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:--Introduction.--History.--Cards and Wassail Songs.--Church Ales and Observances.--Whitsun Ales.--Political.--Harvest.--General.--Barley and Malt.--Hops.--Scotch Songs.--Local and Dialect.--Trade Songs.--Oxford Songs.--Ale Wives.--Brewers.--Drinking Clubs and Customs.--Royal and Noble Drinkers.--Black Beer.--Drinking Vessels.--Warm Ale.--Facts, Scraps, and Ana.

The volume will contain much curious and out-of-the-way information, embracing a short sketch of the rise and progress of the art of brewing in this country; an account of the laws relating to beer, and the statutes against drunkenness; of the manners and customs of "malt worms" and mug-house clubs; and the obsolete phraseology of "toss-pots," such as "super-nagulum," "upsee-freeze," "shoeing horns," and "carousing the hunter's hoop." The author will pay attention to the drinking customs more or less connected with the Church--Whitsun Ales, Bride Ales, Bride Bush, Bride Wain, and the like; the chants of the wassail-bowl, of the Hock Cart, and the Sheepshearing and Harvest Home rejoicings--

"Here's a health to the Barley mow, brave boys, Here's a health to the Barley mow"--

and Brazenose songs in honour of the brew for which that college is renowned. Then there are lyrics pertaining to particular sorts and conditions of men, as the songs of the threshers and tinkers, sailors and soldiers, and the clubs, which may be considered as forming a class of themselves. This work will doubtless prove a valuable and pleasant addition to the library of the student of history and lover of poetry.

IMMODESTY IN ART.

An Expostulation and Suggestion in a Letter to Sir Frederick Leighton, by FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, LL.D., F.S.A.

THE CURATE'S WIFE.

A Novel by J. E. PANTON, author of "Sketches in Black and White," "Less than Kin," &c.

THE VALLEY OF SOREK.

LOW DOWN.

FIFINE:

AN OMITTED INCIDENT IN THE "GREAT NAVAL WAR OF 1887."

SEA SONG AND RIVER RHYME

FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON.

Selected and edited by ESTELLE DAVENPORT ADAMS. With a New Poem by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. Illustrated with Twelve Original Etchings.

COSMO DE' MEDICI:

WELLERISMS

FROM "PICKWICK" AND "MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK."

Selected by CHARLES F. RIDEAL. Edited, with an Introduction, by CHARLES KENT, author of "The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens."

Among the Contents are:--

Sam Weller's Introduction.--Old Weller at Doctor's Commons.--Sam on a Legal Case.--Self-acting Ink.--Out with It.--Sam's old White Hat.--Independent Voters.--Proud o' the Title.--The Weller Philosophy.--The Twopenny Rope.--Job Trotter's Tears.--Sam's Misgivings as to Mr. Pickwick.--Clear the Way for the Wheelbarrow.--Unpacking the Lunch Hamper.--Battledore and Shuttlecock.--A True Londoner.--Spoiling the Beadle.--Old Weller's Remedy for the Gout.--Sam on Cabs.--Poverty and Oysters.--Old Weller on Pikes.--Sam's Power of Suction.--Veller and Gammon.--Sam as Master of the Ceremonies.--Sam before Mr. Nupkins.--Sam's Introduction to Mary and the Cook.--Something behind the Door.--Sam and Master Bardell.--Good Wishes to Messrs. Dodson and Fogg.--Sam and his Mother-in-law.--The Shepherd's Water Rates.--Stiggins as an Arithmetician.--Sam and the Fat Boy.--Compact and Comfortable.--Apologue of the Fat Man's Watch.--Medical Students.--Sam Subpoenaed.--Disappearance of the "Sassage" Maker.--Sam Weller's Valentine.--Old Weller's Plot.--Tea Drinking at Brick Lane.--The Soldier's Evidence Inadmissible.--Sam's "Wision" Limited.--A Friendly "Swarry."--The Killebeate.--Sam and the Surly Groom.--Mr. Pickwick's Dark Lantern.--The Little Dirty-faced Man.--Old Weller Inexorable.--Away with Melancholy.--Post Boys and Donkeys.--A Vessel.--Old Weller's Threat.--Sam's Dismissal of the Fat Boy.--Is she a "Widder"?--Bill Blinder's Request.--The Watch-box Boy.

