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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 90. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 90.
SATURDAY, JULY 19. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
A Caxton Memorial suggested, by Bolton Corney 33
Supposed Witchcraft 35
The late Sir John Graham Dalyell 35
Appropriation of a Thought, by James Cornish 36
The "Eisell" Controversy, by Samuel Hickson 36
Minor Notes:—"Miserrimus"—The Dog and Duck, St. George's Fields—The Habit of profane Swearing by the English—Tennyson's Use of the Word "Cycle"—A Moiety 37
QUERIES:—
Etymology of Fontainebleau, by H. H. Breen 38
Force of Conscience 38
English Literature in the North, by George Stephens 38
Minor Queries:—Painted Portraits of Overton—Fourth Fare—John Wood, Architect—Derivation of "Spon"—Dell, in what County—Bummaree or Bumaree—Thread the Needle—Proof of a Sword—Shelley's Children—Ackey Trade—Baskerville the Printer—Statue of Charles II.—La Mère Jeanne—Man Of War, why a Ship Of War so called—Secret Service Money of Charles II.—Hampton Court 39
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—De Rebus Hibernicis—Abridgment of the Assizes—Life Of Cromwell 41
REPLIES:—
Written Sermons and Extempore Preaching 41
Fest Sittings 42
Histoire des Sévérambes, by H. H. Breen 43
Salting the Dead 43
Replies to Minor Queries:—Bogatsky—Baronette—Rifles—Miss—Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest—English Sapphics—Welwood—Bellarmio's Monstrous Paradox—Jonah and the Whale—Book Plates 44
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 46
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 46
Notices to Correspondents 47
Advertisements 47
Notes.
A CAXTON MEMORIAL SUGGESTED.
After Caxton had slept with his fathers for three centuries, remembered only by a few antiquaries, it was deemed fit that a public monument should record his merits.
The Roxburghe club, much to the honour of its members, undertook to bear the cost of it, and to superintend its execution. With regard to its location, there was no question as to the paramount claims of Westminster. It was proposed, in the first instance, to place it in the collegiate church of St. Peter, within the precincts of which church Caxton had exercised his art. The want of a convenient space was rather an obstacle to that plan: a more serious obstacle was the amount of fees demanded on such occasions. It was then decided, and perhaps with more propriety, that it should be placed in the parish church of St. Margaret; and the execution of the monument, which was to be of the tablet form, was entrusted to the younger Westmacott.[1] An engraving of it has been published.[2] The inscription is
"To the memory
of William Caxton
who first introduced