CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| On Portraits of Distinguished Men, by Lord Braybrooke | |
| Story of a Relic | |
| Illustration of Chaucer, No. II: Complaint of Mars and Venus | |
| Charles the First and Bartolomeo della Nave's Collection of Pictures, by Sir F. Madden | |
| Minor Notes:—Nonsuch Palace—Ferrar and Benlowes—Traditions from remote Periods through few Links—Longevity—Emendation of a Passage in Virgil—Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby—Matter-of-Fact Epitaph | |
| Queries:— | |
| Ancient Danish Itinerary: Prol in Angliam, by R. J. King | |
| Chiming, Tolling, and Peal-ringing of Bells, by Rev. A. Gatty | |
| Mazer Wood: Gutta Percha, by W. Pinkerton | |
| Minor Queries:—Paul Pitcher Night—Disinterment for Heresy—"Just Notions," &c.—Pursuits of Literature—Satirical Medal—Matthew's Mediterranean Passage—Inscription on an Oak Board—Expressions in Milton—Saints' Days—Chepstow Castle—The Wilkes MSS. and "North Briton"—"O wearisome Condition of Humanity!"—Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery" | |
| Minor Queries Answered:—Canon and Prebendary—What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?—Cromwell Family—Daughters of the Sixth Earl of Lennox—Wife of Joseph Nicholson—Six Abeiles—Southey—Epigram against Burke—Knight's Hospitallers | |
| Replies:— | |
| Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland | |
| Lord Howard of Effingham | |
| Iovanni Volpe, by William Hughes | |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Sir Andrew Chadwick—Manuscript of Bede—Closing of Rooms on account of Death—Enigmatical Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer—Haybands in Seals—Notes on Newspapers—Duncan Campbell—Christmas-day—MS. Sermons by Jeremy Taylor—Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel—Rev. W. Adams—Duchess of Buckingham—"Go the whole Hog"—Lord Bexley's Descent from Cromwell—Morse and Ireton Families—The Countess of Desmond—Aristophanes on the Modern Stage—Denarius Philosophorum—On a Passage in the Tempest—Meaning of Waste-book—Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs—Meaning of "Harrisers" &c. | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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