,
Lucretia--Vandyke's Portrait of Lord Aubigny--Foundation
Stone of St. Mark's, Venice--Coins of
Richard Cromwell--Cataracts of the Nile--Paternoster
Tackling--Dancing Trenchmore--Hymns--
Camden and Curwen Families--Jartuare 87
REPLIES:--
John Bunyan and his Portrait.--Did Bunyan know
Hobbes? by George Offor 89
The Mother Church of the Saxons by Dr. J. Rawson 90
Replies to Minor Queries:--The Frozen Horn--To
Pose--Culprits torn by Horses--The Conquest--Mayors,
their correct Prefix--True Blue--Modum Promissionis--Fronte
capillata &c.--Cross between a
Wolf and a Hound--Touching for the Evil--Old
Booty--Breeches Bible--Separation of the Sexes--Defender
of the Faith--Epigram on the Synod of Dort--Parish
Register Tax--Clergy sold for Slaves 91
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 95
Notices to Correspondents 95
Advertisements 95
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"NOTES AND QUERIES" IN HOLLAND.
The following extremely interesting, and, we need scarcely add, to us most
gratifying, communication reached us at too late a period last week to
admit of our then laying it before our friends, readers, and contributors.
They will one and all participate in our gratification at the proof which
it affords, not merely of that success which they have all combined to
secure, but of the good working, and consequent wide extension, of that
great principle of literary brotherhood which it has been the great object
of "NOTES AND QUERIES" to establish.
_To the Editor of_ "NOTES AND QUERIES."
Mr. Editor,
We have the pleasure of sending you the prospectus of "DE NAVORSCHER," a
new Dutch periodical, grounded upon the same principle as its valuable and
valiant predecessor "NOTES AND QUERIES." The title, when translated into
English, would be--"_The Searcher; a medium of intellectual exchange and
literary intercourse between all who know something, have to ask something,
or can solve something._" If it be glorious for _you_ to have proposed a
good example, we think it honourable for _us_ to follow it.
Though we do not wish to be our own trumpets, we can say that never a Dutch
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