the French stage of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. By ----. Translated
by Lady Monson, 1856.
SAND (J.) _disguised-author_ [JULES SANDEAU].
(With Mme. Dudevant): Rose et Blanche, Paris, 1833.
This novel has only the name of J. Sand on the title-page.
J. M. Q.
SAND (Maurice) _pseud._ [MAURICE DUDEVANT].
Six mille lieues à toute Vapeur (with a preface by G. Sand.) Paris,
1862, and others.
SAVONAROLA (Jeremy) Don, _Spanish-pseud._ [FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY].
Facts and Figures from Italy ... addressed during the last two
Winters, to C. Dickens, being an Appendix to his “Pictures,” 1847.
S. B. P., _init._ [SAMUEL BROWNING POWER, of Swansea].
Some School and Children’s books, under his initials.
J. P--r.
SCHNUSE (C. H.), _plagiarist_.
GERMAN PLAGIARISM.
We are apt to charge one another with copying from the Germans,
and there may be some among us who assume the credit of research
upon materials which are found to hand in some German book.
There may also be some who do nothing more than translate, and
pass themselves off as authors. The following account will show
that the converse may be true; that a German may translate
scores of pages, one after another, from an English writer, and
present them as his own. The theft is eight years old, but it is
not likely that such a thing should be noticed immediately in
England; and, moreover, it is desirable it should be known that
lapse of time does not spell impunity. The owner in this case is
Mr. J. R. Young; the appropriator is Dr. C. H. Schnuse, then of
Heidelberg. Mr. Young began writing on the theory of equations
in 1823, when he was the first elementary writer who saw the
value of what is now current as _Horner’s method_, the great
completion of the imperfect labours of Vieta, Briggs, and Newton
in the numerical solution of equations. Mr. Young was afterwards
the author of a long chain of well-known elementary works, and
was for many years professor at Belfast. When the Institution of
that place was converted into a Queen’s College, he was made to
fall to the ground between the two stools, in a manner which he
explained at the time in a pamphlet. Belfast is a place of many
religious sores. Mr. Young was also unequally used in reference
to his retiring pension; but this matter was afterwards righted
by the Government, and, we believe, arrears were paid. We
remember this by the opposition made by some honourable member,
who rather suspected that a Belfast payment must be a job. The
following dialogue ensued:--
_Hon. Member._--Is Mr. Young a professor of theology?
_Current Minister._--No! of mathematics.
_Hon. Member._--I withdraw my opposition.
Mr. Young, who has written largely on the theory of equations,
published his “Algebraical Equations of the higher order” in
1843. Dr. Schnuse published his “Theorie der höhen Algebräischen
und der Transcendenten Gleichungen,” at Brunswick, in 1850. We
have not troubled ourselves to reckon how much more than 100
pages, or less than 300, are taken from Mr. Young’s book. We dip
into the chapter on Sturm’s theorem, and we find page after page,
and example after example, as in Young: not merely the method
and examples transcribed, but the intermediate paragraphs. Thus,
having finished one example (Young, p. 242; Schnuse, p. 180),
they both start off into the same other example in the following
way:--
_Young._ _Schnuse._
We shall now give an example Wir wollen diese allgemeinen
that will in some measure illustrate Bemerkungen gleichsam noch
the preceding observations. durch ein Beispiel erläutern.
And so on to the end of the chapter. We amused ourselves by
finding out how a person without any German might detect the
copying. By the examples, of course: the Arabic numerals are
common to both nations. But at the end of this chapter the
English reader sees that the _method of Fourier_ has a _practical
value_, while at the end of the German this same English reader
catches sight of _Fourier Methode_ and _Praktischen Werth_. Then,
in the first sentence of the next chapter, on Horner’s method,
the English eye may still see something in the German text:--
_Young._ _Schnuse._
The method of approximation Die Methode zur näherungsweisen
to the real roots of numerical Berechnung der reellen Wurzeln
equations to be discussed in the der Zahlengleichungen welche
present chapter, is that which was wir in diesem Kapitel auseinan-
first proposed by Mr. Horner, and dersetzen wollen, rührt von Horner
published by him in the her, welcher sie im Jahre 1819 in
_Philosophical Transactions_, den _Philosophical Transactions_
in the year 1819. veröffentlicht hat.
