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EPIGRAPHS.

" A nation's books are her vouchers. Her libraries are her muniments. Her wealth ot
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.Stevens. Bibliotheca Geographien, p. i.

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*' La littérature actuelle est, a-t-on dit, une grand dame qui a ses jours de carnaval, et
dont elle use jusqu'à oublier entièrement la dignité de sa mission : le bon goût et les saines
lettres ne sont que trop souvent sacrifiés à ses écarts."

Qujbrard. Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées, 1865, p. xv.

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" Fontenelle disait : * II n'est point de chagrin qui tienne contre une heure de lecture.'
Or, de toutes les lectures, la plus entraînante est celle des ouvrages erotiques, surtout lorsqu'ils
sont accompagnés de figures expressives."

Rest if db la Bretonne. V Anti-Justine^ Introduction.

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"Climène.—11 a une obscénité qui n'est pas supportable.
Élise.-—Comment dites-vous ce mot-là, madame ?
Climène.—Obscénité, madame.

Élise.—Ah 1 mon dieu, obscénité. Je ne sais ce que ce mot veut dire j mais je le trouve le
plus joli du monde."

MoliÈrh. La Critique de Ρ École des Femmes, Scène III.

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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

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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."

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INTRODUCTION.

" The infant science of Bibliography," as Hartwell Horneé)
not inappropriately terms it, has never been cultivated in England
with the same love or success as by our neighbours d'outre
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(³) task of recording the works of others.

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

³ 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 Publiek 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'4 to the sort of mechaniek Drudgery, to the running,

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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 Quérard, Barbier, J. C.
Brunet, or even as Peignot, Nodier, or Le Bibliophile Jacob

stooping, searching, poring, picking out, and putting 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 examined _t
compar'd, corrected, and adjusted in due Order, and mark'd out for the re-
spective Use and Application of them." Biglât«: anti Cíjrxmtcle, 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 Ο Ρ Q 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 art or science to dignify and honour his labours. Bibliography as
yet is a mere jackal!, or |>ackhorse, 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.'' ttftltotfitta toograp$íca, p. 2.

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(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) Quérard
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 Littéraires, 1865," where he passes in review the various
countries in which the subject he has in hand has been treated, Quérard
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 Bibliographie instructive), and Brunei'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."
Jetterai $tbltc graphical JBtc, Preface, p. iv.

Bridgman says : " 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." ïUgal ÎStbltû*
grapfø, p. ν.

" 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." 33ibiiot|)cca <fèçojjrapï)tra, 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.'⁰ EtbraríííS anti dfounttett of Etisrarteé, p. 422.

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

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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 " 2)a8 geteíjrte
<£nglanï> pber £mfon bet jetgtleBenfcen ©cÇtiftfteller in ©rofÔfctitannUn, Sttanb urtb
Ulox&yLmtxiU nefcft einem SBet^icÇnifS t$ren ®cÇtiften. SSûm 3aÇ« j 770 Bi3
1790. Sßon Seremiafl ÎDaïjib OieufS." 8vo. ; published in Berlin, 1791 ; in 2 vols.
A supplement, in a vols, followed ín 1804, See ñ 33 to graphical 28 tc. of tí)f
Eíbíng Mutilará oí Ôrtai Britain ants frtlantt, &c, London, 1816, p. vi. ;
and Biblioteca uftlfograjtøua, 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 : thai 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. Brunei : his work and the public would
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.*¹ Quoted

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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. 234 of his 23tftlíograp!júal 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. 0., "Biblio-
graphical Decameron," £ij. o. 0., "Bibliographical Tour," large paper,
with Lewis's etchings inserted, £43. o. 0., "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.,
" Ædes Althorpianæ," large paper, £11. 5. o. j and at the Benzon sale, 1875,
"Typographical Antiquities," £13· o. o., "Bibliographical Decameron,"
£3$. o. o., " Bibliographical Tour," £ij. o. o., and another copy £16. o. o.,
"Bibliotheca Spenceriana," " Cassano Library," and ^t€ Ædes Althorpianæ,"
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 have lacked the power of graduation.
Much as he had mixed with society, his writings evince plainly that he could
as little mark degrees in his estimates of men, ás he could mark them in his
b

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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 ^f Rox-
burghians,' and editors of black-letter rarities—Walter Scott and Joseph
Haslewood." Htörarteö anti dPountitnj of Etbrarøg, p. 418.

⁶ The Marquis du Roure has already fully expressed what I would con-
vey -, he says : " Le talent de résumer et d'apprécier les pensées d'autrui, le soin
pénible de recherches qu'il exige, le discernement prompt et sûr qu'il suppose,
tout cela n'est ni commun» ni méprisable, et rentre d'ailleurs dans le domaine
de Fart, quand un style varié, avec une simplicité élégante, vient y joindre ses
agrémens, ce qui s'est rencontré plus d'une fois." ffnaltctabtblion, vol. 1, p. 5.

» %antftoo& of iftctttt'ottä Jiamtó, 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 2 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, ^arld died January 9, 1876. In flotta anfc <&MVÍt$,
5th S.V. p. 64, appeared a kindly tribute to his memory from the pen of Mr.
Ralph Thomas 3 from it are extracted the above facts concerning him.

⁸   The remarks of Q.uérard,upon this point may not be out of place here :
" Depuis 1670, il y a près de deux siècles, que parut le premier ouvrage

dévoilant les anonymes et pseudonymes, celui de Fréd. Geisler, combien de
travaux semblables ont été publiés jusqu'à nos jours, d'abord en Allemagne,
ensuite en Italie : en France pour la première fois par Adrien Baillet, qui fit
paraître, en 1690, ses tuteurs déguisez ; en Suède, et tout récemment en
Belgique et en Russie ! C'est que la recherche des auteurs anonymes et pseudo-
nymes est la plus attrayante partie d'une spécialité des connaissances humaines,
spécialité qui n'offre pas en général de grands charmes à ceux qui s'en occu-
pent, la Bibliographie.¹' %t¿ £>U$ml)tÚta %ítttmvt# ZBtboilttä, 2nd. edit.
1865, "Avertissement," p. 5.

9   An attempt to supply this deficiency is being at present made in the
fiitWrjr 4føurgatortue Snglkamtó, by W. H. Hart, F.S.A., now at its
3rd part.

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in the pages of " Notes and Queries/'(¹⁰) or here and there in a
few minor and almost forgotten bibliographical books ;(^IX) 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 raisonné of their exceedingly rich erotic
literature.

¹⁰   First series, vols. 8, 9, 11, 12 ; and 2nd Series, vols. 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 12.

¹¹   Especially those pleasant little volumes of W. Davis, the ¿Mío, and
the two $ourme¿ routtö t^e llCbrarg ot a fHbltomaiuac.

¹²  M. Octave Delepierre, in his most interesting studies : üí£f %übvt&
fonttantnfø au fnt m gfajçtetem, and ©e la IStbltojiïjajjte, published for the
Philobiblon Society.

For a list of works on condemned books see Peignot's 39tí. tó Et&mf
contiàmnh au fru, vol. ι, ρ. χχΐχ.

^χ3 " S'occuper des principaux ouvrages qui ont été condamnés au feu,
supprimés ou censurés (Peignot writes) ; c'est rassembler des matériaux pour
l'Histoire des erreurs de l'esprit humain ; c'est marquer les écueils dangereux
qu'il serait à souhaiter que tout écrivain eût la ferme résolution d'éviter lorsqu'il
prend la plume. Rien ne serait peut-être plus utile qu'un tableau méthodique
et bien fait de la fatale influence qu'ont eue sur les troubles civils, politiques
et religieux, les principes exagérés répandus dans la plupart des livres proscrits,
et même dans quelques-uns qui ne l'ont pas été." He adds : " Vouloir donner
un Catalogue raisonné de ces sortes de livres qui n'ont point été condamnés,
mais qui ont mérité de l'être, ce serait une enterprise considérable et qui serait
utile." 39ti. ïta ïUfemî ionttamnfø au feu, vol. 1, "Discours, ' pp. 1 and xxvi.

The Marquis du Roure bears similar testimony. Speaking of works analo-
gous to his own, the Stoaleitautblton, he remarks (at vol. 1, p. 5) : "Quant
à leur utilité, rien ne semble moins contestable, si ce n'est qu'on trouve
indifferent de faire connaître l'esprit des neuf dixièmes des gens dont il
est important de retracer le nom» la patrie, la naissance, la vie et la mort, ainsi
que le font toas les dictionnaires historiques si curieusement recherchés;
autrement qu'il est superflu de savoir ce que tels et tels ont écrit, pourvu
qu'on sache qu'ils ont écrit ; proposition difficile à soutenir."

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The only work indeed which exists, in any language, devoted
to that branch, is the " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à
l'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage et des Livres Facétieux,
Pantagruéliques Scatologiques, Satyriques, etc. par M. Le C.
jjj * * * » 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,(¹⁴) sufficient alone to deter any author

*4 ^fi But there is a superficial morality among the English of the present day

(justly remark the talented authors of the Cïje frtÖtp ífypurgaturtuá of

fílatttaí), 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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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 ;(¹⁵)
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,(¹⁶) 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/' p. vi. This is not absolutely true, for in the JBarttal
the obscene passages are sometimes given, but in Italian.

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

¹⁶ Τ allude to " The complicated R—n," and the " Frontis—Piss," given ■
by S. Ireland in his &raj$ic Ilttifeatttitó of ftagartg, 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, Félicien
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(^l8) or the psychologist these

^li But 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>^oo° slides
were seized and destroyed. Hayler himself absconded, and thereby escaped
punishment ; 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 Advertiser" of April 13 " The Daily
Telegraph " of April 4 j "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 3 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 ; 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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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. (^I9)

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 j 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." ütótorg of Ctôtlt^attfltt, vol. i, pp, 20 and 21.
These propositions granted, it naturally follows that all books which throw
light upon crime must be valuable to the historian.

^J9 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 bora, should be registered, without inquiry into its
merits or character. We are no Malthusian [either in population or books.
Who shall prononce 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 canmot 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

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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 ;(³⁰) 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 nonsense -, 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 Proverhial 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.
fStfcltotïjwa <§tograpï>t£a, p. 6.

³⁰ I quote again from Cf)£ tøejr <£rpurjjatûrtU£î, 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 5 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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the memoirs of the time,(^ai) or in the novels of Mirabeau, De
Sade,(") 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.(³³)

²¹ " 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." Ifntrofcttittott
to tï)e littérature of Europe.

*³ A modern German writer remarks : " IXeBtigenê ííefern un§ btefe Beiben
Sßänbe (Justine) ein getnteS SBííb bet (Sntftttíidjung bet fran¿oflfd)en 5ltiftøf ratte
im xviii. 3aí)t^unbert 2He näcfjtßcfyen bagben auf SMbcfyen unb M.náhm_t bie
in biefen Sßänben $u unebetCoíten SØMen BefcfjrteBen werben, laffen une bie Srøadjt
btefet üerru^ten Sftcce erfennen, dut weldjer bie φαίί^ί oÇnmaïfjttg war." Hfuotúte
unb aíulíett« &c Wíxítílcfy ^ítógabe, p. 46.

»3 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, ^ν°1· ^τ> Ρ· 7> ^anc* ^νο^· ²> ΡΡ· ^JÖ4* ²47* 3²j)j ^and 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 société qui prépare le crime, et que le coupable n'est que l'in-
strument qui l'exécute." fftótorg of Ct&ftføitton, vol. ι, p. 27. This I take
to be the meaning of Mr. Thomas Carlyle when he says of his Hero as a man
of letters : " Looking well at his life, we may get a glance, as deep as is readily

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I maintain that no production of the human brain should be
ignored, entirely disregarded, or allowed to become utterly
lost ;(^a4) 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.'' %tttuttä 0Π Ikttutä. The hy-
pothesis is still further amplified by Théophile Gautier, who, in the preface to
fflíatítmuteült be íHaupút, makes the following pointed remarks : " Les livres
suivent les mœurs et les mœurs ne suivent pas les livres.—La Régence a fait
Crébillon, ce n'est pas Crébillon qui a fait la Régence. Les petites bergères
de Boucher étaient fardées et débraillées, parce que les petites marquises
étaient fardées et débraillées.—Les tableaux se font d'après les modèles et non
les modèles d'après les tableaux. Je ne sais qui a dit je ne sais où que la
littérature et les arts influaient sur les mœurs, oui que ce soit, c'est
indubitablement un grand sot.—C'est comme si l'on disait : Les petits pois
font pousser le printemps j les petits pois poussent au contraire parce que c'est
le printemps, et les cerises parce que c'est l'été. Les arbres portent les fruits,
et ce ne sont pas les fruits qui portent les arbres assurément, loi éternelle et
invariable dans sa variété j les siècles se succèdent, et chacun porte son fruit
qui n'est pas celui du siècle précédent j les livres sont les fruits des mœurs."

*4 Although the able and liberal observations of Lord Macaulay upon
tiiis 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

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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 -ís sufficient to destroy."
tøMag on fctigfc fitmtf* üramattc Wodt* of Wtøcljerlff, &r.

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indvidual who wrote it,(^as) 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,(²⁶) 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.(²')

³* " SRicÇtê SfôenfcfyUcfyee foíí une fremb Weifcen : rcoflen nnr bie SBcít itnb imô
fet&fî xtfyt fcetfteÇen, fo muffen nnr ben Sfôenfcfyen «ηφ «uf bem $fcibe feiner
Srrtfyümer Begleiten, nicfyt um feinen Sßerirrungen nac^juaÇmen, fonbern uns iror
i^ren ¿u Bewahren." 3luê ben Sfôemoiren einet (Sängerin, 5EBorn?tort. p. 5.

^a6 M. Bérard, in the introduction to his Catalogue tie IBerøtnø, áfHanu*
¿cuta tt %¡bvti qu'on rat oblige líe iacïjer, MS., makes the following con-
fession : " Le goût des livres remonte chez moi à ma très grande jeunesse. Je
possédais quelques uns de ceux qui composent ma bibliothèque lorsque j'étais
encore au collège, et je suis forcé d'avouer que ce ne sont pas les meilleurs.
Ces livres toutefois n'étaient pas dangereux pour moi et je les considérais plus
dans leurs acceptations philosophiques et littéraires que sous les autres rapports.
Je croyais et je crois encore, que de la plus mauvaise lecture on peut obtenir un
bon résultat. On serait donc tout à fait injuste si l'on jugeait de mes goûts et
surtout de mes mœurs d'après les livres contenus dans ce catalogue, ~qui d'ailleurs
n'est pas destiné à recevoir de la publicité. A peine doit il être communiqué
« quelques amis des livres rares, et des curiosités bibliographiques."

^a* It is Théophile 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 littéraires, à empoigner et à bâtonner, au nom de la vertu,
toute idée qui se promène dans un livre la cornette posée de travers ou la jupe
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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,^⁸) their scarcity, and the difficulty he experiences in
acquiring them. (*⁹)

troussée un peu trop haut." In another place he writes : " Toujours est-il que
le monde a passé l'âge où l'on peut jouer la modestie et la pudeur, et je le
crois trop vieux barbon pour faire l'enfantin et le virginal sans se rendre
ridicule. Depuis son hymen avec la civilisation, la société a perdu le droit d'être
ingénue et pudibonde. Il est de certaines rougeurs qui sont encore de mise
au coucher de la mariée, et qui ne peuvent plus servir le lendemain j car la
jeune femme ne se souvient peut-être plus de la jeune fille, ou, si elle s'en
souvient, c'est une chose très-indécente, et qui compromet gravement la répu-
tation du mari." Preface to Jîïafoettto teilte tie fKatqwn.

³⁸  "La Mothe-le-Vayer, raconte le Carpen ter iana, ayant fait un livre de
dur débit, son libraire vint lui en faire ses plaintes, et le prier d'y remédier par
quelque autre ouvrage. Il lui dit de ne se point mettre en peine, qu'il avait
assez de pouvoir à la cour pour faire défendre son livre j et qu'étant défendu,
il en vendrait autant qu'il voudrait. Lorsqu'il l'eut fait défendre, ce qu'il
prédit arriva -, chacun courut acheter ce livre, et le libraire fut obligé de le
réimprimer promptement, pour pouvoir en fournir à tout le monde."
Cunoétííá 33tbltograpï)tqufa, par L. Lalanne, p. 401.

³9  The desire to possess that which is forbidden isas 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." Hí&Wlríeá antt ¿f o utro ft ö
of fttfcranejtf, by Edward Edwards, p. 85.

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Improper books, however useful to the student, or dear to
the collector (³°), 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. (^3I) 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 ;(³³) 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

30 « Ν_ΟΓ p_{ass 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 oißrst degree,

" E'en to old sporting Colonel T-:

" 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."

Cfjalcûgrapïjtmama, (by James Caulfield), 1814, p. 177.

3' My idea is thus aptly expressed by The Rev. R. A .Willmott s "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.'* Ißhaämtsi of littérature, p. 290.

3³ In the preface to his intuiré tiesí %íbtti iPopulatrea, M. Charles

Ν isard is of opinion that although many of the books (livres de colportage)

which he notices, might be injurious to "personnes faciles à séduire," and

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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 Quérard 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,(³³) who, in spite of his numerous

should be kept out of their hands, yet " cette prohibition ne regardait pas les
gens à l'épreuve des mauvaises lectures, c'est-à-dire, les érudits, les bibliophiles,
les collectionneurs et même les simples curieux de littérature excentrique. J'ai
donc cru faire (he adds) une chose qui serait agréable aux uns et aux autres,
en rassemblant tous ces livrets sous un seul point de vue, et en les sauvant en
masse du naufrage où ils allaient périr isolément."

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 m or tuis nil nisi bonumj "
also out of consideration for his worthy successors j but, as immediately after
his demise, all his books of a doubtful character, whether acquired "or of his ·
own publication, were at once disposed of 5 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
speaking of him as of any other bookseller deceased.

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shortcomings, produced some really well got up books.(³⁴) 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.(^3S)

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 ;(³⁶) but that is
now entirely changed, it is almost as difficult to purchase

³⁴ His reprint of R. Paine Knight's "Worship of Priapus," and his pro-
duction of the "Panier aux Ordures," for instance ; both to be noticed
specially in the course of this work.

M 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. tf Soho
Square, where the seizure was made, but was not otherwise connected with
the firm.

³⁶ " Dans ma jeunesse (says M. Bérard), c'est-à-dire à l'époque de notre
première révolution, les ouvrages licencieux et même obscènes se vendaient
publiquement sans la moindre difficulté ; leurs titres se trouvaient dans beaucoup
de catalogues de libraires et même sur ceux des cabinets de lecture. Je me
souviens qu'une femme respectable par sa conduite et par son âge, me priant
de lui procurer quelques ouvrages pour emporter à la campagne et'les faire
lire à ses enfants, avait compris sur la liste : Jwtine ou les malheurs de la
vertu, que d'après son titre elle supposait un ouvrage de morale et d'éducation."
Catalogue, jft£. Dibdin bears similar testimony, and in his 33tbliojirapï)tcat

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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
défendus. Even a couple of years ago (1875), a bookseller(^3ï) in
Paris was punished for republishing the plates of the " fermiers
généraux " 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 b y 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
contrefaçon during the last century,(³⁹) 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."

3? M. A. Barraud, who had expended, it is said, 300,000 fres, upon the un-
dertaking. Although the ⁱ⁽ Ministre de l'intérieur" 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, ^{oi tne} öuïïettn fou íStWtupljtle, p. 489.

3⁸   Throughout the whole of Germany great freedom is allowed to book-
sellers, and their operations are seldom checked ; 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 tine of 200 marks.

39  In the Journal Kc la Hegitice» vol. 1, pp. 8 and 173,, are given two lists
of 42 works, chiefly political and satirical, "que Ton disait être 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.'^⁴⁰) The American laws respecting this traffic

⁴⁰ Cjj* Jiarfe dftfe of $tfo gorfe %íU, 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. Sacré-Duquesne of
No. 76 Rue du Midi, A. Christiaens of the Galerie Bortier,
Vital Puissant, and Hart cup ρ 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.(^4a) From Italy it was soon introduced into France,

♦' Whence the French word bougre, and our lugger. At p. 175 of the
e?öäap on tfjt røontøtp of φ Ömerattbe ^otocrö during tyc Jftttftle &ge¿ of
Wt$Urn <&uvopt. (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 Búlgaras, 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 même, il pratiquait l'acte de sodomie avec les
jeunes pages attachés à son service, et loin d'en faire un mystère, il affectait
de se laisser surprendre en flagrant délit par ses collègues." fKátOtre Oti
«taptä, 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 garçon (says Bay le) n'avoit rien que de dégoûtant,
excepté qu'il avoït acquis Γ habitude de boufonner." ütcttonitatre, vol. 2, p. 875.

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where societies for practising it were formed. (⁴³) During the
second empire it was also much in vogue,(⁴⁴) and one has but to
promenade the Paris boulevards any evening to find that it is
even now by no means extinct.(^4S) * It has also had its votaries in
England₅(⁴⁶) although, I believe, to a much more limited
extent.

Tribadism, we are told, is chiefly indulged in by Turkish (⁴⁷)

43  See the memoirs of the times of Henri III. Î9e£trtçttûn Öe VMt Ö«f
l?ermapí)n>fcíUá, Cologne, 1724. 'ñnttüotta pour åtxbit à ('Ptúltotre &tttttt
Öfg (Êtmgora, Medoso mmmcccxxxiii. The 3£Ucucft Ött Ot f&aurqjaá 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 ani 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 i860. Quoted in the flefo j^ørit Jüdítcal journal, for August,
1867, vol. 5, p. 464.

