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CONTENTS. 



Our Shakspearian Correspondence 

 'Notes : — 



Mr. Pepys and East London Topograph}-, Sec. - 

 Picts' Houses in Aberdeenshire ... 



Page 

 - 261 



2f)3 

 204 



Polk Lore : — Legends of the County Clare — Devon- 

 shire Cures for the Thrush . _ - - 2f)4 



Heraldic Notes: — Arms of Granville — Arms of 

 Richard, King of the Uomans .... 265 



Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. O. Halliwell and 

 Thos. Keightley - . . . - - 265 



MiNon Notes : — Longfellow's Poetical Works — Sir 

 Walter Raleigh — Curious Advertisement — Grave- 

 stone Inscription — Monumental Inscription . - 267 

 /QiJEniEs : _ 



Sir Philip Warwick - . - - . 26S 



Seals of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, by E. S. 

 Taylor -....-_ 2G9 



JVIi.voR Queries :— Hand in Bishop Canning's Church 



— "I put a spoke in his wheel" — Sir W. Hewit — - 

 Passage in Virgil — Fauntleroy — Animal Prefixes 

 descriptive of Size and Qu;ility — Punning Devices 



— " Pinece with a stink " — Soiled Parchment Drfods 



— Roger Wilbraham, Esq.'s, Chesliire Collection 



— Cambridge and Ireland — Derivation of Celt — 

 Ancient Superstition against the 'King of England 

 entering or even beholding the Town of I^eicester 



— Burton — The Camera Lucida — Francis Moore — 

 Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle — Palace at Enfield — 

 " Solamen miseris,"&c Soke Mills — Second Wife 



of Mallet ------. 2C9 



liliNOR Queries with Answers: — Books burned by 

 the Common Hangman — Captain George Cusack — 

 Sir Ralph Winwood - . . _ . 272 



Replies: — 



Books chained to Desks in Churches, by J. Booker, &c. 273 



Epitaphs, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., &c. ... 273 



Parochial Libraries ..... 274 



" Up, Guards, and at them ! " by Frank Howard • 275 



apHOTOGRAPnic Correspondence : — Mr. Muller's Pro. 

 cess — Stereoscopic Angles — Ammonio-nitrate of 

 Silver ....... 275 



Heplies TO Minor Queries: — Sir Thomas Elyot — 

 Judges styled "Reverend" — "Hurrah" and other 

 War-cries —Major Andr^_ Early Edition of the 

 New Testament — Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge 

 — Sir William Hankford — Mauilies, Manillas — The 

 Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits — Derivation of the 

 Word "Island" — A Cob-wall — Oliver Cromwell's 

 Portrait— Manners of the Irish— Chronograms and 

 Anagrams— "Haul over the Coals,"— Sheer Hulk — 

 The Magnet — Fierce — Connexion between the 

 Celtic and Latin Languages — Acharis, &c. - - 270 



3HlSCElLANE0US : 



Notes on Books, &c. ' - 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertitementg . - - 



- 282 



. 282 



. 282 



. 283 



Vox. VIII. — No. 203. 



OUR SHAKSPEARIAN CORRESPONDENCE. 



We have received from a valued and kind corre- 

 spondent (not one of tliose emphatically good-natured 

 friends so wittily described by Sheridan) the following 

 temperate remonstrance against the tone which ha& 

 distinguished several of our recent articles on Shak- 

 speare : — 



Shakspeare Suggestions (Vol. viii., pp. 124. 

 169.). — 



" Most busy, when least I do." 



I am grateful to A. E. B. for referring me to 

 the article on " Shakspeare Criticism " in the last 

 number of Blackwood's Magazine. It is a very 

 able paper, and worthy of general attention. 



I ought to add some few explanatory observa- 

 tions upon the subject of my former communica- 

 tion, but the tone of A. E. E.'s comments forbids 

 me to proceed with the discussion ; the more 

 especially as my suggestion has been made a reason 

 for introducing into your pages comments which 

 seem to me to be altogether unwarrantable upon 

 other portions of the article in Blackwood. Who- 

 ever may be the writer of that article — I do not 

 know — he needs no other defence than a re- 

 ference to his paper. It is not on his account 

 that I venture to allude to this subject; it is 

 rather on yours, Mr. Editor, and with a view to 

 the welfare of your paper. I cannot think that 

 you or it will be benefited by converting conver- 

 sational gossip about Shakspeare difficulties into 

 "a duel in the form of a debate," seasoned with 

 sarcasm, insinuation, and satiric point. This is 

 not the kind of matter one expects to find ia 

 " N, & Q.; " neither do I think your pages should 

 be made a vehicle for " showing up" such of " the 

 herd of menstrual Arlstaixhl" as chance to differ 

 in opinion from some of your smart and peremp- 

 tory, but not unfrequently inaccurate and illiberal 

 correspondents. 



I know that you yourself are in this respect 

 much in the power of your contributors. Pro- 

 bably you were as ignorant of the existence of the 

 article in Blackwood as I was.* It is now brought 



* We had not seen this very able article until our 

 attention was called to it by this letter. We regret 



