PREFACE.

This volume, like its predessessors, requires a few general remarks by way of preface, and calls to our mind the words of Quintilian that "this business has more of labor in it than of show." So of a preface, the reader of a book expects a few words as to what the book contains, or why it is published. Hence we say that the subjects of the volume are of a great variety, more liberally extended than those limited to the seven liberal sciences. There is a cause for all things, but it is not always easy to give the reason for the effect, and However, we continue to ask questions, and never received the desired answers to all; so with many of our contributors. There is always a good supply in hand. Every questioner is especially interested in something of interest to himself, or herself.

rise and explain.

What is earth, sexton ?
What is earth, rich man ?
What is earth, grey beard?
What is earth, miser?
What is earth, school boy?
What is earth, maiden?
What is earth, seamstress?
What is earth, sluggard?
What is earth, soldier?
What is earth, herdsman ?
What is earth, widow?
What is earth, tradesman ?
What is earth, sick man?
What is earth, sailor?
What is earth, statesman?
What is earth, author?
What is earth, monarch?
What is earth, Christian?

A place to dig graves.
A place to work slaves.
A place to grow old.
A place to dig gold.
A place for my play.
A place to be gay.
A place where I weep.
A place for to sleep.
A place for a battle.
A place to raise cattle.
A place of true sorrow.
I'll tell you tomorrow.
'Tis nothing to me.
My home is the sea.
A place to win fame.
I'll write there my name.
For my realm 'tis given.
The gateway of heaven.
S. C. & L. M. Gould.

MANCHESTER, N. H., December, 1888.

VOLUME V, 1888.

Mathematical publications, 213. Hogshead, derivation, 45.

Portraits of Christ, 36.

Potter Christ, 178.

Probability of marrying, 195.

Proportions, integral, for value of pi, 129.

Proverbs about the wind, 147.

"6 Gaelic, 183.

66 Chinese, 186.

Sayings of Seven Sages of Greece, 202.
Secret knowledge, tive keys, 195.
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, 145.
Shamrock, 6.

Sic vos non vobis, 179.
"Signs of Rain," 175.
Simultaneous equations, 17.

Smaragdine Tablet, translations, 44.

Solar equations, 131.

Songs of a nation, 6.

Sonnet on eating fruit-pie, 64.
Sound on the goose, 207.
Southcott, Joanna, 140.
Southcotters, 140.

Speculations concerning matter, 57.
Spelling reform in Congress, 136.
Sublime, Master's Degree, 85.

Sum and product of two numbers are equal, 206.

Tables of Stone, size and weight, 150.

Terms used talking to animals, 59.

Thebes, 192.

Three dippers, 159.

Three Impostors, 209.

Three kings, in Orion, 37.

Three successive eights, (1888,) 60.
Tonal System, Nystrom's, 77.
Tower in Siloam, 91.

Triangle controversy,

157.

"Train up a child," etc., 78.

Tradition on sneezing, 178.

"Truth like a torch," etc., 45.

Twelve angles, apostles, prophets, tribes, 151.
Twelve disciples, 194.

Umbrella, history, 32.

Unpunctuating Dobson, 144.

Values of pi, comparison, 125.
Vatican, 6.

"Vestiges of Civilization," author, 33.

Pseudo-Jonathan, -Athanasius, -Daniel, -Sibyl, Visible Speech, Bell's, 77.
-Daphne, -Matthew, -Orpheus, -Smerdis, 37 38. Visona, Merton's, 78.

Volapük, universal language, 47, 76.

War of 1812-1814, pamphlet on, 145, 178.
Warsaw-Warsau, etc, 65.
Way, St. James's, 54.

Wheel of birth, Bohome's, 55.
Women as actresses, 200.
Wynter, Dr., to Dr. Cheyne, 90.

Yggrasil, 190.

Zem Zem, the well, 94.
Zounds, 207.

Page 16-Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 89; 11, 12. Page 148-Nos. 7, 8.

Page 56-Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5.

Page 68-Nos. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8.

Page 69-Nos. 1, 5, 9.

Page 88-Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Page 163-Nos. 8, 9.

Page 180-Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9,

II, 12.

Page 211-Nos. 1-14.

Page 96-Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, Page 212-Nos. 1-11.

12, 13, 14.

About 300 questions remain unanswered, as questions asked in the first volumes are answered in successive volumes. The 575 unsanwered questions include the 25 asked in the December No. of this volume.