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The Folk Lore of a Cornish Village, by 

 Thoipas Q. Couch - - - 397 



Antiquity of Talile-turrins - - 398 



Remarlts on Cuvwns, and more particu- 

 larly on the Royal or Imperial Crown 

 of Great Britain, by S. M. Leake, 

 Garter ----- 399 



Pop • Pius \ . and the Book of Common 

 Prayer - - - - - 401 



The Paradox of Vision, by F. W. P. 

 Kowlinstiu - - - . 402 



Minor Norr.s : _ Epigram quoted by 

 Mr. Bernal Oshorne — Curious Pla- 

 card — A new Mode of treating Works 

 of Art— A remarkable Man, and a 

 remarkable Pamily — Sea-sand and 

 Sea-water for Bulldins Purposes : 

 Free-stone — "Seeing the Lions" - 404 



QcRRIRS: — 



The Calves'-head Club - - - 405 



Deaths, &c. of Authors - - - 405 



Minor Quf.rifs :— " Esypt, a Descrip- 

 tive Poem," &c. — Vincent Le Blanc's 

 Travels _ Parallel Passages — Dover 

 or Dovor — Pea<!ham's Works _ 



Ki'ights Hospitallers in Ireland 



Sporting Queries — Kepia Etchings — 

 Clerical Incumbency — " Otia Voti va " 

 —Sir Richard Steele— Sixtine Editions 

 of the Bible — " Never " — Howard's 

 Monument — A Query for Naturalists 

 — Mr. Forster's Himyaric Views — 

 Chamberlain's " Present State of 

 Grent Britain : " The Red B.'oks -_ 

 Deadenins (loss Windows — Charles 

 Cotton — Burial in the Chancel - 406 



Minor Quertfs with Answkrs : — 

 Rev. George Oldham _ Thomas Gray 

 the Povt — •' The Horns " at Highxate 

 and HoruFcy- "Philip drunk and 

 Pliilip sober " — Pend' ell's Tomb In 

 St. Giles's in the Fields - - 409 



REPLrKs : — 

 " Annotated Edition of the English 



Poets," by Robert Bell - - - 410 



M irine Vivarium, how to stock one, by 



Mar.'tiret Gatiy, &c. - - - 410 



Prestl)ury Priory, Gloucestershire - 411 



Times prohibiting Marriage, by Rev. 



Dr. Todd 411 



Epigram on the Laurcateship, by J. H. 



Murkluud - - - - 412 



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Modification in tlie Composition of 

 Collodion to suit different Tempera- 

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 Galway or Galloway- Burial Custom 

 at M'lnle Durham —" Bertha ktas 

 Mundi " — Charles Lamb's Farce — 

 "I lived doubtful, not dissolute " — 

 Oysters with an r in the Month, &_'. - 413 



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