4⁶ As witnessed in the abominable Fere Street Coterie, of which an
account will be given in the course of this work. From the deportó of tf)*
Crtats! at tfyt (SHU 33atlt£, from 1720 to 1730, there appear to have been
regular houses kept for carrying on the trade. Some curious particulars are
given in S dfm (examination into tije Crøal &tatutaf, xxv Henr vm, cap. 6.
and ν Eliz, c. 17, addrest to Both Houses of Parliament by A. Pilgrim. London
mdcccxxxio." printed probably in Paris.

4? Brantôme, no mean authority in such matters, tells us that : " Les
Turques vont aux bains, plus pour cette paillardise que pour autre chose, & s'y
addonnent fort." He adds: "en nostre France, telles femmes sont assez
communes, & si dit-on pourtant, qu'il n'y a pas long-temps qu'elles s'en sont
mèslées, mesme que la façon en a esté portée d'Italie par une Dame de qualité
que je ne nommeray point." Brantôme gives several anecdotes of women

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and French women.(⁴⁸) 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 retroussées, & leurs calleçons
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, pailîarder & imiter les
hommes, & dura leur abbatement près d'une bonne heure, s'estant si fort
eschauffées, & lassées, qu'elles en demeurèrent si rouges, & si en eau, bien
qu'il fist grand froid, qu'elles n'en peurent plus, & 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 & l'autre
mariée, & comme la mariée un jour d'une grandefeste & magnificence se fut
fort bien parée & habillée d'une robbe de toile d'argent, ainsi que leur Maitresse
étoit allée à Vespres, elles entrèrent dans son cabinet, Se sur sa chaise percée
se mirent à faire leur fricarelle si rudement & si impétueusement, qu'elle en
rompit sous elles, Sr la Dame mariée., qui faisoit le dessous, tomba avec sa belle
robbe de toiïe d'argent à la renverse tout à plat sur l'ordure en bassin, si bien
qu'elle se gasta & souilla si fort, qu'elle ne sceut que faire que s'essuyer le
mieux qu'elle peut, se trousser & s'en aller à grand haste changer de robbe
dans sa chambre, non sans pourtant avoir esté apperceuë & bien sentie à la
trace, tant elle puoit." Vuä føa harnea Galantea*

*⁸ A very noteworthy example was the actress Raucourt, about whom
anecdotes will be found in the fUlnimrai ^mztå, in E'^púsn fingíais!, in
Ea Chronique J^canftaleugt, and other publications. The following lines I ex-
tract from the latter work (vol. 3, p. 32) :

" Pour te fêter, belle Rancour t,

^(í Que n'ai-je obtenu la puissance

" De changer vingt fois en un jour

^iS Et de sexe & de jouissance S

" Oui, je voudrais, pour t'exprimer

^(t Jusqu'à quel degré tu m'es chère»

^u 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 ; (⁴⁹)
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." Q°)

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.

49 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 £$.

*° €ϊμ ÎBarït dûfe øf #lefo gorft Etfe, 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. ^si 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
country are less in proportion than those from coo pies one or both of whom

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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." Cotiltíleíá on t|je
Rature anïï fføgføu of tï)i fHaécultne ¿function, 1871, pp. 193 and 195.
The same opinion (but without abortion) is entertained by nearly the whole
French nation.

^if 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
°f 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
^an7." Øcfo forît He&icaï Sounwï, vol. 5, p. 464.
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to many of my readers, is practised, as some affirm,(^ÄI) in Italy,
and even in France.

Bestiality, so dear to the Romans, is undoubtedly yet per-
petrated in Italy, especially among the rural population.(*³)
With the Italian soldiers of the i6th century it passed into
France.^³)

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

$* " <%'m (in Italy) ï)errfcf)en Onanie, $äberaftie unb £eicï)enfcÎ)ânbLmg in
fdjirecfenemcjenbet 2)?enge, 3a, e3 werben fogar SKorbtÇaten sperufct öon folgen
$Bü|ïitngeu, bie bann bie faum erhaltenen D^fer für i^re Süjie tntpraucfyen. $)er
^ßrogejü gegen ben (Satantifaføifønien in Sßerona f)at $u biefer Qút gro§eê ^(uffe^en
unb allgemeine (Sntrüjtung erregt, (ίχ Begnügte fid) nicfyt bie SKäbcfjen, bie er inø
©ant ïocfte, gu erinorben, fonbern er fcfjanbete einige fogar ftor, anbere ηαφ
begangener (irmorbung, SSÖenti in Stalten ein Frauenzimmer Eingerichtet wirb, voaê,
nantentítd) int*Äircf;enftaate etjert ntd)t ju ben größten @eítení)eiten gebort, fo iann
man αΐ3 getOtp annehmen, baß e§, wenn fie ηοφ Όοχ tíjreni &obe eine Jungfrau
í^ctDcfen, 24 (©timben ηαφ ïijxnn Xobe ficíjeríicí) nicfyt nte^r ijl unb bap (Seemänner,
tù berBufaïï öor ^aí)nreifd)aft gefd)ü|t Cat, ïrenn i^re ©atttnen jung unb fcfyôn
gemefen, ben ^örnerfcimtucf nart; iíjrer ÏÖeiter 3^ob er^aíten." Qíue ^tn SKemotren
einer (Sängerin, vol. ι, 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.

S3 " sftod) Ijeut $u £age folien, trie Sße^ger öcrftdjert, bie 3^g"^iï^n ht Sicilien
int atígenteinen 3ftuf fielen, baÇ fie fiel) mit t^ren ßteegen atge^en." Croa, art.
"£í)Íetíte'ÍH\"

S3 Consult Bayle's Stíttonnatre %t¿toríquc tt Cntt^ue, where, under article
'^f Bathyllns," 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'Italiens envoiez & soldoyez par le Pape firent beaucoup de maux par
où ils passèrent, & pillèrent jusques aux souliers des pauvres ladres qu'ils
trou voient, & au reste si vilains & detestables en leur vie, qu'ils trainoient avec
eux des chèvres, pour s'en servir à leurs vilenies plus que brutales ; qui fut
cause que puis après en tous les lieux par où ils avoient passé les chèvres

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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(-⁴) of a " Bordel de Negresses. Chez madem-

f urent tuées & jettées en la voyerie par les paysans." These goats, it appears,
were " couvertes de caparaçons de velours verts, avec de gros galons d'or j" and
one, the mistress of the general, was ^if menée en pompe avec des ornemens
de poupée." The following extract from ffîizmah'ta tie ffií^v, ü'^ïrtajrnan, Cologne,
M.DCci. (vol. 3, p. 4.66), is to the same effect. At the siege of Candía by the
Turks, " La Feuillade & lui (Le Comte de St. Paul) trouvèrent en arrivant des
choses surprenantes de toutes façons, & particulièrement la vie que menoient
quantité d'Officiers, qui parmi les perils, dont ils étoient environnez de toutes
parts, vivoient dans un desordre si effroyable que cela fait horreur seulement à
rapporter. L'Histoire de France nous rapporte que le Duc de Nevers passant
d'Italie en France pour venir au secours du Roi, dont la Maison de Guise
tâchoit d'envahir la Couronne, sous prétexte de Religion, y amena avec lui deux
mille Chèvres couvertes de caparaçons de velours vert, avec de gros galons d'or.
Elle ne nous laisse pas en même tems lieu de douter à quel usage servoient
ces Chèvres, puis qu'elle nous dit qu'autant qu'il y avoit d'Officiers c'étoient
autant de Maîtresses pour eux, & pour lui. Or c'étoit presque la même chose là,
si ce n'est que le nombre de ces bêtes n'y étoit pas si grand que dans le Camp
du Duc. La Feüillade n'étoit pas un homme à s'effrayer de bien des choses,
lui qui avoit dit une fois au Roi que si sa Majesté se faisoit Turc, il prendroit
tout aussi-tôt le Turban. Cependant, il ne put voir entrer tous les matins une
de ces Chèvres dans la chambre d'un des Généraux, sans en sentir dresser les
cheveux à sa tête, tant il en conçût d'horreur. Elle n'étoit pas caparaçonnée
de vert comme étoient celles du Duc de Nevers, mais de velours noir, en
broderie d'or. Elle changeoit même d'habit de fois à autre, parce que quand
f\pn est bien amoureux, c'est la coutume d'aimer à voir que sa Maitresse soit
" magnifique. Aussi lui faisoit-il mettre encore quantité de rubans, tantôt d'une
couleur, & tantôt d'une autre, ce qui ne donnoit que plus d'horreur du crime
horrible que l'on soupçonnoit. En effet, plus il prenoit de plaisir à l'ajuster,
plus c'étoit une marque de ce que l'on n'ose dire."
S4 In £e¿ ÍSorbefó be Harte, 1790, p. 17.

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oiselle Isabeau^ ci-devant rue neuve de Montmorency,
aujourd'hui rue Xaintonge, maison de M. Marchand prêteur
sur gages. Le prix n'y est point fixe, la négresse, la mistife(sic)
et la mulâtresse y sont marchandées, 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(^e¿) 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 (*')

ii Two cases only need be mentioned here, viz., that of Father Girard and
the girl Cadière at Toulon, the other of Cornelius Hadrien at Bruges. A sketch
of both will be found in % $jt¿tm*$ of tjj* 3εΙβΪΪ, published by Hotten. The
former will be treated fully in the course of this work.

¿⁶ Thomæ Bartholini, Joan. Henricî Meibomi» Patris Henrici Meibomi,
Filiî 33e 2Iöu ¿fflagrorum ín 3ÜU jEcttica & "Frøeria, &c. Francofurti, cb bc lxx.
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
i&nalectafcibltQn, vol. %, p. 316.

_Sj 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; (*⁸) and for-
merly it was spoken of without reserve on the public stage.(^S9)
Flagellation anecdotes frequently occur in the pages of "The
Rambler's,*' "The Original Ramblers," "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,"(^ he. 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 Ci)t Conuééioné of J. Lack-
ington. London: 1804. See also post p, 159.

eg I extract the following lines from : Cï)f 33oar&mo;^d)Oul : or, the
Sham Captain. An Opera. As it is Performed 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;
^if 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: üUtterá
attførøeb to t|e €fcttor of tí)e €«gltó|íooman*íí ¿omette 0ía%a\ím on the
Whipping of Girls, and the General Corporal Punishment of Children. London:
Office j Warwick House» Paternoster Row. Price Two Shillings. These
letters were written during the months of April to December, 1870.
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work,(⁶¹) intended to run 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 or/ler 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. a2 (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 £uríuGíttte¿ of ¿Jflageltflttøit, A series of Incidents and facts collected
by an amateur flagellant, and published in 5 volumes. London, 1875.* Ή&
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,

^6a Of whom an account will be given in the coarse of this work.

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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^³) 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 frictriæ, 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 bub bies ; Bentin c, with
breadth of hip and splendour of buttock; Olive, the gipsy,

⁶3 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 well fledged 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.

*< When the new flogging machine was invented, the designer
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."(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. Vmuä &a)QQlmtetxtää_f (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.
k

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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

⁶* See previous note.

⁶⁶ The following ís extracted from the correspondence of a gentleman
still living, a passionate devotee of the birch, and one who is worthy of all
confidence Ín matters connected with flagellation : " in my experience Ï 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 j 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 ^e 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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fond of wielding the rod than men, and this passion pervades
the higher, rather than the lower classes. (^6r)

Let us now return to the bibliographical^⁸) phasis of our
study, and give a moment's consideration to the way in which
it is proposed to carry out the present work.

⁶1 Brantôme recounts : " J'ay ouy parler d'une grande Dame de par le
monde, mais grandissime, qui ne se contentant de lasciveté naturelle 5 car elle
estoit grande putain & estant mariée & veuve, aussi estoit-elle très-belle 5 pour
la provoquer & exciter d'avantage, elle faisoit despouiller ses Dames & Filles, je
dis les plus belles_} & se delectoit fort à les voir, & puis elle les battoit du plat
de la main sur les fesses, avec de grandes clacquades & blamuses assez rudes,
& les filles, qui avoíent delinque en quelque chose, avec de bonnes verges, &
alors son contentement estoit de les voir remuer, & faire les mouvements &
tordions de leurs corps & fesses, lesquelles selon les coups qu'elles recevoient, en
monstroient de bien estranges & plaisantes. Aucunes fois, sans les despouiller,
les faisoit trousser en robbe ; car pour lors elles ne portoient point de calçons,
& les cîacquetoit & fouettoit & sur les fesses, selon le sujet qu'elles luy
donnoient, ou pour les faire rire, ou pleurer, & sur ces visions & contemplations
s'y aiguisoit si bien ses appetits, qu'après elle les alloit passer bien souvent à bon
escient avec quelque galant homme bien fort & robuste," 'Fife &*£ Màtntè
Caíante á.

⁶⁸ In the excellent ^ct Discours " which begins the eighth volume of De
Bure's $3í&ltograpí)te tatruettöe, Née 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 ISi&ltontania. 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 3ftf)tlobtblon. In it occur many passages,
the most eloquent and curious specimens of book madness with which I am
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Bare catalogues, containing the titles of books only, are after
all comparatively useless performances^⁹) 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—books 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 full 3 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 fœtus in those who look upon them is
coloured, the stones of the covenant, and the pitchers preserving the lamps of
Gideon j 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 j
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."

⁶9 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.)" ÍSífeííotíjecft $eogra$$tca.

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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.(^7I)

" A quoi bon mettre au jour tous ces discours frivoles,

" Et ces Riens enfermés dans de grandes paroles?" Q²)

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° '^c Lucian happily describes the works of those who abound with the
most luxuriant language, void of ideas. He calls their unmeaning verbosity
' anemone-words 'j for anemonies are flowers, which, however brilliant, only
please the eye, leaving no fragrance. Pratt, who was a writer of flowing but
nugatory verses, was compared to the daisy ; a flower indeed common enough,
but without odour." Cunoättteä of HtUrature, vol. i, p. 96.

?^r 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." $Ua¿ut*¿ of ^Literature, p. 81.

5³ Boileau. Sat. ix, I53.

is Although his own style was not perfect, being, according to his editor,
La Monnoye, " enflé, guindé, alambiqué, rempli de mauvaises phrases, & sur
tout d'idiotismes," (vol. i,.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 éviter sur toutes choses tout ce
qui y a l'air d'affectation, s'éloigner également des extrémités de l'élévation &
de la bassesse, & fuir les excès de la contrainte & du relâchement, de l'afféterie
/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ' ■

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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
^aOf Painting to foreshorten any part
" Than draw it out, so 'tis in Books the chief
^{t 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.(^7S) This is the more necessary inasmuch

& de la négligence, du scrupule & de la licence." (vol. i, part i, p. xliv).
Sfugttnmji ïff£ Rabana.

"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 -, in the
very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page, without noticing the
medium." Cable Calk.

'4 Let me quote here the words of Mr. J. F. Boyes, who, in the pre-
face (p. ix) to his %xh atlîf ISoofeá, observes : ^u 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 j at least
the longest call made upon his patience, on any one subject, will not exceed
five or ten minutes at the utmost."

« " 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." £ftltot|)tta #eø|prapi)ica.

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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.(?6) 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^') 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

ï⁶ In speaking of his own admirable catalogue of Poetical Works, M.
Viollet le Duc remarks : " Je n'ai pas la vanité de croire que mon catalogue,
comme on a bien voulu me l'écrire, peut tenir lieu d'une bibliothèque poétique j
mais je sais qu'il est très facile et parfois agréable de trouver une besogne faite.
Les journaux ont habitué beaucoup de personnes à trouver des jugements
tout portés sur des œuvres de l'esprit d'autrui, et à les adopter sans contrôle.
La vie occupée de nos jours ne permet pas aux personnes mêmes qui aiment
les lettres, d'y donner tout le temps que leur étude exige. Je sais ce qu'il m'a
fallu de volonté persévérante 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, eût employé consciencieusement sa vie dans des
occupations arides et contraires à ses goûts, pour trouver de la distraction dans
une lecture et dans un travail qui, tels fastidieux qu'ils paraissent, avaient au
moins un côté littéraire et dont l'appréciation exigeait une certaine applica-
tion de l'esprit." Catalogue, 1847, Introduction, p. vi.

W " The most worthless book of a bygone day (exclaims Pr of essor 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."
8Wtf>mrtfrai $ooft¿, p. n.

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which should be avoided (¹⁸) 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.(^1g) 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,

1⁸  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 a better opportunity of purchasing is expected." ;Pf)tlofoti)Imt, 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 remarks: "la science des livres offre une
carrière si vaste qu'il est impossible de tout connaître, et qu'il y aura con-
stamment bien des lacunes et même plus d'une méprise à relever dans les
travaux les mieux faits." finpnmetittf (magtnafreä, p. 11.

" Le domaine de la bibliographie est d'une telle étendue qu'il est à peu près
impossible à un seul chercheur de ne pas laisser quelque coin inexploré."
ttuüettn Όχι Kftlíojp&tlt, 1875, Ρ· 488.

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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. (^8o)

In planning out my book I had at first intended to classify my
material under subjects, but this I soon found impracticable,^¹)
the titles of this kind of books being so specially deceptive ;(^8a)

⁸⁰   I would apply to my own book the words which Adrien Baillet did
to his : " Car je ne considère ce Recueil que comme une première ébauche, &
comme un essai assés léger & superficiel, ou comme une épreuve encore toute
brute & fort imparfaite, de ce qu'on pourroit faire dans la suite sur un sujet si
important & si nécessaire." 3fugtmcn¿ fce*S §&aban¿, vol. t, part 1, p. xliii.

⁸¹   At p. 315 of his Cmuoöttesi 33ti)ïtograpï)tq[ues{, M. L. Lalanne has
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 : <©Ö£terbattons on fyz Jalan anti *Pvog«Jtø oí
tïje Catalogue of tï)e 3Ltftrar|> of Ci)e 23nttífí) arøuéeum by a Bookseller, 1835.

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 : %\yz Actual Conbttion of tï)C £h'ttt£íí)
JMuaeuttt. A Literary Expostulation, by Stefan Poles. London: 1875.
PP* $$1 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, ^a^ ^^e Middlesex Hospital,
without a friend to close his eyes, or even to claim his body. See " The Pall
Mall Gazette/¹ 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 Stbliograpftical an* Critical Account of tï)e %amt
^oofee of t|e €ngltóï) ¡Language.

⁸¹ Who would expect, f or 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. Ï have
adopted then a strictly alphabetical arrangement.(⁸³)

I have ventured, I believe, further than any previous biblio-
grapher in giving frequent and copious extracts,(⁸⁴) 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 j or under the title
" Le Parallele vivant des deux Sexes," an eulogy upon Loáis XV ? One would
certainly not look for obscene novels under the modest titles : " Un Été à 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 à
la seule beauté du Frontispice, incapables même de porter leur vues plus
loin, ils conçoivent une idée plus ou moins grande d'un Livre, à mesure que le
Titre en est plus ou moins spécieux. C'est ce que n'ignorent pas nos petits
Auteurs, dont les Productions ont un si grand besoin de ces Titres favorables."
Ü* la CJarïatantrie tito &a&an¿, p. 30.

⁸-J This arrangement is however, in the present work, of minor impor-
tance, as everything is recapitulated in the final alphabetical index.

⁸4 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 Β ay le : " que l'on condamne Catulle, Lucrèce, Juvenal, & Suétone
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.^⁶)

faire plus de mal par les passages que l'on en rapporte, que dans leur source ;
& il y a une différence extrême entre les premiers Auteurs d'une Obscénité, &
ceux qui ne la rapportent que comme la preuve d'un fait ou d'une raison que la
matière qu'ils traittent les oblige de mettre en avant. * * * Le droit qu'on a de
citer ce que j'ai cité se fonde sur deux raisons : l'une, que s'il est permis à
toute la terre de lire Catulle & Martial, &c, il est permis à un Auteur de
rapporter de ces Poètes 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 à un Auteur de rapporter une pensée ou une remarque obscène de
Montaigne ou de Brantôme ; car cette remarque n'est pas une action à beaucoup
près 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 Pétrone, et Suétone, & les Poetes les plus lascifs, soient imprimez & vendus
publiquement avec des Notes qui en expliquent les Obscénitez les plus brutales,
& de défendre à l'Auteur d'un Dictionaire Historique commenté de se servir
d'un passage de ces Ecrivains pour confirmer ou pour éclaircir quelque chose."
Bit. fâiëtoviqut. Art. "Eclaircissement sur les Obscénitez."

⁸* "II serait souhaitable, dit Vigneul-Marville, que ceux qui se mêlent de
nous donner des bibliothèques ne parlassent que des livres de leur métier, ou
que des livres qui leur fussent tout à fait connus. Quand on marche à l'aveugle
dans ces sortes de catalogues, on ne manque pas de se tromper et de tromper
les autres." Quoted at p. 314 of Curto sí íteíí îStblwgrapÏHCfUtsJ.

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.(⁸⁸)

who, at p. xi of the Preface to his 53 tblto graphical aittf Critical Account of
ti)t l&aresrt; 3Sook¿ in tï>e Œuglttfï) language, 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.

⁸i 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, ' JVhat
was to the purpose I could not say -_f and what was not to the purpose, I would not
say."" Preface to % aeon.

