[Transcriber's note: Original spelling variations have not been standardized. Saxon and German blackletter characters have been marked with braces {d}. _Underscores_ have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts; =equal signs= mark =bold= text. Some Hebrew words may not be shown in an adequate way in this version. 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. 118. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31. 1852. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._ CONTENTS. Page Calamities of Authors 97 NOTES:-- Portraits of Wolfe, by Edw. Auchmuty Glover 98 Notes on Homer, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 99 French Revolutions foretold 100 Idées Napoléoniennes, by Henry H. Breen 100 Dr. Johnson's Contributions to Baretti's Introduction, by James Crossley 101 Minor Notes:--Bishop Bedell--Foreign Guide-books--Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty--Errors of Poets 101 QUERIES:-- The Poet Collins 102 Portraits of Henry Purcell, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 103 Query on the Controversy about Fluxions, by Professor De Morgan 103 Minor Queries:--Madrigal, Meaning of--"Experto crede Roberto"--Chronological Institute--Buzz--The Old Scots March--Hans Holbein--Ivory Medallion of Lord Byron--Trumpington Church--"Carmen Perpetuum," &c.--"The Retired Christian"--The Garrote--Monastic Establishments in Scotland--Bonds of Clearwell and Redbrook--Eliza Fenning--"Character of a True Churchman"--"A Roaring Meg"--Cardinal Pole--Theoloneum--Sterne in Paris--King Robert Bruce's Watch 104 Minor Queries Answered:--Hornchurch; Wrestling for the Boar's Head--Spectacles--Stoke--Author of Psalm Tune "Doncaster"--Dr. Henry Sacheverell 106 REPLIES:-- Meaning and Origin of Era 106 Singing of Swans 107 Queen Brunehilda, by Samuel Hickson 108 Coverdale's Bible, by the Rev. Henry Walter 109 Serjeants' Rings and Mottoes 110 Extermination of Early Christians in Orkney 111 The Crime of Poisoning punished by Boiling, by John Gough Nichols, &c. 112