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si douces et si agréables ; c'est, dis-je, ce précieux bouton, qui,
parvenant à se roidir par l'impulsion de l'index masculin ₅
s'allonge, et forme l'assemblage de l'attrait le plus rare."

F. L., the artist who illustrated the edition of Christiaens,
was born at Paris in 1813. His father was German,
and his mother French, but he became a naturalised French-
man. He began his career as an actor, anjl made his debut at
the Porte St. Martin theatre ; he also interested himself gener-
ally in theatrical matters, and was the first to give the idea of
applying electric light to stage effects. Afterwards he became
professor of declamation and pronunciation. Not finding this
occupation sufficiently remunerative, he abandoned it, and de-
voted his attention to photography, in which he acquired a cer-
tain success, being the inventor of those caricature photographs
called " grosses têtes et petits pieds ;" until, becoming involved
in a lawsuit with the landlord of the passage Brady, who had
darkened his atelier by some new buildings which he had con_
structed opposite it, he lost his suit, and was ruined. During
the Commune he was appointed " membre du conseil de légion
de la garde nationale ;" but his character was too upright to
find permanent favour with those under whom he served, and
he narrowly escaped being shot. Escaping, almost by a miracle,
from the Commune, he fell into the hands of the army of Ver-
sailles, who held him in prison during fifteen months. Liber-
ated at last, he became a journeyman photographer in the
Faubourg St. Honoré, and created the well-known caricatures

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of M. Thiers. A new accusation was being prepared against
him, but kindly warned by a member of the police, he fled to
Brussels, where he has since resided, and where he gains a living
as best he can, chiefly by designing illustrations for the
erotic books published there, and in which he has already made
considerable progress since his first attempts. Several of his
productions will be noticed in the course of this work. His
troubles have had their effect upon him ; he stoops, his hair is
white as snow, and he is further afflicted by deafness ; in spite of
which all he manages to support by his industry a young wife
and several indigent relations.

CurítttSft ®eíiruíften* Amsterdam. De Firma R. C. Meijer.
(Kalverstraat, 64.) 1875.

8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. 96 ex titles ; price 60 cents. ; the title

page is headed " Curtoöttetten ban allerlei &utK (Nç 24—

25)." This little volume forms one of a most interesting
series, edited and published by Mr. R. C. D'Ablaing van
Gies sen burg of Amsterdam ; it contains some curious infor-
mation on subjects within the scope of the present work.
Among the chapters which specially interest us are : " De
Proefnachten," " Het ' Droit de Prelibation,' " " Het ' Droit de
Jambage' en het ⁽Droit de Marquette,"* "Verschillende
Plichten en Gebruiken by het Huwelyk in den Leenheerlyken
Tyd," " Het Congress," &c. The whole series (still iri course
of publication) is cleverly edited, and well printed.

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Curtoôltateô (©rotto φ&ρέίθΙθ&(*; or, Tabooed Subjects
Freely Treated. In Six Essays, viz. : i. Generation. 2.
Chastity and Modesty. 3. Marriage. 4. Circumcision. 5.
Eunuchism. 6. Hermaphrodism, and followed by a closing
Essay on Death. By John Davenport, Author of " Aphro-
disiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs" " An Apology for Mo-
hammed and the Koran" &c, &c, CSfc. London : Privately
Printed. 1875.

Small 4to.; serial with "Aphrodisiacs;"* pp. xviii and 216
including titles ; small fleuron on title page ; toned paper ; the
whole issue consisted of 250 copies, of which 200 were sold in
sheets and dispatched to Mr. Bouton of New York, the ren-
maining 50 copies, bound in half morocco Roxburg, gilt tops,
remained in Europe, and were placed in the hands of Mr.
George Rivers, Aldine Chambers, No. 13 Paternoster Row, for
sale at ^β1.16s. per copy.

It is much to be regretted that so many errors of the press
should have crept into a volume otherwise so well got up, but
when the sheets were passing through the printer's hands the
unfortunate author had almost lost his eyesight, and as he
undertook notwithstanding to correct the press himself, blun-
ders were let pass which, would have been detected had Mr.
Davenport preserved the use of his eyes.

In this his last work Mr. Davenport has brought to bear
upon the different topics he has chosen the erudition and

* See ante, p. 82.

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general knowledge acquired during a long life of study and
labour. If he has not exhausted his subjects, (and this could
hardly have been his intention or hope in seven brief essays)
he has at any rate drawn together much curious, interesting,
and congruous matter, and his book may be read with profit
and pleasure by the student or by the general reader.

The book was casually mentioned in " The Civil Service
Review," (No. for March 27, 1875, p. 198) ; and a short notice
of it appeared in the "Bulletin du Bibliophile," (Juin, 1875,

A notion of the light in which Mr. Davenport regards the
subjects he has treated, and of the varied information which he
has amassed to illustrate them, will be best obtained by an ex-
tract from his preface and contents of the vol. :

"Of all the subjects included under the term Physiology,
there is not one so interesting, curious, and important as that
of human generation and its subsidiary branches, A few works of
the kind have, it is true, been published at long intervals, but
their language has, in deference to a pseudo modesty, been so
veiled and disguised as to render these works spiritless, jejune,
and destitute of all interest, the inevitable consequence being
that the wearied and impatient reader casts the volume aside in
utter disappointment.

" Fastidiousness such as this was despised by the ancients,
who, as they regarded the productive powers of nature, and
consequently, the reproductive organs and functions themselves,

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with the greatest awe and reverence, so they could afford to call
a spade a spade.

" Now, the moderns, on the contrary, influenced, we suppose,
by outré and ridiculous notions of delicacy, look upon the
same parts with aversion and disgust, as if they had been the
work of some filthy and obscene spirit, rather than that they
had been fashioned by the Almighty hand of a pure and divine
Demiurgos.

" An exaggerated delicacy must always be regarded as sus-
picious, it being found that the possession of a virtue is the
less, in an inverse ratio to the boast of having it.

"Thus Dean Swift remarked that the greater the squeam-
ishness of a man's ears, the nastier were his ideas and thoughts.

" Now, if this observation be true, as we believe it is, what
is to be said of those would be linguistic purists who recom-
mend mutilating the brave old English word cock, and thus
metamorphose it into co., on account of its indecency, a sen-
tence which is to be extended to all the unfortunate words
compounded of it, as Turncock, which must be read Turneo,
&c, &c. The absurdity of this proposed change, as well as
its injustice to poor Chanticleer, the husband of Dame Partiet,
is the greater, since it is well known that hens are fecundated,
not by intromission but by compression.

" Of a truth, M. de Voltaire was right in saying that—' La
Pudeur sêtaii enfuite du cœur pour se refugier sur les lèvres."¹
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"Let it not be supposed from these remarks that the
author's intention has been that of writing an obscene book,
or even to employ obscene words. He holds that the grand
subject—the Reproduction of the Human Race—which runs
more or less through all the Essays in this volume, is, in itself,
most pure, and that the words which are necessary, adequately
and correctly to describe it in its various phases and ramifica-
tions, have acquired the stigma of obscene only in modern
times, and, through an ultra-fastidiousness, which would hesi-
tate to apply the word breech to a man's small clothes, but
would rather designate them as unmentionables, indescribables,
or femoral habiliments."

"Essay I.—Generation:—Generation, definition of—Ex-
clusively confined to organised beings—The comparison of
generation with crystallization, untenable—Generation, different
modes of—Germination—Germ, various opinions respecting
it—Notice upon some of the systems invented to explain
many extraordinary facts connected with generation—
Aristotle's opinion—Researches and discoveries of Hartsoker,
Lewenhoch, and Harvey—Description of the product of the
male organ, of generation—Description of the spermatozoa—
Different modi operandi employed by different animals for per-
petuating their species—The Empress Catherine II. of Russia
—Love postures—Number of ictus per noctem—Old Parr—The
love tariff* fixed by the Rabbis to prevent the waste of semen
among God's chosen people—Woman's carnal desire more un-
controllable than those (sic) of men. Men are obliged, in
some climates, to wear a kind of girdle to protect themselves
against their amorous assaults (note).

" Essay II.—Virginity and Chastity :—Virginity greatly
esteemed by the Eastern nations, especially by the Jews
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(Deuteronomy quoted) —Virgins greatly honoured by the
Romans—Law in their favour-—Sej anus's daughter—The Lom-
bards and the morging cup (sic)-—Shrewd remark of Gibbon—
Chastity advantageous to the vital powers and to all the func-
tions of the body—Why the muses were represented by the
ancients as virgins—Nations produce less celebrated characters
in proportion to the number of depraved ones among them—
Corporeal strength follows the same law as mental vigour—
Moses interdicted the Jews from all connubial intercourse when
they were summoned to the battle-field—Virginity not much
respected among the negroes, the native Americans, and the
South Sea Islanders—Story of the missionary ship 'Duff'—-
Effects of the abuse of the venereal act—Remarkable instances
of chastity among the Jesuits and others—Most Asiatic coun-
tries exact the proofs of virginity, a proof by no means satis-
factory (Buffon quoted)—The Virgin Mary, names and titles
given her by the Roman Catholics—Questions and answers
from a French catechism—The title of Immaculate first given
to Mary the mother of Christ in the Koran in the 7th century
—Attempts to explain the immaculate conception—Celibacy,
evils of; opinion of the Emperor Augustus respecting it—
Effects of celibacy on longevity—Chastity often confounded
with continence ; the difference between them.

" Essay III.·—Marriage :—Marriage defined—Object of—
Burke's observations on—Marriage esteemed by the Jews and the
Christians far before virginity—Paley's rémarks on the use of
marriage—Observations of Toland, Grotius, Erasmus, Lubrity
(sic), Hume, Robert Owen, adopt the same view of marriage-
Different opinion of Shelley—Agreement of the Canon and the
Roman law as to the object of marriage—Little respect shown to
Matrimony in the feudal times—The number of marriages de-
creases in proportion as a nation hastens to its decline, instances
—Marriage protects morality, society, and the laws ; celibacy
necessarily produces adultery, prostitution, and, in many cases,
irregular and unnatural desires—Bossu's remarks and note—
The French revolution of 1789 chiefly caused by the licen-

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tiousness of the two preceding reigns—Bussy Rabutin quoted
—A regular college for the accommodation of the detestable
vice of Sodomy instituted in Paris, and to which belonged
many of the highest nobility, including Monsieur the King's
brother—Indignation of the King, Louis XIV., who orders one
of the royal princes to be horsewhipped in his presence—
Punishment of the offenders, &c.—Breaking up of the society
—Monogamy generally prevails in the cold and temperate
regions—No marriage contracted in many countries of the
globe—The midwives' petition to Parliament·—Polygamy, evils
of—Precocious marriages unfavourable to population—Effects
of marriage upon the animal system.—Importance of the
semen, as the loss of one ounce of it is more debilitating than
would be that of forty ounces of blood—The tabes dorsales(sic)
described by Hippocrates—Evils of too great an evacuation of
the semen—A French epitaph—A tendency to epilepsy caused
by too great an evacuation of the seminal fluid, described in
several cases—Dispute between Jupiter and Juno as to which
of the two sexes receives the greatest pleasure in the conjugal
embrace decided—The subject considered physiologically—
Monogamy and Polygamy.

" Essay IV.—Circumcision : Circumcision defined.—Prac-
tised by the Egyptians, Colchians, Phoenicians, and Syrians—
Considerations of health originated it among the Egyptians,
who communicated it to the other nations—The Bible silent upon
—The Jews practised, originated it in Egypt—Opinion of
Gibbon—Abraham's compromise on his return from Egypt—
Curious reason given for the introduction of circumcision
among the Jews—None of the Antediluvian patriarchs were
circumcised, nor was Noah himself—Circumcision practised
by other nations besides the Jews—-St. Paul contended in
favour of circumcision against St. Peter—The Copts and
Asiatic Christians considered circumcision as advantageous to
their women on the score of cleanliness—Mohammed declared
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women—Attempts made by modern writers to account for so
general a practice as that of circumcision throughout the East
—Some children born with so short a prepuce as to render
circumcision unnecessary—Cause for this irregularity assigned
by Blumenbach—Other motives assigned by writers for the
introduction of the practice—The Romans considered circum-
cision as barbarous and disgraceful—Horace and Juvenal quoted
—Manner and time of performing this rite varies in different
countries—Circumcision observed in India by the Mohammed-
ans and the Hindoos, when they conquered that country,
brought with the worship of the Phallus—Circumcision of
women—remarks by Bal on (sic), Thevenot, Bruce, and other
Roman Catholics in Egypt—The Capuchin missionary at
Pondicherry—The symbol of Christian salvation united with
the symbols of the male and female pudenda—Sonnini's account
of the circumcision of girls—Sterility, observations on—Clitoris,
excessive size of—A husband's great surprise on his wedding
night.

" Essay V.—Eunuchism :—Eunuchs, different appellations
given to them, and meaning of the same—Castration, how
effected—Self castration by the wild boar—Eunuchism, meaning
of the word—Castration practised from time immemorial by
the Egyptians and other Eastern nations—Castration regarded
as a heinous offence by the ancient laws of England (note)—
Semiramis, Queen of Assyria, the first who introduced castra-
tion—Her reasons for so doing—Andramyhs (sic), King of
Lydia, introduced the castration of females by destroying the
ovaría—Causes assigned by various writers—Gibbon's remark
—-Classification of eunuchs—Persons born eunuchs—-Singular
case—Monorchides or persons provided with one testicle only
allowed to marry—Such was Timour the Tartar, or Tamorlane
—Curious cases quoted—Boileau, the celebrated French poet,
deprived of his testicles by a Turkey cock—Term of eunuch
applied to persons filling high offices of state—Gibbon's opinion
of eunuchs—Castration a punishment for military crimes—

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Curious historical facts related by a French historian—Castra-
tion reprobated by Juvenal—Wanton cruelty has not unfre-
quently prompted this practice—Geoffrey, the father of our
Henry II—Horrible cruelty of Pantalon (sic)—Instances of self-
castration—Story of Cambobus (sic) Heliogabulus (sic)—Gib-
bon's description of him—Lampridius (sic) quoted—Origen, his
extraordinary tenets—A eunuch's description of his feelings—
Young eunuchs—Liaison with eunuchs—Martial's epigram—·
Eunuch made so by compression not always impotent—
Niebhur (sic) quoted—Anecdote—Reason assigned by Ama-
rath (sic) III, for introducingcastration into his country—St.
Basil's opinion of eunuchs quoted—Curious and quaint
poem by an old French dramatist in opposition to the
above opinions—Çhardin's remarks—Pietre (sic) delle Valle's
opinion to the contrary—Castration among the Hottentot
tribes—State of eunuchism produced by other means than by
castration—Lory's (sic) remark—Effect of castration upon
animals—Estimation in which eunuchs have been held at
different times—A striking description of a eunuch by M.
Bedor—St. John the Evangelist a eunuch—The validity of
marriage contracted with eunuchs discussed by theologians of
the Roman Catholic religion—Opinion of Sanchez—Pope
Sextus V. expressly forbade the marriage of the castratas for
musical purposes—Commendatory epistle, in verse, addressed to
His Holiness Pope Clement XIII. (sic) (Ganganelli) on the oc-
casion of his having suppressed castration throughout the
Roman States.

" Essay VI.—Hermaphrodism.—The word hermaphrodism
explained—Opinions of rabbis and other learned men, as
Pluto (sic), Origen, St. Thomas, St. Chrysostoms (sic) upon
Moses's account of the creation of the world—A second Eve in
the person of Lilas—History of Lilas—Greek account of the her-
maphrodite—Plato's idea upon hermaphrodism—In former times
the existence of hermaphrodites was not doubted—Observations
of M. Virey—At an early period of existence the sex of no living
animal can be recognised—Sir Everard Some's (sic) opinion re-

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specting the ovum—The above opinion contested—Singular
case quoted—Cases quoted in opposition—Opinions of English
medical writers—Dr. Drake, Dr. Parsons, &c.—Classification
of hermaphrodites—Singular description of an hermaphrodite
at Toulouse—Laws concerning hermaphrodites—The civil and
canon laws regarding hermaphrodites—Brief account of the
celebrated Chevalier d'Eon, who was so long believed to have
been an hermaphrodite.

"Essay VII.—-Death:—Death-—Priests and physiologists
wholly differ as to the cause, &c, of its origin into the world-—
Blind attachment of priests to dogmas—Right and duty of all
men to investigate any proposition proposed for their belief and
adoption—St. Paul's dogma, " By sin first came death into the
world," considered (note)—Philosophy of the priesthood-—
Persecution of unbelievers by the priests—Misrepresentation of
the deaths of celebrated deists—Cases quoted—Cases in which
the mere apprehension of death has proved fatal—Second
meaning of the word—death—not such an object of terror as
generally imagined—Horace, Juvenal, Shakspeare, Dr. Young,
Dr. Swift, &c, quoted—Great improvement in the science of
anatomy in the schools of Berlin, Bologna, Paris, and London
—A scientific description of what death is—Why should death
be feared ?—Saying of the ancients respecting life—There is no
death for nature, she is eternal—Plutarch quoted—Suicides
considered—Pliny's assertion that the Deity cannot commit
suicide—The facetiae of death—Epitaphs—Pope quoted—
Beazley—Job Or ton—Esther Orton—Mrs. Dorothy Birch—
Epitaph to the Memory of Mynheer Van Klaes, an inveterate
smoker — Dr. Young quoted—And lastly — Food For
Thought."

No complete list of Mr. John Davenport's works having yet
appeared in any bibliographical dictionary I give one, drawn up
by the author himself, and corrected by me from copies in the
British Museum, of which I add the press marks.

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1.  La Prononciation Angloise rendue facile par des Tableaux

et des Thèmes, &c. par John Davenport. Londres :
Boosey et fils. 1820. ï2mo. (^ï2™_e g. 4).

2.  The Life of Ali Pacha of Jannina₅ late Vizier of Epirus,

surnamed Asian, or the Lion. Including a Compendious
History of Modern Greece. London : Lupton Reife.
1823. 8vo. (1452. i). This work passed through 2
editions ; it is illustrated with 4 p!ates₅ viz.₉ two portraits
of Ali Pacha, a " View of Yannina/' and map of the
" Environs of Janina, " the two latter folding ; the vol.
sold for 12/- in boards.*

3.  A New Dictionary, English and Italian and Italian and Eng-

lish, with the equivalents in French. By J. Davenport
and Stefano Egia Petroni. London, 1824. 8vo, 2 vols.

(627. h.).

4.  Memoirs of the Court of France, from 1684 ^t0 1720? now

first translated from the diary of the Marquis de Dangeau.
With historical and critical notes. In two volumes.
London: Colburn 1825. 8vo. (1058. k. 19),

5.  Nuovo Dizionario Italian o—Inglese—Francese_? di S. E.

Patronj e Giovanni Davenport. 1828, 8vo. (2116. c).

* Not to be confounded with " The Life of Ali Pasha, of Tepelerii,
Vizier of Epirus :'surnamed Asian, or the Lion. By R. A. Davenport. London:
Tegg and Son.' mdcccxxxvii." Small 8vo. ¿ pp. xn and 4185 portrait of
AH Pacha by Hay wood. British Museum press mark 2103. b. In his
"Advertisement" Mr. R. A. Davenport mentions the work noted above.

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6.  The Historical Class Book ; or Readings in Modern History,

with chronological tables, etc. London, 1839. i2mo.
(799. b. 29.).

7.  A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages

based upon that of Baretti &c, .... Compiled by J.
Davenport and G. Comelati. 1854. 8vo. 2 vols. (2116. c).

8.  First Principles of General Knowledge Explained in a

Simple and Easy Manner, by S. M. Pauli. Third Editon,
revised &c by John Davenport. Reife, London, (i860).
12 mo. (12203. a.).

9.  The Historical Class Book ; or Readings in Modern History,

Third edition, to which are first added, specimens of English
Poetry of each country. London. 1861. i2mo. (9007. c).

10.  Gawthrop's Elocutionary & Rhetorical Class Book. &c.
Revised by John Davenport. 1862. 8vo. (12270. b.).

11.  Aide-Mémoire to the History of India, etc. London. 1864.

8vo. (9056. aa.).

12.  An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran, etc. London.

1869. 8vo. (4505. cc).

If we add to the above $pftr0&tSítaí£í aitÖ antuapOtøiltSitafSf,
noticed at p. 82, and the volume that heads this notice we shall
have a complete list of Mr. Davenport's published books.

One of his best works is yet in MS. It is entitled Ü ψΐϊφ
at poptSí Uliti ißoptrp, and is at once a succinct, terse
history, and a bitter satire of the Church of Rome.

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C)>tl)ttft*0 Üpmnal ; or, Flakes from the Foreskin. A Collection
of Songs, Poems, Nursery Rhymes, Quiddities, etc., etc.
Never before published. Oxford : Printed at the Univer-
sity Press, For the Society for Promoting Useful
Knowledge, mdccclxx. [Cum Privilegio.]

Small 8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. 85 in all ; the date is correct, but
the book was printed in London; issue 150 copies, on toned
paper. On the title page, as at first worded, between
" Knowledge " and the date, the following words were inserted :
"Sold at the Society's Depository, Holywell-street, Strand,
London." but this title page was, I believe, not used.

In " Cythera's Hymnal " we have a gathering of cleverly
written parodies and imitations of popular songs, well-known
hymns, &c. ; they are by different hands, and generally, as may
be seen by the associations and allusions, by Oxford men ; they
are not all of equal merit, but many display vigour, and no
little humour ; the articles in " The Saturday Review " against
" The Girl of the Period " called forth the poem bearing that
title, and " Lear's Book of Nonsense " inspired the " Nursery
Rhymes;" one piece, "No more," * is from the pen of
Edward Sellon; with the exception of one or two pieces
they are original, all are excessively blasphemous and obscene,
the poem by Sellon being by far the least objectionable of the
collection.

* Reproduced in extenso,post, see "The Ups and Downs of Life."
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[Ce recueil de poésie contient des pièces fort bien faites, entre
autres "The Rev. PimlicoPoole/' "The Strong-backed Minister,"
" The Sensual Reverie/⁹ et deux ou trois autres. Il est fâcheux
que l'auteur, (ou les compilateurs), ait donné tant de place à
des morceaux d'un genre sale et désagréable]* I would add
to the above " Chordee," a parody on ^ζζ Excelsior," as beyond
the average ; I transcribe it :

"CHORDEE."

^irThe shades of night were falling fastj
" As up and down the High-street passed
^u A youth, who bore inside his gown
*' A prick-stand he could not keep down—
Chordee ! Chordee !

" His brow was sad, beneath his eye
^f( Was blackness he could not deny,
" And like a silver clarion rung
" The accents of that well-known tongue,
Chordee ! Chordee I

" Try not my arse, the old Don said,
" The Proctor looks down overhead ;
^e' I can't, he cried, if I be hung,
^ζζ And from his lips escaped a groan—

Chordee ! Chordee !

"Ohj stay, a strumpet said, and rest
" Thy greasy head upon my breast,
⁽ⁱ A tear stood in his bright blue eye,
"As he said No, but with that sigh,

Chordee ! Chordee !

* See Introduction, ante.

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" Beware the Proctor's stealthy walk,
" Beware the dirty smut you talk,
" This was a Peeler's last good-night,
" A voice replied, though out of sight,
Chordee! Chordee !

^f' At dead of night, as down the Corn
" The Proctors walk about till morn,
" They heard that oft repeated cry
" That echoed up and down the High,
Chordee! Chordee!

" A student by that faithful hound,
" I mean the'Bulldog,' there was found,
" Still grasping in his hand so tight
" His prick most ghastly to the sight,
Chordee! Chordee!"

With one other specimen I will conclude the notice :

^u EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY WHO WAS BIRCHED
TO DEATH."

" They laid her flat on a goosedown pillow,
·' And scourged her arse with twigs of willow,
" Her bottom so white grew pink, then red,
^<f Then bloody, then raw, and her spirit fled."

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UMNj &¹)* 2Θ*** &titt tâ &tto ¡?JH*& &fó ^and its Criminal
H üfij Classes from Fifth Avenue down to the Five Points.
A Complete Narrative of the Mysteries of New-
York. New York: Fred'k Gerhard, Ag't. 1873.

Large 8vo. ; pp. 831 in all.

This book was written no doubt for a good purpose, but, as
the information it contains runs much on tabooed topics, I give
it place here. Among the subjects treated are : " Prostitution
and its Victims," ^ft Dance Houses," " Abortionists," " Quack
Doctors," " Matrimonial Offices," " Obscene Literature," &c. ;
and, as names, addresses, and dates are generally given in full,
there is no internal evidence to cause us to doubt the writer's
veracity. I have used the book in my introduction.

Mt$ My&tkt& ít ïatftttU Bruxelles, Typographie de J.-H.
Dehou, Rue Grande île, 6. 1853.

12 mo. ; pp. ao in all ; small fleuron on title page.

Author Oscar Hardy of Liege.

This is an insignificant little tract against Leopold I. and his
court. Its only attraction is that it is couched in good French
and speaks highly (and in consequence, justly) of the queen ; it
contains some scandal which is perfectly well known, and which
the King himself scarcely endeavoured to hide.

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JØOlt itOtt} A Poem by the late Lord Byron, Author of
Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. And forming Part of
the Private Journal of his Lordship, supposed to have been
entirely destroyed by Thos. Moore.

" Pardon, dear Tom, these thoughts on days gone by ;
Me men revile, and thou must justify.
Yet in my bosom apprehensions rise,
(For brother poets have their jealousies)
Lest under false pretences thou shoulds't turn
A faithless friend, and these confessions burn."

To which is added Leon to Annabella ; an epistle from
Lord Byron to Lady Byron. London : Printed for the
Booksellers, mdccclxvl

Small 8 vo. ; pp. "Don Leon" 52 pp. ex titles, " Notes to
Don Leon" 57 pp., "Leon to Annabella "17 pp. ; published by
W. Dugdale; price 10/6.

" Don Leon," which consists of 1,455 lines, is entirely in
defence of sodomy ; in it Lord Byron is represented as describ-
ing his various pœderastic amours, and excusing his antiphysi-
cal proclivity. His practising this propensity on his wife is put
forth as the cause of their separation.

" That time it was, as we in parlance wiled

" Away the hours, my wife was big with child.

" Her waist, which looked so taper when a maid

" Like some swol'n butt its bellying orb displayed,

** And Love, chagrined, beheld his favourite cell

** From mounds opposing scarce accessible.

" * Look, Bell," I cried 3 *yon moon, which just now rose

" ' Will be the ninth $ and your parturient throes

^w * May soon Lucioa's dainty hand require

" * To make a nurse of thee, of me a sire.

*' ' I burn to press thee, but I fear to try.

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" * Lest like an incubus my weight should lie ;

" ' Lest, from the close encounter we should doom

" ' Thy quickening foetus to an early tomb.

" ' Thy size repels me, whilst thy charms invite j

" * Then, say, how celebrate the marriage rite r

" ' Learn'd Galen, Celsus, and Hippocrates,

" * Have held it good, in knotty points like these,

" * Lest mischief from too rude assaults should come,

"'To copulate ex more pecudum.

" < What sayst thou, dearest ? Do not cry me nay ;

" ' We cannot err where science shows the way.'

" She answered not ; but silence gave consent,

•^f And by that threshold boldly in I went.

" So clever statesmen, who concoct by stealth

^rf Some weighty measures for the comonwealth,

" All comers by the usual door refuse,

" And let the favoured few the back stairs use.

******
" Who that has seen a woman wavering lie
" Betwixt her shame and curiosity,
" Knowing her sex's failing, will not deem,
" That in the balance shame would kick the beam ?
" Ah, fatal hour, that saw my prayer succeed,
" And my fond bride enact the Ganymede.
" Quick from my mouth some bland saliva spread
" The ingress smoothed to her new maidenhead,
" The Thespian God his rosy pinions beat,
" And laughed to see his victory complete.
" 'Tis true, that from her lips some murmurs fell—
" In joy or anger, 'tis too late to tell $
^ff But this I swear, that not a single sign
" Proved that her pleasure did not equal mine,
^ft Ah, fatal hour ! for thence my sorrows date :
** Thence sprung the source of her undying hate.
" Fiends from her breast the sacred secret wrung,
'*Then called me monster ¡ and, with evil tongue,
^u Mysterious tales of false Satanic art
"Devised, and forced us evermore to part.'¹

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The notes are copious, curious, frequently erudite, and give
much information about the scandalous doings of the times.

" Leon to Annabella " was printed a year sooner, and has an
introduction and separate title pages :

" itQïl tO ShUtaføll ; an epistle from Lord Byron to Lady
Byron, explaining the real cause of eternal separation, and
forming the most ^urious passage in the Secret History of the
Noble Poet. ^ζ Lady Byron can never cohabit with her noble
husband again. He has given cause for a separation which
can never be revealed ; but the honour due to the female sex
forbids all further intercourse for ever.' Opinion of Dr.
Lushington on the Question of Divorce. London: 1865."

It is a much shorter and less offensive poem than " Don
Leon ;" although the cause given for the separation is the same,
it is only hinted at :

^<f Oh, lovely woman ! by your Maker's hand
" For man's delight and solace wisely planned.
" Thankless is she who nature's bounty mocks,
" Nor gives Love entrance wheresoe'er he knocks.

*               *****

"Matrons of Rome, held ye yourselves disgraced
" In yielding to your husbands' wayward taste ?
" Ah, no !—By tender complaisance ye reign'd :
" No wife of wounded modesty complained."

There is a reprint, 8vo., pp. 14, price one shilling, the title a
little more spiced ; it runs :

^u Wt)t ëttUt lettet 3&eirøMj I Suppressed Poem by Lord
Byron, never before published, Leon to Annabella. Lord

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Byron to Lady Byron, An Epistle explaining the Real Cause of
Eternal Separation, And Justifying the Practice which led to it.
Forming the most Curious Passage in the Secret History of
the Noble Poet, Influencing the whole of His Future Career. &c."

"Leon to Annabella" was again reprinted in 1875, at
Brussels; small 8vo. ; pp. ij in all; price 3 fres. ; no date

It is superfluous to state that neither of these poems are by
Lord Byron. The following note by a gentleman personally
acquainted with the publisher will be found interesting :

" I cannot give you any information as to the author of Don
Leon. The publisher, W. Dugdale, had no idea who he was.
In fact, he believed, when he purchased the MS., that it was
really written by Lord Byron. About the year i860 he brought
it to me as a great literary curiosity, and wanted me to advise
him as to how he could best approach Lady Byron, from whom
he expected to get a large sum to suppress the publication. I had
not read two pages before I said it could not have been written
by Lord Byron. I think it was the rhymes soul and prowl
that first staggered me. On going on I pointed out to him
that there were references to several events which I was certain
occurred after Byron's death. He would not believe me, and
was very angry, from which I suppose he had paid a consider-
able sum for the MS. Of course I gave him no assistance,
and advised him to be very cautious about any application to
Lady Byron, as, although they would only laugh at him for
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extort money if the matter came to the ears of ^c The Society.'
He subsequently admitted that he believed I was right and
allowed me to take a copy of it, which I still have ; and I heard
no more of it till it was printed some years after.

" The copy he showed me must, from its appearance, have been
written some years previously, but it was evidently not the
original written by the author. It had been copied by some
illiterate person, and the Latin and * Greek quotations were full
of errors, as may be seen in the printed copies."

While we are considering one charge against Lord Byron it
may not be out of place to note another, that of incest with his
half sister, Mrs. Leigh, raked up by the officious Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, and first brought before the world in the pages
of " The Atlantic Monthly" and " Macmillan's Magazines."*
It is not likely that Mrs. Stowe was acquainted with " Don
Leon," the crime she imputes to the noble poet however is
equally heinous and preposterous with the one put forth in
that poem.

* Afterwards reprinted with new matter in a volume entitled : " Lady
Byron Vindicated, &c, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. London : Samson Low.
1870." To this should be added : "Medora Leigh ¿ A History and Autobio-
graphy. Edited by Charles Mackay. London: Bentley 1869.," and "The
True Story of Lord and Lady Byron in answer to Mrs. Beecher Stowe,
London : Hotten. ' ' ( 1869).

A A

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B*SS3 l*<fCOle OeØ 33trï)£Ö ou Mœurs des Petites Dames de

Q fl^gju|         ce Temps. Paris mdccclxiii

8vo. ; pp. 274 ex titles ; title in red and black ; " tirage à 64
exemplaires numérotés à la presse, tous de même format : 50
papier de Hollande, 6 papier de Hollande fort, 2 papier anglais,
4 papier de chine, 2 papier de couleur ; " published at 30 fres,
by Blanche of Brussels, and issued in 1868. Condemned
by the " Jugement du tribunal de Lille du 6 Mai 1868." *

The work consists of 16 dialogues and an epilogue, and was
intended by its authors as a pendant to the work of Nicolas
Chorier. It is the joint production of three gentlemen who " ont
rempli les principaux rôles," and who, at the opening of the
book, give sketches of themselves, as well as of the four " petites
dames," Caroline Deschamps, Marie Auber, Louisa, and Antonia,
by whom they were assisted. In the book the author-actors
are known as " Le Comte Henri de Sarsalle, Martin Duvernet,
rentier, Adrien Lebel, artiste peintre ; " but they have further

* Cat. des Ouvrages Condamnés, p, 78.

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favoured us with the following pseudonyms : Chapuys, Bökel,
d'Enghien, which contain the exact letters of their real names.
The chief of the trio was the late Edmond Duponchel ; the
other two gentlemen are still alive, and I leave their names veiled

Before it was printed, " L'Ecole des Biches " was frequently
copied by hand, and MSS. of it are not uncommon. The
original MS., in the caligraph of the artist Ulm, done for
Duponchel and under his special direction, is now in the
possession of a London amateur ; it is adorned with a frontis-
piece by Ulm (the two female figures being portraits), and a
set of twelve designs in outline by J. Chauvet ; of these
thirteen designs ι facsimile copy, executed by a clever draughts-
man in London, exists in the cabinet of another English biblio-
phile. J. Chauvet has illustrated another copy for the same
collector, and adorned it with a frontispiece, fourteen designs,
and a vignette on the title page, in sepia ; these are very prettily
done, and far superior, both in drawing and composition, to the
twelve designs in outline above mentioned ; the volume is bound
by Hardy of Paris, in full morocco, old red, gilt top, uncut.

" L'Ecole des Biches " is a series of scenes in which the Les-
bian penchant strongly predominates. It is not remarkable
either for force or originality ; but although entirely erotic, it is
never crapulous or disgusting; further, it has a perfume of
politeness and good breeding, and is indited with a delicacy of
expression which atones to some extent for its other short-
comings.

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[Ce livre est assez bien écrit, mais monotone à la lecture.
C'est la répétition de toutes les poses que l'on trouve dans tous
les livres de ce genre. Pour qu'un pareil livre se fasse lire sans
ennui, il faut qu'il y ait une intrigue, des événements, une his-
toire enfin, comme dans la " Putain errante," "l'Ecole des filles,"
et autres semblables.]*

Edmond Duponchel,^ was born at Paris about 1795, and
died in April 1868. In early life he studied architecture,
and afterwards went to England to learn the goldsmith's
craft, in which he became a proficient, and executed the
bas reliefs of the "Minerva" of Simart. In 1835 Duponchel
was appointed Director of the Opera at Paris in place of
Véron. This post he carried on single handed until May,
1840, when he obtained the assistance of Léon Pillet,
royal commissionaire at the theatre since 1838; after
eighteen months of co-administration Duponchel resigned
his office in favour of Pillet. Pillet's reign lasted till 1847, when
he was replaced by Duponchel and Roqueplan,

Jules Adolphe Chauvet, was born at Péronne (Somme)
29 Sept. 1828. A pupil of Ρ—L—C. Cicéri, he first studied
landscape, but abandoned that branch of his art in order to devote

* See Introduction, ante.

f Consult Diet, des Contemporains» Vapereauj L'Intermédiaire vu. 414,
444 j L'Artiste de 1837 (i^re serie, t. xii.) art. "Une Chambre Catholique à
l'Opéra " par Roger de Beauvoir ; Petits Mémoires de l'Opéra par Ch. de
Boigne, Paris, 1857 ; Histoire de l'Opéra par Alphonse Royer.

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himself entirely to the illustration of " livres d'amateur." He is
comparatively little known, as most of his productions are in the
libraries of collectors, and have not been published. His friend
and protector, M.P. of Paris, possesses some of the most exquisite
efforts of his pencil. He has most particularly studied the engra-
vings of the eighteenth century, and inspired himself from the
"petilsgrands maîtres" of that epoch. M. Chauvet works with ease
and facility, is quick of conception and rapid in execution. He is
known to the public chiefly by a set of 175 etchings for the
Works of Horace, and another of 53 etchings for the Dialogues
of Erasmus ; both sets are much esteemed. He has also done
10 etchings, erotic, to illustrate "La Guerre des Dieux."
Among the most charming of his unpublished efforts may be
noted : a copy of Balzac's " Physiologie du Manage," in which
every available space has been filled up with appropriate designs ;
" Point de Lendemain," copied in extenso and illustrated ; both
these works are in the library of M. P. ; the latter was done by
M. Chauvet during the siege of Paris by the Prussians ; and
"La Sultane Rozréa," which covers nine-leaves of vellum,
including two titles ; the whole poem is copied in the clearest
caligraphy and is adorned with 15 designs, of which seven
are obscene ; it terminates with : " Les dessins inédits ont été
composés et exécutés à la plume par J. Chauvet. Paris,
Octobre 1866." This beautiful composition is in the cabinet of
an English bibliophile.

Jean-Pierre Blanche was born at Blois, June 25, 1820,

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and died at Brussels, Nov. 10, 1875. He went to Brussels
about 1864, and established himself as a bookseller at No. 11
Rue de Loxum. Some two years before his death his reason
deserted him, and his business was conducted by his son, M.
Abel Blanche, who still continues it.

&Π (føtøag OM rømnatt; By Pego Borewell, Esq; With
Notes by Rogerus Cunæus, Vigerus Mutoniatus, &c.
And A Commentary by the Rev. Dr. Warburton.
Inscribed to Miss Fanny Murray.

Í2? ουκ aivorepov και Kvtrepov (sic) άλλο γυναικός.

Hom. Od. π, β. ó.*

Ex Archetypo sæpe in Femoralibns (sic) Reverendissimi
Georgii Stone, Hiberniæ Primatis, Sæpius in Podice
Intrepidi Herois Georgii Sackville.

Small 8vo. ; pp. 30 in all ; title in red and blacky as is also
the half title at the beginning of the poem. The volume con
tains : " Advertisement by the Editor " (pp. 3 to 8), " The
Design" (pp. 9 to 12), "An Essay on Woman " (pp. 13 to 22),

^(í€í)t Winíbttml prager" (pp. 23 to 26), "C6t 38ptttff
íMbtt to ftfe prüfe ^H (pp. 27 to 28), « Wtni Creator ; or_f

tbt iHaft'0 Pragtr^ (pp. 29 to 30) ; there are copious notes
signed " Warburton," « Vigerus Mutoniatus," « Rogerus
Cunæus," and «Burman.^M-f-

* I am unable to reproduce this quotation exactly; ^u ουκ " and "γυνααως"
are spelt in the old abridged manner, for which no type is at present pro-
curable } further, the reference should be Horn., Od. xi, 427.

f Intended no doubt for the celebrated Petrus Burmannus.

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The "Essay on Woman" consists of 94 lines, and is
divided into an invocation and three divisions ; it begins :
" Awake my Fanny !* leave all meaner things -,
" This morn shall prove what rapture swiving brings !
" Let us (since life can little more supply
" Than just a few good fucks, and then we die)
"Expatiate free," &c.

and terminates :

" Hope humbly then clean Girls ; nor vainly soar ;
" But fuck the Cunt at hand, and God adore.
" What future Fucks he gives not thee to know,
"But gives that Cunt to be thy Blessing now."

" The Universal Prayer " has notes, and consists of 13
stanzas of 4 lines each, of which the first and last are :

" Mother of all ! in every Age,

" In ev'ry Clime ador'd,
" By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage,

" If modest, or if whor'd.
" To thee whose Fucks thro'out all space,

** This dying World supplies,
" One Chorus let all Beings raise !

"All Pricks in rev'rence rise."

" The Dying Lover to his Prick," with one note, has but 18
lines ; it begins :

" Happy Spark of heavenly Flame ;
" Pride and Wonder of Man's Frame !

* For particulars concerning Miss Fanny Murray, see ⁽ⁱ Notes and Queries,"
and. S., No. 79, July 4, 1857, p. 1 ; and No. 81, July 18,1857, p. 41.

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and ends :

" Fanny your Murmur rings :
" Lend, lend your Hand ! J mount ! I die !
" O Prick, how great thy Victory ?

"O Pleasure, sweet thy Stings."

" Veni Creator ; or, The Maid's Prayer " is in j stanzas, the
first two of 6 lines, the last three of 5 lines each ; it opens thus :

" Creator Pego, by whose Aid,

"Thy humble Suppliant was made j " &c.

and terminates :

" Immortal Honour, endless Fame,

" Almighty Pego ! to thy Name -,

" And equal Adoration be

" Paid to the neighbouring Pair with Thee,

"Thrice blessed Glorious Trinity."

This edition, although undoubtedly printed at the time, is
not the original one. Were there any question upon this point,
two peculiarities in the volume itself would suffice to settle it.
Firstly, the mistakes on the title page and throughout the
text ; and secondly, the volume concludes with " The end
of Mr. Wilkes's Book ; " moreover it is not printed in red,
and has no design on the title page. It appears, how-
ever, to have been printed from the original edition,
because on the title page, between the quotation and the
impress, an unusually large space is left, which in the
original was occupied by an "obscene print."* The con-
tents then I am inclined to accept as genuine. In spite of
every search and enquiry, I have never been able to see one of

* See post» p. 20:3.

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the 12 copies struck ofFby Wilkes himself. Mr. W. F. Rae
remarks that : " no authentic copy of it is known to exist." *

However this may be, one undoubtedly did exist some 20
years ago, for I have before me a copy of the edition which I
am at present noticing, on the title page of which the present
owner has facsimilied from a copy of the original, which he had
then in his hands, the design in question, consisting of an
erect phallus with a scale of ten inches underneath, and the
following inscription.

" Σωτηρ Κόσμου."
"In recto Decus."

It is a remarkable fact that most of the Bibliographers and
Authors who have written about the " Essay on Woman,"
generally in no measured terms, are in error respecting it, as
will be shown hereafter; probably none of them had ever seen
a copy of the work as issued from Wilkes's own press.

Lowndes-f- mentions an edition, " London, printed for the
Author, and sold by Mr. Gretton in Bond street, and Mr.
Pottinger in Paternoster Row, 1763, 8vo. pp. 40. Printed in
red, with an obscene print on the title page. Also, with a
French translation, 1763." I have never seen this vol. as
Lowndes describes it ; indeed I have reason (as I will show anon)
to think that Lowndes is inaccurate.

* " Fortnightly Review," Sept. 1868. This opinion is shared by a con-
tributor to " Notes and Queries." See " N. and Q.," and S., No. 79, July
4» ^I^57> P· ^I> ^ant* No. 108, Jan. 23, 1857, p. 77.

t Bibliographer's Manual, vol. 5, p. 2920.
BB

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Martin, in his "Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately
Printed Books," has two notices on the " Essay on Woman,"
superficial, and, as I shall prove presently, incorrect. Quérard,
Barbier and Berjeau are all in error. Finally, Earl Stanhope,
who, in his " History of England," accords a somewhat promi-
nent place to the poem, is altogether wrong.

With regard to the " Essay on Woman," although a very
curious production, it scarcely merits the great notoriety it has
achieved ; the notes are perhaps the most remarkable part
of it. Had it not been for the shameful and persistent
pursuit of Wilkes by the Government on its account, it
would probably never have come down to us, or at any rate
never have emerged from that obscurity which it merits, and
from which Wilkes himself certainly never intended to drag it.

Hard names enough were heaped upon it at the time.* It
was, by the House of Lords, designated as : "a most scan-
dalous, obscene, and impious libel, a gross profanation of many
parts of the Holy Scriptures, and a most wicked and blasphe-
mous attempt to ridicule and vilify the person of our Blessed
Saviour." Bishop Warburton spoke of it in the house as a
performance which " consisted of the most horrid insults on
religion, virtue, and humanity, and the most shocking blas-
phemies against the Almighty ; " with a " series of notes which

* On the other hand a partisan of Wilkes wrote that in it, " at least in
point of sentiment he is supposed to have equalled, if not excelled, both a
Rochester and an JristotL·'* See ^u The Life of John Wilkes, Esq. London :
J. Wilkie. M.cc.Lxxiii." {sic).

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countenance and even outdo the bestiality and blasphemy of
^N· his doggrel, in which there is so foul a mixture of sensuality
interlarding his fearful blasphemies that the hardiest inhabitant
M hell would blush, as well as tremble to hear repeated."
Horace Walpole called it : " the most blasphemous and indecent
poem that ever was composed ; " and again : " a performance
bawdy and blasphemous to the last degree, being a parody of
Pope's 'Essay on Man/ and of other pieces, adapted to the
grossest ideas, or to the most profane." But the analysis of
Kid gell, given in his " Narrative,"* is too remarkable not to be
quoted in extenso :

" This Essay on Woman is a parody on Mr. Pope's Essay on
\ Man, almost line for line, printed in red.

" The frontispiece, engraved curiously on copper, contains the
title of the poem, 'An Essay on Woman; ' a motto, very suitable
to a work which is calculated to depreciate the sex ; a most
obscene print, by way of decoration, under w^Thich is engraved,
in the Greek language and character, The Saviour of the
World ; beneath that inscription, something too scandalous
and defamatory of private character to endure repetition ; and
it Is added, with an effrontery and ungentleman-like scurrility
which I confess myself too dull to comprehend the humour of,
that there is also a Commentary, to which is affixed the Name

* As Kidgell had the poem in his hands, his account of it, however one-
sided it may be, is nevertheless worthy of consideration, especially as so many
authors who never saw it have written about it.

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of a personage, one of the most distinguished and eminent for
learning and character this day in England.

" The title is succeeded by a few pages entitled Advertise-
ment and Design, in which every degree of decency is renounced,
in order to prepare a welcome and familiar reception to the
foulest of all language, and a species of impiety which is
incredible ; to expressions, throughout the whole work, in every
page, and almost every word of it, shameful and obscene,
without any manner of concealment or reserve; to a most
descriptive representation of the lewdest thoughts in nature ; to
scurrility beyond all precedent ; to reflections upon the fair sex
opprobrious, immodest, insulting, and infinitely degrading ; to
observations upon animal increase ineffably impure, descending
even to the minuteness of a description, truly brutal, of the
nudities of beasts and reptiles ; and this in a style and language
of so copious an indelicacy that the slender share of praise,
which the luxuriancy of the author's imagination might expect,
is taken from him by the excess of his impurity.

"In the variations and notes upon this obscene parody, the
Holy Scriptures are illiberally prostituted to illustrate the gross
ideas of a libidinous blasphemer.

" The profaneness throughout the whole work is of a
shocking, new, and wonderful invention. Many of the
most serious and interesting passages of the gospel are
dishonoured to serve the low, lascivious purpose of an impure
double entendre^ which I am persuaded the reader will excuse
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pathetic exclamation of Saint Paul, 0 death, where is thy sting ?
0 grave, where is thy victory f is impiously debased into a
brutal signification at which infernal angels might rejoice.

" In another of his horrid ^ζ elucidations,' the natural abilities
of the ass are made the subject of an unclean description—the
blameless Scripture being still hauled in to be responsible.
Then, with a degree of confidence unheard of in any Pro-
testant community, the unknowing reader is informed that ' that
animal was once held in great esteem, but that, since he had
been the vehicle of the Godhead into Jerusalem, he was become
ridiculous.'

" To crown this united effort of obscenity and profaneness,
the sense of the Universal Prayer, written by Mr. Pope, is per-
verted to serve the vilest purpose of unchastity; and that
memorable soliloquy of the Emperor Adrian, which Mr. Pope
has considered in a paraphrase, as the words of the Dying
Christian to his soul, this shameless author entitles without a
blush, The Dying Lover to his Pudenda.

" And as if he was determined, experimentally, to be convinced
to what an extravagancy of insult the lenity of the Govern-
ment, the candour of the public, and the mercy of God
Himself may be abused, he boldly presumes upon an inimi-
tably profane paraphrase of Veni Creator, which he ludicrously
affects to call The Maids Prayer,

"Here is the supreme exertion of his original abilities to blas-
pheme. The holy Name and Attributes of the Deity are vilified

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in an unexampled manner; the blessed Spirit of God is ludibriously
insulted by a repetition of the most carnal obscenities in the
form of a supplication ; and the sacred expression, ' Thrice
blessed, glorious Trinity, is compelled, by an impious similitude,
to convey an idea to the reader, impure, astonishing, and horrible.

