"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 92.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
NOTES:—
Proverbial Philosophy 81
Paraphrase on the 137th Psalm by Churchill 82
On the Description of the Medicean Venus in Childe Harold 83
Minor Notes:—On the Word "raised" as used by the Americans—Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume—A Ship's Berth 83
QUERIES:—
John a Kent and John a Cumber, by J. Payne Collier 83
Swearing on the Horns at Highgate 84
Minor Queries:—Proverb of James I.—Mrs. Hutchinson—Early Translation of Amadis de Gaule—Hogarth and Cowper—Latin Translation of Butler's Analogy—"Non quid responderent," &c.—"The Worm in the Bud of Youth," &c.—Queen Brunéhaut—Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland—Prophecies of Nostradamus—Quaker Expurgated Bible—Salmon Fishery in the Thames—Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan—Siege of Londonderry 85
MINORQUERIES ANSWERED:—The Twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles—Exons of the Guard—Curious Monumental Inscription—Meaning of Deal—La Mer des Histoires—"The noiseless Foot of Time" 87
REPLIES:—
Passage in Virgil, by T. Henry, &c. 88
The Vine of St. Francis 89
"Jusjurandum per Canem;" "Sedem Animæ in Digitis ponunt;" "Fiat Justitia, ruat Cœlum" 90
Hugh Holland and his Works, by Bolton Corney 91
Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest 92
Replies to Minor Queries:—Coke and Cowper—Dunmore Castle—Gooseberry Fool—Dryden and Oldham—Theobald Anguilbert and Mic