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NicUoTtts Upton, the Father of Heraldic 

 lyiterature, by T. Huzhes - - 437 



Orisrinal English Royal Letters to the 

 Grand Masters of Malta, by William 

 Winthrop 43? 



Occasional Forms of Prayer, by Rev. T. 

 Lathbury - - - - - 439 



Words and Phrases comraonat Polperro, 

 but not usual elsewhere - - 440 



Masterpieces of the early English 

 Dramatists - - - - 441 



Graudison Peerage ... 442 



Minor Notes : — Funeral Parade in 1 733 

 — Cheap Postage — Forester's "Orde- 

 ricus Vitalis " — George Whitefleld — 

 Telegraphing through Water not a re- 

 cent Discovery — The oldest Church 

 in America - . - - 442 



'Queries : — 



Shakspeare Autograph, by J. W. Fisher 443 

 Medallic Queries - - - - 414 



MiKOR QtiERiEs : — Coverdale's Bible — 

 Sebastopol, or Sevastopol— Castle re- 

 sembling Colzean Castle— Dr. John 

 Dee — Booksellers' Stocks burned — 

 Molines of Stoke-Poges— First Literary 

 Newspaper in Dublin — Sir Henry 

 .lohnes— Pasigraphy — " Star of the 

 twilight grey "' — Printers' Marks — 

 Handel's Wedding Anthem— Spanish 

 Epigram — The Boyle Lectures - 444 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Spa- 

 nish Reformation— Barrington's" His- 

 toric Anecdotes "-"Miss Bayley's 

 Ghost," Latin Translation — Busbe- 

 quius' " Epistles " — Hinchliffe, Bishop 

 of Peterborough — Richard Lovelace 



— Hazlitt's Essay on Will-making — 

 ■" I^ives of Alchymistical Philosophers" 



— " ExquovislignonoufltMercurius" 



— Miunmy . - - - 446 



Aonio Paleario ... - 447 



"Robinson Crusoe," by A. W. Davis, 



M.D., &c. 448 



The Divining Rod, by William Bates - 449 

 Biographical Dictionary of Living Au- 



tliors - - - - - 451 



Photooraphic Correspondence : — Col- 

 iodionized Glass Plates in a Sensitive 

 Condition .... 452 



Replies to Minor Qoeries : Dryden 



and Addison— Major Andr^— Thomas 

 Fuller, D.D. — The Poor Voter's Song 

 — '• The Perverse Widow " — Pensions 

 to Men of Science and Literature — 

 The Sultan of the Crimea— Keble's 

 " Christian Year " — Aristotle _ 

 " Ni.ught " and " Naught " _ " Cur 

 moriatur homo "—Shakspeare Queries 

 — "Rather" - - . - 452 



MlSCElXANEOUS ; — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 455 



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