CONTENTS.

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Bacon's Essays, by Markby[141]
The Isthmus of Panama[144]
Folk Lore:—Legends of the County Clare—Moon Superstitions—Warwickshire Folk Lore—Northamptonshire Folk Lore—Slow-worm Superstition—A Devonshire Charm for the Thrush[145]
Old Jokes[146]
An Interpolation of the Players: Tobacco, by W. Robson[147]
Minor Notes:—Curious Epitaph—Enigmatical Epitaph— Books worthy to be reprinted—Napoleon's Thunderstorm—Istamboul: Constantinople[147]
Queries:—
Strut-stowers, and Yeathers or Yadders, by C. H. Cooper[148]
Minor Queries:—Archbishop Parker's Correspondence—Amor Nummi—The Number Nine—Position of Font—Aix Ruochim or Romans Ioner—"Lessons for Lent," &c.—"La Branche des réaus Lignages"—Marriage Service—"Czar" or "Tsar"—Little Silver—On Æsop's (?) Fable of washing the Blackamoor—Wedding Proverb—German Phrase—German Heraldry—Leman Family—A Cob-wall—Inscription near Chalcedon—Domesday Book—Dotinchem—"Mirrour to all," &c.—Title wanted—Portrait of Charles I.: Countess Du Barry[149]
Minor Queries with Answers:—"Preparation for Martyrdom"—Reference wanted—Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697[152]
Replies:—
Inscriptions in Books[153]
The Drummer's Letter, by Henry H. Breen[153]
Old Fogies[154]
Descendants of John of Gaunt, by William Hardy[155]
Photographic Correspondence:—Lining of Cameras—Cyanuret of Potassium—Minuteness of Detail on Paper—Stereoscopic Angles—Sisson's developing Solution—Multiplying Photographs—Is it dangerous to use the Ammonio-nitrate of Silver?[157]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Burke's Marriage—Stars and Flowers—Odour from the Rainbow—Judges styled Reverend—Jacob Bobart—"Putting your foot into it"—Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle—The Tragedy of Polidus—Robert Fairlie—"Mater ait natæ," &c.—Sir John Vanbrugh—Fête des Chaudrons—Murder of Monaldeschi—Land of Green Ginger—Unneath—Snail Gardens—Parvise—Humbug—Table-moving—Scotch Newspapers—Door-head Inscriptions—Honorary Degrees—"Never ending, still beginning"[158]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[162]
Notices to Correspondents[162]
Advertisements[163]