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Miss Strickland and Mary Queen of Scots 4)7 

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Epieedium Afi.<t:oT€p6yXio<r<rov, by T. J. 



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Nourse - - - - - 421 



Temple Bar, by U. V/. Ilackwood - 424 

 Nero's Game of Cliariots, by Sir E. 



Madden -...-- 425 



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 "All the Go" - - - - 425 



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, " Minne " and Minnesingers - - 426 



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 Chatterton in the Shade " — " Cheshire 

 Huntress," &c. — Welsli Custom — 

 Allen Fumily — " Tlie cold i^hade of 

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 TI^eThreeMarlin^—Basllctt— Thomas 

 Warton _ I ive Pound Piece of Vic- 

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 Playing Tables (Backgammon ?) 

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 Sir James l/owther's Man-of-War — 

 Fi-ithSilver— Countess of Home, &c. - 427 



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 Taker _ Dr. Robert liooke _ " Reign 

 of Charles I."— Author of "Sympathy" 423 



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Thompson, &c. ... - 429 



Bank,by T. J. Buckton, &c. - - 4,'51 



Curirs"Corinna" - ... 431 



Tumulus at Langbnry Hill - - 432 



Musical Notation, by William Eraser, 



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Scott and the "Waverley Novels," bv 



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 F.S.A. — Bishop Parry— Bronze Mor- 

 tar — Newton of Edgefield, eo. Nor- 



," folk — Towns in the Crimea and Cau- 

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 " The Four Alls," &c. - - - 433 



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 Notes on Books, Se. - - - 441 



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