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    INITIALS AND PSEUDONYMS.* Mr. Cushing ha...

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    Cubrent Educational Literature. As Is Us...

    Professor J . R . Seeley ' s new and succinct work , ' A Short History of Napoleon the First / leads off

    the notices of Messrs . Seeley & Co . ' s publications , ^ in v v ^ w which » v ^^^^ " ^» ^^^ ^^*^^ ' Seeley »^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ » ' "s ^^ Cheap ^^^ ^^^^™ ^^^ ^*^^ ^^^ " School ¦ - ^^ ^™^~ - ^^ ^^ ^ Books ^^^^ ^^— — ¦ — ¦—— , v * conducted —¦ - — —¦—¦— —— - - —— — - —

    by the Rev . A . J . Church , M . A ., form an important item . The same firm ' s classical works , also Dr . Abbott ' s "booksare surd to receive a share of

    notice . , [ Vide page 25 . Dr . "William Davis' educational works , and also

    those of Dr . Cornwell , appear tinder the charge of the London agents , Messrs . Simpkin , Marshall , & Co . and Messrs . Hamilton ., Adams , & Co . These

    books are too well known to require detailed mention . Their usefulness is tolerably familiar to teachers of the present day . [ Vide page , 69 .

    Mr . James Thin , publisher to the University of Edinburgh , brings before educationists some highly successful classical worksincluding Professor

    Seilar ' s ' Extracts from 1 V 1 artial , / Professor Cossar Ewart ' s zoological works are likewise to be found in ] Vtr . Thin ' s list ; as well as Professor Lawrie ' s

    * Handbook Primary Instr to Lectures uctions in on Relation Education to . ' Education [ Vide page , ' and 69 The ' Edinburgh Copy Books ' seem to have made

    tbeir mark in school circles , and , judging from what we know and have heard , it is not likely that they will easily be displaced . The series embraces

    a * Primary School Series , ' a ' Secondary School Series' a ' Private School _ Series' and a ' German

    , — , and French Series . ' The publishers are Messrs . George Waters ton & Soub , of Rose Street , Newgate

    Street , E . C ., and Edinburgh . [ Vide page 77 . i mtfim

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    Initials And Pseudonyms.* Mr. Cushing Ha...

    INITIALS AND PSEUDONYMS . * Mr . Cushing has rendered a noble service to the

    literary world by the publication of this magnum opus , for good honest workmanship worthy to be ranked beside Alibone ' s great ' Dictionary , ' and

    Cowden Clarke ' s no less famous * Concordance to Shakspeare . * It is indeed difficult to decide which of the three books will prove the most useful to the

    librarian and the student of English and American literature . There has been no lack of works in these latter

    days on the subject to which Mr . Cushing has devoted the labour of so many years . Since the discovery of the art of printing , authors have

    revelled in the glory of concealing their identity under the different forms of pseudonyms , anagrams , phraseonyms , titlenymsaristonymsinitialisms

    I ^ J W ^ J , _^ , , anonyms , and all the other ' nyms , ' which books are heir to . A well-known authority on bibliogi'aphy , Mr . J . E . Haynes , has tersely enumerated the reasons

    which writers have for adopting false signatures : a genuine modesty with those who decline to pbice their true name before the public until their work

    has passed through the terrible crucible of the merciless critic , so that if it should not succeed and be generally condemnedthe real author would

    be known to only a few friends , ; fears of personal injury if their name is disclosed , where direct attacks are made upon motive or character ; in

    many cases the real name would serve to limit the sale of a work , notably where the private character of the writer has been tainted , or when

    ho is totally unknown to the public ; and another strong motive is the idea often entertained that a work ¦ published ^ 1 ~™ ~— — " -- anonymousl —— - ^— ¦ i i ^^ •¦ ¦¦! w ^ y f , W or ^^ ^^ under ^ ' ^ — ** ^^ v ' ^^ 4 k ^ a ^ > pseudonym m ^ r *^ ^>^ ^^^ ''^^ m ^^ ** im w ^» JB ^ t ^ .

    will have a larger sale on account of the universal desire to ascertain the author ' s real name , and that * Initials and Pseudonyms : a Dictionary of Literarjlmjy Diaguises / jua arston . By oearie William wivin Gushing , B . A . London : Sampson

    j , , « je gton , l «» 6 .

    Initials And Pseudonyms.* Mr. Cushing Ha...

    the investigation vrill bring out a considerable lishers amount pften of gratuitou act upon s advertising this idea . issuing Clever works

    pubanonymously upon both sides of a , subject which ag naturall itates y the witty pub , as lic Haliburton mind at , the Clemens time , . Iceland Those , I I

    Henry TTAnrv Shaw Shaw . , & & < c ¦» , use use a a nom nom de de plume nolume whicto which m in II "itself appears a witticism , attracting immediate attention . Again a pseudonym is often adopted by

    reason of the unlawful or disreputable matter treated of in the work that would compromise the socia V * V ^^^ V ^ g ^ p . ( ^^^ B l ^ M position Hf ^^ p v ^^ ^^ ^ v * . V ^ . ^ P ^ IVV of ^ q ^ r ^^ the ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ writer V ^ ^^^ ^^ - " ^^ r- ^^^ p were w w ^^— — the true name

    disclosed . One writer has often a multiplicity of pseudonym or changed when when an s , for entire ill literary -success alteration titles attends are is not previous made unfrequentl in efforts the y ,

    character of the works . There is a peculiar fascination to a writer who watches the notices of his author work as is passed not suspected by the even critics b , y when his immediate the true

    friends desire for ; but concealment in nearly all is cases waived when and successful care is taken this to be formally introduced to the , public . In fact it

    is no uncommon thing for both the true name and the ' nom Nothing de plum succeeds e to appear like upon success the . ' titl It e . was ¦ ¦ this

