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Original Letter from Sir Beville Gren- 

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PoriANA :— Alexander Pope— Editions 

 of " The Dunciad " — Karly Editions 

 of " The Dunciad " — Pope's Skull — 

 Pope's " Sober Advice " - - 417 



"Words and Phrases common at Polperro, 

 but not usual elsewhere - - 418 



Macaulay on the Italian Language - 420 



Divination by, or Tossing of, Coffee 

 Grounds, by E. Ph. Shirley - - 420 



Minor Notes : — That i'. Who or Whicll 



Salutation after Sneezing—" Alma " 



and " Balhf c " — Epitaph — James IL 

 and tlie University of Dublin — 1253 

 Descendants — Nelson and the Apple- 

 woman ----- 421 



MiKOR Queries:— The Fire of Lon- 

 don in 1666 — Dean Smedley— Dry den 

 and Addison — Songof the Revolution, 

 1688 — Anastatic Printing — Taver- 

 jier's Testament — Manor of Old Paris 



<Jardcn— Dr. Adam Clarke's MSS 



Halfpenny of George IL — " The Po- 

 litical Register, and Impartial Review 

 of New Books" - - - - 422 



Mi.N'oR Queries with Answers :— Pas- 

 sage in Erasmus — The Revolution of 

 168S — Richard Wiseman the Surgeon 



— Bishop Dillon — Tutchin Family 



— St. George's, Hanover Square - 424 



Hf.plies : — 

 Voltaire, Southey, and Professor de 



Morgan, by Jolin Macray - - 425 



Bishop Griffith Williams, by Thomas 



Gimlette - - - - - 425 



The Crescent, by J. W. Thomas, &c. - 426 

 Brydone the Tourist, by G. Elliot - 426 



Roman Catholic Divorces, by Henry 



Walter, &c. - - - - 427 



TTobacco-smoking : Queen Elizabeth, by 



J. N.Baguall, &c. - - - 428 



Photographic Correspondence : — Tal- 

 botype Queries— Bromide of Silver - 429 



HrrLiES TO Minor Qiteries : — Queen 

 Anne's Farthings — Peter Burman — 

 Hannah Lightfoot — "Albert sur les 

 Operations de I'Ame" — Oxford Jeu 

 d'Esprit — Volkre's Chamber—" Lord, 

 dismiss us with thy blessing " — Ro- 

 man Inscription — Standard-bearer 

 of the Conqueror—" The Birch " — 

 Two Brothers of the same Christian 

 Name — Battle-door— Alefounders _ 

 English Words derived from the Saxon 



— The Rowe Family — Army Pre- 

 cedence — " Auke"_ lines at Jer- 

 lioiiit Abbey — Gresebroke in York- 

 shire—Lines in " Childe Harold " — 

 Bell on leaving Church — Colonel Car- 

 los — " Kattlin' Roaring Willie " — 

 Earthenware Vessels found at Foun- 

 tains Abbey — St. Peter's at Rome — 

 Slaughtering Cattle in Towns, mc. - 429 



Miscellaneous ; — ■ 



Notes on Books, &e. - - - 435 



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