[211] This collection of caricatures is contained in a small volume of a square form, like that of a pocket dictionary. In the title, the work is said to have been "digested and published by M. Darly, at the Acorn in Ryder's Court, Cranbourn Alley, Leicester Fields." Subsequently, Darly published another volume, of the same size, entitled 'A Political and Satirical History, displaying the unhappy Influence of Scotch Prevalency in the years 1761, 1762, and 1763; being a regular series of ninety-six humourous, transparent, and entertaining prints. With an explanatory Key to every print.' These two volumes contain the most numerous and interesting series of political caricatures that had hitherto appeared in England. The caricatures which appeared in the Political Register from 1767 to 1772 may be considered as a continuation of the series published by Darly. [212] In the same volume there is another plate of the same kind, showing the coat cards for 1756. [213] A Critical Enquiry regarding the real Author of the Letters of Junius, proving them to have been written by Lord Viscount Sackville. By George Coventry, p. 34, 1825. Copies of _two_ of the caricatures on Lord George Sackville are given in this work. [214] At the foot of the title-page of the second volume, for the years 1761-2-3, there is a notice, that "sketches or hints, sent post-paid [to the publisher], will have due honour shewn them." [215] "Et decus ob patrium, et studiosæ pubis in usus, Construxere sacros chartis fidibusque penates." C. ANSTEY, ad C. W. BAMPFYLDE, Epistola, 1777. [216] Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, by R. Anderson. An explanation of a few terms in the above verses will render them more intelligible to the reader who has the misfortune to be unacquainted with the Cumberland dialect. _Clipt and heeled_, prepared for the sport, like cocks for fighting. _Lish_, sprightly, active. _Cuttered_, cooed, like billing doves. _Stour_, dust. _Lanter_, three-card loo. _Caird-lakers_, card-players. Lanter, or lant, so common in Cumberland and Northumberland, appears to have been unknown to a deservedly high authority on all sports and games: "The editor does not know the game of _Lant_."--Bell's Life in London, 4th March, 1838. [217] Some curious particulars--somewhat exaggerated--respecting certain great card-players of this period will be found in 'The Adventures of a Guinea.' [218] An Address to Persons of Fashion relating to Balls: with a few occasional Hints concerning Play-houses, Card-tables, &c. By the Author of Pietas Oxoniensis. Sixth edition, 1771. [219] "The causes of infidelity are various. Before the improved sagacity of Dr. Rennell had discovered that it owed its origin to Popery, his wisdom had detected its source, artfully lurking in the 'unmeaning combinations' of a pack of cards."--Reflections on the Spirit of Religious Controversy, by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, of Hexham, England, p. 192. 12mo, New York, 1808. CHAPTER IV.