Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins 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.) {461} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 238.] SATURDAY, MAY 20. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page A Leader from a Foreign Newspaper: the New Russian Manifesto 463 The Launch of the "Prince Royal" in 1610 464 "Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, by Dr. Monicke" 465 The Legend of the Seven Sisters 465 MINOR NOTES:--Coincidences--The English Liturgy-- "To jump for joy"--"What is Truth?"--Abolition of Government Patronage 466 MINOR QUERIES:--"One New Year's Day"--Greek denounced by the Monks--Pliny's Dentistry--J. Farrington, R.A.--Henry Crewkerne of Exeter--Dr. Johnson--Latin "Dante"--Ralph Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent--Major-General Wolfe--Custom at University College, Oxford--"Old Dominion"--"Wise men labour," &c. 467 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Dame Hester Temple--Samuel White--Heralds' College--Pope 468 REPLIES:-- Blanco White's Sonnet, by S. W. Singer 469 Goloshes 470 Consonants in Welsh, by Thomas O'Coffey, &c. 471 Songs of Degrees (Ascents), by T. J. Buckton 473 The Screw Propeller 473 Amontillado Sherry 474 Recent Curiosities of Literature 475 Roland the Brave, by F. M. Middleton, &c. 475 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:-- Recovery of Silver 476 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Ashes of "Lignites"--Old Rowley-- "Bachelors of every Station"--Mousehunt--Value of Money in the Seventeenth Century--Grammars for Public Schools--Classic Authors and the Jews--Hand-bells at Funerals--"Warple-way"-- Medal of Chevalier St. George--Shakspeare's Inheritance-- Cassock--Tailless Cats--Names of Slaves--Heraldic--Solar Annual Eclipse of 1263--Brissot de Warville--"Le Compère Mathieu"--Etymology of "Awkward"--Life and Death--Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"--"Three Crowns and a Sugar-loaf"-- Stanza in "Childe Harold"--Errors in Punctuation--Waugh of Cumberland--"Could we with ink," &c. 477