Notices to Correspondents.
We have this week the pleasure of again presenting our readers with a Thirty-two page Number, in consequence of the number of Advertisements and the length of Dr. Diamond's valuable paper. This latter we recommend to the attention of our antiquarian friends, who will find, as we have done, that the process is at once simple and certain, and one which may be mastered with very little trouble.
Non-Medicus. Your correction of an obvious blunder in the Registrar-General's Report is not fitted for our columns.
F. W. The proverb Good wine needs no bush has reference to the practice which formerly prevailed of hanging a tuft of ivy at the door of a vintner, as we learn from—
"Now a days the good wyne needeth none ivye garland."
Ritson, in a note on the epilogue to Shakespeare's As You Like It, speaks of the custom as then prevalent in Warwickshire, and as having given the name to the well-known Bush Inn at Bristol.
B. W. C. (Barum). The subject is under serious consideration, but the difficulties are greater than our friendly Correspondent imagines.
J. D. Les Lettres Cabalistiques were written by M. D'Argens, the author of Les Lettres Juives and Les Lettres Chinoises.
Mr. J. A. Dunkin, of Dartford, Kent, would feel obliged with the loan of the following work: Memoirs of the Origin of the Incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond. It is not in the British Museum.
Folk Lore.—We propose next week to present our readers with a Christmas Number, rich in Folk Lore, and other kindred subjects.
Many replies to Correspondents are unavoidably postponed.
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