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CONTENTS. 



NoTBS : — Page 



St. Stephen's Day and Kiley's Hoveden, by J. S. 



Warden •-..--- 637 

 The Holy Trinity Church, Hull, by E. W. Elliot - 638 



• Minor Notes :— Italian-Knglish — American Names 



— Uulers of the World in 1853 — Revocation of the 

 Edict of Nantes - - - - - - C38 



Queries : — 



Derivation of Silo, by Augustus Strong - - - 639 



Minor Qufkies: — Handwriting — Rev. Joshua Brooks 



— " New Universal Magazine " — Francis Browne — 

 Advent Hymn — Milton's Correspondence — "Beg- 

 ging the Question " — Passage of Cicero - - 639 



Minor Queries with Answers :— Goldsmith's "Haunch 

 of Venison ------- 640 



Replies: — 



School Libraries, by Weld Taylor, P. H. Fisher, &c. - 640 



Trench on Pioverbs, by T. J. Buckton, &c. - - 641 



Major Andre ...... C43 



Passage in Wliiston .... - 645 



Helmets - . , - - - - .645 



Hampden's Death ...... 646 



Peter Allan, by Shirley Hibberd . - - - 647 

 " Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margo- 



liouth, &e. ...... G48 



What Day is it at our Antipodes ? - - . C43 



Photographic Correspondence: — Aceto-Nitrate of 

 Silver — On the Restoration of old Collodion - 649 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Admissions to Inns of 

 Court — Iiiedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans — De- 

 rivation of Britain — Derivation of the Word Celt 



— " Kaminagadeyathooroosoomnkanoogonagira " — 

 Cash — " Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi " — 

 Caves at Settle, Yorkshire — Character of the Song 

 of the Nightingale — Inscriptions in Books — Door- 

 head Inscription — Fogie — Sir W. Hewct — Ladies' 

 Arms borne in a Lozenge — The Crescent — Abigail 



■ — Handbook to the Libr.iry of the British Museum 



The Arms of Richard, King of the Romans — Greek 

 and Roman Fortifications — Osbernus filius Herfasti 

 — Devonianisms — Gentile Names of the Jews — Lon- 

 gevity — Reversible Names — Etymology of Eve 



Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas — Biuometrical 

 Verse — Gale of Rent - - - . - 650 



MiSCELlANEOUS : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - . - - . 655 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 656 



Notices to Correspondents - • _ . 65G 



Advertisements . - • - • - 657 



Vol. VIIL — No.218. 



ST. Stephen's day and kilet's hoveden. 



In Roger de Hoveden's account of the accident 

 which proved fatal to Leopold, Duke of Austria, 

 the jailer of Richard I. (Bohn's edit., vol. ii. 

 p. 345.), St. Stephen's Day, on which it occurred, 

 is twice stated to be before Christmas Day, instead 

 of after it. Is this an error of the author, or of 

 the translator ? * or are they right, and was St. 

 Steplien's martyrdom in those times commemo- 

 rated on a different day from what it now is ? I 

 cannot find, on reference to the authorities within 

 my reach, that this last was the case. Mr. Riley 

 does not notice the discrepancy at all. 



In the translation of this volume, a few errors 

 have come under my observation, to which I beg 

 to call Mr. R.'s attention: 1. In his note on Co- 

 rumphira's prophecy, at p. 36., he seems to forget 

 that the Mahometan year differs from the Julian 

 by eleven or twelve days, and that In consequence 

 A.D. 1186 does not correspond to a.h. 564; in 

 fact, the old astrologer is perfectly correct in 

 his chronology, more so than In his predictions, 

 many of which were signally falsified In the course 

 of the next few years. 2. A mountain frequently 

 mentioned by his author as projecting into the 

 sea at the boundary of Catalonia and Valenci.n, 

 and called " Muncian," he says In a note at p. 151. 

 is " probably Moiitserrat," which is far from either 

 the sea or tlie frontier ; the maps of Spain all 

 show, near the town of Vinaros on the east coast, 

 a hill on the sea-shore called " Monte Sia," which 

 still, as then, forms the boundary in that direction 

 between the two provinces. 3. In his note at 

 p. 156. on "Mount Gebel," the translator says, 

 "he (the author) probably means Stromboli;" 

 surely the name of Mongibello, and the mention 

 of Catania a few lines farther down should have 

 shown him that Etna only could be meant, although 

 part of the mistake is due to Hoveden himself, 

 who talks of it as a separate Island from Sicily. 

 Mr. Riley's other geographical notes are generally 



[* The text in the Scripfores post Bedam reads: — 

 " Eodam anno die S. Stephani protomartyris infra 

 natale Domini."] 



