Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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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. 97. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._
CONTENTS.
Page
NOTES:--
Notes on Books, No. II.--Gabriel Harvey, by S. W. Singer 169
The Antiquity of Kilts, by T. Stephens 170
Notes on Julin, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 171
Minor Notes:--Anecdote of Curran--Difficulty of getting
rid of a Name--House of Lord Edward Fitzgerald--Fairy
Dances--Æsop--Nelson's Coat at Trafalgar 173
QUERIES:--
John Knox, by David Laing 174
Minor Queries:--"Foeda ministeria, atque minis absistite
acerbis"--Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto--Gloucester saved
from the King's Mines--Milesian--Horology--Laurentius
Müller--Lines on a Bed--Pirog--Lists of Plants, with their
Provincial Names--Print Cleaning--Italian Writer on
Political Economy--Carli the Economist--Nightingale and
Thorn--Coleridge's Essays on Beauty--Henryson and
Kinaston--Oldys' Account of London Libraries--A
Sword-blade Note--Abacot--Princesses of Wales 174
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--A Kelso Convoy--Cardinal
Wolsey--Brunswick Mum--Meaning of "Rasher" 176
REPLIES:--
Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Rotation 177
A Saxon Bell-house 178
The Whale of Jonah, by T. J. Buckton 178
St. Trunnian, by W. S. Hesleden 179
Replies to Minor Queries:--Lord Mayor not a Privy
Councillor--Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of
Cromwell?--Lines on the Temple--Henry Headley,
B.A.--Cycle of Cathay--Proof of Sword Blades--Was Milton
an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?--English Sapphics--The
Tradescants--Monumental Inscription--Lady Petre's
Monument 180
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 182
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 183
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