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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.
| No. 204. | Saturday, September 24. 1853. |
Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
Notes:— | Page |
Extinct Volcanos and Mountains of Gold in Scotland | |
Thomas Blount, Author of "Fragmenta Antiquitatis," &c., by J. B. Whitborne | |
"Give him a Roll."—A Plea for the Horse, by C. Forbes | |
Dream Testimony, by C. H. Cooper | |
Shakspeare Correspondence | |
Minor Notes:—Epitaph from Stalbridge—Curious Extracts: Dean Nowell: Bottled Beer—A Collection of Sentences out of some of the Writings of the Lord Bacon—Law and Usage—Manichæan Games—Bohn's Hoveden—Milton at Eyford House | |
Queries:— | |
Earl of Leicester's Portrait, 1585 | |
Early Use of Tin | |
St. Patrick—Maune and Man, by J. G. Cumming | |
Passage in Bingham, by Richard Bingham | |
Minor Queries:—"Terræ filius"—Daughter pronounced Dafter—Administration of the Holy Communion—Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead—A Scrape—"Plus occidit Gula," &c.—Anecdote of Napoleon—Canonisation in the Greek Church—Binometrical Verses—Dictionary of English Phrases—Lines on Woman—Collections for Poor Slaves—The Earl of Oxford and the Creation of Peers—"Like one who wakes," &c. | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Glossarial Queries—Military Knights of Windsor—"Elijah's Mantle" | |
Replies:— | |
Milton and Malatesti, by S. W. Singer | |
Attainment of Majority | |
John Frewen | |
"Voiding Knife," "Voider," and "Alms-Basket," by W. Chaffers | |
The Letter "h" in Humble | |
School Libraries, by Mackenzie Walcott, M.A., &c. | |
Dr. John Taylor | |
Portrait of Sir Anthony Wingfield, by John Wodderspoon, &c. | |
Barnacles | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Precision in Photographic Processes—Tent for Collodion—Mr. Sisson's Developing Solution—Mr. Stewart's Pantograph | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—George Browne of Shefford—Wheale—Sir Arthur Aston—"A Mockery," &c.—Norman of Winster—Arms of the See of York—Roger Wilbraham Esq.'s, Cheshire Collection—Pierrepont—Passage in Bacon—Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral—Lord North—Land of Green Ginger—Sheer, and Shear Hulk—Serpent with a Human Head—"When the maggot bites"—Definition of a Proverb—Gilbert White of Selborne, &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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