Produced by Charlene Taylor, Katherine Ward, Jonathan Ingram 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: Italicized words, phrases, etc. are | | surrounded by _underline characters_. Emphasized words | | within italics indicated by +plus signs+. | | Greek transliterations are surrounded by ~tildes~. | | Hebrew transliterations appear like ¤this¤. Superscripts | | indicated with ^s. One typo, anticipitated, fixed. Other | | Archaic spellings have been retained. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ {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. 223.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Dryden on Shakspeare, by Bolton Corney 95 Party Similes of the Seventeenth Century:-- No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse" 96 Dutch East India Company.--Slavery in England, by James Graves 98 Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by Wm. Winthrop 99 Enareans 101 MINOR NOTES:--Russia and Turkey--Social Effects of the severe Weather, Jan. 3 and 4, 1854--Star of Bethlehem--Origin of the Word "Cant"--Epigram on Four Lawyers 103 QUERIES:-- Contributors to "Knight's Quarterly Magazine" 103 The Stationers' Company and Almanack 104 MINOR QUERIES:--John Bunyan--Tragedy by Mary Leapor-- Repairing old Prints--Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter--Medal in honour of the Chevalier de St. George-- Robert Bloet--Sir J. Wallace and Mr. Browne-- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester--Abbott Families-- Authorship of a Ballad--Elias Petley--Canaletto's Views round London--A Monster found at Maidstone--Page 104 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--The Fish "Ruffins"--Origin of the Word Etiquette--Henri Quatre--"He that complies against his will," &c., and "To kick the bucket"-- St. Nicholas Cole Abbey 106 REPLIES:-- Trench on Proverbs, by the Rev. M. Margoliouth 107 Inscriptions on Bells 109 Arms of Geneva 110