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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

Author: Various

Other: George Bell

Release Date: December 4, 2009 [EBook #30595]

Language: English

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{581} NOTES AND QUERIES:

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

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

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No. 216.]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Teaching a Dog French, by Arthur Paget 581
The Religion of the Russians 582
Leicestershire Epitaphs, by William Kelly 582
Longfellow's "Reaper and the Flowers" 583

MINOR NOTES:--"Receipt" or "Recipe"--Death of Philip III.
of Spain--Churchwardens--Epigram--Oxford Commemoration Squib,
1849--Professor Macgillivray--Manifesto of the Emperor
Nicholas 583

QUERIES:--
William Cookworthy, the Inventor of British Porcelain,
by J. Prideaux 585
Catholic Floral Directories, &c. 585
George Alsop 585

MINOR QUERIES:--B. L. M.--Member of Parliament electing
himself--"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re"--Jaco