Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins 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: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. {589} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 190.] Saturday, June 18, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 589 The Megatherium Americanum in the British Museum 590 Remunerations of Authors, by Alexander Andrews 591 Coincident Legends, by Thomas Keightley 591 Shakespeare Readings, No. VIII. 592 Shakespeare's Use of the Idiom "No had" and "No hath not," by S. W. Singer, &c. 593 MINOR NOTES:--The Formation of the Woman, Gen. ii. 21, 22.--Singular Way of showing Displeasure --The Maids and the Widows--Alison's "Europe"-- "Bis dat, qui cito dat:" "Sat cito, si sat bene" 593 QUERIES:-- House-marks 594 Minor Queries:--"Seductor Succo"--Anna Lightfoot --Queries from the "Navorscher"--"Amentium haud Amantium"--"Hurrah!" and other War-cries --Kissing Hands at Court--Uniforms of the three Regiments of Foot Guards, temp. Charles II.--Raffaelle's Sposalizio--"To the Lords of Convention"-- Richard Candishe, M.P.--Alphabetical Arrangement-- Saying of Pascal--Irish Characters on the Stage-- Family of Milton's Widow--Table-moving 595 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Form of Petition, &c.--Bibliography--Peter Francius and De Wilde-- Work by Bishop Ken--Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon--Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan--Coins of Europe--General Benedict Arnold 596 REPLIES:-- Parish Registers: Right of Search, by G. Brindley Acworth 598 The Honourable Miss E. St. Leger, a Freemason, by Henry H. Breen 598 Weather Rules, by John Booker, &c. 599 Scotchmen in Poland, by Richard John King 600 Mr. Justice Newton 600 The Marriage Ring 601 Canada, &c. 602 Selling a Wife, by William Bates 602 Enough 603