Then follows many and many a page of examples and illustrations
common to both writers. Dr. Schnuse mentions Mr. Young’s name in
reference to another matter, at the end of the work: alluding to
him, not as a _writer_, but as the _inventor of a method_.
The facetious Hierocles tells the story of a man who, having a
house to sell, carried about a brick as a specimen. The bricks
of which books are built _are_ specimens; and seldom is it that
two or three bricks are piled together in two different books
in exactly the same way, by nothing but coincidence. The same
_ideas_ often strike different persons fairly; it is very rare
indeed that the same _sentence_ occurs to both, if of ten or
fifteen words. It has been noted that Terence says, _I præ,
sequar_, and that some modern dramatists have hit on, _Go
before, I’ll follow_. This is, perhaps, nearly the utmost extent
to which different writers fall on the same collocations of
words: four, five, or six at a time.
The unscrupulous man whom we have exposed might have been an
honourable translator; he has chosen to be a dishonourable
transformer. We dismiss him with the remark that he has added one
to the number of inconvertible identities: _Schnuse_ is German
for Young, but _Young_ is not English for _Schnuse_.--_Athenæum_,
5th March, 1859, p. 321.
SCOTT (Sir Walter) Bart.
The following works have been falsely, or fraudulently with intent to
deceive, attributed to England’s greatest novelist. The reader will
look in vain for them in Lockhart’s Life of Sir W. Scott:
The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a tale of Havre de Grace. Supposed
to be written by Walter Scott Esq. First American from the fourth
Edinburgh Edition. New York, 1813. [By James Kirke Paulding.]
The Bridal of Caölchairn, and Miscellaneous Poems. By Sir Walter
Scott, Bart. 5th edition, London, _Hurst & Co._ and Edinburgh,
_Constable_, 1822, 8vo. [By J. H. Allan.]
“This pretended ‘5th edition’ differs in the title-page only
from the first edition [same year], bearing the name of the real
author, J. H. Allan.”--_Note in B. M. Cat._
Die Erstürmung von Selama, oder die Rache. Eine schottische Sage von
Walter Scott. 3 Bde, Quedlinburg und Leipzig, 1825.
Walladmor. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott, von W....s, 3
Bde., Berlin, _F. A. Herbig_, 1824. [By G. W. H. Haering, known in
Germany under the pseudonym, Willibald Alexis].
“James Ballantyne’s satisfaction went on increasing as the MS.
flowed in upon him; and he at last pronounced The Talisman such
a masterpiece that The Betrothed might venture abroad under its
wing. Sir Walter was now reluctant on that subject, and said
he would rather write two more new novels than the few pages
necessary to complete his unfortunate Betrothed. But while he
hesitated, the German newspapers announced “_A new Romance by
the Author of Waverley_” as about to issue from the press of
Leipzig. There was some ground for suspecting that some of the
suspended sheets might have been purloined and sold to a pirate,
and this consideration put an end to his scruples. And when the
German did publish the fabrication entitled _Walladmor_, it
could no longer be doubtful that some reader of Scott’s sheets
had communicated at least the fact that he was breaking ground in
Wales.”--_Lochhart’s Life of Scott._
Walladmor: “Freely translated into German from the English of Sir
Walter Scott,” and now freely translated from the German into
English. In 2 vols, London, printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825.
This fabrication which is full of gross anachronisms, was
translated into French [by A. J. B. Defauconpret] from the
English version. Paris, 1825, 3 vols. A long account will be
found in the Lond. Magazine, x. 353 (says Bohn’s Lowndes which
gives the title incorrectly from that journal.) It seems Sir
Walter did not supply novels in sufficient numbers for the German
appetite, or else they were too expensive for the frugal German
pockets. At all events here is another by the same author, who is
still living:--
Schloss Avalon. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott vom
Uebersetzer des Walladmor. 3 Bde. Leipzig, _F. A. Brockaus_ [a very
celebrated firm by the way], 1827.
