Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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W.W. [Footnote 1: 3d ed. of Dawes's _Mis. Critic_, p. xviii, note x.] _Daniel's Irish New Testament._--F.G.X. will be much obliged for information on the following points:-- 1. Which is the most correct edition, as to printing and orthography, of Daniel's Irish New Testament? 2. Does the edition now on sale by the Bible Society bear the character for incorrectness as to these points, which, judged by itself, it appears to deserve, or is it really, though "bad, the best?" 3. F.G.X. is far advanced with an Irish Testament Concordance. Can any one possessed of the requisite information give him hope of the acceptableness of such a publication? He should expect it to be chiefly useful to clerical Irish students in acquiring a knowledge of words and construction; but the lists of Irish Bibles disposed of of late years would lead to the supposition of its being desirable also as pointing out the place of passages to the native reader. 4. Does the Cambridge University Library contain a copy of the first edition of Daniel's translation? _Ale Draper--Eugene Aram._--In Hargrove's well-known history of Eugene Aram, the hero of Bulwer's still better known novel, one of the guilty associates of the Knaresborough murderer is designated as an "Ale |
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