" With this extreme hyperbole of lewdness and impiety,
behold an affectation of vivacity and humour, the volatile, saline
effluvia of the unchaste imagination of a prurient debauchee."

In "The Gentleman's Magazine,"for the year 1763 (vol. 33,
p. 526,) a full account is given about the " Essay on Woman "
and the proceedings connected with it. We are there told that :
" In the work itself, the lewdest thoughts are expressed in terms
of the grossest obscenity ; the most horrid impurity is minutely
represented ; the sex is vilified and insulted ; and the whole is
scurrilous, impudent and impious to an incredible degree. In
the variations and notes, the inspired writings are perverted into
illustrations of the gross ideas of a libidinous blasphemer, with
an invention new, wonderful, and horrid. The most solemn
and important passages of the Gospel are tortured into the
oblique obscenity of double meanings, worthy only of him,
who is at once the enemy of God and man." &c.

Wilkes's Letter to the Electors of Aylesbury, which will be
found in Gent. Mag. Vol. 34, p. 580, in which he defends
himself against the " pious peer " and " the neat, prim, smirk-
ing chaplain," is eloquent, and well worth perusal.

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all,* is doubtful ; the Government did not prove it, nor did
Wilkes ever absolutely father the poem. Walpole -f- says :
" Wilkes and Potter, son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury,
had formerly composed this indecent patchwork in some of
their bacchanalian hours ; and Wilkes, not content with pro-
voking the vengeance of the King, of the Princess, of the
favourite, of twenty subaltern Ministers, and of the whole Scot-
tish nation, had, for the amusement of his idle hours, consigned
this innocent rhapsody to his own printing press—a folly
unparalleled, though he had intended to restrain the edition to
twelve copies." This Thomas Potter was the paramour of
Bishop Warburton's wife, which adds a zest to the affair,
and was not calculated to diminish the resentment of the
bishop.

Of the conduct of the government in the prosecution of
Wilkes there can be no two opinions ; it was illegal, cowardly,
and done for party motives only. " The peers were too much
the King's friends to refuse assent to any suggestion made by
the King's Ministers. In consequence of this, Wilkes was
tried and convicted of publishing a poem of which the copies

* In "Notes and Queries," Series 2, Vol. 57, pp. 1, 21, 41, and 113,
will be found some interesting articles upon the "Essay on Woman/¹ the
writer, Mr. Dilke, strives to prove, from actual dates, that Wilkes could not
have written it at all. This opinion is shared by Mr. W. F. Rae. See " Wilkes,
Sheridan, Fox, The opposition under George the Third," p. 48. At page 49 of
his Life of Wilkes, Almon mentions the " Essay on Woman."

t Memoirs of King George III.

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were filched from him under an illegal warrant, and the contents
made public for the first time by Lord Sandwich in the House
of Lords. No evidence was then advanced, nor has any been
yet adduced, proving him to have written the poem." *

Walpole thus sketches the infamous business : " One of
the copies had been seized among his (Wilkes's) papers by
Philip Carteret Webbe. Still was even that Ministry ashamed
to accuse Wilkes on evidence which had fallen into their hands
by such illegal means—unanswerable proof that they were
conscious of their guilt, and knew they could not justify their
proceedings. But the bloodhounds, having thus fallen on the
scent, were not to be turned aside by delicacies. Could they
procure another copy, the business would be effected—and
effected it was. Carteret Webbe set his tools to work, for even
hangmen have deputies. There was one Kidgell, a dainty,
priggish parson, much in vogue among the old ladies for his
gossiping and quaint sermons, and chaplain to the Scotch Earl
of March. This fellow got at a proof sheet; and by the
treachery of one of Wilkes's printers,-^ who thought himself
ill-used, and by the encouragement of his patron, who con-
sulted Lord Bute and Lord Sandwich, and was egged on by

* Fortnightly Review, Sept. 1868, paper by Mr. W. F. Rae.

t Michael Curry, who died in 1778 aged 56, at Norwich. See "London
Chronicle " Aug. 14, .1778; and " Notes and Queries," 2nd S. No. 84» Aug,
8, 1857, p. 113.

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them to proceed, Kidgell and Webbe purchased the whole
poem : and now did Sandwich, who had hugged this mischief
in his breast, lay open the precious poem before his brother
Lords, in strains of more hypocrisy than would be tolerable in
a professed Methodist. Parts of it were read, most coarsely and
disgustingly blasphemous. Lord Lyttelton groaned in spirit,
and begged they might hear no more. Bishop Warburton,
who had not the luck, like Lord Lyttelton, to have his con-
version believed by any one, foamed with the violence of a
Saint Dominic ; vaunted that he had combated infidelity, and
laid it under his feet ; and said the blackest fiends in hell
would not keep company with Wilkes, and then begged Satan's
pardon for comparing them together.

" Lord Temple had got no intelligence of this bomb,
and knew little what to say ; but concluding, justly, that the
piece had been found among Wilkes's papers, condemned the
means by which it was obtained. It was instantly voted blas-
phemous, and a breach of privilege against the person of the
Bishop of Gloucester. Lord Sandwich then moved that
Wilkes should be voted the author ; but even Lord Mansfield
condemned so hasty and arbitrary a course, and said it was
previously necessary to hear the accused person in his own
defence : on which the proceeding was adjourned to the next
day but one. I was in a division in the lobby of the House of
Commons when I heard what was passing in the other House,
and immediately informed Mr. Pitt. He replied, with indigna-
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tion, 'Why do not they search the Bishop of Gloucester's
study for heresy ? '

" Events now thickened so fast, that, to avoid confusion, I
will here say little more on this head. The plot so hopefully
laid to blow up Wilkes, and ruin him in the estimation of all
the decent and grave, had, at least in the latter respect, scarce
any effect at all. The treachery was so gross and scandalous,
so revengeful, and so totally unconnected with the political
conduct of Wilkes, and the instruments so despicable, odious,
or in whom any pretensions to decency, sanctimony, or faith,
were so preposterous, that, losing all sight of the scandal con-
tained in the poem, the whole world almost united in crying
out against the informers." ^#

The agents in this conspiracy against Wilkes were men for
whom equals in immorality, villany, or hypocrisy could scarcely
again be found, certainly not united in the same plot. Wilkes
himself, bad as his moral character undoubtedly was, could not
hold a candle to them.

Lord Sandwich, nicknamed by Churchill Jemmy
Twitcher, -f- one of the monks of Medmenham Abbey, where,
if there be any foundation for the anecdote in ^u Chrysal ; or the

* Memoirs of King George III.

t Vide Hush's ^t( Memoirs of George the Fourth," vol. i» p. 239j also a
scarce volume entitled : " The Life, Adventures, Intrigues» and Amours of the
celebrated Jemmy Twitcher, exhibiting many striking proofs To what Baseness
the Human Heart is capable of Descending. &c. London : Jonathan Brongh,
at the Bible, near Temple Bar, Strand." Published about 1770.

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Adventures of a Guinea," Wilkes played a practical joke on
him at his installation, was one of the most notorious repro-
bates of the age,*

Sir Francis Dashwood Lord le De Spencer, founder ot
Medmenham Abbey, and from whom the Monks took their
name of Franciscans, " was noted for singing profane and lewd
catches ; and, what aggravated his hypocrisy, scarce a fortnight
had passed since this holy Secretary of State himself had been
present with Wilkes at a weekly club to which both belonged,
held at the top of Covent Garden Theatre, and composed of
players and the loosest revellers of the age."-f~ " He had travelled
in Italy, and had acquired taste and skill in the fine arts, as even
now the frescoes at his house of West Wycombe, though
mouldering with damp and neglect, remain to show. But his
profligate morals are no less denoted by another painting also
still preserved. In this he allowed himself to be deliniated in
the habit of a Franciscan friar, and upon his knees, but with
the Venus de Medici before him as the object of his adoration.
He was in truth and almost professedly what is termed a man
of pleasure ; an associate of Wilkes and Lord Sandwich ; a
partaker in the orgies of Medmenham Abbey." J

The Earl of March, afterwards the notorious Duke of
Q.UEENSBERRY, or old Q, " whose life lasted into this century,

* See also " Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox, The Opposition under George the
Third, by W. F. Rae. 1874." p. 58, &c.

f Walpole's Memoirs of King George III, vol. 1, p. 309.
I History of England, by Earl Stanhope.

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and who certainly, as earl or duke, young man or greybeard,
was not an ornament to any possible society," was in fact
a perfect monster of depravity and folly. "The legends
about old Queensberry are awful. In Selwyn, in Wraxall,
and contemporary chronicles, the observer of human nature
may follow him, drinking, gambling, intriguing to the end of
his career, when the wrinkled, palsied, toothless old Don Juan
died, as wicked and unrepentant as he had been at the hottest
season of youth and passion. There is a house in Piccadilly
where they used to show a certain low window at which old
Queensbury sat to his very last days, ogling through his senile
glasses the women as they passed by.'' *

"He appears to have indulged without restraint, in all the
animal gratifications of human life ; but his passions outlived
his power to gratify them. At his mansion in Piccadilly, he
had a regular harem, formed by the most infamous means, in
which females of all ages and all ranks were included." -f-

William Warburton, Bishop op Gloucester, whose
honesty and sincerity seem to have been doubted by both Pitt
and Walpole, is said to have associated with the reprobates of
his time, and to have given countenance to their depravities in
order to advance his own interests. " His sense of humour,
like that of most men of very vigourous faculties, was strong,

* The Four Georges by W. M. Thackeray.

f "'Wonderful Characters, &c, compiled by G» H. Wilson," p. 20^, where
his portrait is also given. Consult also "The Piccadilly Ambulator, or
Old Q.'* See that title.

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but extremely coarse ; while the rudeness and vulgarity of his
manners as a controvertist removed all restraints of decency or
decorum in scattering his jests about him." He " combined
the powers of a giant with the temper of a ruffian," says Dr.
Johnson.* Although of a " large and athletic person," doubts
seem to have been entertained as to his capability of performing
certain conjugal duties, which will go far to excuse the conduct
of his wife with Potter, -f·

John Kidgell, Rector of Home, author of "The Card,";};
chaplain and toady to the Earl of March, appropriated to his
own use money of which he was trustee, and absconded to
Flanders, where he died, after having turned Roman Catholic. §
Churchill ironically writes : ||

" Kidgell and I have free and modest souls :

" We scorn preferment which is gained by sin,

" And will, though poor without, have peace within."

The scandal caused by the prosecution of Wilkes created a
demand for Essays on IVoman^ and spurious versions sprang

* Chalmer's Biographical Dictionary, vol. 31, p. 123.

t In " The Duellist " Churchill most fiercely satirized both Bishop War-
burton, and the Earl of Sandwich,

Î " The Card. London : Printed for the Maker, and sold by J. Newbery,
at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-yard mdcclv." A more tedious
and insipid novel cannot well be conceived j it is weak and disjointed, and
possesses neither point nor interest.

§ Vide "Tooke's Notes to Churchill's Poemsj" and "Wilkes, Sheridan,
Fox, The Opposition under George the Third." p. 54.

II In his poem "The Author."

*([ Refer to Watt's Bibliothcca Britannica, Vol. 4, under "Woman."

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up in all directions ; several of these will be found in the en-
suing pages. KidgelFs " Narrative" too called forth answers not
a few. To give a full account of these several replies would
take more space than I can afford ; here are the titles however of
some of them ; for fuller particulars I must refer my readers to
the reviews, &c, of the time, particularly to the ^u Monthly
Review " for 1763 and 1764.

1   "CO* Priest ín EÖpme; a doggrell Versification of
KidgelFs Narrative, relating to the Essay on Woman. By a
Member of Parliament, &c. London : Printed for the Author,
and sold by Mr. Gretton, and Mr. Pottinger. 4*0. ; is."

2  " 2 full 2nsEto*r in a pampftlet calleo a genuine anö
mttíntt Barrattbe of a øraittalonø, ofømte $c erteeïunglp
pröpöane Ifhü, entítírt, an tifttöap on røomam By a

Friend of Truth. 4to. ; 6d. ; Griffin."

3  " an ifjqpoetulatorg better tu tfte With. iHr. mftgell

$Γί_Φ By a Layman. London : Printed by J. Burd at the
Temple Exchange, Fleet Street, 1763. 4to. ; pp. 11*; 6d."

4  ** S Slettet tO S SÛÏffelI. Containing a full Answer to his
Narrative. London : Printed for J. Williams, next the Mitre
Tavern, Fleet Street, 1763. 4to. ; pp. 21 ; u."

5  '*CÏ)t fllatn CtUtft t Being a genuine Narrative of the
Methods made use of to procure a Copy of the Essay on
Woman. With several 'Extracts from the Work itself. By

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Thomas Farmer, Printer into whose hands the original Copy
accidentally fell. London : Printed for the Author₅ and sold by
J. Pottinger, in Paternoster Row, and J. Seymour in
Threadneedle Street, 3763. 4to. ; is"

6 " CÏK Cíjaplaííí* a Poem, 4to. ; is 6d. ; Ridley."

Let us now pass to the consideration of several editions of
the " Essay on Woman," both real and spurious. But before
doing so I must note a work which Î have not seen myself,
but extract, both title and notice, verbatim from " The
Monthly Review" for 1763, vol. 29, p. 465.

"¿ttuntmg Mnlúhvtót or an (ttøøap on Woman* 4*°· 6d.

Jackson."

" O yes ! If any Author, Bard, or Versifier, or other person,
hath by him any poem, or copy of verses, relating to the fair sex,
(no matter whether for or against them, provided it hath but
Woman in the title-page) either new or old, in MS. or in print,
let them repair to any Hedge-Printer, or Hedge-Bookseller, in
London or Westminster, and they shall receive a reasonable
gratuity for the same.

^u Note. If very obscene, the consideration will be greatly
enhanced ; and if a due portion of blasphemy, no encourage-
ment shall be wanting : there being now a great demand for
any thing of this kind.

^#_#^# Secrecy most religiously observed, if required."

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i "9LÏI oføstøp Ott røomam A Poem. By J. W. Senator.
With Notes, by the Bishop of G.

Dux Fæmina Facti. Virg.

London : Printed for the Editor ; And sold by J. Freeman, in
Avemary-Lane. mdcclxiii."

4to. pp. 28 ; fleuron and 5 lines on title page ; mentioned
by Watt ; there is a copy in the British Museum with press mark
840. κ. 5. This " Essay on Woman" contains a "Dedication
to the Fair Sex," " Advertisement," in which reference is made
to the " reverend and sagacious Kidgell," and " Design." The
poem itself is divided into " Invocation," Two Cantos, " Con-
clusion," and " Epilogue." There are no other poems except
the " Essay on Woman," which is not a parody upon Pope's
Poem, nor does it any way resemble or imitate the pro-
duction of Wilkes. The author's object is the defence of
Wilkes and the condemnation of his enemies and persecutors ;
and it may consequently be regarded rather as a reply to
Kidgell's Narrative than as a spurious "Essay on Woman.'"

The " Invocation " begins thus :

" To thee, O Venus, daughter of the Sea,
" These votive lines, th' effusion of my heart,
" Enraptur'd I indite -_f — accept my lays ¡
"They sing to thee." &c.

Then Canto I :

^t( But to our purpose, Invocation — stop !

" Now recollect the theme I meant to write on,

" My ever faithful and obedient muse.

" O it is woman ! lovely ! beauteous Woman !

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^u Say, what is Woman ? what ? what is she not ?
" Life of this world ! the cordial of existence !
" The grot of bliss ! the alcove of delight ! "

Woman is then more minutely described :

" The hairy honours of the well formed head,"
the " thin" upper, and "thick " under lip, the " dimpling cheeks/'

" The turret head is on a column propt,

" Exceeding those from parían marble rais'd j

" Its wondrous flexures charm a lover's eye.

" But a more charming object strikes our view j

" O ! the red-rose-tipt globes on her white breast,

" That rise and fall alternate ! sweet vicissitude !

" To them a lover's heart beats sympathy,

" His fond soul gazing thro' enraptur'd eyes,

" And ev'ry fibre throbbing for enjoyment ;

" Essay on Woman instantly to make :

" Essay on Woman be this Poem nam'd.

" Down o'er the velvet plain, Ahd-o-men call'd,

"The hand slides, glowing, to the zone of bliss-----

" Stop hand, stop muse, nor farther now proceed,

" But; from th' extreme below, resume thy plan.

" On foot that's small, not large, she stands erect.

" Neat moulded legs shoot upwards to the knee j

" Whence (cones invers'd) the thighs alluring swell,

*' Plump instruments in amorous debate,

" With pow'rs re-active fraught, when close imping'd

" To bound resilient, and give Quid pro Quo.

" Her turning arms hold fast th' impulsive culprit,

" Till ample satisfaction be effus'd

" For the bold inroad j and till fall'n his crest

" Submissive he withdraws, and sins no more."

The first seven lines of Canto 2 are addressed to the Muses ;
after which the author returns to earth again :
" Where last we halted is a mystiek ring,
" As oft the source of evil as of good j

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" Evil ne'er flows but thro' the vice of others,
" As the dire sack of Troy, old Priam's Fall.
" 'Tis a fond pouting puss, means good to all ¿
"And thereby hangs----no---« oft'ner springs a tail.''

The writer now arrives at the point of his poem. Wilkes,
under the name of Florio, is apostrophised as t

" fair Freedom's voluntary champion,
^u Unbrib'd, unpension'd, he stept forth, the cause
'* Of ev'ry true born subject to maintain ; &c."

*^f Now guess the mighty charge they brought against him j

** He had a poem, ay, a bawdy book j

'* Nay, a profane one, left him by a friend,

" its merry theme sweet Tuzzi of the vale Î &c."

The blame of bringing this book before the public is then
thrown on the shoulders of Wilkes's persecutors ; the matter is
discussed between the men and the women, and the latter are
for acquitting Wilkes because his crimes were not against
nature :

" the Women, furious grown,
"Exclaim'd, *Ye can't say Florio sodomiz'd;
" ' Some merit, sure, in these degen'rate days.' "

A council is held on the subject in Olympus, and Mercury is
dispatched to earth to set things straight :

" Eftsoons precipitant to Gotham's senate

" He new $ there gaz'd on the grave masks of dullness :

*^ff Thrice wav'd his wand, and thrice the seniors felt

'* (The cause unknown^ invisible the God)

" An instantaneous twinge in ev'ry groins

" Like an electric stroke in breast or arm.

^f* Whiie th' oafs stand anxious by the sudden cramp,

"Off- fall their Vis, to all gape Cons in lieu»--

" What shuffling, waddling, shambling in their gait,

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" For Bungs, for Plugs, for Spanges, all cry out,
" To fill the new made void 3 their steps to ballast :
" And be more steady in their walk, than principles."'

The " Epilogue " consists of two lines only :

" Thus sang Wanlovius ; thus Grenoble's Bishop,
" With learned Notes, elucidates the Song."

with the following notes concerning the two personages :
" Julio JVanlovi, Senator of Lucca." and " A prelate notorious
in France for his friendship to the Jesuits, and some very

sanguine letters written in their behalf —-----"

The verses of this poem are certainly not brilliant, the wit is
not pungent, nor are the author's point and purpose clear.
Copious Notes are appended, which in no way resemble those
attached to Wilkes's production.

2 « an ©göap mi OToman, in Three Epistles. London :
Printed for the Author. (Price One Shilling and Sixpence.) "

Small 4-to. (counts 2) ; pp. 17 in all ; fleuron on title page ;
published at the time by Freeman.

This version, which consists of 253 lines in all, is based upon
the " Essay on Man," but is in no way obscene ; there are no
notes whatever ; nor does the volume contain any other poem
than the " Essay on Woman." There is a copy in the British
Museum with press mark *f. 1. 15.

It was thus noticed at the time : *

* Monthly Review for 1763, vol. 29, p. 465.

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" A foolish catch penny parody on a few lines in Pope's
Essay on Man ; such as the following couplet :

⁽ Why have not women microscopic eyes ?
' For this plain reason, women are not flies !

" There is very little more deviation from the words of the
Author, in any of the verses : but we suppose the industrious
Grubean thought anything would do to humbug the curiosity of
the public, so violently excited by Mr. Kidgell's narrative of an
unpublished, obscene, and exceedingly prophane libel."

The same poem exists in another form, and with a French
translation as follows :

3 ^€( 3tt oføøag øn Wflttian, in Three Epistles. London :
Printed for the Author. And Sold by Mr. Gretton, in Bond-
Street. And Mr. Pottinger, in Pater-No s ter-Row."

There is the following title in French en face :

"oføøtøt Síttr fa tftmmt_t en Trois Epitres. Traduit de
L'Anglois. Londres : Imprimé pour L'Auteur. Et se vend

Ç M. Gretton, dans le Bond-Street,
Chez <                       &

(. M. Pottinger, in Pater-Noster-Row."

8vo. ; pp. 40 in ail ; a fleuron on each title page ; no other
poem than the ^iÉ Essay/' and no notes ; evidently printed at
the time. A copy sold for ¿g%. 8. o., in 1876, at Sotheby's.*

* Cat. of the Library of W. T. B. Ashley Esq., No 1470.

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This is the version which Martin* accepted as the genuine
composition of Wilkes ; he gives the title exact and in full, the
size, and correct quantity of pages, and says even : " There is a
Title page in French." But he adds with some naivete : " The
Editor has never seen a copy of this volume ; and his attention
has been drawn to it by a friend who has made great enquiries
into the political transactions of the time, especially as relating
Junius."

This I take also to be the poem alluded to by Lowndes-j~ as :
" In three Epistles, London, printed for the Author, and sold
by Mr. Gretton in Bond Street, and Mr. Pottinger in Paternoster
Row, 1763, 8vo_? pp. 40. Printed in red, with an obscene print
on the title page." It differs, however, from his description in
three respects : it is not printed in red, is without date, and
there is no obscene print on the title page. It would seem that
Lowndes has muddled up this " Essay " with that by Wilkes,
which had a "frontispiece, engraved curiously on copper con-
taining the title of the poem."^ Quérard, and Barbier^
have also been misled in this respect : " Cette édition d'une
poëm qui fit beaucoup de bruit en Angleterre, présente
en regard de l'anglais une traduction française, qui, à en

* Bibliographical Catalogue of privately printed Books, 1854» p. 58 and
addenda p. §6$.

t Bibliographer's Manual, vol. 5, p· 2920.

X See p. 203, ante.

§ La France Littéraire, vol. 10, p. 514.

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juger par le style, ne peut être que l'ouvrage d'un Anglais.
Il est à présumer qu'elle a été faite par Wilkes lui même,
ou par son ami Churchill,* auquel le fougueux écrivain
s'adresse dès son debut, en le désignant par la lettre C."

This version is then a spurious one, and is moreover entirely
devoid of literary merit ; throughout the whole poem, page
by page, there runs en face, a prose translation in French. The
opening lines are :

" Awake my C.....t leave all things beside,

'* To low ambition, and to Scottish pride :

" Let us (since life can little more supply,

" Than, just to fight a duelj .... and to die)

" Expatiate, freely, upon Woman-kind -,

" And trace, the mighty errors of her mind j " &c.

Thus put into French :

"Reveilles-toi, cher C .... abandonnes tout à la basse ambi-
tion à l'orgueil Ecossois. Puisque la vie ne peut guères
fournir que des occasions de se battre en duel... & de mourir.
Etendons librement nos reflections sur le Sexe ; " 8çc.

The poem terminates as follows :

" In Men we various ruling passions find,
" In Women ... two alone divide the mind j
" Those only fixed, they, first or last, obey,
"The love of pleasure, and the love of sway."

* This remark is absurd, for if the poem be addressed to Churchill, it
could not be written by him.

f Intended probably for Churchill.

t Alluding to that between Wilkes and Martin.

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4 " #Ööag Ott WBomm* London : Printed for George
Richards, mdcclxix."

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 37 ex title; on the title page is
fleuron of a rose, with a single line above, and double lines
below it ; the book is printed throughout, title and text, in red ;
no frontispiece. This volume contains the " Essay on Woman,"
and " The Maid's Prayer " (of which the two first stanzas are in
a smaller type than the others). There are no notes except
the two names " Churchill " and " Lloyd " referring to the
second and fourth words of the second line of the " Essay."

This is the edition noticed by Bergeau* as : " in-8° de quarante-
huit pages, imprimé en encre rouge, et soi-disant publié par un
libraire du nom de George Richards, à la date de 1769." This
copy which the writer of the article says he has " sous les yeux,"
is without frontispiece. The writer continues : " Quelquefois la
poésie en est pure, harmonieuse, élevée : mais alors c'est Pope
lui-même qui parle, et non son affreux singe." Bergeau
tacitly accepts it as the genuine production of Wilkes, which
it is not. A copy of this comparatively worthless little
volume fetched the enormous sum of ^3. 5. o., at Sotheby's
in 1876.^

* Le Bibliophile, p. 101.

f Cat. of the Library of W. T. B. Ashley, Esq., No. 1471.

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Of the same version there are several reprints,* viz. :

5  " Qn <2føSap dít røomatt, by J Wilkes, Esq. Aberdeen,
Printed for James Hay, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town
and Country. MjDcc^lxxxviii."

8vo. ; pp. 23 ; contains the " Essay," and " The Maid's
Prayer " as in edition No. 4.

6  This vol. was reprinted in every respect exact, title and text,
(excepting numerous printer's blunders) by J. Scheible of
Stuttgart, in 1872, issue 100 copies only, at 1 thaler each.

The same poem was also reprinted in London some 10 or 15
years back, "The Maid's Prayer" being omitted, with the
following title :

7  "3tt otøøap Dit røøman, by the celebrated John
Wilkes, Esa., M.P., Alderman, Lord Mayor, and Chamberlain
of the City of London. Suppressed by Authority. Price
Half-a-Crown. London : Printed and Published by R. Smith,
Drury Lane."

Small square 8vo. or umo. ; pp. 24; this is probably
reprinted from another old edition which I have not had in
hand. There is other edition with title :

* Mention is made in " Notes and Queries " (2nd S. No. 79» July 4,
1857, p. 2) of an edition with impress: "Printed for George Richards
MDCCLXXii," in red, ^if and not a single note throughout." This I have not
seen, but it appears to be a reprint of the edition above noticed as No. 4.

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8 "3n ©ÖSap Ott WiOmun By the celebrated John
Wilkes, Esq. M.P. London Printed for the Booksellers "

8vo. ; pp. 18 ; contains the " Essay on Woman" only.
This " Essay on Woman " (as contained in Nos. 4, 5, 6,

7,  8) is divided into 4 books, and commences thus :

" Awake my Sandwich, leave all meaner joys,

"To Charles* and Bob, f those true poetic boys ;

^u Let us, since life can little more supply,

" Than just to kiss, to procreate, and die,

" Expatiate free o'er all the female sex,

" Born to subdue, and studying to perplex ;" &c.

There are many indecent passages, but none blasphemous as
in Wilkes's poem ; it is poorly written, and lacks wit and point.

This version is nevertheless particularly interesting, inas-
much as it is that against which Earl Stanhope stumbled. He
says : % "It appears that Wilkes had several years before, and
in some of his looser hours, composed a parody of Pope's
^e Essay on Man.' In this undertaking, which according to

* " Churchill." f " Lloyd." These two names are omitted in the London re-
print which I have just mentioned as No. 7, although the signs appear in the
text over " Charles " and " Bob," indicating that the notes should be at the foot
of the page 3 they are however given in the edition which I have noticed as No.

8.    On the other hand a foot note which is given to the name " Rock " (Book
4, line i,) in the editions numbered 5 and 6, is wanting in Nos. 4, 7, and 8.

X History of England, vol. 5, p. 66.
EE -

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his own account (Examination of Michael Curry at the Bar of
the House of Lords, Nov. ij, 1763), cost him a great deal of
pains and time, he was, it is said, assisted by Thomas Potter,
second son of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, who had
been secretary of Frederick Prince of Wales, and had since
shown ability and gained office in the House of Commons, but
was (as well became one of Wilkes's friends) of lax morals in
his private life. The result of their joint authorship, however,
has litttle wit or talent to make any amends for the blas-
phemy and lewdness with which it abounds. As the original
had been inscribed by Pope to Lord Bolingbroke, so was the
parody by Wilkes to Lord Sandwich ; thus it began, ^ζ Awake
my Sandwich ! ' instead of ' Awake my St. John ! ' Thus also,
in ridicule of Warburton's well known Commentary, some
burlesque notes are appended in the name of the Right
Reverend the Bishop of Gloucester." In the version in
question there are no notes, except in the explanation of three
names, as before mentioned.

"The Maid's Prayer," as given in Nos. 4, 5, and 6, is also
spurious; it contains 5 four-line stanzas, the first and last of
which ran thus :

*^f To the propitious God of Love,

^fi A Maid prefers her pray V,
" Reel in 'd she lies in Venus' Grove,

^f* And hopes her darling there.
" Then send him, send the sturdy youth,

** To ease a maiden's care 5
" And grant that all who love with truth

" Some Damon—split their hair."

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9 " (ÜfÖSiag 0Π Woman London Printed for F. Sumpter
in Fleet Street 1764."

8vo . ; pp. 32. I transcribe the "Advertisement" in extenso:

" It is of little importance to the public to know how the
following pages came into the hands of the publisher ; suffice it
to say that they are genuine, Mr. Wilkes character as a patriot
is universally known—perhaps this Pamphlet may set his
character as a Man in a new light. Certain persons, eminent
for their exalted stations and for nothing else, have taken great
pains to represent Mr. Wilkes as a Devil incarnate ; whether he
is or is not the person he has been represented, will in some
measure appear from this publication. The frontispiece to
this Essay is now engraving by the only Person who could be
found hardy enough to undertake it, and it will be delivered
gratis to the purchasers of this Pamphlet as soon as it is finished.
London Feb. 14 1764."

The publisher has evidently a favourable bias towards
Wilkes, but the spurious poem which he gives to the world is
not calculated to raise his reputation, 'at any rate as an author,
for weaker trash can hardly be imagined; it is a pointless, ram-
bling effusion on Woman, in imitation of the " Essay on Man."
Wilkes's name does not occur throughout the poem, which
begins :

^ΐ( Awake my Celia, leave all meaner things,

" And seek the source from whence all pleasure springs,

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" Let us, since life can little more supply

" Than just to love awhile and then to die,

" Expatiate free this scene of Woman o'er,

" No matter whether virtuous or a

" A garden in whose centre              takes root,

" A tree that tempts us with forbidden fruit,

" Together let us beat the ample field

" And try what toys            can yield." &c.

The poem terminates thus ;

" Cease then, nor more love fault or folly name,

'* Oar highest bliss springs from the sacred flame,

" Know thy felicity, the due degree

" Of amourous joys that heaven bestows on thee,

" Submit, or marry'd or unmarry'd still

" Thou'rt always sure of love to have thy fill,

" The coldest pride can love unknown to thee,

" Her frowns are favours which thou canst not see,

" All scolding's fondness quite misunderstood

" Wenching, though thought an evil, is a good :

" And spight of pride in erring natures spight,

"Man's in the wrong and woman's in the right."

There are a commentary and notes signed "Bentley *' and
" G." Here is a specimen note to the last line I have quoted
from the opening of the poem :

"Ver. ίο 'And try what toys, &c.' Many critics of great
learning and sagacity have despared of restoring the words here
omitted. After having scrutenized the passage according to
the strict canons of verbal criticism, I without the least scruple
or doubt propose the following reading

* And try what toys such luscious fruits can yield.'

Sic lege meo periculo.                         G."

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The " Essay " is followed by ten other poems, viz :

barter/' " røoman'o SUeoIutúm," " Cfte flregrt** øf
art of fflBtom'n&" "ê>olttr tøørti) in a røtte," and ^Cfte

dCOt^) Srøeat&mSaaffe/* none of which have any connection
with Wilkes or his productions. The first, "The Maid's
Prayer," is similar in name only ; it is in 6 stanzas, of 4 lines
each, the first and last of which are :

" Come Venus queen of soft desires

" Unloose a virgin's vest
" And fan oh fan those holy fires

" Which e'er can make her blest.

" Then help oh Venus help the maid

" Who firm on thee relies
*' And guided by thy mighty aid

" Through love's soft lab'rinth hies."

10 ^€(<&Xt <£s#ap Ott ©Konratt and Other Pieces printed at
the private press in Great George-street, Westminster, in 1763,
and now reproduced in fac-simile from a copy believed to be
unique To which are added Epigrams and Miscellaneous
Poems Now first Collected By the Right Hon. John Wilkes
M.P. for Aylesbury, and afterwards Lord Mayor of London
Preceded by* an introductory narrative of the extraordinary
circumstances connected with the prosecution of the author in
the House of Lords, digested and compiled from contemporary
writers London Privately Printed, September mdccclxxi "

" Crown 4to." ; pp. v, xvi, and 263* ex bastard title ; toned

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paper ; published by J. C. Hotten ; price ¿ß^. o. o., bound
Roxburgh; issue 250 copies, of which 225 were, in 1873, sold
to Mr. Bouton of New York.

This volume contains what I take to be the genuine " Essay
on Woman," and the three other poems with the notes as in
the edition which heads this notice ; also twenty-two other short
poems by Wilkes, not obscene, nor of importance or special
merit ; all these poems, with a separate full title, are printed in
red, the remainder of the volume being in black. There
are further, an Introduction, and an Appendix comprising
twenty-seven various historical extracts concerning Wilkes, his
works, character, and doings, many of which I have used in
the present notice. The whole forms a handsome library
volume. This edition was not, as stated on the title page, " re-
produced in fac-simile from a copy printed at the private press
in Great George-street," but from some reprint*, which I have
not seen, but from which the edition heading this notice was
probably in its turn reprinted.

Before closing this notice let me recapitulate. I have made
mention of thirteen different works and editions all bearing
the same title, "Essay on Woman'': viz., eleven which I
have personally examined, the one noticed in " Notes and
Queries,"* and that last alluded to which Hotten used for
his impression. Of these thirteen publications three only

* See ante, p. 224.

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contain what I suppose to be the poem written by Wilkes.
There are doubtless several other editions, besides that struck
off by the author himself, with which I am not acquainted.
Let me add in conclusion that no copy can be considered
original which does not answer to the following requirements :
viz. 1 It must be " a parody on Mr. Pope's ^c Essay on Man '
almost line for line." 2. It must be " printed in red." 3. It
must have a "frontispiece engraved curiously on copper,"
which " contains the title of the poem : ' An Essay on Woman;'
a motto, very suitable to a work which is calculated to depre-
ciate the sex ; a most obscene print, by way of decoration,
under which is engraved in the Greek language and character,
The Saviour of the World." 4. " The title is succeeded by a
few pages of Advertisement and Design." *

John Wilkes was born in St. John's Street, Clerkenwell,
Oct. 17, 1727, O.S., and died at his house in Grosvenor
Square, Dec. 26, 1797.

Of his marvellous career, of the persecution he underwent on
account of the notorious No. 43 of the " North Briton,"-}- of his
imprisonments, his exclusion from the House of Commons,
and his final triumph over that body, of his Lord-Mayoralty,
and the idolatry with which the people regarded him, I shall
say nothing here ; those episodes belong rather to the history of

* Kidgell's Narrative, cited ante, p. 203.

t Refer to (among numerous other books) " Copies taken from the Re-
cords of the Court of King's-Bench."

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his country, and find a fitter place there than in a book devoted
to bibliography.

Although a man of pleasure, and a libertine, Wilkes's public
career, it must be owned, was bold, and disinterested. " His
conduct as a magistrate was not only unexceptionable, but
spirited and exemplary ; and as a guardian of the city youth,
he has not been excelled by any of his predecessors."*
Although not a model husband he was a loving and devoted
father, and possessed the respect and affection of his daughter.
His manners were gentlemanly and affable, and despite his
ugliness he was highly successful with the fair sex ; of his wit,
high spirits, and powers of conversation, there is but one
opinion ; finally he was no hypocrite.

Lord Broughamrj- thus sketches him : " He had received a
good education ; was a fair classical scholar ; possessed the
agreeable manners of polished society ; married an heiress half
as old again as himself; obliged her by his licentious habits
and profligate society, to live apart from him ; &c. Indeed, it is
only justice towards him to remark that there was so little
about him of hypocrisy—the ^fi homage due from vice to virtue '
being by him paid as reluctantly and as sparingly as any of his
other debts—that, even while in the height of his popularity,
hardly any doubt hung over his real habits and dispositions."

* City Biography, p. 104.

t Historical Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the Time of
George III, 3rd series, London^ 1843.

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Charles Johnson* gives us the following admirable portrait :

" He had such a flow of spirits, that it was impossible ever to
be a moment dull in his company. His wit gave charms to every
subject he spoke upon ; and his humour displayed the foibles of
mankind in such colours, as to put folly even out of countenance.
But the same vanity which had first made him ambitious of
entering into this society,-^ only because it was composed of
persons of a rank superior to his own in life, and still kept him
in it, though upon acquaintance he despised them, sullied
all these advantages. His spirits were often stretched to ex-
travagance, to overpower competition. His humour was
debased into buffoonery ; and his wit was so prostituted to the
lust of applause, that he would sacrifice his best friend for a
scurvy jest ; and wound the heart of him, whom he would at
that very moment hazard his life and fortune to serve, only to
raise a laugh ; in which he was also assisted by a peculiar
archness of disposition, and an unlucky expertness in carrying
his jests into practice, as he proved on this occasion."^

Gibbon^ says : " I scarcely ever met with a better com-
panion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour,
and a great deal of knowledge."

Nichols, 11 who also knew Wilkes, has left record that he

* Chrysai ; or the Adventures of a Guinea, vol. 3, chap. 20.
t The Fraternity of Medmenham Abbey, see post, p. 234.
I Alluding to the practical joke played by Wilkes on the Earl of
Sandwich, mentioned at p. 211, ante.
§ Miscellaneous Works.
If Literary Anecdotes, vol. 9, p. 477.
FF

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was : " Full of wit, easy in his conversation, elegant in his
manners, and happy in a retentive memory, his company was a
perpetual treat to his friends."

Wilkes was a " Monk of the Order of St. Francis," one of
the brotherhood who assembled at Medmenham Abbey to
perform, what have been termed, the " English Eleusinian
Mysteries." Of that once notorious establishment he has
himself left us a short account.* In the third volume of
" Chrysal," will also be found a description of the abbey and of
the rites therein performed; but the best notice with which I
am acquainted, is that contained in the introduction to the first
volume of a scarce and curious book, entitled "Nocturnal
Revels ; or the History of King's-Place, &c, By a Monk of
the Order of St. Francis. London 1779."

The following characteristic anecdote I extract from the
" City Biography " (p. no). "Wilkes performed every act of
debauchery, political and female, with much pleasantry and
caution. He once took the opinion of counsel (the late Sir
Fletcher Norton) how he should avoid an action for seduction,
if he took a certain girl from her father into keeping. A
lawyer who cannot advise a client how to evade a law, as well
as to secure himself by the law, has but half-learnt his profession.
Sir Fletcher, who knew both, advised Wilkes to * take the girl
as an upper servant, and give her double wages,—extra wages

* See Notes to Churchill's Poem, '· The Candidate."

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denoting that something more than common services were ex-
pected to be performed by her.' Wilkes took the hint, and
actually kept his fille de joie and chamber-maid at twenty pounds
per annum, at the same time anathematising the whole
profession,—swearing by his Goddess Venus, that the name of
a lawyer was but another for a scoundrel."

As a member of the " Beef-Steaks," Wilkes, we are told,
presented to that " Sublime Society " a copy of his " Essay on
Woman." " To his great surprise, however, the grossness of its
language, and the unblushing blasphemy that pervaded it, excited
the disgust of every member, and it was unanimously rejected.
Wilkes did not visit the Club afterwards ; but when he left the
kingdom, he was made an honorary member, as a compliment
justly due to the wit, spirit, and humour which had so Jong
delighted the table." *

" In his person, Mr. Wilkes was tall, agile, and very thin.
His complexion was sallow, and he had an unfortunate cast of
his eyes, that rendered his face particularly liable to be carica-
tured."'!'' How thoroughly this has been done we all know
through Hogarth's famous portrait, which, although a gross
caricature, probably gives a correct though exaggerated re-
presentation of his features ; this caricature Wilkes had the
good sense not to be offended with. " His personal appearance

* The Clubs of London; &c, London, 1828, 2 vols., vol. 2, p. 22; See
also Clubs and Club Life in London, by John Timbs, p. 114.

f City Biography, p. 102, see also The Georgian Era, vol. 1, p. 312.

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(says Lord Brougham) was so revolting as to be hardly-
human." Here is an epigram which appeared at the time :

." Says John Wilkes to a lady, pray name if you can,
" Of all your acquaintance, the handsomest man ?
" The lady replied, if you'd have me speak true,
"He's the handsomest man that's the most unlike you."*

®ît été à la Campagtte correspondance de Deux Jeunes
Parisiennes recueillie par Un Auteur λ la Mode.

MDCCCLXVIII

Large I2mo. (counts 6) ; pp. 227 ex titles; prices: " Papier
de Hollande fres. 20, Grand papier de Hollande (6 ex) fres. 30.,
Papier de Chine (6 ex) fres. 40." ; on the title page, which
is printed in red and black, is a small satyr's head ; a spirited
frontispiece à Γ eau forte by F. Rops ; published in Brussels,
end of 1867, by Poulet-Malassis. Condemned in France
by the tribunal of Lille, May 6, i868.f-

In October, 1875, A. Christiaens of Brussels reprinted the
work in 2 vols.; i2mo. (counts 6) ; pp. 122, and 128 ex titles;
titles identical, except that they are in black only, have vol.-
indication, and ^u Avec 8 gravures sur acier ;" these engravings
(two of which are allegorical frontispieces, one for each volume)
are prettily done ; they are by F. L. ; price of the 2 vols. 20 fres

[" Un Été à la Campagne " est un des livres les mieux écrits
dans ce genre. Le récit est naturel et sans exagération, et

* The Cabinet of Fancy, or Bon Ton of the Day, see ante, p. 149.

t Cat. des Ouvrages Condamnés, p. 83 ¡ and Le Moniteur» Sept. 19, 1868

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même dans les trois ou quatre passages les plus scabreux le
language n'est pas trop dépouillé ^artifice comme dirait
Boileau.]*

" Roman erotique, moderne et inédit, qui peut soutenir la
comparaison avec les plus agréables productions du i8^me siècle
en ce genre."-)-

These commendations are not unmerited. Although the epi-
sodes are neither very striking or novel, they are natural and
agreeable ; and the book is written throughout with that delicacy
of expression only attainable in the French language. The
letters pass between two girls of entirely different natures—the
one of decidedly male proclivities, the other thoroughly femi-
nine ; they have been intimate at school, and now mutually com-
municate their experiences ; Albertine tells chiefly her conquests
among her own sex, while Adèle narrates her discoveries gained
by peeping through key holes and windows, until she willingly
sacrifices her own virginity, and this she writes to her friend
with all the details. They both get married, and though the
tender Adèle soon becomes reconciled to domestic life, Albertine
" n'a pas réussi à se rallier entièrement à l'amour orthodoxe ;
elle est restée quelque peu hérétique, et ne peut se défendre
d'une prédilection marquée pour celles de ses jeunes pension-
naires (she keeps a school) qui, à une jolie figure, joignent des
formes notablement accusées."

* See Introduction, ante,
t Bulletin Trimestriel, No. a.

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" Un Été à la Campagne " has been ascribed, but falsely, to
M. Droz ; the author's name is not known, but the origin of
the book is as follows : A young man called one day on M.
Poulet-Malassis, then in partnership with M. Lécrivain, and
offered him an erotic novel which he had written, and which
the enterprising publisher purchased for a trifling sum. On
looking the MS. through, M. Poulet-Malassis found that
although the style was dull, the tale was capable of improve-
ment ; he set to work, rewrote the book, and made of it what
he afterwards gave to the public. If then he did not conceive
the work, M. Poulet-Malassis may at least claim the honour
for being its part author.

HBfbfbtíttm Of Jfemalt JfíaffelíaittSÍ, in the Modest & In-
continent World, Proving from indubitable Facts that a
number of Ladies take a secret Pleasure in whipping their
own, and Children comitted (sic) to their care, and that
their Passion for exercising and feeling the Pleasure of a
Birch-Rod, from Objects of their Choice of both Sexes, is
to the full as Predominant as that of Mankind. Now
First Published, from Authentic Anecdotes, French &
English, found in a Lady's Cabinet. Embellished with
six beautiful Quarto Prints, Superior to any thing of
the kind ever Published. London. Printed for G.
Peacock N° 66. Drury Lane.

8vo ; pp. 51 ; the title page is engraved, and the letters
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Cupid bound to a tree, and a young girl seated, preparing a
birch to chastise him.* The work as it stands is complete in
itself, although a second part was afterwards published, φ

In 1872 J. C. Hotten reprinted this vol. (in 8vo., pp. 67,
adding date 1777, and omitting any mention of the "plates," %
the title in other respects printed verbatim) and six other works
on Flagellation, to be specified anon, which he classified as :
" Library Illustrative of Social Progress. From the ,Original
Editions collected by the late Henry Thomas Buckle, Author
of ^ζ A History of Civilization in England.' " He further had
printed on separate sheets, and distributed among his private
customers, the following circular and list:

" THE MANIA FOR FLOGGING AND THE BIRCH."

" It is well known that the the late Henry Thomas Buckle,
author of ' A History of Civilization,' collected a large library
of curious books. Amongst the many topics that engaged his
attention was the subject of Chastisement, viz., Discipline
with a Birch or other implement. By rare good fortune, he
collected an almost complete set of the astounding books issued
by George Peacock, in the last century, and as no other ex-
amples of some of these rarities are known to exist, it is
proposed to privately print a few copies as ^c Curiosities of

* I have only seen one copy of this tract, which had been much cut down
by the binder, it is probable that the title began with ^<{ The," and there may
have been a date. The copy in question was unfortunately without plates.

t See post, p. 245.

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Literature/ Apart from their extreme rarity, the works are
remarkable for the light they throw upon the state of society
in the last century, and the mania that possessed all classes for
chastising and being chastised.

"Accompanying this is a list of the 7 volumes already
proposed. The price will be 15s. per volume, or ^5 for the
series, payable in advance. A volume will be issued each
month, commencing with January 1872.

" The paper will be made expressly, and ribbed or wire-laid,
precisely as the paper of the last century. The printing will be
of the very choicest description ; in fact, neither expense nor
pains will be spared in the production.

" Should collectors of curious books care to pursue Mr.
Buckle's studies farther, it is proposed to continue with the
* Dancing ' and other Manias that have in other times
possessed society.*

" 1. Exhibition of Female Flagellants in the Modest
and Incontinent World.

" 2. Part Second of the Exhibition of Female Flagel-
lants in the Modest and Incontinent World.

"3. Lady Bumtickler's Revels. A Comic Opera, as
Performed at a Private Theatre with unbounded Applause.

" 4. A Treatise of the Use of Flogging in Venereal
Affairs. Also in the Office of the Loins and Reins. By
Meibomius.

* No other series except that at present under notice was done.

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" 5. Madam Birchini's Dance. A Modem Tale, with
Original Anecdotes collected in Fashionable Circles. By Lady-
Termagant Flaybum.

" 6. Sublime of Flagellation : in Letters from Lady
Termagant Flaybum to Lady Harriet Tickletail.

"■ 7. Fashionable Lectures : Composed and Delivered
with Birch Discipline, by the following Beautiful Ladies."

Now in all this there is not a word of truth ; the original
tracts did not come from the library of Buckle, nor had he, in
all probability, ever seen them. All seven had been for many
years, and are still, in the possession of a well known London
collector. They are bound together in one volume half calf,
and in exactly the order in which Hotten reproduced them, but
which is certainly not in accordance with the dates of their
original publication. The fact is the present possessor of the
volume in question lent it to Hotten, who had it surreptitiously
reprinted, without the owner's permission or knowledge.

Hotten's edition consists of 250 copies of each vol., not more
than 30 of which had been sold at the time of his death, the
remainder of the issue was then disposed of in 1873, to Mr.
J. W. Bouton, of New York.

Two remarks may at once be made concerning the whole
series (excluding of course the able work of Meibomius,
No. 4 of Hotten's reissue, which should not be associated with
the other rubbish). In a literary point of view they are
generally worthless, and are insufferably dull and tedious,—one

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idea—one only—is harped upon throughout all of them, and
this is not true to nature. Flagellation, if it has any value, is a
preparation for, an incentive to, a higher pleasure (for it can
scarcely be called a pleasure itself), a means towards an end,
not the end itself. Now, in no single anecdote throughout the
series is the flagellation immediately followed by anything else ;
the chastisement begins and ends each performance.

Further, it is always the woman who wields the rod, never
the man, and this, to say the least of it, is entirely one sided ;
for there can be no doubt that men have as strong a predilec-
tion for whipping girls (and even boys) as for being whipped
themselves.

