Now ready, price 68. THE GENERAL TO THE INDEX FIFTH SERIES OF NOTES AND QUERIES. Vols. I. to XII., 1874 to 1879 (Two Vols. in each Year). MR. THOMS has kindly contributed the following Preface: : If there be any truth in the old proverb, "Practice makes perfect," this ought to be a capital Preface, inasmuch as it is the Fifth to an Index of a twelve-volume Series of dear old NOTES AND QUERIES which I have been called upon to write. The first three it was my duty to prepare, as I was responsible for the several collections of literary material to which they were the keys. because to a certain extent the various articles to which it referred had been garnered under I was urged to undertake the Fourth my superintendence. But now that I have neither the responsibility nor the credit for the store of varied, useful, and amusing information here duly sorted and labelled ready for use, to be compelled by the importunity, not to say tyranny, of my successor to repeat an old story, and so expose myself to the risk of being taunted by some captious critic with the profanity of Jack Falstaff, and told "Oh, thou hast damnable iteration!" is a little hard upon an Editor who has "retired from business." I must, however, run the risk, inasmuch as by so doing I shall put myself in a position to make an acknowledgment which I ought to have made long since. My distinguished and warm-hearted friend Lord Brougham (who, I may here say, had on more than one occasion furnished me with some interesting Replies), speaking to me of the great value and utility of this Journal, was pleased to add that "that value and utility were increased tenfold by its Lord Brougham was right; and if the critic in the Saturday Review who declared of "that little farrago of learning, oddities, absurdities, and shrewdnesses, QUERIES," that it was perhaps the only weekly newspaper that would be "consulted three hundred years hence," should also prove to be right, I do not hesitate to declare that these Indexes will have greatly contributed to that success. capital Indexes." 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CRITICISMS on Art, Music, and the Drama. LETTERS from Foreign Correspondents on subjects relating to Literatu Science, and Art. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES of Distinguished Men. ORIGINAL POEMS and PAPERS. WEEKLY GOSSIP on Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, the Drama. THE ATHENÆUM Is so conducted that the reader, however distant, is in respect to Literature, Science, Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, on an equality in point of information with the informed circles of the Metropolis. OFFICE for ADVERTISEMENTS, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. Published by JOHN FRANCIS, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. Queries, with No. 39, July 24, 1880. INDEX. SIXTH SERIES.-VOL. I. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPEARIANA, and SONGS AND BALLADS.] "History is philosophy," &c., 306 A. (W. E. A.) on an erudite menu, 312 A-z on bull-baiting in England, 86 Gravestones, early, 105 Pick-Vomit, 344 Psalm, "Old Hundredth," 86 Abhba on burned in the hand, 37 Abner, his retort to Ish-bosheth, 512 Abney (Sir Thomas), Lord Mayor of London, 176 decamaravelous, its derivation, 304, 346 Ache on " "Silverlings," Isaiah vii. 23, 222 "Adeste Fideles," 85, 141, 160, 224 Ainscow (John), of Blackrod, his kin, 296 All ware," street cry, its meaning, 65 A laott (W. H.) on Milton's grandfather, 115 Allsopp (A. P.) on cotton introduced into England, 320 Almanacs, Christmas, issued by tradesmen, 115, 146 Almoner, Lord High, his precedence, 136 Alpha on Brahan seer, Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche, 96 Altar in the Pyx Chamber, Westminster Abbey, 334, 379, 400, 458 Altham family and title, 36, 103, 505 Altruism, its etymology and meaning, 117, 286 Alwyn (Sir Nicholas), Lord Mayor of London, 212 American diplomatic uniforms, 256, 339 American Folk-lore, 16, 75, 234 American hymns, 376 American spelling, 16, 161, 204 Americus on American diplomatic uniforms, 339 Amicus on paintings on tea-trays, 199 Amulet, inscribed, 354, 482 An, its Lincolnshire use, 376 Ancestor, use of the word, 74, 223, 245 And, "short," 474, 500 Anders meate, a meal, 34 Andersen (Hans Christian), his "Bilderbuch ohne Bilder," 58 Andrews (Henry), almanac maker, 183 Anglo-Celt on "He that will to Cupar," &c., 265 Angus (J. K.) on the clergyman and the actor, 421 Feng-shui, its meaning, 404 Zulu pillows, 201 Anne of Cleves, her portrait by Holbein, 223 Digby (Kenelm Henry), 292 Anonymous pamphlets, 194 Anonymous Works: Adventures of Naufragus, 47, 67 Æsop at the Bear Garden, a poem, 157, 202, 340 Chronicles of the Kings of England, 126 Anonymous Works:- City of Dreadful Night, 36, 105 Clubs of London, 77, 127 Comic English Grammar, 77 Cook and Housewife's Manual (Meg Dod's), 47 Cromwell (Oliver), Life of, 155, 219 Curious Maid, 375, 422 Death of t'ould Squire, 196, 227 Dictionary of Writers on the Prophecies, 