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Tage 



Dryden on Shakspeare, by Bolton Corney 95 



Party Similes of the Seventeenth Cen- 

 tury :— No. 1. "Foxes and Fire- 

 brands." No.?. "The Trojan Horse " 96 



Dutch East India Company. — Slavery 

 in England, by James Graves - 98 



Original llovnl Letters to the Grand 

 Masters of M.'.lta, by Win. Winthrop 99 



Enareans - • - - - 101 



Minor Notes : — Russia and Turkey — 

 Social Effects of the severe Weather, 

 Jan. 3 and 4, 1854 — Star of Bethlehem 

 _ Origin of the Word " Cant " — Epi- 

 gram on Four Lawyers - - 103 



Queries : — 



Contributors to " Knight's Quarterly 



Magazine" - - - - 103 



The Stationers' Company and Al- 

 manack - - - - - 104 



Minor Qukrit-s : — John Bunyan _ 

 Tragedy by Mary Leapor — Repairing 

 old Prints — Arch-priest in the Dio- 

 cese of Exeter— Medal in honour of 

 the Chevalier de St. George — Robert 

 Bidet — Sir J. Wallace and Mr. 

 Browne — Robert Dudley, Earl of 

 Leicester— Abbott Families— Author- 

 ship of a Ballad — Elias Petley — Ca- 

 naletto's Views round London — A 

 Monster found at Maidstone — Page - 104 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 The Fish " Ruffins " — O.igin of the 

 Word Etiquette — Ilenri Quatre — 

 "He that complies against his will," 

 Ike, and " To kick the bucket " — St. 

 Nicholas Cole Abbey - - - 106 



Replies : — 



Trench on Proverbs, by the Rev. M. 



Margoliouth - - - - 107 



Inscriptions on Bells - 109 



Arms of Geneva - - - - 110 



Photographic Correspondence: — Mul- 

 tiplying Negatives — To wgood's Pa- 

 per— Adulteration of Nitrate of Sil- 

 ver- - - - - - 110 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Passage 

 of Cicero — Major Andre — Catholic 

 Bible Society — Cnssiteridet — Wooden 

 Tombs and Effigies — Tailless Cats _ 

 Warville _ Green Eyes _ Came — 

 * Epitaphium Lucretia: " — Oxford 

 Commemoration Squib — " Imp " — 

 False Spellings from Sound — "Good 

 ■wine needs no bush" — Three Fleurs- 

 de-I.ys — Portrait of P!owden_St. 

 Stephen's Day and Mr. Riley's " Hovc- 

 <'en" — Death Warnings in Ancient 

 Families _" The Secunde Personne 

 in the Trinitie " - - - - 111 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, fcc. - 111 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 115 



Notices to Correspondents - .-115 



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