Chapter II: Part 2

_Bunyan and the "Visions of Heaven and Hell"_ (Vol. iii., pp. 70. 89. 289. 467.).--The work referred to by your correspondents is so manifestly not the Composition of John Bunyan that it is extraordinary that the title-page, which was evidently adopted to get off the book, should ever have imposed upon anybody. The question, however, put by your correspondents F. R. A. and N. H., as to who G. L. was, has not yet been answered. The person referred to by these initials is the real author of the book, who was George Larkin, a printer and author, and great ally and friend of the redoubted John Dunton, who gives a long character of him, in his _Life and Errors_, in his enumeration of London printers. (See _Life and Errors_, edit. 1705, p. 326.)

"Mr. Larkin, Senior--He has been my acquaintance for Twenty years,
and the first printer I had in London. He formerly writ a _Vision
of Heaven_, &c. (which contains many nice and curious thoughts),
and has lately published an ingenious _Essay on the noble Art and
Mystery of Printing_. Mr. Larkin is my _alter ego_, or rather my
very self in a better edition."

The book itself was first published about 1690, and went through many editions in the early part of the last century.

JAMES CROSSLEY.

_Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace_ (Vol. i., p. 230.; Vol. iv., pp. 58. 122.).--I am much obliged to MR. CROSSLEY for having corrected the error (for which I cannot account) in the _title_ of the pamphlet in question, which was certainly not by "_the author of the Critical History of England_," and certainly was by Dennis, as is marked by Pope's own hand in the copy now before me. As MR. CROSSLEY puts hypothetically the correctness of my quotation, I subjoin the whole passages.

"After having been for fifteen years as it were an imitator, he
has made no proficiency. His first imitations, though bad, are
rather better than the succeeding, and this last Imitation of
HORACE the most execrable of them all."--P. 7.

Again:

"An extravagant libel, ridiculously called an imitation of
Horace."--P. 11.

And again:

"Of all these libellers the present Imitator is the most impudent
and incorrigible."--P. 15.

MR. CROSSLEY says he has a fragment of the "Imitation of the second satire of the first book of Horace," published by Curll in 1716. This, which I never saw, nor before heard of, would solve the difficulty; and I respectfully request MR. CROSSLEY to favour us with a transcript of the title-page, which is the more desirable, because all Pope's biographers, and indeed _he himself_ (to Spence), have attributed his first imitation of Horace to a _much_ later date, certainly subsequent to 1723. The imitation, therefore, of that satire of Horace, printed in 1716 by Curll, is valuable as to Pope's history, and great curiosity and as MR. CROSSLEY states that _Lady Mary_ is not mentioned in that edition, I am curious to know how Pope managed the _rhyme_ now made by _her name_.

MR. CROSSLEY adds that this imitation was reproduced in "folio, printed by J. Boreman about 1734, with some alterations from the former edition." Would it be trespassing too much on your space and his kindness, to request him to give us a few specimens of the alterations, particularly the "change of _initials_" which MR. CROSSLEY mentions. MR. CROSSLEY seems to think that this poem was not reprinted after the folio in 1734, till it appeared in a supplement to Cooper's edition in 1756. This is a mistake. It was published by Pope himself, with his other imitations of Horace, in the collection of his works by Dodsley in 1738; and though only entitled "_in the manner of Mr. Pope_,", excited very natural surprise and disgust. His having deliberately embodied it in the general collection of his works, is Warton's only excuse for having reproduced it.

C.

_Prophecies of Nostradamus_ (Vol. iv., p. 86.).--In accordance with the wish of your correspondent SPERIEND, I have examined the series of early editors of this celebrated astrologer in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the following is the result of my inquiries.

The _earliest_ edition of the _Prophecies of Nostradamus_ is not to be found in any library in Paris, but was published in 1555 (so says the latest account of the prophet, by M. Eugene Bareste) but contains little more than three centuries (or cantos, as they might be called) of prophecies; each century containing a hundred quatrains. The next edition, which before the French Revolution belonged to the Benedictines of St. Maur, is entitled:

"Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus, dont il y en a trois
cens qui n'ont encore jamais este imprimees. Adjoustees de nouveau
par ledict Autheur. A Lyon, chez Pierre Rigaud, rue Merciere, au
coing de rue Ferrandiere. Avec permission."

It has, in MS., on the title-page, "1555 et 1558." M. Bareste says of this edition:

"On pretend qu'elle est de 1558; mais nous ne le pensons pas, car
elle a ete probablement faite l'annee meme de la mort de l'auteur,
c'est a dire, en 1566."

