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•^ CONTENTS. Page 



Our Sixth Volame -__---! 

 Notes : — 



Oil the Editorship of Shalcspeare, by Bolton Corney - 2 

 John Asgill, by James Crossley . - - . 3 



Liiifs on the Earl of Cr.iwford .... 4 

 Siil^enry Wotton's Letter to Milton - - - 5 



Folk Lore : — Cure for the Ague — We.ither Prophecy - 5 

 Printvir's Errors in' the Inseparable Particles in Shak- 



speare, by S. W. Singer ----- 6 

 Dr. Gumming on Uomans viii., by J. C. Robertson - 6 

 Progressive Development and Transmutation of Species, 



by C. Mansfield Ingleby ----- 7 

 Minor Notes : — ^^Apiilsius on Mesmerism — The Domi- 

 ciliary Clause — Transmission of Ancient Usages — 

 Inscription on .in Oak Chest — The Raising of 

 diaries I.'s Standard at Nottingham - - - 8 



QUERIRS : — 



Remarkable Experiments ----- 8 

 Minor Queries : — De Sanctd Cruce — Etymology of 

 " Aghindle " or "Aghendole" — Pictures of Queen 

 pjlizabeths Tomb — Spanish " Veiwo Bowes" — Old 

 Knglish Divines — I^ord Viscount Dover, Colonel of 

 the First Troop of Guards in the Service of James 11. 

 in Ireh-ind, 1689-1690 — Lines on Woman's Will — 

 Celebrated Fly— Battle of Alfred the Great with the 

 Banes — Old S;itchells— " Pretty Peggy of Derby, O !" 

 — " Noose as 1 was " — " La Garde meurt," &c.— Coral 

 Charms— Maturin Laurent — Mons. Cahagnet— James 

 Murray, titular Earl of Dunbar - . . _ 9 



. Minor Queries Answered: — Lanthorns — A Popular 

 Book censured in the Pulpit, in the Time of Queen 

 Anne — Legend respecting the Isle of Eiy - - 11 



Heplies : — 



The Trusty Servant at Winchester, by Sir F. Madden - 12 



The Earl of ErroU I.3 



Inscription at Persepolis - - . . - 14 



"Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore," by J. K. 



Walbran ------- 15 



Coke and Cowper, how pronounced - . - lU 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Use of Slings by the Early 

 Britons— Burial in Unconsecratcd Ground — Eti mo- 

 logy of Fetch and Haberdasher — Baxter's " Heavy 

 Shove," &c. — " We three " — Age of Trees — Tiie 

 Diphthong "ai"— The Symbol of the Pelican — John 

 Hope — Stoup— Flanagan on the Round Towers of 

 Ireland — Giving the Sack — The Bells of Limerick 

 Cathedral — Mexican, &c. Grammar— B shop Merri- 

 jnan — Birthplace of Andrev/ Marvell — Anstis on 

 Seals— Foundation Stones— Milton indebted to Tacitus 

 — Pl.igue Stones— Algernon Sidney— Edmund Bohun 

 —Declaration of Two Thousand Clergymen . - 17 



MiSCBlLANEOnS : 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - I 



Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements - - . . 



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Vor.VI — No. 140. 



OUR SIXTH VOLtlME. 



Milton describes the active and industrious emmet as 

 " provident 

 Of future ; in small room large heart irtclos'd." 

 What authority there may be for the asserted physio- 

 logical fact in reference to the emmet, is a Query wc 

 submit to our readers, merely reminding them that 

 Virgil has said the same thing of bees : at present we 

 quote the words of our great poet as descriptive of the 

 function and purpose which we have carried on through- 

 out Five Volumes, and which we .shall keep steadily 

 before us in that new Volume on which we are this day 

 entering, and in the numberless remainder which we 

 trust will follow. " Provident of future," we shall lay up 

 good store of valuable materials for all inquirers ; and 

 within the " small room " of our hebdomadal sheet 

 shall strive to inclose a mass of matter more directly 

 useful to literary men than has ever been crowded into 

 such space before. 



The continued kindness of our " increased and still 

 increasing" band of contributors and correspondents 

 enables us, volume by volume, to perform our office 

 more perfectly. The number of important questions 

 which wc answer immediately, and the number cleared 

 up by the friendly discussions in our pages, are both 

 continually on the increase. Some day we shall (in 

 Parliamentary phrase) present a Return upon this sub- 

 ject which will excite no little surprise : at present 

 we will merely express our warmest thanks to all 

 our contributing friends, and assure them of our 

 constant endeavour to insert their papers in the way 

 which will be most useful, and at the same time most 

 agreeable to themselves. Slight curtailment, and some 

 delay, are occasionally unavoidable ; but we studiously 

 endeavour to do the most entire justice to every paper 

 that is sent to us, and that as quickly as possible. 

 Such shall ever continue to be our aim : our only 

 " strife " being how to please you all — readers, corre- 

 spondents, note-makers, and querists — " day exceeding 

 day," 



