Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853.: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
General
Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853.: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
REPLIES:--
Hamilton Queries, by Lord Braybrooke, &c. 333
The Wood of the Cross 334
Edmund Chaloner, by T. Hughes 334
"Anywhen" and "Seldom-when:" unobserved Instances
of Shakespeare's Use of the latter, S. W.
Singer 335
Chichester: Lavant, by W. L. Nichols 335
Scarfs worn by Clergymen, by Rev. John Jebb, &c. 337
Inscriptions in Books, by Russell Gole, George S. Master,
&c. 337
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Head-rests--
Sir W. Newton's Explanations of his Process--Talc
for Collodion Pictures 338
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Portrait of the Duke
of Gloucester--Key to Dibdin's "Bibliomania"--High
Spirits a Presage of Evil--Hogarth's Works--Town
Plough--Shoreditch Cross and the painted Window in
Shoreditch Church--Race for Canterbury--Lady High
Sheriff--Burial of an unclaimed Corpse--Surname of
Allan--The Patronymic Mac--Cibber's "Lives of
the Poets"--Parallel Passages, No. 2.: Stars and
Flowers--Schomberg's Epitaph--Pilgrimages to the
Holy Land--Album--Gesmas and Desmas--"Quod
fuit esse"--Straw Bail--Pearl--Sermons by Parliamentary
Chaplains, &c. 338
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 345
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 346
Notices to Correspondents 346
Advertisements 346
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NOTES.
JACK.
I wish to note, and to suggest to students in ethnology, the Query, how
it comes to pass that John Bull has a peculiar propensity to call things
by his own name, his familiar appellative of _Jack_?
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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