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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 207.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy, by C. Clifton Barry 357 Comet Superstitions in 1853 358 The Old English Word "Belike" 358 Druses, by. T. J. Buckton 360 FOLK LORE:--Legends of the County Clare 360 Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thomas Keightley, &c. 361 Death on the Fingers 362
MINOR NOTES:--On a "Custom of y^e Englyshe"--Epitaph at Crayford--The Font at Islip--"As good as a Play" 363
Lovett of Astwell 363 Oaths 364 The Electric Telegraph 364
MINOR QUERIES:--Queries relating to the Porter Family--Lord Ball of Bagshot--Marcarnes--The Claymore--Sir William Chester, Kt.--Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and Great Britain--Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant--Memorial Lines by Thomas Aquinas--"Johnson's turgid style"--Meaning of "Lane," &c.--Theobald le Botiller--William, fifth Lord Harrington--Singular Discovery of a Cannon-ball--Scottish Castles--Sneezing-- Spenser's "Fairy Queen"--Poema del Cid--The Brazen Head 364
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"The Basilics"--Fire at Houlton--Michaelmas Goose 367
Portraits of Hobbes and Letters of Hollar, by S. W. Singer 368 Parochial Libraries, by the Rev. Thos. Corser 369 Battle of Villers en Couché, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., &c. 370 Attainment of Majority, by Russell Gole and Professor De Morgan 371 Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal 372
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Sisson's developing Fluid--Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper--Mr. Lyte's New Process 373
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Derivation of the Word "Island"--"Pætus and Arria"--"That Swinney"--The Six Gates of Troy--Milton's Widow--Boom--"Nugget" not an American Term--Soke Mill--Binometrical Verse--Watch-paper Inscription--Dotinchem--Reversible Names and Words--Detached Church Towers--Bishop Ferrar--"They shot him by the nine stone rig"--Punning Devices--Ashman's Park--"Crowns have their compass," &c.--Ampers and--Throwing Old Shoes for Luck--Ennui 374