-fated woman had been brought to that pitch of infamy,
that she frequently endured it, as if it was no offence even to
modesty! the dreadful fellow, who is the subject of the narrsu
tion, is one of three miscreants living together in the same
public office in the city, one of whom is known by the appel-
lation of Venus.

" It seems the greater part of these reptiles assume feigned
names, though not very appropriate to their calling in life: for
instance, Kitty Cambric is a Coal Merchant; Miss Selina a Run-
ner at a Police office; Black-eyed Leonora, a Drummer; Pretty
Harriet, a Butcher; Lady Godina, (sic) a Waiter; the Duchess
of Gloucester, a gentleman's Servant; Duchess of Devonshire,
a Blacksmith; and Miss Sweet Lips, a Country Grocer. It is
a generally received opinion, and a very natural one, that the
prevalency of this passion has for its object effeminate delicate
beings only: but this seems to be, by Cook's account, a mis-
taken notion ; and the reverse is so palpable in many instances,
that Fanny Murry, Lucy Cooper, and Kitty Fisher, are now
personified by an adiletic Bargeman, an Herculean Coal-heaver,
and a deaf tyre Smith: the latter of these monsters has two

Abetting a Rape upon his Countess, Committing Sodomy with his Servants,
and Commanding and Countenancing the Debauching his Daughter. &c.
London, Printed in the Year, 1699." 8vo. (counts 4); pp. 8 unnumbered and 31.

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sons, both very handsome young men, whom he boasts are
full as depraved as himself. These are merely part of the
common stock belonging to the house; but the visitors were
more numerous, and, if possible, more infamous, because more
exalted in life: and these ladies, like the ladies of the petticoat
order, have their favorite men; one of whom was White, a
drummer of the guards, who, some short time since, was
executed for a crime of the most detestable description with
Hebden an ensign.* White, being an universal favourite, was
very deep in the secrets of the fashionable part of the coterie ;
of which he made a most ample confession in writing, imme-
diately previous to his execution; the truth of which he averred,
even to his last moments; but it is impossible to give it literally,
for the person who took it, in the presence of a magistrate,
said that the recital made him so sick he could not proceed."
(pp. io to 14).

" That the reader may form some idea of the uncontrolable
rage of this dreadful passion, Cook states, that a person in a
respectable house in the city, frequently came to his sink of filth
and iniquity, and stayed several days and nights together;
during which time he generally amused himself with eight, ten,
and sometimes a dozen different boys and men!—" (p. 17).

" Sunday was the general, and grand day of rendezvous! and

* Ensign John Newball Hepburn (not Hebden) and Thomas White were
convicted at the Old Bailey, in December 1810, for an unnatural crime com-
mitted on 27th of the previous May, at the White Swan in Vere St., found
guilty, and both sentenced to death.

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to render their excuse the more entangled and doubtful, some
of the parties came a great distance, even so much as thirty
miles, to join the festivity and elegant amusements of grenadiers,
footmen, waiters, drummers, and all the Catamite brood, kneaded
into human shape, from the sweepings of Sodom, with the spawn
of Gomorrah ." (p. 22).

The existence of such a club could not be kept entirely
secret; the Bow-street magistrates had their suspicions some
time before its actual dissolution in July 1810. In a journal of
the time we read: " About 11 o'clock last Sunday evening,
three separate parties of the patrole, attended by constables,
were detached from Bow-street upon this service; and such was
the secrecy observed, that the object of their pursuit was un-
known, even at that moment, to all but the confidential agents
of Mr. Read, who headed the respective parties. The enter-
prize was completely successful."—

Twenty three individuals were captured, and taken to the
watch-house of St. Clement's Danes; whence they were " con-
veyed in hackney-coaches, between ten and eleven on Monday,
to Bow-street for examination," amidst an " enraged multitude,
the majority of whom were females," and who were so violent
that " it was with the utmost difficulty the prisoners could be
saved from destruction."

At the Middlesex Sessions, Clerkenwell, on Saturday 22nd
September following, seven of these men, viz., William Amos,
alias Sally Fox; James Cooke, the landlord; Phillip Kett,

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William Thomson, Richard Francis, James Done, and Robert
Aspinal were tried, and all found guilty. Amos, having been
twice before convicted of similar offences, was sentenced to
three years9 imprisonment, and to stand once in the pillory in
the Haymarket, opposite Panton street; Aspinal, as not having
appeared so active as the others, to one year's imprisonment;
and the rest were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment,
and the pillory in the same place.

The treatment they experienced at the hands of the mob
whilst they were in the pillory was most brutal; the following
account of it I extract from a newspaper of the time:

"The disgust felt by all ranks in Society at the detestable
conduct of these wretches occasioned many thousands to
become spectators of their punishment. At an early hour the
Old Bailey was completely blockaded, and the increase of the
mob about 12 o'clock, put a stop to the business of the
Sessions. The shops from Ludgate-Hill to the Haymarket
were shut up, and the streets lined with people, waiting to see
the offenders pass. Four of the latter had been removed from
the House of Correction to Newgate on Wednesday evening,
and being joined by Cooke (sic) and Amos, they were all ready
to proceed to the place of punishment.

" Shortly after twelve, the ammunition waggons from the
neighbouring markets appeared in motion. These consisted
of a number of carts which were driven by butchers' boys,
who had previously taken care to fill them with the offal,
dung, &c. appertaining to their several slaughter-houses.
A number of hucksters were also put in requisition, who
carried on their heads baskets of apples, potatoes, turnips,
cabbage-stalks, and other vegetables, together with the re-
mains of divers dogs and cats. The whole of these were
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pence to provide themselves with the necessary articles of
assault.

" A number of fishwomen attended with stinking flounders
and the entrails of other fish which had been in preparation
for several days. These articles, however, were not to be sold,
as their proprietors, hearty in the cause, declared they wanted
them € for their own use.'

"About half-past ia the Sheriffs and City Marshals
arrived with more than 100 Constables mounted and armed
with pistols, and 100 on foot. This force was ordered
to rendezvous in the Old Bailey Yard, where a caravan,
used occasionally for conveying prisoners from the gaols
of London to the Hulks, waited to receive the culprits.
The caravan was drawn by two shaft horses, led by two men,
armed with a brace of pistols. The gates of the Old Bailey
Yard were shut, and all strangers turned out. The miscreants
were then brought out, and all placed in the caravan. Amos
began a laugh, which induced his vile companions to reprove
him, and they all sat upright, apparendy in a composed state,
but having cast their eyes upwards, the sight of the spectators
on the tops of the houses operated strongly on their tears, and
they soon appeared to feel terror and dismay. At the instant
the church clock went half-past twelve, the gates were thrown
open. The mob at the same time attempted to force their way
in, but they were repulsed. A grand sortie of the police was
then made. About 60 officers, armed and mounted as before
described, went forward with the City Marshals. The caravan
went next, followed by about 40 officers and the Sheriffs. The
first salute received by the offenders was a volley of mud, and
a serenade of hisses, hooting, and execration, which compelled
them to fall flat on their faces in the caravan. The mob, and
particularly the women, had piled up balls of mud to afford
the objects of their indignation a warm reception. The depots
in many places appeared like pyramids of shot in a gun wnarf.
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old house which once belonged to the notorious Jonathan Wild,
the prisoners resembled bears dipped in a stagnant pool. The
shower of mud continued during their passage to the Hay-
market. Before they reached half way to the scene of their
exposure, they were not discernable as human beings. It they
had had much further to go, the cart would have been abso-
lutely filled over them. The one who sat rather aloof from
the rest, was the landlord of the house, a fellow of a stout bulky
figure, who could not stow himself away as easily as the others,
who were slighter ; he was therefore, as well on account of his
being known, attacked with double fuiy. Dead cats and dogs,
offal, potatoes, turnips, &c. rebounded from him on every side;
while his apparently manly appearance drew down peculiar ex-
ecrations on him, and nothing but the motion of tne cart pre-
vented his being killed on the spot. At one o'clock four of them
were exalted on a new pillory, made purposely for their accommo-
dation. The remaining two, Cooke and Amos, were honoured
by being allowed to enjoy a triumph in the pillory alone. They
were accordingly taken back in the caravan to St. Martin's
watch-house. Before any of them reached the place of punish-
ment, their faces were completely disfigured by blows and mud;
and before they mounted, their whole persons appeared one
heap of filth. Upwards of 50 women were permitted to stand
in tne ring, who assailed them incessantly with mud, dead cats,
rotten eggs, potatoes, and buckets filled with blood, offal, and
dung, which were brought by a number of butchers' men from
St. James's Market. These criminals were very roughly handled;
but as there were four of them, they did not suffer so much as a
less number might. When the hour was expired, they were
again put in the cart, and conveyed to Cold Bath Fields Prison,
through St. Martin's-lane, Compton-street, and Holborn, and
in their journey received similar salutes to what they met with
in their way from Newgate. When they were taken from the
stand, the butchers' men, and the women, who had been so
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from a subscription made upon the spot. In a few minutes,
the remaining two, Cook, (who had been the landlord) and
Amos, alias Fox, were desired to mount. Cook held his hand
to his head, and complained of the blows he had already re-
ceived; and Amos made the same complaint, and shewed a
large brick bat, which had struck him in the face. The Under
Sheriff told them that the sentence must be executed, and they
reluctantly mounted. Cook said nothing; but Amos seeing the
preparations that were making, declared in the most solemn
manner that he was innocent; but it was vociferated from all
quarters that he had been convicted before, and in one minute
they appeared a complete heap of mud, and their faces were much
more battered than those of the former four. Cook received
several hits in his face, and he had a lump raised upon his eye-
brow as large as an egg. Amos's two eyes were completely
closed up; and when they were untied, Cook appeared almost
insensible, and it was necessary to help them both down and
into the cart, when they were conveyed to Newgate by the
same road they had come, and in their passage they continued
to receive the same salutations the spectators had given them
in going out. Cook continued to lie upon the seat in the cart,
but Amos lay down among the filth, till their entrance into
Newgate sheltered the wretches from the further indignation of
the most bnraged populace we ever saw. As they passed the
end of Catherine-street, Strand, on their return, a coachman
stood upon his box, and gave Cook five or six cuts with his
whip.

" It is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea
of the universal expressions of execration, which accom-
panied these monsters on their journey; it was fortunate for
them that the weather was dry,, had it been otherwise they
would have been smothered. From the moment the cart was
in motion, the "fury of the mob began to display itself in
showers of mud and filth of every kind. Before the cart
reached Temple-bar, the wretches were so thickly covered with

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filth, that a vestige of the human figure was scarcely discernible.
They were chained, and placed in such a manner that they
could not lie down in the cart, and could only hide and shelter
their heads from the storm by stooping. This, however, could
afford but little protection. Some of them were cut in the head
with brickbats, and bled profusely. The streets, as they passed,
resounded with the universal shouts and execrations of the
populace."

The practice of sodomy in England was not confined to
London, or to the votaries of the Vere Street Coterie ; very
numerous were the convictions about the same time for that
and similar offences. The crime seems to have taken root in
England already a century earlier. In " Satan's Harvest Home,"*
printed in 1749, we read: "Till of late Years, Sodomy was a
Sin, in a manner unheard of in these Nations ; and indeed, one
would think where there are such Angelic Women, so foul a
Sin should never enter into Imagination: On the contrary,
our Sessions-Papers are frequently stain'd with the Crimes of
these beastly Wretches; and tho' many have been made Ex-
amples of, yet we have but too much Reason to fear, that there
are Numbers yet undiscover'd, and that this abominable Practice
gets Ground ev'ry Day." The author of " The Phoenix of
Sodom" further informs us that: "About five and twenty years
ago, there existed a society of the same order with the Vere-
street gang, in the City of Exeter, most of whom were men of

* See that title, p. 357 post.

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rank and local situation; they were apprehended, and about
fifteen of them tried; and, though they were acquitted by the
letter of the law, the enraged multitude was so convinced of
their guilt, that, without any respect to their rank, they burnt
them in effigy.

"About the same period, another disgraceful scene was
exhibited in London, at Clement's-lane, near the new Church
in the Strand; this scene was, if possible, more ridiculously
wicked; for though it embraced all the turpitude of the Vere
street Coterie, yet the public indignation was in some measure
for the moment allayed, by the grotesque appearance of the
actors:—they were seized in the very act of giving caudle to
their lying-in women, and the new-born infants personated by large
dolls ! and so well did they perform the characters they assumed,
that one miscreant escaped the vigilance of the officers and the
examining magistrates, and was discharged as a woman! "(p. 27).

A few more instances of the practice of this crime may not
be but of place here.

The great proportion of cases reported in trials on this subject
occurs among the lower orders. This is naturally to be expected,
not only from their greater number but from their using less pre-
caution against discovery. But I am inclined to agree with the
author of "A Free Examination into the Penal Statutes, xxv Henr.
viii, cap. 6. and v Eliz. cap. 17," * that the taste has been in all
ages that of the most distinguished individuals,and that we might
count perhaps as many delinquents in the great continental cities
now, as there were in Athens, or in ancient Rome"

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Beside the cases which have come prominently before the public
such as the Rev. Dr. Thisdethwayte, warden, and the Rev. Mr.
Swinton, fellow of Wadham College, Oxford,* Beckford, Richard
Heber, Grey Bennet, Jocelyn, Bishop of Clogher, Bankes, and
Baring Wall; there are many others which were well known in
society. Among them there were some Scotch cases which are
most remarkable.

Mr. Greenfield was one of the most respected clergy-
men in the city of Edinburgh in the beginning of this
century. Like many of the Scotch clergy with small incomes
he augmented his means by taking as boarders young men who
were studying at the University. He was observed indulging
in unnatural lusts with some of these youths. From the re-
spectability of the parties the matter was hushed up, on the
ground that his conduct proceeded from insanity. He resigned
his charge, and lived for the rest of his life in retirement under
nominal restraint. His family changed their name to Ruther-
ford, that of their mother. The son was a Scotch advocate, and
became Lord Advocate, and afterwards a Judge in the court of
Session, under the title of Lord Rutherfurd.

* See " A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings In a late Affair
between the Rev. Mr. John Swinton, and Mr. George Baker, Both of Wad-
ham College, Oxford : &c. To which is prefixed, A Particular Account of the
Proceedings against Robert Thisdethwayte, Late Doctor of Divinity, and
Warden of Wadham College, For a Sodomitical Attempt upon Mr.W. French,
Commoner of the same College. London : m.dcc.xxxix." 8vo. ; (counts 4) j
pp. 3a ex title.

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The last Earl of Findlater and Seafield died about 1820 ; he
was an able and learned man, but his tastes becoming known,
he resided for the greater part of his life on the continent, where
he could more easily indulge them. On his death the title of
Findlater became extinct, but he was succeeded in the earldom
of Seafield by Colonel Grant. After his death it appeared
that he had left nearly the whole of his unentailed property to
a Saxon family of the name of Fischer, chiefly to a young man
who had acted first as his page, and afterwards as private
secretary. The relations refused to pay these legacies, and
an action was raised in the Court of Session in Scotland
to enforce payment. This was resisted by the relations
on the ground that the bequests had been made ob turpem
causam. Proceedings went on for some time, and two
commissions were granted to take evidence in Saxony. But the
scandal became so great, of a noble family attempting to fix
such a stigma on the memory of their relative from pecuniary
motives, that friends interfered, and a compromise was effected,
by which the Fischers received a large sum, 5^60,000, in full
of their claims.

Some years afterwards Mr. Grosset Muirhead, a large landed
proprietor in Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, was obliged to flee
the country notoriously on that account.

Mr. John Wood was an advocate in Edinburgh, he moved
in the best society, and was highly respected as a philanthropist;
he devoted a great deal of his time to the promotion of schools,

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and for several years spent many hours each day in teaching. He
was detected indulging in criminal practices with his pupils. It
was generally understood that he got a hint that his conduct had
been discovered. He fled to America, and never appeared again.

W)t Ptttafrllp ambulator ; or, Old Q: containing Memoirs
of the Private Life of that Ever-green Votary of Venus!
Throughout which are interspersed Anecdotes of the most
noted Fashionables, his Contemporaries. In two volumes.
By J. P. Hurstone, Esq. Vol. i.

The coronet which gives and receives splendour, when fixed on the brow
of merit, glitters on the worthless head, like a mark of disgrace, to
render vice, folly, and inhumanity conspicuous.

George Colman the Younger.

Printed by J. Dean, 57. Wardour Street, Soho. For G.
Hughes, 212, Tottenham-Court-Road; and H. D.
Symonds, 20, Paternoster-Row. 1808.

Large i2mo.; pp. vol. 1 xii and 143 in all, vol. 2 115 ex
titles; issued in boards, price 10/-; to the first volume there is
a curious folding frontispiece, coloured, signed Nicholas
Lunatic Del* H. Shade Sc.

This is a flimsy, badly written book, of no literary worth. It
recounts the seduction of several girls by the Duke of Queens-
berry,* called by the author " Old Quiz," and contains other
anecdotes more or less scurrilous; it cannot be recommended as a
reliable, or in any respect satisfactory memoir of that notorious
debauchee.

* See ante, p. 212.

©uutque Illutftnum $ortarum Ant. Panormitae ;
Ramusii, Ariminensis ; Pacifici Maximi, Ascu-
lani; Joan. Joviani Pontani ; Joan. Secundi,
Hagiensis. Lusus in Venerem Partim cx Codicibus
manuscriptis nunc primiim cditi. Parisiis, Prostat ad pis-
trinum in vico suavi. m.dcc.xci.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. viii and 242, and 5 unnumbered of
Title, Monitum, and Errata. Short biographies precede the
poems of each author.

This is a book to be avoided. From the beginning to the
end the volume is full of errors of every imaginable kind ; and
the punctuation is so whimsically wrong that the sense is often
hopelessly obscured, and becomes a perfect puzzle.

The editorship is attributed to Mercier abb£ de Saint-
L£gbr ; and the volume is (fortunately) scarce.*

* Manuel du Libraire, vol. 4. col. 1021.

€l)t ftamatttt of £l)Mt\$tmmt; or, The Revela-
tions of Miss Darcy.

" A strange but o'er true tale."

" Down drop the drawers, appears the dainty skin,
Fair as the furry coat of whitest ermilin."

Shenstone.

Illustrated with Coloured Drawings. London: Printed
for the Booksellers.

8vo.; pp. 112 ; 8 coloured lithographs, badly executed; pub-
lished by W. Dugdale, in 1866.

Belinda Darcy visits her friend Dora Forester, who initiates
her into the pleasing mysteries of flagellation, and reveals to her
experiences at Belvidere House, an academy where the birch
is much used. Other scenes are introduced, such as a
penitence in a convent, a domestic whipping, &c.

In addition to a marked similarity of style and treatment,
several episodes in this volume so nearly resemble others in a
work with an almost similar title, to be noticed in the next
article, that there is reason for believing that both are from the
same pen; especially as the original MS. of the book before
me terminated with a promise of further " experiences, should
they be called for by a desiring public."

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In support of this suggestion compare

pp. 44 of the former with pp. 82 of the latter work.

» 54 » 100 »

„ 60 „ 108 „

The literary worth of this book is rather above the average,

and in its way it is readable, and even entertaining.

Cfrf Komantt of Cbagtteemtnt; or Revelations of the
School and Bedroom. By an Expert.

" Expbrto Crepe."
Who, brandishing the rod, doth straight begin
To loose her pants—she trembles with affright—
Adown they drop, appears the dainty skin,
Fair as the furry coat of whitest ermelin."

The Schoolmistress, by Shenstone.

1870.

Large 8vo.; pp. 128 ; there is a frontispiece, the reproduction
of that to Cannon's edition of " The Exhibition of Female
Flagellants,"* to which Hotten added the name of the painter
" Opie ;" the vol. was sold by him at 18/-.

The subject hinges chiefly upon the flogging of young girls,
and the author thoroughly enjoys it. He believes that a woman
operating upon one of her own sex experiences also pleasure
and excitement in the act. " As a rule, women do not readily
resort to rods. Some are too tender-hearted, others too chaste

* See ante, p. 244.

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or too timid—but—their scruples overcome and vengeance safe,
they know no measure in the cruel sport that, under the name
of duty, gives the rein to passion and gratifies two lusts at every
lunge." (p. 98).

But he carries his theory further, and would shew that not
only the administratrix but even the recipient of the birchen
chastisement feels a luxurious sensation. If the whipping is
applied by a skilful hand, a kind of magnetism passes from the
priestess to the victim, and she in her turn becomes fascinated.
Here is Dora Doveton's experience of her first flogging.
Martinet, the head governess, gives the word of command:
" Fetch two of the No. 6 rods, and unlace her if necessary.
Renardeau (the French instructress) darted her hand beneath
my clothes and reported that I wore no stays. Nor do I now;
my waist is naturally small, and a little stiffening in the body of
the dress suffices to keep my breasts in order. Steinkopf
(German teacher), who had resumed her place, and Armstrong,
then laid hold of me, and despite my prayers and tears, while
one held my hands above my head, the other opened my dress
behind and stripped off skirt, petticoats, and drawers; then
with one shameless drag she furled up my shift in front and
rear, and pinned it over my shoulders.

" The next moment I was forced upon my knees on the
block, with four hands grasping my arms and pressing my
neck down. The breeze from the sky-light fanned my back,
and I felt that the eyes of all present were riveted on my naked
person. Could it be I that was subjected to such indignity ?

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Though my arms were squeezed I felt it not, all my sensation
seemed to have retreated to another quarter. My skin is so
tender that even when bathing I tremble to expose it, and here
was I fixed as in a vice, with nothing intervening between that
thin skin and the murderous implements behind me.

"A pause, it seemed to me an hour long, ensued, till my
spine grew cold as ice twixt fear and waiting. Something had
rattled on the floor, but the sound had died away, and still the
expected blow came not. I looked round with half a hope.
Martinet was leisurely re-adjusting a bracelet on her rod arm,
her eyes the while devouring my form with a wild impassioned
gaze like a lover's. Can she be relenting ? Alas ! the brows
contract—the grasps of the holders tighten on my arms.—
Whir-r-r Whisp ! ' Yah ! Yeou! Yeoiks!' Oh! the unspeak-
able agony of that first murderous lash ! Legions of scorpions
fastened on my flesh and dug their fangs into my vitals. Vainly
I hung back and screwed my front against the block, the rear
would not recede; I could only diminish its width by muscular
contraction. Whir-r Whisp ! Whir-r Whisp ! Whir-r Whisp!
Nature cannot endure the pain; I struggle to my feet, receiving
a fifth rasper in the act, and my shrieks rival the loudest howls
of Patty (who had just before been chastised). This was the
4 whipping proper,' a few strokes more of which would probably
have killed or maddened.

" The two strong women soon resumed their clutch and
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luctantly—for already the charm had worked; the mere act of
rising seemed to have brought relief, and a change next to
miraculous took place in all my thoughts and feelings. I noted
the impressions shortly after they occurred, and shall endeavour
to describe them.

" Fear and shame were both gone: it was as though I was
surrendering my person to the embraces of a man whom I so
loved I would anticipate his wildest desires. But no man was
in my thoughts; Martinet was the object of my adoration,
and I felt through the rod that I shared her passions. The
rapport, as the magnetisers have it, was so strong that I could
divine her thoughts; had she wished me to turn my person full
front to her stripes, I should have fought and struggled to obey
her. Then, too, there was a thrill in a certain part, I knew
magnetically, of both our persons, which every fresh lash kept
on increasing. The added pang unlocked new floods of bliss,
till it was impossible to tell in my case whether the ecstasy was
most of pain or pleasure. When the rods were changed, I
continued to jump and shout, for she liked that, but—believe
me or not—I saw my nakedness with her eyes, and exulted in
the lascivious joy that whipping me afforded her. This state
would have continued as long as my strength, for I had no
power to quit the spot till my other self willed it.

"The punishment over, I broke from the assistants, and
from Atkinson, who, crinoline on arm, would have acted as
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to throw myself at her feet, when my course was forcibly
arrested by Helen (her bed-fellow). With a whispered Steady!
she unpinned my shift, and directed my attention to the last act
in this day's drama, which was now commencing." (p. 58).

But this luxurious sensation, and yearning, in spite of herself,
towards her executioner, are still not quite clear in Dora's mind,
and next morning the following conversation takes place
between her and her friend Helen:

"4 O Helen it was dreadful!' (exclaims Dora).
44 4 Dreadful at first it always is, but was it so throughout ?'
(answers Helen).

44 4 No, I can't explain; there was a change, and it was cer-
tainly ecstasy at last. How can that be ?'

44 Helen then offered the same hints about magnetism which
I gave you in the beginning of my letter. She asked me when
the change took place.

u 4 Directly after I was pulled down again!'
"4 Exactly so—when you were struggling to rise you had
one knee up, the other down, and Martinet seized the moment
to give the cut up. The rod was so large probably only a
single twig got in. One will do, or even a smart cut in the im-
mediate neighbourhood. Martinet won't give these cuts to all;
there's a lot of the girls, # * she prefers whipping against
their wills, unless she foresees any danger of their making a row
about it out of school; then she whips in and enslaves them.'
44 4 But why does she select some more than others ?'

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"'I can't say; fancy, I suppose. I was the first girl she
whipped in this house. It was long ago, when I was not half
the size I am now; so she mounted me on her lap and gave it
me the very first cut, forcing my legs open. Ever since,
though I don't love, I admire her so that I am always ready to
take my own share for the privilege of seeing her noble style of
birching. How much of her own passions she imparted to you,
you best know; but few get it so tight home as the Hon.
Miss de Vere.'" (p. 64).

The " cut up " requires, perhaps, a little more illustrating,
and this cannot be better done than by giving, in the author's
own words, the manner in which it was administered to the
above mentioned young lady.

Miss de Vere, being both powerful and very obstreperous,
had to be bound down on a bed; in this position, and stript
stark naked, she received her chastisement from the hand of the
pityless school-mistress.

" After some thirty such stripes as she only could give, had
exhausted her strength, Martinet dropped the stump of the
third rod, passed a scented handkerchief over her face and neck,
and gloated on the mangled spectacle before her.

" And now came the strangest of all that day's strange pro-
ceedings.

"When Martinet had recovered her wind, Renardeau,
withdrawing it from somewhere beneath her dress, presented
her principal with a weapon in ludicrous contrast with its

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gigantic predecessors, This consisted of a tiny switch, only
a few inches in length, formed apparently of twisted wire.
With this between her finger and thumb, Martinet took
her stand by the bedside about half way up, and stocping over
the broad end, looked expressively at us. Helen from ex-
perience, I by intuition, guessing her design, sprang wide apart,
bearing each a leg with her, when Martinet by a dexterous
turn of her wrist, applied the minute lash between them.*

" The blow, though a light one, was followed by a cry so
wild and startling, my o'erwrought senses could stand no
more." (p. 62). # * *«

" Her Majesty gave her two flicks more in the same place,
and then bade them cut her loose." # * # Miss de Vere "flung
herself at her Majesty's feet, kissed her hand, pressed it to her
breast, and I declare to you she implored her pardon with tears,
calling her Mistress—like a little child, and promising thence-
forth to do only Martinet's will and pleasure." (p. 66). -f-

The dress most suitable for the quick and easy application
of the birch is thus pictured: " Buckram and farthingale
were out, and in revenge the rising generation looked like dolls
and scarce wore anything but shift and gown. Stays there were

* The notion is not new; in " Justine " (Edit. Hollande 1797, Chapt. 8,
vol. 2, p. 197) it will be found worked out more thoroughly, and with still
greater atrocity and obscenity.

f The whole of this scene is almost identical with one in "The Romance
of Chastisement or Revelations of Miss Darcy, &c.," vide p. 344.

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none, the waist served up the breasts as on a dish, and clasped
behind between the shoulder blades, the skirts adhering to the
shape below. This led to shocking scenes in girls' schools, where,
as I said before, it was customary to whip those of quite a mar-
riageable age. To insure a thorough strip little more was
needed than to take down the web drawers, which hooked in
front and came up breast high to keep the vitals warm. This
was seldom done without more or less resistance, and when
done the skirts were furled to the armpits front and rear, and
fastened round the throat. The nudity of the bath would have
been decent compared to these fights and the sexual exposure
they involved." (p. 80). Costumes of the first Empire.

The author too advances a strange theory about backsides
being able to blush (see p. 82). "But here was a whole body
and a living heart able to send a current either way. The fact
was so; the part blushed visibly in both the cheeks ere ever it
was struck, and then turned pale again."

The work is not finished, although the volume under con-
sideration is complete with pp. 128, no more having been
printed. It was originally issued from Dublin, in numbers, by
the author, who printed 1000 copies; and, in July 1871, sold
200 sets to Hotten for time the MS. of three unpublished tales to continue the
work. Hotten neither returned the MS., nor went on with
the publication; upon which the author distributed among
his subscribers the following printed circular:

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"THE ROMANCE OF CHASTISEMENT.
"The above named Work appeared originally in Weekly
Numbers of 32 octavo pages, price 6d. each. A London pub-
lisher, seeing the four numbers, volunteered to bring out the
Work, as a whole, on his own account. He has not yet done
so. In answer to numerous inquiries, Aliquis fears there
is not much probability of the publisher, Mr. John Camden
Hotten, 74 and 75 Piccadilly, fulfilling his promise. The MS.
of the entire work has long been ready for press, but Aliquis
cannot undertake to publish it at his sole risk and cost.

" Other MS. Works are ready, and may appear hereafter,
should the sale of those now in issue produce a sufficient sum
to cover expenses."

The MS. above mentioned, and which is at present in the

collection of a bibliophile in London, comprises the following

tales: " fcarrp'* fcolftap*," 44 % fifp to tbt Atlantic,"
" Casftle Carawith " £>am'* JMorp,"

But these three (or rather four) stories by no means com-
plete the work as originally projected by the author; eight
other pieces, in prose and verse, viz.,44 Cf)t <£trmatt IttftfOtUf/9

"fifii f)t oufffrt to *o ft ? » "Calts out of JMf>ooI," "C&t
JSUriumtoff Sap, or $UbaI ftttollrrtiontf," " totmintettntt*

of ftliv Cagpmait, ©Sfq*," (comprising ««utobiojirap^"
and " Damiana"), "®tOtt Of
*torj>- and jfav "), u a footing Zorto'* lark

and 44 Cf)t ffixtiff) are required to render the volume
perfect. Further in his prospectus, called 44 21 35fct)'0 <5pt
HUto" the " Expert" gave notice of a "£>npplfttunt tO tf)t
Eomaiut of Cftas(tfs(tmrnt/' comprising the following pieces
vv

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viz., "fcarli f&tts, or letters ptng of Proton Gi'rfe," " ifletrtral ftarif .tfarts, or a frtt
tfettfon of tfce $ro-»oli letters, toftfc Comments tip
' Singling (geortrie,'" "Select ®rtrarts from tfje
tioofe," " a Glance at tfce «0oo& Saps,'» " Cfte Cant,
or an extract from the Starp of a Sawing iflaster; ** and
another work entitled " 0lIa])O&rfta; or from tfit portfolio Of tfje ®rpert,M which should embrace
the following tales: " Cfje feb tng (glass," " €f)t C&arm,"
" €f)t ^crplepcu iflamma," " iHaster young's fti&t
Cf)OUfff)t£J,** iftort," "€t)t ;foregofag tottf) fflt-

tailsf, an* to an epic ^orm," iHunrn iflap's affiur,"
" Cbc &>cf)00l," "« fion't he ^fllp,' jsaps &usan,"
"IJessfe ffi'arrp's Ctoo affirtrs," "SHBrfnfeles on ftofc-
mafctog," and *HrS, Birrij'S fcan&psfoop."

Probably these pieces are already written ; some of them are
at present in the hands of Mr. Hartcupp of Brussels; and a
few have already been printed.*

The author is St. George H. Stock, formerly a lieutenant
in the 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment. He employed the
aliases Expert, Major Edgar Markham, and Dr. Aliquis.

Throughout all that he has written, whether in prose or
verse, there is a tiring sameness and monotony, both in ideas and
style. His only topic is flogging, and this repeated constantly
with very little variation of episode or manner of treatment.

* Particularly "The Charm/' noticed at p. 156, ante, and of which the
title will be found in the prospectus given above.

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His other works, already printed are, " fllttm* tm't&OUt BOttgfr;
or 144 Quaint Conceits, 4 within the bounds of becoming mirth.'
By Doctor Aliquis, a Crampton Quay, Dublin

'—Quid medicinae
Risa salubrius ?*

All rights reserved." 8vo.; pp. 64; printed at Dublin by the
author in 1870, and sold by him at 1/-; a trivial publication in
verse which has no interest for the present work; " The
Charm;"* "The Sealed letter;"+ "The Nameless Crime;":}: pro-
bably " The Romance of Chastisement, or the Revelations of
Miss Darcy;" and some pamphlets of jokes, which Lieutenant
Stock was in the habit of introducing to the public by means
of advertisements in journals of a doubtful character. Here is
one which appeared during five weeks of 1871 in the "Day's
Doings:" " 'Tis said that Xerxes offered a reward to those who
could invent him a New Pleasure. Address prepaid, Alquis, 2.
Crampton Quay, Dublin. Post-cards refused."

His one idea, as before mentioned, is flagellation, and he
never missed an opportunity of indulging in his pet vice, or of
forming connections with those who shared the same idio-
syncracy. In proof of this I transcribe the following -rather
curious letter:

* Noticed at p. 156, ante,
t See that title, post.

X See that title in Additions and Corrections, post.

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To the Rev. Wm. Cooper, M.A.

July 17, 1870

Dear Sir,

I have derived much of both amusement and in-
struction from a perusal of your learned 4 History of the Rod.'

" Being and having been for some years engaged on a work of
a somewhat similar nature, it would afford me great pleasure to
make your acquaintance on paper, supposing the wish -to be
reciprocated.

" Such a conjunction might perhaps lead to our mutual
advantage.

" To save trouble however, I should state that my view of
the subject is tant soit peu libre connecting it with animal mag-
netism. Therefore, if your sentiments be € stricdy clerical,* it
would probably not suit you to continue the correspondence.

" Should you desire to do so, please copy the Address over leaf.

" Faithfully yrs

" Edgar Marram."

&atan'0 £arbt*t feomt: or the Present State of
Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Procuring,. Pim-
ping, Sodomy, And the Game at Flatts, (Illustrated by
an Authentick and Entertaining Story) And other Satanic
Works, daily propagated in this good Protestant Kingdom.
Collected from the Memoirs of an intimate Comrade of
the Hon. Jack S * #n# * r ; and concern'd with him in
many of his Adventures. To which is added, Cfct ffrttt
iWattrr, a Poem, by a Lady op Distinction. London:
Printed for the Editor, and sold at the Change, St. Paul's,
Fleet Street, by Dod against St. Clement's Church; Lewis,
Covent Garden ; Exeter Change, at Charing Cross, and in
the Court of Requests; Jackson, Jollippe, Dodsley,
Brindley, Steidel, Shropshire, Chappel, Hildyard
at York; Leak, at Bath; and at the SnufF Shop in Cecil
Court, St. Martin's Lane, 1749*

Large 8vo.; pp. 62 ex title.

This rare volume, the object of which is strictly moral, affords

* This long title concludes with a price in brackets, unfortunately ob-
literated in the copy before me*

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some interesting pictures of London and its vices, interspersed
with shrewd remarks and suitable hints. It is in two parts, not
apparently by the same hand, the latter division having a
separate half title, "$ta0On0 fOX ti)t ^Wtotfc Of 5>0il0mp,
Sctf$ and being divided into 5 chapters.

London streets were as full then as now of homeless girls:
" What a deplorable Sight is it, to behold Numbers of litde Crea-
tures pil'd up in Heaps upon one another, sleeping in the publick
Streets, in the most rigorous Seasons, and some of them whose
Heads will hardly reach above the Waistband of aMans Breeches,
found to be quick with Child, and become burthensome to the
Parish, whose Hospitable Bulks and Dunghills have given them
Refuge ? I have often thought, that the removing of these Lay-
Stalls of Leachery from the Doors of a great Protestant City,
might not be a Work altogether unworthy of our reforming
Scavengers." (p. 2).

There were, however, philanthropic people then who en-
deavoured to reclaim prostitutes, and with about as much success
as in the present day : " We often read, indeed, of the mighty At-
chievements of a certain Kn—t, and the Excursions of Midnight
Constables; their encount'ring of Dragons in Gin-shops, storming
enchanted Night-Cellars, and leading Ladies into Captivity. All
which are related with wonderful Exactness in the publick News-
Papers. But meet these People when you will, you will seldom
find in their Custody above a Flat-Cap or a Cinder-Wench,
who, because their Rags won't pawn for a Dozen of Beer, are

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made Examples of. She that has the Prudence to whore with
Half a Crown in her Pocket, is as sure of Protection, as a cheating
Director, and may sin on without any Danger. While the poor
needy Wag-Tail must be cautious how she kisses, lest she be
carried to Bridewel, where, instead of being reclaim'd, she is
harden'd by her indelible Shame in her miserable State of
Wickedness. The only good they have done, is to put an Im-
post upon Whoring, and make themselves Collectors of the
Duty; for which Reason, the Price of Venery is greatly
enhanc'd, and that within a few Years, which makes it the more
practised; for the Cheapness of a Commodity always throws it
out of Fashion, and Things easily purchased are seldom minded.
It is a right Observation, that Restraint does but whet the
Passions, instead of curing them, as we find in the Case of most
married Men, who, like Sampson's Foxes, only do more Mis-
chief for having their Tails tied." (p. 2).

Here is a sagacious remark respecting the fair sex : " Most
women, indeed, let them be ever so fully resolved to comply,
make as great a shew of Resistance as they can conveniently
counterfeit; and this the Sex would palm upon the World
for a kind of innate Modesty.

" Not to mention the actual Pleasure a Woman receives in
struggling, it is a Justification of her, in the Eye of the Man, and
a kind of Salvo to her Honour and Conscience, that she never
did fully comply, but was in a Manner forc'd into it. This is
the plain Reason, why most Women refuse to surrender upon
Treaty, and why they delight so much in being storm'd." (p. 8).

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Petticoat pensioners, it seems, came first into vogue about
this time: "But what amazes and fills all Mankind with
Wonder and Surprize, is a new Vice started upon us, introduced
and boldly led up by Women of the first Figure and Fortune
as well as Fashion, worthy the Imitation of the whole Sex.
These, vice versa, have inverted the Order of Things, turn'd
the Tables upon the Men, and very fairly begun openly to
Keep their Fellows: For Ladies during the Bands of Wedlock,
as well as in a State of Widowhood, to call in private Aid>
Assistance, and Comfort, is an Immunity they've enjoy'd time
immemorial: But for the Fair, and such as even profess
Spinsterhood, to keep Men in private Lodgings, and visit them
publickly in their Equipages, are Privileges unknown to our
Ancestors." (p. 15).

The author defines very fully and forcibly a jilt: " A Jilt
is a Procurer, Bawd, and Whore, compounded together. A
Vermin so ravenous and malicious, and withal so subtle and
designing, so formally chaste and hypocritically virtuous, and
yet so scandalously common and impudently lewd, so proud,
and yet so mercenary, and above all, so insolently ill natur'd,
that in the short Character of a Jilt, are comprehended all the
Vices, Follies and Impertinences of the whole Sex." (p. 24).

Drury Lane, although it has not altogether lost the character
it then possessed, is certainly improved since 1749. "Let a
sober Person take a gentle Walk through the antient Hundreds
of Drurr/y where ev'ry half a dozen Steps he meets with some

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odd Figure or another, that looks as if the Devil had robb'd
them of all their natural Beauty, which being in our Maker's
Image, we derive from our Creator, and had infus'd his own in-
fernal Spirit into their corrupt Carcasses; for nothing can be
read but Devilism in every Feature; Theft, Whoredom, Ho-
micide and Blasphemy, peep out of the very Windows of their
Souls; Lying, Perjury, Fraud, Impudence and Misery, the only
Graces of their Countenance.

" One with slip Shoes, without Stockings, and a dirty Smock,
visible thro' a torn Petticoat, stepping out of a Pawn-broker*s
Shop, yet with her Head dress'd up to as much Advantage, as
if the Members of her Body were sacrificed to all Wickedness
to keep her ill-look'd Face in a little Finery. Another taken
from the Shoe-stool or Oyster-tub, and put into Whores
Allurements, she makes indeed a more cleanly Appearance, but
becomes her Ornaments as a Welsh-Ale-Wife doth a Velvet
Manteel, or a Sow a Hunting Saddle. A third, at the Heels of
a Porter hurrying to a Tavern, to sell Half a Crown's Worth
of Fornication to a drunken Letcher.

" Turn your eyes up to the Chambers of Wantonness, and
you behold the most shameful Scenes of Lewdness in the
Windows even at Noon-day, some in the very Act of Vitiation,
visible to all the opposite Neighbours. Others dabbing their
Shifts, Aprons and Headcloths, and exposing themselves just
naked to the Passers by. A Gang of Bailiffs, Butchers and
Highwaymen are drinking, and damning at an Ale-house

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Door, then every now and then out bolts a Fellow, and whips
nimbly a-cross the Way, being equally fearful of both Bailjff
and Constable, looking as if the Dread of the Gallows had
drawn its Picture in his Countenance. Here and there a dirty
shabby looking §>uack, going from House to House to visit
his rotten Patients, as publickly and openly as the Collector
of the King's Tax; and as often call'd to from the Windows
of the first to the third Story, to know how such an one goes
on in her Salivation.

" My Dear, will you give me a Glass of Wine; take me
under your Cloak, my Soul, and how does your precious

-do ? You hear at the Corner of every Court, Lane and

Avenue, the Quarrels and Outcries of Harlots recriminating
upon one another, Soldiers and Bullies intermixing, the
most execrable Oaths are heard, such as are seldom ex-
ceeded, but at a Stop of Carts and Coaches in a Winter's
Evening. By and by a Brandy-Shop is going to be demolish'd,
because the Master refuses to bail some Whore that's just
arrested, and a Coach waiting at the Door of her Lodgings to
carry her to the Officer's House, unless he does the kind Office.
A Riot breaks out in another Place, a Bawd's Goods are seized
on for Rent; a new Tumult ensues, a Whore's Maid in cross-
ing the Croud, has a Misfortune to break a Bottle of red
Port, with a Couple of Pipes, that she is carrying to her
Mistress's Chamber, the Mob give a Shout, the Girl is beat
out of Doors with her Head bloody, all the Chandler-Women

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and Gin People are assembled, with an Irish Sollicitor at their
Head about the Door, with an Outcry for Justice; poor Peggy's
Rashness is blamed by some, and justified by others; in an
Instant half a dozen Suits of Head Cloths are torn in Pieces,
and several black Eyes and bloody Noses exhibited : Warrants.,
binding over, and Actions, are the Subjects of all Conversation
in Coulsoris-Court, Bridges-Street, &c. A Cry of Murder is
heard about twenty Yards farther, a Mother or Father being
under the bastinading of a dutiful Son or Daughter. Pimps
and Pensioners to the Hundred, you see skulking from Bawdy-
House to Bawdy-House incessantly. In short, I cannot but
fancy them a Colony of Hell-Cats, planted here by the Devil, as
a Mischief to Mankind ; they admit of no Comparison on this
side Hell's Dominions, all this Part, quite up to N-wtn-rs Lane
Park—ers Lane, St. Th-mas's-street, (some few honest Shop-
keepers excepted) is a Corporation of Whores, Coiners, High-
waymen, Gamesters, Pick-pockets, and House-breakers, who like
Bats and Owls skulk in obscure Holes and Geneva shops by
Day-Light, but wander in the Night in search of Opportunities
wherein to exercise their Villany." (p. 25).

Other haunts of prostitutes are mentioned: " The Four-
scores of Fleet-street and Shoe-lane, the Fifties of Dukes-place
and the Minories, and the Course of Charing-cross, which last
was now render'd in as flourishing a Condition, as in the Reign
of King Charles the I Id, there being little else but Concubines
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the Chamber-Windows, from one End of the Verge to the
other: Nor are very few of these the Propriety (sic) of one
Man, but ordain'd for the Comfort and Refreshment of Mul-
titudes, devoting themselves to the Service of all the loving
Subjects of Great Britain; &c." (p. a8).

Venereal disease was as prevalent then as now, and seems
even to have been fashionable: " The greatest Evil that attends
this Vice, or could befal Mankind, is the Propagation of that
infectious Disease calTd the French Pox, which in two Cen-
turies has made such incredible Havock all over Europe. In
these Kingdoms, it so seldom fails to attend Whoring, now-a-
days mistaken for Gallantry and Politeness, that a hale robust
Constitution is esteemed a Mark of Ungentility and Illbreeding,
and a healthy young Fellow is look'd upon with the same
View, as if he had spent his life in a Cottage. * * * And our
Gentry in general, seem to distinguish themselves by an ill state
of Health; in all Probability, the Effect of this pernicious Dis-
temper. Nothing being more common, than to hear People of
Quality complain of rude vulgar Health, and curse their Por-
ter ly Constitutions. Men give it to their Wives, Women to their
Husbands, or perhaps their Children; they to their Nurses, and
the Nurses again to other Children; so that no Age, Sex or
Condition, can be entirely free from the Infection." (p. 31).

The effeminacy of mens* dress, their kissing each other, and
the crime of sodomy* are inveighed against: " I am confident

* See ante, p. 328.

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no Age can produce any Thing so preposterous as the present
Dress of those Gendemen who call themselves pretty Fellows:
their Head-Dress especially, which wants nothing but a Suit
of Pinners to make them down right Women. But this may
be easily accounted for, as they would appear as soft as possi-
ble to each other, any Thing of Manliness being diametrically
opposite to such unnatural Practices, so they cannot too much
invade the Dress of the Sex they would represent And yet
with all this, the present Garb of our young Gendemen is most
mean and unbecoming. 'Tis a Difficulty to know a Gendeman
from a Footman, by their present Habits: The low-heel'd
Pump is an Emblem of their low Spirits; the great Harness
Buckle is the Height of Affectation 5 the Silk Waistcoat all
belac'd," with a scurvey blue Coat like a Livery Frock, has some-
thing so poorly preposterous, it quite enrages me; I blush to
see 'em aping the Running Footman, and poising a great
Oaken Plant, fitter for a Bailiff's Follower than a Gendeman.
But what renders all more intolerable, is the Hair strok'd over
before and cock'd up behind, with a Comb sticking in it, as if
it were just ready to receive a Head Dress : Nay, 1 am told,
some of our Tip top Beaus dress their Heads on quilted Hair
Caps, to make 'em look more JVomanish; so that Master
Molly has nothing to do but slip on his Head Cloaihs and he is
an errant Woman, his rueful Face excepted but even that can
be amended with Paint, which is as much in Vogue among our
Gendemen, as with the Ladies in France.

" But there is no Joke like their new-fashion'd Joke Hats,

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equally priggish as foppish ; plainly demonstrating. That Not-
withstanding the Bustle they make about Jokes, they have them
only about their Heads. But to see them dress'd for a Ball, or
Assembly, in a Party coloured Silk Coat, is the Height of my
Aversion: They had better have a Mantua and Petticoat at
once, than to mince the Matter thus, or do Things by Halves.

