Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are indicated by footnotes to the relevant item. * * * * * {149} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 172.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Italian English 149 St. Nicholas Church, Brighton 150 Key to Dibdin's Bibliomania 151 Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 151 Antiquity of the Polka: a Note for the Ladies 152 Seven Score Superstitious Sayings, by J. Westby Gibson 152 MINOR NOTES:--Mormon Etymologies--Bandalore and Tommy Moore--Electric Clock--Desirable Reprints--The Earldom of Oxford--Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in the Seventeenth Century 153 QUERIES:-- Queries as to Mr. Collier's "Notes and Emendations" 153 Hone's "History of Parody," by James B. Murdoch 154 The Countess of Pembroke's Letter to Sir Joseph Williamson 154 MINOR QUERIES:--Mediæval Parchment--"Mater ait natæ"--Fox of Whittlebury Forest--Names and Numbers of British Regiments--Daughters of St. Mark--Kentish Fire--Optical Phenomenon--Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of England--Remarkable Signs--Old Fable--Tide Tables--Passage in Ovid--Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness--Curtseys and Bows--Historical Proverb--Bishop Patrick's "Parable of a Pilgrim"--Dr. Parr's Dedications--"Königl. Schwedischer in Teutschland geführter Krieg"--"Officium Birgittinum Anglice"--Campbell's Hymn on the Nativity 155 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"When Our Lord falls in Our Lady's Lap"--Hobnail-counting in the Court of Exchequer--A Race for Canterbury--Nose of Wax--"Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley!"--Rosary 157 REPLIES:-- The Rod: a Poem 158 The Dutch East-India Company 159 "Its," by Thomas Keightley 160 Commencement of the Year 161 "Penardo and Laissa" 161 Robin Hood, by John D'Alton and J. Lewelyn Curtis 162 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Originator of Collodion Process--The Soiling of the Fingers--Sir W. Newton's Process: Chloride of Bromium--The Collodion Process--Portable Camera 162