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KoTEs:— Page 



The Russian Fleet in the Euzine, by 



Bolton Corney - - - - 277 



Posies fiom Wedding Rings - - 277 



Shaksperiana : — Readings in "Cymbe- 

 line" — Shakspeare's Bones— Shak- 

 speare's Description of Apoplexy — 

 "Uplifted" - - - - 278 



Expenses of a Young Lady's School in 

 tiie Seventeenth Century, by Ev. Ph. 

 Shirley - - - - - 279 



Minor Notes : — The Newspaper Stamp 



— St. John of Jerusalem, Ireland — 

 "Piers Plowman's Visions " — Nelson 

 _ The Chinese Revolution and Ma- 

 sonry—A blue Rose — Chatterton : 

 General Fairfax — "Sending coals to 

 Newcastle " - - - - 279 



Queries : — 

 Coaching Queries - - - - 281 



The Lake Family, by John Tanswell - 282 



Minor Queries : — Call Duck — James 

 Mendham — Visit of Charles I. to 

 Glasgow — Hoggerty Maw — Cheshire 

 Tokens — Burial Custom at Maple 

 Durham — General Braddock — Tne 

 Black Sea — French Poet quoted — 

 Nottingham Date-book — St. Simon 

 the Apostle — Godschall — Guy of 

 "Warwick's Cow's Rib — Jupiter and 

 Diogenes _ T. D. Rees — Petrified 

 "Wheat — Harrow School — Bloom- 

 fields of Nortblk — Origin of the Term 

 " Brown Bess " as applied to a Musket 282 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Traditions of the Deluge — The first 

 Book printed by Subscription — "Wife 

 of Joseph Richardson — " No rig- 

 marie was in my purse " — Mothering 

 Sunday - - - - - 284 



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Newspaper Notes, by Alexander An- 

 drews ... - - 285 

 "Papae" of Iceland and Orkney, by 



Dr. Charlton - - - - 285 



St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen "Writers 280 



Progressive Geography - - - 287 

 French Protestant Refugees, by Edward 



Peacock - - - - - 287 



Napoleon's Marshals ... 288 



Books burnt, by H. H. "Wood - - 288 



JohnBuucle - - - - 289 



Photooraphic Correspondence : — 



Ct'roleine on Glass and on Paper — 



Camera for preserved sensitised 



Plates, &c. - - - - 289 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Cothon 



— Passage in Euripides — Kirkstall 

 Abbey —Early Disappearance of Pub- 

 lications — " Le Flatonisme Di;voil(5 " 



— Intensify — Fishermen's Supersti- 

 tion — " Children in the "Wood " — Sea- 

 sickness— The Episcopal "Wig, &c. - 290 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ... 296 



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