Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

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CAMBRIAN ARCHÆOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING will be held at DOLGELLAU, August 26th to 31st, 1850.

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ROCHEFOUCAULD'S MAXIMS, WITH NOTES.

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MORAL REFLECTIONS, SENTENCES, AND MAXIMS of Francis Duc de la Rochefoucald. Newly translated from the French. With an Introduction and Notes.

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An Historical Magazine has long been the great desideratum of our literature. Amongst many periodical publications, each appealing to some peculiar or exclusive class, no one has given special attention to that branch of knowledge which engages the feelings of all classes.

The Gentleman's Magazine has stepped forward to occupy this vacant post. Arrangements have been effected to secure for its pages contributions from gentlemen eminently conversant with the various branches of historical study, and every endeavour is made to render it a WORTHY ORGAN AND REPRESENTATIVE OF HISTORICAL AS WELL AS OF ARCHÆOLOGICAL LITERATURE. In its ORIGINAL ARTICLES, historical questions are considered and discussed; in its REVIEWS, prominent attention is given to all historical books; its HISTORICAL CHRONICLE and NOTES OF THE MONTH contain a record of such recent events as are worthy of being kept in remembrance; its OBITUARY is a faithful memorial of all persons of eminence lately deceased; and these divisions of the Magazine are so treated and blended together as to render the whole attractive and interesting to all classes of readers.

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The following important subjects have been treated of in some of the recent articles:

History of the first appearance of the Gypsies in Europe.

Curious Deductions from the History of our most common English Words, as illustrative of the Social Conditions of our Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman forefathers.

Recovery of the long lost Accusation of High Treason made by Bishop Bonner against Sir Thomas Wyatt the poet.

Unpublished Letters of Archbishop Land, illustrative of the Condition of England in 1640.

Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Letters of Logan of Restalrig, on which depends the Historical Question of the reality of the Gowrie Conspiracy.

Alleged Confession of Sir Walter Raleigh of his intention to retrieve his fortune by Piracy.

Three Papers containing New Facts relating to the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

The Authorship of the fabricated English Mercurie, 1588, long esteemed to be the earliest English Newspaper.

Chronicle of Queen Jane.

The Maids of Taunton—Mr. Macaulay and William Penn.

The Banquet of the Dead—Funeral of Francis I.

Two Papers on Windsor Castle in the time of Queen Elizabeth, with illustrative Plates.

Documents relating to the Execution of James Duke of Monmouth.

Account of the Funeral of Amy Robsart.

The Price paid to Charles II. for Dunkirk.

Expenses of the Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge.

Unpublished Letters of Dr. Johnson, and of the Man of Ross; and Letters of Pope and Lady Wortley Montague.

Notices of the Society of Gregorians alluded to by Pope.

Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.?

Inaccuracy of the Common Division into Acts of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.

The Christian Iconography and Legendary Art of the Middle Ages; with especial regard to the Nimbus and Representations of the Divinity; with many illustrations.

Facts for a New Biographia Britannica, consisting of unpublished Documents relating to John Locke, Anne Duchess of Albemarle, Nat. Lee, Captain Douglas, Sir S. Morland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. A. Johnstone, Betterton, Rowe, Arbuthnot, Dennis, and Gilbert West.

Unknown Poem by Drayton.

Minutes of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Memoirs of Jaques L. S. Vincent, a celebrated French Protestant writer, of Vincent de Paul, and of Paul Louis Courier.

The Coins of Caractacus.