" But of all the Customs Effeminacy has produc'd, none more
hateful, predominant, and pernicious, than that of the Mens
Kissing each other. This Fashion was brought over from Italy,
(the Mother and Nurse of Sodomy); where the Master is
oftner Intriguing with his Page, than a fair Lady. And not
only in that Country, but in France, which copies from them,
the Contagion is diversify'd, and the Ladies (in the Nunneries)
are criminally amorous of each other, in a Method too gross
for Expression. I must be so partial to my own Country-
Women, to affirm, or, at least, hope they claim no Share of
this Charge; but must confess, when I see two Ladies Kissing
and Slopping each other, in a lascivious Manner, and frequently
repeating it, I am shocked to the last Degree; but not so much,
as when I see two fulsome Fellows, Slavering every Time they
meet, Squeezing each other's Hand, and other like indecent
Symptoms. And tho' many Gentlemen of Worth, are often-
times, out of pure good Manners, obliged to give into it; yet
the Land will never be purged of its Abominations, till this
Unmanly, Unnatural Usage be totally abolish'd : For it is the
first Inlet to the detestable Sin of Sodomy.

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" Under this Pretext vile Catamites make their preposterous
Addresses, even in the very Streets; nor can any thing be more
shocking, than to see a Couple of Creatures, who wear the
Shapes of Men, Kiss and Slaver each other, to that Degree, as
is daily practised even in our most publick Places; and (gene*
rally speaking) without Reproof; because they plead in Excuse,
That it is the Fashion. Damn'd Fashion! Imported from Italy
amids't a Train of other unnatural Vices. Have we not Sins
enough of our own, but we must eke 'em out with those of
Foreign Nations, to fill up the Cup of our Abominations, and
make us yet more ripe for Divine Vengeance." (p. 50).

The " Game of Flats," an appellation which may be new to
many of my readers, indicates a criminal love between women.
Our author tells us that it was a " new sort of Sin " which had
"got footing among W—n of Q—y," and was practised at
Twickenham as well as in Turkey.

€f)t Jbtald) letter, by Doctor Aliquis, a, Crampton Quay,
Dublin. All rights reserved.

The title is on the outer wrapper only; 8vo. size; pp. 20;

printed at Dublin in 1870; and thus advertised by the author

and publisher, St.George H. Stock: "The Sealed Letter—

Inspice videbisque—Sent free, sealed, for 8d. in stamps."

" Take it on trust or leave it, as 700 list,
" We shall do nothing to dispel the mist

* See p. 354, ante.

368 INDBX LIBR.OB.Uif PROHIBITORUM.

" Say not, Chaste Reader, that you are betray'd
" By us* who coonsel only to dissuade :
" There's matter here which modesty won't brook,
" If* warned, you will be castigated, look."

" N.B.—None of the Doctor's Works are illustrated. Address
Aliquis a, Crampton Quay Dublin. Post-cards refused."

This pamphlet comprises two pieces in dialogue and verse:

1. "Cftt WiSXtt Iflp A Bit of Nature Dramatized."
Kathleen, " sylph, with all the nameless graces of the child,"
is forbidden by her mother to go near a certain pond, which
injunction she disobeys, and further, seeing in the water a
beautiful lily, she determines to pluck it. She "strips stark
naked," gets into the pool, and secures her treasure. Just as she
is finishing the readjustment of her clothes, she is surprised by
her mother. She denies having been into the water, which her
enraged parent knows to be a lie, and letting down Kathleen's
pants, administers a good whipping. The piece is in two scenes.

2. "Cfrt Ct0t, Comedietta in One Act." The
scene passes in the " seminary " of Miss Twigg. Miss Twigg
being called away from the school-room, the girls, left alone,
determine to play the shape-test, which is thus explained by
one of them:

" The way is this, you stand erect,
"Your legs together, rayther I expect 5
" Your shape is perfect if a sixpence lies
" Between your ankles, calves, your knees and thighs.
(< Here are four sixpences and I'll begin,
" Little Red Ridinghood shall put them in.
" Not that way, stupid, stand to one side there
" That everyone may see you do it fair.

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" (Aside)

" (YouVe done it now be off with you, you elf,
" And keep your fiddling fingers to yourself.
u A time for all things, somebody has said,
" This is no time for tricks, we're not in bed.)
" Observe, I keep them firmly one and all}
" I bet that you and others let them fall."

Petticoats are pulled up, drawers taken off, and the game is
in full swing, when Miss Twigg suddenly returns, and catches
her pupils occupied in this interesting nlanner. She orders the
u whipping-room " to be prepared, and birches them all round.

Both pieces are humorously written.

&tlttU(tt& from Wbt JBtrammm Of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Including all the Passages hitherto suppressed.

Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parola, et cosi come le honest*
a quella non giovano, cosi qaelle che tanto honeste non sono, la ben disposta
non posson contaminarc, se non come il loto i solari raggi, o le terrene
brutture le bellezze del cielo.—

Conclusione delFautore.

Translated from the Italian. London, mdccclxv.

Large 8vo. (counts 4); pp. vii and 78; toned paper; bold
type; title printed in red and black; at the end of the volume
is a list of " Rare Copies of Boccaccio's Works now extant,"
which occupies 3 unnumbered pages, and contains 17 articles.

This translation was made by Edward Sellon. It is un-
common; and sometimes fetches a high price, more generally
than it is worth.

"The stories which have been omitted in this Edition (we
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are told in the Introduction) are those that can be perused in
every cheap modern translation of the Decameron, while those
which have been selected for publication, it will be seen, are
precisely the Tales which it has hitherto been the custom to
censure, emasculate, or omit altogether, and which are now
presented to the Reader in their entirety." This statement is
not stricdy correct, for the volume contains little which may
not be found in the ordinary translations.

&Ubltme Of ^flaffrflatfon: In Letters trom Lady Terma-
gant Flaybum, of Birch-Grove, to Lady Harriet Tickletail,
of Bumfiddle-HaU. In which are introduced The Beau-
tiful Tale of la Coquette C&atfe, (sic) In French and
English, and the BoarKmff^tftooI Bumbrusffter J or, the
Distresses of Laura. Decorated with a Superb Print.

To look at her majestic figure,

Would make you caper with more vigour!

The lightening flashing from each eye

Would lift your soul toecstacy !

Her bubbies o'er their bound'ry broke,

Quick palpitating at each stroke!

With vigor o'er the bouncing bum

She'd tell ungovera'd boys who rul'd at home!

Madame Birchini's Dance.

Long tormented, without knowing by what, I devoured, with an ardent
eye, every fine woman; my imagination recalled them incessantly to my
memory, solely to submit them to my manner, and transform them into

so many Miss Lamberciers. b

Rousseau & Confessions, vol. i.

London: Printed for George Peacock.
8vo. (counts 4); pp.44 in all; sold originally at 13/6.

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Reprinted by Hotten as No. 6 of the " Library Illustrative
of Social Progress; "* the matter is identical, but the quotations
given in the original edition on the title page are in this reprint
introduced on a separate page; 8vo.; pp. 54 in all.

" La Coquette Chatie. By the Abbe Grecourt," (given thus
without any accents) is full of blunders; the English rendering
is in prose. " The Distresses of Laura: Or, The Boarding-
school Bumbrusher," is in verse. A story is introduced from
" La Chronique Scandaleuse (written "Scandaleum"); in fact
the volume is quite a medley. Some of the anecdotes however
are racy, and I select the following where " honour " is brought
into question, and a difference in point of morality is prescribed,
and a limit traced between copulation or a complaisant applica-
tion of the birch.

A young gentleman, with a predilection for the rod, is ena-
moured of a ballet girl, who becomes his father's mistress, and
takes up her quarters in the old gentleman's residence. " He
had not any opportunity for some days of courting the felicity
he panted for from her hands, but at length he obtained it.
His father was gone to Picardy about some pressing business,
and they were left alone. The lady shewed the young gentleman
the most engaging fondness, and he in return called her his
charming mamma. One evening as she sat in full dress, ready

* See p. 239, ante,
t Vol. S, p. 199, of edit. Paris, m.dcc.lxxxviii.

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for her carriage to take her to the opera, he kist her lips and
hands in a mad transport, then threw himself at her feet and
kist them an hundred times! He declared to the lady from
whom I had this relation, that on beholding her at this time his
passion mounted to such a blaze that he was near being de-
prived of his reason. Her shoes were spangled in the richest
manner, and the quarters ornamented with a gold fringe : she
had a pair of large brilliant buckles of the Artois fashion, and a
stocking of the richest silk, ornamented with a gold clock. All
this, with a gold fringe to her petticoat, had such an effect on
him as he lay at her feet, that he wished to expire at them. She
took this as the gambols of a fond boy, and would have done
so if he had not caught hold of her hand and kist it an
hundred times. Her hands and arms were finely formed, and
were as fair as snow, and were adorned with the richest jewels,
particularly her arms, which had two bracelets set with diamonds,
and fastened on with many strings of pearl. She had an eye
full of the liquid moisture of love, and a bosom full, and fair as
alabaster, which was quite bare. He attempted to put his
hands up her petticoats, which she removed, nor would she
suffer him to approach the seat of bliss while she lived with his
father. When he found it would not do, he went on his knees
and confessed to her how fond he was of being whipt by a
lovely woman. This was an amusement the lady had no ob-
jection to, as it was quite common in her country (France);
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breeches, at his desire, and slapt his a—e with her hand,
promising him a whipping to his liking the instant she returned
from the opera, if he would procure a rod. She returned before
eleven o'clock, and he had a bundle of birch ready for her.
When supper was removed and the coast clear, he put the
bundle into her hand, and two yards of pink ribbon which he
bought to tie the rod. She selected from the bundle what she
thought would tickle him to her mind, and at his desire she
stript him to his shirt.—O! said he, who can describe the
raptures of that blest moment! An angel of earthly felicity
about to administer the sweetest bliss on this side heaven! all
the ravishing beauties of woman blazing in this object! a form
princely ! a face full of loveliness ! hands and arms, legs and
feet, cast in the finest mould of beauty, and decorated with
the neatest ornaments of art and genius! When he was
stript to his shirt, she laid him across her lap, and having
removed the tail of his shirt to his shoulders, she took the rod
in hand and whipt him smartly, according to his desire, for
pissing a bed! When she had given him about fifty strokes he
turned about and exhibited his tarriwags, but it would not do.—
She took them in her hand and played with them, but she had
too much honor to suffer the amorous youth to insult his
father by a connexion with her. As to whipping his a—, she
considered it a matter of amusement, as indeed all the French
ladies do." (p. 31)

The following doggerel " Epigram " is curious:

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In her way to St. James's, to grace a birth-day,
" My sweet cousin Harriet, in splendid array,
" Caught my eye while she stopt in her new vis-a-vis,
" And judging my taste with her own would agree,
" Exclaim'd in a rapture, Yon admire my carriage*
" It s the prettiest thing I have had since my marriage!
" The beautiful Stripbs is a thought of my own,
" And you'll say, I am sure, they're the neatest in town.

" They're lovely, divine! 'pon my honor, dear Harriet,
" I ne'er saw so neat on coach, phaeton, or chariot 5
" And I'd give the whole world this instant, by Jove,
" For as many bold stripes as a pledge of your love !

'"I'll treat you, dear Charles, I vow, if you choose it.'
" May I perish, dear girl, whene'er I refuse it:
" A treat of this kind from my beautiful cousin,
" Would give me more bliss than from others a dozen.
" Such stripes from your lily-white hand, my dear Harriet,
" Would eclipse all that decorates coach, vis, or chariot!

" From me, Charles, from me! pray what is it you mean,
" It's a riddle, my dear, that I cannot explain ?
" To pencils and paint I'm a stranger I vow,
"And I never was call'd a coach-painter till now !

" Yet the stripes, my dear coz, you'd all women excel,
" And e'en from De Barre you'd bear off the belle !
" The stripes that I mean would all others surpass,
" They're stripes from a rod in thy hand on my a—! "

I have copied the above lines exactly as they stand, without

correcting the punctuation, &c.

With regard to George Peacock, it seems doubtful whether

the name of this publisher is real or assumed. At all events

he must have been associated or in partnership with W.

Holland, both at 66 Drury Lane, and jo Oxford Street. The

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series of works on Flagellation are said to be published for
G. Peacock, and sold at 66 Drury Lane, from 1777 to 1785,50
far as dated; but two of them, " Lady Bumtickler's Revels,"
and " Madame Birchini's Dance," must have been of a some-
what later date. In the " Catalogue of Books, &c.," to be had
at 66 Drury Lane, appended to both these works appears the
print (16 inches by 21) of " Lady Termagant Flaybum going
to give her stepson a taste of her dessert after dinner, in colours
7/6 plain 5/-." Now this print bears the inscription "Pub-
lished May 25, 1786, by W. Holland No. 66 Drury Lane."

The " Second Part" of " The Festival of Anacreon, London
without date, bears to be " Published by George Peacock, and sold
by his Appointment at No. 50 Oxford Street." The frontispiece—
the portrait of Mr. Hewerdine, bears the inscription, " London,
Published by Wm. Holland, at Garrick's Richard, No. 50
Oxford Street, Octr. 15, 1788." The catalogue appended in-
cludes many of the same works contained in the other catalogues
above alluded to.

Ctittt gtt Gpffframmf Hi M. Val. Marziale.
Fcdclmentc Trasportati in Italiano da Giuspanio
Graglia, Torincse. E Dilucidati con Utilissime
Annotazioni. In Due Volumi.

Qui sua metitor pondera, ferre potest.

Mart. Epig. C. Lib. xii.

Volume Primo. Londra: Per Giorgio Scott. 178a.

Large 8vo.; 2 vols.; pp. vol. 1, vni and 348, vol. 2, vi and
793 ; vol. 2 dates 1791; there is a well executed frontispiece,
designed by G. B. Cipriani, engraved by F. Bartollozzi, and
signed; it is subscribed: " Pub<* as the Act directs 14th De-
cember 1783 by G. Graglia London." The same copper was
afterwards reworked, the above inscription obliterated, and
the following, in bolder letters, put in its stead : " Sold by T.
Bell No 148 Oxford Street 1801." These impressions are
thin and poor, and should be avoided ; Bell did not alter the
date of the book, although he tampered with the frontispiece.

The epigrams are given in the original Latin, and a literal
prose translation is added, accompanied by copious explanatory
notes.

This is the most complete translation that exists of Martial's
Epigrams, all the obscene poems being rendered in Italian,

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word for word. [Traduction tr£s fiddle et curieuse en ce que
toutes les 6pigrammes libres sont littdralement traduites; de
plus, les notes et explications du commentateur ont une veri-
table valeur philologique.]*

Mr. Bohn in his edition of Martial*f- was much indebted to
Graglia, and acknowledges his obligations as follows: " In
those instances where an English translation given faithfully
would be too gross for our present notions of propriety, the
Latin has been retained, accompanied by the Italian version of
Graglia, who has been rather dexterous in refining impurities."

There have been several French renderings of Martial, both
in prose and verse; Mr. Bohn notes " seven complete French
versions," about which he remarks, " that none of them have
used the least refinement, indeed, have sometimes rather ex-
ceeded their author in his worst properties." In these the
obscene words and expressions are not, as a rule, done into
French, but the original Latin left untranslated. " Tous les
interprStes des Epigrammes (observes M. Gustave Brunet)| ont
dft singulterement adoucir la vigueur des expressions et le

* Vide Introduction, p. Ixxvi, ante.

t " The Epigrams of Martial. Translated into English prose. Each ac-
companied by one or more verse translations, from the works of English
poets, and various other sources. London: Bell & Sons 187 j." 8vo. 5 first
published in 1863 in Bohn's Classical Library. " The first attempt ever made
to give Martial complete in an English form." See Bibliographer's Manual,
vol. 3, p. 1489.

t Les Priapeia, p. 31, note.

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pittoresque outr6 des images. Ils ont parfois accompli d'une
faqon assez ridicule ce proc6d£ de moralisarion. On en trouve
de piquants exemples dans le curieux petit volume d'Eloi
Johanneau: Epigrammes contre Martial."*

The work of Graglia may then be pronounced the best and
only perfect and complete translation of Martial's epigrams
into any modern language.

Graglia was an Italian teacher in London, where he further
published several Italian educational works/f*

* " Epigrammes contre Martial ou les mille et une droleries, sotises et
platitudes de ses traducteurs, par un ami de Martial. Paris. 1834," 8°. 5 pp. 157.

[Ce volume quoique mince, mlrite une mention sp6ciale, d'abord parce qu'il
est devenu tr£s rare, une partie de l'6dition ayant €t€ dltruite, et de plus parce
que c'est un examen critique de trois traductions, celles de l'abb£ de Maroles,
de Simon, de Troyes et des Militaires. Depuis cette critique, deux autres
Editions de toutes les 6pigrammes libres de Martial ont €t€ publics, dans
lesquflles on a cherch6 & 6viter les erreurs relev6es par filoi Johanneau. La
premiere par Mrs. Verger, A. Dubois et J. Mangeart, 4 vol. 8°, Paris, F.
Panckouke, 1834. La seconde par M. B • * 3 vol. 8°, chez Gi6-
Boullay. Celle-ci est Distribute dans un nouvel ordre, tr£s utile pour les re-
cherches, et augmentle de longs commentaires sur les tpigrammes libres.]
t See Allibone's Die. of English Literature, vol. 1, p. 715.

tPbt ttp* avto Sofam* Of lift. A Fragment.

" All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts."

As You Like it, act a, scene vii.

London: Printed for the Booksellers. 1867.

Second (half) title, €€ lift I C&t Befffitttfaff attil t&e
lithographed tide, " The Ups and Downs of Existance." 8vo.;
pp. no; 7 coloured erotic lithographs besides the title, 8 illus-
trations in all, badly executed; Price Two Guineas. Hie
original designs still exist (bound up in a copy of the work
belonging to a London collector); they consist of 16 coloured
drawings, 1 coloured title, that mentioned above, 2 pen and
ink sketches in the MS. text, 1 pen and ink fancy title not
published. As these 20 designs were too numerous, W.
Dugdalb, who published the book, selected 7 of them (6
coloured and one pen and ink sketch) and the coloured title,
which comprise the 8 lithographs published.

This book, which is by no means badly written, is in truth

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the auto-biography of its author and artist, Captain Edward
Sellon. In the original MS. the real names of the per-
sons were given, but the editor thought it prudent to alter them.

" The son of a gentleman of moderate fortune, (the author
informs us) whom I lost when quite a child, I was designed
from the first for the army. Having, at the age of sixteen,
been presented with a cadetship, so soon as my outfit was
completed, I started by the Mail for Portsmouth, on a cold
night in February, 1834" (p. 3).

In India he remained 10 years, and at the age of "six
and twenty found himself a captain, a rare thing in the
company's service." The greater part of the volume is devoted
to his Indian career—a duel, and amours of various kinds
among the European ladies and native females, the latter he
thus portrays: " I now commenced a regular course of
fucking with native women. The usual charge for the general
run of them is two rupees. For five, you may have the hand-
somest Mohammedan girls, and any of the high-caste women
who follow the trade of a courtesan. The ' fivers' are a very
different set of people from their frail sisterhood in European
countries; they do not drink, they are scrupulously cleanly in
their persons, they are sumptuously dressed, they wear the
most costly jewels in profusion, they are well educated and sing
sweetly, accompanying their voices on the viol de gamba, a sort
of guitar, they generally decorate their hair with clusters of
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pearls or diamonds. They understand in perfection all the
arts and wiles of love, are capable of gratifying any tastes, and
in face and figure they are unsurpassed by any women in the
world.

" They have one custom that seems singular to a European,
they not only shave the Mons Veneris, but take a clean sweep
underneath it, so that until you glance at their hard, full and
enchanting breasts, handsome beyond compare, you fancy you
have got hold of some unfledged girl. The Rajpootanee girls
pluck out the hairs as they appear with a pair of tweezers, as the
ancient Greek women did, and this I think a very preferable
process to the shaving.

" It is impossible to describe the enjoyment I experienced in
the arms of these syrens. I have had English, French, German
and Polish women of all grades of society since, but never,
never did they bear a comparison with those salacious, succulent
houris of the far East." (p. 42).

On his arrival on furlough in England, he learned that his
mother had arranged to marry him. This was not to his taste,
but finding the bride destined for him to be " a young lady of
considerable personal attractions," and " a reputed heiress with
an estate of twenty-five thousand pounds, an only child," he
consented, and his intended's parents objecting to her going to
India, he resigned his commission. They were married and spent
the winter of 1844 in Paris. Returning to England he was dis*
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suppose, that her allowance would be but four hundred a year;
and his mother in law plainly told him that they must retrench,
and he must go and live in " a pretty cottage in Devonshire
which she had furnished for them." Recriminations ensued; he
left his wife, and took up his abode with his mother in Bruton
Street. For two years he remained thus separated from his wife,
consoling himself in the arms of a " dear girl" he had " in
keeping at a little suburban villa;" but the relations coming to
an understanding, his wife returned to him to his mother's house.

" For the first month all went well, but unhappily, among
my mother's servants was a little parlour maid, a sweet pretty
creature, the daughter of a tradesman. She had received a
pretty good education, and was not at all iike a servant, either
in manners or appearance. I had seduced this girl, though she
was but fourteen, before my wife came up to town, and the
difficulty was, how to carry on the amour after her arrival,
without being discovered." (p. 78).

The discovery soon took place. On her return from church
on a Sunday morning, his wife found Emma's cap in her
bed, her husband having feigned a head ache, and not risen
before she left the house. A scene naturally followed, and our
hero assuming great coolness, and refusing to give a satisfactory
explanation, the outraged lady lost her temper, and flew at her
husband like a panther, planting such a tremendous blow on
his right ear, as nearly to knock him out of his chair.

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grate, and seizing both her wrists with a grasp of iron, forced
her into an arm-chair.. 6 Now you little devil,* said I, 1 you sit
down there, and I give you my honour, I will hold you thus,
till you abjectly and most humbly beg for mercy, and ask my
pardon for the gross insult you have inflicted on me.'

" * Insult! think of the insult you have put upon me, you
vile wretch, to demean yourself with a little low bred slut like
that!' and struggling violently, she bit the backs of my hands
until they were covered with blood, and kicked my shins till
she barked them.

" * I say, my dear,' said I, * did you ever see Shakespeare's
play of Taming the Shrew.'

" No answer.

"€ Well, my angel, I'm going to tame you.' She renewed
her bites and kicks, and called me all the miscreants and vile
scoundrels under the sun. I continued to hold her in a vice
of iron. Thus we continued till six o'clock.

"1 If it is your will and pleasure to expose yourself to the
servants,' said I,' pray do, I have no sort of objection, but I
will just observe that John will come in presently to clear away
the luncheon and lay the cloth for dinner.' A torrent of abuse
was the only answer.

" 4 You brute,' she said,4 you have bruised my wrists black
and blue.'

"4 Look at my hands, my precious angel, and my shins are
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" By and by there was a rap at the door,4 Come in,* said I.
John appeared—4 Take no notice of us, John, but attend to
your business.*

" John cleared away the luncheon and laid the cloth for
dinner. Exit John.

"' Oh, Edward, you do hurt my wrists so.*
"c My ear and face are still burning with the blow you gave
me, my hands are torn to pieces with your tiger teeth, and will
not be fit to be seen for a month, and as to my shins, my
drawers are saturated with blood,9 said I.

" ' Let me go! let me go direcdy, wretch! * and again she
bit, kicked and struggled.

"' Listen to me/ said 1,6 there are 365 days in the year, but by
God! if there were 3,605,1 hold you till you apologize in the
manner and way I told you, and even then, I shall punish you
likewise for the infamous way you have behaved.* She sulked
for another half hour, but did not bite or kick any more. I
never relaxed my grasp, or the sternness of my countenance.
My hands were streaming with blood, some of the veins were
opened, her lap was full of blood, it was a frightful scene.

" At length she said, ' Edward, I humbly ask your pardon
for the shameful way I have treated you, I apologize for the
blow I gave you, I forgive you for any injury you have done
me, I promise to be docile and humble in future, and I beg—I
beg,* she sobbed, ' your forgiveness.*

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run immediately for Dr. Monson, (the family physician,) and
fell fainting on the floor. I had lost nearly a pint of blood
from the wounds inflicted by the panther. When I recovered
my senses, I was lying on the sofa, my hands enveloped in
strapping plaister and bandages, as were also my shins. Ellen (sic)
and my wife knelt at my feet crying, while Monson kept
pouring port wine down my throat. 4 Could you eat a little,
said he kindly.

»

" € Gad, yes,' said I, € I'm awfully hungry, bring dinner, John.

" They all stared, it was ten o'clock; however dinner was
served, though sadly overdone, having been put back three
hours. John had only laid covers for two, presuming my
wife and I would dine tete-a-tete. I told him to bring two
more. Monson and my wife raised their eyebrows—' Doctor,
stay and dine with us, call it supper if you like; Emma, I
desire you to seat yourself.' She made towards the door.
' Augusta,' said I, addressing my wife,€ persuade Emma to dine
with us, I will it.'

"€ You had better stay,' said my wife, widi a sweet smile.
Emma hesitated a moment, and then came and sat beside me."
(p. 82).

Our hero drank during this strange dinner a bumper to the
man who knows how to tame a shrew, and obliged his wife to
pledge him in the toast; the Doctor lectured her, and advised
her to restrain her temper in future.

" I had one of my bandaged hands up Emma's clothes while
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he was saying this, and was feeling her lovely young cunny. It
was nuts to crack for me. Dr. Monson gone, I rang the bell,
* John, you and the servants can go to bed,' said I. John cast
an enquiring glance at Madam and Emma, bowed and retired.

" I asked Emma for my cigar-case, as for Augusta, I did not
notice her. I lit a cigar, and drawing Emma on my knee, sat
before the fire and smoked. 4 You can go to bed, Augusta,'
said I, as if she was the servant and Emma the wife, 4I shall
not want you any more.' The humbled woman took her
candle, and wishing us both good night, went to bed.

"'Oh, Edward,' said poor little Emma, 'what a dreadful
woman she is, she nearly killed you, you nearly bled to death!
Dr. Monson said two of the great veins at the back of each
hand had been opened by her teeth, and that if she had not
given in when she did, you would have bled to death.'

" • But here I am all alive, my sweet.'

"1 But you wont have me to-night, mind.'

"4 Wont I though !'

"c Now, Edward! pray don't, you are too weak !'

"€ Then this will give me strength,' said I, and I drank at a
draught a tumbler of Carbonell's old Port. I made her drink
another glass, and then we lay down on the couch together. I
fucked her twice, and then in each other's arms we fell asleep.

" It was six o'clock the next morning when I woke up. I
aroused Emma and told her I thought she had better go to her
own room, before the servants were about; my hands were

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very painful, so arranging with her when and where she should
next meet me, I went up stairs to bed. My wife was fast
asleep, I held the candle close to the bed and looked at her, she
was lying on her back, her hands thrown over her head. She
looked so beautiful, and her large, firm breasts rose and fell so
voluptuously, that I began to be penetrated with some senti-
ments of remorse for my infidelities. I crept into bed and lay
down beside her. I soon fell asleep. I might have slumbered
some two hours, I was aroused by being kissed very lovingly.
I was sensible that a pair of milky arms clasped me, and that a
heaving breast was pressed to mine. I soon became aware of
something more than this, which was going on under the bed-
clothes. I opened my eyes and fixed them upon the ravisher!
It was Augusta. She blushed at being caught, but did not
release me. I remained passive in her arms. My hands I had
lost the use of; inflamation had set in in the night, I felt very
feverish, in an hour more I was delirious; I became alarmingly ill."

(p. 84).

His illness lasted a month, during which time he was tended by
his mother and wife. Emma is sent away ; and on his recovery
he went with his spouse to Hastings. There, as bad luck would
have it, his discarded mistress met and accosted him. There
was another scene and they again parted. Our hero continues:

" Then came a series of disasters. Our family solicitors, a
firm that had managed the affairs of the family for three gene-
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her property. She was obliged to dismiss all her servants, and
send her furniture and carriage to the hammer. * * * For
two years I drove the Cambridge Mail, but not under my own
name. I made about three hundred a year, and have reason to
think I was much liked on the road. The adventures of that
part of my life alone, would form a volume, but as this purposes
to be an erotic auto-hiography, I abstain. The advance of the
railway system, closed this avenue of my career at last. Then I
started some fencing rooms in London. Sometime after I had
been thus engaged, my wife, I could never learn how, found
me out. She called upon me, she was beautiful as ever,
there was a scene of course, it ended by my agreeing to live
with her again. The gods alone know how many infidelities I
had committed since we parted six years before. She never
knew them. I accompanied her to the depths of Hampshire,
to a certainly charming cottage she had there in a remote
hamlet, not a hundred miles from Winchester. Now it was an
anomaly in her character, that she with all her fanaticism, all
her pride, should condescend to a meanness. I thought it
paltry, and I told her so frankly on our journey, but she repre-
sented to me that she had always spoken of me, as her husband,
Captain S—, and nothing would do, but I must be Captain
S-." (p. 90).

Our hero settled down again to a quiet country life. He
proceeds:

" Now let the casuists explain it, I cannot, but the three
years I passed in this delightful spot—

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' The world forgetting
By the world forgot.'

were the very happiest of my checkered existence.

" Augusta would strip naked, place herself in any attitude,
let me gamahuche her, would gamahuche in her turn, indulged
all my whimsies, followed me about like a faithful dog—ob-
tained good shooting for me in the season, and a good mount if
I would hunt. * • • I was faithful for three years.

" A rake, I! a man about town, fond of gaiety, of theatres, of
variety, of conviviality, say—ye casuists how was it r But so
it was; and, sooth to say, I was very happy; • • #.

" And thus passed three golden years, the happiest in my life.
From this dream I was awakened by my wife becoming en-
ceinte ; from that moment' a change came o'er the spirit of the
dream.' Her whole thoughts were now given up to the i little
stranger' expectant, all day long nothing was to be seen but
baby clothes lying about the room, she could talk of nothing
but baby—drew off from marital amusements, cooled wonder-
fully in her manner, and finally drove me, as it were, to seek
elsewhere for the pleasures I no longer found at home.

" When the child was born, matters became worse, every-
thing was neglected for the young usurper.

" My comforts all disappeared, and at length I became so
disgusted, that I left her, and going up to town had a long
interview with my relative Lord E—." (p. 91).

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The poor illused captain remained in London, indulging in
every kind of debauchery.

" And whose fault was it, (he resumes) that I committed these
adulteries ? Surely my wife's. Had I not been faithful to her
for three years! had I not let slip many chances during that
time} Venus! thou art a goddess, thou knowest all things! Say
how many divine creatures I neglected during that time? for
though buried in the depths of the New Forest,—

' Full many a flower (there) is bora to blush unseen.
And waste its sweetness on the desert air—'

So saith the Poet, and true it is.

u And the baby she idolized and loved so well, he grew into
boyhood, and she spoiled him, and he grew to man's estate, and
became a curse and a disappointment. Go to! now ye fond
mother's, (sic) who drive your husband's (sic) to infidelity, and
what the correct world calls vice, that you may devote your-
selves to your children. What profit have ye ? Go tb! I say.

" But in six months this woman began to feel certain motions
of nature, which told her there were other joys besides the plea-
sure of spoiling her breasts to give suck to her brat, and she
wanted to see her sposo again. She was virtuous, was this
woman, so ought to have been c a crown to her husband.' God
knows it has been ' a crown of thorns,' but let that pass.

" She came up to Town, and called on the Earl. She was
all pathos and meekness, of course. She told her ' sad tale.'
My relative was moved, a 4 woman in tears' is more eloquent
with some people, than ' the woman in white!' I received from
my relative a very peremptory letter. I had some expectations

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from this man ; it would not do to offend him ; I consented to
live with her again.", (p. 100).

Sellon returned then once more with his wife to Hampshire*
but as may be imagined, this renewal of domestic bondage
could not last long. Having gained entrance into a girls school,
he was detected by his wife just as he was conducting his young
companions " into a wood for a game at hide and seek."

" After this escapade, I could no longer remain in Hampshire,
so packed my portmanteau, and was once more a gentleman
at large in London." (p. no).

The volume closes with the following note signed by the editor,
but in reality written by the author himself:

" The narrative here abruptly terminates, and as far as it has
been possible to ascertain, it would appear that the writer died
shortly after, at all events he was never again seen alive or dead
"by any of his numerous acquaintance."

The sad truth is this—Edward Sellon shot himself in
April 1866, at Webb's Hotel, No. 219 and 220 Piccadilly,
then kept by Joseph Challis, but since pulled down; its site
being now occupied by the Criterion of Messrs. Spiers and
Pond. There was an inquest, but through the influence of his
friends the affair was kept out of the newspapers, and hushed
up. Before committing suicide he wrote to a friend informing
him of his intention, but the letter only reached its destination
the following morning, when all was over. In that letter were
enclosed the following lines, addressed to a woman who was

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fond of him, and who, when he got into difficulties wished to
keep him.

" NO MORE! *

" No more shall mine arms entwine
" Those beauteous charms of thine,
u Or the ambrosial nectar sip
" Of that delicious coral lip—

" No more.
" No more shall those heavenly charms
" Fill the vacuum of these arms j
" No more embraces, wanton kisses,
" Nor life, nor love, Venus blisses—
" No more.
" The glance of love, the heaving breast
" To my bosom so fondly prest,
" The rapturous sigh, the amorous pant,
" I shall look for, long for, want

" No More.
" For 1 am in the cold earth laid,
" In the tomb of blood I've made.
" Mine eyes are glassy, cold and dim,
" Adieu my love, and think of him

" No More."
"Vivat Lingam.
" Non Resurgam."

Here then is the melancholy career, terminating in suicide at

the early age of 48 years, of a man by no means devoid of

talent, and undoubtedly capable of better things.

* This poem is printed at p. 69 of " Cythera's Hymnal or, Flakes from
the Foreskin." See ante, p. 185.

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Sellon was a thorough atheist, and fully believed in the
maxim with which he concludes the poem above quoted.

u Ups and Downs," the MS. of which had been sold to W.
Dugdale shortly before the author's death, is no fiction, but,
allowing for a little colouring, portrays truthfully enough
Sellon's career.

The following letter I am induced to give, inasmuch as it
to some extent, fills up the gap between the abrupt ending of
the autobiography, and the equally sudden termination of the
writers own life. It was addressed to the same friend to whom
Sellon had communicated his intention of destroying himself,
and was of course intended exclusively for his amusement and
not for publication. In it, as in his book, Sellon shews him-
self the same thoughtless, pleasure-seeking scamp, unchanged to
the very last.

" London, 4th March, 1866.

My dear Sir,

" You will be very much surprised no doubt
to find that I am again in England. But there are so many
romances in real life that you will perhaps not be so much as-
tonished at what I am going to relate after all.

" You must know then that in our trip to the continent,
(Egypt it appears was a hoax of which I was to be the victim)
we were to be accompanied by a lady! I did not name this to
you at the time, because I was the confidant of my friend.

" On Monday evening I sat for a mortal hour in his broug-
ham near the Wandsworth Road Railway Station waiting for
the 4 fair but frail,' who had done me the honor to send me a
beautiful litde pink note charmingly scented with violets, in

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which the dear creature begged me to be punctual—and most
punctual I was I assure you, but alas! she kept me waiting a
whole hour, during which I smoked no end of cigars.

" At length she appeared, imagine my surprise! I! who had
expected some swell mot or other, soon found myself seated
beside the most beautiful young lady I ever beheld, so young
that I could not help exclaiming, ' Why my dear you are a
mere baby ! how old may 1 be permitted to ask ?' She gave
me a box on the ear, exclaiming, " Baby indeed! do you know
sir, I am fifteen ! !' 'And you love Mr. Scarsdale very much I
suppose?' said I as a feeler. 4 Oh ! comme 5a!' she rejoined.
4 Is he going to marry you at Vienna, or Egypt ?' I asked.
4 Who's talking of Egypt ?' said she. 4 Why I am I hope my
dear, our dear friend invited me to accompany him up to the
third Cataract, and this part of the affair, you I mean my dear,
never transpired till half-an-hour before I got that pretty little
note of yours.' 4 Stuff!' she said, 'he was laughing at you,
we go no farther than Vienna!' ' Good!' said I,4 all's fair in
love and war,' and I gave her a kiss! She made no resistance,
so I thrust my hand up her clothes without more ado. 4 Who
are you my dear ?' I enquired. ' The daughter of a merchant
in the city who lives at Clapham,' said she. 4 Does your mother
know you're out ?' I ejaculated. 4 I am coming out next sum-
mer,' said she. ' That is to say you were coming out next
summer,' said I. ' Well I shall be married then you know,' said
the innocent. ' Stuff!' said I in my turn. 4 How stuff?' she
asked angrily, ' do you know he has seduced me ?' ' No my
angel, I did not know it, but I thought as much—but don't be
deceived, a man of Mr. Scarsdale's birth won't marry a little
cit like you.' She burst into tears. I was silent. 4 Have you
known him long ?' she asked. 4 Some years,' said I. 4 And you
really think he won't marry me ?' 4 Sure of it, my dear child.'
4 Very well, I'll be revenged, look here, I like you r 4 Do you
though! by Jove!' 4 Yes, and,— I give you my word I was
into her in a moment! What bliss it was! None who have

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not entered the seventh heaven can fathom it! But alas! we
drew near the station, and 1 only got one poke complete. She
pressed my hand as I helped her out of the Brougham at the
Chatham and Dover Station, as much as to say i you shall have
me again.* Scarsdale was there to receive ner. Not to be
tedious, off we started by the Mail, and duly reached Dover,
went on board the boat, reached Calais, off again by train.
Damned a chance did I get till we were within ten or twelve
versts of Vienna. Then my dear friend fell asleep, God bless
him! The two devils of passengers who had travelled with us
all the way from Calais had alighted at the last station—here
was a chance!! We lost not an instant. She sat in mv lap,
her stern towards me! God! what a fuck it was, ' See Rome
and die r said I in a rapture. This over we were having what
I call a straddle fuck, when lo! Scarsdale woke up! I made a
desperate effort to throw her on the opposite seat, but it was no
go, he had seen us. A row of"course ensued, and we pitched
into one another with hearty good will. He called me a rascal
for tampering with his fiancee, I called him a scoundrel for
seducing so young a girl! and we arrived at Vienna! ' Damn
it,9 said I as I got out of the train with my lip cut and nose
bleeding, ' here's a cursed piece of business.' As for Scarsdale
who had received from me a pretty black eye, he drove off with
the sulky fair to a hotel in the Leopoldstadt, while I found a
more humble one in the Graben near St. Stephen's Cathedral,
determined, as I had ^15 in my pocket to stay a few days
and see all I could. But as you will find in Murray a better
account of what I did see than I can give you, I will not trouble
you with it. I got a nice littl L * ** 1 r *

How she eluded the vigilance of her gallant I don't know, but
there she was sure enough in a cab—and devilish nice cabs
they are in this city of Vienna, I can tell you. So we had a
farewell poke and arranged for a rendezvous in England, and the
next day I started and here I am, having spent all my money t

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" So there's the finish of my tour up the Nile to the third
Cataract, to Nubia, Abu Sinnel, etcetera. It is very wrong I
know, I deplore it! but you also know that what's bred in the
bone, &c., so adieu, and believe me

" Yours very truly

" E. Sellon."

Sellon is also the author and artist of " The New Epicurean,"*
and its sequel " Phoebe Kissagen."-f- He wrote " The Mono-
lithic Temples of India,";}; and "Annotations on the Sacred
Writings of the Hindiis."§ He edited an English translation
of the " Ghita-Radhica-Khrishna," a Sanskrit Poem.|| He
translated a portion of the " Decameron" of Boccaccio.^[ And
he designed the illustrations of " The Adventures of a School-
Boy,"** and " The New Lady's Tickler."ff

The above works have all been printed. He also wrote two
other short erotic tales. One, " The Confessions of a Single
Man, as exemplified in the Erotic Adventures of a Gentleman,"
was originally intended to have been printed at the end of the
"New Epicurean," and the title page of that work, as originally
struck off, but afterwards cancelled, contained a notice to this
effect. It is advertised as a separate work, " Rich Engravings,
Two Guineas," in W. Dugdale's Catalogue, appended to
the second volume of " Lucretia," but it never was printed.
The MS. was stolen and has probably been destroyed, but two
or three illustrations by Sellon are still in existence. The other
tale, " The Delights of Imagination," was never printed. The
MS. still exists, but there are no illustrations.

* See ante, p. 314. t p. 326. | p. 73. § p. 73. || p. 73. % p. 369.

** p. 15. ft See that title in Additions and Corrections, post.

S©entl0 ^rf)00l or, Birchen Sports. By

R. Birch, Translator of Manon's Memoirs.

Printed for Philosemus. Embellished with a
Beautiful Print. Price ios. 6d.

8vo.; pp. 82; probable date 1808 to 1810; this I take to be
the earliest edition 5 it has an " Address " in which reference is
made to the success of " Manon la Fouetteuse," and contains
the history of " Betty Thoughtless."

There is another edition about 1820, "with 4 coloured
plates, 8vo. 16/-.*

About 1830 Cannon reprinted the work, with title : "
&>rt)00l iffltotrffift; or Birchen Sports. Re-printed from the
Edition of 1788,-f- with a Preface, by Mary Wilson, con-
taining some Account of the late Mrs. Berkley. London:
Printed by John Ludbury, No. 256, High Holborn.," and a
second title page thus: apfirofcttt Jffaffrilatri):: Sive Ludi
Betulani. De gustibus non est disputandum. Romae: Apud
Plagosum Orbilium, In Viam Flagrorum, Sub Signo Flagelli.
1790."

* Publisher's Catalogue of the time.

t This date appears to be fictitious. " Venus School Mistress " was issued after
" Manon la fouetteuse " to which reference is made in the " Address," (vide
supra), and " Manon" could not have been originally published before 1805.

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Large i2mo.; pp. xi and 58; on the first title page is a
hand brandishing a rod, and on the second a Roman lamp; 5
or 6 folding coloured plates, pretty well done, and a frontispiece
(not folding) representing " The Berkley Horse."*

W. Dugdale issued an edition about i860, with titles
as above, except that on the English title page the printer's
name is replaced by " Printed for the Booksellers," and there is
a fleuron of the Royal Arms. 8vo.; pp. 61; 8 coloured plates,
badly done, and not copied from those of Cannon's edition;
Price Two Guineas.

In both these editions the original "Address" is omitted,
and a "Preface," as mentioned on their title pages, added ; both
contain " Betty Thoughtless."

" Venus School Mistress," a worthless, badly written book,
contains the experiences of "Miss R. Birch," daughter of
a woman who kept a day school, and who never let pass
an opportunity to flog her pupils. Miss Birch acquires a great
taste for, and aptitude in laying on the rod, and eventually takes
a school herself together with a friend. " We now (she con-
cludes) live together, and whip like two little devils, both young
folks and old ones? The adventures all turn on flagellation
and are generally dull.

The tale of "Betsy Thoughtless" is insignificant. Betsy
recounts how she lost her maidenhead, and that she applied the
rod to her cousin-lover at his own request. Dugdale designates

* Reproduced at p. xliv, ante.

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it in his catalogue as: " a most spicey and piquant Narrative of
a Young Girl obliged to excoriate her Sweetheart's bum, before
he could ravish her Maidenhead."

In the Preface to Cannons edition the topic is treated
seriously. We are there told: " The subject of Flagellation,
in venereal affairs, must appear altogether ridiculous and unin-
telligible to those who have not been initiated into this branch
of the Elusinian (sic) mysteries.

" It is, however, a lech, which has existed from time im-
memorial, and is so extensively indulged in London at this day,
than (sic) no less than twenty splendid establishments are sup-
ported entirely by its practice (sic) : nor is there amongst the
innumerable temples dedicated to the Paphian Goddess, which
adorn this immense metropolis, any one, in which the exercise
of the rod is not occasionally required.

" All females who piously devote themselves to the service
of the public, ought to be acquainted with the philosophy of
birch discipline; for, without that knowledge, they wil iose (sic)
the patronage of some of the most liberal slaves to erotic pleasure.

"The men who have a propensity for Flagellation may be
divided into three classes:—

" i. Those who like to receive a fustigation, more* or less
severe, from the hand of a fine woman, who is sufficiently
robust to wield the rod with vigor and effect.

"2. Those who desire themselves to administer birch
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"3. Those who neither wish to be passive recipients nor
active administrators of birch discipline, but would derive
sufficient excitement as mere spectators of the sport.

" Many persons not sufficiently acquainted with human nature,
and the ways of the world, are apt to imagine that the lech for
Flagellation must be confined either to the aged, or to those who
are exhausted through too great a devotion to venery: but such is
not the fact, for there are quite as many young men and men
in the prime and vigor of life, who are influenced by this
passion as there are amongst the aged and debilitated.

" It is very true that there are innumerable old generals, admi-
rals, colonels, and captains, as well as bishops, judges, barristers,
lords, commoners, and physicians, who periodically go to be whip-
ped, merely because it warms their blood, and keeps up a little
agreeable excitement in their systems long after the power of en-
joying the opposite sex has failed them ; but it is equally true,
that hundreds of young men through having been educated at in-
stitutions where the masters where (sic) fond of administering
birch discipline, and recollecting certain sensations produced by
it, have imbibed a passion for it, and have longed to receive the
same chastisement from the hands of a fine woman. To the
truth of this statement, two of the most experienced govern-
esses now retired from business, Mrs. Chalmers and Mrs.
Noyeau, can bear ample testimony, and that the propensity
follows such parties through life, inasmuch, as however vigorous
and capable they may (sic) of sub-agitating a woman to her

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heart's content, yet they care little for the act, unless accom-
panied by the seasoning of their favourite sauce.

" Those women who give most satisfaction to the amateurs
of discipline, are called governesses, because they have by ex-
perience, acquired a tact and a modus operandi, which the
generality do not possess. It is not the merely keeping a rod,
and being willing to flog, that would cause a woman to be
visited by the worshippers of birch: she must have served her
time to some other woman who understood her business, and
be thoroughly accomplished in the art. They must have a
quick and intuitive method of observing the various aberra-
tion (sic) of the human mind, and be ready and willing to
humour and relieve them. Such was the late Mrs. Jones, of
Hertford Street and London Street, Fitzroy Square ; such was
the late Mrs. Berkley, such is Betsy Burgess, of York Square,
and such is Mrs. Pryce, of Burton Crescent."

The remainder of the preface, as notified on the tide page,
contains an account of Mrs. Berkley and her establishment,
which I have already quoted in my introduction.*

* See ante, p. xlii.

bbb

$ie UStoUuft im 8 1791.

8vo.; pp. 234 in all; small fleuron in outline on title page;
original edition. Another edition, divided into 2 parts; title,
impress, and date identical; small 8vo.; pp. 124, and 144 in
all; printed about 1868 ; catalogued by J. Scheible at 4 Ths.
H. Nay* notes two other editions, in two parts, 8vo., without
date, published in 1858, and 1870 respectively.

This book is cleverly written and contains some very lascivious
episodes. That at the beginning of the work, in which the hero
is seduced, corrupted and sodomised by his tutor, is forcible and
original. Towards the end there is a scene with an amorous
old lady, which is curious and very powerfully told.