With regard to the volume under consideration, " Exhibition
of Female Flagellants/' it is a collection of anecdotes in prose,
illustrative of the passion for the birch when administered by
the woman to the man ; and in birching, as in most other things,
skill and delicacy are necessary : ^α Know then thou silly girl,
(said Flirtilla) there is a manner in handling this sceptre of
felicity, that few ladies are happy in : it is not the impassioned
and aukward brandish of a vulgar female that can charm, but
the deliberate and elegant manner of a woman of rank and
fashion, who displays all that dignity in every action, even to
the flirting of her fan, that leaves an indelible wound. What a
difference between high and low-life in this particular ! To see
a vulgar woman when provoked by her children, seize them as
a tyger would a lamb, rudely expose their posteriors, and

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correct them with an open hand, or a rod more like a broom
than a neat collection of twigs elegantly tied together ; while a
well-bred lady, coolly and deliberately brings her child or pupil
to task, and when in error, so as to deserve punishment, com-
mands the incorrigible Miss to bring her the rod, go on her
knees, and beg with uplifted hands an excellent whipping ;
which ceremony gone through, she commands her to lye across
her lap, or to mount on her maid's shoulders, and then with
the loveliest hands imaginable removes every impediment from
the whimpering lady's b—e, who all the time, with tears, and in-
treaties of the sweetest kind implores her dear mother or governess,
to pardon her ; all which the lovely disciplinarian listens to with
the utmost delight, running over with rapture at the same time
those white, angelic orbs, that in a few minutes she crimsons as
deep as the finest rose, with a well-exercised and elegantly-
handled rod!" (p. 4). Compare with this a passage at p. 181
of " The Merry Order of St. Bridget,'* in which the same idea
is reproduced, and which I transcribe under that title.

Of the " Exhibition of Female Flagellants " there are two
other editions, viz. :

" Wt)t UStbfbitUm of Jfhnale Jlagrilantsi* Suus cuique

mos. London : Printed at the Expense of Theresa Berkley,
for the Benefit of Mary Wilson, by John Sudbury, 252, High
Holborn."

On this title page there is a vignette of a hand brandishing a

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rod. A second title page, decorated with a small Roman lamp,

gives us : " Cjtfututw JflapIIanttumu

Delicias pariunt Veneri cíudelía flagra ;
Dum nocet, ille juvat, dum juvat, ecce nocet

Londini : Apud Nourse et Wingrave. 1793."

Tall i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 58 including one title page only ;
4 coloured folding plates of fair execution, and a well engraved
frontispiece,* representing a very pretty girl wielding a birch,
under which is the name " Mary Wilson." This edition,
which was published about 1830, by John Cannon, contains the
same matter as the original, plus an " Advertisement," signed
Theresa Berkely, in which is given a short account of Mary
Wilson, and in which the first edition is mentioned as " origi-
nally published about fifty years since, and is now become so
very scarce as seldom to be obtained, and then not under Five
Guineas a copy."

The other edition is in the well known Holywell Street form,
8vo, pp. 64 in all, with 8 badly done lithographs ; the title is
identical with the English one of the edition immediately above
mentioned, minus "John Sudbury, 252, High Holborn;" it
contains all the matter in the original, the " Advertisement "
mentioned above, and an addition entitled "Fragmenta" (p. 55
to end of vol.), which comprises an anecdote from " The

* Reproduced by Hotten as Frontispiece to his publication, " The Ro-
mance of Chastisement," see that title.

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Cherub," * and one or two other anecdotes of the same class.
This reprint was done about i860, by W. Dugdale.

"part töe âwrmïf* of tóe tifr&fflftfon of Jfemale jflagel*

lantö* In the Modest and Incontinent World. Proving from
Indubitable Facts, That a Number of Ladies take a Secret Plea-
sure, In Whipping their own, And Children committed to their
care ; and that their Passion for Exercising and Feeling the ex-
quisite Pleasure of a Birch-Rod, from objects of their Choice,
of Both Sexes, is to the full as Predominant, as that of Man-
kind. Now First Published from a Lady's Manuscript, and a
Number of Letters sent to the Editor of the First Part of this
original Work. Embellished with Six highly-finished Prints,
from beautiful Paintings. Price One Guinea Plain, or a Guinea
and a Half in Colours. London : Printed for George Pea-
cock, No. 66, Drury-Lane. mdcclxxxv."

8vo. ; pp. viii and 60 ; letter-press title. Reproduced by Hot-
ten as No. 2 of the " Library Illustrative of Social Progress,"-)"
8vo. ; pp. 84 ; from the title however is omitted the paragraph
referring to the illustrations and price ; further Mr. Hotten cut
out of the " Preliminary Address " two passages in which
prints are mentioned, and suppressed in toto a curious and
facetious letter (covering, in the original, four pages), in which a
correspondent, " Philopodex," communicates to the editor his

* Given in this work, see p. 159.
t See p. 240, ante.

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opinions and advice respecting iliustrations for " a very superb
work to be forthcoming very soon, entitled, ' An Exhibition of
Female Flagellants.' " " In the first place then, (he observes)
I hope (a hope the title seems to encourage me in,) it will
consist of a display of Female Backsides, for though I think a
Ladies Bum uncovered an agreeable and diverting object, I
would not give a farthing to see a man's A—, this I believe is
only agreeable to persons of a certain description, too bad to be
countenanced: But to see the representation of an agreeable
young Lady having her petticoats pulled up, and her pretty
pouting Backside laid bare, and seeming to feel the tingling
stripes of a rod, is amusing enough : such is that excellent print
of yours, the Countess Du Barre's Whim, which is nearly
perfect in its kind—I would therefore, have your book contain
such subjects and such descriptions—Now a word or two to
the engraver. Let him pourtray the Lady's Backside, which no
doubt will be the principal figure in the piece, round, plump,
and large ; rather over than under the size, which the usual
proportion of painters and statuaries would allow ; let him in
general present it full and completely bared to the eye ; though
in some plates for variety, he may give it us sideling, or a little
bit of the Ladies under petticoat or shift, shading some part of
it, and, let it be remembered, that if he has that complete
knowledge of his subject I imagine he has, and is a man of
genius, a large field is open before him to display it in. He may
show us several different sorts of Backsides, all of them natural,

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and proper ; all of them elegant and handsome (for there is
almost as much difference in tails as in heads) but not all alike ;
he certainly will not give the little round firm backside of fifteen
to ñvt and thirty, nor the full mellow bum of the middle aged
Lady, to the boarding school Miss." Philopodex proceeds to
give directions as to the implement to be used, not " a great
wisp of something which they suppose will do to represent a
rod," but a " stinging tickle-tail, the dread of naughty Miss—
a tingling rod, which the admirers of this diversion might know
to be made of their darling birch," and he hints : " It is pro-
bable that in some of these prints, there will be other figures
besides the principal, the bare a—'d Lady ; now though we
cannot have the satisfaction of seeing the pretty bums of them
all, an ingenious delineator might so contrive it, to heighten
the lusciousness of the whole piece, that one by some careless
posture might show her legs, another her breasts, and the dress of
others might be so managed, as to give us the idea of a very large
and full backside, concealed under the swelling drapery. Thus
would each plate present us with a very beautiful and enter-
taining ¿out ensemble, and these little circumstances and
adjuncts prove a seasonable relief to the eye, fatigued and
overpowered by the blaze of beauty, from the naked a—e of
the Lady enjoying the sweets of the Birch, darting full upon
us, without the least bit of petticoat, or smock interposing, by
way of cloud, to ease our scorched senses." "Philopodex" con-
cludes in a " P.S. I thought it unnecessary to advise you, that

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all the figures should be dressed ; every Lady should have her
shift on at least ; nakedness must always in these matters
be partial, to give the highest degree of satisfaction."*

The second part of the " Exhibition of Female Flagellants "
is similar to the first—a collection of anecdotes about birchings
administered by female hands ; the use of flowers-f- in " re
Veneria " is dilated upon : " After she had done (whipping her)
she took Miss N. to the garden, and picked for her a beautiful
nosegay, but so monstrously large that she was almost ashamed
to wear it. However as her friend wore one of an equal size,
she pinned it to her bosom ; I see, my dear, said she, you are
not acquainted with the secret influence of flowers ; know my
dear girl that their sweet perfume has an uncommon effect on
many men and women ; but to have that effect on men they
must adorn a lovely bosom like yours." (p. 3).

According to the correct fashion the bouquet should be very
large, and worn on the left side of the breast.

* Some other passages relating to illustrations, but of no material im-
portance, have been expunged in Hotten's reprint.

f Refer on this subject to Mr. J. Davenport's " Aphrodisiacs and Anti-
aphrodisiacs " (p. 107), in which he quotes Cabanis to the following effect :
" Odours act powerfully upon the nervous system, they prepare it for all the
pleasurable sensations ; they communicate to it that slight disturbance or
commotion which appears as if inseparable from emotions of delight, all which
may be accounted for by their exercising a special action upon those organs
whence originate the most rapturous pleasures of which our nature is susceptible.
In infancy its influence is almost nothing, in old age it is weak, its true epoch
being that of youth, that of love."

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There is yet another modern edition of the work, the title
slightly altered :

"Çart tí)t awmtïu €í)t f trank jfiagellantö íntfjeSeau«

arøOltOe anîj tfte MtmúfflOrítit ; proving from indubitable facts
that the Secret Pleasure of Whipping their own children and
those of others, and that the Delights of the Birch Rod are as
powerful in the female as in the masculine part of humanity.
Now First Published from the Manuscript of a Lady, and from
Original Correspondence addressed to the Editor of the First
Part. With highly Coloured Engravings. Two Guineas."

8vo. ; pp. 62 ; 8 plates in all, fairly drawn and coloured, the
frontispiece is a fancy design, a winged arse in clouds, encircled
by male and female pudenda, with the words " Anecdotes of
Female Flagellants." This edition, which was published by
W. Dugdale in 1866, contains the whole of the matter in the
original, including the letter of " Philopodex."

John Camden* Hotten was born in London 1832, and died
at his residence on Haverstock Hill, June 14, 1873. He was
the son of William Hotten, of Probus, and Maria, daughter of
Mr. Crawling, of Roche.*)-

" I was born (writes Mr. Hotten)^ in London, on the 12th of
September, 1832, in an old house, long since pulled down, ad-
joining the gate of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, formerly

* He was not christened " Camden," but assumed that name.

f Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, vol. 1. p. 255.
X In a MS. still existing in his own hand-writing.
HH

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the head quarters of the English branch of the Knights Tem-
plars. My father and mother were from Probus, in Cornwall,
the churchyard of winch little village is nearly full of the
tomb stones of the Hotten, Hotton, Hutton families. This
branch of the Hottens came from Gloucestershire, where a mem-
ber of the same branch had intermarried into the Camden family;
another branch had become connected with the Wren family,
from which came Sir Christopher Wren, the famous architect
of St. Paul's Cathedral. I was educated at the Manor House,
a collegiate school upon the estate of the Marquis of North-
ampton. At a very early age Ï showed a great passion for
books, and when 11 years old possessed a respectable library
of 450 vols., a catalogue of which is still preserved. This
library was stored in an old chamber of Dr. Adam Clarke's
residence, which my father had just purchased from the Clarke
family, adjoining the Palace of Bishop Berkeley.

"At 15 I exhibited such a strong love of books that Mr.
Petheram, the author of an Anglo-Saxon Grammar, and
kindred works, readily allowed me to spend a few hours each
day in his book store, which contained an extraordinary gather-
ing of curious old works. Mr., afterwards Lord, Macaulay
used to make daily visits to Mr. Petheram's shop for the
purpose of securing any old books and tracts which might suit
his collections. I used to lay aside anything which I thought
might interest the historian, and would often submit to him me-
moranda of books Î had seen elsewhere. These little attentions

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made me a favourite with _sMacaulay, who however, on one
occasion when in an irritable mood, threatened me with
chastisement for not speedily obtaining change for a £$«-
Note, and in the heat of the moment actually did topple upon
me a large quarto volume which he held in his hand at the time.

" Soon after this I was prevailed upon to accompany my
elder brother to one of the West India Islands, which was to
be the field for a Robinson Crusoe scheme of adventure. The
family did all in their power to prevent our wild and romantic
determination, but we exhibited so much resolution that our
friends at length gave a reluctant consent for our departure.
After a narrow escape from shipwreck upon the reefs near the
Tortuga Islands, we landed at the Belize, with two chests of
books, and two chests of tools and fire-locks—the latter we
thought necessary to build and protect there a wooden house
or castle we decided upon building. After six weeks of the
realities of ^£ adventure/ we found out the impracticability of our
scheme, and we separated at New Orleans, my brother Chris-
topher having selected Minnesota, and I having accepted the
offer of a gentleman to accompany him to Galena, Illinois.
My friend—who had been teaching in the south, and I took
passage in the ill-fated Unde Goby, out of whose 120
passengers 45 died of the cholera and where buried in egg
boxes on the Mississippi banks before Galena was reached.

" In Galena I made the acquainance of Captain Orrin
Smith's family ; and it was in the Galena Gazette, conducted

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by Mr. Houghton, that my first literary contributions were
published. The Tannery of Mr. Grant, now President Grant,
lay just below my rooms, near Fever River. I knew him very
well, and certainly never supposed from his quiet manner that
he would reach his present position. With Mr. E. B.
Washburne I formed a warm friendship, and when in 1854 I
revisited my native country, and the present Minister to Paris,
with Millard Filmore, and Senator Morgan came to Europe"—
Here Mr. Hotten's own narrative abruptly terminates.

In 1855 he commenced business in a very small shop, No. 1 j it>
Piccadilly, directly opposite the larger establishment which
acquired a world wide renown under his rule ; and a few years
later married a Miss Charlotte Stringer, by whom he had three
daughters now living, and a son who died in infancy.

Mr. Hotten was not only an enterprising publisher and clever
editor, he was also an author not destitute of merit, and would
no doubt have done better things had not his business so
completely absorbed his time. He was almost the only
respectable English publisher of tabooed literature, and in this
he took great delight. His private library of erotic literature
was extensive, and was, at his death, purchased en Hoc by a
London amateur.

Allibone* gives an imperfect list of his numerous publica-
tions, including, of the privately printed class, " Knight's

* Crit. Die. of English Literature, Vol. 2, p. 2325, art. " Syntax."

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Worship of Priapus " only ; most of the others of that kind
will be found noticed in these pages. I have no space to com-
plete Allibone's list of his general publications, but will mention
one book only, entirely written by Mr. Hotten, viz., " Literary
Copyright. Seven Letters addressed to Earl Stanhope. 1871."

Mr. Hotten was buried at Highgate Cemetery, and a modest
tombstone was erected to his memory by the London
booksellers.

At the time of his death there appeared in the colums of the
" Bookseller," a letter, truthful as it is kind and sympathetic,
from the pen of his friend, Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd ;
I venture to reproduce it here :

" As a caterer during the last fifteen years for the great
reading public in England, the name of John Camden Hotten
will not soon pass out of memory, and his early death
seems to call for some further notice than the brief announce-
ment in the obituary column of the Times.

" The career thus prematurely closed was in every sense a re-
markable one. Without either capital or friends to back him,
he succeeded, in an incredibly short space of time, in combating
all the disadvantages and drawbacks of his start in life ; and, by
steady and indomitable perseverance, placed himself, in a few
years, at the very summit of his calling.

" During the last eight years he occupied a position as a pub-
lisher second to none in the trade. His acuteness in feeling the
pulse of the bookmarket, in gauging the public taste, and supply-
ing it with exactly the sort of literary pabulum it required, was
truly extraordinary. No public event or topic of general interest
but found him prepared with his book or brochure. No new
humourist or poet appeared among our Transatlantic brethren

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but he was imported and naturalized here for the delectation of
English readers. Artemus Ward, Lowell, Holmes, Walt
Whitman, Hans Breitmann, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, owe
nearly all their reputation here to him.

" Of late years he was extensively resorted to as publisher
by some of the most rising and promising of our younger
generation of poets. This branch of his business steadily
increased since 1866, when, it should be remembered to
his honour, he came forward as the champion of a young
genius against whom the reviews were then raising and
echoing a clamour of obloquy that caused a leading West-end
publishing firm to stop the sale of his books. It must
not be forgotten that he alone at that time had the courage
to offer himself as Mr. Swinburne's publisher, and by his
sturdy and persistent attitude, enabled the young poet to
weather the storm of abuse.

" A noticeable feature in his career was the kindness and
encouragement he was always ready to extend to young
beginners in literature, many of whom got a fair start
under his auspices which they would have found it difficult
to obtain elsewhere. When he saw they possessed talent,
and were willing to exert it, he at once put them into
harness ; and if they sometimes rebelled against the yoke, and
thought they could ascend from the bottom to the top of the
ladder without the slow and painful process of mounting the
intermediate steps, that, surely, was their fault, and not his.

" When leisure sufficient presented itself, which was not often,
he would occasionally take the pen in hand himself, act as his own
editor, and write an amusing preface or biography like that of
William Coombe ; rarely lacking a certain pungency and verve,
but exhibiting generally the fatal defect of haste. The atmo-
sphere of hurry and worry in which he lived and moved and had
his being was, indeed, hardly compatible with the contemplative
habit of mind necessary for original composition ; nor do I
suppose he would ever have attained much excellence in that

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department. His letters, however, of which some two hundred,
addressed to myself during the brief space of four years, now
lie before me, form an important exception to this remark ;
they were admirable in their kind—always graphic, terse, pithy,
epigrammatic, and to the point.

" He would often playfully allude to some humorous incident
in his past career, or himself quiz some odd quaint trait in his
own character, and laughingly say to me, ⁴ That will do for a
page of my biography when you come to write it.' I little
thought then that I should so soon be called upon to pen a
memorial of him.

" No one who was ever privileged to enjoy a walk in his
company on the breezy heights of Hampstead, on one of those
rare occasions when he would throw off for an hour or two the
everlasting cark and worry of business, could have failed to notice,
or can easily forget, his keen enjoyment of the scenery and the
sunlight, or to understand how great was the sacrifice he im-
posed on himself in resolving

'To spurn delights and live laborious days.'

At such moments the better side of his nature would expand
itself in happy genial intercourse, and he would pour forth
a stream of anecdote and humour, of keen observations on
men and manners, and on the books that he loved so .well.
Nor shall I be transgressing the limits of a wise reserve when I say
that it was equally delightful to see him in his own house, in
the midst of whose modest happiness he would unbend as he
seldom allowed himself to do elsewhere. In such suburban
rambles, and in his own domestic circle, he seemed for a while
to regain all the joyous spirits and insouciance of a schoolboy.
Back at his business again, you scarcely recognised the same
man, and those who only knew him there knew only the less
amiable half of his character. In his indefatigable zest for
work he had little tolerance for anything like fainéantism or
shirking in those about him. He expected a loyal concurrence
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and where he failed to get it, would not infrequently express
his displeasure in no measured terms.

" What a faculty for work he had was a lasting wonder even to
those who knew him best. He would reach Piccadilly at ten, read
and answer a mass of correspondence, sometimes extending to
fifty or sixty letters in one morning ; he would see customers,
authors, artists, printers, stationers, binders, going into elaborate,
complicated details with each, and then, snatching half-an-hour
for a hasty meal in the neighbourhood, would go through the same
programme again in the afternoon, rarely leaving his shop much
before nine o'clock in the evening, and then frequently taking
some young writer or artist half the way home with him, to
discuss a new plan, or give instructions for fresh work. There
was something heroic in all this, if of a degenerate modern kind.
His fertile brain seemed never to be at rest. He overtasked it, and
it has at last given way under the strain. Essentially ' a man of
the time,' he felt he must keep pace with the railroad speed of
the age, or leave others to outstrip him in the race. As a loyal
servant to the public, untiring and unresting, he lived and died
in harness. Over his newly closed grave the little jealousies
and quarrels of the moment—^ζ envy, hatred, and all unchari-
tableness '—must be silent. Whatever may have been his
faults and shortcomings, this is no place or time to mention
them. The active brain has ceased from its labours ; the dust,
the turmoil and the fever of life are over ;—the impetuous
torrent of his existence is absorbed in that ocean of eternity
whither we all are hastening so fast. R. H, S."

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B*Pf|5§j $H&1)iQltÜhlt ítttllVtS t composed and delivered witli
jff|g!|f Birch Discipline, By the following, and many other
ΚτπΤ^τΙ Beautiful Ladies, Who have filled with universal ap-
probation, the characters of Mother, Step-Mother, Govern-
ess, Lady's Maid, Kept-Mistress, House-Keeper, &c. &c.

Mrs. R—nson,                     Mrs. Price,                          Mrs. Booker,

Lady G—r,                         Miss C—ver—ng,                Charlotte Spencer,

Mrs. M—h—η,                    Clara Hay—d,                    Mrs. Corbyn,

Mrs. Β—η—11,                    Mother Birch,                      Mrs. Judge,

The late Miss Kennedy, Mrs. Arm—d,                     Mrs. Far—ar,

Kit. Frederick,                     Mrs. Coxe,                          Signora Frasi,

Lady W—ley,                     Mrs. L—w—ce,                   Signora G—Hi,

Mrs. R—pe,                        Mrs. Hughes,                      Fanny Murray,

Madame Β—Ui,                  Miss Scott,                          Fanny Herbert,

Charlotte Hayes,                 Miss Villers,                        Miss Faulkner,

Mrs. Rudd,                          Kitty Fisher,                       Mrs. Woff— gton,

Mi_ss c—t—                       Mrs. Austin,                       Nancy Parsons,

Mrs. Η—η ter,                     Lucy Cooper,                       Signora Ζ—Hi,

Mrs. Miller,                         Sally Harris,                       Mrs. Badd—ly,

Mrs. Bridgeman,                 Lady L—n—er,                   Miss Oliver,

Mrs. Baker,                         Signora S—i,                      Miss Goldsmith,

Mrs. Lessingham,                Kitty Cut-a-dash,                The Countess of Medina,

Mrs. Watson,                      Mrs. Car—,                        Mrs. Wil—n,

Mrs. Dal—-pie,                    Mrs. Bulk—y,                     Miss Ray,

With Preliminary Observations on the Pleasures of Birch₃
administered by the lovely hand of a Favourite Lady.
Embellished with a fine half-sheet Print of a Step-mother
whipping her Son.

Philosophers who've studied Nature,

And all our holy Fathers swear,

Λ Rod's the best invigorator,

A Rod applied upon the Rear. Vide, Madame Birchini's Dance.
'Tis as great a Provocative as Cantharides or Viper Broth, for it irritates
the Blood, and gives new vigour to the flagging Spirits.

The Wanton Jesuit, an Opera.

The Fourth Edition, With Considerable Additions.
London : Printed for G. Peacock, No. 66, Drury-Lane.
π

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8vo. ; pp. 42 ; although only one "print" is mentioned on the
title page, others seem to have been added, for in the catalogue
terminating " Madame Birchini's Dance," as well as in that at
end of " Lady Bumtickler's Revels," I find the book advertised
"With sice prints, plain ¿gi. 1. o., or coloured ¿gi. 11. 6."

Reprinted by Hotten as the seventh and last vol. of the
"Library Illustrative of Social Progress ;"* 8vo.; pp. 120 and 2
unnumbered of catalogue ; title page verbatim, except that the
quotations and mention of the print are omitted.

This is the most curious, original, and, as I take it, one of the
first published tracts of the series.-"j- It may be called the drama
of flagellation, the action being conveyed entirely by dialogues or
monologues. My reasons for supposing that it was the first of
the series are these : 1 The " Exhibition of Female Flagellants,
part 1," begins with an allusion to the work : "Mere fiction (says
Clarissa, closing the Fashionable Lectures, which she had been
just reading), ridiculous nonsense!" And an advertisement at
the end of Part 2 of the same work intimates that " Fashionable
Lectures " can be had with ^u a new edition of the first part of
this Work just published." 2. "Fashionable Lectures" figures
in the Catalogue terminating " Madame Birchini's Dance."
3. At the end of the " Sublime of Flagellation," appears
this very curious :

* Refer to p. 241 of this work.

f I mean of course the ßrst edition of the book, the one which heads
this notice, be it remarked, \s the fourth edition. The quotation from " Madame
Birchini's Dance " on the title page which I have transcribed over leaf may have
been added to that late edition.

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" CARD,

" Addressed to Gentlemen Flagellants.

" A short while after the Fashionable Lectures appeared in
Paris, the following Card was delivered by the booksellers to
every purchaser of the work.

" All those purchasers of the Lectures, who may have a
curiosity to judge of their effect when delivered with propriety,
will be referred to a lady of distinguished personal and mental
accomplishments, who, on a proper compliment being made
her, will deliver any one of the lectures, with all the eloquence
and energy of impassioned voice and action happily united.

" The Lady has a house of her own, and her Lecture Room is
furnished with rods, cat-o'-nine-tails, and some of the best
prints on Flagellation. The lady has a stout woman in her
house, able to take a man on her back, when he chuses to be
treated like a school-boy ; and she and her maid are willing to
be passive sometimes in the use of the rods, when required.
Price of the delivery of the first lecture, a guinea—every lecture
after half-a-guinea, and half a crown to the maid, if employed
as a horse on the occasion.

" N.B. Single gentlemen, who are fond of representing
school-boys, waited on by mistress and maid at any hour, before
they are up in the morning, at their own houses, where the
delightful divertissement of being taken out of bed, horsed and
whipt, for not going to school, will be played to admiration."

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f^§|¡l ©meant^ropna Ιο. Benedicti Sinibaldi Archiatri
aSgg|ju         et Professons Romani

Allegorical title page (which I reproduce), well designed, and
finely engraved, measuring 9^ inches f high χ 6J wide, signed in
right hand corner " C. C. F." On a second printed title page,
embellished with a small square vignette, we read :

Io. Benedicti Sinibaldi Leonissani Archiatri, & in Romano
Archigymnasio Medicinæ Practicæ Professons 4&tt\tål\tf)VOs
QtÎUt siue De Hominis Generatione Decatevchon Vbi ex
ordine quæcunque ad Humanæ Generationis liturgiam, eius-
demque Principia, Organa, Tempus, Vsum, Modum,Occasionem,
Voluptatem, aliasque omnes affectiones, quæ in aphrodisrjs acci-
dere quoquomodo soient, ac possunt Dedita Opera Plenè,
methodicè, & iucundè pertractantur. Opvs Nimirvm Philoso-
phis, Philiatris, Philomusis apprimè vtile. Ad Eminentiss. et
Reverendiss. Principem Raynaldvm S. R. E. Principem Card.
De Este. Romæ, Ex Typographia Francisci Caballi.
M.DC.XLII. Svperiorvm Permissv."

Folio (counts 4) ; double columns ; 1050 cols., and 53 pp.
unnumbered, besides 2 title pages ut supra, and a full title page
to each of the 10 books except the first ; there is a copious

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alphabetical index ; original edition ;* noted by Bauer}~ as
" opus infrequens."

Second edition : 4to. ; letter-press title and bastard title ; the
title is in red and black, slightly abridged, but with addition of:
"Adjecta est Historia Foetus Mussipontani.", the impress
becomes, "Francofurti, Sumptibus Johannis Pietri Zubrodt,
Anno M.DC.LXIX." ; % a well executed engraving, headed
"Iusta á Deo Roganda.," decorates the title page; pp. 85r,
preceded by 28 preliminary pages including titles, and followed
by 70 pages of Index, all unnumbered ; the " Historia Foetus "
follows on after the Index, with separate pagination, and full
title pages ; it is composed of 6 books, or rather separate works,
each with a new full title, as follows :

"ÍltótOría jfaetUS ¿HUStøtøontani extra utemm in
abdomine reperti et lapidescentis Cum Adiectis Variorvm
Excellentissimorvm Virorvm Commends. Francofurti Sump-
tibus IoANNis Petri Zubrodt. Anno m.dc.lxix."

" Antonii Deusingii Med. ae Philos. ffúttUÜ ¿tttlØØtpOfø
tElît, Extra Vterum In Abdomine geniti, Secundinæ detectæ:
Quibus multa Naturas admiranda & abstrusa in lucem eruuntur.
Accessit giotøria partttö InftKríSf Quo Gemellorum ex utero
in Abdominis cavum elapsorum, Ossa sensim, mul tis annis post,

* There is a copy in the British Museum wifh press mark 778 i 5.

t Bibliotheca Librorum Rarioram, 3rd Supplement, p. 240.

X There is a copy in the British Museum with press mark 778 o 11.

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per Abdomen ipsam in lucem prodierunt. Elenchus generalis
adjectus est."

The paging runs through both divisions, and consists of
172 pages (the last being numbered in error 158) ex titles, and
1 page unnumbered of Index. The colophon gives us the
date 16 Sep. Ann 1662, and signature "A. Devsingiv" (sic).

"iPføbtØtUtn unum et multiplex, visum et incredibile, Foetum
Humanum extra loca conceptvm, triginta annos Gestatuni,
Lapideum & viventem Natura Rerum Ludit, Orbis Terrarum
obstupescit, Muscipontana exhibet Civitas, Aquæ-Sextiæ
diluunt, Rationesque eius et mechanicam fælici referat stylo
D. HoNORATvs Maria Lavtier, Doctor Medicinae apud
Aquenses purpuratus." PP. 70 in all.

" Antonii Devsingii Med. & Philosoph. WítXbítífó Fœtus
Extra Uterum Geniti. Contra Tenebrionem, Bernhardum à
Doma, Sub Blottesandæi Personati Vexillo Larvato Gregarium
Stratioten." PP. 70 in all, the last page being unnumbered.

"iVÜÍtíU WUVÍU Celeberrirnorum Virorum De Foetus
Mussipontani Explicatione à Lavrentio Stravssio Institvta."

" Johann. Christoph. Eisenmengervs Üt Jfbttll 0lU&&U
pOntaUD Extra uterum in abdomine genito. Ad loh. Danielem
Horstivm."

The paging, 72 pp. in all, runs through these last two
divisions.

The transcription of the above six titles will suffice to show
the nature and importance of the additions made to the

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Frankfort edition. Let us now return to the original work of
Sinibaldus.

" Geneanthropeia " is certainly one of the most remarkable
works upon its subject, viz, physical love and its aberrations.
Here is a brief synopsis of the principal topics discussed in the
ten books into which it is divided : I. Concerning love and its
physical effects, considered under all its aspects. IL Of man
and woman in their sexual connections. Of animals and birds.
Cento Nuptialis of Ausonius. III. On the shape of the
Phallus. On Eunuchism. On Aphrodisiacs. IV. Concerning
the female organs of generation. V. On the seed of both
sexes, and on pollution. VI. On menstruation and sterility.
VIL On copulation, and on the influence of the stars upon
conception. VIII. Concerning the effects and manner of copu-
lation. On dwarfs, giants and monsters. IX. On the ills, and
bad results produced by copulation. X. Discussion on the
pleasure of copulation as enjoyed by man and woman. Of
certain symptoms which accompany that act.

The bare enumeration however of the subjects treated of
gives but a faint idea of the varied and amusing erudition with
which the book abounds. Here are a few of not the least
curious and interesting items scattered through its pages :
"Conceptio sine coitu" (col. 83) ; " Fœmina est animal imper-
fectum " (col. 113); ^u Principio tria hominum erant genera"
(col. 129); Thirty points necessary to perfect beauty (col. 147);
History of the birth of Priapus, and " Cur Priapus mutone rígido
pingeretur" (col. 154) ; "De vins et mulieribus obscenæ libidinis"

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(col. 227) ; " Antiquorum ceremoniæ quædam pené ridiculæ in
celebrandis nuptiis" (col. 277) ; "Plutarchi precepta connubialia"
(col. 282) ; History of Candaules King of the Lydians, ac-
cording to Herodotus (col. 287) ; Alphabet of the defects of
woman by Antonino bishop of Florence (col. 295) ; " Cenfo
nuptialis Ausonij" (col. 297) ; " De Eunuchismo, de Spadonibus,
de Frigidis et Maleficiatis" (col. 385) ; " Cur amantes qui ama-
siam diù exarserint, si detur fruendi licentia, frigent aliquando "
(col. 407) ; " De Venere péndula, alijsque Veneris figuris "
(col. 841); "De Veneris multiplici detrimento, ac summâ
pernicie" (col. 917) ; "De ijs, qui in re Veneris fuerunt extincti "
(col. 976) ; " Quid sit voluptas Veneris" (col. 1003). *

Sinibaldus is not altogether unknown in England ; his book
has, in a very emasculated form, been rendered into our lan-
guage in a rare and curious little volume~f~ of which the
following is the title :

"3&are Wtvittøi. €í)t Cabinet of Wtnm 2äitlorfeeö, and

Her Secrets laid open. Being a Translation of part of
Sinibaldus his Geneanthropeia, and a collection of some things
out of other Latin Authors, never before in English.

Lasciva est nolis pagina, vita proba.

HoraL
Omne tulit punctum qui ?tiiscuit utile dulci.

'< Mart.

Lex hæc carminièus data est jocosis,
Non posant, nisi prurîant, juvare,

London, Printed for P. Briggs, at the Dolphin in St. PauPs
Church-yard, 1658."

* The references are to the original edition.

f There is a copy in the British Museum with press mark P.C. 23 a 8.

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Small 8vo. ; pp. 72, preceded by 30 unnumbered pages of
title, epistle " To the Amorous Readers.", " An Epistle to his
Friend concerning the publishing his Book.", and " His
Friend's Reply.", and followed by 5 unnumbered pages of
"Index;" although the title page is dated 1658, the date
appended to the first epistle "To the Amorous Readers,"
signed "Erotodidascalus," is "Aug. 24, 1657."

I extract a few of the most curious chapter headings :
" Whether females may change their Sex." " Which is most
lustfull, a man or a beast." " Which of the two is most lustfull,
a Man or a Woman." " Which is most lustfull, a Maid or a
Woman?" "Examples of such Men and Women that have
been very lustfull and lecherous." " How to inlarge the pudenda
to a fit proportion, in case it be neither long, nor thick enough."
" How to shorten the Yard being too long." " A particular
relation of such things as will increase seed and lust." " How
to contract the Vulva being too large and wide."

Concerning the life of Sinibaldus, or Sinibaldi, few records
have been handed down to us ; he seems to have spent a
tranquil life, devoted to study and his profession. Riccio* gives
him a place among his Neapolitan celebrities, but tells us no
more than we can learn from Sinibaldus's book, viz., that he was
born at Lionessa, and was a doctor at Rome ; about the date
of his birth, or when or where he died, Riccio is silent. He

* Memorie Storiche degli Scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli.
KK

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adds however that, in his " Geneanthropeia," Sinibaldus pro-
pounds the doctrine, " che il seme della donna sia l'istrumento
principale della generazione, mentre il seme virile non sia altro
che lo stimolo a svolgere il seme della donna ovvero il germe."
The engraved title was undoubtedly done by Camille
Congius, whom Brulliot-f- notices as : " bon dessinateur et
graveur né à Rome vers 1604. Il a gravé un grand nombre
d'estampes dans la manière de Corneille Cort." He generally
used the initials C C, or C C F, the latter not unfrequently with
a line through them.

Cöe entufo* anïr <ßemarfeaöle Slnumrø oí tí)t Cetóbraírt

%XÜ)0X₉ $tetU*3rttÚU Printed in the Year m,dcc,lxcvi.(síc).

I2tno. ; pp. 84; printed in-London; the date, as it is given,
is not intelligible, a c appears to be put instead of an x, it
should probably read m,dcc,lxxvi. ; there should be plates.

The title is entirely false ; the story has nothing whatever to
do with Aretino, but is in truth (after the first three and a half
pages), simply that which was afterwards reprinted as "The
Amours, &c, of Tom Johnson,"* with slight alterations in the
names, "Francis" of this original being converted into "Tom,'»
& " Featherbrain " into " Johnson." Unknown to Gay.

t Diet, des Monogrammes, &c, Part 1, p. 144.
* See-ante, p. 49.

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Engraved title (in duplicate) prettily designed, the wording
interspersed with male and female pudenda, without place or
date; isssued at Brussels in 1872, price fres. 25.; form as
square 8vo.

The text is on 24 detached sheets, numbered, and printed on
one side only.

The engravings, " sur acier," of indifferent execution, 24 in
number, were done by Louis Jaugey from the photographs of
the celebrated paintings, executed in i860 by Ch. Herbes-
toffer of Paris, for the King of Italy, and known as the
" Collection (or Heures) de Faktor Emmanuel?*

The letter press, from the pen of the engraver, Jaugey, is
poor trash. Some students and artists, assembled after the
vacation, recount the adventures they have had since their
separation, by which means descriptions, suitable to the designs
of Herbes toffer, are introduced.

* Vide Iconographie des Estampes, &c, col. 3$9·

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^fåtotp oî Ü)t å>ttt of álaljárajasí, or ^allaioátfjárpg,

in Western India.

" Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove (or expose) them."—Ephesians V. 2.

London : Trübner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row. 1865.

Large 8vo. ; pp. xv, 182, and appendix 183; monogram
on title page ; a frontispiece of " A Group of the Bombay
Maharajas," five in number, from a photograph ; one full page
wood cut, and two wood cuts in the text.

Of this book, which has now become scarce, 500 copies
were struck off, of which 75 only were reserved for sale in
Europe, the remainder were sent to Bombay.

The author is Kar sand as Mulji, a Baniá Hindu of talent
and education, a perfect master of the English language, and
author of several books and pamphlets ; he was superintendent
of the Raj kote State, where he died, about 38 years of age, on
the 29th August, 1871.

The volume contains a sketch of the " Primitive Elements of
the Hindu Religion," with " Classification of Religious Books;"
" Religious Sects of the Hindus," with " Causes which gave
rise to various sects ; " " Origin of the Sect of Maharajas,"
" Chief Authority of the Sect," their " Religious Doctrines,"
"Worship," and its effects; "Profligacy of the Maharajas,"
and their " Oppressive Exactions," an account of the " Maháráj
Libel Case," with specimens of the Evidence pro and con,
which was an action brought in 1862, by Jadunáthji Brizrattanji,

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Maháráj of Surat, about 40 or 42 years of age, against
Karsandás Mulji, author of the volume before us, for an article
written by him in the "Rást Goftár and Satya Prakásh," a
paper of which he was the Editor.

A few extracts from the evidence given by various reliable
witnesses at the trial will show the enormities practised by the
Maharajas, and the servile doctrines believed in by their
followers.

" It is said that the Kahán or Krishna fthe Máháráj) is
the descendant of Vallabh. That is the belief entertained
by the sect. I (Karsandás Mulji the defendant) am some-
what familiar with and know the history of Krishna. He
is the subject of several avatars (incarnations). God (Krishna)
came to this earth in the shape of man; and 16,000 ^tfGopis'
(female cowherds) obtained salvation by falling in love with
Krishna. ' Ras Lila ' means amorous and wanton sport with
women. There is no sport imputed to Krishna, which is not
amorous sport. When a Maháráj dies, he is said to extend his
journey to the other world in amorous sport. The Maharajas
have neglected the instruction of the sect in their peculiar
doctrines. In the strict sense of the word, they are not the
preceptors of religion. The kanthi is applied to males and
females at the age of eight or ten. Both in the songs and in
the vow, reference is made to the tan, man, and dkan (body,
mind, and property). A person who makes a vow to give all
his ^c dhan,' binds himself to give his property, his wife, his son,

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and his daughter to the Maháráj or Thákurji. I have heard of
instances in which these offerings have been practically made
by the most devoted followers to the Maharajas. It is a matter
of general reputation in the sect that all the Maharajas have
carnal intercourse with the wives and daughters of their more
zealous devotees. Girls are sent to the Maharajas before being
touched by their husbands. I know of such instances."
(Appendix, p. 13).

" According to the Hindu religion * * * Adultery is a great
sin. Handling the breasts of females and throwing gulál on
their persons is considered as a sin equal to adultery, according
to the Shástras. ^c Red powder ' (gulál) is a sign of a bad design,
of an adulterous character. During the Holi holidays, the
Maháráj throws gulál on the breasts of female and male de-
votees, and directs the current of some water of a yellow colour
from a syringe upon the breasts of females. During the ' Ras
Mandali,' wives and husbands collect promiscuously in a room,
and have carnal intercourse promiscuously among them. The
' Ras Mandali * is held about three or four times in a month.
The Maháráj has actual sexual intercourse with many women,
and is called the husband of many women." (p. 14).

"I have seen Maharajas put their feet on the breasts of
dying men, with the view of purifying them of sin. Rewards
are paid for this, from Rs. 5 to Rs.iooo." (p. 17).

" In addition to the Marjádis, there are the * Varkats,' who
are considered the most zealous of the Maharajas' followers
They generally act as the procurers of Women for the Maharajas.

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Every Varkat is necessarily a pilgrim : they form a distinct caste."

(p. 17)·

" The Maháráj pretends to be, and is believed to be, the per-
sonification of God. In respect to salvation of souls the
Maháráj is superior to God, for it is said that when the
Maháráj gets angry with any one, God cannot save him from
the Maharajas' displeasure : but the Maháráj can save one
from God's displeasure." (p. 17).

" I have seen the females bow to the Maharajas, at the time
of worship in the temples, and I have seen the Maharajas
touch the toes of females of whom they are fond. Touching
the toe is indicative of a desire for carnal intercourse. The
females go into the zenáná, and the Maharajas go after
them. I have seen the managers of the Maharajas giving
water to Vaishnavas to drink, the water which fell from the
Maharaja's dhotiá (loin cloth). I have seen the leavings of the
Maharajas' food eaten by some Vaishnavas." (p. 18).

" As the females were the source of great income to the
Maharajas, it was rather a serious matter, he (the Maháráj)
said, to stop that source of income, and thus deprive them of
the means of defraying their expenses. He added that, like an
opium-eater, a man could not give up the practice of lust, and
therefore it was not possible to put a stop at once to the
practices of the Maharajas." (p. 35).

"At the meeting of the Bháttiás held in 1855, several
resolutions were passed, one of which was to prevent females

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from going to the temples at night during the cold season.
The object was to prevent them being defiled by the Maharajas.
I have seen Gokuládhisji make signs to females two or three
times about five or six years ago. From their dress I knew the
women belonged to our caste. The place in which the Maháráj
females reside is separate from the place where these acts are
committed. I have been to his bed-room, and have seen
females going into and coming out of his bed-room. I have
been there only once, ñve or six years ago. He has sent for
me, as there was a subscription list to be prepared. Widows
are constantly near the Maharajas' bed-rooms : it is their
business. I have seen Dwárkánáthji Maháráj giving a signal to
a female to go into his bed-room. On seeing me, he held back
his hand with which he was making the signal. She was
asking something of the Maháráj, and the latter said 'take this'
—(witness explains the very indecent attitude and signal made).
The female was a married woman, about twenty years of age."

(P· 37)·

"About twenty years ago I saw a Maháráj exhibiting in-
decent pictures to men and women. His conversation was all
about women : it was somewhat indecent. My opinion of the
character of the Maharajas for morality with women is very
unfavorable. I have attended three Maharajas (besides the
plaintiff) for venereal disease. (Witness was a doctor). On
one or two occasions a Maháráj applied to me for medicine
which would prevent a woman from being pregnant." (p. 40).

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Another doctor deposes: "In December, i860, I attended
on him (the plaintiff) professionally at his house. He was
suffering from venereal affection ; I made an ocular examination
of it and found it to be an ulcer. He gave me the history of the
case ; he said he_ had suffered from it three or four months
previously and had caught it and had it from an impure in-
tercourse with a woman. I prescribed the blackwash externally,
and mercury internally. Plaintiff said he had suffered some
years ago from the same affection, and had taken a preparation
of mercury, prepared by himself. Plaintiff asked me if I had
read in medical works that the disease would go by having
intercourse with a woman free from it. I said I had not. He
then said he had twice tried the experiment at Surat. He
succeeded once in it but not the second time, because he was
then much reduced." (p. 43).

" There is a temple dedicated to Lakshmi at Beyt, where I
once saw Jadunáthji Maháráj. There were females present in
the temple. After throwing gulál on the image, he threw it
upon a number of persons, and in doing so, he pressed the
breasts of a Bháttiá girl about fourteen years of age. As he
squeezed her breast, she smiled. He threw the gulál upon the
crowd, so that they might not see through it what he was
doing. I used to visit him at the place where he had put up.
My maternal uncle, Dámodar Devji, accompanied me. I went
to the plaintiff about one o'clock in the day, when he was in
his bed. My uncle went up and shampooed one of his legs.

LL

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I went up and followed his example. It is a great mark of
respect to shampoo the Maháráj's legs. The Bháttiá girl above
alluded to came there with a widow, about a quarter of an hour
after our arrival there. The widow whispered something into
plaintiff's ears, upon which he desired us to go out. We obeyed
the order. The widow came out with us and went in again.
The girl was left in the bed-room. When I went outside, my
uncle informed me of the visit of the females. Afterwards, the
widow came out, shut the door, put up the chain and held it
with her hand. The girl was inside all the time. In con-
sequence of certain conversation I had with my uncle, we both
went in again to see the Ras Lila, i. e. the plaintiff's con-
versation with the girl. We were allowed to go in the moment
we expressed a wish. I saw the plaintiff having carnal connex-
ion with the girl. Several people are often anxious to see
such Ras Lila. Plaintiff asked my uncle what I would pay
for seeing the Ras Lila. My uncle said that I would serve
him (plaintiff). I had to pay some money before I was allowed
to see the Ras Lila. I was then eighteen or nineteen years
old. The followers who are allowed to see the lila, as well as the
female who is defiled, have to pay money for the indulgence. It
is considered a pious act, and sure to lead to the paradise known
as Gowlok. I left the room shortly afterwards from shame ;
my uncle remained inside. Two or three days subsequently,
I saw another married Bháttiá female enter the plaintiff's
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* about eighteen years ago, I first heard of a ⁶ Ras Mandali.' I
was present at a Ras Mandali at Beyt about the time I spoke
of. There were twelve or thirteen men and thirteen or fifteen
females. It was held daily for some days at the appointed
place. On these occasions, after the persons had taken their
seats, the stories of the 84 and the 252 were read from a
book. Some offering is then made to the book, and sweetmeat,
fruit, or parched rice is placed upon the book. The sweetmeat
or fruit is then distributed among the meeting. The persons
who are not members, and who came merely to listen to the
stories, then left the room. I was a stranger at the meeting,
and when I retired the men and women were in the room. [The
witness then described the preparations which he saw made for
the Ras Mandali.] My uncle was a member, and was desired
by the other members to ask me to go out. The ^cRas
Mandalis ' are a matter of notoriety ; even a child of ñve years

knows of their existence...... Each member must go to

the meeting with his wife, except ' Varkats,* who are admitted
without their wives. Those followers of the Maharajas who
are members of the society are reputed to be pious and
staunch devotees. The Varkats are procurers of women for
the Maharajas. On one occasion, plaintiff told me ' the Varkats
are the persons who have corrupted us (Maharajas).' On
another occasion at Beyt, I was sitting near the plaintiff, when

a female came there..... I saw plaintiff on three or four

occasions press with his toes the hands of females who wor-

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shipped him by touching the soles of his feet. Pressing the
toes is the signal for adultery." (p. 45).

In the body of the book (p. 129) the "Ras* Mandalis " are
more particularly described: "These are 'carnal love meetings.'
The institutions (sic), if it may be so called, or rather the prac-
tice, is derived from the account of the Ras Lila, the ancient
•mythological story of the gopis, or female cowherds, mixing,
dancing, and becoming passionately enamoured of Krishna.
The meetings of these societies are held privately at the
residence of some orthodox and rich Vaishnavas. They take
place in the evening, and at them are read stories from ^ÉThe
Tales of the Eighty-four Vaishnavas,' and from ^c The Tales of
the Two Hundred and Fifty-two Vaishnavas,' which profess to
relate respectively the histories of the converts of Valladhách-
árya and of Vithalnáthji. # # # The reading of these books
excites and stimulates the passions, and we may be prepared to
expect what must follow. Indeed, it is very questionable
whether this stimulation is not the ostensible and main object
of the meeting, rather than any religious motive. These
readings, principally for the purpose of exciting the concupi-
scence, is inculcated by the religion. Friendly Vaishnavas
take their wives, and possibly females of their acquaintance,
with them to these meetings, and a discourse on matters of love

* Throughout the book this word is not always given with an accent over
the á ; conformably with my plan of reproducing all peculiarities* I have not
put the accent where it has been omitted.

