NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.


No. 238. Saturday, May 20. 1854 Price Fourpence
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—

Page

A Leader from a Foreign Newspaper: the New Russian Manifesto

[463]

The Launch of the "Prince Royal" in 1610

[464]

"Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, by Dr. Monicke"

[465]

The Legend of the Seven Sisters

[465]

Minor Notes:—Coincidences—The English Liturgy—"To jump for joy"—"What is Truth?"—Abolition of Government Patronage

[466]

Minor Queries:—"One New Year's Day"—Greek denounced by the Monks—Pliny's Dentistry—J. Farrington, R.A.—Henry Crewkerne of Exeter—Dr. Johnson—Latin "Dante"—Ralph Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent—Major-General Wolfe—Custom at University College, Oxford—"Old Dominion"—"Wise men labour," &c.

[467]

Minor Queries with Answers:— Dame Hester Temple—Samuel White—Heralds' College—Pope

[468]

Replies:—

Blanco White's Sonnet, by S. W. Singer

[469]

Goloshes

[470]

Consonants in Welsh, by Thomas O'Coffey, &c.

[471]

Songs of Degrees (Ascents), by T. J. Buckton

[473]

The Screw Propeller

[473]

Amontillado Sherry

[474]

Recent Curiosities of Literature

[475]

Roland the Brave, by F. M. Middleton, &c.

[475]

Photographic Correspondence:— Recovery of Silver

[476]

Replies to Minor Queries:—Ashes of "Lignites"—Old Rowley—"Bachelors of every Station"—Mousehunt—Value of Money in the Seventeenth Century—Grammars for Public Schools—Classic Authors and the Jews—Hand-bells at Funerals—"Warple-way"—Medal of Chevalier St. George—Shakspeare's Inheritance—Cassock—Tailless Cats—Names of Slaves—Heraldic—Solar Annual Eclipse of 1263—Brissot de Warville—"Le Compère Mathieu"—Etymology of "Awkward"—Life and Death—Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"—"Three Crowns and a Sugar-loaf"—Stanza in "Childe Harold"—Errors in Punctuation—Waugh of Cumberland—"Could we with ink," &c.

[477]

Miscellaneous:—

Books and Old Volumes Wanted

[482]

Notices to Correspondents

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