[Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=m] for a letter m with a macron on top. _Underscores_ have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts; +plus+ signs indicate +bold+ fonts. Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 4, July-December, 1851, has been made available separately as PG ebook #40166. 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. V.--No. 116. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17. 1852. With Index, Price Tenpence. Stamped Edition, 11_d._ CONTENTS. Page NOTES:-- Mechanical Arrangements of Books 49 Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 51 Settle's Female Prelate, or Pope Joan; a Tragedy, by James Crossley 52 Historical Bibliography 52 Calamities of Authors 55 Folk Lore:--Valentine's Day; Superstition in Devonshire--Fairies 55 Minor Notes:--Lines in Whispering Gallery at Gloucester Cathedral--Definition of Thunder--Greek Epigram by an uncertain Author 56 QUERIES:-- Burning of the Jesuitical Books at Paris, by H. Merivale 56 Grantham Altar Case 56 Meaning of Groom, by E. Davis Protheroe 57 Minor Queries:--Gregentius and the Jews in Arabia Felix--King Street Theatre--Lesteras and Emencin--Epigram on Franklin and Wedderburn--Plenius and his Lyrichord--Epigram on Burnet--Dutch Chronicle of the World--"Arborei foetus alibi, atque iniussa virescunt Gramina" (Virgil G. I. 55.)--History of Brittany--Serjeants' Rings--The Duchess of Cleveland's Cow-pox--Arms of Manchester--Heraldical MSS. of Sir Henry St. George Garter 58 MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Pelican, as a Symbol of the Saviour--Bishop Coverdale's Bible--Age of the Oak--Olivarius--Vincent Bourne's Epilogus in Eunuchum Terentii--Burton, Bp., Founder of Schools, &c., at Loughborough, co. Leicester--Hoo 59 REPLIES:-- Modern Names of Places 61 Proverbial Philosophy; Parochial Library at Maidstone, by John Branfill Harrison 61 "A Breath can make them as a Breath has made" 62