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No. 190. Saturday, June 18, 1853. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
CONTENTS.
Notes:— Page
On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 589
The Megatherium Americanum in the British Museum 590
Remunerations of Authors, by Alexander Andrews 591
Coincident Legends, by Thomas Keightley 591
Shakespeare Readings, No. VIII. 592
Shakespeare's Use of the Idiom "No had" and "No hath not," by S. W. Singer, &c. 593
Minor Notes:—The Formation of the Woman, Gen. ii. 21, 22.—Singular Way of showing Displeasure—The Maids and the Widows—Alison's "Europe"—"Bis dat, qui cito dat:" "Sat cito, si sat bene" 593
Queries:—
House-marks 594
Minor Queries:—"Seductor Succo"—Anna Lightfoot—Queries from the "Navorscher"—"Amentium haud Amantium"—"Hurrah!" and other War-cries—Kissing Hands at Court—Uniforms of the three Regiments of Foot Guards, temp. Charles II.—Raffaelle's Sposalizio—"To the Lords of Convention"—Richard Candishe, M.P.—Alphabetical Arrangement—Saying of Pascal—Irish Characters on the Stage—Family of Milton's Widow—Table-moving 595
Minor Queries with Answers:—Form of Petition, &c.—Bibliography—Peter Francius and De Wilde—Work by Bishop Ken—Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon—Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan—Coins of Europe—General Benedict Arnold 596
Replies:—
Parish Registers: Right of Search, by G. Brindley Acworth 598
The Honourable Miss E. St. Leger, a Freemason, by Henry H. Breen 598
Weather Rules, by John Booker, &c. 599
Scotchmen in Poland, by Richard John King 600
Mr. Justice Newton 600
The Marriage Ring 601
Canada, &c. 602
Selling a Wife, by William Bates 602
Enough 603
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Wilkinson's Mode of levelling Cameras—Collodion Negative—Developing Collodion Process—An iodizing Difficulty 604
Replies To Minor Queries:—Bishop Frampton—Parochial Libraries—Pierrepont—Passage in Orosius—Pugna Porcorum—Oaken Tombs and Effigies—Bowyer Bible—Longevity—Lady Anne Gray—Sir John Fleming—Life—Family of Kelway—Sir G. Browne, Bart.—Americanisms, so called—Sir Gilbert Gerard, &c. 605
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 610
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 610
Notices to Correspondents 610
Advertisements 611