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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.--No. 110. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1851.
The Aborigines of St. Domingo, by Henry H. Breen 433
Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger, by Alfred Gatty 434
Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 435
Minor Notes:--Mental Almanac--Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words--Pasquinade--Epigram on Erasmus--Etymology of London--Verses on Shipmoney--Columbus's Bust, &c. at Havanna 436
Additional Queries respecting General James Wolfe 438
Christianity, when first introduced into Orkney 439
The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 440
Minor Queries:--"The Don," a Poem--John Lord Frescheville--Meaning of "Pallant"--Rectitudines Singularum Personarum--Sir Henry Tichborne's Journal--Round Towers at Bhaugulpore--Johannes Trithemius--Races in which Children are named after the Mothers--Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, Envoys, and Residents from Foreign Courts--Critolaus and the Horatii and Curiatii--Cabal--"Thus said the Ravens black"--Symbols in Painting--Latin Verse on Franklin--General Moyle--Musical Compositions of Matthew Dubourg--Collodion, and its Application to Photography--Engraved Portrait--Lines by Lord Chesterfield on Queen Caroline's supposed Refusal to forgive her Son when on her Death-bed 441
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Kimmeroi, Cimbri, Cymry--Dictionary of Musicians--City of London Charter--St. Alkald 444
Replies to Minor Queries:--Bunting's Irish Melodies--Colonies in England--"History of Anglesey," &c.--The Lowey of Tunbridge--Praed's Works--John à Cumber--Punishment of Prince Edward of Carnarvon--Joceline's Legacy--Bristol Tables--Grimsdyke or Grimesditch--Derivation of "Ãra"--Scent of the Bloodhound--Monk and Cromwell Families--"Truth is that which a man troweth"--"Worse than a Crime"--Verses in Classical Prose--Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru--Nolo Episcopari--Hougoumont--Call a Spade, a Spade--"Tace is Latin for a Candle"--Collars of SS.--Locusts of the New Testament--Theodolite--"A Posie of other Men's Flowers"--Voltaire--Sinaïtic Inscriptions--Le Greene at Wrexham--Cross-legged Effigies--The Word á¼Î´ÎµÎ»Ïá½¸Ï --Finger Pillories--Blackloana Heresis--Quaker Expurgated Bible--"Acu tinali merida" 452