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Arithmetical Notes, No. IV., by Pro- 

 fessor Ue Morsau - - „ 237 



Tlie IVIadness of the Historical Hamlet, 

 by T. J.Buckton - - - 238 



Porsena, tlie Eiglith King of Rome, by 

 E. West - - - - - 239 



Junius Miscellanies : — A Vellum- 

 bound Junius found in America — A 

 Note ill Bohii's" Junius" — Junius: 

 Anecdoteof George IV. - - 240 



Country Dealers in Second-hand Books: 

 Second List - - - - 242 



MiKoR Notes : — Turkish Literature 



Latin (?) Epitaplis _ Sir Edward 

 Hawke — Book Inscription — The old 

 Word " wanned " — Will of Richard 



Kny vet, temp. Henry VII " Ter- 



tium quid " - - - - 242 



MiNOB QuBBiF.3 : — Portrait of Andrew 

 Marvell — " By touch ethereal wafted 

 into Heaven " — International Copy- 

 right Law — " Kackcts" or "Rac- 

 quets "-De Witt Medal — " Recollec- 

 tions of Sir "William Waller " 



"Lives of Leland, Hearne.aud Wood " 

 — "The Ottering ' — " Easter Monday, 

 a Farce" — Henry of Transtamare" 



— Small Miniature of William III 



National Education and Reformato- 

 ries — Husband and Wife eating oif 

 the same Plate — Gallows used on the 

 Borders — Greek Lexicon — Poetry by 

 an Artist _ Peter Fowke — Sauty, or 

 Sawty Bannocks — " Salcuthat : " 

 Arabian Work on M.agic Kings - 243 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Authorship of Work on the Sacrament 



— Author of "More the Merrier" — 

 Jongs : Kirk Session Records — Ri- 

 chard, Earl of Cornwall — Gathe's 



" Hermann and Dorothea " " Stone- 



henge," &c. — Speddyll, or Spett«ll - 245 



Replies : — 



Banbury Zeal - . . . 246 



The Last Prior of Dunmow, by F. Som- 



ner Merryweather - - - 247 



" A Perfect Description of Scotland " - 247 

 "Cybele" and "Sibylla;," or "Sy- 



billaj," by Eras. Crossley, &c. - - 248 



Servetus and CoUadon , &c. , by J. Macray 249 



Roman Catholic Bishoprics - - 249 



Absorbent Paper, by Luke Limner, &c. 250 



Photographic Correspondencr : — 

 On tiw EmplojTnent of Distilled Water 



— Single Stereoscopic Pictures - 250 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Ancient 

 Cements — Milton s " Letter to Har- 

 top" — Oliver Cromwell's Watch — 

 Cromwell's Portrait — " Perturba- 

 bantur," (tc. — " Chronicle of the 

 Kings of England " — Sir Andrew de 

 Harcla — Saint , Swithin — Dial In- 

 scriptions — Humphrey de Bohun, &c. 251 



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Notes on Books, &e. ... 255 



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