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CONTENTS. 



.Notes : — Pago 



Arabian Tales and their Sources, by 



J. W. Thomas - - - - 819 



La Rochefoucauld, by J. Macray - 320 



Shropshire Ballad - - - - 320 



*' Of the Benefit of the Death of Christ," 



by Aouio Paleario, by the Rev. J. 



Ayre - - - - - 321 



JI i N" u Notes : — Stone Chisels — Acros- 

 tic — Simmels — Osborne's History of 

 Essex — Fleas and Bugs — Zeuxis and 

 Parrhasius _ Cure for Hydrophobia — 

 The " Fusion " - - - - 321 



•Queries : — 



Lyra's Commentary, by Edw. Peacock 323 

 Minor Queries : — Barristers' Gowns 

 — " Charta Hen. 2. G. G. n. 2. q." — 

 Albany Wallace — Leslie and Dr. 

 Middleton — Star and Garter. Kirk- 

 etall — Shrore Tuesday — " Tarbox 

 for that"— De Gurney Pedigree — 

 *' n«rric," unde deriv. — Snush — John 

 Bale, Bishop of Ossory — Proxies for 

 absent Sponsors — Heraldic Query — 

 Christmas Ballad —Hay-bread Recipe 



— Te Deum — Mary Queen of Scots 

 at Auchincas —Right of Refuge in the 

 Church Porch —Christopher Lemying 

 of Burneston — Ralph Ashton the 

 Commander - 323 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Roman Roads in England — Inscrip- 

 tion on the Brass of Sir G. Fel bridge 



— Skipwith — College Battel — Origin 

 of Clubs _ Royal Arms in Churches 



— Odd Fellows _ Governor-General 



of India — Precedence - 325 



•Heplies : — 



Marmortinto,or Sand-painting, by John 



Mummery .... 327 



O'Brien of Thosmond - - - 328 



Coronation Stone ... - 328 

 Polygamy, by T. J. Bnckton and the 



Rev. A. Gatty - - - - 329 



Poetical Tavern Signs '- 330 



" Behemoth," by C. H. Cooper - - 332 



Photographic Correspondence : — Pho- 

 tographic Slides for the MagicLantern 



— Albumenized Paper — Mounting 

 Positives on Cardboard — Mr. Lyte's 

 Collodion ----- 332 



-Replies to Minor Queries : — Bur- 

 ton's " Anatomy of Melancholv " ' 



Original Royal Letters to the Grand 

 Masters of Malta — Prince Charles' 

 Attendants in Spain — Churchill's 

 Grave — " Cissle " — Contributors to 



Knight's " Quarterly Magazine " 



" La Langue Pandras " — Cranmer 

 Bibles _ Voisonier — Word-minting 



— Fair Rosamond — Death-warnings 

 in ancient. Families— Poets Laureate 



— Brissot de Warville — " Branks " — 

 "Theobald le Botiller — Lord Haring- 



ton _ Amontil lado — " Mairdil " 



Separation of the Sexes in Church — 

 Costume of the Clergy not Enarean, &c. 333 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - 333 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 339 



JNotices to Correspondents - - 339 



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