Notes and Queries Vol. V., No. 131, Saturday, May 1, 1852
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- Various
- Title
- Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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- 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
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- AG: General Works: Dictionaries and other general reference books
- Subject
- Questions and answers -- Periodicals
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- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41295
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- Release Date
- November 5, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Vol. V.—No. 131. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.Notes. — STERNE AT SUTTON ON THE FOREST. — READINGS IN SHAKSPEARE, NO. IV. — PRESENTIMENT. — CURIOUS BILL OF FARE, AND STORM, IN 1739. — PECULIAR ATTRIBUTES OF THE SEVENTH SON. — FOLK LORE. — Game-feathers protracting the Agony of Death. — Charm for Ague. — Old Shoes thrown for Luck (Vol. ii., p. 196.). — Folk Lore of the Kacouss People. — BURIALS IN WOOLLEN. — Minor Notes. — Unacknowledged Quotations from the Scriptures. — Latin Hexameters on the Bible. — Epigram on La Bruyère. — Cock and Bull Story. — Mary Queen of Scots—Her Monument and Head.
- 4.Queries. — THE BOOK OF JASHER. — Minor Queries. — Old China. — Pagoda, Joss House, Fetiche. — " And Eva stood and wept alone. " — Hearne's Confirmation.—Baxter's Heavy Shove.—Old Ballad. — Gunpowder Mills. — Macfarlane of that Ilk. — Armorial Bearings. — Scologlandis and Scologi. — Ednowain ap Bradwen. — Mummy Wheat. — The Trusty Servant at Winchester. — Anecdote. — St. Augustine. — Ghost—Evidence of one not received. — Roman and Saxon Cambridge. — Queries on the Mistletoe (Vol. iv., p. 110.). — Portrait of Mesmer. — Minor Queries Answered. — " Coming Events cast their Shadows before. " — St. Christopher. — Cuddy, the Ass. — Toady. — Mother Shipton.
- 5.Replies. — RALPH WINTERTON. (Vol. v., p. 346.) — MEANING AND ORIGIN OF "ERA." (Vol. iv., pp. 383. 454.; Vol. v., p. 106.) — LADY ARABELLA STUART. (Vol. i., pp. 10. 274.) — NEWTON, CICERO, AND GRAVITATION. (Vol. v., p. 344.) — DEFERRED EXECUTIONS. (Vol. iv., pp. 191. 243.) — DUCHESS OF LANCASTER. (Vol. v., p. 320.) — SURNAMES. (Vol. v., pp. 290. 326.) — Replies to Minor Queries. — Dyson's Collection of Proclamations (Vol. v., p. 371.). — " Up, Guards, and at them! " (Vol. v., p. 396.). — Bawderich, and Bells (Vol. iii., pp. 328. 435. 503.). — Algernon Sydney (Vol. v., p. 318.). — " History is Philosophy teaching by Examples " (Vol. v., p. 153.). — On a Passage in Pope (Vol. i., p. 201.). — Plague Stones (Vol. v., pp. 226. 333.). — " Archæologia Cambrensis, Vol. I., 2nd Edit. " — Town-halls (Vol. v., p. 295.). — Emaciated Monumental Effigies (Vol. v., pp. 247. 301. 353.). — Coleridge's "Friend" (Vol. v., p. 351.). — Enigma on the Letter "I" (Vol. v., p. 321.). — Mother Carey's Chickens (Vol. v., p. 344.). — Burnomania (Vol. v., p. 127.). — Cagots (Vol. iv., pp. 190. 331. 387.). — Chantrey's Sleeping Children (Vol. ii., pp. 70. 94.). — Arkwright (Vol. v., p. 320.). — Pilgrimages to the Holy Land (Vol. v., pp. 289. 290.). — " Merchant Adventurers " (Vol. v., p. 276.).
- 6.Miscellaneous — NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. — BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. — Notices to Correspondents.
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