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Jrom an opposite course. 
Avsrey Junior. The coincidence is certainly 
curious. When the 3rd of November was fixed for 
the first appearance of “ Nores anp Queries,” it 
was little thought that it was the anniversary of the 
birth of John Aubrey, the most noted Querist, if not 
the queerest Noter, of all English antiquaries. His 
“ Mem. to ask Mr. ——’ no doubt indirectly sug- 
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de France, Der Literarische Verein in Stuttgart, 
so that the English reader may be put into pos- 
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LLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES 
RELATING TO MESMERISM. Part I. 
By the Rev. S. R. Marrtann, D.D., F: R.S., F. A. S.; 
sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop of Can- 
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