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An Encyclopædia of Ventilation, by Bolton Corney | |
The House of Russell, or Du Rozel, by John Macray | |
Ferdinand Charles III., Duke of Parma | |
Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop | |
Minor Notes:—Whipping a Lady—Mother of Thirty Children—"Ought" and "Aught"—Walton—Salutations—Good Times for Equity Suitors—The Emperor of Russia and the Order of the Garter | |
Queries:— | |
Sir Henry Wotton's Verses, "The Character of a Happy Life," by John Macray | |
Minor Queries:—Plants and Flowers—Quotations wanted—Griffith, William, Bishop of Ossory—"Cowperiana"—John Keats's Poems—Holland—Armorial—Stoke and Upton—Slavery in England—"Go to Bath"—Mummy Chests—The Blechenden Family—Francklyn Household Book—Lord Rosehill's Marriage—Colonel Butler—Willesdon, co. Middlesex | |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Ashes of "Lignites"—Bishop Bathurst—"Selah"—The Long Parliament—"The Three Pigeons"—Captain Cook—Varnish for old Books—Cabbages | |
Replies:— | |
Addison's Hymns, by J. H. Markland | |
Longfellow, by John P. Stillwell, &c. | |
Books burnt by the Hangman, by E. F. Woodman, &c. | |
Sack | |
Irish Law in the Eighteenth Century, by Alexander Andrews, &c. | |
Job xix. 26., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth | |
Photographic Correspondence:—Photographic Experiences—The Céroléine Process—On preserving the Sensitiveness of Collodion Plates | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Tippet—Heraldic Anomaly—George Wood of Chester—Moon Superstitions—"Myself"—Roman Roads in England—Anecdote of George IV.—General Fraser—The Fusion—"Corporations have no souls"—Apparition of the White Lady—Female Parish Clerk—Bothy—King's Prerogative and Hunting Bishops—Green Eyes—Brydone the Tourist—Descendants of John of Gaunt, Noses of—"Put"—"Caricature; a Canterbury Tale" | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
Notes on Books, &c. | |
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | |
Notices to Correspondents |
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