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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 223, February 4, 1854
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc

Author: Various

Other: George Bell

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NOTES and QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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No. 223.]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1854.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Dryden on Shakspeare, by Bolton Corney 95
Party Similes of the Seventeenth Century:--
No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands."
No. 2. "The Trojan Horse" 96
Dutch East India Company.--Slavery in England, by James Graves 98
Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta,
by Wm. Winthrop 99
Enareans