er works. She commenced her literary career, I
believe, by a translation of this work, which she published in 1772,
under the title of _The Phoenix_.

Jarltzberg.

_Hockey_ (Vol. i., p. 457.).--I have not observed that this has been yet
noticed: if such be the case, permit me to refer to a letter of the poet
Cowper, dated 5th Nov., 1785 (5th vol. _Works_, edit. by Southey, p.
174.) in which, alluding to that day, he says,

"The boys at Olney have likewise a very entertaining sport which
commences annually upon this day; they call it _hockey_, and it
consists in dashing each other with mud, and the windows also,
so that I am forced to rise now and then and to threaten them
with a horsewhip, to preserve our own."

F.R.A.

_Praed's Poetical Works_ (Vol. ii., p. 190.).--Your Cambridge
correspondent, Mr. Cooper, will be glad to know that Praed's _poems_ are
published in a collected form; _Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth
Praed, now first collected by Rufus W. Griswold; New York_, 1844. This
collection contains some thirty-six pieces. The longest poems, "Lillian"
and "The Troubadour," each in two cantos, display passages of great
beauty and exquisite musical flow. Among the charades, five in number,
"Sir Harry, he charged at Agincourt", is not to be found.

W.M. Kingsmill.

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MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

We announced, after the last Annual Meetings of the Shakspeare Society,
that it had been determined to publish a complete set of the Plays of
one of Shakspeare's most prolific and interesting contemporaries, Thomas
Heywood; and that the first volume of such collection, containing Six
Plays, was then ready. A further contribution towards this collection,
containing _The Royal King and Loyal Subject_, which has not been
reprinted since the old edition of 1637, and his very popular drama, _A
Woman killed with Kindness_, has just been issued, with an Introduction
and Notes by J. Payne Collier, Esq., the zealous and indefatigable
Director of the Society, and will, we are sure, be welcomed by every
lover of our early drama. The Shakspeare Society will, indeed, do good
service to the cause of our early literature if it prove the means of
securing us, a uniform series of the works of such of our Elizabethan
dramatists as do not stand sufficiently high in the opinion of the
uninitiated, to tempt the publishing world to p