To' engross a moment's notice; and yet begs, Sweet bashfulness! it claims at least this praise; Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread! COWPER. THE NEWSMAN. "I, that do bring the News."-Shakspere. OUR calling, however the vulgar may deem, Hence with wings to his cap, and his staff, and his heels, 1747. K Newsmen's Verses NEWS.* A MASTER-passion is the love of news SONG. Tune-"Gee-ho, Dobbin." COME, each Chapelonian! I hope you'll agree, Oh! rare, Printing, the fam'd Art of Printing! The use of our Art spread in each British town, The original orthography was newes, and in the singular. Johnson has, however, decided, that the word newes is a substantive without a singular, unless it be considered as singular. The word new, according to Wachter, is of very ancient use, and is common to many nations. The Britons, and the Anglo-Saxons had the word, though not the thing. It was first printed by Caxton in the modern sense. In the Siege of Rhodes, which was translated by John Kay, the poet laureate, and printed by Caxton, about the year 1490. In the Assembly of Foulis, which was printed by Williain Copland in 1530, there is the following exclamation: "Newes! Newes! Newes! have ye ony Newes?" In the translation of the Utopia by Raphe Robinson, citizen and goldsmythe, which was imprinted by Abraham Nele, in 1551, we are told, "As for monsters, because they be no newes, of them we were nothynge inquysitive."-Such is the rise, and such the progress of the word news, which even in 1551 was still printed newes! There is not a porch or a market place which the news-monger does not take his stand for a whole day together, tiring his invention and amusing his hearers with an everlasting series of fictions and forgeries.Theophrastus. B. C. 305. Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy, published in 1621, says if any read now-a-days it is a play-book, or a pamphlet of newes." "That In each chapel a devil soon put them to shame, Oh! rare Printing, &c. When call'd to the bar we no register need, As companions, I trust, we shall ever compose May we keep in a JOURNAL,* the joys of this day When the Great Overseer bids the last form to rise, Nottingham, June 1831. Oh! rare Printing, &c. C. H. TIMPERLEY. BOOKS. 'TWERE well, with most, if books, that could engage The Nottingham Newspapers." COWPER. THE ART OF BEING HAPPY. АH me! how numberless the ills and cares But you exclaim-" The d-1 take your Wo! Copy not line for line, nor page for page— This, this, my lad,'s "The Art of being Happy!" GEORGE BRIMMER. AN AUTHOR'S VANITY. the foolish poet, that still writ All his self-loved verse in paper royal, Or parchment ruled with lead, smooth'd with the pumice Bound richly up, and strung with crimson strings; Never so blest as when he writ and read The ape-loved issue of his brain; and never But joying in himself, admiring ever. 1633. GEORGE CHAPMAN. SONG.-NEWSPAPER HEADINGS. BRING me the "Times," I'll read awhile It grieves me much to witness such What news and queer advertisements, A Chartist outrage! What is this? Two horses killed while pulling loads, The timber ways not good; Then here's "Just out, a work on Roads," With "drawings upon wood!" What now comes here? "Try Barclay's beer!" Then "gin distilled by Hodge;" "Sir Robert Peel; the income tax; New play" the Artful Dodge." Brighton, Dover, France, Herne Bay, Advertisements by lots now come, |