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Milton's Elegy on the Marchioness of 

 Winchester, by Joseph Hunter - 477 



Genuine Intercepted Letter, by Eustace 

 Vi. Jacob - - - - - 477 



English Syntax, by Rev. "W. R. Arrow- 

 smith ----- 479 



Sir Wfllter Scott at Cambridge, by C. H. 

 Cooper - - - - - 480 



The last Survivors of England's Great 

 Battles, by Alexander Andrews - 431 



The Citizens of Dorchester, U. S. A., by 

 Rev. C. W. Bingham - - - 481 



Minor Notfs : — John Von Goch, alias 

 Pupper : " De Libertate Christiana "— 

 Captain Cuttle — Sieniflcation of Co- 

 lours — Origin of the Ballet — Junius, 

 IjCtters of — Niites on Fly-leaves : 

 Parr's Preface to Bellendenus — Man- 

 ners and Customs of the Irish in 1760 



— Wild Dayrell — Easterly Winds - 482 



Queries : — 



Paley and Bishop Porteus, by Rev. Vf. 

 Sparrow Simpson - - - 484 



John Rowland, one of the Pilgrim Fa- 

 thers, by John A. Howland - - 484 



Minor QnnRiEs:— "Baron Munchhau- 

 sen " — Book of Common Prayer — 

 Tlie Crucifixion _ Beatina the Bounds 



— Kidleybenders _ " Vigil of St. 

 Mark " _ Douglas's " Edwin " _ Pope 



1 — "From the reptile and brute," &c. 



— Early Byzantine Picture— A Pas- 

 sage in the Life of Erasmus— Peerage 

 Cases : Private Acts—Picture at Lou- 

 vain, &c. — " Marriages are made la 

 Heaven"— Monmouth— Carlo Dolci's 

 " Romana " — " Adagia Scotica" — 



■ •' Wyvivvie " — Goring, Lord Goring 

 and Earl of Norwich — English Re- 

 tinue of John of France - - - 485 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Obsolete Canon — Fanatics of Ce- 

 vennes— Statue at Bristol — " Good 



temper better than good sense " 



"OldPoulter" - - - - 487 



Rbpliu : — 



Parallel Passages, by Be v. Henry 

 Walter. &c. - - - - 488 



"The Whole Duty of Man : " Popular 

 Error, by J. D. Ottinge - - - 489 



Names of Cat and Dog, by T. J. Buckton 490 



"Handicap" and "Heat," by J. S. 

 Coyne - - - - - 491 



Photographic Correspondencb : — 

 Mr. Lyte's Process - - - 491 



Replies TO Minor Queries: — Natu- 

 ralisation Laws — Man in the Moon — 

 " Bel-child " — " Ruptuary " — Verses 

 on Loss of the Blenheim— Notices of 

 Ancient Libraries — Sea-sickness — 

 Sarsen Stones — Superstition respect- 

 ing the Tremella Nostoc — Paget 

 Arms — Old Dutch Song, &c. - ' - 492 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 496 



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