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    9o8 The Publishers' Circular August 15, ...

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    1O1 !Qo¥e£ and Ileves

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    Initials And Pseudonyms.*

    well thousand 9 h hav fc e thoug real i names htas he of looked authors ¦ —¦¦ on . He the mi hand ght

    so ^^ m ^» ^^^^ v e ^^ ^»^ vo ^^» w ^ p l ^^ ume ^^ ^ 4 flfe ~_ r ^ ^ n ^ p of |^^ ^^ m ^^ ^ v , ^ p si ^^ ^^ x »^» ^^^^~ h ^^^ r un — - ^ " ~ dred —™~ — - ^™ - - " ^ pages — " ¦ " ^ " ~ ^ , JExeg ~— ^— ™ ^^»—~ — ^™* i monumentum sere perennius X . , and rested on his

    ness oars ' ; but the spiri him t of and Amer as ican he ' go li -a eved headed the - subject on up which he , was engaged , constantly

    changing and growing , was practically inexmen haus t tibl wh e , he a h t once just been t to wor pub k l ished n a sup with

    plesix thousand , five hundred initials and pseudo , - nyms and four thousand eight hundred real names of authors not found in the previous

    volume . In reviewing Mr . Cushing ' s earlier production we took occasion to speak in no measured terms of the admirable manner in

    which the author had accomplished a very difficult task , and stated that his work deserved to be ranked for usefulness beside AUbone's

    great * Dictionary' Clarke's * Concordance to Shakespeare . ' These remarks are equally applicable to the new volume ; an

    additional tribute to the glory in which au pri ¦» - t nting hors , , since have t revelled he discov in ery concealin of the g - J ar th t of

    identity under the different forms of pseudon yms yms , n t itlenyms de plum ari e s , ton an y ms rams i , nit p ialisms

    hraseoanonyms , , and all , the other ' ny , ' to which , modest authors are partial . It is amusing in this volume , as in the

    first , to notice the persistence with which wri ' Aggrav ters will ating adop women t a ' are ticular again desi well gna to tion the .

    is fron found t with to declare ' A Lady herself / while ' A one Woman solitary . ' female There are scores of writers who , like Mr . Meredith ' s

    and George we H come arring across ton , bu would t one author ' A Gentleman who prides / himself upon being ' A Man . ' This hero is a

    preacher certain J , osep and con B troversialist arker , ' , E ' as ng Mr lish . Cushing author , informs us in one of those interesting

    biographical notes in the second part of o his in volume terest — ing no t tt mere er for dry the bibliograp bones bu her t full . The of

    of onl las y ' t Woman century ' , is when a Mrs the . Fenwick fair sex , a evidentl novelis y t did not think the word a term of reproach .

    augmen en The tries stock ; ted while of by we ' the A find Layman addition thirty ' -five is of considerabl thirty new -seven refer — y -

    ences to the title of ' A Clergyman 4 / . ' anno As tat an ions ordinary we give examp the following le of Mr : . Cushing ' s

    Storks . —Prof . Thomas Henry Huxley , in Mr . Mallock ' s ' The New Republic ' The real names of the fictitious characters

    introduced are as follows : ' Storks / Prof . Huxley ; * Stockton , ' Prof . Tyndall ; * Herbert , ' Mr . Iluskin ; * Donald Gordon , ' Thomas

    Carlyle ; * Jenkinson , ' Prof . Jewitt [ should be Arnold Jowett ' Saunders ] ; ' Mr . ' Luke Prof . ' Clifford Mr . Matthew * Rose '

    ; , ; , Mr . W . Pater ; * Leslie , ' Mr . Hardinge ; * Seyden , ' Dr . Pusey ; * Lady Grace , ' Mrs . Mark Patti & on * MrsSinclair' MrsSin

    -1 U W / /< ' « C tA'l'i / € / 4 } € Sft / ; y lUXUi . KJ A . JL-1 U-AC 4 / 1 JL , U . LJL f O . KJ < f V - gletoTi ( Violet Fane } . It is also interesting to learn from the

    two volumes that during ^ j his literary career Thackeray used no fewer than 59 initials

    g or iven pseudonyms by Mr . Cushing , a comp . lete list of which is I I

    larl As y free with from the first rors series , althoug , the || h second there are is singu a few - I

    omissions of noms deplume || not to be found in the either pseudonym series , such of Sir as Henry that * Pen Thompson Oliver , ' the is I I eminent surgeon ; that 6 B . ' is the initial I

    under which Lord Bramwell has written 1 I that frequentl Proteus y , especiall ' (' y Love in letters Sonnets to the ' ) is IB Times Mr ; II I

    \ jX \ . € X \) ' 1 1 UICUO JJUVO » OC » llXiC ¦ -LTA . I . . Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ^ ; that Andrew ) Lang II has written hundreds of times in the St . I

    initial J stone ames / s ' s Mr * A Gazette . . J L . . W ; ' . that and Brodie there elsewhere -Jones is a third B . under A ., Touch author the - I I I

    who of 1 Solomon ' Legends has also Snuff of written y \ the is Mr pantomimes Leading . G . P . McNeil , Cases under , ' M that . A the ., I I I

    pseudonym Menell is of ' Mr l . Joll credited y ; ' that with Mr the . Wilfrid work I I ygeneray

    produced under the name of * John Oldcastle ; * 1 that there is a second * Parallax , ' Dr . Samuel I Rowbotham ; and that ' R . L . Westland' is 1

    Robert West Lowe , editor of Doran ' s ' Her I Majesty ' s Servants . ' But these are of small I

    account . I One of the features of the first series was 1 nH

    Mr * Junius . Frey 3 Letters ' s admirab , aud le in the nt new ribut volume ion on there the is a corresponding able article on Daniel i

    Defoe in which Mr . Edward Denham , of New Bedford , strings together the one hundred and

    eighty-four pseudonyms used by the great satirist—a compilation which must have cost him no little labour .

    Mr . Cushing ' s work is , on the whole , about as perfect a specimen of what a book

    of desired reference and it oug will ht to found be as could indispensable well be to studen , ts of English literature as it -will be

    to every library cataloguer in Great Britain

    and America .

    9o8 The Publishers' Circular August 15, ...

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    1o1 !Qo¥E£ And Ileves

    1 O 1 ! Qo ¥ e £ and Ileves

    The International Literary Congress is to to be held September this year 22 . V The enice first , from sitting Sept will ember take 15

    place in the splendid Senate Chamber of the Doge ' s Palace . Fetes will be given by the Syndic of Venice in honour of the congress .

    One of the chief points of study and discussion will be the now law of copyright voted by the United States .

    Dagonet Mr . George Reciter . R ' . Messrs Sims . is Chatto preparing & Windus ' The are the publishers .

    The same publishers announce ' The Folklore of Plants , ' by Mr . T . F . Thiselton Dyer , M . A .

    The Magazine of Art for August has for B its oussod frontisp Valadon iece a , & ho Co togravure . of C , by tois Messrs * cele- .

    brated p , icture , * A sword shall , pierce thy own Among soul , ' exhibi the articles ted at the are Walter Paris Salo Cran 7 i e last ' s ' year Lan- .

    guage of Line , of Design / illustrated ; ' Art

    Patrons : Hadrian , by Miss F . Mabel Robin-

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1888, page 908, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081888/page/6/