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Books hurnt, by Rev. B. H. Cowper - "7 



"Christie's Will," or" Cryistiswoll" - 78 



Facts respecting Colour - - - 79 

 Notices of the Dead Sea, by ■William 



"Winthrop ----- 79 



The Man in the Moon - - - 82 



Minor Notes : — Old French Monthly 

 Rules — Mutilation of Chaucer — Thu- 

 cydides and Mackintosh — Fastener 

 for loose Papers — London Directory, 

 1855— The Conirress at Rhinocorura — 

 Twins — Whittlebury Oaks — Inscrip- 

 tions on Buildings - - - 83 



Queries: — 



Wilkes's Copy of Junins's Letters - 84 



Medal of the Pretender, by Chas. S. 



Greaves, Q. C. - - - - 84 



Sir Samuel Bagnall - - - 85 



Minor Queries : — Pope and " The 

 Dunciad " — Gurney's " Burning of 

 East Dereham " — Neilson Family — 

 Lucifer's Ijawsxiit — Husbandman — 

 Talismanic King— Bnoeh or Butch 

 Family — Dramatic Queries — First 

 Book printed in New England — " The 

 woodville sung," &c.— F.S.A. Question 

 — " William and Margaret " — Armo- 

 rial — Arms of Ilsley - - - 86 



'Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Joyce Family — The Irish Palatines — 

 Etruscan Bronzes — The " "Telliamed " 

 _" The Twa Bairns," a Ballad - 87 



Hbplies : — 



The Devil's Dozen - - - - 88 



Cowley on Shakspeare, by F. White - 89 

 Sir Thomas Prendcrgast, by Rev. J. B. 



Deane - - - - - 89 



"Roccha de Carapanis," by Rev. H. T. 



EUacombe - - - - 90 



"Photographic Correspondence : — Col- 



lodionized Glass Plates, &c Bromo- 



iodide of Silver - - - - 90 



jRepltes to Minor Queries: — Death- 

 bed Superstition — " Whychcotte of St. 

 John's " — Railroads in England — 

 "Talented" — 'Snick up" _ The 

 Tost-mark on the Junius Letters — 

 "Nettle in, dock out" — Poems of 

 Ossian — Books chained in Churches 

 —Prophecies of Nostradamus, Marino, 

 and Joachim — The Divining Rod 

 — Amontillado Sherry — Mortality 

 in August — Clay Tobacco-pipes — 

 Brasses restored — St. Pancras — Arti- 

 ficial Ice — Campbell's Imitations — 

 Turning the Tables — Sestertium — 

 Cummin — Tallies — Hangman's 

 Wages — Charm for a Wart - - 91 



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Vol. XI No. 275. 



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