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. * * * * * {69} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 195.] SATURDAY, JULY 23. 1853.. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page William Blake 69 A Poem by Shelley, not in his Works 71 The Impossibilities of History 72 "Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat," by T. J. Buckton 73 Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. Payne Collier, George Blink, &c. 73 "The Dance of Death," by Weld Taylor 76 MINOR NOTES:--Old Lines newly revived--Inscription near Cirencester--Wordsworth--"Magna est Veritas et praevalebit"--"Putting your foot into it" 76 QUERIES:-- Fragments of MSS., by Philip Hale 77 The Electric Telegraph, by W. Matthews 78 MINOR QUERIES:--Sir Walter Raleigh--Ancient Fortifications: Hertstone, Pale, Brecost--Newton and Somers--Daventry, Duel at--Passage in Burial Service-- "They shot him on the nine-stane rig"--Wardhouse, and Fishermen's Custom there--"Adrian turn'd the bull"-- Cary's "Palaeologia Chronica"--The Southwark Pudding Wonder--Roman Catholics confined in Fens of Ely--White Bell Heather transplanted--Green's "Secret Plot"-- "The full Moon brings fine Weather"--Nash the Artist-- Woodwork of St. Andrew's Priory Church, Barnwell-- "The Mitre and the Crown"--Military Music 78 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Stoven Church--The Statute of Kilkenny--Kenne of Kenne--Rents of Assize, &c.--Edifices of Ancient and Modern Times--Gorram-- "Rock of Ages" 80 REPLIES:-- Remuneration of Authors 81 On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 82 Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge 83 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Multiplication of Photographs--Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals 85