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,(⁹°) both

propounded as follows by Josef de Rezabal y Ugarte : " Ademas yo pienso
que el medio mas seguro de que la nación logre tener una Biblioteca completa
es el de que se forme por partes, dedicándose cada provincia, ó cuerpo eclesiás-
tico ó politico á publicar la respectiva á los escritores que han florecido en cada
uno de ellos ; pues siempre les son mas domesticas y faciles de adquerir las
noticias, así de sus empleos y ocupaciones, como de sus tareas literarias. Por
otra parte, siendo su plan mas limitado, puede desempeñarse con mayor acierto
y puntualidad." 33tí)ltoteca 1st Io3 (Sácntoreg &c. " Prologo," p. xii.

⁸9 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."
9l*a¿urt¿ of literature, p. 274.

9° 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 trae 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.(^9I) 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.(⁹³) 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." Cï)e Suitor, Chaps. 154 and 1$$.

91 Again I quote from the ^UasSureá of Etttratut* (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."

93 In his €urtOi!ttf£ 2ütt«*atreíf, M. L. Laianne has made an interesting
chapter on translators and their blunders, I will instance but one: Loves
last Shift was rendered into French by Dernière Chemise de Γ Amour. And
yet M. Lalanne has, in his Curio ätt& 33íbitograp|túpi*¿ (p. 403), committed as
gross a blunder as any he has pointed out, by converting the Fleet Prison into
" prisoîi de îa 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.(⁹⁴)

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,
^Principo pour Porgamáatúm et la conurbation íleo Arante 35rbtiotï)fqttcs',

we read the following : " La carte (or slip on which the rough draught of
the catalogue is to be made) doit être écrite dans la même langue que le titre
du livre. La carte doit conserver scrupuleusement l'orthographe du titre avec
toutes ses fautes ou irrégularités. Dans le dernier cas il faut mettre après la
faute le mot (sic), afin qu'un jour le lecteur ne prenne pas une irrégularité réelle
du titre pour une erreur de copiste, et ne soit exposé à la tentation de détruire
l'exactitude de la carte en voulant la corriger. L'année imprimée en chiffres
romains ne doit pas être copiée en chiffres arabes. Sur quelques livres anciens,
l'année est désignée d'une manière très-étrange, par exemple : cío. id. cxnc,
ce qui veut dire 1688 ; ce n'est quelquefois qu'une faute d'impression, et une
analyse approfondie vient prouver par exemple que ce devait être l'année 1712
et non 1688, l'auteur du livre n'étant pas encore né ou bien n'étant encore qu'un
enfant. * * * Eviter les omissions et les abréviations 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 £frtt()ltutúal 33flufc¿), 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.(⁹⁵) 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 ; 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 : ^c£ 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 six leaves, making
what ought to be a sexio 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 Β 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 i, 2, 15, 16; 3, 4, 13, 14 ; 5, 6, 11, 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 ι, Α2 on page 3, A3 on page 5, and A4 on p;ige 7 ;
the book, when made up, would have all the appearance of a more recent
octavo in its signatures." Sritymttical Boofeá, p. χι.

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 some times found signatures of 8 and 16
leaves, &c.

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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 : $vo. (counts 4),
I2mo. (counís 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 abbreviations. 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_;(^9V) 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.,(⁹⁸) 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, 1 have known such instances.
The one would pronounce the book very scarce, while the other would con-
sider it moderately common.

9⁸ In the preface to his JStbltotfjectie cttneitj»t, David Clement gives a scale
for the different degrees of rarity of books, and indeed treats the matter very
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
"extrêmement rare," one of which there are but 10 copies '* de la dernière
rareté," &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 præterea nihil," I have endeavoured
to give some definite and exact data, such as : number of copies
issued of an edition ;(^IO°) number of copies destroyed by the
law or otherwise, number of copies sent to a foreign country,^⁰¹)

99  " Les Livres condannés ou condannables (observes Clement, ut supra)
sont ordinairement rares. Je mets de ce nombre, Les Livres qui traitent des
Arts superstitieux. Les Livres Paradoxes ou Hétérodoxes. Les Livres remplis
d'obscénités. Les Livres qui traitent des matières sacrées d'une maniere qui
les deshonore. Les Livres séditieux ou préjudicables à 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 mêmes, avec les"
diverses Editions qu'on en a faites. Un Livre peut être très-commun, dont il
y ait des Editions très-rares.⁷ '

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when such destruction or transportation has taken place. The
reader can then form his own opinion as to their rarity.(¹⁰³)

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.
" itltitV ïtörorum $)rO&tbítOrum ^M 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 ^f< History of the Sect of Maharajas" (see post, p. 268)
was 500 copies, of which 450 were dispatched to Bombay, while $0 only were
retained by the London publishers. The volume may then be considered rare
in Europe and plentiful in India. Of the " Curiositates Eroticæ " (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.

¹⁰³ 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 présentera tous les jours en Espagne, que l'on
cherchèrent inutilement en France. Le troisième ne sauroit échaper aux
recherches d'un homme, dont les Correspondances s'étendent jusqu'au bout
de l'Europe ; tandis qu'il restera invisible pour un autre, dont les liaisons ne
vont pas au delà des bornes de la Patrie." Btbltûtfjeqt« curtfuft, preface.

¹⁰3 The ßrst ïnöt}' 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 ín&ejr published at Venice dates τ 543 ; and in Spain the Inquisition
published the first Ifrxïier for that country in 1^9. See Curíoátó røltø*
grap^tcueö, pp. 355 and 369. For lists of the various $ noiceá consult JHanuel ÖU
Eflbrat're, and îSibltotijfcaîStbïiosrap^tcai refer also to the Rev. Joseph Mendham's
two works C^e iüftrarp ίΡοϊκρ of φ Cïjurrf) of S&onu tfåiMUli ín an ^crotint
of tyt 39amnator# Catalogued or fatfejrtö, &c, London : 1830, and &n finfctjr
of ^rojtbtteK Boofeé, 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)e ^oofe^røornt. Should the student
desire to pursue the subject further, he will do well to glance through a
i6mo. volume, entitled %t& J&aubatá %fovtä, Uä iKaubatö $ournaur it
\ti Romané, 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 " La Revue des Deux-Mondes,"
the ^íf Bibliothèque universelle d'éducation," the " Trésor historique et
littéraire," &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 BooMSïorm, ut supra.

^I04 Let me here borrow the observations of Dr. Graesse : " En tout je
prie de tout mon cœur Mss. les critiques de vouloir bien tenir compte de
Γ impossibilité d'un auteur quelconque de satisfaire à toutes les prétentions, et
de se souvenir de l'axiome que rien n'est parfait dans ce monde. Or, si
quelqu'un, après avoir pris note des différents matériaux nécessaires à son

ρ

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not unfortunately open to the same complaint? Some (^ie*)will
object to my having touched books of such a nature^¹⁰⁶) and
will wonder why I have not turned my attention to works on

ouvrage, croit enfin être parvenu à un certain terme de ses investigations et les
présente au monde littéraire, il n'en résulte pas qu'il ait produit un ouvrage
parfait." Cr&tor tie £-íbre¿ Pareil, " Avant-propos " to " Supplément."

^τ°ί " Le public demande à un écrivain dont il achète le livre, de lui donner
du neuf ; et le public se fâche quand on lui donne quelque chose qui choque les
idées reçues_} cette contradiction est sur-tout bien sensible en morale, où tout
ce qui est reçu, est excessivement commun, et où tout ce qui ne Test pas, fait
rejaillir toujours un certain degré de blâme sur l'écrivain qui le hasarde.

" Qui osera dire que les seules actions coupables sont celles dont il résulte
quelque mal -, et qu'une action utile est toujours vertueuse ? Qui osera le dire ?
Ce ne sera pas moi." J. B. Say, ißittt 'Folunw, p. n.

¹⁰⁶ This objection is humorously answered by the Abbé Lenglet du
Fresnoy : " Vous auriez pu, me dira-t-on, vous occuper de choses plus
sérieuses -, qui en doute ? Mais elles m'auroient ennuyé, & j'avois besoin de
m'égayer -, n'est on pas heureux quand on le peut faire tout seul, & se tenir lieu
par-là d'une bonne compagnie ? Alors on n'a rien à craindre ; c'est le tem-
perament qu'il me faloit prendre, & c'est aussi ce que j'ai trouvé de plus utile
dans mon travail. Qu'on ne s'avise donc point de s'en scandaliser; car si je
prenois un ton plus sérieux, je dirois avec un bel esprit (M. Pellison, Discours
fur les Œuvres de Sarasin) qui s'est trouvé dans un cas pareil. * Qui ne sçait
que des raisons très-solides nous attachent quelquefois à des ouvrages qui
semblent ne l'être pas, & qu'un devoir caché & obscur l'emporte souvent sans
injustice sur cet autre devoir public & éclatant ? Cet homme que vous blame*
a trouvé peut-être que pour rétablir sa santé qui est ruinée pour se défendre de
la mauvaise fortune, pour le bien d'une famille, dont il est l'apui, il lui est plus
utile de travailler à des Chansons, qu'à des traits de morale & de politique.
Si cela est, je le dirai hardiment ; la morale & la politique elle-même hiî
ordonneront de faire des Chansons, & c'est une injustice sans exemple de
condamner les occupations d'autray, dont on ne sçait ni les motifs, ni les
circonstances.' " ü* FUtfag* Ueä üomang. Preface.

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

" I'll not answer that :
But, say, it is my humour ; Is it answered ? '*

My book is not intended for you. " Zapatero á tu-zapato." if
in discord with your feelings, convictions, or prejudices^¹⁰⁸)
put it down. " II ne tient qu'à vous de lire ou de ne pas lire
ce qui n'est pas assez chaste à votre gré. # # # Faites
reconnoitre les lieux par des personnes affidées, avant de vous
embarquer dans cette lecture ; dites-leur qu'elles vous indiquent
par où il n'est pas bon de passer." (^IO9)

107 " j| _n'y _a presque point d'occupation (says Bayle) qui ne soit blâmable
par l'argument que l'on en pouvoit ^choisir une meilleure j & de toutes les
occupations de la vie il n'y en a presque point de plus condamnable, si on la
juge selon les régies de la Religion, que celle qui est la plus ordinaire, je veux
dire que celle des gens qui travaillent à gagner du bien, soit par le négoce, soit
par d'autres voies honnêtes. Les moiens humainement parlant les plus
légitimes de s'enrichir sont contraires, non seulement à l'Esprit de l'Evangile,
mais aussi aux défenses littéraires de Jésus-Christ, & de ses Apôtres. Il est
donc de l'intérêt de tous les hommes que Dieu leur fasse miséricorde sur
Femploi du tems," Etc. Støtorigue, " Eclaircissement sur les Obscénitez."

108  *< 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." fUfe aiîïï $3ooft¿, p. 11.

¹⁰9   Bayle's fit*, flfctortituc, ^a Eclaircissement sur les Obscénitez." I
have made frequent use of this remarkable article, and have freely drawn f roma
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 [ever 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 e very 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 "]\j_e vous trompez pas, monsieur mon amy; (writes Beroalde de
Verville) les parolles ne sont point sales ; il n'y a que l'intelligence. Quand
vous oiriez une parolle, recevez-la, & la portez à une belle intelligence ; & lors
elle sera belle, nette et pure. Mais cela fasches les oreilles. Si les oreilles
estoient pures & nettes -, cela ne les incommoderoit point. Un estron in-
commode-t-il le soleil, bien que ses rayons s'y jettent ? Sçachez aussi, mon père
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'à la mort ? Vous seriez un bel homme sans cul ! Il faut suivre nature j
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 païs disant en parolles couvertes, parlent bien autrement, tesmoin la
fille de chambre de madamoiselle la Forest, femme d'un conseiller. Un
païsan luy apporta un lièvre, qu'il mit, en l'absence de monsieur, es mains de
la fille de chambre nommée Andrée, laquelle il prie affectueusement de le
presenter à monsieur, & lui recommander son procez, dont il estoit rapporteur,
& qu'il a voit nom le Vit. Durant le disner, Andrée s'ad ν i sa de son message,
& dit : * A propos, monsieur, il est venu icy un homme, qui vous a apporté un
grand lièvre. Où est-il ? Je le vais quérir. Le voy là. Vroiment il est beau j
il le faut mestre en paste. Monsieur il vous recommande ses affaires, ce
pauvre homme. Comment a-t-il nom ? Je ne l'oserais dire ; il est trop sale.
Si vous ne le dites, je ne sçauray qui m'aura donné ce lièvre. Ardez, mon-
sieur, vouz sçavez bien qui il est ; je n'oserois dire ce nom-là, il est trop sale.
Madamoiselle luy dit : Dites-le en parolles couvertes. Bien donc, mada-
moiselle, il a nom comme cela avec quoy on fout.' " jAûjJeH 'to iParÔeiw, chapts.
74 and f 6. Β ay le has also touched this point with some humour. He writes :
" J'ai lu quelque part, ce me semble, que la pruderie a été poussée 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.(ⁱⁿ)

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.(^Iia)

point qu'on ne disoit pas j'ai mangé des confitures, mais des fitures. On retran-
cheroit par ce moîen plus de la moite des mots du Dictionaire de l'Acadé-
mie, après quoi les autres ne serviroient plus de rien, car ils manqueraient de
liaison, & ainsi l'on seroit réduit à ne s'expliquer que par des signes, ce qui
seroit des Obscénitez encore plus scandaleuses & plus dangereuses que celles
qui n'entrent que par les oreilles." J3¿c. fÎîtatovtrçuc, "Eclaircissement sur les Ob-
scénitez." Refer to similar remarks of Mr. John Davenport, in the preface
to his Curiotfttatetf (tottcae, quoted post, p. 175.

¹¹¹ Let me again employ the words of Bayle: "En premier lieu (he says),
par-tout où j'ai parlé de mon chef, j'ai évité les mots & les expressions qui
choquent la civilité & la bienséance commune. Cela suffit dans un Ouvrage
tel que celui-ci, mêlé d'Histoire, & de Discussions de toute espèce ¿ car de
prétendre qu'une Compilation ou il doit entrer des matières de Littérature, de
Physique, & de Jurisprudence, selon les divers sujets que l'on a en main,
doit être écrite conformément à l'étroite bienséance d'un Sermon, ou d'un
Ouvrage de Piété, ou d'une Nouvelle galante, ce seroit confondre les limites
des choses, & ériger une tyrannie sur les Esprits. Tel mot, qui sembleroit
trop grossier dans la bouche d'un Prédicateur, & dans un petit Roman destiné
pour les ruelles, n'est point trop grossier dans le Factum d'un Avocat, ni dans
le Procès verbal d'un Médecin, ni dans un Ouvrage de Physique, ni même dans
un Ouvrage de Littérature, ou daps la Version fidèle d'un Livre Latin, comme
est par exemple la Relation de l'Infortune de Pierre Abelard. Il y a donc du
haut & du bas dans la bienséance du Style : les plus hauts degrez conviennent
à un certain nombre d'Ecrivains, & non pas à tous." Ütí. Historique, art.
'* Eclaircissement sur les Obscénitez."

na « N_{e volls} méprenez 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.(¹¹³)
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 : Enseignez le vke, mais ne le dissimulez pas ; poor qu'il séduise
il faut y être plongé : il n'est pas aimable lorsqu'il est vu de dehors. Montrez-
le avec toutes ses conséquences et toutes ses difformités, mais sans le calomnier :
on vous soupçonnerait plus tard d'avoir chargé le tableau et Fou ne croirait plus
la vérité elle-même." petit 'Fûllîme, p. 80.

"3 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.

i . 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, î)er, fêtn, &c.

2. Each notice comprises :

a. The title of the book, literatim et in extenso,^) without
interpolations,^¹⁶) but with ail errors and peculiarities, those of

"4 The distinction should be observed, because sometimes the title page
is headed by the name of the author w/zconnected 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.

^ll$ " 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 ; and the names, both of printer and pub-
lisher, may for some thousands of volumes be as important, as their title-
pages." ¡Plemmrá of Etfcrarieá, vol. 2, 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 preferedto 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 in 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 flotea ano*
Qtttttø, 4th. S., vol. 9, pp. 8 and 273, 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
blilCfe Itttfcr 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 :(¹¹⁷) its size, paging, number

"* The following astute remarks of Née de la Rochelle are worthy of
special attention by every one who undertakes to describe a book : ^l( II est
assez difficile de donner en bons termes la description d'un Ouvrage rare 8r
curieux. C'est le titre qu'il faut rendre fidèlement ; la date, le nom de la
Ville & de l'Imprimeur qu'il est essentiel de spécifier -, le nom de l'Auteur
qu'il importe de découvrir à la tête ou à la fin d'une dédicace, lorsqu'il n'est
pas dans le titre. Souvent on le trouve au milieu d'une préface ou dans la
souscription qui termine un Livre ; quelquefois il convient de le chercher dans
le privilège accordé par un Souverain, dans les vers qui ont été adressés à
l'Auteur par ses amis, ou dans des acrostiches & des devises, au milieu desquels
l'Auteur s'est plu lui-même à le cacher. On doit ensuite compter les feuillets
qui précédent le corps de l'Ouvrage, & dire à quoi ils sont employés. Il est
nécessaire d'indiquer si le Livre est imprimé à longues lignes ou par colonnes j si
le caractère en est gros ou menu, romain, gothique, demi-gothique ou italique.
Quand l'Edition est ancienne, on doit annoncer si les chiffres, les réclames &
les signatures s'y rencontrent ou ne s'y trouvent pas. Il faut encore vérifier &
compter les feuillets & les figures, s'il y en a j en prescrire soigneusement le
nombre; terminer enfin la description par l'annonce des Index, Tables ou
Répertoires & Registres de signatures, qui sont ordinairement à la fin d'un
Livre, quand ils ne se trouvent pas au commencement. C'est dans la con-
noissance & la pratique de toutes ces choses, que consiste la partie technique
de la Science Bibliographique j & l'on doit être convaincu de la nécessité où
est un Bibliographe de s'en instruire parfaitement. Si cette partie est peu
satisfaisante & très-minutieuse, ce n'est pas une raison de la négliger j car elle
caractérise particulièrement le Bibliographe, & 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 ; &x.

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^¹⁸) consulted, alphabetically ar-
ranged, with specification of the editions used, and an occasional
note added.

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

difficultés, qu'il est glorieux de vaincre 5 & si les sentiers de l'érudition sont
parsemés d'épines, c'est à leur extrémité que les roses se cueillent."
BtMtograpijte tøtntrttoe, vol 8, " Discours," p. xxn.

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.

"^ 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 187j in "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 ; he must, of necessity, glance through many
books which are not actually in his special field in order to ascertain whether
r

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(and pseudonyms) of authors, artists, publishers, and book-
sellers ; writers quoted ; persons incidentally mentioned ; titles
of books noticed, or mentioned only, taken with regard to their
subject or salient feature ;("°) bastard titles(^iai) 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 ; (^I33)
subjects.("³)

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 ?

^iao 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 tyxore Theotisca,¹ ' in the body of the work
under C, in the index under U. &c.

^Iai 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.

¹³³ 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 Supposés, " and " Essai sur les
Bibliothèques Imaginaires."

"3 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. ("⁴)

I desire further to express my obligation to another gen-
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.

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

"Longin nous donne ici par son exemple un des plus importans
préceptes de la Rhétorique j qui est de consulter nos Amis sur nos Ouvrages, &
de les accoutumer de bonne-heure à ne nous point flater. Horace & Quintilien
nous donnent le même conseil en plusieurs endroits j & Vaugelas, le plus sage,
à mon avis, des Ecrivains de notre Langue, confesse, que c'est à cette salutaire
pratique qu'il doit ce qu'il y a de meilleur dans ses Ecrits. Nous avons beau
être éclairés par nous-mêmes : les yeux d'autrui voient toujours plus loin que
nous dans nos défauts ¿ & un Esprit mediocre fera quelquefois appercevoir le
plus habile homme d'une méprise qu'il ne voïoit pas. On dit, que Malherbe
consultoit sur ses Vers jusqu'à l'oreille de sa Servante ; & je me souviens, que
Molière m'a montré aussi plusieurs fois une vieille Servante (nommée La Forest)
qu'il avoit chez lui, à qui il lisoît, disoit-iî, quelquefois ses Comédies ; & il
m'assûroit, que lorsque des endroits de plaisanterie ne l'avoient point frappée,
il les corrigeoit : parce qu'il avoit plusieurs fois éprouvé sur son Théâtre, que
ces endroits n'y réüssissoient point. Ces exemples sont un peu singuliers ; &
je ne voudrais pas conseiller à tout le monde de les imiter. Ce qui est de
certain, c'est que nous ne saurions trop consulter nos Amis." Boileau,
3&eö!j*umö ¿ur ¿ongrø, Réflexion, 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, I fear, have sorely
taxed the patience of some of my readers. But still, as Pulci
has written :

^f( Convien che varie cose al mondo sia,

" Come son varj volti e vario ingegno,
^u E piace a Tuno il 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 à genoux, dans une humble Préface,
^t( Au lecteur, qu'il ennuie, a beau demander grace ;
" II ne gagnera rien sur ce Juge irrité,
" Qui lui fait son procès de pleine autorité." (^ia$)

"ä Boileau. Satire ix, 187.

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R5^Hf Wh* StoOmpUstørt ®8ai)Ore Translated from the Put-
ρΠΕθ|           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."