Aymé Verd, roman inédit de, etc., précédé d’une lettre du capitaine
Clutterbuch [written in French by _M. Calais_, assisted, Quérard
says, by Théod. Anne]. Paris, 1842, 2 vols.
Allan Cameron [by the same]. Paris, 1842, 2 vols, a German
translation, published in 1841.
Le Proscrit des Hébrides, roman inédit. [Written by _Jules David_].
Paris, 1843.
La Pythie des Highlands, roman inédit [same]. Paris, 1844.
Moredun; a tale of the Twelve Hundred and Ten. [Edited by E. de Saint
Maurice Cabany, who attributes the authorship to Sir W. S.]. 3 vols,
London, published for the proprietor (Cabany) by Sampson Low, 1855.
This novel is not put forth under any false pretences. The
proprietor believes it to be a genuine work of the _great
unknown_.
SCRIBBLER (Blank) _phren._ [ ].
J. Donoghoe’s Visit to the Great Dublin Exhibition. 1854.
SCRIBE (Simon) _pseud._ [ADAM BLACK].
Maynooth, in three Letters to Mrs. Hadaway. Lond., 1852.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [CHARLES JERRAM].
Letters to an Universalist, containing a review of the controversy
between Mr. Vidler and Mr. Fuller, on the doctrine of Universal
Salvation. Clipstone, 1802.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [HORLOCK].
Letters on the Management of Hounds, 1852. Horses and Hounds, 1855
and 1858. The Squire of Beechwood, 1857. The Master of the Hounds,
1859 [or rather 1858]. Lord Fitzwarine, 1860. Recollections of a Fox
Hunter, 1861. The Country Gentleman, 1862. The Heronry, a tale, 1864.
Practical Lessons on Hunting and Sporting, 1865. All London.
SCRUTATOR. See The Author of the Church in Danger, (1855).
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [DAVID MACALLAN].
The Mode of Christian Baptism, etc., appendix in reply to Arch.
Whately and Lord Lyttleton. Lond., 1858.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [CHARLES RIVINGTON].
Strictures on Mr. N. E. S. A. Hamilton’s Inquiry into the Genuineness
of the MS. Corrections in Mr. J. J. Collier’s Annotated Shakespeare,
Folio, 1632. London, _J. R. Smith_, 1860.
SCRUTATOR, _phrenonym_ [C. P. MEASOR?]
Irish Fallacies and English Facts, etc., on the Convict System, etc.
Lond., 1863.
We have above a dozen “Scrutators,” who are unknown to us in
their real presence.
SCULPTOR (Satiricus) Esq., _phrenonym_ [W. H. IRELAND is the reputed
author].
Chalcographimania, or the Portrait Collector and Printseller’s
Chronicle, with infatuations of every description. A humorous poem.
_R. S. Kirby_, 1814. Dedicated to James Bindley, and dated from
Cambridge.
Thomas Hartwell Horne, in his Introduction to the Study of
Bibliography, p. 521, says: The deserved popularity of the
Bibliomania (by T. F. Dibdin) suggested to some anonymous writer
the idea of satirizing the mania for prints in a volume....
Of this the less is said the better. The poem is anything but
humorous, and to the notes may justly be applied the author’s
motto _Caeoethes Carpendi_: it is throughout tinctured with
malevolence. The cut prefixed purports to be copied from an
unique print of Will Somers, the jester, which _has no existence_!
Lowndes says that it was written from information mostly
furnished by T. Coram. If it was written by Ireland, it seems
strange that the following verses should occur:--
In autographs as ably vers’d,
As Chatterton the poet erst;
Or he that later wielded fire-brand,
The impudent and forging Ireland.--p. 35.
And others which will be found in this volume under Ireland (W.
H.)
SEARCH (John) _pseud._ [ARCHBISHOP WHATELY].
Considerations on the Law of Libel. London, 1833.
A reply to this was published by “S. N.” [The Bishop of Ferns].
Religion and her Name, a Metrical Tract, 1841.
