Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Pat A. Benoy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's Note: Italicized words, phrases, etc. are | | surrounded by _underline characters_. Greek transliterations | | are surrounded by ~tildes~. Overlines indicating abbreviations | | are shown like this, D[=n]e, meaning a line over the letter n. | | Archaic spellings and hyphenation inconsistencies have been | | left as originally printed. | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ {397} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 182.] SATURDAY, APRIL 23. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 397 On a Passage in Orosius, by E. Thomson 399 Notes on several Misunderstood Words, by Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 400 A Work on the Macrocosm 402 Dr. South's Latin Tract against Sherlock, by James Crossley 402 Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, S. Singleton, &c. 403 MINOR NOTES:--Robert Weston--Sonnet on the Rev. Joseph Blanco White--English and American Booksellers --Odd Mistake--Thomas Shakspeare--Early Winters 404 QUERIES:-- Satirical Playing Cards, by T. J. Pettigrew 405 Movable Metal Types anno 1435, by George Stephens 405 Portraits at Brickwall House 406 MINOR QUERIES:--Christian Names--Lake of Geneva --Clerical Portrait--Arms: Battle-axe--Bullinger's Sermons--Gibbon's Library--Dr. Timothy Bright --Townley MSS.--Order of St. John of Jerusalem --Consecrated Roses, Swords, &c.--West, Kipling, and Millbourne--Font Inscriptions--Welsh Genealogical Queries--The Butler and his Man William--Longhi's Portraits of Guidiccioni--Sir George Carr--Dean Pratt--Portrait of Franklin--"Enquiry into the State of the Union" 406