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The Folk Lore of d, Cornish Village : 

 Witchcraft, &c., by Thomas Q. Couch 497 



Monumental Brasses, by Kev. W. Spar- 

 row Simpson - - - - 499 



Archbishop Abbot, 1662-1633, by J. Vir- 

 tue Wyneu - - - - 500 



Minor Notes : — Services of the Aris- 

 tocracy in the Army — Devonshire- 

 isms — Longevity in Suffolk _ " Den 

 waerlyken Vnend " — Addison's 

 "Cato" 501 



Qdkries: — 

 MS. Volume of Poems, by W. H. Gun- 



ner - 



502 



Minor Queries : — " Historical Allu- 

 sions—Old Chart of the Mediterra- 

 nean — Portrait of Powell — Pym of 

 TVoolavington — Jack Connor — Nor- 

 man Superstition in 1855 — Quotation 

 — Proverbial Queries — " Two Pound 

 Ten " — The Oratorians — Crossing 

 the Line — Books printed at Cologne 502 



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 " The Iron Mask " — Comarium : 

 Snorell — "Polyanthea" — "Cocoa 

 Tree Coffee-house " — Mum Chance - 504 



Anticipated Inventions, &c., by Pro- 

 fessor De Morgan - - - 504 

 Way-side Crosses, by Edward Peacock, 



&c. 505 



The Templars, by James F. Ferguson - 507 



Seals, Books relating to - - - 508 



St. Gervaise, by Charles Hook, &c. - 509 



Dover or Dovor ? - - - - 509 

 Pope Pius V. and the Book of Common 



Prayer, by Rev. E. C. Hariugton - 510 

 Different Ideas of Religion among 



Christians and Pagans - - - 610 



Nursery Hymns - - - - 511 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 M. Fortier's Albumen Process — 

 Moimting Photographs - - - 511 



Replies to Minor Queries:— Dr. 

 Routh — Artificial Teeth — Ritual of 

 Holy Confirmation — Ancient Libra- 

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 Pythonicis " — Assignats — Fox Fa- 

 mily — Armageddon — Sibylle — Se- 

 vastopol - - - - - 512 



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