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NoTKS : — Pose 



Folic Lore in Monmoiitlisliiie, by Rev. 



JolinWebb - - - - 483 



Tlie Prince's Masque, liy H. W. Diamond 48S 

 Norfollt Legend in Stone - - - 480 



Foi.K LoBK. —Callow Pit _ Naval Folk 

 Lore — Charms : Selections from the 

 " Frogs," a new Translation !— Green- 

 ock Folk Lore — Useful Superstitions 



— Bees at the Moteat Ightham — San- 

 itary Superstition — Norfolk Folk 

 Lore: "Led 'Will," or "Will Led" 

 (probably from "Way laid") — The 

 Wren Sonc in Ireland — Christmas 

 Weatlier Proverb - - - 487 



SwiftLPope, Benjamin Motte, and Mid- 

 dle Temple (Jate - - - 490 

 Christmas in Cheshire, by T. Hughes - 491 



MiNon Notes : — A very extraordinary 

 Phase of Matter— Descendants of John 

 Buny an— Parallel Passage — A lapsed 

 Fun 491 



QuKRIES: — 



Ballad of Lord Derwentwater - - 492 



Christmas Carol formerly sung at 



Clirist's Hospital - - - 493 



Ixigend of the Golden Table, &c., by 



George Scharf.Jun. - - - 493 



Minor Qufbtes : — Westminster Plays 



— County Magistrates — Vahie of 

 Money in Past Times — Anti- Men- 

 dicity Societies — Brunet, " Manuel 

 du Libraire," &c. — Mainhardt Fred- 

 erick Darcy — " Those days were 

 never," &c. — Queen of Bohemia's 

 Jewels — Inscription s in Cardigan Bay 



— Bear's Liver — Oxy-hydrogen Mi- 

 croscope, &c. — Translator of Madame 

 Dunoie's "Court of England" — In- 

 cense — Copyright in privately printed 

 Books - - - - - 493 



Minor Qobrfrs with Answers : — 

 Inscription in Soham Churchyard, 

 Cambridgeshire — Fragment of Solon 

 — " Gloria in Excelsis" — Miss Night- 

 ingale — Burt's ." Letters from Scot- 

 land" 496 



Rrpi.iei: — 



The Ballad of Sir Hugh - - - 490 



Dr. Dodd's" Sermon on Malt," by Wil- 

 liam Bates, &c. - - - - 497 



Rrpmes to Minor Queries : — " Oh! go 

 from the window " — Are the " Sou- 

 venirs de la Marquise de Crequy " 

 genuine or spurious ? — De Laune — 

 National Education and Reformation 



— Curious Custom, &e The " Right " 



and " Left " Hand — Lestowye — 

 Churchdown — " The lips is parcel of 

 the mouth: " Merry Wives of Wind- 

 sor, Act I. Sc. 1. — Marcaldi's "Life 

 of Mary Stuart"— "The Four Alls" 



— Dolljr Pentraeth — Sensations in 

 Dro\niing,&c. - - - - 498 



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