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and affection is read. It is not to be supposed that these
societies have any resemblance to the Platonic concourse of the
middle ages, entitled Cours d Amours, z. Parliament of Love,
which pronounced its ⁽ arrets^ or sentences determining cases of
conscience, or propounded ingenious subtleties for discussion.
No ! These meetings are of a practical character, with but a
step from word to deed. To them sweetmeats are taken, which
are consecrated to the books,* after reading, and these they put
bit by bit into each other's mouth, each feeding another's wife.
" The wife of one Vaishnava will put a morsel into the mouth

* The books above referred to, used by the priests, and sanctioned by
religion, are, as may readily be supposed, not the only amorous or obscene
publications of India. The production indeed of that class of literature was
so great that it was put forward as an objection to female education. The
following is extracted from an Indian newspaper : " The spread of vice, and
especially the open sale of obscene literature, in the different vernaculars,
in defiance of the law, has led to the establishment in Calcutta of a Society
for the Suppression of Obscenity, similar to that in London. Natives and
missionaries head the movement. How serious the evil is may be imagined
from this one illustration, which has been the subject of a confidential corres
pondence between the Governments of India and the North-Western-
Provinces. The Rajpoot State of Ulwur is under our management. Captain
Cadell, who is reforming it, induced the leading natives last year to approve
female education after a full discussion of all the obstacles to it. Granted,
trustworthy teachers and no interference with the seclusion of the women,
the great evil which they brought forward was this, to use their own language :-—
™ ' The issue of hundreds of Hindee and Oordoo immoral books, containing
many false love and indecent tales. Now, when girls are taught to read, it is
evident books of immoral fables, &c, will also come under their inspection,
and these books are enough to corrupt the morals of males, much less those
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of another Vaishnava, who, in return, does the same to her,
with all the practical manifestations of the most ardent love.
After they have exhausted the sweets of these preliminaries, the
intoxication of delight so overpowers them, and they become
so enrapt with the ardour of the love that inflames them, that,
forgetting the earth and its platitudes, they ascend to the very
summit of celestial beatitude, and blend together in the
ecstacy of superlative bliss."

The rules of the Ras Mandali " direct that if one male
Vaishnava wish to enjoy the wife of another Vaishnava, the
latter should give him that liberty with the greatest delight and
pleasure. Not the slightest hesitation is to be made. It is a
primary condition that a Vaishnava who wishes to be a member

have been prevented 5 but the difficulty is that they are printed even in such
large places as Delhi, Lucknow, Muttra, &c. If the authorities make arrange-
ments to stop the publication of immoral books, the education of girls would
be nothing but advantageous.'

" An examination of the bazaar showed the open sale of, at least, ten of the
most obscene works, with pictures, printed in our ordinary territories, and
hawked about at from 2d. to iod. each. Inquiry showed that some of the
most 'respectable' native presses in the Mahomedan cities chiefly issued
such books in thousands and had the shamelessness to register them under
our Copyright Act. Detectives, under a skilled English officer, were put on
the scent, a few of the worst cases were punished, and others are still before
Government. In a country like this, where the conventionalities of Europe
are unknown, we must not be too squeamish in such matters ; but the
obscenity of many of the works exceeds in grossness all imagination. The
law is now becoming known. The Penal Code and Printing Act are
very stem, except towards the indecencies on the temples and in the brothels
attached to them, which, as ^f religious,' are specially protected by the Code,"

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of this Mandali should join it together with his wife. The
Vaishnava who has no wife, or who has not been married, can
also join the Mandali, and enjoy the wives of other Vaishnavas.
There are two or three such Ras Mandalis in Bombay, and
they are found in other parts of India where Vaishnavas
dwell. # # # It is not to be supposed that the Maharajas
permit their votaries to h aye the exclusive enjoyment of these
Ras Mandalis ; for this would be an act of self-denial, not
consistent with their tenets. They themselves perform the part
of Krishna with the gopis, and represent the Ras Lila."

The able author thus sums up his estimation of the sect (p. 181):
" The history of the sect of Vallabháchárya, which has been here
unfolded, reads like a chapter of romance. It is the history
of a sect in which immorality is elevated to the rank of a
divine law. The immutable distinctions of right and wrong,
the sharp line of demarcation between virtue and vice, human
personality and human responsibility, are lost and confounded
in a system of theology which begins in lewdness and ends in
the complete subversion of the first principles of our common
nature. Such a system has, perhaps, no parallel in the annals
of our race. Its effects can be more easily conceived than
described. It has checked and arrested the healthy growth of
all moral power. It has furnished its votaries with principles
of action, which, if carried out in their integrity, must produce
the dissolution of society ; for it treats holiness of life as a
crime, and proclaims to ^ζ the world of its votaries ' that man
becomes acceptable to his Maker in and through sin"

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BPS9 ®&* faïÜtï %pUrøatOn'US» of Martial, literally

Wa ß 1 translated ; comprising all the epigrams hitherto

omitted by English translators. To which is added

An Original Metrical Version and Copious Explanatory

Notes. Printed for Private Circulation. London:

MDCCCLXVIII.

8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. xi. and 139 with 1 unnumbered page of
Errata; issue 150 copies (300η large paper) numbered; toned
paper; Roxburghe binding. The book was never regularly
sold to the public, although Hotten and a few booksellers had
some copies at 10/- for the small, and ¿βι- for the large paper;
it is now difficult to procure.

In their preface the translators inform us that : " This
present edition has been printed owing to the importunities of
our friends, who suggested that we should supplement the
English edition of Boh η by selecting for translation and illus-
tration exactly those epigrams which he has chosen to omit.

" Since we fully determined to publish these epigrams
separately, we have made considerable alterations, consisting
mainly of the substitution of clear expressions for ambiguous
phrases. The prose translation has also in numerous instances
been rendered more literally, for if our reasons for translating
Martial at all are good, then we are bound to translate him

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fairly and truthfully. Had we clothed or castrated our author,
our object would not have been attained. # * * *

" In our verse translation we have sought to convey to the
non classical reader the idea and force of each epigram, in the
prose to give the literal rendering, and in the notes to comment
on doubtful passages and explain obscure allusions.

" As the verbal puns contained in a few of the poems could
not possibly be given in English, rather than omit them
altogether, we have endeavoured tol reproduce the idea con-
veyed by them as near as possible by a paraphrase or imitation
in our metrical version, appending a full explanation of the
original in the notes.

" In further pursuance of this plan a Latin introduction
containing an account of the principal MSS. of Martial and
their relative value, as also critical notes on the text of our
author, have been omitted, and the explanatory notes have
been given entirely in English, instead of partly in Latin and
partly in English.

" The text we have employed is Schneidewin's last edition in
Teubner's Bibliotheca Script. Graec. et Rom. Leipsic 1866.
The epigrams will be found differently numbered in different
editions, so we beg to add in conclusion, that we have followed
Schneidewin's arrangement throughout."

Of this very excellent work it is difficult to speak too highly ;
the verse renderings are the joint production of four friends,
three of whom had at the time just left Oxford, the prose
translation and the notes are by one and the same person.
Although they have only reason to be proud of their labours, I
am nevertheless not at liberty to divulge the authors' names.

MM

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IS^^S ï&ama-JHjaötra ; or, The Hindoo Art of Love (Ars
I fmym Amoris Indica). Translated from the Sanscrit,
""" and Annotated By A. F. F. & B. F. R.

If but one thought, by men deemed worthy, gain
Its wished success, our labour is not in vain.

Uhland.

Hoc opus exegi, quod nee nova turba malorum
Nee noceant critici tristes, nee Scommata Momi.

R. Saunders.

For private use of the Translators only, in connection
with a work on the Hindoo religion, and on the manners
and customs of the Hindoos.

Large 8vo. ; pp. xn and 83 ; printed in London 1873/4.

Unfortunately only 4 copies (proofs)* exist, for the printer,
on reading the proofs, became alarmed at the nature of the
book, and refused to print off the edition.

The talented translators are, F. F. Arbuthnot, and R. F.
Burton, the celebrated African Traveller ;-f· the initials of their
names being reversed.

* As the press has not been corrected» I do not reproduce, in this instant
the printer's blunders, for which the authors cannot be held responsible, b. '

give the text with the pen corrections in the copy before me.

t See Men of the Time, 1872, p. 170.

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This is a very remarkable book, containing, among many
things almost incomprehensible to an European, much matter
which would repay his careful study. It is not written to in-
flame the passions, but for the purpose of promoting conjugal
fidelity and satisfaction.

" The following pages (we are informed by the translators)
contain a Hindoo * Art of Love,* which may fairly be
pronounced unique. From Ovid downwards, western authors
have ever treated the subject jocularly or with a tendency to
hymn the joys of immorality, and the gospel of debauchery.
The Indian author has taken the opposite view, and it is im-
possible not to admire the delicacy with which he has handled
an indelicate theme. As he assures his readers before parting,
the object of the book, which opens with praises of the gods,
is not to encourage chambering and wantonness, but simply
and in all sincerity to prevent the separation of husband and
wife. Feeling convinced that monogamy is a happier state
than polygamy, with this view he would save them from the
monotony and satiety which usually follow possession, by
varying their pleasures in every conceivable way, and by
supplying them with the means of being physically pure and
pleasant to each other—^e light and sweetness,' in fact, might be
his motto. # # #

"The author informs us that the treatise was composed
by Κ alt ana-Mall, a Hindú poet, for the benefit of a
monarch of the Lodi race. But it is well known that the

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theme had been handled before, and that we have here an
analysis and a compilation of works composed at a much earlier
date. The internal evidence speaks to this point. There are
many references to the poets and philosophers of older days ;
and the tone is unequal, in some rare places declining from the
normal high standard ; and, finally, it is hardly probable that
so artful and artificial a system sprang full-grown from a
single brain.

" The treatise, originally written in Sanskrit, has been trans-
lated into every language of the East that boasts a 1 iterature,
however humble. It becomes in Arabia and in Hindostani
the Lizzat en 'Nisá—the ⁽ Pleasures of Women ' ; in Maharátí,
and Gujrati, it is the Ananga-ranga, or * Form of the Bodiless
One ' (Cupid). Generally, it is known as the Sila Shastra, the
'Scripture of Play' (i. e. of Amorous Sport, το παιζύν) or
Káma-Shástra the ^c Writ of Desire ' or * of the Hindú God of
Love * (Káma-deva), and the vulgar call it ^c Koka Pandit,'from
the Prakrit name of the supposed author. Lithographed copies
have been printed by hundreds of thousands, and the book is in
the hands of both sexes and all ages throughout the nearer East."

The subjects treated of are as follows : The Four Orders
of Women. The Various Sorts of Passion in Women.
The Different Kinds of Men and Women. Character-
istics of the Women of various Lands. The different
Signs in Men and Women. External and Internal Enjoy-
ments. Useful Medicines, i. e., Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphro-

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disiacs. Vashikaran, or the Art of Fascination by the use of
Charms.

These heads are divided and subdivided in the minutest
manner, and tables are systematically drawn up for the various
seasons most propitious for making love ; of the different parts
of the body in which passion is centered ; in what way each
woman, according to her particular organization, is to be
treated ; for the various postures in which the act of copulation
should be effected, &c, &c.

"Nothing can be more characteristic of the Indian than
this laboured and mechanical style of love ; when kisses are
divided into so many kinds ; when there are rules for patting
with the palm and the back of the hand, and regulations for the
several expirations of breath. Regarded in this light, the book
becomes an ethnological treasure, that tells us as much of
Hindú human nature as the ⁽ Thousand Nights and a Night *
of Arab manners and customs in the cinque cento."

Women are divided into four classes according to their
temperaments: i. Padmini, 2. Chitrini, 3. Shankini, 4. Hastini;
and further subdivided in three kinds, dependant, among other
peculiarities, upon the depth and extent of the Yoni: the
Mreugi or Deer-woman, whose Yoni is six fingers deep ; the
Vadvá, or Mare-woman, nine fingers deep ; and the Karini, or
Elephant-woman, twelve fingers deep.

The same with men : three classes, viz., 1. the Shasha, or
Hare-man, is known by the Lingam, which does not exceed six
finger-breadths, or about three inches ; 2. the Vreushabha, or

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Bull-man, nine fingers in length ; 3. the Ashwa, or Horse-man,
twelve fingers. Many other peculiarities of both men and
women are denoted under these subdivisions.

Here is the picture, truly poetical, of the Padmini-woman :
" Her face is pleasing as the full moon ; her body, well clothed
with flesh, is soft as the Shiras or mustard flower ; her skin is
fine, tender, and fair as the yellow lotus, never dark-coloured,
though resembling the cloud about to burst in the effervescence
of her youth. Her eyes are bright and beautiful as the orbs
of the fawn, well-cut, and with reddish corners. Her bosom is
hard, full, and high ; her neck is shaped as the conch-shell, so
delicate that the saliva can be seen through it ; her nose is
straight and lovely, and three folds or wrinkles cross her middle
—about the umbilical region. Her Yoni resembles the lotus-
bud, and her Love-seed (Káma-salila) is perfumed like the lily
that has newly burst. She walks with swan-like gait, and her
voice is low and musical as the note of the Kokila-bird ;* she
delights in white raiments, in fine jewels, and in rich dresses.
She eats little, sleeps lightly, and, being as respectful and
religious as she is clever and courteous, she is ever anxious to
worship the gods, and to enjoy the conversation of Brahmans.
Such, then, is the Padmini, or Lotus-woman.'¹ (p. 2),

" The following are the signs by which the wise know that

* *' Usually known as the Indian cuckoo j in poetry and romance it is the
bulbul of Persia, and the nightingale of Europe."

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woman is amorous :—She rubs and repeatedly smoothes her
hair (so that it may look well). She scratches her head (that
notice may be drawn to it). She strokes her own cheeks (so as
to entice her husband). She draws her dress over her bosom,
apparently to readjust it, but leaves her breasts partly exposed.
She bites her lower lip, chewing it, as it were. At times she
looks ashamed without a cause (the result of her own warm
fancies), and she sits quietly in the corner (engrossed by con-
cupiscence). She embraces her female friends, laughing loudly,
and speaking sweet words, with jokes and jests, to which she
desires a return in kind. She kissses and hugs young children,
especially boys. She smiles with one cheek, loiters in her gait,
and unnecessarily stretches herself under some pretence or other.
At times she looks at her shoulders and under her arms.
She stammers, and does not speak clearly or distinctly. She
sighs and sobs without reason, and she yawns whenever she wants
tobacco, food, or sleep. She even throws herself in her hus-
band's way, and will not readily get out of his path." (p. 19).

" The following are the twelve periods when women have the
greatest desire for congress, and at the same time are most easily
satisfied:—1. When tired by walking and exhausted with
bodily exercise. 2. After long want of intercourse with the
husband, such as in the case of the Virhini. 3. When a
month after childbirth has elapsed. 4. During the earlier
stages of pregnancy. 5. When dull, idle, and sleepy. 6. If
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tonness or bashfulness. 8. When feeling unusually merry and
happy. 9. The Rentu-Snát,* immediately before and after the
monthly ailment. 10. Maidens enjoyed for the first time
11. Throughout the spring season. 12. During thunder,
lightning, and rain. At such times women are easily subjected
to men."(p. 21).

"And, moreover, let it be noted, that the desires of the
woman being colder, and slower to rouse than those of the
man, she is not easily satisfied by a single act of congress ;
her lower powers of excitement demand prolonged embraces,
and if these be denied her, she feels aggrieved. At the second
act, however, her passions being thoroughly aroused, she finds
the orgasm more violent, and then she is thoroughly contented.
And this state of things is quite reversed in the case of the
man, who approaches the first act burning with love-heat, which
cools during the second, and which leaves him languid and
disinclined for a third. But the wise do not argue therefrom,
that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and
strong, are not to the full as real and urgent as those of the
man. The custom of society and the shame of the sex may
compel her to conceal them, and even to boast that they do not
exist ; yet the man who has studied the Art of Love is never
deceived by this cunning." (p. 21).

* " Rentu-snát is the woman, who, on the fourth daj^ has bathed and
become pure."

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" And here it is necessary to offer some description of the
Yoni ;^# it being of four kinds.

"1. That which is soft inside as the filaments (pollen?) of the
lotus flower; this is the best. 2. That whose surface is
studded with tender flesh-knots and similar rises. 3. That

* In his interesting and erudite essay on Circumcision, Mr. John Daven-
port tells the following story : " A dispute, which arose between the
Capuchin friars and the Jesuits at Pondicherry, and which was also settled by a
compromise, is too curious not to be here reported. Besides the Lingam, the
equally significant Yoni, or Ateis, is to be seen, being the female organ of
generation. It is sometimes single, often in conjunction, for the Indians,
believing that the emblem of fecundity might be rendered more energetic by
combining the organs of both sexes, did so unite them, giving to this double
symbol the name of Pulleiar. This symbol is highly wnerated by the sectarian
worshippers of Khiva (the third god of the Trimvurti), who hang it round their
necks, as a charm or amulet, or, enclosing it in a small box, fasten it on their
arms. The Indians have, also, a little jewel called taly, worn, in like manner,
by females, round their necks as a charm. It is presented to them on their
wedding day by their husbands, who receive it from the hands of the Brahmins.
Upon these jewels is engraved the representation either of the Lingam or
the Pul le i ars.

" A Capuchin missionary had a serious dispute with the Jesuits residing at
Pondicherry, which was referred for decision to the judicial courts. The
disciples of Loyola, who can be toleration itself when toleration furthers their
crafty and ambitious views, had declined all interference with the above custom.

" Μ. Tournoæ, the Pope's legate apostolic, who regarded the matter as one
not to be trifled with, strictly prohibited the taly, enjoining all female converts
to substitute in its place, either a cross or a medal of the Virgin. The Indian
women, strongly attached to their ancient customs, refused obedience. The
missionaries, apprehensive of losing the fruits of their zealous labours, and
seeing the number of their neophytes daily diminishing, entered into a com-
promise by adopting a mezzo termine with the females in question, and it was
agreed that a cross should be engraved upon the ¿aly ; an arrangement by
which the symbol of Christian salvation was coupled with that of the male
and female pudenda.*' Curiositates Eroticæ Physiologæ, p. 97. (See ante p. 174)·
NN

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which abounds in rolls, wrinkles, and corrugations ; and, 4.
That which is rough as the cow's tongue ; this is the worst.

" Moreover, in the Yoni there is an artery called Saspanda,
which corresponds with that of the Lingam, and which when
excited by the presence and energetic action of the latter,
causes the Káma-salila to flow. It is inside and towards the
navel, and it is attached to certain roughnesses (thorns), which
are peculiarly liable to induce the paroxysm when subjected to
friction. The Madan-chatra, in the upper part of the Yoni, is
that portion which projects like the plantain shoot spouting from
the ground ; it is connected with the Mada-váhi artery,* and
causes the latter to overflow. Finally, there is an artery, termed
Purna-chandra, which is full of the Káma-salila, and to this the
learned men of old attribute the monthly ailment."(p. 22).

Here is à piece of advice to the woman concerning the
management of her Yoni during coition : " the wife will re-
member that without an especial exertion of will on her part,
the husband's pleasure will not be perfect. To this end she
must ever strive to close and constrict the Yoni until it holds the
Lingam, as, with a finger,·^ opening and shutting at her plea-

* " The * Fons et scaturigo Veneris ' of the classics. It need hardly be
remarked that the Hindoos, like the ancients in Europe, believed the Káma-
salila of women to be in every way like that of men ; the microscope was re-
quired for the detection of the spermatozoa in one sex only."

f " Amongst some races the Constrictor vaginae máseles are abnormally
developed. In Abyssinia, for instance, a woman can so exert them as to
cause pain to a man, and, when sitting upon his thighs, she can induce the
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sure, and fîinally,, acting as the hand of the Gopála-girl, who milks
the cow. This can be learned only by long practice, and es-
pecially by throwing the will into the part to be affected, even as
men endeavour to sharpen their hearing, and their sense of touch.
While so doing, she will mentally repeat ' Kámadeva ! Káma-
deva,' in order that a blessing may rest upon the undertaking.
And she will be pleased to hear that the art once learned, is
never lost. Her husband will then value her above all women,
nor would he exchange her for the most beautiful Rani (queen)
in the three worlds. So lovely and pleasant to man is she who
constricts." (p. 82).

The indiscriminate congress of the sexes is severely con-
demned; it can only be permitted in case the woman's life
should be endangered through want of copulation. " The
following women, however, are absolutely, and under all circum-
stances, to be excluded from any commerce of the kind. The
wife of u Brahman ; of a Schrotri (Brahman learned in the
Vedas) ; of an Agnihotri (priest who keeps up the sacred fire),
and of a Puranik (reader of the Puránas). To look significantly

by the Arabs * Kabbádáh,' literally meaning ^ca holder,' and it is not surprising
that the slave dealers pay large sums for her. All women have more or less
the power, but they wholly neglect it j indeed, there are many races in Europe
which have never heard of it. To these the words of wisdom spoken by
Kalyána-Mall, the poet, should be peculiarly acceptable."

" 3d) Bemühte mid) bie SKuêfeïe meiner <§dl)Iung in ^Bewegung $u fetten, fo
bafj fie nad) feinem Pfeile fcijnappteit, tuaë eine große Seltenheit ift unb son ben
STOânnera fefjr §οφ geftyätjt wirb." iïtu-3 ben 30?emotren einer @ängerin,
vol. 2, p. 19τ. (See ante, p. 102).

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at such a woman, or to think of her with the view of sensual
desire, is highly improper. What, then, must we think of the
sin of carnal copulation with her ? In like manner, men prepare
to go to Narak (hell) by lying with the wife of a Kshatri (king,
or any other man of the warrior caste, now extinct) ; of a friend
or of a relation. The author of this book strongly warns and
commands his readers to avoid all such deadly sins.

" Indeed there are certain other women who are never to be
enjoyed, however much a man may be tempted. First, a virgin
without marrying her ; second, a widow ; third, a woman living
chastely and virtuously with her husband ; fourth, the wife of
our friend ; fifth, the wife of our foe ; sixth, any of the rever-
end women specified above ; seventh, the wife of a pupil or a
disciple ; eighth, a woman born in one's own family ; ninth, a
woman afflicted with any serious complaint ; tenth, a woman
who has been defiled ; eleventh, a mad woman ; twelfth, a
woman older than oneself;* thirteenth, the wife of a Gurú,
spiritual tutor, instructor or guide ; fourteenth, one's mother-
in-law ; fifteenth, one's maternal aunt (mother's sister) ; six-
teenth, the wife of one's maternal uncle; seventeenth, one's
paternal aunt (father's sister) ; eighteenth, one's paternal
uncle's wife ; nineteenth, a sister ; twentieth, a pregnant woman ;

* " Easterns are all agreed upon this point, and the idea is that the embraces
of a woman older than the husband, ^f burn ' and destroy his strength. It is
certain that when there is a considerable difference of age, the younger of the
two suffers in appearance, if not in health."

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twenty-first, a woman with whom one is not acquainted ;
twenty-second, a woman who has committed mortal sins and
crimes ; twenty-third, a woman whose complexion is entirely
yellow ; twenty-fourth, a woman whose complexion is quite
black. It is laid down in the Shástras (scriptures), that the
wise should never, under any circumstances, have connection
with these twenty-four kinds of women, as well as with others
bearing any relationship to one." (p. 59).

After the above list there is but one woman left to be en-
joyed—a man's own wife, doubtless the consummation at which
the poet wished to arrive.

We now come to the " External Enjoyments," or " the
processes which should always precede internal enjoyments, or
sexual pleasure. The wise have said that before congress, we
must develop the desire of the weaker sex through certain
preliminaries, which are many and various, such as the various
embraces and kisses ; the Nakhadán, or unguiculations ; the
Dashanas, or morsications ; the Kesha-grahanas, or manipu-
lating the hair, and other amorous blandishments. These affect
the senses and divert the mind from coyness and coldness.
After which tricks and toyings, the lover will proceed to take
possession of the place." (p. 64).

" There are eight Alinganas, or modes of embracing," which
our poet carefully describes, and which he urges should be
closely studied ; he then passes to the various " modes of
Kisses," which must accompany and conclude the Alinganas.

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He enumerates " the seven places highly proper for osculation, in
fact, where all the world kisses. There are—First, the lower lip,
Second, both the eyes. Third, both cheeks. Fourth, the head.
Fifth, the mouth. Sixth, both breasts ; and, seventh, the shoul-
ders. # # # The voluptuaries of Sáta-desha have adopted the
following formula :—Arm-pit Navel Yoni." (pp. 64 to 66).

A further subdivision gives us " ten different kinds of kisses,
each of which has its own and proper name." Rules for " the
various ways of Nakhadán, that is, of titillating and scratching
with the nails" are minutely laid down. This manipulation
should be applied to eleven parts of the body, viz., the neck,
the hands, both thighs, both breasts, the back, the sides, both
axillæ, the whole chest or bosom, both hips, the Mons Veneris,
and all the parts about the Yoni, and both the cheeks ; and at
the following times and seasons, viz., " 1, when there is anger
in the mind of the woman. 2, at the time of first enjoying
her or of taking her virginity. 3, when going to separate for
a short time. 4, when about journeying to a foreign or
distant country, j, when a great pecuniary loss has been
sustained. 6, when excited with desire of congress ; and 7,
at the season of Virati, that is to say, when there is no Ráti, or
Furor venereus. At such times the nails should always be ap-
plied to the proper places. The nails, when in good condition
and properest for use, are without spots and lines, clean, bright,
convex, hard and unbroken." (p. 68). Six different qualities
are enumerated, and seven ways of applying them. " There is

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nothing perhaps," exclaims the poet, " which is more delightful
to both husband and wife than the skilful use of unguiculation.
Furthermore, it is advisable to master the proper mode of
morsication or biting. It is said by persons who are absorbed
in the study of sexual intercourse, that the teeth should be used
to the same places where the nails are applied, with the ex-
ception, however, of the eyes, the upper lip, and the tongue.
Moreover, the teeth should be pressed until such time as the
woman begins to exclaim, Hu ! hu ! after which enough has
been done." (p. 69).

There are " seven different Dashanas or ways of applying
the teeth," with each its name and full description.

Then come the four kinds of Kesha-grahana or manipulating
the hair, all particularly named and depicted.

After numerous other blandishments, we are introduced to the
" Internal Enjoyment," by which is meant the act of congress
which follows the various external preliminaries already
described. These are portioned out (with proper tables) into
five main classes, viz., 1. "Uttana-bandha," or great division,
" when a woman lies upon her back, and the husband sits close
to her upon his hams." 2. " Tirayak, whose essence consists of
the woman lying upon her side." 3. " Upavishta, or sitting
posture." 4. " Utitha, or standing posture." 5. " Vyánta-bandha,
which means congress with a woman when she is prone, that is,
with the breast and stomach to the bed or carpet." These main
classes are further subdivided into 29 postures, (pp. 76 to 80).

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" There are many other forms of congress," continues the poet,
" but they are not known to the people, and being useless as
well as very difficult of performance, I have, therefore, not
related them to you." (p. 81).

In all the modes of coition described, the man is usually
either seated or standing, rarely reclining, and never under the
woman, which is a position held in great horror by Muslims ;
it has however its class name, " Purúsháyita-bandha," with
three subdivisions.

Here is a posture much esteemed, and called, " the cow
posture : in this position the wife places herself upon all fours,
supported on her hands and feet (not her knees), and the
husband, approaching from behind, falls upon her waist, and
enjoys her as if he were a bull. There is much religious merit
in this form." (p. 80).

One word, before closing this notice, respecting the two
chapters on " Useful Medicines," and " The Art of Fascination
by the use of charms." The former is the Hindoo code of
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs, but it has less for its
object the raising of lust in an impotent man or an unwilling
woman, or vice versa, than the more completely suiting the
sexes to each other, and augmenting thereby their mutual,
legitimate embraces. " It is, for instance, clearly evident that
unless by some act or artifice the venereal orgasm of the female,
who is colder in blood and less easily excited, distinctly precede
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the latter has done no good, and the former has enjoyed no
satisfaction. Hence it results that one of man's chief duties in
this life is to learn to withold himself as much as possible, and, at
the same time, to hasten the enjoyment of his partner." (p. 25).

It is unnecessary to transcribe any of the numerous pre-
scriptions given, suffice it to say that they are classified as follows :

For hastening the paroxysm of the woman. For delaying
the orgasm of the man. Which comfort the heart and which
excite desire. For increasing the length and breadth of the
Lingam. For narrowing and closing the Yoni. For perfuming
the Yoni. For destroying the body pile (poil atnatoire). For
regulating the monthly ailment. For conceiving and becoming
gravid. For protection from miscarriage and other accidents.
To ensure easy labour and ready deliverance. To limit the
members of the family. For thickening and beautifying the
hair, and for giving it either a good black, or white colour. For
clearing the skin from eruptions, &c. For removing the black
colour of the epidermis. For enlarging the breasts of women,
For raising and hardening pendulous bosoms. Unguents to
breed love. For removing the evil savour of perspiration.
Oils and unguents to be used after bathing. For sweetening
the breath.

The chapter on " Vashikaran," or " the art by which man or
woman is rendered submissive and obedient to the fascinator,"
is remarkable on account of the strange abominations which it

contains. The underlying idea appears to be that if any
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secretion of the body, the fouler the better, can be secretly
administered to a person of either sex, the result is the sub-
jection of the patient to the "adhibitor."

I transcribe two prescriptions only :

. " The man who will levigate the root of the giant Asclepias,
the Jatámánsí, or spikenard (Valeriana Jatámánsí), Vekhand,
the sweet-smelling grass Nágar-Mothá (Cyperus pertenuis sen
Juncifolius), and Costus with the blood from a woman's Yoni,
and applying it to his forehead, shall ever be successful in the
affairs of love, and shall enjoy a long course of happiness." (p. 47).
" The man who, after enjoying his wife, catches some of his
own Káma-salila in his left hand, and applies it to her left
foot, will find her entirely submissive to his will." (p. 49).

The poet thus closes his admirable book : " And now
having duly concluded the chapter of external enjoyments, it
is good to know that if husband and wife live together in close
agreement, as one soul in a single body, they shall be happy in
this world, and in that to come. Their good and charitable
actions will be an example to mankind, and their peace and
harmony will effect their salvation. No one yet has written a
book to prevent the separation of the married pair, and to show
them how they may pass through life in union. Seeing this,
I felt compassion, and composed the treatise, offering it to the
god Pandurang.

" The chief reason for the separation between the mar-
ried couple and the cause which drives the husband to
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strange men, is the want of varied pleasures and the monotony
which follows possession. There is no doubt about it.
Monotony begets satiety, and satiety distaste for congress,
especially in one or the other; malicious feelings are engen-
dered, the husband or the wife yields to temptation, and the
other follows, being driven by jealousy. For it seldom
happens that the two love each other equally, and in exact
proportion, therefore is the one more easily seduced by passion
than the other. From such separations result polygamy,
adulteries, abortions, and every manner of vice, and not only
do the erring husband and wife fall into the pit, but they also
drag down the manes of their deceased ancestors from the
place of beatified mortals, either to hell or back again upon this
world. Fully understanding the way in which such quarrels
arise, I have in this book shown how the husband, by varying
the enjoyment of his wife, may live with her as with thirty-two
different women, ever varying the enjoyment of her, and thus
rendering satiety impossible. Ï have also taught all manner of
useful arts and mysteries, by which she can render herself pure,
beautiful, and pleasing in his eyes. Let me, therefore, conclude
with the verse of blessing :—

" ' May this treatise,' Ananga-ranga, ^c be beloved of man
and woman, as long as the Holy River Ganges springs from
Shiva with his wife Gauri on his left side ; as long as Lakshmi
loves Vishnú, as long as Bramhá is engaged in the study of the
Vedas, and as long as the earth, moon and sun endure.'

Finis.' ^m

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|S||||ï,abp ISumttCfeler'fií &ebeïSu A Comic Opera, In
W f§g¡i Two Acts, As it was performed at Lady Bumtickler's
Private Theatre, in Birch-Grove, with unbounded
applause. The Songs adapted to Favourite Airs. Em-
bellished with Superb Prints.

And were you mad enough, said Clarissa, to go through this torture ?

Rapture ! Rapture ! my sweet girl, said Flirtilla, call it by no other
term.                                                        Female Flagellants. Part ι

To fall at the feet of an imperious mistress, obey her orders, have pardons
to ask her, were to me the sweetest enjoyments.

Rousseau's Confessions.

When it is considered how the sight of a captivating woman enflâmes
the soul, what she can do with her eyes, her motions, and dress, it will
not be wondered at, that any thing from her hand, free from cruelty,
should convey an exquisite pleasure.                  Fashionable Lectures.

London: Printed for George Peacock, And Soldat
No. 66, Drury-Lane. Price, One Guinea plain, or a
Guinea and an Half in colours.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 75 in all ; six engravings.

Reproduced by'Hotten as No. 3 of the " Library Illustrative
of Social Progress," 8vo. ; pp. 106.

This pamphlet begins with an " Introduction/¹ or dialogue
between Lady Belinda Flaybum and Lady Graveairs, in prose,

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of 16 pages, which introduces the opera itself. The opera,
partly in prose and partly in verse, is, in a literary point of view,
one of the least worthless of the series ;^# in parts it is facetious
and fairly amusing. There is a curious catalogue of books
on the verso of the last page.

CïK life, afcbeittureô, Itttrtffute, anö amours of tf)t

relcbratrt 3nnmp Chntd)n\ Exhibiting Many Striking
Proofs To what Baseness the Human Heart is capable of
Descending. The whole Faithfully compiled from Au-
thentic Materials.

Tho' born to titles, and by fortune blest,
View here a peer, the public scorn and jest :
Yet from his vices we may reap some gain :
—The meanest reptiles do not crawl in vain.

London : Printed for Johnathan Brough, at the
Bible, near Temple Bar, Strand.

8vo. (counts 4); pp. 92, ex title; published about 1770.

This is a weak, trivial, badly written book, which gives no
reliable information about the Earl of Sandwich, nicknamed
Jemmy Twitcher.*}- The first 28 pages detail uninteresting
events which occurred previous to the hero's birth, and are
mainly in eulogy of his parents. Then are narrated some

* See ante, p. 239.
f See ante, p. a 10.

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mischievous and malicious pranks of his boyhood : his running
away to Bath, where he forms the acquaintance of a young lady
of easy virtue from whom he catches a disease; his drugging
and debauching the servant girl at the school ; his escape from a
ship, bound for New York, on which his father had embarked
him to get rid of him. After these episodes we read of his
marriage, and of his communicating " a disorder to his lady,"
and finally of his entry into parliament. " With all his faults
(the author concludes) and which, perhaps, renders them
greater, he is a man of uncommon sense and penetration.
Suffice it therefore to say, that he lives, a monument of Superior
Abilities, prostrated to the Worst of Purposes ! "

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|*f|?S iïlaÜame Sitt&fni'Ø Batue* A Modern Tale. With

I jLÁ * 1 Considerable Additions, and Original Anecdotes
collected in the Fashionable Circles. Now first
published by Lady Termagant Flay bum.

To fall at the feet of an imperious mistress, obey her orders, have pardons
to ask her, were to me the sweetest enjoyments.

Rousseau's Confessions, vol i.

'Tis as great a provocative as Canthartdes or Viper Broth, for it irritates
the blood, and gives new vigour to the flagging spirits.

The Wanton Jesuit ; an Opera.

The Ninth Edition, with Beautiful Prints. London :
Printed for George Peacock, And Sold at No. 66,
Drury-Lane.

8vo. ; pp. 47, and one page not numbered, containing a
" Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, and Prints, ancient and
modern, to be had at No. 66, Drury-Lane." Very curious.
From it we learn that the original edition had " prints," and
was sold at : in colours 9/- and plain 6/-. " Merchants, East
India Captains, and others, who wish to send profitable ventures
to foreign markets, will be allowed a>öonsiderable discount in
purchasing a number of the above articles." The original
edition must have been published about the same time as.
" Lady Bumtickler's Revels." This vol. is No. 5 of the "Library
Illustrative of Social Progress," 8vo. ; pp. 57.*

* See ante, p. 239.

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The " original anecdotes " are in prose, and are much of the
same order as those in the " Exhibition of Female Flagellants;"
but "Madame Birchini's Dance" is in verse,generally of a very
doggerel kind ; here and there however lines of some force and
warmth occur :

" To look at her majestic figure

" Would make you caper with more vigour !

" The lightening flashing from each eye

" Would lift your soul to ecstac)f !

" Her milk-white fleshy hand and arm,

" That ev'n an Anchorite would charm,

" Now tucking in your shirt tail high,              "^

" Now smacking hard each plunging thigh, [>

" And those twin orbs that near 'em lye !           I

" Then to behold her di'mond rings,

" Ev'n them you'd find delightful things !

" But above all, you'd love that other

" That told you she was your Step-mother !

" Then handing you the rod to kiss,

** She'd make you thank her for the bliss :

" No female Busby then you'd find,

" E'er whipt you half so well behind !

" Her lovely face, where beauty smiled,

" Now frowning, and now seeming wild !

^t( Her bubbles o'er their bound'iy broke,

" Quick palpitating at each stroke !

" With vigor o'er the bouncing bum

" She'd tell ungovern'd boys who rul'd at home!" (p. ij)

It tells of a young nobleman, who, having through excess,
become impotent, was, by Madame Birchini's skilful hand,
restored to his former vigour, and ability to perform those con-
jugal duties for which his young wife pined.

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ïe ¿Wart fftvoct.

i6mo. ; 3 vols. ; pp. 31, 31, 29; fancy title page without
date, place, or other indication ; each vol. is in a fancy yellow
paper wrapper, inscribed : " Collection Louis Jaugey Le Mari
Féroce avec Six Eaux-fortes A Forest Lez Bruxelles" with
a monogram L. J. ; in each volume are six etchings, very
poor, both in design and execution ; they are nearly all free, but
not obscene. Louis Jaugey is at the same time author, illus-
trator and printer; date of publication 1867 or 1870.

In this tedious, absurd, and incoherent adventure, which
appeared originally as, " £a #UÍt ÖU 28 gutlt à ïl'èffe/' and
happened (so Jaugey has boasted) to himself, is narrated among
other twaddle, the return of an injured husband, who catches
his wife en flagrant délit, and his consequent vengeance. The
book is utterly worthless, and the illustrations equally so.

Cfee ¿flEterrp ©rier af £>U Srtiget Personal Recollections of
The Use of the Rod By Margaret Anson York :
Printed for the Author's Friends mdccclvii

Square 8vo. ; pp. iv and 237 in all; on the title page is a
fleuron of a hand holding a birch ; toned paper ; published by
Hotten in 1868; price 30/-; 500 copies were struck ofÇ of
which only 50 had been distributed at Hotten's death, the re-
mainder was sold in 1873 to Mr. Bouton of New York.

The authorship is attributed to the same gentleman who
wrote for Hotten the " History of the Rod."

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The book consists of 12 epistles written by Miss Anson to a
female friend; the first letter is dated 1868, while the title page
bears 1857 in error.

A number of Ladies, assembled at a French Château during
the second Empire, institute, as a pastime, " The Merry Order
of St. Bridget," a society for the mutual application of the
birch ; to the practice of which they are all attached. Margaret
Anson is the maid of one of these ladies, and is admitted into
the order as a help. Her description of her own installation
will give an idea of the rites of the order. But first let us
admire her costume : " a chemise of fine lawn, trimmed with
Valenciennes lace and insertion ; a soft white flannel petticoat
worked round the bottom with silk; another of white cashmere,
very fine, with a flounce round the bottom edged with sky-blue
velvet. For bodice I had one of my lady's embroidered ones,
and over all the handsome blue peignoir; with ruchings of
white ; no stays or drawers, and nothing on my feet except blue
morning slippers, with tiny white rosettes." (p. 25).

Thus prepared, Margaret is put into a small room adjoining
that devoted to the Merry Order, and blindfolded with a
handkerchief. " It seemed to me a long time I waited, but I
suppose it was only a few minutes, and then some one entered
the room.

" * Take off your cloak,* a voice said that I knew for that of
Mrs. D—s an English Lady, fat, fair, and forty, full of life and
fun, who had been one of the movers of the scheme—^£ Now

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come with me Γ The door of the tabagie was opened, and she
led me in ; then it was shut and locked, and I heard the sound
of suppressed laughter all around me. Then a voice from the
end of the room called ^cSilence, if you please, ladies!' and
three knocks sounded on a table, and the same voice asked
' Who comes there ? '

" Prompted by Mrs. D—, I answered, ' A candidate for a
place in the Merry Order of St. Bridget.¹

" * Are you prepared to serve the Merry Order to the best of
your power, and to assist, as bidden by your mistress, in the
ceremonies thereof ?^?

" < I am.'

" ' And do you bind yourself never to reveal aught that
you see, hear, or do in this room, on peril of losing your place
without a character ? '

" < I do/

" ^c Do you know the object of the Merry Order ? '

" < I do.'

" < Detail it.'

" Again prompted, I replied, ^c The wholesome and pleasant
discipline of the rod, to be enforced by its members one upon
another during their social meetings in this room.'

" ^{Have you ever been whipped ? *

" ' I have.'

" ' Do you promise to submit to such flagellation as the
Merry Order shall ordain for you without rebellion or mur-
muring thereat r'

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"<ido/

"'Prepare her/

" I heard more tittering when this order was given, and I
could feel that Mrs. D— was shaking with suppressed laughter
as she obeyed the command, and took off my peignoir. She
pinned up the petticoats and chemise to my shoulders, and
then, my dear, I knew what was coming. Then some one else
took hold of one of my hands, and Mrs. D— the other, and
waited the word of command.

"< Advance.'

" They led me forward, and at the first step a stinging blow
from a birch fell on my hips from one side, then from the other,
till I had gone the length of the room. I screamed and strug-
gled, but it was all in vain ; my guides held me tight ; and by
the time they stopped I could only sob and writhe.

"Then came another command, * Kneel down,' and I knelt
in front of the square ottoman ; the ladies held my hands
across it, and Lady C— came down from her dais and whipped
me till I hardly knew where I was. Then they made me
stand up, and her ladyship said,

"^É Ladies of the Order of St. Bridget, do you receive
Margaret Anson as a member and servitor sworn to do your
bidding ? '

"< We do,' said those who were not laughing.

"^ζ Let her see,' was the next order, and at the word one lady
let my clothes drop, and the other took the bandage from my

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eyes. I was so smarting from the whipping I had received,
that I could see nothing for a while, and Mrs. D— took me by
the arm and led me to the bottom of the room again. When
I recovered myself enough to look about me, I saw a sight
that the newspaper man, whose paragraph I mentioned in my
last, never dreamed of, I am sure. * * #

" Every lady held a rod in her hand, made of lithe and strong
twigs, tied up with ribbons that corresponded with the colours
of her dress. # # * On the ottoman over which I had knelt
to receive my final castigation lay two more rods.

" ^c Margaret Anson, approach,' said Lady C— once more, and
I went timidly forward, wondering whether any more whipping
was in store for me.

"' Kneel down.'

" I knelt, and she presented me with a rod, and informed me
that I was now a servitor of the Merry Order of St. Bridget—
allowed to join their ceremonies, and bound to do their bidding ;
and then I was made to go and stand at the bottom of the
room ready to do to the next comer as the ladies had done to
me." (p. 27).

But, as may be supposed, the repeated details of females
birching each other can admit of little variety, and must soon
become tedious ; to obviate this, reminiscences are called forth
by some of the ladies, into which the male element is intro-
duced. One anecdote, of a gentleman, who, passing himself
off as a government inspector of schools, visits the various

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girls¹ seminaries, and has the pupils whipped before him, is
racy. (p. 191).

The author adopts the tenet that delicacy and savoir faire are
requisite in administering the birch. " There is (he writes) a
great difFernce in the style of whipping. There is no enjoy-
ment either in the use or endurance of the rod when it is
vulgarly used, like a woman would strike in a passion ; but
when an elegant, high-bred woman wields it with dignity of
mien and grace of attitude, then both the practice and suffering
become a real pleasure."* (p. 181).

The following extract from " A History of the Rod " (p. 336),
while purporting to notice " an old French novel," so closely
describes the volume under consideration, that it goes far, in
my opinion, to strengthen the belief that both works are from
the same pen. Certain it is that Hotten got both of them
from the same man.

" An old French novel which we cursorily examined at one
of the quays on the Seine in Paris, contained a graphic de-
scription of a kind of romantic whipping club which existed in
that city a short time previous to ^ζ The Terror.' The ladies
who where members of this gay institution administered the
Rod to each other with charming elegance ! A trial preceded
each correction, and if a lady was found guilty, she was
straightway disrobed and birched by her companions. Many
women of high rank, if we can believe what was written in the

* The above is an evident plagiarism upon a passage in *' The Exhibition
of Female Flagellants, * cited ante, p. 242.

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book—the title of which was, we think, 'The Chateau at
Tours'—belonged to this society, and received from their
companions personal chastisement. These noble dames were
also described in the book as leaders of fashion and inventors
of new modes, some of which, judging by the description given
of them in the book, must evidently have been not unlike the
dress worn by Mother Eve."

¿Wgötmeö Of jflagelíattmí or, A History of the Secret

Ceremonies of the Society of Flagellants. The Saintly
Practice of the Birch ! St. Francis whipped by the Devil !
How to subdue the Passions, by the Art of Flogging Î
With many Curious Anecdotes of the Prevalence of this
Peculiar Pastime in all Nations and Epochs, whether
Savage or Civilized. Printed by C. Brown, 44 Wych
Street, Strand. Price 2d.

At the head of the title is repeated " Price Twopence " in full,
and the title has further a large wood cut representing a girl
undressing herself, on either side of her stand an old man and
woman, each holding a birch, the man has in his left hand a
piece of cord, and in the background is a folding ladder.

This publication was issued in 1863, and consists of a single
sheet forming 8 pages. It was called forth by the arrest of
Mrs. Potter on the charge of flogging a girl against her will.

The pamphlet, which, considering its class, is not badly
written, gives a superficial sketch of the History of Flagellation

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from the earliest ages, and notices more particularly some of
the noted establishments of London, among others the " White
House," the " den of Mother Cummins," the " Elysium in
Brydges Street." &c.

The account of the Potter affair I will give in full : " On
that date (July, 1863), under the auspices of the Society for
the Protection of Females, seizure was made at the then
notorious ^É Academy ' of Sarah Potter, alias Stewart, in War-
dour Street,* and a rare collection of Flagellation appurtenances
taken to the Westminster Police Court, when the general
public, for the first time, became aware that young females
were decoyed into Stewart's School of Flogging, to undergo the
ordeal of the birch from old and young Flagellists, for the
benefit of the woman Stewart. These curious specimens of
her stock-in-trade consisted of a folding ladder, with straps,
birch rods, furze brooms and secret implements, for the use of
male and female.

" Her method of conducting business was to get hold of
young girls, board, lodge, and clothe them, and in return they
were obliged to administer to the lust of the patrons of the
boarding-house. They were flogged in different ways. Some-
times strapped to the ladder, at others were flogged round

* This is not strictly correct. The seizure took place at No. 3, Albion
Terrace, King's Road, Chelsea, to which house Mrs. Potter had removed
from Wardour Street some months previously. She is the same woman as
that mentioned at p. xliii of the Introduction.

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the room—at times they were laid on the bed. Every device or
variation which perverted ingenuity could devise was resorted to
to give variety to the orgies, in return for which the mistress of
the house was paid sums varying from <^ß$ to ^15. The
profits of this school enabled Stewart to keep a country house
and fancy man, to the great scandal of the community."

The above account is exaggerated. It cannot be said that
the girl was flogged against her will, for she was in the habit of
birching gentlemen, and even of submitting to be whipped
herself when well paid. Certain it is that she returned to Mrs.
Potter after her release from prison, and lived with her a con-
siderable time in Howland Street.

Mrs. Sarah Potter, alias Stewart, was a bawd of some im-
portance, and at one time made a good deal of money. During
her chequered career she changed her residence very frequently,
having lived at Castle Street, Leicester Square, where, I believe,
she commenced business, then in Wardour Street, then in
Albion Terrace, King's Road, Chelsea, then in Howland Street,
Tottenham Court Road, where she was convicted of selling
indecent books, and sent to prison, then in Old Kent Road, and
finally in Lavinia Grove, King's Cross, where she died in 1873.

The flagellations which went on under her auspices were
chiefly administered to gentlemen, although girls were of course
at times castigated. Her speciality was for procuring very
young girls, with whose parents she generally managed to make
arrangements before hand, so as to keep herself free from
scrapes. These children she would dress up in fancy clothes
and teach them various tricks for the amusement of her
customers.

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B?PB|a3)e $*tø CpftUttatt; or, The Delights of Sex₃
¡MR§^[Í Facetiously and Philosophically Considered, in
gg™l Graphic Letters Addressed to Young Ladies of
Quality.

———." domi maneas paresque nobis
Naovem continuas fututiones."

Catullus. Carmen xxxii.

A New Edition. London: 1740. [Reprinted 1865.]

8vo. ; pp. 92, ; 8 coloured lithographs, including a fancy title
page, inscribed "The New Epicurean 1740.;" drawing and exe-
cution very second rate. It is no "reprint," but an original work,
first published by W. Dugdale in 1865, and sold at ¿gi. 11« 6 ;
about 500 copies were struck off.