In this the author says:--“In resuming on this occasion the
signature prefixed by him some years ago to a pamphlet on the
subject of Religious Libel, the author of these stanzas takes
the opportunity of stating that, except in the present instance
and in that of the pamphlet alluded to, he is not accountable
for anything that may have appeared under the signature of
JOHN SEARCH. He is led to mention this from the circumstance
of some other writer having assumed the same signature about
a twelvemonth, more or less, after he had adopted it; and
forthwith prefixed it to sundry publications of his own. He would
also deprecate, could he think it necessary, the supposition
that he could have meant by such title to imply any sort of
pretensions as regards the peculiar qualifications for learned
research.”--_Preface._
_Ralph Thomas_, _N. & Q._, 3 S., xi. 429.
SEARCH (John) _phrenonym_ [W. HENRY ASHURST, Solicitor, is said to
have written under this phrenonym, about 1833. See Notes and Queries,
3 S., Gen. Index].
SEARCH (John) _phrenonym_ [The Rev. Mr. MURSELL, of Leicester, wrote
under this name. See N. & Q., ibid.].
SEARCH (Sarah) _pseud._ [F. NOLAN].
Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister proved to be forbidden in
Scripture. London, 1855.
SEARLE (January) _phrenonym_ [GEORGE PHILIPS].
Memoirs of W. Wordsworth, compiled from authentic sources. London,
1852. Emerson, Life, etc., 1855.
This gentleman has written numerous other pieces under the above
name.
SEATSFIELD, _cryptonym_ [CHARLES SEALSFIELD].
Life in the New World; or, Sketches of American Society. Translated
from the German of G. C. Hebbe and J. Mackay. New York, [1844].
Tokeah, Phil., 1845.
North and South; or, Scenes and Adventures in Mexico, translated by
J. T. H[eadley]. New York, [1845?]
SEAWORTHY (Gregory) Captain, _phren._ [ ].
Nag’s Head, or two months among “The Bunkers,” a story of Sea-shore
Life and Manners. Phil., 1850.
Bertie, or Life in the Old Fields, a humorous novel, with a letter to
the Author from W. Irving. Phil., 1851.
_See Trübner’s Am. Bib. Guide._
S. E. B., _init._ [Sir SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES, Bart., calling
himself, _per legem terræ_, Baron Chandos of Sudeley].
Arthur Fitzalbini, a novel. 1810.
Sir Ralph Willoughby, a tale. 1820.
Sir Egerton Brydges is a gentleman well known to be devoted
to literature,--and now a traveller, who may emphatically be
said _to drag at each remove a lengthening chain_. It has also
happened to us lately to be travellers, and wherever we went
we found vestiges of Sir Egerton,--remnants of his mind, in
the shape of English books, printed in foreign parts, for the
benefit, we presume, of the natives. At Geneva, early last year,
we encountered Sir Egerton’s volume on Political Economy, with
Packhoud’s imprint--drawn from our countryman, no doubt, by his
breathing the same air with Sismondi. At Florence he had dropped
a volume of tales and poetry. In the autumn we were at Rome,
and heard from our valet de place, as his first piece of news,
that Sir Brydges had established a printing press in the eternal
city, under the protection of a cardinal. At Naples, almost the
first book we met with was the work, the title of which stands at
the head of this notice, and which is the commencing number of
a series, which the Chevalier _Du Pont_ (as Sir Egerton Brydges
was called at Paris) intends perseveringly to continue, unless
he should be stopped by an invasion or an eruption. Every man
has his hobby, says Sterne; a printing press seems to be Sir
Egerton’s:--but that he should go abroad to print and publish
English books, is surely strange! His ambition was once to “witch
the world” with smart volumes “_from the private press at Lee
Priory_;” but as if a private press in his own country was not
sufficiently secluded from the interference of the impertinent
curiosity of readers, he has now allowed his love of obscurity
as an author to carry him away to strangers altogether,--amongst
whom he may reasonably hope to be able to print and publish once
a month or oftener, without running any very imminent hazard of
having his modest pages rumpled or fluttered by the eagerness of
perusal.--_Blackwood’s Mag., Feb., 1821._
SEVERAL AMERICAN AUTHORS, _polynym_ [C. M. SEDGWICK, J. K. PAULDING,
W. C. BRYANT, W. LEGGETT, and R. C. SANDS].
Tales of Glauber-Spa. New York, 1832.
