646

Peter Allan, by Shirley Hibberd 647

"Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, &c. 648

What Day is it at our Antipodes? 648

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Aceto-Nitrate of
Silver--On the Restoration of old Collodion 649

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Admissions to Inns of Court--
Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans--Derivation of Britain--
Derivation of the Word Celt--"Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira"--
Cash--"Antiquitas Saeculi Junentus Mundi"--Caves at Settle,
Yorkshire--Character of the Song of the Nightingale--
Inscriptions in Books--Door-head Inscription--Fogie--Sir W.
Hewet--Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge--The Crescent--
Abigail--Handbook to the Library of the British Museum--The
Arms of Richard, King of the Romans--Greek and Roman
Fortifications--Osbernus filius Herfasti--Devonianisms--Gentile
Names of the Jews--Longevity--Reversible Names--Etymology of
Eve--Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas--Binometrical
Verse--Gale of Rent 650

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c 655

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 656

Notices to Correspondents 656

Advertisements 657

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Notes.

ST. STEPHEN'S DAY AND RILEY'S HOVEDEN.

In Roger de Hoveden's account of the accident which proved fatal to
Leopold, Duke of Austria, the jailer of Richard I. (Bohn's edit., vol. ii.
p. 345.), St. Stephen's Day, on which it occurred, is twice stated to be
_before_ Christmas Day, instead of after it. Is this an error of the
author, or of translator?[1] or are they right, and was St. Stephen's
martyrdom in those times commemorated on a different day from what it now
is? I cannot find, on reference to the authorities within my reach, that
this last was the case. Mr. Riley does not notice the discrepancy at all.

In the translation of this Volume, a few errors have come under my
observation, to which I beg to call Mr. R.'s attention: 1. In his note on
Corumphira's prophecy, at p. 36., he seems to forget that the Mahometan
year differs from the Julian by eleven or twelve days, and that in
consequence A. D. 1186 does not correspond to A. H. 564; in fact,