Reprinted in 1875; title identical, with exception of slight
alterations in the punctuation, and a change of the termination
of the impress into " (Reprinted 1875)." Small 8vo. ; pp. 117;
the same 8 lithographs reproduced from the original stones ;
this edition was printed in Brussels for a London bookseller.

The author and artist is Edward Sellon.

In " The New Epicurean," under the name of Sir Charles,
Sellon has depicted a course of life and a habitation which were
entirely to his taste, " I am a man (he tells us) who, having
passed the rubicon of youth, has arrived at that age when the

 

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passions require a more stimulating diet than is to be found in
the arms of every painted courtesan.

" That I might the better carry out my philosophical design
of pleasure without riot, and refined voluptuous enjoy-
ment without alloy, and with safety, I became the pur-
chaser of a suburban villa, situate in extensive grounds, em-
bosomed in lofty trees, and surrounded with high walls. This
villa I altered to suit my taste, and had it so contrived that all
the windows should face towards the road, except the French
ones, which opened on the lawn from a charming room, to
which I had ingress from the grounds at the back, and which
was quite cut off from the rest of the house. To render these
grounds more private, high walls extended like wings from
either side of the house and joined the outer walls. I thus
secured an area of some three acres of woodland which was
not overlooked from any quarter, and where everything that
took place would be a secret unknown to the servants in the villa.

" The grounds I had laid out in the true English style, with
umbrageous walks, alcoves, grottoes, fountains, and every
adjunct that could add to their rustic beauty. In the open
space facing the secret apartment before alluded to was spread
out a fine lawn, embossed with beds of the choicest flowers, and
in the centre, from a bouquet of maiden's blush roses appeared
a statue of Venus, in white marble ; and at the end of every
shady valley was a terminal figure of the god of gardens in his
various forms ; either bearded like the antique head of the

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Indian Bacchus ; or soft and feminine, as we see the lovely
Antinous ; or Hermaphroditic (sic)—the form of a lovely girl
with puerile attributes. In the fountains swam gold and silver
fish, whilst rare crystals and spars glittered amidst mother o' pearl
at the bottom of the basons.

" The gardeners who kept this happy valley in order were
only admitted on Mondays and Tuesdays, which days were
devoted by me entirely to study, the remaining four being
sacred to Venus and love.

" This garden had three massive doors in its walls, each fitted
with a small lock made for the purpose, and all opened with a
gold key, which never left my watch guard.

" Such were the external arrangements of my Capræ. Now,
with a few words on the internal economy of my private salie
d'amour I have done.

"This apartment, which was large and lofty, was, in its
fittings and furniture entirely en Louis Quinze, that is to say, in
the latest French mode ; the walls were pannelled, and painted
in pale French grey, white and gold, and were rendered less
formal by being hung with exquisite paintings by Watteau.
Cabinets of buhl and marqueterie lined the sides, each filled
with erotic works by the best authors, illustrated with exquisite
and exciting prints, and charmingly bound. The couches and
chairs were of ormolu, covered en suite with grey satin, and
stuffed with down. The legs of the tables were also gilt, the
tops were slabs of marble, which, when not in use for the de-

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licious collations (which were from time to time served up
through a trap door in the floor) were covered with rich tapes-
tries. The window curtains were of grey silk, and Venetian
blinds, painted a pale rose colour, cast a voluptuous shade over
the room.

" The chimney piece was of marble, large, lofty, and
covered with sculpture in relief, representing beautiful naked
children of both sexes, in every wanton attitude, entwined with
grapes and flowers, carved by the hand of a master. The sides
and hearth of this elegant fireplace were encrusted with por-
celain tiles of rare beauty, representing the triumph of Venus,
and silver dogs were placed on either side to support the wood,
according to the style in vogue in the middle of the last century.

" To complete the coup d'oeil, my embroidered suit of garnet
velvet, plumed hat, and diamond hiked sword were carelessly
flung upon a chair, while the cabinets and sideboards were
covered with costly snuff boxes and china. Such were some
of the striking features of this delightful chamber. As for the
rest of the house, it was furnished like any other respectable
domicile of our times.

" My establishment consisted of a discreet old house-keeper,
who was well paid, and not too sharply looked after in the little
matters of perquisites and peculations ; a bouncing, blooming
cook ; and a sprightly trig housemaid ; who were kept in good
humour by an occasional half guinea, a holiday, and a chuck
under the chin. Beyond these innocent liberties they were not
molested."

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In this Elysium then Sir Charles indulges in debaucheries of
every kind, chiefly with young girls who are brought to him
by a schoolmistress, a tenant of his. Sir Charles is married,
but his Lady Cecilia in no way interferes with his voluptuous
idiosyncracies, but joins him in his orgies, and indeed enjoys a
little page of her own. However the book is made to finish
quasi-tragically. Cecilia, unknown to her husband, has an in-
trigue with her cousin Lord William ; Sir Charles surprises them
en flagrant délit, a duel is fought on the spot, in which both
combatants are slightly wounded ; after which the lady enters a
convent, and assumes the black veil. Sir Charles now takes a
disgust to his villa, which he sells, and retreats, with Phoebe and
Chloe, his two female servants, Daphnis, my lady's page, and
old Jukes, his housekeeper, to his Herefordshire estate.

He continues : " Haying * lived every day of my life ' as the
saying is, you will readily suppose that I cannot perform the
feats of Venus I once indulged in, but two or three blooming
little girls, who pass for the sisters and cousins of Phoebe and
Chloe, serve to amuse me by their playfulness, and tumbling
about showing their beauties, sometimes stir my sluggish blood
into a thrill."

The scenes depicted, many of which are doubtless from the
author's own experience, and may be considered to a certain
extent auto-biographical, are remarkable for an ultra lascivious-
ness, and a cynicism worthy of the Marquis de Sade (barring
cruelty, which is never practised).

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The book, which, for reasons that are not evident, is in the
form of letters to various women, is written with ability. In
accordance with the false indication of the title page, the scene
and costume (of plates as well as text) are thrown back into the
last century, but the delusion is very clumsily carried out.

ÜOrtuntal aRebcfó : or, the History of King's-Place, and other
Modern Nunneries. Containing their Mysteries, Devo-
tions, and Sacrifices. Comprising also, The Ancient and
Present State of Promiscuous Gallantry : With the Por-
traits of the most Celebrated Demireps and Courtezans of
this Period : As well as Sketches of their Professional and
Occasional Admirers. By a Monk of the Order op St.
Francis. In Two Volumes. Vol. i. The Second Edition,
Corrected and Improved, with a Variety of Additions.

II vero est, quod ego mihi puto palmarium,
Me reperisse, quo modo adolescentulus
Meretricum ingenia & mores possit noscere :
Mature ut cum cognorit, perpetuo oderit.

Ter. Eun. Act 5. Sc. 4.

London : Printed for M. Goadby, Pater-noster-Row. 1779.

i2tno.; pp. vol. r, 20 unnumbered of titles, dedication, and
introduction, and 279, vol. 2, p{% 270, excluding the two titles

In the second vol. the Nos. of pages 193 to 2j2 (inclusive),
and chaps. 37 to 42 have a star attached, indicating probably
new matter added to this second edition.

It would be a boon to the student if this most entertaining

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work, which is also valuable for the vivid picture it gives of the
London life of the period, were rescued from the oblivion into
which it has fallen, carefully reprinted, and edited by one
conversant with the " fast life " of those days, and who could
fill out the names which now are only in skeleton. The title
does not promise too much. The various " Nunneries " and
their inmates are fully described, and some of the entertainments
(see vol. 2, p. 24 and 206) provided by the ^Λ Lady Abbesses "
for their patrons, are portrayed in glowing colours. The
houses of rendezvous are not omitted, and sketches of the
careers of the most notorious demireps of both sexes are
given» Some of the tales, especially that of Miss P-lm-r
(vol. 1, p. 76), are quite dramatic. Sam. Foote, George
Selwyn, the Duke of CAueensberry (Lord Piccadilly), and
others of note are introduced. Various curious facts and
customs are related ; among others : The first brothel on the
Continental principle was founded by Mrs. Goadby, whom the
author calls " the great Goadby," at Berwick Street, Soho (was
Mrs. Goadby any relation to the publisher of the book ? the
names are identical ). The filthy and preposterous fashion in
female head-dresses is described, when "the head was not
opened " sometimes for more than a month, and became in-
fested with vermin of all kinds, (vol. 1, p. 102). The origin
of "Cork Rumps" (vol. 1, p. 201). The general sale and
use of Dildos, called here, "Bijoux Indiscrets, Indiscreet
Toys," &c. Here is the author's own quaint and terse summary

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of the contents of his book : " a variety of pictures of Keepers,
Petticoat-Pensioners, Old Virgins, Wives and Widows, troubled
with the furor uterinus, Young Letchers debilitated, and impo-
tent old Dotards flattered into a belief of their vigour and
amorous abilities ; the Portraits of the most celebrated Thais's
and Demi-reps upon the Ton, in a variety of whimsical, las-
civious and meretricious devices; &c." (vol. 2, p. 258).

To this I may add that a very full account of Medmenham
Priory* is given in the introduction to the first volume.

In a catalogue of George Peacock,-^ the two volumes are
offered for 8/-.

The work has been translated into French as :

" lt& Jberatfó ïie ï,0nÖr£Ö, ou Les Amusemens Nocturnes.
Contenant Les Scènes qui y sont journellement représentées,
les Portraits et la Description des Courtisan nes les plus célèbres,
et les Caractères de ceux qui les fréquentent. Traduit de l'An-
glais. Tome Premier. A Paris, Chez Barba, Libraire, Palais
Egalité, derriére le Théâtre de la République, no. 51. An ix.

(1801.)"

i2mo. (counts 6) ; pp. vol. 1 xxiv and 150, vol 2 152,
vol. 3 146, vol. 4 160, ex titles ; to each vol. there is an en-
graving, as frontispiece, fairly executed and not obscene.^
This translation contains the same matter as the English ori-
ginal, although the arrangement is somewhat altered.

* See ante, p. 234.
f That mentioned at p. 303, ante.

l Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, &c, vol. 6, p. 267.
RR

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|p5|gl Z'<&b$ttbbtiWC anfflOÍS», ou Correspondance Secrete
iCøjj ^entre Milord All'eye et Milord Alle'ar. (sic)

Singula quæque notando. Hor.

Tome Premier. A Londres, Chez John Adamson.

MDCCLXXVII.

X2mo. ; 4 vols, ; vols, ι and α date 1777, and have each a
small fleuron on title pages ; vols. 3 and 4 have six stars, placed
triangularly, in place of the fleuron, and date 1778 ; in the title
of the second volume only is the comma rightly placed in the
word " AlFear ; " printed at Amsterdam.

These four volumes were written by Pidansat de Mairo-
bert.* After his death the work was continued by an un-
known hand as :

"ϊ/Cgpiøtt Singlo Í2», ou Coirespondance Secrete entre
Milord Ali'eye et Milord Airear.

Singula quæque notando. Hor.

Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigée & considérablement
augmentée. Tome Cinquième» A Londres, chez John Adam-
son, mdcclxxxiil"

iamo,î identical in form with "L'Observateur;" small

• La France Littéraire, vol 7, p. 150.

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fleuron on title pages; vols. 5, 6, and 7 date 1783, vols 8, 9.
and 10, 1784. Barbier supposes these 6 vols, to contain ex-
tracts from the " Mémoires Secrets de Bachaumont," which, as
Quérard points out, is not the case ; he adds : " Les dix volumes
ont été réimprimés plusieurs fois* sous le titre de PØgptOH
angftotØ, notamment de 1780—1785. Plus tard, on a ajouté
un volume de supplément." This volume I have never seen.

These 10 volumes contain a vast amount of most curious
and interesting matter, interspersed, it must be owned, with
much which is now effete and comparatively useless. They were
abridged into 2 vols., 8vo., with title :

^€€ í'<B&#íun 3ttgIatS» ou Correspondance entre deux milords
sur les mœurs publiques et privées des Francais· Tome Premier.
A Paris, Chez Leopold Collin, Libraire, rue Git-le-Cœur, no.
4. 1809."

These two volumes embrace strictures on the French nobles
and clergy ; notices of remarkable law suits, of the opera and
theatres j descriptions of the scenes which were then nightly
enacted at the Palais Royal, of actresses, prostitutes, procuresses,
notably of Justine Paris and of Mme, Gourdan, whose house
and its contents are minutely described ; anecdotes of several
remarkable personages, among others Mme. du Barri, d'Alem-
bert, Fréron, Voltaire, Rousseau, &c. ; account of the pub-
lication of " Parapilla " and " La Foutromanie," together with

* I have seen the following odd volumes, all with the 6 stars, and the
dates in Roman letters : " L'Observateur," vols, t and a, 1784, vol. 4, 1785.
·'L'Espion*' voL 8, 1784, vols. 5» 6, 9, ίο, 1785.

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much other interesting matter. They contain in fact the most
curious articles of the 10 vols, above noted.

[Les deux présents volumes sont la collection des articles
les plus inconvenants, pour ne pas dire libres, que renferment
les dix volumes de l'édition publiée de 1777 à 1784. La table
des matières prouvera combien ces deux volumes-ci sont curieux,
et peu décents.]*

To make the series complete another work should be
added, viz. :

" ftntibottü Crftappres a £'<@tøn*bateur ansíete et

aux Mémoires Secrets, en forme de correspondance ; pour
servir de suite a ces deux ouvrages. Tome Premier. A Londres,
Chez John Adamson. 1788."

Large i2mo. ; 3 vols ;-{~ pp. 372, and 360 in all. This work
possesses no great merit and little interest ; the anecdotes are
neither so original nor so piquant as in the " Observateur " or
" Espion ;" in form these two volumes are not serial with any
edition of the " Espion " I have seen.

Mathieu-François Pidanzat de Mairobert was born at
Chaource in Champagne, February 20, 1727, and died at Paris,
March 27, 1779. Brought at an early age to Paris, he was
educated by Madame Doublet de Persan, and admitted into
that circle of literary men who assembled daily in her apart-
ment, and who collected the materials which were afterwards

* See ante, end of the Introduction,
f Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour, &c., vol. 1, p. 244.

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published as " Mémoires secrets de Bachaumont.". Mairobert
was " censeur royal," and enjoyed the title of " secrétaire du
roi," but becoming implicated in the affair of the Marquis du
Brunoy, he felt the disgrace so keenly that he committed
suicide by shooting himself, after having opened his veins in a
bath. Several details concerning him are given in the " Mémoires
de Bachaumont," above mentioned, and a list of his works will
be found in the " Biographie Universelle (Michaud)," " La
France Littéraire," &c.

* At p. 343 of his ^a Curiosités Littéraires," M. L. Laianne gives an
account of the salon of Mme. Doublet, who did not go out of her apartment
a single time during 40 years.

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κι%5Ή| 3ßi)0tht Hiöoaffen; or, the Remarkable Adventures,
»HU Schemes, Wiles, and Devilries of Une Maquerelie_;
"ittBlw being a sequel to the " New Epicurean."

Sir Toby—"Do'st thou think that because thou art virtuous there
shall be no more cakes and ale ?—

Clown—" Yes ! by St. Anne, andginger shall be hot i'the mouth too ! "—
Twelfth Night -, or, What you will.

London: 1743. [Reprint.]

8vo.; pp. 96; 8 badly done coloured lithographs; title
printed in red and black; this is not a "reprint," but
an original publication of 1866 ; price two guineas ;
issue 500 copies. The author, Edward Sellon, thinking
that his MS. did not contain sufficient matter to form
a volume, sent the publisher, W. Dugdale, another tale
to make it up, but ^a Phoebe Kissagen " being found ample,
the second tale was not published ; this will however explain
the following remark in Dugdale's catalogue: "to which is
added, Scenes in the Life of a Young Man, a narrative of
amorous exploits ;" no such scenes are in the volume.

The work has been reprinted ; and was issued in January
1876, in small 8vo.; pp. 99 ; the title printed in black only, and

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identical in wording, except that the impress becomes: "London,
1743 (Reprinted 1875)." This edition contains the whole of
the matter comprised in the original, but some slight alterations
have been made. There are no illustrations, although the
original stones are still in existence.

" Phoebe Kissagen," which, after the fashion of several French
books of the last century, is put in the form of letters addressed
to a Lady of title, begins with an account of the death of Sir
Charles,* who expires during the moment of copulation with
his favourite concubine Phoebe. The "good gentleman" leaves
Phoebe and Chloe ^3000 each, with which they repair to
London, and purchase a bagnio in Leicester Fields. All the
rooms in the establishment are furnished with peep holes,
through which the mistress is enabled to observe, unobserved,
every thing that goes on in her house, and the description of
the various scenes she witnesses, occupies the greater part of
the book.

The rest of the volume is devoted to " The Bagnio Corres-
pondence/* or letters received by Phoebe from her numerous
clients, male and female, through which their various and
peculiar tastes are exhibited*

The book ends almost with a moral, for Phoebe, when arrived
at a mature age, falls in love with, and marries a young fellow
calling himself Captain Jackson, " a man of desperate fortunes,

* See ante, p, 314.

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a gamester and duellist.'* This gentleman soon squanders all
her earnings, and eventually communicates to her a " horrid
disease," so that the unhappy Phoebe has to quit London, and
retires to a " quiet village, where her former career was
unknown."

" Phoebe Kissagen " is cleverly written, and although the
scenes, and the language which describes them, are of the
grossest kind, there is a certain tone about the book which
denotes its author to be a gentleman. As in "The New
Epicurean," the dress and associations are of the last century.

€1)t fføoem'jr of £>ofcom, or the Wttt ¿ttmt €ùttv\t.

Being an Exhibition of the Gambols Practised by the
Ancient Lechers of Sodom and Gomorrah, embellished
and improved with the Modern Refinements in Sodom-
itical Practices, by the members of the Vere Street Coterie,
of detestable memory. Sold by J. Cook, at
And to be had at all the Booksellers. 1813. Hollo way,
Printer, Artillery Lane, Tooley Street.

Large 8vo. ; pp. 71. There is a copy in the British Museum.

This book is written by a lawyer, who signs himself Hollo-
way, 6, Richmond Buildings, Soho (possibly a relation of the
printer) ; it is in defence of, and for the benefit of James Cook,
landlord of the White Swan Public House in Vere Street, Clare
Market, where the Sodomitical Club assembled. Cook had
been fleeced whilst in Newgate by an attorney named Wooley,

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under pretence of " bringing him through," and had, as Hollo-
way opined, been in many other ways oppressed. It will be
noticed that on the title page a space is left for Cook to fill
in his address. It appears that Cook had not been guilty of
the capital offence, his crime being limited to his keeping a
house for the purpose. He offered, in the hope of mitigating
his punishment, to divulge the names of the noble and wealthy
frequenters of his house, but this only incensed the ministers
the more, and he was ordered to the pillory forthwith. That
Cook's revelation, had it been permitted, would have compro-
mised many men of position, there can be no doubt, " for there
is scarcely any description of men, but some individual is
comprehended in the associates of this vice ; even men in the
sacerdotal garb have descended from the pulpit to the gully-hole
of breathing infamy in Vere-street, and other places for similar
vice:" &c. (p. 23).

" The fatal house in question was furnished in a style most
appropriate for the purposes it was intended. Four beds were
provided in one room :—another was fitted up for the ladies'
dressing-room, with a toilette, and every appendage of rouge,
&c. &c. :—a third room was called the Chaple, (sic) where mar-
riages took place, sometimes between & female grenadier, six feet
high, and a petit maître not more than half the a titude of his
beloved wife ! These marriages were solemnized with all the
mockery of bride maids and bride men ; and the nuptials were
frequently consumated by two, three, or four couple, in the
ss

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same room, and in the sight of each other ! incredible as this
circumstance may appear, the reader may depend it is all
provable :—the upper part of the house was appropriated to
wretches who were constantly in waiting for casual customers ;
who practised all the allurements that are found in a brothel, by
the more natural description of prostitutes ; and the only
difference consisting in that want of decency that subsists
between the most profligate men and depraved women.—Men
of rank, and respectable situations in life, might be seen
wallowing either in or on the beds with wretches of the lowest
description : but the perpetration of the abominable act, how-
ever offensive, was infinitely more tolerable than the shocking
conversation that accompanied the perpetration ; some of which,
Cook has solemnly declared to me, was so odious, that he could
not either write, or verbally relate. It seems many of these
wretches are married ; and frequently, when they are together,
make their wives, who (sic) they call Tommies, topics of ridicule ;
and boast of having compelled them to act parts too shocking
to think of;—an instance of which I must relate, because the
history of the country furnishes a precedent, that consigned
a peer of the realm, and his infamous associate, to the gallows :
I allude to Lord Audley's case, who was convicted of rape
and sodomy at one time with his own wife.*—The instance I

* Lord Audley was, in 1631, tried before his peers» found guilty, and be-
headed on Tower Hill. See ^fi The Trjral and Condemnation of Mervie» Lord
Audley Earl of Castle-Haven. At Westminster, April the 5th 1631. For

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shall relate was told at Vere-street by the husband, to many of
the wretches, and the partner of his guilt, then present, who
joined in the relation, as if it had been a meritorious act :—
this ill-fated woman had been brought to that pitch of infamy,
that she frequently endured it, as if it was no offence even to
modesty Î the dreadful fellow, who is the subject of the narra-
tion, is one of three miscreants living together in the same
public office in the city, one of whom is known by the appel-
lation of Venus.

" It seems the greater part of these reptiles assume feigned
names, though not very appropriate to their calling in life : for
instance, Kitty Cambric is a Coal Merchant \ Miss Selina a Run-
ner at a Police office ; Black-eyed Leonora, a Drummer; Pretty
Harriet, a Butcher; Lady Godina, (sic) a Waiter; the Duchess
of Gloucester, a gentleman's Servant; Duchess of Devonshire,
a Blacksmith ; and Miss Sweet Lips, a Country Grocer. It is
a generally received opinion, and a very natural one, that the
pre valency of this passion has for its object effeminate delicate
beings only : but this seems to be, by Cook's account, a mis-
taken notion ; and the reverse is so palpable in many instances,
that Fanny Murry, Lucy Cooper, and Kitty Fisher, are now
personified by an athletic Bargeman, an Herculean Coal-heaver,
and a 4eaf tyre Smith : the latter of these monsters has two

Abetting a Rape upon his Countess, Committing Sodomy with his Servants,
and Commanding and Countenancing the Debauching his Daughter. &c.
London, Printed in the Year, 1699.** 8ra. (counts 4) j pp. 8 unnumbered and 31.

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sons, both very handsome young men, whom he boasts are
full as depraved as himself. These are merely part of the
common stock belonging to the house ; but the visitors were
more numerous, and, if possible, more infamous, because more
exalted in life : and these ladies, like the ladies of the petticoat
order, have their favorite men ; one of whom was White, a
drummer of the guards, who, some short time since, was
executed for a crime of the most detestable description with
Hebden an ensign.* White, being an universal favourite, was
very deep in the secrets of the fashionable part of the coterie ;
of which he made a most ample confession in writing, imme-
diately previous to his execution ; the truth of which he averred,
even to his last moments ; but it is impossible to give it literally,
for the person who took it, in the presence of a magistrate,
said that the recital made him so sick he could not proceed."
(pp. io to 14).

" That the reader may form some idea of the uncontrolable
rage of this dreadful passion, Cook states, that a person in a
respectable house in the city, frequently came to his sink of filth
and iniquity, and stayed several days and nights together ;
during which time he generally amused himself with eight, ten,
and sometimes a dozen different boys and men !—" (p. 17).

" Sunday was the general, and grand day of rendezvous ! and

* Ensign John Newball Hepburn (not Hebden) and Thomas White were
convicted at the Old Bailey» in December 1810, for an unnatural crime com-
mitted on 27th of the previous May, at the White Swan in Vere St., found
guilty, and both sentenced to death.

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to render their excuse the more entangled and doubtful, some
of the parties came a great distance, even so much as thirty
miles, to join the festivity and elegant amusements of grenadiers,
footmen, waiters, drummers, and all the Catamite brood, kneaded
into human shape, from the sweepings of Sodom, with the spawn
of Gomorrah? (p. 22).

The existence of such a club could not be kept entirely
secret ; the Bow-street magistrates had their suspicions some
time before its actual dissolution in July 1810. In a journal of
the time we read : " About 11 o'clock last Sunday evening,
three separate parties of the patrole, attended by constables,
were detached from Bow-street upon this service ; and such was
the secrecy observed, that the object of their pursuit was un-
known, even at that moment, to all but the confidential agents
of Mr. Read, who headed the respective parties. The enter-
prize was completely successful."—

Twenty three individuals were captured, and taken to the
watch-house of St. Clement's Danes ; whence they were " con-
veyed in hackney-coaches, between ten and eleven on Monday,
to Bow-street for examination," amidst an " enraged multitude,
the majority of whom were females," and who were so violent
that " it was with the utmost difficulty the prisoners could be
saved from destruction."

At the Middlesex Sessions, Clerkenwell, on Saturday 22nd
September following, seven of these men, viz., William Amos,
alias Sally Fox; James Cooke, the landlord; Phillip Kett,

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William Thomson, Richard Francis, James Done, and Robert
Aspinal were tried, and all found guilty. Amos, having been
twice before convicted of similar offences, was sentenced to
three years' imprisonment, and to stand once in the pillory in
the Hay market, opposite Panton street; Aspinal, as not having
appeared so active as the others, to one year's imprisonment ;
and the rest were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment,
and the pillory in the same place.

The treatment they experienced at the hands of the mob
whilst they were in the pillory was most brutal ; the following
account of it I extract from a newspaper of the Time:

" The disgust felt by all ranks in Society at the detestable
conduct of these wretches occasioned many thousands to
become spectators of their punishment. At an early hour the
Old Bailey was completely blockaded, and the increase of the
mob about 12 o'clock, put a stop to the business of the
Sessions. The shops from Lud gate-Hi II to the Hay market
were shut up, and the streets lined with people, waiting to see
the offenders pass. Four of the latter had been removed from
the House of Correction to Newgate on Wednesday evening,
and being joined by Cook e (sic) and Amos, they were all ready
to proceed to the place of punishment.

" Shortly after twelve, the ammunition waggons from the
neighbouring markets appeared in motion. These consisted
of a number of carts which were driven by butchers* boys,
who had previously taken care to fill them with the offal,
dung, he. appertaining to their several slaughter-houses.
A number of hucksters were also put in requisition, who
carried on their heads 'baskets of apples, potatoes, turnips,
cabbage-stalks, and other vegetables, together with the re-
mains of divers dogs and cats. The whole of these were
sold to the populace at a high price, who- spared no ex-

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pence to provide themselves with the necessary articles of
assault.

" A number of fishwomen attended with stinking flounders
and the entrails of other fish which had been in preparation
for several days. These articles, however, were not to be sold,
as their proprietors, hearty in the cause, declared they wanted
them ^c for their own use.'

"About half-past ia the Sheriffs and City Marshals
arrived with more than 100 Constables mounted and armed
with pistols, and ioo on foot. This force was ordered
to rendezvous in the Old Bailey Yard, where a caravan,
used occasionally for conveying prisoners from the gaols
of London to the Hulks, waited to receive the culprits.
The caravan was drawn by two shaft horses, led by two men,
armed with a brace of pistols. The gates of the Old Bailey
Yard were shut, and all strangers turned out. The miscreants
were then brought out, and all placed in the caravan. Amos
began a laugh, which induced his vile companions to reprove
him, and they all sat upright, apparently in a composed state*
but having cast their eyes upwards, the sight of the spectators
on the tops of the houses operated strongly on their fears, and
they soon appeared to feel terror and dismay. At the instant
the church clock went half-past twelve, the gates were thrown
open. The mob at the same time attempted to force their way
in, but they were repulsed. A grand sortie of the police was
then made. About 60 officers, armed and mounted as before
described, went forward with the City Marshals. The caravan
went next, followed by about 40 officers and the Sheriffs. The
first salute received by the offenders was a volley of mud, and
a serenade of hisses, hooting, and execration, which compelled
them to fall flat on their faces in the caravan. The mob, and
particularly the women, had piled up balls of mud to afford
the objects of their indignation a warm reception. The depots
in many places appeared like pyramids of shot in a gun wharf.
These were soon exhausted, and when the caravan passed the

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old house which once belonged to the notorious Jonathan Wild,
the prisoners resembled bears dipped in a stagnant pool. The
shower of mud continued during their passage to the Hay-
market. Before they reached half way to the scene of their
exposure, they were not discernable as human beings. It they
had had much further to go, the cart would have been abso-
lutely filled over them. The one who sat rather aloof from
the rest, was the landlord of the house, a fellow of a stout bulky
figure, who could not stow himself away as easily as the others,
who were slighter ; he was therefore, as well on account of his
being known, attacked with double fury. Dead cats and dogs,
offal, potatoes, turnips, &c. rebounded from him on every side ;
while his apparently manly appearance drew down peculiar ex-
ecrations on him, and nothing but the motion of the cart pre-
vented his being killed on the spot. At one o'clock four of them
were exalted on a new pillory, made purposely for their accommo-
dation. The remaining two, Cooke and Amos, were honoured
by being allowed to enjoy a triumph in the pillory alone. They
were accordingly taken back in the caravan to St. Martin's
watch-house. Before any of them reached the place of punish-
ment, their faces were completely disfigured by blows and mud;
and before they mounted, their whole persons appeared one
heap of filth. Upwards of 50 women were permitted to stand
in the ring, who assailed them incessantly with mud, dead cats,
rotten eggs, potatoes, and buckets filled with blood, offal, and
dung, which were brought by a number of butchers' men from
St. James's Market. These criminals were very roughly handled ;
but as there were four of them, they did not suffer so much as a
less number might. When the hour was expired, they were
again put in the cart, and conveyed to Cold Bath Fields Prison,
through St. MartinVlane, Compton-street, and Holborn, and
in their journey received similar salutes to what they met with
in their way from Newgate. When they were taken from the
stand, the butchers' men, and the women, who had been so
active, were plentifully regaled with gin and beer, procured

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from a subscription made upon the spot. In a few minutes,
the remaining two, Cook, (who had been the landlord) and
Amos, alias Fox, were desired to mount. Cook held his hand
to his head, and complained of the blows he had already re-
ceived; and Amos made the same complaint, and shewed a
large brick bat, which had struck him in the face. The Under
Sheriff told them that the sentence must be executed, and they
reluctantly mounted. Cook said nothing ; but Amos seeing the
preparations that were making, declared in the most solemn
manner that he was innocent ; but it was vociferated from all
quarters that he had been convicted before, and in one minute
they appeared a complete heap of mud, and their faces were much
more battered than those of the former four. Cook received
several hits in his face, and he had a lump raised upon his eye-
brow as large as an egg. Amos's two eyes were completely
closed up ; and when they were untied, Cook appeared almost
insensible, and it was necessary to help them both down and
into the cart, when they were conveyed to Newgate by the
same road they had come, and in their passage they continued
to receive the same salutations the spectators had given them
in going out. Cook continued to lie upon the seat in the cart,
but Amos lay down among the filth, till their entrance into
Newgate sheltered the wretches from the further indignation of
the most enraged populace we ever saw. As they passed the
end of Catherine-street, Strand, on their return, a coachman
stood upon his box, and gave Cook five or six cuts with his
whip.

" It is impossible for language to convey an adequate idea
of the universal expressions of execration, which accom-
panied these monsters on their journey ; it was fortunate for
them that the weather was dry,, had it been otherwise they
would have been smothered. From the moment the cart was
in motion, the fury of the mob began to display itself in
showers of mud and filth of every kind. Before the cart
reached Temple-bar, the wretches were so thickly covered with

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filth, that a vestige of the human figure was scarcely discernible.
They were chained, and placed in such a manner that they
could not lie down in the cart, and could only hide and shelter
their heads from the storm by stooping. This, however, could
afford but little protection. Some of them were cut in the head
with brickbats, and bled profusely. The streets, as they passed,
resounded with the universal shouts and execrations of the
populace."

The practice of sodomy in England was not confined to
London, or to the votaries of the Vere Street Coterie ; very
numerous were the convictions about the same time for that
and similar offences. The crime seems to have taken root in
England already a century earlier. In " Satan's Harvest Home,"*
printed in 1749, we read: "Till of late Years, Sodomy was a
Sin, in a manner unheard of in these Nations ; and indeed, one
would think where there are such Angelic Women, so foul a
Sin should never enter into Imagination : On the contrary,
our Sessions-Papers are frequently stain'd with the Crimes of
these beastly Wretches ; and tho' many have been made Ex-
amples of, yet we have but too much Reason to fear, that there
are Numbers yet undiscovered, and that this abominable Practice
gets Ground ev'ry Day." The author of ^u The Phoenix of
Sodom" further informs us that: "About five and twenty years
ago, there existed a society of the same order with the Vere-
street gang, in the City of Exeter, most of whom were men of

* See that title, p. 357 post,

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rank and local situation ; they were apprehended, and about
fifteen of them tried ; and, though they were acquitted by the
letter of the law, the enraged multitude was so convinced of
their guilt, that, without any respect to their rank, they burnt
them in effigy.

" About the same period, another disgraceful scene was
exhibited in London, at Clement's-lane, near the new Church
in the Strand ; this scene was, if possible, more ridiculously
wicked ; for though it embraced all the turpitude of the Vere
street Coterie, yet the public indignation was in some measure
for the moment allayed, by the grotesque appearance of the
actors :—they were seized in the very act of giving caudle to
their lying-in women, and the new-born infants personated by large
dolls ! and so well did they perform the characters they assumed,
that one miscreant escaped the vigilance of the officers and the
examining magistrates, and was discharged as a woman ! "(p. 27).

A few more instances of the practice of this crime may not
be out of place here.

The great proportion of cases reported in trials on this subject
occurs among the lower orders. This is naturally to be expected,
not only from their greater number but from their using less pre-
caution against discovery. But I am inclined to agree with the
author of "A Free Examination into the Penal Statutes, xxv Henr.
vin, cap. 6. and ν Eliz. cap. 17," ^tc that the taste has been in all
ages that of the most distinguished individuals, and that we might
count perhaps as many delinquents in the great continental cities
now, as there were in Athens, or in ancient Rome."

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Beside the cases which have come prominently before the public
such as the Rev. Dr. Thistlethwayte, warden, and the Rev. Mr.
Swinton, fellow of Wadham College, Oxford/ Beckford, Richard
Heber, Grey Bennet, Jocelyn, Bishop of Clogher, Bankes, and
Baring Wall ; there are many others which were well known in
society. Among them there were some Scotch cases which are
most remarkable.

Mr. Greenfield was one of the most respected clergy-
men in the city of Edinburgh in the beginning of this
century. Like many of the Scotch clergy with small incomes
he augmented his means by taking as boarders young men who
were studying at the University, He was observed indulging
in unnatural lusts with some of these youths. From the re-
spectability of the parties the matter was hushed up, on the
ground that his conduct proceeded from insanity. He resigned
his charge, and lived for the rest of his life in retirement under
nominal restraint. His family changed their name to Ruther-
furd, that of their mother. The son was a Scotch advocate, and
became Lord Advocate, and afterwards a Judge in the court of
Session, under the title of Lord Rutherfurd.

* See "A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings In a late Affair
between the Rev. Mr. John Swinton, and Mr. George Baker, Both of Wad-
ham College, Oxford : &c. To which is prefiVd, A Particular Account of the
Proceedings against Robert Thistlethwayte, Late Doctor of Divinity, and
Warden of Wadham College, For a Sodomitical Attempt upon Mr.W. French,
Commoner of the same College. London : m.dcc.xxxix." 8vo. ; (counts 4) ;
pp. 32 ex title.

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The last Earl of Findlater and Seafield died about 1820 ; he
was an able and learned man, but his tastes becoming known,
he resided for the greater part of his life on the continent, where
he could more easily indulge them. On his death the title of
Findlater became extinct, but he was succeeded in the earldom
of Seafield by Colonel Grant. After his death it appeared
that he had left nearly the whole of his unentailed property to
a Saxon family of the name of Fischer, chiefly to a young man
who had acted first as his page, and afterwards as private
secretary. The relations refused to pay these legacies, and
an action was raised in the Court of Session in Scotland
to enforce payment. This was resisted by the relations
on the ground that the bequests had been made ob turpem
causam. Proceedings went on for some time, and two
commissions were granted to take evidence in Saxony. But the
scandal became so great, of a noble family attempting to ñx
such a stigma on the memory of their relative from pecuniary
motives, that friends interfered, and a compromise was effected,
by which the Fischers received a large sum, ^60,000, in full
of their claims.

Some years afterwards Mr. Grosset Muirhead, a large landed
proprietor in Lanarkshire, near Glasgow, was obliged to flee
the country notoriously on that account.

Mr. John Wood was an advocate in Edinburgh, he moved
in the best society, and was highly respected as a philanthropist ;
he devoted a great deal of his time to the promotion of schools,

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and for several years spent many hours each day in teaching. He
was detected indulging in criminal practices with his pupils. It
was generally understood that he got a hint that his conduct had
been discovered. He fled to America, and never appeared again.
Cí)e fHttatttllp ambulator ; or, Old α : containing Memoirs

of the Private Life of that Ever-green Votary of Venus !

Throughout which are interspersed Anecdotes of the most

noted Fashionables, his Contemporaries. In two volumes.

By J. P. Hurstone, Esq. Vol. ι.

The coronet which gives and receives splendour, when fixed on the brow
of merit, glitters on the worthless head, like a mark of disgrace, to
render vice, folly, and inhumanity conspicuous.

George Colman the Younger.

Printed by J. Dean, 57. Wardour Street, Soho. Por G.
Hughes, 212, Tottenham-Court-Road; and H. D.
Symonbs, 20, Paternoster-Row. 1808.

Large i2mo. ; pp. vol. 1 xn and 143 in all, vol. 2 115 ex
titles ; issued in boards, price 10/- ; to the first volume there is
a curious folding frontispiece, coloured, signed Nicholas
Lunatic Delt Η. Shade Sc.

This is a flimsy, badly written book, of no literary worth. It
recounts the seduction of several girls by the Duke of Queens-
berry,* called by the author " Old Quiz," and contains other
anecdotes more or less scurrilous ; it cannot be recommended as a
reliable, or in any respect satisfactory memoir of that notorious
debauchee.

* See ante, p. 212.

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ψΜί$ ©umque ïïïtîgtnum f ortanim Ant. Panormitae ;

Jj|al!j Ramusii, Ariminensis ; Pacifici Maximi, Ascu-

lani; Joan. Joviani Pontani ; Joan. Secundi,

Hagiensis. Lusus in Venerem Partim ex Codicibus

manuscriptis nunc primùm editi. Parisiis^ Prostat ad pis-

trinum in vico suavi. m.dcc.xci.

8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. vin and 242, and 5 unnumbered of
Title, Monitum, and Errata. Short biographies precede the
poems of each author.

This is a book to be avoided. From the beginning to the
end the volume is full of errors of every imaginable kind ; and
the punctuation is so whimsically wrong that the sense is often
hopelessly obscured, and becomes a perfect puzzle.

The editorship is attributed to Mercier abbé de Saint-
Léger ; and the volume is (fortunately) scarce.*

* Manuel du Libraire, vol. 4, col. ion.

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k®jå ®bt &omatw af Cbaøttøment ; or, The Revcia-
RBSI ^{tions of Miss Darc}y·

" A strange but o'er true tale."

" Down drop the drawers, appears the dainty skin,
Fair as the furry coat of whitest ermilin."

Shenstone.

Illustrated with Coloured Drawings. London : Printed
for the Booksellers.

8vo. ; pp. 112 ; 8 coloured lithographs, badly executed ; pub-
lished by W. Dugdale, in 1866.

Belinda Darcy visits her friend Dora Forester, who initiates
her into the pleasing mysteries of flagellation, and reveals to her
experiences at Belvidere House, an academy where the birch
is much used. Other scenes are introduced, such as a
penitence in a convent, a domestic whipping, &c.

In addition to a marked similarity of style and treatment,
several episodes in this volume so nearly resemble others in a
work with an almost similar title, to be noticed in the next
article, that there is reason for believing that both are from the
same pen ; especially as the original MS. of the book before
me terminated with a promise of further " experiences, should
they be called for by a desiring public.**

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In support of this suggestion compare

pp. 44 of the former with pp. 82 of the latter work.

» 54                 »                 100

„ 60                 „                 108           „

The literary worth of this book is rather above the average,

and in its way it is readable, and even entertaining.

Wt)t &OmatUe Of Cftaöttóement ; or Revelations of the
School and Bedroom. By an Expert.

" Experto Crf.de.^m

Who, brandishing the rod, doth straight begin
To loose her pants—she trembles with affright—
Adown they drop, appears the dainty skin,
Fair as the furry coat of whitest ermelin."

The Schoolmistress, by Shenstone.

1870.

Large 8vo. ; pp. 128 ; there is a frontispiece, the reproduction
of that to Cannon's edition of " The Exhibition of Female
Flagellants,"* to which Hotten added the name of the painter
" Opie;" the vol. was sold by him at 18/-.

The subject hinges chiefly upon the flogging of young girls,
and the author thoroughly enjoys it. He believes that a woman
operating upon one of her own sex experiences also pleasure
and excitement in the act. " As a rule, women do not readily
resort to rods. Some are too tender-hearted, others too chaste

* See ante, p. 244.
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or too timid—but—their scruples overcome and vengeance safe,
they know no measure in the cruel sport that, under the name
of duty, gives the rein to passion and gratifies two lusts at every
lunge." (p. 98).

But he carries his theory further, and would shew that not
only the administratrix but even the recipient of the birchen
chastisement feels a luxurious sensation. If the whipping is
applied by a skilful hand, a kind of magnetism passes from the
priestess to the victim., and she in her turn becomes fascinated.
Here is Dora Doveton's experience of her first flogging.
Martinet, the head governess, gives the word of command:
" Fetch two of the No. 6 rods, and unlace her if necessary.
Renardeau (the French instructress) darted her hand beneath
my clothes and reported that I wore no stays. Nor do Ï now ;
my waist is naturally small, and a little stiffening in the body of
the dress suffices to keep my breasts in order. Steinkopf
(German teacher), who had resumed her place, and Armstrong,
then laid hold of me, and despite my prayers and tears, while
one held my hands above my head, the other opened my dress
behind and stripped off skirt, petticoats, and drawers ; then
with one shameless drag she furled up my shift in front and
rear, and pinned it over my shoulders.

" The next moment I was forced upon my knees on the
block, with four hands grasping my arms and pressing my
neck down. The breeze from the sky-light fanned my back,
and I felt that the eyes of all present were riveted on my naked
person. Could it be I that was subjected to such indignity ?

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Though my arms were squeezed I felt it not, all my sensation
seemed to have retreated to another quarter. My skin is so
tender that even when bathing I tremble to expose it, and here
• was I fixed as in a vice, with nothing intervening between that
thin skin and the murderous implements behind me.

"A pause, it seemed to me an hour long, ensued, till my
spine grew cold as ice twixt fear and waiting. Something had
rattled on the floor, but the sound had died away, and still the
expected blow came not. I looked round with half a hope.
Martinet was leisurely re-adjusting a bracelet on her rod arm,
her eyes the while devouring my form with a wild impassioned
gaze like a lover's. Can she be relenting ? Alas Î the brows
contract—the grasps of the holders tighten on my arms.—
Whir-r-r Whisp ! < Yah I Yeou ! Yeoiks ! ' Oh ! the unspeak-
able agony of that first murderous lash ! Legions of scorpions
fastened on my flesh and dug their fangs into my vitals. Vainly
I hung back and screwed my front against the block, the rear
would not recede ; I could only diminish its width by muscular
contraction. Whir-r Whisp ! Whir-r Whisp ! Whir-r Whisp !
Nature cannot endure the pain ; I struggle to my feet, receiving
a fifth rasper in the act, and my shrieks rival the loudest howls
of Patty (who had just before been chastised). This was the
'whipping proper,* a few strokes more of which would probably
have killed or maddened.

" The two strong women soon resumed their clutch and
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luctantly—for already the charm had worked ; the mere act of
rising seemed to have brought relief, and a change next to
miraculous took place in all my thoughts and feelings. I noted
the impressions shortly after they occurred, and shall endeavour
to describe them.

" Fear and shame were both gone : it was as though I was
surrendering my person to the embraces of a man whom I so
loved I would anticipate his wildest desires. But no man was
in my thoughts ; Martinet was the object of my adoration,
and I felt through the rod that I shared her passions. The
rapport, as the magnetisers have it, was so strong that I could
divine her thoughts ; had she wished me to turn my person full
front to her stripes, I should have fought and struggled to obey
her. Then, too, there was a thrill in a certain part, I knew
magnetically, of both our persons, which every fresh lash kept
on increasing. The added pang unlocked new floods of bliss,
till it was impossible to tell in my case whether the ecstasy was
most of pain or pleasure. When the rods were changed, I
continued to jump and shout, for she liked that, but—believe
me or not—I saw my nakedness with her eyes, and exulted in
the lascivious joy that whipping me afforded her. This state
would have continued as long as my strength, for I had no
power to quit the spot till my other self willed it.

" The punishment over, I broke from the assistants, and
from Atkinson, who, crinoline on arm, would have acted as
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to throw myself at her feet, when my course was forcibly
arrested by Helen (her bed-fellow). With a whispered Steady!
she unpinned my shift, and directed my attention to the last act
in this day's drama, which was now commencing." (p. 58).

But this luxurious sensation, and yearning, in spite of herself,
towards her executioner, are still not quite clear in Dora's mind,
and next morning the following conversation takes place
between her and her friend Helen :

" * O Helen it was dreadful! ' (exclaims Dora).

" ^e Dreadful at first it always is, but was it so throughout ? *
(answers Helen).

"^c No, I can't explain ; there was a change, and it was cer-
tainly ecstasy at last. How can that be ? '

" Helen then offered the same hints about magnetism which
I gave you in the beginning of my letter. She asked me when
the change took place.

^u ' Directly after I was pulled down again ! '

"^c Exactly so—when you were struggling to rise you had
one knee up, the other down, and Martinet seized the moment
to give the cut up. The rod was so large probably only a
single twig got in. One will do, or even a smart cut in the im-
mediate neighbourhood. Martinet won't give these cuts to all ;
there's a lot of the girls, # # she prefers whipping against
their wills, unless she foresees any danger of their making a row
about it out of school ; then she whips in and enslaves them.¹

"' But why does she select some more than others ? *

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"' I can't say ; fancy, I suppose. I was the first girl she
whipped in this house. It was long ago, when I was not half
the size I am now ; so she mounted me on her lap and gave it
me the very first cut, forcing my legs open. Ever since,
though I don't love, I admire her so that I am always ready to
take my own share for the privilege of seeing her noble style of
birching. How much of her own passions she imparted to you,
you best know ; but few get it so tight home as the Hon.
Miss de Vere.'" (p. 64).

The " cut up " requires, perhaps, a little more illustrating,
and this cannot be better done than by giving, in the author's
own words, the manner in which it was administered to the
above mentioned young lady.

Miss de Veré, being both powerful and very obstreperous,
had to be bound down on a bed ; in this position, and stript
stark naked, she received her chastisement from the hand of the
pityless school-mistress.

" After some thirty such stripes as she only could give, had
exhausted her strength, Martinet dropped the stump of the
third rod, passed a scented handkerchief over her face and neck,
and gloated on the mangled spectacle before her.

" And now came the strangest of all that day's strange pro-
ceedings.

"When Martinet had recovered her wind, Renardeau,
withdrawing it from somewhere beneath her dress, presented
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gigantic predecessors, This consisted of a tiny switch, only
a few inches in length, formed apparently of twisted wire.
With this between her finger and thumb, Martinet took
her stand by the bedside about half way up, and stocping over
the broad end, looked expressively at us. Helen from ex-
perience, I by intuition, guessing her design, sprang wide apart,
bearing each a leg with her, when Martinet by a dexterous
turn of her wrist, applied the minute lash between them.*

" The blow, though a light one, was followed by a cry so
wild and startling, my o'erwrought senses could stand no
more." (p. 62). # # #..

" Her Majesty gave her two flicks more in the same place,
and then bade them cut her loose." # * # Miss de Veré " flung
herself at her Majesty's feet, kissed her hand, pressed it to her
breast, and I declare to you she implored her pardon with tears,
calling her Mistress—like a little child, and promising thence-
forth to do only Martinet's will and pleasure." (p. 66). -f·

The dress most suitable for the quick and easy application
of the birch is thus pictured : " Buckram and farthingale
were out, and in revenge the rising generation looked like dolls
and scarce wore anything but shift and gown. Stays there were

* The notion is not newj in " Justine " (Edit. Hollande 1797, Chapt. 8,
vol. 2, p. 197) it will be found worked out more thoroughly, and with still
greater atrocity and obscenity.

t The whole of this scene is almost identical with one in "The Romance
of Chastisement j or Revelations of Miss Darcy, &c," vide p. 344.

