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Transcriber's note: on page 399, "Yule College" in the original is
corrected to "Yale College".

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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No. 208.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                 Page

  A Prophet                                                 381

  FOLK LORE:--Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire--New
  Brunswick Folk Lore--North Lincolnshire Folk
  Lore--Portuguese Folk Lore                                382

  Pope and Cowper, By J. Yeowell                            383
  Shakspeare Correspondence, by Patrick Muirson, &c.        383

  MINOR NOTES:--Judicial Families--Derivation of
  "Topsy Turvy"--Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias--
  "Mary, weep no more for me"--Epitaph at Wood
  Ditton--Pictorial Pun                                     384

  QUERIES:--

  Sir Thomas Button's Voyage, 1612, by John Petheram        385

  MINOR QUERIES:--The Words "Cash" and "Mob"
  --"History of Jesus Christ"--Quantity of the Latin
  Termination -anus--Webb and Walker Families--
  Cawdrey's "Treasure of Similes"--Point of Etiquette
  --Napoleon's Spelling--Trench on Proverbs--Rings
  formerly worn by Ecclesiastics--Butler's "Lives of
  the Saints"--Marriage of Cousins--Castle Thorpe,
  Bucks--Where was Edward II. killed?--Encore--
  Amcotts' Pedigree--Blue Bell: Blue Anchor--
  "We've parted for the longest time"--Matthew
  Lewis--Paradise Lost--Colonel Hyde Seymour--
  Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire--Poems published at
  Manchester--Handel's Dettingen Te Deum--
  Edmund Spenser and Sir Hans Sloane, Bart.                 386

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--The Ligurian Sage
  --Gresebrok in Yorkshire--Stillingfleet's Library--
  The whole System of Law--Saint Malachy on the
  Popes--Work on the Human Figure                           389

  REPLIES:--

  "Namby Pamby," and other Words of the same Form           390
  Earl of Oxford                                            392
  Picts' Houses                                             392
  Pronunciation of "Humble"                                 393
  School Libraries                                          395

  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Albumenized Paper
  --Cement for Glass Baths--New Process for Positive
  Proofs                                                    395

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Groaning Elmplank
  in Dublin--Passage in Whiston--"When
  Orpheus went down"--Foreign Medical Education
  --"Short red, good red"--Collar of SS.--Who first
  thought of Table-turning--Passage of Thucydides on
  the Greek Factions--Origin of "Clipper" as applied
  to Vessels--Passage in Tennyson--Huet's Navigations
  of Solomon--Sincere--The Saltpetre Man--
  Major Andre--Longevity--Passage in Virgil--Love
  Charm from a Foal's Forehead--Wardhouse, where
  was?--Divining Rod--Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle--
  Pagoda                                                    397

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                              401
  Notices to Correspondents                                 401
  Advertisements                                            402

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Notes.

A PROPHET.

What a curious book would be "Our Prophets and Enthusiasts!" The literary
and biographical records of the vaticinators, and the heated spirits who,
after working upon the fears of the timid, and exciting the imaginations of
the weak, have fl