Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notices to Correspondents.
_We are this week compelled to omit our usual_ Notices of Books, &c.
_Among other interesting communications which we are this week compelled
to postpone from want of room, is one of great interest from the_ KNIGHT
OF KERRY, _on the portrait in his possession of the Old Countess of
Desmond; one by_ LORD BRAYBROOKE _on the celebrated interview between
Bonaparte and Lord Whitworth; and Archbishop Laud's Notes on Prynne's
Breviate._
REPLIES RECEIVED.--_Epitaph on Voltaire--Meaning of Blaen--Music
by Handel--Plague Stones--George Trout--Title of Reverend--King's
College Chapel--Cromwell's Skull--Song of "Miss Bailey"--Macaronic
Poetry--Story of Ginevra--Sir E. Seaward's Narrative--Arms
of Manchester--Fern Seed, &c.--"Man proposes," &c.--Mispronounced
Names of Places--Palace of Lucifer--Alecknegate--Bigot--White
Feather--Ballad of Lord Delamere--Old Scots March--Maps of
Africa--St. Paul and the Heathen Writers--"Wise above that which is
written"--Paring the Nails--Rev. John Paget--History of Commerce--London
Street Characters--Great Bowyer Bible--Wiclif, Orthography of--Ancient
Trees--Game of Curling--Family Likenesses--English Translation of the
Canons--Quotations wanted--Ecclesiastical Geography._
H. T. H. _Queries respecting Irish Antiquities are quite within the
province of_ "N. & Q."
MAY MARRIAGES. CONSTANT READER _is referred to our_ Second Volume, p.
52., _for an answer to his Query upon this subject._
COMBE'S WORKS. _We have received an obliging Note from_ MR. COLE, _in
which he informs us that the List of Combe's Works referred to in_ The
Athenæum _and_ "N. & Q." (Vol. v., p. 194.), _has been placed by him at
the service of the_ Gentleman's Magazine, _and will probably appear in
the April Number of that Journal._
MONASTIC ESTABLISHMENTS IN SCOTLAND. CEYREP _will feel obliged by the
transcript of the List of these Establishments contained in Cardonnel,
so kindly offered by_ M. S. _at_ p. 189.
H. W. _The proper line is_--
"When Greeks join Greeks then is the tug of war."
_It is from Lee's_ Alexander the Great.
E. N. _The Epigram beginning "Cum sapiente Pius" has already appeared in
our columns. See_ Vol. ii., p. 461.
C. W. G. _and_ W. COLLYNS. _The communications sent to us for these
gentlemen have been duly forwarded._
F. CROSSLEY. _Will this correspondent say how we may forward a letter to
him?_
CHARLEMAGNE'S MAGIC RING. E. A. S. _will find the history of this
curious relic in our First Volume_, pp. 140. and 187.
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