MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Bishop of Oxford in 1164--Roman Inscription found at Battle Bridge-- Blow-shoppes--Bishop Hesketh--Form of Prayer for Prisoners 409 REPLIES:-- Edmund Spenser, and Spensers, or Spencers, of Hurstwood, by J. B. Spencer, &c. 410 Throwing old Shoes for Luck, by John Thrupp 411 Orkneys in Pawn 412 Hogarth's Pictures, by E. G. Ballard and W. D. Haggard 412 Phantom Bells and Lost Churches 413 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Photographic Collodion--Filtering Collodion--Photographic Notes --Colouring Collodion Pictures--Gutta Percha Baths 414 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Pilgrimages to the Holy Land--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate--Eulenspiegel or Howleglas --Sir Edwin Sadleir--Belfry Towers separate from the Body of the Church--God's Marks--"The Whippiad" --The Axe that beheaded Anne Boleyn, &c. 415 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 417 Notices to Correspondents 418 Advertisements 418 * * * * * NOTES. POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE. Having lately been making some research among our British poets, as to the character of the nightingale's song, I was much struck with the great quantity and diversity of epithets that I found applied to the bird. The difference of opinion that has existed with regard to the quality of its song, has of course led the poetical adherents of either side to couple the nightingale's name with that very great variety of adjectives which I shall presently set down in a tabular form, with the names of the poetical sponsors attached thereto. And, in making this the subject of a Note, I am only opening up an old Query; for the character of the nightingale's song has often been a matter for discussion, not only for poets and scribblers, but even for great statesmen like Fox, who, amid all the anxieties of a political life, could yet find time to defend the nightingale from being a "most musical, most melancholy" bird. Coleridge's onslaught upon this line, in his poem of "The Nightingale," must be well known to all lovers of poetry; and his re-christening of the bird by that epithet which Chaucer had before given it: "'Tis the _merry_ nightingale, That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates, With fast thick warble, his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music!"