SEVERAL YOUNG PERSONS, _phraseonym_ [A. and J. TAYLOR, and others].
Original Poems for Infant Minds. London, 1854.
S. G. O., _initialism_ [The Rev. Lord SIDNEY GODOLPHIN OSBORNE].
His letters on social and philanthropic subjects in the _Times_, have
made these initials celebrated, and, as is justly remarked in “Men of
the Time,” “the terror of wrong doers.”
S. H., _initialism_ [SPENCER HALL].
Suggestions for the Classification of the Library now collecting at
the Athenæum [Club]. Lond., 1858, privately printed.
SHAKESPEARE (William).
The spurious or doubtful plays of Shakespeare occupy six closely
printed columns in the new edition of Lowndes by H. G. Bohn, to
which we refer the reader.
It is not often that we have occasion to praise this work, nor
have we been much indebted to it. The bibliogram on Shakespeare
is really so thoroughly worked up, that we have very great
pleasure in testifying to its usefulness; and whenever we mention
Shakespeare, if further information is required, Lowndes by Bohn
should be referred to.
SIDNEY (Edward William) _ps._ [BEVERLY TUCKER].
The Partisan Leader; a tale of the future. Printed for the publishers
by James Caxton, 1836, 2 vols.
This is the original edition, another was published with this
title: The Partisan Leader. By Beverly Tucker, of Virginia.
Secretly printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff
Green, for circulation in the Southern States, but afterwards
suppressed. New York, 1864, 3rd edition.
SILVERPEN, _pharmaconym_ [ELIZA METEYARD].
This pseudonym was appended by Douglas Jerrold himself to a leading
article in the first number of his newspaper (?) (_Men of the Time_)
for this talented authoress.
The Little Museum Keeper, Lond., 1861.
SIMEON (South) _pseud._ [J. MCGREGOR].
Simeon’s Letters to his Kinsfolk: written chiefly from France and
Belgium. Lond., 1834.
Severely reviewed in the Edin. R. for 1835, xxii. 512.
SINGLETON (Arthur) _ps._ [ ].
Letters from the South and West. Boston (U.S.) 1824.
SKETCHLEY (Arthur) _scenonym_ [GEORGE ROSE].
Mrs. Brown at the Play--in fact, Mrs. Brown all over the world, has
been immortalized by the comic wit of Mr. Rose. He has contributed to
“Fun” and “Cassell’s Magazine,” and several other periodicals under
this signature.
SLICK (Sam) of Slickville, _pseud._ [THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON, of
Nova Scotia].
The Clockmaker, or sayings and doings of ----, 1840.
Numerous others. See Allibone.
SLINGSBY (Jonathan Freke) _pseud._ [JOHN FRANCIS WALLER].
The Slingsby Papers. Dublin, 1852.
The Dead Bridal, 1856.
SLOP (Dr.) _phrenonym_ [Sir J. STODDART].
* Slop’s Shave at a Broken Hone (in verse). Lond., 1820.
This nickname was given by The Times to Dr. Stoddart in 1815. See
Jerdan, _Autobiog._ i. 94.
SLOPER (Mace) _pseud._ [C. G. LELAND].
S. M., _anastroph_ [MENELLA SMEDLEY].
Seven tales by seven Authors, etc. A Very Woman. By S. M., 1846. The
Maiden Aunt (from Sharpe’s Miscellany), 1849. Nina; a tale for the
Twilight, 1853. The Use of Sunshine, 1852. Story of a Family, 1850.
Only part of this was published in Sharpe’s London Magazine; but it
was all published, in 2 vols, in 1855.
SMITH (Gamaliel) _pseud._ [JEREMY BENTHAM].
Not Paul but Jesus. London, 1823.
SOMNAMBULUS, _phrenonym_ [Sir W. SCOTT].
The Visionary. Edinb., 1819. These are Political Satires, first
published in the Edinb. Weekly Journal.
SPARROWGRASS (Mr.) _pseud._ [FRED S. COZZENS].
The Sparrowgrass Papers; or, Living in the Country. New York, 1856.
SPERANZA, _phrenonym_ [Mrs. WILLIAM ROBERT WILDE, of Dublin,
afterwards Lady WILDE].
