Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.   By: Various

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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

No. 212.] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

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Party Similes of the Seventeenth Century: No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse" 485 Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 488 Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper 488 Rev. Josiah Pullen 489

FOLK LORE: Ancient Custom in Warwickshire Nottinghamshire Customs 490

MINOR NOTES: A Centenarian Couple "Veni, vidi, vici" Autumnal Tints Variety is pleasing Rome and the Number Six Zend Grammar The Duke's First Victory Straw Paper American Epitaph 490

QUERIES:

Laurie (?) on Currency, &c. 491 "Donatus Redivivus" 492

MINOR QUERIES: Henry Scobell The Court House Ash trees attract Lightning Symbol of Sow, &c. Passage in Blackwood Rathband Family Encaustic Tiles from Caen Artificial Drainage Storms at the Death of Great Men Motto on Wylcotes' Brass "Trail through the leaden sky," &c. Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers Roman Catholic Bible Society 493

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS "Vox Populi Vox Dei" "Lanquettes Cronicles" "Our English Milo" "Delights for Ladies" Burton's Death Joannes Audoënus Hampden's Death 494

REPLIES:

"Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c. 496 Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato 497 Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby 497 School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley Acworth 498 Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c. 499 "Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas 500

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE: Clouds in Photographs Albumenized Paper Stereoscopic Angles Photographic Copies of MSS. 501

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES: Lord Cecil's "Memorials" Foreign Medical Education Encyclopædias Pepys's Grammar "Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi" Napoleon's Spelling Black as a mourning Colour Chanting of Jurors Aldress Huggins and Muggins Camera Lucida "When Orpheus went down" The Arms of De Sissone Oaths of Pregnant Women Lepel's Regiment Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1662 Creole Daughter pronounced "Dafter" Richard Geering Island 502

MISCELLANEOUS:

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 505 Notices to Correspondents 505 Advertisements 505

Notes.

PARTY SIMILES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY NO. I. "FOXES AND FIREBRANDS." NO. II. "THE TROJAN HORSE."