No More Learning

[lst English edn, 1729. See note, p. 375. ] The standard modern edn
is that ed. , with introduction, by Lang, Andrew, Oxford, 1888. First
French edn (as a separate book), Paris, 1697.
Raspe, Rudolph Erich. Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous
Travels, etc. 1786. Many edns, especially 1810 (chapbook), 1889 (illustd
by Crowquill, Alfred), 1895 (ed. by Seccombe, Thomas).
Wyss, J. D. The Swiss Family Robinson. Translated. 7th edn. 1828.
[The first English edn is obscure: an edn of 1849 is 'a continuation. ']
Many edns, especially that ed. by Kingston, W. H. G. 1879.
The following foreign writers, though never assimilated nor influential to
the same extent as those enumerated above, have also established themselves
as favourites to more than one generation of English children.
Abbott, Jacob. Beechnut. 1853. The Beechnut Book, ed. Lucas, E. V.
1901. Rollo in Paris. 1854. Rollo on the Atlantic. 1854.
Alcott, Louisa May. The first introduction of her works to England cannot
be fixed exactly. It was between 1870 and 1880. The chief are: Good
Wives: Little Men: Little Women.
Fern, Fanny (pseud. Sarah Payson Willis). Fern Leaves from Fanny's
Portfolio. 1853. Second series. 1854. Shadows and Sunbeams. 1854.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. Boston,
U. S. A. 1852. Tanglewood Tales. 1853.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1852.
Verne, Jules. See Reference Catalogue of current literature, issued annually
(J. Whitaker and Sons).
Warner, Susan (pseud. Wetherell, Elizabeth). Ellen Montgomery's Book-
case. [1853. ] Melbourne House. [1877. ] Queechy. 1852. The Wide,
Wide World. 1851.
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VOL. III
p. 559. The date of Robynson's translation of More's Utopia was 1551 not 1561
VOL. IV
p. 554, after Owen Felltham's Resolves add (first complete edition)
VOL. VII
p. 37, 1. 8 from foot, for 1621 read 1622
ta!
VOL. IX
p. 106, 1. 11, and index. The correct titles are as follows: Histoire comique de la
Lune (1678) and Histoire comique contenant les états et empires de la Lune (1657)
p. 414. Quite recently has been published: Kitchin, G. Sir Roger L'Estrange: a
contribution to the History of the Press in the Seventeenth Century. 1913. Three
appendixes to this work treat of bibliographical matter, various points in which are
critically discussed in articles contributed to the New York Nation, 10 and 17 July
1913.
p. 433, 11. 33–37. 'Both these pamphlets have been found, and are clearly Defoe's. '
W. P. Trent.
p. 575. The dates of Butler's Hudibras are 1663–78 not 1663–8
7 sur
7. Bu
Vol. X
p. 41, 1. 11, for The North Briton read The Briton, and the footnote reference should
be to chapter XVII
p. 118, 1. 3 from foot of text, for MacGaussin read Mlle Gaussin
p. 275, 1. 14, for Recollections read Recollection
p. 276, 1. 2, for son read nephew
p. 309, 1. 18, and index, for John read Joseph
p. 320, note, for Edinburgh Review, July 1808, read Knight's Quarterly Magazine,
November 1824
p. 344, l. 22, for 1771 read 1772
p. 387, 1. 22, for Micaijah read Michaijah
p. 409, 1. 9, for four or five read four out of the five
p. 411, 1. 11, for W. H. read W. L.
p. 421, 1. 15 from foot, for Vienna? read Brieg
p. 436, 1. 13 from foot, for Scanderberg read Scanderbeg
p. 497, add An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, ed. Dickins, L. and Stanton, M.
