Produced by Charlene Taylor, 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 Archive/American Libraries.) [Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. Vol IV.--No. 93. Saturday, August 9. 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Lady Hopton 97 Notes on Newspapers--The Times, by H. M. Bealby 98 Folk Lore: Devonshire Superstitions 98 Minor Notes:--Curious Inscription--Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture--D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith 99 QUERIES:-- On a Song in Scott's Pirate--"Fire on the Maintop" 99 Minor Queries:--Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?--Tale of a Tub--Cleopatra's Needle--Pair of Curols--Cowper Law--Order of Greenwich--House of Yvery--Entomological Query--Spenser's Portraits--Borrow's Bible in Spain--Dogmatism and Puppyism--A Saxon Bell-house 100 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Cycle of the Moon--Cocker's Arithmetic--Sanskrit Elementary Books--Townley MSS., &c.--"Man is born to trouble," &c. 102 REPLIES:-- Bellarmin's Monstrous Paradox 103 The Gookins of Kent, by Edward Armstrong 103 Curious Monumental Inscription, by S. W. Singer 105 The late Mr. William Hone, by Douglas Allport 105 Plaids and Tartans 107 The Caxton Memorial, by Bolton Corney 107 Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest, by the Marchioness of Bute 108 Replies to Minor Queries:--Inscription on an old Board--Churches decorated at Christmas--Royal Library --Proof a Sword--Dr. Young's "Narcissa"--Circulation of the Blood--Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher--Was Stella Swift's Sister?--The Mistletoe--Family of Kyme--The Leman Baronetcy--Cure for Ague 109 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 111 Notices to Correspondents 111 Advertisements 112 Notes. LADY HOPTON.