Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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found an interesting account of old drinking vessels, &c., many of them
curiously named.) Jarltzberg. _Cold Harbour_ (Vol. ii., p. 60.).--There is a place bearing that designation at Gosport, running along side of Portsmouth harbour, between the town of Gosport and the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard. I am at present aware of none other. J.R. Fox. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. The "Percy Society" has just issued _The Anglo-Saxon Passion of St. George_, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library. It is a work highly creditable to the Society; and in the interesting Introduction prefixed to it by the Editor, the Rev. C. Hardwick, M.A., Fellow of St. Catharine's Hall, he has gratified our national prejudices by showing the favour which the Saint from whom we take "Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George" enjoyed in England before the Norman Conquest. Mr. Hardwick's brief notice of the Anglo-Saxon allusions to Saint George is complete and most |
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