Notes and Queries
NOTES:-- Further Notes on Derivation of the Word "News", by Samuel Hickson 81 More Borrowed Thoughts, by S. W. Singer 82 Strangers in the House of Commons, by C. Ross 83 Folk Lore:--High Spirits considered a Presage of impending Calamity, by C Forbes 84 The Hydro-Incubator, by...
He admits, however, that the civilians have, in deriving testament from _testari mentem_, imparted a greater significance to the termination "ment." Amidst such diversity of opi...
1. Chapter 1NOTES:-- Further Notes on Derivation of the Word "News", by Samuel Hickson 81 More Borrowed Thoughts, by S. W. Singer 82 Strangers in the House of Commons, by C. Ross 83 Folk Lo...
3. Chapter 3Probably some of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" will share in the surprise expressed by E.S.S.W. (Vol. ii., p. 6.), yet many persons now living must remember when spectacles...
4. Chapter 4Nicholson, the drawing master, taught Mrs. Robinson and her two children. Not long after the death of Mr. Robinson, the eldest child was burnt to death; and a very short time af...