    ^^^ V ^^^ ^^^ L ^ fc 4 4 fcw | m i ^^ ^ rt ^ k ^ v ^^/ ^^ ^^^ ^_ rr w Mfr ^ fr ^^ v ^ i ^ w ^ i ' . * v ^ ^ . ^ ^ ir n . ' . ^^ v v ^~ ^¦ * « r » ^ - ^ ^ ^ <—that induced Sir Walter Scott to declare himself the V & A ^^ % author jm V * f w ^^^ of ^^ 4 » the ^^^ - ^ ^^ Waverley » v »» r w . ^ ^ . « V ^ novels " ^ ^^ ' ^»» -y , » and ^» i" » w ^ led — ¦ - — Greorge —• — — - ^^

    —Eliot to acknowledge those masterpieces of fiction , the ^ v ^*^ m ^^ authorship ^^^ w ¦ ^»™ " ^^» ' ^^ . ^ p ^ r ¦ i ^^ - w *^ of " ^ ^^ which w w — ¦ -- — - ^^ - ^—— had — - — been —~ — ' - ~ concealed — - — — — — - — - - so - loBg g j

    even from her own publishers . Charles Dickens guessed to be f % a i the woman » - ^ p author b — of the bod i ' Scenes else of -was Cleri cheated cal Life b ' every ¦ y y

    the ^ v ^^ masculine ^ ^^ ^^^ p ^ ^ m ^^ ^^ pseudonym ^ — - ^^ - g ^ of * Georg — — e Eliot / But ^^ pseudonymity and anonymity are not always an advantage . Towards the end ¦ ¦ of . his i ¦ career ¦ - Anthony

    Trollop V ^^ 4 t ^ ^^^ bVH ^ h ^ e published ^^ tl— V V » J »«» ^ i ^ BP ^^ ^ one »^^^ ^^ ^^ of ^ m ^ ^^^ his ^^ ^ " works ™ " - ^ ^ r- — ^ anonymousl — - ^ - ^ ^— , v —— ' ^ ™ - - ^ y m , and - ^^ r ^ v ^^^^^ " ^^*^ V its ^^ " ^ ^^ *^^* ^ sale " ^^ ^^^^ " ^^ " ^^ , J as ^^ ^ " ^^ he ™ ^ confesses ^^ i - — ^^ — ~*~ — ^» ^ — in his * Autobiograp — ^ ^ ^^^ hy ^^ m , '

    was ridiculously small in comparison with that of his other novels , proving after all that there is more in a name than Shakspeare would make us

    believe To . those who take an interest in such facts , j Mr - _^_ ^— . ^ ¦ ^ Cushing I - — - . ^ H ^^ B ' s — work — - will - form a mine of study J .

    Here we find a collection of 12 , 000 initials and pseudonyms employed from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present timewith 8000

    real names of authors . With 2000 , titles , Mr . Cushing credits Mr . Albert B . Frey , , of the AstoT , Library ~ T * M ^ A . ^ jm ** - , m New *» ' Vj * York —• - V ^* « t » -J , who W W Jfc *^^ 1 generousl Mm ^ r »* -v ^ t - *^ ¦»» w * r * y j ¦ placed m ^ ^* - ^ ^ s ^* w ^ his ^ n

    work at Mr . Cushing ' s disposal . Undoubtedly , th « article of the greatest interest in the work is that by Mr . Frey upon ' Junius' one of the most careful

    and exhaustive papers of , the kind we have evei seen , and occupying ten and a half closely-printed pages . Mr . Frey takes up 51 names of authors who

    have been credited with the authorship of tho 'letters / and concisely analyses their claims , giving the authorities pro ' and con in a manner deserving

    bibliograp the highest hy praise , and . thoroug His articl hly reliable e is a model from the piece firs of t line to the lastwhich quaintly reads ' and with

    this ends the history , and Bibliography of , Junius / Jt is amusing , in examining the pages of the work , to notice the run occasionally made upon a

    particular pseudonym . For example , we have one ' Lay Brother / two ' Lay Dissenters / one ' Lay Baronet / another ' Lay Gentleman / three ' Lay

    Hands / six * Lay Members / one * Lay Preacher , ' another * Lay Seceder / and a long string of ' A Layman bi i / 103 v ^ V in number h ! * An i Impartial h biw bbb Hand i ' also

    ^ v ^^^^^ r ^ v ^ - ^^ - ^ ^*^ p ^^ ^ w V ^ d ^^ ^^ ^^ BB ' ^ ^ 1 ^^ ^^ ^ ' ^ ^^ ^^>^ ^^^ «^ ^>^ ^ - ^ v ^^ ^ rm ^^^ *^ ^^ * vo ^ ^ ^^ v ^^^^ g ^ ^ - ^^ ^^^ Bv ^ v ^ v ^^ ^ v ^ - ^ v ^ ar ^^ ^^¦ ^^ p « ^^ ' ^ figures extensivel ^ y with no fewer than 21 entries ; Ladies while / it Kal will h p Thomas lease the ( who auth himsel or of f ' figures Aggravating in the

    p volume under the aggravating anagram of 'Olphar

    JJamet ) , to pee that the title of * A Lady is laid m

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1886, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011886/page/14/