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none, the waist served up the breasts as on a dish, and clasped
behind between the shoulder blades, the skirts adhering to the
shape below. This led to shocking scenes in girls' schools, where,
as I said before, it was customary to whip those of quite a mar-
riageable age. To insure a thorough strip little more was
needed than to take down the web drawers, which hooked in
front and came up breast high to keep the vitals warm. This
was seldom done without more or less resistance, and when
done the skirts were furled to the armpits front and rear, and
fastened round the throat. The nudity of the bath would have
been decent compared to these fights and the sexual exposure
they involved." (p. 80). Costumes of the first Empire.

The author too advances a strange theory about backsides
being able to blush (see p. 82). "But here was a whole body
and a living heart able to send a current either way. The fact
was so ; the part blushed visibly in both the cheeks ere ever it
was struck, and then turned pale again."

The work is not finished, although the volume under con-
sideration is complete with pp. 1.28, no more having been
printed. It was originally issued from Dublin, in numbers, by
the author, who printed 1000 copies ; and, in July 1871, sold
200 sets to Hotten for «^io.-, sending him at the same
time the MS. of three unpublished tales to continue the
work. Hotten neither returned the MS., nor went on with
the publication; upon which the author distributed among
his subscribers the following printed circular :

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^u THE ROMANCE OF CHASTISEMENT.

" The above named Work appeared originally in Weekly-
Numbers of 32 octavo pages, price 6d. each. A London pub-
lisher, seeing the four numbers, volunteered to bring out the
Work, as a whole, on his own account. He has not yet done
so. In answer to numerous inquiries, Aliquis fears there
is not much probability of the publisher, Mr. John Camden
Hotten, 74 and 75 Piccadilly, fulfilling his promise. The MS.
of the entire work has long been ready for press, but Aliquis
cannot undertake to publish it at his sole risk and cost.

" Other MS. Works are ready, and may appear hereafter,
should the sale of those now in issue produce a sufficient sum
to cover expenses."

The MS. above mentioned, and which is at present in the
collection of a bibliophile in London, comprises the following

tales : « fearrp'g ilolftiapsf," " a Bip m tfte attentie,"
" Caötle Cara ; " with " £>am'ö å>tovy."

But these three (or rather four) stories by no means com-
plete the work as originally projected by the author; eight
other pieces, in prose and verse, viz., " Wtyt Øttmnti itØØOttSi/*

"ÏSfo fee øustøt to öo it ?," "Calesí out of â>efeool," "Cfte
Eeefeomng ©ap, or 3&íbal a&eeolleettonö," "SUnunføraterø

Of StlíV (©armait, ©Øtq*," (comprising « autdbtograptø "
and " kantiana "), ^u #ton Of ©ÏÜ " (containing "lUttø'*

ôtor^ " and «eatfyfä &tot$ "), ^u 9 ©ouncf ïorîj'si ínvk !,"

aod ^u Wt)t #ínfóO " are required to render the volume
perfect. Further in his prospectus, called ⁽⁽ 3 3Sirt*S» <Sg*
Wttto," the " Expert " gave notice of a " Supplement tO tï)e
HOllianee Of CÖasïttóetnent/* comprising the following pieces

TV

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viz., "ïjarïr futtó, or Reitero Jfteeommenoma: töe røfttp«
ping of Proton <gtrfó,^M "iïletrteal fearïr jfaetsi, or a jfree
Wn$íon of tfte pro~3&oïi SLetterö, tm'tft Commenta δρ
* Singling tètûfùitS" "Select detracts from töe aftoïl·
Sooft/'" a klarne at tfte 'Θοοϊι #lïï Bapö/ ^ ^w Cfte Cane,
or an ®tfraet from töe ffiiarp of a Bancms Üaöter ;^w and

another work entitled « ©HapOÖrfta ; ΟΓ (ßtttö aiîïï Clîïïg
from toe portfolio Of toe ífjrpert,⁰ which should embrace

the following tales : " €ï)e røtstfnttg <ßlasfö/* "€i)t Cftarm/*
"Cöe perplejreïï üSamma/⁹ "Äaöter f^ouns^ a^tfföt
Cftouffötó/* ^w©ne Jïlore/* "Cfee Jforecfomg toitö ÎBe*
tatfó, anö ín an (Spie Jform/' Jlínníe uap'ø aesfr/·
^w Cöe ftt'sít Jbtöool/* ^w ' fioirt öe *fllp/ jsapö titean/⁹
•'äBesfeie 3B^fartp's( Ctoo af&tre/' ^<frørtnfeleo on aaoö--
making/' and iKlrsí* Strc&'ø Hanïïpsîoop/'

Probably these pieces are already written ; some of them are
at present in the hands of Mr. Hartcupp of Brussels ; and a
few have already been printed.*

The author is St. George H. Stock, formerly a lieutenant
in the 2nd or Queen's Royal Regiment, He employed the
aliases Expert, Major Edgar Markham, and Dr. Aliquis.

Throughout all that he has written, whether in prose or
verse, there is a tiring sameness and monotony, both in ideas and
style. His only topic is flogging, and this repeated constantly
with very little variation of episode or manner of treatment.

* Particularly "The Charm," noticed at p. 156, ante, and of which the
title wiil be found in the prospectus given above.

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His other works, already printed are, " PlltttÖ tøttftOUt ÎBOUgï);

or 144 Quaint Conceits, 'within the bounds of becoming mirth.'
By Doctor Aliquis, 2 Crampton Quay, Dublin

'—Quid medicinæ
Risu salubrius ? '

All rights reserved." 8vo. ; pp. 64 ; printed at Dublin by the
author in 1870, and sold by him at 1/- ; a trivial publication in
verse which has no interest for the present work ; " The
Charm;"* "The Sealed letter ;"-f· "The Nameless Crime;"i pro-
bably " The Romance of Chastisement, or the Revelations of
Miss Darcy ; " and some pamphlets of jokes, which Lieutenant
Stock was in the habit of introducing to the public by means
of advertisements in journals of a doubtful character. Here is
one which appeared during five weeks of 1871 in the ^u Day's
Doings : " " 'Tis said that Xerxes offered a reward to those who
could invent him a New Pleasure. Address prepaid, Alquis, 2.
Crampton Quay, Dublin. Post-cards refused."

His one idea, as before mentioned, is flagellation, and he
never missed an opportunity of indulging in his pet vice, or of
forming connections with those who shared the same idio-
syncracy. In proof of this I transcribe the following -rather
curious letter :

* Noticed at p. 156, ante.

t See that title, post.

t See that title in Additions and Corrections, post.

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To the Rev. Wm. Cooper, M.A.

July 17, 1870
Dear Sir,

I have derived mucli of both amusement and in-
struction from a perusal of your learned ^c History of the Rod.'
" Being and having been for some years engaged on a work of
a somewhat similar nature, it would afford me great pleasure to
make your acquaintance on paper, supposing the wish to be
reciprocated.

" Such a conjunction might perhaps lead to our mutual
advantage.

" To save trouble however, I should state that my view of
the subject is tant soit peu libre connecting it with animal mag-
netism. Therefore, if your sentiments be ^e strictly clerical,' it
would probably not suit you to continue the correspondence.
" Should you desire to do so, please copy the Address over leaf.

"Faithfully yrs

" Edgar Markam.¹'

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Illllj å>atait'o %Utbt&t %Omtt or the Present State of
gbifejti Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Procuring, .Pim-
\****^w ping, Sodomy, And the Game at Flatts, (Illustrated by
an Authentiek and Entertaining Story) And other Satanic
Works, daily propagated in this good Protestant Kingdom.
Collected from the Memoirs of an intimate Comrade of
the Hon. yack S * * η * * r ; and concerned with him in
many of his Adventures. To which is added, Cftf |írtít
¿flftàttïT, a Poem, by a Lady op Distinction. London :
Printed for the Editor, and sold at the Change, St. Paul's,
Fleet Street, by Dod against St. Clement's Church ; Lewis,
Covent Garden ; Exeter Change, at Charing Cross, and in
the Court of Requests ; Jackson, Jolliffe, Dodsley,
Brindley, Steidel, Shropshire, Chappel, Hild yard
at York ; Leak, at Bath ; and at the Snuff Shop in Cecil
Court, St. Martin's Lane, 1749.*

Large 8vo. ; pp. 62 ex title.

This rare volume, the object of which is strictly moral, affords

* This long title concludes with a price in brackets, unfortunately ob-
literated in the copy before me.

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some interesting pictures of London and its vices, interspersed
with shrewd remarks and suitable hints. It is in two parts,, not
apparently by the same hand, the latter division having a
separate half title, ^u 3&eastøttO tOV ü)t 0VOb)tí) Of £>tiUOmy,
$Ct_f" and being divided into 5 chapters.

London streets were as full then as now of homeless girls :
" What a deplorable Sight is it, to behold Numbers of little Crea-
tures pil'd up in Heaps upon one another, sleeping in the publiek
Streets, in the most rigorous Seasons, and some of them whose
Heads will hardly reach above the Waistband of a Man's Breeches,
found to be quick with Child, and become burthensome to the
Parish, whose Hospitable Bulks and Dunghills have given them
Refuge? I have often thought, that the removing of these Lay-
Stalls of Leachery from the Doors of a great Protestant City,
might not be a Work altogether unworthy of our reforming
Scavengers." (p. 2).

There were, however, philanthropic people then who en-
deavoured to reclaim prostitutes, and with about as much success
as in the present day : ^ec We often read, indeed, of the mighty At-
chievements of a certain Kn—t, and the Excursions of Midnight
Constables ; their encountering of Dragons in Gin-shops, storming
enchanted Night-Cellars, and leading Ladies into Captivity. All
which are related with wonderful Exactness in the publiek News-
Papers. But meet these People when you will, you will seldom
find in their Custody above a Flat-Cap or a Citider-Wench,
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made Examples of. She that has the Prudence to whore with
Half a Crown in her Pocket, is as sure of Protection, as a cheating
Director, and may sin on without any Danger. While the poor
needy Wag-Tail must be cautious how she kisses, lest she be
carried to Bridewel, where, instead of being reclaimed, she is
harden'd by her indelible Shame in her miserable State of
Wickedness. The only good they have done, is to put an Im-
post upon Whoring, and make themselves Collectors of the
Duty ; for which Reason, the Price of Venery is greatly
enhanc'd, and that within a few Years, which makes it the more
practised ; for the Cheapness of a Commodity always throws it
out of Fashion, and Things easily purchas'd are seldom minded.
It is a right Observation, that Restraint does but whet the
Passions, instead of curing them, as we find in the Case of most
married Men, who, like Sampson's Foxes, only do more Mis-
chief for having their Tails tied." (p. 2).

Here is a sagacious remark respecting the fair sex : " Most
women, indeed, let them be ever so fully resolved to comply,
make as great a shew of Resistance as they can conveniently
counterfeit ; and this the Sex would palm upon the World
for a kind of innate Modesty.

" Not to mention the actual Pleasure a Woman receives in
struggling, it is a Justification of her, in the Eye of the Man, and
a kind of Salvo to her Honour and Conscience, that she never
did fully comply, but was in a Manner forc'd into it. This is
the plain Reason, why most Women refuse to surrender upon
Treaty, and why they delight so much in being storm d." (p. 8).

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Petticoat pensioners, it seems, came first into vogue about
this time : " But what amazes and fills all Mankind with
Wonder and Surprize, is a new Vice started upon us, introduced
and boldly led up by Women of the first Figure and Fortune
as well as Fashion, worthy the Imitation of the whole Sex.
These, vice versa, have inverted the Order of Things, turn'd
the Tables upon the Men, and very fairly begun openly to
Keep their Fellows : For Ladies during the Bands of Wedlock,
as well as in a State of Widowhood, to call in private Aid,
Assistance, and Comfort, is an Immunity they've enjoy'd time
immemorial : But for the Fair, and such as even profess
Spinsterhood, to keep Men in private Lodgings, and visit them
publickly in their Equipages, are Privileges unknown to our
Ancestors." (p. 15).

The author defines very fully and forcibly a jilt : " A Jilt
is a Procurer, Bawd, and Whore, compounded together. A
Vermin so ravenous and malicious, and withal so subtle and
designing, so formally chaste and hypocritically virtuous, and
yet so scandalously common and impudently lewd, so proud,
and yet so mercenary, and above all, so insolently ill natur'd,
that in the short Character of a Jilt, are comprehended all the
Vices, Follies and Impertinences of the whole Sex." (p. 24).

Drury Lane, although it has not altogether lost the character
it then possessed, is certainly improved since 1749. "Let a
sober Person take a gentle Walk through the antient Hundreds
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odd Figure or another, that looks as if the Devil had robb'd
them of all their natural Beauty, which being in our Maker's
Image, we derive from our Creator, and had infus'd his own in-
fernal Spirit into their corrupt Carcasses ; for nothing can be
read but Devilism in every Feature; Theft, Whoredom, Ho-
micide and Blasphemy, peep out of the very Windows of their
Souls ; Lying, Perjury, Fraud, Impudence and Misery, the only
Graces of their Countenance.

" One with slip Shoes, without Stockings, and a dirty Smock,
visible thro' a torn Petticoat, stepping out of a Pawn-broker*s
Shop, yet with her Head dress'd up to as much Advantage, as
if the Members of her Body were sacrificed to all Wickedness
to keep her ill-look'd Face in a little Finery. Another taken
from the Shoe-stool or Oyster-tub, and put into Whores
Allurements, she makes indeed a more cleanly Appearance, but
becomes her Ornaments as a Welsh-Ale-Wife doth a Velvet
Manteel, or a Sow a Hunting Saddle. A third, at the Heels of
a Porter hurrying to a Tavern, to sell Half a Crown's Worth
of Fornication to a drunken Letcher.

" Turn your eyes up to the Chambers of Wantonness, and
you behold the most shameful Scenes of Lewdness in the
Windows even at Noon-day, some in the very Act of Vitiation,
visible to all the opposite Neighbours. Others dabbing their
Shifts, Aprons and Headcloths, and exposing themselves just
naked to the Passers by. A Gang of Bailiffs, Butchers and
Highwaymen are drinking, and damning at an Ale-house
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Door, then every now and then out bolts a Fellow, and whips
nimbly a-cross the Way, being equally fearful of both Bailiff
and Constable, looking as if the Dread of the Gallows had
drawn its Picture in his Countenance. Here and there a dirty
shabby looking §>uack, going from House to House to visit
his rotten Patients, as publickly and openly as the Collector
of the King's Tax ; and as often call'd to from the Windows
of the first to the third Story, to know how such an one goes
on in her Salivation.

" My Dear, will you give me a Glass of Wine ; take me
under your Cloak, my Soul, and how does your precious

------do f You hear at the Corner of every Court, Lane and

Avenue, the Quarrels and Outcries of Harlots recriminating
upon one another, Soldiers and Bullies intermixing, the
most execrable Oaths are heard, such as are seldom ex-
ceeded, but at a Stop of Carts and Coaches in a Winter's
Evening. By and by a Brandy-Shop is going to be demolish'd,
because the Master refuses to bail some Whore that's just
arrested, and a Coach waiting at the Door of her Lodgings to
carry her to the Officer's House, unless he does the kind Office.
A Riot breaks out in another Place, a Bawd's Goods are seized
on for Rent ; a new Tumult ensues, a Whore's Maid in cross-
ing the Croud, has a Misfortune to break a Bottle of red
Port, with a Couple of Pipes, that she is carrying to her
Mistress's Chamber, the Mob give a Shout, the Girl is beat
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and Gin People are assembled, with an Irish Sollicitor at their
Head about the Door, with an Outcry for Justice ; poor Peggy s
Rashness is blamed by some, and justified by others ; in an
Instant half a dozen Suits of Head Cloths are torn in Pieces,
and several black Eyes and bloody Noses exhibited : Warrants,
binding over, and Actions, are the Subjects of all Conversation
in Coulson s-Court, Bridges-Street, &c. A Cry of Murder is
heard about twenty Yards farther, a Mother or Father being
under the bastinading of a dutiful Son or Daughter. Pimps
and Pensioners to the Hundred, you see skulking from Bawdy-
House to Bawdy-House incessantly. In short, I cannot but
fancy them a Colony of Hell-Cats, planted here by the Devil, as
a Mischief to Mankind ; they admit of no Comparison on this
side Hell's Dominions, all this Part, quite up to N-wtn-rs Lane
Park—ers Lane, St. Th-mas s-street, (some few honest Shop-
keepers excepted) is a Corporation of Whores, Coiners, High-
waymen, Gamesters, Pick-pockets, and House-breakers, who like
Bats and Owls skulk, in obscure Holes and Geneva shops by
Day-Light, but wander in the Night in search of Opportunities
wherein to exercise their Villany." (p. 2j).

Other haunts of prostitutes are mentioned: "The Four-
scores of Fleet-street and Shoe-lane, the Fifties of Dukes-place
and the Minor tes, and the Course of Char ing-cross, which last
was now render'd in as flourishing a Condition, as in the Reign
of King Charles the lid, there being little else but Concubines
in all the Lodgings, and nothing but lascivious Looks seen in

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the Chamber-Windows, from one End of the Verge to the
other: Nor are very few of these the Propriety (sic) of one
Man, but ordain'd for the Comfort and Refreshment of Mul-
titudes, devoting themselves to the Service of all the loving
Subjects of Great Britain ; &c." (p. 28).

Venereal disease was as prevalent then as now, and seems
even to have been fashionable : " The greatest Evil that attends
this Vice, or could befal Mankind, is the Propagation of that
infectious Disease call'd the French Pox, which in two Cen-
turies has made such incredible Havock all over Europe, In
these Kingdoms, it so seldom fails to attend Whoring, now-a-
days mistaken for Gallantry and Politeness, that a hale robust
Constitution is esteem'd a Mark of Ungentility and Illbreeding,
and a healthy young Fellow is look'd upon with the same
View, as if he had spent his life in a Cottage. * # # And our
Gentry in general, seem to distinguish themselves by an ill state
of Health ; in all Probability, the Effect of this pernicious Dis-
temper. Nothing being more common, than to hear People of
Quality complain of rude vulgar Health, and curse their Por-
terly Constitutions. Men give it to their Wives, Women to their
Husbands, or perhaps their Children ; they to their Nurses, and
the Nurses again to other Children; so that no Age, Sex or
Condition, can be entirely free from the Infection." (p. 31).

The effeminacy of mens' dress, their kissing each other, and
the crime of sodomy* are inveighed against : " I am confident

* See ante, p. 328.

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no Age can produce any Thing so preposterous as the present
Dress of those Gentlemen who call themselves pretty Fellows :
their Head-Dress especially, which wants nothing but a Suit
of Pinners to make them down right Women. But this may
be easily accounted for, as they would appear as soft as possi-
ble to each other, any Thing of Manliness being diametrically
opposite to such unnatural Practices, so they cannot too much
invade the Dress of the Sex they would represent. And yet
with all this, the present Garb of our young Gentlemen is most
mean and unbecoming. 'Tis a Difficulty to know a Gentleman
from a Footman, by their present Habits: The low-heel'd
Pump is an Emblem of their low Spirits; the great Harness
Buckle is the Height of Affectation ; the Silk Waistcoat all
belac'd," with a scurvey blue Coat like a Livery Frock, has some-
thing so poorly preposterous, it quite enrages me ; I blush to
see 'em aping the Running Footman, and poising a great
Oaken Plant, fitter for a Bailiffs Follower than a Gentleman.
But what renders all more intolerable, is the Hair strok'd over
before and cock'd up behind, with a Comb sticking in it, as if
it were just ready to receive a Head Dress : Nay, 1 am told,
some of our Tip top Beaus dress their Heads on quilted Hair
Caps, to make 'em look more Womanish; so that Master
Molly has nothing to do but slip on his Head Cloaths and he is
an errant Woman, his rueful Face excepted ;· but even that can
be amended with Paint, which is as much in Vogue among our
Gentlemen, as with the Ladies in France.

" But there is no Joke like their new-fashion'd Joke Hats,

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equally priggish as foppish ; plainly demonstrating, That Not-
withstanding the Bustle they make about Jokes, they have them
only about their Heads. But to see them dress'd for a Ball, or
Assembly, in a Party coloured Silk Coat, is the Height of my
Aversion : They had better have a Mantua and Petticoat at
once, than to mince the Matter thus, or do Things by Halves.

" But of all the Customs Effeminacy has produced, none more
hateful, predominant, and pernicious, than that of the Mens
Kissing each other. This Fashion was brought over from Italy,
(the Mother and Nurse of Sodomy) ; where the Master is
oftner Intriguing with his Page, than a. fair Lady. And not
only in that Country, but in France, which copies from them,
the Contagion is diversify'd, and the Ladies (in the Nunneries)
are criminally amorous of each other, in a Method too gross
for Expression. I must be so partial to my own Country-
Women, to affirm, or, at least, hope they claim no Share of
this Charge ,· but must confess, when I see two Ladies Kissing
and Slopping each other, in a lascivious Manner, and frequently
repeating it, I am shock'd to the last Degree ; but not so much,
as when I see two fulsome Fellows, Slavering every Time they
meet, Squeezing each other's Hand, and other like indecent
Symptoms. And tho' many Gentlemen of Worth, are often-
times, out of pure good Manners, obliged to give into it ; yet
the Land will never be purged of its ¿abominations, till this
Unmanly, Unnatural Usage be totally abolish'd : For it is the
first Inlet to the detestable Sin of Sodomy.

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" Under this Pretext vile Catamites make their preposterous
Addresses, even in the very Streets ; nor can any tiling be more
shocking, than to see a Couple of Creatures, who wear the
Shapes of Men, Kiss and Slaver each other, to that Degree, as
is daily practised even in our most publiek Places ; and (gene-
rally speaking) without Reproof; because they plead in Excuse,
That it is the Fashion. Damn'd Fashion ! Imported from Italy
amids't a Train of other unnatural Vices. Have we not Sins
enough of our own, but we must eke 'em out with those of
Foreign Nations, to fill up the Cup of our Abominations, and
make us yet more ripe for Divine Vengeance." (p. 50).

The " Game of Flats," an appellation which may be new to
many of my readers, indicates a criminal love between women.
Our author tells us that it was a " new sort of Sin " which had
"got footing among W—η of Q,—y," and was practised at
Twickenham as well as in Turkey.

d)* &?ate) Itttttf by Doctor Aliquis, 2, Crampton Quay,
Dublin. All rights reserved.

The title is on the outer wrapper only ; 8vo. size ; pp. 20 ;
printed at Dublin in 1870 ; and thus advertised by the author
and publisher, St. George H. Stock: "The Sealed Letter—
Inspice videbisque—Sent free, sealed, for 8d. in stamps."

" Take it on trust or leave it, as you list,
" We shall do nothing to dispel the mist.

* See p. 354, ante.

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" Say not, Chaste Reader, that you are betray'd
" By us, who counsel onîy to dissuade :
^ft There's matter here which modesty won't brook,
" If, warned, you will be castigated, look."

" N.B.—None of the Doctor's Works are illustrated. Address
Aliquis 2, Crampton Quay Dublin. Post-cards refused."
This pamphlet comprises two pieces in dialogue and verse :

1.    ** %\)t røater Htïp A Bit of Nature Dramatized."
Kathleen, " sylph, with all the nameless graces of the child,"
is forbidden by her mother to go near a certain pond, which
injunction she disobeys, and further, seeing in the water a
beautiful lily, she determines to pluck it. She " strips stark
naked," gets into the pool, and secures her treasure. Just as she
is finishing the readjustment of her clothes, she is surprised by
her mother. She denies having been into the water, which her
enraged parent knows to be a lie, and letting down Kathleen's
pants, administers a good whipping. The piece is in two scenes.

2.    "Cot áNbape Cesíí, Comedietta in One Act." The
scene passes in the " seminary " of Miss Twigg. Miss Twigg
being called away from the school-room, the girls, left alone,
determine to play the shape-test, which is thus explained by
one of them :

^ft The way is this, you stand erect,

"Your legs together, rayther I expect;

" Your shape is perfect if a sixpence lies

" Between your ankles, calves, your knees and thighs.

" Here are four sixpences and I'll begin,

" Little Red Ridinghood shall put them in.

" Not that way, stupid, stand to one side there

" That everyone may see you do it fair.

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" (Aside)

" (You've done it now -, be off with you, you elf,
" And keep your fiddling fingers to yourself.
" A time for all things, somebody has said,
"This is no time for tricks, we're not in bed.)
" Observe, I keep them firmly one and all j
" I bet that you and others let them fall."

Petticoats are pulled up, drawers taken off, and the game is
in full swing, when Miss Twigg suddenly returns, and catches
her pupils occupied in this interesting manner. She orders the
^a whipping-room " to be prepared, and birches them all round.

Both pieces are humorously written.

&tUttl(tt& from ے)t MtmmtVOn Of Giovanni Bocc4ccio.
Including all the Passages hitherto suppressed.

Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parola, et cosi come le honeste
a quella non giovano, cosi quelle che tanto honeste non sono, la ben disposta
non posson contaminare, se non corne il loto i solari raggi, o le terrene
brutture le bellezze del cielo.—

Conclusione dell'autore.
Translated from the Italian. London, mdccclxv.

Large 8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. vu and 78; toned paper; bold
type ; title printed in red and black ; at the end of the volume
is a list of " Rare Copies of Boccaccio's Works now extant,"
which occupies 3 unnumbered pages, and contains 17 articles.

This translation was made by Edward Sellon. It is un-
common; and sometimes fetches a high price, more generally
than it is worth.

" The stories which have been omitted in this Edition (we
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are told in the Introduction) are those that can be perused in
every cheap modern translation of the Decameron, while those
which have been selected for publication, it will be seen, are
precisely the Tales which it has hitherto been the custom to
censure, emasculate, or omit altogether, and which are now
presented to the Reader in their entirety." This statement is
not strictly correct, for the volume contains little which may
not be found in the ordinary translations.

âWOItme Of JftøsellattølU In Letters from Lady Terma-
gant Flayburn, of Birch-Grove, to Lady Harriet Tickletail,
of Bumfiddle-HalL In which are introduced The Beau-
tiful Tale of ÍK Coquette Cfratte, (sic) In French and

English, and the 35oarutng-å>tf)øol îîumbntôoer ; or, the

Distresses of Laura. Decorated with a Superb Print.

To look at her majestic figure,

Would make you caper with more vigour Ï

The lightening flashing from each eye

Would lift your soul to ecstacy Î

Her bubbles o'er their bound'ry broke,

Quick palpitating at each stroke !

With vigor o'er the bouncing bum

She'd tell ungovem'd boys who rul'd at home !

Madame Birchrai's Dance.

Long tormented, without knowing by what, I devoured, with an ardent
eye, every fine woman ¿ my imagination recalled them incessantly to my
memory, solely to submit them to my manner, and transform them into

so many Miss Lamberciers.

Rousseau's Confessions, vol. i.

London : Printed for George Peacock.
8vo. (counts 4); pp.44 in all; sold originally at 13/6.

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Reprinted by Hotten as No. 6 of the " Library Illustrative
of Social Progress ; "* the matter is identical, but the quotations
given in the original edition on the title page are in this reprint
introduced on a separate page ; 8vo. ; pp. 54 in all.

" La Coquette Châtie. By the Abbe Grecourt," (given thus
without any accents) is full of blunders ; the English rendering
is in prose. " The Distresses of Laura : Or, The Boarding-
school Bumbrusher," is in verse. A story is introduced from
" La Chronique Scandaleuse "^ (written "Scandaleum") ; in fact
the volume is quite a medley. Some of the anecdotes however
are racy, and I select the following where " honour " is brought
into question, and a difference in point of morality is prescribed,
and a limit traced between copulation or a complaisant applica-
tion of the birch.

A young gentleman, with a predilection for the rod, is ena-
moured of a ballet girl, who becomes his father's mistress, and
takes up her quarters in the old gentleman's residence. "He
had not any opportunity for some days of courting the felicity
he panted for from her hands, but at length he obtained it.
His father was gone to Picardy about some pressing business,
and they were left alone. The lady shewed the young gentleman
the most engaging fondness, and he in return called her his
charming mamma. One evening as she sat in full dress, ready

* See p. 239, ante,
f Vol. 8, p. 199, of edit. Paris, m.dcc.lxxxviii.

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for her carriage to take her to the opera, he kist her lips and
hands in a mad transport, then threw himself at her feet and
kist them an hundred times ! He declared to the lady from
whom I had this relation, that on beholding her at this time his
passion mounted to such a blaze that he was near being de-
prived of his reason. Her shoes were spangled in the richest
manner, and the quarters ornamented with a gold fringe : she
had a pair of large brilliant buckles of the Artois fashion, and a
stocking of the richest silk, ornamented with a gold clock. All
this, with a gold fringe to her petticoat, had such an effect on
him as he lay at her feet, that he wished to expire at them. She
took this as the gambols of a fond boy, and would have done
so if he had not caught hold of her hand and kist it an
hundred times. Her hands and arms were finely formed, and
were as fair as snow, and were adorned with the richest jewels,
particularly her arms, which had two bracelets set with diamonds,
and fastened on with many strings of pearl. She had an eye
full of the liquid moisture of love, and a bosom full, and fair as
alabaster, which was quite bare. He attempted to put his
hands up her petticoats, which she removed, nor. would she
suffer him to approach the seat of bliss while she lived with his
father. When he found it would not do, he went on his knees
and confessed to her how fond he was of being whipt by a
lovely woman. This was an amusement the lady had no ob-
jection to, as it was quite common in her country (France) ;
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breeches, at his desire, and slapt his a—e with her hand,
promising him a whipping to his liking the instant she returned
from the opera, if he would procure a rod. She returned before
eleven o'clock, and he had a bandle of birch ready for her.
When supper was removed and the coast clear, he put the
bundle into her hand, and two yards of pink ribbon which he
bought to tie the rod. She selected from the bundle what she
thought would tickle him to her mind, and at his" desire she
stript him to his shirt.—O ! said he, who can describe the
raptures of that blest moment ! An angel of earthly felicity
about to administer the sweetest bliss on this side heaven ! all
the ravishing beauties of woman blazing in this object ! a form
princely ! a face full of loveliness ! hands and arms, legs and
feet, cast in the finest mould of beauty, and decorated with
the neatest ornaments of art and genius ! When he was
stript to his shirt, she laid him across her lap, and having
removed the tail of his shirt to his shoulders, she took the rod
in hand and whipt him smartly, according to his desire, for
pissing a bed Î When she had given him about fifty strokes he
turned about and exhibited his tarriwags, but it would not do.—
She took them in her hand and played with them, but she had
too much honor to suffer the amorous youth to insult his
father by a connexion with her. As to whipping his a—, she
considered it a matter of amusement, as indeed all the French
ladies do," (p. 31)

The following doggerel " Epigram " is curious :

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** In her way to St. James's, to grace a birth-day,

" My sweet cousin Harriet, in splendid array,

" Caught my eye while she stopt in her new vis-a-vis,

" And judging my taste with her own would agree,

'^e Exclaim'd in a rapture, You admire my carriage,

" It's the prettiest thing I have had since my marriage !

" The beautiful Stripes is a thought of my own,

" And you'll say, I am sure, they're the neatest in town.

" They're lovely, divine ! 'pon my honor, dear Harriet,
" I ne'er saw so neat on coach, phaeton, or chariot ;
" And I'd give the whole world this instant, by Jove,
" For as many bold stripes as a pledge of your love !

" 'I'll treat you, dear Charles, I vow, if you choose it.'

" May I perish, dear girl, whene'er I refuse it :

" A treat of this kind from my beautiful cousin,

" Would give me more bliss than from others a dozen.

" Such stripes from your lily-white hand, my dear Harriet,

** Would eclipse all that decorates coach, vis, or chariot !

" From me, Charles, from me ! pray what is it you mean,
^f< It's a riddle, my dear, that I cannot explain ?
" To pencils and paint I'm a stranger I vow,
"And I never was call'd a coach-painter till now !

" Yet the stripes, my dear coz, you'd all women excel,
" And e'en from De Barre you'd bear off the belle !
" The stripes that I mean would all others surpass,
" They're stripes from a rod in thy hand on my a— ! "

I have copied the above lines exactly as they stand, without
correcting the punctuation, &c.

With regard to George Peacock, it seems doubtful whether
the name of this publisher is real or assumed. At all events
he must have been associated or in partnership with W.
Holland, both at 66 Drury Lane, and 50 Oxford Street. The

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series of works on Flagellation are said to be published for
G. Peacock, and sold at 66 Drury Lane, from 1777 to 1785,30
far as dated ; but two of them, " Lady Bumtickler's Revels,"
and " Madame Birchini's Dance," must have been of a some-
what later date. In the " Catalogue of Books, &c.," to be had
at 66 Drury Lane, appended to both these works appears the
print (16 inches by 21) of " Lady Termagant Flaybum going
to give her stepson a taste of her dessert after dinner, in colours
7/6 plain 5/-." Now this print bears the inscription "Pub-
lished May 25, 1786, by W. Holland No. 66 Drury Lane."

The " Second Part" of " The Festival of Anacreon, London :"
without date, bears to be^i£ Published by George Peacock, and sold
by his Appointment at No. 50 Oxford Street." The frontispiece—
the portrait of Mr. Hewerdine, bears the inscription, " London,
Published by Wm. Holland, at Garrick's Richard, No. 50
Oxford Street, Octr. 15, 1788." The catalogue appended in-
cludes many of the same works contained in the other catalogues
above alluded to.

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|5mS| Cttttí fflí eptørammt Oí M. Val. Marziale,
EESiSÍ Fedelmente Trasportad in Italiano da Giuspanio
Ba™ Graglia, Torinese. E Dilucidati con Utilissimc
Annotazioni. In Due Volumi.

Qui sua metitur pondera, ferre potest.

Mart. Epig. C. Lib. xii.

Volume Primo. Londra : Per Giorgio Scott. 1782.

Large 8vo. ; 2 vols. ; pp. vol. i, vin and 348? vol. 2, vi and
793 ; vol. 2 dates 1791 ; there is a well executed frontispiece,
designed by G. B. Cipriani, engraved by F. Bartollozzi, and
signed; it is subscribed: " Pubd as the Act directs 14th De-
cember 1783 by G. Graglia London." The same copper was
afterwards reworked, the above inscription obliterated, and
the following, in bolder letters, put in its stead : ^ei Sold by T.
Bell No 148 Oxford Street 1801." These impressions are
thin and poor, and should be avoided ; Bell did not alter the
date of the book, although he tampered with the frontispiece.

The epigrams are given in the original Latin, and a literal
prose translation is added, accompanied by copious explanatory
notes.

This is the most complete translation that exists of Martial's
Epigrams, all the obscene poems being rendered in Italian,

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word for word. [Traduction très fidèle et curieuse en ce que
toutes les épigrammes libres sont littéralement traduites; de
plus, les notes et explications du commentateur ont une véri-
table valeur philologique.] *

Mr. Bohn in his edition of Martial^ was much indebted to
Graglia, and acknowledges his obligations as follows : "In
those instances where an English translation given faithfully
would be too gross for our present notions of propriety, the
Latin has been retained, accompanied by the Italian version of
Graglia, who has been rather dexterous in refining impurities."

There have been several French renderings of Martial, both
in prose and verse ; Mr. Bohn notes " seven complete French
versions," about which he remarks, " that none of them have
used the least refinement, indeed, have sometimes rather ex-
ceeded their author in his worst properties." In these the
obscene words and expressions are not, as a rule, done into
French, but the original Latin left untranslated. " Tous les
interprètes des Epigrammes (observes M. Gustave Brunet)^ ont
dû singulièrement adoucir la vigueur des expressions et le

* Vide Introduction, p. Ixxvi, ante.

t " The Epigrams of Martial. Translated into English prose. Each ac-
companied bv one or more verse translations, from the works of English
poets, and various other sources. London: Bell & Sons 1875." ^vo. i ^^rst
published in 1863 in Bonn's Classical Library. " The first attempt ever made
to give Martial complete in an English form." See Bibliographer's Manual,
vol. 3, p. 1489.

$ Les Priapeia, p. 31, note.
YY

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pittoresque outré des images. Ils ont parfois accompli d'une
facon assez ridicule ce procédé de moralisation. On en trouve
de piquants exemples dans le curieux petit volume d'Éloi
Johann eau : Epigrammes contre Martial^*

The work of Graglia may then be pronounced the best and
only perfect and complete translation of MartiaFs epigrams
into any modern language.

Graglia was an Italian teacher in London, where he further
published several Italian educational works.-f·

* " Epigramrnes contre Martial ou les mille et une drôleries, sotises et
platitudes de ses traducteurs, par un ami de Martial. Paris. 1834," 8°.; pp. 157.
[Ce volume quoique mince, mérite une mention spéciale, d'abord parce qu'il
est devenu très rare, une partie de l'édition ayant été détruite, et de plus parce
que c'est un examen critique de trois traductions, celles de Tabbé de Maroles,
de Simon, de Troyes et des Militaires. Depuis cette critique, deux autres
éditions de toutes les épîgrammes libres de Martial ont été publiées, dans
lesquelles on a cherché à éviter les erreurs relevées par Eioi Johanneau. La
première par Mrs. Verger, A. Dubois et J. Mangeart, 4 vol. 8°, Paris, F.
Panckouke, 1834. La seconde par M. Β * * *, 3 vol. 8°, chez Gié-
Bouîlay. Celle-ci est Distribuée dans un nouvel ordre, très utile pour les re-
cherches, et augmentée de longs commentaires sur les épigrammes libres.]
f See Allibone's Die. of English Literature, vol. ι, ρ. 715.

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ElpSfl] OR)* ®p* ató! JBotønsi Of ííft. A Fragment.

Grørøfl              " All the world's a stage

^^^                      And all the men and women merely players ;

They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts."
As You Like it, act 2, scene vii.

London: Printed for the Booksellers. 1867.

Second (half) title, ⁱ⁽My life: Cfce «Beginning anïi töe

(Snîl* A Veritable History ; " and a fancy erotic coloured
lithographed title, " The Ups and Downs of Existance." 8vo. ;
pp. no; 7 coloured erotic lithographs besides the title, 8 illus-
trations in all, badly executed ; Price Two Guineas. The
original designs still exist (bound up in a copy of the work
belonging to a London collector) ; they consist of 16 coloured
drawings, 1 coloured title, that mentioned above, 2 pen and
ink sketches in the MS. text, 1 pen and ink fancy title not
published. As these 20 designs were too numerous, W.
Dugdale, who published the book, selected 7 of them (6
coloured and one pen and ink sketch) and the coloured title,
which comprise the 8 lithographs published.

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the auto-biography of its author and artist, Captain Edward
Sellon. In the original MS. the real names of the per-
sons were given, but the editor thought it prudent to alter them.

" The son of a gentleman of moderate fortune, (the author
informs us) whom I lost when quite a child, I was designed
from the first for the army. Having, at the age of sixteen,
been presented with a cadetship, so soon as my outfit was
completed, I started by the Mail for Portsmouth, on a cold
night in February, 1834." (p. 3).

In India he remained 10 years, and at the age of "six
and twenty found himself a captain, a rare thing in the
company's service." The greater part of the volume is devoted
to his Indian career—a duel, and amours of various kinds
among the European ladies and native females, the latter he
thus portrays : ^cc I now commenced a regular course of
fucking with native women. The usual charge for the general
run of them is two rupees. For ûvq, you may have the hand-
somest Mohammedan girls, and any of the high-caste women
who follow the trade of a courtesan. The ^ζ fivers ' are a very
different set of people from their frail sisterhood in European
countries ; they do not drink, they are scrupulously cleanly in
their persons, they are sumptuously dressed, they wear the
most costly jewels in profusion, they are well educated and sing
sweetly, accompanying their voices on the viol de gamba, a sort
of guitar, they generally decorate their hair with clusters of
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pearls or diamonds. They understand in perfection all the
arts and wiles of love, are capable of gratifying any tastes, and
in face and figure they are unsurpassed by any women in the
world.

" They have one custom that seems singular to a European,
they not only shave the Mons Veneris, but take a clean sweep
underneath it, so that until you glance at their hard, full and
enchanting breasts, handsome beyond compare, you fancy you
have got hold of some unfledged girl. The Rajpootanee girls
pluck out the hairs as they appear with a pair of tweezers, as the
ancient Greek women did, and this I think a very preferable
process to the shaving.

" It is impossible to describe the enjoyment I experienced in
the arms of these syrens. Ï have had English, French, German
and Polish women of all grades of society since, but never,
never did they bear a comparison with those salacious, succulent
houris of the far East." (p. 42).

On his arrival on furlough in England, he learned that his
mother had arranged to marry him. This was not to his taste,
but finding the bride destined for him to be " a young lady of
considerable personal attractions," and " a reputed heiress with
an estate of twenty-five thousand pounds, an only child," he
consented, and his intended's parents objecting to her going to
India, he resigned his commission. They were married and spent
the winter of 1844 in Paris. Returning to England he was dis·
gusted to find that his wife was not so rich as he had been led to

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suppose, that her allowance would be but four hundred a year ;
and his mother in law plainly told him that they must retrench,
and he must go and live in " a pretty cottage in Devonshire
which she had furnished for them." Recriminations ensued ; he
left his wife, and took up his abode with his mother in Bruton
Street. For two years he remained thus separated from his wife,
consoling himself in the arms of a " dear girl " he had " in
keeping at a little suburban villa ;" but the relations coming to
an understanding, his wife returned to him to his mother's house.

" For the first month all went well, but unhappily, among
my mother's servants was a little parlour maid, a sweet pretty
creature, the daughter of a tradesman. She had received a
pretty good education, and was not at all like a servant, either
in manners or appearance. I had seduced this girl; though she
was but fourteen, before my wife came up to town, and the
difficulty was, how to carry on the amour after her arrival,
without being discovered." (p. 78).

The discovery soon took place. On her return from church
on a Sunday morning, his wife found Emma's cap in her
bed, her husband having feigned a head ache, and not risen
before she left the house. A scene naturally followed, and our
hero assuming great coolness, and refusing to give a satisfactory
explanation, the outraged lady lost her temper, and flew at her
husband like a panther, planting such a tremendous blow on
his right ear, as nearly to knock him out of his chair.

* I very calmly flung the remainder of my cigar under the

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grate, and seizing both her wrists with a grasp of iron, forced
her into an arm-chair.. ' Now you little devil,* said I, * you sit
down there, and I give you my honour, I will hold you thus,
till you abjectly and most humbly beg for mercy, and ask my
pardon for the gross insult you have inflicted on me.'

" ' Insult ! think of the insult you have put upon me, you
vile wretch, to demean yourself with a little low bred slut like
that!' and struggling violently, she bit the backs of my hands
until they were covered with blood, and kicked my shins till
she barked them.

"^e I say, my dear,¹ said I, ⁽ did you ever see Shakespeare's
play of Taming the Shrew.'

" No answer.

"^£ Well, my angel, I'm going to tame you.' She renewed
her bites and kicks, and called me all the miscreants and vile
scoundrels under the sun. I continued to hold her in a vice
of iron. Thus we continued till six o'clock.

" * If it is your will and pleasure to expose yourself to the
servants,' said I, ' pray do, I have no sort of objection, but I
will just observe that John will come in presently to clear away
the luncheon and lay the cloth for dinner.' A torrent of abuse
was the only answer.

** ' You brute,' she said, ' you have bruised my wrists black
and blue.'

^M * Look at my hands, my precious angel, and my shins are
in still worse condition/

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"By and by there was a rap at the door, ' Come in,' said I.
John appeared—' Take no notice of us, John, but attend to
your business.'

"John cleared away the luncheon and laid the cloth for
dinner. Exit John.

"^c Oh, Edward, you do hurt my wrists so/

" ^c My ear and face are still burning with the blow you gave
me, my hands are torn to pieces with your tiger teeth, and will
not be fit to be seen for a month, and as to my shins, my
drawers are saturated with blood,' said I.

" ^ζ Let me go ! let me go directly, wretch ! ' and again she
bit, kicked and struggled.

" * Listen to me,' said I,^c there are 365 days in the year, but by
God Î if there were 3,605, I hold you till you apologize in the
manner and way I told you, and even then, I shall punish you
likewise for the infamous way you have behaved.' She sulked
for another half hour, but did not bite or kick any more. I
never relaxed my grasp, or the sternness of my countenance.
My hands were streaming with blood, some of the veins were
opened, her lap was full of blood, it was a frightful scene.

" At length she said, < Edward, I humbly ask your pardon
for the shameful way I have treated you, I apologize for the
blow I gave you, 1 forgive you for any injury you have done
me, I promise to be docile and humble in future, and I beg—I
beg,' she sobbed, ' your forgiveness.'

^tc I released her hands, pulled the bell violently, told John to

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run immediately for Dr. Monson, (the family physician,) and
fell fainting on the floor. I had lost nearly a pint of blood
from the wounds inflicted by the panther. When I recovered
my senses, I was lying on the sofa, my hands enveloped in
strapping plaister and bandages, as were also my shins. Ellen (sic)
and my wife knelt at my feet crying, while Monson kept
pouring port wine down my throat. ' Could you eat a little,
said he kindly.

" ' Gad, yes,' said I, ' I'm awfully hungry, bring dinner, John.

" They all stared, it was ten o'clock ; however dinner was
served, though sadly overdone, having been put back three
hours. John had only laid covers for two, presuming my
wife and I would dine tete-a-tete. I told him to bring two
more. Monson and my wife raised their eyebrows—^c Doctor,
stay and dine with us, call it supper if you like ; Emma, I
desire you to seat yourself.' She made towards the door.
* Augusta,' said I, addressing my wife, ' persuade Emma to dine
with us, I will it.'

" ' You had better stay,' said my wife, with a sweet smile.
Emma hesitated a moment, and then came and sat beside me."
(p. 82).

Our hero drank during this strange dinner a bumper to the
man who knows how to tame a shrew, and obliged his wife to
pledge him in the toast ; the Doctor lectured her, and advised
her to restrain her temper in future.

" I had one of my bandaged hands up Emma's clothes while
ζ ζ

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he was saying this, and was feeling her lovely young cunny. It
was nuts to crack for me. Dr. Monson gone, I rang the bell,
' John, you and the servants can go to bed,' said I. John cast
an enquiring glance at Madam and Emma, bowed and retired.

" I asked Emma for my cigar-case, as for Augusta, I did not
notice her. I lit a cigar, and drawing Emma on my knee, sat
before the fire and smoked. ' You can go to bed, Augusta,'
said I, as if she was the servant and Emma the wife, * Ï shall
not want you any more.' The humbled woman took her
candle, and wishing us both good night, went to bed.

" ' Oh, Edward,' said poor little Emma, * what a dreadful
woman she is, she nearly killed you, you nearly bled to death !
Dr. Monson said two of the great veins at the back of each
hand had been opened by her teeth, and that if she had not
given in when she did, you would have bled to death.'

" * But here I am all alive, my sweet.'

"' But you wont have me to-night, mind.'

" < Wont I though !'

" ' Now, Edward ! pray don't, you are too weak ! '

"^f Then this will give me strength/ said I, and I drank at a
draught a tumbler of Carbonell's old Port. I made her drink
another glass, and then we lay down on the couch together. I
fucked her twice, and then in each other's arms we fell asleep.

" It was six o'clock the next morning when I woke up. I
aroused Emma and told her I thought she had better go to her
own room, before the servants were about ; my hands were

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very painful, so arranging with her when and where she should
next meet me, I went up stairs to bed. My wife was fast
asleep, I held the candle close to the bed and looked at her, she
was lying on her back, her hands thrown over her head. She
looked so beautiful, and her large, firm breasts rose and fell so
voluptuously, that I began to be penetrated with some senti-
ments of remorse for my infidelities. I crept into bed and lay
down beside her. I soon fell asleep. I might have slumbered
some two hours, I was aroused by being kissed very lovingly.
I was sensible that a pair of milky arms clasped me, and that a
heaving breast was pressed to mine. I soon became aware of
something more than this, which was going on under the bed-
clothes. I opened my eyes and fixed them upon the ravisher I
It was Augusta. She blushed at being caught, but did not
release me. I remained passive in her arms. My hands I had
lost the use of ; inflamation had set in in the night, I felt very
feverish, in an hour more I was delirious; I became alarmingly ill."

(p. 84).

