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No. 168.Saturday, January 15. 1853.With Index, price 10d.
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CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Inedited Poem by Pope[57]
Southey's "Doctor:" St. Matthias' Day in Leap-year, by P. J. Yarrum[58]
Oxfordshire Legend in Stone, by B. H. Cowper[58]
Lady Nevell's Music-Book[59]
Bishop Burnet, by Wm. L. Nichols[59]
A Monastic Kitchener's Account[60]
The Fairies in New Ross, by Patrick Cody[61]
Minor Notes:—The Duke of Wellington and Marshal Ney: Parallel Passage in the Life of Washington and Major André—St. Bernard versus Fulke Greville—St. Munoki's Day—Epitaph in Chesham Churchyard—Gentlemen Pensioners—Marlborough: curious Case of Municipal Opposition to County Magistracy—Wet Season in 1348—General Wolfe[62]
Queries:—
Pope and the Marquis Maffei[64]
The Church Catechism, by C. J. Armistead[64]
A Countess of Southampton[64]
Minor Queries:—Hardening Steel Bars—Pierrepoint—Ceylon—Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting—"To talk like a Dutch Uncle"—Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Belgium—Charter of Waterford—Inscription on Penny of George III.—"Shob" or "Shub," a Kentish Word—Bishop Pursglove (Suffragan) of Hull—Stewarts of Holland—Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543—Plum-pudding—"Whene'er I asked"—Immoral Works—Arms at Bristol—Passage in Thomson—"For God will be your King to-day"—"See where the startled wild fowl"—Ascension-day—The Grogog of a Castle[65]
Replies:—
Canongate Marriages[67]
Lady Katherine Grey[68]
Howlett the Engraver, by B. Hudson[69]
Chaucer[69]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Pyrogallic Acid—Stereoscopic Pictures with One Camera—Mr. Crookes' Wax-paper Process—India Rubber a Substitute for Yellow Glass—Dr. Diamond's Paper Processes[70]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Ancient Timber Town-halls—Magnetic Intensity—Monument at Wadstena—David Routh, R. C. Bishop of Ossory—Cardinal Erskine—"Ne'er to these chambers," &c.—The Budget—"Catching a Tartar"—The Termination "-itis"[71]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[73]
Notices to Correspondents[73]
Advertisements[74]