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Chapter IV. "The Religious Edifices of the Metropolis."

Chapter V. Public buildings, "the Palaces with their Parks," Parliament and Government offices.

Chapter VI. "Particular Architectural Ornaments: the Squares, Statues, and most embellished Streets, Bridges, &c."

Chapter VII. The King, Parliament, Law Courts; legal societies, prisons.

Chapter VIII. Hospitals, almshouses, schools, &c.

Chapter IX. S.P.C.K.; S.P.G.; Q.A.B., &c. &c.

Chapter X. Science and arts societies; lectures, exhibitions, list of publishers and booksellers; libraries, list of periodicals, &c.

Chapter XI. Theatres; "Winter Spectacles and Summer Spectacles," Vauxhall, &c.

Chapter XII. Clubhouses, taverns, public conveyances; markets, &c.

Chapter XIII. Trading establishments; bazaars; gas, insurance, and fire offices.

Chapter XIV. Antiquities; historical houses and streets.

Chapter XV. Environs; short list of villages.

Chapter XVI. A twelve-days' perambulation in London and environs.

Chapter XVII. Diary of public spectacles, amusements, &c. [this is very interesting].

Chapter XVIII. List of towns, villages, remarkable seals, &c., near London.

Chapter XIX. Compendium of history of Middlesex.

Appendix. Bankers, hackney coaches, naval and military agents; coals, pharmacy, fairs, &c.

[—who states that Britton received 100 guineas for writing new matter for about half the volume, and that this edition, though stereotyped, was revised by him in 1827, 1830, and 1833—also thanked for reply.]}}

(11 S. viii. 230, 252).—I recollect that in a trial about thirty years ago the foreman of the jury solemnly asked the judge if the evidence of a witness could be received, as he had seen the occurrence he deposed to through a window, and not "with the naked eye."

C. R. Conder in 'Judas Maccabæus' (p. 32) writes as follows concerning the manner of observation of the new moon by the Jews somewhere about the third century :—

Conder's authority seems, from a statement in his Preface, to be Surenhusius's edition of the Mishna (or else, possibly, Josephus).

{{sc|The Second Folio of the Shakespeare Plays, 163{{illegible}} (11 S. viii. 141, 196, 232).—If {{sc|Sir Edwin Burning-Lawrence}} will refer to 9 S. x. 181, he will find a partial collation of the New York Public Library's various Second Folios, which includes allusion to "starre-ypointing." {{float right|{{sc|Chas. A. Herpich.}}}} {{left|{{sm|New York.}}}}

{{sc|Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence}} may safely flatter himself that he is the first man to discover that when Milton penned the expression "starre-ypointed" or "starre-ypointing pyramid," he was revealing to posterity (in a cryptic fashion) that Bacon is the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare. But he must not let himself be so dazzled by the splendour of his discovery as to persuade himself that he is the first who has discussed the propriety of the phrase:—

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In 'Lectures on the English Language,' by George P. Marsh, edited by Dr. William Smith (London, John Murray, 1863), we find the matter fully treated in text and note on p. 252.

Text:—

{{smaller block|"The syllabic prefix ge-, regularly used in Anglo-Saxon with preterites, and often with past participles, as well as in many other cases, long retained its ground, and is yet sometimes employed in the archaic style of poetry, in the form of a y, which, in our orthography, nearly represents the probable pronunciation of the Saxon augment. Spenser uses this augment very frequently, and Thomson often employs it in the 'Castle of Indolence,' both of them merely for metrical convenience."}}

Note:—

"In Milton it occurs but thrice, and in one of these three instances it is applied in a very unusual way. In the first printed of Milton's poetical compositions, the Epitaph on Shakespeare, we find the lines:—

{{block center| What needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? }}