Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850

NOTES

STRAY NOTES ON CUNNINGHAM'S LONDON

SATIRICAL SONG UPON GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

"WHOLE DUTY OF MAN," AUTHOR OF

MISTAKE ABOUT GEORGE WITHER

USEFUL VERSUS USELESS LEARNING

MINOR NOTES

QUERIES

BISHOP COSIN'S CONFERENCE

ENGELMAN'S BIBILIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

GAUDENTIO DI LUCCA

ON A PASSAGE IN "THE TEMPEST."

GRAY'S ELEGY

BISHOPS AND THEIR PRECEDENCE

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

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The following notes are so trivial, that I should have scrupled to send them on any other ground than that so well-conceived and labouriously-executed a work should have its most minute and unimportant details as correct as possible. This, in such a work, can only be effected by each reader pointing out the circumstances that he has reason to believe are not quite correctly or completely given in it.

Page 24. Astronomical Society.—The library has been recently augmented by the incorporation with it of the books and documents (as well as the members) of the Mathematical Society of London (Spitalfields). It contains the most complete collection of the English mathematical works of the last century known to exist. A friend, who has examined them with some care, specifies particularly some of the tracts published in the controversy raised by Bishop Berkeley respecting "the ghosts of departed quantities," of which he did before know the existence.

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P. 166. Dulwich Gallery.—This is amongst the unfortunate consequences of taking lists upon trust. Poor Tom Hurst1 has not been in the churchyard these last eight years—except the three last in his grave. The last five years of his life were spent in a comfortable asylum, as "a poor brother of the Charterhouse." He was one of the victims of the "panic of 1825;" and though the spirit of speculation never left him, he always failed to recover his position. He is referred to here, however, to call Mr. Cunningham's attention to the necessity, in a Hand-book especially, of referring his readers correctly to the places at which tickets are to be obtained for any purpose whatever. It discourages the visitor to London when he is thus "sent upon a fool's errand;" and the Cockney himself is not in quite so good a humour with the author for being sent a few steps out of his way.

P. 190. Rogers—a Cockney by inference. I should like to see this more decidedly established. I am aware that it is distinctly so stated by Chambers and by Wilkinson; but a remark once made to me by Mrs. Glendinning (the wife of Glendinning, the printer, of Hatton Garden) still leads me to press the inquiry.

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