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Notes : — Page 



A Leader from a Foreign Newspaper : 



the New Russian Manifesto - - 463 



The Launch of the " Prince Royal" in 



1610 - - - - - 461 



"Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, 



by Dr. Monieke" ... 455 



The Legend of the Seven Sisters - 465 



Minor Notes: — Coincidences — The 

 English Liturgy — " To jump for joy " 



— "What is Truth?" — Abolition of 

 Government Patronage - - - 466 



Minor Queries : — " One New Year's 

 Day "—Greek denounced by the Monks 

 — Pliny's Dentistry — J. Farrington, 

 R.A. —Henry Crewkerne of Exeter — 

 Dr. Johnson— Latin "Dante"— Ralph 

 Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent — Major- 

 General Wolfe— Custom at University 

 College, Oxford— " Old Dominion " — 

 " Wise men labour," &c. - - 467 



Minor Queries with Answers : — 

 Dame Hester Temple— Samuel White 



— Heralds' College — Pope - - 468 



Replies : -~ 



Blanco White's Sonnet, by S. W. Singer 469 



Goloshes - - - - - 470 

 Consonants in Welsh, by Thomas 



O'Coffey, &c. - - - 471 

 Songs of Degrees (Ascents), by T. J. 



Buckton 473 



The Screw Propeller - - - 473 



Amontillado Sherry - - - 474 



Recent Curiosities of Literature - 475 

 Roland the Brave, by F. M. Middleton, 



&c. 475 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 Recovery of Silver - - - 476 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Ashes of 

 " Lignites"_01d Rowley — " Bachelors 

 of every Station " — Mousehunt— Value 

 of Money in the Seventeenth Century 



— Grammars for Public Schools — 

 Classic Authors and the Jews— Hand- 

 bells at Funerals — " Warple-way " — 

 Medal of Chevalier St. George — 



Shakspeare's Inheritance— Cassock 



Tailless Cats — Names of Slaves — 

 Heraldic — Solar Annual Eclipse of 

 1263— Brissot de Warville— "Le Com- 

 pare Mathieu"— Etymology of "Awk- 

 ward" — Life and Death — Shelley's 

 " Prometheus Unbound " — " Three 

 Crowns and a, Sugar-loaf—Stanza in 

 " Childe Harold "—Errors in Punctu- 

 ation — Waugh of Cumberland — 



" Could we with ink," &c. - - 477 



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Notices to Correspondents - - 483 



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