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Notes ! — Page 



Pope and Henry Woodfall - - 197 



Monumental Brasses, by W. R. Crabbe 198 

 Swift's Copyrights, by K. Carruthers - 198 

 The Historical Hamlet, by T. J. Buck- 

 ton - - - - - - 199 



The Marquis of Lansdowne and !Sym- 

 pathy with Literary Talent, by John 

 Macray - - - - . 200 



Folk 1,ore : — Scottish Folk Lore — 

 Salt — Sneezing — Marriage Supersti- 

 tion — HampsliireFolk Lore — Super- 

 stition in the West of England — St. 

 Goven's Bell — Miners' Superstitious 200 

 Stops, &c. - - - - - 201 



Minor Notes : — " Hoop and Hollow" 

 CQuery,'WhoopandHolloo) — Liberty 



— Moustache worn by Clergymen 



An American medical License of the 



olden Time — Kussia and Turkey 



Staffordshire SayUigs . - - 202 



Queries: — 

 Thomas Marwood, by Dr. Munk - 203 



Washington, Medal or Coin of, by G. A. 



Myers - - - - - 203 



" The Life of David," by William Batea 204 



Minor Queries : — Quotations wanted 



— Tree cast on the French Coast — 

 French Translation of the Agricola of 

 Tacitus — " Atheuic Oxonieiises," by 

 Anthony Wood : vol. i., " Life of 

 Wood " — Passage in Plutarch — Red 

 Slippers — Theodora — La Saxe Gal- 

 lante — Samuel Woodworth — Bio- 

 graphical Queries— "Go when the 

 morning shiueth "— Fire — Druidical 

 Monument at Carnac — Cromwell's 

 Portrait and Watch — Milton's Letter 

 to Hartop — Author of Child's " Guide 



to Knowledge " — Knewstubs, &c. - 201 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Medal of Charles I. — Rosemary — 

 Passage in Milton — Blue-thong 

 Knights — Verses to Hogarth's Pic- 

 tures — Connor or O'Connor's " His- 

 tory of Poland " — " Lays of the Min- 

 nesingers "— Epitaph - - - 206 



Repiies : — 

 Will o' the Wisp, Jack-a-lantem, Ignis 



Fatuus, Corpse-candles, &c., by Simon 



Ward, &c. - - - - 208 



Executors of Wills, by William Sidney 



Gibson, &c. - - - - 208 



Ogham Characters, by E. West - - 209 



Verb and Nominative Case - - 210 



Notes on Trees and Flowers, by W. P. 



Griffith, &c. - - - - 211 



Photooraphio Correspondence : 



Photography on Enamel — Corpora- 

 tion Records : Application of Photo- 

 grapliy in MSS. -Novel Method of 

 takmg Stereoscopes - - - 212 



Replies to Minor Queries : The 



Burning of Jesuitical Books — Man in 

 the Iron Mask — Anticipated Inven- 

 tions, — Trees, their Age, &c. - - 213 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 216 



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