We cannot permit the present Number, which commences the Fourth Volume
of "NOTES AND QUERIES," to come into the hands of our Readers without
some few words of acknowledgment and thanks to those Friends, Readers,
and Correspondents, whose kind encouragement and assistance have raised
our paper to its present high position;--
"and thanks to men
Of noble mind, is honorable meed."
To those thanks we will add our promise, that no effort shall be wanting
to carry on this paper in the same spirit in which it was commenced, and
to add, if possible, to its utility and interest. And by way of setting
an example to our correspondents--
"every word to spare
That wants of force, or light, or weight or care"--
we will, with these thanks and this promise, bid our friends fall to on
the Banquet of Pleasant Inventions spread out for them in the following
pages.
Notes.