However, as there is no known edition between 1555, the date of the first, and 1566, this doubtless is the earliest containing the ninth century; and at No. 49. of this century is to be seen the following quatrain:

"Gand et Bruceles marcheront contre Anvers,
Senat de Londres mettront a mort leur Roy;
Le sel et vin luy seront a l'envers,
Pour eux avoir le regne en desarroy."

I can find no edition of Nostradamus dated 1572; but in the editions of 1605, 1629, 1649, and 1650, the prophecy is given as above, almost letter for letter, so that there can be no doubt it was not first known in that form in 1672. As to the number of this quatrain agreeing with the year of King Charles's death, it is most probably an accident; for out of the nine hundred and odd quatrains composing the twelve centuries (the 7th, 11th, and 12th being imperfect), and which are nearly all regularly numbered, it is, I believe, the only one in which this singularity occurs. On the fly-leaf of a copy of Nostradamus in the _Bibliotheque de Ste Genevieve_ (dated 1568, but really printed in 1649), I found, in an old handwriting, a couplet that may be new to the English admirer of the astrologer:

"Falsa damus cum Nostra damus, nam fallere nostrum est
Et cum nostra damus, non nisi Falsa damus."

If SPERIEND wishes for more information on the subject of the life and works of Nostradamus, I should recommend him to look at the work I have quoted above, which treats very fully on all matters connected with this "vaticinating worthy." It is entitled _Nostradamus, par Eugene Bareste_: Paris, 1840, and will doubtless be found in the British Museum.

H. C. DE ST. CROIX.

I have an edition of 1605 of these prophecies, _Revuees et corrigees sur la coppie imprimee a Lyon, par Benoist Rigaud_, 1586, but without place or printer's name. It contains (century nine, stanza 49.), the quatrain quoted by SPERIEND.

The following quatrain may be thought to apply to Cromwell (century eight, stanza 76.):

"Plus Macelin que Roy en Angleterre,
Dieu obscur nay par force aura l'empire:
Lasche sans foy sans loy Seignera terre,
Son temps s'aproche si pres que je souspire."

The edition of 1605 does not contain the line quoted by SPERIEND, "Senat de Londres," &c., nor any address "A mes Imprimeurs de Hongrie;" but, in addition to the ten centuries contained in the edition of 1568 (the _original_ edition), it contains the eleventh and twelfth centuries; also 141 stanzas of additional "Presages, tirez de ceux faicts par M. Nostradamus en annees 1555 et suivantes jusques en 1567:" and 58 "Predictions Admirables pour les ans courans en ce Siecle, Recueillies des Memoires du feu M. Nostradamus, par Vincent Seve, de Beaucaire en Languedoc, des le 19 Mars, 1605, au Chateau de Chantilly."

My edition is not mentioned by Brunet nor in any of the French Catalogues that I have been able to consult.

R. J. R.

_Thread the Needle_ (Vol. iv., p. 39.).--The following is an extract from a review in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ of Dec. 1849, of the Life of Shirley; it may be interesting as explaining some part of the verse in the game of "Thread the Needle:"

"Lord Nugent, when at Hebron, was directed _to go out by the
needle's eye_, that is, by the small gate of the city; and in many
parts of England, the old game of thread the needle is played to
the following words:

"'How many miles to Hebron?
Three score and ten.
Shall I be there by midnight?
Yes, and back again.
Then thread the needle,' &c.

"Now this explains and modifies one of the strongest and most
startling passages of Scripture, on the subject of _riches_; for
the camel can go through the needle's eye but with difficulty, and
hardly with a full load, nor without stooping."

The above was copied out from the magazine on account of its explaining the camel and the needle's eye: it does not tell much upon the Query concerning the game of "Thread the Needle;" but it may be interesting, and so is sent with pleasure by

E. F.

P.S. A friend suggests, could the game have come from the Crusades?

A line of players, the longer the better, hold hands and one end of the line, which thus becomes almost a circle, runs and drags the rest of the line after it through the arch made by the uplifted arms of the first couple of the other end of the line--a process nearly enough resembling _threading a needle_. There are subsequent evolutions by which each couple becomes in succession the _eye of the needle_.

C.

_Salmon Fishery in the Thames_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--Those of your readers who know that I am connected with Billingsgate market would look to me for the reply to R. J. R.'s Query. I must therefore inform them that only thirty or forty years back salmon were taken in rather large quantities in the Thames; but since the introduction of steam-boats and the increase of traffic, the fish have gradually, I might say suddenly, disappeared, for during the last twenty years very few salmon indeed have been taken: those that found their way to market have realised high prices; not that Thames salmon was ever esteemed for its flavour, but only for its extreme rarity of late years.