121Ï10. ; 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 Iode 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 cairn. This portrait was reproduced by M. Gay, by a photographic
process,, and inserted at p. 125 of his " Fantaisiste, 1 Août, 1873."
β

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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 :

" Magdalen, 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 Wf)t W&Utibttitt% Wñf)ÚXt+_f I have
never seen it. Gay* describes it as pet.-in 4⁰, published about
1660, and adds: "Un exemplaire indiqué comme unique, était
porté à 16 guiñees sur le cat. delà maison Longman pour 1818."

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs a l'Amour, &c., vol. 6_f p. 445.

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au Qttowxt ot ti)t »emainô of tf)t WBovebip of Çrtapug,

lately existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples : In
Two Letters ; One from Sir William Hamilton, Κ. B.
His Majesty^ 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, g MtótOUVÜt 0Π tt)t ©Horsfetp Of
|3riapU£í, 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 8-J- X 6f 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^r.
Captain of his Majesty's Ship the Cumberland. &c. ;" it is a
complètement 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

* In Hotten's edition it is reproduced, and figures as plate xxiv. See post.

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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 ^βιο.

Parisot ·\ says : " L'auteur, dans cette publication, semble,
comme Mirabeau dans l'Erotica Biblon n'avoir cherché qu'une
occasion d'être prolixement obscène et cynique, sous prétexte
d'érudition. Outre les détails sur les restes du culte de Priape,
il s'y trouve un discours ex professo sur ce culte lui-même et
sur sa liaison avec les doctrines théologiques 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 donc point que, cédant au haro
universel soulevé par ce Maid-Work peu virginal, l'auteur ait

* Crit. Die, of English Literature, vol. 2, p. 1041.
f Biographie Universelle (M¡chaud), vol. 22, p. Ó3.

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bien vite cessé de le donner et plus encore de le vendre, quoique
fort élégament imprimé, et qu'il ait mis l'édition à peu près
entière au pilon. Il en reste cependant quelques exemplaires
de par le monde, et ceux qui les possèdent peuvent se féliciter
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 :

"% ffltetøurøe on ft)t Srøarstøtp of priapuo, and its

connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. By
Richard Payne Knight, Esq. (A new edition). To which

is added ait <2fós¡ap on tt)t Wojtöïrip of tïje <§enerattbt

pøtoersi 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. 119; 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 : the 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 the learned
and curious in Europe.

" 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 clearing up the mystery ; the
emblems and symbols gradually explained their full meaning,
and the outlines of an extraordinary creed unfolded itself. It
was the Divinité Génératrice—the worship or adoration of the
God Priapus—the ancient symbol of generation and fertility.
The Round Towers in Ireland ; similar buildings in India ; tne
Maypole in England, and even the spires of our churches are
now shown to be nothing more nor less than existing symèoh of
¿his pagan and strange worship. Almost all the great relics
of antiquity bear traces of this impious adoration—the rock
caves of Elephant a, 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 beliefs
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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 ρ re-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 ^ζ 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 pottery 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 ^cEvil
Eye *—i.e.y the eye, or evil influence, of the Devil.*

* In the "Bibliographie Alsacien/' vol. ι, p. i6o_} mention is made of a
curious remnant of phallic worship existing in 1851 in France. " Près de
Saveme, au dessus d'un rocher, est un autel consacré à saint Wit ·_} les paysannes
y viennent en pélirînage 3 on lui attribue le pouvoir de guérir les femmes de

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" R. P. Knight, the writer of the first ' 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 ^ζ 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-five 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 of modern books. Five or six copies, it is under-
stood, have been printed on large paper."

Γ hysteri e et des maladies de matrice ; elles l'invoquent aussi pour devenir
fécondes et elles déposent sur l'autel ce qu'elles appellent une grenouille de Jer.
C'est une image grossière de cet amphibie, et sa forme rapelle tout à fait
quelques-uns des phallus de l'antiquité. Avant l'introduction du christianisme,
un autel était, dans ces mêmes lieux, consacré au dieu des jardins." See also
" Mémoires de l'Académie de Metz," 1851, p. 203.

* 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 :

^€€ it Culte ïï£ Príape et ses rapports avec la Théologie
Mystique des Anciens par Richard Payne Knight suivi

d'un oføsai øur le Culte oeø ftøutøirø tëlnlratrure

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

4to.; pp. viii and 224; fleuron on title page ; 40 plates issued
in a separate wrapper. " Tiré à 110 exemplaires numérotés : 97
sur papier de Hollande, 8 sur pap. de Hollande fort (fres. 6o),
3 sur pap. de Chine (fres. 90), et 2 sur peau vélin (fres. 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 première enfance (Pet. in 18,
publié à Genève en 1869). " vide L'Intermédiaire, vol. vii, no. 146, col. 136.
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Richard Payne 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. "Doué d'infiniment
d'esprit, de souplesse, de goût pour les lettres, Knight, en
même temps savant et poëte, homme d'imagination et homme
d'étude, était et surtout avait été, comme les antiquaries ses
confrères, 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,¹"
"Wanderings of an Antiquary," "Archaeological Album,"
1861, ''History of Caricature, &c." 1869, "Caricature

* Biographie Universelle (M¡chaud).

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History of the Georges," 1867, "Narratives of Sorcery and
Magic, 2 vols," &α*

Sir James Emerson Tennent, 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, and for
Lisburn in 1852; author of "History of Modern Greece,"
" History of Ceylon," " Natural History " of the same island,
&c.f

Henry James Bellars, was a native of Chester ; originally
a schoolmaster, he came up to London about the year 1862,
and lived in Bedford Court, Covent 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. Bellars, 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, 1862, and 1872.

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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 Miller's 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, he.

He also worked for Mr. Ellis, and did many facsimiles of
the early 4to 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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Cfte ä&bflitUrtö Of ait ïlisi) ^niOífe ; 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 j
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.
Dun com be, 19, Little Queen Street, Holborn.

1 amo. ; 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 MiTFORD, 19, Little Queen Street Holborn," on the face:
and the announcement, on the back, of the following works :
The Haut-Ton Herald. No 3,                            1/-

New Rambler's Magazine. No 19.                      1/6

The Man of Pleasure's Song Book.                      2/-

Madame Vestris. The Singular Life &c.             4/-

Horn Tales : or The Art of Cuckoldorn.              2/6

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

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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 " Chrysal," but the invention is
clumsy, and serves only to trammel the author, and embarrass
the story. Story however, properly so 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 O " 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 varieté de liaisons curieuses entre les filles les plus
célèbres et les beaux garçons, les intrigues privées de lady W—
et Mme Ν—, non encore publiées, &c " The indication :
"entre les filles les plus célèbres et les beaux garçons," is
devoid of foundation ; however persons distinguished as " Lady

* Bibliographie, vol. i, 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.

Cfte SÖbetttUresï Of a ë>tftOOWBOp ; 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 -, 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.

Shakspeare.

London : Printed for the Booksellers, MDCCCLXVI.

8vo. ; % 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 Sexlon,
the original drawings still exist, bound up in a copy of the
work in the cabinet of a London collector.

" The Adventures of a School-Boy " is by no means badly
written, and is from the pen of one well versed in the art
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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 3føimttUrøE Of a £>peñtlfót ; 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: a.nd sold by S. Bladon, No. 13, Paternoster-
Row. MDCCLXXXVIII.

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

^aThe 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 :

^W2tat&ntfte %iit of a Woman of tt)t Coimn" (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. 13), 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. i, 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.
D

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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 ñve 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.

"Ütótorp of a ^forming Consttaöfo"(voi. ι, p. 218).
"Htfe of a ©mtng 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 migiit have
been written by Mackensie, and anon a chapter worthy of the
" Whore's Rhetoric.'*

Some other trifles by Stevens are inserted, viz.

^uWbt puppet *fcoto," (vol. 2, p. 32).

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" Comte Carapöraöe upon ^ijafteøpeare'ø &>thm &geö*"

(vol. 2, p. 38).

"Cfte îltotorp of Jfemale Jfastøton* in 1762,." (vol. 2,

ρ· 79)·

"3n ïntroïmetton to tfce Çrefaee of a ïBtstëertatton
upon ©ratorp*" (vol. 2, p. 114).

" Honeôtp anïi Stnaberp: An Allegory." (vol. 2, p. 122).

♦'aïlelaneöolp ^arrattbe of a>ttfôrtnjïg of art (Øngltol)
, Companp of Comeïrtanö m jfranxe^* (vol. 2, p. 127).

"€f)t Contention fiettoeen Çobertp anü Etefteö; with

the aïlbentUreSÉ Of Jflattergt An Allegory." (vol.2, p. 138).

" Cöe amourö of asatt anïï ©eeonomp : A Fragment/'

(vol. 2, p. 145).

George Alexander Stevens was born 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

* Role'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,

^t( 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 ;

" Slow-wasting Sickness steals on swift debauch j

" 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-

* Consult Biographia Dramática, vol. 1, part 2, p. 688.

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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 of 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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€i)t 9tøbentureo of Mv Sîmrp ïobeall, In a Tour through

England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Embellished
with Ten Superb Coloured Plates.

Forse se tu gustassi una sol volta
La millessima parte délia giaja,
Che gusta un cor amato ñamando,
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 Dugdale, 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 Dawsqn's Octavo Edition, " for which were done 12
coloured plates, measuring 5 to 5J inches X 7 to *]\ 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 Gary, 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."

altlfuatø infant à FCCUÏe. Traduit pour la première fois
de Γ italien de Ferrante Pallavîcinî Amsterdam chez
Γ ancien Pierre Marteau i860.

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

* See Die. des Ouvrages Anonymes, 187α, vol, í, col. 91 ¿ and Liste des

Publications faites &c. par Gay..

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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
à veiller attentivement sur vos enfants pour les soustraire à
l'influence pernicieuse des mauvais maîtres, détestable 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 maître dans le cul, il ne savait pas ce
que c'était 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.

The translation is flowing and readable, and according to

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Gay :^# " estimée ; 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. *f
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

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour &c, vol. 1, p. 55.

t Consult " An Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers," &c,
published together with "A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus," &c. by
R. P. Knight, 1865.

Í In a dictionary of erotic topics, published by Scheible, Stuttgart, in
1849, and entitled "Eros, " 2 vols., will be found under the heading "Mna*
ÍJeníeiBe " 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 óf 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 pédérastie " 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, ^w in which is
given the account of a society of which the Duc de Grammont,

* Erotika Biblon, Cîiapt. Kadhésch.

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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
étoient saines, afin qu'ils pussent supporter les austeritez ;" that
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 à 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 Mœurs" 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 jeté dans cette
fange ramena une première fois quatre-vingt-dix-sept, et une
seconde fois cinquante-deux individus pris en flagrant·délit, et
que je fus appelé à visiter ; si j'ajoute qu'en y joignant les autres
explorations du même genre que j'ai eu â faire, le nombre des
pédérastes que j'ai examinés 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
Mœurs privées de la Grèce " M. Octave Delepierre expresses
his opinion that "l'Alcibiade Fanciullo n'est pas une complète
fiction, et que l'auteur a traité la question d'après des éléments
que l'on trouve dans le écrits des philosophes les plus respectés ;"
and that "il suffise de dire que la discussion entre le
précepteur et son élevé roule toute entière, sur les avantages que
presente l'amour dans le sens que nous avons vu les philosophes
grecs donner à ce mot. "

"Un Point Curieux " should be consul eed 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 further condemned in 1868
by the tribunal of Lille.* It must not be confounded with the

* Procès des Raretés, p. 130.—Cat. des Ouvrages Condamnés, p. 63.

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

The Italian original " ßUiMÜÖt tøttfulfo a ÖWla " is men-
tioned in the " Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di
scrittori italiani." " L'édition qui passe pour la plus ancienne
porte l'indication supposée : Oranges, par Juan Wart, cbbclij
(1652); c'est un petit in-8° carré de 102 pages chiffrées, y
compris 3 feuillets préliminaires, et à la fin un feuillet non
chiffré contenant quatre sonnets signés M. V. La réimpression,
portant la même date, est un petit in-12 de forme un peu
allongée, ayant 124 pages, plus 2 feuillets pour les s'onnets."*
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
Brunei, " Dissertation sur L'Alcibiade· fanciullo a scola-traduite
de l'Italien," &c, Paris, J. Gay, 1861. M. Brunei 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 sanie subject.

" Qui vult posse, suum dígitos intrudat in anura ;
" Sic perfiibent Helenae consuevisse Parim."

Antonii Panormitae Hermaphrodit as.

* M. G. Bninet ut supra.

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&línt tt WultOÜV, ou Le Roman Philosophique. Ecrit à la
Bastille un an avant le Révolution de France. Orné de
Quatorze Gravures. Par le Citoyen S * * *. A Paris,
Chez Girouard, Libraire, rue du Bout-du-Monde, no.

47· ^l793-

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

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

i8mo. ; 8 pts. forming 4 vols., the paging running through
the parts ; vol'. 1, pp. xiv, and 315 ; vol. 2, pp. ¿03 ; vol. 3, pp.
575 ; vol. 4, pp. 374. In the same set are frequently found
both title pages. There should be 16 engravings, not signed,
and of no great merit; they are not obscene; tha,t facing
p. 216 of vol. 3, is generally wanting, although, according to

* In "Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées," vol. 3, col. 488, this vignette
is also exactly described.

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M. Cohen,* it is not obscene ; the plate at 3rd part, p. 200,
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 clubs ; 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," quoted
from Luc, lib. 4.

Author, the Marquis de Sade.

The work has been condemned, and " destruction ordonnée
par arrêt 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, Sade foresaw clearly, and prophecied
plainly what would be the result. " O France ! tu l'éclaireras un
jour, je l'espère: l'énergie de tes citoyens brisera bientôt le
sceptre du despotisme et de la tyrannie, et foulant à tes pieds les
scélérats qui servent l'un et l'autre, tu sentiras qu'un peuple
libre par la nature et par son génie, ne doit être gouverné que
par lui-même." (Vol. 2, p. 41). "Une grande révolution se
prépare dans ta patrie (France) ; les crimes de vos souverains,

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

f Catalogue des Ecrits kc. condamnés depuis 1814 jusqu'au 1 Janvier
1850, p. 87.

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leurs cruelles exactions, leurs débauches et leur ineptie ont lassé
la France ; elle est excédée du despotisme, elle est à 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 top
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 Tamoé, 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 erotique ;" 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 constantly, 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 Léonore 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.*

Q-uérard *j~ tells us, " l'auteur s'y peint sous 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 nega-
tive.

Extracts from " Aline and Valcour " were afterwards incorpo-

* This opinion is expressed by Quérard. See La France Littéraire, vol. 8,

p· 303·

t Ibid.

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rated in two other novels, viz., " Valmor et Lydia," 1798; and
^u Alzonde et Koradin, 1799."*

Donatien Alfonse François 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 été 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 was 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 ;

* Petite Bibliographie biographico-romancière, par M. Pigoreau, cited by
Quérard in " La France Littéraire," vol. 8, p. 303.

f The beautiful Laura of Pétrarque 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. Bérard has left the following note :

^<f Angles était Préfet de Police lors de la mort du Marquis de Sade. Je lui
ai entendu dire qu'on avait trouvé dans sa chambre un grand nombre de vers
licencieux ' dignes de Voltaire,' qu'il s'était empressé de faire brûler. Si ces
vers étaient en effet dignes de Voltaire, leur destruction serait une perte $
mais je crois pouvoir en douter, d'abord parceque Angles se connaisait mieux
en administration qu'en poësie, en suite parceque les veFS que Ton connaît de
M. de Sade sont plus que médiocres." Catalogue de Dessins, Manuscrits, et
Livres qu'on est obligé de cacher, &c, MS.

In his " Mélanges Bibliographiques " (p. 186). Le Bibliophile Jacob has
reproduced a letter of Sade in which he mentions a tragedy by himself " lue au
Théâtre-Français, 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 Τ may say un-
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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 " Curiosities de l'Histoire de France, Paris, τ858," 2 Série, p. 226.
" Je parviendrais (says he) sans doute à prouver que ce malheureux n'était pas
d'abord tel qu'on le représente, un monstre prodigieux de scélératesse, et qu'il ne
l'est devenu en veillissant, que pour se venger de la société à la quelle il impu-
tait les malheurs de sa vie.

" Car il y a deux divisions bien tranchées dans l'existence du marquis de Sade:
l'une appartient à l'histoire des mœurs de son temps, l'autre à l'histoire des plus
hideuses maladies de l'âme ; celle-ci est la conséquence de la première -, chacune,
à différents degrés, offre la satire des préjugés, des règles, des lois de la nature
civilisée.

^<e C'est la passion qui a commencé la chute morale du marquis de Sade j ce
sont l'orgueil et le désespoir qui ont achevé de le précipiter dans un abîme infect
où il eût voulu entraîner ses contemporains, de même que Satan peuplant
l'enfer où la main de Dieu l'a plongé." Monsieur P. Lacroix concludes his ar-
gument with : " je ne me sens par le courage d'entreprendre une justification en
faveur de 1 écrivain qui forma l'absurde projet de pervertir l'espèce humaine et
consacra ses plus nobles facultés à l'exécution de ce qu'il regardait comme des
représailes."

M. JBrunet expresses himself to the same effect : " Sade, resté sous le verrous,
fut atteint d'une véritable aliénation causée par le désespoir ·_} sa tête s'échauffant
de plus en plus dans une longue oisiveté, il fut un proie à une monomanie qui le
jeta dans un abîme où il aurait voulu entraîner le genre humain. En s'efforçant
de répandre la corruption la plus infecte, il croyait user de représailles envers la
société.¹¹ " Le Marquis de Sade, l'homme et ses écrits,¹' &c.

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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 Générale;"
further the student can consult :

1. "Le Marquis de Sade l'homme et ses écrits étude bio-biblio-
graphique," from the pen of M. Gustav Brunet.

α. " Curiosities de l'Historié 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 Sevigné," in the " Memoires de Bachaumont," in " La
Gazette Noire par un Homme qui n'est pas blanc," 1784, in the
" Nuits de Paris," " Monsieur Nicholas," and " Le Pied de

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Fanchette " of Restif de la Bretonne, anecdotes are given about
Sade*

Jérôme de Lalande ή· says of him : " Je voudrais bien
pouvoir citer M. de Sade ; il a bien assez d'esprit, de raisonne-
ment, d'érudition ; mais ses infâmes romans de Justine et de
Juliette, le font rejeter d'une secte (atheists) où l'on 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^M 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 " Bibliographie et
Iconographie de tous les ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne/' to which excel-
lent work the student should refer concerning Sade.

f Dictionnaire des Athées, Suppléments, 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, se, 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 frisés. C'était ce qu'on appelé un joli homme." *

A modem German writer φ has still more minutely por-
trayed him as " öon fo aufiergetoityrtlic^er <Βφ5ηί^ί:, bafí aile î>amen,
bie fijn ertltcften, felfcft aU er ηοφ ein ¿tnafce wax, fielen Miefcen, um
fíjn ¿u tenmnbejm. 3Ätt feinem rei¿enben 3íeitleren t>erí>anb et
eine natürliche 5inmut1j in atten feinen Sßeroegungen uni? fein Dx$an
wax fo Höflingen!), ba^ ίφοη feine Stimme aßen grauen inê

Snnerfte i^reê «êer^eng bringen mu^te.

#                *                #                #                *

" î>er. junge 9Kann n?ar feit fmfjefter Äinb^eit ein S5ûφmυurm unb
gtünbete {ΐφ fo ^u fagen ein etøenee ^Üofo^tf^cö ©Aftern auf
auêgefctettetfï e^tïuräifφeτ SßaftS· 5He6en feinen ^ulftubien lag er
î>en [φ5η«ΐ Runflen ob ; er wax ein tû^ttger SWuftíer, ün geraubter
$an¿er, Seφter unb öerfuφte ίιφ αηφ in 95ilb^auerei. dr ί>χαφΗ
ganje ^age in ben ®emdlbegaïïerien_r nament^ in jenen beê Souöre,
tton ^ontainHeau unb SSerfatfteê ju, ιυοδιιτφ fein fûnñíertfφer
©efφma^ immer me^r auêgetilbet njurbe."

* Mélanges Bibliographiques, p. 189.
f Justine und Juliette, see post.

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£f$ amanø €lOÍ#tVt% (sic) ou i; Heureuse Inconstance.
A Cologne. M.DC.XCVIIL

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 befcoming 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
of the treachery of Philoprode. Philoprode, on learning

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Celonte's departure goes himself to Lyons, confesses his guilt,
and is pardoned. Doraste and Celonte now set out for Pans
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.
" Voilà quelle fut la fin de ces deux Amans cloîtrés, qui
s'aimèrent sur la fin selon Dieu, & ainsi trouvèrent leur repos
& leur salut dans un changement d'amour, qu'on peut appeller
avec justice une heureuse inconstance."

" Les Amans cloistrés " 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.

G

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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 " cloîtrez," while the title of my copy
has " cloistre's," from which it would seem that the book was
printed twice in the same year. There were subsequent editions,
viz., Bruxelles 1706; Cologne 1739.

Ít6 uttlfeø scène d'amour sapphique Sonnets Par le licencié
Pablo de Herlagnèz Ségovie MDCCCLXX.

