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NoTis : — Page 



Swift or Bolingbroke : which or neither ? 1 77 



King Alfrci's" Urosius," by J.Bosworth 178 

 Sutton Cliurch, near Shrewsbury, by 



H. M.Bealby - - - - 180 



Bulls and Blunders : English and Irish, 



by William Bates - - - 180 

 A possible Test of Authorship, by Pro- 

 fessor De Morgan - - - 181 

 Popular Airs, by R. W. Hackwood - 183 



Minor Notes: — "Place never men- 

 tioned to ears polite " — Tennyson 

 and his " Baby —A Whip queerly 

 found — Russia and Turkey _ " The 

 Lungs of London " — A. Mother of 

 Twelve Years of Age - - - 183 



Queries : — 



Murat, and which is the true Story ? - 184 



Minor Qukries : — Chevalier John 

 Taylor _ " Heemskirke's Voyage " — 

 Grants from Queen Elizabeth — His- 

 tory of Die Post Office — Coote Family 



— Ancient Cements — Old Deeds — 

 Old English Proverbs—" The Four 

 Alls" — "Men of Graecia, heirs of 

 glory " — Peerages in female Line 



— " Lewis and Kotska," by Father 

 Serrao — Sir John Call — Painting by 

 Schut — Etiolated— Corter Telfair— 

 Oratorio of David and Saul — Work 



on Blazon - - - - 131 



MlXOR QuRHIFS WITH AnSWFRS : — 



Lawes's MS. Music— Captain William 

 Baillie _ Joannes Magirus — Last 

 Prior of Dunmow — Nathaniel Ball - 186 



Replies : — 



"Gesta Romanorum," by Sir F. Mad- 

 den - - - - - 187 



Characters of England, France, the Low 

 Countries, and Scotland, by H.Martin 187 



Koman Catholic Bishoprics, by Arch- 

 deacon Cotton, &c. - - - 189 



Priests' Hiding-places, &c. - - 191 



"Cybele " and " Sibyllae," by T. J. 

 Buckton - - - - - 191 



PhotooraPhic Correspoxdence : — 

 Alcoholised Paper — A Hint on Print- 

 ing — Deepening Collodion Negatives 192 



Replies to Minor Queries: —" The 

 pertinent Anecdote " — Method of 

 taking out Ink _ Tusser's Will — 

 " Maud," by Alfred Tennyson — Pas- 

 sage in Tennyson— Authorship of the 

 "Gold-Headed Cane '—Whitewashing 

 in Churches —Hard a, Earl of Carlisle 



— Posies from Wedding-rings — Lord 

 Mahon's " History " — Great Charter 

 of Henry III. — "Whig Examiner" 



— Coney Gore _ Ladies and Wives _ 

 Marriages made in Heaven — Longe- 

 vity _ Simile of a Wom.an to the 

 Moon — Pollard Oaks — Length of 

 Miles 193 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &e. 



Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 



Notices to Correspondents. 



195 



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