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No. 4.] SaturDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1849. et ere 
oS cee ee 4 publish a Number every Saturday ; and the 
r pects - - - - - Pitz sis 
Notes: — ar atin, ts if result has so far justified our decision, that 
juther a rasmus, ohn bruce - - - a . = 
Hallam’s Middle Ages» - . 51, the object of our now addressing our readers 
Adversaria I.— Writers of Notes an Fly- leaves - - 51] s, . , . 
Origin of Grog and Ancient Alms-Basins - : 2 52| 18 to apologise to the many friends whose 
Dyce v. Warburton and Collier == - - - 53 : : . : 
Food of the People, by J.T. Hammack - i : 34| Communications we are again unavoidably 
isho arna - - - = 59 : 
Trade Editions zi ‘ - 33| compelled to postpone ; and to explain that 
Dibdin’s Typograph. Ant initiés, b) Rev. Dr. Maitland 56 < s 
Queries pared I by Bolton ae - - - 56; WE are preparing to carry out such further 
Oia Expedition to America - E 5 - 7| improvement in our arrangements as will 
ee 8 ‘Wighngele - - nd enable us to find earlier admission for all 
Roger de Coverley | - : - 59| the communications with which we are 
Landed and Commercial Policy of England - - 59 
he att res Leman - - - 59| favoured. 
othic Architecture - - - - - - 59 
Katherine Pegs. Lh on = 2 ee One other word. It has been suggested to 
neries on edle2va éograp! Ld - . . le : 
Mies Bloomfylde and Willizm Bloomfield on Alchymy - 60/ US that in inviting Notes, Comments, and 
ynne’s Collection of Chancellors - > - 60 m 
Cold Ho rbour > 2 1 60} Emendations upon the works of Macaulay, 
Statistics of the Romati Catholic Chureh - = =- 61 ; waa 
Incumbents of Church Livings -  - = - = Hallam, and other living authors, we may 
O3*. ) sleraieta LO al Set ae aa AE s aya possibly run a risk of offending those emi- 
ome eee Sane Colalogtes PE ngh i= ; : 6}| nent men. We hope not. We are sure that 
Notices to Correspondents - . a - 8 | this ought not to be the case. Had we not 
OUR PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS. 
WHEN we consulted our literary friends as to 
the form and manner in which it would be 
most expedient to put forth our “ Norms AND 
Queries,” more than one suggested to us 
that our paper should appear only once a 
month, or at all events not more frequently 
than once a fortnight, on the ground that a 
difficulty would be experienced in procuring 
materials for more frequent publication. 
We felt, however, that if such a Medium of 
Inter-communication, as we proposed to es- 
tablish was, as we believed, really wanted, 
frequency of publication was indispensable. 
Nothing but a weekly publication would meet 
what we believed to be the requirements of 
literary men. We determined, therefore, to 
recognised the merits of such works, and the 
influence they were destined to exercise over 
men’s minds, we should not have opened our 
pages for the purpose of receiving, much less 
have invited, corrections of the mistakes into 
which the most honest and the most able of 
literary inquirers must sometimes fall. Only 
those who have meddled in historical research 
can be aware of the extreme difficulty, the 
all but impossibility, of ascertaining the exact 
or the whole truth, amidst the numerous mi- 
nute and often apparently contradictory facts 
which present themselves to the notice of all 
inquirers. In this very number a corre- 
spondent comments upon an inference drawn 
by Mr. Hallam from a passage in Mabillon. 
In inserting such a communication we show 
the respect we feel for Mr. Hallam, and our 
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