In-18; pp. 16; papier vergé; 4 fres ; 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 étend les bras, et se cambre,
^ff Et sa sœur, 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 fres., 4 grand papier
de Hollande 6 fres., 2 papier Chine 8 fres., 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 ün poëte de l'école de M. Leconte de Lisle; ils sont fort
singuliers."-^

The author's real name is Paul Verlaine.^

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour, &c. vol. 1, p. 101.

t Bulletin Trimestriel, No. 2.

% Supercheries Litt. Dévoilés, vol. a, col. 259.

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Cï)f 9imorOUÔ Jfnarôî 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. :

" €ï)t gtötorp οι Bonm Jïltranöa Jtølfo"
" €t)t 3|tsítorp ot Jfdíriaiuu"

" %tUlOU$V ©Ut4wtteïï X An Italian Novel."
" aSaöfl anÖ Clara, An Italian Novel."
" JÄUÖtnOt ani Jïlaniîiia, A French Novel."
" Wt)t (Snterprtótnff #rtarö. 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
Herd of Cannibals, who feed upon one another, in the most

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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; * * * *

^u 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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Cfte 8mOtt)ttó ©Uafeer; 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 :

"CtipUJ'Ö Jïltóreüanp ; or, Life of an Amorous Quaker.'*
quotation and rubric as above, but without publisher's name ;
I2mo.; pp. 80; 4 badly done plates.

There is an American publication entitled :

"€l)t 9mOUrÔ Of a ©Uafter; or, the Voluptuary." pro-
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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flmotê äöegc ober Síefee unb @enu§. *Rom uttb Cari«, getauft
in Wcfem 3<Φ*»

8vo. ; pp. 143 ; published at Berlin in 1867 ; price th. i. 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, " 2lHeå tft eitel Γ' 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 ¿rouble.
The tale is disjointed and "devoid of literary merit.

Tale 3. A girl of the middle class is seduced under promise
of marriage by a Baron whose residence adjoins that of her

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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 : " <So ttkí ftcíj ba8 fufe ÎRinneftnel fort 6të ín bit
reiferen Satyre, w mein SÖIut etmaS matøer nmrbe, aber nie gan§
erfaltete. ©fe frommen Drbenêieute tsaren fo banffcar, mt$ αηφ Bei
ïjerannaijenbem 3lltet ηίφί ju fcergeffen. 6δ fánt> {Ιφ immer írgenb
einer unter ítynen, ber bie grauen §aare fcberfalj, unb pfrteben mar,
tt>enn er nut mit feinem ¿ßfunbe mudjent fonnte, oJjne {ΐφ ötel ¿u
fcefftmmern, χόο er c8 anlegte/'

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-hole 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 boldly 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.

lt& ÇitïtOUVt\X&t& contes et chansons Liege F. Renard
Éditeur Paris E. Dentu Libraire 1861

Small square 8vo. ; pp. $5, and one unnumbered page of

Table ; the author's name, Leon Jacöues, 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
"I/Estrange Fille," and the patriotic song, "La Perle du
Monde," possess most merit.

Cfte amourss 9fob entures, anö Intrigue* of Com

SfOÏjnôOm Written by himself.

" Si quis in hoc artem pópalo 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 :

" Xitørtng ; or tfte £>eimrtton of Φ------r *-----m" and

" Cöe amourö of aiftei* una kanton,"

This latter is a translation of the well known tale by Boceado,
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).

Η

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" Tom Johnson " is not mentioned by Gay.

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

The same book has also been produced under the\title:

"Wi)t (genuine anö remarfeaile Smøurø of tht teïefirateï
autour Çeter atrttûu·^

£e* amuurø ïe Cfcartot et Cotnette Piece dérobée A

y #######

Scilicet is superis labor est, ea cura quietos

sollicitât                                    Virg. Æneid.

1789.

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

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

" On sait bien que le pauvre Sire,

" Trois ou quatre fois condamné,

^u Par la salubre faculté,

" Pour impuissance très-complette»

" Ne peut satisfaire Antoinette.

" De ce malheur bien convaincu,

" Attendu que son allumette

^tf N'est pas plus grosse qu'un fétu ;

" Que toujours molle Jk toujours croche»

" II n'a de Vit que dans la poche j

" du'au Heu de foutre, il est foutu

" Comme feu le prélat d*Antioche.

* Noticed in its alphabetical order in this work.

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Marie Antoinette is described as :

"Une Reine jeune & fringante,*
" Dont l'Epoux très Auguste était mauvais fouteur,
" Faisoit, de tems en tems, en femme très-prudente,

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

" Dans une douce reverie
" Son joli petit Corps ramassé, nu, tout nu,
** Tantôt sur le duvet d'une molle bergere,
" Avec un certain doigt, le Portier de l'Amour,
" Se délassoit la nuit des contraintes du jour j
" Et brûloit son Encens pour le Dieu de Cythère :
*' Tantôt mourant d'ennui au milieu d'un beau jour,
" Elle se trémoussoit toute seule en sa couche 5
" Ses tétons palpitans, ses beaux jeux, et sa bouche
" Doucement haletante, entrouverte à demi,
" Sembloit d'un fier fouteur inviter le defu"

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: Pièce en vers assez
spirituelle, mais obscène. On ne connaît de l'édit orig. que quel-
ques exemplaires échappé (sic) au pilon de la Bastille ; l'édition
fut achetée par ordre de la cour et payée par Goetzmann au
libraire Boissiere, à Londres, la somme enorme de 17,000 fr.
non compris les menus frais et le pat-de-vin. L'exempl. de
Leber, no 2281, Contient un des dessins destinés à ce libelle, et

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour, &c, vol. 1, p. 167 j quoted
incorrectly from " Cat. de Leber," vol. ι, ρ. 352.

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qui n'ont jamais paru ; il représente la reine couché (sic) sur un
sofa. Reimprimé dans le Momus redivivus de Mercier de
Compiègne, 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$ 9imOUrÖ ïie Napoleon Ht. Par L'Auteur de la
Femme de Cesar. Genève.—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
regular; vol. 2, pp. 330 (two titles not counted); vol. 3, Pre-

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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'être mécontent de Lucien sous "

Dating. Vol. 1 bears no date on the title, but the Avant
Propos of the fifth partis dated 1863. Vol. 2, 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
"Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'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 à un
seul : d'anciens chambellans des ambassadeurs, des courtesan es
délaissées, des complices, les coupables eux-mêmes, ont fait leur
part de ce travail, dont une plume sans mérite a rapproché les
morceaux épars 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 à dire depuis l'histoire
des amours de Napoléon III.,. nous avons prié notre éditeur, 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

* See post.

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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
l'histoire des amours de Napoléon III,, et nous espérons alors
avoir la satisfaction de le faire après la chute de ce tyran, dont
le règne odieux touche à sa fin , et qu'il aura reçu le châtiment
mille fois mérité de tous ses crimes," Gay says that vol. 4 is
" une spéculation de libraire. Ce volume est une répétitio -
des chapitres contenus dans les trois premiers avec l'addition de
quelques autres détails sur divers membres de la famille de
Napoléon III." This is entirely incorrect, the fourth vol.
repeats nothing contained in the previous vols., it continues
the tale of Lodoïska 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-
tiality for gin and whiskey are scarcely worth mentioning.

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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 mère m'attend.*
" Louis Bonaparte, stupéfait de cette brusque disparition, en
proie aux plus violents désirs, rentra en toute hâte dans ses
appartements. Ce fut en vain, quand il fut couché, qu'il
chercha à êtiendre le feu brûlant, qui le dévorait, 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 suréxitátion fébrile s'empara bientôt
de tout son être, le spectre impérial, enveloppé dans son drap,
semblable à un linceul, se dressa effrayant sur sou lit ; à la
pâle clarté des bougies il était effroyable à voir ; ses jambes
amaigries étaient rougées par d'affreuses dartres, qui les
dévoraient, les pustules verdatres dont son corps était couvert,
suintaient à travers le drap, qui l'enveloppait à demi et laissait
apercevoir à l'épine d'orsale (sic) plusieurs ulcères dégoûtants, qui
lui rougeaient (sic) les reins; sa peau tannée était partout plissée et
jaunie comme un vieux parchemin; sa face livide se violaçait;
ses yeux hagards s'injectaient de sang ; ses temps battaient avec
force ; ses mains cripées (sic), ses bras tendus, semblaient (sic)
vouloir saisir un être invisible, une forme fantastique ; il poussait
d'abord de faibles gémissements» des sons inarticulés sortaient
de sa poitrine haletante et opressée, puis, bientôt après, devenant
furieux, il déchirait son drap et sa chemise, et apparaissait alors

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dans toute son affreuse nudité, hideux de pustules et de dartres,
en décriant dans son délire: Eugénie! Eugénie! ma belle
chasseresse ! je t'aime ! .... je f aime ! .... viens à moi ma
chaste Diane ! .... viens à moi, ma cruelle Lucrèce ! ...
Viens ! .... viens ! .... donne moi des tendres baisers ! ....
Viens !—Laisse moi jouir un (sic) honneur ineffable et mourir
d'amour dans tes bras !

" Et saisi d'une extase, la bouche couverte d'écume, les yeux
effrayants de fixité, hors de leur orbite, injectés de sang, en
proie à une fureur erotique, il retombait sur son lit attaqué de
convulsions." (vol. i, p. 208.)

Madame de Solms, accompanied by M. James Fazy, goes
to the brothel of Mme. Adèle 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 privilège exceptionnel, (héréditaire chez les femmes, dans
la race des Bonapartes, mes grandes-tantes Elise, Elisa, Pauline,
Caroline, en était (sic) déjà douées, quoique à un degré moindre
que. moi,) quand je suis en contacte immédiat avec un homme, je
jouis de tous les attributs de la femme la plus accomplie, la
plus propre à l'amour;, si, au contraire, je suis mise en rapport
sexuel avec une personne du sexe féminin, ma nature change,
mes attributs se transforment, je sens se développer des charmes,
qui avant étaient tout internes ; ils prennent une forme virile et
la sensuelle jeune femme, qui un instant auparavant était propre
à 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
à toutes ces Dames et à tous ces Messieurs* je- les défie 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 à coucher,
sonna son nègre Alexandre, car c'est ainsi qu'elle appelait
l'Africain, dont nous avons parlé, quand il entra, elle lui fit
signe de s'approcher d'elle et entrouvrant voluptueusement
son léger vêtement, qui se déboutonnait par devant, elle lui
montra tous ses charmes : ' tu vois ces trésors, lui dit-elle,
viens leur faire la fête qu'ils méritent, car ces blancs blasés sont
incapables de les servir comme il le faut ; viens mon hercule
noir, viens sur cette couche qui nous attend, viens * mélanger
l'ivoire et l'ébène, fais couler ta lave africaine dans mes flancs
de lis et de rose, viens toi seul es digne de calmer mon ardeur
dévorante, viens tous mes trésor d'amour sont à toi, viens
épuisons l'ivresse ! '

" Le vigoureux nègre ne lui eu laissa pas dire d'avantage,
la saisissant de la façon la plus voluptueuse, il l'enleva
comme une plume, la plaça sur le lit, la couvrit d'une
pluie de baisers, d'une avalanche de carresses ; et avec une
vigueur d'hercule, il la fit pâmer cinq ou six fois de suite, il
l'inonda d'une telle volupté, lui causa de tels transports, qu'elle
faillit mourir de plaisir, elle demenda (sic) grâce à son tour, n'en
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pouvant plus ; mais son galant bourreau ne lui fit grâce qu'après
deux ou trois nouveaux assauts, qui la rendirent fourbue pour
quelques jours," (vol. 2, p. 287.)

The emperor and empress are desirous of having an heir to
the throne, but : C'était en vain que la Montijo, au su et au vu
de toute sa cour, et presque sous les yeux de son impérial
époux, qui afrectait de ne pas s'en apercevoir, se livrait sans
rétenue aux plus vigoureux étalons de son entourage ; c'était
envain (sic) qu'elle consultait les plus savants docteurs sur sa
stérilité, qu'elle employait à la fois toutes les ressources de l'art
et de la science ; ses organes générateurs, viciés par la débauche,
corrompus par les résidus syphilitiques, les nombreux médica-
ments mercuriels qu'elle avait absorbés, détruits en partie par
les potions violentes, les remèdes corrosifs, que sa mère lui avait
fait prendre dans sa jeunesse, poure faire disparakre les
conséquences compromettantes des ses précoces débauches, et
surtout complètement rendus impropres à la génération depuis
que son époux l'avait brutalement fait avorter, ne laissaient à
leurs Majestés plus aucun espoir de guérison." (Vol 1, p.
ï 14, dernier chap.) The way in which a child was procured,
and passed off as the Prince imperial, is then described.

" L'Impératice ..... pousse assez loin le mépris pour les
accoutrements d'une pudeur exagérée, elle croit avec raison,
que la décence la plus réelle d'une jolie femme réside dans sa
beauté et que rien n'est aussi convenable que le naturel, aussi
nous avons déjà vu souvent qu'elle n'a jamais cherché à aug-
menter le charme des attraits extraordinaires dont la nature
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coquetterie raffinée qui se dissimule sous une fausse pruderie ;
non, elle a toujours montré, dans toute la simplicité de sa grâce,
des trésors qui ont peu de rivaux. Un jour qu'elle était
fatiguée, elle avait prié S. M. l'Empereur de vouloir bien lui
permettre d'assister du haut du balcon des Tuileries à un défilé
de troupes, ce qui lui fut accordé avec le plus grand plaisir.
Elle vint donc s'asseoir, nonchalamment penchée en arrière, les
pieds appuyés sur la grille du balcon du pavillon de l'horloge,
à l'heure indiquée et elle assista dans cette position pleine de
grâce et de laisser-aller à un défilé considerable, et comme elle
ne met jamais ni caleçons, 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 défilaient devant le
pavillon 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 côté la belle tenue et l'air martial des héros de Sebastopol,
d'Italie et du Mexique qui passaient au-dessous d'elle, sans se
douter certainement qu'elle se trouvait placée de telle façon que
trente mille hommes pouvaient affirmer après la revue que
l'impératrice Eugénie avait la jambe très bien faite, un mollet
andaloux et bien d'autres charmes secrets, plus beaux encore
qu'elle avait, ainsi étalés dans toute leur éclatante nudité à leurs
regards dévorants ; 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
grande raison, les deux premiers mots du grand César : veni> vidi.

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" L'Empereur lui-même quand il passa sous le balcon à la tête
d'un brillant état major, pour se faire voir à son épouse adorée
jouit aussi de ce spectacle plein d'attrait.

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

" Quand Napoléon III rentra aux Tuileries, il raconta à l'Im- I
pératrice, sur un ton de tendre reproche, ce qu'il avait vu avec
toute l'armée.

* " Que veux-tu, cher ami, il n'y a pas grand mal à cela, lui
répondit la belle Eugénie en ninaudant, sans doute que jamais
ces braves n'avaient assisté à un aussi beau spectacle, main-
tenant ils m'aimeront encore d'avantage en songeant quels trésors
d'amour je possède et je te prodigue !" ' (vol. 3, p. 198.)

" La reine des Belges est, comme nous l'avons dit, une
duchesse autricienne, de la famille des Hapsbourg, si connue
pour la lubricité de la dissolution des mœurs de ses femmes, I
dont Marie-Antoinette et Marie-Louise furent deux types ;
l'épouse de Leopold II est une femme de vingt-cinq ou
trent ans, assez forte, ni belle ni laide, à l'air commun, à la
figure sensuelle, sans distinction, aux lèvres grosses, aux narines
bien développées, au regard cynique, à l'allure fort peu distin-
guée ; elle regarde et fixe les hommes avec effronterie et ne
baisse jamais les yeux devant eux. Habituée à monter à cheval, i
elle est, dit on, excellente écuyère et se plait beaucoup avec les
chevaux. Elle a des petits poneys apprivoisés et dressés comme
des moutons ou plutôt comme des chiens, qui la suivent dans le

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parc et lui courent après jusque dans ses appartements ; elle
fait avec ces gentilles bêtes mille folies et leur donne sa bouche
à baiser ; il est parmi ses petits chevaux deux jolis et gentils
étalons, qui semblent prendre le goût le plus vif à folâtrer avec
leur maitresse. Quand ces jeunes poneys sont à l'écurie et
qu'ils entendent la reine, ils hennissent et se débattent comme
des furieux, si on ne les détache pas et, aussitôt lâchés, ils
courent après elle, l'embrassent, et lui font mille carresses. On
se demande comment le Roi tolère l'intimité de sa femme avec
ses étalons ; car cela fait beaucoup jaser au palais, surtout parmi
les domestiques et les palefreniers. Mais il parait que Sa
Majesté est impuissante à empêcher ce scandale et que la Reine
préfère, et pour cause, ses chevaux à son mari ; ce qui ne lui
empêche pas d'avoir de nombreux adorateurs qui n'appar-
tiennent pas à 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. i, col.
149 ^e5 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 Napoléon
III " exists with title :

"Ï« Jfemmtô Galanteo ïreö Bapotóonö* Secrets de

Cour et de Palais, Documents et Conversations Authentiques.
Toutes reproductions, contrefaçons, traductions sont sévère-

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ment interdites, dans tous les pays qui ont des traités sur la
propriété littéraire, avec la Prusse, la Suisse, la Belgique,
l'Angleterre et l'Italie etc. où notre présente publication est
éditée par nous et nos Correspondants, pour sauvegarder nos
droits. Berlin 1862. Jules Abelsdorff, Libraire-Editeur."

8vo.; 5 parts; pp. pt. 1, 72 in ail, pts. 2, 3 & 4together, 264,
pt. 5, 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, "Genève 1862. Ghisletty Libraire-Editeur," that of
vol. II has further, " Le droit de traduction est réservé."

The matter is virtually the same as in "Les Amours de
Napoléon 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'août, l'an X de l'exil."
and signed Eugène 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 prêtresses de Vénus," which in
" 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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leô 3mOUr0 ï'<&Uglntt ÏUrfepatrtït* Théba de Montijo
Impératrice des Français depuis sa haute naissance,
jusqu'avant, pendant et après son mariage par Γ Auteur
du Pilori 1865 Nouvelle Edition. Londres W. Jeffs,
Libraire-Editeur, Burlington-Arcade. 1871

8vo. ; pp. 36 ; stout paper ; price 3 fres.

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 Napoléon 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 Eugénie."

t See ante, p. 52.

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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.

ILeø antourø be á>amfraftr Seôtute, et WtøuMit fult

Mtbott* Histoire Veritable. Suivie de quelques Nouvelles
Nouvelles. A La Haye, chez Isaac van der Kloot.
M. D. CCXXIX.

I2mo. ; 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 :

" ïe itotap ïre ïftefum*" p. 385 to _P. 416.
"it Coupaöle ïmtomtt" p.417 to p. 443.
^uWms par ta lertutt Dtöquete on petit coratdttre #i
Von aune/* p. 444 to p. 453.
" it $nlouj: foe stott #mfire/* 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 : &c."-^

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,^ 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 Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour &c, 1871,vol. 1, p. 191.
t See post, p. 70.

î 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,
^I73°* ^so t^nat ^^e nmst have become acquainted with her in April or May, 1728.
See "Factum," pp. 5 & 33 ; noticed in this work. Post.
Κ

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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 Eulalie 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
" où Dieu soit servi en esprit & en vérité."

Eulalie 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
happens on two occasions.

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They jiow determine to leave France, and Eulalie proceeds
alone to Brussels, where Sainfroid joins her six months afterwards,
having escaped in disguise from his convent, carrying with him
a cross ornamented with precious stones, and worth 2000 fres.
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 : " Ouï,
scélérat, dit-elle à Sainfroid^ s'approchant de lui avec assez de
tranquilité, c'est toi, qui étant Jésuite, & mon Confesseur, as
trouvé, par une morale que l'Enfer a dictée à ton abominable
Société, le secret de me séduire. Tu as joui de moi, tu m'as
fait 'deux enfans, tu m'as fait avorter du premier à six semaines
de grossesse, & après m'avoir servi de sage femme au second,
dont tu me fis délivrer par force à quatre mois & demi, tu
baptisas cette innocente créature, ou tu me le fis croire, & tu
l'emportas en me disant que tu Fenterrerois secrettement, &
que tu te chargeois de tout le crime qu'il pouvoit y avoir en
abrégeant les jours d'un si petit enfant, dont alors le bonheur est

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certain, au lieu que ce même enfant pourroit se perdre en vivant
dans le monde sans connoitre son Père & sa Mere, & étant
confié à l'éducation de ceux que le hazard leur feroit le relever,
si on l'exposoit. J'étois dans un état si foible, que je ne pus
m'opposer à ton abominable dessein, tu emportas cet enfant
mort, & tu m'as dit que tu l'avois enterré dans une cave de ton
Convent, où l'on enterre les Peres de ta Société quand ils
viennent à mourir. Pouvois-je dans un pareil cas éclatter sans
me perdre, & sans t'exposer sur un échafaut dans le lieu de ta
naissance, & au milieu de tes propres parens ? Je ne me tran-
quilisai un peu que lorsque je te vis résolu à passer dans les
Païs étrangers, & je n'ai plus eu d'habitude avec toi, que depuis
que tu m'es venue joindre à Bruxelles, Mais le Ciel a permis
que ce commerce que j'ai encore eu la lâcheté d'avoir avec toi
.n'ait produit aucun fruit. Peutêtre aurois tu eu encore Tame*
assez noire pour le faire périr. J'aurois dû dès lors te regarder
avec horreur, j'aurois dû t'éviter comme l'homme du monde le
plus indigne de vivre. Mais si Ton doit croire aux Philtres il
faut que tu m'en aies donné un, lorsque tu as veillé mon Onde
mort, que tu l'aies renouvelle dans mes acouchemens forcez,
comme quand tu m'es venu trouver à Bruxelles, & peut-être
que ces quatre tablettes que tu me fis prendre après ma seconde
fausse couche m'ont rendue stérile ; 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
donné pour être attachée à toi, Faction 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
prétention à la Demoiselle que tu as épousée. Mais je veux
que tu me donnes de quoi satisfaire la peisonne où je suis logée,
& pour m'en retourner en France. J'y ai du bien ; j'y pleurerai
les desordres d'une jeunesse que tu as corrompue : j'y détesterai
le moment où j'ai eu le malheur de te connoître ; & du précipice
dans lequel tu m'avois conduite, je trouverai le chemin de mon
_salut & de mon bonheur éternel."

