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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 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. 178. | Saturday, March 26. 1853. | Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Napoleon a Poet, by Henry H. Breen | 301 |
| Smith's "Dictionary of Antiquities" and "Dictionary of Biography and Mythology," by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. | 302 |
| St. Columba's Cross | 302 |
| Minor Notes:—The "Ball at Brussels," June, 1815: Historical Parallel of April, 1605—Drawing an Inference—Edmund Spenser—The Mint, Southwark | 303 |
| Queries:— | |
| The Spectre Horsemen of Southerfell | 304 |
| Minor Queries:—Passage in Bacon—Lamech killing Cain—Lord Chief Justice Popham—"Her face was like the milky way," &c.—Nelson Rings—Books wanted—Mr. Cromlin—Dr. Fletcher and Lady Baker—Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton—"Pylades and Corinna"—The Left Hand: its Etymology—The Parthenon | 305 |
| Replies:— | |
| Mediæval or Middle Ages | 306 |
| Consecrators of English Bishops | 306 |
| "Grindle" | 307 |
| Mummies of Ecclesiastics, by William Bates | 308 |
| Vicars-Apostolic in England | 308 |
| Banbury Zeal, &c. | 310 |
| Dr. South versus Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c., by Henry H. Breen | 311 |
| Irish Rhymes, by Henry H. Breen and Cuthbert Bede, B.A. | 312 |
| Count Gondomar | 313 |
| Door-head Inscriptions | 314 |
| Photographic Notes and Queries:—Photographic Gun-Cotton—Sealing-wax for Baths—Developing Chamber—The Black Tints on Photographic Positives | 314 |
| Replies To Minor Queries:—Contested Elections—Suicide at Marseilles—Acts xv. 23.—Serpent's Tongue—Croxton or Crostin—Robert Dodsley—Lord Goring—Chaplains to Noblemen—The Duke of Wellington Maréchal de France—Lord North—Mediæval Parchment—"I hear a lion," &c.—Fercett—Old Satchells—Curtseys and Bows—The Rev. Joshua Marsden—Sidney as a Christian Name—The Whetstone—Surname of Allen—Belatucadrus—Pot-guns—Graves Family—Portrait Painters—Plum Pudding—Muffs worn by Gentlemen—The Burial Service by Heart—Burrow—"Coming home to men's business"—Heuristic—"Cob" and "Conners"—Lady High Sheriff—Death of Nelson—Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662—Passage in Juvenal—Tennyson—Capital Punishment | 316 |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | 322 |
| Notices to Correspondents | 322 |
| Advertisements | 322 |
Notes.
NAPOLEON A POET.
In a work entitled Littérature Française Contemporaine, vol. ii. p. 268., there is a notice of the Bonaparte family, in their connexion with literature, in which it is stated that Napoleon, at the age of thirteen, wrote the following fable:—
"Le Chien, le Lapin, et le Chasseur.
César, chien d'arrêt renommé,
Mais trop enflé de son mérite,
Tenait arrêté dans son gîte
Un malheureux lapin de peur inanimé.
—Rends-toi, lui cria-t-il, d'une voix de tonnerre,
Qui fit au loin trembler les peuplades des bois:
Je suis