1910.
p. 522, 1. 19 from foot, for Roughead read Ruffhead
p. 525, headline, in some copies, for X read XVII
In index, p. 538, add, before Cumberland, Richard, the heading Cumberland,
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2
p. 276, 1.
p. 90, footnote, for Caldicott read Coldicott
p. 156, 1. 7, for Irish secretary read chancellor of the Irish exchequer
p. 172, 1. 27, for Amherst read Amhurst
p. 177, 1. 6, for Burgess read Burges
p. 234, 1. 24, for Reliques read Remains
p. 242, 1. 14 from foot, for Richard read Robert
p. 243, 1. 8 from foot, for John read James
p. 257, 1. 23, for Bensly read Bensley
p. 263, 1. 19, for Griffiths's read Griffith's
footnote, for Celisia read Celesia
p. 275, l. 21, for The Sisters (1679) read The Sister (1769)
of footnote, for first 1791 read 1793
p. 281, 1. 35, for 1761 read 1791
p. 282, footnote, for P. Toynbee read Mrs P. Toynbee
p. 289, footnote 3, 1. 1, for Reading read Redding
p. 299, 1. 12 from foot, for Thorp read Thorpe
p. 300, 1. 1, for Anne read Ann
p. 326, 11. 33 and 42, for Straham read Strahan
p. 331, 1. 23, for Sobière read Sorbière
p. 374, 1. 13, for Corbett read Corbet
p. 379, 1. 5, for Venn read Fenn
p. 384, 1. 10 etc. , for Mrs Turner read Miss Turner
p. 435, 1. 9. The Glenriddel MSS, formerly in the Liverpool Athenaeum, are to
be placed in the custody of three trustees, and will be deposited in the cities of
Edinburgh and Glasgow for alternate periods of five years each.
p. 447, add Nettleton, G. H. English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth
Century (1642—1780). 1914.
p. 472, 1. 4, for Haste read Harte
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1700 Death of Dryden.
1764 Death of Hogarth.
1702 Edward Bysshe's Art of 1765 Horace Walpole's Castle of
Poetry.
Otranto.
1709 First English Copyright Act. 1765-9 Blackstone's Commentaries.
1712 J. J. Rousseau born.
1766 C. Anstey's New Bath Guide.
1714-27 George I.
1766 Malthus born (d. 1834).
1717 David Garrick born (d. 1779). 1766 Lessing's Lavkoon.
1719 Death of Addison.
1768-71 Encyclopaedia Britannica,
1720 Mrs Elizabeth Montagu born 1st edn.
(d. 1800).
1769 R. Cumberland's The Brothers
1723 Blackstone born (d. 1780).
produced
1727-60 George II.
1770 Burke's Thoughts the
1727 Death of Newton.
Present Discontents.
1728 Oliver Goldsmith born (d. 1770 Wordsworth born (d. 1850).
1774).
1771 R. Cumberland's The West
1729 Burke born (d. 1797).
Indian.
1731 Cowper born (d. 1800).
1771 Walter Scott born (d. 1832).
1731 Death of Defoe.
1772 Coleridge born (d. 1834).
1737 Edward Gibbon born (d. 1794). 1773 Goethe's Götz von Berlich-
1744 Death of Pope.
ingen.
1745 Hannah More born (d. 1833). 1773 Goldsmith's She Stoops to
1745 Death of Swift.
Conquer.
1748 Bentham born (d. 1832). 1774 Burke's Speech on American
1749 Goethe born.
Taxation.
1750 The bluestocking parties 1774 Southey born (d. 1843).
begin.
1774 Goethe's Sorrows of Werther.
1751 Sheridan born (d. 1816).
1775 Burke's Speech on Conciliation
1751 Encyclopédie, vols. I and 11.
with the Colonies.
1753 Dugald Stewart born (d. 1828). 1775 Grattan enters the Irish par-
1754 Crabbe born (d. 1832).
liament.
1756 Amory's John Buncle.
1775 Jane Austen born (d. 1817).
1756 Burke's Sublime and Beauti- 1775 Charles Lamb born (d. 1834)
ful.
1775 Sheridan's The Rivals.
1757–60 Pitt's first ministry.
1776 Bentham's A Fragment on
1757 Blake born (d. 1827).
Government.
1758 Mrs Carter's Epictetus.
1776 Death of Hume.
1759 British Museum opened. 1776 Adam Smith's The Wealth of
1759 Burns born (d. 1796).
Nations,
1760-1820 George III.
1776 The American Declaration of
1760 Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse. Independence.
1762 Wilkes's The North Briton. 1776 Gibbon's Decline and Fall,
1763 Rousseau's Contrat Social.
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Table of Principal Dates
1777 Clara Reeve's The Champion
1
1777-84 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1791 Boswell's Life of Johnson.
2nd edn.