* Bibliotheca Germanornm erotica, p. 148.

w

H$OfctI'0 preceptor: or, More Sprees in London! being
a regular and Curious Show-Up of all the Rigs
and Doings of the Flash Cribs in this Great Me-
tropolis; Particularly Goodered's Famous Saloon—
Gambling Houses—Female Hells and Introducing Houses!
The Most Famous, Flash, and Cock-and-Hen Clubs, 8cc.—
A full Description of the Most Famous Stone-Thumpers,

Earticularly Elephant Bet, Finnikin Fan, the Yarmouth
loater, Flabby Poll, Fair Eliza, the Black Mott, &c.:
And it may be fairly styled Every Swankey's Book, or
The Greenhorn's Guide Thro' Little Lunnon. Intended
as a Warning to the Inexperienced—Teaching them how
to Secure their Lives and Property during an Excursion
through London, and calculated to put the Gulpin always
1 " ' " 1 A Capital Show-Up

mcing Cribs. Fleec-
ing Holes. Gulping Holes. MollyClubs. &c., &c., &c.
To which is added A Joskin's Vocabulary Of the various
Slang Words now in constant use; the whole being a
Moving Picture of all the New Moves and Artful Dodges
practised at the present day, in all the most notorious
Flymy Kens and Flash Cribs of London! By which the
Flat is put Awake to all the Plans adopted to Ffcather a
Green Bird, and let him into the Most Important Secrets.
With a Characteristic Engraving. Price One Shilling.
London : Printed and Published by H. Smith, 37, Holy-
well street, Strand. Where may be had a Catalogue of
a Most Extensive Variety of every choice and Curious
Facetious Work,

Bellowsing Rooms.

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The title page is headed, "The Flat's Ogles Opened—A
Book for Every Greenhorn!" i2mo.; pp.31; published by
W. Dugdale, about 1850 or i860.

This very verbose title is the most characteristic part of the
book, and promises more than is fulfilled ; the work contains
in truth a short sketch of a few " Gin Palaces," a fuller account
of "Gambling Houses—their keepers, &c.," "A Key to the
Flash Words," and " The Roll Call of some celebrated Mots,"
of which seven only are described. Here is a specimen :
" Mary Mitchell, the Black Mot."
" This fair paviour used to hang out in the vicinity of Union
Court, Westminster, and used to pad the Haymarket. She did
a vast deal of business; but. being too fond of tape she often
figured before the beak. She was a good-hearted mot and
used to support her aged parents by her button-hole stitching.
She has hooked it in a wooden box."

The most curious article in the volume is: " A few words
about Margeries—the way to know the Beasts—their Haunts,
&c.," which I quote in extenso on account of the peculiar
information it affords:

"The increase of these monsters in the shape of men,
commonly designated Margeries, Pooffs, &c., of late years, in
the great Metropolis, renders it necessary for the safety of the
public, that they should be made known. The punishment
generally awarded to such miscreants is not half severe enough,
and till the law is more frequently carried to the fullest extent
against them, there can be no hopes of crushing the bestiality.

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The wretches are too well paid—they being principally, it is
well known, supported by their rich companions—to care a jot
about a few months9 imprisonment. Why has the pillory been
abolished ? Would it not be found very salutary for such beasts
as these r for can they be too much held up to public degrada-
tion and public punishment ? Will the reader credit it, but
such is nevertheless the fact, that these monsters actually walk
the streets the- same as the whores, looking out for a chance!

" Yes, the Quadrant, Fleet-street, Holborn, the Strand, &c., are
actually thronged with them! Nay, it is not long since, in the
neighbourhood of Charing Cross, they posted bills in the win-
dows of several respectable public houses, cautioning the public
to ' Beware of Sods!'

"They generally congregate around the picture shops, and are
to be known by their effeminate air, their fashionable dress, &c.
When they see what they imagine to be a chance, they place
their fingers in a peculiar manner underneath the tails of their
coats, and wag them about—their method of giving the office.

" A great many of them flock the saloons and boxes of the
theatres, coffee-houses, &c.

" We could relate many instances of the gross bestiality of
the practices of these wretches, but think it would be occupying
too much of the reader s time on so disgusting a subject. One
or two ancedotes of them we cannot, however, resist the tempt-
ation of relating.

" The Quadrant is thronged by a number of the most no-
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their living the same as the blowens. One of these was nick-
named 'Fair Eliza.' This fellow lives in Westminster, and
keeps his fancy woman, who does not scruple to live upon the
fruits of his monstrous avocation. Another fellow, called
4 Betsy H—who walks the Strand, Fleet-street, and St.
Martin's-court, is a most notorious and shameless poof. He is
not unfrequently to be found at free-and-easys, where he spouts
smutty recitations. His father was a notorious cock-bawd, and
when he died he bequeathed his two sons a bawdyken each.
One of the sons got a situation, we believe, for borrowing some-
thing—the other soon floored his knocking shop, and then took
to the streets. He has been imprisoned several times, but yet
he persists in following his beastly pursuits.

u There have been also many fellows of this description in
the theatrical profession, who have yet been considered respect-
able members of society. We could mention the names of
several, but will, out of compassion only, withold them. A
certain wealthy showman, it was suspected, did not so well
rcspect a certain€ purty' actor of his, without good reasons for
so doing: and it is well known, that a wretch, who was in the
habit of perpetrating the French characters at a theatre
notorious for its horses and asses, over the water, was one of the
same disgusting and most abominable fraternity.

" But we will leave this disgusting subject, again cautioning
the respectable portion of the human race to beware of these
wholesale abominable traders in this bestiality." (p. 5).

m Zolot ft &t* mm ftolpte* Sfciour* au*
i»anta He ittarat fc'Suttur lit* Crirnwf Uf
rsbnour a ^flitterque Avec Notices Biogra-
phiques et Bibliographiques Bruxelles Chez Tous les
Libraires mdccclxx

i 2mo.; pp. en and 178; printed at Brussels by Briard for
Poulet-Malassis et Llcrivain,in 1870, as the title page bears;
although a " tirage k 130 exemplaires " is given, 500 copies
probably were struck off; price 20 frcs.; there is a " frontispice
k l'eau-forte, fac-simile de celui de l'ldition originate de Zolo£,"
well executed on steel, not obscene, generally attributed in
error to M. Fllicien Rops; at the head of the title page, which is
printed in red and black, stands the name of the author, Lb
Marquis de Sade.

In the publisher's catalogue the following note is appended:
Rlimpression de trois pieces de la plus insigne raretl. Le
Marquis de Sade se montre dans ce volume sous trois aspects
inattendus: pamphl6taire politique; thuriflraire rlpublicain ;
pollmiste littlraire. Les notices donnent une idle complete de
sa personne et de ses oeuvres." These notices are :

1. " It ittarqtn* I'fiommf ft ftrfttf," which

was first published in 1866, at Brussels, by J. Gay, as a separate

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pamphlet, with rubric, " Sadopolis Chez Justin Valcourt, Rue
Juliette k l'enseigne de la Vertu malheureuse. L'An oooo."
iamo. (counts 6); pp. 69, and 1 unnumbered page of " Table."

2. " la erftt *ur It* tour protest trimfatfe Du iMar*

QUfa by Paul Lacroix, originally published, with

other pieces, in 1834, and afterwards among the " Curiosit6s de
Thistoire de France," by the same author.

"Zolo£ " was originally published in Paris in 1800, with tide:
" Z0I06 et Ses Deux Acolythes ou quelques decades de la vie
de Trois Jolies Femmes; histoire veritable du si&cle dernier par
Un Contemporain A Turin; se trouve k Paris, chez tous les
Marchands de Nouveaut£s. De rimprimerie de l'Auteur,
Thermidor, An VIII." It is a foul, dull, and insipid attack on
Napoleon and Josephine, devoid of truth, and unredeemed by
a single point, or a sparkle of wit. Its publication was the cause
of the final incarceration of its author at Charenton, by order
of the first consul, under date 1801.

I cannot do better than transcribe here the concise notice of
the book given in " Le Marquis de Sade l'homme et ses
6crits," as printed in the volume under consideration :*

" Si Zoloi offense la d£cence, elle n'est pas plus coupable
qu une foule d'oeuvres pubises depuis un si&cle. Quant au
but du livre, on voit d6s les premieres lignes qu'il est une satire

* This version differs materially from that contained in the separate pam-
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abominable contre Josephine de Beauhamais, Spouse en secondes
noces du premier consul. Les deux acolytes que lui donne
l'auteur, et quil affiible des noms de Laureda et de Volsange
paraissent 6tre mesdames Tallien et Visconti. On reconnait
le g£n6ral Bonaparte dans le baron d'Orsec, et Barras, dans le
vicomte de Sabar.*

" L'auteur raconte, en style tr£s-n6glig£ et tr&s-incorrect, des
orgies insens€es oil figurent ces trois dames; il les met en scdne
avec Fessinot, £poux de Laureda, avec l'ex-domestique Par-
mesan et l'ex-capucin Pac6me. II serait assez inutile de
rechercher les personnages caches sous ces divers noms. Chemin
faisant, des gens en Evidence, et dont la conduite n'6tait pas
6difiante, sont vivement attaqufe.

" II est permis de supposer que la publication de Zolo4 ne fut
pas £trang&re k la decision de faire enfermer le marquis de Sade
k Cbarenton. Ce fut en 1801, peu de temps apr&s la date in-
diqu£e sur le titre de cc pamphlet, qu'il perdit sa liberty.

" On peut ais€ment croire qu'aucun libraire ne voulut se char-
gcr de la publication d'un libelle qui pouvait exciter de redouta-
bles colfires. Les mots de T imprimerie de Tautew, sur le titre,
s'accordent avec ,une phrase de la preface: * Je me procurerai
moi-m£me l'honneur d'etre imprimd, et je n'en aurai d'obligation
k personnel Nous ignorons si de Sade avait une imprimerie
particuli&re; en tout cas, il 6tait tr£s au fait des myst£res de la
typographic clandestine.

* Consult also " Livres & Clef/' p. 174.

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" Saisi par la police, le petit volume que nous indiquons est
devenu de toute raret£; nous le rencontrons sur quelques
catalogues: 40 fr. Saint-Mauris, n° 276;—38 fr. 50, ex-
emplaire broch£, Bignon, n° 1832. II serait bien plus cher
aujourd'hui.

" Zoloint figure point parmi les divers ouvrages de Sade
mentionn£s par la Biographie universeOe et la France littiravre
de M. QuSrard."

The author of " Le Marquis de Sade Thomme et ses 6crits,M
adds in a note an extract from a very curious letter,* written by
the first consul to Josephine, and signed N. In that letter
Napoleon " defend i sa femme de voir madame Tallien sous
aucun prltexte," and adds: "Si tu tiens k mon estime et si tu
veux me plaire, ne transgresse jamais le present ordre... Un
miserable l'a €pous6e avec huit bfttards. Je la mlprise elle-
m6me plus qu'avant. Elle 6tait une fille aimable: elle est de-
venue une femme d'horreur et inf&me. Je serai k Malmaison
bientdt. Je t'en pr£viens pour qu'il n'y ait point d'amoureux la
nuit; je serais ftch6 de les ddranger."

* In the handwriting of Napoleon I. Inserted in a catalogue of auto-
graphs published in October, 1865, by a bookseller, Charavay, and reproduced
in the "Petite Revue/* Ne. for November 4, 1865, pages 170 and 1*1.

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

While the present work has been passing through the press
some additional information, other editions, both ancient and
modern, of books already noticed, and a few books connected
with them, have come to my knowledge. I take the opportunity
of inserting here these supplementary facts, together with some
additional elucidations.

The remarks at p. xvii. of my Introduction are not stricdy
correct. The " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs k FAmour,
&c.," is no longer the only work that exists, in any language
devoted to erotic literature. A volume embracing that branch
of German literature has lately been privately issued, with tide:
"SailOtbtta gtrmattorum trotua* Verzeichniss der ge-
sammten deutschen erotischen Literatur mit Einschluss der
Uebersetzungen. Nachschlagebuch fur Literaturhistoriker, An-
tiquare und Bibliothekare. Nach den Zuverlassigsten Quellen,
bearbeitet von H. Nay. Leipzig, 1875." 4to. j pp. 151, with
5 unnumbered pages of tide, "Vorwort" and " Verbesserungen;"
printed in Stuttgart by E. Rupper. This publication, as we
read in the "Vorwort," "hat den Zweck den Forschern auf dem
Gebiete der Cultur-und Sittengeschichte einen wichtigen, bisher

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unbearbeiteten Zwcig dcr dcutschcn Literatur Ubcrsichdich vor-
zufilhren." It gives information as to editions, places and dates
of publication, &c., but contains no critical appreciations or
extracts.

At p. xxxvii of my Introduction I have mentioned the re-
volting crime of corpse profanation with more prominence
perhaps than the doubtful authority there given warrants. A
remark or two more on the subject may not be out of place.
The very* nature of the deed prevents its being commonly
known. The chamber of the dead is not a place open to many
prying eyes, nor can the lifeless corse reveal the enormities
which may have been perpetrated upon it. One clearly proved
instance will suffice then to warrant its being classed among
the frailties of human nature.

There can be little doubt that it was known to the Egyptians,

and that they made provisions to prevent the violation of the

dead bodies of their young and beautiful women by the em-

balmers. Herodotus writes: " Quant aux femmes de quality
lorsqu' elles sont mortes, on ne les remet pas sur le champ aux
Embaumeurs, non plus que celles qui sont belles, et qui ont 6t6
en grande consideration, mais seulement trois ou quatre jours
aprls leur mort. On prend cette precaution, de crainte que les
Embaumeurs n'abusent des corps qu'on leur confie. On raconte
qu'on en prit un sur le fait avec une femme morte rlcemment,
et cela sur l'accusation d'un de ses camarades."*

This fact did not escape the attention of the erudite com-

* Translation of P-H Larchcr: " Histoire d'H6rodotc, tradaite do Grec, &c."

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3
mentator of the u Hermaphroditus" * of Panormita, who
remarks (p. 321): "Licebitne hue referre etiam libidinem
eorum, qui aut mortuas feminas, aut statuas polluunt ? neque
enim verus coitus est, ubi non sunt duo coeuntes. In Aegypto
quidem Herodotus refert II, 89. deprensum auendam esse,
recenti cadavere muliebri libidinose abutentem : Aap^pOijvai yip
TtvA (pact {iicy6[jLeyo^ vexpeo irpoa Si t6v 6jx6xe^vov; quia de causa lege sancitum esse, ne femi-
nae nobiles et formosae prius traderentur conditoribus, quam
triduo aut quatriduo post obitum."

In the eighth volume of the " Causes C€l£bres" a very re-
markable case is reported. I reproduce it in the epitomised
narrative of M. Julia de Fontennelle:-f- " Un cadet de famille
fut forc£ d'entrer, sans vocation, dans un ordre religieux. Se
trouvant en voyage, il s'arr6te dans une auberge qu'il trouve
dans une grande desolation : la fille unique de l'h6te, qui €tait
d'une grande beaut€, venait de mourir. On prie le religieux
de la veiller; il accepte, et, dans la nuit, curieux de voir les
traits d'une jeune fille qu'on lui avait dit avoir 6t6 si belle, il lui
d€couvre le visage, et, pouss£ par le d£mon de la luxure, il la
viole et part de grand matin. Le lendemain, pendant qu'on

Eortait le cercueil en terre, on y sentit quelque mouvement; la
ierre est ouverte, la jeune fille remise au lit et bientdt gu£rie.
Quelque temps apr£s, des symptAmes de grossesse se mani-
festent, et, au terme de neuf mois, elle donne le jour k un
enfant, tout en protestant de sa virginity. Au bout de quelques
annles, le frSre aln€ du religieux £tant mort et celui-ei ayant

* The edition noticed at p. 81 ante. The German police are now destroying
every copy they can lay hands on of this work, probably on account of the
plates, and the volume bids fair to become of the greatest rarity.

t "Recherches, &c., sur l'lncfertitude des Signes de la Mort," p. 93.
This story forms one of the scenes in " Le Prfctre par Un Dr. De Sorbonne.
Paris 1802."

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6t6 d6\\6 de ses voeux, ses affaires le conduisirent dans la
m£me auberge, oil il trouva la d6funte vivante et m£re. Charm6
de sa beautl, il avoua son crime et le r€para en l'^pousant."

The case which occurred in Paris a few years ago, and which
was reported in the journals at the time, will doubtless recur to
many of my readers.*

It was found that many of the coffins in the " fosse com-
mune " of the cemetery of Pfcre la Chaise had been disturbed.
The dogs kept to guard the burial ground had given no alarm,
and armed men were placed on the watch. One night they
surprised a naked man violating the corpse of a young woman
who had been buried that day. They failed to catch him, and
fired at him ; but he gained the wall, got over it, and escaped.
It was winter, and the ground was covered with snow. Next
morning, on following his footprints they found marks of blood,
and were certain that he had been wounded with the small shots
with which their guns had been loaded. The police was
communicated with, the hospitals searched, and a sergeant was
found in one of them, under treatment for small shot wounds.
He was called on for an explanation, and examined upon the
charge. He was proved to nave gone to several expositions of
the dead before their removal from their residences, and to have
followed the convoys to the place of interment. At last he
confessed all, and that he had long been in the habit of violating
corpses. When asked how it was that the dogs had not
barked, he replied that dogs would never attack a naked man
unless specially urged on to do so, and for this reason he had
always visited the cemetery without his clothes. At the trial it
was stated that a similar case had previously occurred at
Toulouse(P), but that the violator there had preferred to operate
upon the dead bodies of old rather than young women.

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Passing now to our own country, and to a time also within
the memory of the present generation, I submit an occurrence
communicated by a gendeman of the medical profession, then
a student, and eye witness of the deed.

In the year 1830 or 1831, at all events about the time
that Williams and another were hanged for the murder of an
Italian boy in order to sell his body to the doctors, the dead
body of a well favoured girl of about 15 years was brought to
St. Bartholomew's hospital for dissection. Although no marks
of violence were apparent, the students were of opinion that
she had not met her end by fair means. One of them intro-
duced his finger into the vagina, and finding the hymen to be
intact, declared that she was a maid. Upon this the porter
who was employed to carry the dead bodies in and out, also put
his finger up, and exclaiming: " that he had never had a
maidenhead, but that he would take one now, by G—,w pro-
ceeded to violate the corpse then and there, in the presence of
the students assembled.

Two instances in which priests have administered discipline
to their penitents to serve their own lusts are spoken of in note
55 (p. xl.) of my Introduction. The former of these cases,
viz., that of P£re Girard, I had intended to treat fully in its
proper place here, but it is of greater bibliographical magnitude
than I at first anticipated, and lack of space compels me to
defer it to a future volume. With regard to the latter: Cornelius
Adriaensen (not Hadrien), less generally known, but of equal
interest with that of Girard, it may not be distasteful to my
readers if I give an account of it here. This I do the more
readily because the narrative of the affair contained in the

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"History of the Rod" is somewhat "made up," and is not
told with the sobriety which is indispensible in treating such
subjects.

The most trustworthy account of Cornelius Adriaensen and
his whipping academy, is to be found in the history of the low
countries* by Emanuel van Meteren.

Although this worthy and esteemed historian has been taxed
with credulity by Lenglet Du Fresnoy,-^ and accused of in-
sincerity by Beaucourt de Noortvelde,J yet we may, I think,
accept his simple narrative of the doings of brother Cornelius
without hesitation.

" II y avoit, (he writes) un moine au cloltre des Cordeliers, k
Bruges, nomm€ Jrere Corneillt Adriaensen, de Dodrecht, qui
Itoit fort renomm£ k cause de ses predications ind£centes et
indues* tdlement que nous avons trouv€ bon den dire quelque
chose, combien que nous ne fassions pas volontiers, si est-ce
qu'il est n£cessaire, pour ce que par telles personnes on donne
occasion k leurs adversaires de les bl&mer et leur religion
catholique.

* Emanuel van Meteren wrote his work first in Latin, then translated it
himself into Flemish. It has been rendered into German and French. The
text I quote is from the French translation by J^D.- L. Haye: " Histoire des
Pays-Bas, on Recueil des Guerres &c. La Haye, H. J. Won. 1618." folio.
Vide "Manuel du Libraire/' vol 3, col. 1877.

t "M6thode pour 6tudier 1'Histoire, avec un catalogue des principaux
historiens, &c." The passage is quoted in the " Biographie Universelle
(Michaud)," vol. a8, p. 121.

X Tableau Fiddle des Troubles et Revolutions, &c.

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" Ce moine, ayant v6tu le froc Tan 1548, et ayant le don de
bien parler et de pouvoir bien exprimer son intention, fut in-
continent estim£ pour un fort digne pr£cheur; il t£chait, en
tous ses sermons, d'elever l'6tat eccl£siastique par dessus le
sdculier, et de persuader k ses auditeurs, que le c£libat et Y6tat des
gens non mari£s etoient mille fois plus propres pour m£riter le
paradis, que le manage, lequel 6toit toujours sujet k beaucoup
de soucis et emp£chemens pour parvenir k salut. Cependant,
ayant 6t6 institu6 et command^ de Dieu (tellement qu'il est
mime tenu pour un sacrement), on y rencontre bien beaucoup
de souffrances, croix et tribulations; mais e'est par ces choses

Su'il faut entrer au royaume de Dieu, de sorte qu'il y a plus
e m£rite au mariage qu'au c£libat, 6tzt inutile et vain de ceux
qui se retirent 6s cloltres, oil il n'y a qu'aise, volupt6, et oisiveti,
qui est la m£re de tous maux.

" II opposoit journellement k l'etat charnel et mondain du
mariage, la commodity et l'avantage qu'il y avoit au c£libat
pour parvenir k la vie €ternelle: ce qu'il savoit dire et mettre en
avant avec tant d'argumens, d'exemples et similitudes, que plus-
ieurs honn£tes femmes marines en furent troubles en leur
esprit, et menfcrent tel deuil, qu'elles en tombfirent en de
grandes fantaisies: plusieurs fillesse propos&rent de ne se marier
jamais, et plusieurs veuves de demeurer k marier.

" Ces femmes marines et les autres se venoient confesser k lui:
les marines pour recevoir de lui quelque consolation et avis, et
les autres pour Atre fortifies en leur dessein.

" Entre les unes et les autres, il y avoit plusieurs honn6tes,
notables et belles femmes, veuves et filles de tous 6tats, et k cette
fin de leur pouvoir donner quelque contentement, et k soi-m£me
aussi, il s'avisa de dresser entre elles un ordre de Dtvotaires.
Quant aux femmes marines, lesquelles Etoient tristes et troubles,
il leur disoit qu'elles pourroient encore £tre sauvles pourvu
qu'elles pussent r£sister aux inclinations et d£sirs des ceuvres
naturelles et charnelles du mariage, mais non k l'oeuvre et usage
m£me : car il disoit que l'oeuvre m6me en soi avoit 6t6 ordonnde

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de Dieu, mais que la nature corrompue l'avoit souill6e de ses
mauvaises affections, auxquelles il talloit qu'elles r6sistassent
pour les surmonter, et user de l'ceuvre du mariage, comme si
elles n'en usoient point. Que si cela 6toit impossible et une
chose inhumaine, il conseilloit celles lesquelles n'€toient point
jeunes ni belles, de se venir souvent confesser k leurs cur€s, pour
en avoir absolution. Mais k celles lesquelles d^siroient a itre
en son ordre, et du nombre des D6votaires, il leur disoit: que
puisqu'elles ne pouvoient point r6sister en leur corps charnel
k ces infirmit^s interieures, qu'il 6toit de besoin que leur corps
fut chdti6 de quelque punition ext€rieure, ou p6nitence. Quand
les femmes perplexes y consentoient et promettoient de se vouloir
volontiers mettre sous son oblissance, lors illeurltablissoit cette
r6gle, de se venir confesser k lui tous les mois avec le consente-
ment de leurs maris. Et en se confessant, il leur commandoit,
en vertu de l'ob6issance qu'elles lui avoient jur£e, de lui vouloir
declarer toutes leurs inclinations naturelles et charnelles, les-
quelles elles sentoient au mariage, et de le dire sans simulation
et honte, le plus effront6ment et nuement qu'elles pouvoient, afin
qu'il les put d'autant mieux purger, absoudre et chAtier comme
un bon m£decin.

" Quand les femmes le faisoient par perplexit6 et trouble de
conscience, il leur disoit en outre, que les p£ch£s secrets et
impudics avoient besoin d'une purification secrette et d'une
sainte discipline, ou secrette penitence, laquelle devoit fitre cachle
aux hommes mondains, pour ce qu'ils ne comprenoient pas les
choses spirituelles, car s'ils le savoient ils s'en scandaliseroient: et
partant il falloit qu'elles lui fissent serment de ne point donner k
connoitre, ni r€v£ler cette secrette discipline ou p6nitence, ni k
leurs parens, ni k quelques

dlvotaires et filles de discipline.

" Les veuves, lesquelles £toient belles et t&choient de vivre
impollues, il leur faisoit accroire que les veuves avoient beaucoup

confessant ou autrement.
ment par Dieu et tous ses

pour ses

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plus de tentation que les filles, lesquelles n'6toient pas ainsi
tourment£es, et partant qu elles mSritoient aussi beaucoup plus
envers Dieu que les veuves, tellement que, pour ce combat, leur
£tat 6toit beaucoup plus m^ritoire que celui des marines, lesquelles
pouvoient €teindre ces tentations; n£anmoins qu elles se de-
voient soumettre sous sa discipline et secrette penitence, afin
d'etre disciplin6es pour les int^neures et impures pens£es qu'elles
avoient journellement; et partant qu'elles se devoient venir
confesser k lui tous les quinze jours une fois, et faire serment de
ne se confesser k personne qu k lui, et ne r6v61er la secrette dis-
cipline k personne qu'aux devotaires, lesquelles se soumettoient k
sa discipline, et par ce moyen elles devenoient ses dSvotaires.

" II persuada aussi le m£me aux pucelles et jeunes filles, et le
tout sous prltexte de grande saintete et de mSrite.

" II faisoit venir toutes ces trois sortes de personnes k jour
nomm€, et quand cela lui venoit le plus k propos, en la maison
de quelqu' une de ses devotaires, laquelle il estimoit la plus
propre k cela, et notamment k la maison d'une couturtere
nommle Calla, oil il y avoit un huis de derridre par laquelle il
pouvoit entrer secrettement, en sortant de son cloitre. Quand
il €toit lk, il faisoit faire des verges k ses devotaires et les faisoit
porter en la chambre de discipline, et puis il leur disoit, avec
une grande gravit6 et beaucoup de paroles persuasives, que,
pour se rendre propres k recevoir la discipline, qu'elles devoient
se d£pouiller, afin de surmonter, par la nudit£, toute honte et
feinrise.

" Quand les femmes, apr£s beaucoup de persuasion, s'£toient
ainsi d£shabill£es toutes nues, il falloit qu'elles vinssent elles-
m6mes lui apporter les verges, et le prier bien humblement de
chdtier et discipliner leur corps de p€ch€ : ce qu'il faisoit; puis
aprds, avec beaucoup de c6r£monies et fort lentement, leur
donnant un certain nombre de petits coups, qui ne faisoient pas
beaucoup de mal, et leur all£geoit le dire de quelques anciens
pdres, que Dieu aimoit mieux l'humilite des pSnitentes, qui
s'£toient d6pouill6es toutes nues, que la dftret6 des coups^ et
choses semblables.

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" En hiver, quand il faisoit trop froid pour se dlpouiller, il
falloit que les enfans de discipline se coucbassent sur un coussin,
et lors frfcre Corneille leur levoit les robes par derrtere et les
disciplinoit ainsi. Le m£me faisoit-il quelquefois en 6t6 aux
femmes marines et autres, lesquelles ne pouvoient pas s'absenter
long-temps de la maison.

u Quelquefois il permettoit que les plus vieilles d£votaires re-
(jussent la discipline des femmes de la maison oh. la discipline
se faisoit.

" Cet ordre de divotaires et de secrette discipline ay ant dure
plusieurs ann€es, qu'enfin le tout fut dlcouvert par deux de ses
dlvotaires, honn£tes filles, nommdes l'une Betteken Maes, et
l'autre Calleken Pieters. Cette Betteken Maes, 6tant une
simple fille d€]k parvenue k l'&ge de discretion et de jugement,
fut employee (pour ce qu'elle 6toit fort honn£te, et qu'elle
savoit donner des bonnes consolations) k garder les malades; et
comme elle gardoit une vieille femme, laquelle pensant qu'elle
mouroit, la pria, que, quand elle seroit aux abois de la mort,
qu'elle la voulfit rev£tir d'un froc de cordelier, qu'elle avoit Ik
toujours pr6t sur le lit. Que si cela ne se pouvoit pas bien
faire, que pour le moins elle y voulut mettre ses bras ou ses
mains, afin qu'en mourant ainsi, elle put 6tre quitte de trois
parts de ses plchls, et ainsi il ne lui en rest&t qu'un quart
k 6tre purg6 en purgatoire. Betteken voyant la peine en laquelle
6toit cette femme malade, elle tAcha de lui mettre cela hors de
la t£te, lui remontrant en toute simplicity qu'elle eut k avoir
recours k la satisfaction du Christ: de quoi la femme se
scandalisa, tellement que, se relevant de sa maladie, elle s'alla
plaindre k fr&re Corneille, qui, pour cette occasion, l'injuria et
bl&ma fort, l'accusant partout et disant que c'€toit une hlrltique,
une Erasmienne et une Pauline, etc., noms pris d'Erasme, de
Rotterdam, et de saint Paul. Lk dessus Betteken se defendant
partout contre ces accusations, fit enfin tant que la secrette
discipline fAt r6v£lee.

" Quelque temps apr£s, Calleken Pieters se scandalisant de
quelque 16g£ret£ qu'elle avoit aperque en ce pSre Corneille, et

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comme elle €toit belle et jeune, fille d'une honn£te veuve, elle
s'itoit aussi, en toute simplicity, rangle parmi les dSvotaires.
Frfcre Comeille avoit eu beaucoup de peine avec elle, et ne
l'avoit pas bien du amener k ce point ae se dlpouiller toute
nue, n'est-ce qu'elle l'eut premi&rement vu faire k d'autres filles,
tellement que la premiere fois, de honte elle tomba €vanouie.
Celle-ci se plaignant de la I6g6ret6 de fr£re Comeille, voulAt
6tre plus amplement instruite touchant ce fait, et demanda quel-
ques preuves; ce que fr6re Comeille fit le mieux qu'il put,
alliguant quelques passages de quelques anciens pfcres; mais elle
n'itant pas encore contente, demanda quelques preuves de
l'Ecriture-Sainte, touchant cette secrette discipline. Lk dessus
il alllgua quelques passages oil il est parl6 de fouetter; mais elle,
6tant bien avis£e, ne s'en contenta pas, de sorte qu'il com-
menqa aussi k l'injurier, et k dire que cVJtoit une Pauline, une
Erasmienne, une h£r£tique; tellement qu'elle alia k confesse au
gardien du cloitre, pour se conseiller avec lui, et, ayant €t€
mieux instruite, elle demeura hors de l'ordre. FrSre Comeille en
6tant fort irrittf, la mit au ban et l'excommunia; non content de
cela, il falloit encore qu'il en fit toujours mention en ses predi-
cations, tellement qu'enfin cela vint aux oreilles du magistrat,
qui, pour cette occasion, mand&rent la ditte fille et la firent ex-
aminer. Apr&s que le magistrat s'en furent bien informls, et qu'ils
en eurent pris connoissance par divers tlmoignages, pour d£-
fendre la chastetl de leurs femmes et filles, ils se plaignirent de
fr&re Comeille k ceux qui avoient k commander sur lui, qui,

S>our 6viter toute honte, l'envoyfcrent hors de Bruges k Ypres,
'an 1563."

Adriaensen was a powerful and eloquent preacher, but his
discourses were, as Van Meteren asserts, frequently interspersed
* avec des blasphemes horribles, contre Dieu et la nature, &c."
" II ne parloit que d'effaision de sang, de pendre, de brAler, de
rAtir, d'Scorcher, d'£touffer, d'enterrer les personnes toutes vives
en terre, d'ouvrir le ventre des femmes, en tirer les enfants tout-

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vifs, et de les jeter contre les murs. # # # Et parmi toute
cette rage, il m61oit de propos sales et inf&mes, concluant par
un pettcr, chier, torcher son derriere, le baiser, et souhaitant de
la fiente en la face des personnes, et choses semblables

Adriaensen was born at Dordrecht in 1521, joined the order
of "FrSres Mineurs," and died at Bruges, July 13, 1581.-^

In the note at p. 35 I have made mention of an unpublished
work by the Marquis de Sade. This remarkable M.S. is at
present in the possession of the Marquis de V—, whose grand-
father, it is said, obtained it from one Armoux de St. Maximin,
who assisted at the destruction of the Bastille, and found the
M.S. in the room which the Marquis de Sade had been oc-
cupying. Since then it has never been out of the keeping of

* In his " Predicatoriana" (p. iii), Peignot gives an extract of a carious
discourse by Adriaensen against the Prince de Cond6.

t " Tableau fiddle des Troubles," &c., pp. 58 and 80 Consult also "Historie
van B. Cornel is Adriaensen van Dordrecht, minrebroeder binnen die stadt van
Brugghe. Inde welcke warachtelick verhaelt wert, de discipline en secrete
penitencie of geesselinghe, die hy ghebruycte met zyn devotarigen : de welcke
veroorsaect hebbebben zeer veel wonderlicke sermoenen, die hy te Brugghe
gepredict heeft. Ghedruct int jaer 1Small 8vo. original edition, of
which one copy only, it is said, is known. M. Octave Delepierre had not
seen it when he annotated the "Tableau fiddle ' (ut supra), for he speaks of
it as " cette pr6tendue histoire de frdre Corneille, qui parut long-temps aprgs
sa mort, et oil il y a presque autant de mensonges que de pages." He
mentions two later editions, viz.: u Deventer, Coenraet Thomassin, 1639.
a deelen in-12," and a Amsterdam, Samuel Schoonweld, 1714, 2 volumes in-
18." Concerning the work itself, M. Delepierre says that it contains " d-peu-
prds les m&mes expressions ind6centes et de plus sales encore " than Van
Meteren attributes to Adriaensen.

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507

the Marquis de V— or his grandfather. I have not seen the
MS. myself, but offer the following description made from
the details communicated to me by two gentlemen who have
carefully examined it.

The M.S. is composed of a series of pieces of paper,
% inches (or 11 centimetres) wide, all stuck together, and forming
a roll 13 yards 8 inches (metres 12.10) in length. Each piece
of paper is written on both sides, in the handwriting of the
Marquis de Sade throughout, and in a character so minute that
the letters cannot be read without the aid of a magnifying glass.
The work comprises a short preface, and 52 chapters in which
the author narrates the doings of a certain community of
libertines of both sexes, who have two mansions in the vicinity
of Paris and enormous wealth at their disposal.

The language and incidents are quite as obscene as in
" Justine," but the narrative is not so frequently interlarded
with philosophical disquisitions as in that and other of de Sade's
works. The MS. closes with the words, "terming le 25
Nov. 1783."

In " Monsieur-Nicholas; ou le Cceur humain d^voile,"
vols. 11 and 16, Restif de la Bretonne speaks of a work by de
Sade: «la CfttOtit &U Ifl>trtUtajjef" qui ne paralt pas encore
et que j'ai lue en manuscrit." It seems not unlikely that the
MS. in question is the same work as that noticed by the author
of " UAnti-Justine." He continues: " Dans Aline*. . . . Dans
le Boudoir. . . Mais ce n'est rien: toutes les horreurs sont

* Noticed at p. 30, ante.

4*4

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r€serv6es pour La Theorie du libertinage. C'est Ik que le mons-
tre-auteur propose, k limitation du Pornographe, l'etablissement
d'un lieu de ddbauche. J'avais travailie pour arr^ter la degrada-
tion de la nature: le but de l'inf&me disslqueur k vif, en
parodiant un ouvrage de ma jeunesse, a 6t6 d'outrer k l'exc^s
cette odieuse, cette infernale degradation.. . Quel monstre
qu'un homme k pareilles idees ! Et c'est un noble! un noble
de la famille de la cel£bre Laure de Pltrarque! "*

I will now add a few books which are more or less connected
with those already noticed.

Wm0t9 (P. 46, ante).

In the " Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica," five editions of
this work are noted, all in 8vo., viz.: Amsterdam, 1791, 1794-
95, 1796, 1824, and that which I have noticed, without date,
about 1870.

It? amour* lit Cbarlot et Couutte precedes de I'Zih
tridfjl'eraw tn <0ogaetted pieces r<5volutionnaires t6-
imprim6es textuellement sur les editions originates de
1779 et de 1789 avec une Note bibliographique Imprimd
par les Presses de la Soci€t£ A Strasbourg 1871.

"In-16 de vin-24 pp., tire k 100 ex.—2fr, 50."-^ figure of a
sphere on the title page; published by Gay.

This little work is a reprint of the two works noticed at

* This passage is reproduced at p. 417 of "Bibliographic &c. de Restif dc
la Bretonne."

t Liste des Publications, p. 30.

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509

pp. 50 and 116; fac-similes of the title pages of the original
editions of both are given.

* I extract the following remarks from the " note biblio-
graphique: * " On est d'abord €tonn£ de la date que porte cette
pi6ce (Les Amours de Chariot et Toinette), 1779, et Ton se
demande s'il n'y- a pas quelque erreur. A cette £poque, Marie-
Antoinette etait dans la fleur du bel Age; die avait vingt-
quatre ans. Les portraits, dont quelques uns sont vraiment
ravissants, couvraient la France et le monde; et Ton peut dire
qu'elle Itait idolfitr6e des Frangais. Louis xvi n'€tait gu&re
plus &fr€ qu'elle ; le comte d'Artois n'avait que 22 ans, et c'6tait
un petit volcan. La liaison avec la Duthl et beaucoup d'autres
l'avait deji fort affiche depuis plusieurs ann€es, et comme
souvent le sexe ne d£daigne pas ces jeunes conqu£rants, son
aventure avec la reine ne serait pas moralement impossible.

" On parle dans le conte en question d'une sonnet te d6non-
ciatrice; cet incident fut, k la m6me Spoque, l'objet de cinq ou
six pieces de vers differentes. Dans celle que nous donnons ici,
on nom me le serviteur qui entre dans 1'appartement de la reine ;
e'est le sieur Gervais. Ce nom est-il suppose ?

"Quoiqu'il en soit, si l'on relit avec attention l'histoirie
anecdotique du temps, on voit que e'est vers cette epoque que
l'on place les representations k la cour du Mariage de Figaro et
autres fAtes qui faisaient jaser."

I know of two other old editions of the first mentioned
poem. Of the one the title is as that noticed at p. 50,
with the same date in Roman letters. The other has the im-
press : " A La Bastille. 14 juillet 1789." There is also a more
recent reprint: " Ztii SmOUHf lit CftadOt SC Cofatttf Ptece
D^rob^e A V.........

Scilicet is superis labor est, ea cura
quietos sollicitat....... Virg. jEneid.

R6imprim6 textuellement sur l'£dition originale et rarissime de

ebb

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1789. Londres De rimprimerie Particuliire de Lord C * * #
18 75"

i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 11; tide page printed in red and
black, with figure of a sphere 5 forms No. 3 of the"Bibliothique
Galante" published in Brussels at 2 francs. This edition
contains the poem only.

tlu3 ben SKemoiven eittet CWttgttitt* (p. 102).

The author of the " Bibliotheca Germanorum eroticaM notes
this work as published at the Verlagsbureau, Altona, about 1862.
In the place of publication he is right, and I have in error
noted it as published in Berlin, but with the year of issue I
think he is somewhat in advance. He adds: "Dasselbe.
Altona. o.J. (c. 1870) 8.°* by which, I presume, the second
volume, or continuation, is intended to be indicated; if so he
has certainly not read the volume, and is again, I believe, in
advance with the date of publication.

8e!ettttittiffe eittet ttmetifattetiit*

In the " Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica" (p. 11), one
edition of this work is noted. The description corresponds in
every respect with that at p. 128, ante, except that the date is
given as 1770. Either there are two editions, or the author
ot " Bib. Ger. erot." is in error, for the date of the volume,
at present before me, is 1970. He adds: " Ein Seitenst. zu
den Denkwiirdigkeiten des Herrn von H • * *.n This is en-
tirely false; the " ©efenntniffe" has no similarity whatever with

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511

that work, which is considered to be one of the best erotic books
in the German language.

iM Bortdcf lit flarfc, avec les noms, demeures et prix, Plan
salubre et patriotique soumis aux illustres des Etats-
Glnlraux pour en faire un article de la constitution;
R£dig6s par M. M. Dillon, Sartuib, Lenoir, La
Troliere, & Compagnie. D6di6 k la F6d6ration.

Sans la sant6, l'homme n'est rien sur la terre

Du Tillier.

L'An Second de la Libert^: 14 Juillet 1779.
8vo. (counts 4); pp. 24. There is a copy in the British
Museum, press mark P.C. JJJ

This tract contains a plan for a model brothel to be erected
at Paris, of which the motto was to be:

"Da plaisir poor de l'or, 8c santl garantie.'*
It concludes with " la liste des bordels honn£tes, oil Ton court
moins les risques de glisser, et de s'embourber."

BrujrtUttf In finit flbptffotogie Htd «taf>Hs«tmtnt* ftot*

turntsf lit JSrUJttUt* par Mario Aris 3me Edition
Bruxelles Ch. Sacr£-Duquesnb, fiditeur Rue des Fripiers,
60 1871

8vo.; pp. 208, with 4 unnumbered pages of " Table" and
list of other publications; 4 rough etchings, not free, signed
Poublon. This edition contains the same matter as the work

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noticed at p. 143, ante; but it is not divided into 2 vols.;
the outer wrapper is slighdy changed,and " Avec Illustrations"
is added.

In 1876, the same volume (tide unaltered) was reissued in
a new fancy paper wrapper, with a wood cut of a girl's head with
a fan, and containing 4 new illustrations signed " HB" (H
Bodart,) not free, and similar in character to those of the
previous edition just above mentioned.

Based upon the above, but by no means a literal translation
of it, there is: "BrtUtttfe fig G&*Ufjfyt Physiology of the
Night Establishments of Brussels by Peeping Tom Brussels
Of all the Booksellers," 12010 (counts 6); pp. iv and 102, ex
tides and " Notice;" girl's head on outer wrapper, and the four
illustrations signed " H B " as above; author Mr. Hartcupp ;
publisher Ch. Sacr£ Duquesnb; issued in 1876. In the
"Notice" which terminates the volume a second part is
promised.

fiu #tttf et in Witty Contes et Melanges. lStrennes aux
Dllicats avec Frontispice & l'eau-forte. Bruxelles
J Blanche, Libraire 11, Rue de Loxum 11 1873.

Large i2mo.; pp. 214; at head of tide, which is printed in
red and black, is the author's pseudonym, FbIre Jean 5 the
frontispiece (struck off in two colours) is by M. Baes of
Brussels; it was his first attempt at etching, and must be pro-
nounced a very poor production; issue 236 copies, of which 230

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on u papier de Hollande " at 6 frcs., 4 on yellow paper, 2 on
" papier chine," numbered. This is the complete edition of the
work, and contains the following four pieces, viz: "Tant
pis pour eux, tant mieux pour nous," " La Communion
difficile," " Nouvelle Rencontre Tabarinique," " Double Pro-
blSme,* not in the original edition,* which the author had
printed in 1866 at Rouen, De Bri&re, 200 copies only, for
private distribution; it was issued as " premiere serie," and never
offered for sale.

These are very cleverly written litde poems—terse, pointed,

epigrammatic—a pity only is it that they all run on so forbidding

a subject for it must be confessed that the mysteries of

Cloacina are not propitious to the cultivation of Calliope or

Erato. This opinion is not so rigidly held by our neighbours

doutre-Manche. Let us then not quarrel with the entertainment

offered us, but be thankful for a well written book, in spite of

its subject, and say with our author:

" Gens & qui mon livre d6plalt,

44 Ce n'est pas pour vous qu'il est fait>

" Pour Dieu, contentez-vous des v6tres,

" Et, sans dire du mal du mien,

" Soyez-en d6go6t6s,—fort bien !

" Mais n'en dlgofttez pas les autres." (p. 95).

[Ce volume est 6crit par un auteur qui est vraiment dou6

* A copy of which sold for frcs. 11, in the sale of M. Charles Monselet's
books, in 1871. See " Catalogue d6taill6," &c. p. 44.
f See ante, p. 97.

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dc la verve poltique. II est k regretter que toutes les pieces
soient sur le m£me sujet, par consequent c'est une lecture
monotone, outre ce que parfois on £prouve du d£gofit k pour-
suivre. Les plus agriables pieces sont: " Tant pis pour eux,
tant mieux pour nous," d'un style vif et facile, et la satire,
"Au Vidangeur."]*

The author is Ernest Vaughan of Rouen, one of the staff
(in 1873) of the weekly journal, "La Vie Moderne," in which
the poems, " Joyeuset£s de FrSre Jean,"-J- are from his pen. He
is at present editor of " Le Moniteur Industrid " of Brussels.

9ta Gststnp on Ottoman* (pp- x98 to 236).

In the Dyce collection, at the South Kensington Museum,
are three copies of the " Essay on Woman," viz.: that which
heads my article, and those noticed as Nos. j and 7.

On the fly leaf of the first mentioned volume is the following

* See ante, p. lxxv. of Introduction.

t Since collected into a vol: " Joyeuset6s de Fr&re-Jean avec portrait k
l'eau-forte par Louis Bochard. Bruxelles A. Lefevre, Editeur-Imprimeur 9,
Rue Saint-Pierre, 9 1875" Large iamo.j pp. 164, preceded by 10 pages of
titles, See., and followed by 10 pages of " Table," &c., all unnumbered; title
page printed in red and black, and headed by the author's name, £. Vaughan.
To render the vol. in every way complete, the specimen brochure, of 4 un-
numbered pages, should be added. This publication, dated 1874, announces
the work to have " Dessins de L6on Libonis j M it contains one etching signed
by him, and the poem, " En Guise de Preface," which will be found at p. 1
of the entire work, which is not illustrated. Although the " Joyeuset6s de
Fr&re-Jean" scarcely enters into the scope of the present work, this terse
notice may not be without interest to some.

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note in the hand writing of Dyce: " I am inclined to think
that this is really the original edition of the poem. My late
venerable friend, William Maltby, was intimately acquainted
with Wilkes, and assured me that Wilkes said to him, 41 am
not the author of the Essay on Woman: it was written by
Potter * (son of the Archbishop)."* This note tends to prove
three points which I have advanced. 1. That the version which
I have accepted as genuine is really so. 2. That all the biblio-
graphers, with whose works I am acquainted, are more or less
in error respecting it 5 for, if we take Dyce's words in the strict
sense, it would appear that he not only considered this volume
to contain the genuine version of the poem, but to be the
original edition, which, as I have already shewn, it most de-
cidedly is not. 3. That if Wilkes wrote the book at all, he
was certainly not the sole author* I have previously remarked
that Wilkes never definitely and positively acknowledged being
its author. His character was such, that just because he had
got into trouble on account of the book, for that very reason
he would not deny having written it, or proclaim his friend, an
archbishop's son, as the real author. The nobleness of his
nature would prompt him, under such circumstances, to bear
alone the whole brunt and odium of the affair.

I am now able to describe more minutely the edition noticed

♦ Cat. of the Printed Books and Manuscripts bequeathed by The Re?.
Alexander Dyce, Vol. a, p. 4*4-

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as No. 5. It is in reality iamo. (counts 6); the verso of the
last page, p. 23, is unnumbered, and contains " The Maid's
Prayer;" there are foot notes to the second line of Book 1, and
to the first of Book 4; the word " Aberdeen," on the title page,
is in a small fancy type.

