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If otes : — 

 An Encyclopaedia of Ventilation, by 



Bolton Corney - 415 



The House of Russell, or Du Rozel, by 



John Macray - 416 



Ferdinand Charles III., Duke of Parma 417 

 Original Royal Letters to the Grand 



Masters of Malta, by William Win- 



throp - - - - - 417 



Minor Notes : — Whipping a Lady — 

 Mother of Thirty Children—" Ought " 

 and " Aught" — Walton — Salutations 

 — Good Times for Equity Suitors — 

 The Emperor of Russia and the Order 

 of the Garter - - - - 419 



•Queries : — 



Sir Henry Wotton's Verses, " The Cha- 

 racter of a Happy Life," by John 

 Macray - 



•120 



Minor Queries : — Plants and Flowers 



— Quotations wanted — Griffith, 

 William, Bishop of Ossory — " Cow- 

 periana" — John Keats's Poems — 

 Holland — Armorial — Stoke and 

 Upton — Slavery in England—" Go 

 to Bath" — Mummy Chests — The 

 Blechenden Family — Franeklyn 

 Household Book — Lord Rosehill's 

 Marriage — Colonel Butler — Willes- 

 don, co. Middlesex - - - 421 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Ashes of " Lignites " — Bishop Ba- 

 thurst — " Selah " — The Long Parlia- 

 ment — "The Three Pigeons" — 

 Captain Cook— Varnish for old Books 



— Cabbages - - - - 422 



Hkplies : — 



Addison's Hymns, by J. H. Markland 424 



Longfellow, by John P. Stillwell, &c. - 424 

 Books burnt by the Hangman, by E. F. 



Woodman, &c. ... - 42.1 



Sack - - - - - - 427 



Irish Law in the Eighteenth Century, by 



Alexander Andrews, &c. - - 427 



Job xix. 26., by the Rev. Moses Mar- 



goliouth - - - - - 428 



(Photographic Correspondence : 



Photographic Experiences— The Cero- 

 lOine Process — On preserving the 

 Sensitiveness of Collodion Plates - 429 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Tippet- 

 Heraldic Anomaly— George Wood of 

 Chester — Moon Superstitions— "My- 

 self"— Roman Roads in England — 

 Anecdote of George IV. — General 

 Fraser— The Fusion — " Corporations 

 have no souls" — Apparition of the 

 White Lady — Female Parish Clerk- 

 Bothy— King's Prerogative and Hunt- 

 ing Bishops— Green Eyes— Brydone 

 the Tourist — Descendants of John of 

 Gaunt, Noses of _ " Put " — "Cari- 

 cature ; a Canterbury Tale " - - 430 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &e. ... 433 



"Books and Odd Volumes Wanted - 433 



Notices to Correspondents - - 434 



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