Vol. IV.—No. 108.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

Age of Trees 401

Lines attributed to Admiral Byng 403

A Chapter on Emblems 403

Folk Lore:—Music atFunerals—Cheshire Folk Lore and Superstition 404

MinorNotes:—Talented—Anagram—Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations 405

Masters and Marshals of the Ceremonies 405

Minor Queries:—Cause of Transparency—Gold Medal of the Late Duke of York—Compositions during the Protectorate—Bristol Tables—Macfarlane's Geographical Collection—"Acu tinali meridi"—Sir Joshua Reynolds—Great Plough at Castor Church—Church of St. Bene't Fink—Inscription on a Pair of Spectacles—Campbell—Family of Cordeux—Panelling Inscription—Infantry Firing 406

The ReverendRichard Farmer, byBolton Corney 407

Anglo-Catholic Library 408

GeneralJames Wolfe 409

Punishment ofEdward of Caernarvon by his Father—Character of Edward I. 409

Elizabeth Joceline's Legacy to an Unborne Child 410

Replies to Minor Queries:—Coleridge's "Christabel"—Dryden; Illustrations by T. Holt White—Lofcop, Meaning of—Middleton's Epigrams and Satyres—Lord Edward Fitzgerald—Earwig—Sanderson and Taylor—Island of Ægina and the Temple of Jupiter Panhellinius—The Broad Arrow—Consecration of Bishops in Sweden—Meaning of Spon—Quaker Expurgated Bible—Cozens the Painter—Authors of the Homilies 410