Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

The Gentleman's Magazine has stepped forward to occupy this vacant post. Arrangements have been effected to secure for its pages contributions from gentlemen eminently conversant with the various branches of historical study, and every endeavour is made to render it a WORTHY ORGAN AND REPRESENTATIVE OF HISTORICAL AS WELL AS OF ARCHÆOLOGICAL LITERATURE. In its ORIGINAL ARTICLES, historical questions are considered and discussed; in its REVIEWS, prominent attention is given to all historical books; its HISTORICAL CHRONICLE and NOTES OF THE MONTH contain a record of such recent events as are worthy of being kept in remembrance; its OBITUARY is a faithful memorial of all persons of eminence lately deceased; and these divisions of the Magazine are so treated and blended together as to render the whole attractive and interesting to all classes of readers.

Every Number is illustrated by several Plates and Vignettes.

Seven Numbers of the new undertaking are before the public, and present a fair example of what the work will henceforth be.

The following important subjects have been treated of in some of the recent articles:

History of the first appearance of the Gypsies in Europe.

Curious Deductions from the History of our most common English Words, as illustrative of the Social Conditions of our Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman forefathers.

Recovery of the long lost Accusation of High Treason made by Bishop Bonner against Sir Thomas Wyatt the poet.

Unpublished Letters of Archbishop Land, illustrative of the Condition of England in 1640.

Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Letters of Logan of Restalrig, on which depends the Historical Question of the reality of the Gowrie Conspiracy.

Alleged Confession of Sir Walter Raleigh of his intention to retrieve his fortune by Piracy.

Three Papers containing New Facts relating to the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

The Authorship of the fabricated English Mercurie, 1588, long esteemed to be the earliest English Newspaper.

Chronicle of Queen Jane.

The Maids of Taunton—Mr. Macaulay and William Penn.

The Banquet of the Dead—Funeral of Francis I.

Two Papers on Windsor Castle in the time of Queen Elizabeth, with illustrative Plates.

Documents relating to the Execution of James Duke of Monmouth.

Account of the Funeral of Amy Robsart.

The Price paid to Charles II. for Dunkirk.

Expenses of the Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge.

Unpublished Letters of Dr. Johnson, and of the Man of Ross; and Letters of Pope and Lady Wortley Montague.

Notices of the Society of Gregorians alluded to by Pope.

Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.?

Inaccuracy of the Common Division into Acts of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.

The Christian Iconography and Legendary Art of the Middle Ages; with especial regard to the Nimbus and Representations of the Divinity; with many illustrations.

Facts for a New Biographia Britannica, consisting of unpublished Documents relating to John Locke, Anne Duchess of Albemarle, Nat. Lee, Captain Douglas, Sir S. Morland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. A. Johnstone, Betterton, Rowe, Arbuthnot, Dennis, and Gilbert West.

Unknown Poem by Drayton.

Minutes of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Memoirs of Jaques L. S. Vincent, a celebrated French Protestant writer, of Vincent de Paul, and of Paul Louis Courier.

The Coins of Caractacus.

Memoir of Inigo Jones as Court-Dramatist of James I. and Charles I.; with illustations.

Original Letter of Princess Elizabeth to George IV. relating to the Duke of Cambridge at Hanover.

History of Rambouillet.

Mediæval Literature of Spain.

Sávitri, an Historical Poem from the Sanscrit.

Injustice of Southey to Mrs. Barbauld.

The Lives of Dr. Chalmers, Southey, Chantrey, Mahomet, Tasso, Ochlenschläger, Plumer Ward, and Dr. A. Combe.

The Report of the Commissioners on the British Museum and the present state of the Library Catalogue.

On Prisons and Prison Discipline.

On the Copyright of Foreigners and Translators.

On the Primeval Antiquities of Denmark; with illustrations.

On the Discovery of a singular Roman Temple at the source of the Seine.

History of Pottery; with engravings.

Villa and Tomb of a Female Gallo-Roman Artist.

Full Reviews of Lord Campbell's Chief Justices; Boutell's Christian Monuments in England, with illustrations; Green's Lives of the Princesses; the Historical Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca; Inkersley's Romanesque and Pointed Architecture in France; Cutt's Monumental Slabs and Crosses, with illustrations; Garbett's Principles of Design in Architecture; Merivale's History of the Romans; Col. Mure's Language and Literature of Greece; Recollections of Lord Cloncurry; Evelyn's Diary; Townsend's State Trials; and shorter Reviews of many other important books.

Every Number contains Notes of the Month, or comments upon all passing literary events; Reports of Archaeological Societies; and Historical Chronicle.

The well-known Obituary includes, in the last seven numbers, Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge; the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Peel; the Earls of Carnarvon, Macclesfield, and Roscommon; the Lords Alvanley, Aylmer, Colville, Godolphin, and Lord Jeffrey; Bishops Coleridge and Tottenham; Hon. John Simpson; Adm. Sir C. Hamilton, Bart.; Hon. and Rev. Sir Henry Leslie, Bart.; Sir Felix Booth, Bart.; Sir James Gibson Craig, Bart.; Sir G. Chetwynd, Bart.; Sir Charles Forbes, Bart.; Sir Thomas Cartwright, G.C.H.; Lieut.-Gens. Sir John Macdonald, Sir James Bathurst, and Sir James Buchan; Major-Gen. Sir Archibald Galloway; General Craven; Col. Weare; Sir M. I. Brunel; Admirals Sir J. C. Coghill, Schomberg, and Hills; the Deans of Salisbury, Hereford, and Bristol; the Rev. Canon Bowles; Rev. W. Kirby, F.R.S.; Rev. Doctor Byrth; Revs. E. Bickersteth, T. S. Grimshawe, and J. Ford; Mr. Serjeant Lewes; William Roche, Esq.; John Mirehouse, Esq.; W. C. Townsend, Esq., Q.C.; Thomas Stapleton, Esq.; T. F. Dukes, Esq.; J. P. Deering, Esq. R.A.; Wordsworth; Ebenezer Elliott; J. C. Calhoun, Esq.; Colonel Sawbridge; Lieut. Waghorn; Miss Jane Porter; Mrs. Bartley; Madame Dulcken; Thomas Martin, of Liverpool; C. R. Forrester (Alfred Crowquill); M. Gay Lussac; Mr. John Thom; Mr. John Glover; Mr. R. J. Wyatt; Madame Tussaud.

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Salvino Salvini Fasti Consolari dell' Academia Fiorentina, 1717, p. 548. Milton's stay of two months at Florence must have been to him a period of pure enjoyment, and seems to have been always remembered with delight:—"Illa in urbe, quam prae ceteris propter elegantiam cum linguæ tum ingeniorum semper colui, ad duos circiter menses substiti; illie multorum et nobilium sanè et doctorum hominum familiaritatem statim contraxi; quorum etiam privatas academias (qui mos illie cum ad literas humaniores assiduè frequentavi). Tui enim Jacobe Gaddi, Carole Dati, Frescobalde, Cultelline, Bonmatthaei, Chimentille Francine, aliorumque plurium memoriam apud me semper gratam atque jucundam, nulla dies delebit."—Defensio Secunda, p. 96., ed. 1698.

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There is no positive notice of its introduction into Turkey, Persia, or Russia?

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Book iv., p. 5., ed. 8vo., Boston.

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Virginia.