Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 45 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850.

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 45 pages of information about Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850.
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CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS in ENGLAND and WALES:  an Historical and Descriptive Sketch of the various classes of Monumental Memorials which have been in use in this country from about the time of the Norman Conquest.  Profusely illustrated with Wood Engravings.  Part I. price 7s. 6d.; Part II. 2s. 6d.

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THE WORKS OF VIRGIL, TRANSLATED (in blank verse).  The first four
Pastorals, the Georgics, and the first four AEneids, by the Rev. RANN
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THE FOLK-LORE of ENGLAND.  By WILLIAM J. THOMAS, F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society, Editor of “Early Prose Romances,” “Lays and Legends of all Nations,” &c.  One object of the present work is to furnish new contributions to the History of our National Folk-Lore; and especially some of the more striking Illustrations of the subject to be found in the Writings of Jacob Grimm and other Continental Antiquaries.

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