A REGULAR PICKLE:

HOW HE SOWED HIS WILD OATS.

LEICESTER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

EBENEZER JONES'S POEMS.

STUDIES OF SENSATION AND EVENT.

Poems by EBENEZER JONES. Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD. With Memorial Notices of the Author by SUMNER JONES and W. J. LINTON. A new Edition. With Photographic Portrait of the Poet.

FAMOUS FROSTS AND FROST FAIRS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

"PHIZ"

BURMA: AS IT WAS, AS IT IS, AND AS IT WILL BE.

DREAMS OF THE DERBY:

:--About Sir Peter Teazle--Derby Dreams--Eleanor--Lapdog and Cadland--Dangerous--Spaniel, winner of the Derby in 1831--Plenipotentiary--Flying Dutchman--Daniel O'Rourke--Caractacus: Snewing's Dream--A Hop-Merchant's Dream--Dreams of Caractacus--Ellington--A Story of ?25,000--Pyrrhus the First--Macaroni--Cremorne--Derby Sweeps--Dugdale's Dream--Uncle John's Dream--A Club Steward's Luck--Doncaster's Derby--Another of Fred Booth's Stories--Bluegown--A Waif's Tips--Blair Athol--Bloomsbury's Year--Sham Dreamers--Couronne de Fer--Lottie Fowler--About Derby and other Tipsters--"Chanticleer's" Tip--Executor--Kisber--Miscellaneous--Poetic Prophets of the Derby--The Oaks and St. Leger--Marie Stuart's Oaks--St. Leger--Caller Ou--Hawthornden--Craig Millar's Year--Knight of St. George--Achievement--Earlier Dreams and Omens--Dreams of Handicap and other Race Winners--A Dream of Diophantus--The Fate of Dundee--Another Dundee Story--See-Saw--Fanciful Backing--Prevision of an Accident--A Conspiracy of 1843--Flash-in-the-Pan--One Act--Bob Smart's Glenlivat Dream--Inveresk--Julius--Tips for the Northumberland Plate--A Clever Backer--The Chief's Presentiment--Lowlander's Victory at Ascot--Gubat.

THE LOVE AFFAIR:

A DRAMA OF AN ANCIENT DEMOCRACY.

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH HACHISH EATER.

THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO;

A WORD FOR THE NAVY.

LITERARY AND HISTORICAL EDITION OF POE'S RAVEN.

THE RAVEN.

DICKENSIANA.

A Bibliography of the Literature relating to CHARLES DICKENS and his Writings, compiled by FRED. G. KITTON, author of "'Phiz' , a Memoir," and "John Leech, Artist and Humourist," with a portrait of "Boz," from a drawing by SAMUEL LAURENCE.

"DICKENSIANA."

DICKENS AND THE STAGE.

With new portraits of Mr. Irving as "Jingle," Mr. Toole as "The Artful Dodger," and Miss Jennie Lee as "Jo."

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWINBURNE.

A Bibliographical List arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Verse and Prose of ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE .

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

Born on April 5, 1837, in the year of Queen Victoria's accession, of which the whole nation is now celebrating the Jubilee, Algernon Charles Swinburne to-day attains the jubilee or fiftieth year of his own life, and may be therefore claimed as an essentially and exclusively Victorian poet. Of the half-century of life now completed, more than a quarter of a century has been devoted to fruitful and noble work in song and to work hardly less fruitful and noble in the field of criticism.

In issuing this new edition, revised throughout and brought down to date, of a bibliographical record originally published nearly four years ago, the compiler cannot deny himself the pleasure of associating with the date the coincidence, not only of a double jubilee, but also of a double birthday, viz., his own.

Long distant may the day be when this record, already so goodly an one, can be made complete in a final sense, and collectors of the books of our greatest Victorian poet and critic be able to echo Lord Melbourne's callous expression of grateful relief that they can bind him up!

As on former occasions, the compiler invites the co-operation of literary correspondents, and will be grateful to anyone who will correct an error or supply an omission.

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