There is still another edition of this version (which I will call
No. 14).* It differs in the following respects: there is at the
end of the third book a fleuron of a cornucopia, which does
not exist in the edition immediately above mentioned ; the note
referring to the name " Rock," in the first line of Book 4, is
omitted, although those to the second line of Book 1 are re-
tained ; " The Maid's Prayer " is printed on one side only of
an unnumbered leaf, which should be p. 23.

With regard to the edition noticed as No. 7,1 may add that
it was published by William-Dugdale, about the year 1840.

It* ftmmt* Oriaittttf He* #apo!ron Secrets de Cour et
de Palais Tome Premier. Londres et Geneve chez les
Principaux Libraires 1863

Small 8vo.; 2 vols.; pp. vol. 1, 123, vol. 2, 136; in the
first volume, after the " Avant-propos," is a half tide as follows:

" le* Sew Cour* et £e* &uft* He £atot*CIou&<" &c.

This edition differs materially from that noticed at p. 61,
ante. It contains, with slight castrations, and alterations of

* See p. 230, ante.

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433

arrangement, the first and second parts entire, and the third
part to p. 107. The remainder of part 3, and the whole of
parts 4 and 5 are omitted. On the other hand the " Deuxieme
Partie" of vol. 1, pp. 8 j to 119, is new matter.

€i)t lift, intrigue*, anto afobenturetf of 9n amorou*

duafctr; Develloping the most curious scenes of Intrigues,
Seductions, and Amours, ever offered to the Public. Em-
bellished with several splendid Amatory Engravings.
London: Printed for the Booksellers in Town and Country.

12010.; pp. 23 in all; 6 badly done obscene plates, which
have no reference to the text; the verso of the title page and
colophon bear: " Printed by W. Gray, 44, Green Street, New
Road."; it is nevertheless an American publication of about
the year 1848.

Although somewhat similar in title, this is an entirely dif-
ferent work from that noticed at p. 45, ante. It contains two
distinct tales. In the first are recounted the seduction and
marriage of a youth called Tommy. The second tale has a
separate half title, " (Cfrt 3m0r0U£ ;frfar," and relates the
debauching of an English young lady, Miss Wallace, at a
convent in France. Both stories are told in an illiterate manner,
and are in fact the veriest rubbish. Throughout the volume
no mention whatever is made of quakers.

In a catalogue of William Duodalb I find: " The Amorous
Quaker; a Boarding School Biography; funny and laughable,

PFF

434

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particularly the scene where the girls get on their Heads and
Tails to procure substitutes for the Genuine Thing, or veritable
Man-Plant. Price Two Guineas." Doubtless the same work
as that previously noticed at p. 45.

It iWariafft to Sophie ses Aventures Galantes la Nuit de ses
Noces par Louis de Saint-Ange membre de plusieurs
societds savantes et litt^raires Bruxelles. Chez les Prin-
cipaux Libraires.

Small 8vo.; pp. 64 in all; the verso of the title page bears :
"Imp. de A. Sacr£, rue de la Fourche, 17-19."; issued in
1876; price 60 centimes. This is a reprint, page for page, of
the work noticed at p. no, ante.

Cfrt #ameles« Crime a JBtaloffut on JMaptf Snfout
Curfosttp Cftt BoIPsf fflaatUUmff ©be ®®ap to

Cftt 3afl and Wt>t £>tifS&ttm. All Rights
reserved.

Small 8vo.; pp.31; the title, on the outer (green paper)
wrapper only, serves as table of contents; at foot of the
last page we read: " Printed by Whipwbll & Co., Bottom Lane,
London"; published in July 1875, by Hartcupp & Co.* of
Brussels; author St. George H. Stock.-|-

* In July, 1876, the Belgian police, at the instigation of the English Am-
bassador, who had received complaints from London, made a seizure at the
house of Mr. Hartcupp, 128, Boulevard Central, Brussels, and destroyed a
great deal of his stock. Several of his publications have in consequence
become scarce.

t See p. 355, ante.

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435

" The Nameless Crime * is the description, in rhymed dia-
logue, of the whipping of a school-girl caught by her mistress
using a squirt in the water closet; it ends with the following

" Moral for Misses."
" Your grand mamma was skilled in eggs, my dock,
" You want no previous prenticeship to—suck.
u Still, if with venery you needs must flirt,
" Avoid at least the too transparent squirt."

None of these doggerel pieces are positively obscene, but are
highly suggestive; they are however worthless trash, deficient
in grammar, metre, and sense; they all turn on flagellation.
The printer has added his blunders to those of the author.

lafttof' Ctrftfrr; or The Adventures of Lady
Lovesport and The Audacious Harry.

" Philosophers who've studied nature.
And all our holy fathers swear
A rod's the best invigorator,

A rod applied upon the rear.
I've tried its efficacy oft,

Administered by various hands.
Not too severe, nor yet too soft,
But just as pleasure's pulse commands.

—Madame Birchini's Dance,

London: Printed for the Booksellers. 1866.

8vo.; pp. 112 in all; 8 badly done coloured lithographs
from designs by Edward Sellon;* published by William
Dugdale, who catalogued it at Two Guineas.

* See p 396, ante.

43*

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This is a well written book, worthy of a less silly title, and
better illustrations. Although it contains a great many
flagellation scenes there are other episodes of a more generally
interesting character, all of which are forcibly told and are very
voluptuous. The adventures are narrated in eight letters.

Cfct Qtaluptuartan iftugtum: or, History of Sir Henrt
Lovball. In a Tour through England, Ireland, Scodand,
and Wales. Embellished with Six Highly Finished Prints.
From Beautiful Paintings. Price One Guinea Plain, or
One Guinea and a Half in Colours.

Paris: Printed for the Proprietors.

8vo.; pp. 16a in all; the engravings are well drawn and
executed; each has the scene to which it refers engraved under
it; published in London during the latter part of the last
century. This I take to be the original edition of the work
noticed at p. aa.

Ah ! charming Book ! how sweet thy Periods roll9
To raise the Fancy / to entrance the Soul!
Pour the rich Tide of luscious Love along,
And with its glowing beauties deck thy Sang!

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

NOTE.

It has always appeared to me that authors are too lax in giving their authorities ; and I
have not unfrequently wasted precious hours in searching for volumes and passages—in
performing indeed a labour which might have been spared me by a little more minuteness,
or the addition of a word, or a few figures. Authorities consulted or cited should, I consider,
be noted with more fullness and minuteness than is usually the case. The exact words,
untranslated, with which the title commences should be given, together with the author's
name, and the place and date of publication. The addition of the size and number of
volumes, when the work has appeared in different forms, is not superfluous. Should the au-
thority consulted be an unique, or exceedingly rare volume, or a MS. in some public or
well-known private library, its whereabouts should be indicated.

It may be urged that, the integrity of the author quoting being acknowledged, it is un-
necessary to verify his citations. This I deny. Every author has, or should have, an opinion
of his own, and writes for an object, from a special point of view, if not with a bias; he
construes his authority by his own light, and quotes only so much as will suit bis purpose.
This is fair and legitimate so long as any word, passage, or line omitted from a quotation be
indicated by, • • • or otherwise. But the student reading his book may be studying the same
subject, epoch, or branch of literature from an entirely opposite point of view, or with a different
object, and it may be of interest to him to peruse just those passages which may have been
omitted. In addition then to the description (as above noted) of the work consulted or quoted
from, the vol. and page should be given. The necessity of an exact reference is augmented
when the quotation is translated from a work in a foreign language.

Such references as " Cook's Voyages," " Van Meteren's History," " Defoe's Works,"
" Bayle's Dictionary," are evidently insufficient. Why should the student have to hunt
through several editions, or various works of an author, in order to find a passage cited, or
to puzzle out whether the quotation, if translated, is the author's own rendering, or taken
from a published translation, when the author quoting, who must have had the books in hand,
and have already gone over the ground, could with ease have saved him all the trouble, and
loss of time ? The same information may not be necessary for all. The Englishman, for
instance, will know all about Cook or Defoe; the Belgian about Van Meteren; the Frenchman
about Bayle; but an author cannot know into whose hands his book may fall, and it is better
to risk giving too much, rather than too little information.

A LIST OF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

Ctyt flratttmp.

The first nnmber appeared Oct. 9, 1869, as "A Monthly Record of Lite-
rature, Learning, Science and Art,'* with the following dogmatical heading:
"Readers are reminded that the mention of New Publications, Articles, &c.,
in our list is a guarantee of their importance.* * This oracular tone and exclu-
siveness did not, however, " pay,** and were soon abandoned. " The Academy*'
was afterwards issued weekly, instead of monthly 5 it was, on JanT 3, 1874-,
enlarged to the same size as its more popular competitor, u The Athenaeum,"
and on July 3, 1875, was reduced in price from 4d. to 3d,

Cf)e Actual Contttttan of tf)e Brittrf) Jttiitatnt, &c. By Stefan Poles.

See Note 81, p. liii., ante.

ffaatotaMbltott, ou extraits critiques de divers livres rares, oubli 6s ou peu
connus, tir£s du cabinet du Marquis D. R. * * *. Paris, m.dccc.xxxvi.

8vo.; 2 vols. A most interesting and valuable collection of critical notices,
written by the Marquis Du Roure, upon some curious and rare vols, in his
own library.

flnabctf* Vu £tblu>pf)fte reeueil trimestriel contenant: i° Diverses pieces
curieuses anciennes et modernes; — 20 Des analyses critiques et des
extraits de diverses publications int6ressantes anciennes et modernes; —
3° Une correspondance, des melanges philosophiques et litt6raires, des
anecdotes, etc. Directeur, M. Jules Gat Arc. Premiere Livaison
Turin 1876

12 mo. (counts 6). This is the most recent of M. Gay's publications, and
forms a sequel to " Le Cosmopolite.*'

M. Gay's publications of a similar nature, and in the order in which they
appeared are : " Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste " (ante, p. 129), " Le Fantaisiste,"
and "Le Cosmopolite," (see those titles, post.)

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Snafe* te* Ccabaur te la *ocute te* S&tlobiblon te lontre*. Par

Octave Delbpibrrb, &c. Londres: Trubner 8c Cie. 1862.
8vo. This is a very useful little volume, as it gives a careful analysis of the
contents of each publication, and is moreover furnished with a " Table des
Articles" and a " Table des Mati&res." In the u Avant-propos" to his recent
reprint of " Maranzakiniana " (1875) M. Gustave Brunet mentions M.
Delepierre as : " Un des philologues les plus laborieux de notre temps, cHez
qui un jugement exquis se joint & une instruction aussi solide qu'6tendue."

ftnectote* tu Bt^^eubteme Jtieele, ou Collection In&lite D'Historiettes, et,
d'Anecdotes recentes, 8cc. Par J.-A.-S. Collin de Plahct. Paris
Charles Painpair6, &c. 1821.
8vo.$ 2 vols. A curious and amusing collection of anecdotes.

ftnectote*, ®b*erbation*, ant Character*, of Book* ant |Ben. See. By the
Rev Joseph Spbkcb. &c. London: W. H. Carpenter, See mdccc.xx.

ftnectote* of literature ant Jtaurce Book*. By The Rev. William Bblob-

London 1 1807.

8vo.; 6 vols.; vol. 6, with general index, dates 1812. Allibone (Crit.Dic.
vol 1, p. 162) gives a long account of Beloe and his works; he eulogizes the
" Anecdotes " as : " a very valuable store-house of Bibliographical matter.'*
Lowndes (Bibliographer*s Manual, vol. 1, p. 152) also praises it. Ebert, on
the other hand (General Bib. Die. vol. t, p. 154), disparages it as: " Un-
satisfactory and cursoiy repetitions of the most known things.'* In 1814 the
first two volumes were reprinted with the additions in the sixth volume added,
so that the general index in vol. 6 does not correspond with them. Further,
the titles of these two reprinted volumes bear: " In Two Volumes." In any
case however the work is only complete in 6 vols. Vols. 1 and 2 which I
have used are the reprint of 1814.

ftnectote* of $e jKarawr* ant Cu*tom* of ftonton taring tf>e tfigftteenty
Centurp. 1810

8vo.; 2 vols. 5 By J. P. Malcolm.

ftncctote* Sour *erbfr k l'fK*toire Secrete Be* Cbugor*. A Medoso, L an
de l'Ere des Ebugors. mmmcccxxxiu.

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Spf)rotot*(ac* anti 3nti*ap|)ro&{*iaca: Three Essays 011 the Powers of Repro-
duction ; See. By John Davenport. London: 1869.

See p. 82, ante.

Crftfjmetfcal Soofc* from the invention of printing to the present time being
brief notices of a large number of works drawn up from actual inspection
by Augustus De Morgan London 1847

" Half duodecimo/' see note 95 to my Introduction, p. lx. This is a most
valuable catalogue, indispensable to those interested in the subject. Inde-
pendently however of the actual notices of the books, the " Prefatory Letter "
and " Introduction " contain some most pertinent and noteworthy remarks
upon bibliography in general > they ought to be carefully read by every lover
of books.

ft'Srttote. Journal hebdomadaire.
C$e Stfjenaeum.

9lu« ben SRentoirm einer ®dngerUu See ante, pp. 102 and 426.

fttttatr* 9egu(*e£. Sous des Noms Etrangers j Empruntez, Supposes, Feints
d plaisir, Chiftrez, Renversez, Retournez, ou Changez d'une Langue en
une autre. Paris, m.dc.xc.

12mo. This interesting little treatise, the first of its kind published m
France, is by Adribn Baillbt. Barbier mentions it as containing " des
d6tails curieux sur les pseudonymes en general, et en particulier sur les dif-
f6rentes espdees de termes appellatifs" Refer to " Die. des Ouvrages
Anonymes et Pseudonymes," vol. 1, p. 1113 Idem, edition de 1872, vol. 1,
ool. 320 j and concerning Baillet himself, to Allibone's " Critical Die," vol r,
p. 85, bottom of the second col. The " Auteurs D6guis6s " is included in the
" Jugemens des Savans," edit. Amsterdam, 1725, where it forms vol. j, pt. 2.

fte »tbltoffrapf)e Sbaden Gazette litt&aire, historique, artistique
Strasbourg m*d.ccc.lxhi.

8vo.; 4 vols, i from July 1862 to December 1868. See " Biblotheca Bib-
liographica," p. 336.

C%e Bibliographer'* fKamtal of ©nglttff) literature, &c. By William
Thomas Lowndes. Revised &c. by Henry G. Bohn. In Six Volumes
London: 1869.

8vo. This is the best edition \ the sixth volume contains the Club Books.

GGG

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ft 8 fbltographical an* Critical account of tye »areat Sooittf in t$e
tfnglfef) language, &c. J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. In Two Volumes.
Joseph Lilly. 1865.

ft Bibliographical ftntiguarian an* %\ctvLTt*qvtt Cour in prance an* «er*
manj). By The Reverend Thomas Froqnall Dibdin, D.D. &c. Second
Edition. London: 1829.

Bibliographical Catalogue of »ribatelj $rinte* »ooft** By John Martin.
Second Edition, m.dccc.liv.

8vo. This is the best edition, and more complete than the first issue of
1834) it does not however contain the Club Books, but these will be found
in the sixth volume of Bohn's edition of Lowndes's " Bibliographer's Manual."
Consult Allibone's " Critical Die/' Martin's work is useful, but not complete,
nor always reliable.

8jbliograpf)ie btbltograpfiiqpie tmtberaelie. Dictionnaire des Ouvrages relatifs
& l'histoire de la vie publique et priv6e de personnages c61£bres de tous
les temps et de toutes les nations, &c. Par Edouard-Marib Obttingbr.
Paris. 1866.

Stbliograpfjie ©ubrage* con*acre* auj: fmmt* ft k I'ftmour Orn6s de
gravures sur pierres et lithographies libres. R6impressions de Raret6s
Bibliographiques.

A trade catalogue, issued from time to time by A. Christiabns of Brussels,
of which the last issue was made in December, 1875.

Sfblto graph te tie* oubrage* xtUtiii a Tftmour, aux Femmes, au Mariage et
des Livres Fac6tieux, Pantagru&iques Scatologiques, Satyriques, etc. Par
M. Le C. D'l * * * 3me Edition Turin J. Gay et Fils 1871

8vo. (counts 4) ; 6 vols. 5 vols. 1, a, and 3 date from Turin, 1871. vol. 4
from the same city, 187a, vol 5 Nice 1872, vol. 6 San Remo 1873 $ "tir6s &
100 ex. pet. in-4 (& i^fr. le vol.) et 500 ex. pet. in-8 (& 12 fr. le vol.) $" this
third edition is considerably augmented, and much improved ; the arrangement
of the books noticed is alphabetical.

The first edition was of Paris 1861 ; 8vo.; double columns 5 300 copies, at
6frcs. each ; the arrangement according to subjects, without index.

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The second edition, Paris 1864 5 8vo; doable columns \ 5oa>copies at 25 frcs.,
and 30 copies on large paper at 50 frcs this is a great improvement on the first
edition, its arrangement is the same, but it contains more matter, and is fur-
nished with an alphabetical index, but very incomplete. In his " Liste des
Publications " Gay has given all particulars respecting the three issues. See
also my Introduction p. xvii.

StbUograjtyu et fconograpfjie He teu* le* oubrage* tie Ke*ttf tie la Sretonne &c.

Par P. L. Jacob, bibliophile Paris Fontaine 1875

Large 8vo. A well planned and ably executed work. Of Restif de la
Bretonne and his books it may be pronounced fairly exhaustive 5 moreover,
it so clearly describes, and gives such copious extracts from those generally
tedious volumes, that in it will be found all that the general reader can require.
It has an admirable "Table Analytique," and a good portrait of Restif.

Bftlu>grapi)te !)t*torique et critique He la $re**e DerurtJique ^rancaUe &c. Par

EuoInb Hatin Paris Firmin Didot 1866

SibKograpf)ie Instruct ibe: ou Trait6 de la connoissance des livres rares et
singuliers. 8cc. Par G-F De Bure, le Jeune. Paris m.dcc.lxui.

8vo. 5 7 vols.; of which the last vol. dates 1768. The set should be com-
pleted by: " Supplement &c. ou Catalogue des livres du cabinet defeu M. Louis
Jean Gaignat, &c. Paris, m.dcc.lxix." 8vo. 3 2 vols 5 with the prices of the
books in MS.; and " Bibliographie &c. Tome Huili&me: Contenant une
Table destin6e k faciliter la recherche des Livres Anonymes &c. Par N£e de
la Rochbllb. Paris, 1793." 8vo. See " Manuel du Libraire/' vol 2, col.
552. A few corrections will be found in Beloe's "Anecdotes," vol., 1 p. 10.

9ibltograpf)ie XUrataitttque Catalogue anecdotique et pittoresque des Editions
originates des oeuvres de Victor Hugo—Alfred de Vigny—Prosper
Merim6e—Alexandre Dumas—Jules Janin—Theophile Gautier—P6trus
Borel &c. Par Charles Assblinbau Seconde Edition &c. Paris P.
Roquette, &c. mdccclxxii.

le Sibliomane. Londres Trubner & Cib 1861.

8vo.j printed on coarse grey paper; two Nos. only were published, pp. 42
in all. This was followed by " le »tbltop!)tle Illustre. Texte et Gravures

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par J. Ph. Bbrjbau. Londres: Trubner & Co." Nos. 4, &c., were issued by
W. Jbffs, of No 15, Burlington Arcade. "The Bibliophile" ran to two
vols, only : vol. 1, August 1861 to July 1862, Royal 8vo., 12 numbers and a
supplementary one with title pages and indices; vol. 2, 1862 to 1863, crown
8vo., 13 numbers, from xiii. to xxv., with title page and indices. After an
interval of nearly three years M. Berjeau undertook a publication in English,
"Cf)t Boolktoorm, edited and illustrated by J. Ph. Bbrjbau. London: At the
office, 4, Brydges Street, Covent Garden. 1866.", which came to an end in
1871 with its 5th vol. It is much to be regretted that these interesting publi-
cations, which were conducted with talent, care, and great taste, did not find
more favour with the public, and had to be abandoned, one after the other.

Bibliomania in Cf)t jHftffll* Sge*. or Sketches of Bookworms—Collectors—
Bible Students—Scribes—and Illuminators, from the Anglo Saxon and
Norman Periods, to the Introduction of Printing into England; &c. By F.
Somnbr Mbrrywbathbr. London: Merryweather, 14, King Street,
Holborn. mdcccxlix.

Small 8vo. An interesting little volume.

Bibliomania; or BooMKattm**; A Bibliographical Romance. Illustrated
with Cuts. By Thomas Froonall Dibdin, D.D. New and improved
Edition, to which are added preliminary observations, and a supple-
ment including a key to the assumed characters in the drama. London:
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, mdccclxxvi.

le Bibliophile. See " Le Bibliomane."

le Bibliophile dfantatetet*. See p. 129 and 439, ante.

Bibliotera te lo* tttfcritore* que han sido Individuos de los seis Colegios
Mayores : de San Ildefonso de la Universidad de Alcald, de Santa Cruz de
la de Valladolid, de San Bartolom6, de Cuenca, San Salvador de Oviedo,
y del Arzobispo de la de Salamanca. Por Don Josbf db Rbzabal t
Ugartb. Madrid mdcccv.

Bibliotheca Belgica Catalogue g£n£rale des principales Publications Beiges
depuis. 1830 jusqu'& i860. Bruxelles Auguste Schnfe 1861

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Stbliotijeca Stf)lu>grapi)ua. Kritisches Verzeichniss der das Gesammtgebiet
der Bibliographic betreffenden Literatur des In-und Auslandes in system -
atischer Ordnung bearbeitet von Dr. Julius Petzholdt. Leipzig, 1866.

4to. i a very valuable work, and although far from complete, most desirable
for every student of Bibliography.

Sftliotyeca Sritanmra; or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature.
By Robert Watt, M.D. Edinburgh : 1824.

4to.; 4 vols, j double columns; divided into two parts, Authors and
Subjects. A most useful work, and, as far as it goes, well done. It would
be a boon to have this book brought down to the present time.

Here is Allibone's testimony to its value : " To this excellent work we are
largely indebted, having drawn freely from its pages for particulars of editions,
&c. Some late writers have affected to depreciate the value of this work, be-
cause inaccuracies have not escaped the eye of the critic. Having examined every
article pertaining to British authors (about 22,500) in the work, we consider
ourselves qualified to give an opinion. Errors there are, and some ones which
can readily be excused in a work of such vast compass, yet the Bibliotheca of
Dr. Watt will always deserve to be valued as one of the most stupendous
literary monuments ever reared by the industry of man. As stated elsewhere,
we have included in our work every British author noticed by Dr Watt; yet
his work can by no means be dispensed with by the bibliographer." Preface
to Crit. Die.

Bftltotytra Conrabtntffe. A Catalogue of the Writings, both Manuscript
and Printed, of Cornish men, and of Works relating to the County of
Cornwall &c. by George Clement Boasb and William Pridbaux
Courtney. London: Longmans, 1874.

4to; 2 vols. A very valuable work, done in a thorough and bibliographi-
cal style.

BffiUotfjeca Siabolira; being a choice selection of the most valuable books
relating to The Devil &c. In Two Parts, Pro and Con—Serious and
Humorous. 8cc On sale by Scribner Welford & Armstrong, 654 Broadway,
September, 1874.

4to.; double columns. This is rather a curious catalogue, and contains a
few noteworthy items. It is the more remarkable as coming from America*
hhh

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Btbltotfjeca 6tograj${ca tc feitftorica or a Catalogue of a Nine Days sale of
rare 8c valuable ancient and modern books maps charts manuscripts auto-
graphs letters etcetera By Henry Stevens Gmb Fsa Ma of Yale Etc
Part i To be dispersed by auction by Messrs Puttick & Simpson 47
Leicester Square London the 19th to 29th November 187 a London
Henry Stevens at the Nuggetory 4 Trafalgar Square July aj 187a

8vo. (counts 4). This is a valuable catalogue. The volumes it embraces
are carefully described, and frequent interesting extracts from them are given.
The opening remarks are pithy and judicious, many of them will be found
quoted in the notes to my Introduction. A second part of the work is pro-
mised, but has not been published. Concerning Mr. Henry Stevens and his
labours, consult Allibone's " Crit. Die/*

Sibliotfpca 6ermatiorum erotica. See ante, p. 411.

SibliotfiecA ECbrorbm Rariorbm Vnibertfali*. Dber fcottftdnbige* 3}erjeic$ni$
rarer $fic$er, &c toon 3o$ann Sacob SBauet. SMtrnberg, bety SRartln Jacob
SBauet. 1770.

8vo.; 4 vols. j vol. 4 dates 177a. To which must be added 3 vols, of sup-
plement 1774 to 1791. This catalogue is now antiquated, but contains never-
theless entries of some very rare volumes.

Stbli0ti)cca jfrcatologica ou catalogue raisonn6 des livres traitant des vertus faits
et gestes de tr£s noble et tr&s ing6nieux Messire Luc (A Rebours) seigneur
de la chaise et autres lieux 8cc. Dispos6 dans l'ordre des lettres K,P,Q
traduit du Prussien et enrichi de notes trfcs congruantes au sujet Par trois
Savants En Us. Scatopolis 5850

8vo. pp. xxxi & 143 5 published at Paris 18505 150 copies, of which some
on coloured paper ; the principal authors are MM. P. Jannet, J.-P. Pa yen
and Auo. Vbinant. Consult " Les Supercheries Litt. D6voil6es," 1870,
vol. 3, col. 8575 " Die. des Ouvrages Anonymes,M 187a, vol. 1, col. 4095
" Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs k 1*Amour," vol. 1, p. 43a 5 " La Petite
Revue" du 28 Oct., 1865, p. 155. This most remarkable and witty little
work was originally published in " Le Journal de l'Amateur des Livres. Paris
P. Jannet 1849."

tttbliotyeque »tblfophflo*^arettcu**. See p. 130, ante.

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fitblioti^tu ruriettjtfe historique et critique, ou Catalogue raisonnl de Livres
dificiles a trouver, par David Clbment. A Gottingen, chez Jean
Guillaume Schmid. m.dcc.l.

4to.} 9 vols. This great work was never completed, but terminates with
" Hessus;" it is neverthess a noble and an .useful labour. The last vol. dates
Leipsic, m.d.cc.lx.

Et J&tograpl)*. Consult " Bibliographic de la Presse " par £. Hatin, p. 362.

»tograpf)ta firamatira; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: &c originally
compiled, to the year 1764, by David Erskinb Baker, continued thence
to 178a, by Isaac Rebd, and brought down to Nov. 1811, by Stephen
Jones. London: 1812.

8vo.; 3 vols. (vol. 1 being in 2 parts). This is the best work of its kind;
it includes " The Companion to the Play-House. London : 1764." iamo.;
2 vols.

ft Biographical jButumarp of tf>e Celebrate* Women of eberp age an*
country. By Matilda Bbtham. London: B. Crosby and Co. &c. 1804.

« Biographical jBictionar# of tf)t Eibing ftutf>or* of Great Britain an*
frelantl; 8cc. London : Henry Colburn j 1816.

8vo. (counts 4) ; double columns. This volume is said to have been
compiled by William Upcott and F. Shobbrl, and contains many details
and critical opinions not to be found in any other work.

ft Biographical feitftor; of Cnglaitt, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution:
consisting of Characters disposed in different Classes, and adapted to a
Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads : See. By the Rev. J.
Granger. Second Edition, London, 1775.

4 vols. To which should be added, to complete the work, one volume of
Supplement, three volumes of Continuation by the Rev. Mark Noble, and
" Letters between Granger and many of the most eminent Literary Men of his
Time. &c. Edited by J. P. Malcolm. London : 1805."

See Lowndes's " Bibliographer's Manual," vol. 2, p. 927 3 Allibone's " Crit.
Die." vol. 1, p. 717; Nicholl's " Literary Anecdotes," vol. 9, p. 112 5 Dibdin's
" Library Companion," p. .Joo; Beloe's Anecdotes," vol. 1, p. 195, &c.; and,
concerning Granger's death " Notes and Queries."

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Biograpf)ie floufcelle te* Cotttemporain*, ou Dictionnaire &c. de Tous les
Hommes qui, depuis la R6volution Fran^aise, out acquis de la c616brit£
par leurs actions, leurs 6crits, leurs erreurs ou leurs crimes, soit en France,
soit dans les pays 6trangers ; &c. Par A. V. Arnault, &c. Paris, 1820.

8vo.) 20 vols, j with portraits.

Biographic Hmfcertfelle (Michaud) Ancienne et Moderne, &c. Nouvelle
Edition, &c. Ouvrage R6dig6 par une Soci6t6 de Gens de lettres et de
Savants. Paris.

Large 8vo. (counts 4) ; 45 vols. No date is given to any of the volumes,
which, in a Work of this importance, is unpardonable. This edition was
issued during the years 1842 to 1865. See "Cat. G£n6ral" of O. Lorenz,
vol. 1, p. 266. There is an edition of which the first 20 vols, are dated.

Biographic untber*elle te* jHu*icien* et bibliographic g6nlrale de la musique.
Deuxi&me Edition &c. F. J. F£tis &c. Paris Firmin Didot &c. 1868

Large 8vo. ; double columns; 8 vols; the last vol. dates 1870.

Biographic uniber*eQe et portatibe te* Contemporain*, ou Dictionnaire His-
torique des Hommes vivants, et des Hommes morts depuis 1788 jusqu'd
nos jours, &c. Publi6 sous la direction de MM. Rabbb, Vibilh db
Boisjolin et Saintb-Preuvb. Paris, 1834.

8vo. (counts 4); double columns; j vols, including supplement; portraits.

Cf>e Son Con 4Kaga|fne; or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly. London.
D. Brewman, No. 18, New Street, Shoe Lane.

This publication is complete in j vols, from March 1791 to 1796 ; each
volume should have an alphabetical index. It is difficult to find the work
complete, with indices and all the plates.

C|)e Soofk*eQer a newspaper of British and Foreign Literature, published monthly.
Cj>e Booiufoorm. See " Le Bibliomane."
le* Bortcl* te Uari*. See pp. xxxix. and 427 ante.

9 Brief Biographical Dictionary. Compiled and arranged by the Rev. Ch arlbs
Holb, B.A. Second Edition: London and Cambridge: Macmillan
and Co. 1866

Small 8vo. This little work has every advantage—correctness, clearness of
type, portability, cheapness; no student should be without it.

indbx libbobum prohibitorum.

449

BttUetfn Hu Bftltop$fle et du BibliotWcaire, revue mensuelle Paris Tbchbnbr.

8vo. This excellent review, which M. Hatin notices as: " une mine de
renseignements pr6cieux pour l'histoire de la litt&ature et des livres/' dates
from 1834, rod is still continued} it has been successively edited by Ch.
Nodier, Paulin Paris, 6. Duplbssis, J. Tbchbnbr, and is especially
valuable for the contributions of the first named bibliographer, which have not
been published in any other form. See " Bibliographie de la Presse," p. 599 j
" Manuel du Libraire," art. 3136a.

Bulletin Crime* triel des publications dtfendues en France imprim6es ft
1'Stranger.

This publication, 8vo. size, was edited and issued by M. Poulbt Malassis
of Brussels; it extends from August 1867, to December 1869, and is complete
in 8 Nos. and % supplements (see " L'lntermddiaire," vii. 734) j No 3 is on
smaller paper than the others j the set complete is difficult to meet with. The
" Bulletin Trimestriel" affords some curious and reliable information upon the
satirical, political and erotic publications which proceeded from the presses of
Belgium during the two years and a half which it embraces, information not
generally to be found elsewhere.

Catalog ttftf 8ittiquari*cf)en Bur$erl*ger* von J. Schbiblb in Stuttgart.

This catalogue which extends from 1868 to 1875, *s useful for estimating
the fluctuations in prices of old books, and for verifying the dates of modern
reprints. A few years back Mr. Scheible issued his catalogue very frequently,
and was an active publisher, but since 1874 his business has languished, and
at the present moment (July, 1876) the German police are prosecuting him
for selling immoral books.

Catalogue He 9e**in*, jfHami*mt* et lib re* qu'on est oblig6 de cacher ou
Notice sur des ouvrages libres, licencieux ou m&ne obsc&nes par un
Bibliomane quelque peu Bibliographe.

MS. This curious and interesting catalogue, to which I am indebted for
much valuable information, was written by M. B£rard 3 and passed at his
death, together with some of the choicest works noticed in it, into the cabinet
of Mr. H * * * * ♦ of Paris. About five or six copies only of M. Blrard's
catalogue exist in MS., which Mr. H * * * * * has allowed to be taken from
his original version.

Ill

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Auguste-Simon-Louis B&ard was born at Paris, June 3,1783, and died at
Membrolle near Tours, January, 1859. He was an able politician, and es-
teemed bibliographer 3 by him are an " Essai bibliographique sur les Editions
des Elzevirs les plus pr6cieuses et les plus recherch6es, Paris, i822.m, perhaps
the best authority on the subject; and " Souvenirs de la Evolution de 1830,
Paris, 1834." His very choice library was sold by Merlin, in 1859. Consult
" Nouvelle Biographie " de Didot 3 Die. des Contemporains " par Vapereau,
Edits. 1, 2, and 3 3 and " L'lntermddiaire," vol. 8, cols. 552, 604, and 626.

Catalogue tie* «£crft*, Graburt* et jBe**fn* contiamne* Depuis 1814 jusqu'au
ier janvier 1850, suivi de la liste des Individus condamn6s pour dflits de
presse. Paris 1850
i2mo. Gay remarks concerning this volume: "La 4* partie de cet
ouvrage tres-exact et tr^s-complet est consacr6e aux 6crits, gravures, lithographies
et dessins immoraux, licencieux, obsc£nes, condamn6s, au nombre de 232.
Le reste du catalogue est politique et ne nous int6resse pas. Nous croyons que
le r6dacteur de l'ouvrage est M. Gaillard, commissaire de police de la librairie,
mort il y a d6j& 8 ou 10 ans." (Bibliographie, vol. 2, p. 138). This volume
forms the link between Peignot's " Die. des Livres condamn6s au Feu,'* and
" Cat. des Ouvrages Condamn6s, &c., 1874." (See those titles). There is an
earlier edition (1827), which the present has replaced.

Catalogue tie* Eftre* composant la Biblioth&que Po6tique de M. Viollet Lb
Due, avec des Notes &c. Paris, 1843.

8vo.; pp. 11 and 624. To this volume must be added a " Suppl6ment" of
30 pp., with 1. unnumbered of " Table jM and " Catalogue des livres &c.
Chansons, Contes en Vers et en Prose, Fac6ties, Pieces comiques et burlesques,
Dissertations singuli&res, Aventures galantes, amoureuses, prodigieuses. Paris
1847." PP- an(* 2S2 > also " Catalogue de la Vente de la premiere partie, &c.
Paris 1849/* pp. xi and 224. Dr. Petzholdt (Bibliotheca Bibliographica, p. 720)
says: " Die. Viollet-le-Duc'sche Sammlung ist eine der reichsten und werth-
vollsten ihrer Art."

Catalogue tie* ©u&rage* Coittiamne* comme contraire k la morale publique et
aux bonnes moeurs du ier Janvier 1814 au 31 D6cembre 1873 Premiere
Periode iCT Janvier 1814 au 31 D6cembre 1849 Deuxi£me P6riode
:er Janvier 1850 au 31 D6cembre 1873 Paris Librairie des Publications
Legislatives A. Wittersheim & Cle, Quai Voltaire, 31 1874

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8vo.; pp. iia ex titles. This is an exact and useful little volume, the most
recent on the subject 5 the first period comprises the chief portion of the fourth
part of " Catalogue des Ecrits, &c condamn6s, &c. Paris 1850 " (see that title)
with additions, but without the alphabetical list of individuals punished. The
Deuxidme P6riode contains entirely new matter.

Catalogue ttetaftlr, rafeonne et aitec*otique d'une jolie collection de Livres
Rares et Curieux dont la plus grande partie provient de la biblioth&que d'un
homme de lettres bien connu et dont la vente aura lieu les Jeudi 30
Novembre, Vendredi ieT et Samedi 2 Decembre 1871, &c. Paris Rene
Pincebourde, &c.

The books comprised in the above interesting catalogue are from the library
of M. Charles Monselet. " Ce petit volume abonde en d6tails piquants sur
bien des livres curieux ou rares, et sa preface pleine d'humour ainsi que la
plupart des notes qui accompagnent la designation de chaque ouvrage sont
dues k la plume fine et 616gante du spirituel auteur de la Lorgnette litt6raire."
Consult Le " Conseiller du Bibliophile, No. 2, p. 24, where a full description
of the catalogue is given, together with a portrait of M. Monselet.

Catalogue ®enfral*e la librairie dfrancatee pendant 25 ans (1840—1865) redige
par Otto Lorenz Paris 1867

Catalogue jKmtfuel *e la Iftratrie ^ramafae publi6e par O. Lorenz.

The first number appeared in February 1876.

Catalogue of a Choice an* &ecf>ercf>e 8**ortment of flofcel an* Toluptuou*
dfaretiae of a high class j &c.

PP. 15; trade catalogue issued about 1865.

Catalogue of a rontf&erable portion of t$e Valuable library of John Chamibr,
Esq. &c. Sold by Auction by Mr. Evans, at No. 93, Pall-Mall, March t,
and Four following Days. 1825.

PP. 40 j contains some most curious and scarce books.

Catalogue of a dFeto Bare an* Scarce OTorftf. Sold by Rozbz & Co.,
English & Foreign Booksellers, 6, Exeter Street, Strand, London.

PP. 8; issued by the Judges in 1870 or 1871.

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Catalogue ot an Important an* a Valuable portion ot the Book* ant flUira*rript*
of tf|e late Ernst L. S. Benzon, Esq. Sotheby Wilkinson and Hodge 1875.

This catalogue comprises a part only of Mr. Benzon's library j the greater
portion was sold in Paris by M. Bachelin, a 1st to 23rd April 1875 ; his cata-
logue with printed prices should be added.

Catalogue of Book*, 9ampf)let*, ant $rint*, ancient and modern, to be had
at No. 66 Drury Lane.

Published about 1780 to 1785 by Gborgb Peacock.

II Catalogue of Choice, Hare, ant Curiou* Book*, selected from the stock of
Trubner & Co.

Complete in 12 parts, or pp. 19a, January 1874 to May 1875. TWS
catalogue, drawn up by Mr. James Bohn, contains some interesting notices,
and were it furnished with an alphabetical index would be of considerable
bibliographical value.

Catalogue of Cpfting & Smourou* Work* kt.

PP. 16; issued by W. Dugdale about 1864. At different times he printed
several catalogues with the same title.

Catalogue of Ban, fusing, dfla*h> ant ^aretiou* Book*, Prints, Photographs
Stereoscopic Slides, See., all of the best description, i860. Sold by
Harry Chesterfield, 37, Hollywell Street, Strand, London, W.C.

PP. 17; issued about 1874.

8 Catalogue of tf)C library formed by the late Henry Perkins, Esq. Gadsden,
Ellis & Co. 1873.

Catalogue of the library of C. Van Babiere, &c. being an extensive collection
of works on Marriage, Concubinage, Flagellation, Lives of Celebrated
Women, Facetiae, Wit, Drollery, Love, &c. including books, in some in-
stances, unknown to bibliographers; &c. Sold by Auction by Mr. South-
gate, at No. 22, Fleet-Street, April aoth, 1826, and Four following days,
Sunday excepted.

PP. 43; a most remarkable collection, as the title sets forth.

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fi Catalogue of tf>e JJrinteU Sooit* and Manuscripts bequeathed by The
Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : Printed by Eyre and Spottis-
woode,.for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, mdccclxxv.

Large 8vo.; 2 vols. A vol. cataloguing the engravings should be added.

Catalogue of tf>e Valuable an& interesting librarp of the late William
Thomas B. Ashley, Esq. &c. Sold by Auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson
8c Hodge, 20th of March, 1876, and Four following Days.

CgtaUograpfjtmaitia; or the Portrait-Collector and Printseller's Chronicle, with
Infatuations of every Description. A Humorous Poem. In Four Books.
With Copious Notes Explanatory. By Satiricus Sculptor, Esq. &c.
London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, &c. 1814.

8vo. This is a very dull and tedious poem; the notes, out of which an
odd piece of information may occasionally be picked, constituting the whole
value of the volume. The author is " Mr. Caulfibld, so well known among the
collectors and illustrators of Granger, Clarendon, 8cc." (See " Scribbleomania,"
p. 242) ; and not, as is sometimes stated, W. H. Ireland. (See "Handbook
of Fictitious Names," p. 116).

la Cfjromque Acanttalettle ou M6moires Pour servir k T Histoire de la gene-
ration pr6sente, contenant les anecdotes secretes 8c les pieces fugitives les
plus piquantes qui ont occupl les soci6t6s pendant les derniers tems.
Ridebis & licet rideas. Troisieme Edition revue 8c corrig6e. A Paris,
Dans un coin d'ob Ton voit tout m.dcc.lxxxviii.

8vo. $ 4 vols. The third and fourth vols* date 1789, the words " contenant"
to " tems," and " Troisieme Edition revue 8c corrig6e." are omitted.

tfyrptal; or the Adventures of a Guinea: By an Adept. A New Edition,
to which is now prefixed A sketch of the Author's Life Embellished
with Plates In Three Volumes. London: Hector M'Lean, &c. 1821.

8vo.; 3 vols. $ author Charles Johnston ; coloured illustrations by E. F.
Burnby. There was a good article upon this clever novel a short time back
in "The Saturday Review."

UK

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Citu 33 to graph?, containing Anecdotes and Memoirs of the Rise, Progress,
Situation, & Character, of the Aldermen and other Conspicuous Per-
sonages of the Corporation and City of London. Second Edition.
London: 1800.

Cibil Aerfaire J&efciefo.

Clubs an* Club life in Sontton. &c. from the seventeeth century to the
present time. By John Timbs. London%: Hotten. (1872).

0)e Clubs of lontton; with anecdotes of their members, sketches of character,
and conversations. In Two volumes. London: Colburn. 1828.

Che Confessions of 9. Eacbmgton, late Bookseller, at the Temple of the
Muses, in a Series of Letters to a Friend. To which are added, Two
Letters on the Bad Consequences of having Daughters educated at
Boarding-Schools. London: 1804.

fte ConSeiller ttu Bibliophile publication destin6e aux amateurs de livres rares
et curieux et de belles 6ditions Directeur, M. E. Grbllbt, bibliophile.

The first number of this publication appeared April 1st, 1876.

Copies taften from tf)e HerortiS of the Court of King's-Bench, at Westminster,
&c. London: m.dcc.lxiii. •

4to. I must defer to a future volume the full consideration of this inter-
esting wcrk.

Che Correspondence of 9ohn SBtHteS ©Sq. with his friends &c. in which
are introduced Memoirs of his Life by John Almon. London 1805.

fte Cosmopolite revue mensuelle Galante, Sociale 8c Litt6raire &c. Premiere
Livraison—Octobre-Novembre 1875 &c. A Neuchatel &c.

i2mo. (counts 6). One number only was published, and that was seized
by the Italian police while yet in the possession of the printer at Bordighere.
About 18 copies only escaped, those which M. Gay had already dispatched to
his friends and private subscribers, so that " Le Cosmopolite " has already
become one of the rarest of his publications. It forms a sequel to " Le Fan-
taisiste." See that title.

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455

Countfel* on tye nature antt fjpffitnt of tfce flfcuculine Jfunction.
See "The Transmission of Life."

It Courtier litteraire.
Large 8vo. The first No. was issued March 10, 1876.

Critical an* flfctoriral Giia$*, contributed to the Edinburgh Review, by
Thomas Babinoton Macaulay. A New Edition. London : Long-
man 1852.

CurioJitate* Crotirae Pte
Cttriolitc* 8£bltojrapf)tquea par Ludovic Lalanne Paris Delahays 1857
Small 8vo.; forms one volume of the " Bibliothdque de poche."

Curiotftte* tie E'fKtftoire tie jTrance par P. L. Jacob bibliophile Paris 1858.

Small 8vo.; 2 vols. This is one of the numerous, able, and interesting
works of M. Paul Lackoix. It is superfluous to add a single word of
commendation ; his books are well known to every bibliographical student;
one and all teem with information and diversion, and are written in a style
which renders them equally acceptable to the man of letters or the general
reader.

Cttriotfite* ftitteratre* par Ludovic Lalanne Paris Delahays 1857
Small 8vo, j one vol. of the series issued as " Bibliothdque de poche.'1

Curiotfitie* of literature, by Isaac Disraeli. &c. In Three Volumes. Four
teenth Edition. London: 1849.

Cfje Saflj Celegrapf).

C|)t Bark *i*e of 0eto »orft lilt. See p. 188, ante.

9e la S&liograpfjie Aenerale au Dipjicuftume &iecle et plus particulterement
du Manuel du Libraire et de PAmateur des Livres Lettre A M. Jacques-
Charles Brunet &c. Par J.-M. QuIrard See. Paris L'Editeur, Avril, 1863.

9e la Sftliopfjagie par Onbsyme Durochbr.

A paper communicated to the Philobiblon Society by M. Octave Delbfibrre.

4 56

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Br la Charlatanerie te* ftafcan*; par Monsieur Menken : Avec des Re-
marques Critiques de differens Auteurs. Traduit en Fran^ais. A La Haye,
Chez Jean Van Duren, mdccxxi.

Be I'BUage te* SLomait*, Oft l'on fait voir leur utility & leurs differens carac-
teres: Avec Une Bibliotheque des Romans, Accompagn6e de Remarques
critiques sur leur choix & leurs Editions. Par M. lb C. Gordon db
Pbrcbl. Tome i. A Amsterdam, Chez la Veuve De Poilras, d la V6rit6
sans fard. mdccxxxiv.

The second volume is entitled : u Bibliotheque des Romans, Avec Des Re-
marques " &c., author's name, impress and date ut supra. To these two vols,
should be added: "l'fti*to Lenolbt Du Frbsnoy. A Amsterdam, Chez J. F. Bernard, au Poete Piron.
m.dccxxxv." All three volumes are in t2mo., and by Lenglet du Ftesnoy.
Consult" La France Litt6raire," vol. 5, p. 158.

Be*cription te l'f*le te* fcermaphrotite* Cologne 1724.
Be* libre* Contanmc* au Jftu en ftngleterre.

A paper contributed by M. Octavb Dblbpibrrb to the Philobiblon Society.

Bictionaire Afatorique et Critique, par Mr. Pibrrb Baylb. Cinquieme
Edition, revue, corrig6e, et augment6e. Avec la Vie de l'Auteur, Par Mr.
Des Maizeau. Amsterdam, &c. mdccxl.

4to.; 4 vols. This is the edition which I have used, but the best, com-
pletest and most convenient is that of Paris, 1820-24, 8vo., 16 vols., with a
vast quantity of additional notes. Vide " Manuel du Libraire," vol. 1, col. 712.

9 Bictionarp of 8rti*t* of tf)e Cngl(*f) *c$ool: &c. by Samuel Redgrave.
London : Longmans. 1874.

€$e Bictionarg of Biographical Reference containing one thousand names
together with a classed index of the biographical literature of Europe and
America by Lawrbncb B. Phillips, F.R.A.S., &c. London Sampson
Low, 1871

9 Bictionar; of printer* ant Vrinting, with the Progress of Literature,
ancient and modern; Bibliographical Illustration, etc. By C. H.
Timpbrlby. London: H. Johnson, Ac. mdcccxxxix.

