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Ancient Chattel Property in Ireland, by 



James F. Ferzu^on - - - 



PopiANA :— Pope's "Etliio Epistlps " — 



Anecdotes of Pope — James Moore 



Smyth . - - - - 



Books burnt, hy Rev. B. H Cowper 



I/ansailos Bell, by Thomas Q. Conch - 



Anonvmous and Pseudonymous AVorks, 



by William Bat' s 

 Scraps from an old Common-plnce Book 

 The " Altnanacli Royal de France," by 

 Bolton Corney - - - - 



MiNim Notes: —Former Power of the 

 Turks— Pr. Routh, President of Mas- 

 dalen College— Strange tynofrraphical 

 Krror — Exchange of Brasses— The 

 Fuxine, O"- Black Sea — Campbell's 

 Poems — Co'd-protectors — "Galore " 

 — Creation of a Baronetess 



Old English MS. Chronicle - - 103 



Marvell's " Rehearsal Transprosed," by 



H. Martin - - - - - 104 



"Wells Procession - - - - 104 



Minor Querifs:— The Lyme Rp^is 

 and Briflport" Domesday " and " Dom 

 Books " — Turkish Embiematieal 

 Flower — Value of Money in Ifi.V) _ 

 Kev. Roger Dale — Quotations wanted 



— " Romance of the Pyrenee-," &c. — 

 I>uck<' Birds _ Cardinal's red Hat — 

 Archbishop Leiphton — Marrinffes de- 

 creed by Heaven — Greek " Dance of 

 Flowers" — Theatrical A nnouncements 



— " At tu,quisquiseri3," &c. - - 105 



Minor Qitrrirs with Answers : — 

 Ri^jht Rev, Charles I.lovd, D.D., 

 Bishop of Oxf.>rd -Paisley Abbey — 

 Demonological Query —Early Enzlish 

 and Latin Grammar — '* To rat " — 

 " Domesday Book " - - - 106 



The Inquisition, by Col. T-ehmanowsky 108 



Lord Derby and M'inzoni - - I08 



The Suitan of the Crimea - - 109 



Milton's Widow, by T. W. Jones - 109 



PHHTOfiRAPHrr CoRRKSPONDENCK : — PrC- 



servation of sensitised Plates— Fading 



of Positives - - - - 110 



Replies to Minor Ql'Frtes: — Oranges 

 among the Romans— Leverets marked 

 with white Stars _ Major Andre — 

 Desiirna'ion of Works imder Review 

 —Tobacco smoking—" What I spent," 



&c. — " Star of the twilight grey " 



Quintus Calnber _ Oriel — Wenther 

 Rules - Spirit Rappings — The School- 

 hoy Formula — To " thou " or to 

 ** thee " — " As big as a parson's bam " 

 — " The Village Lawyer " — Unregis- 

 tered Proverbs — Old Jokes : " John 

 Chinaman's Pig," &c. - - - llo 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 115 



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