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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 22., Saturday, March 30, 1850

Author: Various

Release Date: April 29, 2004 [EBook #12198]

Language: English

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS,
ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

NO. 22., SATURDAY, MARCH 30. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped
Edition, 4d.]

CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Pages
The Taming of the Shrew, by Samuel Hickson
Proverbial Sayings and their Origins
William Basse and his Poems
Folk Lore:--Something else about Salting. Norfolk Weather Proverb,
Irish Medical Charms. Death-bed Superstitions
Note on Herodotus by Dean Swift
Herrick's Hesperides, by J.M. Gutch

QUERIES:--
Rev. Dr. Thomlinson 350
Minor Queries:--"A" or "An"--The Lucky have whole Days--Line quoted
by De Quincey--Bishop Jewel's Papers--Allusion in Friar Brackley's
Sermon--Quem Deus Vult perdere--Snow of Chicksand Priory--The
Bristol Riots--A living Dog better than a dead Lion--American
Bittern--Inquisition in Mexico--Masters of St. Cross--Etymology of
"Dalston"--"Brown Study"--Coal-Brandy--Swot

REPLIES:--
The Dodo, by S.W. Singer
Watching the Sepulchre, by Rev. Dr. Rock, and E.V.
Poem by Sir E. Dyer
Robert Crowley, by Rev. Dr. Maitland
Replies to Minor Queries:--John Ross Mackay--Shipster--Gourders--
Rococo--God tempers the Wind--Guildhalls--Treatise of Equivocation--
Judas Bell--Grummet

MISCELLANIES:--
Duke of Monmouth--To Philautus--Junius--Arabic Numerals

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Books and Odd Volumes wanted
Notices to Correspondents
Advertisements

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which
I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more
important than the discovery of