1791-2 T. Paine's The Rights of
1777 Hannah More's Percy.
Man.
1791 Ann Radcliffe's The Romance
of Virtue, afterwards The Old of the Forest.
English Baron.
1792 T. Holcroft's The Road to
1777 Sheridan's The School for Ruin.
Scandal and A Trip to Scar- 1792 Pitt's speech on the slave-trade.
borough produced.
1792-4 Arthur Young's Travels in
1778 Death of Rousseau.
France.
1778 Death of Voltaire.
1792 Shelley born (d. 1822).
1778 Hazlitt born (d. 1830).
1793 W. Godwin's Political Justice.
1779 Olney Hymns.
1794 W. Godwin's Caleb Williams.
1779 Lessing's Nathan der Weise. 1794 Blake's Songs of Experience.
1780 Arthur Young's Tour in Ire- 1794 Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries
land.
of Udolpho.
1781 William Pitt the younger and 1794 Southey's Wat Tyler written.
Sheridan enter parliament. 1794-5 Paine's The Age of Reason.
1781 Kant's Critique of Pure 1795 Carlyle born (d. 1881).
Reason.
1795 Keats born (d. 1821).
1781 Rousseau's Confessions.
1795 M. G. Lewis's The Monk.
1782 Cowper's Poems.
1796 Burke's A Letter to a Noble
1782 Mrs Siddons begins acting at Lord.
Drury lane.
1796 Southey's Joan of Arc.
1783 Crabbe's The Village.
1796 Bage's Hermsprong.
1783 Fox's India Bill.
1796 E. Inchbald's Nature and Art.
1783-1802 William Pitt the younger's 1796-8 Southey's Ballads written.
first ministry.
1797 Kotzebue popular the
1784 Beckford's Vathek written.
London stage.
1784 Death of Johnson.
1797 The Anti-Jacobin.
1785 Clara Reeve's Progress of Ro- 1797 Ann Radcliffe's The Italian.
mance.
1797 Heine born.
1785 Burke's speech On the Nabob 1797-1814 Wordsworth's Excursion
of Arcot's debts.
written.
1785 Cowper's The Task.
1798-1805 Wordsworth's Prelude
1785 Burke begins his attack on written.
Warren Hastings.
1798 Southey's Holly Tree written.
1786 Burns's Poems (Kilmarnock 1798 Malthus's Essay on the Prin-
edn).
ciple of Population.
1786 Burgoyne's The Heiress. 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge's
1787 Sheridan's speech against Lyrical Ballads.
Warren Hastings.
1799 Balzac born.
1787 Colman's Inkle and Yarico. 1800 Schillers Wallenstein.
1788 The Times founded.
1800 Wordsworth’s Recluse written,
1788-97 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1801 Chateaubriand's Atala.
3rd edn.
1801 Southey's Thalaba.
1788 Byron born (d. 1824).
1802 Cobbett's Weekly Register
1788 Goethe's Egmont.
begins.
1789 Blake's Songs of Innocence. 1802 Victor Hugo born.
1789 Fall of the Bastille.
1802 The Edinburgh Review
1789 Bentham's The Principles of 1803 Jane Porter's Thaddeus of
Morals and Legislation.
Warsaw.
1790 Burke's Reflections on the 1804 Death of Kant.
Revolution in France,
1804-6 William Pitt's second minis-
1791 E. Inchbald's A Simple Story. try.
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495
1805 Southey's Madoc.
1805 Wordsworth's Ode to Duty
written.
1805 Death of Schiller.
1805 Chateaubriand's René.
1806 'All the Talents' ministry.
1807 Crabbe's The Parish Register.
1809 The Quarterly Review.
1809 Charles Darwin born (d. 1882).
1809 Tennyson born (d. 1892).
1809 Chateaubriand’s The Martyrs.
1810 Jane Porter's The Scottish
Chiefs.
1810 Crabbe's The Borough.
1810 Southey's The Curse of Ke-
hama.
1810 Mme de Staël's L'Allemagne.
1811 Thackeray born (d. 1863).
1812 Browning born (d. 1889).
1812 Crabbe's Tales.
1812 Dickens born (d. 1870).
1812 Maria Edgeworth's Absentee.
1813 Hogg's The Queen's Wake.