Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850

NOTES

ADDRESS TO OUR FRIENDS

SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORDS "CAPTIOUS" AND "INTENIBLE."

ORATORIES OF THE NONJURORS

HOGARTH'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF HUDIBRAS

FOLK LORE

ADVICE TO THE EDITOR, AND HINTS TO HIS CONTRIBUTORS

MINOR NOTES

Queries

THE INQUISITION—THE BOHEMIAN PERSECUTION

Minor Queries

REPLIES

TASSO TRANSLATED BY FAIRFAX

ALE-DRAPER.—EUGENE ARAM

ON THE WORD "GRADELY."

COLLAR OF ESSES

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES OF BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

Bibliographical Works,

Which are kept constantly ready for reference to every Visitor

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We this day publish our fifty-second Number. Every Saturday, for twelve months, have we presented to our subscribers our weekly budget of "Notes," "Queries," and "Replies;" and in so doing, we trust, we have accomplished some important ends. We have both amused and instructed the general reader; we have stored up much curious knowledge for the use of future writers; we have procured for scholars now engaged in works of learning and research, many valuable pieces of information which had evaded their own immediate pursuit; and, lastly, in doing all this, we have powerfully helped forward the great cause of literary truth.

In our Prospectus and opening address we made no great promise of what our paper should be. That, we knew, must depend upon how far the medium of intercommunication we had prepared should be approved and adopted by those for whose special use it had been projected. We laid down a literary railway: it remained to be seen whether the world of letters would travel by it. They have done so: we have been especially patronised by first-class passengers, and in such numbers that we were obliged last week to run an extra train.

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Mickleham, Oct. 4. 1850.

Charles Wheatly, author of A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer, in a letter to Dr. Rawlinson, the nonjuring titular bishop of London, says:

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