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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 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.
| Vol. V.—No. 139. | Saturday, June 26. 1852. | Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, No. V., by T. Sternberg | 601 |
| Dr. Thomas Morell's Copy of H. Stephens' Edition of Æschylus, 1557, with MSS. Notes, by Richard Hooper | 604 |
| On a Passage in the "Merchant of Venice," Act III. Sc. 2., by S. W. Singer | 605 |
| Episode of the French Revolution, by Philip S. King | 605 |
| Milton indebted to Tacitus, by Thomas H. Gill | 606 |
| Minor Notes:—Note by Warton on Aristotle's "Poetics"—Misappropriated Quotation—The God Arciacon—Gat-tothed—Goujere—The Ten Commandments in Ten Lines—Vellum-bound Books | 606 |
| Queries:— | |
| Thomas Gill, the Blind Man of St. Edmundsbury | 608 |
| Bronze Medals, by John J. A. Boase | 608 |
| Acworth Queries | 608 |
| Minor Queries:—"Row the boat, Norman"—The Hereditary Standard Bearer—Walton's Angler; Seth's Pillars; May-butter; English Guzman—Radish Feast—What Kind of Drink is Whit?—"Felix natu," &c.—"Gutta cavat lapidem"—Punch and Judy—Sir John Darnall—The Chevalier St. George—Declaration of 2000 Clergymen—MS. "De Humilitate"—MS. Work on Seals—Sir George Carew—Docking Horses' Tails—St. Albans, William, Abbot of—Jeremy Taylor on Friendship—Colonel or Major-General Lee—"Roses and all that's fair adorn" | 609 |
| Minor Queries Answered:—Donne—Dr. Evans | 611 |
| Replies:— | |
| Carling Sunday; Roman Funeral Pile | 611 |
| Hart and Mohun | 612 |
| Burial without Religious Service—Burial, by Alfred Gatty | 613 |
| "Quod non fecerunt Barbari," &c. | 614 |
| Restive | 614 |
| Men of Kent and Kentish Men, by George R. Corner | 615 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Speculum Christianorum, &c.—Smyth's MSS. relating to Gloucestershire—M. Barrière and the Quarterly Review—"I do not know what the truth may be"—Optical Phenomena—Stoup—Seventh Son of a Seventh Son—The Number Seven—Commentators—Banning or Bayning Family—Tortoiseshell Tom Cat—A Tombstone cut by Baskerville—Shakspeare, Tennyson, &c.—Rhymes on Places—Birthplace of Josephine—The Curse of Scotland—Waller Family—"After me the Deluge"—Sun-Dial Motto—Lines by Lord Palmerston—Indian Jugglers—Sons of the Conqueror—Saint Wilfrid's Needle—Frebord—Royd—Spy Wednesday—Book of Jasher—Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft—Lines on Chaucer—Fairlop Oak—Boy Bishop at Eton—Plague Stones; Mr. Mompesson—Raleigh's Ring—Pandecte, an entire Copy of the Bible | 616 |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | 622 |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | 622 |
| Notices to Correspondents | 623 |
| Advertisements | 623 |
Notes.
POPULAR STORIES OF THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY,
NO. V.
By far the larger portion of our tales consist of those connected with the popular mythology of elves, and giants, and