information of the best kind. As in former volumes, so nineteenth century collection of Elzevirs. To the volume, tured by Walter Crane. (Cassell & Co.) Or Christmas gift-works few are so dainty in conception and in execution as this pretty fancy of Mr. Crane, the quaint and poetical designs of which are admirably executed in colour. The animated lilies, roses, daisies, and buttercups of Mr. Crane are things of absolute beauty. MESSRS, UNWIN BROTHERS have issued Ephemerides: London Almanack in the Olde Style for 1889. An ingenious idea is pleasingly carried out. a MR. WM. HUTT, of 3, Hyde Street, New Oxford Street, will issue for the new year a catalogue containing many works of interest from the libraries of Mr. Turner and Mr. Gibson Craig. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices : ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. WE had already mentioned in these pages the proximate appearance of a new offshoot of the old tree of N. & Q.,' and we are glad now to be able to speak of it as actually bearing fruit. We always knew that the West Saxon land contained a large substratum of Celtic blood, but we were hardly prepared to find so Hibernian a strain as seems to be indicated by the publication of parts ii. and iii. of Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries with never a part i. It is true that some Continental learned societies are quite as eccentric in their sequence of parts and volumes; still, we hope to reach part i. some day. Prof. Tylor, of Oxford, is interested in Dolemoors, and wants sketches of the marks stated by Collinson to have been traditionally handed down to distinguish the several doles on Congresbury Common. The placename of these Dolemoors reminds us of the Celtic strain to which we have alluded, St. Congarus being a saint of the Scoto-Celtic church, whose existence was once somewhat rashly denied by an omniscient Saturday Review writer. He is venerated at Turriff, in Aberdeenshire. "Shig-Shag Day," which is asked after on the same page as the "Dolemoors," is an instance in which the General Index to our Fifth Series might have been, but evidently was not, consulted. Local N. & Q.' correspondents should try to spare their editors the repetition of questions long since asked in our pages, save in the W. B. ("The Pope he leads a happy life").-This is few cases where we have ourselves failed to elicit a the title as well as the first line of the song. It appears satisfactory reply. In any such case, of course, we should be grateful to our friends for helping with their in A Thousand and One Gems of Song, selected and local knowledge. 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T.) on Abbott family, 5 Abdiel, the archangel, 507 Abney (Sir Thomas), his epitaph, 104 Accurate on the execution of deeds, 509 Achilles, merchantman privateer, 367, 471 Adalbert (Prince) of Prussia, his biography, 449 Advent, muffling bells during, 484 Aerolite suspended in church, 325 Agincourt, battle of, 444 Ainsworth (W. H.), his 'Tower of London,' 133 Aldersgate Ward, its aldermen, 287 Aldis (H. G.) on church bells, 181 Alice on Bishop Latimer, 127 Alinement alignement, 206, 315 Alington (F. W.) on the Plague of London, 453 Alison (Sir A.), mistranslation in his 'Europe,' 386 Allibone's 'Dictionary,' notes on, 184 Allison (J. W.) on a Belgian custom, 456 Church steeples, 78 Cromwelliana, 204 Dickens (Charles) and Sir Theodore Martin, 176 Diddle, its meanings, 217 Eagle Court, 396 Fanny (Lord), 134 Funeral custom, 356 Lightning let out, 96 Milton (John), 324 Perjury, punishment for, 296 Proverb defined, 449 Rose, thistle, and shamrock, 430 Alliteration in the 'Rolliad,' 226 Allnutt (W. H.) on John Shakspeare, 344 Alpha on Alumni Westmonasterienses,' 475 Alpha on Anne Trelawny, 68 Alpue, its meaning, 39, 96 Altar flowers, 115 Alton Castle, co. Stafford, 48, 137 America, England and Scotland reproduced in, 212, Amsterdam Bourse open to children, 447 Amsterdam Coffee-house, its locality, 167, 291, 496 Anderson (P. J.) on academic heraldry, 478 Andrewes family, co. Gloucester, 28 Andrewes (H. E.) on Andrewes family, 28 Anglesey, springs at, 367, 489, 518 Angus, Duke of Douglas, 87 Angus (D.) on quotation by Budæus, 497 Stuart family, 134 Annas, a woman's Christian name, 54 Anon. on Acts ii. 9-11, 230 Arms of cities and towns, 149 Cata wimple, its meaning, 128 Child, forty-first, 305 Church festivals, 306 Coffins, iron, 516 Courts, open-air, 487 Digby (Kenelm Henry), 507 Goose building in trees, 287 Leyden, its foundation, 349 Anonymous Works :- Abrégé de l'Histoire d'Angleterre, 324, 456 Arcana Aulica, 446 Art of Dressing the Hair, 315 Book of Jasher, 468 Commissioner, The, 27, 111, 234 Cross Roads, 447 Curious Dance round a Curious Tree, 428, 471 Apprentice, his dress temp. Elizabeth, 467 Aprons, blue, worn by waiters, 48 Arbuthnot (Dr. John), his residence, 427 Archer (W.) on Macready, 7 Argentine Confederation, changes in the language, 156 Aristotle and the elephant, 25 Armigeri: Generosi, their difference, 167 Arms, manual in use in British army, 1770-5, 507 Arnold (Sir Nicholas), his biography, 287, 394 Arundell family, 29, 213 Ascham (Antony), his writings, 284 Ashmole (Elias), his tomb and residence, 28 Assist used as a noun, 125 Astarte on aerolite, 325 Budæus, lines quoted by, 289 Holy bread, 246 Ice, foreign, 366 L. (L. E.), her epitaph, 86 'Legenda Aurea,' 108 Lucan, his Pharsalia,' 224 Mass, error regarding, 506 Rockall, in the Atlantic, 9 Surnames, Swedish, 444 "Whet is no let," 106 Austria, "if not windy is pestilent," 389 Authors, their difficulties in the 17th century, 186 Venables (Robert), 134 Axon (W. E. A.) on Forster and Shelley, 161 B. (A.) on the Birkenhead, 194 B. (C. C.) on Alcestis and the daisy, 309 Balk, its meanings, 35 Birth hour recorded, 237 Golden Horn, 492 Goose building in trees, 431 Gordon's 'Grammar of Geography,' 307 H, its mispronunciation, 110 'Impossible is not French," 193 "In his buttons," 365 Mayflower, the, 72 Nynd nigh-hand, 174 Parallel passages, 426 Plastic art in the Eastern Church, 430 "Roodselken," 437 Rose, thistle, and shamrock, 311 Russia, Black, White, and Red, 475 Shakspeariana, 263 Shelley (P. B.), his 'Adonais,' 431 Thomson (James) and 'Winter,' 393 Ware spend, 293 B. (F. E.) on riddles on trees, 28 B. (G. F. R.) on Alumni Westmonasterienses,' 47 Best (Judge), 493 Boswell (James), 473 Coleraine (fourth Baron), 47, 294 Dunbart (Robert), 187 George I., his burial-place, 51 Glover's History of Derby,' 294 Gordon (P.), his 'Geography,' 395 'Gulliver's Travels,' 252 Hackman (James), 87 Hamilton (Lord Archibald), 187 Harcourt (Lord Chancellor), 188, 478 Jackson and Lloyd (Bishops), 136 'Library of Fiction,' 398 'Medusa, The,' 193 Monsey (Dr. Messenger), 30 |