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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€i)t &mourø of £>amfroiö artö öfulalta : 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 :

" €ï)t intrigua anïr Støourø of á>amfrofti ano öfulalta,

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.

12mo. ; pp. 204 ; there is a half title before the com-
mencement of Chap. 1 ; viz. : ^u Cï)£ €lOt&Ut ; &c. &c. &c,"
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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9nCtent ^gmbol WOtôftÎp* 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 : Trübner & Co., 59 Ludgate Hill. 1874.

Large 8vo. ; pp. 98 in all; cloth wrapper ; the bastard title
reads : " $J)aUtöm Út gttrøttt WlQV&1)W$S' % 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 curious note on Phallic Worship in Mysore will be found
in "Notes and Queries," 5th S., iv., p. 463.

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l'&tttát Valante ; ou Les Intrigues Secretes dn Marquis de

_L * # #

Cœurs sensibles, cœurs fidelles
Qui blâmez l'amour léger ;
Cessez vos plaintes cruelles !
Est-ce un crime de changer ?
Si l'Amour porte des ailes,
N'est-ce pas pour voltiger ? bis.

Figaro.

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

i2mo. (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 Lemarié, Imprimeur-Libraire, proche rHôtel-
de-Ville." 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 Fischaber of
Stuttgart, about 1860.

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 qualité,"
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 à l'Amour, &c, vol. 1, p. 257.
The above work must not be confounded with " L'Année galante, ou
Ëtrennes à 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'Etoriere,* Gay
gives the name otherwise, he says : " de L'EtuviÈre officier
aux gardes, doué des qualités eminentes et qui passa, dans un
certain monde, pour l'homme le plus capable de son temps."

annotations on tfte ê>acrrt røaritinøø of tf)t î&mîïitè,

Being an Epitome of some of the most remarkable and
leading tenets in the faith of that people, by Edward
Sellon, 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 title, 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. i, 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 Hindu 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 Kauchilüas, and
the Nautch women :

" The Kauchilüas are another branch of the Saetas 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 Guru 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,
^c danced before the Lord with all his might.' And to every
temple of any importance in India we find a troop of Nautch
or dancing girls attached.

" These women are generally procured when quite young, and

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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 the 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 Radha-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 Saetas 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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gintftoIOJte erotique IB'amaroU* Texte Sanscrit, Traduc-
tion, Notes et Gloses, Par A. L. Apudy.

Me legat.....non frígida virgo.

Ovid. Amor. II, ι.

Paris. Dondby-Dupré Père et Fils, 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 title 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 Léon Chézy.*

In his introduction M. Chézy tells us :

" L'ouvrage sanscrit dont j'ai extrait les petites pièces sui-
vantes, au nombre de cinquante-et-une, porte dans l'original le
titre Amarop-Satacam, c'est à dire Centurie d'Amaroû,
parce que ce charmant recueil, que l'on peut appeler proprement
une Anthologie erotique, consiste en cent quatrains ou stances
de la composition d'un poèt indien, nommé Amaroû. * * *

" On ne sait pas au juste à quelle époque florissait l'auteur ;
mais les Brahmanes s'accordent à lui assigner une origine fort ■
ancienne.

* Les Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées, vol. 1, col. 372.

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" II existe à son sujet une feble assez originale : on prétend,
conformément au système de la métempsycose, que son ame a
passé successivement dans le corps de cent femmes, et que c'est
dans ces diverses transmigrations qu'il a été initié à tous les
mystères de l'Amour.

" Ce conte agréable prouve du moins le cas que ses com-
patriotes font de ses poésies, et milite en faveur de l'extrême
vérité, du naturel exquis avec lesquels il a su rendre toutes les
nuances d'une passion qui, à ce qu'il paraît, est aussi vivement
sentie sur les bords du Gange, que sur ceux de la Seine. * _# *
Ne dirait-on pas en effet que c'est l'Amour lui même qui a
fondu les teintes de ces tableaux ? Quelle vérité d'expression,
quel brillant coloris, quelle chaleur dans les scènes variées
qu'Amaroû présente tour à tour à nos regards ! "

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

" Le Raccommodement."

^α Ce couple boudeur, dos à dos sur la même couche, les
lèvres closes, tout ce qu'ils ressentent d'amour l'un pour l'autre
caché soigneusement au fond de leur cœur, et gardant chacun
son quant-à-soi le plus gravement du monde ..... voyez
comme insensiblement ils se recherchent du coin de l'œil,
comme leurs regards viennent à se confondre, comme ils
sentent mollir leur colère, comme ils s'enlancent tout-à coup
dans leur bras amoureux î "

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" La Première Nuit."

"^ζ II dort : dors à ton tour, ô notre douce amie . . . /
Ainsi me dirent mes compagnes, et elles me laissèrent.

" Et moi, remplie de l'amour le plus pur, et dans toute mon
innocence, j'approche doucement mes lèvres de la joue de mon
jeune époux. Aussitôt je le sens frémir, et je reconnais que le

traître faisait semblant de céder au sommeil..... Oh ! que

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

" L'Amant Soumis."

" * La haine, ô ma belle, a donc pris décidément dans ton
cœur 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 baisés que je t'ai donnés." '

"Le Triomphe."

" Le sein affaissé à la suite de mes caresses réitérées, tous ses
membres dans un doux abandon, frémissant de volupté, son
dernier voile tout en désordre, tombé dans nos transports
amoureux : ^c Ah ! ah ! ah î trop charmant ami, finis, de grâce,
c'est assez ! ' me dit-elle d'une voix étouffée ; et ces mots sont

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

alors, serait-elle donc morte, ou simplement endormie ? serait-
elle absorbée dans la méditation, ou pâmée de plaisir ? "

" Sur une Nouvelle Epouse."

" Cette nouvelle épouse au regard tendre comme celui de la
gazelle, aux cuisses fermes et polies comme la tige du bananier,

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

sacre de l'Amour lui-même, que son sein commence à se remplir
de la plus douce ambroisie ? " *

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

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

" Amarou vient enfin de paraltre devant nous. Si nous
ne le possédons qu'en abrégé, ce n'eét du moins qu'un
abrégé de sa richesse et non de sa grâce, et l'extrait de
ΐAmarou Satacam, pour être resserré dans une étroite
mesure, ne perd ni de son charme ni de son importance.
Ces pièces légères, détachées et capricieuses, sont des pétales
de rose que la fantaisie rêveuse du poëte a. effeuillées et
répandues sur le sol. Il voltige de pensées en pensées, les
effleurant à la hâte et sans cesse entraîné par de nouveaux

* " Quelle image ravisante !" (exclaims M. Chézy) Le sein d'une jeune
femme enceinte, gonflé de lait, comparé à une coupe élégante remplie de la
liqueur précieuse, destinée à un sacre $ et quel sacre ! .... non pas celui
d'un roi, mais celui de l'Amour 5 l'enfant dont bientôt elle recueillera avec
ivresse le premier sourire ne pouvant être qu'une incarnation de ce petit dieu
lui-même !

" Une comparaison du même genre, mais bien moins heureuse, à mon avis,
se trouve dans le Mritcktchhahiti, drame indien fort curieux, dont le savant
Wilson, qui déjà en avait précédemment donné la traduction, vient dernièrement
de publier le texte à Calcutta à la grande satisfaction des indianistes. C'est
vers la fin du cinquième acte."

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parfums . . . Le livre d'Amarou est puisé dans ce monde
infini de merveilleux phénomènes et d'incalculables mystères
que Tâme d'une femme renferme dans sa profondeur ... Le
lecteur pourra apprécier tout le naturel, respirer tout le parfum
de cette essence d'amour venue des bords du Gange."

antomt ^anormttae førmap&roftitUØ« Primus in Germania
edidit et apophoreta adjecit Frider. Carol. Forbergius.
Coburgi Sumtibus Meuseliorum. 1824,

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

" Lectori &c, F. C. Forbergius." . pp. iii to xvi.
" Testimonia de Hermaphrodite." . „ ι to 32
" Præfatio Editons Parisiensis.". . „ 33 to 36
"Hermaphroditus" (in 2 Books). . „ 37 to 167
" Appendix Hermaphroditi." . . „168 to 202
" Apophoreta." " De Figuris Veneris." „ 203 to 378
" Figurarum Veneris enumeratio." . „ 379 to 383
" EIK02IMHXAN0N." with a separate

full title page, and enumeration of

the postures in the plates, (which

immediately follow)                    4pp. in all unnumbered.

^u Series epigramrnatum Hermaphroditi

Véneta cum nostra collata." preceded

by one unnumbered leaf, " Barbatum

furem Tertia Mensa manet." . pp. 385 to 386
^α Scripteres laudad."               . . „387*0406

" 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.^a and xvi.^D

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,-)" 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.

ap&roïïtótató alto &l\tUn$)VO'btóíUt&X 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 ^u Ghiinque Illustrium Poet arum," Arc., 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 ivith) Payne Knight on < The
Worship of the Generative Powers.'

" Beautifully printed on toned paper, and only One Hundred
Copies,·^ for private distribution. Small 4to, half morocco, gilt
top, «3^2. ios.

' " 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.

'•"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 250 copies (no large paper),, of which about
130 copies were distributed in Europe, and the remainder were sold en Hoc 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.

⁴ " 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 the 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,
the 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 Ismafi, 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 Phallic Oath — Ancient
Welsh Phallic Law—London Costermonger's Oath, ' By my
taters ' — Bembo (Cardinal), his saying — Priapus, deri-
vation of the word—Priapus, how reverenced by Roman
women—Priapus, decline of his 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 votos.

ESSAY II.

"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'Orléans 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 i6th 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 Dudaïm 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—MachiavelFs
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 Dudaïm—
Singular Aphrodisiac used by the Amazons—PHitlers, 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 Barri's secret—Tablettes de MagnanimUê
—Poudre de joie—Seraglio Pastilles—Musk₃ 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—DObsonville quoted—
Potable Gold—Shakespeare quoted—Β ourchard'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 London₃ 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 modem 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.

apparuttott ire C&£rføe*pttøstøpl)e a AaínfeCIotúi, ou Le

Triomphe de la Volupté. Dédié à la Reine. Ouvrage
volé dans la poche d'un Aristocrate par M. Barnavb,
Président, & Directeur-ge'néral de nos augustes Senateurs.
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 "Thérèse 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, douée de toutes les graces de la jeunesse, de la
sensibilité d'un sexe fait pour l'amour, pour la volupté," &c.
The greater part of the pamphlet is devoted to a vision in
which Thérèse appears to the author. He exclaims : " O ciel
quevois-je; douce volupté, tu pénètres messens. Je vois la
Reine mollement couchée sur un sopha ; les chefs de nos
guerriers sont à ses pieds & lui jurent un amour, une
fidélité éternel î Quel charmant tableau î des femmes à
demi-nues offrent à ces guerriers pour prix de leur courage,
les appas dont la nature les a ornées."

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

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour, vol. i, p. 283.

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flrltqttin Mtmùttàtiqilt Œuvre collective d'une société de
littérateurs sous la direction de Louis Baudier.

Et c'est moi le croyant, prêtre, et c'est toi l'athée.

(Victor Hugo.)

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

(Auguste Vacauerie.)

Paris Libraire de Madame Veuve Millière 67, Rue dç
Turbigo, 6 y 1873

I2tno. ; pp. 240, and 12 unnumbered including titles, 252
pages in all ; on the title page is a vignette of a man beating a
drum ; fancy paper wrapper with a design signed A. Sartini ;
published "Mars 1873;" 55° ^c°pi^es (including an "Edi-
tion d'amateur tirée à 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 :

^u%t$ p)SS£ïréô an xix'øføfet A. S. Mqrin (Miron)."

"áWOlt jpmntór &tt!J3Ur, élégies: Victor Paquet."

"TßOUV Ö£ la MÚ t Ν. Blanpain."

^€*ψ#ΐ&ύ$+ Alphonse Leclercgi."

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

" ^ur les entotijr îïe Pégltøe/*

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that we have to do. This little 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 ióDec, 1873, by the
" Cour d'Assises de la Seine," as, " un outrage à 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
dépens."*

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

" i° Pages 141, 142, 143, un paragraphe commençant par
ces mots : ^£ O raffinement de voluptés,' et finissant paj* ceux-ci :

* Que c'est catholique ! '

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

" 3° P^ag^{es l}^7) ^J68, 169, 170, 171, un paragraphe commen-
çant par ces mots : ' Ils s'assirent,' et finissant par ceux-ci :

* Dire toutes ces choses ;'

"4⁰ Pages 171, 172, un paragraphe commençant par ces
mots : ' L'abbé Jacquin,' et finissant par ceux-ci : ^c Nous en
reparlerons ;'

* Gazette des Tribunaux, No. for 15/16 Dec. 1873 ¿ and Catalogue des
Ouvrages Condamnés, p. 66.

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"¡° Pages 172, 173, 174, 175, un paragraphe commençant
par ces mots : ^c De ce jour, leurs entretiens,' et finissant par
ceux-ci : ' Ne pouvait s'empêcher de les rechercher ;'

"6° Pages 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, un paragraphe commen-
çant par ces mots : * Un jour, il fut prié,' et finissant par
ceux-ci : * Vers le point du jour seulement il s'assoupit ;'

" 7⁰ Pages 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, un paragraphe com-
mençant par ces mots : * O tourment infernal,' et finissant par
ceux-ci : ' Dévier à tout jamais ;*

" 8° Pages 213, 214, 215, un paragraphe commençant par ces
mots : ' Le cimetière était situé,' et finissant par ceux-ci : ' Sous
ses lèvres brûlantes l'être aimé ;'

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

The plot of " Sur les Genoux de l'Eglise " is very simple.
Théophile and Marie, two young peasants, mutually love, and
are engaged to marry one another. A new curé, of about the
same age as Théophile, arrives at the village, between whom
and Théophile 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, Théophile neglects his destined bride,
and a jealousy arises between Maurice (the curé) and Marie.
But in spite of the intrigues of the priest, the young lovers
become reconciled, and Maurice has the grief of witnessing
(himself unperceived) their reconciliation. " Ainsi ces jeunes

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gens croisent maintenant des regards clairs et brillants d'un
bonheur indéterminé mais charmant ; sur leurs lèvres s'épanouit
le plus délicieux sourire; la vie est pour eux tout entière dans
cet instant où 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 été échangé. Théophile franchit d'un bond le
bassin, se jette aux pieds de son amie, lui prend les mains,
l'attire près de lui, visage contre visage. Puis un tendre baiser
donné et rendu signe la réconciliation . . . Oh! déchire ta
poitrine avec tes ongles, verse des larmes de rage, ces plaisirs
ne sont pas faits pour toi, ô prêtre, il te faut être chaste comme
un saint Bernard, ou sacrilège comme un Borgia, ou infâme
comme un Jules III. Admire ce résultat de tes soins. La
crise précédente a jeté dans l'âme de ces enfants une clarté
nouvelle. Ils ont connu le vrai caractère de leur amour et
déchiré le voile qui couvrait leurs yeux. Théophile instruit
par tes leçons, inspiré par l'occasion qui s'offre à lui, devient
hardi comme le page le plus libertin. Ils se croient seuls sous
les regards de Γ Amour, rien ne les retient . . . Ah ! ferme les
yeux, homme de peu de courage ! le spectacle de leurs joyeux
ébats 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 voluptés hypocrites ! On éloigne du

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chœur et de la sacristie, c'est-à-dire des prêtres, les jeunes et
jolies filles, voire même les dames.—Ils ne les voient qu'au
confessional.—Rien à craindre, n'est ce pas ? Louez leur
retenue . . . Mais on remplit le presbytère et l'église de jeunes
et beaux garçons, ayant au moins quinze ans, n'en ayant pas
plus de dix-huit,—enfants frais et roses, à la tournure molle,
aux regards malins, aux voix féminines, aux lèvres épaisses et
bien rouges, élèves ardents et disciples fidèles qui apprennent
tout ce qu'on leur enseigne et n'oublient rien de ce qu'ils ont
appris ; troupeau voué à la corruption par des calculs infâmes,
d'où sortiront à vingt ans les jeunes prêtres à qui vous confierez
vos femmes, les ignorantins à qui vous confierez vos enfants,
ô pères de famille. Certes, la religion catholique est en progrès
sur le paganisme. Celui-ci avait ses confréries de vierges ;—les
catholiques y ont ajouté les maîtrises de jeunes éphèbes. Et
avec quels soins, avec quel tact, avec quel art ils les ont choisis!
On dirait les cohortes des séraphins et des archanges descendus
du ciel où leur imagination créatrice les a fait naître et qu'ils
ont donnés comme entourage à Dieu, sans doute pour avoir
prétexte à s'entourer eux-mêmes d'enfants de chœur. Créer le
modèle pour paraître ensuite copier et imiter, c'est fort sournois :
ne suffit-il pas de dire que c'est catholique ? "

Louis-Etienne Baudier was born April 27, 18545^at Sem ur,
Côte-dOr.

Joséphine-Louise Fourís, Veuve Millière, 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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ï/3rt Öe ißtUt, Essai Théori-physique et Méthodique A
l'usage des personnes constipées, des Personnages graves
& austères, des Dames mélancoliques, & de tous ceux qui
sont esclaves du préjugé. Suivi de l'Histoire de Pet-en-
l'Air & de la Reine des Amazonnes, ou l'on trouve l'origine
des Vuidangeurs. Nouvelle Edition. Augmentée de la
Société des Francs-Péteurs, pour ceux qui désireront y
être invités ; avec deux gravures à l'eau forte. En West-
phalie, Chez Florent-Q, rue Pet-en-Gueule, au Soufflet.
M.DCC.LXXVI.

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

" Épitre Dédicatoire,". . . . pp. ι to 4.

" Avis au Lecteur." . . . .             5 to 8.

"L'Art de Péter." . . . .           9 to 93.

" La Société des Francs-Péteurs."

" Épitre Dédicatoire." . . . 97 to 102.

^uPréface.".....103 to m.

"La Société des Francs-Péteurs." . 113 to 182.
There is a frontispiece to each work, that to " L'Art de Péter "
(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 "Préface" to "La Société des Francs-Péteurs" 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 fres. 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 Santé."

" L'Art de Péter " " n'est qu'une traduction de la dissertation
latine : De peditu ejusque speciebus. L'idée première du titre
semble appartenir à Rabelais, car parmi les livres imaginaires
que Pantagruel trouve dans la librairie de Saint-Victor nous
remarquons déjà Ars honeste peltandi in societate, per M,
Ortuinum (Rabelais, liv. II, ch. 7.)"

The author is P-T-N. Hurtault, " maître de pension à
Paris, ancien professeur de l'École militaire, et pensionnaire du
Roi." 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 Littéraire," and in the " Biographie Universelle
(Michaud)."

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

* See Bibliotheca Scatologica, Arts. 67, 89, 138, and 164} Bibliographie
des Ouvrages relatifs à Γ Amour, vol. 1, p. 317, vol. 6, p. 460 j La France
Littéraire, vol. 4, p. 168 ; Biographie Universelle (Michaud), vol. ao, p. 191

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Pierre-Jean Lecorvaisier, born at Vitré, August 22, 1719,
died at Angers, August 12, 1758. He studied under the
Jesuits at Rennes, and had an inclination to join 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 Universelle," and "La
France Littéraire."

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.

^tf Tussis pro crepitu, an art

*' Under a cough to slur a fart."

HUDIBRAS.

* " Du Neuf et du Vieux." see post.
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Vtoct fce plumer la |tøule sían* tritt. A Cologne, chez

Robert le Turc, au Cocq hardi. M.DCC.X.

I2mo. ; pp. 224, preceded by "Avertissement" 2 pp.,
" Explication de l'Estampe " 4 pp., " Preface " 3 pp., " Table "
3 pp., all unnumbered.

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

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

The Marquis Du Roure -j~ considers the vol. rare ; he gives
an analysis of each adventure and says : " La lecture de ces
historiettes, invraisemblables pour la plupart, est néanmoins
amusante, parce que les détails en sont racontés avec facilité.
On y pourrait trouver le sujet de plus d'une comédie d'intrigue.
Les fripons faiseurs ou faiseuses des tours qu'on y voit con-
signés s'appellent ¡es plumeurs des poules sans crier, à cause du
succès 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. 2 ιό.
t Analectabibloiij vol. 2, p. 428.

