Vol. V.—No. 118.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOL. V.—No. 118.

SATURDAY,JANUARY 31. 1852.

Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.

Transcriber's Note: Some Hebrew words may not be shown in an adequate way in this version.

CONTENTS.

Calamities of Authors 97

NOTES:—

Portraits of Wolfe, by Edw. Auchmuty Glover 98

Notes on Homer, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 99

French Revolutions foretold 100

Idées Napoléoniennes, by Henry H. Breen 100

Dr. Johnson's Contributions to Baretti's Introduction, by James Crossley 101

Minor Notes:—Bishop Bedell—Foreign Guide-books—Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty—Errors of Poets 101

QUERIES:—

The Poet Collins 102

Portraits of Henry Purcell, byDr. E. F. Rimbault 103

Query on the Controversy about Fluxions, byProfessor De Morgan 103

Minor Queries:—Madrigal, Meaning of—"Experto crede Roberto"—Chronological Institute—Buzz—The Old Scots March—Hans Holbein—Ivory Medallion of Lord Byron—Trumpington Church—"Carmen Perpetuum," &c.—"The Retired Christian"—The Garrote—Monastic Establishments in Scotland—Bonds of Clearwell and Redbrook—Eliza Fenning—"Character of a True Churchman"—"A Roaring Meg"—Cardinal Pole—Theoloneum—Sterne in Paris—King Robert Bruce's Watch 104

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Hornchurch; Wrestling for the Boar's Head—Spectacles—Stoke—Author of Psalm Tune "Doncaster"—Dr. Henry Sacheverell ...

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