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Notes and Queries ,.---- 

 Collar of SS. 



Tenvson — Coleridge — Fxtract from Baker's MSS. on 

 Barth. Dodyngton, and William Jenkin, by J. E. B. 

 Mayor ------- 



Parallel Passages ------ 



Folk Lore : _ Power of Prophecy — Bay Leaves at Fu. 

 nerals — Shoes (old) thrown for Luck — Roasting 

 Mice for Honping-cough — The Story of Mr. Fox- 

 Baptismal Superstition — Ruslibearing 



Queries : — 



Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII. ? by Samuel 

 Hickson I9S 



Minor Queries: — The Abbe Strickland — Works on 

 Aerostation — Pilgrims' Road to Canterhurv — "JEdri- 

 cus qui signa fnndebat " — Osmund, the Waterman — 

 Logic — Oarvon datherall — Damasked Linen — Flou- 

 rish — Drax Abbey and Free School — Ancient Cata- 

 logue of Books ..---- 



Replies: — 



Shakspeare's Use of the Word " Delighted," by S. W. 

 Singer ------- 



Family of Love ------ 



Tr.inslation of the Philobiblon - - - - 



Etymological Queries, by S. W. Singer - - . 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Lord Richard Chrisfophilus 



— Poker — Quenla Cantabrigiensis — '-One Bell" — 

 l''ahuli)us Account of the Lion — Poinfrct on the 

 Thames — Walrond Family — Armenian Language 



— Genealogical Query — Richard Baxter's Descend- 

 ants — Duresme and Dunelm 



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Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Hooks. Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and ^)dil Vi)lunies Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Th(i lii.story of books anfl periodicals of a similar 

 character ou;;ht to be an object of interest to the 

 remlers of this work. The number of works in 

 which answers have been given to proposed (|itcs- 

 tions is not small. Not to mention the Spcrtdtor 

 and its imitators, nor the class of almanacs which 

 pivo riddles and problems, nor inathemaiical ])eri- 

 odicals of a more e.vtensive character, — thotigli all 

 these ought to be discussed in course of time, — 

 there yet remains a class of books in which general 

 questioiLS pro|)osed by the public are answered 

 periodically, either by the public or by the editors. 



Perhaps an account of one of these may bring out 

 others. 



In 1736 and 1737 appeared the Weekly Oracle; 

 or, Universal Library. Published by a Society of 

 Gentlemen. One folio sheet was published weekly, 

 usually ending in the middle of a sentence. 

 (Query. What is the technical name for this mode 

 of publication ? If none, what ought to be ?) I 

 have one folio volume of seventy numbers, at the 

 end of which notice of suspension is given, with 

 prospect of revival in another form : probably no 

 more was pulilished. The introduction is an ac- 

 count of the editorial staff: to wit, a learned 

 divine who " hath entered with so much discern- 

 ment into the true spirit of the schoolmen, espe- 

 cially Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, that he 

 is qualified to resolve, to a hair's breadth, the nicest 

 cases of conscience." A physician who " knows, 

 to a mathematical point, the just tone and har- 

 mony of the rising pulses . ..." A lawver 

 who " what he this day has proved to be a con- 

 tingent remainder, to-morrow he will with equal 

 learning show must operate as an executory devise 

 or as a springing use." A philosopher " able to 

 give the true reason of all things, from the com- 

 position of watches, to the raising of minced pies 

 . . . and who, if he is closely questioned aViout 

 the manner of squaring the circle, or by what 

 means the perpetual motion, or longitude, may be 

 discovered, we believe has honesty, and we are sure 



that he has skill enonijh to say that he knows 



nothing of the matter." A moral ])hilosopher who 

 has "discovered a perpetuum mobile of o-overn- 

 ment." _ An eminent virtuoso who understands 

 " what is the best pickle to preserve a rattle-snake 

 or an Egyptian mummy, better than the nature of 

 tlie government he lives under, or tlie economy 

 and welf ire of himself and family." Lastly, a man 

 of mode. "Him the beaus and the ladies may 

 considt in the affairs of love, dress, and equipage." 



There is a great deal of good answering to tole- 

 rably rational questions, mi.xed with some attempts 

 at humour, and other eccentricities, and occasion- 

 ally a freedom, both of question and answer, by 

 which we might, were it advisable, confirm the 

 fiict, that the decorums of 173G and of 1850 are 

 two different thinors. 



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