"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. V.—No. 116.
SATURDAY,JANUARY 17. 1852.
With Index, Price Tenpence. Stamped Edition, 11d.
Transcriber's Note: Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 4, July-December, 1851, has been madeavailable separately as PG ebook #40166.
NOTES:—
Mechanical Arrangements of Books 49
Caxton Memorial, by Beriah Botfield 51
Settle's Female Prelate, or Pope Joan; a Tragedy, by James Crossley 52
Historical Bibliography 52
Calamities of Authors 55
Folk Lore:—Valentine's Day; Superstition in Devonshire—Fairies 55
Minor Notes:—Lines in Whispering Gallery at Gloucester Cathedral—Definition of Thunder—Greek Epigram by an uncertain Author 56
QUERIES:—
Burning of the Jesuitical Books at Paris, by H. Merivale 56
Grantham Altar Case 56
Meaning of Groom, by E. Davis Protheroe 57
Minor Queries:—Gregentius and the Jews in Arabia Felix—King Street Theatre—Lesteras and Emencin—Epigram on Franklin and Wedderburn—Plenius and his Lyrichord—Epigram on Burnet—Dutch Chronicle of the World—"Arborei fœtus alibi, atque iniussa virescunt Gramina" (Virgil G. I. 55.)—History of Brittany—Serjeants' Rings—The Duchess of Cleveland's Cow-pox—Arms of Manchester—Heraldical MSS. of Sir Henry St. George Garter 58
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—The Pelican, as a Symbol of the Saviour—Bishop Coverdale's Bible—Age of the Oak—Olivarius—Vincent Bourne's Epilogus in Eunuchum Terentii—Burton, Bp., Founder of Schools, &c., at Loughborough, co. Leices