Ugo Bassi, a tale of the Italian Revolution (in verse). London, 1857.
SPROUTS, _phrenonym_ [E. WHITEING].
The “Costomonger” of the Evening Star, 1867.
S. R. P., _initialism_ [Miss POWERS].
Why do not Women Swim? a Voice from many Waters. Lond.,
_Groombridge_, 1859.
Remarks on Woman’s Work in Sanitary Reform. Lond., 1862.
And many other sanitary tracts of a useful kind.
STANLEY (Reginald Fitz-Roy) M.A., _pseud._ [R. COWTAN, of the British
Museum].
Passages from the Auto-Biography of a “Man of Kent” [R. Cowtan],
1817-65. Edited by ----. Lond. _Whittingham & Wilkins_, for
subscribers only, 1866.
St. ANN, _pseud._ [ ].
The Castles of Wolfnorth and Monteagle. London _Hookham_, 1812.
STEIN (Johann Saville) _ps._ [JOHN SAVILLE STONE].
Fantasia [1855]. “Nicette” Mazurka [1856]. Home, Sweet Home, arranged
for the piano [1859]. The March of the Cameron Men [same], and
several others.
STONEHENGE, _ps._ [JOHN HENRY WALSH, M.R.C.S.].
The Greyhound: being a treatise on the Art of Breeding, Rearing, and
Training Greyhounds for Public Running, their Diseases and Treatment.
London, 1853, 2nd edition, 1864. Manual of British Rural Sports,
1856, 4th edition, 1859. The Dog in Health and Disease, 1859. The
Shot Gun and Sporting Rifle; and the Dogs, Ponies, Ferrets, etc.,
used with them in the various kinds of Shooting and Trapping, 1859,
2nd edition, 1862. Riding and Driving, 1863. Archery, Fencing,
Broadsword, 1863. The Handbook of Manly Exercises. (Forming part of
Routledge’s Sixpenny Handbooks.)
STOTHARD (Mrs.) afterwards BRAY (A. E.)
These letters (to the poet-laureate Southey) were originally
published by Mr. Murray, in 1836, and called “The Borders of
Tamar and Tavy.” Mr. Bohn purchased the remaining copies of Mr.
Murray, and, I am sorry to state, gave the work a new title-page,
calling it “Traditions of Devonshire.” It relates only to the
neighbourhood of Tavistock and Dartmoor. _Works_, 1845, 10 vols.
SUMMERFIELD (Charles), _phrenonym_ [THEODORE FOSTER].
The Desperadoes of the South-West. New York, 1847.
SUMMERLY (Felix) _pseud._ [HENRY COLE, K.C.B.].
Home Treasury, of Books, Pictures, Toys, &c., proposed to cultivate
the affections, fancy, imagination and taste of Children. Lond.
_Cundall_, 1844.
A series of about 21, for list see The Publishers’ Circular, vii.
70, viii. 205.
Pleasure Excursions to Croydon, Guildford, Harrow, Reigate, Shoreham,
Walton [1846]. Heroic Tales of Ancient Greece, translated from the
German of B. G. Niebuhr, 1849. Handbook for Canterbury, 1855; for
Architecture, Tapestries, 1859.
This gentleman’s pseudonym, though longer, is much pleasanter
than his own name. He is so well known under both, that it is
superfluous for us to say anything.
SUMMERLY (Mrs. Felix) _pseud._ [Mrs. HENRY COLE].
The Mother’s Primer, 1844.
SURREBUTTER (John) Esq., _phren._ [JOHN ANSTEY, son of the author of
the celebrated “New Bath Guide”].
The Pleader’s Guide, a didactic poem, in two books, containing
the conduct of a Suit at Law, with the Arguments of Counsellor
Bother’um and Counsellor Bore’um in an action betwixt John-a-Gull and
John-a-Gudgeon. By the late ----, Special Pleader.
This witty little poem which contains so many hits at the
author’s own profession, has been frequently reprinted since 1796.
Lord Campbell, in his Lives of the Justices, quotes these lines:--
Three years I sat his smoky room in,
Pens, paper, ink, and pounce consuming.