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Page 



The Inquisition, by B. B. Wiffen - 77 



"Wines of tlie Ancients - - - 79 

 Coleridge's Lectures, by William John 



Fitzpatrick - - - - 80 

 Bemarkable Case of Longevity, by 



Henry H. Breen - - - - 80 



Boetical Wills, by G. Blencowe - - 81 



HiKOR Notes ; — " Almighty Dollar " 



— Parallel Passages — Error in Cary's 

 "Dante" - - - - - 83 



Queries: 



Johnson's "Life of Dryden" - - 83 



Armorial Bearings of Clcre Family, by 



Kev. E. S. Taylor - . ' . 84 



Dr. Thomas Deacon - - - 85 



Minor Qdkbies : —Will of Thomas 

 Lord IIoo — Longevity of Lawyers — 

 Abb<? Carlo Fea — Elizabeth Bayuing, 

 Countess of Sheppy _ Prize Office _ 

 Bell's " Annotattd Edition of the 

 British Poets : " Sir E. Godfrey's House 



— Scotch Version of Psalms — Tune 



of Diana — " Oderunt peccare," &c. 



Mrs. Middletou — Bells of Cast Steel 



— " The Reception " _ Dr. WoUaston 

 on " Drowning " _ Simile of a Woman 

 to the Moon _ Engravings in Illustra- 

 tion of Horace _ Absorbent Paper - 86 



Minor Qoeribs with Answers : 



The Sphinx — Orator Henley — Mara- 

 bout — Earle's " Microcosmography " 



— " Love h, la Mode " - - - 88 



Heplies : — 



" De joie salli A p^s," by James F. Fer- 

 guson - - - - - 88 



" The Chapter of Kings," by Cuthbert 

 Bede, B. A.,&c. - - - - 89 



Napoleon's " Descente en Angleterre " 

 Medal, by Edw. Hawkins - - 90 



Nursery Hymn - - - - 90 



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tercepted Letter of Father Patrick's 



Vesica Pi scis — Ebrardus and.lolian- 

 nes de Garlandia — Lines on gigantic 

 Coal — Cratch : Cat's Cradle — Ben- 

 net's " Paraphrase " — Forlorn 



Seventy -seven — List of Stone Crosses 



— Lady Jane Home: Lord Robert 

 Kerr — Anonymous Hymns — Alma- 

 nacs of 1819 and 1855 — " The Man in 

 the Iron Mask "— Archdencon Furney 

 _ Buchan's Ballads — Oflicers killed 

 at Preston Pans — " The Celestial Di- 

 vorce "— Semlegue : Sanlegue, &c. - 92 



Miscellaneous : — 



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