CONTENTS.
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Palindrome Verses | |
Children crying at their Birth | |
Unpublished Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. G. Bass | |
Folk Lore:—Devonshire Superstitions—Quacks—Burning a Tooth with Salt | |
Parallel Passages, by H. L. Temple, Cuthbert Bede, &c. | |
Minor Notes:—Vallancey's Green Book—Herrings—Byron and Rochefoucauld—"Abscond"—Garlands, Broadsheets, &c.—Life-belts—Turkey and Russia—"Verbatim et literatim" | |
Queries:— | |
Prints of London before the Great Fire | |
Battle of Otterburn, by J. S. Warden | |
De Beauvoir Pedigree, by T. R. Potter | |
Minor Queries:—Dog-whippers: Frankincense—Atchievement in Yorkshire: Lipyeatt Family—"Waestart"—Rebellion of 1715—"Athenian Sport"—Gutta Percha made soluble—Arms of Anthony Kitchen—Griesbach Arms—Postage System of the Romans—Three Crowns and Sugar-loaf—Helen MacGregor—Francis Grose the Antiquary—"King of Kings:" Bishop Andrews' Sermons—Scroope Family—Harrison the Regicide: Lowle—"Chair" or "Char"—Aches—Leeming Hall—Caricature; a Canterbury Tale—Perpetual Curates not represented in Convocation—Dr. Whichcote and Dorothy Jordan—Moral Philosophy—Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"—Turkish Language | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Illustrated Bible of 1527—Heraldic Query—Richard de Sancto Victorie—St. Blase | |
Replies:— | |
Leicester as Ranger of Snowdon | |
Inman Family, by T. Hughes | |
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | |
Hardman's Account of Waterloo | |
Churches in "Domesday Book," by Wm. Dobson | |
Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. Lammin | |
Celtic and Latin Languages | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Box Sawdust for Collodion—Proportions of Chlorides and Silver—Photographic Copies of Rembrandt—Coloured Photographs | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Dr. Eleazar Duncon—Christian Names—Abigail—"Begging the question"—Russian Emperors—Garble—Electric Telegraph—Butler's "Lives of the Saints"—Anticipatory Use of the Cross—The Marquis of Granby, &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |
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