His illness lasted a month, during which time he was tended by
his mother and wife. Emma is sent away ; and on his recovery
he went with his spouse to Hastings. There, as bad luck would
have it, his discarded mistress met and accosted him. There
was another scene and they again parted. Our hero continues :

" Then came a series of disasters. Our family solicitors, a
firm that had managed the affairs of the family for three gene-
rations, turned knaves, my poor mother was plundered of all

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her property. She was obliged to dismiss all her servants, and
send her furniture and carnage to the hammer. # # # For
two years I drove the Cambridge Mail, but not under my own
name. I made about three hundred a year, and have reason to
think I was much liked on the road. The adventures of that
part of my life alone, would form a volume, but as this purposes
to be an erotic auto-biography, I abstain. The advance of the
railway system, closed this avenue of my career at last. Then I
started some fencing rooms in London. Sometime after I had
been thus engaged, my wife, I could never learn how, found
me out. She called upon me, she was beautiful as ever,
there was a scene of course, it ended by my agreeing to live
with her again. The gods alone know how many infidelities I
had committed since we parted six years before. She never
knew them. I accompanied her to the depths of Hampshire,
to a certainly charming cottage she had there in a remote
hamlet, not a hundred miles from Winchester. Now it was an
anomaly in her character, that she with all her fanaticism, all
her pride, should condescend to a meanness. I thought it
paltry, and I told her so frankly on our journey, but she repre-
sented to me that she had always spoken of me, as her husband,
Captain S—, and nothing would do, but I must be Captain
S—Ζ' (p. 90).

Our hero settled down again to a quiet country life. He
proceeds :

" Now let the casuists explain it, I cannot, but the three
years I passed in this delightful spot—

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' The world forgetting
By the world forgot.'

were the very happiest of my checkered existence.

" Augusta would strip naked, place herself in any attitude,
let me gamahuche her, would gamahuche in her turn, indulged
all my whimsies, followed me about like a faithful dog—ob-
tained good shooting for me in the season, and a good mount if
I would hunt. * # # I was faithful for three years.

" A rake, I ! a man about town, fond of gaiety, of theatres, of
variety, of conviviality, say—ye casuists how was it ? But so
it was ; and, sooth to say, I was very happy; # # #.

"And thus passed three golden years, the happiest in my life.
From this dream I was awakened by my wife becoming en-
ceinte ; from that moment ⁽ a change came o'er the spirit of the
dream.' Her whole thoughts were now given up to the ^ζ little
stranger * expectant, all day long nothing was to be seen but
baby clothes lying about the room, she could talk of nothing
but baby—drew off from marital amusements, cooled wonder-
fully in her manner, and finally drove me, as it were, to seek
elsewhere for the pleasures I no longer found at home.

" When the child was born, matters became worse, every-
thing was neglected for the young usurper.

" My comforts all disappeared, and at length I became so
disgusted, that I left her, and going up to town had a long
- interview with my relative Lord Ε—." (p. 91).

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The poor illused captain remained in London, indulging in
every kind of debauchery.

" And whose fault was it, (he resumes) that I committed these
adulteries ? Surely my wife's. Had I not been faithful to her
for three years ! had I not let slip many chances during that
time ? Venus ! thou art a goddess, thou knowest all things ! Say
how many divine creatures I neglected during that time? for
though buried in the depths of the New Forest,—

' Full many a flower (there) is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air—'

So saith the Poet, and true it is.

" And the baby she idolized and loved so well, he grew into
boyhood, and she spoiled him, and he grew to man's estate, and
became a curse and a disappointment. Go to ! now ye fond
mother's, (sic) who drive your husband's (sic) to infidelity, and
what the correct world calls vice, that you may devote your-
selves to your children. What profit have ye ? Go tb ! I say.

" But in six months this woman began to feel certain motions
of nature, which told her there were other joys besides the plea-
sure of spoiling her breasts to give suck to her brat, and she
wanted to see her sposo again. She was virtuous, was this
woman, so ought to have been ^c a crown to her husband.' God
knows it has been 'a crown of thorns,' but let that pass.

" She came up to Town, and called on the Earl. She was
all pathos and meekness, of course. She told her ^ζ sad tale.*
My relative was moved, a ^c woman in tears ' is more eloquent
with some people, than ^c the woman in white ! * I received from
my relative a very peremptory letter. I had some expectations

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from this man ; it would not do to offend him ; I consented to
live with her again.", (p. ioo).

Sellon returned then once more with his wife to Hampshire?
but as may be imagined, this renewal of domestic bondage
could not last long. Having gained entrance into a girl's school,
he was detected by his wife just as he was conducting his young
companions " into a wood for a game at hide and seek."

" After this escapade, I could no longer remain in Hampshire,
so packed my portmanteau, and was once more a gentleman
at large in London." (p. no).

The volume closes with the following note signed by the editor,
but in reality written by the author himself:

" The narrative here abruptly terminates, and as far as it has
been possible to ascertain, it would appear that the writer died
shortly after, at all events he was never again seen alive or dead
by any of his numerous acquaintance/'

The sad truth is this—Edward Sellon shot himself in
April 1866, at Webb's Hotel, No. 219 and 220 Piccadilly,
then kept by Joseph Challis, but since pulled down ; its site
being now occupied by the Criterion of Messrs. Spiers and
Pond. There was an inquest, but through the influence of his
friends the affair was kept out of the newspapers, and hushed
up. Before committing suicide he wrote to a friend informing
him of his intention, but the letter only reached its destination
the following morning, when all was over. In that letter were
enclosed the following lines, addressed to a woman who was

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fond of him, and who, when he got into difficulties wished to
keep him.

" NO MORE! *

^l' No more shall mine arms entwine
" Those beauteous charms of thine,
" Or the ambrosial nectar sip
" Of that delicious coral lip—

^u No more.

" No more shall those heavenly charms
" Fill the vacuum of these arms ;
" No more embraces, wanton kisses,
" Nor life, nor love, Venus blisses—
" No more.

" The glance of love, the heaving breast
" To my bosom so fondly prest,
" The rapturous sigh, the amorous pant,
" I shall look for, long for, want

" No More.

" For 1 am in the cold earth laid,
^u In the tomb of blood I've made.
" Mine eyes are glassy, cold and dim,
" Adieu my love, and think of him

" No More."

" Vivat Lingam.

" Non Resurgam."

Here then is the melancholy career, terminating in suicide at
the early age of 48 years, of a man by no means devoid of
talent, and undoubtedly capable of better things.

* This poem is printed at p. 69 of ** Cythera's Hymnal ¡ or, Flakes from
the Foreskin." See ante, p. 185.

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Sellon was a thorough atheist, and fully believed in the
maxim with which he concludes the poem above quoted.

^u Ups and Downs," the MS. of which had been sold to W.
Dugdale shortly before the author's death, is no fiction, but,
allowing for a little colouring, portrays truthfully enough
Sellon's career.

The following letter I am induced to give, inasmuch as it
to some extent, fills up the gap between the abrupt ending of
the autobiography, and the equally sudden termination of the
writer's own life. It was addressed to the same friend to whom
Sellon had communicated his intention of destroying himself,
and was of course intended exclusively for his amusement and
not for publication. In it, as in his book, Sellon shews him-
self the same thoughtless, pleasure-seeking scamp, unchanged to
the very last.

" London, 4th March, 1866.

My dear Sir,

^t£ You will be very much surprised no doubt
to find that I am again in England. But there are so many
romances in real life that you will perhaps not be so much as-
tonished at what I am going to relate after all.

" You must know then that in our trip to the continent,
(Egypt it appears was a hoax of which I was to be the victim)
we were to be accompanied by a lady Î I did not name this to
you at the time, because I was the confidant of my friend.

" On Monday evening I sat for a mortal hour in his broug-
ham near the Wandsworth Road Railway Station waiting for
the ' fair but frail,' who had done me the honor to send me a
beautiful little pink note charmingly scented with violets, in

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which the dear creature begged me to be punctual—and most
punctual I was I assure you, but alas ! she kept me waiting a
whole hour, during which I smoked no end of cigars.

" At length she appeared, imagine my surprise ! I ! who had
expected some swell mot or other, soon found myself seated
beside the most beautiful young lady I ever beheld, so young
that I could not help exclaiming, ^c Why my dear you are a
mere baby ! how old may 1 be permitted to ask ?' She gave
me a box on the ear, exclaiming, " Baby indeed ! do you know
sir, I am fifteen ! !' 'And you love Mr. Scarsdale very much I
suppose?' said I as a feeler. * Oh î comme ça ! * she rejoined.

* Is he going to marry you at Vienna, or Egypt ?' I asked.
'Who's talking of Egypt?' said she. ^cWhy I am I hope my
dear, our dear friend invited me to accompany him up to the
third Cataract, and this part of the affair, you I mean my dear,
never transpired till half-an-hour before I got that pretty little
note of yours.' ' Stuff!' she said, 'he was laughing at you,
we go no farther than Vienna Γ ^e Good !' said I, ⁶ all's fair in
love and war,' and I gave her a kiss ! She made no resistance,
so I thrust my hand up her clothes without more ado. ' Who
are you my dear ?' I enquired. ⁽ The daughter of a merchant
in the city who lives at Clap h am,' said she. * Does your mother
know you're out ?' I ejaculated. * I am coming out next sum-
mer,' said she. ^e That is to say you were coming out next
summer,' said I. ' Well I shall be married then you know,' said
the innocent. ' Stuff!' said I in my turn. ^c How stuff?' she
asked angrily, ^c do you know he has seduced me ?' ^É No my
angel, I did not know it, but I thought as much—but don't be
deceived, a man of Mr. Scarsdale's birth won't marry a little
cit like you.' She burst into tears. I was silent. ^c Have you
known him long ?' she asked. ^c Some years,' said I. * And you
really think he won't marry me ?' ^e Sure of it, my dear child.'

* Very well, I'll be revenged, look here, I like you!' 'Do you
though ! by Jove !' * Yes, and,— I give you my word I was
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not entered the seventh heaven can fathom it ! But alas ! we
drew near the station, and I only got one poke complete. She
pressed my hand as I helped her out of the Brougham at the
Chatham and Dover Station, as much as to say ⁽ you shall have
me again.' Scarsdale was there to receive her. Not to be
tedious, off we started by the Mail, and duly reached Dover,
went on board the boat, reached Calais, off again by train.
Damned a chance did I get till we were within ten or twelve
versts of Vienna. Then my dear friend fell asleep, God bless
him ! The two devils of passengers who had travelled with us
all the way from Calais had alighted at the last station—here
was a chance ! ! We lost not an instant. She sat in my lap,
her stern towards me ! God ! what a fuck it was, ^c See Rome
and die Γ said I in a rapture. This over we were having what
I call a straddle fuck, when lo ! Scarsdale woke up ! I made a
desperate effort to throw her on the opposite seat, but it was no
go, he had seen us. A row of course ensued, and we pitched
into one another with hearty good will. He called me a rascal
for tampering with his fiancée, I called him a scoundrel for
seducing so young a girl ! and we arrived at Vienna ! * Damn
it,' said I as I got out of the train with my lip cut and nose
bleeding, ' here's a cursed piece of business.' As for Scarsdale
who had received from me a pretty black eye, he drove off with
the sulky fair to a hotel in the Leopoldstadt, while I found a
more humble one in the Graben near St. Stephen's Cathedral,
determined, as Γ had ^15 in my pocket to stay a few days
and see all I could. But as you will find in Murray a better
account of what I did see than I can give you, I will not trouble
you with it. I got a nice little note the next day from the fair
Julia appointing a meeting the next day at the Volksgarten
How she eluded the vigilance of her gallant I don't know, but
there she was sure enough in a cab—and devilish nice cabs
they are in this city of Vienna, I can tell you. So we had a
farewell poke and arranged for a rendezvous in England, and the
next day I started and here I am, having spent all my money !

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" So there's the finish of my tour up the Nile to the third
Cataract, to Nubia, Abu Sinnel, etcetera. It is very wrong I
know, I deplore it ! but you also know that what's bred in the
bone, &c, so adieu, and believe me

" Yours very truly

" E. Sellon."

Sellon is also the author and artist of " The New Epicurean,"*
and its sequel " Phoebe Kissagen."-f- He wrote " The Mono-
lithic Temples of India,";}; and " Annotations on the Sacred
Writings of the Hindus."^ He edited an English translation
of the " Ghita-Radhica-Khrishna," a Sanskrit Poem.|| He
translated a portion of the " Decameron" of Boccaccio.^ And
he designed the illustrations of " The Adventures of a School-
Boy,"** and " The New Lady's Tickler."f f

The above works have all been printed. He also wrote two
other short erotic tales. One, " The Confessions of a Single
Man, as exemplified in the Erotic Adventures of a Gentleman,"
was originally intended to have been printed at the end of the
"New Epicurean," and the title page ofthat work, as originally
struck off, but afterwards cancelled, contained a notice to this
effect. It is advertised as a separate work, " Rich Engravings,
Two Guineas," in W. Dugdale's Catalogue, appended to
the second volume of ^i: Lucretia," but it never was printed.
The MS. was stolen and has probably been destroyed, but two
or three illustrations by Sellon are still in existence. The other
tale, " The Delights of Imagination," was never printed. The
MS. still exists, but there are no illustrations.

* See ante, p. 314. f p. 326. J p. 73. § p. 73. || p. 73. f p. 369.
** p. 15. ft See that title in Additions and Corrections, post.

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WtÊM ^gnWg &α>^υύ1 iWfetregg; or, Birchen Sports. By
QA^j R. Birch, Translator of Manon's Memoirs.
Basel Printed for Philosemus. Embellished with a
Beautiful Print. Price ios. 6d.

8vo.; pp. 82 ; probable date 1808 to 1810; this I take to be
the earliest edition ; it has an " Address " in which reference is
made to the success of " Manon la Fouëtteuse," and contains
the history of " Betty Thoughtless."

There is another edition about 1820, "with 4 coloured
plates, 8vo. 16/-.*

About 1830 Cannon reprinted the work, with title : " WtlX\l$
ås>t\)OQl iïfltÖttttSid ; or Birchen Sports. Re-printed from the
Edition of 1788,-)- with a Preface, by Mary Wilson, con-
taining some Account of the late Mrs. Berkley. London :
Printed by John Ludbury, No. 256, High Holborn.," and a
second title page thus: 3}JÍ)rOÍrit£ Jflaffellatríj:: Sive Ludi
Betulani. De gustibus non est disputandum. Romæ : Apud
Plagosum Orbilium, In Viam Flagrorum, Sub Signo Flagelli.
1790."

* Publisher's Catalogue of the time.

t This date appears to be fictitious. " Venus School Mistress " was issued after
" Manon la fouëtteuse " to which reference is made in the " Address," (vide
supra), and " Manon'* could not have been originally published before 1805.

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Large I2mo.; pp. xi and 58; on the first title page is a
hand brandishing a rod, and on the second a Roman lamp ; 5
or 6 folding coloured plates, pretty well done, and a frontispiece
(not folding) representing " The Berkley Horse."*

W. Dugdale issued an edition about i860, with titles
as above, except that on the English title page the printer's
name is replaced by " Printed for the Booksellers," and there is
a fleuron of the Royal Arms. 8vo. ; pp. 61 ; 8 coloured plates,
badly done, and not copied from those of Cannon's edition ;
Price Two Guineas.

In both these editions the original " Address " is omitted,
and a "Preface," as mentioned on their title pages, added ; both
contain " Betty Thoughtless."

" Venus School Mistress," a worthless, badly written book,
contains the experiences of "Miss R. Birch," daughter of
a woman who kept a day school, and who never let pass
an opportunity to flog her pupils. Miss Birch acquires a great
taste for, and aptitude in laying on the rod, and eventually takes
a school herself together with a friend. " We now (she con-
cludes) live together, and whip like two little devils, both young
folks and old ones" The adventures all turn on flagellation
and are generally dull.

The tale of "Betsy Thoughtless" is insignificant. Betsy
recounts how she lost her maidenhead, and that she applied the
rod to her cousin-lover at his own request. Dugdale designates

* Reproduced at p. xliv, ante.

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it in his catalogue as : " a most spicey and piquant Narrative of
a Young Girl obliged to excoriate her Sweetheart's bum, before
he could ravish her Maidenhead."

In the Preface to Cannon's edition the topic is treated
seriously. We are there told : " The subject of Flagellation,
in venereal affairs, must appear altogether ridiculous and unin-
telligible to those who have not been initiated into this branch
of the Elusinian (sic) mysteries.

" It is, however, a lech, which has existed from time im-
memorial, and is so extensively indulged in London at this day,
than (sic) no less than twenty splendid establishments are sup-
ported entirely by its practice (sic) : nor is there amongst the
innumerable temples dedicated to the Paphian Goddess, which
adorn this immense metropolis, any one, in which the exercise
of the rod is not occasionally required.

" All females who piously devote themselves to the service
of the public, ought to be acquainted with the philosophy of
birch discipline ; for, without that knowledge, they wil iose (sic)
the patronage of some of the most liberal slaves to erotic pleasure.

"The men who have a propensity for Flagellation may be
divided into three classes :—

^w 1. Those who like to receive a fustigation, more or less
severe, from the hand of a fine woman, who is sufficiently
robust to wield the rod with vigor and effect.

" 2. Those who desire themselves to administer birch
discipline on the white and plump buttocks of a female.

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"3. Those who neither wish to be passive recipients nor
active administrators of birch discipline, but would derive
sufficient excitement as mere spectators of the sport.

" Many persons not sufficiently acquainted with human nature,
and the ways of the world, are apt to imagine that the lech for
Flagellation must be confined either to the aged, or to those who
are exhausted through too great a devotion to venery : but such is
not the fact, for there are quite as many young men and men
in the prime and vigor of life, who are influenced by this
passion as there are amongst the aged and debilitated.

" It is very true that there are innumerable old generals, admi-
rals, colonels, and captains, as well as bishops, judges, barristers,
lords, commoners, and physicians, who periodically go to be whip-
ped, merely because it warms their blood, and keeps up a little
agreeable excitement in their systems long after the power of en-
joying the opposite sex has failed them ; but it is equally true,
that hundreds of young men through having been educated at in-
stitutions where the masters where (sic) fond of administering
birch discipline, and recollecting certain sensations produced by
it, have imbibed a passion for it, and have longed to receive the
same chastisement from the hands of a fine woman. To the
truth of this statement, two of the 'most experienced govern-
esses now retired from business, Mrs. Chalmers and Mrs.
Noyeau, can bear ample testimony, and that the propensity
follows such parties through life, inasmuch, as however vigorous
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heart's content, yet they care little for the act, unless accom-
panied by the seasoning of their favourite sauce.

" Those women who give most satisfaction to the amateurs
of discipline, are called governesses, because they have by ex-
perience, acquired a tact and a modus operand^ which the
generality do not possess. It is not the merely keeping a rod,
and being willing to flog, that would cause a woman to be
visited by the worshippers of birch : she must have served her
time to some other woman who understood her business, and
be thoroughly accomplished in the art. They must have a
quick and intuitive method of observing the various aberra-
tion (sic) of the human mind, and be ready and willing to
humour and relieve them. Such was the late Mrs. Jones, of
Hertford Street and London Street, Fitzroy Square ; such was
the late Mrs. Berkley, such is Betsy Burgess, of York Square,
and such is Mrs. Pryce, of Burton Crescent."

The remainder of the preface, as notified on the title page,
contains an account of Mrs. Berkley and her establishment,
which I have already quoted in my introduction.*

* See ante> p. xlii.
BBB

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8vo. ; pp. 234 in all ; small fleuron in outline on title page ;
original edition. Another edition, divided into 2 parts ; title,
impress, and date identical; small 8vo. ; pp. 124, and 144 in
all ; printed about 1868 ; catalogued by J. Scheible at 4 Ths.
H. Nay* notes two other editions, in two parts, 8vo., without
date, published in 1858, and 1870 respectively.

This book is cleverly written and contains some very lascivious
episodes. That at the beginning of the work, in which the hero
is seduced, corrupted and sodomised by his tutor, is forcible and
original. Towards the end there is a scene with an amorous
old lady, which is curious and very powerfully told.

* Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica, p. 148.

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Facetious Work.

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The title page is headed, " The Flat's Ogles Opened—A
Book for Every Greenhorn!" i2mo. ; pp. 31 ; published by
W. Dugdale, about 1850 or i860.

This very verbose title is the most characteristic part of the
book, and promises more than is fulfilled ; the work contains
in truth a short sketch of a few " Gin Palaces/* a fuller account
of " Gambling Houses—their keepers, &c," " A Key to the
Flash Words," and « The Roll Call of some celebrated Mots,"
of which seven only are described. Here is a specimen :
" Mary Mitchell, the Black Mot."

"Thisfair paviour used to hang out in the vicinity of Union
Court, Westminster, and used to pad the Haymarket. She did
a vast deal of business ; but being too fond of tape she often
figured before the beak. She was a good-hearted mot and
used to support her aged parents by her button-hole stitching.
She has hooked it in a wooden box."

The most curious article in the volume is : "A few words
about Margenes—the way to know the Beasts—their Haunts,
&c," which I quote in extenso on account of the peculiar
information it affords :

"The increase of these monsters in the shape of men,
commonly designated Margenes, Poofs, &c, of late years, in
the great Metropolis, renders it necessary for the safety of the
public, that they should be made known. The punishment
generally awarded to such miscreants is not half severe enough,
and till the law is more frequently carried to the fullest extent
against them, there can be no hopes of crushing the bestiality.

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The wretches are too well paid—they being principally, it is
well known, supported by their rich companions—to care a jot
about a few months' imprisonment. Why has the pillory been
abolished ? Would it not be found very salutary for such beasts
as these ? for can they be too much held up to public degrada-
tion and public punishment ? Will the reader credit it, but
such is nevertheless the fact, that these monsters actually walk
the streets the- same as the whores, looking out for a chance !

"Yes, the Quadrant, Fleet-street, Holborn, the Strand, &c, are
actually thronged with them ! Nay, it is not long since, in the
neighbourhood of Charing Cross, they posted bills in the win-
dows of several respectable public houses, cautioning the public
to * Beware of Sods ! *

"They generally congregate around the picture shops, and are
to be known by their effeminate air, their fashionable dress, &c.
When they see what they imagine to be a chance, they place
their fingers in a peculiar manner underneath the tails of their
coats, and wag them about—their method of giving the office.

" A great many of them flock the saloons and boxes of the
theatres, coffee-houses, &c.

"We could relate many instances of the gross bestiality of
the practices of these wretches, but think it would be occupying
too much of the reader's time on so disgusting a subject. One
or two anecdotes of them we cannot, however, resist the tempt-
ation of relating.

" The Quadrant is thronged by a number of the most no-
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their living the same as the blowens. One of these was nick-
named ^c Fair Eliza.' This fellow lives in Westminster, and
keeps his fancy woman, who does not scruple to live upon the
fruits of his monstrous avocation. Another fellow, called
⁶ Betsy Η—,' who walks the Strand, Fleet-street, and St.
Martin's-court, is a most notorious and shameless poof. He is
not unfrequently to be found at free-and-easys, where he spouts
smutty recitations. His father was a notorious cock-bawd, and
when he died he bequeathed his two sons a bawdyken each.
One of the sons got a situation, we believe, for borrowing some-
thing—the other soon floored his knocking shop, and then took
to the streets. He has been imprisoned several times, but yet
he persists in following his beastly pursuits.

" There have been also many fellows of this description in
the theatrical profession, who have yet been considered respect-
able members of society. We could mention the names of
several, but will, out of compassion only, withold them. A
certain wealthy showman, it was suspected, did not so well
respect a certain ^c purty ' actor of his, without good reasons for
so doing : and it is well known, that a wretch, who was in the
habit of perpetrating the French characters at a theatre
notorious for its horses and asses, over the water, was one of the
same disgusting and most abominable fraternity.

" But we will leave this disgusting subject, again cautioning
the respectable portion of the human race to beware of these
wholesale abominable traders in this bestiality." (p. 5).

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rumour à WîïWetque Avec Notices Biogra-
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Libraires mdccclxx

i2mo. ; pp. en and 178; printed at Brussels by Briard for
Poulet-Malassis et Lécrivain, in 1870, as the title page bears;
although a " tirage à 130 exemplaires " is given, 500 copies
probably were struck off; price 20 fres. ; there is a " frontispice
à l'eau-forte, fac-similé de celui de l'édition originale de Zoloé/'
well executed on steel, not obscene, generally attributed in
error to M. Félicien Rops ; at the head of the title page, which is
printed in red and black, stands the name of the author, Le
Marquis de Sade.

In the publisher's catalogue the following note is appended ;
Réimpression de trois pièces de la plus insigne rareté. Le
Marquis de Sade se montre dans ce volume sous trois aspects
inattendus ; pamphlétaire politique ; thuriféraire républicain ;
polémiste littéraire. Les notices donnent une idée complète de
sa personne et de ses œuvres." These notices are ι

ι. " it Muvqutó öe Mit Vöomme tt srø htitë,** which

was first published in 1866, at Brussels, by J. Gay, as a separate

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pamphlet, with rubric, " Sadopolis Chez Justin Valcourt, Rue
Juliette à l'enseigne de la Vertu malheureuse. L'An oooo."
I2mo. (counts 6) ; pp. 69, and 1 unnumbered page of " Table."

2. " lu Wrntt stør les ïreur prorèô m'mmefó ïm álar*

qtU'g ÎJf â>aïïf/* by Paul Lacroix, originally published, with
other pieces, in 1834, and afterwards among the " Curiosités de
l'histoire de France," by the same author.

"Zoloé " was originally published in Paris in 1800, with title :
" Zoloé et Ses Deux Acolythes ou quelques décades de la vie
de Trois Jolies Femmes ; histoire véritable du siècle dernier par
Un Contemporain A Turin ; se trouve à Paris, chez tous les
Marchands de Nouveautés. De l'Imprimerie de l'Auteur,
Thermidor, An VIII." It is a foul, dull, and insipid attack on
Napoleon and Josephine, devoid of truth, and unredeemed by
a single point, or a sparkle of wit. Its publication was the cause
of the final incarceration of its author at Charenton, by order
of the first consul, under date 1801.

I cannot do better than transcribe here the concise notice of
the book given in " Le Marquis de Sade l'homme et ses
écrits," as printed in the volume under consideration :*

^a Si Zoloé offense la décence, elle n'est pas plus coupable
qu'une foule d'œuvres publiées depuis un siècle. Quant au
but du livre, on voit dès les premières lignes qu'il est une satire

* This version differs materially from that contained in the separate pam-
phlet above mentioned.

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abominable contre Joséphine de Beauharnais, épouse en secondes
noces du premier consul. Les deux acolytes que lui donne
l'auteur, et qu'il affuble des noms de Laureda et de Volsange
paraissent être mesdames Tallien et Visconti. On reconnaît
le général Bonaparte dans le baron d'Orsec, et Barras, dans le
vicomte de Sabar.*

" L'auteur raconte, en style très-négligé et très-incorrect, des
orgies insensées où figurent ces trois dames ; il les met en scène
avec Fessinot, époux de Laureda, avec l'ex-domestique Par-
mesan et Γ ex-capucin Pacome. Il serait assez inutile de
rechercher les personnages cachés sous ces divers noms. Chemin
faisant, des gens en évidence, et dont la conduite n'était pas
édifiante, sont vivement attaqués.

" II est permis de supposer que la publication de Zoloént fut
pas étrangère à la décision de faire enfermer le marquis de Sade
à Charenton. Ce fut en 1801, peu de temps après la date in-
diquée sur le titre de ce pamphlet, qu'il perdit sa liberté.

" On peut aisément croire qu'aucun libraire ne voulut se char-
ger de la publication d'un libelle qui pouvait exciter de redouta-
bles colères. Les mots de Γ imprimerie de Fauteur, sur le titre,
s'accordent avec ,une phrase de la préface : « Je me procurerai
moi-même l'honneur d'etre imprimé, et je n'en aurai d'obligation
à personne.' Nous ignorons si de Sade avait une imprimerie
particulière -, en tout cas, 'û était très au fait des mystères de la
typographie clandestine.

* Consult also " Livres à Clef," p. 174.
C CC

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" Saisi par la police, le petit volume que nous indiquons est
devenu de toute rareté ; nous le rencontrons sur quelques
catalogues: 40 fh Saint-Mauris, n° 276;—38 fr. 50, ex-
emplaire broché, Bignon, n° 183 a. Il serait bien plus cher
aujourd'hui.

⁶\Zoloé nt figure point parmi les divers ouvrages de Sade
mentionnés par la Biographie universelle et la France littéraire
de M. Quérard."

The author of " Le Marquis de Sade l'homme et ses écrits/*
adds in a note an extract from a very curious letter,* written by
the first consul to Josephine, and signed N. In that letter
Napoleon " défend à sa femme de voir madame Tallien sous
aucun prétexte," and adds: "Si tu tiens à mon estime et si tu
veux me plaire, ne transgresse jamais le présent ordre.. . Un
misérable Fa épousée avec huit bâtards. Je la méprise elle-
même plus qu'avant. Elle était une fille aimable : elle est de-
venue une femme d'horreur et infâme. Je serai à Malmaison
bientôt. Je t'en préviens pour qu'il n'y ait point d'amoureux la
nuit ; je serais fâché de les déranger."

* In the handwriting of Napoleon I. Inserted in a catalogue of auto-
graphs published in October, 1865, by a bookseller, Charavay, and reproduced
in the " Petite Revue,'* Ne. for November 4, JÄ65, pages 170 and 1*1.

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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

While the present work has been passing through the press
some additional information, other editions, both ancient and
modern, of books already noticed, and a few books connected
with them, have come to my knowledge. I take the opportunity
of inserting here these supplementary facts, together with some
additional elucidations.

The remarks at p. xvn. of my Introduction are not strictly
correct. The " Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour,
&c," is no longer the only work that exists, in any language
devoted to erotic literature. A volume embracing that branch
of German literature has lately been privately issued, with title:

^w 3St'ûitotf)era <féermanorum erotica* Verzeichmss der ge-

sammten deutschen erotischen Literatur mit Einschluss der
Uebersetzungen. Nachschlagebuch für Literaturhistoriker, An-
tiquare und Bibliothekare. Nach den Zuverlässigsten Quellen,
bearbeitet von H. Nay. Leipzig, 1875." 4to. ; pp. 151, with
5 unnumbered pages of title, "Vorwort" and "Verbesserungen;"
printed in Stuttgart by E. Rupfer. This publication, as we
read in the "Vorwort," "hat den Zweck den Forschern auf dem
Gebiete der Cultur-und Sittengeschichte einen wichtigen, bisher

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unbearbeiteten Zweig der deutschen Literatur übersichtlich vor-
zuführen." It gives information as to editions, places and dates
of publication, &c, but contains no critical appreciations or
extracts.

At p. xxxvii of my Introduction I have mentioned the re-
volting crime of corpse profanation with more prominence
perhaps than the doubtful authority there girai warrants. A
remark or two more on the subject may not be out of place.
The very nature of the deed prevents its being commonly
known. The chamber of the dead is not a place open to many
prying eyes, nor can the lifeless corse reveal the enormities
which may have been perpetrated upon it. One clearly proved
instance will suffice then to warrant its being classed among
the frailties of human nature.

There can be little doubt that it was known to the Egyptians,
and that they made provisions to prevent the violation of the
dead bodies of their young and beautiful women by the em-

balmers. Herodotus writes : " Quant aux femmes de qualité,
lorsqu'elles sont mortes, on ne les remet pas sur le champ aux
Embaumeurs, non plus que celles qui sont belles, et qui ont été
en grande considération, mais seulement trois ou quatre jours
après leur mort. On prend cette précaution, de crainte que les
Embaumeurs n'abusent des corps qu'on leur confie. On raconte
qu'on en prit un sur le fait avec une femme morte récemment,
et cela sur l'accusation d'un de ses camarades."*

This fact did not escape the attention of the erudite com-
* Translation of P-Η Larcher : «' Histoire d'Hérodote, traduite du Grec, &c."

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mentator of the ^u Hermaphroditus " * of Panormita, who
remarks (p. 321): "Licebitne hue referre etiam libídine m
eorum, qui aut mortuas feminas, aut statuas polluunt ? neque
enim verus coitus est, ubi non sunt duo coëuntes. In Aegypto
quidem Herodotus refert II, 89. deprensum quendam esse,
recenti cadavere muliebri libidinose abutentem : τ^αμφΟηναι γαρ
τινά φασι ρσγόριενον νεκρω προσφάτω γυναικός, κατειπειν
8έ τον όμότεχνον ; quia de causa lege sancitum esse, ne femi-
nae nobiles et formosae prius traderentur conditoribus, quam
triduo aut quatriduo post obitum."

In the eighth volume of the " Causes Célèbres " a very re-
markable case is reported. I reproduce it in the epitomised
narrative of M. Julia de Fontennelle :φ " Un cadet de famille
fut forcé d'entrer, sans vocation, dans un ordre religieux. Se
trouvant en voyage, il s'arrête dans une auberge qu'il trouve
dans une grande désolation : la fille unique de l'hôte, qui était
d'une grande beauté, venait de mourir. On prie le religieux
de la veiller ; il accepte, et, dans la nuit, curieux de voir les
traits d'une jeune fille qu'on lui avait dit avoir été si belle, il lui
découvre le visage, et, poussé par le démon de la luxure, il la
viole et part de grand matin. Le lendemain, pendant qu'on
portait le cercueil en terre, on y sentit quelque mouvement ; la
bierre est ouverte, la jeune fille remise au lit et bientôt guérie.
Quelque temps après, des symptômes de grossesse se mani-
festent, et, au terme de neuf mois, elle donne le jour à un
enfant, tout en protestant de sa virginité. Au bout de quelques
années, le frère aîné du religieux étant mort et celui-ei ayant

* The edition noticed at p. 81 ante. The German police are now destroying
every copy they can lay hands on of this work, probably on account of the
plates, and the volume bids fair to become of the greatest rarity.

t " Recherches, &c₃ sur l'Incertitude des Signes de la Mort," p. 93.
This story forms one of the scenes in " Le Prêtre par Un Dr. De Sorbonne.
Paris 1802."

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été délié de ses vœux, ses affaires le conduisirent dans la
même auberge, où il trouva la défunte vivante et mère. Charmé
de sa beauté, il avoua son crime et le répara en l'épousant."

The case which occurred in Paris a few years ago, and which
was reported in the journals at the time, will doubtless recur to
many of my readers.*

It was found that many of the coffins in the " fosse com-
mune " of the cemetery of Père la Chaise had been disturbed.
The dogs kept to guard the burial ground had given no alarm,
and armed men were placed on the watch. One night they
surprised a naked man violating the corpse of a young woman
who had been buried that day. They failed to catch him, and
fired at him ; but he gained the wall, got over it, and escaped.
It was winter, and the ground was covered with snow. Next
morning, on following his footprints they found marks of blood,
and were certain that he had been wounded with the small shots
with which their gans had been loaded. The police was
communicated with, the hospitals searched, and a sergeant was
found in one of them, under treatment for small shot wounds.
He was called on for an explanation, and examined upon the
charge. He was proved to have gone to several expositions of
the dead before their removal from their residences, and to have
followed the convoys to the place of interment. At last he
confessed all, and that he had long been in the habit of violating
corpses. When asked how it was that the dogs had not
barked, he replied that dogs would never attack a naked man
unless specially urged on to do so, and for this reason he had
always visited the cemetery without his clothes. At the trial it
was stated that a similar case had previously occurred at
Toulouse(P), but that the violator there had preferred to operate
upon the dead bodies of old rather than young women.

* Í narrate this case from memory only.

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Passing now to our own country, and to a time also within
the memory of the present generation, I submit an occurrence
communicated by a gentleman of the medical profession, then
a student, and eye witness of the deed.

In the year 1830 or 1831, at all events about the time
that Williams and another were hanged for the murder of an
Italian boy in order to sell his body to the doctors, the dead
body of a well favoured girl of about 15 years was brought to
St. Bartholomew's hospital for dissection. Although no marks
of violence were apparent, the students were of opinion that
she had not met her end by fair means. One of them intro-
duced his finger into the vagina, and finding the hymen to be
intact, declared that she was a maid. Upon this the porter
who was employed to carry the dead bodies in and out, also put
his finger up, and exclaiming : " that he had never had a
maidenhead, but that he would take one now, by G—," pro-
ceeded to violate the corpse then and there, in the presence of
the students assembled.

Two instances in which priests have administered discipline
to their penitents to serve their own lusts are spoken of in note
¿5 (p. xl.) of my Introduction. The former of these cases,
viz., that of Père Girard, I had intended to treat fully in its
proper place here, but it is of greater bibliographical magnitude
than I at first anticipated, and lack of space compels me to
defer it to a future volume. With regard to the latter: Cornelius
Adriaensen (not Hadrien), less generally known, but of equal
interest with that of Girard, it may not be distasteful to my
readers if I give an account of it here. This I do the more
readily because the narrative of the affair contained in the

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"History of the Rod " is somewhat " made up," and is not
told with the sobriety which is indispensible in treating such
subjects.

The most trustworthy account of Cornelius Adriaensen and
his whipping academy, is to be found in the history of the low
countries* by Emanuel van Meteren.

Although this worthy and esteemed historian has been taxed
with credulity by Lenglet Du Fresnoyyf- and accused of in-
sincerity by Beaucourt de Noortvelde,^ yet we may, I think,
accept his simple narrative of the doings of brother Cornelius
without hesitation.

" II y avoit, (he writes) un moine au cloître des Cordeliers, à
Bruges, nommé frère Corneille Adriaensen, de Dodrecht, qui
étoit fort renommé à cause de ses prédications indécentes et
indues* tellement que nous avons trouvé bon d'en dire quelque
chose, cambien que nous ne fassions pas volontiers, si est-ce
qu'il est nécessaire, pour ce que par telles personnes on donne
occasion â leurs adversaires de les blâmer et leur religion
catholique.

* Emanuel van Meteren wrote his work first in Latin, then translated it
himself into Flemish. It has been rendered into German and French. The
text I quote is from the French translation by J.-D.- L. Haye : " Histoire des
Pays-Bas, ou Recueil des Guerres &c. La Haye, H. J. Wou. 1Ó18." folio.
Vide "Manuel du Libraire,'* vol 3., col. 1877.

f "Méthode pour étudier l'Histoire, avec un catalogue des principaux
historiens, &c." The passageis quoted in the "Biographie Universelle
(Michaud)." vol. 28, p. 121.

% Tableau Fidele des Troubles et Révolutions, &c.

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" Ce moine, ayant vêtu le froc Fan 1548, et ayant le don de
bien parler et de pouvoir bien exprimer son intention, fut in-
continent estimé pour un fort digne prêcheur ; il tâchait, en
tous ses sermons, d'élever l'état ecclésiastique par dessus le
séculier, et de persuader à ses auditeurs, que le célibat et l'état des
gens non mariés étoient mille fois plus propres pour mériter le
paradis, que le mariage, lequel étoit toujours sujet à beaucoup
de soucis et empêchemens pour parvenir à salut. Cependant,
ayant été institué et commandé de Dieu (tellement qu'il est
même tenu pour un sacrement), on y rencontre bien beaucoup
de souffrances, croix et tribulations ; mais c'est par ces choses
qu'il faut entrer au royaume de Dieu, de sorte qu'il y a plus
de mérite au mariage qu'au célibat, état inutile et vain de ceux
qui se retirent es cloîtres, où il n'y a qu'aise, volupté, et oisiveté,
qui est la mère de tous maux.

" II opposoit journellement à l'état charnel et mondain du
mariage, la commodité et l'avantage qu'il y avoit au célibat
pour parvenir à la vie éternelle : ce qu'il savoit dire et mettre en
avant avec tant d'argumens, d'exemples et similitudes, que plus-
ieurs honnêtes femmes mariées en furent troublées en leur
esprit, et menèrent tel deuil, qu'elles en tonibèrent en de
grandes fantaisies: plusieurs filles se proposèrent de ne se marier
jamais, et plusieurs veuves de demeurer à marier.

" Ces femmes mariées et les autres se venoient confesser à lui :
les mariées pour recevoir de lui quelque consolation et avis, et
les autres pour être fortifiées en leur debsein.

" Entre les unes et les autres, il y avoit plusieurs honnêtes,
notables et belles femmes, veuves et filles de tous états, et à cette
fin de leur pouvoir donner quelque contentement, et à soi-même
aussi, il s'avisa de dresser entre elles un ordre de Dévotaires.
Quant aux femmes mariées, lesquelles étoient tristes et troublées,
il leur disoit qu'elles pourroient encore être sauvées pourvu
qu'elles pussent résister aux inclinations et désirs des œuvres
naturelles et charnelles du mariage, mais non à l'œuvre et usage
même : car il disoit que l'œuvre même en soi avoit été ordonnée

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de Dieu, mais que la nature corrompue Favoit souillée de ses
mauvaises affections, auxquelles il falloit qu'elles résistassent
pour les surmonter, et user de l'œuvre du mariage, comme si
elles n'en usoient point. Que si cela étoit impossible et une
chose inhumaine, il conseilîoit celles lesquelles n'étoient point
jeunes ni belles, de se venir souvent confesser à leurs curés, pour
en avoir absolution. Mais à celles lesquelles désiroient d'être
en son ordre, et du nombre des Dévotaires, il leur disoit : que
puisqu'elles ne pouvoient point résister en leur corps charnel
à ces infirmités intérieures, qu'il étoit de besoin que leur corps
fut châtié de quelque punition extérieure, ou pénitence. Quand
les femmes perplexes y consentoient et promettoient de se vouloir
volontiers mettre sous son obéissance, lors il leur établissoit cette
règle, de se venir confesser à lui tous les mois avec le consente-
ment de leurs maris. Et en se confessant, il leur commandoit,
en vertu de l'obéissance qu'elles lui avoient jurée, de lui vouloir
déclarer toutes leurs inclinations naturelles et charnelles, les-
quelles elles sentoient au mariage, et de le dire sans simulation
et honte, le plus efFrontément et nuement qu'elles pouvoient, afin
qu'il les put d'autant mieux purger, absoudre et châtier comme
un bon médecin.

" Quand les femmes le faisoient par perplexité et trouble de
conscience, il leur disoit en outre, que les péchés secrets et
impudics avoient besoin d'une purification secrette et d'une
sainte discipline, ou secrette pénitence, laquelle devoit être cachée
aux hommes mondains, pour ce qu'ils ne comprenoient pas les
choses spirituelles, car s'ils le savoient ils s'en scandaliseroient : et
partant il falloit qu'elles lui fissent serment de ne point donner à
connoître, ni révéler cette secrette discipline ou pénitence, ni à
leurs parens, ni à quelques personnes ecclésiastiques, en se
confessant ou autrement. Après qu'elles avoient fait ce ser-
ment par Dieu et tous ses Saints, il les recevoit pour ses
dévotaires et filles de discipline.

" Les veuves, lesquelles étoient belles et tâchoient de vivre
impollues, il leur faisoit accroire que les veuves avoient beaucoup

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plus de tentation que les filles, lesquelles n'étoient pas ainsi
tourmentées, et partant qu'elles méritoient aussi beaucoup plus
envers Dieu que les veuves, tellement que, pour ce combat, leur
état étoit beaucoup plus méritoire que celui des mariées, lesquelles
pouvoient éteindre ces tentations ; néanmoins qu'elles se dé-
voient soumettre sous sa discipline et secrette pénitence, afin
d'être disciplinées pour les intérieures et impures pensées qu'elles
avoient journellement; et partant qu'elles se dévoient venir
confesser à lui tous les quinze jours une fois, et faire serment de
ne se confesser à personne qu'à lui, et ne révéler la secrette dis-
cipline à personne qu'aux dévotaires, lesquelles se soumettoient à
sa discipline, et par ce moyen elles devenoient ses dévbtaires.

"Il persuada aussi le même aux pucelles et jeunes filles, et le
tout sous prétexte de grande sainteté et de mérite.

" II faisoit venir toutes ces trois sortes de personnes à jour
nommé, et quand cela lui venoit le plus à propos, en la maison
de quelqu'une de ses dé votaires, laquelle il estimoit la plus
propre à cela, et notamment à la maison d'une couturière
nommée Calla, où il y avoit un huis de derrière par laquelle il
pouvoit entrer secrettement, en sortant de son cloître. Quand
il étoit là, il faisoit faire des verges à ses dévotaires et les faisoit
porter en la chambre de discipline, et puis il leur disoit, avec
une grande gravité et beaucoup de paroles persuasives, que,
pour se rendre propres à recevoir la discipline, qu'elles dévoient
se dépouiller, afin de surmonter, par la nudité, toute honte et
feintise.

_t " Quand les femmes, après beaucoup de persuasion, s'étoient
ainsi déshabillées toutes nues, il falloit qu'elles vinssent elles-
mêmes lui apporter les verges, et le prier bien humblement de
châtier et discipliner leur corps de péché : ce qu'il faisoit ; puis
après, avec beaucoup de cérémonies et fort lentement, leur
donnant un certain nombre de petits coups, qui ne faisoient pas
beaucoup de mal, et leur allégeoit le dire de quelques anciens
pères, que Dieu aim oit mieux l'humilité des pénitentes, qui
s'étoient dépouillées toutes nues, que la dureté des coups, et
choses semblables.

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" En hiver, quand il faisoit trop froid pour se dépouiller, il
falloit que les enfans de discipline se couchassent sur un coussin,
et lors frère Corneille leur levoit les robes par derrière et les
disciplinoit ainsi. Le même faisoit-il quelquefois en été aux
femmes mariées et autres, lesquelles ne pou voient pas s'absenter
long-temps de la maison.

** Quelquefois il permettoit que les plus vieilles dévotaires re-
çussent la discipline des femmes de la maison où la discipline
se faisoit.

^u Cet ordre de dévotaires et de secrette discipline ayant duré
plusieurs années, qu'enfin le tout fut découvert par deux de ses
dévotaires, honnêtes filles, nommées Tune Betteken Maes, et
l'autre Calleken Pieters. Cette Betteken Maes, étant une
simple fille déjà parvenue à Tage de discrétion et de jugement,
fut employée (pour ce qu'elle étoit fort honnête, et qu'elle
savoit donner des bonnes consolations) à garder les malades ; et
comme elle gardoit une vieille femme, laquelle pensant qu'elle
mouroit, la pria, que, quand elle seroit aux abois de la mort,
qu'elle la voulût revêtir d'un froc de cordelier, qu'elle avoit là
toujours prêt sur le lit. Que si cela ne se pouvoit pas bien
faire, que pour le moins elle y voulut mettre ses bras ou ses
mains, afin qu'en mourant ainsi, elle put être quitte de trois
parts de ses péchés, et ainsi il ne lui en restât qu'un quart
à être purgé en purgatoire. Betteken voyant la peine en laquelle
étoit cette femme malade, elle tâcha de lui mettre cela hors de
la tête, lui remontrant en toute simplicité qu'elle eut à avoir
recours à la satisfaction du Christ: de quoi la femme se
scandalisa, tellement que, se relevant de sa maladie, elle s'alla
plaindre à frère Corneille, qui, pour cette occasion, l'injuria et
blâma fort, l'accusant partout et disant que c'étoit une hérétique,
une Erasmienne et une Pauline, etc., noms pris d'Erasme, de
Rotterdam, et de saint Paul. Là dessus Betteken se défendant
partout contre ces accusations, fit enfin tant que la secrette
discipline fût révélée.

" Quelque temps après, Calleken Pieters se scandalisant de
quelque légèreté qu'elle avoit aperçue en ce père Corneille, et

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comme elle étoit belle et jeune, fille d'une honnête veuve, elle
s'étoit aussi, en toute simplicité, rangée parmi les dé votai res.
Frère Corneille avoit eu beaucoup de peine avec elle, et ne
l'avoit pas bien pu amener à ce point de se dépouiller toute
nue, n'est-ce qu'elle l'eut premièrement vu faire à d'autres filles,
tellement que la première fois, de honte elle tomba évanouie.
Celle-ci se plaignant de la légèreté de frère Corneille, voulût
être plus amplement instruite touchant ce fait, et demanda quel-
ques preuves ; ce que frère Corneille fit le mieux qu'il put,
alléguant quelques passages de quelques anciens pères ; mais elle
n'étant pas encore contente, demanda quelques preuves de
FEcriture-Sainte, touchant cette secrette discipline. Là dessus
il allégua quelques passages où il est parlé de fouetter ; mais elle,
étant bien avisée, ne s'en contenta pas, de sorte qu'il com-
mença aussi à l'injurier, et à dire que c'étoit une Pauline, une
Erasmienne, une hérétique ; tellement qu'elle alla à confesse au
gardien du cloître, pour se conseiller avec lui, et, ayant été
mieux instruite, elle demeura hors de l'ordre. Frère Corneille en
étant fort irrité, la mit au ban et l'excommunia ; non content de
cela, il falloit encore qu'il en fit toujours mention en ses prédi-
cations, tellement qu'enfin cela vint aux oreilles du magistrat,
qui, pour cette occasion, mandèrent la ditte fille et la firent ex-
aminer. Après que le magistrat s'en furent bien informés, et qu'ils
en eurent pris connoissance par divers témoignages, pour dé-
fendre la chasteté de leurs femmes et filles, ils se plaignirent de
frère Corneille à ceux qui avoient à commander sur lui, qui,
pour éviter toute honte, l'envoyèrent hors de Bruges à Ypres,
Fan 1563."

