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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. 208. | Saturday, October 22. 1853. |
Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
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A Prophet | |
Folk Lore:—Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire—New Brunswick Folk Lore—North Lincolnshire Folk Lore—Portuguese Folk Lore | |
Pope and Cowper, By J. Yeowell | |
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Patrick Muirson, &c. | |
Minor Notes:—Judicial Families—Derivation of "Topsy Turvy"—Dictionaries and Encyclopædias—"Mary, weep no more for me"—Epitaph at Wood Ditton—Pictorial Pun | |
Queries:— | |
Sir Thomas Button's Voyage, 1612, by John Petheram | |
Minor Queries:—The Words "Cash" and "Mob"—"History of Jesus Christ"—Quantity of the Latin Termination -anus—Webb and Walker Families—Cawdrey's "Treasure of Similes"—Point of Etiquette—Napoleon's Spelling—Trench on Proverbs—Rings formerly worn by Ecclesiastics—Butler's "Lives of the Saints"—Marriage of Cousins—Castle Thorpe, Bucks—Where was Edward II. killed?—Encore—Amcotts' Pedigree—Blue Bell: Blue Anchor—"We've parted for the longest time"—Matthew Lewis—Paradise Lost—Colonel Hyde Seymour—Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire—Poems published at Manchester—Handel's Dettingen Te Deum—Edmund Spenser and Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—The Ligurian Sage—Gresebrok in Yorkshire—Stillingfleet's Library—The whole System of Law—Saint Malachy on the Popes—Work on the Human Figure | |
Replies:— | |
"Namby Pamby," and other Words of the same Form | |
Earl of Oxford | |
Picts' Houses | |
Pronunciation of "Humble" | |
School Libraries | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Albumenized Paper—Cement for Glass Baths—New Process for Positive Proofs | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—The Groaning Elmplank in Dublin—Passage in Whiston—"When Orpheus went down"—Foreign Medical Education—"Short red, good red"—Collar of SS.—Who first thought of Table-turning—Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions—Origin of "Clipper" as applied to Vessels—Passage in Tennyson—Huet's Navigations of Solomon—Sincere—The Saltpetre Man— Major André—Longevity—Passage in Virgil—Love Charm from a Foal's Forehead—Wardhouse, where was?—Divining Rod—Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle—Pagoda | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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