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457

Birtioimaire contenant le* Sitertotetf $i*torique* Be I'flmour, depuis le
commencement du Monde jusqu'A ce jour. Seconde Edition &c. A.
Troyes, Chez Gobelet, &c. 1811.

8vo. 5 5 vols. A very remarkable collection of biographical anecdotes of
persons of both sexes noted for their gallantry. The set is rarely met with at
present. The names are arranged alphabetically, and each volume is fur-
nished with a " Table des Matures."

Birtiomtaire Critique te ttiograpftie et ft'ftitftotre errata et supplement pour
tous les dictionnaires historiques d'apr&s des documents authentiques
in6dits Par A. Jal &c. Deuxidme Edition &c. Paris Henri PI on, &c.
187a

Large 8vo.j double columns. This is a very remarkable work, almost
overwhelming in its precision and minuteness. Had M. Jal not forced the
superior exactitude of his researches so persistently upon his readers they
would the more readily appreciate the merits which his book undoubtedly
possesses.

Btoionnaire Critique, litteraire et S&liograpfjique Be* principal lifcre*
rohttamne* au feu, supprim6s ou censur6s: pr6c6d6 d'un discours sur ces
sortes d'outrages. Par G. Pkignot. Paris, 1866.

8vo. j a vols. This is one of the most valuable, most remarkable, and at
the same time one of the rarest of Peignot's numerous works. Qulrard
(La France Litt., vol. 7, p. 17) calls it " un livre instructif," and Dr. Petzholdt
(Bibliotheca Bibliographies, p. 135) remarks that although somewhat out of date
Peignot's work "bleibt gleichwohl ein werthvoller Beitrag zur Geschiche der
Presse und litterarischen Kultur." It is9 as Mr. Home (Introduction to the
8tudy of Bibliography, vol. a, p. 549) correctly points out, "The completest
work in this branch of bibliography." In the fifth volume of " Le Bibliophile
Beige " will be found an article on the same subject by M. Gustave Brunet,
and designed as a supplement to the work of Peignot. M. G. Brunet
indeed possesses notes left by Peignot, which it was proposed he should mould
into a new book. " J'ai avec Techener (writes M. G. Brunet, June 11, 1873)
depuis longtemps une sorte d'engagement; il m'a remis des notes recueillies
par Peignot, mais rien n'a encore 6t6 utilise." Peignot's work should be sup-
cemented by " Catalogue des Ecrits, Gravures et Dessins condamn6s depuis
1814 jusqu'au iCT janvier 1850," and "Catalogue des Ouvrages condamn6s
&c. Paris 1874." (See those titles).

LLL

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Btrtumttaire toe* fitf)tti anciens et modernes, par Stlvain MarSchal
DeuxiSme Edition augment6e des suppl6mens de J. Lalandb j deplusieurs
articles in6dits, et d'une notice nouvelle sur Mar6chal et ses ouvrages, par
J. B. L. Gbrmond. Bruxelles, Chez rEditeur, Rue des Sols N? 7.

m.occ.xxxiii.

Butumnatre des fHonojrammeS, Marques Figur&s, Lettres Initiates, Noms
Abr6g6s etc. par Franqois Brulliot. Munich, 183a.

Biftumnaure des <3hibrages 8nonj>meS par Ant.-Alex. Barbier troisidme
6dition, revue et augment6e par MM. Olivibr Barbibr, rbn^et Paul
Billard. Suite de la seconde 6dition des Supercheries Litt6raires D
voilees par J.-M. Qu6rard publi6e par MM. Gustave Brunet et Pierre
Jannet. Paris Paul Daifis 1873

Large 8vo. 5 double columns. This valuable work is not yet completed,
but has already reached the letter Q$ it will be connected with the work to
which it forms a sequel by " une table g6n6rale des noms r6els des 6crivains
anonymes pseudonymes cit6s dans les deux ouvrages."

Sictiorataire Infernal. ou Bibliothdque Universelle, sur les Etres, les Personnages,
les Livres, les Faits et les Choses qui tiennent aux Apparitions, il la
Magie, &c. Par M. Collin db Plancy. Deuxidme 6dition, enticement
refondue, orn6e de figures. Paris, P. Mongie, 1835.

Btcttoimaire WmberSel des Coittemporafa* contenant toutes les personnes
notables de la France et des Pays Etrangers, &c. par G. ^apbrbau.
Paris Hachette 1858.

and edit. 1861 3rd edit. 1865 j 4th edit. 1870. Supplements 1859; 1863;
1873. 8vo. $ double columns.

Btsqutsijtone tntomo il rarfssfato Itbro fatftolato 9Ictbiade fanriuHo a ftola.

See p. 39, ante.

BiSSertatum Sur PSUribtade. See p. 39, ante.

Btyonarfo dt ®pere ffnontme e Jpseudontmedf #mttori fcalfanio come che sia
aventi relazione all'Italia di G. M. Milano, &c. Pirola, 1848.

Large 8vo.; 8 vols; the third vol. appeared in 1859, after the death of the
author, Gabtano db'Contb Mblzi, and was edited by his son. Refer to
" Manuel du Libraire," and " Bibliotheca Bibliographica," in both of which
this work is highly praised.

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459

C|)f Boctor &c. by the late Robbrt Southbt. edited by John Wood
Warter, B.D. New edition, London: Longman 1849.

Cfce ffincgclopaettta firitaimira, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General
Literature. Eighth Edition. Black Edinburgh mdccclx.

ffinglaitif unber tf)t f|ou*e ofjfcattober by Thomas Wright. 1848.

Cfce Cnglfef) BHontan** Bome*tu flSagajfaie.
/

6ntgmt* et ©fcouberte* Etbltoffrapljtque* par P.. L. Jacob Paris Ad. Lain6,
&c. 1866

€%e Cra SUmanacf).

Cro* ober SWrterbndj fiber Me 9fy)fMIogle unb fiber We 3Katur*unb (Sultur*
©eftyidjte bed 9Renf$en In <&infl$t auf feine SerualiMt. Stuttgart. 1849.
3 Sfytble.

ffirot&a fifblton, par Mirabbau. Nouvelle Edition, &c. Paris, Chez les
Frdres Girodet, &c. mdcccxxxiii.

8vo. This edition is valuable on account of the copious notes.
*,'C*pion Sngloi*. See p. 322, ante.
®**ai *ur le* BtbKotyeque* fmagtnafre*.

Large 8vo. This essay is by M. Gustavb Brunbt, and is followed by -.
" Lettre Bibliographique k M. Paul Lacroix sur le Catalogue Rabelaisien de la
Bibliothdque de Saint-Victor." Qudrard speaks of M. G. Brunet as: " le biblio-
phile qui k lui seul sait plus de choses que vingt bibliographes r£unis, sur les
6crivains de la France de toutes les Ipoques." Vide " Supercheries," edit.
1865, " Avertissement," p. xi.

tttube jfBUWco*fcefl;ale *ur le* Attentat* auj: flSoeur* par Ambroisb Tardibu
&c. Sixi&me Edition accompagnee de quatre planches grav6es Paris J.-B.
BailliSre et fils 1873.

8vo. This edition contains some interesting information upon sodomy, not
to be found in the earlier issues of the book. There are plates.

dFactum pour fHarie Catherine Catatere contre le pere Jean-Baptiste Girard,
Jesuite. &c. A La Haye, Chez Henri Scheurleer, &c. m.occ.xxxi.

See ante, p. 65 (note), and p, 415.

460

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g dfaftfjfttl jparratibe ot t|>e UroceeUmg* fee. See note to p. 340, ante.
ttf)e df amflj fteraltf.

dfaintafcie* J8(bUograpl)tquctf, par Gustavb Brunet. Paris J. Gay 1864.

te dfailtafefete Magazin Bibliographique Litt6raire, Philosophique et Artis-
tique &c. San Remo Chez J. Gay et Fils, &c. 1873

i2mo. (counts 5) 3 2 vols. 3 vol. 2 dates 1874 3 after which it was discon-
tinued. See p. 439, ante, art. "Analectes."

dFIaffetlatfon & $e;flagellant*. A History of the Rod in all countries from
the earliest period to the present time. By the Rev. Wm. Cooper, B.A.
With Numerous Illustrations. A New Edition, revised and corrected.
London : John Camden Hotten, &c.
8vo. The first edition was printed in Edinburgh, and published in 1870 3
this second in 1873 3 both are undated 3 both contain the same matter. The
name of the author, as given on the title page, is a suptrcherie 3 the book was
written by Mrs James G. Bertram (author of " The Harvest of the Sea."),
as announced by Hotten in his early advertisements of the book.

dfortntgfiilp J&ebiefo.

W)t Jfour fteorgetf. By W. M. Thackeray, with portraits. London :
Smith Elder & Co 1869.

1a dFraiue litteratre, ou Dictionnaire Bibliographique des savants, historiens
et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des litterateurs Strangers qui ont
ecrit en Fran$ais, plus particuli&rement pendant les xviii® et xixc si&cles.
See. Par J.-M. Qu£rard. Paris, Firmin Didot, mdcccxxvii.

1 *

8vo. (counts 4) 3 double columns 3 10 vols. Two other vols, should be
added to complete the set. These Contain " corrections, additions, auteurs
pseudonymes et anonymes d6voil6s," and date mdcccliv to lxiv, but were
never finished, the last name being "Roquet." "La France Litt6raire" is one of
the most remarkable, if not the most remarkable, bibliographical work in exist-
ence. In the "Avant-Propos" to his " Livres Perdus" M. Gustave Brunet writes:
" Nul bibliographe n'a 6gal6 Querard en ardeur au travail, en tenacit6 3 indl-
pendamment de ses divers ouvrages imprim6s, parmi lesquels quelques-uns sont
d'une 6tendue remarquable, il a laiss6 des masses effrayantes de manuscrits, de
notes sur cette science des livres & laquelle il avait vou6 son existence tout

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461

enti&re." Qu6rard's papers are now in the possession of M. Gustave Brunet,
who has already utilised them in two works, viz., " Livres Perdus et Exemp-
laires Uniques Bordeaux Lefevbre (sic) 187a," 8vo., above mentioned; and
"Livres k Clef Bordeaux Lefebvre 1873, 8vo., a vols. Concerning Qu6rard
and his works the English student may consult with profit a carefully done
and very appreciative pamphlet by Mr. Ralph Thomas, entitled: " A Martyr to
Bibliography: A Notice of the Life and Works of Joseph-Marie Qu6rard,
bibliographer, &c. by Olphar Hamst, Esq. London : 1867." 8vo.; pp. 56
in all; ajo copies printed.

8 dfree examination into $e fJenal Statute* xxv Henr viii cap 6 and v
Eliz c 17 addrest to Both Houses of Parliament By A. Pilgrim, &c.
London Sold in Little Queen Street mocccxxxiii.

le* Aalaitterie* tu jrfciii* ftieclt par Charlbs Monsblbt Paris Michel
L6vy, &c, 186a

Gazette 8nedfotique litteraire, artistique et bibliographique publile par
G. D'Hbylli. Paris mdccclxxvi.

Small 8vo. The first No. appeared Jany. 15, 1876.
6a$ttte be* Crffiunaujr.

la 6a$ette £oire par un homme qui n'est pas blanc 5 ou oeuvres posthumes du
Gazetier Cuirassl. &c. Imprim6 k Cent lieues de la Bastille, &c.

m.dcc.lxxxi v.

8vo. This volume was printed in London by Th$vbnot db Morandb
whilst an exile here $ it contains little which may not be found in " L'Espion
Anglais." See p. 3 a a, ante.

8 General Bibliographical Birtionarp, from the German of Frbdbric
Adolphus Ebert, &c. In four volumes, Oxford, At the Univer-
sity Press, mdcccxxxvii.
8vo. The work was first published by Brockhaus of Leipzig as : " 9Wgcmetne*
WMlogta^idje* Sericon." &c. 4to.; 2 vols. The English edition is the more
convenient. Refer to a curious note by J—C. Brunet in his " Manuel du
Libraire," vol. a, col. 935.

Cf)e General Biographical Bictionarp : &c. from the earliest accounts to the
present time. A New Edition by Albxandbr Chalmbrs, &c. 181a.

MMM

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Cfre Gentleman** 0Ugambit. Old and new series.

Cf)t Georgian Cra: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, who have flour-
ished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the
demise of George the Fourth. In Four volumes. &c. London:

mdcccxxxii.

8vo. (counts 4) 5 double columns 5 in vol. 1 is an " Index to the Portraits,"
144 in number, which were never done; each volume should however have a
portrait of one of the Georges.

6rapf>ir fltattratioit* of ftogart$ from Pictures, Drawings, and Scarce Prints
in the possession of Samubl Ireland, author of this work 5 &c. London

mdccxciv.

Guide de 1/Bmatreur tie ftifctt* k Vignette* du xviiie Steele Seconde Edition
&c. par Henry Cohbn Frontispice & l'eau-forte par J. Chauvet Paris
P. Rouquette 1873

ftandboolt of dftofttou* £ame*: being a guide to authors, chiefly in the
lighter literature of the xix** century, who have written under assumed
names 5 &c. By Olphar Hamst, &c. London: John Russell Smith, 1868.

8vo. In some copies the second word of the title page reads " for " instead
of "of." See ante, p. xiv.

8 flatOuBoofc to Copograpfw & Family History of England & Wales, be.
The Labour Performed by John Camdbn Hottbn.

This interesting catalogue is without date, but was issued about 1864.

8 ftantyjBoofc about ttoofctf, for Book-Lovers, Book-Buyers, and Book-Sellers.
Attempted by John Powbr. London: John Wilson. 1870.

8vo. (counts 4). This very unhandy volume is the weakest attempt at biblio-
graphy I have ever met with. It is padded with a mass of superfluous matter,
and contains little of real utility. That little can with difficulty be got at on
account of the scanty index. Moreover the binding is of fancy card-board,
not unsuitable perhaps for a picture book destined for an artizan's parlour
table, but quite impropriate as the covering of a work of reference, and inad-
missible on either shelves or table of any respectable library.

index librorum prohibitorum* 463

fti*toire tie jFraiue Par M. MicHBLBT, &c. Deuxifcne Edition. Paris
Hachette, 1835

ftittoire tl'fterotJote, tradaite du Grec, Avec des Remarques Historiques, k c.
Nouvelle Edition, &c. C. Crapelet. Paris, 1802.

8vo.; 9 vols. This able and literal translation is by Pibrrb Henri Larchbr.
Vide "Manuel du Libraire/' vol. 3, cpl. 126.

fti*toire tie la literature Bnglai*e Par H. Tainb Deuxifcne Edition &c. Paris
Hachette &c. 1866

fti*fcrfre tie I'Apfra avec douze eaux-fortes Paris Bachelin 1875

8vo. Alphonsb Roybr, the author, and whose name heads the title page,
died in April, 1875.

ft i* to ire tie* Itbre* fiopulaire* ou de la Literature de Colportage depuis le xve
si&cle jusqu'd l'6tablissement de la Commission d examen des livres du
colportage (30 novembre 1852) par M. Charles Nisard &c. Paris
D*Amyot, &c. mdcccliv

ft i* to ire be* 3)ape*, Crimes, Meurtres, Empoisonnements, Parricides, Adult£res,
Incestes. Depuis Saint Pierre jusqu'd Gr6goire xvi. lie. Magnifique
Edition, splendidement illustr6e de gravures sur acier, &c. Administration
de Librairie, 26, Rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, 1843

fti*toire tie* a*, d'emanubl de Mbtbrbn. See p. 416, ante.

fti*toriral •fcetcije* of *tate*men fof)o flouri*^etl fa tfyt Cime ot ©eorge Hi

by Lord Brougham. See " Works."

fti*torie ban J8. Cornell* 9briaen*en &c. See ante, note to p. 422.

ftftorifd; literartfc^eS <$aitbbuc$ beritymter unb benftrfirbiger $erfonen, welcke in
bem 18; 3a$r$unberte geftorben finb; &c. Don gr. (£. ©. ^irftying, kc.
SeMpjig, 1795.

8vo.; 17 vols, j the last vol. dates 1815.

C$e fti*torj> an* flntiquitie* ot ifp County ot leicetter, by John Nichols.
London. 1795.

464

indbx librorum prohibitorum.

8 fti*tocp of fltofcfrtirttg from the Earliest Times. &c. By Hbitrt Samfsow .

London: Chatto and Windus, 1874.

IHltorp of CtoiUiation in Cnglan*. By Hbnry Thomas Buckle. The

Second Edition. London: mdccclviii.
8vo. It is for ever to be regretted that Buckle did not live to finish, or at
any rate to progress much further with his grand undertaking, to which the
two volumes which the world now posesses are but the introduction.

$i*torg of ttnfflantl during the Reign of Queen Anne 1701*1715 London
Murray.

8vo.; a vols. To which should be added that to the Peace of Versailles '
1783. Author, Lord Mahon, now Earl of Stanhopb.
8 ftitftorg of Cngli*f) Dramatic literati** to the death of Queen Anne by
Adolphus William Ward. M,A. London 1875

fttotorp of #pani*$ literature by Gborob Ticxnor. In Three Volumes.
New York: mdcccxlix.

8 fei*torp of tye Slot &c. See " Flagellation and the Flagellants."

(conograp^if te* ®*tampe* a #ufet* ©alant* et des Portraits de Femmes
c61&bres par leur beaut6 &c. Par M. le C. d'l* * * Geneve J. Gay et fils 1868

Illustration* of t|>e litetarg lK*torp of $e of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and
intended as a sequel to The Literary Anecdotes. By John Nichols,
F.S.A. London: 1817

fmprimeur* fmagiitaire* et libraire* #uppo*e* Etude Bibliographique suivie de
recherches sur quelques ouvrages imprimis avec des indications fictives de
lieux ou avec des dates singulidres Par Gustavb Brunbt Paris Tross 1866

4hittef tfflpurgatoriu* Bngltranu*: or A Descriptive Catalogue of the Principal
Books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or
burnt by the Common Hangman, or censured, or for which the Author%
Printers, or Publishers have been prosecuted. By W. H. Hart, F.S.A-
London : John Russell Smith, 187a.

8vo.; three parts, pp. 194, published. If one can judge from the small
portion already issued, which extends to the year 1663 only, this is an ably

indbx librorum prohibitorum,

465

and carefully done work. As Mr. Hart still witholds his preface it is impossible
to know the extent or scope of his labour. See Note 9, p. xv, ante.

Cf>e fntej: Cnpurgatovfutf of JNartiaL See p. 280, ante.

Inter locuplettoimu* Etbrorum fee. SoflftonblgeS 9Biic$er»2crkon cnt^altcnb
atte bon 1750 fiM gu Cnbe be* 3a$re$ 183a in ®eutf$Ianb unb in bent
angrenjenben Mnbern gebrudten SBuc^et. &c. &on S^riftian ©ottlofc
tfaitfet. «eU>8ifl# 1834.

This voluminous work is more useful to the bookseller than to the amateur j
it is continued to the present time.

fin fttfcej: of 9ro$ibitct Book*, by command of the present pope Gregory xvi.
in 1835$ &c. by the Rev. Josbfh Mbndham,M.A« &c. London: mdcccxl.

I'lntcrnutiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux (Correspondence litt6raire, Notes
and Queries franca is) &c.

The first number of this useful journal, based, as is indicated in its title,
upon our own " Notes and Queries," appeared Jany 15, 1864. It has since
been issued regularly, with exception of a break during the Franco-German
war: No. 133, dating July 25, 1870, and the number following Dec. 25, 1873.
Introduction to tf)e literature of ©trope in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seven-
teenth Centuries. By Henry Hallam, &c. Paris, Baudry. 1839.

8n Introduction to $e Jktuty of Btbliograpf)p. To which is prefixed A
Memoir on the Public Libraries of the Ancients. By Thomas Hartwbll
Hornb. Illustrated with Engravings. London: 1814.

bograpfjie te* ftomtne* Celebre* ou Collection de Fac-Simile de Lettres
Autographes et de Signatures Execut^e & Imprim6e par Th. Dblarub &c.
Paris. 1843.

Sounial te la Bfjjence (1715-17^3) Par Jban Buvat &c. Pr€c6d6 d une
Introduction &c. par Smile Campardon Paris moccclxv

journal te* in*pecteur* te JH. 9e Aartine* Premiere S6rie—1761-1764
Bruxelles Ernest Parent &c. 1863

« Sfournep Bount fye library of « Bibliomaniac: or, Cento of Notes and
Reminiscences concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable Books. By
William Davis, &c. London: W. Davis. 1821.

To this should be added: "A Second Journey &c. 1825,"serial withtheabove.

nnn

466

index librorum prohibitorum* 466

3)ugemetiS de* A at) an* sur les Principalis Ouvrages des Auteurs, Par
Adribn Baillet, Revus, &c. Par Mr. De La Monnoyb. Nouvelle
Edition. &c. Amsterdam, Aux Depens de la Compagnie. mdcc.xxv.

iamo.; 8 vols, divided into 17 parts. This edition comprises, besides the
work above noted, an " Abreg6 de la Vie de Mr. Baillet," "Des Enfants
devenuscelebres, &c.f" "Auteurs De'guise's," (sic) "Des Satyres personnelles,"
" Anti-Baillet," and a Les Maitres d'Eloquence."

Justine und Juliette ober ®ie Ocfatyren bcr Xugenb unb ©ie ffionnc be* gafter*
tfrttifdje 9fa«gabe nadj bem Stan^dfifdjen bed Marauis de Saob. getyig.
(Sari SRinbe.

8vo. 5 pp. 155 5 published in 1874. In a future volume I propose to notice
this book more fully when I shall come to the consideration of the remarkable
work of which it is an analysis.

laron: or Many Things in Few Words; addressed to Those who think.

By The Rev. C. C. Colton. Nineteenth Edition. London : 1823.
lecture* on IteroeS. See " On Heroes."

lettres de jMadame de Aebtgne de sa famille et de ses amis, pr6c6d6es d'une
notice par Charles Nodibr, &c. Nouvelle Edition. Paris Lavigne, 1836

libraries and dTounder? of libraries, by Edward Edwards. London:
Triibner. 1864.

C^e library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and The Old Man's
Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. By the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, &c.
Second Edition. London : mdcccxxv.

life and Booit*, or Records of Thought and Reading. By J. F. Boybs, &c.
London : Bell and Daldy. 1859.

life and Cinte* of CMito ftoldsmitf). By John Forstbr. Second
Edition. In Two Volumes. London : Bradbury and Evans. 1854.

CI)e life of 9emmg Cfoitrfjrr. See p. 301, ante.

ffi&e life of Sfo&n VHtltteS, ©Sq.; In the Manner of Plutarch. Being A
Specimen of a large Work. London: J. Wilkie. m.cc.lxxiii. (sic).
8vo. (counts 4); pp. 36. Lowndes notes the date as 177a, and gives John
Cradock. as the author. (Bibliographers' Manual, vol. <5, p. 2920).

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467

lift ot VBUSm bp Simon. See " Correspondence/4

l&tebtfitabltrationtf faites depuis le i«* janvier 1861 jusqu'diinmai 1875, Par
Jules Gay, J. Gray et fils, et par la Sooi6t6 des Bibliophiles Cosmopolite s.
12mo. (counts 5) j toned paper j half title only. This catalogue forms the
completion of " Proems des Raret6s." See that title.

&JLiH of <®lb, Start, antt Curioutf flmatorp OKorit*.

A trade catalogue of 8 pp. issued by the Judges in 1870.

Itterarp ffnecbote* of tttgfttemtf) Cmturp; comprising Biographical
Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A. &c. By John Nichols,
F.S.A. In Six Volumes. London: 1812.

8vo. j the work was extended beyond the limits originally proposed, and is
complete only in 9 vols.; the index occupies an entire volume (vol. 7) and is
divided into two parts, the first embracing vols. 1 to 6, the seeond vols. 8 and 9;
the last vol. dates 1815. Mr. Allibone goes into raptures about Nichols,
whom he calls " one of the most eminent literary benefactors of modern
times,'* and gives a very full account of him and his labours, together with the
favourable opinions of a vast number of authors who have written about
Nichols's books.

C$f ItUrarg 9oUcp of t$e C$urc$ of SLonu exhibited in an Account of her
Damnatory Catalogues or Indexes, both prohibitory and expurgatory &c.
By Rev. Joseph Mbndham London : 1830.
8vo. The first edition is of 1826. Dr. Petzholt warmly eulogizes the
work j it is, he says, " fur die Indexliteratur von der grossten Wichtigkeit,"
and contains the most valuable materials. See " Bibliotheca Bibliographica,"
P> 135-

C$e lonbon Chronicle.

Sonbon JSagaor Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer.

jWabtmototllf be JKauptn par Thdophile Gautibr Nouvelle Edition Paris
Charpentier &c. 1871

Large nmo. (counts 6). The preface to this remarkable novel contains some
very pungent remarks, well worth perusal for their own sake, apart from the
work which they introduce.

468

indbx librorum prohibitorum.

jfBanuel *u 8ibliograpf)e jtormantt ou Dictionnaire bibliographique et historique
&c. par Edouard FrArb, &c. Rouen, A. Le Bruraent, &c. 1858.

flflanuel ttu libraire et de l'Amateur de Livres, &c. Par Jacques-Charles
Brunbt &c. Cinquidme Edition &c. Paris Firmin Didot i860.

Large 8vo. double columns 3 6 vols. This is a noble work, superior in every
respect to our similar compilation by Lowndes. Those who take interest in the
jealousies and "quarrels of authors " will find matter to their taste in Qu6rard*s
letter to Brunet, title : u De la Bibliographic G&ierale." See p. 455, ante.

le jfflarqui* tie ftatte l'homme et ses 6crits.

By M. Gustavb Brunbt. See p. 407, ante.

le JMarqui* fcfe Jtafte, par Jules Janin. la ben'te *ur le* treu^r proce*
crimtml* du Marquis de Sade par le Bibliophile Jacob. Le tout
pr6c6d6 de la Bibliographie des CEuvres du Marquis de Sade. Paris. Chez
les marchands de nouveaut6s, 1834.

Small 8vo. j badly printed on inferior paper j there is a portrait (imagined)
of de Sade ; issued in 1874 by V. Puissant of Brussels. There is an earlier
edition with the same title. This pamphlet, as its title indicates, is a reprint
of two essays by Julbs Janin, and M. Paul Lacroix.

9 jHartpr to Sftliograpfig: A Notice of the Life and Works of Joseph-
Marie Qu6rard, &c. by Olphar Hamst, Esq. London: 1867.

This carefully done and appreciative pamphlet is from the pen of Mr. Ralph
Thomas, and should be consulted by English students desirous of estimating
the labours of one of the greatest of bibliographers.

led JSanbai* lib re*, le* JHaubai* Sournauj- et le* Roman*. Troisieme
Edition augmentle d'un triple catalogue. Bruxelles.

i6mo.; published in 1842) author, R. P. Jean Baptists Boonb de la
Compagnie de J6sus, See Introduction p. lxv (note), ante.

JHHange* Sfbliograpfjigue* par P. L. Jacob bibliophile Paris kc 1871

IHelange* liftre* U'une petite bibliotfjeque, &c par Charbs Nodier, &c Paris,

Crapelet, mdcccxxix.
fHemoire* ttt r&taftfaif He fgUVf.

indbx libbobum prohibitorum.

469

flKemofre* te £Betf*ire Store ** Bourteflte, Aeigneur te Brantome, contenant
Les Vies de Dames Galantes de son temps. A Leyde, Chez Jean Sambix,
le Jeune, k la Sphere, m.dc.xcix.

12mo.j 2 vols. 3 a poor and incorrect edition.

iKemotre* te f&* 9'9rtAffnan, Capitaine Lieutenant de la premiere Compagnie
des Mousquetaires du Roi, Contenant quantit6 de choses Particulieres et
Secrettes Qui se sont pass6es sous le Regne de Louis le Grand. A
Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau. m.dcci.

JHemoire* Secret* pour servir & l'histoire de la R6publique des lettres en
France depuis mdcclxii jusqu'& nos jours, &c. Londres John Adamson.

i2mo. 5 36 vols.3 embracing the period between 1762 to 1787. The first 4
vols, and part of the jth vol. of this remarkable set of memoirs were edited by
L. Pbtit de Bacraumont. The useful index by M. Warfe, published by J.
Gay, (see " Table Alphab6tique") should be added. In 1874 M. Paul
Lacroix edited an edition, in 1 vol., of extracts from 1762 to 17713 his inter-
esting preface should be consulted.

i&entotr* of 6eorge tf)e dfourtf), descriptive of the most interesting scenes of
his Private and Public Life, &c. By Robert Huish. London:

mdcccxxx.

fHemotr* of libraries: Including A Handbook of Library Economy. By
Edward Edwards. London: Trubner 1859.

IKentoir* of tf>e Betgn of Btng 6eorge t$e Q$irt By Horace Walpolb
London Bentley 1845.

4&emotre Atorirfje degli Scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli compilate da
Camillo Minibri Riccio. Napoli, 1844.

|Ken of tf)e Cfoie. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Characters.
A New Edition, &c. By Edward Walford, M.A. London : Routledge,
&c. 1862.

8vo. 3 double columns. Also Eighth Edit. 1872, and Ninth Edit. 1875,
both by Thompson Coopbr, F.S.A.

OOO

47°

index librorum prohibitorum* 554

pout etuftier Pfeistoire; avec un Catalogue des principaux Historiens,
et des remarques sur la bont6 de leurs ouvrages, et sur le choix des
meilleures 6ditions. P. Gandouin, Paris. 1729.
4to.; 4 vols.; by Lenglbt Du Frbsnoy. A supplement of 2 vols, should
be added.

fititctttattU* of literati**. By D'Israbli, &c. Paris, Baudry, &c. 1840.

8vo. 2 vols. Comprises " Calamities of Authors/' The Literary Character/'
" Quarrels of Authors/' " Character of James I," " Literary Miscellanies."
le fttoniteur.

J&onsieur<4licola*; ou le Coeur-humain dlvoill. Public par lui-m6me. kc.
Imprim6 k la maison $ &c. m.-dcc.-xciv.

i2mo.; 16 parts. This is one of the rarest and (excluding the "Anti-
Justine") the freest of Rbstip db la Brbtonnb's books) it is at the same
time the most valuable, as it contains the author's autobiography. A full de*
scription of it is given at p. 387 of M. Paul Lacroix's " Bibliographic Acc. de
Restif de la Bretonne." There is a copy in the British Museum.

J8ontf)Ij> SUbifto or Literary Journal. By Several hands. From 1749 to 1828.
C$t JKorniitg ftttertiser.

le J&ogentie Jparfcenir &c. par Bbroalob ob Vbrvillb Nouvelle Edition,
&c. Paris L6on Willem mdccclxx
8vo. 2 vols.; illustrated $ an index to each volume.

£e*» $ork JHefcical SountaL

Cf)e flight Jtflfe of lonftm by J. Ewino Ritchie. London : mdccclviii.

£}o tes anil Queries.

Mr. W. J. Thoms has undertaken to write"the Story" of N. & Q. His first
pleasant gossiping article appeared in No. 131, for July 1,18761 5th S., vi., p. 1.

9 0otue of $e life frc., of JMK ©uerar&. See " A Martyr to Bibliography."

Notice Sur leS <£cribains CrotiqueS du Quinzieme Siecleet du ccmmtncement
du Seizieme. Extrait de l'ouvrage allemand du Docteur J.-G. Grabsse &c.
Bruxelles Mertens 1865

indbx libbobum prohibitorum. 471

Jioubeau JHamttl be Sftliograpf)ie uniber*elle par Messieurs Ferdinand
Dbnis, P. Pinion, et Db Martonnb. Paris 1857.

Large 8vo. ; three columns. One of the vols, of the " Manuels-Roret,"
so remarkable for their cheapness, completeness, and utility,
^oubeQe fiiograpl)ie Aenerale depuis les Temps les plus recul6s jusqu'i nos
Jours publi6e par MM Firmin Didot Fr£res sous la direction de M. Le
Dr Hobfnbr. Paris 1855—1866

le* jflutt* be 9ari*, ou Le Spectateur-Nocturne. &c. Londres, &c. 1788.

iamo. j 16 vols, or parts part 1 j is entitled tl La Semaine Nocturne : &c.
1790," the 16th part dates 1794. Consult " Bibliographie &c. de Restif de
la Bretonne."

l'<®btferbateur Jfoglot*. See p. 322, ante.

Abtferbation* on tye |Jlan anb 9rogre** of tye Catalogue of ti&e Sibrarp of tye
Srititff) IKuleum. By A Bookseller. London : Printed by William
Stevens, 37, Bell Yard, Temple Bar. 1855.

8vo. j These articles appeared originally in " Jerrold's Weekly News " in
June and July, 1849, and contain some pertinent and useful remarks. They
were written by Mr. Jambs Bohn.

<9Cubretf be Nicholas Boilbau Despr£aux. Avec des Eclaircissemens
historiquesdonn6s par lui-meme. Nouvelle Edition &c. Dresde mdccxlvi.

8n <®lto of Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda original
and selected. By William Davis. A New Edition, &c. London:
W. Davis. 1817.

<®n fteroetf, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History. By Thomas Carlyle.
Ci)e Anginal Stambler'* flttagajtne.
C|)t 9all ;f»aU Gazette.

9etite SibliograpI)ie biograp^iro^romaiuiere, ou Dictionnaire des Romanciers,
tant anciens que modernes, &c. Paris Pigorbau, 1821.

8vo. There are 22 supplements and several appendices to the work. See
" La France Litt&aire," vol. 7, p. 165.

47*

ihdix librorum prohibitorum.

9etttt JKemofet* He F®ptra par Cb. db Boigvb, Paris, 1857.
IJetit "Folume contenant qnelqnes appergus des Hommes et de la Soci6t6. Par
Jean-Baftiste Sat, De l'Acad6mie Imp6riale de Saint- P6tersbourg.
A Paris, DeterrQle, 1817.

ftyOobtblon A Treatise on the Love of Books: By Richard db Bury,
Bishop of Durham. Written in mcccxliv. and translated from the first
edition, mcccclxxiii. with some collations. London : Printed for
Thomas Rodd, 2 Great Newport Street, Leicester Square, mdcccxxxii.
8vo. The translator is .J B. Inglis. A most pleasant little volume.

le fMifc He Jfatuljhe, ou Le Soulier couleur-de-rose. &c. Troisieme Edition
&c. A La-Haib. 1786.

Small 8vo. j 2 parts; author Rbstif db la Brbtonnb. Although the
first edition of this work is dated 1786, it was not really printed till 1794.
Vide " L'Jnterm6diaire," vii., no. 152, col. 5*7, and " Bibliographie &c. de
Restif," p. 91. The third edition above mentioned is scarce, and should have
a frontispiece to each part.

9lea*ure*, tiftjert*, an* SHbantage*, of literatim. A Discourse by The Rev.
Robbrt Aris Willmott, &c. London: Thomas Bosworth, mdcccli.
Small 8vo. This is a charming little volume, which should be better known.
In i860 the author produced an improved and enlarged edition: "Fifth Edition,
enlarged. London: Bell and Daldy i860." The first edition is by far the
prettier vol.

«tn Joint Curiettjr He* flfoeur* ffoifcee* He la drect Paris J. Gay. 1861.

"Pet. in-8." Reprinted by J. Blanche, "Bruxelles 1870." A clever and
most interesting essay upon sodomy among the ancients, by M. Octave
Dblbpibrrb.

|)reHtcatoriana ou Relations Singuli&res et Amusantessurles Pr6dicateurs; &c.
Par G. P. Philomnbstb, &c. Dijon, V. Lagier, 1841.
8vo. One of the most curious and entertaining of Gabribl Peignot's
numerous works.

le* JJriapeia Note de Lessing Traduite de 1'allemand et augments de
commentaires, etc. Par Philomnbstb Junior Bruxelles Mertens 1866
i2mo. (couts 6); published for J. Gay. The " Commentaires M and notes
by M. Gustave Brunbt are by far the most interesting part of this little
volume.

indbx libbobum prohibitorum.

473

ftofatrfpe* pour rorgintfatfott it la ton*erbation te* drante* fcflbKotffape* par

B. Sobolstchikoff. Paris 1859

iamo. (counts 6) A little yolume containing many judicious observations,
applicable however, as the title indicates, rather to public than to private
libraries.

|)roce* te* ftarete* Bibliographiques faits & Paris en 1863 et en 1865 publics
par la Society des Bibliophiles Cosmopolites Bordighdre Imprimerie
Henri Rancher et Cie 1875

12 mo (counts 6). In this interesting volume M. Julss Gat narrates the
two prosecutions which were instituted against him at Paris on account of some
of his publications. To it should be added, " Liste des Publications." See
that title.

Cg)e |tor*u{t* of literature A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues with Notes. &c.
The Fourteenth edition with the citations translated and with a complete
index. London: T. Becket. 1808.

8vo. This remarkable, and at present almost forgotten production is by
Thomas Jambs Mathias. It has been called a peg to hang notes upon;
certain it is that the notes, which are very bitter and sarcastic, are the most
valuable part of the volume. Refer to Allibone's " Crit. Die.", vol. 2, p. 1245.

Quarrel* of Sut^or*. See " Miscellanies of Literature.

C|e Xlambler9* £fiaga£ine.

&ecf>erc$e* fttetiro^ligale* *ttr Ffntertitute te* Aiffne* te la ffiort, les

dangers des inhumations pr6cipit6es, les moyens de constater les d6c£s et
de rappeler k la vie ceux qui sont en 6tat de mort apparente. Par M. Julia
db Fontenelle, &c. Paris. Librairie des Sciences M6dicales &c. 1834.

Heated tit te iHaurepa* pieces libres, chansons, 6pigrammes et autres vers
satiriques sur divers personnages des sidcles de Louis xi v et Louis xv, &c
Leyd. 1865

12 mo.; 6 vols.; published in Brussels by M. Gay, at 30 frcs. the vol.;
issue 106 copies.

9 &egi*ter ant Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil: containing Matters of Fact,
Delivered in the Words of the most Authentick Books, Papers, and
Records 5 Digested in Exact Order of Time. With Proper Notes and
References Towards discovering and connecting the True History of
England, from the Restoration of King Charles II. &c. London:
R. Williamson. &c. mdccxxviii.

ppp

474

index librorum prohibitorum* 474

4to. j the period embraced is from January, 1659-60, to December, 166a ;
author, Whitb Kbnnbt, Bishop of Peterborough.

aUmfntocmtt* of tf)t Courtt of fieorje f an* H By Horace Walpole.

Prefixed to "The Letters of Sir Horace Mann/' edition of 1857.

lUportS of ti)e Criab at ti)t <®tt SaiUg. See note 46, p. xxxiv, ante.

lUfeut UtS 3ft0wans, Recueil d'Analyses raisonn6es des productions re-
marquables des plus c61£bres Romanciers Frangais et Etrangers. &c. Par
Eus^be G ***** *. Paris. Firmin Didot mdcccxxxix.

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INDEX.

LORD BROUGHAM ON INDEX MAKING.

" A book and an index are to be made on opposite principles. A good book cannot be too
condsc—a good index can hardly be too prolix. Repetitions are to be avoided in the former
—in the latter they should abound.

" For as one man's memory takes hold of one tag of a subject, and another man's of
another, so you must have all the tags possible in your index, that all may lay hold of it. Nay,
the same man will remember a thing differently [according] to the various views with which
he consults the index at different times.

M Generally every proper name, and name of a place or a subject, should form a head in
the index, and each page be noted where that name occurs, how numerous soever these

may be. H. B."

»

NOTE.

The plan and scope of this index are explained at p. lxxiii. ante. I would add that of the
Authorities Consulted I do not index up, except in special instances, either publisher's names,
spurious impresses, or places of publication, but only the names of the authors and titles of the
works. These are, as a rule, well-known books. Such as are not, or such as come more
particularly within the scope of the present compilation, will generally be found fully noticed
in the body of the work. Further, the headings are printed in the following manner:

Author's Names are printed in Small Capitals.
Soott €iiU* „ „ „ ®tt CitgK*!).

Subjects „ „ „ Antique.

general

alphabetical and analytical index.

Abblsdorff, Jules. Publication by,
62.

Aberdeen. Book printed at, 224.

Abernethy, Dr., 87.

Ablaing van Gibssbnbbrg,R. C.D,'

xxxi, 173.
Abortion, xxxv, 188.
Abraham, 179.

Abbysinia. Arab women are able
to constrict the muscles of the
vagina, 290 (note),
ffaftemg, C|>e, 439.
Achmbt, Sultan, 141.
Ad am son, John. Publications by,

3**> 3*4-
Additions and Corrections, 411.
Ad£lb, Mme., 56.
Adept, An, 453.

Adriaensen, Cornelius, xl (note),

415, 422, 463.
Adultery, 357.
fDlbenturetf of a Broil ©ne, 148.
SMertfeing, ftfetorp of, 464.
Advice of friends desirable. Boileau

quoted, lxxv (note 124).
A. F. F. See Arbuthnot.
Agnes, Princess, 161.

Aguado Oltmfio, 63.
aOle^flleinofre to tf>e Qtitorv of fittta,

184.

SIbum tte Biabltvit*, 155.
Alcanirbz, Marquis of, 63.
Olribfafte Cnfant a vStolt, 23.
fOnbiatte dFancfullo, 28.
Alexis, £milb, Les Cocottes, &c. 145.
SUbedt ari* Aaitton, €3je 8mour*
of, 49.

Sline et 'Fakour, 30, 423.
Alinganas, described, 293.
Aliauis, Dr. See Stock.
Allbn, Captain William, 3.
ftOeemeint* fclMio. fcejeicon, 461.
9Ilt 9acfta, life of, 183.
Allibonb. Quoted, 4, 252, 440, 44$,
467.
Mentioned, xii.
Allsop, Thomas, 475.
Slmanad) Tie Srujrelle* la &uit, 144.
Almon, John. Quoted, 207 (note).

Book by, 454.
Altona. Book published at, 426.
Sfymtte et Borattut, 34.
ftman* Cloitre*, 40.
amarotuAataeam, 77.

480

index librorum

prohibitorum.

Amazons, 86.

America. Abortion practised in, xxvi.
Books published in, 402, 433.
Book-trade (obscene) in, xxxi.
Stmerifanerin, SBefenntniffe elner, 128,

426.
8mie*, le*, 42.
Smorou* rtar, Cf)e, 433.
Smorou* ffiuaferr, C^e, 45, 433.
9tmor« ffiege, 46, 424.
Amos, William, sodomite, 333.
8raour, le* Aero* b', 129, 267.
flmoureu*e*, le*, 48.
fimour* be beuj; folte* femme*, le*, 146.
Amsterdam. Books published at,
3*2.

A.M.T.F., 160.
Onalectabiblion, 439.
Snalecte* bu Bibliophile, 439.
8nalg*e be* Crabaujr, 440.
Analysis of the Introduction. See Bib-
liography.
8nanga*ranga, 284.
8itetbote*bu Bij>£eubieme Steele, 440.
fbiecbote* Rappee*, Snecbote* <$b*erbatioit*, (re., 440.
fliucbote* of literature, fee., 440,
fliucbote* of tf>e Maimer*, SiucHote* pour *erbir,
35 (note).
Snnee Aalante; ou le* Intrigue*, fee.,
72.

Snnee dalante, ou tftreraie*, 129.

annotation* on tye Aatreb Writing*,

73* 396-
Ansbr Pbn-Drag-On, 474.

Anson, Margaret, 305.

Sntbologie tfrotiqpu,
antuBaillet, 466.

8ntu9u*tine, I', 4*3-

Anton 1 no. Bishop of Florence, 264.

Aphrodisiacs, 263, 265, 284, 296.

8pbr°bi*iac* an* 8ntis0pf)ro*i*iac*,

82, 184, 441.
flpfpobite ;flageHatrqr, 397.
ftpologg for JHoljammeb, &c., 184.
flpo*ento en el gorbo fubera, 152.
Spparutionbe Cf>rre*elW)ilo*opbe, 89.
Apudy, A. L., 77.
Arbuthnot,F.F. Kdma-Shdstra,%B2.
Aretino, Pietro. The Accomplished
Whore, 1.
Amours of, jo, 266.
Portraits of, 1.
Mentioned, 132.
Ariminensis, R., 343.
Ariosto, 85.

Aris, Mario. Books by, 143, 145,

146, 427.
Aristotle, 87, 177.
Sritymetiral fiooit*, 441-
Srlequin Semocratique, 90.
Arm—d, Mrs., 257.
Armoux de St. Maximin, 422.
Arnault, A. V. Biographie, 448.
8rt of Wooing, Cf)e, 229.
Artagnan, D', xxxix (note), 469.
flrti*te, 1% 441.

Artois, Comte d\ 51, 116, 425.
8t$enj*um, C|>e, 441*
Asculanus, P. M., 343.
Ashley, W. T. B. 223 (note), 453.
Aspinal, Robert, 334.

565 index librorum prohibitorum.

Asselineau, Charles. Book by, 434.
Ateis. See Yoni.
8tf>ee*, Bit. *e*, 458.
8ttnttat* ati; flfloeur*, Ctutte *ur le*,
459-

Audley, Lord, 330, 476.
Augustus, Emperor, 178.
Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis, 263, 264.
9fa*fteuet. SBonber SungfrAulifyn, 161.
Austin, Mrs., 257.
Austria,Booktrade (obscene) in,xxx}
Auteur a la Mode, Un, 236.
ftateur He* Crime*, Suteur* 9egut*e£, 441, 466.
Authorities Consulted, A List of, 437.

Authorities should be given plainly,
Ivi, 438.

Author's Friends, Printed for the, 305.
Authors should consult their friends,
lxxv.

Sutobiograpfw of &t\vf ttatyman,

353.

8utrirf)iemu en Aoguette, l\ 11 j
116, 424.

Stoenture* et Aalanterie* He* ;fiOe*,

Sbenture* galante* tt'une Hro*tituee,

146.

Venture* JKatrimoniale*,
4.34-

Bachaumont, L. Petit de, 323, 325,
469.

Backsides can blush, 352.
Badd—ly, Mrs., 257.
Badingubt, 157.
Baes, M. Frontispiece by, 428.
Bagnio Corre*ponttence, Cf>e, 327.
Bagnio 4&(*tellanp, C^e, 113.
Baker, D. E., Book by, 447.
Baker, Mrs., 257.

Baillet, Ad rien. His style criticised,
xlix (note 73).
Quoted, liii (note 80).
Mentioned, xv (note 8).
Books by, 441, 466.
Bang Indian, 87.

Bankbs, sodomist, 340.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 3.
Barb a. Publication by, 321.
Barbibr, A.-A. Quoted, 221,323,441.
Mentioned, x, xi, xxviii, 202.
Die. des Anonymes, 458.
Barbier, Olivier. Book by, 458.
Barlow, Bishop. Quoted, lxv (note

103)-

Bar £fbft ot tye <91* floint Ktou*e,

C|)t, 117.

Baretti. Dictionary, 184.
Barniana, 353-
Barras, 409.

Barraud, A., xxx {note 37).
Barri, Mme. du, 86, 323.

482

index librorum prohibitorum.

Bartolozzi, F., 376.
Basbggio, Giamb., 29.
»a*fl antt Clara, 43.
Basil, St., 181.

Bassano. Book Published at, 29.
Bastards, 161.
Bastille, A La, 425.
Baudier, Louis. Book by, 90.

Notice of, 94.
Bauer, J. J. Quoted, 261.

