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CONTENTS. 



KoTXs ; — Pace 



Memoirs of Grammont : the Count de 



Mntta, by W.n. Lammin - - 157 



Lancashire Soni; - - - - im 



Christopher Ciavius, by Professor De 



Morcan - - - - - 158 



Legends of the County Clave, by Francis 



Kobert Davios - - - - 159 



Gray and Stephen Duck, by Henry T. 



Rilcy IGO 



Minor Notfs :— " Old Bogie" not a 

 fictiiioua Character — Academical 

 Degrees, especially in Xmjv — "The 

 Perverse Widow" _" Dombey and 

 Son" — Northumbrian Burr — Bishop 

 Cartwright - - - - 160 



QuCRIES : — 



The Pope Sitting on the Altar - - 161 



W here was Thomas Sampson the Puri- 

 tan born ? - - - - 162 



Minor Qcikries:— Tindal MSS Lines 



on llie Marquis of Anglesey — Picta- 

 veus ; Tiinkersley — Edward Hyde, 

 Earl of Clarendon — Gavelkind at 

 Croyland — Etymoloay of the Title 

 " Count " — Sabbatine Bull— "Credo 

 Domine,"&c.— ' Solyman"_Indiue3 

 published in present Century — J. H. 

 Campbell — Bean Feasts — BiblioKra- 

 phical Queries — The troublesome Ba- 

 ronet—Sir Richard Katclifte — He- 

 raldic — Kaleidoscope — Brasses of 

 Notaries— Lancashire Record — Cus- 

 tom of .establishing Fairs in North 

 Devon — Letters of Thomas Moore — 

 General Guyon ; Kurschid Pasha — 

 Damian — Austrian Passports - 162 



Minor Qokries with Answers : — 

 Winehelsea Monuments — Bermond- 

 Bey Abbey — " Cultiver mon Jardin " 166 



RcpLiBS : — 

 "TheDunciad" - - - - 166 

 Swift and " The Tatler," by Jas . Cross- 

 ley ler 



Chinese Language, by Thomas Bellot, 



Surgeon. R.N. - - - - 168 

 Recent Curiosities of Literature - - 168 

 Franklin's Parable, by C. W. Bingham 169 

 Arms of Geneva, by G. Gervais - - 169 

 Extwjsition of Joshua x. 12, 13., by Henry 

 Walter 171 



Photographic Correspondence : — New 

 Camera— Photographic Queries, with 

 Replies - - - - - 171 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Mr. 

 Jekyll and the " Tears of the Cruets " 



— " Coaches " — Patrick Carey — 

 "Nagging" — Francklyn Household 

 Book : Jumballs — ■' Quid fades," &c. 



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 Equity Suitors— Widdecombe Folks 

 are picking their Geese— "Tace," 

 Latin for a Candle — Puritan Anti- 

 pathy to Custard — Land of Green 

 Ginger — Books chained to Desks in 

 Churches — Green Eyes — Chinese 

 Proverbs — Colonel St. Leger, &c. - 172 



MlSCELL.VNEOCS I — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 175 



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