4.1134 Notes and Queries 1 (4/67)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 7 Mar 91 17:24:38 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1134. Thursday, 7 Mar 1991.


(1) Date: Wed, 06 Mar 91 09:37:51 -0800 (21 lines)
From: Malcolm Brown <mbb@jessica.stanford.edu>
Subject: Chadwyck-Healy database of English poetry

(2) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 10:31:11 -0800 (12 lines)
From: "Joseph B. Monda" <monda@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Subject: Greek masks

(3) Date: 7 March 1991, 14:00:25 EST (10 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: Use of Hartlib papers

(4) Date: 07 Mar 91 14:41:40 gmt (24 lines)
From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Sentence length distribution

(1) --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 91 09:37:51 -0800
From: Malcolm Brown <mbb@jessica.stanford.edu>
Subject: Chadwyck-Healy database of English poetry

Our chief curator recently forwarded a note he received from a company
called Chadwyck-Healy Inc. With apparent international connections, this
company is hawking a database of English poetry running from 600 to
1900. According to the literature, the database "encompasses the works
of over 1400 poets and spans 800 years..." They claim to have done up
the texts in "SGML markup encoding".

I note that according to the recent list of on-line dictionaries, this
firm is listed as having the Robert Electronique. I can find no other
reference to this firm in my HUMANIST "clippings."

Has anyone had experience with this company in general and/or with this
database? is it for real?

thanks!
Malcolm Brown
Stanford
(2) --------------------------------------------------------------21----
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 10:31:11 -0800
From: "Joseph B. Monda" <monda@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Subject: Greek masks

Can anyone tell me the Greek names for the masks for Comedy and
Tragedy?

Joseph B. Monda email: monda@sumax.seattleu.edu
smail: English Department Seattle University
Seattle WA 98122 (206) 296-5425


(3) --------------------------------------------------------------11----
Date: 7 March 1991, 14:00:25 EST
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: Use of Hartlib papers

Has anyone on Humanist made use of the Samuel Hartlib papers now being
put on-line at the University of Sheffield? I am especially interested
in letters mentioned by Michael Leslie in his article on the papers in
*Literary & Linguistic Computing* 5.1 (1990) concerning a lying, drunken
engraver working on the frontispiece of Ralph Austen's *A Treatise of
Fruit Trees* (1653). Roy Flannagan
(4) --------------------------------------------------------------36----
Date: 07 Mar 91 14:41:40 gmt
From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Sentence length distribution

A postgraduate starting here has some interesting material on
"scale" as a variable in relation to different sentence length
distributions.

Cusum charts on sentence length have been looked at in work done
by A.Q.Morton and Prof. Sidney Michaelson (sadly the latter died
a few days ago). A brief report entitled "The Cusum Plot" is
probably still available from the Dept. of Computer Science
at Edinburgh.

I would be very interested to hear of other work on sentence length,
especially if it is attempting to sort out some of the other
possible variables, or any useful critiques of earlier work.
Please reply to the e-mail address below.

**************************************************************************
David Mealand * Bitnet: D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@ukacrl
University of Edinburgh * Office Fax: (+44)-31-220-0952
Scotland,U.K. EH1 2LU * Office tel.:(+44)-31-225-8400 ext.221/217
**************************************************************************