“Scholia” to the Florida Tristram Shandy Annotations

102 the printer as George Grierson, whose wife and press corrector Constantia was a close friend of Mrs. Barber’s.’’ Edwards’s 21 described a cont. calf presentation copy from William Broome, co-author of Pope’s Odyssey, of his Poems on Several Occasions, 1727, inscribed on the flyleaf ‘‘For Sr Edmund Bacon.’’ Edwards, after comparison to Broome MSS at the BL, judges the inscription to Broome’s wealthy neighbor in nearby Garboldisham (south Norfolk) to be in Broome’s hand. The Clark Library purchased from Burmester’s 49 the rare first edition of Colley Cibber’s A Second Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (A. Dodd, 1743), 5-p. folio, only 3 in ESTC. Cat. 62 of Dramatis Personae (Sheffield, MA) offered a 1st ed. of the first Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (W. Lewis, 1742), disbd., $100. Robert Clark’s 57 listed Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (W. Lewis, 1744), 8vo in 4s, 1st ed., disbd., -hft. (£220). Still available from Dramatis Personae’s 66 are the anonymous attack The Laureat: or, The Right Side of Colley Cibber, 1740; and the 1st ed. of An Apology for the Life of T[heophilus] C[ibber]. Being a Proper Sequel to the Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, 1740, a burlesque of Cibber’s Apology in the guise of an autobiography of his son. Trinity College Dublin, continuing to build up its theater collection , purchased from Edwards’s 16 An Epistle from Mr. Theophilus Cibber, Comedian , to Mr. Thomas Sheridan, Tragedian (D: n.p. 1743), disbd. 8vo, 14 pp., and A Letter from a Young Lady to Mr. Cibber (D: Martineau and Kinneir, 1743), disbd., 8vo, 14 pp., a continuation of the paper war begun by the previous epistle and an answer to Cibber’s Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel (27 July), still only MiU in ESTC. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Stuart Bennett, James Burmester , Christopher Edwards, Theodore Hofmann, Oliver Irvine, Hermann J. Real, Jonathan and Lisa Reynolds, Stephen Weissman, and, especially, A. C. Elias, Jr. Penn State University—DuBois ‘‘SCHOLIA’’ TO THE FLORIDA TRISTRAM SHANDY ANNOTATIONS In TS, VIII.1, Tristram returns his narrative from France to England, hoping to avoid ‘‘straddling out, or sidling into some bastardly digression—In Freezeland , Fog-land andsomeotherlandsIwot of. . . .’’ The editors identify ‘‘Freezeland ’’ and ‘‘Fog-land’’ as nonce-words, as Sterne no doubt thought them, but obscure precedents do exist. 655.14 Freeze-land, Fog-land and some other lands I wot of] Cf. Thomas Dekker, Dekker His Dreame (1620), in which ‘‘the Freeze-land-boore’’ (with ‘‘the frozen Russian,’’ ‘‘the Scythian,’’ and ‘‘the Laplandian Witch’’) is among those tormented by Boreas in winter (p. 24); also Frances Quarles, The Virgin Widow: A Comedie (1649), in which Quibble, a servant who speaks in malapropisms , describes the travels of his master ‘‘through France, Spaine, Italie, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Finderland, Freezeland’’(IV.i, p. 44). There is no reason to suppose that Sterne had read either work—or had heard of Fogland Ferry, Rhode Island, which was to be the scene of an engagement between British and 103 American forces (January 10, 1777), but in the context of his innuendoes about ‘‘planting his cabbages’’and ‘‘slits inpetticoats ,’’ the other land in play here is indicated by a letter written to HallStevenson from Paris a few months before publication of volume VIII: ‘‘On Thursday morning we set out from foutre-land . . .’’(Letters, p. 214; May 19, 1764). And this, in turn, may explainwhy the very next paragraph, contrasting Freeze-land to ‘‘this land of chivalry and romance, where I now sit [i.e., the south of France] . . . to write my uncle Toby’s amours’’ is addressed directly to ‘‘my dear Eugenius,’’ a private joke to HallStevenson , reminding him of ‘‘foutreland ’’ as a designation for France. Thomas Keymer St Anne’s College, Oxford SCRIBLERIANA This year Arthur Weitzman, a cofounder of The Scriblerian, retires from Northeastern University. He named the journal and was largely responsible for its appearance: the laid paper, typeface, the size of the page, our doublecolumn format. In addition, he brought about the journal’s success in advertising. As our...