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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. 212. Saturday, November 19. 1853. Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—

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Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century:—No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse"

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Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

[488]

Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper

[488]

Rev. Josiah Pullen

[489]

Folk Lore:—Ancient Custom in Warwickshire—Nottinghamshire Customs

[490]

Minor Notes:—A Centenarian Couple—"Veni, vidi, vici"—Autumnal Tints—Variety is pleasing—Rome and the Number Six—Zend Grammar—The Duke's First Victory—Straw Paper—American Epitaph

[490]

Queries:—

Laurie (?) on Currency, &c.

[491]

"Donatus Redivivus"

[492]

Minor Queries:—Henry Scobell—The Court House—Ash-trees attract Lightning—Symbol of Sow, &c.—Passage in Blackwood—Rathband Family—Encaustic Tiles from Caen—Artificial Drainage—Storms at the Death of Great Men—Motto on Wylcotes' Brass—"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Roman Catholic Bible Society

[493]

Minor Queries with Answers—"Vox Populi Vox Dei"—"Lanquettes Cronicles"—"Our English Milo"—"Delights for Ladies"—Burton's Death—Joannes Audoënus—Hampden's Death

[494]

Replies:-

Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c.

[496]

Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato

[497]

Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby

[497]

School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley Acworth

[498]

Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c.

[499]

"Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas

[500]

Photographic Correspondence:—Clouds in Photographs—Albumenized Paper—Stereoscopic Angles—Photographic Copies of MSS.

[501]

Replies to Minor Queries:—Lord Cecil's "Memorials"—Foreign Medical Education—Encyclopædias—Pepys's Grammar—"Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi"—Napoleon's Spelling—Black as a mourning Colour—Chanting of Jurors—Aldress—Huggins and Muggins—Camera Lucida—"When Orpheus went down"—The Arms of De Sissone—Oaths of Pregnant Women—Lepel's Regiment—Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1662—Creole—Daughter pronounced "Dafter"—Richard Geering—Island

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Miscellaneous:-

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

[505]

Notices to Correspondents

[505]

Advertisements

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