Book by, 446.
Bavibrb, C. van. Catalogue, 452.
Bayle, Pierre. Quoted, xxxiii (note
42), xxxviii (note 53), liv (note
84), lxvii, and note 107, lxviii
(note no), lxix (notein.)
Eclaircissement sur Us Ob^cMtez
commended, lxvii (note 109)-
Dictionaire, 456.
Beard, Mr., 147.
Beatice, Empress, 161.
Beaucourt de Noortevbldb. See

Noortevbldb.
Beautiful 9ctoe**, C$r, 156.
Beauty, Thirty points of, 263.
Beau voir, Roger db, 196.
Beck ford, 340.
Briu^Ftlloto*, 126.
Bbdor, 181.

Beef-Steak Club, 235.
Belges, Rbinb dbs, 60.
Belgium. Book trade (obscene)
in, xxxi.

Bell and Sons. Publication by, 377
(note).

Bell, T. Publication by, 376.

Bbllars, H. J., 5, 11.

Bblob, Rev. W. Books by, 440, 474.

Bblot, Adolphb, xxxvi (note 48).

Bbnnet, Grey, sodomite, 340.

Bbntinc, Miss, xliv.

Bentlby, 228.

Bbntlby. Publication by, 193 (note).
Benzon, E. L. S. Catalogue, xiii, 452.
B^rard, A-S-L. Quoted, xxv (note
26), xxix (note 36), 35 (note).
His MS. catalogue, 449.
Notice of, 450.
Bbrjbau, J. Ph. Quoted, 223.
Mentioned, 202,
Publications by, 157, 444.
Berkeley, Bishop, 250.
Berkeley Horse, The, xliv.
Bbrklby, Mrs., xliii, xlv, 243, 244,
397. 401.

Berlin. Books published at, 46, 62,

102, 128.
Bernasco Padlocks, 87.
Bbroaldb db Vbrvillb. Quoted,
lxviii (note no).
Le May en de Par venir,.470.
Bertram, J. G. Quoted, 310.

Books by, 460.
Bertuccino, xxxiii (note 42).
Sttftftt JB'«rttf* Cfoo «ffatr<, 354.
Bestiality, xxxviii, 107.
Bet, Ebony, xliv.
Bbtham, Matilda, 447.
B. F. R., See Burton.
Bh&tias, 271.
Biberstein, H., 39.
Stblugrapf)te ftttf <9ubragttf, fer.,

xvii, 411.
»ibltograp!)u ©mrraU, 9c ia, 468.

index librorum prohibitorum.

483

Bibliography.

An infant science, ix.

Hart well Home quoted, ix.

More cultivated in France than
in England, ix, xi.

Unremunerative and thankless, ix.

White Kennet quoted, ix (note 3).

Compared to a potato field, ix
(note 2).

Paul Lacroix quoted, ix (note 2).

English and French bibliographers
compared, ix.

Other sciences more honoured, x.

Henry Stevens quoted, x (note 3).

Deficiencies of English biblio-
graphers, xi.

Querard does not mention them
xi (note 4).

Ebert quoted, xi (note 4).

Neglected in England, xi, xix.

Bridgman, H. Stevens, E. Edwards
quoted, xi (note 4).

Considered an inferior pursuit, xii.

E. Edwards and Crapelet on Dib-
din, xi, xii, xiii (notes 4 & 5).

High prices of Dibdin's books, xiii
(note 5).

A difficult pursuit, xii.

The Marquis du Rourequoted, xiv
(note 6).

An elevating pursuit, xiii.

England deficient in special bib-
liographies, xiv.

Samuel Halkett's MS. mentioned,
xv (note 7).

Qulrard quoted on anonymous and

pseudonymous literature, xv
(note 8).

O. Delepierre on books con-
demned or annihilated in Eng.
land, xvi (note 12).

G. Peignot quoted on books con-
demned to be burnt, xvi (notes
12 & 13).

The Marquis du Roure quoted on
the utility of bibliographies, xvi
(note 13).

No satisfactory catalogue of erotic
literature exists, xvi.

Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs
d rAmour, &c., criticised, xvii.

Jules Gray's deficiencies, xvii.

Reasons why English erotic litera-
ture has been neglected, xvii.

Quotation from The Index Expur-
gatorius of Martial, xvii (note

14).

English writers and artists (erotic)
inferior to Foreigners, xviii.

Necessity for taking erotic litera-
ture into consideration, xix.

Buckle quoted, xix (note 18).

H. Stevens quoted, xx (note 19).

Utility of satiric poems, memoirs,

novels, &c., xxi.

Quotation from The Index Expur-
gatorius of Martial, xxi (note
20).

H.Hal lam quoted, xxii (note 21).

Quotation from Justine und
Juliette, xxii (note 22).

484

index librorum prohibitorum.

Bibliography.

Quetelet, Buckle, Thomas Carlyle,
Th6ophile Gautier quoted, xxii,
xxiii (note 23).
Every book should be preserved,
xxiii.

Lord Macaulay quoted, xxiii

(note 24).
Quotation from Ans den Memoiren
einer Sangerin. xxv (note 25).
Utility of a knowledge of erotic
literature for students and his-
torians insisted on, xxv.
B6rard and Th6ophile Gautier

quoted, xxv (notes 26 & 27).
Scarce and curious books dear to

the bibliomaniac, xxvi.
The more a book is prohibited

the more it is sought, xxvi.
Anecdotes of La Mothe-le-Vayer
and Goethe, xxvi (notes 28 & 29).
E.Edwards quoted, xxvi (note 29).
James Caulfield quoted, xxvii

(note 30).
Improper books compared to
poisons; should be treated as
such, xxvii.
Rev. R. A. Willmott quoted, xvii

(note 31).
Not dangerous to the mature.
Charles Nisard quoted, xxvii
(note 32).
Difficulties of this branch of bib-
liography, xxvii.
Information about authors and
booksellers, xxviii.

No good erotic books produced
in England at present, xxix.

F. H. Molini prosecuted for vend-
ing obscene books, xxix. (note
35)-

Obscene books were formerly sold
openly in the Palais Royal, xxix.

B6rard and Dibdin quoted, xxix
(note 36).

Present state of the book trade
(obscene) in France, Germany,
Austria, Holland, Spain, Portu-
gal, Italy, America, Belgium*
xxix, to xxxiii, and in India,
277 (note).

M. A. Barraud fined for repub-
lishing the " fermiers g6n6raux"
edition of La Fontaine, xxx
(note 37).

Benny Glogau fined for selling
obscene literature, xxx (note 38).

Satirical books in the press in
Holland in 1720, xxx (note 39).

N6e de la Rochelle on the talents,
&c.. necessary for a biblio-
grapher, xlvii (note 68).

Dibdin on book collectors, xlvii
(note 68)..

Eulogy on books, by Richard de
Bury, xlvii (note 68).

Bare catalogues comparatively
useless, xlviii.

H. Stevens quoted, xlviii (note69).

Books made out of books, the
French adepts at this, xlviii.

index librorum prohibitorum.

485

Bibliography.

Boileau quoted, xlix.

Luxuriant language void of ideas
compared to anemones by
Lucian, xlix (note 70).

Literature compared to a garden
by the Rev. R. A. Willraott, xlix
(note 71).

Facts only .are required in biblio-
graphy, xlix.

Adrien Baillet *s style criticised by
La Monnoye, xlix (note 73).

Adrien Baillet quoted on good
writing, xlix (note 73).

Southey's style commended by
S. T. Coleridge, 1 (note 73).

Condensation and brevity neces-
sary, 1.

Samuel Butler, J. F. Boyes, H.
Stevens quoted, 1, and notes
74 and 75.

Object of the present work, 1.

Violet le Due quoted on his own
catalogue, li (note 76).

The most worthless book serves a
purpose, De Morgan quoted, li
(note 77).

Every collector deceived at one
time or other, lii (note 78).

Richard de Bury quoted on book
buying, lii (note 78).

High prices paid for spurious
editions at present, lii (note 78).

Vastness of Bibliography, lii.

Gustave Brunet quoted, lii (note
79)-

Incompleteness of the present
work, lii.

SSfr

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Impracticability of classification
by subjects, liii.

L. Lalanne and James Bohn on
errors in classification, liii (note

81).

Titles of erotic books especially
deceptive, liii.

A few instances given, liii (note

82).

Menken quoted on " Grands
Titres,liv (note 82).

Alphabetical arrangement pre-
ferred, liv.

The advantages of giving extracts,
liv.

Authors allowed to quote obscene
passages, liv.

Pierre Bayle quoted, liv (note 84).

Opinions of other writers, &c., liv.

Bibliographers should not criticise
books which they have not read,
nor describe vols, which they
have not seen, lv, lvi (note 88).

Vigneul-Marville, and J. Payne
Collier quoted, lv (notes 8j
and 86).

Authorities should be given clearly
and fully, lvi, 438.

Rev. C. C. Colton quoted, lvi
(note 87).

Amateur Bibliography suggested,
lvi (note 88).

Josef de Rezabal y Ugarte quoted,
Ivii (note 88).

Quotations given in the original
languages, Ivii.

486

index librorum prohibitorum.

Bibliography.

Translations always unsatisfac-
tory, lvii.

Rev. R. A. Willmott quoted,
lvii (note 89).

Languages more studied now
than formerly, lvii.

Southey's humorous theory for
learning languages, lvii (note
90).

Every new language is a new in-
strument of power, Rev. R. A.
Willmott quoted, lviii (note 91).

Book titles and proper names
should never be translated, lviii.

L. Lalanne quoted on blunders
of translation, lviii (note 92).

Quotations reproduced with all
errors and peculiarities in the
present work, lviii.

Utility of this explained, lix.

Peculiarity in the dates of some
old books, lix (note 93).

B. Sobolstchikoff and De Mor-
gan quoted, lix (notes 93 and
94)-

On the sizes of books, lix.

De Morgan quoted, lx (notes 95).

Photo-lithography applied to
bibliography, lxi.

Its advantages, lxi.

H. Stevens quoted, lxi (note 96).

Abbreviations, Ixii.

Scarcity of books uncertain,
Ixii to lxiv.

David Clement quoted, lxit to
lxiv (notes 98 to 102).

Bibliography.

Generalisation not attempted,
xliv.

Title of the present work ex-
plained, lxiv.

First Papal Indices, lxiv (note
103).

Rev. Joseph Mendham referred
to, lxv (note 103).

Some authors and books pro-
hibited by father J. B. Boone,
lxv (note 103).

The author does not expect to
pass uncensured, lxv.

All bibliographical works are
incomplete, lxv.

Dr. Graesse quoted, lxv (note 104).

Objectors answered, Ixvi.

J. B. Say, Lenglet du Fresnoy,
Pellison, Bayle, J. F. Boyes
quoted, Ixvi, lxvii (notes 105
to 108).

Bayle's Dictionary praised, lxvii
(note 109).

Obscene words used, but| only
when unavoidable, lxviii.

Obscenity is in the mind, not in
words, Beroalde de Verville
and John Davenport quoted,
lxviii (note no).

Immoral authors not com-
mended, lxix.

Pierre Bayle and J. B. Say
quoted,lxix (notes in & 112).

The passions are not excited, lxx.

A disgust for bad books will be
inspired, lxx.

index librorum

prohibitorum.

487

Bibliography.

Plan of the present work, lxxi.

Title pags should be copied in
full, lxi.

£. Edwards quoted, lxxi (note 11 j)

Disadvantages of interpolations,
lxxi.

Ralph Thomas quoted, lxxi.
(note 116).

N6e de la Rochelle quoted on
the way to describe a book,
lxxii (note 117).

Importance of a good alphabet-
ical index, lxxiii.

Annual production of books in
England, lxxiii.

Extent of index explained, lxxiv.

A single index best, lxxiv (note j

Assistance of friends acknow-
ledged, lxxv.

Advantage of consulting friends j
Longin and Boileau quoted,
lxxv (note 124).

Length of the introduction apo-
logised for, lxxvi.

Pulci and Boileau quoted, lxxvi.

Lord Brougham quoted on index
making, 478.

Books on bibliography. See
Authorities Consulted, 439.

Bibliomane, *e, 443.

Stbliomantain fye {SLtitolt Age*, 444.

Bibliomania, or SooMttattne**, 444.

8ib!iopf)agie, fie la, 455.

8ftItopf)tle, le, 443.

Sibliopfjile Jfantatetete, le, 129,

439> 444.

Sftlioteca He lo* Cjcritoretf, fee.,
444-

Stbliotyeta Selgica, 444.
Stbltotfjera »ibUoffrapi)ira, 445.
Sibliotfjeca Sritaxmica, 445.
Sftliotyeta Corttubienii*, 445.
8ibIiotf>eca BiaboUea, 445.
Bibliotyeca deograp^ira, 446.
Bibliotyeea dermanorum erotica, 411,
446.

Sfibliot^eca Sibrontm, fee., 446.
Bibliotyeea Aeatologira, 446.
Riblfafyeque ttftliopi)ilO'jFacetteu*e,

130, 446.
Sibliotyeque rarieutfe, 447.
Bftliotyeque He* SLoman*, 456.
8ibliotf>eque tfalaitte, 426.
! Bibltotorque fcftre, 168.
»id)t*, fc'Ccole He*, 194.
Sijour Hu fJetit jiebeu He I'Sretin,
13a.

Bijoux Indiscrets. See Dildoes.
Billard, Ren6and Paul, 458.
Binbt, xix.

Biography. First Biog. Die. of
Living English Authors pub-
lished in Germany, xi (note 4).
Plan for perfecting biography,

lvi (note 88).
J. de Rezabal y Ugarte quoted,

lvii (note 88).
Books on biography. See Au-
thorities Consulted, 439.
Biran, Marquis de, 27.
Birch, Mother, 357.
Birch, R., 397, 398.
Bircfjini'* Batue, ilUHame, 241, 257,
358, 3<>3, 43J.

488

index librorum prohibitorum.

Sirrf)'* fi&ri., 354.

Bir*'< «j>e Viefo, «, 353-
Bishop op G. See Warburton.
Bizonnet-Derivau, 144.
Black Soke, Cf>e, 135.
Black Prostitutes, xxxviii.
Bladon, S. Publication by, 16.
Blake, W., 12.
Blanche, Abel, 198.
Blanche, J-P. Notice of, 197.

Publications by, 194, 428, 472.
Blanpain, N., 90.
B—lli. Madame, 257.
Blofoen'* Cabinet, C&e, 133.
Blumenbach, 180.
£—n—ll, Mrs., 257.
Boartting *c$ool Bumbru^er, Cf)e,
37°-

Foase,. G. C. Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,
445.

Boccaccio, 369.

Bo chard, Louis. Etching by, 430
(note).

Bodart, H. Illustrations by, 428.
Body. Parts to be kissed, 294.
Bohn, H. G. Publication by, 441.
Quoted on Graglia, 377.
His translation of Martial criti-
cised, xviii (note 14), 280.
Bohn, James. Books by, liii (note

81), 452, 471.
Boiardo, 23.

Boignb, Ch. de. Petits Mtimoires de

VOpfra, 196 (note), 472.
Boileau DIsspreaux, Quoted, xlix,
Ixxv (note 124), lxxvi, 180, 237.
CEuvres, 471.

Boisjolin, V.de. See Vieilh de B.

Boissiere, 51.

Boisy, Marquis de, 25.

Bokel, 195.

Bolano, 23.

Boldbnough, J., 45.

Bolinbroke, Lord, 226.

Bonaparte. See Napoleon I.

Bonaparte, Princess, 56.

Bon Con flfagajme, Ci>e, 448.

Book Collectors, xlvii (note 68),

444-

Booker, Mrs., 257.
Book-Madness, See Bibliomania.
Books.

A nation's vouchers, H. Stevens
quoted, vii.

High prices of Dibdin's books,
xiii (note 5).

No book should be allowed to
perish, xxiii.

Lord Macaulay quoted, xxiii
(note 24).

A knowledge of obscene books
necessary for the historian and
student, xxv.

Scarce books precious to col-
lectors, xxvi.

The more books are prohibited
the more are they sought, xxvi.

Anecdotes of La Mothe-le-Vayer
and Goethe, xxvi (notes 28
and 29).

Immoral books to be treated like
poisons, xxvii.

Not dangerous to the mature,
xxvii.

index librorum

prohibitorum.

489

Books.

Condemnations for selling ob-
scene books, xxix (note 35),
xxx (notes37 & 38), 434 (note).

Obscene books were formerly
sold openly in the Palais Royal,
xxix.

Vast number of books in English
on Flagellation, xl. See Fla-
gellation.

Eulogy on books by Richard de
Bury, xlvii (68).

Books made out of books, xlviii.

The most worthless book has a
use; De Morgan quoted, li (note
77).

Richard de Bury quoted on buy-
ing books, lii (note 78).

High prices paid for spurious
editions, lii (note 78).

Titles of books deceptive, liii.

Instances given, liii (note 82).

Menken quoted, liv (note 82).

Title pages should be given in
full 5 E. Edwards quoted, lxxi
(note 115).

Uncertainty of the sizes of books,
lix.

De Morgan quoted, lx (note 95).

Typographical errors, &c. should
be noted, lix.

De Morgan quoted, lix (note 94).

Peculiarities in the dates of some
old books, kc.; Sobolstchikoff
quoted, lix (note 93).

Difficulty of defining the degrees
of scarcity of books, Ixii.

TTT

Books.

Clement's scale given, Ixii (note
98), lxiii (note 99), lxiv (note
102).

Books prohibited by the Romish
Church, lxiv (note 103).

N6e de la Rochelle quoted on the
way to describe books, lxxii
(note 117).

Number of new volumes pro-
duced annually in England,
lxxii (note 119).

Necessity of a good index, lxxiii
(note 119).

What an index should comprise,
lxxiii, 478.

Privately printed books, 5, 9, 73,
82, 174, 229, 280, 282.

Hindu religious books, 268.

Obscene books published in India,
277 (note).

Bookseller, A, 471.

BooftfeUer, C$e, 448.

Booksellers, For sale by all the, 117.

Booksellers, Of all the, 428.

Booksellers, Printed for the, 15, 114,
225, 344. 379> 398, 435-

Book trade (erotic) in

France, xxix.

Germany, xxx, 413 (note).

Austria, xxx.

Holland, xxx.

Spain, xxxi.

Portugal, xxxi.

Italy, xxxi.

America, xxxi, 188.

Belgium, xxxii, 434 (note).

India, 177 (note).

574

index librorum prohibitorum.

Boettoerm, 444.
SoofeiDorm: C$e, or the British

Phoenix, 142.
Boons, J. B. Les Mauwns Livres, dc.f

lxv (note 103), 468.
Boosey et fils. Publication by, 183,
Sorttebtte fJarto, It*, xxxix (note

54), 427, 448.
Borbl, Antoine, xix.
Borbl, PStrus, 443.
Borbwbll, Pboo, 198.
borewbll, r., 148.
Bossu, 2j, 178.
Boston. Book printed at, 102.
Boucher, xix.

Souttotr b'flmarantfje, %t, 138.
Bouillon, Godfrey db, 8j.
Boullay, Gi£-, 378 (note).
Bourchard, 87.

Bouton, J. W. Publications by, 6, 71.
Bowybr, William, 167.
Bo yes, J. F. Quoted, 1 (note 74),
Ixvii (note 108).
Life and Books, kc., 466.
Brant6me. Quoted, xxxiv (note 47),
xlvii (note 67).
Vies des Dames Galantes, 466.
B re it mann, hans, 2j4.

Brbtonne, R. de la. See Restif.
Brett, the actor, 15.
Briard, printer, 407.
Bridgman, Mrs., 257.
Bridgman, R.W. Quoted, xi(note4).
A Short View of Legal Biblio.
graphy, 474.
Sritf Siograpj^ual fiirtionarp, 448.
Bri£rb, Db, 429.

Briggs, P. Publication by, 264.
Brindlby. Publication by, 357.
British Museum. Errors in the
Catalogue of, liii (note 81).
The Actual Condition of, liii (note

81), 439;
J. P. Collier's strictures on, liii

(note 81).
The Witt collection, 8 (note).
Observations on the Plan, kc., liii
(note 8i), 471.
Brizrattanji, Jadunathji, 268.
Brockhaus. Publication by, 103
(note).

Brothel of negresses in Paris, xxxix.
History of Kings-Place, 319.
First brothel established in Lon-
don on Continental principle by
Mrs. Goadby, 320.
Brough, Johnathan. Publications

by, 210 (note), 301.
Brougham, Lord. Quoted on J.
Wilkes, 232, 236.
Quoted on index making, 478.
Books by, 463, 476.
Brown, C. Publication by, 311.
Brownb, Sir Thos., 87.
Bruce, 180.

Brulliot, Francois. Quoted, 266.

Die. des Monogrammes. kc., 458.
Brunet, Gustavb. Quoted, lii (note
79) > 39, 3<5 (note), 377, 440,
457> 4<*o.
Books, &c., by, 130, 457, 458.
459* 460,464,468,472,47$.
Brunet, J. C. Mentioned, x, xii
(note 5).

index librorum prohibitorum.

491

Brunet, J. C.

Quoted, xi (note 4), 131, 461.

Manuel du Libraire, 468.

Bruno, 23.

Brussels. Books printed at, 52, no,
115, 143, 1 jo, jj6, i6j, 167,
168, 188, 194, 236, 267, 30j,
407,426,427. 428, 430, 434.

Brutftfel* bp Oa*ltgf)t, 428.
Brufelle* la Jiuit, 143, 4*7>

Bruylant-Christophe & Cie, 167.

Buck, Dr. W. D. Quoted, xxxiv (note
4j), xxxvii (note jo).

Buckle, H.T. Quoted, xix (note 18),
xxii, (note 23), xlvii (note 68).

Books on Flagellation said to
have been collected by him,
239, 241.

History of Civilization, 464.
Buclt'* Belijfot, C|)t, 147.

Bugger. Origin of the word, xxxiii
(note 41).

Bulgarians introduce sodomy into

Western Europe, xxxiii (note 4O.

Bulk—y. Mrs., 357.

Bulletin bu BftUopftOe, 449-
Bulletin Crimetftriel, 449.
Bumtickler'* Rebel*, 240,2 j8,

300, 303.
Burd, J. Publication by, 214.
Burgess, Betsy, 401.
Burke, 178.
Burman, 198.

Burmannus, Petrus, 198 (note).
Burnby, E. F. Illustrations by, 4j3.
Burton, 87.

Burton, R. F. Kdma-Shdstra, 282.
Bury, Richaro db. Quoted, xlvii
(note 68), lii (note 78).
Philobiblon, 472.
Busby, 304.

Bussy, Rabutin. See Rabutin.
Butrijer'* Daughter, ICf>e, 156.
Bute, Lord, 208.
Butler, Samubl. Quoted, 1.
Byron, Lady, 189, 191. 192, 193.
Byron, Lord. Don Leon attributed to
him, 189.
Accused of sodomy, 189.
Dr. Lushington quoted, 191.

<3.

Caballus, F. Publication by, 260.
Cabanis, 87, 248.

Cabinet of flmorou* Curiolitierf, S, 148-
Cabinet of &mtp9 Cfp, 149.
Cabinet of Vmvut tKnlocfteb, 264.
Caromonabe, Sa, 150.
Cabenatf, poem of Voltaire, 87.
Cad 1 fcre, Marie Catherine, xl,
(note j j), 6j, 459.

Caillet, Justin, 14j.
Calamities of Authors, 470.
Calcutta. Book published at, 80.
Caligula, Iv (note 84).
Calla, 419.
Callot, xii (note j).
Came rata, Prince, 63.
Camphor, an anti-aphrodisiac, 87.
Cancionero be <8>bra* be Burlaw, 151.

576 index librorum prohibitorum.

CftiutotUYO General, 152.
Candaules, King of the Lydians, 264.
Cam, Cf>e, 354-

Cannon, George. Notice of, 114.
Publications by, 1, 113,244,345,
397-

Cantharides. Effects of, 86.
Captain ^Hom*'* *ong*ter, 135.
Car—, Mrs., 257.
Caracci, Annibalb, xix, 165.
Caracci, Auousto, xix.
CarajtcomeHia, 152,154.
Cart, CIk, 213.

Caresses practised in India, 293,
Carlylb Thos. Quoted, xxii (note
a3)«

On Heroes, &c., 471.
Carrol, Rev. John, murderer, 99,
100.

Cart, Sophia, 23.
Ca*tle Cara, 353.
Castration. See Eunuchism.
Catalogue, 449 to 453.
Catalogues. Bare catalogues com-
paratively useless, xlviii.
H. Stevens quoted, xlviii (note 69).
Blunders in that of the British

Museum, liii (note 81).
Catalogue making, liii, lix (note
93).

Catamites. See Sodomy.
Catherine II, of Russia, 177.
Cart)olk Srterttf, Jttroriou* Set* of, 99.

Catlin, George, 7.

Catullus. Mentioned, liv (note 84).

Quoted, 314.
Caulfield, Jambs, Chalcographi-
mania, xxvii (note 30), 453.

C. C. F. See Congius.

Celestial Bed, Graham's, 87.

Celibacy. Evils, &c. of, 178.

Cento Jiuptiali* Surfomj, 263, 264.

Cf>aUograp$imama, xxvii (note 30),
453.

Challis, Josbph, innkeeper, 391.

Chalmers, Albx. The General Bio-
graphical Die461.

Chalmers, Mrs., bawd, 400.

Chamibr, John. Catalogue, 451.

Cf>an*oit* fei*torifue*, &c., 130.

Chaplain, Cf>e, 215.

Chappbl. Publication by, 357.

Chapuys, 195.

Character of Same* I, 470.

Charavay. Publication by, 410 (note).

Charoin, 181.

Charenton. Marquis de Sade im-
prisoned at, 408.

Charge* et fiecijarge* fiiaboltque*,

Charing Cross, a haunt of pros-
titutes, 363.

Cfcarlatanerie He* Jtaban*, fie la, 456.

Chariot et Coinette, le* Smour* He,

5°> 4*4-
Cf>arm, C&e, 1 S6> 354> ,355-

Charms. Description of those used
in India, 285, 296.
The cross coupled with the
phallus and yoni in the taly,
289 (note).

Cf>a**epot, le, 156.

Cf>a*ti*ement, C$e Romance of; or The
Revelations of Miss Darcy, 344.

C$artt*ement, C|>e SLomante of, &c.,
By an Expert, 345.

index librorum prohibitorum.

493

Chastisement. See Flagellaiton.

Chastity. Essay on, 174, 177.

Chauvet, J. A. Notice of, 196.

Designs, &c., by, 195, 196, 46a.

Cherub, 158.

Cherubim, 160.

Chesterfield, Harry, 452.

Chesterfield, Reginald, 102.

/

Ch*zy, A. L. Anthologte Erotique, 77.
Chitrini women, 285.
Cftloe** darter, 229.
Choisbul-Meusb, Comtesse de, 117.
Chorier, Nicolas, 194.
Christaens, A., publisher, xxxii.
Publications by, 166, 168, 169,
236,442.

Cfpontque *can*aleu*e, Ea, 371, 453-
Cf)rp*al, 210, 233 (note), 234, 453.
Chrysostom, St., 181.
Churchill. Charles. Mentioned,
210, 222, 223, 225.
Quoted on Kidgell, 213.
CicSri, P. L. C., 196.
Cfter Cellar *ong*ter, Ci)t, 135.
Cinq ®ri*ette* a**ociee*, le*, 146.
Cipriani, G. B. Frontispiece by, 276.
Circumcision, Essay on, 174,178.
Citj> »iograp$p, 454-
Cibilijation in tfnglantt, fei*t. of, 4^4.
Cibil Sntbitt XUbieto, 454.
Clarendon, Lord, 63.
Clarke, Dr. Adam, 250.
Cleland, John, xviii.
Clement, David. Quoted, lxii (note
98), lxiii (note 99).
Bibliotheque curieuse, 447.

Clitoris, excessive size of, 85, 180.

Described, 290.
Clogher, Jocblyn, Bishop of, sod-
omite, 340.

Cloi*ter, C$t, 70.
Club* an* Club life, 454.
Club* of lonfton, Ci)e, 454.
Coal feole Companion, Cfie, 135.
Coates, Henry, The British Don

yuan, 140.
Cockatoo'* jlote Boofc, Cfje, 134-
Cockchafer, C&e, 134.
Cocttolorum 6ong*ter, Cf>e, 134.
Cocotte*, Bicije* et lorette*, le*, i4j-
Cocotte* *e Brujrellc*, te*, 144.
Cobl, Henri, 145.
Coffee, an anti-aphrodisiac, 87.
Coffey, Charles. Quoted xli (note
59)-

Cohen, Henry. Quoted, 31.

Guide de LAmateur, &c., 462.
Coition. See Copulation.
Colburn. Publication by, 183.
Cole, B. Frontispiece by, 142.
Coleridge, S.T.Quoted,! (note 73).

Table Talk, 475, 476.
Collet, Mrs., xiii.
Collette, C. H. Prosecutions by,
xix (note 17), xxix (note 35).
Collier, J. P. Quoted, liii (note 81),
lv (note 86).
Bibliographical and Critical Ac-
count of the Rarest Books in
the English Language, 442.
Collin de Plancy. See Plancy.

UUU

494

index librorum prohibitorum.

Collin, Leopold. Publication by, 323.
Colman, G., the younger. Quoted, 342.
Cologne, Books printed at, 40, 72,
98, 150.

Colton, Rev. C. C. Lacon, 466.

Quoted, lvi (note 87).
Columbus, 12, 8j.
Conuttian* in jFrasut, JMErrtog* of,

19.

Comelati, G. Dictionary, 184.
Comic J>ong*trr, C^t, 134.
Commerce! Immorality of, shown

by Bayle,lxvii (note 107).
Companion to t$e Via; Sou**, 447.
Comstock, A. J., xxxi.
Conception, 263.
Condemned Books, sought after,
xxvi.

Generally rare; Clement quoted,
lxiii (note 99).
Contagion Be jfEario Aril, 145.
Contortion dalante K'um &mm *u

iKotOft, 165.
Conie**ion* M Courti*am*, 146.
Confr<*fon*ofa£inflU;fHan, 326,396.
CottftMion* of 9- ftacitington, 454.
CoitffiMionario, 167.
Conoius, Camillb. Engraved title
by, 266.

Congress of Paris, 8j, 86,173.
ContfriOtr *u Bibliophile, le, 454.
Con*erbateur tie la A ante, le, 96.
Constrictor Vaginae, 290.
Contades, Mme. de, 64.
Contb Mblzi, G. de'. Dixionario di

Opere Anonime, Sec., 458.
contemporain, Un, 408.

Contention betfoeen IJobertp and
XUcfietf, 19.

Cook, James, landlord of the White
Swan Public House, 3 28 to 337.

Coombb, William, 254.

Cooper, Lucy, 257, 331.

Cooper, Rev. W., 356, 460.

Cooper, Thompson. Men of the

Time, 469.
Copie* taken from $e XUcorM, 454-
Copulation.

The two most natural modes are
the best, 119.

A woman may be enjoyed by two
men at the same time, 120.

The woman should not be quite
naked, 121.

The woman has more pleasure
than the man, 121.

Deflowering a virgin an acquired
taste, but yet the acme of de-
light, 122.

Pleasures of rape, 125.

Time when a virgin should be
enjoyed, 125.

Different ways of different ani-
mals, 177, 263.

Influence of the stars on con-
ception, 263.

The effects and manner of
copulation, 263.

Ills produced by Copulation, 263.

Discussion as to the pleasures en*
joyed by man and woman, 263.

Certain symptoms which accom-
pany the act, 263.

Conceptio sine coitu, 263.

index librorum

prohibitorum.

495

Copulation.

Why lovers, full of desire, are
impotent when they attain their
object, 264.

Of those who died in the act, 264.

Signs by which one may know
that a woman is amorous,-2 86.

Periods when women have the
greatest desire for congress, 287.

Women are colder, but less easily
satisfied than men, 288.

The woman should constrict her
vagina, 290.

Indiscriminate congress con-
demned, 291.

A List of Indian women who are
excluded from copulation, 291.

Preliminaries described, 293.

Various postures enumerated. 295.

Monotony condemned, 298.

Coq hardi, Au, 98.

Coquette Cijatte (sic), la, 370.

Corbyn, Mrs., 257.

Cork Rumps, 320.

Corpse Profanation, xxxvii, 107.

Instances of, 412.

Correipoitttrweof 9. ORtQtetf, 454.

CORT, CoRNEILLE, 266.

Cosmo, Saint; 85.

Cosmopolite, le, 439* 454-

Coun*eb on t$e nature, fee., 455.

Coupable Innocent, Se, 64.

Courrier Cjftaorbinatre, &c., 168.

Courrier litteraire, 455.

Courtney, W. P. Bibliotheca Cornu-
biensis, 445.

Coxe, Mrs., 257.

Cradock, John. The Life of John
Wilkes, 466.

Crapblbt. Quoted on Dibdin, xii
(note 5).

Cri ft'fnttignation be* Vxaiti Cocotte*,

14 J-

Criterion, The, 391.

Critical anb ftitftorical 455.

Cross, .The, connected with phallic

worship, 85.
Crowling, Mr., 249.
Cruikshank, Gborgb, 160.
Cruikshank, Isaac. Frontispiece by,

158, 160.
Cruikshank, Robert, 160.
Cruikshanks, J., 158, 160.
C—t—, Miss, 257.
Cuckoldom, 142.
Cucftolb'* £etft, C$e, 134.
Cultt be Driape, Se, 9.
Cultt be* itauboir* tfenerateur*, 9.
Cummins, Mother, 312.
Cunasus Rogbrus, 198.
Cupib'tf IKttfcetlan]), 45.
Curieutfe debruifcen, 173.
Curiotfitate* <£rotirae, 174, 289, 455.
Curioliteiten ban flllerlei fiarb, 173.
Curioaite* Bibltograpi)ique*, 455.
Curiotfite* be THi^toirebe prance, 455.
Curiotfite* Sitteraire*, 455.
Curiotfitie* of panellation, xlii (note
61).

Curiotfitietf of literature, 455.
Curiou* Aongtfter, C£e, 134.
Curry, Michabl, Wilkes's printer,
208, 226.
His death, 208 (note).
Cut—a—dash, Kitty, 257.
c—vbr—ing, Miss, 257.
Cs$era'* ftymnal, 185.

496

index librorum prohibitorum.

D.

D'Ablaing van Gibssbnburg. See

Ablaing.
Daca, Emperor, 163.
fiaflp Celtgrapf), Cfje, 455.
D'Alembbrt, 151, 323.
Dal—ple, Mrs., 257.
Damianus, Saint, 85.
Damodar, Dbvji, 273.
Dance Houses in New York, 188.
Dangbau, Marquis de. Memoirs of the

Court of France, 183.
Darcy, Miss, 344, 354.
fiarlt *toe of fltto $oxk lib, C^e,

188, 455.
D'Artaonan. See Artagnan.
Dashanas, or morsications, 293,295.
Dash wood, Sir F. SeeLsDE Spencer.
Davenport, John. Memoir of, 87.
Quoted, lxix (note no), 248.
(note), 289 (note).
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphro-

disiacs, 82, 441.
Curiositates Erotica, 174, 455.
Complete list of his works, 183.
Davenport, R. A. The Life of Ali

Pacha, 183 (note).
Davis, William. Quoted, 21.

Books by, xvi (note n), 465,471.
Dawson, Mrs., 22.
Dean, J. printer, 342.
Death. Essay on, 174, 182.

Incertitude des Signes de la Mort,
473.

Db B rife re, printer, 429.
Db Bvre, G-F. le Jbunb. Mentioned,
xi (note 4).
Bibliographie Instructive, 443.
Becamtron, Jttltctfon* from tf>e, 369.
Decock, printer, 145.
Dehou, J-H. Publication by, 188.
Deists. Deaths of, 182.
De La Monnoye. See Monnoyi.
Dblaruej Th. Isographie, 465.
Dblaunay, 132.

Delepibrre, Octave. Quoted, 28,
422 (note).
Books by, xvi (note 12), 130,440,

455> 4j<5, 47^, 475-
Praised by G. Brunet, 440.
Delicacy, false, condemned} J.
Davenport quoted, 175.
Beroalde de Verville quoted, lxviii
(note no).
Settriou* Charter, Cfje, 134.
fieltgfjt* of Imagination, Cfje, 396.
Delpit, Jules. Riponse d%un cam-

pagnard, 164 (note).
Db Martonne. Nouveau Manuel, 471.
Db Morgan. Quoted, li (note 77),
lix (note 94), lx (note 95).
Arithmetical Books, 441.
D'Enghien, 195.
Denis, F. Nouveau Manuel, 471.
Denfrofofoigfeiten be* «&errn 109,
426.

index librorum prohibitorum.

497

Dbnon, Baron, xix.

Dbntu, £. Publication by, 48.

D'Eon. See Eon.

Be pettttu tfuiqpt apeciebu*, 96.

Dbrrt, Bob, 17.

Dbrvibux, Mile., 115.

Btfcription tie Pfcrte tte* Jbrmapfjro*
titetf, 456.

Dbusinoius, Ant. Foetus Mussipon-
tani, 261.

Vtndkue, &c., 262.

Beujr Court, te*, 432.

D'Hbylli, G. Gazette Anecdotique,
461.

D—h—st, Lord, 15.

Dialogue on Atag*, 434.

Bialogue* bettoeen a SWd art* a female
Cf>ri*tian, 113.

Dibdin, Rev. T. F. Mentioned, xii.

Criticised by E. Edwards, xi
(note 4).

Criticised by Crapelet, xii (note 5).

High prices of his books, xiii
(note 5).

Quoted, xxix (note 36), xlvii
(note 68).

Books by, 442, 444, 466.

Dickbnson. Notice of, 127.

Publications by, 126, 127.

Birtionarp, fee., 183,184, 447, 448,
4$6 to 458, 461,476.

Bictionnaire, Ire., 456 to 458.

fifo ougf)t to *o ft ?, 353.

Difficulty of describing a book; N£e
de la Rochelle quoted, lxxii
(note 1x7).

Dildoes, 320.

yyv

Dilkb, 207 (note).
Dillon, 427.

flip in t$e Atlantic, % 353-
Birtourtf auj: flflanrt lie IKarat, 407.
BfeplapofVRelcf) Coat armour*, 12.
Bi*qui*i$ione intorno, &c., 458.
Disraeli, Isaac. Booksby, 455,470.
Bi**ertation *ur I'Slcftiafte, 29, 458.
Bt*tre**e* of laura, C|>e, 371-
D'Obsonville, 87.
Doctor, C$e, 459.
Dod, bookseller, 357.
Dodslby, bookseller, 357.
Boll'* Witling, Cf)e, 434.
flon 9uan, C|>e Brftfef), 140.
flon Icon, 189.

Dondby-Dupr4. Publication by, 77.
Done, James, sodomist, 334.
Bon't be *in#, *ag* £u*an, 354.
Doublet de Persan, Mme., 324,

325 (note).
Douglas, Jenny, bawd, 17.
D. R * * * See Rourb.
Drake, Dr., 182.

Bramatir literature, feitftorp of ®n>

gli*i), 4^4-
Dress, mens' effeminate, described
364.

Droit du seigneur. See Seignior-
ial Rights.

Droz, 238.

Drury Lane, described, 360.
Du Barre's Whim, print, 246.
Du Barri, Mme. See Barri.
Dublin. Books published at, 3.52,

355> 367.
Dubois, A., 378 (note).

498

index librorum prohibitorum.

Dubois, Cardinal, 87.
Due, Viollbt lb. See Viollbt.
Dudaim. See Mandrake.
Du Frbsnoy, Lbnglbt. See Lbnglbt.
Dugdalb, William. Notices of,
127, 19a.
Quoted, 16, 23,118, 126, 326,

396> 433-
Publications by, 15, 22, 118,126,
135. 148, ij8, 189, 245, 249,
314, 326, 344, 379> 398»4°4>
43 433, 435> 45a-
Duke's-place, 363.
Dulau & Co, xxix (note 35).
Dumas, Albxandrb, 443.
Duncombe, Edward, bookseller,

Duncombe, John. Notice of, 137.

Publications by, 13, 135.
Buncombe** Brollerie*, 135*
Bu Jieuf etUu Tfteujr, 97 (note), 428.
Dunstall, singer, 147.
Duplessis, G., 449.
Duponchbl, Edmond. Notice of, 196.

L'Ecole des Biches, 194.
Durochbr, Onbstmb, 455.
DuthIS, 425.

Du Tillier. Quoted, 427.
Dwarfs, 263.

DwXrkXnIthji, Mah£r£j, 272.
Dyce, Alex. Quoted, 431.

Catalogue, 453-
Bgtng lober to Sricfc, 198.

<3.

E and O gaming tables, 14.
Ebbrt, F. A. Quoted, xi (note 4)>44°-
General Bibliographical Die., 461.
ttbujor*, anecdote* lire. Tje*, 440.
ttcribatn* ttrotiqpe*, Notice *ur le*, 47°-
Edinburgh. Sodomy at, 340.
education ratioraulle, V, 9 (note).
Edwards, Edward. Quoted, xi (note
4), xiii (note 5), xxvi (note
29), lxxi (note 115).
Books by, 466, 469.
eik02imhxan0n, 81.
Eisenmbngervs, J. C. De Foetv

Mussipontano, 262.
Ellis, 12.
Elvin, xix.
Elysium, The, 312.

ei*ebfr*, C**ai *nr le*, 45°-
tfncgclopaefcia »ritannua, 459.
ttnCant *u »orttel, V, 160.
Cnfant* Hebenu* celebre*, 466.
englanb, 9 8to0rap$icalfei*t. of, 447 •
tfnglantt, fei*t. of, 4^4-
Cnalantt un&er fye »ou*e of fcanober,

459-

«ngli*|)Bramatu literature, Ai*t. of,

464.

englt*f) Stage, account of tf>e, 475-
ttngli*!) Woman'* Bome*tic fiftagA*

tine, 459-
ttnigme* et Becouberte* Sftlio*

grapi)tque*, 459-
Eon, Chevalier d\ 14, j 82.

Cpicurean, C|>e JM», 3H-

index librorum prohibitorum.

499

®ra fllmanarit, e, 459.

Erasmus, 178, 197.

QtxtA, 459.

Erotic Literature. Qu&ard
quoted, vii.

Pleasure it affords; Restif de la
Bretonne quoted, vii.

No satisfactory bibliography of it
exists, xvi.

Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatifs
& rAmour, &c.. criticised, xvii.

Why English erotic literature is
despised, xvii.

English and foreign authors and
artists compared, xviii.

Necessity of its being taken into
consideration, xix.

Should be used with caution, xxvii.

Prosecutions for dealing in it,
xxix (note 35), xxx (note 37),
a8, 434 (note).

Present state of it in various
countries. See Book trade.

Author's excuses for handling
erotic literature, Ixvi.

Lenglet du Fresnoy quoted, Ixvi
(note 106).

P. Bayle and J. F. Boyes quoted,
lxvii (notes 107 and 108).

CrottfkA Biblion, 459.

Erotodidascalus, a65.

Errors should be reproduced, lviii.

Aftlabage rompu, V, 96.

©tfpum anglote, V, 322, 459.

C**ai btbliograpf)ique, &c., 450.

Cftetai *ur la Jfemme,aao.

tt**a{ *ur le* »ibltotf)eque* Imagu

natre*, 459.
ttllag on Woman, 198 to 236,430.
Gttbtv9* £tor#, 353.

Estinvillb, Mme. d', 138.
etc a la Campagne, Ota, 155.
Cton of 35.3-
Ctremu auj: beau con (sic), 155.

tttube 4®ebtco*legale &c., 459.
EugSnib, ex-Empress, 55, 38, 63.
Eunuchism, a63, a64.

Essay on, 174, 180.
Evbno III, King of Scotland, 163.
E. W., 9.

Exeter. Sodomy at, 338.
Cjtfjtbitfo dFlagellantutm, 2^4.
Crfjftttton of Jfemale JflagellanU.

See jFemale dFIageHant*.
Expert, An. See Stock.
tfrpotftulatorp letter &c., «n, 114-

jr.

jfartum pourfH. C. Cabiere, 459.
Fairburn, John. Publication by, 99.
Jfatfyful fiarratibe &c., 34® (note),
460.

Jfamtlg fceralb, Cf)e, 460.
jfmn$'i Cf)arm*, a2i.
Jfantaurte* »ibltograpf)tque*, 460.
Jfantatefote; te, 439> 4^°-

584

index librorum prohibitorum.

Far—ar, Mrs., 257.

Farmer, Thos. The Plain Truth, 214,

dFa*$(onabl* Itrturt*, 24*1 2S7> a58>
300.

&mbl&i, Sbmtnre* ttt9 109,129.
Faulkner, Miss, 257.
Fazy, James, 56.
Felicia ou mt* frtbame*, 109.
Jftlitianu, ffyt of, 43.
female a*$toit*, t$e AM. of, 19.
dFemab ;flag*naiiM, ©rfn'bttton of,
238, 242, 243, 258, 300, 304.
Part the Second, 240, 245, 249,
345.

Female Flagellants, a list of, xiii

to xiv, 257, 400,401.
dFtmmt publiqut, la, 146.
dFemntt* ni boniu fortunt, lei, 146.
dFemmt* AalaitM Be* Jiapolton, 61,
43a«

F*ssi not, 409.
^rtttbal of Sitamon, 375-
F£tis, F. J. Biographie des Musiciene,
448.

Filmorb, Millard, 252.
Findlatbr, Earl of, 341.
iTfoMfr, 353-
dffart 9rinc Fischabbr, publisher, xxx, 72.
Fisher, Kitty, xliv, 257, 331.
Fitz-Adam, Adam, 143.
F. L., 169, 172, 236.
Flagellation. Used by priests for
their own lubricity, xl.
Father Girard and the girl Cadi&re,
xl (note 55), 415.

Flagellation.

Cornelius Adriaensen's whipping
academy, xl (note 55), 415.

Treated scientifically by Meibo-
mius, xl (note 56).

A propensity peculiar to the
English, xl, 399.

Numerous English works devoted
to the subject, xl.

Practised in female schools, xii,
*59.

Mentioned on the stage, and in
magazines, xii.

Modern authors have written on
the subject, xiii.

Whipping establishments, xiii,
399-

Names of female flagellants, xiii,
xliv, 257,400, 401.

Theresa Berkley the queen of her
profession, xliii.

The Berkeley Horse, xliv.

Women fonder of wielding the
rod than men, xlvi, 345.

The propensity is peculiar to
women of rank, xlvi (note 66),
xlvii.

Instance of a woman who liked
being birched, xlvi (note 66).

Anecdote cited from Brant6me,
xlvii (note 67).

Delicacy necessary in adminis-
tering the birch, 242,310, 346,

399> 40i.

A curious extract, 246.

Nosegays worn by female flagel-
lants, 248.

index librorum prohibitorum.

585

Flagellation.

Amusing "Card" addressed to
"Gentlemen Flagellants," 259.

Whippings described, 306, 346,
31^

Mrs. Potter prosecuted for flog-
ging a girl against her will, 311.

The recipient finds pleasure, 346,
349-

Dress described, 306, 351.

Quotation about backsides being
able to blush, 352.

Epigram cited, 373.

Men addicted to flagellation
divided into three classes, 399.

Various mentions, 87, 104, 105,
149> I59-

Books on, xl, xii, xiii, 113, 156,
238, 240, 257, 305, 311, 344,

345» 353. 3 37°» 397» 4$o-
dflarf) Counter, 134.

