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Page 

 "Where are the "Wills to be deposited ? - 215 



Notes : — 



"J. R. of Cork" - - -217 



Marmortinto, or Sand-painting - - 217 



The Soldier's Discipline, from a Broad- 

 side of the Year 1642 - - - 218 

 Leading Articles of Foreign Newspapers 218 

 Minor Notes: — Materials for a History 

 of Druidism — Domestic Chapels — 

 Ordinary — Thorn's Irish Almanac 

 and Official Directory for 1854 — An- 

 tiquity of the Word " Snub " — 

 Charles I. at Little Woolford — Coin- 

 cidence between Sir Thomas Browne 

 and Bishop Ken— The English School 

 of Painting — " A Feather in your 

 Cap" - - - - - 219 



Qckhies : — 



Domestic Architecture : Licences to 



Crenellatc, by J. H. Parker - - 220 



Dixon of Beeston, by R. W. Dixon, J.P. 221 



Minor Queries : — Atherstone Family 

 — Classic Authors and the Jews — 

 Bishop Hooper's Argument on the 

 Vestment Controversy — The Title of 

 * Dominus " — The De Rous Family 

 — Where was the Fee of S. Sanxon ?— 

 Russian Emperors — Episcopal Insig- 

 nia of the Eastern Church — Amon- 

 tillado Sherry — Col. Michael Smith's 

 Family— Pronunciation of Foreign 

 Names — Artesian Wells — Norman 

 Towers in Loudon _ Papyrus — 

 Mathcw, a Cornish Family - - 221 



Mjnor Queries with Answers : — 

 Bunyan's Descendants — Epigram on 

 Dennis — Football played on Shrove 

 Tuesday — Vossioner, its Meaning — 

 The Game of Chess— A Jumper Letter 223 



Replies : — 



Clarence - - - - - 224 

 Milton's Widow, by T. Hughes - - 225 

 Three Fleurs-de-Lys - 225 

 Books burned by the Common Hang- 

 man, by C. H. Cooper, &c. - - 228 

 Different Productions of differe nt Car- 

 cases - 227 

 Vandyke in America, by J. Balch - 228 



Photographic Correspondence : Cy- 

 anide of Potassium — Mode of exciting 

 I Calotype Paper — The Double Iodide 

 Solution : Purity of Photograohic 

 Chemicals — Hyposulphite of Soda 

 Baths - - - - - 230 



Replies to Minor Qtteries : — Daugh- 

 ters taking their Mothers' Names — 

 The Young Pretender — A Legend of 

 the Hive — Hoby Family — Anticipa- 

 tory Use of the Cross — Longevity _ 

 " Nugget " — The fifth Lord Byron _ 

 "Wapple, or Whapple-way — The 

 Ducking-stool — Double Christian 

 Names — Pedigree to the Time of 

 Alfred — Palace of Lucifer — Monal- 

 desclii — Anna Lightfoot — Lode, &c. 220 



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Notes on Books, &c. - 234 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 234 

 ISotices to Correspondents - - 235 



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