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King James's, or the present Version of 

 the Bible 9? 



Flowers mentioned by Shakspeare, by 

 Edear MacCuIloch - - - 98 



Smith's " Dictionaries of Antiquities," 

 by P. J. F. Gantillon - - - 98 



Nautical Folk Lore : — Names of Ships 99 



Supposed Early Play-bill - - 99 



Minor Notes : _ Swift and " The Tat- 

 ler " — Epitaph on a Priest — " While " 

 and "wile " — School Libraries : Salis- 

 bury—Cherries - - - - 100 



'QaxRiEs : — 



" He that fights," &c. - - - 101 



Louis de Beaufort - - - - 101 



Popiana: JamesMooreSmith.orSmyth 102 



Minor Qceries:— Marriapres between 

 Cousins— Paterson, Founder of the 

 Bank— Fitchett's "King Alfred" — 

 *' Albert surles Opi^rations de I'Ame" — 

 Anointing of Bishops— Justice George 

 Wood — Old Map of Mendip, co. So- 

 merset — Black Livery Stockings — 

 Thomas Bolf — " Emsdorff's fame," 



Xc " Platonism Exposed " — Brasses 



restored — Sassanian Inscriptions — 

 Greatest Happiness of the greatest 

 Number — Choke Damp — Remark- 

 able Prediction —The late Rev. James 

 Plumptre — Leonard Welsted - 102 



Minor Qderies with Answers : — 

 Druids and Druidism — Psalm Ixviii. 

 4. — Coroners' Inquests — " Talliages " 



— Pengwern Hall — Prince Cliarles's 

 House in Derby — Singed Vellum - 104 



'Repliis : — 



Lord Bacon and Shakspeare - - 106 



Coleridge's Lectures on Shakspeare - 100 



Hydropatliy, by Edward Peacock - 107 



Catholic Floral Directories : Dr. For- 



ster's Works - - - - 108 



"Warburton's Edition of Pope - - 108 



The Dunciad, by William J. Thom8,&c. 109 



Notaries, by Albert Way - - 110 



Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Ken - 110 



Photooraphic Correspondence : — Mr. 

 Lyte's Instantaneous Process — Wax- 

 ing Positives — Preserving Collodion 

 Plates sensitive - - - - 111 



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•^Peter Wilkins"— " De male quicsitis 

 rix saudet tertius hicres " — Apparition 

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 of Esholt and Lancashire — Latin 

 Treatise on whipping School-boys — 

 Faunlleioy — Old Dominion — The 

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 28th Regiment, why called " The 

 Slashers ? " _ " Heroic Epistle," &c. - 112 



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