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Notes : — Page 



Trance-legends - - - - 457 



PopiANA : — Satirical Prints of Pope, &c. 



— Pope's Sknll — James Moore SmytU 



— Letters of Swift and his Cotempora- 

 ries 458 



" Annotated Edition of the Enclish 

 Poets : " Oldham, by W. J. Bemhard 



Smith 459 



Curious Predictions . - - ^59 

 I^etter of Mrs. Hannah More, by Eustace 

 W. Jacob 460 



Minor Notes : — English Lady Attend- 

 ants on the Army—Pall Mall— Second 

 Blooming and Bearing of Fruit — The 

 Ports of Sebastopol — Mountains of the 

 Crimea — English Newspapers - - 461 



Queries : — 



Suppression of the Templarg - - 462 



The great Smith Festival - - - 463 



Minor Queries : _ Playine Cards — 

 Stonehenge — Charles Lamb — Does a 

 Circle round the Moon foretell bad 

 TVeather ? _ Quotations for Verifica- 

 tion — The Schoolmen _ Stone Cary- 

 ings from the ancient Chapel of 

 Romsey, co. Salop — The Blind : 

 Finger-reading — Portrait at Shote- 

 sham Park. Norwich—Baptist Vincent 



Tn^oll ** IT Q A '» i^,• **"I? A «" 



Lavall— "F.S.A.' 

 Lord Sandwich 



'r.A.S.' 



- 463 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 "Royal Recollections" — Irish Ar- 

 chasological Society — " Plurality of 

 "Worlds : " its Author - - - 465 



■Replies : — 



Anglo-Saxon Typography, by Professor 



Stephens - - - - - 466 



The Divining Rod, by William Bates - 467 



Yeoman ----- 468 



Charles I. and his Relics, by T. Hughes 469 



The Zouaves, by W. Coles, &e. - - 469 



Johnson i: Boswell, by Bolton Comey, 



tc. 471 



Photoobaphic Correspondence : — Bro- 

 mo-iodide of Silver — Intense Skies: 

 Strength of Solution - - - 472 



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 "Conjurer " — " Obtain" — Designa- 

 tion of "Works under Review — The 

 Masters of St. Cross Ilospital — Irish 

 Newspapers — Descendants of Sir Mat- 

 thew Hale — 'Xfiir, — Brasses of Nota- 

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Sir John Perrott — Sir Richard Rad- 



cliffe, K. G. and Banneret _ Haber- 

 dasher— "Zim" and " Jim "— Ra- 

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