Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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A READER.
[We are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the _Liverpool Albion_ for this Reply, which was originally communicated to that paper.] _The Curfew_, of which some inquiries have appeared in the "NOTES AND QUERIES," is generally rung in the north of England. But then it is also common in the south of Scotland. I have heard it in Kelso, and other towns in Roxburghshire. The latter circumstance would appear to prove that it cannot have originated with the Norman conqueror, to whom it is attributed. W. * * * * * ENGELMANNS BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM. (Vol. ii., p. 296.) The shortest reply to MR. DE MORGAN'S complaint against a foreign bookseller would be, that _Engelmann himself_ printed for any of the purchasers of a large number of his Catalogues the titles to which MR. DE MORGAN objects so much. Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE MORGAN'S strictures? |
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