Adriaensen was a powerful and eloquent preacher, but his
discourses were, as Van Meteren asserts, frequently interspersed
" avec des blasphèmes horribles, contre Dieu et la nature, &c."
" II ne parloit que d'effusion de sang, de pendre, de brûler, de
rôtir, d'écorcher, d'étouffer, d'enterrer les personnes toutes vives
en terre, d'ouvrir le ventre des femmes, en tirer les enfants tout-

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vifs, et de les jeter contre les murs. # * # Et parmi toute
cette rage, il mêloit de propos sales et infâmes, concluant par
un petttr, chier, torcher son derrière, le baiser, et souhaitant de
la fiente en la face des personnes, et choses semblables."*

Adriaensen was born at Dordrecht in 1521, joined the order
of "Frères Mineurs," and died at Bruges, July 13, 1581.-f-

In the note at p. 35 I have made mention of an unpublished
work by the Marquis de Sade. This remarkable M.S. is at
present in the possession of the Marquis de V—, whose grand-
father, it is said, obtained it from one Armoux de St. Maximin,
who assisted at the destruction of the Bastille, and found the
M.S. in the room which the Marquis de Sade had been oc-
cupying. Since then it has never been out of the keeping of

* In his " Predicatoriana" (p. iii), Peignot gives an extract of a curious
discourse by Adriaensen against the Prince de Condé.

f " Tableau fidèle des Troubles," &c, pp. 58 and 80 Consult also "Historie
van B. Cornells Adriaensen van Dordrecht, minrebroeder binnen die stadt van
Brugghe. Inde welcke warachtelick verhaelt wert, de discipline en secrete
penitencie of geesselinghe, die hy ghebmycte met zyn devotarigen : de welcke
veroorsaect hebbebben zeer veel wonderlicke sermoenen, die hy te Brugghe
gepredict heeft. Ghedruct int jaer 1^9." Small 8vo. ; original edition, of
which one copy only, it is said, is known. M. Octave Delepierre had not
seen it when he annotated the "Tableau fidèle * (ut supra), for he speaks of
it as " cette prétendue histoire de frère Corneille» qui parut long-temps après
sa mort, et où il y a presque autant de mensonges que de pages." He
mentions two later editions, viz. : " Deventer, Coenraet Thomassin, 1639.
2 deelen in-12," and " Amsterdam, Samuel Schoonweld, 1714,2 volumes in-
18." Concerning the work itself, M. Delepierre says that it contains *' à-peu-
près les mêmes expressions indécentes et de plus sales encore " than Van
Meteren attributes to Adriaensen.

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the Marquis de V— or his grandfather. I have not seen the
MS. myself, but offer the following description made from
the details communicated to me by two gentlemen who have
carefully examined it.

The M.S. is composed of a series of pieces of paper, 4^
inches (or 11 centimètres) wide, all stuck together, and forming
a roll 13 yards 8 inches (mètres 12.10) in length. Each piece
of paper is written on both sides, in the handwriting of the
Marquis de Sade throughout, and in a character so minute that
the letters cannot be read without the aid of a magnifying glass.
The work comprises a short preface, and 52 chapters in which
the author narrates the doings of a certain community of
libertines of both sexes, who have two mansions in the vicinity
of Paris and enormous wealth at their disposal.

The language and incidents are quite as obscene as in
" Justine," but the narrative is not so frequently interlarded
with philosophical disquisitions as in that and other of de Sade's
works. The MS. closes with the words, "terminée le 25
Nov. 1783."

In " Monsieur-Nicholas ; ou le Cœur humain dévoilé,"
vols. 11 and 16, Restif de la Bretonne speaks of a work by de
Sade : '* lu Courte ÏÏU Ifttrtmage," qui ne paraît pas encore
et que j'ai lue en manuscrit." It seems not unlikely that the
MS. in question is the same work as that noticed by the author
of " L'Anti-Justine." He continues : " Dans Aline*. . . . Dans
le Boudoir. . . Mais ce n'est rien : toutes les horreurs sont

* Noticed at p. 30, ante.

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réservées pour La Théorie du libertinage. C'est là que le mons-
tre-auteur propose, à l'imitation du Pornographe, l'établissement
d'un lieu de débauche. J'avais travaillé pour arrêter la dégrada-
tion de la nature : le but de l'infâme disséqueur à vif, en
parodiant un ouvrage de ma jeunesse, a été d'outrer à l'excès
cette odieuse, cette infernale dégradation. . . Quel monstre
qu'un homme â pareilles idées ! Et c'est un noble ! un noble
de la famille de la célèbre Laure de Pétrarque ! "*

I will now add a few books which are more or less connected
with those already noticed.

3ímor¿ aä&ege, (_p. ₄6, ante).

In the " Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica," five editions of
this work are noted, all in 8vo., viz. : Amsterdam, 1791, 1794-
95, 1796, 1824, and that which I have noticed, without date,
about 1870.

lt$ amours öe Cöariot et Cornette précédés de i*%\u

trtririerøte en (gOSUettesí pièces révolutionnaires ré-
imprimées textuellement sur les éditions originales de
1779 et de 1789 avec une Note bibliographique Imprimé
par les Presses de la Société A Strasbourg 1871-

^uIn-i6 de vm-24 pp., tiré à 100 ex.—2fr, 50."^ figure of a
sphere on the title page ; published by Gay.

This little work is a reprint of the two works noticed at

* This passage is reproduced at p. 417 of "Bibliographie &c. de Restif de
la Bretonne."

t Liste des Publications, p. 30.

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INDEX LIBRORÜM PROHIBITORUM.                     ^2¡

pp. 50 and 116; fac-similés of the title pages of the original
editions of both are given.

^fci I extract the following remarks from the " note biblio-
graphique : " " On est d'abord étonné de la date que porte cette
pièce (Les Amours de Chariot et Toinette), 1779, et Ton se
demande s'il n'y a pas quelque erreur. A cette époque, Marie-
Antoinette était dans la fleur du bel âge ; elle avait vingt-
quatre ans. Les portraits, dont quelques uns sont vraiment
ravissants, couvraient la France et le monde ; et l'on peut dire
qu'elle était idolâtrée des Français. Louis xvi n'était guère
plus âgé qu'elle ; le comte d'Artois n'avait que 22 ans, et c'était
un petit volcan. La liaison avec la Duthé et beaucoup d'autres
l'avait déjà fort affiché depuis plusieurs années, et comme
souvent le sexe ne dédaigne pas ces jeunes conquérants, son
aventure avec la reine ne serait pas moralement impossible.

" On parle dans le conte en question d'une sonnette dénon-
ciatrice ; cet incident fut, à la même époque, l'objet de cinq ou
six pièces de vers différentes. Dans celle que nous donnons ici,
on nomme le serviteur qui entre dans l'appartement de la reine ;
c'est le sieur Gervais, Ce nom est-il supposé ?

" Quoiqu'il en soit, si l'on relit avec attention l'histoire
anecdotique du temps, on voit que c'est vers cette époque que
l'on place les représentations à la cour du Mariage de Figaro et
autres fêtes qui faisaient jaser."

I know of two other old editions of the first mentioned
poem. Of the one the title is as that noticed at p. 50,
with the same date in Roman letters. The other has the im-
press : "ALa Bastille. 14 juillet 1789." There is also a more
recent reprint : " 3Uö 3muUrS ïe Cfrøtøt $C COtttette Pièce
Dérobée AV.........

Scilicet is superù labor est, ea cura
quietos sollicitât....... Virg. Æneid.

Réimprimé textuellement sur l'édition originale et rarissime de

EEE

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1789. Londres De Πmprimerie Particulière de Lord C***
1875"

i2mo. (counts 6); pp. 11 ; title page printed in red and
black, with figure of a sphere ; forms No. 3 of the "Bibliothèque
Galante" published in Brussels at 2 francs. This edition
contains the poem only.

3itt§ ben tierno tren einet Sättgetin* (p. 102).

The author of the " Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica " notes
this work as published at the Verlagsbureau, Altona, about 1862.
In the place of publication he is right, and I have in error
noted it as published in Berlin, but with the year of issue I
think he is somewhat in advance. He adds: "Dasselbe.
Altona. o.J. (c. 1870) 8.°" by which, I presume, the second
volume, or continuation, is intended to be indicated ; if so he
has certainly not read the volume, and is again, I believe, in
advance with the date of publication.

SBefenntniffe einet SItnetifanetin»

In the "Bibliotheca Germanorum erotica" (p. 11), one
edition of this work is noted. The description corresponds in
every respect with that at p. 128, ante, except that the date is
given as 1770. Either there are two editions, or the author
oi " Bib. Ger. erot." is in error, for the date of the volume,
at present before me, is 1970. He adds: "Ein Seitenst. zu
den Denkwürdigkeiten des Herrn von H * * *." This is en-
tirely false ; the " ¿Bcfttttttttfffe " has no similarity whatever with

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INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM.                     427

that work, which is considered to be one of the best erotic books
in the German language.

ÍM âSdrîldô tit ipart'Ø* avec les noms, demeures et prix, Plan
salubre et patriotique soumis aux illustres des Etats-
Généraux pour en faire un article de la constitution;
Rédigés par M. M. Dillon, Sartin,e, Lenoir, La
Troliere, & Compagnie. Dédié à la Fédération.

Sans la santé, l'homme n'est rien sur la terre

Du Tillier.

L'An Second de la Liberté : 14 Juillet 1779.
8vo. (counts 4) ; pp. 24. There is a copy in the British
Museum, press mark P.C. JJf

This tract contains a plan for a model brothel to be erected
at Paris, of which the motto was to be :

"Du plaisir pour de l'or, & santé garantie."

It concludes with "la liste des bordels honnêtes, où Ton court
moins les risques de glisser, et de s'embourber."

Srupelto £a &utt Ppötotogfe ïttö étaUtøftmntø #Μκ·

turntö Öe SBrUJCtlltó par Mario Aris 3me Édition
Bruxelles Ch. Sacré-Duquesne, Éditeur Rue des Fripiers,
60 1871

8vo. ; pp. 208, with 4 unnumbered pages of " Table " and
list of other publications ; 4 rough etchings, not free^ signed
PouBLON. This edition contains the same matter as the work

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noticed at p. 143, ante ; but it is not divided into 2 vols. ;
the outer wrapper is slightly changed, and " Avec Illustrations "
is added.

In 1876, the same volume (title unaltered) was reissued in
a new fancy paper wrapper, with a wood cut of a girl's head with
a fan, and containing 4 new illustrations signed "HB" (H
Bodart,) not free, and similar in character to those of the
previous edition just above mentioned.

Based upon the above, but by no means a literal translation
of it, there is: "3BrU£tøfcl£i ty? βΕοΙί'ίφί Physiology of the
Night Establishments of Brussels by Peeping Tom Brussels
Of all the Booksellers," i2mo (counts 6) ; pp. iv and 102, ex
titles and " Notice ; " girl's head on outer wrapper, and the four
illustrations signed "HB" as above ; author Mr. Hartcupp ;
publisher Ch. Sacré Duquesne; issued in 1876. In the
"Notice" which terminates the volume a second part is
promised.

îBU &tUt et Ötl WítUf Contes et Mélanges. Étrennes aux
Délicats avec Frontispice à Feau-forte. Bruxelles
J Blanche, Libraire n, Rue de Loxum 11 1873.

Large i2mo. ; pp. 214; at head of title, which is printed in
red and black, is the author's pseudonym, Frère Jean ; the
frontispiece (struck off in two colours) is by M. Baes of
Brussels ; it was his first attempt at etching, and must be pro-
nounced a very poor production ; issue 236 copies, of which 230

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on ^u papier de Hollande " at 6 fres., 4 on yellow paper, 2 on
" papier chine," numbered. This is the complete edition of the
work, and contains the following four pieces, viz : " Tant
pis pour eux, tant mieux pour nous," " La Communion
difficile;* " Nouvelle Rencontre Tabarinique," " Double Pro-
blème," not in the original edition,* which the author had
printed in 1866 at Rouen, De Brière, 200 copies only, for
private distribution; it was issued as " première serie," and never
offered for sale.

These are very cleverly written little poems—terse, pointed,
epigrammatic—a pity only is it that they all run on so forbidding
a subject ;~f- for it must be confessed that the mysteries of
Cloacina are not propitious to the cultivation of Calliope or
Erato. This opinion is not so rigidly held by our neighbours
dï outre-Manche. Let us then not quarrel with the entertainment
offered us, but be thankful for a well written book, in spite of
its subject, and say with our author :

" Gens à qui mon livre déplaît,

" Ce n'est pas pour vous qu'il est fait j

" Pour Dieu, contentez-vous des vôtres,

" Et, sans dire du mal du mien,

" Soyez-en dégoûtés,—fort bien !

" Mais n'en dégoûtez pas les autres." (p. 95).

[Ce volume est écrit par un auteur qui est vraiment doué

* A copy of which sold for fres. 11, in the sale of M. Charles Monselet's
books, in 1871. See ** Catalogue détaillé," &c. p. 44.
f See ante, p. 97.

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|

de la verve poétique. Il est à regretter que toutes les pièces ¡
soient sur le même sujet, par conséquent c'est une lecture
monotone, outre ce que parfois on éprouve du dégoût à pour-
suivre. Les plus agréables pièces sont : " Tant pis pour eux,
tant mieux pour nous," d'un style vif et facile, et la satire,
"Au Vidangeur."]*

The author is Ernest Vaughan of Rouen, one of the staff
(in 1873) °f the weekly journal, "La Vie Moderne," in which
the poems, " Joyeusetés de Frère Jean,"-)- are from his pen. He
is at present editor of " Le Moniteur Industriel " of Brussels.

an <8ö6ty on røomam (pp. *9^{8 to 2}3⁶)·

In the Dyce collection, at the South Kensington Museum,
are three copies of the " Essay on Woman," viz. : that which
heads my article, and those noticed as Nos. 5 and 7.

On the fly leaf of the first mentioned volume is the following

* See ante, p. lxxv. of Introduction.

t Since collected into a vol : " Joyeusetés de Frère-Jean avec portrait à
Γ eau-forte par Louis Bochard. Bruxelles A. Lefèvre, Editeur-Imprimeur 9,
Rue Saint-Pierre, 9 1875*' Large i2mo. ; pp. 164, preceded by 10 pages of
titles, &α, and followed by 10 pages of "Table," &c, all unnumbered $ title
page printed in red and black, and headed by the author's name, E. Vaûghan.
To render the vol. in every way complete, the specimen brochure, of 4 un-
numbered pages, should be added. This publication, dated 1874, announces
the work to have ⁿ Dessins de Léon Libonis j " it contains one etching signed
by him, and the poem, " En Guise de Préface," which will be found at p. 1
of the entire work, which is not illustrated. Although the " Joyeusetés de
Frère-Jean '' scarcely enters into the scope of the present work, this terse
notice may not be without interest to some.

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note in the hand writing of Dyce : " I am inclined to think
that this is really the original edition of the poem. My late
venerable friend, William Maltby, was intimately acquainted
with Wilkes, and assured me that Wilkes said to him, ^fi I am
not the author of the Essay on Woman : it was written by
Potter' (son of the Archbishop),"* This note tends to prove
three points which I have advanced, ι. That the version which
I have accepted as genuine is really so. 2. That all the biblio-
graphers, with whose works I am acquainted, are more or less
in error respecting it ; for, if we take Dyce's words in the strict
sense, it would appear that he not only considered this volume
to contain the genuine version of the poem, but to be the
original edition, which, as I have already shewn, it most de-
cidedly is not. 3. That if Wilkes wrote the book at all, he
was certainly not the sole author. I have previously remarked
that Wilkes never definitely and positively acknowledged being
its author. His character was such, that just because he had
got into trouble on account of the book, for that very reason
he would not deny having written it, or proclaim his friend, an
archbishop's son, as the real author. The nobleness of his
nature would prompt him, under such circumstances, to bear
alone the whole brunt and odium of the affair.

I am now able to describe more minutely the edition noticed

* Cat. oí the Printed Books and Manuscripts bequeathed by The Rev.
Alexander Dyce, Vol. a, p. 424.

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as No. 5. It is in reality 12010. (counts 6) ; the verso of the
last page, p. 23, is unnumbered, and contains " The Maid's
Prayer ;" there are foot notes to the second line of Book 1, and
to the first of Book 4 ; the word " Aberdeen," on the title page,
is in a small fancy type.

There is still another edition of this version (which I will call
No. 14).* It differs in the following respects : there is at the
end of the third book a fleuron of a cornucopia, which does
not exist in the edition immediately above mentioned ; the note
referring to the name " Rock," in the first line of Book 4, is
omitted, although those to the second line of Book 1 are re-
tained ; " The Maid's Prayer " is printed on one side only of
an unnumbered leaf, which should be p. 23.

With regard to the edition noticed as No. 7, I may add that
it was published by William Dugdale, about the year 1840.

ïeô ftinmtü Valant** Öe« J^paleon Secrets de Cour et
de Palais Tome Premier. Londres et Genève chez les
Principaux Libraires 1863

Small 8vo. ; 2 vols.; pp. vol. 1, 123, vol. 2, 136; in the
first volume, after the " Avant-propos," is a half title as follows :

" leö Mmv Cøtiro et ít& #uttsi öt Aaûtf«Clotfc" &c.

This edition differs materially from that noticed at p. 61,
ante. It contains, with slight castrations, and alterations of

* See p. a jo, ante.

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arrangement, the first and second parts entire, and the third
part to p. 107. The remainder of part 3, and the whole of
parts 4 and 5 are omitted. On the other hand the " Deuxième
Partie" of vol. 1, pp. 85 to 119, is new matter.

Cfce litt, Intrigue*, ani aventure* of an gmoroue

(Suafeer; Develloping the most curious scenes of Intrigues,
Seductions, and Amours, ever offered to the Public. Em-
bellished with several splendid Amatory Engravings.
London : Printed for the Booksellers in Town and Country.

J2mo. ; pp. 23 in all; 6 badly done obscene plates, which
have no reference to the text ; the verso of the title page and
colophon bear : " Printed by W. Gray, 44, Green Street, New
Road." ; it is nevertheless an American publication of about
the year 1848.

Although somewhat similar in title, this is an entirely dif-
ferent work from that noticed at p. 45, ante. It contains two
distinct tales. In the first are recounted the seduction and
marriage of a youth called Tommy. The second tale has a
separate half title, "Cfee SbnorDU* JfWar," and relates the
debauching of an English young lady, Miss Wallace, at a
convent in France. Both stories are told in an illiterate manner,
and are in fact the veriest rubbish. Throughout the volume
no mention whatever is made of quakers.

In a catalogue of William Dugdale I find : " The Amorous
Quaker ; a Boarding School Biography ; funny and laughable,

FFF

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particularly the scene where the girls get on their Heads and
Tails to procure substitutes for the Genuine Thing, or veritable
Man-Plant. Price Two Guineas." Doubtless the same work
as that previously noticed at p. 45.

it JWatiage ft* JbOpftfe ses Aventures Galantes la Nuit de ses
Noces par Louis de Saint-Ange membre de plusieurs
sociétés savantes et littéraires Bruxelles. Chez les Prin-
cipaux Libraires.

Small 8vo. ; pp, 64 in ail ; the verso of the title page bears :
"Imp. de A. Sacré, rue de la Fourche, 17-19."; issued in
1876; price 60 centimes. This is a reprint, page for page, of
the work noticed at p. no, ante.

€i)t Bamelesífií Crime % ÏBtalogue mx â>tagsf SRnïme
Cttrfoøftø €t)t ÏBoIP* røtumg Cfce 32äap ta
ψΐύ Cfte Sail and C&**tíff Bream» All Rights

reserved.

Small 8vo. ; pp.31; the title, on the outer (green paper)
wrapper only, serves as table of contents ; at foot of the
last page we read : " Printed by Whip well & Co., Bottom Lane,
London."; published in July 1875, by Hartcupp & Co.* of
Brussels ; author St. George H. STocK/f·

* In July, 187o, the Belgian police, at the instigation of the English Am-
bassador, who had received complaints from London, made a seizure at the
house of Mr. Hartcupp, 128, Boulevard Central, Brussels, and destroyed a
great deal of his stock. Several of his publications have in consequence
become scarce.

f See p. 3$$, ante.

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" The Nameless Crime " is the description, in rhymed dia-
logue, of the whipping of a school-girl caught by her mistress
using a squirt in the water closet ; it ends with the following

" Moral for Misses."

" Your grand mamma was skilled in eggs, my duck,
" You want no previous prenticeship to—suck.
" Still, if with venery you needs must flirt,
" Avoid at least the too transparent squirt."

None of these doggerel pieces are positively obscene, but are
highly suggestive ; they are however worthless trash, deficient
in grammar, metre, and sense; they all turn on flagellation.
The printer has added his blunders to those of the author.

CÍ)* 1MB £aïU££É* Círfeler; or The Adventures of Lady
Lovesport and The Audacious Harry.

" Philosophers who've studied nature,

And all our holy fathers swear
A rod's the best invigorator,

A rod applied upon the rear.
I've tried its efficacy oft,

Administered by various hands.
Not too severe, nor yet too soft,

But just as pleasure's pulse commands.

—Madame Birchini's Dance,

London : Printed for the Booksellers. 1866.

8vo.; pp. 112 in all; 8 badly done coloured lithographs
from designs by Edward Sellon;* published by William
Dugdale, who catalogued it at Two Guineas,

* See ρ 396, ante.

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This is a well written book, worthy of a less silly title, and
better illustrations. Although it contains a great many
flagellation scenes, there are other episodes of a more generally
interesting character, all of which are forcibly told and are very
voluptuous. The adventures are narrated in eight letters,

€l)£ ©OlUptttan'an uftUØWm : or, History of Sir Henry
Loveall. In a Tour through England, Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales. Embellished with Six Highly Finished Prints.
From Beautiful Paintings. Price One Guinea Plain, or
One Guinea and a Half in Colours.

Ah ! charming Book ! how sweet thy Periods roll,
To raise the Fancy ! to entrance the Soul !
Pour the rich Tide of luscious Love along,
And with its glowing beauties deck thy Song !

Paris : Printed for the Proprietors.

8vo. ; pp. 162 in all; the engravings are well drawn and
executed ; each has the scene to which it refers engraved under
it; published in London during the latter part of the last
century. This I take to be the original edition of the work
noticed at p. 22.

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NOTE.

It has always appeared to me that authors are too lax in giving· their authorities ; and I
have not unfrequently wasted precious hours in searching for volumes and passages—in
performing indeed a labour ,which might have been spared me by a little more minuteness,
or the addition of a word, or a few figures. Authorities consulted or cited should, I consider,
be noted with more fullness and minuteness than is usually the case. The exact words,
untranslated, with which the title commences should be given, together with the author's
name, and the place and date of publication. The addition .of the size and number of
volumes, when the work has appeared in different forms, is not superfluous. Should the au-
thority consulted be an unique, or exceedingly rare volume, or a MS. in some public or
well-known private library, its whereabouts should be indicated.

It may be urged that, the integrity of the author quoting being acknowledged, it is un-
necessary to verify his citations. This I deny. Every author has, or should have, an opinion
of his own, and writes for an object, from a special point of view, if not with a bias ; he
construes his authority by his own light, and quotes only so much as will suit his purpose.
This is fair and legitimate so long as any word, passage, or line omitted from a quotation be
indicated by, * * * or otherwise. But the student reading his book may be studying the same
subject, epoch, or branch of literature from an entirely opposite point of view, or with a different
object, and it may be of interest to him to peruse just those passages which may have been
omitted. In addition then to the description (as above noted) of the work consulted or quoted
from, the vol. and page should be given. The necessity of an exact reference is augmented
when the quotation is translated from a work in a foreign language.

Such references as " Cook's Voyages," " Van Meteren's History," " Defoe's Works,"
" Bayle's Dictionary," are evidently insufficient. Why should the student have to hunt
through several editions, or various works of an author, in order to find a passage cited, or
to puzzle out whether the quotation, if translated, is the author's own rendering, or taken
from a published translation, when the author quoting, who must have had the books in hand,
and have already gone over the ground, could with ease have saved him all the trouble, and
loss of time ? The same information may not be necessary for all. The Englishman, for
instance, will know all about Cook or Defoe 5 the Belgian about Van Meteren ; the Frenchman
about Bayle ; but an author cannot know into whose hands his book may fall, and it is better
to risk giving too much, rather than too little information.

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A LIST OF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED.

The first number appeared Oct. 9, 1869, ^as 'Ά Monthly Record of Lite-
rature, Learning, Science and Art," with the following dogmatical heading:
"Readers are reminded that the mention of New Publications, Articles, &c,
in our list is a guarantee of their importance.' * This oracular tone and exclu-
siveness did not, however, " pay/' and were soon abandoned, " The Academy"
was afterwards issued weekly, instead of monthly ; it was, on Jan? 3, 1874-,
enlarged to the same size as its more popular competitor, " The Athenaeum,"
and on July 3, 1875, ^was reduced in price from 4d. to 3d,

%fyt ftctuat Condition of tïjt $h:tttø$ Ifluantm, &c. By Stefan Poles.
See Note 81, p. liii,₅ ante.

Shialwtafctfcliott, ou extraits critiques de divers livres rares, oubliés ou peu
connus, tirés du cabinet da Marquis D. R. * * *. Paris, m.dccc.xxxvi.

8vo. -j 2 vols. A most interesting and valuable collection of critical notices,
written by the Marquis Du Roure, upon some curious and rare vols, in his
own library.

Snattcteá tíu $$MÍQ$}íh recueil trimestriel contenant : i° Diverses pièces

curieuses anciennes et modernes ; —~ 2° Des analyses critiques et des
extraits de diverses publications intéressantes anciennes et modernes j —
3° Une correspondance, des mélanges philosophiques et littérairesj des
anecdotes, etc. Directeur, M. Jules Gay &c. Première Livaksoa
Turin 1876

iamo. (counts 6). This is the most recent of M. Gay's publications, and
forms a sequel to ^<f Le Cosmopolite.¹"

M. Gay's publications of a similar nature, and in the order in which they
appeared are : **Le Bibliophile Fantaisiste " (ante, p. 129), " Le Fantaisiste,"
and "Le Cosmopolite," (see those titles, post.)

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Änatgifc &ea Ctaöaur W* ta £ocutí tteá ftøtlobtblon toe fcoirtrca. Par

Octave Delepierre, &c. Londres: Trübner & Cié. 1862.
8vo. This is a very useful little volume, as it gives a careful analysis of the
contents of each publication, and is moreover furnished with a " Table, des
Articles" and a " Table des Matières." In the " Avant-propos" to his recent
reprint of " Maranzakiniana " (1875) M. Gustave Brunet mentions M.
Delepierre as : " Un des philologues les plus laborieux de notre temps, clîez
qui un jugement exquis se joint à une instruction aussi solide qu'étendue."

Äiwc&ote* tttt Mi^ØtVLfiimt &ihU, ou Collection Inédite D'Historiettes, et,
d'Anecdotes récentes, &c. Par J.-A.-S. Collin de Plancy. Paris
Charles Painparré, &c. 1821.
8vo. 5 2 vols. A curious and amusing collection of anecdotes.

&tucttoti¿, «©bátrbatíoníí, antt Character*, of ÎSooitô anti flïen. &c. By the
Rev Joseph Spbn.ce. &c. London: W. H. Carpenter, &c mdccc.xx.

arwcííotíá of mttrature anö ^car« Öoolta* By The Rev. William Beloe.

London : 1807.

8vo.j 6 vols.; vol. 6, with general index, dates 1812. Allibone (Crit.Die.
vol 1, p. 162) gives a long account of Beloe and his works ;_xhe eulogizes the
"Anecdotes" as: "a very valuable store-house of Bibliographical matter.'*
Lowndes (Bibliographer's Manual, vol. 1, p. 152) also praises it. Ebert, on
the other hand (General Bib. Die. vol. τ, p. 154), disparages it as : " Un-
satisfactory and cursory repetitions of the most known things." In 1814 the
first two volumes were reprinted with the additions in the sixth volume added,
so that the general index in vol. 6 does not correspond with them. Further,
the titles of these two reprinted volumes bear : " In Two Volumes." In any
case however the work is only complete in 6 vols. Vols, ι and 2 which I
have used are the reprint of 1814.

&nectofeä o! tf)ε jföomtfrä antt Cusftontfi of Ι,οτιΰοη fcuring tí)f Ctpjteentï)

Century 1810
8vo. ; 2 vols. ; By J. P. Malcolm.

SiuiöoUö itaur öerbtr à l'fetsítmn gttvtU IB** Ctugor^ A Medoso, L'an
de l'Ere des Ebugors. mmmcccxxxiii.

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8pï)ro&tóiac£l anti &ntt*api)røOtøtacj! : Three Essays on the Powers of Repro-
duction ; &c. By John Davenport. London: 1869.
See p. 82, ante.

&rttï)nuttcal Î3oofeô from the invention of printing to the present time being
brief notices of a large number of works drawn up from actual inspection
by Augustus De Morgan London 1847

" Half duodecimo," see note 95 to my Introduction, p. lx. This is a most
valuable catalogue, indispensable to those interested in the subject. Inde-
pendently however of the actual notices of the books, the " Prefatory Letter "
and " Introduction " contain some most pertinent and noteworthy remarks
upon bibliography in general ¿ they ought to be carefully read by every lover
of books.

&'3rtúlU. Journal hebdomadaire.
Cfje rø)enaeum.
Slug ben SOÏemotren einer ©angerin. See ante, pp. 102 and 426.

Støteunl 2üegutóe$. Sous des Noms Etrangers ; Empruntez, Supposez, Feints
à plaisir, Chiffrez, Renversez, Retournez, ou Changez d'une Langue en
une autre, Paris, m.dc.xc.

i2mo. This interesting little treatise, the first of its kind published in
France, is by Adrien Baillet. Barbier mentions it as containing "des
détails curieux sur les pseudonymes en général, et en particulier sur les dif-
férentes espèces de termes appellatifs." Refer to " Die. des Ouvrages
Anonymes et Pseudonymes," vol. 1, p. 111 ; Idem, edition de 1872, vol. 1,
col. 320 j and concerning Baillet himself, to Allibone's " Critical Die," vol r,
p. 85, bottom of the second col. The " Auteurs Déguisés " is included in the
"Jugemens des Savans/'edit. Amsterdam, 1725, where it forms vol. 5, pt. 2.

!e &Ήέθ£ΤΑ}φ* ñUmtn Gazette littéraire, historique, artistique

Strasbourg m.d.ccc.lxiii.

8vo. j 4 vols, j from July 1862 to December 1868. See ^ci Biblotheca Bib-
liographica," p. $%6.

%%t 33ibltograpï)er'i{ Manual oí feflltstf) Utteraturt, &c. By William
Thomas Lowndes. Revised &c. by Henry G. Bohn. In Six Volumes
London : 1869.

8vo. This is the best edition j the sixth volume contains the Club Books.
GGG

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% 33tfctíogra$)tíat antt Critical ^tcouttt of tïjr 3&areílt 33ooká in %
(Êngliîlï) language, &c. J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. In Two Volumes.
Joseph Lilly. 1865.

% Bibliographical Anticuarían anB Síctureáque Cour ia France anti Ôer*
mang. By The Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. &c. Second
Edition. London : 1829.

3Siblíograpí)tíal Catalogue of $ribatel» Çrinteïf 33oofe¿. By John Martin.
Second Edition, m.dccc.liy.

8vo. This is the best edition, and more complete than the first issue of
1834 '■} it does ⁿ°t however contain the Club Books, but these will be found
in the sixth volume of Bonn's edition of Lowndes's ^<e Bibliographer's Manual."
Consult Allibone's " Critical Die*" Martin's work is useful, but not complete,
nor always reliable.

3&tfctiograpï)te bibliographique untberáelle. Dictionnaire des Ouvrages relatifs
à l'histoire de la vie publique et privée de personnages célèbres de tous
les temps et de toutes les nations, &c. Par Edouard-Marie Obttinger.
Paris. 1866.

ÎSibliograpï) te &eá ®uörageö (onéamá aur tftmmtâ et à l'amour Ornés de
gravures sur pierres et lithographies libres. Réimpressions de Raretés
Bibliographiques.

A trade catalogue, issued from time to time by A. Christiaens of Brussels,
of which the last issue was made in December, 1875.

^ibltograpijie te ouörage& æelattfsi a PAmotir, aux Femmes, au Mariage et
des Livres Facétieux, Pantagruéliques Scatologiques» Satyriques, etc. Par
M. Le C. D'I*** 3me Edition Turin J. Gay et Fils 1871

8vo. (counts 4) ; 6 vols. ¡ vols. 1, i_i and 3 date from Turin, 1871. vol. 4
from the same city, 187a, vol 5 Nice 1872, vol. 6 San Remo 1873 -, " tirés à
100 ex. pet. in-4 (à 15fr. le vol.) et 500 ex. pet. in-8 (à 12 fr. le vol.) _; " this
third edition is considerably augmented, and much improved ; the arrangement
of the books noticed is alphabetical.

The first edition was of Paris 1861 ; 8vo.; double columns ; 300 copies, at
ófres. each ; the arrangement according to subjects, without index.

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The second edition, Paris 1864 ; 8vo ; double columns $ ¿oocopies at 25 fres,,
and 30 copies on large paper at 50 fres; this is a great improvement on the first
editiori, its arrangement is the same, but it contains more matter, and is fur-
nished with an alphabetical index, but very incomplete. In his " Liste des
Publications " Gay has given all particulars respecting the three issues. See
also my Introduction p. xvii.

öibltograpïjte et fctmosmpïjte &e touá tø outrages ííe t&esíttf tte la öwtoniw &c.

Par P. L. Jacob, bibliophile Paris Fontaine 1875

Large 8vo. A well planned and ably executed work. Of Restif de la
Bretonne and his books it may be pronounced fairly exhaustive ; moreover,
it so clearly describes, and gives such copious extracts from those generally
tedious volumes, that in it will be found all that the general reader can require.
It has an admirable "Table Analytique," and a good portrait of Restif.

33ü)liograpï)te ïjtetoriçue et critique öe la ikeöée ifóíotitcut tfxmcaiäz &c. Par
Eugène Hatin Paris Firmin Didot 1866

23 tbffo graphie {ngtnuti&e : ou Traité de la connoissance des livres rares et
singuliers. &c. Par G-F De Bure, le Jeune. Paris m.dcc.lxhu

8vo. ; 7 vols. ; of which the last vol. dates 1768. The set should be com-
pleted by : ^a Supplement &c. ou Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis
Jean Gaignat, &c. Paris, m.dcc.lxix." 8vo. -, 2 vols 3 with the prices of the
books in MS.; and " Bibliographie &c. Tome Huitième: Contenant une
Table destinée à faciliter la recherche des Livres Anonymes &c. Par Njée de
la Rochelle. Paris, 1793." 8vo. See " Manuel du Libraire," vol 2, col.
552. Afew corrections will be found in Beloe's " Anecdotes," vol., 1 p. 10.

3ßtbliograp!)tf î&Otnatlttque Catalogue anecdotique et pittoresque des editions
originales des œuvres de Victor Hugo—Alfred de Vigny—Prosper
Mérimée—Alexandre Dumas—Jules Janin—Théophile Gautier—-Petrus
Borel &c. Par Charles Açselineau Seconde Edition &c. Paris P.
Roquette, &c. mdccclxxii.

Se Sftltomane. Londres Trübner & Ci ε ι 861.

8vo.j printed on coarse grey paper; two Nos. only were published, pp. 42
in all. This was followed by "¿e Bibliophile Illustré. Texte et Gravures

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par J. Ph. Berjeau. Londres : Trübner & Co." Nos. 4, &c, were issued by
W. Jeffs, of No 15, Burlington Arcade. "The Bibliophile" ran to two
vols, only : vol. 1, August 1861 to July 1862, Royal 8vo., 12 numbers and a
supplementary one with title pages and indices ; vol. 2, 1862 to 1863, crown
8vo., 13 numbers, from xiii. to xxv., with title page and indices. After an
interval of nearly three years M. Berjeau undertook a publication in English,
"Cï)e 33ookÙJOnn, edited and illustrated by J. Ph. Berjeau. London: At the
office, 4, Brydges Street, Covent Garden. i866."₇ which came to an end in
1871 with its 5th vol. It is much to be regretted that these interesting publi-
cations, which were conducted with talent, care, and great taste, did not find
more favour with the public, and had to be abandoned, one after the other.

Bibliomania in €3)e í&ftttlle &ge¿. or Sketches of Bookworms—Collectors—
Bible Students—Scribes—and Illuminators, from the Anglo Saxon and
Norman Periods, to the Introduction of Printing into England ; &c. By F.
Somner Merryweather. London : Merryweather, 14, King Street,
Holborn. mdcccxlix.

Small 8vo. An interesting little volume.

JStbltomama ; or 33oofc#lat]fiwáíí ; A Bibliographical Romance. Illustrated
with Cuts. By Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D. New and improved
Edition, to which are added preliminary observations, and a supple-
ment including a key to the assumed characters in the drama. London :
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, mjdccclxxvl

£e gftliopPt. see « Le Bibliomane."

te Bibliophile dfantatóíáte. See p. 129 and 439, ante.

Biblioteca Ke losí <Ü£ácríture£ que han sido Individuos de los seis Colegios
Mayores : de San Ildefonso de la Universidad de Alcalá, de Santa Cruz de
la de Valladolid, de San Bartolomé, de Cuenca, San Salvador de Oviedo,
y del Arzobispo dé la de Salamanca, Por Don Jose ν de Re ζ ab al y

Ugarte. Madrid mdcccv.

33ibliotï)eca îSelgtca Catalogue générale des principales Publications Belges
depuis. 1830 jusqu'à i860. Bruxelles Auguste Schnee 1861

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33ti)ïtotï)tca îStfcltograpfytca. Kritisches Verzeichniss der das Gesammtgebiet
der Bibliographie betreffenden Literatur des In-und Auslandes in system-
atischer Ordnung bearbeitet von Dr. Julius Petzholdt. Leipzig, 1866.
4to. ; a very valuable work, and although far from complete, most desirable
for every student of Bibliography.

33tbltotf)eca 33rttanmca; or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature.
By Robert Watt, M.D. Edinburgh : 1824.

4to. ; 4 vols. ; double columns; divided into two parts, Authors and
Subjects. A most useful work, and, as far as it goes, well done. It would
be a boon to have this book brought down to the present time.

Here is Allibone's testimony to its value : " To this excellent work we are
largely indebted, having drawn freely from its pages for particulars of editions,
&c. Some late writers have affected to depreciate the value of this work, be-
cause inaccuracies have not escaped the eye of the critic. Having examined every
article pertaining to British authors (about 22,300) in the work, we consider
ourselves qualified to give an opinion. Errors there are, and some ones which
can readily be excused in a work of such vast compass, yet the Bibliotheca of
Dr. Watt will always deserve to be valued as one of the most stupendous
literary monuments ever reared by the industry of man. As stated ekewhere,
we have included in our work every British author noticed by Dr Watt 5 yet
his work can by no means be dispensed with by the bibliographer." Preface
to Crit. Die.

JMbltotïjeca CorttUÏmtwiia. A Catalogue of the Writings, both Manuscript
and Printed, of Cornish men, and of Works relating to the County of
Cornwall &c. by George Clement Boase and William Prideaux
Courtney. London : Longmans, 1874.

4to j 2 vols. A very valuable work, done in a thorough and bibliographi-
cal style.

ßibliotijcca Ütabottca ; being a choice selection of the most valuable books
relating to The Devil j &c. In Two Parts, Pro and Con—Serious and
Humorous. &c On sale by Scribner Welf ord & Amistrong, 654 Broadway,
September, 1874.

4to. j double columns. This is rather a curious catalogue, and contains a
few noteworthy items. It is the more remarkable as coming from America,
HHH

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Biblioteca &tûgraphic* & fíúltoríca or a Catalogue of a Nine Days sale of
rare & valuable ancient and modern books maps charts manuscripts auto-
graphs letters etcetera By Henry Stevens Gmb Fsa Ma of Yale Etc
Part ι To be dispersed by auction by Messrs Puttick & Simpson 47
Leicester Square London the 19th to 29th November 1872 London
Henry Stevens at the Nuggetory 4 Trafalgar Square July 25 1872

8vo. (counts 4). This is a valuable catalogue. The volumes it embraces
are carefully described, and frequent interesting extracts from them are given.
The opening remarks are pithy and judicious, many of them will be found
quoted in the notes to my Introduction. A second part of the work is pro-
mised, but has not been published. Concerning Mr. Henry Stevens and his
labours, consult Allibone's " Crit. Die."'

Biblioteca ôirmattorum erotica. See ante, p. 411.

Bibliotf}«* Htbrorbm î&ariorbm tønibtvåalte. Ober çottftcmbigeê 33er¿etcCní§
rarer Sucher, &c fcon Solemn Sacofc SBauer. ØKtrnBerg, fcety Martin 3acoB
SSauer. 1770.

8vo. 3 4 vols. ; vol. 4 dates 1772. To which must be added 3 vols, of sup-
plement 1774 to 1791. This catalogue is now antiquated, but contains never-
theless entries of some very rare volumes.

Biblioteca Acatólogica ou catalogue raisonné des livres traitant des vertus faits
et gestes de très noble et très ingénieux Messire Luc (A Rebours) seigneur
de la chaise et autres Heux &c. Disposé dans l'ordre des lettres K,P,Q
traduit du Prussien et enrichi de notes très congruantes au sujet Par trois
Savants En Us. Scatopolis 5850

8vo. pp. xxxi & 143 i published at Paris 1850 ; 150 copies, of which some
on coloured paper ; the principal authors are MM. P. Jannet, J.-P. Payen
and Aug. Veinant. Consult " Les Supercheries Litt. Dévoilées/' 1870,
vol. 3, col. 857 j ^(C Die. des Ouvrages Anonymes," 1872, vol. 1, col. 4095
" Bibliographie des Ouvrages relatifs à l'Amour," vol. 1, p. 432 ; " La Petite
Revue" du 28 Oct., 1865, p. 155. This most remarkable and witty little
work was originally published in ^(t Le Journal de l'Amateur des Livres. Paris
P. Jannet 1849."

BtbltQtÎKpt uftlfo{$tb«iFacitteu*e. See p. 130, ante.

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îStblifltïjtçue tuvituäe historique et critique, ou Catalogue raisonné de Livres
difíciles a trouver, par David Clement. A Göttingen, chez Jean
Guillaume Schmid. m.dcc.l.

4to. j 9 vols. This great work was never completed, but terminates with
" Hessusj " it is neverthess a noble and an useful labour.. The last vol. dates

Leipsic, M.D.CC.LX.

%t ÎStograpï)*· Consult " Bibliographie de la Presse " par E. Hatin, p. 362.

IStOflpapï)** îiramattca ; or, a Companion to the Playhouse : &c originally
compiled, to the year 1764, by David Erskine Baker, continued thence
to 1782, by Isaac Reed, and brought down to Nov. 1811, by Stephen
Jones. London: 1812.

8vo. ; 3 vols. (vol. 1 being in 2 parts). This is the best work of its kind;
it includes "The Companion to the Play-House. London: 1764." i2mo. ;
2 vols.

£ Î8 to graphical jiBtcttonatg of tf)t Celebrated Women of eöerg age anti
country. By Matilda Betham. London: B.Crosby and Co. &c. 1804.

& Bio graphical Dictionary of φ Hfótng Síutíjorá of ©reat Britain anti
Ifrelaníf; &c. London: Henry Colburn ; 1816.

8vo. (counts 4) j double columns. This volume is said to have been
compiled by William Upcott and F. Shoberl, and contains many details
and critical opinions not to be found in any other work.

M 33 togr apical íltótor^ of feglantf, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution:
consisting of Characters disposed in different Classes, and adapted to a
Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads : &c. By the Rev. J.
Granger. Second Edition, London, 1775.

4 vois. To which should be added, to complete the work, one volume of
Supplement, three volumes of Continuation by the Rev. Mark Noble, and
" Letters between Granger and many of the most eminent Literary Men of his
Time. &c. Edited by J. P. Malcolm. London : 1805."

See Lowndes's "Bibliographer's Manual," vol. 2, p.9275 Allibone's " Crit.
Die." vol. 1, p. 7175 Nicholl's ^(< Literary Anecdotes," vol. 9, p. 112 j Dibdin's
" Library Companion," p. .500 j Beloe's Anecdotes," vol. 1, p. 195» &c ; and,
concerning Granger's death ^(f Notes and Queries."

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Í3ú)grapste ØaubtUt tíetf Contemporaine, ou Dictionnaire &c. de Tous les

Hommes qui, depuis la Révolution Française, out acquis de la célébrité

par leiirs actions, leurs écrits, leurs erreurs ou leurs crimes, soit en France,

soit dans les pays étrangers 3 &c. Par A. V. Arnault, &c. Paris, 1820.

8vo. j 20 vols, 3 with portraits.

23iograpï)U Q&nibtXatlU (Michaud) Ancienne et Moderne, &c. Nouvelle
Edition, &c. Ouvrage Rédigé par une Société de Gens de lettres et de
Savants. Paris.

Large 8vo. (counts 4) 3 45 vols. No date is given to any of the volumes,
which, in a Work of this importance, is unpardonable. This edition was
issued during the years 1842 to 1865. See "Cat. Général" of O. Lorenz,
vol. 1, p. 266. There is an edition of which the first 20 vols, are dated.

53tOgrapl)tt Utttômfeïïe íf«l í&u&icím¿ et bibliographie générale de la musique.
Deuxième Edition &c. F. J. Fétis &c. Paris Firmin Didot &c. 1868
Large 8vo. 3 double columns; 8 vols3 the last vol. dates 1870.

33tocrrapï)u umbcröellc et portattb* te Contemporaine, ou Dictionnaire His-
torique des Hommes vivants, et des Hommes morts depuis 1788 jusqu'à
nos jours, &c. Publié sous la direction de MM. Rabbe, Vieilh de
Boisjolin et Sainte-Preuve. Paris, 1834.
8vo. (counts 4) 5 double columns 3 5 vols, including supplement j portraits.

C^i Î8on Con ffíaga^tm ; or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly. London.

D. Brewman, No. 18, New Street, Shoe Lane.

This publication is complete in 5 vols, from March 1791 to 1796 3 each
volume should have an alphabetical index. It is difficult to find the work
complete, with indices and all the plates.

%%z JîookMltr a newspaper of British and Foreign Literature, published monthly.
C£e 33oofe4öotm           See " Le Bibliomane."

%t$ 33ottfeIiS tre $førtø. See pp. xxxix. and 427 ante.

% %tvd 38tûgra$rt)iiaï Uktumarj?. Compiled and arranged by the Rev. Charles
Hole, B.A. Second Edition : London and Cambridge : Macrnillan
and Co. 1S66
Small 8vo. This little work has every advantage—correctness, clearness of

type, portability, cheapness -, no student should be without it.

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JSullettø Ku ötfcltopljik et du Bibliothécaire, revue mensuelle Paris Techenbr.

8vo. This excellent review, which M. Hatin notices as : " une mine de
renseignements précieux pour l'histoire de la littérature et des livres," dates
from 1834, and is still continued j it has been successively edited by Ch.
Nodier, Paulin Paris, G. Duplessis, J. Techener, and is especially
valuable for the contributions of the first named bibliographer, which have not
been published in any other form. See " Bibliographie de la Presse," p. ¿99 î
" Manuel du Libraire," art. 3136a.

Bulletin Crímtótríel des publications défendues en France imprimées à

l'Etranger.

This publication, 8vo. size, was edited and issued by M. Poulet Mal assis
of Brussels ; it extends from August 1867, to December 1869, and is complete
in 8 Nos. and 2 supplements (see " L'Intermédiaire," vii. 734) j No 3 is on
smaller paper than the others ; the set complete is difficult to meet with. The
"Bulletin Trimestriel" affords some curious and reliable information upon the
satirical, political and erotic publications which proceeded from the presses of
Belgium during the two years and a half which it embraces, information not
generally tp be found elsewhere.

Catalog tf«l Snticuariäcfjm ΰαφτΙβ£*πΐ von J. Scheible in Stuttgart.

This catalogue which extends from 1868 to 1875, ^1S useful for estimating
the fluctuations in prices of old books, and for verifying the dates of modern
reprints. A few years back Mr. Scheible issued his catalogue very frequently,
and was an active publisher, but since 1874 his business has languished, and
at the present moment (July, 1876) the German police are prosecuting him
for selling immoral books.

Catalogue Ke Ueîtëtité, ¡røamtiSmtø et Eiöreö qu'on est obligé de cacher ou
Notice sur des ouvrages libres, licencieux ou même obscènes par un
Bibliomane quelque peu Bibliographe.

MS. This curious and interesting catalogue, to which I am indebted for
much valuable information, was written by M. Bérard; and passed at his
death, together with some of the choicest works noticed in it, into the cabinet
of Mr. H ***** of Paris. About five or six copies only of M. Bérard's
catalogue exist in MS., which Mr. H * * * * * has allowed to be taken from
his original version.

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