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Mark Griffith
Exeter Book Riddle 74 AC ‘Oak’ and Bat ‘Boat’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 14, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 393-396; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn158 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christine Rauer
Old English Blanca in the Old English Martyrology
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 396-399; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn168 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kathryn Wymer
A Poetic Fragment on the Soul's Address to the Body in the Trinity Homilies
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 399-400; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn188 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Merja Stenroos
A-Marscled in ‘The Man in the Moon’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 400-404; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn177 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thorlac Turville-Petre
The Etymology of ‘Road’
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 405-406; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn180 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Sayers
Pest: Interaction in English and Scots
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 406-408; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn171 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Edward Young, William J. Cory, Virgil and Callimachus
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 408-409; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn139 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angus Whitehead
‘Welcome to the British Shore’: An Allusion to a Song in William Cowper's Correspondence Identified
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 409; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn184 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angus Whitehead
‘I Would not Build Hay or Stubble ...’: A Biblical Allusion Identified in a Cowper Letter to Mrs Madan
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 30, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 409-411; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn185 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel F. Floyd
Anne Hunter's Poetry in Manuscript: a Rare Discovery
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 411-413; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn142 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Macdonald
A Grand Tourist Identified: Robert John Buxton (1753–1839)
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 413-414; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn151 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Miner
James Hervey's Influence on Blake's ‘Tyger’ of Experience
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 414-416; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn161 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
William Blake, Edward Young and ‘The Sick Rose’
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 416-417; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn135 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Miner
Blake's Lake of Udan Adan
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 417-418; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn163 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wayne C. Ripley
An Unrecorded Attack on William Blake
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 18, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 418-420; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn169 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Miner
Blake, Sir Joshua, and Fiery Tongues of the Night Sky
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 420-422; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn162 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Georgina Green
John Thelwall Author of the Prologue to Thomas Holcroft's Love's Frailties (1794)?
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 422-424; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn145 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tomoya Oda
A Slip of Wordsworth's Pen in his Guide Through the District of the Lakes
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 424-425; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn165 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tim May
Coleridge's Slave Trade Lecture: Southey's Contribution and the Debt to Thomas Cooper
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 425-429; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn152 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carole Hough
A Second Occurrence of Fob ‘Cash’
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 429-430; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn148 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. Gustav Klaus
New Light on Ellen Johnston, ‘The Factory Girl’
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 430-433; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn150 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas McLean
A New Work by Margaret Hodson
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 434-435; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William C. Waterhouse
Paoli Misremembering Cicero
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 4, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 435; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn183 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan Walton
Correction to a Date in a Letter from E. A. Freeman to Edith Perronet Thompson
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 435-437; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn182 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Burley
Hazlitt's Preface to Political Essays and Walter Scott's Old Mortality
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 437-439; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn131 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angus Whitehead
Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures Of MRS Seacole in Many Lands (1857): ‘H— V—’ an Identification
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 439-440; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn186 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
An Allusion to Endymion in Beddoes's ‘Phantom-Wooer’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 440-441; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn137 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Operatic Sources for Death's Jest-Book
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 10, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 441-443; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn138 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helena Kelly
A Possible Literary Source for Jane Eyre
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 443-444; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn149 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margarita Stocker
Names and the Yorkshire Heritage in ‘Jane Eyre’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 18, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 444-448; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn178 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maha R. Atal
G. W. M. Reynolds in Paris 1835–6: A New Discovery
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 448-453; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Brewster and Amanda Flynn
‘My Dear Alice’: A Newly Discovered Letter from John Ruskin
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 453-457; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn130 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kevin J. Hayes
More Books from Poe's Library
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 457-459; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn146 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Franklin
‘Hartly House, Calcutta: Allusions’: A Century-Late Response
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 459-461; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn143 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Monica Germanà
Plagiarising the Ettrick Shepherd? A Note on the Manuscript of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders and Winifred Gérin's Emily Brontë
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 461-463; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn144 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George Monteiro
Unrecorded American Printings of Henry James
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 463; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn156 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver Tearle
Dorian Gray's Schoolbooks
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 4, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 463-465; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn179 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Sergeant
Kipling's Compositional Practice in Two Manuscripts
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 465-467; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn174 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Adams
Professional Authorship: M. E. Braddon and Mary
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 467-469; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ce Rosenow
‘An Unlikely Treasure Hoard’: The Beginning of Ezra Pound's Poetics and the Conclusion of ‘The Seafarer’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 469-474; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn170 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eleanor Cook
