Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Replies to Minor Queries:--Lady Flora Hastings'
Bequest--"The Right divine of Kings to govern
wrong"--Fairlight Church--Dogmatism and Puppyism--Was
Stella Swift's Sister?--Charles Lamb's Epitaph--Meaning of
Carnaby--Scandinavian Mythology, &c. 160
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 165
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 166
Notices to Correspondents 166
Advertisements 167
THE CAXTON MEMORIAL AND CHAUCER'S MONUMENT.
The result of the appeals which have recently been made to the
sympathies of the present age for the purpose of erecting a
Memorial to our first Printer, and of restoring the crumbling tomb
of one of our earliest and greatest Poets, has gone near to prove
that the admirers of Caxton and Chaucer are disposed to yield to
the objects of their hero-worship little more than lip service. In
short, the plan for the Caxton Memorial, and that for the
restoration of Chaucer's Monument, have well nigh failed.
The projectors of the former had, indeed, in the necessity of
settling what the Caxton Memorial should be, to encounter, at the
very outset of their undertaking, one difficulty from which the
Chaucer Committee was free; and the uncertainty whether it should
assume the form of the symbolical "lamp and fountain" so
poetically suggested by the Dean of St. Paul's, or the ideal
cast-iron statue of the Coalbrook Dale Company, may have had a
sinister effect upon the Subscription List.
Between the suggestive symbol and the fancy portrait there would
seem to be little room for hesitation, since the former would
merely veil a truth, while the latter would perpetuate a
falsehood. But our readers have had before them a third, and, as
it seems to us, a far more reasonable proposal, in that made by
MR. BOLTON CORNEY for a collective impression of Caxton's original
compositions: and we cannot but think that if that gentleman will
take the trouble to enter into the necessary details as to the
extent of such compositions, and the expense of transcribing and
printing them, his scheme may yet be realised, and that too to the
satisfaction of all the subscribers to the Caxton Memorial. The
following communication indicates the favour with which MR.
CORNEY'S proposal will probably be received by the followers of
Caxton's art in this country.
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