CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.[397]
On a Passage in Orosius, by E. Thomson[399]
Notes on several Misunderstood Words, by Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith[400]
A Work on the Macrocosm[402]
Dr. South's Latin Tract against Sherlock, by James Crossley[402]
Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, S. Singleton, &c.[403]
Minor Notes:—Robert Weston—Sonnet on the Rev. Joseph Blanco White—English and American Booksellers —Odd Mistake—Thomas Shakspeare—Early Winters[404]
Queries:—
Satirical Playing Cards, by T. J. Pettigrew[405]
Movable Metal Types anno 1435, by George Stephens[405]
Portraits at Brickwall House[406]
Minor Queries:—Christian Names—Lake of Geneva —Clerical Portrait—Arms: Battle-axe—Bullinger's Sermons—Gibbon's Library—Dr. Timothy Bright —Townley MSS.—Order of St. John of Jerusalem —Consecrated Roses, Swords, &c.—West, Kipling, and Millbourne—Font Inscriptions—Welsh Genealogical Queries—The Butler and his Man William—Longhi's Portraits of Guidiccioni—Sir George Carr—Dean Pratt—Portrait of Franklin—"Enquiry into the State of the Union"[406]
Minor Queries With Answers:—Bishop of Oxford in 1164—Roman Inscription found at Battle Bridge— Blow-shoppes—Bishop Hesketh—Form of Prayer for Prisoners[409]
Replies:—
Edmund Spenser, and Spensers, or Spencers, of Hurstwood, by J. B. Spencer, &c.[410]
Throwing old Shoes for Luck, by John Thrupp[411]
Orkneys in Pawn[412]
Hogarth's Pictures, by E. G. Ballard and W. D. Haggard[412]
Phantom Bells and Lost Churches[413]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Photographic Collodion—Filtering Collodion—Photographic Notes —Colouring Collodion Pictures—Gutta Percha Baths[414]
Replies To Minor Queries:—Pilgrimages to the Holy Land—"A Letter to a Convocation Man"—King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate—Eulenspiegel or Howleglas —Sir Edwin Sadleir—Belfry Towers separate from the Body of the Church—God's Marks—"The Whippiad" —The Axe that beheaded Anne Boleyn, &c.[415]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[417]
Notices to Correspondents[418]
Advertisements[418]

[Notes.]

POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE.

Having lately been making some research among our British poets, as to the character of the nightingale's song, I was much struck with the great quantity and diversity of epithets that I found applied to the bird. The difference of opinion that has existed with regard to the quality of its song, has of course led the poetical adherents of either side to couple the nightingale's name with that very great variety of adjectives which I shall presently set down in a tabular form, with the names of the poetical sponsors attached thereto. And, in making this the subject of a Note, I am only opening up an old Query; for the character of the nightingale's song has often been a matter for discussion, not only for poets and scribblers, but even for great statesmen like Fox, who, amid all the anxieties of a political life, could yet find time to defend the nightingale from being a "most musical, most melancholy" bird.

Coleridge's onslaught upon this line, in his poem of "The Nightingale," must be well known to all lovers of poetry; and his re-christening of the bird by that epithet which Chaucer had before given it:

"'Tis the merry nightingale,

That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,