M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine

[David Payne]

Well, I managed to find the 1765 Gentleman's Magazine on Google Books (linked below), but as best as I can tell, Google hasn't scanned the 1764 volume (XXXIV). (If anyone here has a copy, please lemme know.) Google did, however, scan "A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine" (1811) which contains a letter by Dr. Bevis (!) from the 1764 volume (!!) that was written in response to some glub query of astro-historical yore (not unlike my own questions). Bevis' letter opens with this funny disclaimer: "I am so little versed in matters of antiquity, that I do not know to whom you could have applied less qualified to give you satisfaction than myself." This collection also contains such wonderfully entitled articles as: "An Hour-glass found in a Coffin"; "On the Custom of Swearing in Discourse"'; and "A Saint whose Emblems are naked Boys in a Tub." Here are links for the curious. 
1765: http://books.google.com/books?id=Y0sDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam#PRA1-PA544,M1
 
1811 Collection: http://books.google.com/books?id=xj8lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=curiou+intitle:Gentleman%27s+intitle:Magazine#PPR10,M1
 
Other volumes: 
http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0LSUTDjZwMW9PlZDam&lr=&id=_UEdXMCpZ6wC&sa=N&start=430 


From: dpayne1912 at hotmail.comTo: pynchon-l at waste.orgSubject: M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's MagazineDate: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:57:36 +0000



I'm clearly reading the wrong book, ATD being all the rage these days! But here's a real stumper (for me at least) from M&D, p. 438: “According to this,” Dixon soothingly, as if ‘were a Fan, waving a Page, enclos’d with the letter, clipped from the Gentlemen’s Magazine of the December previous, “there were, it seems, ten, competing for the job,- Betts, Bevis, Short...so on. Any of those names light a Match?“
 
I'm trying to locate a copy of the page that Dixon is waving about. Three questions:
1. This scene occurs in late February, 1765, right? 
2. Is this supposed to the Gentleman's Magazine? 
3. Has anyone ever located a copy of the 1764 edition of the Gentleman’s Magazine or the specific page that Dixon references? 
 
 

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