Volume 4 — CONTENTS.

NOTES:—

Venerable Bede's Mental Arithmetic 201

Hyphenism, Hyphenic, Hyphenization 203

Gray and Cowley 204

Minor Notes:—Ὑπωπιάζω—Meaning of Whitsunday—Anagrammatic Pun by William Oldys—Ballad of Chevy Chase: Ovid—Horace Walpole at Eton 205

QUERIES:—

Continental Watchmen and their Songs 206

Minor Queries:—Quotation from Bacon—Carmagnoles—The Use of Tobacco by the Elizabethan Ladies—Covines—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Plant in Texas—Discount—Sacre Cheveux—"Mad as a March Hare"—Payments for Destruction of Vermin—Fire unknown—Matthew Paris's Historia Minor—Mother Bunche's Fairy Tales—Monumental Symbolism—Meaning of "Stickle" and "Dray"—Son of the Morning—Gild Book 208

REPLIES:—

Pope and Flatman 209

Test of the Strength of a Bow 210

Baskerville the Printer 211

Replies to Minor Queries:—Mazer Wood and Sin-eaters—"A Posie of other Men's Flowers"—Table Book—Briwingable—Simnels—A Ship's Berth—Suicides buried in Cross-roads—A Sword-blade Note—Domesday Book of Scotland—Dole-bank—The Letter "V"—Cardinal Wolsey—Nervous—Coleridge's Essays on Beauty—"Nao" or "Naw," a Ship—Unde derivatur Stonehenge—Nick Nack—Meaning of Carfax—Hand giving the Benediction—Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take an Oath—Borough-English—Date of a Charter 211

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 215

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 215

Notices to Correspondents 215

Advertisements 216

List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages