A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
Reading edition
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 51. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1850. Price, with Supplement, 6d. Stamped Edition, 7d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Roberd the Robber, by R.J. King 321
On a Passage in the Merry Wives of Windsor, and on Conjectural Emendation 322
Minor Notes:—Chaucer's Damascene—Long Friday—Hip, hip, Hurrah!—Under the Rose—Albanian Literature 322
QUERIES:—
Bibliographical Queries 323
Fairfax's Tasso 325
Minor Queries:—Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium—First Earl of Roscommon—St. Cuthbert—Vavasour of Haslewood—Bells in Churches—Alteration of Title-pages—Weights for Weighing Coins—Shunamitis poema—Lachrymatories—Egg-cups used by the Romans—Meleteticks—Luther's Hymns—"Pair of Twises"—Countermarks on Roman Coin 325
REPLIES:—
Gaudentio di Lucca 327
Englemann's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum, by Professor De Morgan 328
Shakspeare's Use of the Word "Delighted," by Samuel Hickson 329
Collar of Esses, by John Gough Nichols 329
Sirloin, by T.T. Wilkinson, &c. 331
Riots of London, by E.B. Price, &c. 332
Meaning of "Gradely" 334
Pascal and his Editor Bossut, by Gustave Masson 335
Kings-skugg-sio, by E. Charlton, &c. 335
Gold in California 336
The Disputed Passage from the Tempest, by Samuel Hickson, &c. 337
"London Bridge is broken down," by Dr. E.F. Rimbault 338
Arabic Numerals 339
Caxton's Printing-office, by J. Cropp 340
Cold Harbour 340
St. Uncumber, by W.J. Thoms 342
Handfasting 342
Gray's Elegy—Droning—Dodsley's Poems 343
Replies to Minor Queries:—Zündnadel Guns—Thompson of Esholt—Minar's Books of Antiquities—Smoke Money—Holland Land—Caconac, Caconacquerie—Discourse of national Excellencies of England—Saffron Bags—Milton's Penseroso—Achilles and the Tortoise—Stepony Ale—North Side of Churchyards—Welsh Money—Wormwood—Puzzling Epitaph—Umbrella—Pope and Bishop Burgess—Book of Homilies—Roman Catholic Theology—Modum Promissionis—Bacon Family—Execution of Charles I., and Earl of Stair—Watermarks on Writing-paper—St. John Nepomuc—Satirical Medals—Passage in Gray—Cupid Crying—Anecdote of a Peal of Bells, &c. 343
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 350
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 351
Notices to Correspondents 351
Advertisements 351