26 Enchanted Plants; or, Fables in Verse, 316, 367 Epics of the Ton, 77 Estelle Russell, 77 Exquisites, The, a farce, 337 Five Nights of St. Albans, 77, 127, 187 History of the Mutiny at Spithead, 46 Murdered Queen, 95 Not in the Programme, 297, 386 Old Bailey Experiences, 26 Poems, with a Dramatic Entertainment, 396 Red Barn, a novel, 457 Robert Dalby and his World of Troubles, 471 Suicide, The, a poem, 457 Tavern Anecdotes and Reminiscences, 196, 367 Twenty Years in Retirement, 26 Two Rectors, 26 Vestiges of Creation, 325, 385, 478 Anthony, its pronunciation, 19, 123, 264, 286, 306 Apis on misuse of English by French writers, 24 Apollo Gardens, Westminster Road, 336, 506 Apples of King John, 85, 526 Arbuthnot (John), his wife, 45 "Arca finalis" found at Corton, Wilts, 473 Argo-nairs, its proverbial meaning, 176, 259 Arms, in Lowick Church windows, 55, 462; Nobility Arnott (S.) on Chiswick and Turnham Green, 509 Ascendency, its spelling, 237, 323, 345 Rabelais (Francis), 349 Ashmole (Elias), Windsor herald, 196, 386 Atholl motto, 28 Attwell (H.) on Fénelon, its spelling and accentua- Siddons (Mrs.), her portraits, 335 Aube, a bird's name, 41, 105, 244, 306 "Auld Robin Gray" dramatized, 236, 445 Austin (Samuel), his "Answer to Mr. Randolph's Author, his reasons for not publishing, 233 Authors, their errors, 390, 414, 433, 490, 512 Avoure: Avouries, 146 Awful, its spelling, 356, 522 Axon (W. E. A.) on "Chevy Chase," 464 Inventions, some English, 310 Surnames, their pronunciation, 473 Azeituna, Spanish word, its meaning, 215, 245, 406 B. on godwit of Ionia, 296 Ink, best modern, 105 Tree of S. Maria del Tulé, 296 B. (A.) on the "Ram Jam" Inn, 414 English banquet in 1768, 32, 324 London v. Londres, 182 B. (C. W.) on Baines family, 518 B. (D. C.) on Venus's visit to Esculapius, 474 B. (F. A.) on Bedford, its etymology, 461 B. (G.) on rejected manuscripts, 33 B. (H.) on Robert fitz Harding, 101 Brown (Dr. John), his "Bibliomania," 299 B. (J. McC.) on "Borderland of Animal and Vegetable Bartholomew Fair collection, Dickens's, 35 B. (J. N.) on Matthew Buchinger, 136 B. (J. R.) on Cardinal Newman, 135 B. (P.) on "Vicar and Moses," 214 B. (P. E.) on portraits etched by Mrs. D. Turner, 357 B. (R.) on a Dane's skin, 261 Scowles, scarles Scorice? 256 B. (S.) on a treatise by Henry VIII., 255 Blackstone or Blakiston family, 243 Ferret, obsolete word, 205 Hewes or Hughes (Rev. Lewes), 345 Tau, marked with, 521 Whig and Tory, 395 B. (W. E.) on 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras, 320 Spanish lady's love for an Englishman, 335 B. (W. M.) on Isaac Reed, 304 B. (Y.) on Bickley family, 416 Leicestershire funeral, 94 Bacon family, co. Somerset, 356, 406 Bailey (J. E.) on "Ben Jonson's Head," 432 "Gentle Shepherd," Vanderstop's version, 35 Laud (Bishop) and Dr. Sibthorpe's Sermon, 203 Stockport peerage, &c., 119 Eaily (J.) on Thomas Coleman, 359 Tulchan bishops, 424 Baines family, co. Surrey, 76, 517 Baker (Samuel), Rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill, 195 Balcony or Balcony, 46 Ballad quoted in "King Lear," 53 Balsic (Catherine de), first Duchess of Lennox, 55 Bamboozle, its etymology, 22 Banality, a new word, 456 Bates (W.) on "Auld Robin Gray," 445 Cowper (W.), riddle by, 474 London v. Londres, 117 Merritt (Henry), 471 Quack Doctor," 496 Roman banquet: Bill of fare, 164 Sea-sickness known to the ancients, 410 "Tavern Anecdotes," 367 Turner (Mrs. Dawson), portraits by, 442 Bath and Wells diocesan registers, 215 Bath bibliography, 15 Battledores, or horn-books, 313, 421 Bayne (T.) on Tom Brown, 133 Carlyle (Thomas), his "Essay on Burns," 336 "Laird o' Cockpen," 137 "Land o' the Leal," 18 Rooky Misty, 34 Shakspeariana, 251 Washing the feet of brides, 260 Baynes (M. C.) on Cad, synonymous with Cadger, 124 Beak (A.) on Hautten family, 475 Regiment of Foot, 23rd, 18, 466 Beatrice on Prudent=Virtuous, 480 Beaumontague, its meaning and derivation, 256, 304 Clergyman and the actor, 421 "Hare-brained," 425 Keble (J.), his pointing towers, 234 King George the best, 312 "Love in a Balloon," 287 Paintings on tea-trays, 159 Pianoforte, equestrian player on, 35 Royall or Ryall family, 143 Baacks (John), of Sunning, his "Life of Oliver Crom- Bedford, its etymology, 173, 460 well," 155, 219 Banks (C. E.) on Edward Godfrey, 515 Royall or Ryall family, 97 Banks (Sir John), his biography, 296, 404 Banquet, Roman, 25, 46, 83; the bill of fare, 164, Baptism, Christian names in, 274, 299, 397, 426 Bar-Point on obituary verses, 34 Barbatus (Hugo), of Domesday, 255 Barley break, a game, 108 Barnes (Richard), Bishop of Durham, 255 Penn (William) and slavery, 394 112, 490 Bell (H.) on Paddocray, its meaning, 457 Bell (Henry Nugent), "Huntingdon Peerage Case," 66 Bells, song on, 61, 305; at Bury St. Edmunds, 193, 303 Bentley (G.) on "Not a drum was heard," 254 Beppo on Chicken House Estate, 137 Bergusdicius (F.), his biography, 256, 405 Barrow (G. F.) on Rickmansworth parochial records, Berkhamsted or Berkhampstead, 513 Bermondsey Spa, views of, 336, 506 |