Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc   By: Various

NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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No. 238.] SATURDAY, MAY 20. 1854. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES: Page A Leader from a Foreign Newspaper: the New Russian Manifesto 463 The Launch of the "Prince Royal" in 1610 464 "Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, by Dr. Monicke" 465 The Legend of the Seven Sisters 465

MINOR NOTES: Coincidences The English Liturgy "To jump for joy" "What is Truth?" Abolition of Government Patronage 466

MINOR QUERIES: "One New Year's Day" Greek denounced by the Monks Pliny's Dentistry J. Farrington, R.A. Henry Crewkerne of Exeter Dr. Johnson Latin "Dante" Ralph Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent Major General Wolfe Custom at University College, Oxford "Old Dominion" "Wise men labour," &c. 467

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS: Dame Hester Temple Samuel White Heralds' College Pope 468

REPLIES: Blanco White's Sonnet, by S. W. Singer 469 Goloshes 470 Consonants in Welsh, by Thomas O'Coffey, &c. 471 Songs of Degrees (Ascents), by T. J. Buckton 473 The Screw Propeller 473 Amontillado Sherry 474 Recent Curiosities of Literature 475 Roland the Brave, by F. M. Middleton, &c. 475

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE: Recovery of Silver 476

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES: Ashes of "Lignites" Old Rowley "Bachelors of every Station" Mousehunt Value of Money in the Seventeenth Century Grammars for Public Schools Classic Authors and the Jews Hand bells at Funerals "Warple way" Medal of Chevalier St. George Shakspeare's Inheritance Cassock Tailless Cats Names of Slaves Heraldic Solar Annual Eclipse of 1263 Brissot de Warville "Le Compère Mathieu" Etymology of "Awkward" Life and Death Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" "Three Crowns and a Sugar loaf" Stanza in "Childe Harold" Errors in Punctuation Waugh of Cumberland "Could we with ink," &c. 477

MISCELLANEOUS: Books and Old Volumes Wanted 482 Notices to Correspondents 483

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