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297 



Ariosto's " Brtitto Mostro " 



Errors and Absurdities In recent Works 



on Switzerland - - - - 297 



The Birthplace of William Cobbett.by 



J. Virtue Wynne - - - 298 



MiN"B NoTFs : — "Strain at a gnat" — 

 Watch Motto— Making a Devil — 

 Window Inscription — Hair-dressing 

 a pitiful unci unmanly Emplojment — 

 Proverbs — Death of a Descendant of 

 Men Merrilees — The Management 

 and Disposal ot our Criminal Popula- 



tion Epijrram on Sir John Leech — 



The new Museum at Oxford - - 298 



QUKRIKS ; — 



Who seized Bellingham, — Hume or 

 Jerdan ? by W. Pollard - - 30O 



Minor Quk.rifs :— Lady Deloraine — 

 Times prohibiting Marriage — Cowgill 

 Family — The first Book published in 

 Ent;lund having an Appendix — " The 

 School of Politicks " — Kidney Club 



— Susaniinh Courtois — Campbell's 

 Heroine — Commemoration of Saints 



— "Wapping Old Stairs "_ Queen 

 Zuleima _ Oysters, with an r in the 

 Month — Quotations wanted — Lo- 

 cality of high and equable Tempera- 

 ture — The Butterfly _ Junius's Let- 

 ters, supposed W riters of — Gage 

 Family _ Ministerial " Jobs " _ Bee- 

 hives — Play Ticket by Hogarth - 301 



MiNOH QirRRIES WITH Answfrs : — 



Train Bands— Benjamin of Tudela 



— The City of Noviomagus — Pindar 



— " I'd be a butterfly " — Pope Joan — 

 Barratry - - - - - 303 



Sbpliks : — 



St. Cuthbcrt'e Bemains - - - 304 



Bull's Blood as Poison, by William 



Bates, &c. - - - - 305 



Heraldry : the Line Dancett<^e - - 308 



The Grand MasteroftheOrderof Malta 309 



Latin Vocabulary - - - - 310 



Photographtc Correspoxdknck : — 

 Photography in India : Capt. Barr's 

 dark Slide for Paper - - - 311 



Replies TO Minor Qoebirs : — Mairdil 



— Cabbages — Walter Wilson's MSS. 



— Haberdashers — Lord Kaimes — 

 Wheelbarrow _ Names of illegitimate 

 Children — Descent of Family Like- 

 ness - Nursery Hymn — " White bird, 

 feaiherless" — Impressions of Wax 

 Seals-" What shadows we are," &c. — 

 Latimer or Latymer —Joseph Graze- 

 brook - Ai.thor of" Palmyra," &c. — 

 Oxford Jeux d'Esprit —Napoleon's 

 Marshals — The Fashion of Brittany 



— Earthenware Vessels found at 



Fountains Abbey — Ancient Been 



Episcopal Wigs, &c. - - - 312 



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