# Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849

Author: Various

Genre: Notes and Queries

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11265

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Notes+and+Queries%2C+Number+02%2C+November+10%2C+1849+Various&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated that "we would rather give a specimen than a description." We are now in like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to the position which we have already taken. But there is a vast difference between vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and it would be worse than an affectation of humility--it would be a mean hypocrisy--if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the gratitude we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly advice and able pens. We have opened a Literary Excha...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-02-november-10-1849-11265/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-02-november-10-1849-11265/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/notes-and-queries-number-02-november-10-1849-11265/chapters/3/index.md)