The first edition of _The Whole Duty of Man_ was published in 1657. Like the enigmatical Junius, its authorship still remains a problem; but we believe it is now generally supposed to be written either by Lady Packington or Archbishop Sterne. Our correspondent will find the question discussed in the Rev. W. B. Hawkins's Introduction to Pickering's edition of this work, published in 1842; as well as in the valuable communication of J. E. B. Mayor, Esq., of Marlborough College, in our second volume, p. 292.]
_Dr. Sacheverell's "Sermon at Derby."_--Can any of your correspondents furnish me with information as to the various editions which were published of Dr. Henry Sacheverell's _Sermon at Derby_ in 1709? I am anxious to ascertain how many editions were issued, with their dates and other particulars.
[We think our correspondent will not be able to obtain the information he requires, owing to the great demand at the time for the two Sermons for which the Doctor was prosecuted. Mr. Lathbury states (_History of the Nonjurors_, p. 237) that "of the Sermon 'Perils among False Brethren,' no less than forty thousand copies were sold in a few weeks." We have also now before us two copies of the Derby Sermon, both printed in 1709, 8vo., but no intimation on the title-page of their being different editions, which they evidently are, on an examination of their typographical composition. The Bodleian contains a quarto edition of the latter Sermon, 1710.]
_Lucas Lossius._--I have an old 12mo. volume with the following title-page:
"Annotationes Scholasticæ _in Evangelia Dominicalia et_ ea quæ in Festis IESV CHRISTI, et Sanctorum ejus præcipuis, leguntur in Ecclesia, _per totius Anni circulum_: non inutile futuræ puerilibus Scholis.
"_His adjectæ sunt in singula Evangelia Disticha, Argumenta, Doctrinæ Summariæ, Loci et_ _Ob_jectiones præterea, cum brevibus ac veris earum solutionibus Dialecticis, exercendæ adolescentiæ causa.
"_Collecta et dictata à Luca Lossio, in Schola Lunæburgensi._
"Adiecimus et iam recens erudita Evangeliorum Dominicalium et Festivalium Disticha, inundæ memoriæ causa, à Vuendelino Helbachio conscripta.
"_Franc. Apud Hæred. Christ. Egen._ M.D.LXXVIII."
The words, and parts of words, in Italics are rubricated.