{229} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 175.] SATURDAY, MARCH 5. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Cowper and Tobacco Smoking, by William Bates, &c. 229 "Shakspeare in the Shades:" a Ballad, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 230 Swedish Words current in England, by Charles Watkins 231 Sir David Lindsay's Viridarium, by Sir W. C. Trevelyan 231 MINOR NOTES:--Unlucky Days--The Pancake Bell--Quoits--The Family of Townerawe--"History of Formosa"--Notes on Newspapers 232 QUERIES:-- Wild Plants and their Names 233 Popular Sayings, by M. Aislabie Denham 233 MINOR QUERIES:--Hermit Queries--Derivation of "Cobb"-- Play-bills--Sir Edward Grymes, Bart.--Smollett's "Strap"--The Iron Mask--Bland Family--Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, 1687-99, &c.--Crescent--"Quod fuit esse"--"Coming home to men's business"--Thomas Gibbes of Fenton--"The Whipping Toms" at Leicester-- The Trial of our Lord--Olney--Album--The Lisle Family-- Wards of the Crown--Tate, an Artist--Philip d'Auvergne-- Somersetshire Ballad--Lady High Sheriff--Major-General Lambert--Hoyle, Meaning of; and Hoyle Family--Robert Dodsley--Mary Queen of Scots--Heuristisch: Evristic 234 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Eugenia," by Hayes and Carr--Claret--"Strike, but hear me"--Fever at Croydon-- "Gesmas et Desmas"--Satirical Medal 237 REPLIES:-- The Gookins of Ireland 238 "Stabat quocunque jeceris," by Dr. William Bell 239 "Pic-nics" 240 "Coninger" or "Coningry" 241 Names and Numbers of British Regiments, by Arthur Hamilton 241 Vicars-Apostolic in England 242 Smock Marriages: Scotch Law of Marriage 243 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Mr. Weld Taylor's Process--Animal Charcoal in Photography--Sir W. Newton on Use of Common Soda and Alum--Difficulties in Photographic Practice 244 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Countess of Pembroke's Letter--Ethnology of England--Drake the Artist-- Sparse--Genoveva of Brabant--God's Marks--Segantiorum Portus--Rubrical Query--Rosa Mystica--Portrait of Charles I.--"Time and I"--The Word "Party"--"Mater ait natæ," &c.--Gospel Place--Passage in Thomson--"Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts"--Folger Family 245 MISCELLANEOUS:--