Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
If any of your correspondents could illustrate this question, or that more
curious one,--when the new Temple was first divided between Inner and
Middle,--I should feel infinitely obliged.
EDWARD FOSS.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES.
1. Can any of your readers give me any information regarding a work which I
find recorded in a catalogue thus:--_A Catalogue of above 300 Coins of
Canute, King of Denmark and England, found near Kirkwall, with Specimens._
4to. London, 1777? I should like, if possible, to have a copy of the
title-page, the size, and the number of pages; and, if possible, the name
of the compiler.
2. I should like to find out the name of the translator into English, of
Pontoppidan's _Natural History of Norway_, published in folio in London in
1755.
3. Can any of your readers oblige me with the name of the author of a
controversial sermon, entitled _Whigs no Christians_, preached at London,
on the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles, in 1712-13, and
published in the same year?
[Greek: Boreas].
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DUTCH BOOKS PUBLISHED OUT OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Although the Dutch language is now regarded in foreign countries with a
neglect bordering on contempt, and its study, when attended to at all,
generally undertaken as a work of necessity rather than a labour of love, I
have thought it would not be without interest to examine to what extent it
was formerly cultivated (were it even chiefly by Dutchmen) in foreign
lands; to institute a search after the productions of the Dutch mind in the
Dutch language brought forth on foreign soils; in a word, to pass in review
the Dutch books which have been published in other countries during the
period included between the invention of printing and our own days.
It appears to me that such a review would lead to much interesting
research, and would tend not only to illustrate our literature, but also to
clear up many points still obscure in our national, and more especially in
our ecclesiastical, history.
The review which I propose would be limited, in the first instance, to the
formation of an exact and complete list of such _exotic_ works, with the
addition of such notes as I might be able to add. A more experienced hand
may then make use of these materials to form a more perfect treatise on
this portion of our literature.
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