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.
[Mr. Aleck Abrahams—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.]}}
"Seen through glass" (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." A. Collingwood Lee.
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 B.C.:—
"The Jews had, properly speaking, no calendar. The feasts of trumpets, which celebrated each new moon, were regulated by actual observation of the crescent. Throughout Palestine, the appearance of the slender sickle, which shines so brightly in the clear Oriental heaven, was watched with eager eyes, and those who first saw it hastened to report it to the Beth Din in Jerusalem. . . . . The witnesses were obliged to be men of good character, and were very closely questioned by the Sanhedrim. If they had only seen a reflexion in water, or a doubtful portion of the luminary through clouds, or if they had seen the new moon through glass, their evidence was disallowed, and their journey was fruitless. Here, probably, we trace the origin of the superstition that it is unlucky to see the new moon first through glass."
Conder's authority seems, from a statement in his Preface, to be Surenhusius's edition of the Mishna (or else, possibly, Josephus). P. Z. Round.
{{sc|The Second Folio of the Shakespeare Plays, 163(illegible text) (11 S. viii. 141, 196, 232).—If 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." Chas. A. Herpich.
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:—
Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona
Multi. . . . .
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:—
"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:—
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?
