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St. Nun's "Well, &e. : with a Notice of 

 some Remains of Ancient Well Wor- 



' ship 397 



EtymoloKies, by Thomas Keightley - 398 

 Medical Superstitions - . - 399 



Provincial Words, by Charles Williams, 

 &c. ..... 400 



Pedagogic Ingenuity, by R. Price - 401 



Xongevity in the North Riding of York- 

 ehire, by Wm. Durrant Cooper - 401 



JiljMOB Notes : — Thames Water — 

 American Female Obesity and Fecun- 

 dity — Gorton's " Biographical Dic- 

 tionary " — " Sculcoates Gote " — 

 Churchyard Literature — D'Alton's 

 " Memoirs of the Archbishops of 

 Dublin " _ " Cliarity begins at home " 



— Voltaire— The Russian Language 



»t Oxford 401 



SIixoR QnERiBs:— "De bene esse" — 

 The African Elephant — Hindoo Folk 

 Xore— Faggot- vote — Etiquette Query 

 ; — Kyrie Eleison — Saint John Pedi- 

 gree — Weldons of Cornwall —Water- 

 serpent — Odd Custom — Froissart — 

 Legends on Sword-blades - - 403 



SVIixoR QoBniFj WITH Answers :— Wil- 

 liam Gurnall — Hengrave Church — 

 The Messrs. Bagster's Motto — Tin- 

 dal and Annet — The last Days of 

 George IV. — " Of Ceremonies," kc. . 404 



flBPLIlIS : — 



Aonio Paleario, by Rev. C. W. Bingham 406 

 The Burning of tlie Jesuitical Books, by 



W. Cramp - - - - 406 



*'Don Quixote," by W. B. MacCabe - 407 



Arms of Geneva - - - - 408 



•Cornish Descendants of the Emperor of 



Greece - - - - - 409 



PHrtTOORAPHIC CORRESPOXDEXCE : — PhO- 



tographic Unanimity — Bromide of 

 Silver — Preserving sensitized Collo- 

 dion Plates - - - - 410 



Hepmks to Minor Qckries : — Harlot 



— Tarct —Ecclesiastical Maps — Were 

 Cannon used at Crecy ? — St. Barnabas 

 — Andrea Ferrara— Death and Sleep — 

 General Prim — Herbert Thorndike — 

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 sont. Queen of the Goths " — Double 

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 Public Schools — Gules, a Lion ram- 

 pant or — " Haberdaslier " — The Evil 

 Eye in Scripture — " The arch-flat- 

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 Antiquary — Impossibilities of His- 

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