Jttat'* <$gto ®pene&, €%e, 404.

jflattrrj), SBfobenture* ot, 19.

Fleet Street, haunt of prostitutes,
3<*3.

Fleming, J. Publication by, 43.

Flbury, General, 64,

Flogging. See Flagellation.

Florbnt-Q., 95.

Florio, 218.

Flowers used by female flagellants,
248.

fottu* JKu**tpontam, lK*t., 261.

Fontbnbllb, Julia de. Quoted, 413.

Incertitude des Signes de la Mort,
473.

Foots, Sam., 320.

www

Forbbroius, F. C., 81.
;fora of fiuttuirt, C^f, 113.
dTorn of lofct, Cfi*, 142.
Fornication. See Prostitution.
Forstbr, John. L\fe of Goldsmith,
466.

fortnigftUp J&rtitto, Cfce, 460.
Foster, tutor of E.W.Montague, 141.
;four 6eorgt*, Cf)*> 460.
;foutai*c* tiiaboliqut (sic), 155.
fouteur* ttccfctotiqut*, it Courritr

to, 168.
Foutin, Saint, 85. ^outromanie, la, 323.
Fox, Sally, 333.
Fragonard, xix.

France. Book trade (erotic) in, xxix.
prance tiebmut ftalirmu, fta, 26.
dTrana 6alante, la, 26.
prance, frfetotre He, 463.
prance littrrairt, la, 460.
;frana, JXbmoir* of $t Court of, 183.
Frankfort. Book published at, 261.
Frasi, Signora, 257.
Frederick, Kit, 257.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 226.
frtt examination kc., % xxxiv (note
4$)> 3.39*

Freeman, J. Publications by, 216,219,
Fr&rb, E. Manuel \du Bibltographe

Normandy 468.
Fr&re-Jban, 428, 430 (note).
Freres Mineurs, 422.
Fr£ron, 323.

Fresnoy, Lbnglbt du. Quoted, lxvi
(note 106), 416.
Books by, 456, 470.

586 index librorum prohibitorum.

dfriar*, Smorou*, 43.
dfriar*, «nterpri*ing, 43.
Friend op Truth, A, 214.
Frlgidls, De, 264.

;fri*fep Song*tcr, C&e, 135.
;fri*b$> Tocali*t, fl$t, 134-
Fruition. See Copulation.
dfuU ftariotr Arc., 8, 214.

0.

Gaignat, L. J. Catalogue, 443.

Gaillard, M. 450.
dahmterit* Ku jrtiii* SiecU, 461.
Game at Flats, 357,367.

Gautibr, Th£ophilb. Mentioned,
443-

Quoted, xxiii (note 23), xxv
(note 27).

Mademoiselle de Maupin, 467.

Aatotyrop'* tflocutionarp Cla**
Booit, 184.

Gay bt pils. See Gay, Julbs.

Gay, Julbs. Mentioned, 28.

Quoted, 2, 14, 15, 25,42, 51, 54,
73, 89, no, 130.131,132,138,
143, 150, 169, 450.

Bibliographic des Ouvrages relattfs
d rAmour criticised, xvii.

Publications by, 1 (note), 23, 29,
129, 168, 407, 424, 439, 442,
454, 464, 469, 472, 473.

dap (Komnt of Sari* fcc., Cf)e, 145.

Aajette Siurtlotique, 461.

Gazette He* Cribunaur, 461.

Aajette £oire, la, 461.

G£b£od£, Les Fr£res, 130.

Geisler, Fr6d., xv (note 8).

deiuantfjropria, 260.

General Bibliographical 9tr., 461.

General Biographical JBtc., 461.
Generation. Essay on, 174,177.

Organs of. See Organs,
duuratibt Solon*, fbi tf**ap on tfp

Wor*f)tp of tye, 5.
Gbnbstb, John. Account of the En-
glish Stage, 475-
Geneva. Books published at, 52,62.
Gentleman'* Smorott* Beefier, Cfce,
134.

Gentleman'* Curiou* Beciter, Cf)t, 134.
Gentleman'* JKaga^ine, C£e, 462.
Gentleman'* Sanctum Sanctorum,

134-

Gentleman'* Sparkling Song*ter,

134.

Gentleman'* SpicegBeciter, Cfrt, 134-
Gentleman'* Spicep Song*ter, Cf>e»

134-

Gentletnan'*St*epUCf)a Gentleman'* Uigi>t Gui&e, 145.
George f and tt,Bemini*cence* 0^474.

George iv.v xlii, 86, 469.
Georgian ®ra, Ci)e, 461.
Gerhard, F., bookseller, 188.
Gbrin, Marib, 99.
German le**on*, Cf)e, 353.
Germany. Book trade(erotic)in, xxx.
Germond, J. B. L., 458.

587 index librorum

prohibitorum.

Gbrvais, Le Sieur, 425.
Ghislbtty. Publication by, 62.
Giants, 263.

Gibbon. Quoted on J. Wilkes, 233.
Mentioned, 1 (note 75), 178,179,
180, 181.

Gi£-Boullay. Publication by, 378
(note).

Gibssbnburg. See Ablaing.
Girard, J. B., xl (note 55), 65, 415,
4S9-

Girault, E. Revue des Romans, 474.
Girouard. Publication by, 30.
Girouard, veuve. Publication by, 30.
6ita4&atti)ua'£ritfi)na, 73, 396.
dlana at tip doolf oft Bap*, S, 354.
G—lli, Signora, 257.
Glogau, Bbnny, bookselller, xxx

(note 38).
G. M., 458.
Gnostics, 9.

Goadby, M. Publication by, 319.
Goadby, Mrs., bawd, 320.
Gobthb, xxvi (note 29).
Goettingen. Book published at, 161.
Gobtzmann, 51.
GoxulIdhisji, 272.
Golbani, 23.
Goldoni, 23.
Goldsmith, Miss, 257.
Goldsmith, Olivbr, lxv (note 103).
GopiS, 269, 276.
Gordon db Pbrcel, 456.
Gossblin, bookseller, 144.
Gourd an, Mme., bawd, 323.
Go yon, Comtesse de, 157.
G—R, Lady, 257.

6rattatfon of a Budt from a &rtttu

Horn, 142.
Grabssb, Dr. J. G. T., Quoteu, lxv
(note 104).
Books by, 470, 476.
Graglia, G. Notice of, 378.

Epigrammi di Mandate, 376.
Graham, Dr. 87.
Gram mont. Due de, 26.
Granger, Rev. J., Biographical His-
tory of England, 447.
Grant, Colonel, 341.
Grant, President, 252.
6rapi)fcinuAration*otPtogartf), 462.
Gray, W., printer, 433.
Great decret SUfcealcU, Cf)t, 191.
Gr£court, Abb6, 371.
Greenfield, 340.
Gregory, xvi, Pope, lxv (note 103).
Grbllbt, M. E., 454.
Grenouille de fer, 8 (note).
Grbnvillb, Miss, xliv.
Grbtton. Publications by, 201, 214,

220, 221.
Grey, Lady, 86.
Griffin. Publication by, 214.
Griffin, Jambs. Publication by, 140.
Griffiths, xxviii.
Grogan, 23.
Grotius, 178.

Grupen, C. U. Notice of, 164.
De Uxore Theotisca, 161.
De Uxore Romano, 165.
Guerre UttfDieur, la, 197.
6utot toe PSmateur fee., 462.
Guizot, lxv (note 103).
Gulal, 270, 273.

588 index librorum prohibitorum.

%

Hachette, Jeanne, 3$ (note).
Hadribn, Cornelius. See Adri-
aensen.

Hague. Bookspublishedat, 117,416.
Haines, W., American publisher, xxxi.
Hair. Manipulation of the, 293,295.
Destroying the hair, 297, 381.
Dressing the hair, 320, 365.
Halifax, Marquis of. Quoted, viii.
Halkett, Samuel, xv (note 7).
Hall, H., singer, 135.
Hall am, H. Quoted xxii (note 21).
Mentioned, lxv (note 103).
Literature of Europe, 465.
Halle r, 85.
Halliwell, 12.

Hamburg. Conviction for selling ob-
scene books at, xxx (note 38).
Hamilton, Lady, 87, 127.
Hamilton, Sir W., 3, 85.
Bankbook of dftrtitiou* $anu*> *»v

(note 7), 462.
Ptanbbook to Copograpfjp, 462.
Ptanbg'Sooit about Boob*, 462.
fcarb ;factt, 354.
Hardy, bookbinder, 196.
Hardy. Oscar. Mysteres de Laeken,
188.

Harris, engraver, 11.
Harris, Sally, 257.
fcartj>'*fcoUba#<, 352.
Hart, W. H. Index Expurgatorius
Anglicatius, xv (note 9), 464.

Hartcupp. Mentioned, xxxii.
Brussels by Gaslight, 428.
Publications by, 156, 354, 434.
Seizure at his house, 434 (note).
Harte Bret, 254.
Hartsoker, 177.
Harvey, 177.
Hastini woman, 285.
Hat. " Joke Hats M described, 365.
Hat in, E. Bibliographie de la Press e,
443.

ftaut'Con ftrralb, Cf)e, 13.
Hay, James. Publication by, 224.
Hay—d, Clara, 257.
Hayb, J. D. L., 416 (note).
Hayes, Charlotte, 237.
Haylbr, H., photographer, xix (note
17).

Haywood. Portrait by, 183 (note).

H. B. See Bodart.

Head Dresses. See Hair.

Hbbdbn. See Hepburn.

Heber, Richard, 340.

Hbcaubt, 86.

Hbbmskirk, singer, 147.

Hbliogabalus, 181.

Hbnrich ber Wwe, 161, 162.

Henrich Palatinus, 161.

Hepburn, J. N., sentenced to death

for sodomy, 332 (note).
Herbert, Fanny, 257.
Hbrbestoffer, Ch. Paintings by,
267.

589 index librorum prohibitorum.

Hbrlagn£z, P. de. See Vbrlainb.
hermaphrodism. Essay on, 174,
181.

ftrrmapijrotoitu*, 81, 413.
ftcroftote, »i*tot>:e V, 463.
Herodotus. Quoted, 163, 264, 412,
4«3-

pteroe*, lecture* on, 466, 471.
hero* tt'sinour, le*, 129.
Hewbrdinb. Portrait of, 375.
Heylli, G. d\ 461.
Hildyard, bookseller, 357.
hindu books. Sacred, 73,268,275.

Obscene, 277 (note),
fttntoit*, annotation* on ti)e bacvtu

wnting* of tfk, 73.
Hippocrates. Quoted, 82.

Mentioned, 179.
hippomanes, an aphrodisiac, 86.
Hirsching, F. C. G. Quoted, 165.

#anbbudj ber&fjmterqjerfonen, 463.
fttototre to'une coureu*e he rue*, 146.
ftfotoire 9u*tifiee contre le* homan*,

V, 456.
ftfetoire, fcc., various, 463.
ftfetoria jfoetu* 4ku**tpontant, 261.
ftt*toria itartu* infekri*, 261.
fefetorual fltla* of tl)e »oman «nu

pire, 12.
w*torfcal cla** soofc, 184
ftfetorie ban b, c. 9toriaen*en, 422.
$tj*orifdj literarifdjes «$anbbudj, &c., 463.
fefetorp of tip jha^ajrafa*, 268.
fet*torp, tot., various, 463, 464.
h—nter, mrs., 257.
Hoefnbr, dr., 471.
Hogarth, W., xviii, 235, 462.
XXX

Hole, Rev. Charles. Brief Bio-

graphical Dictionary, 448.
holland. Book trade in, xxx.
Holland, W., bookseller, 375.
Holloway. The Phwnix of Sodom,

3*8.
Holmes, 254.
Holyday, 87.
Home, Sir Evbrard, 85.
Homer. Quoted, 198.
ftone*tj> an* finaberp, 19.
Horace. Quoted, 322.

Mentioned, 180, 182, 197.
ftorn cale*, 13.

Hornb, T. H. Quoted, ix, 457.

Introduction to Bibliography, 465.
horse-shoe, a phallic symbol, 6.
Horstivm, I. D., 262.
Hotten, J.C. Noticosof, xxviii, 249.
Publications by, j, 82, 193 (note),
229, 239, 241, 244 (note), 245,
248 (note), 300, 305,310, 345,
35a> 37h 4 4 Hotten, William, 249.
Houghton, 252.

Hughes, G. Publication by, 342.

Hughes, Mrs., 257.

Hugo, Victor, 90, 443.

Huish, R. Memoirs of George IVt 469.

Hume, 178.

humour* of lontton, ci>r, 21.
hundreds of drury,described,26a.
Hunter, 86.

Hurstonb, J. p. The Piccadilly Am-
bulator, 341.
Hurtault, P. T. N. Notice of, 96.
VArt de Peter, 95.

5o 6

index librorum prohibitorum.

I*** M. Lb C. D\ xviii, 442, 464.
fckp BHtrfep *ong*ttr, C|>t, 134.
tomographic tu* ttjtampe*, 464.
{[lustration* of the lit. fti*t., fcx.,464.
Immorality of Commerce; Bayle
quoted, lxvii (note 107).

of the present age; Th6ophile
Gautier quoted, xxv (note 27).
Impotency, 85, 86, 264.
Jmprimerie Particultere de Lord C**#,
426.

fmprimeur* tmaginairttf, 464.
Incest. Lord Byron accused of, 193.
Index. Scope of the present one,
lxxiii, 478.

Importance of a good index, lxxiii
(note 119).

One index preferable, lxxiv (note

* 23).

Lord Brougham quoted on index
making, 478.

The first Papal Indices lxiv (note

ItrtJtV Sfpurgatoriu* ftnglieanu*, xv

(note 9), 464.
fntory Crpurgatoriu* of JHartial, 280,
4^5-

InHtir lorupletiMinttttf I fib ro rum, fcc ,

465.

Iirtfijr of 9rof>fflitt* Sooft*, 465.
India. Obscene books published in,
277 (note).
Books on, 73, 184, 268, 282.
Indiscreet Toys. See Dlldoes.
Infibulatlon, 87.
Inglis, J. B. Philobiblon,xlv\i (note

68), 47a.

iimoeeiite JUcrtajao, 160.
Intermtttiaire, V, 465.
fittrotourtion to the literature of

©urope, 465.
introduction to the J^tubp of Sftlio*
graph*, 465.

Iode, Pbtre db, engraver, 1 (note).
Ireland. Round towers of, 6, 85.
Ireland, S. Illustrations of Hogarth,
462.

Ireland, W. H., 453.
frilf) dmocfe, fltobenturetf of an, 13.
Isabbau, Mile., bawd, xl.
faographie *e< feontnu* Celebre*, 465.
Italy. State of book trade (ob-
scene) there, xxxi.
IttJicia Taria, 262.

3.

Jackson. Publication by, 2ij.
Jackson, bookseller of York, 357.
Jacob, Lb Bibliophile. See La-
croix, Paul.

Jacaubs, L JadunXthji,Brizrattanji, 268,273.
J agger, singer, 147.
Sail, 434.

index librorum prohibitorum.

507

Jal, A. Die. de Biographie &c.t 457.
9aloujr be tfon <$mbre, &e, 64.
Jambs I, 86, 470.
Jambs, Mrs., xlii.

Jamibson,T.H. Death of, xv (note 7).
Janin, Julbs. Mentioned, 443.

Le Marquis de Sade, 34 (note), 468.
Jannbt, Pibrrb, 446, 458, 475.
Jaugey, Louis. Notice of, 129.

Books, &c., by, 128, 267, 305.
9*alou*p out*b>itteb, 43.
Jeffs, W. Notice of, 157.

Publications by, 63, 156, 444.
Jilt. Description of a, 360.
9oe flMUtt'* 9etft*, 12.
Johanneau, £. Epigrammes contre

Martial, 378.
John, St., a eunuch, 181.
Johnson, Dr. S. Quoted, 213.

Works, 476.
9o$n*on,Cf>eSmour*of €001,49,2 66.
Johnston, Charles. Quoted on J.
Wilkes, 233.
Chrysal, 453.
joke Hats, described, 365.
Jolliffb, bookseller, 357.

SoUp Companion, C&e, 135-
Jones, Hannah, xliv.
Jones, John, 113.
Jones, Mrs., bawd, 401.
Jones, Stephen, 447.
Josephine, Empress, 408, 409,410.
Journal be la Xlegeiue, 465.
Journal be* fn*pecteurtf, 465.
9oitritep rounb $e librarp of a Bib*

liomaniac, 465.
9opeu*ete* be ;frere*9ean, 430.
9uan, Cf>e 8rtti*i) Bon, 140.
Judge, Mrs., 257.

Judges, Publications by the, 451,467.
Skugemeit* ft* £aban*, 466.
Julius III, Pope, sodomist, xxxiii

(note 42).
Junius, 221.

9u*t bit et Juliette, xxii (note 22),
xxix (note 36), xxxii, 33, 103,
104, 105, 109.
3uftine unb 3uliette, xxii (note 22), 466.
Juvenal. Quoted, iii.

Mentioned liv (note 84), 85,180,
181, 182.
J. W. Senator, 216.

K.

Kabbadah, woman, described, 291

(note).
KahIn. See Krishna.
KalyIna-Mall. Kdma-Shdstra, 283.
KIma-deva, 284.
Kama-salila, 286, 290, 298.

Hama'dftaltra, 282, 284.
Karini, woman, described, 285.
KarsandIs Mulji. See Mulji.
Kauchiluas, sect, described, 74.
Kayser, C. G. Index Locuplelissi-
mus, 465.

592

index librorum prohibitorum.

Keller, Rose, 37.

Kennedy, Miss, 257.

Kbnnett,White. Quoted, ix (note3).

A Register and Chronicle, 473.
Kesha-grahna, 293, 295.
Kbtt, Philip, sodomist, 333.
Kidgell, John. Notices of, 208,213.
His description of the Essay on

Woman, 203.
The Card, 213 (note).
A Letter to J. Kidgell, 214.
Htng'*4)lAre, C|>e feuftorp of, 3*9-
Utrhpatrtfe, le* 9mour* tt'tfugenie, 63.
Kisses. Various modes of, 293.
Parts to be kissed, 294.

Kisses. Men kissing each other. 364f
366.

3U*4tng; or tl)e deduction of tt—r

n, 49.
Hittp'4 dtorp, 353.
Kloot, Isaac van der, Publication
by, 64.

Knight, R. P. Notice of, 10.

Worship of Priapus, 3, 5.
Knights Templars, 9, 25, 86.
Unotomg Cfcaiutter, Cije, 134.
Knowlbs, T. Publication by, 147.
Hotta Santftt, 284.
Kokila-bird, 286.
Krishna, 269, 276.

E.

L*****,F. Illustrations by, 169,172,236.
L***, Marquis de, 72.
Labbrn, John. Song books by, 135.
Lacrington, John. Confessions,
(note j8), 159 (note), 454.
Laclos, Choderlos db, xxii.
laron, 466.

Lacroix, Paul. Quoted, ix (note 2),
35 (note), 36.

Commended as a bibliographer, xi.

Books by, 408, 443, 455, 459,
468, 469.
ftaUg Bpron TftnlluatrtJ, 193 (note).
Lady of Distinction, A, 357.
lattg'4 Cufeltr, Cfje Jiero, 396, 435.
Lady Termagant Flaybum, &c., a
flagellation print, .375.

laeben, fie* fHp*tere* He, 188.

La Feuillade, xxxix (note 53).

La Haye. Book published at, 64.

Lalandb, Jerome db. Quoted, 38.

Dictionnaire des Ath&es, 458.

Lalannb, L. Quoted, xxvi (note 28),
liii (note 81), lviii (92), 325
(note).

Books by, 455.

La Monnoyb. See Monnoyb.

La Mothe-lb-Vaybr. Anecdote of,
xxvi (note 28).

Language.

Should be condensed, xlix.

Adrien Baillet's style criticised by-
La Monnoye, xlix (note 73).

indbx libbobum prohibitorum.

Language.

Standard for good writing erected

by A. Baillet, xlix (note 73).
Samuel Butler quoted, 1.
Southey's style praised by S. T.

Coleridge, 1 (note 73).
Verbiage to be avoided j J. F.

Boyes quoted, 1 (74).
Translations not desirable, lvii.
Languages more studied now than

formerly, lvii.
Rev. R. A. Willmott quoted on
the study of language, lvii (note

89), lviii (note 91).
Southey's humourous theory for

learning languages, lvii (note

90).

Students should read their authors

in the original, lviii.
Book titles and proper names
should never be translated, lviii.
Some curious errors in transla-
tion, lviii (note 92).
The use of obscene words ex-
cused, lxviii.
Pierre Bayle quoted, lxviii, lxix
(notes).

Obscenity is in the mind not in
the words; Beroalde de Ver-
ville quoted, lxviii (note no).
Fastidiousness ridiculous; Bayle

quoted, lxviii (note no).
John Davenport quoted, 175.
Larcher, P. H. Histoire d%H4rodote,

463.

La Troliere, 427.
Laura of Petrarque, 34 (note), 424.
YYY

Laureda, 409.
Lavtibr, D. H. M., 262.
Layman, A., 214.
Leah, 86.

Leax, bookseller at Bath, 357.
Leblanc, L£onib, actress, 157.
Lbbrun. Books by, 146.
Lbclbrca, Alfhonse. Poisies, 90.
Lecorvaisibr, P—J. Notice of, 97.
La Sociiti des Francs-Piteurs,
95-

Ziphyre-Artillerie, 96.
L'Esclavage rompu, 96.
L£crivain, 238, 407.
lecture on fteafc*, 19.
Le De Spencer, Lord. Notice of,211.
Lee, Mrs. Emma, xliii.
Lbf£vrb, A. Publication by, 430
(note).

legal BibUograpi)j>, S dfjort Vtefo

of, 474-
leicetfter, fet*t., trc., of, 4*3-
Leigh, Mrs., 193.

Leipzig. Books published at, 103,
411.

Lbmari£. Publication by, 72.
LbnglbtduFrbsnoy. See Fresno y.
Lenoir, 427.

leon to Snnabella, 189, 191.
leonttne, la belle, 128.
Leopold i, 188.
Lessing. Les Priapeia, 472.
Lessingham, Mrs., 257.
L'Etori&rb, Marquis de. Notice of,
73.

VAnnie Galante, 72.
letter to HOlgell, S, 214.

594 index librorum prohibitorum.

letter* addreMed to tf)e Cditor «rc.,

xii (note 60).
Setters from a;friend in$artt,liv (82).
letters ftecommeriding tye Whipping

of 6roton dirto, 354.
lettre Bibliographique kc., 459.
lettre* lie JHme. lie *ebigiu, 466.
L'Etuvi^rb. See L'etorifcrb.
Lbwenhoch, 177.
Lewis, bookseller, 357.
libertinage, I'ttcole du, see conclud-
ing note (post),
libertinage, la Cheorie du, 423, and

concluding note (post).
Libertines, celebrated, 263, 265.
libertine'* dong*ter, Cf>e, 134-
Libonis, L£on. Etching by,430 (note),
libraries and ^founder* of libraries,
466.

libraries, ;fHemotra of, 469.
library Companion, Cl)e, 466.
library flluatratibe of Social Dro*

grew, 239.
Liege. Book published at, 48.
life and Boob*, 466.
life of 6oto*mith, 466.
life of Semmy Cfoitcher, 466.
life of WBittea, 466, 467.
Lilas, described, 181.
Lingam, 285, 289 (note), 297.
Llngionijas, 76.
Linguet, S—-N—H. Notice of, 1 jo.

La Cacomonade, ijo.
Ittfte de* ^Publication* kc., 467.
li*t of ©Id kc. amatory WKorlt*,467
literary Anecdote* of the eighteenth
Century, 467-

literary Character, Che, 470.
literary Copyright, 253.
literary 4Ki*cellanie*, 470.
literary policy of the Church of Home,

467.

Literature. Quotation of Qu6rard
on, vii.

Erotic. See Erotic Literature,
litterature «nglat*e, fci*t. de la, 4^3-
libre* a Clef, 461.
libre* Condamne* au ;feu, fie*, 456-
libre* JJerdu*, 461.
libre* fcopulaire*, ftitft. de*, 463.
liftat en '£i*a, 284.
Lloyd, 223, 225 (note).
L—n—br, Lady, 257.
Locke, W. Publication by, 158.
London. State of book trade (erotic)
in, xxix.

Books published at,* 1, 3, 5, 13,
15, 16, 43, 45, 49, 50, 52, 63,
7*> 7a> 73, 82, 99, 113, 117,
130, 133> Ho, i4»> H1> H8,
149, iji, ij6, 158, 174, 183,
184, 185, 189, 193, 198, 202,
210, 213, 214, 215, 216, 219,
223, 224, 225, 227, 238, 239,
243, 244, 245, 257, 264, 266,
268, 280, 282, 300, 301, 303,

3°5> 3ll> 3H> 3l9> 3*4,
3*6, 330, 340, 342, 344, 357,
369* 37^ 376, 379* 397% 4<>3.
426, 432, 433, 435, 436.

* Books bearing the impress " Lon-
dres," or any other foreign equivalent,

index librorum prohibitorum.

595

Eoittton Cf)rontrle, fl$t, 467.
Kottifon ffiagajfiu, Cfje, 467.
Londres. See London.
Longin. Quoted, lxxv (note 124)*
Longman & Co. Publication by, 2.
Lorenz, Otto. Catalogue, 451.
Louis xiv, 179.
Louis xv, liv (note 82).
Louis xvi, 50,116, 425.
Love. Its physical effects, 2 63.
The Hindoo Art of Love, 282.
Love postures, 177, 295, 296.
Love potions, 86, 87, 296, 297,
298.

Tariff of the Rabbis, 177.
EobeaH, flfcfcenture* of Jkir fcenrp, 22,

43<*.

Eotaodt, fltotaituretf of f&to* laitf,

"3.

lo&er cool% Cfje, 229.

Lovers of Venus, Printed for the, 45.
Lows, singer, 147.
Lowell, 254.

Lowndes, W. T. Mentioned, xii.
Quoted, 201, 221,440, 474.
The Bibliographer's Manual, 441.
Lucerne. Book published at, no.
Lucian. Quoted, xlix (note 70).
lucretta, 396.
Lucretius, liv (note 84).
Ludbury, John, 397.
Luft, Rbsi, bawd, 105.
Lunatic, Nicholas, 342.
lujrfou* Jkonglter, Cfce, 134.
Lushington, Dr. Quoted, 191.
Lust, 265.

lutfu* in T^enerem, 343.
Luxembourg. Book published at, 9.
j L—w—ce, Mrs., 257.
I Lyttleton, Lord, 209.

®

Macau lay, Lord. Quoted, xxiii (note
24).

Mentioned, 250.

Cri tical and Historical Essays, 4 j j.
Machault, Bishop of Amiens, 170.
Machiavelli, 86.

are included in the above list. Fur-
ther, this and all other similar lists !
comprise not only books published at :
the place in question, but also those
which bear (although falsely) such
town in their impresses.

Mackay, Charles, 193 (note).
Madan-chatra, described, 290.
Mada-vahi artery, 290.
JKattemofecUe He JHaupui, 467.
Madrid. Book published at, 151.
Maes, Betteken, 240.
Magen, H. Les Amours d' Euginie, 63.
jHagtc of Beauty, Ci>e, 142.
Magnien, Hipp. La Revue Parisienne,
474-

Mah&raj Libel Case, 268.
j»at)araja*, fefet. of t|>e, 268.

596 index librorum prohibitorum.

Mahon, Lord. See Stanhope.
JKatben lane Companion, Cfje, 134.
JKaiben Haw dongtter, C|>e, 134.
Maiden-Rents, 161,163.
IHaitt'* draper, C^e, 198, 223, 224,

226, 229, 432.
Mairobbrt, P. de. Notice of, 324.

LObservateur Anglais, 322.
JSaitre* b'tfbquence, It*, 466.
Malcolm, J. P. Books by, 440, 447.
Maleflciatis, De, 264.
Maltby, William, 431.
JSanbragora, la, 86.
Mandragora. See Mandrake.
Mandrake, an aphrodisiac, 86.
Mange art, J., 378 (note).
Manicamp, 27.

Manipulation of the Hair. See
Hair.

JSan of 9ba*urf'4 dong Book, 13.
jttaiton la dFou*tteu*e, 397.
flflanon'< fEemoira, 397.
Mansfibld, Lord, 209.
Wantel-Jttnfcer, 161.
JKaituel bu Sibliograpije £ormanb,
468*.

JKanuel Ku libratre, 468.
Jfiaraniafcintana, 440.
Jfiarat, fiiftour* auj: JKatte* be, 407.
March, Earl of. See Qubensbbrry.
Marchand, M., xl.
Marchands de Nouveaut6s, 408.
Mar£chal, Sylvain. Die. des At Mes,
458.

Margeries, 404.
fMartage be dftgaro, 4
fMariagr be ftytbon, 64-

JKariage be £opf)ie, le, no, 434.
Atari jTeroce, le, 129, 305.
Marie Antoinette, 51,113, 425.
Mario Aris. See Aris.
Markham, Major Edgar. See Stock.
Marollbs, Abb6 de, 378 (note).
JKarqui* be Jkabe l'$omme tot., le,
407.

Marriage, 166, 264.
Essay on, 174, 178.
The Hindoo Art of Love, 282 to
299.

Carriage of feeaben anb PreU, 12.
Marry at, Captain, lxv (note 103).
Martbau, Pierre, 23, 72.
Martial. Mentioned, 1y (note 84),
85,181.

The Index Expurgatorius of, xvii
(note 14), xxi (note 20), 280,

465.

Tutti gli Epigrammi di, 376.
The Epigrams of, xviii (note 14),
377-

Epigrammes contre, 378.
Martin, 222 (note).
Martin, John. Quoted, 202, 221.
Cat. of Privately Printed Bookst
44a.

Martonnb, De. Nouveau Manuel,
47i.

JHartyr to BtbUograpbp, 8, 46l< 468.
Mary, The Virgin, 178.
Marzialb. See Martial.
ill alter Soung** 0tgf)t €$ottgl)t*,

354.

Math 1 as, T. J. Quoted, 5.

The Pursuits of Literature, 473,

597 index librorum

prohibitorum.

Mathilda, Princess, 161, 162.
Matrimonial Offices, 188.
Matrimony. See Marriage.
Maundrell, 86.
Maurice, Rev. Mr., 85.
JKaubai* Itbrr* fee., letf, lxv (note

103), 468.
Max 1 mi anus, Emperor, 163.
Mayeur de Saint-Paul. Notice of,
116.

L%Autrichienne en Goguette, 115,
116.

Maypole, a phallic emblem, 6, 83.
McLaen, J. Publication by, 149.
Medina, Countess of, 257.
Medmenham Abbey, 210, 211,
234, 321.

tfUttoraf) leig&; S fefrtorp, 193

(note).

Meibomius. De Usu Flagrorum, xl
(note 56).
A Treatise on the Use of Flogging,
240, 241.
Meijer, R. C., 173.
Jfielange* Bibliograpijique*, 468.
tflelange* tirf* H'uiu petite biblto*

tf)eque, 468.
Melzi, Gaetano. Mentioned, 29.

Dizionario di Opere Anonimet^S.
Member of Parliament, A, 214.
STOemoiren etner ©dngerln, 9lu$ ben, 102,
291.

tflemoire* tie Brantome, 469.
tftimoire* He l'8raHemie*e JHetj, 468.
fHemoire* He f&v. B'Srtagnan, 469.
iHeinoire* decret* He Barf)aumont,

3*3>3*5> 469.
zzz

jKemoire* decretS pour tferbtr $rc., 469.
Memoir* of a dFeatijersBeft, 148.
Memoir* of 6eorge tf)e ;f ourtf), 4^9-
Memoir* of libraries, 469.
JHemoir* of ti)e fteign of Aeorge fH,
469.

JHemorie dtortcfje, fcr., 469.
Men. Various kinds in India, 284*
28 j.

More amorous than women, 288.
" Petticoat-Pensioners " &c., 321.
Effeminacy of their dress, 364.
Their kissing each other, 364,366.
Catamites described, 367.
ftlen of ti)e Cime, 469.
Mendham, Rev. J. Books by, lxv

(note 103), 465, 467.
Menken. Quoted, liv (note 82).

De la Charlatanerie des Savons,

Menstruation, 263, 290, 297.
Mbrcier, Abb£ de Saint-L6ger, 343.
Mercier de ComfiIgnb, 52.
Mbrcurius Typografhicus, 142.
Merim£e, Prosper, 443.
Merry weather, F. S. Bibliomania

in the Middle Ages, 444,
Meteren, Emanuel van. Quoted,
416.

Histoiredes Pays~Bas,4\6 (note),
4 63.

iHctijotte pour etuHier I'fettftoire, 470.
jflfletriral %ar* ^act*, 354.
Mbtzger, xxxviii (note 52).
M—h—n, Mrs., 257.
Michelet, J. Books by, 463, 475.
JKilfflle flge*, Bibliomania in tj>e, 444.

598 index librorum prohibitorum.

Midwives. Their petition to Par-
liament, 179.
Milan. Book published at, 52.
Miller, Mrs., 257.
Mil life re, Veuve. Publication by, 90.

Notice of, 94.
Ming rat, violator and murderer, 99.
fftimu Jfiag'* 9ffatr, 354.
Minories, a haunt of prostitutes, 363.
Mirabeau, H-G. Riguetti, Comte
de. Mentioned, xxii.
Quoted, 26.
Erotika Billion, 459.
Mirecourt, Eugene de, 62.
Mi ron, A. S. Les Posstdts au

xix* siecle, 90.
JStttellame* of literature, 470.
Mitchell, Mary, 404.
Mitchell, Mrs., xiii.
Mit ford. Publication by, 13.
Mohammed, enforces circumcision,
179.

Apology for, 184.
Molet, Cardinal, 64.
Mo life re, quoted, v.
Molini, F. F. Prosecution of, xxix

(note 35).
Mollusca, aphrodisiacs, 86.
IHomu* SUtttbtfcu*, 52.
Ufanttnir, le, 470.
Monk of the Order of St. Fran-
cis, A, 234, 319.
Monnoyb, De la. Quoted xlix (note
73).

Mentioned, 466.
Monogamy, prevalent in cold cli-
mates, 179.

flfonagramme*, Sir. He*, 458.
JMonolttyu Cemple* of fnUta, Cf)e,

73» 396-

Monorkids. See Eunuchism.
4Son premier Srnour, 90.
Monsblet, Charles. Catalogue,I.
Les Galanteries du xviii* Steele,
461.

4Hon*(eur*£tcola*, 423,470.
Monsters, 263.
Mons Veneris, Published on, 126.
Montagus, Hon. E. W., Notice of,
140.

Amours &c., of 140.
Montague. Lady M. W., 140.
Montaigne, 86.

Montesino, BugJ&o. Carajicomediof

ifiontblp gUbiefo, 470.
Moor, singer, 147.
Moore, Thomas, 189.
Morande,Th£venot de. La Gazette

Noire, 461.
Morgagni, 85.
Morgan, Senator, 252.
Morging Cup, 178.
Morin, A. S. See Miron.
Morland, George, xviii.
fBorntng ®foberti*er, C^e, 470.
Morris, Captain. Songster, 135.
Morsication, 293, 295.
JHort, fiuertitufce He* Jkigne* He la,
473-

Moses, 178, 181.
Mots. See Prostitution.
fBoprn He Varfcentr, le, 470.
M. P***, 42.

599 index librorum prohibitorum.

Mreugi woman, described, 285.
flWtcf)tc&i)akati, 80 (note).
Muirhead, Grossbt, sodomist, 341.
Mulji KarsandIs. Hist, of the Ma-

hdrdjas, 268.
JSundu* fllultebrt*, 215.
Munyard, J. H., singer, 135.
Murder, 99.
Murphy, Arthur, 476.
Murray, Fanny, 198,199, 257, 331.

Music Halls, 136.
4Ku*inot an* fMaiutoa, 43.
Musk, an aphrodisiac, 86.
Mutoniatus, Vigerus, 198.
M. V.t 29.
Alp life, 379-

fl8j>*tere* be laeben, fie*, 188.
;fllj>*tere* lie* tour* de Jkte'dudule,

146.

JKj>*terie* of ^Flagellation, 311.

n

Nabar, iio.

Nails, manner of using them, 294.
Nakhadan, or unguiculations, 293.
£amele** Crime, Cf)e, 35S> 434-
£anrp fiafo*on'* Cabinet, 134.
Naphbys, Dr. G. H. Quoted xxxvi
(note 50).
The Transmission of Life, 455,
476.

Napoleon I, 408, 409, 410.
Napoleon III. Les Amours de, 52.

Nicknamed Badinguet, 157.
Nautch Women, described, 74.
Navarez, General, 63.
Nay, H., 402, 411.
N£b de la Rochblle. Mentioned,
443-

Quoted, xlvii (note 68), lxxii
(note 117).
Nblson, Lord, 87.

Nemours, Due de, xxxviii (note 53).
Nerciat, A. de, xxii, xxxii.

Neuchatel. Book published at, 168.
Jieuf et du 'Fteujr, fiu, 97 (note),
428.

Nevers, Due de, xxxix (note 53).
Newbery, J. Publication by, 213
(note).

liefo ladp'* Cirftler, C|>e, 396, 435.

Newton, Mrs., 15.

New York. Books published at, 70,

71, 114, 117, 188.
Jiefo ®ork life, Ci)e Bark £idr of,

xxxvi (note jo), 188.
Jiefo $orfe jHebtcal journal, 470.
Nicholas Lunatic, 342.
Nichols, John. Quoted, 233.

Books by, 463, 464, 467.
Niebuhr, 181.

fiigfyt dd&ool, C|>e, 156, 354.
£igi)t dide of london, €\)t, 470.
Nisard,Charles. Quoted xxvii (note
32).

Hist, des Livres Populaires, 463.

600

index librorum prohibitorum.

Noah, 179.

jpobbg l>ong*ter, €i)t, 134.
Noble, Rev. Mark, 447.
Nocturnal Bebel*, 234, 319.
Nodibr, Charlbs. Mentioned, x.

Books &c. by, 449, 466, 468.
Noortvelde, Beaucourt de.
Cited, 416.
Tableau Futile, kc., 475.
Northampton, Marquis of, 250.
Norton, Sir Fletcher, 234.
£oUa anb turrit*, 470.

$ottce of $e life anb SHorit* of

®uerarb, 461,468.
fiotitt *ur le* ttcribain* kc., 47°-
Noursb et Winoravb, 244.
£oubeau fiftanuel be Btbltograpbie,
47i.

jpoubel Album Antique, 155.
jpoubelle Biographie General*, 471-
Noybau, Mrs., 400.
fiuit bu 28 9utn, la, 305.
fiutt* be Start*, le*, 471.
fiutot be £aint*Cloub, le*, 432-

0.

Obligation to friends acknowledged,
Ixxv.

Obscene Books, generally rare,liiii.

Obscene Literature. See
Erotic Literature.

Obscenite, " un joli mot," vii.

Obscenity, not in words but in
ideas, lxviii (note no).

<©b*erbateur 9ngIoi*, I9, 322, 324,
47i.

®b*erbatton* on tye :Plan kc., 471.

Obsonville,D\ SeeD'OBSONviLLE.

Odours, stimulating power of, 87,
248 (note).

Oettinger, E.—M. Bibliographie
lil'liographique, 442.

©fficebe jubilate, ii®£*tcre*ber, 144.

Ohlarac, Dr., 167.

Old Q (or Quiz). See Queens-
berry.

<®lio kc., 9n, 471.

Olive, Miss, xliv.

Oliver, Miss, 257.

®Oapobriba, 254.

Olphar Hamst. See Thomas.

Onanism, xxxviii (note 51).

®ne J&ore, 354.

Onbsyme Durochbr, 455.

®pera, fci*t. be P, 463.

<©pua, fktit* jfHtmoire* be V, 472.

Opie, 3J j.

Oranges. Book published at, 29.
Oratori). (ntrobuction to kc., 19.
Organs of Generation, 177, 263,
265, 285, 289.
See also Lingam and Yoni.
Origen, 87, 181.

Original Rambled* ifiaga^iite, 471.
Orleans, Princes of, 63.
Orsec, Baron d\ 409.

601 index librorum prohibitorum.

Ossuna, Duke of, 63.
O Toolbywag, Tbrbncb, 13.
Otto iv, Emperor, 161.
Ovid. Quoted, 49, 77.
Ovum, 182.

Owen, Robert, 178.
Oxenford, John. Quoted, 137.
Oxford. Book published at, 185.
Sodomy at, 340.

?

P*»*, 42.
Pa comb, 409.

Padmini women described, 285,
286.

Palais Royal, 323.

Obscene books sold openly there,
xxix.

Palais-Royal, Au, 138.
Paley, 178.

Pallavicini, Ferrante. Alcibiade,

»all *HaU «a$e(te, 471.

Palmer, Miss, xlv.

Panckouke, F. Publication by, 378

(note).
Pan gloss, Dr., 150.
Snnfer au; ©rtfure*, 12.
Panormita, Ant. Quoted, 29.
Hermaphroditus, 81, 343.
Notice of, 82.
Papal Indices, Ixiv.
9apc*, fefetoire be*, 463.
Paguet, Victor. Mon Premier

Amour, 90.
Sarailele bibant *e* fceuj; *qrt4, le,

liv (note 82).
SarapiOa, 323.
Paravicini, 23.

AAAA

Starr au Cerf, 115.
Pardon, 23.

Paris. Books published at, 30,46,48,
50, 72, 77, 90, no, 115, 132,
J38, 145, 15°' *j4> i94»'5»i»
3*3, 343> 378, 408, 427, 436.
State of obscene book trade there,
xxix.

itari* an* Srtttftfeb after *ark, 145.
Paris, Justine, 323.
Paris, Paulin, 449.
Parisot, V. Quoted, 4.
Parmesan, 409.
Parr, 177.
Parsons, Dr., 182.
Parsons, Nancy, 257.
Partarribu-La fosse, 144.
Startu* fnfelirf*, %t*toria, 261.
Paul, St. 179, 182.
Paull, S. M. First Principles, 184.
Payen, J-P., 446.
9a£*-Ba*, fctetotre \M, 463.
Peacock, George. Notice of, 374.
Publications by, 238, 245, 257,
300, 303, 37°> 375> 452-
Pederasty. See Sodomy.
Veep at itapetf an* ftaperp, 9, 184.
Peeping Tom, 428.

602

index librorum prohibitorum.

Peg, One-eyed, xliv.
Pbgo Borbwbll, 198.
Pbignot, G. Mentioned, x.

Quoted, xvi (note 13), 151, 422

(note).
Books by, 457, 472.
Pbixottb, banker, 115.
Pellison, Ixvi (note 106):
Jienal Statute*, 8 jfxtt lamination
into, xxxiv (note 46),339,461.
Pen-Drag-On, Anser, 474.
Pbrcbl, Gordon db, 456.
Perkins, H. Catalogue, 452.
Verplejrell fHamma, Clje, 354.
Pbrsan, Mme. Doublbt db. See

Doublet.
Pbrsigny, Due de, 157.
Pbrsigny, Duchesse de, 157.
3)ct-en-l'9ir, 95.
»eter, l'«rt lie, 95.
Peter, Saint, 179.
Pbthbram, bookseller, 250.
iPetite J3ibliograpi)ie kc.f 471.
»etit fHattre, Cf>e, 357-
IJettt* fHemoire* ire., 472.
IJetit Volume kc., 472.
Petroni, S. E. Dictionary, 183.
Petronius, lv (note 84).
Petticoat-Pensioners, 321, 360.
Petzholdt, Dr. J. Quoted, 450,457,
4^7.

Bibliotheca Bibliographica, 445.
Phallic Worship. See Worship.
Jtyalltem in 9ncient Morstyip*, 71.
Phallus, 4, 8 (note), 180, 263,

289 (note).
Phaon, 86.

Phillips, L. B. Dictionary 0/ Bio-
graphical Reference, 456.
Phillips, Mrs., xliii.
9f)tlobiblon, 472.

ftyilobiblon, 9nalg*e lie* Crabauj:

kc., 440.
Philomneste, G. P., 472.
Philomnbstb Junior, 472.
Philopodex, 245, 249.
Philosemus, 397.
$f)ilo*opl)ie ban* le Bouboir, 423.
Philters, 86, 296.
9f)oebe »i**afcen, 326.
fttyxnit, ffi&e Britt*^, 142.

of Aotlom, 328.
Photobibliography, Ixi (note 96).
Photographs, Excellency of
English, xix (note 17).
Those of H. Hayler instanced,
xix (note 17).
Photography might be applied to

bibliography, lxi.
3tyl?*iologie bu JHariase, 197.
JJtccabtUp ambulator, Cf)t, 342.
Piccadilly, Lord. See Queensbeny.
Pickering, W. Publication by, 151.
Pidansat de Mairobbrt. See

Mairobbrt.
»teb lie Jfancljete, le, 472.

plbtbrs, caLLEKEN, 420.
Pigorbau. Petite Billiographie, 471.
Pilgrim, A. A Free Examination &c.9
461.

Pillet, L£on, 196.
Pimping. See Prostitution.
Pinion, P. Nouveau Manuel, 471.
$iou* 0un, Cfce, 229.

index librorum prohibitorum.

603

Pitt, William, 209, 212.
$)l0go*um <@rbi1tum, 397.
JHatn Crutl;, Cfje, 214.
Plan of the present work, lxxi.
Plancy, J-A-S. Collin de.

Books by, 440, 458.
Plato, 87, 181.

9Ua*ure* kc. of literature, 47 2 •
Pliny, 86, 182.
P—lm—R, Miss, 320.
Slum* butfjaut Eougf), 355.
Plutarch, 182, 264.
Poilras, Veuve de, 456.
Jpotnt Curieuj: &c., Ota, 472.
Jpomt He lenHemain, 197.
Point-tying, 86.
Poles, Stefan. His death, liii. (81).
The Actual Condition of the
British Museum, 439.
Polionac, Duchesse de, 116.
Poll, Bauld-cunted, xliv.
Pollution, 263.

Pontanus,J.J. Lususin Venerem, 343.
Pooffs, 404.

Pofe, Alex. Mentioned, 203, 205,
223, 225, 231.
Quoted, 88, 182.
Popes. See Priestcraft.
Porde Polis, impress, 96.
9oniograpf)e, le, 424.
Ihrtier He* Cfjartreuf, le, 109.
Portugal. Book trade (obscene) in,
xxxi.

9o**eHe* au xix* dtecle, 90.
Potable Gold, 87.
Potter, Sarah, xliii, 311, 312, 313.
Potter, Thomas, 207, 226, 431.

Pottinger, J. Publications by, 201,

214, 21 220, 221.
Poublon, F. Illustrations by, 145,
427.

Poudre de Joie, 86.
Poulet-Malassis. Quoted, 144.
Publications &c. by, 24, 236,238,

407 > 449-
JJour tie la £oie, 90.

Power, J. A Handy-Book about Books,
462.

Powers of Reproduction. Three

Essays on, 82.
Pox, prevalency of, 364.

La Cacomonade, 150.
Pratt, xlix (note 70).
3)reHiratoriana, 472.
premier Scte Hu AgnoHe fee., 130,

131.

Prepuce, 180.
Presses de la Soci6t6, 168, 424.
fhretre, le, 413 (note),
ifriapeta, le*, 472.
Priapus, 85, 263.

