We are this week compelled to omit our usual Notices of Books, &c.
Among other interesting communications which we are this week compelled to postpone from want of room, is one of great interest from the KNIGHT OF KERRY, on the portrait in his possession of the Old Countess of Desmond; one by LORD BRAYBROOKE on the celebrated interview between Bonaparte and Lord Whitworth; and Archbishop Laud's Notes on Prynne's Breviate.
REPLIES RECEIVED.—Epitaph on Voltaire—Meaning of Blaen—Music by Handel—Plague Stones—George Trout—Title of Reverend—King's College Chapel—Cromwell's Skull—Song of "Miss Bailey"—Macaronic Poetry—Story of Ginevra—Sir E. Seaward's Narrative—Arms of Manchester—Fern Seed, &c.—"Man proposes," &c.—Mispronounced Names of Places—Palace of Lucifer—Alecknegate—Bigot—White Feather—Ballad of Lord Delamere—Old Scots March—Maps of Africa—St. Paul and the Heathen Writers—"Wise above that which is written"—Paring the Nails—Rev. John Paget—History of Commerce—London Street Characters—Great Bowyer Bible—Wiclif, Orthography of—Ancient Trees—Game of Curling—Family Likenesses—English Translation of the Canons—Quotations wanted—Ecclesiastical Geography.
H. T. H. Queries respecting Irish Antiquities are quite within the province of "N. & Q."
MAY MARRIAGES. CONSTANT READER is referred to our Second Volume, p. 52., for an answer to his Query upon this subject.
COMBE'S WORKS. We have received an obliging Note from MR. COLE, in which he informs us that the List of Combe's Works referred to in The Athenæum and "N. & Q." (Vol. v., p. 194.), has been placed by him at the service of the Gentleman's Magazine, and will probably appear in the April Number of that Journal.
MONASTIC ESTABLISHMENTS IN SCOTLAND. CEYREP will feel obliged by the transcript of the List of these Establishments contained in Cardonnel, so kindly offered by M. S. at p. 189.
H. W. The proper line is—
"When Greeks join Greeks then is the tug of war."
It is from Lee's Alexander the Great.