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The first ereat English Lexicographer 

 Btagsered by " word " and gravelled by 

 " sliould," or Dr. S. Johnson's mis- 

 taking of Micbeth, Act V. Sc. 5., by 

 Itev. W. R. Arrowsmith - - 157 



Corresponding with the Enemy in time 

 of War, by Henry H. Breen - - 158 



Dancing and Dancing Tunes - - 159 



On the Confusion of Ideas and of Terms 

 in the Words " Parson," " Cleric," 

 " Curate," Vicar," &e., in popular 

 Phraseology, by C. H. Davis. 11. A. - 160 



Anotlier Edition of " The Dunciad : " 

 and were tliere two Keys to that 

 Poem y by William J. Thorns - 161 



Note on early Seals, by Gilbert J. 

 French - . - - - 162 



Churchwardens' Accounts of Saxijby, 

 CO. Lincoln, by Edward Peacock - 162 



Minor Notes : — Anonymous Works — 

 Junius — Brass in Aughton Ciuirch, 

 Ormskirk — Religious Opinions of 

 Lord Byron —Herrick and Milton — 

 Coincidences . - - . 163 



Minor Qderies : — Greek Poet quoted 

 by Wordsworth — Meaning of We- 

 ther, &c. — Sepulchral Monument in 

 Barytes _ Servetus — Scandinavian 

 Antiijuity — Shelley's " Queen Mab " 



— Origin of Sands, &c. Families — 

 Michael Gaspar _ Rev. John Ball's 

 Poems _ Arbuthnot s " Works " _ 

 Junius, Woodfall, and Wilkes— Copy- 

 ing a Sermon Felony — Poem by 

 Wordsworth — Delaune Family— Will 

 o' the Wisp — " A fair field and no 

 favour " — Turkey and Rome - - 165 



JtfiNOR Queries with Answers : — 

 Abdias of Babylon - Dr. Edward Ash 

 and " The Speculator " — G. Felle, 

 Dominiquairi — Domisellus and Eques 

 Auratus — New Sect in White — 

 Chronicle of the Kings of England- 

 Elizabeth Lady Darcy — Mons. 

 Adams . - - . . J67 



Repiies : — 



Turtle, Whitebait, and Ministerial 



Whitebait Dinners - - - 168 

 The Double " Ff." or Capital " F " - 169 

 Captain Thomas Stukely - - - 170 

 " Ths Annual Register," by Arch- 

 deacon Cotton - - - - 171 



Photographic Correspondence : 



Novel Method of taking Stereoscopes 



— Production of the Natural Colours : 

 M. Testud de Beauregard's Process- 

 Deepening or intensifying Collodion 

 Negatives - - - - 171 



Kepmes to Minor Queries : — Health 

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