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. * * * * * {485} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 212.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century:--No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse" 485 Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 488 Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper 488 Rev. Josiah Pullen 489 FOLK LORE:--Ancient Custom in Warwickshire-- Nottinghamshire Customs 490 MINOR NOTES:--A Centenarian Couple--"Veni, vidi, vici"--Autumnal Tints--Variety is pleasing-- Rome and the Number Six--Zend Grammar--The Duke's First Victory--Straw Paper--American Epitaph 490 QUERIES:-- Laurie (?) on Currency, &c. 491 "Donatus Redivivus" 492 MINOR QUERIES:--Henry Scobell--The Court House --Ash-trees attract Lightning--Symbol of Sow, &c. --Passage in Blackwood--Rathband Family-- Encaustic Tiles from Caen--Artificial Drainage-- Storms at the Death of Great Men--Motto on Wylcotes' Brass--"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.-- Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers--Roman Catholic Bible Society 493 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS--"Vox Populi Vox Dei"--"Lanquettes Cronicles"--"Our English Milo"--"Delights for Ladies"--Burton's Death --Joannes Audoenus--Hampden's Death 494 REPLIES:- "Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c. 496 Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato 497 Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby 497 School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley Acworth 498 Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c. 499 "Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas 500