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The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village : 

 Charms, Omens, &c., by Thomas Q. 

 Couch - - - - - 37 



Ben Jonson and the Lawyers, by Ed- 

 ward Foss - - - - - 38 

 On the Health of Tobacco Manufac- 

 turers, by William Bates - - 39 

 The Indefatizable and Les Droits de 



I'Homme.by R. M. Metcalf - - 39 



American Surnames - - - 40 



Literature of Holland, by Professor 

 Stephens - - - - - 41 



JVfiNOR Notes: — Orisin of Puffing — 

 Junius and John Hope — "Times'" 

 Advertisements - - - - 42 



Queries : — 



Editions of Microcosmography, by Kev. 



Dr. Bliss - - - - - 42 



" Descente en Angleterre " - - 43 



" The Lawyer," by William Henry 



Hart - - - - - 44 



Orator Henley - - - - 44 



Minor Qceriks: — Jonathan Swift — 

 Edward Barnard— Anonymous Worlds 



— Chancels in Ormslcirk Parish Church 



— Bamford Family — Richard Kent, 

 Esq. — " Aboard," " Ashore " — 

 Phelps, Clerk of the Parliament — 



— Alexander Pope — Bridge, the Or- 



fan-builder — Lady Jane Home : 

 <ord Robert Kerr — Schooley's Moun- 

 tain : Sir Andrew Chadwick — David 

 and Goliath — Precedence of Knights 



— Florins of the fourteenth Century 



— "The Whig Examiner" - - 45 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Old Books, Country Dealers in — 

 Sherard — " The Celestial Divorce " — 

 John Cleveland — Passage in Byrou - 47 



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Priests' Hiding-places, &c., by H. Mar- 

 tin, &c. - - - - - 48 

 Epitaph on an Infant, by H. Martin, &c. 48 

 Paget Arms - - - - 49 

 Michael Angelo - - - - 50 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 Mr. Lyte's Process — Does Thunder 

 affect Photographic Chemicals ? - 50 



Beplies to Minor Queries : The 



Jersey Muse — Prynne — Cambridge 

 Jeux d'Esprit— "Nine hundred and 



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" Struggles for Life " — Almanacs of 

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— Bennet's " Paraphrase " — Epi- 

 gram on Laureateship — Allitera- 

 tive Couplet on Cardinal Wolsey — 

 Norman Superstition in 1855 — The 

 Word " Sabbath " used for Sunday — 

 Pollards — Sir Cloudesley Shovel — 

 Times prohibiting Marriage — Paro- 

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— " Munchhausen's Travels " 



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Hiscellaneocs ; — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 56 



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