CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Dryden on Shakspeare, by Bolton Corney[95]
Party Similes of the Seventeenth Century:—No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse"[96]
Dutch East India Company.—Slavery in England, by James Graves[98]
Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by Wm. Winthrop[99]
Enareans[101]
Minor Notes:—Russia and Turkey—Social Effects of the severe Weather, Jan. 3 and 4, 1854—Star of Bethlehem—Origin of the Word "Cant"—Epigram on Four Lawyers[103]
Queries:—
Contributors to "Knight's Quarterly Magazine"[103]
The Stationers' Company and Almanack[104]
Minor Queries:—John Bunyan—Tragedy by Mary Leapor—Repairing old Prints—Arch-priest in the Diocese of Exeter—Medal in honour of the Chevalier de St. George—Robert Bloet—Sir J. Wallace and Mr. Browne—Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester—Abbott Families—Authorship of a Ballad—Elias Petley—Canaletto's Views round London—A Monster found at Maidstone—Page[104]
Minor Queries with Answers:—The Fish "Ruffins"—Origin of the Word Etiquette—Henri Quatre—"He that complies against his will," &c., and "To kick the bucket"—St. Nicholas Cole Abbey[106]
Replies:—
Trench on Proverbs, by the Rev. M. Margoliouth[107]
Inscriptions on Bells[109]
Arms of Geneva[110]
Photographic Correspondence:—Multiplying Negatives—Towgood's Paper—Adulteration of Nitrate of Silver[110]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Passage of Cicero—Major André—Catholic Bible Society—Cassiterides—Wooden Tombs and Effigies—Tailless Cats—Warville—Green Eyes—Came—"Epitaphium Lucretiæ"—Oxford Commemoration Squib—"Imp"—False Spellings from Sound—"Good wine needs no bush"—Three Fleurs-de-Lys—Portrait of Plowden—St. Stephen's Day and Mr. Riley's "Hoveden"—Death Warnings in Ancient Families—"The Secunde Personne in the Trinitie"[111]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[114]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[115]
Notices to Correspondents[115]

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