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Notes on Editions of "The Dunciad" - 497 

 Lccrends and Superstitions respecting 



Bees 



498 



An Old-world Village and its Christmas 



Follt Lore, by V. T. Sternberg - 501 



Stonyhurst Buck-hunt - - - 503 



Folk Lore : — The crooked Sixi)enee — 

 Cure for the Toothache - - 505 



Women's Rights - - - - 505 



Iiecend of the County^ Clare, by Francis 

 Robert Davies - - - - 505 



Minor Notes :_ John Woolman — The 

 Poverty of Literary Men — Swallows 

 as I>etter-carriers — Cat — " Fade " — 

 Climate of the Crimea - - - 5"6 



Qukb.es !- 

 Tlie Last Jacobites 



50? 



Mij.i)R QoERiEs : — First Fruits and 

 Tenths — Rose-trees — Authority of 

 Aristotle— Sandbanks—" Bell-childe " 

 _ Ballard's " Century of Celebrated 

 Women "—Rose of Sliaron— Ghosts — 

 St. Pancras — Serpent's Egg — Burial 

 of wounded Regmiental Colours — 

 King Dagobert's Revenge— Druidical 

 Remains in Warwickshire — Brass in 

 St. Helen's, Bishopsgate - - 508 



Minor Qhebies with Answers ; — 

 Saville of Oakhampton _ Historical 

 Work — The Plague — Seller's His- 

 tory of England - - - - 508 



Replies : — 



The Emperor of Morocco pensioned by 

 England - - - - - 510 



Did the Greek Surgeons extract 

 Teeth ? by George Hayes - - 510 



Military Titles, by Archdeacon Cotton, 



&c. 



511 



Photographic Cobrespondencr : — Mr. 

 Lyte on the Collodion Process — Spots 

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Replies to Minor Queries : — The first 

 English Envoy to Russia — Latin 

 Poetry — Beech- trees struck by Light- 

 ning — Kyrie Eleison — Epitaph — 

 " Emsdiirff's fame " — General Prim 

 — Two Brothers with the same Chris- 

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 St. Tellant— Etiquette Query _ Books 

 to be reprinted — Remarkable and au- 

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 Square — Door-head Inscriptions — 

 South's Sermons — The Inquisition — 

 Earthenware Vessels found at Foun- 

 tains Abbey - - - - 512 



Miscellaneous ; — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - . 516 



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