Notes and Queries
MINOR QUERIES:--Paintings of Our Saviour--Heraldic-- Dedication of Kemerton Church--Consolato del Mare-- Consonants in Welsh--Atonement--Sir Stephen Fox-- "Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland"--Darwin on Steam--Scottish Female Dress-- "The Innocents," a Dra...
Without doubt the law of nations would warrant our extorting from the hands of your highness' subjects, by issuing letters of reprisal, that which we have not been able to obtai...
4. Part 4[This imperfect Bible is one of the very numerous series of editions of the Genevan or Puritan version, commonly called the Breeches Bible. It is not a 4to. but a pot folio, hav...
3. Part 3Do not think me presumptuous for venturing to give my opinion on poetry; I have studied it from my infancy, and my admiration for it is so enthusiastic, that I feel more strongl...
6. Part 6_A Stereoscopic Note._--I possess a small volume entitled _A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things_, by T. H., B.B., Fellow of the Royal Society, 1688. "To which...
7. Part 7_Whitewashing in Churches_ (Vol. ix., p. 148.).--Mr. Hudson Turner informs us (_Domestic {287} Architecture in England_, vol. i. p. 246.) that as early as the thirteenth century...
5. Part 5In the 4th book of Evelyn's _Sylva_ there is much interesting matter on this subject, besides what has been quoted above; and, to those herein interested, the following extract...
1. Part 1MINOR QUERIES:--Paintings of Our Saviour--Heraldic-- Dedication of Kemerton Church--Consolato del Mare-- Consonants in Welsh--Atonement--Sir Stephen Fox-- "Account of an Expedit...
8. Part 8CERTIFICATES IN DRAWING are granted to SCHOOLMASTERS and SCHOOLMISTRESSES, by the DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, which will enable the holders of them to obtain an Augmentation...