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FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When fourd,make a note of,”-CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOLUME SIXTH.

JULY-DECEMBER, 1852.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL, 186. FLEET STREET.

1852.

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Replies to Minor Queries: Use of Slings by the Early
Britons Burial in Unconsecrated Ground - Et mo-
logy of Fetch and Haberdasher - Baxter's "Heavy
Shove," &c.-"We three"-Age of Trees - The
Diphthong "ai"- The Symbol of the Pelican-John
Hope Stoup-Flanagan on the Round Towers of
Ireland Giving the Sack - The Bells of Limerick
Cathedral - Mexican, &c. Grammar B shop Merri-
man-Birthplace of Andrew Marvell Anstis on
Seals-Foundation Stones-Milton indebted to Tacitus
-Plague Stones-Algernon Sidney-Edmund Bohun
-Declaration of Two Thousand Clergymen

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Of future; in small room large heart inclos'd."
What authority there may be for the asserted physic-
logical fact in reference to the emmet, is a Query we
submit to our readers, merely reminding them that
Virgil has said the same thing of bees: at present we
quote the words of our great poet as descriptive of the
function and purpose which we have carried on through-
out Five Volumes, and which we shall keep steadily
before us in that new Volume on which we are this day
entering, and in the numberless remainder which we
trust will follow. "Provident of future," we shall lay up
good store of valuable materials for all inquirers; and
within the "small room" of our hebdomadal sheet
shall strive to inclose a mass of matter more directly
useful to literary men than has ever been crowded into
such space before.

The continued kindness of our "increased and still

increasing" band of contributors and correspondents

enables us, volume by volume, to perform our office

more perfectly. The number of important questions

which we answer immediately, and the number cleared

up by the friendly discussions in our pages, are both

continually on the increase. Some day we shall

Parliamentary phrase) present a Return upon this sub-

jeet which will excite no little surprise: at present

we will merely express our warmest thanks to all

our contributing friends, and assure them of our

constant endeavour to insert their papers in the way

which will be most useful, and at the same time most

agreeable to themselves. Slight curtailment, and some

delay, are occasionally unavoidable; but we studiously

endeavour to do the most entire justice to every paper

that is sent to us, and that as quickly as possible.

Such shall ever continue to be our aim: our only

"strife" being how to please you all — readers, corre-

spondents, note-makers, and querists — “ day exceeding

day,"

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