CONTENTS.

Previous

Notes:—

Page

Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century:—No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse"

485

Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A.

488

Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper

488

Rev. Josiah Pullen

489

Folk Lore:—Ancient Custom in Warwickshire—Nottinghamshire Customs

490

Minor Notes:—A Centenarian Couple—"Veni, vidi, vici"—Autumnal Tints—Variety is pleasing—Rome and the Number Six—Zend Grammar—The Duke's First Victory—Straw Paper—American Epitaph

490

Queries:—

Laurie (?) on Currency, &c.

491

"Donatus Redivivus"

492

Minor Queries:—Henry Scobell—The Court House—Ash-trees attract Lightning—Symbol of Sow, &c.—Passage in Blackwood—Rathband Family—Encaustic Tiles from Caen—Artificial Drainage—Storms at the Death of Great Men—Motto on Wylcotes' Brass—"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Roman Catholic Bible Society

493

Minor Queries with Answers—"Vox Populi Vox Dei"—"Lanquettes Cronicles"—"Our English Milo"—"Delights for Ladies"—Burton's Death—Joannes AudoËnus—Hampden's Death

494

Replies:-

Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c.

496

Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato

497

Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby

497

School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley Acworth

498

Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E.C. Harington, &c.

499

"Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas

500

Photographic Correspondence:—Clouds in Photographs—Albumenized Paper—Stereoscopic Angles—Photographic Copies of MSS.

501

Replies to Minor Queries:—Lord Cecil's "Memorials"—Foreign Medical Education—EncyclopÆdias—Pepys's Grammar—"Antiquitas SÆculi Juventus Mundi"—Napoleon's Spelling—Black as a mourning Colour—Chanting of Jurors—Aldress—Huggins and Muggins—Camera Lucida—"When Orpheus went down"—The Arms of De Sissone—Oaths of Pregnant Women—Lepel's Regiment—Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1662—Creole—Daughter pronounced "Dafter"—Richard Geering—Island

502

Miscellaneous:-

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

505

Notices to Correspondents

505

Advertisements

505


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Clyx.com


Top of Page
Top of Page