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NoTBs : — Paee 



Letters of the Westmoreland Family, by 



AVilliam Henry Hart - - . 397 



Tunnel from Dover to Calais, by T. J. 



Buck ton - - - - - 398 



Remarkable Men born during the same 



Year, by William John Fitz-Patrick - 3;t9 

 Tlie Idol Manufacture, by William 



Bate^ 402 



Odd Titles of Books in former Times - 403 



Minor Notes :_ Speke's " Scfiret His- 

 tory " — An Irish Election in the Old 

 Ti)nes — The Vine at Hampton Court 



— Old Arithmetical Works - - 403 



Queries ; — 



The " Risrlit " and " Left " Hand - 404 



Common Prayer: Passageinthe General 

 Thanksgiving - - - - 405 



Minor Qukhifs : — The Office of High 

 SheritF— Pliilosophy of the Ancients 



— Sedgemoor — "Lay of Gascoyne" 



— Clint — Curious Custom at the Pur- 

 chasing of Land — Standing Com- 

 mittee of the Commons on Religion — 

 Parson's Blue — Balliards or Billiards 



— Marlon de Lorme — Letter to 

 '■ Champion " Newspaper — Andrews 

 of Evcsham-Dolly Pentraeth -" The 

 Battle of the Nile " — " Sentimental 

 IjOve "--..-- 4C5 



Minor Qukries with Answers : — 

 " The lips is parcel of the mouth (or 

 mind) " _ Horse-Chestnut — Poavola 



— Luttrell's "Diary " - - - 407 



Repmes : — 



Old Deeds, by C. S. Greaves - - 408 



A Possible Test of Authorship, by Avon 



Lea, &c. - - - - - 409 



William de Britaine, by J. E. Jackson - 410 



Sultan Krim Glierry ... 410 

 Bainbridge, Cardinal Archbishop of 



York 411 



PiioToaRAPiirc Correspondence : — 

 Preparation of Gun Cotton for Collo- 

 dion — Mortuary Photographs — Sin- 

 gle Stereoscopic Pictures - - 411 



Replies to Minor Queries : — King 

 Bomba — Bridge, the Organ Builder — 

 Rules to be observed by Public Meet- 

 ings, Sic. — Harbingers of S))ring — 

 Swallows— Conversation with Words- 

 worth, Coleridge, &o.— Satire on Scot- 

 land—Advertisements in Cipher — 

 Red Slippers — Single-speech Hamil- 

 ton — Memory Middleton— Glass mal- 

 leable — Sinope, Quantity of— Sibyl — 

 Jonlan — Inscriptions on Sun Dials 



— Coningsby Family — Milton and 

 Napoleon — Marcaldi's " Life of Mary 

 Queen of Scots " — " Cat in Pan " _ 

 " Perturbabantur, " &c. — Caryl of 

 the " Rape of the Lock " — Con- 

 temporary or cotemporary — Pierre 

 Marteau — "Papsc " — Baby used as 



an Adjective - . . . 412 



Miscellaneous : — 

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