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No. 218.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
NOTES:-- Page St. Stephen's Day and Riley's Hoveden, by J. S. Warden 637
The Holy Trinity Church, Hull, by R. W. Elliot 638
MINOR NOTES:--Italian-English--American Names-- Rulers of the World in 1853--Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 638
Derivation of Silo, by Augustus Strong 639
MINOR QUERIES:--Handwriting--Rev. Joshua Brooks--"New Universal Magazine"--Francis Browne--Advent Hymn--Milton's Correspondence--"Begging the Question"--Passage of Cicero 639
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Goldsmith's "Haunch of Venison" 640
School Libraries, by Weld Taylor, P. H. Fisher, &c. 640
Trench on Proverbs, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 641
"Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, &c. 648
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Aceto-Nitrate of Silver--On the Restoration of old Collodion 649
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Admissions to Inns of Court-- Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans--Derivation of Britain-- Derivation of the Word Celt--"Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira"-- Cash--"Antiquitas Sæculi Junentus Mundi"--Caves at Settle, Yorkshire--Character of the Song of the Nightingale-- Inscriptions in Books--Door-head Inscription--Fogie--Sir W. Hewet--Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge--The Crescent-- Abigail--Handbook to the Library of the British Museum--The Arms of Richard, King of the Romans--Greek and Roman Fortifications--Osbernus filius Herfasti--Devonianisms--Gentile Names of the Jews--Longevity--Reversible Names--Etymology of Eve--Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas--Binometrical Verse--Gale of Rent 650
In Roger de Hoveden's account of the accident which proved fatal to Leopold, Duke of Austria, the jailer of Richard I. (Bohn's edit., vol. ii. p. 345.), St. Stephen's Day, on which it occurred, is twice stated to be _before_ Christmas Day, instead of after it. Is this an error of the author, or of translator?[1] or are they right, and was St. Stephen's martyrdom in those times commemorated on a different day from what it now is? I cannot find, on reference to the authorities within my reach, that this last was the case. Mr. Riley does not notice the discrepancy at all.