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{493} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 186.]
Saturday, May 21, 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493
Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495
Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by
James Graves 495
FOLK LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore
--Funeral Custom 496
Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496
MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of Luther--Randle Wilbraham
--Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott--Crassus'
Saying 498
QUERIES:--
Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499
"The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499
Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman 499
MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to
Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic
Registers--St. Alban's Day--Meigham, the London
Printer--Adamsoniana--Canker or Brier Rose--
"Short red, god red"--Overseers of Wills--Lepel's
Regiment--Vincent Family--Passage in the First
Part of Faust--Lady Anne Gray--Continental Brasses
--Peter Beaver--Cremonas--Cranmer and Calvin 499
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"A Letter to a Convocation
Man"--Prester John--Homer's Iliad in a
Nut--Monogram of Parker Society--The Five Alls--
Corvizer 502
REPLIES:--
English Comedians in Germany 503
A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death,
by Henry H. Breen 503
Longevity 504
Derivation of Canada, by Robert Wright 504
Setantiorum Portus 505
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Stereoscopic Queries
--Photographic Portraits of Criminals, &c.--Photography
applied to Catalogues of Books--Application
of Photography to the Microscope 505
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Discovery At Nuneham
Regis--Eulenspiegel, or Howleglas--Parochial Libraries
--Painter--Pepys's "Morena"--Pylades and
Corinna--Judge Smith--Grindle--Simile of the Soul
and the Magnetic Needle--English Bishops deprived
by Queen Elizabeth--Borrowed Thoughts--Dr. South
_v._ Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c.--Foucault's Experiment
--Passage in "Locksley Hall"--Lake of
Geneva--"Inter cuncta micans"--"Its"--Gloves
at Fairs--Astronomical Query--Tortoiseshell Tom
Cat--Sizain on the Pope, the Devil, and the Pretender
--Wandering Jew--Hallett and Dr. Saxby--
"My mind to me a kingdom is"--Claret--Suicide at
Marseilles--Etymology of Slang--Scanderbeg's Sword
--Arago on the Weather--Rathe--Carr Pedigree--
Banbury Cakes--Detached Belfry Towers, &c. 507
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 513
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 514
Notices to Correspondents 514
Advertisements 514
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