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Vol. IV.— No. 96.] Saturday, August 30. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 

 The Caxton Memorial and Cliaueer's Monument 

 Notes : — 



Collar of SS., by Edward Foss . . . . 



Printing ...---- 



Folk Lore: — Bible Divination in Suffolk — Mode of 

 discovering Bodies of tlie Drowned — Somersetshire 

 Rhyme .------ 



Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations . . - 



Minor Notes: — Cocker's Arithmetic —The Duke of 



Normandy — Anachronisms and Errors of Painters — 



The Ring Finger — The Od Force — New Costume 



for Ladies ...... 



QUEBIES : — 



Judges styled Reverend, &c. .... 



Minor Queries:— Frederick Ecjmont ; Peter (Egmont?) 



Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take an Oath — 



Cockroach — Felton — Date of a Charter — Thomas 

 Tusser the " Husbandman" — Godfrey Higgins' 

 Works — Noctes Templarise— Commissioners on Offi- 

 cers of Justice in England — Marcus .Elius Antoninus 

 Derivation of Pic-uic — Sir Thomas More's Knight- 

 hood Portrait of Mandeville — Early History of 



Dinsle — Language of Ancient Egypt— Dr. Matthew 

 Sutcliife — Names first given to Parishes — German 

 Testament — Ttie Man of Law — The Termination 

 " Ship" — Nullus and Nemo — The noblest Object 

 of the Work of Art — Poulster . - - - 



Minor Queries Answered: — Rev. Caesar de Missy — 

 F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor — " Carve out Dials " 



— Log Book— Lord Clydesdale — " Time is the Stuff 

 of which Life is made" — "Yet forty Days" — The 

 Empress Helena ---..- 



Replies: — ' ' 



Roval Library ..---. 



The " Eisell " Controversy . . - - 



Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor ... 



*' House of Yvery " - . - - . - 



On " Rack " in the Tempest .... 



Richard Rolle of Hampole . . . - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Lady Flora Hastings' Re- 

 quest — " The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong" 



Fairlight Church — Dogmatism and Puppyism — 



Was Stella Swift's Sister ? — Charles Lamb's Epitaph 



— Cleaning of Carnaby— Scandinavian Mythology, Hcc. 



UlSCELLkNEOUS : — 



Notes on Buoks, Sales, Catalogues, &c. ... 

 Books and Odd Vohnnes wanted . . . - 



Notices to Correspondents - . - . - 



Advertisements -...•. 



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THE CAXTON MEMORIAL AND CHAUCER S MONUMENT. 



The result of the appeals wlilcli have recently been 

 made to the sympathies of the present age for the 

 purpose of erecting a JVIemorial to our first Printer, and 

 of restoring the crumbling tomb of one of our earliest 

 and greatest Poets, has gone near to prove that the 

 admirers of Caxton and Chaucer are disposed to yield 



to the objects of their hero-worship little more than 

 lip service. In short, the plan for the Caxton Me- 

 morial, and that for the restoration of Chaucer's Mo- 

 nument, have well nigh failed. 



The projectors of the former had, indeed, in the ne- 

 cessity of settling what the Caxton Memorial should 

 be, to encounter, at the very outset of their undertaking, 

 one difficulty from which the Cliaucer Committee was 

 free ; and the uncertainty whether it should assume 

 the form of the symbolical " lamp and fountain " so 

 poetically suggested by the Dean of St. Paul's, or the 

 ideal cast-iron statue of the Coalbrook Dale Company, 

 may have had a sinister effect upon the Subscription 

 List. 



Between the suggestive symbol and the fancy por- 

 trait there would seem to be little room for hesitation, 

 since the former would merely veil a truth, while 

 the latter would perpetuate a falsehood. But our 

 readers have had before them a third, and, as it seems 

 to us, a far more reasonable proposal, in that made by 

 Mr. Bolton Corney for a collective impression of 

 Caxton's original compositions: and we cannot but 

 think that if that gentleman will take the trouble to 

 enter into the necessary details as to the extent of such 

 compositions, and the expense of transcribing and 

 printing them, his scheme may yet be realised, and that 

 too to the satisfaction of all the subscribers to the 

 Caxton Memorial. The following communication in- 

 dicates the favour with which Mh. Cornet's proposal 

 will probably be received, by the followers of Caxton's 

 art in this country. 



I have just read with prreat pleasure the article 

 on " A Caxton Memorial suggested " in your 

 Number for the 19th of July. I was particularly 

 pleased with the '■^ pj-oposed conditions ;" and as an 

 humble follower of the art of which Caxton stands 

 at the head, and as an euthusiastic admirer of that 

 great and talented, and le.arned printer, I should 

 feel great pleasure in becoming a subscriber, 

 shoulil anytliing of the kind be undertaken ; and 

 have no doubt but that many, — aye, as many as 

 might be rc([uired to complete the subscription 

 list, might be found among the printers of this 



Vol. IV.— No. 96. 



