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CONTENTS. Page | which able correspondents pour out their stores of 
Our further Progress - > ’ > ? - 393 | learning, may be said to place the judicious in- 
Nates : — . . sus 
Roger Bacon, Hints for a New Edition of 2 - 393} quirer in the condition of Posthumus, and 
Craik’s Romance of the Peerage - 394 F ¥ st 
Notes on Cunningh: am’s London, by E. F. Rimbault, «¢ Puts to him all the learnings that this time 
L.D. ae Could make him the receiver of.” 
Pope’s Revision of Spence, by W. ‘Ss. Singer - 396 - t 
Folk Lore:— Charm for the Toothache— Easter Eggs 
— Cure for Hooping-cough — Gootet - 397 
Duke of Monmouth’s Pocket-book, by C. Ross - - 397 
QUERIES :— 
Woolton’s Christian Manual -- - 399 
Luther's Translation of the New Testament - 399 
Minor Queries : — Medical Symbols — Charles HI. and 
Lord R.’s Daughter — St. Alban’s Day — Black Broth 
— Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower— Buccaneers — 
Travelling in 1590— Richard Hooker— Decker’s Ra- 
yen’s Almanack — Prebendaries — Luther’s Portrait 
— Rawdon Papers — Wellington, Wyrwast, &c. — 
Blockade of Corfe Castle— Locke’s MSS. — Locke’s 
Life of Lord Shaftesbury —- Theses — Apocrypha, &c. 399 
ReEpLigs : — 
Scala Ceeli, by C. H. Cooper - - - - 402 
Watching the Sepulchre - - - 403 
Queries Answered, No. 7» BY Bolton Corney 403 
Replies to Minor Queries : — Compendious Old Treatise 
— Hordys — Kachard’s Tracts — Masters of St. Cross 
—Living Dog better than dead Lion — Monumental 
Brass — Wickliff MSS.— Hever— Steward Family — 
Gloves — Cromlech — Watewich — By Hook or by 
Crook — Tablet to Napoleon— Lines on Pharaoh — 
Zachary Boyd— The Welsh Ambassador — Madoc — 
Poghell— Swingeing Tureen —“ A” or “an” - 404 
MIscELLANEous: — 
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 407 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - ~ - 407 
Notices to Correspondents - - - - 407 
Advertisements - = - : - = 408 
OUR FURTHER PROGRESS. 
We have again been called upon to reprint our 
first Four Numbers; that is to say, to print a 
Third Edition of them. No stronger evidence 
could be afforded that our endeavour to do good 
service to the cause of sound learning, by afford- 
ing to Men of Letters a medium of intercommu- 
nication, has met with the sympathy and encou- 
ragement of those for whose sake we made the 
trial. We thank them heartily for their generous 
support, and trust we shall not be disappointed in 
our hope and expectation that they will find their 
reward in the growing utility of “Norres anp 
Quertes,” which, thanks to the readiness with 
And here we may be permitted to avail our- 
selves of this opportunity, as, indeed, we feel 
compelled to do, to impress upon our correspond- 
ents generally, the necessity of eonfining their 
communications within the narrowest possible 
limits consistent with a satisfactory explanation 
of the immediate objects of them. ‘He that 
questioneth much,” says Bacon, “shall learn 
much, and content much; but especially if he 
apply his Questions to the skill of the Persons 
whom he asketh. For he shall give them occasion 
to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall 
continually gather knowledge. But let his Ques- 
tions not be troublesome, for that is fit for a Poser; 
and let him be sure ¢o leave other Men their turn to 
speak.” What Bacon has said so wisely and so 
well “Or Discourse,” we would apply to our 
little Journal; and beg our kind friends to re- 
member, that our space is necessarily limited, and 
that therefore, in our eyes, Brevity will be as 
much the Soul of a communication as it is said to 
be that of Wit. 
ROGER BACON: HINTS AND QUERIES FOR A NEW 
EDITION OF HIS WORKS. 
Victor Cousin, who has been for many years 
engaged in researches on the scholastic philosophy, 
with the view of collecting and publishing such of 
its monuments as have escaped the diligence of 
scholars, or the ravages of time, has lately made 
the discovery in the ‘library at Douay of a copy 
of an inedited MS. of Roger Bacon, entitled Opus 
Tertium, of which but two or three other copies 
are known to exist; and has taken occasion, in 
some elaborate critiques, to enter, at considerable 
length, into the history and character of Roger 
