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CONTENTS. 



ITotes : — Page 



Prophets : Francis Dobbs, by Henry II. 



Breen - - - - - 71 



Sir Walter Scott and his Quotations 



from Himself - - - -72 



Thomas Campbell - - - - 73 



Folk Lobe : _ Legends of the Co . Clare 



— Slow- worm Superstition - - 73 

 The Vellum-bound Junius, by Sir T. 



Metcalfe 74 



Minor Notes :— The Scotch Grievance 



— Walpole and Macaulay — Russian 

 " Justice " — False Dates in Water- 

 marks of Paper - - - - 74 



•Queries : — 



Sir. P. Cunninghame, by J. Macray - 75 

 Was Shakspeare descended from a 

 Landed Proprietor ? by J. O. Halliwell 75 



Minor Queries : — " To try and get " — 

 Fleet Prison — Colonel St. Leger — 

 Lords' Descents — Reverend Robert 

 Hall — " Lydia, or Conversion " — Per- 

 sonal Descriptions — " One while I 

 think," &c — Lord Bacon — Society for 

 ■burning the Dead_Cui Bono — The 

 Stock Horn— Lady Hariugton — De- 

 scendants of Sir M. Hale— A Query 

 for the City Commission— Cross-legged 

 Monumental Figures — Muffins and 

 Crumpets - - - - - 76 



TkliNoa Queries with Answers : — 

 " Behemoth " — " Deus ex Machina " — 

 Wheelbarrows — Persons alluded to by 

 Hooker - - - - -77 



EmiEs:- 



Longfellow's Originality, by Wm. Mat- 

 thews - - - - - 77 



Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne s 

 Motto 73 



Books burnt by the Common Hangman 78 



Stone Pulpits - - - - 79 



Antiquity of Fire-irons, by Wm. Mat- 

 thews, &c. - - - - - 80 



Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by Wm. 

 Winthrop - - - - - 80 



Grammars, &c, for Public Schools, by 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A..&C. - - 81 



.Derivation of Mawmet — Came, by J.W. 

 Thomas - - - - - 82 



The Gosling Family, by Honore de Mare- 

 ville- - - - - - 82 



Photographic Correspondence : — Tent 

 for Collodion Purposes — Multiplying 

 Negatives and Collodion on Paper — 

 Photographic Copies of Ancient Manu- 

 scripts — Fox Talbot's Patents — Anti- 

 quarian Photographic Society - - 83 



"Replies to Minor Queries: — "Firm 



was their faith," &c Attainment of 



Majority — Three Fleurs-de-Lis — 

 Newspaper Folk Lore — Nattochiis 

 and Calchanti — Marriage Ceremony 

 in the Fourteenth Century — Clarence 



— " The spire whose silent finger," &c. 



— Henry Earl of Wotton —Tenth (or 

 the Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment 



of (Light) Dragoons, &c. - - - 83 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - 90 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 90 



Notices to Correspondents - - 91 



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