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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. i. 269, 316). C. B. W.'s eighteenth quotation is from the description of the witch Erictho's cave in Marston's ' Sophonisba ' (1606). Both this and No. 4 will be found in Lamb's 4 Specimens of English Dramatic Poets.' L. R. M. STRACHAN.
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' BRITISH CHRONOLOGIST ' : T. SALMON : W. TOONE: J. WADE (11 S. i. 209). The origin of ' The British Chronologist ' must ! be referred to an industrious writer named Thomas Salmon (1679-1767), who compiled many works (vide ' D.N.B.'), and travelled round the world with Lord Anson (Gent. Mag., 1767, p. 48).
There was, however, an earlier work than Salmon's, entitled ' A Chronological History of England,' by the Rev. John Pointer, Oxford, 1714 (with yearly supplements issued up to and including the year 1720) ; | but Salmon does not appear to have made use of this work, though he probably took the idea from Pointer's book.
Salmon's ' Chronological Historian ' was the definite forerunner of ' The British Chronologist.' ' The Chronological His- torian ' was issued first in 1727, with Salmon's name on the title-page ; a second edition, "with large additions and corrections, followed in 1733 ; and a third edition, again "with large additions," appeared in 1747, this time in two volumes, and this is the best edition of the book up to that date. Many of the paragraphs were recomposed, and the 1747 edition was by no means a ni<-n> reprint.
We next come to 'The British Chrono- logist,' the work of which W. P. D. S. -es the second edition, published in 1789. No editor's name appears on this Work, though Salmon's was evidently the basis of it, for many of the paragraphs are verbatim with Salmon's. Salmon died in 1767, and possibly he prepared the book tor a new edition up to a certain point, when it was after his death handed over to some
other compiler, whose name is not revealed
on the title-page of the first edition, which
was issued -in 1775.
Many years later Toone took the work in hand, and in 1826 there appeared ' The Chronological Historian. . . .principally illus- trative of the .... History of Great Britain and its Dependencies, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the present time * (1825), by W. Toone, 2 vols., London, 1826. The preface states :
" Thomas Salmon compiled a Chronology upon
the plan of the present work A subsequent work
published anonymously (taking the basis of Salmon's labours) extended it to three volumes octavo, thereby adding much to the size, but little to the
value of the original publication It has been
the study of the present compiler to omit the unim- portant, and condense the material facts." In other words, Toone's ' Chronological Historian' is an abridged edition of the 1775 ' British Chronologist.' A second edition of Toone's ' Chronological Historian J brought the work down to 1827, and was issued in 1828; and in 1834 Toone published a volume which he called ' A Chronological
Record of the Remarkable Public Events
during the Reigns of George the Third and Fourth,' but which was really a duplicate of a portion of ' The Chronological His- torian,' with a new title-page and additional items at the end.
Very little, if anything, can be traced of William Toone ; but in Gent. Mag., 1850, vol. xxxiii. N.S. p. 104, there appears " 30 October, 1849. Died at his son-in-law's, Stafford Row, Buckingham Gate, aged 74, William Toone, Esq. n The same notice appeared in The Times, 1 Nov., 1849.
To continue the history of the book. In 1839 John Wade, with H. G. Bohn as publisher, brought out 'British History Chronologically Arranged.* This was fol- lowed by two later editions, the last in 1844. Wade's book is a direct descendant of Salmon's first book, and is the most satisfactory (or least unsatisfactory) of all. It is of very considerable value as a wdrk of reference, being detailed and full; and if the cheap method by which the book was evidently put together be remembered, it will not lead anyone who uses it far astray. An instance of Wade's errors may be given, however. In the preface to the first edition of 'British History* he says: "I have derived important assistance from a chrono- logical work in three volumes issued in 1775, and originally compiled by Almon l ' (sic). In later editions he found that for " Almon " he should have put Salmon, and the correc- tion was made accordingly. Reference
