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Original Lcttersof Major Andrf : Anec- 

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eon Westcott, &e. - - - 77 



Notes on Manners, Costume, fcc. - 81 



" Ye sexes give ear," &c. - - - 82 



Franlslin's Parable - - - 82 

 Family of Lestrange, by the Ker. W. 



Denton - - - - - 83 



MiwoB NoTKs: — Curious Epitaph — 

 "Paunch" or "Punch," when first 

 known in England — Monumental 

 Inscription — Bishop Sprat — A New- 

 England Dialogue - - - 64 



iQuERIKS: — 



"Washington's Birthplace - - 85 



"Was Shakspeare a Roman Catholic ? - 83 



Minor Qoerifs;— Marrow-bonea and 

 Cleavers — William de Northie — 

 Editor of Tlobbes' Works _ English 

 Bishops' Mitres— Notaries — Bloody 

 Thursday — Caynton House, near 

 Shiffnall — Can a Man speak after he 

 is dead ?— Rev. Lewis Lewis— Iris and 

 Lily— Daughter of O'Melachlin, King 

 of Meath— " A dog with a bad Name " 

 Norfolk Superstition - - - 87 



MixoR Qup-RiFS WITH Answf.rs : — 

 Trail-baton—Saying of Voltaire— The 

 Everlasting Society of Eccentrics, 

 1803— Life of Vandyke — Early Ger- 

 man History of Painters— Crivelli tlie 

 Painter- Life of Mendelssohn - 88 



Sepliks : — 

 Ebullition of Feeling - - - 89 



King James's Irish Army List, 1689, by 



John D' Alton - - - - 90 



Warburton's Edition of Pope - - 90 



May-day Custom, by Cuthbert Bede, 



B.A. 91 



Thotooraphic Corrf.spondei»ce :— Tur- 

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Lespiault - - - - - 92 



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 Elegy — Kussian Emperors — Napo- 

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 of Utrecht— Colonel St. Leger— Knob- 

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 Cook — Moon Superstitions — "111 

 Habits," &c. — Morgan Odoherty - 95 



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Notes on Books, &c. - - - 96 



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