The hindrance to salmon taking the Thames is the steam-boat and other traffic, which, agitating the water, frightens them (they being a very timid fish), and stirs up the mud, which chokes them; for there is no doubt that ever after a salmon enters a river, it lives by suction. It is possible that one or two salmon a season even make up our river now, for becoming frightened, and rushing on having back and head nearly out of water, and the tide with them, they would get a long way in a night, and possible reach clear water above bridge with life, but in a very weak state. I believe that, under the most favourable circumstances, salmon would not again frequent the Thames in any large quantities, it being too southern; and there is no doubt but that the fish have been fast decreasing of late years, for some of the best rivers in the north are now without salmon.

BLOWEN.

Billingsgate.

_Entomological Query_ (Vol. iv., p. 101.).--The insect which J. E. found on the _Linaria minor_ is probably either the _Euphitecia Linariata_ or _E. Pulchellata_. The former species is known to feed on Toad flax, and there is little doubt that the latter does also. If J. E. found any of the caterpillars he may identify them by referring to Westwood's _British Moths_, vol ii. p. 59., where the caterpillar of _Euphitecia Linariata_ is engraved and described as "yellow or greenish, with dark chesnut spots on the back and sides."

B. P. D. E.

_School of the Heart_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--The editor of the _Christian Poet_ referred to in a paragraph signed S. T. D. has not the _School of the Heart_ by Quarles at hand, and cannot now examine whether the two small pieces quoted in the former volume under the name of _Thomas Harvey_ from SCHOLA CORDIS _in forty-seven emblems_, 1647, belong to one or the other writer. The only authority, from which he recollects to have gathered them, he believes to be Sir Egerton Brydges' _Censura Literaria_, or his _Restituta_, which are very voluminous and miscellaneous, and are at present beyond his research. From internal evidence, he thinks the two poems are not by Quarles, though not unworthy of him in his best vein.

J. M. G.

Hallamshire.

P.S. Since the foregoing note was written, I have found the copy of Sir E. Brydge's _Restituta_, from which I copied the extract of _Schola Cordis_, in the _Christian Poet_.

"_Schola Cordis_: or the Heart of itself gone away from God,
brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him. In 47 Emblems.
1647. 12mo. pp. 196."

Inscribed, without a signature,

"To the Divine Majestie of the onely-begotten, eternall,
well-beloved Son of God and Saviour of the World, Christ Jesus,
the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords; the Maker, the Mender, the
Searcher, and the Teacher of

The Heart:
the Meanest of his most unworthy Servants
offers up this poore Account of his Thoughts,
humbly begging pardon for all that is
amisse in them, and a gracious
acceptance of these weak endeavours
for the Advancement of his
Honour in the Good of others."

The third edition, dated 1675, ascribes these emblems to the author of _The Synagogue_, annexed to Herbert's _Poems_. This, according to Sir John Hawkins, in his notes on Walton's _Angler_, was _Christopher Harvie_: but Wood, in his _Athenae_, positively affirms that the author of _The Synagogue_, in imitation of the divine Herbert, was _Thomas Harvey_, M.A., and first Master of Kingston School in Herefordshire. To _him_, therefore (adds Sir Egerton Brydges), we may presume to assign it, until a stronger testimony shall dispossess him of a tenure, which reflects honourable reputation on the copiousness of his fancy and the piety of his mind.

_Fortune, Infortune, Fort une_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--I agree with MR. BREEN that this inscription on the tomb of Margaret of Austria, in the beautiful church of Brou, is "somewhat enigmatical," a literal translation failing entirely to make sense of it. But perhaps MR. BREEN may be willing to accept the interpretation offered by a writer in the _Magasin Pittoresque_ for 1850, where, describing the monuments in the church of Notre Dame de Brou (p. 22.), he says:

"Cette legende bizarre est assez difficile a expliquer, si l'on ne
regarde pas le mot _infortune_ comme un verbe. Avec cette
hypothese, la devise signifierait: 'La fortune a rendu une
personne tres-malheureuse?' Cette explication est d'autant plus
plausible que la vie de Marguerite d'Autriche fut affligee de bien
de revers. Destinee a regner sur la France, elle est repudiee par
Charles VIII., son fiance; elle epouse le fils du roi d'Aragon,
qui la laisse bientot veuve avec un fils qu'elle a aussi la
douleur de perdre peu apres; enfin, remariee a Philibert le Beau,
elle le voit mourir au printemps de son age."

