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Every SATURDAY, 24 Pages, Price FOURPENCE, of all Booksellers, or Stamped to go by Post, 5d.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Containing every Week a variety of amusing Articles on the following Subjects:

ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTTISH HISTORY, Illustrated by Original Communications and inedited Documents.

BIOGRAPHY,

Including unpublished Correspondence of Eminent Men, and unrecorded Facts connected with them.

BIBLIOGRAPHY,

More especially of English Authors, with Notices of rare and unknown Editions of their Works, and Notes on Authorship of Anonymous Books.

POPULAR ANTIQUITIES AND FOLK-LORE,
Preserving the fast-fading relics of the old Mythologies.

BALLADS AND OLD POETRY,
With historical and philological Illustrations.

POPULAR AND PROVERBIAL SAYINGS,
Their origin, meaning, and application.

PHILOLOGY,

Including local Dialects, Archaisms, and Notes on our old Poets.

GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY,

Including Histories of Old Families, completion of Pedigrees, &c.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES

On points of ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, FINE ARTS, NATURAL HISTORY, MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES, NUMISMATICS, PHOTOGRAPHY, &c.

A SPECIMEN SENT FOR FIVE STAMPS.

BELL AND DALDY, 186 FLEET STREET.
And by Order of all Booksellers and Newsmen.

Neatly printed, in fcp. 8vo. price 5s.

CHOICE NOTES

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

HISTORY.

ON the completion of the First Series of NOTES AND QUERIES, it

was suggested from many quarters, that a selection of the more curious articles scattered through the twelve volumes would be welcome to a numerous body of readers. It was said that such a selection, judiciously made, would not only add to a class of books of which we have too few in English literature,—we mean books of the pleasant gossiping character of the French ANA for the amusement of the general reader,— but would serve in some measure to supply the place of the entire series to those who might not possess it.

It has been determined to carry out this idea by the publication of a few small volumes, each devoted to a particular subject. The first, which was published some time since, is devoted to History: and we trust that whether the reader looks at the value of the original documents there reprinted, or the historical truths therein established, he will be disposed to address the book in the words of Cowper, so happily suggested by Mr. Peter Cunningham as the appropriate motto of NOTES AND QUERIES itself,

"By thee I might correct, erroneous oft,
The clock of History - facts and events
Timing more punctual, unrecorded facts
Recovering, and mis-stated setting right."

While on the other hand the volume, from its miscellaneous character, has, we hope, been found an acceptable addition to that pleasant class of books which Horace Walpole felicitously describes as "lounging books, books which one takes up in the gout, low spirits, ennui, or when one is waiting for company."

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"IT IS FULL OF CURIOUS MATTER, PLEASANT TO READ, AND WELL WORTHY OF PRESERVATION IN PERMANEN SHAPE." Leader.

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Similar Volumes illustrative of Biography, Literature, Proverbs, Ballads, &c. are in preparation.

London: BELL and DALDY, 186 Fleet Street.

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"NOTES AND QUERIES."

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