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Pope's Letters .... 463 

 Note on some Peculiarities in Mr. Dyce'B 

 Edition of Middleton's Works, by 

 Kev. W. R. Arrowsmitii - - 404 



Professor Von Roumer's " Letters on 

 Eiicland in 1835," by Rev. Henry 

 "Walter - - - - - 4Gf> 



" The Christian Convert " - - 46S 



Minor Notes : — Weeping Image — Cu- 

 rious Titles of Books in former Times 



— Longevity of Incumbents - - 468 



Queries : — 



Letters of King Edward VI., by John 

 Gougli Nichols - - - - 469 



Encaustic Tiles from Chertsey, by 

 Henry Shaw - . . . 459 



Minor Qcebifs :— Are all Gold Coins 

 legal Tender ? — Friesie and Icelandic 

 Languages — Lightfoot on the " Mish- 

 na " — Machine Hexameters — Ga- 

 briel Hounds — " Souvenirs de la Mar- 

 quisede Crequy" — Niebuhranticipated 



— Sir Gilbert Pickering — Portrait of 

 George Herbert - - - - 470 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 RoUiad — Aldrich's Chant in G. _ 

 " The Humours of Oxford " — Paleo- 

 graphy - - - - - 4?! 



"Did Edmund Burke write Sir Joshua 

 Reynolds's Discourses? " by S. W. Sin- 

 ger, &c. - - - . . 



The " Codex Vaticanus," by Rev. S. 

 Prideaux Tretelles - - . 



Book-worms, by Margaret Gatty, &c. - 



Porie Pius and the Book of Common 

 Prayer, by Kev, E. C. Harington 



Monument supposed to be Druidical at 

 Carnac - - . . . 



Photooraphic Cobhespondenck : 



The Electricity ofGuttaPerchaFilma: 

 Charles A. Long - - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Arms 

 of Lord of Blaencych— Wine for Easter 

 Communion — Voracity of the Hedge- 

 hog— Octave System of Notation 



Door Inscriptions _ Common-Place 

 Books _ Priests' Iliding-Places — The 

 cold Shade of the Aristocracy _ 

 "Trumpeter unus crat " — Sedilia _ 

 Books chained in Churches _ Copy- 

 ing Ink — Ancient Ink — Gillingham, 

 Norfolk — " The heart may break,"&c. 



— John Cleveland _ Roniju Stations 

 and Roads — Major Andri5- Courtney 

 Family — Workson the Reality of the 

 Devil-Last of tlie Palasologi— Double 

 Christian Names- "Philamour and 

 Philamena — The Sarraati _ Sultan 

 Krim Gherry _ A sleeveless Errand 



— Green Rose — ' Lay of Gascoyne " 



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