NINTH SERIES.
183
N. (W.) on Geese, its meaning, iii. 370. Whiffing,
fishing term, i. 172 N. (W. G.) on Marriage as a male Christian name,
vi. 212
Nadin (R.) on arms of abbey of Burton-on-Trent, x. 468. Arms wanted, xi. 117. De Trafford estates, x. 408
Nairne (Lady), her Jacobite songs, ix. 401, 511 Name, two in one family bearing same. See Christian Names : Brothers bearing same, Sisters bearing same. Name system, on the Gold Coast, iii. 146 ; among the
red men, 445
Names, origin of popular, i. 106 ; possessive case in, 166, 270 ; pronunciation of eo in, 305 ; laws concerning, ii. 107,212 ; modern changes in, ii. 225 ; iii. 53 ; terminating in -ington, iii. 208, 313, 376 ; coincidence in, v. 104 ; verbs formed out of, vi. 248, 312 ; vii. 182, 263, 393, 493 ; viii. 22, 210 ; of cities "and towns in England, vi. 288, 337 ; their spelling, viii. 41
Names, Christian : Biblical, v. 413 ; Valia, viii. 75 ; as evidence of race, xii. 48. See also Christian Names.
Names, French, their pronunciation, iv. 6 Names, Japanese, viii. 14, 66 Names, Norman, iii. 1, 114 Names, Saxon, iii. 1, 114 Names, Siamese, i. 424 Names, Slavonic, ii. 93 ; iii. 296 Names, South African, v. 49, 113
- Names of Streets and Places in the County o]
London,' viii. 421 ' Naming the Baby,' poem by E. Lynn Beers, v. 89,
236
Nana Sahib and the Indian Mutiny, x. 170 Nang nails : nubbocks, use of the words, viii. 306, 431
ix. 52
Nankin or Nanking, i. 448, 517 Nannau family motto, iv. 478
Naogeorgus (T.), quotation from Latin verse, xi. 13 Napier (Sir Charles) and field sports, xi. 349 ; xii. 76 Napier (G. G.) on Roubiliac's bust of Pope, x. 408 Naples, Cardinal of, iv. 48; trees near, xii. 348
mechanical inventions at, 408, 470, 509 Napoleon I. See Bonaparte. Napoleon III., hour of, xi. 429 Naseby, prisoners taken at, viii. 43, 93, 148, 250
obelisk on the battlefield, xi. 461 Nash (A.) on Crooked Usage, Chelsea, x. 417 Nash (D. W.), author of ' Taliesin,' xi. 425 Nash (John), architect of Kegent Street, portraits of
x. 387; xi. 54, 236
Nash (Richard), date of his death and epigrams con cerning him, xi. 445 ; xii. IS, 116, 135, 272, 335 392, 493
Nashe (Thomas), queries concerning, x. 447; Ben Jonson, and Gabriel Harvey, xii. 161, 263, 342,403 482
Nasr-ed-Din, his comic stories, viii. 437 National Anthem : origin of uncovering at the, ix. 109
212 ; words and music of the, 206 ; x. 422, 492 National Covenant of 1638, original words, viii. 385
453 National Flag, See Flag, the national.
STational nicknames. See Nicknames.
National peculiarities, viii. 203, 227, 311
Nationality, its constitution, ii. 29, 216
Nativity, the date of, i. 5, 174 ; iv. 82, 136
Mature, debt of, iii. 491
Nature, freaks of, viii. 482
Nature myths, vi. 441; vii. 4, 35, 130; viii. 63
Mature poetry, i. 382
Nature study, history of the term, xii. 127, 257 Naumburg, Kirschfest at, xii. 149, 197, 336 Taunton (W. W.) on Naunton family, vi. 508 ^aunton family, vi. 508 ; vii. 54 Nautical epitaph, curious, vi. 47 Nautical terms : jury, vii. 197 Naval captains, English, i. 408 Naval pronunciation, xii. 28, 118, 257, 434 Naval supremacy, Portuguese, ix. 146, 218 Navalis on medal for Navarino, iv. 459 Navarino, medal for, delay in issuing, iv. 459, 506,
536 ; Codrington and, ix. 129 Navigation, early steam, vi. 368, 458 ; vii. 16, 133,
252 ; viii. 307
Navy of late seventeenth century, i. 53 Ne Quid Nimis on books for soldiers, v. 2 ; vi. 266. Chronograms, ix. 249. Crucifixion in Yorkshire, ii. 118. Cyclops, v. 103. Enigma, i. 157. Leo of Modena's sonnets, iv. 273. ' Nova Solyma,' xii. 232. "Putrem," '^Eneid 'viii. 596, v. 383. Pytha- goras and Christianity, v. 345. Quaritch (Bernard), v. 175. School library, seventeenth-century, xii. 472. Shakespeare and Cicero, vi. 317. Shake- speare's sonnets, xii. 211 Neale (Erskine), his 'Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain,'
ix. 188, 232 Neander, Elzevir edition, x. 367 Neaves (Lord) on Robert Burns, xii. 82 Neb=pen, iii. 365; iv. 95, 171, 271 "Nebular hypothesis," as applied to politics, x. 326 Neck and heels, military punishment, v. 369 Neck-handkerchief for neckerchief, ii. 169, 375, 476 Needle pedlars, their songs, viii. 105, 229, 510 Nefs, silver models of ships, iv. 457; v. 36 Negro, first to dine at the White House, viii. 402 Negro boy, spotted, vi. 55 ; vii. 258 Negro nicknames, vi. 148, 217 Neil (Samuel), of Edinburgh, viii. 222 Neilson (G.) on Barras, place-name, viii. 267. ' Birds of Cirencester,' ii. 369. "Bob-baw!" ii. 491. Brothers with same Christian name, ii. 276. Church tradition, ii. 296. " Corn-bote " in Barbour's 'Bruce,' x. 61. Cromwell's library, ii. 465. Expensarius: Donsel, iv. 294. Hide, i. 96. Langtoft's 'Chronicle,' iv. 236. Lynx-eyed, iii. 32. 'Morte Arthure,' x. 161, 381, 402. So-ho, origin of the word, iii. 117. Seas, within the four, ii. 421. Tryst, hunting term, ii. 532 Neither, its syntax, i. 24 ; ii. 154 Neithior or bidding custom, iii. 328, 452 Nelson (Horatio, Lord), and Freemasonry, iii. 247, 331 ; his diary, iii. 388 ; iv. 427; his meeting with Wellington, iv. 495 ; his house at Merton, v. 230, 296 ; his signal at Trafalgar, vi. 45 ; picture of his death, vii. 367, 411; reHc of, 407; supposed letter written by, x. 425 ; his sister Anne, xii. 428 Nelson (Lady), her collection of letters, iii. 27
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