Captain Cuttle's Mailbag

Captain Cuttle's MailbagHow did the Honorable Miss E. St. Leger become a Freemason? Did Lord Byron meet a hippopotamus, or was it only a tapir? Whence the popular prejudice against redheads? These were among the topics discussed in the pages of Notes and Queries, a weekly magazine founded in London in 1849 as "a medium of inter communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc." Its motto was "When found, make a note of"a saying of Captain Cuttle, the

Dedicated to ensuring that you get the most out of every glass

is the first definitive account of the Tonalist movement

and a lively introduction describes the history and workings of Notes and Queries

from whose hand have come architectural

stretching back to the beginnings of human civilization and intertwined with the history of medicine

which is focused on work that combines aesthetic considerations with humanist values

August Sander

The Latin term is certainly a fitting book title as we are struck with respect and awe for Roberts’s subjects’ individual fortitude and eloquence rather than pity for their plight: each photograph tells us a compelling story

The bay and its rivers are home to isolated villages that preserve early colonial dialects

Warren Beatty

life of a vanished era

and reprints of critical essays by Lowery Stokes Sims