CONTENTS.
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Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop | |
Penny Sights and Exhibitions in the Reign of James I., by A. Grayan | |
The Impossibilities of our Forefathers | |
Parallel Passages, by the Rev. John Booker | |
Astrology in America | |
Minor Notes:—"Hierosolyma est perdita"—Quaint Inscription in a Belfry—The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel and Judah—The Using a Circumstance as a "Peg," or "Nail," to hang an Argument on, &c.—Turkish and Russian Grammars—Chronograms in Sicily—Stone Pulpits—Advertisements and Prospectuses | |
Queries:— | |
English Refugees at Ypenstein | |
Minor Queries:—Petrarch's Laura—"Epitaphium Lucretiæ"—M‘Dowall Family—Arms of Geneva—Webb of Monckton Farleigh—Translation Wanted—Latin Translation from Sheridan, &c.—Gale of Rent—Arms of Sir Richard de Loges—Gentile Names of the Jews—Henry, Earl of Wotton—Kicker-eating—Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire—George, first Viscount Lanesborough, and Sir Charles Cotterell—"Firm was their faith," &c.—The Mother of William the Conqueror—Pedigree of Sir Francis Bryan | |
Minor Queries with Answers—"The Whole Duty of Man"—"It rained cats and dogs and little pitchforks:" Helter-skelter—Father Traves—Precise Dates of Births and Deaths of the Pretenders—Clarence | |
Replies:— | |
Mackey's "Theory of the Earth" | |
Sincere, Simple, Singular | |
Poetical Tavern Signs | |
Homo Unius Libri | |
The Forlorn Hope, by W. R. Wilde | |
Tieck's "Comœdia Divina" | |
Liveries worn by Gentlemen | |
Photographic Correspondence.—Queries on Dr. Diamond's Calotype Process—Albumenized Paper | |
Replies To Minor Queries:—Marcarnes—X on Brewers' Casks—No Sparrows at Lindham—Theobald le Botiller—Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Portraits at Brickwall House—The Words "Mob" and "Cash"—English Clergyman in Spain—The Cid—Exterior Stoups—Green Jugs used by the Templars—"Peccavi," I have Scinde—Raffaele's "Sposalizio"—Early Use of Tin: Derivation of the Name of Britain—Unpublished Epigram by Sir Walter Scott—Derivation of the Word "Humbug"—Bees—Topsy Turvy—Parish Clerks and Politics, &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents | |
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