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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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| No. 63. | SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1851. |
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | Page |
| The Breeches, or Geneva Bible | [17] |
| Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm Digby | [18] |
| Works of Camoens, by John Adamson | [18] |
| Folk Lore | [20] |
| Elizabeth Walker—Shakspeare | [21] |
| Old English Actors and Musicians in Germany | [21] |
| Minor Notes:—The Curse of Scotland—George Herbert—Dutch Versions of English Essayists—Long Meg of Westminster—Errors in the Date of printed Books | [22] |
| QUERIES:— | |
| Dousa's Poem on Sidney—Old Dutch Song Book | [22] |
| Minor Queries:—Sir Cloudesley Shovel—Christopher Flecamore—"Earth has no Rage." &c.—D'Oyly and Barry Families—Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham—Epigram on the Synod of Dort—Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth—Invention of Steam Power—Mythology of the Stars—Sword of the Conqueror—Neville Family—Meaning of "Difformis"—Lynch Law—Prior's Posthumous Works—Suppressed Chantries | [23] |
| REPLIES:— | |
| Pagnini's Bible | [24] |
| The Frozen Horn | [25] |
| Dominicals | [25] |
| Medals struck by Charles XII.—Rudbeck's Atlantica, by G.J.R. Gordon | [26] |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Fossil Deer (not Elk) of Ireland—"Away, let nought to love displeasing"—Red Sindon—Coleridge and the Penny Post—Autograph of Titus Oates—Circulation of the Blood—True Blue—Cherubim and Seraphim—Darcy Lever Church—Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston—Defender of the Faith—Farquharson on Auroræ, &c. | [26] |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | [30] |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | [31] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [31] |
| Advertisements | [31] |