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Reading edition
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 63. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1851. Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:— Page
The Breeches, or Geneva Bible 17
Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir Kenelm Digby 18
Works of Camoens, by John Adamson 18
Folk Lore 20
Elizabeth Walker—Shakspeare 21
Old English Actors and Musicians in Germany 21
Minor Notes:—The Curse of Scotland—George Herbert—Dutch Versions of English Essayists—Long Meg of Westminster—Errors in the Date of printed Books 22
QUERIES:—
Dousa's Poem on Sidney—Old Dutch Song Book 22
Minor Queries:—Sir Cloudesley Shovel—Christopher Flecamore—"Earth has no Rage." &c.—D'Oyly and Barry Families—Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham—Epigram on the Synod of Dort—Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth—Invention of Steam Power—Mythology of the Stars—Sword of the Conqueror—Neville Family—Meaning of "Difformis"—Lynch Law—Prior's Posthumous Works—Suppressed Chantries 23
REPLIES:—
Pagnini's Bible 24
The Frozen Horn 25
Dominicals 25
Medals struck by Charles XII.—Rudbeck's Atlantica, by G.J.R. Gordon 26
Replies to Minor Queries:—Fossil Deer (not Elk) of Ireland—"Away, let nought to love displeasing"—Red Sindon—Coleridge and the Penny Post—Autograph of Titus Oates—Circulation of the Blood—True Blue—Cherubim and Seraphim—Darcy Lever Church—Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston—Defender of the Faith—Farquharson on Auroræ, &c. 26
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 30
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 31
Notices to Correspondents 31
Advertisements 31