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NOTES AND QUERIES:
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| No. 216. | Saturday, December 17. 1853 |
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CONTENTS.
Notes:— | Page |
Teaching a Dog French, by Arthur Paget | |
The Religion of the Russians | |
Leicestershire Epitaphs, by William Kelly | |
Longfellow's "Reaper and the Flowers" | |
Minor Notes:—"Receipt" or "Recipe"—Death of Philip III. of Spain—Churchwardens—Epigram—Oxford Commemoration Squib, 1849—Professor Macgillivray—Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas | |
Queries:— | |
William Cookworthy, the Inventor of British Porcelain, by J. Prideaux | |
Catholic Floral Directories, &c. | |
George Alsop | |
Minor Queries:—B. L. M.—Member of Parliament electing himself—"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re"—Jacobite Garters—Daughters taking their Mothers' Names—General Fraser—A Punning Divine—Contango—Pedigree to the Time of Alfred—"Service is no inheritance"—Antiquity of Fire-irons—General Wolfe at Nantwich—"Corporations have no Souls," &c.—Leeming Family—MS. Poems and Songs—Bishop Watson | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Herbert's "Memoirs of the Last Years of Charles I."—"Liturgy of the Ancients"—"Ancient hallowed Dee"—Who was True Blue?—Charge of Plagiarism against Paley—Weber's "Cecilia"—Andrew Johnson—MS. by Glover—Gurney's Short-hand—Spurious Don Quixote | |
Replies:— | |
Pronunciation of Hebrew Names and Words in the Bible, by T. J. Buckton, &c. | |
Lord Halifax and Mrs. Catherine Barton, by Weld Taylor | |
Inscriptions in Books | |
Praying to the West | |
"Green Eyes," by C. Forbes, &c. | |
The Myrtle Bee, by W. R. D. Salmon | |
Tin | |
Milton's Widow | |
Books chained to Desks in Churches—Old Parochial Libraries | |
The Court-house, by P. H. Fisher | |
Photography.—On the Simplicity of the Calotype Process, by Dr. Diamond | |
Replies To Minor Queries:—Belike—Stage-coaches—Birthplace of King Edward V.—Ringing Church Bells at Death—What is the Origin of "Getting into a Scrape?"—High Dutch and Low Dutch—Discovery of Planets—Gloves at Fairs—Awk—Tenet—Lovett of Astwell—Irish Rhymes—Passage in Boerhaave—Unkid—To split Paper—La Fleur des Saints—Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury, &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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