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North Curry Feast - - - 237 

 PopiANA : — The Dunciad — The Dub- 

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Pope's Nurse . - - - 238 



Dante : Tacitus - - - - 240 



Colloquial Changes of Words - - 240 



MfNOR Notes : — Queen Elizabeth and 

 Sir Philip Sidney— Miracle by Saint 

 "Villebrord : Holland once a favourite 

 Seat of the Druids — Monumental In- 

 scription — Whimsical Petition to 

 James T. — Swift and I>eap-year — 

 " To get upon one's liigh horse " - 241 



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Did the Greek Physicians extract 

 Teeth ? by George Hayes - - 242 



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 Poetry — " Talent : " "Conjuror " — 

 Astronomical Query — Chiselhurst 

 Church, Kent — Chevalier — Phalan- 

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 Yorkshire— Hutchinson's "Commer- 

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— Bowles - - - - - 243 



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 Minstrel Court of Cheshire— Bishop 

 Beckinston — Charles I., his Relics at 

 Ashhurnham — Thomas Fuller, D.D. 



— Dr. William Nicolson, Bishop of 

 Carlisle — Prostitution a religious 

 Ordinance — Lempriere's "Universal 

 Biography " - - - . 244 



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The Inquisition, by Lord Monson - 246 



French I/iterature - - . 246 



Occasional Forms of Prayer, by W. P. 



Storer, Ac. ... - 247 



Celebruted Wafers, by William Bates - 247 



Anglo-S'ixon Typography - - 248 



Holy-loaf Jloney, by Rev. W. Denton 250 



Photooraphic Correspondence : — 

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 Washing of Paper Positives — Cun- 

 dall's Photographic Primer and Views 

 of Hastings - - - - 251 



Ueplies to Minor Queries : Dr. 



Llewelyn — Disinterment — Legend 

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Dissyllable — Franklin's Parable 



Luce -Bishop Griffith Williams — 

 "Bather : Other" — " No hath not " 



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