There is little doubt, I think that the inscription was meant to typify the misfortunes of Margaret; but the preceding solution is still, in a grammatical point of view, unsatisfactory. If _fort_ could be transposed to _fait_, the reading would be simple enough; but in these cases we are bound to take the inscriptions as we find them, and the Rebus in stone was the especial delight of the sculptors of the fifteenth century.

D. C.

St. John's Wood, July 28. 1851.

_Ackey Trade_ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--Ackey weights were, and I believe are, used on the Guinea Coast for weighing gold dust: 1 ackey=20-{1/32} grains Troy. The _Ackey Trade_ must be, I suppose, the African gold dust trade.

W. T.

_Curious Omen at Marriage_ (Vol. iii., p. 406.)--H. A. B. asks at the end of his Note, "Why a _coruscation of joy_, upon a wedding day, should forebode evil?" and "Whether any other instances are on record of its so doing?"

As these questions have remained unanswered for some weeks, I am tempted to suggest that your correspondent may have laid too much stress on the fact of the joy having been expressed at a _wedding_, and that the passage he quoted from Miss Benger's _Memoirs of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia_, may be simply an allusion to the old belief (still more or less prevalent) of "_high spirits being a presage of impending calamity or of death_." (See Vol. ii., pp. 84. 150.)

The late Miss Landon, in one of her novels, furnishes an additional notice of this belief:

"The ex-queen of Sweden has had one of the gentlemen of her suite
put to death in a manner equally sudden and barbarous; and what
excites in me a strong personal feeling on the subject is, that
Monaldeschi, the cavalier in question, dines with me the very day
of his murder, as I must call it. Such a gay dinner as we had! for
Monaldeschi--lively, unscrupulous, and sarcastic--was a most
amusing companion. His spirits, far higher than his usual bearing,
carried us all along with them: and I remember saying to him, 'I
envy your gaiety: why, Monaldeschi, you are as joyous as if there
were nothing but sunshine in the world.' He changed countenance,
and becoming suddenly grave, exclaimed, 'Do not call me back to
myself. I feel an unaccountable vivacity, which I know is the
herald of disaster.' But again he became cheerful, and we rallied
him on the belief, which he still gaily maintained, that great
spirits were the sure forerunners of misfortune."--_Francesca
Carrara_, vol. ii. chap. 6.

Perhaps some of your readers may be able to say whether Miss Landon had the authority of any cotemporary writer for the anecdote. Is not the warning, "_Sing_ before noon, and you'll _sigh_ before night," also a proof of the dread with which "_coruscations of joy_" were looked upon by our forefathers?

C. FORBES.

Temple.

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successful we ever read. We cannot enter into particulars in this
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to this at last) with the subject."--_Dublin Evening Post._

"We recommend its general perusal as being really an endeavour, by
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"Dr. Maitland has bestowed a vast deal of attention on the subject
for many years past, and the present pamphlet is in part the
result of his thoughts and inquiries. There is a good deal in it
which we should have been glad to quote ... but we content
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THE (LATE) ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

PSALMS AND HYMNS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH. The words selected
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arranged for Four Voices, but applicable also to Two or One,
including Chants for the Services, Responses to the Commandments,
and a Concise SYSTEM OF CHANTING, by J. B. SALE, Musical
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cloth, price 25_s._ To be had of Mr. J. B. SALE, 21. Holywell
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[List of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-IV]

+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Notes and Queries Vol. I. |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 |
| Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 |
| Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 |
| Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 |
| Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 |
| Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 |
| Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 |
| Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # |
| Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 |
| Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 |
| Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 |
| Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 |
| Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 |
| Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 |
| Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 |
| Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 |
| Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 |
| Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 |
| Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 |
| Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 |
| Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 |
| Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 |
| Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 |
| Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 |
+---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+
| Notes and Queries Vol. II. |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1- 15 | PG # 12589 |
| Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17- 32 | PG # 15996 |
| Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 |
| Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 |
| Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 |
| Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 |
| Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 |
| Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 |
| Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 |
| Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 |
| Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 |
| Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 |
| Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 |
| Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 |
| Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 |
| Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 |
| Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 |
| Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 |
| Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 |
| Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 |
| Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 |
| Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 |
| Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 |
| Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 |
| Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 |
+----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+
| Notes and Queries Vol. III. |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 |
| Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 |
| Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 |
| Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 |
| Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 |
| Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 |
| Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 |
| Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 |
| Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 |
| Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 |
| Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 |
| Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 |
| Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 |
| Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 |
| Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 |
| Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 |
| Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 |
| Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 |
| Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 |
| Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 |
| Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Notes and Queries Vol. IV. |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 |
| Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 |
| Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 |
| Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 |
| Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 |
| Vol. IV No. 94 | August 16, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 38350 |
+-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+
| Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 |
| INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 |
| INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. JAN.-JUNE, 1851 | PG # 26770 |
+-----------------------------------------------+-------------+