Worship of, 3, 5, 253.
Price, Mrs., 257.
$rie*t in Xtfjpme, t$e, 214.
Priestcraft.

Some popes addicted to sodo-
my ; Julius III. instanced,
xxxiii (note 42).
Discipline used by priests to serve

their own lubricity, xl.
Father Girard and the girl

Cadiere, xl (note 55), 65.
Cornelius Adriaensen's whipping
academy, xl (note 55), 416.

604

index librorum prohibitorum.

Priestcraft.

Papal Indices, lxiv.

Names of some authors and books
condemned by papal authority,
lxv (note 103).

Vices of the monks, 86.

Marie Gerin raped and murdered
by the priest Mingrat, 99.

Rev. John Carroll murders a
child, 99.

Intolerance, 182.

Curious dispute between the
priests and natives of Pondi-
cherry about the "taly," 289
(note).

Instance of corpse-profanation by
a priest, 413.

Books against priests, 64, 70, 90,
99» 138, 151, 167, 168, 184,
413 (note), 433.

Principaux Libraires, Chez les, 432,
434-

Vrmctpt* pour I'organitfatfan tot.,

473.

Privately printed Books. See
Books.

$roce* to ftarett*, 473-

Procuring. See Prostitution.

itototgium unum et multiply:, 262.

Profligacy. See Vice.

2)rogre** of lobe, CI)e, 229.

Jironondatton Sngtotef, la, 183.

Proper names should never be
translated, lviii.

Proprietors, Printed for the, 436.

Prose. S. T. Coleridge quoted on,
1 (note 73).

Prose.

R. Southey's style praised by

S. T. Coleridge, 1 (note 73).
A. Baillet's style criticised by La

Monnoye xlix (note 73).
Standard erected by A. Baillet,
xlix (note 73).
Prostitution.

Black prostitutes, xxxviii, 404.
Flagellation practised. See

Flagellation.
Names of noted prostitutes. See

Female Flagellants.
"The Roll Call of some cele-
brated Mots," 404.
The" tavern plyer" described,
17-

Homeless girls in the last cen-
tury, 358.
Reclaiming prostitutes, 358.
" Petticoat pensioners," 360.
A "jilt " described, 360.
Haunts of prostitutes, 360.
First brothel in London on Con-
tinental principle, 320.
Prostitution in New York, 188.
French prostitutes, procuresses^

&c., 323.
Justine Paris, 323.
Mme. Gourdan and her establish-

ment, 323.
Nautch women of India described,

74.

Indian courtesans superior to

those of Europe, 380.
They shave their private parts,
381.

indbx libbobum prohibitorum.

Prostitution.

Books on prostitution, i, 17,143,
144.3i9> 3»i> 3»7» 3S7> 403,
4*7-

Prycb, Miss, xlv.

Pryce, Mrs., 401.

Pudenda. See Organs of Gene-
ration.

Puissant, Vital, Brussels booksel-
ler, xxxii.

Puissant, Vital. Publications by,

no, 156, 157.
Pulci. Quoted, lxxvi.
Pulleiar, described, 289 (note).
Suppet Cf)t, 18.
Purna-chandra artery, 290.
fcurtuft* ot literature, Cfce, 473.
Purush£yita-bandha, 296.
iPuttana Crrante, 1.

Quack Doctors, American, xxxvi,
188.

®uaite):, Ci)t fhnorotu, 45.
Quaker, C^e ffaiourtf of a, 45.
Quaker, CJ)t life kc. of a, 433.
Quarrel* of 9ut$ortf, 470,473.
Qubensbbrry, Duke of. Mentioned,
208, 213, 320.
Notice of, 211.

The Piccadilly Ambulator,
242.

Quirard, J. M. Quoted, vii, xi (note
4), xy (note 8), 33, 202, 221,

323> 4J7> 459-
Mentioned, x, xi, xxviii.
Books by, 455, 460, 475.
Book upon, 468.
Commended by 6. Brunet, 460.
Quetblet, xxii (note 23).
Quick, actor, 88.

Quotations should be given with
all errors, lviii.

Rabbe, 448.
Rabelais, 87, 96.
Rabutin, Bussy, 179.
Rachel, actress, 157.
Rachel, Jacob's wife, 86.

&

Radha-ballubhis sect, described,
76.

Rae, W. F. Quoted, 201.

Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox. The Oppo-
sition, &c., 476.

BBBB

606 index librorum prohibitorum.

Raepsaet, J. J., 164.
Rambler** fUutf) *ong*ter, €$e, 134-
Rambler** jHaga^uu, 473.
Rambler** jfttaga^ine, Cfje iflefo, 13.
Rambler'* jflflaga$ine, C&e Original,
47i.

Randall. Publication by, 15.
RanHp £ong*ter, C|>e, 134.
Rape.

The acme of delight, 122, 125.
Marie Gerin raped by the priest
Mingrat, 99.
Hart Terftie*, 264.
Ras Lil£, 269, 274, 276.
Ras Mandali, 270, 275, 276.
Raucourt, actress and tribade, xxxv

(note 48).
Rat, Miss, 257.
Raynaldus, Cardinal, 260.
Reading alleviates care; Fontenelle
quoted, vii.
Erotic works the most attractive j
Restif de la Bretonne quoted,
vii.

The worst book may be turned
to good account; B6rard
quoted, xxv (note 26),
ltea*on* for tye 6roiot$ of AoHomg,

358.

Reboul, G. Notice of, 131.

Le Premier Acte du Synode &c.,

130.

&«f)rrcf)ta *ur r*ncertituHeHe**igro*

He la fHort, 473.
Reckoning Bap, Cljr, 353.
Recuetl Hit He fHaurepa*, 473.
Redgrave, S. A Die. of Artists, 456.

Reed, I. Biographia Dramatica,
447.

Reforming Constable, fei*t. of a, 18.

Refrigerants, 87.

Regi*ter anH Chronicle, 8, 473.

Regitlar Rangntp Reciter, C£e, 134.

Relpb, Lupton, Publications by,
183, 184.

Religion. See Worship.

Reminfecence* of elij: tfatyman,
353.

Remim*ceitce* of tyt Court of tteorgt
I anH if, 474-

Renard, F. Publication by, 48.

Rentu-Sn^t, described, 288.

Repoitfe a fSL. 3u*tin CaiHet, 145.

Repon*e H'trn campagnarH, 164 (note).

Report* of Crial* at $e ®IH Sails,
474-

Restif de la Bretonne. Quoted,
vii, 423.

Books by, 37, 470, 471, 472.

Book upon, 443.

Retaliation, Cfje, 143.

Rbuss, J. D. Da* gelefyrte (tnglaitb,
xii (note 4).

Refcue He* Roman*, 474.

Refcue CncgclopeHique, 474.

Rebtte 2)ari*iemte, la, 474.

RegnolH*'* 9i*plag of Srmour*, 12.

Rbynosa, Rodrioo de, 152 (note).

Rbzabal y Uoartb, J. Quoted, lvii
(note 88).

Btblioteca de los Escritores &c.,
444-

Riccio, C. M. Quoted, 265.

Memorie Storiche &c., 469.

index librorum prohibitorum.

607

Richard db Burt. See Burt.
Richard III, Kino, 86.
Richards, G. Publications by, 223,

224 (note).
Richardson, Mrs., xliii.
Ridlbt. Publication by, 215.
Ring, Miss, xliv.
Ristelhuber, M. P., 475.
Ritchie, J. E. The Night Side of

London, 470.
SUshim futum Aongtfter, Cf)e, 134.
r—nson, Mrs., 257.
Rochbllb, N£b db la. See N£b.
Rock, 225 (note).
Slob, 8 fefetorp of t$e, 464.
Rod. See Flagellation.
Rogerus Cunaus, 198.
Rollos, G., singer, 147.
&omanre of Cf>a*ti*ement, €344*

345> 353> 355-
Romano, Giulio, xix, 165.

Rome. Books published at, 46, 260,
397-

Rops, F. Mentioned, xix, 407.

Etching by, 236.
Roaubplan, Nbstor, 196.
Ross, singer, 135.
Rothschild, 63*
Rouen. Book printed at, 429.
Rourb, Marquis du. Quoted, xiv
(note 6), xvi (note 13), 98.
Analectahiblion, 439.
Rousseau, J. J. Mentioned, 323.

Quoted, 300, 370.
Rowlandson, Thomas, xviii.
Rotbr, Alphonsb. His death, 463.

Histoire de V Optra, 463.
Rozez & Co., 451.
R—pb, Mrs., 257.
Rudd, Mrs., 257.
Rupfbr, E., printer, 411.
Ruthbrfurd, Lord, 340.

S***. See Sadb.
Sabar, Vicomte de, 409.
Sabbath, 9.
Sackvillb, George, 198.
Sacr£, A. Publication by, 434.
Sacr£-Ducluesnb, Ch. Mentioned,
xxxii.

Publications by, uj, 145, 427,
428.

Sade, Marquis de. Notice of, 34.
Mentioned, xxii, 26, 107.

Sade, Marquis de.

Aline et Valcour, 30.
Zolot, &c„ 406.
Unpublished work by, 422.
Books on, 35 (note), 36 (note),
31 > 38, 39» 4°7> 408, 423,466,
468.

Sadopolis, impress, 408.
©aengetln, 9tu« ben fflhmoiren einer,
102, 291, 426, 441.

524

index librorum prohibitorum.

dainfroft anb tfulalia, C^t ftaottr*

of, 70,

#atnfrofb anb CubUa, C$e fntrigtu*

of, 70.

#atnfroib ft ffulalit, It* 8mour* be,64.
Saint-Angb, Louis db, 434.
Saint Bartholomew's Hospi-
tal, 415.

#afot Bribget, C&e #Urrj> ®rber of,

243> 305.
Saintb-Prbuvb, F. G. B. de, 448.
Saint-Hblibr, printer, 156 (note).
Saint Maximin, Armoux de, 432.
Saint Paul, 179, 182.
Saint Paul, Comte de, xxxix (note
S3).

Saint-Paul, Mayeur de. Notice of,
116.

VAutrichienne en Goguette, 115.
Saint Peter, 179.
Saint-Phar, Octavib db, 145.
Salviati, 7.

Sampson, H. A Hist, of Advertising,
464.

Samson Low. Publication by, 193

(note).
#amr* 5tor», 353-
Sanchez, Garci, 152 (note).
Sanchbz, Luis, 151.
Sanchez, Th., 181.
Sand, Mme. Georges, 157.
Sandwich, Lord, 208, 209, 210,

226, 301.
Sappho, 86.
Saktine, 427.
Sartini, A. Design by, 90.
Saspanda artery, 290.

Aatan'* fearbtft %omt, 338, 357-
Satiricus Sculptor, 453.
Aaturbag iUbieto, C|)t, 474-
Aaturnin, $t*t. of dfatfjtr, 127.
ftatpre* pertonnellf*, 466.
Saunders, R. Quoted, 282.
Sat, J-B. Quoted, Ixvi (note 105),
lxix (note 112).
Petit Volume, 472.
Acaitbaletf bt SrupUttf, 145.
Scarcity of Books, Ixii.

D. Clement quoted, lxiLto lxiv
(notes).

£tnu* in t$e life of a $oung £Ran,

3*6. 39*-
Schbible, J. Mentioned, xxx.

Publications by, 224, 449, 459.
Schmidt, J. W. Publication by, 161.
#ri)ooW3op, Obbmture* of a, 15,396.
Schoonweld, S. Publication by, 42a
(note).

Schrodbr-Dbvrient, Frau, 102.
dcotd) SHeatl)er4Hife, Cj)t, 229.
Scotland. Sodomy in, 340.
Scott, G. Publication by, 376.
Scott, Miss, 257.
Atribbleomania, 474.
Sculptor, Satiricus, 453.
fcealeb letter, 355* 3<*7-
Atcret &ong
Secundus, J. Lusus in Venerem, 243.
1, Seddon, 113.

Seed. See Semen.
SegOVie. Book published at, 42.
Seigniorial Rights, 161,164,173.
*el«t Cjrtractt from $e ftob*»oofe,
354.

index librorum prohibitorum.

5

Sellon, Edward.

Annotations on the Sacred Writ-
ings of the Hindis, 73.
The New Epicurean, 314.
Phoebe Kissagen, 326.

Selections from the Decameron of

Boccaccio, 369.
The Ups and Downs of Life, his

autobiography, 379.
His suicide, 391.
Poem by him, 392.
Unpublished letter by him, 393.
List of his works, 396, and con-
cluding note (post).
Sblwyn, George, 212, 320.
Aemaiite £octurru, la, 471.
Semen, 177,179, 263, 266, 286.

See also Kama-salila.
Semiramis, Queen, 180.
Senator, J. W., 216.
Seraglio Pastilles, 86.
Aerail* *e lonttre*, le*, 321.
Serjeant, H. Publication by, 142.
Aefcen 9ge*, J*arapl)ra*e upon, 19.
Siviovt, Mme. de, Lettres, 37, 466.
Aejrageitarian, Cf)t, 474.
Sextus V, Pope, 181.
Sexual Intercourse, 86.

See also Copulation.
Seymour, J., bookseller, 215.
Shade, H., 342.

Shakespeare. Quoted, lxvii, 15, 87,

182, 326, 379.
Shankim women, 285.
4f)ape Ce*t, Cf)t, 368.
Sharp, singer, 135.
Shasha men, 285.

CCCC

Shelley, P. B., 178.
Shenstone. Quoted, 344, 345.
Shepherd, Mrs., xliii.
Shepherd, R. H. Quoted, .253.
Shoberl, F., 447.

Shoe Lane, resort of prostitutes, 363.
Shropshire, bookseller, 357.

*|>ort Tub of legal 8ftliograpi)g,
474.

S—1, Signora, 257.
Siddons. See Sbddon.
•ila JM>a*tra, 284.
Simon, 378 (note).
JKngular life of JKme. Vittxi*, 13.
Si nib aldus, I. B. Notice of, 265.
Geneanthropeia, 260.
Rare Verities, 264.
Sinnott, Catherine, 99.
Smith, Captain Orrin, 251.
Smith, H. See Dugdalb.
Smith, H. S. G. & Co. Publication

by, 70.
Smith, J. R., xviii.
Smith, R. See Dugdalb.
S**n**r, Hon. Jack, 357.
Sobolstchikoff, B. Quoted, lix
(note 93).
Principes pour V Organisation &c.
des Grandes Bibliotheques, 473.
Aociete He* ;franc*4fcteur*, 95, 96.
Jtarfetg for tfje *uppre**ion of Vict,

Report* of ti)e, 475.
Society for Promoting Useful Know-
ledge, Printed for the, 185.
Society of Vice, Printed for the, 114.
AoHome, le* 120 Sournfe* He. See
concluding note (post).

610 index librorum prohibitorum.

Sodomy.

Prevalent among the ancient
Greeks, xxxiii, 25, 28.

Introduced into Europe by the
Bulgarians, xxxiii.

Origin of the word bugger, xxxiii
(note 41).

Practised in Italy and France,
xxxiii, 25, 27, 366.

Some popes addicted to it; Julius
III instanced, xxxiii (note 42).

Not much practised in England,
xxiv.

Dr. W. D. Buck quoted on the
sphincter am. xxxiv (note 45).

The Knights of Malta given to
it, 25.

Prevalent among the French
soldiers, 25.

A society formed at Paris in the
17th century for its practice,
26, 179.

Dr. Tardieu quoted, 27.

Balls of Sodomites at Paris, 28.

Priests accused of sodomy, 91.

Extracts from a poem imputing
the commission of it to Lord
Byron, 189.

The Vere Street Coterie, xxxiv
(note 46), 328.

The White Swan Public House,
where the club was held, de-
scribed, 329.

Names of some of the frequenters,
33*.

Discovery and dissolution of the
club, 333.

Sodomy.

Punishment of the offenders, 333.

Many similar convictions at the
time, 338, 339.

A society of the same order at
Exeter, 338.

Lord Audley beheaded for sodo-
my, &c. in 1631, 330.

Its prevalence among the upper
classes, 339.

Instances at Oxford, Edinburgh,
&c., 340.

Effeminacy of men's dress, their
kissing each other, &c364.

Catamites made their addresses
in the streets, 367, 404.

"Tommies," 330.

" Margeries," and " Pooffs," 404.

Books upon, 23, 26, 27, 28, 189,
328, 357. 358, 402, 403-

Jtalftf foortf) in a Wife, 229.

Jtalttf, fefet. of fionna JHirantta, 43.

Solms, Madame de, 56.

Solomon, 86.

Jtame account of tf)t ffnglitff) *tage,

475-

Song Books, 13, 21,133, 147,185.

SoNNINI, l80.

£opf)te, ie iflariaffe *e, no, 434.

Jtaraere, la, 475.

Soufflet, Au, 95.

Southby, R. Mentioned, xii.

His style praised by S. T. Cole-
ridge, 1 (note 73).

His theory for learning languages,
Ivii (note 90).

The Doctor, 459.

index librorum prohibitorum*

5*7

Aoufaeitir* tot la Resolution, 450.
Spadones. See Eunuchism.
Spain. Book trade (obscene) there,
xxxi.

4pani*f> literature, J*i*t. of, 464.
Aparitling Reciter, ffijje, 134.
Specimen* of tye Cable CaQt of A.

C, ColeriHge, 475.
4petuli*t, aHbrature* of a, 16.
Spbncb, Rev. Joseph. Anecdotes,440.
Spencer. See Lb Db Spencer.
Spencer, Charlotte, 257.
Spermatozoa, 177.
Sphincter ani, Dr. Buck quoted

on, xxxiv (note 45).
Spiers and Pond, 391.
Spilsbury, T. Publication by, 3.
Spires of Churches, phallic em-
blems, 84.
Stanhope, Earl. Quoted, 202,211,

22J>.

History of England, 464.
#tate*men, fetrtortcal *ttetcf>e* of,

463.

Stbidbl, bookseller, 357.
Sterility, 85, 180, 263.
Stevens, Geo. Alex. Notice of, 19.

The Adventures of a Speculist, 16.
Stevens, H. Quoted, vii, x (note 3),
xi (note 4), xx (note 19), xlviii
(note 69), 1 (note 75), Jxi
(note 96).

Stevens, H.

Bibliotheca Geographica, 446.
Stewart, Mrs., xliii.
•tiff Bream, Cfje, 434.
Stock, St. George H. Notice of,354.
Books by, 344, 345, 353, 354,

3^7, 434-
Unpublished letter by, 356.
Stone, George, 198.
Stowe, Mrs. H. B., 193.
Strasbourg. Book published at,
424.

Stringer, Miss Charlotte, 252.
Stuttgart. Book published at, 224.
Aublime of jFlagellation, 241, 258,

37°-

Sudbury, John, 243.
Sudbury, T., 149.
Suetonius, liv (note 84).
Aultane Ro$rea, la, 197.
Sumpter, F. Publication by, 227.
Aupercijerie* litteraire* Se&oilee*,
47.5-

£upercf)erie* litteraire*, Va*tic$e*,

475-

Superstition. See Worship.
£ur le* 6enour He P®gli*e, 90.

Swift, Dean, 96, 176.
Swinburne, A. C., 254.
Swinton, Rev. John, 340.
Agntbol TOor*f)ip, Ancient, 71.
Symonds, H. D. Publication by, 342.

S.

Tabes dorsalis, 179. I Cableau ffotlt He* Crouble*
Cable Alphabetize &c., 469, 475. | Cableaur He* f»*ur*, 129.

612 index librorum prohibitorum.

Tablettes de Magnanimlte, 86.
Tainb, H. Hist, de la Littbrature

Anglaise, 463.
Cole* out of £rf>ool, 353.
Tallard, Cle rm o nt, xxxv (note 47).
Tall 1 en, Mile., 409, 410.
Taly, described, 289 (note).
Tamorlanb, 180.
Tardibu, Dr. A. Quoted, 27.

Attentats aux Moeurs, 459.
Tasso. Quoted, 22.
Tau, a phallic emblem, 84, 85.
Taylor, Sally, xliv.
Tbchbnbr, J. Bulletin du Bibliophile,
449*

Teeth, seven ways of applying them,
295.

Tegg & Son. Publication by, 183
(note).

Temple de Volupt6, Au, 165.
Tbnnbnt, Sir Embrson, 9, 11.
Tbrbntianus, lxxv (note 124).
Te re nt 1 us. Quoted, 319.
Thackeray, W. M. Quoted, 136,
212.

The Four Georges, 460.
Cf)tor(t ttu Etberttnagt, la, 423, and

concluding note (post).
ffyixh* 89.

cj>ere*e |tytlo$opl)f, Separatumtot,89.
Q3)e*ptan Sfctionarg, Cl)e, 476.
Th^venot, 180.

ThI&venot db Morandb. La Gazette

Noire, 461.
Thibrs, lxv (note 103), 173.
Thistlethwaytb, Rev. Dr. R., sodo-
mist, 340.

Thomas, Ralph. Quoted, xv (note 7)»
lxxi (note 116), 136.

Handbook of Fictitious Names,
xiv (note 7), 462.

A Martyr to Bibliography, 461,
468, 470-

Th omas, Saint, 181.

Thomassin, C. Publication by, 422
(note).

Thompson, J., 23.

Thompson, William, sodomist, 334.

Thoms, W. J. The Story of Notes
and Queries, 470.

Thurlow, Miss, xliv.

Tickle-Pitcher, Timothy, 149.

Cirfettrf) JHtatfrtl, €$t, 134.

Ticknor, Gborgb. Quoted, 152
(notes).

History of Spanish Literature,
464.

Tiger. Publication by, 110.

Tilladbt, Chevalier de, 27.

Tillibr, Du. Quoted, 427.

Timbs, J. Clubs and Club Life, 454.
Ctmetf, Q$e> 476-

Timour, the Tartar, 180.

Timpbrley, C. H. A Die. of Printers,
&c., 456.

Tlrayak posture, described, 295.

Titian. His portrait of Aretino,
1 (note).

Title of this work explained, lxiv.

Titles of books should be given
exact and untranslated, lviii,
lxxi.

Co Alt, Cf>e, liii (note 82).

Todd,Rev. J. Quoted,xxxvi (note 50).

index librorum prohibitorum.

613

Toland, 178.
Tommies, 330.

Tournon, 289 (note).

Tons les Libraires, Chez, no, 143,
407.

Towers of Ireland, phallic em-
blems, 6, 85.

Translation.

No attempt at translation made
in the present work, lvii.

Translations imperfectly reflect
the original, lvii.

The Rev. R. A. Willmott quoted,
lvii (note 89).

Book titles and proper names
should never be translated,
lviii.

The French are apt to do this,
lviii.

Some blunders in translation
given, lviii (note 92).

Cran*mitf*ion of life, C$e, 476.
Creative on $e Sbe of dTlogging,
240.

Crfror He lifcre* Xlare* 476.

Tribadism. Practised in Turkey
and France, xxxiv.

Tribadism.

Instances cited from Brant6me,

xxxiv (note 47).

Lines upon the actress Raucourt,

xxxv (note 48).

Books in which this vice is men-
tioned, xxxvi (note 48), 195.
"The Game at Flatts," 257,
367.

Cribune, Bit, 476.

Trolibrb, La, 427.

Crue dtorp ot lor* an* latip Sgron,

C1)t, 193 (note).
Trubner & Co. Publications by, 71,
268.

Crpal of lor* 8u*lej>, 33° (note),
476.

Turc, Robbrt lb, 98.
Turin. Books published at, j2, 129,
408.

Turner, J., 137.
Cu£gmu£$j> *ong*ter, C|)e, 135.
Twain, Mark, 254.
Twickenham. Tribadism at,

367.

Twitcher, Jemmy. See Sandwich.
The Life, &c., of 301.

Uhland. Quoted, 282.
Ulm. Drawings &c. by, 195.
finttur Curiolttp, 434*
DDDD

a.

Unguiculation, 293, 295.
Bnibertfal $raj>er, Cf>e, 198.
Upavishta posture, 295.

614

index librorum prohibitorum.

Upcott, W. 447.

«p* an* Solon* of Cffetaiue, €f)t,

379>

Bp* an* Sofam* of lilt, Cf)e, 379.
Oteage *** Jfcoman*, fit V, 456.
Otoe of dFlogging, ® Creative on t&e,
240.

Usoz t Rio, Sr., 151, 154.
SUu Jflagrorum fcc., fie, xl (note
J«>-

Utitha posture, 295.
Uttana-bandha postures, 295.
O^ore ftonuma, fit, 165.
Vjrore C&eotitfca, fit, 161.

Vacaubrib, Augusts. Quoted, 90.
Vadva woman, 285.
Vaishnavas. Customs of, 76.

Tales of the, 276.
Valcourt, Justin, 408.
Valencia. Book published at, 151.
vallabh, 269.

Vallabf)ar!)arpa^, $i*t. of t$e, 268.
Valle, P. dellb, 181.
Talmor it Igbta, 34.

Vance, Dr., xlv, xlvi.
Vandenhouten. Publication by,
145.

Vapbrbau, G. Die. des Contempo-

rains, 458.
Varkats, 270, 275.
Vashikaran, Indian act of charm-
ing, 297.

Vaughan, Ernest. Notice of, 430.
Du Neuf et du Fieux, 428.
Joyeusetis de Frere-ffean, 430.
Veinant, Aug., 446.
Venereal Disease. See Pox.

Vbnbttb, 86.

Teni Creator, 198.

1?em!*, CI)t Srttle* of, 117.

T?emn, Cf>e Cabinet of, Hnlotftetar,

264.

Temi* ddjoolmtetre**, xlv. (note 64),
397> 47&

Vere Street Coterie, xxxiv (note

46), 328.
Verger, 378 (note).
Ytxiit *ur letf beuj: itooce*
468.

Verlaine, Paul. Les Amies, 42.
Vera par la lecture betfquel* on peut

connOttre *i Ton aime, 64.
Verville. See Bbroaldb.
93er§eidjnltj einer ©ammlung &c., 476.
V^sinier, Pierre, 61.
Ifatrt*, jflttme. C|>e lingular life
&c., 13.

Veuillot, Louis. Le Droit du
Seigneur, 164 (note).

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531

Vice.

Necessity for the historian to take
vice into consideration; Buckle
quoted, xix (note 18).
Should not be taught, but must
be shown in its true colours;
J. B. Say quoted, lxix (note
112).

Profligacy of the Mah&r&jas,
268.

Victor Emmanuel. Obscene paint-
ings made for him, 267.
Tie b'une ffntretenue, 146.
Tie Ureiuieu*e tt'une femme attultere,

146.

vlbilh db b0isj0linj 448.

Tie* ruriru*e* be fflle* be joie, 146.
Tie* be Same* Aalante*, 469, 476.
Viobrus Mutoniatus, 198.
Vigneul-Marvillb. Quoted, lv

(note 8j).
Viont, Alfrbd db, 443.
Tillage fiull, Cfje, 148.
VlLLERS, Miss, 257.
TiUeterque, i'Suteur be* Crime* be
r8mour i, 407.

Vincent, Maria, 23.

Vincent, Mrs., 147.

Tinbiriar jFoetu* ertra Hterum ©entti,

262.

Violet lb Due. Catalogue, 450.

Quoted, li (note 76), 98.
Virey, 181.
Virgil. Quoted, jo.
Virgin. The desire to deflower a
virgin is an acquired taste, but
is nevertheless the acme of
delight, 122.
Time when a virgin should be

enjoyed, 12 j.
See also Woman.
Virginity. Essay on, 177.
Visconti, Mme., 409.
Volsangb, 409.
Voltaire. Quoted, 176.

Book improperly attributed to

him, 117.
Mentioned, 86, 87, 150, 323.
Toluptuarian jHu*eum, Cije, 436,536.
Vreushabha man, 285.
Vyanta-bandha posture, 295.

OT.

Wake, C. S, Ancient Symbol Worship, Walpolb,Horace. Quoted, 203,207,

71. 208,211,212.

Walpord, E. Men of the Time, 469. Books by, 469, 474.

Wall, Baring, 340. Wanlovius, J., 219.

616

index librorum prohibitorum.

Wanton j>e*u(t, C%e, 257, 303.
Wanton VHarbler, ttfce, 135.
Warburton, Bishop. Quoted, 202.
Mentioned, 198, 207, 209, 226.
Notice of, 212.
Ward, Artbmus, 254.
Ward, A. W. A Hist, of English

Dramatic Literature, 464.
Ward, William, engraver, xviii.
War£e. Table Alphabitique, 469.
Wart, Juan, 29.
Wartbr, J. W., 459.
Washburne, £. B., 252.
Water Itlp, Cf)e, 368.
Waterfortt *ong*ter, Cf)e, 135.
Watson, Mrs., 257.
Watt, Robert. Mentioned, xii.

Bibliotheca Britannica, 445.
TOaj) to IJeel, €f)e, 434.
Wbbbb, Philip Cartbrbt, 208,
209.

Webb's Hotel, 391-
Wedlock, See Marriage.
Weeds, H., printer, 73.
Weir, 86.

West, William. Notice of, 136.

Publications by, 133, 134, 135.
West Wycombe, 211.
Westphalie. Book printed at, 95.
Westropp, H. M. Ancient Symbol

Worship, 71.
Whelan, P. Publication by, 12.
Whipping. See Flagellation.
Whipwbll & Co., 434.
White, Andrew. Notice of, 114.
Publications by, 114.

White House, 312.

White Swan public house, 228.

White, Thomas, executed for sodo-
my, 332.

Whitman, Walt, 254.

Wfpre, €f)t accomplice*, 1, 113
(note).

Wtyore, Cf>e Wanttering, 2.

Whorecraft. See Prostitution.

Wideawake, 145.

TOtooto an* tf>e 9ar*on'* fiuH, €$e>

Wild, Jonathan, 336.

Wilder, Alex. M.D., 71.

Wilkes, John. Notice of, 231.

An Essay on Woman, 198 to 236,
43o.

Books on, 454, 466, 476.

Wflltetf, dfjerftan, Jfoj: Cf>e
rition 476.

Wilkie, J. Publication by, 202
(note).

Williams, murderer, 415.

Williams, J Publication by, 214.

Willick, Dr., 86.

Willis, Miss, xliv.

Willmott, Rev. R. A. Quoted,
xxvii (note 31), xlix (note 71),
lvii (note 89), lviii (note 91).

Pleasures, &c. of Literature,
47*.

Wil—n, Mrs., 257.

Wilson, G. H. Wonderful Characters,
476.

Wilson, Harriet, 49.

Wilson, H. H., 80 (note).

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533

Wilson, John, 137.
Wilson, Mary, i, 23, 243, 244,
397-

VHifeon'* $tfo dflatf) ftong*, 135.
VHibon'* Slum Cobger'a Collection,

135-

wlnorave, 244.

raiding 6la**, Cf)e, 354-
Wit antr ©economy, Smour* of, 19.

Wit, Saint, 7 (note).
Witt, George. 8 (note), 9.
W—ley, Lady, 257.
Wopp—gton, Mrs., 257.
SBollufi im ganfce bet Semi*, 402.
Wolzogen, A. von, 103 (note).
Woman.

Best modes of enjoying one,
119.

May be enjoyed by two men at

the same time, 120.
Should not be quite naked,
121.

Experiences more delight than

the man, 121.
Dispute on this point between

Jupiter and Juno, 179, 263.
A youth desires a woman older

than himself, 122.
Pleasures of rape, 125.
Woman's carnal desire stronger

than that of man, 177, 265.
Sexual connections; female
organs of generation; seed of
both sexes, 263.
Menstruation and sterility, 263,
297.

EEEE

Woman.

Influence of the stars upon con-
ception, 263.

* Conceptio sine coitu," 263.

" Foemina est animal imperfec-
tum," 263.

Thirty points of beauty, 263.

Libidinous women, 263, 265.

Alphabet of the defects of wo-
man, 264.

Of those who died in the act,
264.

Whether females may change
their sex, 265.

Which is more lustful, a maid or
a woman, 265.

How to contract the vulva, 265,
297.

Nautch women of India de-
scribed, 74.

Indian courtesans superior to
those of Europe, 380.

They shave their private parts,
380.

Four classes of women among
the Hindoos, 285.

Padmini-woman described,
286.

Signs by which the wise know
that a woman is amorous, 286.

Twelve periods when women

have the greatest desire, 187.
Woman is colder, but less easily

satisfied than man, 288.
The yoni, of four kinds, de-
scribed, 289.

534

index librorum prohibitorum.

Woman.

Women should constrict the
muscles of the vagina during
coition, 290.

The Kabb&d&h of Abyssinia,
290 (note).

Indiscriminate congress permitted
only if the woman's life be in
danger, 291.

List of women excluded from
copulation, 291.

Preliminary embraces, &c. de-
scribed, 293.

Various postures enumerated, 295.

Various prescriptions, 297.

Monotony begets satiety, 299.

"Tommies," 330.

Picture of a homeless girl in Lon-
don in the last century, 358.

Endeavours to reclaim prostitutes,

358.

Women counterfeit resistance,
and delight in being stormed,
35 9-

Men kept by women, 360.

A " Jilt " described, 360.

Haunts of prostitutes, 360.

Yga, Mme. Le Culte de Priape, 9.
Sotul'* fJroeptor, 403.
Yoni. Described, 286, 289.

Women classed according to the
extent of, 285.

Woman.

Tribadism, xxxiv, 195, 357, 367.
Erantome cited, xxxiv (note 47).
Verses on the actress Raucourt,

xxxv (note 48).
Books on woman, 117, 161, 165,

260, 264, 282, 284.
See also Virgin.
Woman, 8n on, 198 to 236,430.
Woman of tf>e Cofou, ffotfjaitu lib

of a, 17.
Woman'* $U*olution, 229.
VHontterful Character*, 476.
Wood, John, 341.
Wooley, 328.
Worship.

Hindoo, 73, 268.
Phallic, 3, 5, 83, 85, 180.
Symbol, 71.
Wou, H. J. Publication by,

416 (note).
Wraxall, 212.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 250.
Wright, Thomas. Notice of, 10.

Books by, 9, 10, 459.
KBrinitb* on ftobmafetng, 254.
W—rs—y, Lady, 15.

Yoni.

Worship of, 76, 8j, 289 (note).
Kissed by the voluptuaries of

Sata-desha, 294.
Prescription for narrowing, 297.

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535

Yoni.

Blood from used as a charm,
298.

See also Organs of Genera-
tion.
Yonijas, 76.

York. Book published at, 305.
$ottng Criminal, life of a, 18.
Young, Dr., 182.
Young, Hbnrt, 158.
$oung lor*'* lark, S, 353.
Voting ittaft'* librarp, C$e, 119.

CONCLUDING NOTE.

The present volume has been much longer in the press than was antici-
pated. The MS. was given to the printer on the 21st of June, 1875, anc* the
book left his hands March 30, 1877.

During this time changes have naturally taken place j and none more
complete than in the state of the book trade in Belgium, concerning which
the following note appears to be necessary.

The observations upon the subject at p. xxxii. of my Introduction were
substantially true when written, but since that date (1875) things have been
altered. The Belgian authorities, at the instigation, I believe, of the English
government, have taken energetic steps to suppress the traffic in erotic litera-
ture, and seizures have lately been made in the houses of the principal book-
sellers. Hartcupp (see note at p. 434 ante), Sacr6-Duquesne, M.M. Gay,
father and son, and others have got into trouble. The result of which U
that at present it is as difficult for ^ stranger to procure an obscene book in
Brussels as in London.

I take this opportunity of adding the correct title of the unpublished work
of the Marquis de Sadb, the exact wording of which I did not know when I
wrote the remarks at p. 422 (ante). It is " Se* 120 Sbunue* &e &ofcoutt ou
l'Ecole du Libertinage, 6crites en 20 soir6es, de 7 & 10 heures, et finies le 12
Novembre 1785."

The list of Edward Sellon's works, given at p. 396 (ante), will I believe
be rendered quite complete by the addition of " Herbert Brea&tfpear: a Legend
of the Mahratta War, London, 1847," 8vo., noted by Allibone at vol. 2,
p. 1995, of his " Critical Dictionary."

Another edition of Ci)e Voluptuarfan jHutfeum may yet be noted. It is a
reprint of the work noticed at p. 436 ante ; small 8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. 97 in
all; small print; 6 mediocre illustrations, generally coloured, inspired by, but
not exactly copied from those of the original j the title heads each page, and is
underlined. The wording of the title page is identical with that of the
original, with the substitution of an " for "and like that it is without
date, but was printed about 1810. A note at foot of the last page of the
original is omitted in this reprint.

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ERRATA.

Page xx, note line 10.— -For pronouce read pronounce
,, xxii, tf 22 t* a. tt getrue* getreueft
» xxiv, »» — tt ia. n aquaintance „ acquaintance
.«> xxix, 35 tt 1. n the last ,, a recent
,, xxix, » 35* tt a. tt F. H. Molini „ F. F. Molini
„ xxxv, 47. tt 11. n grandefeste „ grande feste
„ lix, paging n lxix „ lix
„ lxvii, note 107, line 8. » litt6raires „ littlrales
„ lxvii, io7> last line. » terns, „ terns.
„ Ixix, >» no, line a. tt moit6 „ moiti6
„ lxx, 9* » 9t a. n etre „ £tre
„ Ixxi, tt ii6j » ft 3- n prefered „ preferred
>» 2, note, — For a read k
4> — line n. M Biblon ,, Biblion
„ 6, — n 3- tt Roxburg „ Roxburghe
„ 6, — » 7- It typhography „ typography
7» note, tt i. tt Bibliographic „ Bibliographe
7» n t* 4- »f p&irinage „ p&lerinage
8, tt » i. tt bysterie „ hyst6rie
9» n tt a. t9 13^ » 319.
„ io, — n 9- it antiquaries ,, antiquaires
„ io, - a n. 99 Loundes's „ Lowndes's
io, - » n. tt Manuel „ Manual
„ 18, - n a4. tt Mackensie „ Mackenzie
» ai, — tt 3- tt attemtping „ attempting
» aa, - » ia. tt twelve „ sixteen
» 22, - tt 13- tt 6 8
» aa, — tt 16. „ beginning of the present „ during the last
,, aa, - tt ai. tt 1830 „ 181a
„ note, — tt Biblon Biblion
„ 27> — tt 19. tt Tardien „ Tardieu
„ 27, — tt a4. 99 quatre-vingt „ quatre-vingt-dix

PFFF

622 index librorum prohibitorum.

»8, — line 14. For d*apr6s des 61ements read d'apr&s les 616n
2S, — n i5- le 6crits V les 6crits
28, — n 17. tonte entidre 99 tout entiere
— » 18. presente l> pr6sente
— 99 1. Athen&s )» Athenes
a9» — n 3- Viellard >» Vieillard
a9* — n 18, Gustav 19 Gustave
3<>> — » 2. le « la
3i. — n 11. royal ») royale
3*> — n 16. l'6claireras 99 t'6claireras
3J» note, » 2. Prefet 99 Pr6fet
35» » ft 7. en suite 99 ensuite
36, » n 1. Curiositi6s 99 Curiosit6s
36, n n 4. veillissant 99 vieillissant
36, n 99 4. la quelle 99 laquelle
36, » n 9- differents 99 diff6rents
36, » » par 19 pas
36, n n 16. 1 6crivain 99 T6crivain
36, n n 18. repr6sailes 99 repr6sailles
36, n n 19. le 99 les
37. - 99 18. Gustav 99 Gustave
37, - 99 19. Curiositi6s 99 Curiosit6s
37> - n 19. Historie 99 Histoire
37, — 99 24. Sevign6 99 S6vign6
39. - 99 4- Paris 99 Paris "
39> - » 6. le yeux 99 les yeux
39> - 99 7. appele 99 appelle
4*> - » 21. appeller 99 appeler
- J9 8. Omit fall stop at end of the line.
- 99 13. For seines read seins
- n 20. feminines 99 f6minines
note % Devoil6s 99 D6voil6es
jJ» — n 8. reverie 91 reverie
— n 10. bergere 91 bergere
— ft 16. jeux 91 yeux
Ji* — n 18. defi »> d6ti

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Page ji, — line 20. For sonette read sonnette
>, 5*. — * 2 6. „ enorme » 6norme
>, 5», — „ Reimprim6 99 R6imprim6
„ 53, — * 17- A comma after the word chambellans,
„ 53, — » *7- For courtesanes read courtisanes
„ 53, — » j, premieres 99 premieres
» 5S> — . 9- >» 6tiendre 99 6teindre
» 55* — » 10. 1, excercises 99 exercices
55> — » 14. »» sou 99 son
55» — „ 16. „ roug6es 99 rong6es
» 5S> — » 24. » 6tre 99 fctre
» 55, — - »5- gemissements ,, gemissements
57> — 99 31. „ en 99 en'
„ 58, — - 5. Inverted commas before " C'ltait
„ 58, — » 16. For des read de
.. 58, — » 22. 99 L'Implratice 99 L'lmpfratrice
59* — „ io. 99 considerable 99 considerable
„ 60, — » 13. 99 d'avantage )9 davantage
„ 60, — „ l6. 99 autricienne 99 autrichienne
„ 60, — » 20. ft trent 99 trente
„ 60, — „ 27. m plutot 99 plutot
„ 61, — - 8. « carresses 99 caresses
„ 61, — 99 vol. iv 99 vol. iv,
„ 61, — 99 19- 99 Vesimier 99 V£sinibr
„ 63, — „ 16. 99 Eugenie 99 Eug6nie
„ 64, — * 1. 99 connection 99 connection with
„ 66, — » 22. 99 verit6 99 v6rit6
„ 68, — » 7. 99 Convent »» Couvent
» 73, — » i- 99 it 11 ity
„ 73, — - 9- 99 eminentes 99 iminentes
» 77, — - 19- 99 po£t 99 po£te
„ 77, note, — 99 Devoildes 99 D6voil6es
„ 78, — line 2. 99 ame 99 &me
„ 78, — » 25. 99 s'enlancent 99 s'enlacent
„ 78, — » »6. 99 leur 99 leurs
» 79, — » 3- 99 laisserent 99 laisserent

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79> — line 15. For bais£s read baisers
79* — 99 21. w etouffee 99 6touff6e
80, note, n i. 99 ravisante 99 ravissante
81, — n 2. 99 mysteres 91 mysteres
81, — 99 8. 99 oburgi 99 Coburgi
82, — 99 13. 99 Parnomita 99 Panormita
82, — 99 18. 99 ubi fluius 91 ibi fluxus
83, — „2&3- Omit from " , and although " to a death'*
84, — n ii. For recherche read recherche
84, — 99 21. » resusciated 99 resuscitated
85. — 99 18. 99 Tripple 99 triple
86, — )• 21. 99 Machia veil's 99 Macchiavelli's
86, — 99 31. 99 Naivete 99 Naivetd
87, — 99 20. ») 99 58th
88, — 99 24. 99 as teacher 99 as a teacher
9i> — 99 14- 99 de 99 des
9*> — 99 ij- 99 Que c'est catholique! 99 que c'est catholique ?
98, — 99 2. 99 Cocq 99 Coq
98, — '9 20. 99 suoc6s 99 succ&s
100, — 99 19. 99 Assize 99 Assizes
103, note, 99 2. 99 99
103, 99 99 2. 99 muSifaliddjm 99 muflfaliftyen
103, 99 99 2. 19 SO 99 toon
13*, 99 99 & 99 *
14*. - line 12. )» Montagu's 99 Montague's
146* - » 16. »! Societe 99 Societ6
146, - >1 18. 99 ftocittc 99 frocifce
146, — >1 21. 99 p£ches 99 p£ch6s
*S6> - 99 8. 99 possess 99 possesses
- 99 10. 99 which all 99 all which
189, — 99 19. 99 poederastic 99 pederastic
- 99 4. 99 veiled 99 veiled.
210, note t, 1 99 1. 99 Hush's 99 Huish's
an, - 99 16. 99 deliniated 99 delineated
221, — 99 4. 99 naivete 99 naiveti

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Page 221, — line 7- For relating read relating to
tt 221, — tt 19. a une „ un
a 221, — tt 20. tt poem „ poeme
f> 222, — tt 2. ti lui m6me „ lui-m£me
ti 222, — tt 4. tt debut „ d6but
it 222, — n 4- tt designant „ d6signant
tt 224, — tt 2. tf J WlLKES „ J. Wilkes
tt 224, — tt 20. tt is other ,, is an other
tt 233> — tt 1. tt Johnson „ Johnston
ti nh — M 2. tt language „ langage
it 241, — ti tt is the ,, is that the
242, — tt 20. a aukward „ awkward
» 244, — tt 10. tt John „ George
tt 244. — tt 12. tt Berkely „ Berkley
tt 2j3> — n 9- tt colums „ columns
tt 277, note, tt 10. tt corres „ corres-
tt 324. — tt »t two ,, three
tt 329, — » 23. if a titude „ altitude
tt 329, — tt 2 6. tt consu mated „ consummated
tt 336, — n tf It If
tt 350, — tt 17- tt pityless „ pitiless
tt 355> — tt 16. it Alquis „ Aliquis
V 37°» — » 29. Should be printed in red.
tt 37<5, — tt to. For Bartollozzi „ Bartolozzi
tt 377> — tt 3- tt veri- „ v6ri-
tt 378, note, tt 5- tt Maroles „ Marolles
tt 37*> tt tt it. tt Distribu6e „ distribu6e
tt 39^, — tt 11. tt Ghita „ Gita
' tt 4H» — tt 30. Omit (?) after Toulouse
tt 423. — tt 19. For 1783 1785
« 429* — tt 8. tt serie „ s6rie
tt 433, — tt 3. tt Deuxieme „ Deuxieme
» 438, — tt 16. tt by, * * * , by ♦ * ♦
ft 444, — tt 30. tt g6n6rale „ g6n6ral
tt 448, — tt 2. tt out „ ont
» — tt 31- tt contraire „ contraires
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p«ge455, — line 24. For JJeubiniu read $eubicme
» 455» — >1 26. it QufeRARD „ Qu£rard
„ — »» 8. tt Esq. „ Esq.
» — »» 13. tt Aiecle „ Steele
„ 4^, — »t 12. tt flmatreur „ Amateur
„ 4^5» — a 12. tt Correspondence „ Correspondance
» — a 23- t» C'tUbtti „ Celebre*
„ 4^8, — it 24. tt jfianbai* „ jfiaubai*
„ 4^8, — *) 29. tt libre* „ tire*
» 474, — tt 13. tt literature „ literature
» 475, — a I. tt £uppe**ion „ £uppretf*ion
„ 475» — it 19. it consid£rablement „ considerablement
» 479> col. * t, 16. it «lU „ flit
„ 48a, y> I „ 21. tt Bbatice „ Beatrice
» 487. t> I „ 3. it pags „ pages
„ 487, » I „ 36. it fitbl opf)iU „ Bibliophile
„ 5°5» a I „ 9- it Hero* „ fctro*
„ 5°8, tt 2 „ J7- tt iHgtftere* „ JKgtftere*

CONTENTS AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE PRESENT

VOLUME.

Preface ..... Page v.

Epigraphs . . . . . „ vii

Introduction . . . . . „ ix.

Plan of the work . . . . „ lxxi.

Index Librorum Prohibitorum ... „ i

Additions and Corrections . . . „ 411

Authorities Consulted . . . . „ 437

Index . . . . . „ 477

Concluding Note . . . . „ 537

Errata . . . . . „ 538

Illustrations.

The Frontispiece . . To face the title.

The Berkeley Horse . „ page xliv.

" Aline et Valcour" facsimile . „ „ 30

" Geneanthropeia" „ „ „ 260