Vol. IV.—No. 110.NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

The Aborigines of St. Domingo, by Henry H. Breen 433

Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger, by Alfred Gatty 434

Passage in Jeremy Taylor 435

Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 435

Folk Lore:—Death Omen by Bees 436

The Caxton Coffer 436

Minor Notes:—Mental Almanac—Corruptions recognised as acknowledged Words—Pasquinade—Epigram on Erasmus—Etymology of London—Verses on Shipmoney—Columbus's Bust, &c. at Havanna 436

Additional Queries respecting General James Wolfe 438

Christianity, when first introduced into Orkney 439

The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1607 440

Minor Queries:—"The Don," a Poem—John Lord Frescheville—Meaning of "Pallant"—Rectitudines Singularum Personarum—Sir Henry Tichborne's Journal—Round Towers at Bhaugulpore—Johannes Trithemius—Races in which Children are named after the Mothers—Foreign Ambassadors, Ministers, Envoys, and Residents from Foreign Courts—Critolaus and the Horatii and Curiatii—Cabal—"Thus said the Ravens black"—Symbols in Painting—Latin Verse on Franklin—General Moyle—Musical Compositions of Matthew Dubourg—Collodion, and its Application to Photography—Engraved Portrait—Lines by Lord Chesterfield on Queen Caroline's supposed Refusal to forgive her Son when on her Death-bed 441

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Kimmeroi, Cimbri, Cymry—Dictionary of Musicians—City of London Charter—St. Alkald 444