Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various
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Altar Lights, &c. 68
Replies to Minor Queries:--Handbell before a Corpse --Sir George Downing--Hulls, the Inventor of Steamboats--"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"--Occult Transposition of Letters--Darby and Joan--Did Bunyan know Hobbes?--Mythology of the Stars--Dodo Queries--Holland Land--Swearing by Swans--The Frozen Horn--Cockade and True Blue--The Vavasours of Hazlewood--"Breeches" Bible--Histoire des Sévarambes--Verses attributed to Charles Yorke--Archbishop Bolton of Cashel--Erasmus and Farel--Early Culture of the Imagination--William Chilcot--By and bye--Mocker--Was Colonel Hewson a Cobbler?--Mole--Pillgarlick--A recent Novel --Tablet to Napoleon--North Sides of Churchyards --Wisby--Singing of Swans--Dacre Monument at Herstmoneux--Herstmoneux Castle--Suem; Ferling; Grasson--Portrait of Archbishop Williams --Swans hatched during Thunder--Etymology of Apricot --"Plurima gemma latet circa tellure sepulta"-- Time when Herodotus wrote--Lucy and Colin-- Translations of Apuleius, &c.--Etymology of "Grasson" --Lynch Law--"Talk not of Love"--The Butcher Duke--Curfew--Robertson Struan 68 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 78 Notices to Correspondents 78 Advertisements 78 |
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