Notes and Queries Vol. V., No. 118, Saturday, January 31, 1852
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- Various
- Title
- Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 118, January 31, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.)
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- English
- LoC Class
- AG: General Works: Dictionaries and other general reference books
- Subject
- Questions and answers -- Periodicals
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- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40716
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- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40716
- Release Date
- September 8, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Vol. V.—No. 118. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
- 2.CONTENTS. — CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS.
- 3.Notes. — PORTRAITS OF WOLFE. — NOTES ON HOMER, NO. I. — FRENCH REVOLUTIONS FORETOLD. — IDEES NAPOLEONIENNES. — DR. JOHNSON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO BARETTI'S INTRODUCTION. — Minor Notes. — Bishop Bedell. — Foreign Guide-books. — Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty (Vol. i., p. 366.; Vol. ii., pp.165. 467.). — Errors of Poets.
- 4.Queries. — THE POET COLLINS. — PORTRAITS OF HENRY PURCELL. — QUERY ON THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT FLUXIONS. — 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. — Minor Queries Answered. — Hornchurch; Wrestling for the Boar's Head. — Spectacles. — Stoke. — Author of Psalm Tune "Doncaster." — Dr. Henry Sacheverell.
- 5.Replies. — MEANING AND ORIGIN OF ERA. (Vol. iv., pp. 383. 454.) — SINGING OF SWANS. (Vol. ii., p. 475.) — QUEEN BRUNEHILDA. (Vol. v., p. 40.) — COVERDALE'S BIBLE. (Vol. v., p. 59.) — SERJEANTS' RINGS AND MOTTOES. (Vol. v., pp. 59. 92.) — EXTERMINATION OF EARLY CHRISTIANS IN ORKNEY. (Vol. iv., p. 439.) — THE CRIME OF POISONING PUNISHED BY BOILING. (Vol. v., p. 32.) — Replies to Minor Queries. — List of English Sovereigns (Vol. v., p. 28.). — Moravian Hymns (Vol. v., p. 30.). — Age of Trees—"Essex Broad Oak" (Vol. v., pp. 10. 40.). — Arrangement of Books (Vol. v., p. 49.). — The Ring-finger (Vol. iv., pp. 150. 198. 261.). — Count Königsmark (Vol. v., p. 78.). — Petition respecting the Duke of Wellington (Vol. iv., pp. 233. 477.; Vol. v., p. 43.). — Reichenbach's Ghosts (Vol. iv., p. 5.; Vol. v., p. 89.). — The Broad Arrow. — Quarter Waggoner (Vol. v., p. 11.). — Cibber's Lives of the Poets (Vol. v., p. 25.). — Shakspere and the English Press (Vol. iv., p. 344.).
- 6.Miscellaneous. — NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. — BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. — Notices to Correspondents.
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