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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Italian English ....-- 

 St. Niciiolas Ciiurcli, Brighton . . - - 



Key to Dibdin's Bibliomania . . - - 



Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 

 Antiquity of the Polka: a Note for the Ladies - 

 Seven Score Superstitious Sayings, by J. Westby Gibson 



Minor Notes : — Mormon Et3mnologie3 — Bandalore 

 and Tommy Moore — Electric Clock — Desirable Re- 

 prints — The Earldom of Oxford — Literary Attain- 

 ments of the Scottish Clergy in the Seventeenth Cen- 

 tury ....... 



Queries :— • 



Queries as to Mr. Collier's " Notes and Emendations " 

 Hone's " History of Parody," by James B. Murdoch - 

 The Countess of Pembroke's Letter to Sir Joseph Wil- 

 liamson - ...... 



MiiVOR Queries : — Mediaval Parchment — " Mater ait 

 natae " — Fox of Whittlebury Forest — Names and 

 Numbers of British Regiments — Daughters of St. 

 Mark — Kentish Fire — Optical Phenomenon — Cardi- 

 nal Bentivoglio's Description of England — Remarkable 

 Signs — Old Fable — Tide Tables — Passage in Ovid — 

 Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness — Curtseys and Bows — 

 Historical Proverb — Bishop Patrick's "Parable of a 

 Pilgrim " — Dr. Parr's Dedications — "Konigl. Schwe- 

 discher in Teutschland gefuhrter Krieg " — " Officium 

 Birgittinum Anglice " — Campbell's Hymn on the Na- 

 tivity --..... 



Minor Queries with Answers : — " When Our Lord 

 falls in Our Lady's Lap" — Hobnail-counting in the 

 Court of Exchequer — A Race for Canterbury — Nose 

 of Wax — " Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley ! " — Rosary 



Replies : — 



The Rod : a Poem ...... 



The Dutch East-India Company .... 



" Its," by Thomas Keightley .... 



Commencement of the Year .... 



" Penardo and Laissa" ..... 



Robin Hood, by John D'Alton and J. Lewelyn Curtis - 



Photographic Notes and Queries: — Originator of 

 Collodion Process — The Soiling of the Fingers — Sir 

 W. Newton's Process : Chloride of Bromium — The 

 Collodion Process — Portable Camera . . - 



Replies to Minor Queries :— Chaplains to Noblemen 



— Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger — 

 Brydone the Tourist — Yankee — Miniature Ring of 

 Charles 1 — Bishop of Ossory : Cardinal's Hat — Hugh 

 Oldham, Bishop ol'Exeter — '' Sic transit gloria muidi" 



— Wake — " Words given to Man to conceal his 



Thoughts" — Inscription on Penny of George III 



"Nine Tailors make a Man" — On Quotations — 

 Rhymes on Places — Coins in Foundations — Fleshed, 

 Meaning of — Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Ar. 

 magh — Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting — 

 Furmety or Frumenty — Etymology of Pearl, &c. 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 



Notices to Correspondents .... 



Advertisements ...... 



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Voi,.VII. — No. 172. 



ITALIAN ENGLISH. 



I have been favoured by a friend, who visited 

 Italy last year, with the perusal of a small guide- 

 book, which has afforded me much amusement, and 

 from which I send you a few extracts for the grati- 

 fication of your readers. The title runs thus : 



" Description of the front and interior of the Cathe- 

 dral of Milan the first edition corrected, and increased 

 with interesting things Milan by the printer Luigi di 

 Giacomo Pirola m.dccc.xi.vi." 



The Preface is as follows : 



" In presenting to the learned and intelligent Pub- 

 lick this new and brief Description of the Cathedral of 

 Milan, i must apprise that i do not mean to emulate 

 with the works already existing of infinite merit for the 

 notions they contain, and the perspicuity with which 

 they are exposed. My idea only was to make an ex- 

 tract of them, not forgetting the principal things of 

 observation, with the names of the most distinguished 

 artists, and not to deprive them of all the digressions 

 and explanations rej|[uired by the Scientificals, or those 

 skilled in the art, so that it might be contained in a 

 Pamphlet, and of little expence, to be offered to the 

 amateurs of fine arts, who come to visit this unique and 

 magnificent Edifice. Therefore i have not failed to 

 include in it, all that has been done subsequently to the 

 publishment of the above works, with some other little 

 trifles worthy to be seen, and in them not mentioned. 

 Such has been my sole design, no other pretention has 

 induced me to it, and with a similar premise, i hope to 

 be pardoned by the indulgent Reader for all the errors 

 in which i might have involuntarily incurred. G. P." 



In the introductory portion, giving a general 

 account of the building, " G. P." says : 



" Under the direction of honest, intelligent and active 

 Administrators, and by the pious munificence of our 

 Gracious Sovereign, who bestowes an annual generous 

 donation for completing the building of the Cathedral 

 of Milan, one perceives tending with the greatest celerity 

 to the perfection of this magnificent Edifice, founded by 

 a special vow in 1 386 by the duke of Milan Giovanni 

 Galeazzo Viseonti. It is of fine white statuary marble, 

 extracted from the quarry of mount Gandolia, which 

 among many gifts was expressly regaled for the build- 

 ing by its generous founder the duke Viseonti above 

 mentioned." 



