Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850

[** Transcriber's note. I used the Unicode combining diacritical to indicate a long o in Hreseos. In the note on Parish Register's Tax, I could not make out one superscript; I have left it as an asterisk. I also could not make out part of the text in "HOWKEY or HORKEY"; I have left the unreadable text as a row of asterisks. **] We cannot resist the opportunity which the commencement of our Second Volume affords us, of addressing a few words of acknowledgment to our friends, both contributors and readers. In the short space of seven months, we have been enabled by their support to win for "NOTES AND QUERIES" no unimportant position among the literary journals of this country. We came forward for the purpose of affording the literary brotherhood of this great nation an organ through which they might announce their difficulties and requirements, through which such difficulties might find solution, and such requirements be supplied. The little band of kind friends who first rallied round us has been reinforced by a host of earnest men, who, at once recognising the utility of our purpose, and seeing in our growing prosperity how much love of letters existed among us, have joined us heart and hand in the great object we proposed to ourselves in our Prospectus; namely, that of making "NOTES AND QUERIES" by mutual intercommunication, "a most useful supplement to works already in existencea treasury for enriching future editions of themand an important contribution towards a more perfect history than we yet possess of our language, our literature, and those to whom we owe them." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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