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StrøOOUØ artö Uf CatfjOlÚ frøStS, 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 have separate full title pages, and paging, as
follows :

" Rape and Assassination ! ! ^arrattbe Ot Ü)t l)OVVÍblt

a&ape anü astøaosmattott of jWarte êtvin, 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!!! Ci)£ particular^ Ot

tfte ftorrttile aïlurïrer of Catherine å&imott, 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. ^a 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 Î The
father of the little innocent entered at the time—-the child
piteously cried out, ' 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, ^c possessed,' 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 gentlemen 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 I "

Slue bett Soiemøken einer Simgetttn SBoffrnu
9t e g t tt α Ib ßtjejtetftelb

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.," 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 Schrqder-Devrjent ; they
are in the form of epistles 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 Love ;" her 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 naïve, 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 : " £Bí%ímme @d)röber*5)ttment. (gin
SBetttag jut ©eêd?td)te beê mueiiaiiødjen 2)rama3. Sßon 5íljreb ^td^errn s?o*·
©øijoøen. ^eiípgig : 'SBro^auS, 1863;" a notice of her will also be found in
the "©attenlaufø."

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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. " (§,$ wat eine fo auêfdjitef lttf?e
reine Siefce, fcctjü ηιίφ ctííe anbeten UBetber anefelten unb bit Mamut
ηοφ inel mtíjv" (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 "lerfte bct$
SuttcjfetMut auf" 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 gentleman (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
new male penchant, she has to neglect her devoted Rosa, she

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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 "auêgelaffen "
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.

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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 Schröder-
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 " benfit)ürbtgfetten Í>e3
føttxn ·§♦ * ♦," of " Le Portier des Chartreux," of " Faublas," of
^(t Felicia," &c, as " nwljteS @tft fut unöetfyettatljete Sfawen, &c,"
but what then is her own book ?

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lt& 9b*ntUre$ áKatrímOltíaleSÍ ou Le Mariage de La Belle
Sophie Par Nabar Lucerne chez tous les libraires
MDCCCXLV

Small square 8vo. ; pp. 64 ex bastard title, which has only
" it ^Wattage Öe £>O$l)it," 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, a re 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 fres; 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 Manage de Sophie, ses aventures galantes le jour de ses
noces, précédé de portraits de la belle Société. Paris, chez Tiger,
an xi, pet. in-18 de 108 pp., frontispice gravé."

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 C ré billon, but without his wit, pun-
gency, or cynical voluptuousness.

The " début dans le grand monde " of the young St. Léger
is the ostensible subject of the book. After some Chesterfieldian

* Bibliographie» 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. Léger 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. Léger 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. Léger
determines to punish both friend and mistress. The lady he
takes as " maitresse 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. Léger
manages to seduce her on the nuptial evening between the
wedding and bedding, (hence the title 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-Léger : je vous aime, lui dit-il à l'oreille : vous êtes divin,
et votre vengeance est des mieux imaginée. Ne croyez pas que
cela altère notre amitié : je sais mon monde."

The book ends abruptly, and is altogether a dull and unskilful
production.

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fefffiS Œ&* iäagntö ütórellang : containing Cörte Inter«
Bjgj eitinjï Btaføffueø between a %ú& ánü a ¿female
"~             €l)vtótíntu Cïje debentures! of Üfóo íntó

fcOÜttOtk, at Miss Twig's Boarding School. %\)t ffOVtt
Of ïnötWCt, a droll story, developing an odd contrivance
to facilitate the growth of the " Lanugo " on the " Labia "
of a young lady. Erotic Anecdotes ; ífíarta Antoinette,
Queen of France—€ï)t ®2ΗίϊίθίΧ> aitïï t\)t par0On*Ô 3SuII,
or the Benefit of Flagellation.

De gustibus non est disputandum.
London: Printed by John Jones, in the Whitefriars. 1792.

1 amo. (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:

^4CThe 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 ^u 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 c Tried on business from about 1815 until his death in
Marc 18^ i. His widow continued the business till she was
acciden ^ï* ! >ned to death about 1864.

Andrew vV 4i γε 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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iX aSanqufer TßtiVOttt et la BerbíeiOr Histoire peu morale,
extraite du Parc aux Cerfs, avec figure fac-similée sur
celle de 1790, suivi de £'3tltrfr&terøtt tn êOffllttte ou

LOrgie Royale Opéra Proverbe. 1790

Large square 8vo. ; pp. 26 unnumbered ; price fres. 5.; pub-
lished at Brussels in 1867, by Sacré-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 Parc au Cerf, ou LOrigine de l'Affreux Deficit.
Paris 1790.," the fac-similé 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 haïssoit pas les jolies
femmes, mais qui ne les aimoit que d'un certain côté. La
Dervieux ctoit une fille de ce bas monde, jolie comme l'amour,
toute jeune et très-connue.¹¹

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 Condamnés, 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 donné, et cent autres louis apportés et reçus,
Peixotte demande pour toute grâce qu'on lui laisse placer entre
ces belles fesses qu'il idolâtre, un petit étui de nacre de perle
très-mignon et très-joli. Après bien des contorsions risibles, la
Dervieux laisse placer ce qu'on lui présente. Les deux amis
étaient cachés, mais quel est leur étonnement de voir le sapajou
tirer six grandes plumes de paon, déboucher l'étui et les faire
entrer dans des trous fais (sic) exprès. Il se met ensuite à un
bout de la chambre, la fait promener à quatre pattes, et commence
avec lui-même l'opération d'Onan, en contemplant la jolie
perspective qu'il s'étoit faite."

The amorous banker now proposes " de remplacer Fétuy (sic).
La belle se montre moins difficile, mais propose un autre rendez-
vous, et met cet étrange pucelage à 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 Fauteur a mis en scène
Louis XVI, la reine, le comte d'Artois et la duchesse de
Polignac."* It is in the form of a dialogue.

François-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, Dévoilées, vol. a, col. 136' a.

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Cfte 35ar Jïlaiïï tâ €í)t ODï Point Imtô^ 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 : 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 °ad 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 äSattleg Of WmU&* 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
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as with : "2 coloured prints, 18 mo. 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,
But 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 &e. Two hand-
some pocket volumes, illustrated with sixteen engravings, price
three Guineas."

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This two-volume edifion 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 pleasantly written, each point
being argued out with logical accuracy. It 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 fronts
(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 ofthat shame respecting
certain actions, implanted by education and custom, he secretly
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 men 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 consequently 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.

" Yet, in truth, I esteem the fruition of a virgin to be, with

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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 be^d
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.

^cc 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 ^c 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 shifty
and then to lay her down, and, notwithstanding her efforts, rifle
all her charms, and penetrate even into her honeyed treasure Î
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
of its subject.

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€ï)t MfotftllQbï&t ot ©ounff iWtôoesi 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 Tales.

Printed and Published on Mons Veneris : and may be
had by all who seek it there.—

11 mo. (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 : " The
Bedfellows, or Manual for Young Ladies in the highly inter-
esting Science of Love—never very dull in comprehending

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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 1850.

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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Söelemttmffe eittet flmetif attetttn asou fljr fcttft erjagt.
aWít 5 Äupfcrn. $fytlabefyljía 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 ^;i street,"
" gentleman," &c, remain untranslated.

la iSelle Keonttne

i6mo. ; pp. 32 ; in a yellow paper wrapper, on which is
printed, " Collection Louis Jaugey La Belle Léontine avec Six
Eaux-Fortes A Forest, Lez-Bruxelles.," with monograms L.J. ;
one of the illustrations is a portrait of Léontine, of the others,
three are free, but not obscene ; published in 1868, at 3 fres.
The book is written, published, printed and illustrated by
Louis Jaugey.

" La Belle Léontine " is merely an adventure of the most
ordinary kind with a street walker. Léontine 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 ''crânement
bâtie," he accompanies her to a house of accommodation in order
to see her naked. She pleases him, he asks her if she has
supped, and on her replying in the negative, takes her to his

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chambers, where Léontine 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 $$ 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 très juif,
grand nez couronné d'une paire de lunettes; toutes les caricatures
qu'il fabrique sont les portraits de sa famille; ambitieux à
l'excès, il trouve ses œuvres admirables, et engagerait le pari le
plus élevé pour prouver qu'il est à même de faire aussi bien,
sinon mieux que les meilleurs graveurs."

We have of him, " Le Mari Féroce," " Les Héros d'Amour/'
12 plates for the "Tableaux des Mœurs," 24 for " Faublas,"
and 13 (including the frontispiece) for " L'Année Galante,"
these latter are perhaps his most successful achievement.

it âSftlfopÔfle JfantatSítefr ou choix de pièces Désopilantes
et Rares réimprimées en 1869 Turin J. Gay et fils,
Éditeurs me Alfieri, 22,

Small iamo,; pp. 576 ex-titles; issue 175 copies numbered;
published at fres 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 " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour
&c," Vol. i, p. 450, Gay gives an ample notice of the contents
of the volume.

$MÍ0tb$qVlt$MÍQpl)ÜO*$^rUÍÜÍtVl&t. Éditée Par Les Frères
GébéodIL Première Publication. Tiré à 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 ψΧΪΧηίη &ttt ÖU á>£ttOOe

fioztnvm Sesf lemaneø, Snelmaneö, $røpetftesi, à la
2&ume ïres Mm&, Wit, et Jgenneur it Caltantöe*

^e 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 ^u €%%xi%m% Htsitxiriqîiesî et &atfriqntf sftir

la €OUV Öe JfraiUe/¹ with illustrative notes to each song;
the whole issue did not probably exceed 70 copies.

The Brothers Gébéodé are MM. Gustave Brunst, and
Octave Dele pi er re, the first four initials of each name
composing the pseudonym.

The work, on account of its limited issue, is scarce, and, from

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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. Brunei, an " Ouvrage
d'un genre très singulier où l'auteur a prodigué une érudition
immense dont il aurait pu faire un meilleur emploi, livre fort
rare et à peine connu." And Gay ^# thus notices it : " ouvrage
hardi, spirituel et très-rare, du genre rabelaisien; il a été
réimprimé de nouveau et plus correctement, à ioo exemplaires,
à 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 Nîmes 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 of 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.

"* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour, ¿kc, vol. 2, p. 2.

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£eø Bíjoujr öu petit &thm ïre l'&vUín, ou Étrennes

Libertines dédiées Aux Femmes ci-devant de qualité, &
sensibles, s'il s'en trouve ; Aux honnêtes Représentants
de la Nation, dont le nombre est limité ; Aux chastes
Ecclésiastiques, dont l'âge cède au plaisir; Enfin, aux
Sectateurs voluptueux des plaisirs de l'Amour, & par-tout il
s'en trouve. Pour le courant de l'Année 1791. Avec
Seize Figures en Taille-douce. A Paris, De l'Imprimerie
de la Delaunay, connoisseuse, si jamais il en fut. 179¹·

8vo.; pp. 84 in ail; 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 " détestables pour le
dessin et la gravure;" further he notes it as a "recueil des
diverses pièces 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'Enéide," which does not
exist at all in the edition before me.

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs â l'Amour,&c. Vol. 2, p. 18,and vol. 6, p. 13.

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[Dans "Les Bijoux du Petit Neveu de l'Arétin" les gravures
sont ce qu'il y a de mieux. Le texte est peu élégant et très
dévergondé.]*

Cfee astotoot'ö Caïunet af Cftoúe ê>mtgö; 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 title 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 :

" €f)t Corferöafer/* " €f)t Comic &Qns&Uv." " €l)t
ewkoWä &&SU" " Cöe Sritríottó C&aittm" " €ft*
#ïa$ï) C&atmter*" "Wbt tètnikmm'a â>ptrep åumgsftm"

■å>onsgtiv." "Qtf)t å>mtt éonjeter^

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 :

^u€i)t ßtntktnm'ä ^>ptøp &wttm" ^€( €ï)t €otkztoo'&
ffiott Xøoiu" " Cfte ßtitikmütt'fi Sanctum ^anrtorum/'
"Cfte Curtouø ^onfføter ano Jftrnnp Caitnet/* ^wC6e
USattrm ïane Companton/' ^ Cöe blaften íane £>ottff*
ííer*^{M w} Cö^ <SentIeman'sí â>te^ple Cfta«r*^{M f<} Cft^ #at*
tleman'g a'parfetutg ^n^ter/' ^ Cöe jTrtófep ©Díaltót⁵*
^α Banrp fflabjeun'sí CaWnefc" " Cöe SnotDótff Cftaunter
aitïr Eiirïïp'si Ca6titet^w °C&eïrfep røtcftp å>onu8Ur."
" €í)t ivtötiowi ä>(n\$gUv*" ^€€€ï)t ïlaiiöp ^Ditseter/*
^aC&e»t4um4fï4um *Dnfl«ter*^w "&ï)t Cttfelföïi iMtn*
ötwL^w "Cfte Regular SBang.-iqi 3Rrø'tm^{M w}C^6en*
tleman^sï Curtoud 3Jeriten^M *^c Cöe <@røtleman^fsi %mvou8

»m'tin" ⁽ⁱ C&e ^parfeittlff SRecituV⁵ 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 Holy well Street, Strand."
we have :

^u€í)t Coal ®Ole Companion " (several series). " Cï)£

Ctor Cellar aëxms&Uv." "Cfte ¿frtöfep Jüngster/¹
" Cbe røatertort Äumgcttm" "€ï)£ 23Iarfe Sok* " (two
series, if not more). "Captain ¿tøorrfø'g ê>ongöter*"
"røttøon's Eum Coïrger'ö Collection*" "OTtfóon'ö ^eíD
JfTaöï) *onse/* "€ï)t 3oIIp Compamon/* "Cftt
røanton Srøartltr*" "Cï)e Cujjpmtijjp ñongoten⁰

Most of these should also have folding frontispieces, some
very fairly done ; prices go up to 2s. 6d. each.

There are further: " M\mtumbt'8'BV0i¡ttÍt&" " ïaUmt'Ô
©rtgtnal Com« êOng 33OOfe>, written by John Labern."

" ltïbtvn>$ á^eiu jTunnp é>on5 asoofe, popular Comú ^ong
Book, á^eín Comú ^cmg 33oofe, ©Son Comte á>ons asooft/'

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 1835 ;
he had a shop at 13 Exeter Street, whence he removed to "57
Wych Street, opposite Olympic Theatre Strand."* In 1870

* See the interesting notice of aim headed, ^if 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. ίο 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 Holy well
Street, and as John Duncombe & Co., at No. 17 Holborn Hill.
He had a brother Edward, who sold obscene books at No.
28 Little 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.
Τ

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ït BOUlKlÎr îj*9imaranti)e, ou Les Nouveaux Plaisirs de
risle de Cythère. 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'E s tin ville,
which she describes. Finding that she is wasting her youth,
not for her own profit, but for that of the old bawd, she leaves,

* Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à Γ Amour, &c, vol. 2_t 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 à la voix.

" Je lui demandai : N'êtes-vous pas de......ex-Bernardin ?

. . .—Comment, vous me connoissez . . .—Certainement....
je suis cette jeune pensionnaire que vous avez foutúe chez la
Sainte-Cécile . . . .—Oh ! Oh î ne vous servez donc pas de
termes grossiers dans ce lieu . . . .—Allons, allons, cafFard, crois-
tu avoir affaire à tes vieilles folles ? Je parie que tu m'enfile rois
aussi bien dans ce lieu que dans la chambre de Sainte-Cécile.
N'est-ce pas toi qui m'as débauchée? ... Je gage que tu
bandes encore actuellement.

^u Quand il vit que je lui parlois avec autant de hardiesse, il
quitta son ton de confesseur, et reprit celui qui lui étoit naturel,
c'est-à-dire, celui de libertin. Il me dit que Sainte-Cécile de-
meuroit avec lui ; qu'il avoit deux enfans, et qu'il la faisoit
passer pour sa sœur, restée veuve, depuis la révolution.

"Le plaisir de me revoir l'enflamma; il passa la main pardessous
le rideau qui nous séparoit, me tâta la gorge, et ne voulut jamais
que je sortisse avant de l'avoir branlé.

" 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 dansles absurdités que nous enseignons
. . . Le plaisir que je goûte ici est aussi pur qu'ailleurs ....
Je le branlai ; il me donna son adresse, en m'invitant à 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-Cécile to
accompany her ; they take together " une boutique en lingerie,"
and Amaranthe renounces her vicious life, " prenant la résolution
de ne plus être 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.

Wf)t 3&rfttSflf) MOtt Suan ; Being a Narrative óf the Singular
Amours, Entertaining Adventures, Remarkable Travels,
&c. of the Hon. Edward W. Montague, Son of the
celebrated Lady Mary Wordy Montague. By Henry
Coaxes. London : Published by James Griffin, Middle
Row, Holborn. 1823. Five Shillings, extra boards.

Large i2mo. (counts 6) ; pp. an 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 bora atWhamcliffeiyij,
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 ; 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. 1 j, p. 506 ; Chalmers Biographical Bic. j and
Nichols' History of Leicestershire, and Life of Boyer.

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€f)t §Srftfé6 ^PÔDemjtT : 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 Mercuriljs Typo-
graphicus, 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 " CO* BøOfe^KSorm : or the
British Phœnix."

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: « €ft£ ÎÙttt ÙÎ ÍMbt; or, the Sylphs Revenge,
A Numidian Novel, humourously illustrating the Origin, &
Antiquity of Cuckoldom," « Wt)t ¿flajpc út SttUtp ; or,

the Happy Savage." "tøfyt eraftatfon jtf a Surft frøn

a ØVtttt^fiOVttt Set* f* sometimes free, but never indecent.

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The following song is not bad :

"€í)t ¿Retaliation % 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,
^t( But with women and wine,

" A race of young foundlings beget,

" My brave boys
" A race of young foundlings beget." &c.

" The British Phœnix^M is noticed at some length in " The
Book-worm" (vol. i, p. 140), where it is stated that the "very
curious introduction is acknowledged as the work of Mr.
Adam Fitz-Adam."

áSnvelle* ia #uik Cöpiiofogte öesi étaWtösfrtnentó

JÏOCtUrntö ïf JßrurtlUö Par Mar το Aris. Bruxelles
chez Tous les Libraires. 1868

8vo. ; .2 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-
tières," 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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An 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 : " Malgré
le style cavalier, Bruxelles la Nuit laisse une impression bien
sinistre. Il ne nous souvient pas d'avoir lu, sur la prostitution
d'une grande ville, rien d'aussi répugnant et navrant. Trois
mois durant, et plus, ce livre s'est crié et vendu dans les rues
de Bruxelles. Néanmoins, il a comparu à la sixième chambre
du tribunal correctionnel de la Seine dans l'affaire mémorable
du libraire Gosselin. Si les magistrats qui Font condamné
l'ont aussi parcouru, et s'y sont émoustillés, ce que leur arrêt
fait craindre, il faut plaindre cette postérité de Partarrieu-Lafosse."

Mario Aris, real name Bizonnet-Dertvau, "est un homme
de lettres français, ancien rédacteur de la Gazette verte."*}*

The following pamphlets are on the same subject :

1.   "lt# €omttt# ïtt äSniJtfIIe& in-i6; libelle contre
Bruxelles la Nuit, anonyme, mais de M. Emile Alexis."

2.  " lz# prtttø uiterts« amûtireujr tø ?©ñtt fø Çu6*

ItCÍtt, dédiés aux maris et aux pères de famille, par Mario
Aris ; Bruxelles, 1868, in-16 de 8 p."

3.  "aimanari) ïe JB-rtijrtItø la ßmi, pour 1869, rédigé

* Bulletin Trimestriel des Publications défendues en France, No. 5, supplément.
f Supercheries Lit. Dév., vol. 1» col. 380 ¡ and Bulletin Trimestriel, &c, No. 4.

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par une société de noctambules bavards, illustré par Frédéric
Poublon ; Bruxelles, Mario Aris éditeur; 1869, in-16 de
64 pp."

4- "it$ Comttte, aSttftfÖ et %,QVtttt$, réponse des
cocottes de Bruxelles à la Physiologie des établissements noc-
turnes; Bruxelles, imp. Vandenhouten. In-16; cinq séries
de 16 pp. moins la cinquième qui en a 8, signées Henri Coël
(M. Emile Alexis)."

5.  "Crt o'înïn'gnation teg Grates €ototUö te Brux-
elles»; Molen beck, imp. Decock. In-16, six séries de 8 pp.

chacune, signées Octavie de Saint-Phar (M. Mario Aris)."

6.  "2&eponsfc à Øionaimv Sfuötm Catilet, par Mario

Aris."

7.  "CønføKton te irøart'O Sírfó, auteur de ' Bruxelles la
Nuit,' etc., etc. Bruxelles, Sacré-Duguesne, éditeur ; in-16
de 8 pp."

