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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 186.] Saturday, May 21, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
NOTES:-- Page Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493 Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495 Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves 495 FOLK LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore --Funeral Custom 496 Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496 MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of Luther--Randle Wilbraham --Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott--Crassus' Saying 498
QUERIES:-- Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499 "The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499 Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman 499 MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic Registers--St. Alban's Day--Meigham, the London Printer--Adamsoniana--Canker or Brier Rose-- "Short red, god red"--Overseers of Wills--Lepel's Regiment--Vincent Family--Passage in the First Part of Faust--Lady Anne Gray--Continental Brasses --Peter Beaver--Cremonas--Cranmer and Calvin 499 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--Prester John--Homer's Iliad in a Nut--Monogram of Parker Society--The Five Alls-- Corvizer 502
REPLIES:-- English Comedians in Germany 503 A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death, by Henry H. Breen 503 Longevity 504 Derivation of Canada, by Robert Wright 504 Setantiorum Portus 505 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Stereoscopic Queries --Photographic Portraits of Criminals, &c.--Photography applied to Catalogues of Books--Application of Photography to the Microscope 505 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Discovery At Nuneham Regis--Eulenspiegel, or Howleglas--Parochial Libraries --Painter--Pepys's "Morena"--Pylades and Corinna--Judge Smith--Grindle--Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle--English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth--Borrowed Thoughts--Dr. South _v._ Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c.--Foucault's Experiment --Passage in "Locksley Hall"--Lake of Geneva--"Inter cuncta micans"--"Its"--Gloves at Fairs--Astronomical Query--Tortoiseshell Tom Cat--Sizain on the Pope, the Devil, and the Pretender --Wandering Jew--Hallett and Dr. Saxby-- "My mind to me a kingdom is"--Claret--Suicide at Marseilles--Etymology of Slang--Scanderbeg's Sword --Arago on the Weather--Rathe--Carr Pedigree-- Banbury Cakes--Detached Belfry Towers, &c. 507