Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. {493} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 186.] Saturday, May 21, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493 Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495 Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves 495 FOLK LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore --Funeral Custom 496 Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496 MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of Luther--Randle Wilbraham --Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott--Crassus' Saying 498 QUERIES:-- Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499 "The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499 Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman 499 MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic Registers--St. Alban's Day--Meigham, the London Printer--Adamsoniana--Canker or Brier Rose-- "Short red, god red"--Overseers of Wills--Lepel's Regiment--Vincent Family--Passage in the First Part of Faust--Lady Anne Gray--Continental Brasses --Peter Beaver--Cremonas--Cranmer and Calvin 499 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--Prester John--Homer's Iliad in a Nut--Monogram of Parker Society--The Five Alls-- Corvizer 502