Notes and Queries
NOTES:-- Riots in London. 273 Satirical Poems on William III. 275 Shakspeare's Grief and Frenzy, by C. Forbes. 275 Etymological Notes. 276 Mistakes in Gibbon. by Rev. J.E.B. Mayor. 276 Minor Notes. History of Saracens--Hippopotamus--America--Pascal's Letters--Parson's Epigram....
_The Hippopotamus._--Your correspondent L. (Vol. ii., p. 35.) says, "None of the Greek writers appear to have seen a live hippopotamus:" and again, "The hippopotamus, being an i...
1. Chapter 1NOTES:-- Riots in London. 273 Satirical Poems on William III. 275 Shakspeare's Grief and Frenzy, by C. Forbes. 275 Etymological Notes. 276 Mistakes in Gibbon. by Rev. J.E.B. May...
3. Chapter 3_Interment of James II._--I remember reading in the French papers, in the year 1823 or 1824, a long account of the then recent exhumation and re-interment in another spot of the...
4. Chapter 4_Darvon Gatherall._--I send you an extract from Southey's _Common-place Book_, which refers to Darvon Gatherall. Southey had copied it from Wordworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography...