PERMANENT ENLARGEMENT OF "NOTES AND QUERIES"—In compliance with the suggestion of many of our correspondents, and for the purpose of giving more ready insertion to the Replies which we receive to their Queries, we propose to enlarge our Paper permanently to 24 pages; making it 32 pages when occasion requires. This change, called for moreover by the increase of our correspondence consequent on our increased circulation, will take place on the 3rd of January next, when we shall commence our Fifth Volume. From that day the price of our paper will be 4d. for the unstamped, and 5d. for stamped copies. By this arrangement we shall render unnecessary the double or Sixpenny Numbers now issued nearly every month; thus avoiding a good deal of occasional confusion, and rendering the price of the enlarged "NOTES AND QUERIES" for the whole year very little more than it is at present.
We have to apologize to many of our correspondents, more especially our Querists, for the non-insertion of their communications. But we have been anxious at the close of our Volume to insert as many Replies as possible. We hope, with the New Year, and our new arrangements, to render such explanations as the present unnecessary.
We are unavoidably compelled to omit our usual list of REPLIES RECEIVED.
Errata.—Page 343, No. 105, for "Beltrus" read "Beltrees;" for "Kilbarchum" read "Kilbarchan."
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