Title:  Notes and Queries, No. 2, November 10 1849

Author:  Various

Release Date:  February 24, 2004 [EBook #11265]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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{17} Notes and queries: 

A medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, Antiquaries,
genealogists, etc.

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“When found, make a note of.”—­Captain cuttle.

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No. 2.]
Saturday, November 10. 1849.
[Price Threepence.  Stamped Edition 4d.

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A few words to our friends.

In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform.  We stated that “we would rather give a specimen than a description.”  We are now in like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to the position which we have already taken.  But there is a vast difference between vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and it would be worse than an affectation of humility—­it would be a mean hypocrisy—­if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the gratitude we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly advice and able pens.  We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had the gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public recognise—­leaders in their several branches of inquiry—­have at once taken advantage of it.  They have proved the necessity for some such medium of communication, as well as their good-will to the one now offered to them, by a gathering in its behalf which the public will respect, and of which we may well feel proud.

Some whose good opinion we most value, and who have spoken most warmly in favour of our plan, have proved the sincerity of their praise by suggestions of improvement in its detail, and hints for its further extension.  They may feel assured that such hints and such suggestions shall not be lost sight of.  For instance, one respected correspondent hints that as we have very properly adopted Dr. Maitland’s suggestion with regard to Herbert’s edition of Ame’s Typographical Antiquities, namely, that of “offering a