CONTENTS.
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Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy, by C. Clifton Barry | |
Comet Superstitions in 1853 | |
The Old English Word "Belike" | |
Druses, by. T. J. Buckton | |
Folk Lore:—Legends of the County Clare | |
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thomas Keightley, &c. | |
Death on the Fingers | |
Minor Notes:—On a "Custom of ye Englyshe"—Epitaph at Crayford—The Font at Islip—"As good as a Play" | |
Queries:— | |
Lovett of Astwell | |
Oaths | |
The Electric Telegraph | |
Minor Queries:—Queries relating to the Porter Family—Lord Ball of Bagshot—Marcarnes—The Claymore—Sir William Chester, Kt.—Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and Great Britain—Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant—Memorial Lines by Thomas Aquinas—"Johnson's turgid style"—Meaning of "Lane," &c.—Theobald le Botiller—William, fifth Lord Harrington—Singular Discovery of a Cannon-ball—Scottish Castles—Sneezing—Spenser's "Fairy Queen"—Poema del Cid—The Brazen Head | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—"The Basilics"—Fire at Houlton—Michaelmas Goose | |
Replies:— | |
Portraits of Hobbes and Letters of Hollar, by S. W. Singer | |
Parochial Libraries, by the Rev. Thos. Corser | |
Battle of Villers en Couché, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., &c. | |
Attainment of Majority, by Russell Gole and Professor De Morgan | |
Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Sisson's developing Fluid—Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper—Mr. Lyte's New Process | |
Replies To Minor Queries:—Derivation of the Word "Island"—"Pætus and Arria"—"That Swinney"—The Six Gates of Troy—Milton's Widow—Boom—"Nugget" not an American Term—Soke Mill—Binometrical Verse—Watch-paper Inscription—Dotinchem—Reversible Names and Words—Detached Church Towers—Bishop Ferrar—"They shot him by the nine stone rig"—Punning Devices—Ashman's Park—"Crowns have their compass," &c.—Ampers and—Throwing Old Shoes for Luck—Ennui | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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