CONTENTS.
Calamities of Authors [97]
NOTES:—
Portraits of Wolfe, by Edw. Auchmuty Glover [98]
Notes on Homer, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie [99]
French Revolutions foretold [100]
Idées Napoléoniennes, by Henry H. Breen [100]
Dr. Johnson's Contributions to Baretti's Introduction, by James Crossley [101]
Minor Notes:—Bishop Bedell—Foreign Guide-books—Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty—Errors of Poets [101]
QUERIES:—
The Poet Collins [102]
Portraits of Henry Purcell, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault [103]
Query on the Controversy about Fluxions, by Professor De Morgan [103]
Minor Queries:—Madrigal, Meaning of—"Experto crede Roberto"—Chronological Institute—Buzz—The Old Scots March—Hans Holbein—Ivory Medallion of Lord Byron—Trumpington Church—"Carmen Perpetuum," &c.—"The Retired Christian"—The Garrote—Monastic Establishments in Scotland—Bonds of Clearwell and Redbrook—Eliza Fenning—"Character of a True Churchman"—"A Roaring Meg"—Cardinal Pole—Theoloneum—Sterne in Paris—King Robert Bruce's Watch [104]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Hornchurch; Wrestling for the Boar's Head—Spectacles—Stoke—Author of Psalm Tune "Doncaster"—Dr. Henry Sacheverell [106]
REPLIES:—
Meaning and Origin of Era [106]
Singing of Swans [107]
Queen Brunehilda, by Samuel Hickson [108]
Coverdale's Bible, by the Rev. Henry Walter [109]
Serjeants' Rings and Mottoes [110]
Extermination of Early Christians in Orkney [111]
The Crime of Poisoning punished by Boiling, by John Gough Nichols, &c. [112]
Replies to Minor Queries:—List of English Sovereigns—Moravian Hymns—Age of Trees; "Essex Broad Oak"—Arrangement of Books—The Ring-finger—Count Königsmark—Petition respecting the Duke of Wellington—Reichenbach's Ghosts—The Broad Arrow—Quarter Waggoner, &c. [113]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. [117]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [117]
Notices to Correspondents [118]
Advertisements [118]