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.) {93} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 196.] SATURDAY, JULY 30. 1853.. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Books chained to Desks in Churches: Font Inscription: Parochial Libraries, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 93 Real Signatures _versus_ Pseudo-names, by the Rev. James Graves 94 Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, by Vincent T. Sternberg 94 Shakspeare Correspondence, by Cecil Harbottle, &c. 95 Epitaph and Monuments in Wingfield Church, Suffolk 98 Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta 99 MINOR NOTES:--Meaning of "Clipper"--Anathema, Maran-atha--Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts--Pigs said to see the Wind--Anecdote of the Duke of Gloucester 100 QUERIES:-- Lord William Russell 100 Ancient Furniture--Prie-Dieu 101 MINOR QUERIES:--Reynolds' Nephew--Sir Isaac Newton--Limerick, Dublin, and Cork--Praying to the West--Mulciber--Captain Booth of Stockport--"A saint in crape"--French Abbes--What Day is it at our Antipodes?--"Spendthrift"--Second Growth of Grass-- The Laird of Brodie--Mrs. Tighe, Author of "Psyche"-- Bishop Ferrar--Sir Thomas de Longueville--Quotations wanted--Symon Patrick, Bishop of Ely: Durham: Weston: Jephson--The Heveninghams of Suffolk and Norfolk-- Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March)--Shape of Coffins--St. George Family Pictures--Caley (John), "Ecclesiastical Survey of the Possessions, &c. of the Bishop of St. David's," &c.--Adamson's "Lusitania Illustrata"--Blotting-paper-- Poetical Versions of the Fragments in Athenaeus 102 REPLIES:-- Robert Drury 104 The Termination -by 105 The Rosicrucians, by William Bates 106 Inscriptions on Bells, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 108 Was Cook the Discoverer of the Sandwich Islands? by C. E. Bagot 108 Megatherium Americanum, by W. Pinkerton 109 Photographic Correspondence:--Stereoscopic Angles--Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals 109