492

MINOR QUERIES:--Henry Scobell--The Court House
--Ash-trees attract Lightning--Symbol of Sow, &c.
--Passage in Blackwood--Rathband Family--
Encaustic Tiles from Caen--Artificial Drainage--
Storms at the Death of Great Men--Motto on Wylcotes'
Brass--"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.--
Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers--Roman
Catholic Bible Society 493

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS--"Vox Populi Vox
Dei"--"Lanquettes Cronicles"--"Our English
Milo"--"Delights for Ladies"--Burton's Death
--Joannes Audoenus--Hampden's Death 494

REPLIES:-

"Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c. 496
Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato 497
Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby 497
School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley
Acworth 498
Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of
Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c. 499
"Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas 500

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Clouds in Photographs
--Albumenized Paper--Stereoscopic Angles
--Photographic Copies of MSS. 501

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Lord Cecil's "Memorials"
--Foreign Medical Education--Encyclopaedias
--Pepys's Grammar--"Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus
Mundi"--Napoleon's Spelling--Black as a mourning
Colour--Chanting of Jurors--Aldress--Huggins
and Muggins--Camera Lucida--"When Orpheus
went down"--The Arms of De Sissone--Oaths of
Pregnant Women--Lepel's Regiment--Editions of
the Prayer Book prior to 1662--Creole--Daughter
pronounced "Dafter"--Richard Geering--Island 502

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 505
Notices to Correspondents 505
Advertisements 505

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Notes.

PARTY-SIMILES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY--NO. I. "FOXES AND FIREBRANDS."
NO. II. "THE TROJAN HORSE."

With Englishmen, at least, the seventeenth was a century pre-eminent for
quaint conceits and fantastic similes: the literature of that period,
whether devotional, poetical, or polemical[1], was alike infected with the
universal mania for strained m