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Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.


"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.


No. 186.

Saturday, May 21, 1853.

Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.


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Minor Notes:—Portrait of Luther—Randle Wilbraham —Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott—Crassus' Saying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

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