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Vol. v.— No. 116.] Saturday, January 17. 1852. 



f With Index, Price Tenpence. 

 i Stamped Edition, Hrf. 



CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Mechanical Arrangements of Books - - - 49 



Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield - - - 51 



Settle's Female Prelate, or Pope Joan ; a Tragedy, by 



James Crossley - - - - - - 52 



Historical Bibliography - - • . .52 



Calamities of Authors - - - - - 55 



Folic Lore : — Valentine's Day ; Superstition in Devon- 

 shire — Fairies - - - - - - 65 



Minor Notes : — Lines in Whispering Gallery at Glouces- 

 ter Cathedral — Definition of Thunder — Greek Epi- 

 gram by an uncertain Author - - - - 5C 



Queries : — 



Burning of the Jesuitical Books at Paris, by H. Merivale 5fi 

 Grantham Altar Ciise - - - - . ftG 



Meaning of Groom, by E. Davis Protheroe - - 67 



Minor Queries: — Gregentins and the Jews in Arabia 

 Felix — King Street Theatre — I,esteras and Emencin 

 — Epigram on Franklin and Wedderburn — Plenius 

 and his Lyrichord — Epigram on Burnet — Dutch 

 Chronicle of the World — " Arborei foetus alibi, atque 

 iniussa virescunt Gramina" (Virgil G. i. 55.) — History 

 of Britt;iny — Serjeants' Kings— The Duchess of Cleve- 

 land's Cr>«r-pox — Arms of Manchester — Heraldical 

 MSS. of Sir Henry St. George Garter - - - 58 



Minor Queries Answered: — The Pelican, as a Symbol 

 of the Saviour — Bishop Coverdale's Bible — Age of the 

 Oak— Olivarius — Vincent Bourne's Epilogus in Eunu- 

 chum Terentii— Burton, Bp., Founder of Schools, &c., 

 at Loughborough, co. Leicester — Hoo - • - 59 



Replie-s : — 



Modern Names of Places - - . . - 61 



Proverbial Philosophy ; Parochial Library at Maidstone, 



by John Branfill Harrison - - . - fit 



"A Breath can make them as a Breath has made " - fi2 



Bogatzky . . . _ . _ -63 



Moravian Hymns - - - . . - 63 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Invenl portum — Quarter 

 Waggoner— Gibber's Lives of the Poets —Poniatowski 

 Gems— Dial Motto at Karlsbad— Passage in Jeremy 

 Taylor— Aue Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi — Hev. John 

 Paget — Lines on the Bible — Dial Mottoes —Martial's 

 Distribution of Hours — Nelson's Signal — Cooper's 

 Miniature, &c. — Roman Funeral Pile — Barrister — 

 Meaning of Dray — Tregonwell Frampton — Vermin, 

 Parish Payments of, &c. — Alterius Orbis Papa — Dido 

 and ^neas — Compositions during the Protectorate - C4 

 Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sales. Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



- 69 



- 70 



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MECHANICAL ARKANGEMENTS OF BOOKS. 



^ All persons who, whatever might be their mo- 

 tive,, have followed any subject of literary research, 

 must be aware of the extent to which their labours 

 are facilitated or retarded by the mechanical ar- 

 rangements of books, such as the goodness of 

 paper, the legibility of type, the size of volumes, 

 Vol. v. — No. 116. 



the presence or absence of tables of contents, in- 

 dexes, and other means of reference. It is in the 

 possession of these conveniences that the capa- 

 bilities of typography, and its superiority over 

 manuscript, mainly consist. I propose now to set 

 down a few remarks on this subject, in the hope 

 that any means, however trifling they may seem, 

 by which literary knowledge is rendered more 

 commodious and accessible, will not be deemed 

 unworthy of attention by your readers. 



With I'egard to the form of printed letters, it is 

 difBcult to conceive any improvement in modern 

 typography, as practised in Italy, France, and 

 Enghxnd. This is equally true of Roman and 

 Greek characters. Tlie Greek types introduced 

 by Porson leave nothing to be desired. The 

 Germans still to a great extent retain the old 

 black-letter type for native works, which was 

 universal over all the north of Europe in the 

 early period of printing, and is not a national type, 

 as some persons seem to imagine. These letters 

 being imitated from the manuscript characters of 

 the fifteenth century, are essentially more Indis- 

 tinct than the Roman type, and have for that 

 reason been disused by the rest of Europe, Hol- 

 land and Denmark not excepted. In England 

 this antiquated mode of printing was long retained 

 for law-books, and, till a comparatively recent 

 date, for the statutes. The Anglo-Saxon letters 

 are in like manner nothing but a barbarous imi- 

 tation of old manuscript characters, and have no 

 real connexion with the Anglo-Saxon language. 

 Their use ought to be wholly abandoned (with 

 the exception of those which are wanting in modern 

 English). Roman numerals, likewise, as being less 

 clear and concise than Arabic numerals, especially 

 for large numbers, ought to be discarded, except 

 In cases where it Is convenient to distinguish the 

 volume from the page, and the book from the 

 chapter. English lawyers, indeed, who in general 

 have only occasion to cite the volume and page, 

 invariably make their quotations with Arabic 

 figures, by prefixing the number of the volume, 

 and subjoining the number of the page. Thus, If 

 It were wished to refer to the lOOtli page of the 

 second volume oi Barneioall and Alderson's Reports, 

 they would write 2 B. ^" C. 100. Roman nu- 



