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Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century:—No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse" | |
Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. | |
Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper | |
Rev. Josiah Pullen | |
Folk Lore:—Ancient Custom in Warwickshire—Nottinghamshire Customs | |
Minor Notes:—A Centenarian Couple—"Veni, vidi, vici"—Autumnal Tints—Variety is pleasing—Rome and the Number Six—Zend Grammar—The Duke's First Victory—Straw Paper—American Epitaph | |
Queries:— | |
Laurie (?) on Currency, &c. | |
"Donatus Redivivus" | |
Minor Queries:—Henry Scobell—The Court House—Ash-trees attract Lightning—Symbol of Sow, &c.—Passage in Blackwood—Rathband Family—Encaustic Tiles from Caen—Artificial Drainage—Storms at the Death of Great Men—Motto on Wylcotes' Brass—"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Roman Catholic Bible Society | |
Minor Queries with Answers—"Vox Populi Vox Dei"—"Lanquettes Cronicles"—"Our English Milo"—"Delights for Ladies"—Burton's Death—Joannes Audoënus—Hampden's Death | |
Replies:- | |
Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c. | |
Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato | |
Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby | |
School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley Acworth | |
Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c. | |
"Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Clouds in Photographs—Albumenized Paper—Stereoscopic Angles—Photographic Copies of MSS. | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Lord Cecil's "Memorials"—Foreign Medical Education—Encyclopædias—Pepys's Grammar—"Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi"—Napoleon's Spelling—Black as a mourning Colour—Chanting of Jurors—Aldress—Huggins and Muggins—Camera Lucida—"When Orpheus went down"—The Arms of De Sissone—Oaths of Pregnant Women—Lepel's Regiment—Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1662—Creole—Daughter pronounced "Dafter"—Richard Geering—Island | |
Miscellaneous:- | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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