No More Learning

Strawberry Hill. Quarterly Review, October 1876. Rptd.
Macaulay, Lord. Edinburgh Review, October 1833. Rptd.
Seeley, L. B. Horace Walpole and his World. 1883.
Walpoliana. (By Pinkerton, John. ] 2 vols. 1799.
Warburton, Eliot. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, in-
cluding numerous Original letters chiefly from Strawberry Hill. 2 vols.
1851.
Wheatley, H. B. The Strawberry Hill Press. Bibliographica, May 1896.
See, also, bibliography to chap. III, ante.
GILBERT WHITE
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. 1789. 4º.
Repeatedly rptd, and successively edited by distinguished naturalists,
including Buckland, F. , 1875; Bell, T. , 2 vols. , 1877; Miall, L. C. and
Fowl W. W. , 1901; Allen, Grant, 1902; Kearton, R. , 1911.
II
THE WARWICKSHIRE COTERIE
Many MSS of these writers still exist, the letters of Dodsley to Shenstone
in the British Museum, and much of the private correspondence of Shenstone,
Lady Luxborough, Somerville, and others, is preserved in private collections,
a great deal still unpublished.
A. Collections of Letters and Verses
Letters written by the late Right Honourable Lady Luxborough to William
Shenstone, Esq. 1775.
Select Letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough,
Miss Dolman, Mr Whistler, Mr R. Dodsley, William Shenstone, Esq. ,
and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws, etc. of the republic
of Venice, and some poetical pieces. The whole now first published from
original copies by Mr Hull. 2 vols. 1778.
Correspondence between Frances, Countess of Hertford (afterwards Duchess
of Somerset), and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, between the
years 1738 and 1741, 3 vols. 1805.
Hecht, H. Thomas Percy and William Shenstone. 1909. [A Collection of
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B. Particular Authors
Robert Dodsley
See bibliography to vol. ix, chap. VI.
Richard Graves
The Festoon, a collection of Epigrams. 1766.
The Spiritual Quixote, or the Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose.
A comic romance. 3 vols. 1772. 2nd edition, 1774; 1792, 1808. Rptd
in the British Novelists. 2 vols. 1820.
Euphrosyne, or Amusements on the Road of Life. 1776. 2 vols. 1780.
Columella, or the Distressed Anchoret. A colloquial tale. 2 vols. 1779.
Eugenius, or Anecdotes of the Golden Vale. 2 vols. 1785.
Lucubrations. 1786.
Recollections of some particulars of the life of William Shenstone, Esq.
1788.
The Rout, or a sketch of modern life. 1789.
Plexippus, or the Aspiring Plebeian. 2 vols. 1790.
The Reveries of Solitude. Consisting of essays in prose, a new translation
of the Muscipula, and original pieces in verse. 1793.
Senilities, or solitary amusements in prose and verse. 1801.
The Invalid, with the obvious means of enjoying health and long life. 1804.
The Triflers, consisting of trifling essays, trifling anecdotes, and a few
poetical trifles. 1805, 1806.
And other works.
Richard Jago
See bibliography to chap. V, ante.
William Shenstone
See bibliography to chap. VII, ante.
William Somerville (or Somervile)
See bibliography to chap. v, ante.
A few letters of Somerville, in the possession of the last descendant of his
cousin and correspondent Lord Somerville, were published in The Monthly
Packet, November 1898.
C. Modern Books
Courtney, W. P. Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, its contents and contributors.
A chapter in the history of English literature in the eighteenth century.
(Privately printed. ) 1910.
Hutton, W. H. Burford Papers. 1905. [Accounts of the Warwickshire
coterie and of Richard Graves. ]
Kilvert, F. Remains in prose and verse. 1866.
[Includes an account of Richard Graves. ]
Sichel, W. Bolingbroke and his times. 2 vols. 1901 and 1902. [Memoirs of
Lady Luxborough, printing Bolingbroke's correspondence with her. ]
Straus, R. Robert Dodsley, poet, publisher, and playwright. 1910.
svim
E. L. X.
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The Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, chiefly from his
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Tracts chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England. 2 vols. 1762.
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Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster Hall, from
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Thomas Carte
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