CONTENTS.
| Notes:— | Page |
| Remarkable Imprints | [143] |
| Legends of the Co. Clare, by FrancisRobert Davies | [145] |
| Canting Arms | [146] |
| Minor Notes:—Selleridge—Tombsof Bishops—Lines on visiting thePortico of Beau Nash's Palace, Bath—Acrosticin Ash Church, Kent—AHint to Publishers—Uhland, theGerman Poet—Virgilian Inscriptionfor an Infant School | [146] |
| Queries:— | |
| The Shippen Family—John White, byThos. Balch | [147] |
| Books issued in Parts and not completed | [147] |
| Minor Queries:—"Hovd Maet ofLaet"—Hand in Church—EggerMoths—The Yorkshire Dales—Ciss,Cissle, &c.—Inn Signs, &c.—Smithsand Robinsons—Coin of Carausius—Verelstthe Painter—Latin Treatiseon whipping School-boys—Whitewashingin Churches—Surname"Kynoch"—Dates of publishedWorks—Saw-dust Recipe | [148] |
| Minor Queries With Answers:—Branks,or Gossips' Bridles—Notcaring a Fig for anything—B. C. Y.—EarlNugent's Poems—HuntbachMSS.—Holy Loaf Money—St.Philip's, Bristol—Foreign Universities | [149] |
| Replies:— | |
| Death-warnings in Ancient Families,by C. Mansfield Ingleby | [150] |
| Starvation, by N. L. Melville, &c. | [151] |
| Osmotherley in Yorkshire, by T. Gill | [152] |
| Echo Poetry, by Jas. J. Scott | [153] |
| Blackguard | [153] |
| "Wurm," in Modern German—Passagein Schiller's "Wallenstein" | [154] |
| Was Shakspeare descended from aLanded Proprietor? by H. Gole, &c. | [154] |
| Lord Fairfax | [156] |
| Photographic Correspondence:—Mr.Lyte on Collodion—Dr. Diamond onSensitive Collodion | [156] |
| Replies To Minor Queries:—Portraitof Alva—Lord Mayor of Londonnot a Privy Councillor—New Zealanderand Westminster Bridge—CuiBono—Barrels Regiment—SirMatthew Hale—Scotch Grievance—"MercifulJudgments of HighChurch," &c.—Robert Dudley, Earlof Leicester—Fleet Prison—TheCommons of Ireland previous to theUnion—"Les Lettres Juives"—SirPhilip Wentworth—General Fraser—Namby-Pamby—TheWord "Miser"—TheForlorn Hope—ThorntonAbbey—"Quid facies," &c.—Christ-Cross-Row—SirWalter Scott, and hisQuotations from himself, &c. | [158] |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | [162] |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | [163] |
| Notices to Correspondents | [163] |
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