CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
The Old Countess of Desmond [145]
The Imperial Eagle of France [147]
Folk Lore:—Valentine's Day—Nottingham Hornblowing—Bee Superstitions; Blessing Apple-trees; "A Neck! a Neck!"—Hooping Cough [148]
Note on the Coins of Vabalathus [148]
The Agnomen of "Brother Jonathan," of Masonic Origin [149]
Minor Notes:—Hippopotamus, Behemoth—Curious Inscription—Coins of Edward III. struck at Antwerp in 1337 [149]
QUERIES:—
Is the Walrus found in the Baltic? [150]
English Free Towns, by J. H. Parker [150]
Minor Queries:—Bishop Hall's Resolutions—Mother Huff and Mother Damnable—Sir Samuel Garth—German's Lips—Richard Leveridge—Thomas Durfey—Audley Family—Ink—Mistletoe excluded from Churches—Blind taught to read—Hyrne, Meaning of—The fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen—"Soud, soud, soud, soud!"—Key Experiments—Shield of Hercules—"Sum Liber, et non sum," &c. [150]
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Whipping a Husband; Hudibras—Aldus—"The last links are broken"—Under Weigh or Way—The Pope's Eye—"History is Philosophy" [152]
REPLIES:—
Coverdale's Bible, by George Offor [153]
"As Stars with Trains of Fire," &c., by Samuel Hickson [154]
Dials, Dial Mottoes, &c. [155]
Can Bishops vacate their Sees? [156]
Character of a True Churchman [156]
Wearing Gloves in Presence of Royalty [157]
Gospel Oaks [157]
The Pendulum Demonstration [158]
Expurgated Quaker Bible, by Archdeacon Cotton [158]
Junius Rumours [159]
Wady Mokatteb not mentioned in Num. xi. 26., by Rev. Dr. Todd [159]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Rotten Row—"Preached from a Pulpit rather than a Tub"—Olivarius—Slavery in Scotland—Cibber's Lives of the Poets—Theoloneum—John of Padua—Stoke—Eliza Fenning—Ghost Stories—Autographs of Weever and Fuller—Lines on the Bible—Hell-rake—Family Likenesses—Grimsdyke—Portraits of Wolfe, &c. [160]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, &c. [166]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted [166]
Notices to Correspondents [167]
Advertisements [167]