One if by Land, and Two if by River:: T. S. Eliot's Quebec Thrush in The Waste Land
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 474-475; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn133 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James T. Bratcher
Eliot's ‘Depraved May’: Potential Interest in Letters from Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 475-476; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. D. Harvey
Richard Burton in the Crimean War
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 476-480; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn159 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
‘A Sketch by Boz’ and the ‘Nightmare Aria’ in Gilbert's Iolanthe
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 480-481; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn136 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James T. Bratcher
‘Chickimee Craney Crow’: A Game as Explanation of an Obscure Poem by John Peale Bishop
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 481-483; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn128 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Doloff
Snowy Revelations: a Possible Inspiration for the Ending of James Joyce's ‘The Dead’ in Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 483-485; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn134 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mervyn Nicholson
C. S. Lewis and the Mole Admiral
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 485-486; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn164 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur Sherbo
Delta, an Almost Forgotten ‘Little Magazine’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
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Matthew Peters
The Bostonians in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Portrait of a Lady’
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 489-491; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn167 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Womack
A Possible Source for the Seduction Scene in The Waste Land
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 10, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 491-492; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn187 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Melissa Edmundson
Complicating Kitty: A Textual Variant in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 492-493; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn140 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebekah Scott
‘Pickpurses in Love’: Henry James's Confidence and Love's Labour's Lost
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 493-499; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn173 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Higgins
The Waste Land and Dracula
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 15, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 499-500; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn147 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Boddy
‘The Fire Sermon’, but Which Fire Sermon?
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 500-501; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn126 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Schächter
Italo Svevo and England
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 501-505; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn172 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emily Bowles-Smith
Aphra Behn's Triumph in Elizabeth Bishop's ‘From the Country to the City’
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 505-506; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn127 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K. Narayana Chandran
Sir Walter Ralegh's ‘Three things there be’ and T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding III
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
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C. Kenneth Pellow
Braithwaite's Rules and Barnes's Reversals
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 507-510; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn166 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kirsten C. Uszkalo
The Memoirs of Dolly Morton: Possible Source for James Joyce's Ulysses?
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 510-514; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn181 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine Firth
Five Adolescent Paintings by F. Louis Macneice
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 18, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 514-515; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn141 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jerome Meckier
Fabre, Wheeler, and the Mantises in Aldous Huxley's Island
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 16, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 515-518; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn155 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bernadette Mc Carthy
William Butler Yeats: The Poet in the School of Art
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 518-521; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn153 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dennis Shrubsall
W. H. Hudson, Author and Naturalist, (1841–1922)
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 522; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn176 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Edward J. Gallagher
Readers’ Query
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 522-523; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn202 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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K. P. Clarke
ROBERT M. CORREALE and MARY HAMEL (eds), Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales II.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 523-524; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn192 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandra Gillespie
THOMAS A. PRENDERGAST, Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 524-525; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn199 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandra Gillespie
SIÂN ECHARD (ed.), A Companion to Gower.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 525-526; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn194 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John C. Hirsh
PETER HAPPÉ, The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity.
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Notes and Queries 2008 55: 526-527; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn195 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Proctor Williams
The Records of Early English Drama: Wales, ed. David N. Klausner.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 527-528; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn200 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Rutter
LAURIE MAGUIRE, Shakespeare's Names.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 528-530; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn196 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Drakakis
REBECCA BUSHNELL (ed.), A Companion to Tragedy. • WILLIAM M. HAMLIN, Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 12, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 530-533; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn189 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennie Batchelor
NICOLE POHL and BRENDA TOOLEY (eds), Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century: Essays in English and French Utopian Writing.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 533-534; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn198 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ankhi Mukherjee
KATHRYN SUTHERLAND, Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 16, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 534-536; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn201 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Walker
BRIAN DEVINE, Yeats, The Master of Sound: An Investigation of the Technical and Aural Achievements of William Butler Yeats
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 3, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 536-537; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn193 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Bolin
A. DAVID MOODY, Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man and his Work, Volume 1 The Young Genius 1885–1920.
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 537-538; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn197 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mara Kalnins
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume 8: 1923–1924. Ed. Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore. • The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Volume 9: Uncollected Letters and Indexes. Ed. Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene M. Moore, and J. H. Stape.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 538-540; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn191 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angus Mcfadzean
SANDIE BYRNE, The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. Munro.
Notes and Queries Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
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Books Received
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 541-545; doi:10.1093/notesj/gjn157 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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