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Notes ; — Page 



The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village : 

 Fasts and Festivals, by Thomas Q. 

 Couch 29? 



MS. Initial Book-Notes, by J. T.Jeff- 

 cock - - - _ - - 298 



Junius Miscellanies : — Junius, Wood- 

 fall, and Wilkes — Junius's Letters to 

 Woodfall — The Vellum-bound Ju- 

 nius — Bohn's " Junius " - - 299 



Forsena and the Clusian Dynasty at 

 Home, by E. West - - - 300 



O'Brien, Marquis of Thomond.by Simon 

 Ward SOI 



MiNOK Notes : — Musical Notation — 

 War and Literature — Door Inscrip- 

 tions — Church — Pharaoh — Note for 

 Naturalists — Saints and Flowers — 

 Derivationof" Westmorland" - 301 



QcEBias : — 



Another Massacre of Sinope, by F. 

 Phillott 302 



Minor Qdehifs : — " State of the Estab- 

 lished Church " — Cardinal Wolsey — 

 Duke of Marlborough and Colonel 

 Barnard — Dr. Blozham — Edition of 

 Montaigne — Barry Cornwall's "Re- 

 turn of the Admiral" — Memory- 

 Middleton — Gloucester Cathedral : 

 curious Fruit-tree — Passage in scep- 

 tical Greek Poet— Woodcut of Nebu- 

 chadnezzar — Octave System of Nota- 

 tion — Bishop Ridley and the Parish 

 of Heme — Boswell's " Johnson " — 

 Godzeiium, Goddard— "Xdict" or 

 " ydict " — " Times " Advertisements 

 in Cipher — Water-colour Artists — 

 Keformation Court — Hill, a Painter 



— " Koux Ompax," " Tapetzou Tine- 

 m&xoch " — Arabic Writers on the 

 Arts — Ehrenberg and his Microscope 



— A corded Cross, and by whom worn? 303 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Addison's lesser " Ode on St. Cecilia's 

 Day," &c Single-speech Hamilton 



— Nine Kirks — Monetary Change, 

 temp. Edward VI. — Thomas Hencn- 

 man,Es(i. — "G.D.T.M.D." - 305 



Replies : — 



Rewardforthe Quadrature of the Circle, 



by Professor De Morgan - - 306 



What are we to do with our Pamphlets ? 



by John Scribe. &c. - - - 307 



" Backets," or " Racquets," by A. Holt 



White, &c. - - - - 308 



Possible Test of Authorship, by Professor 



De Morgan - - - - 309 



Marine Atiuarium, by W. Alford Lloyd 309 

 De Witt Medals, by John Jebb - - 310 



Photoobaphic Correspondence : — 

 Album enized Collodion; M. 'Taupe- 

 not's Process — New Stereoscopes - 310 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Mortars 

 and Howitzers — 1 rancis's " Horace " 



— Lawes's MS. Music, &c. - - 311 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 316 



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