CONTENTS.
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A Leader from a Foreign Newspaper: the New Russian Manifesto | |
The Launch of the "Prince Royal" in 1610 | |
"Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, by Dr. Monicke" | |
The Legend of the Seven Sisters | |
Minor Notes:—Coincidences—The English Liturgy—"To jump for joy"—"What is Truth?"—Abolition of Government Patronage | |
Minor Queries:—"One New Year's Day"—Greek denounced by the Monks—Pliny's Dentistry—J. Farrington, R.A.—Henry Crewkerne of Exeter—Dr. Johnson—Latin "Dante"—Ralph Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent—Major-General Wolfe—Custom at University College, Oxford—"Old Dominion"—"Wise men labour," &c. | |
Minor Queries with Answers:— Dame Hester Temple—Samuel White—Heralds' College—Pope | |
Replies:— | |
Blanco White's Sonnet, by S. W. Singer | |
Goloshes | |
Consonants in Welsh, by Thomas O'Coffey, &c. | |
Songs of Degrees (Ascents), by T. J. Buckton | |
The Screw Propeller | |
Amontillado Sherry | |
Recent Curiosities of Literature | |
Roland the Brave, by F. M. Middleton, &c. | |
Photographic Correspondence:— Recovery of Silver | |
Replies to Minor Queries:—Ashes of "Lignites"—Old Rowley—"Bachelors of every Station"—Mousehunt—Value of Money in the Seventeenth Century—Grammars for Public Schools—Classic Authors and the Jews—Hand-bells at Funerals—"Warple-way"—Medal of Chevalier St. George—Shakspeare's Inheritance—Cassock—Tailless Cats—Names of Slaves—Heraldic—Solar Annual Eclipse of 1263—Brissot de Warville—"Le Compère Mathieu"—Etymology of "Awkward"—Life and Death—Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"—"Three Crowns and a Sugar-loaf"—Stanza in "Childe Harold"—Errors in Punctuation—Waugh of Cumberland—"Could we with ink," &c. | |
Miscellaneous:— | |
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