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Kennington Common, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson | |
Life and Death | |
Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson | |
Heraldic Anomaly | |
Folk Lore:—Three Maids—Mother Russel's Post—Shrove Tuesday Custom | |
Stornello | |
Minor Notes:—Perspective—"That"—Corporation Enactments—Jacobite Club—Dean Nowell's first Wife—"Oxoniana"—An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert—Ingulph: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library" | |
Queries:— | |
Quotations wanted | |
Sir Edmund Plowden, by S. F. Streeter | |
Ancient Clock, and Odevaere's History of it, by Octavius Morgan | |
Minor Queries:—Spielberg, when built?—"Ded. Pavli"—Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantleboard: Mantell and Brace—Passage in Job—Provincial Glossaries—Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster—A marvellous Combat of Birds—Battle of the Gnats—Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, co. York—"Outlines of the History of Theology"—"Mawkin"—"Plain Dealer"—Hymn attributed to Handel—Degrees in Arts—"Goloshes:" "Kutchin-kutchu"—Cornwalls of London—Flasks for Wine-bottles—Froxhalmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, Candos, Gracianus, and Tounu or Tonnu | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Postmaster at Merton College—"Lyra Apostolica"—East Dereham Manor—Quakers executed in North America—Inscription in Fulham Church—Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"—"Bothy"—"Children in the Wood" | |
Replies:— | |
Brydone the Tourist, by John Macray | |
"The Red Cow"—Cromwell's Carriages, &c. | |
Fox-hunting, by F. M. Middleton | |
Weather Rules, by E. MacCulloch, &c. | |
Bingham's Antiquities | |
Ancient Tenure of Lands | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Spots on Collodion Pictures, &c.—The Double Iodide Solution—Mounting Photographs | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Books on Bells—Medal in Honour of Chevalier St. George—Dean Swift's Suspension—"Vanitatem observare"—Ballina Castle, Mayo—Dorset—Judicial Rank hereditary—Tolling the Bell on leaving Church—Archpriest in the Diocese of Exeter—Dogs in Monumental Brasses—The Last of the Palæologi—Long Names, &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |
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