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Page 



A Plea for the City Churches, by the 



Rev. R. Hooper - - - - 51 



Echo Poetry - - - - - 51 



Ambiguity in Public Writing - - 52 



A Carol of the Kings - - - 53 



Sir W. Scott and Sir W. Napier - - 53 



Minor Notes : — Sign of Rain— Commu- 

 nications with Iceland —Starvation, an 

 Americanism — Strange Epitaphs - 53 



Queries : — 



Buonaparte's Abdication - - - 54 



Death Warnings in Ancient Familiei - 55 

 The Scarlet Regimentals of the English 



Army - - - - - 55 



:Mii»on Queries : — Berkhampstead Re- 

 cords — " The secimde personne of the 

 Trinetee " — St. John's, Oxford, and 

 Emmanuel, Cambridge — " Malbrough 

 s'en va-t-en guerre" — Prelate quoted 

 in Procopius — The Alibenistic Order 

 of Freemasons — Saying respecting An- 

 cient History — An Apology for not 

 Bpeaking the Truth — Sir John Morant 

 —Portrait of Plowden _ Temperature 

 of Cathedrals — Dr. Eleazar Duncon — 

 ■The Duke of Buckingham — Charles 

 Watson — Early (German) coloured 

 Engravings - - - - 56 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 



History of M. Oufle — Lrsons' MSS 



"Luke's Iron Crown ' — " Horam 

 coram Dago" - - - - 57 



Hoby Family, by Lord Braybrooke - 58 



Poetical Tavern Signs - - - 58 



Translation from Sheridan, &c. - - 59 



Florins and the Royal Arms - - 59 



Chronograms, by the Rev. W. Sparrow 



Simpson - - - - - 60 



Oaths, by James F. Ferguson - - 61 



Photographic Correspondence : — Split- 

 ting Paper for Photographic Purposes 

 — Curling of Iodized Paper — How the 

 Glass Rod is used - - - - 61 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Wooden 

 Tombs and EflLies — Epitaph on Poli- 

 tian — Defoe's Quotation from Baxter 

 on Apparitions — Barrels Regiment — 

 Sneezing— Does " Wurm," in modern 

 German, ever mean Serpent ? — Long- 

 fellow's Renper and the Flowers — 



Charge of Plagiarism against Palcy 



Tin _ John Waugh — Rev. Joshua 

 Brooks _ Hour-glass Stand — Teeth 

 Superstition— Dog-whipping Day in 

 Hull _ Mousehunt — St. Paul's School 

 Library— German Tree — Derivation 

 of the Word " Cash " - - 62 



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Notes on Books, &e. - - - 66 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 66 

 Notices to Correspondents - - 67 



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