8.   " ψ ario ano 36rttSSíris¡ after Üar& by Wideawake
Paris Published for the Author and sold by the Continental
Booksellers" on outer wrapper. The title proper reads:

"€bt ëmtkmm^f& #ífi*t #uíte* Cfte «gap røomen of

fÍartó $ζ 35rU0S¡efó 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
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be prosecuted." lamo. ; pp. 58 in all; price frc. 1. 50. "Cest
une liste sommaire des institutions de joie de ces trois grandes
villes (Paris, Brussels, Antwerp), à l'usage des gentlemen
fraîchement débarqués. L'impression est Belge." The prin-
cipal Cafés &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 : ^u SUö a>tUtiÜUlt& Öe 3SrUJFeHeS», roman de
mœurs," " Jïlgötmsi ïïeg ÍOUrg ïïe áMe^ttílUle/* its suite,
both in 8vo., and at 2 fres, the volume, by M. Mario Aris ; or
the numerous works by M. Lebrun, from which may be
selected : « &£0 fttttmeø ttt hOXtnt fortuite, aventures joyeuses
galantes et amoureuses," " ^tStOÍVt VWM tOUttUØe Üe VUt$
dite accrocheuse," **%& femme publique, ou la vie d'une
prostituée de la Haute Société," « %t& 9m0tirØ ïïe ïïeujr jùMt&
femmes suite et fin de ^ζ la femme publique,'" " lî# aheîltîîreô

galaníesí Vvm proötttufe ïre la laute á>orírt¿,^{M u} Wk$

ÜXVÍtVtí&S Öe fîllesî Öe JOte, écrites d'après leurs dictées,"
" COtt£es»£îtÛlt0 Oes» Courtisanes», avec remise moyennant
argent de leurs péchés incestes," "l,es> CÎÎtq ffrføetteS WSaÙtfâ&S

pour ejqplotter lesí fyovmtö" ^u Wú Vvmt entreteirae, ses
ruses, dupes, etc.," ^u Wit UuiuuMt akutte femme aïïultère/*
^u abentureö et plaziertes! öe^ filleí ïe plaigitö, ** and

several others, all "in-i8,^M 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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CÔt 3StUft*Ô îBeïtflftt being a Collection of Humorous Songs,
Sung at the several Societies of Choice Spirits, Bucjts,
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 Publiek
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 les,
behind the Chapter-House, in St. PauFs-Church-Yard.
[Price is. 6d. neatly bound in Red.]

i2mo. 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.

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ftgS3| a Cabinet of amourou* Curíoottíesú in Three

£§18» Tales. Highly calculated to please The Votaries
-------- of Venus. Tale I. €f)t WÜlU$t 35ulL Tale II.

itøemotrø of a tftnti)tt&tl·. Tale ni. gobenturøi of

a Droll ©lit ; or the Broke Open Casket. Printed for
R. Borewell, South-Audley-Street. mdcclxxxvi.
(Price Two Shillings.)

I2IT10. ; 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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Wtyt Cabtlltt Of jTailCp, 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. Me Laen, Ship-Alley, Wellclose-
Square; T. Sudbury, No *i6, 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. ' 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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lU CaCUÎïïDMÏIt : Histoire Politique et Morale. Traduite De
l'Allemand du Docteur Pangloss, par le Docteur lui-
même., depuis son retour de Constantinople. A Cologne.
1766.

1 amo. ; 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. Linguet.

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 % has noticed the work at unusual length, his resumé is
exact, and worth consulting.

Simon-Ni colas-Henri Linguet, born at Reims 1736,
executed at Paris by the revolutionary tribunal in 1794,
" pour avoir encensé, dans ses écrits, les despotes de Vienne et
de Londres.'*

Linguet was a man of vast genius and industry, but of a

* France Littéraire vol. 5, p. 316.

t Die, des Livres condamnés au fea, vol. ι, p. 244.

% Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour &c., vol. %» 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) était fort pour le
paradoxe. Je ne sais dans lequel de ses ouvrages il soutient
que le pain est un poison ; que les gouvememens de F Asie, si
monstrueux par leur despotisme atroce, sont préférables à ceux de
l'Europe, 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 Littéraire/' and " Biographie
Universelle ;" and for those condemned to be burnt, " Die. des
Livres condamnés au feu," vol. i, p. 241»

Cancionero Be ®bvu$ öe Sttrlaø prøbotantø a &føa

Cum Privilegio, En Madrid, Por Luis Sánchez.

8vo. ; pp. xlii 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 « $pfl£i£ntX) en t\ gorïïfl juíttra," and " una
especulativa obra intitulada C3fHJÍtt}tnflVÍ&, compuesta por el
Reverendo Padre Fray Bugéo 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 edición
posterior de Cancioneros, se atrevieron á copilár."

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 ^e( Cancionero General " see " Manuel du
Libraire," vol. ι, col 1.531. 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 Luduefta,
but do not appear in that of 152Ó", or in any subsequent edition. Most of
them, however, are found in the collection referred to, entitled ^f Cancionero
de Obras de Burlas provocantes a Risa' (Valencia, 1,519» 4t°)·*"

f 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 Reykosa, etc."

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"Pues bien: aquí se presenta, impreso en Valencia en 1519,
y copilado, y en parte escrito, según todas las apariencias, por
algún hombre de iglesia, un libro en el cuál, lo que menos
lastima, es el cinismo espantoso, y la obscenidad de ideas y
palabras que en él rebosan : pues tales son las blasfemias exe-
crables, las aplicaciones increíbles á torpes y nefandos propósitos,
en él hechas, de la Escritura y aun de las palabras del Redentor;
que se disminuyen el horror, y la náusea causada por las unas,
con el espanto que inspiran las otras. Este libro, y sus obras, se
escribieron, copilaron, y publicaron en España, en una época,
en la que, puede decirse, solo los eclesiásticos y letrados, sabían y
podían leer, y solo ellos componían la república literaria de la
Nación ; fuera del cortísimo número, délos que se consagraban
á la medicina, y ciencias del cálculo. Y esto, en aquél tiempo,
no sucedía solo en España: pues no sería difícil probar, que
aquellos clérigos españoles eran jente mas leída que Gibbon, si
se los compara con los clérigos franceses contemporáneos, ú
otros estranjeros ; y que en escala de igual inferioridad, estaban
las demás clases de jente en esos países, respecto á nuestros
antepasados. Es un hecho, no desmentido hasta ahora : que
bien pocas eran las personas que supiesen leer en los pasados
siglos, y que la mayor parte de esas personas, pertenecía al
estado eclesiástico. De aquí dimana, por consecuencia, que
rarísimo es el escritor de aquella época, que no fuese clérigo.
Aun mas dificultoso era entonces el que hubiese quién supiera
latín sin ser clérigo, y hasta éstos tenían gran dificultad en

leerle y entenderle medianamente."

ν

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Whatever his object may have been₅ 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 :"

" Tas casos falazes, carajo, cantamos,

^<s tus ferozidades, bravezas no pocas :

" dizes que sueles romper por las rocas,

" Y d'esto mil conos, quejosos hallamos,

"que júntanse y dizen, ^f No le creamos,

" puesque le vemos mas flojo qu'espuma :

" demás d'esto tiene tan blanca la pluma

"que solo de vedo, descuido tomamos.' "

C&atfftø tí Bføargtø Bía&oUqutd*

A set of 13 coloured lithographs (including the title) measur-
ing 5^ inches high χ 7f inches wide ; each plate is headed
"Charges et Décharges diaboliques," and 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
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times and in different forms. Here is the indication of several :

"$4)ttb£l 90Hmm (BtOtiqW Composé de plusieurs Litho-
graphies exécutées par nos premiers Artistes. Paris, Londres,
Bruxelles." The set consists of 12 uncoloured lithographs, mea-
suring 7f X 6-| inches; various subjects on each plate; each plate
is headed "Charges et Décharges 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 9^ inches; various
subjects in each plate; execution very mediocre.

Another set of 12 lithos. coloured ; 4 X 5% 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 ■ "JfbutatSW &íabJ)KqUf+" (sic), and above "Etrenne
aux beau con " (sic).

Another set, in a fancy paper wrapper, on which is the title,
" SHÈUttl ïe Biftfefertø ß rotiques & Comiques Représentant
46 Sujets coloriés à l'aquarelle. Prix: 12 Francs." 12 plates
4J 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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and Cfte Sutt&tr'Ø Mà\X$)ttV—All Rights reserved.

i2mo. ; pp. 30 ; no title page ; the title, as above noted, being
on the outer wrapper only; published in Brussels, 1874, at
8 fres., 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&aoöepOt Jeffs, Libraire-Éditeur, 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 :* " Ce livre a été saisi à
l'imprimerie par la police belge, à l'instigation de l'ambassade
française ; il n'a pu ainsi paraître, ni être distribué .-f~—II raconte
des choses affreuses sur la haute société, hommes et femmes,

* * Issued in 1871 by V. Puissant, see next page.

f This remark would lead to the supposition that the vol. was printed in
Belgium, which is not the case j the verso of the title bears : " Imprimerie
Universelle, Saint-Helxer, Dorsetstreet, 12." The remark ¡s a supercherie
of Puissant.

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qui composait la Cour de César-Badinguet.* Quelle immoralité
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; Mlle. Léonie 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 mêmes 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'Intermédiaire" (1874) appeared several notes
concerning this sobriquet. I extract the following : " Badinguet est le nom
du maçon dont le prince Louis-Napoléon emprunta le costume pour sortir du
château de Ham. Comme il franchissait la porte, le concierge dit : ' Qu'est-
ce qui passe ?'—Le fugitif répondit, en ayant soin de tenir une planche devant
son visage: 'C'est Badinguet.' Le nom lui est resté. Falco." L'Inter-
médiaire vii·, 142, 185.

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Wt)t &X)tttih t or, Guardian of Female Innocence. Exposing the
Arts of Boarding Schools Hired Fortune Tellers Corrupt
Milliners Apparent Ladies of Fashion. London : Printed
forW. Locke, No. 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn. 1792.

Large 8vo. ; pp. 57 in all ; on the title page, under the word
" The " and above " Cherub," is a cherub's head winged. A
cleverly done frontispiece, signed " J Cruikshanks. Del 1", repre-
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 Little 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. ¡6) as, "just published, price is.," and
extracts from it are there given.

There is a reprint by W. Dugdale in 8vo. ; pp. 39 in all ;
containing the same matter as the original edition, but with a
slightly different title : " 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.

© <@Ij££U&ftn ou O Filho de Paes Incognitos Illustrado com
10 Estampas Volumes i° e a°. Preqo 1 $ 000 Rs.

16mo. ; 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, " ïttltOttlït*
<&£n*ario 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 fce WífOVt Wt)tOttám> SBøtt bet
Ï eutfdjett ^frlttt* Snêfcefonbete : I. De virginum prægu-
statoribus, Jure Deflorationis, Jure Primæ No&is
Maiden-Rents, Marcheta. IL $<m SSxaut unb SSrauttQam
uno tijten ^Benennungen» III. SSon Det 3>ungftäultcf)en 2íu&
fleuer, $iften#fanbe unb Sngebmnte» IV. filia in capillo
& casa, t>on bet uní>etat1)enen £ocíjtet, V. SSon bet Sln^cí*
©l^ftf^en ©taut; VI. Φοη ben SWamet^tttbern, SWtt einer
Præliminair-Dissertation SSon bet SSetmä^Iung «ÇetÇogê
Henrich beå Seuenê mit t)n Mni$iü)Mn$i\fym ^ttnèe^tn
Mathildis, aö bet <Stanun4D?uttct beê gefamntten ^^imunb
gütftl «§aufeê 35ΐαΐίη[φι^ Sûnetutg ; unb gußleidj SSon bex
Sermä^Iung ^a^fetø Otten beê IV. mit bet «ftctyfetl ^tin^e^tn
Beatrice, unb *§et§ogê Henrici Palatini mit bet $ttn^e§tn
Agnes, ©ottingen, 6eç 3οί)αηη Sffiil^eím ©tymtbt, 1748.

4to.; pp. 64 unnumbered of title, ^u2ßoxxtf)t" &c.; 64 of
" Dissertatio Præliminaris," numbered in the middle of the
page-headings; 290,beginning with Cap. 1, and numbered in
the corners ; finally, 46 of " Index," and " SÔetic^t an ben
Sßucpmbet ttjegen bet Äu^fer*" ; 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 title

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 compila-
tions by German authors valuable, if little 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 Uscore Tkeotisca, est une
très (et peut-être trop) savante dissertation sur la femme, dans
ses différentes conditions de jeune fille et de femme mariée.

L'introduction est peu intéressante et ne renferme dans ses
64 pages que des détails généalogiques et de famille, sur la
Princesse Matilde et le Duc Henri le Lion, son époux, chef de
la Maison Brunswick Lunebourg.

Un avant propos d'une cinquantaine de pages présente une
sorte de table des matières des six chapitres dont se compose
l'ouvrage, paragraphe par paragraphe : i° De Virginum
Prægustatoribus. 2⁰ Des Droits des Fiancés. 3⁰ Des Biens
paraphernaux de la Femme. 4⁰ De la Chevelure de la Femme.
5⁰ De l'origine du mot Fiancé et Fiancée en Allemagne, et chez
les Anglo-saxons. 6° Des Enfants naturels.

Le premier chapitre renferme assez de détails intéressants
pour nous tenter d'en donner une analyse. Les autres chapitres
ne sont curieux que pour les légistes et les antiquaires.

Le titre de ce chapitre explique toute la question.

* See Introduction, ante.

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D'après un passage de Lactantius, de Mort. Persecutor, cap. 38,
l'Empereur Romain Maximianus, nommé Daca avant son éléva-
tion à l'empire, aurait déjà eu l'idée de rendre légal it jus primee
noctis. " Postremo hune jam induxerat morem, ut nemo
uxorem sine permissu ejus duceret, ut ipse in omnibus nup tiis
prægustator esset."

Peut-être qu'Hérodote avait pu suggérer ce projet, lorsqu'en
parlant d'une des nations d'Afrique, il dit que c'était 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 à déployer ses connaissances en cette
matière : outre que c'était une coutume très-répandue jadis,
il cite à l'appui de son opinion : Alianus, lib. iv, c. 1 ; Justinus,
xviii, j ; Strabo, lib. xi, in fine ; Stus Augustinus, de Civit.
Dei, ïv, 10 ; Pomponius Mela, lib. i, c. 8 ; &c, &c. Notre auteur
discute ensuite la légende, citée par quelques auteurs, du Roi
d'Ecosse, Eveno III, qui, s'il ajamáis existé, est placé quatorze
années avant l'ère chrétienne. Il ordonnait : ^u Ut nobiles &
domini suorum villicorurn & clientum filiabus ad libidinem
abuterentur earamque pudicitiam & virginitatis primitias
prius delibarent, quam libero legitimo matrimonii contrahen di
jure fruerentur."

Nous arrivons alors à l'explication des Maiden-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 différents noms par lesquels ces nations ont désigné
ce droit de première nuit, et il en examine la valeur.

Cette discussion renferme vingt-six feuillets où Grupen
développe en savant jurisconsulte les noms, les usages et les lois
du droit de prélibation. De nombreux renseignements sont
présentés aux curieux ; mais il serait difficile d'en donner des
extraits, vu l'accumulation d'autorités citées dans ces vingt-
six pages.

Il y a lieu de s'étonner que dans la longue discussion littéraire
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 cité le savant travail de
Grupen. *

Dès 1817 un célèbre jurisconsulte Belge, J. J. Raepsaet, avait
traité dans un de ses ouvrages, la question, " de l'origine et de la
nature des droits connus anciennement sous les noms de droits
des premières nuits, de Markette, d'Afforage, de Maritagium, et
de Bumede." Comme Raepsaet prétend que ces droits ne sont
qu'une fiction, il est tout naturel qu'il n'ait pas cité le livre de
Grupen.]                                               ₄

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 âge
par Louis Veuillot, Paris, Louis Vives, 1854. in 12°., de 467 pages.
2⁰ Réponse d'un campagnard à un parisien, &c, par Jules Delpit, Paris, 1857, 8°.
3° Le Droit du Seigneur, &c, par le même, Bordeaux, 1873, 8°.

f Phillips's Die. of Biographical Reference, p. 461.

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at Rostock, and Jena; began to practice in Hanover, in
1715 ; became " Stynbifuå "in 1719 ; burgomaster in 1725 ; and
in 1734 was appointed " $rr4en¿unb 6í>nftftottaltat^" His rich
library, including his own MSS., he left to the town of Zelle.

Hirsching * remarks concerning him : " (§x wax einet öon ben
(onberfcctren Männern, meí^e |ϊφ Keffer ηιΰηί>ίίφ auêbrutfen, αΐδ fie
fdjteíben, inbem fein [φτίρΐίφ^ ©til eine aí^recfenbe S)toe unb
(Sittförmtgfett tjat 3n bet $enntnt£ beê mittíern Settaiterê ^atte er
eine öot§ug^e ©tdtfe unb |ιφ αιχφ bie mehrere ©φrtften auê bent
tönten unb beut]^en ^xi^atxt^t mit ber ®tfü)í<$tt befannt gemaφt."

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)."

ConftóSífolT Valante d'une Femme du Monde Au Temple
de Volupté 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 " Arétin Français," or No.
5 of the " Arétin de A. Carache ; " published in Brussels at the
end of 1872, or beginning of 1873 ; price 6 fres ; 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

* <§iftori<$*Itt«arif($ee «êantf&udj, 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 Illustrée
de 60 Gravures. Tome 1. Au Temple de Volupté 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 titles ; titles in red and
black ; prices (with the 60 engravings), " papier vergé " 25 fcs.,
" papier vélin " 20 fes, 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
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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 aimée 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 écrit, offre de l'intérêt au commence-
ment, mais à la fin (si fin il y a, car ce n'est qu'un fragment) est
commun, et invraisemblable dans quelques détails. Les
gravures valent mieux que l'ouvrage.] *

Φ COttftøSitøttartø ou O Proveito dos Frådes por Mr.
Ohlarac Doutor na faculdade da Redof, lente da ia
cadeira de Racinruf, auctor do methodo repentino de tirar
sogriv, etc. Bruxelles Typ. Bruylant-Christophie
et C"* Rue Blas, 31 1862.

8vo. ; pp.37; ia obscene lithographs, poor in design and
execution. A publishing firm, Bruylant-ChristopAe & Cie., 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 Courrier e#raorfcmatrt ireø dfautnirö (Btølføiaøttqutø

Pièce révolutionnaire réimpriméee textuellement sur
l'édition originale publiée en 1790 et devenue très-rare
Précédée d'une Notice Bibliographique Imprimé par les
Presses de la Société A Neuchatel 1S72

Small 8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. vu 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 of a
fountain with : " Bibliothèque Libre vu Le Courrier Extraordi-
naire Achevé d'imprimer le 31 Janvier 1872. "; published by
Gay, at fcs. 3. ¡o. ; "tiré à 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 fres.; 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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slight discrepancies occur in both reprints, several stops
are omitted, and the cipher Ö? of the original title is
rendered by et in both the reprints. This title page is also
given in extenso in the " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à
l'Amour," consequently 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 " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs
à l'Amour " in which the book is noticed, and is consequently
not given in that work, I think it worth reproducing here :

"Nous réimprimons aujourd'hui une des pièces les plus
curieuses et les plus effrontées de la Collection révolutionnaire ;
on en trouvera le titre entier reproduit exactement en tête de
ladite réimpression. Cette pièce 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 à ce titre aussi bien qu'à l'avant-dernière phrase
de l'ouvrage. Elle représente l'Amour à cheval sur un énorme
Priape, avec ces deux vers au bas :

^et L'Amour est le courrier des galantes nouvelles,
" Et son fringant coursier le fait choisir des belles.

" Elle a probablement été prise ailleurs, car elle porte en haut

* With the misspelling in the word " Courrier."
X

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Findication xvin. Les autres gravures sont assez jolies et
finement gravées; elles représentent, celle de la page 31, l'abbé
Renaud surprenant le fils du jardinier exploitant Kakvelle dans
le jardin. Au bas sont ces deux vers de la page 3? :

" Quel tableau, cher abbé, deux amants dans l'ivresse
" Savouraient de l'amour le prix et la tendresse !

" Et celle de la page 45 montre Durand, valet de chambre,
culotte déboutonnée et vit bandant, tandis que plus loin
Thérèse à genoux sur une chaise, jupes troussées, et retournant
son visage vers son jouteur, lui présente le postérieur. On lit au
bas les vers de cette même page 45 :

. " Grands dieux, le joli cul ! Quel cul ! quel cul charmant !
" Qu'il offre de plaisir au plus fidèle amant !

" Comme le Courrier extraordinaire est excessivement rare
(nous n'en connaissons que trois exemplaires, dont l'un est au
British Mtùseum), * nous avons pensé que la copié très-exacte du
texte était l'essentiel en ce moment, et nous n'avons pas cru
utile de retarder la publication par la reproduction desdites
figures.—Quant au nom de Machault, évêque d'Amiens,
comme auteur supposé du libelle, il est presque surabondant de
dire que cette attribution est supposée aussi bien que les pièces
mêmes qui le composent."

t The copy in the British Museum (of which the press mark is F¹ ψ or
PC"*) 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 édentée que je suis codifié à la
campagne, mais c'est par Thérèse, sa femme de chambre, que
tu as pu voir à Paris. Au surplus, si tu ne te la remets, je
vais te la peindre : œil furtif et agaçant l'appétit, en un mot un
œil à la fouterie, et, comme on le dit assez vulgairement, un œil
demandant l'aumône au pont-levis d'une culotte ; taille svelte
et élégante ; des tétons d'une tournure admirable et plus que
suffisants' pour remplir la main d'un honnête homme ; une
Croupe divine ; enfin Thérèse est un composé de perfections.
Voilà, mon cher abbé, voua ce que tu as pu remarquer ; mais
voici, moi, ce que j'ai reconnu en elle. Le conin de Vénus
n'aurait pas obtenu la pomme de discorde, si Thérèse eût
montré le sien. Figure-toi la plus jolie motte des mottes
ombragée d'un poil noir frisé, et abondamment fournie ; les
lèvres de ce joli con sont fraîches, vermeilles, et le disputent à
sa bouche ; mais c'est le bouton d'amour, ce charmant bouton
sur lequel le doigt posé provoque, en branlotant, des sensations