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NOTES AND aUERIES : 



A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, 

 ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, &c. 



SERIES THE FIRST. 



Notes anb Queries was established for the purpose of furnishing to all lorers of Literature a CojrMON-PLACE Book, in -which 

 they miglit, on the one hand, record for their own use and the use of others those minute facts, — those elucidations of a doubtfiU 

 phrase, or disputed passage, — those illustrations of an obsolete custom, — those scattered biographical anecdotes, or unrecorded 

 dates, — which all who read occasionally stumble upon ; — and, on the other, of supplying a medium through which they might 

 address those Queries, by which the best informed are sometimes arrested in the midst of their labours, in the hope of receiving 

 solutions of them from some of their brethren. The success which attended this endeavour to supply a want long felt by literary 

 men, was soon rendered manifest by the necessity of permanently enlarging the Paper from 16 to 24 pages. 



The following subjects, among others, have been treated upon in 



NOTES AND QUERIES SERIES THE FIRST. 



I-iterary History and Bibliography. 



Biographical Illustrations. 



Folk- Lore and Popular Manners and Cus- 

 toms. 



Origin of Proverbial Sayings. 



Illustrations of Shakspeare, Chaucer, and 

 Early English Literature. 



Pope, Life and Writings. 



Glossarial Notes. 



Notes on Hallam, Macaulay, &c. 

 Junius Letters and their authorship. 

 Genealogy and Heraldry. 

 Miscellaneous Antiquities. 

 Ecclesiastical History. 

 English and Continental Reformers. 

 History of London and its Neighbourhood. 

 Ballads and Old Poetry. 



Remarkable Events In English, Scotch, and 



Irish History. 

 Anglo-Saxon Literature. 

 Fine Arts. 

 Natural History. 

 Photography, especially in its Relation to 



Archaeology. 



&c. &c. 



These have been furnished by the following distinguished writers ; besides many who have chosen to preserve their 

 incognito. 



Rev. J. Hunter. 

 Samuel Hickson, Esq. 

 Rev. John Jebb. 

 Douglas Jerrold, Esq. 

 Rev. Dr. Kennedy. 

 R. J. King, Esq. 

 Rev. L. B. Larking. 

 M. A. Lower, Esq. 

 W. B. MacCabe, Esq. 

 Rev. Dr. Maitland. 

 Sir F. Madden. 



Lord Braybrooke. 

 John Britton, Esq. 

 John Bruce, Esq. 

 J. Burtt. Esq. 

 W. D. Christie, Esq. 

 J. P. Collier, Esq. 

 W. D. Cooper, Esq. 

 Bolton Corney, Esq. 

 P. Cunningham, Esq. 

 Rev. T. Corser. 

 Dr. Dalton. 

 Professor De Morgan 



Dr. Diamond. 

 Hepworth Dixon, Esq. 

 Sir Fortunatus Dwarris. 

 Sir Henry Ellis. 

 C. Forbes, Esq. 

 E. Foss, Esq. 

 Rev. W. Eraser. 

 Rev. A. Gatty. 

 Henry Hallam, Esq, 

 J. O. Halliwell, Esq. 

 E. Hawkins, Esq. 



J. H. Markland, Esq. 

 J. E. B. Mayor, Esq. 

 Lord Monson. - 

 R.M. Milnes, Esq., M.P. 

 George Ormerod, Esq. 

 J. R. Planch^, Esq. 

 E. F. Rimbault, Esq. 

 Rev. Dr. Rock. 

 S. W. Singer, Esq. 

 E. Smirke, Esq. 

 George Stephens, Esq. 



H. E. Strickland, Esq. . 

 Earl of Shaftesbury. 

 W. J. Thorns, Esq. 

 B. Thorpe, Esq. 

 Rev. J. H. Todd, D. D. 

 Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bt. 

 T. H. Turner, Esq. 

 Rev. Henry Walter. 

 Albert Wa^, Esq. 

 Benjamin B. Wiffen. 

 W. Yarrell, Esq., &c. 



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" There can be no doubt of the value of a literary Medium of this 

 peculiar kind." — Atherueum. 



" That useful resuscitant of dead knowledge yclept Notes and 

 Queries — the antiquary's newspaper." — Quarterly Review. 



" We like the plan much. * * We wish success to a publication 

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 Gazette. 



" This publication promises to fill up a void that has constantly 

 been lamented by every person engaged in any particular branch of 

 study that required experience and research. * * * It is a publication 

 in which all literarjr persons must feel a deep interest, and that has our 

 heartiest wishes for its success." — Morning Herald. 



" This is a new periodical, with a new idea, and one that will be 

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 deserving that appellation." — Weekly News. 



" That valuable publication The Notes and Queries, so auspiciously 

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"With whomsoever the idea of publishing this useful and interesting 

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 recommend in all sincerity. The Notes and Queries to the attention of 

 lovers of literature in general." — Morning Post. 



" This excellent little journal, healthy in its nature and well cared 

 for by its friends, gathers strength as the months roll over its head. The 

 fifth volume lies now bound before us, and the sixth will, in a few days, 

 range by its side. It is.a periodical which will last as long as there is 

 literature in this country, if it be always edited as cleverly, and backed 

 by the support of literary men as liberally, as it is at present. The 

 idea which led to its foundation was original and happy, and the prac- 

 tical result obtained from it probably surpasses the expectation of the 



THE PRESS. 



founders. As a mass of eurious, out-of-the-way information, upon 

 almost every matter that may be supposed to be of interest to educated 

 minds, a volume of Motes and Queries is of itself a curiosity, and quite 

 an out-of-the-way treasure. Wholly apart from its very great value as 

 an aid to tlie literary labourer who works upon unhacknied material, 

 — a point so well recognised that it need not be urged, — we would 

 suggest that the reader for amusement scarcely could take up a mis- 

 cellany that contains more anecdote and quaint accounts of odd 

 things new to his mind, than a volume of Notes and Qoeriks. 

 Of course he will, in such a journal, find occasiouatly marks left by 

 the fingers of some sly old antiquarian who has been robbing a 

 mare's nest ; but a few finger marks of this kind cannot spoil the 

 matter of a book, they damage only a few inches of paper. Very few 

 inches, let us add, in a journal which, like Notes and Queries, com- 

 pels brevity in all communications, requiring every man who sends a 

 note or query to produce his matter and dispense with an oration over 

 it Columns of verbiage thus spared to the reader, are filled with useful 

 facts ; and the great resulting mass of information that is crammed into 

 the four or fivB hundred double-columned pages of one volume, like that 

 now before us, is more than can readily be suggested by the way of 

 statement to the reader's mind. It may lead to the formation of some 

 notion on the point if we state that the Index to this fifth volume con- 

 tains not many less than three thousand five hundred references to sub- 

 jects upon which there is information given in its pages. A journal in 

 which an excellent design is being worked out so effectually as we find 

 it here, will never die of inanition. Able supporters will not fail out of 

 the land ; and we shall doubtless see this little weekly paper still rejoicing 

 in the vigour of its youth, when we who are its readers now with healthy 

 eyes can only spell it out through spectacles." — Examiner. 



