You are here
قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 103. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 103.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
The Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 289
Lord Strafford and Archbishop Ussher 290
Poetical Coincidences, by T. C. Smith 291
Folk Lore:—Medical Use of Pigeons—Michaelmas Goose; St. Martin's Cock—Surrey Folk Lore 291
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 292
Minor Notes:—"They that touch pitch"—Pasquinade—Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final 292
QUERIES:—
Can Bishops vacate their Sees? 293
Sanderson and Taylor 293
Minor Queries:—"Vox verè Anglorum"—"Sacro Sancta Regum Majestas"—Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland"—"Kings have their Conquests"—Dryden; Illustrations by T. Holt White—Pauper's Badge, Meaning of—The Landing of William Prince of Orange in Torbay, painted by J. Northcote, R.A.—The Lowy of Tunbridge—Bones of Birds—"Malvina, a Tragedy"—Rinuccini Gallery 293
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Meaning of Aneroid—Fox's Cunning 295
REPLIES:—
Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sansom, &c. 295
Anagrams 297
Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Rev. A. Gatty, &c. 297
Marriage of Ecclesiastics 298
Replies to Minor Queries:—Robert Douglas—The Leman Baronetcy—Cachecope Bell—"Dieu et mon Droit"—Defoe's House at Stoke Newington—Study of Geometry in Lancashire—Coke, how pronounced—Quistourne—Seneca's Medea—The Editor of Jewel's Works in Folio—Poetaster—Post Pascha—Linteamina and Surplices—Climate—Ancient Language of Egypt—Welwood's Memoirs 299
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 302
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 303
Notices to Correspondents 303
Advertisements 303
Notes.
THE CAXTON MEMORIAL.
Few persons having a common object in view, and equally desirous of its attainment, fail in carrying it into effect. The object of "The Caxton Memorial" is obviously to do honour to the first English printer; and if a man's best monument be his own works, it will be necessary to ascertain of what they consist. It is well known that most of the works printed by Caxton were translated from the French, many doubtless by himself. The Prefaces were evidently his own, and the continuation of the Polychronicon was confessedly written by himself. The most valuable contribution to "The Caxton Coffer" would be a list of the works which it is proposed to publish as those of Caxton, with some calculation of their probable extent and cost of production. The originals being in many cases of extreme rarity, it would be necessary to transcribe fairly each work, and to collate it with the original in its progress through the press. The following enumeration of the Translations alone will give some idea of the work to be undertaken:
The Recuyell of the Historyes of