CONTENTS.
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| "That Swinney" | |
| Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral, by Thos. Wake | |
| Folk Lore:—Superstition of the Cornish Miners—Northamptonshire Folk Lore | |
| Shakspeare Correspondence | |
| Minor Notes:—Lemon-juice administered in Gout and Rheumatism—Weather Proverbs—Dog Latin—Thomas Wright of Durham—A Funeral Custom | |
| Queries:— | |
| Littlecott—Sir John Popham, by Edward Foss | |
| Early Edition of the New Testament, by A. Boardman | |
| Minor Queries:—Ravilliac—Emblem on a Chimney-piece—"To know ourselves diseased," &c.—"Pætus and Arria"—Heraldic Query—Lord Chancellor Steele—"A Tub to the Whale"—Legitimation (Scotland)—"Vaut mieux," &c.—Shakspeare First Folio—The Staffordshire Knot—Sir Thomas Elyot—"Celsior exsurgens pluviis," &c.—The Bargain Cup—School-Libraries.—Queen Elizabeth and her "true" Looking-glass—Bishop Thomas Wilson—Bishop Wilson's Works—Hobbes, Portrait of | |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Brasenose, Oxford—G. Downing—Unkid—Pilgrim's Progress—John Frewen—Histories of Literature—"Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone" | |
| Replies:— | |
| Cranmer and Calvin, by the Rev. H. Walter | |
| Barnacles, by Sir J. E. Tennent and T. J. Buckton | |
| Dial Inscriptions, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. | |
| The "Saltpeter Maker" | |
| Tsar, by T. J. Buckton, &c. | |
| "Land of Green Ginger," by John Richardson and T. J. Buckton | |
| Photographic Correspondence:—Stereoscopic Angles—Protonitrate of Iron—Photographs in natural Colours—Photographs by artificial Lights | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Vandyke in America—Title wanted: Choirochorographia—Second Growth of Grass—Snail-eating—Sotades—The Letter "h" in "humble"—Lord North—Singing Psalms and Politics—Dimidiation by Impalement—"Inter cuncta micans," &c.—Marriage Service—Widowed Wife—Pure—Mrs. Tighe—Satirical Medal—"They shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig"—Hendericus du Booys: Helena Leonore de Sievéri—House-marks, &c.—"Qui facit per alium, facit per se"—Engin-à-verge—Campvere, Privileges of—Humbug: Ambages—"Going to Old Weston"—Reynolds's Nephew—The Laird of Brodie—Mulciber—Voiding Knife—Sir John Vanbrugh—Portrait of Charles I.—Burial in an erect Posture—Strut-Stowers and Yeathers or Yadders—Arms of the See of York—Leman Family—Position of Font | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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