Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853, page 1 by Various Authors
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kton 121 Abuses of Hackney Coaches 122 Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, Thomas Falconer, &c. 123
MINOR NOTES:--Falsified Gravestone in Stratford Churchyard--Barnacles in the River Thames--Note for London Topographers--The Aliases and Initials of Authors--Pure--Darling's "Cyclopædia Bibliographica" 124
QUERIES:-- Delft Manufacture, by O. Morgan 125
MINOR QUERIES:--The Withered Hand and Motto "Utinam"--History of York--"Hauling over the coals"--Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury--Washington--Norman of Winster--Sir Arthur Aston--"Jamieson the Piper"--"Keiser Glomer"--Tieck's "Comoedia Divina"--Fossil Trees between Cairo and Suez: Stream like that in Bay of Argastoli--Presbyterian Titles--Mayors and Sheriffs--The Beauty of Buttermere--Sheer Hulk--The Lapwing or Peewitt (Vanellus cristatus)--"Could we with ink," &c.--Launching Query--Manliness 125
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Pues or Pews--"Jerningham" and "Doveton" 127
REPLIES:-- Battle of Villers en Couché, by T. C. Smith, &c. 127 Snail-eating, by John Timbs, &c. 128 Inscription near Cirencester, by P. H. Fisher, &c. 129 Curious Custom of ringing Bells for the Dead, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and R. W. Elliot 130 Who first thought of Table-turning? by John Macray 131 Scotchmen in Poland 131 Anticipatory Use of the Cross, by Eden Warwick 132
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Glass Chambers for Photography--Dr. Diamond's Replies--Trial of Lenses--Is it dangerous to use the Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver? 133
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Burke's Marriage--The House of Falahill--Descendants of Judas Iscariot--Milton's Widow--Whitaker's Ingenious Earl--Are White Cats deaf?--Consecrated Roses--The Reformed Faith--House-marks--Trash--Adamsoniana--Portrait of Cromwell--Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"--"Amentium haud Amantium"--Talleyrand's Maxim--English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth--Gloves at Fairs--St. Dominic--Names of Plants--Specimens of Foreign English, &c. 1