M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine

[Michael Lee Bailey]

 ohmy these are so great.  If there were a coach
with not just more space, but more time on the inside 
I would buy a ticket to Dorking-on-the-Thames or
someplace, and read the whole thing en route.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: David Payne [mailto:dpayne1912 at hotmail.com]
    Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 08:48 PM
    To: 'Pynchon-l'
    Subject: RE: M&D p. 438: Gentlemen's Magazine

    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