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No. 43.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
NOTES:-- Notes and Queries. 193 Collar of SS. 194 Tenyson--Coleridge--Extract from Baker's MSS. on Barth. Dodyngton, and William Jenkin, by J.E.B. Mayor. 195 Parallel Passages. 196 Folk Lore:--Power of Prophecy--Bay Leaves at Funerals--Shoes (old) thrown for Luck--Roasting Mice for Hooping-Cough--The Story of Mr. Fox--Baptismal Superstition--Rushbearing. 196
QUERIES:-- Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.? by Samuel Hickson. 198 Minor Queries:--The Abbé Strickland--Works on Aerostation--Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury--"Ædricus qui signa fundebat"--Osmund, the Waterman--Logic--Darbon Gatherall--Damasked Linen--Flourish--Drax Abbey and Free School--Ancient Catalogue of Books. 198
REPLIES:-- Shakspeare's Use of the Word "Delighted," by S.W. Singer. 200 Family of Love. 201 Translation of the Philobiblon. 202 Etymological Queries, by S.W. Singer. 203 Replies to Minor Queries:--Lord Richard Christophilus--Poker--Querela Cantabrigiensis--"One Bell"--Fabulous Account of the Lion--Pomfret on the Thames--Walrond Family--Armenian Language--Genealogical Query--Richard Baxter's Descendants--Duresme and Dunelm. 204
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 207 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 207 Notices to Correspondents. 207 Advertisements. 207
The history of books and periodicals of a similar character ought to be the object of interest to the readers of this work. The number of works in which answers have been given to proposed questions is not small. Not to mention the _Spectator_ and its imitators, nor the class of almanacs which give riddles and problems, nor mathematical periodicals of a more extensive character,--though all these ought to be discussed in course of time,--there yet remains a class of books in which general questions proposed by the public are answered periodically, either by the public or by the editors. Perhaps an account of one of these may bring out others.