In various well-known bibliographical publications the existence of this fugitive Dialogue is carefully registered, and its title, at least, made known to all inquirers,--in Watt's Bibliotheca Britt. (1824), in Lowndes' Bibliog. Manual (1834), and in Atkinson's Medical Bibliog. (1834); and by the published Catalogues of the British Museum (1813), the Douce Collection (1840), and the Bodleian Library (1843), it is made known that there are copies of it preserved in these great collections. In Warton's Hist. of Eng. Poetry (ed. 1840), it is also recorded by Park, in his notes to the chapter on Gower, in which he refers to Bulleyn's visionary description of that poet. Cooper's Athenæ Cantabrigienses, art. Bulleyn (1858), also carefully notes the Dialogue and its editions. And in 1865 Collier's well-known Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature again gives an account (two pages long) of the much neglected production, in which the passage relating to the poets is once more extracted in full, with the preliminary remarks as quoted at p. xxvii. _supra_, but without the usual announcement that the work has hitherto been unknown. But in 1873, by the very last man from whom we might have expected it (F. J. Furnivall, the Atlas on whose shoulders all our projects for the preservation of our early literature rest, in Notes and Queries, 4th s., xii. 161), we are again introduced to this ever disappearing, ever reappearing Dialogue as a fresh find in early English literature: "Few things are pleasanter in reading old books than to come on a passage of praise of our old poets, showing that in Tudor days men cared for the 'makers' of former days as we do still. To Mr David Laing's kindness I owe the introduction to the following quotation from a rare tract, where one wouldn't have expected to find such a passage," and then follows once more the whole passage so often quoted for the first time. Dr Rimbault, in an interesting note in a succeeding number of Notes and Queries (p. 234), is the first one acquainted with the Dialogue to state that "this amusing old work is perfectly well known, and has often been quoted from." So henceforth we may presume that this interesting and long-fertile field of discovery may be regarded as finally worked out. [Illustration] * * * * * A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF BARCLAY'S WORKS. CONTENTS. * * * * * I. THE CASTELL OF LABOURE. II. THE SHYP OF FOLYS. III. THE EGLOGES. IV. THE INTRODUCTORY. V. THE MYRROUR OF GOOD MANERS. VI. CRONYCLE COMPLYED BY SALUST. VII. FIGURE OF OUR MOTHER HOLY CHURCH. VIII. THE LYFE OF SAYNT GEORGE. IX. THE LYFE OF SAYNTE THOMAS. X. HAYTHON'S CRONYCLE. I. THE CASTELL OF LABOURE.--Wynkyn de Worde. 1506. Small Quarto. Black letter.