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No. 173.Saturday, February 19. 1853.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Predictions of the Fire and Plague of London, No. II., by Vincent T. Sternberg[173]
Examples of the French Sizain, by W. Pinkerton[174]
Epigrams[174]
"Goe, soule, the bodies guest," by George Daniel[175]
Petitions from the County of Nottingham[175]
Folk Lore:—Lancashire Fairy Tale—Teeth, Superstition respecting—New Moon Divination—The Hyena an Ingredient in Love Potions—The Elder Tree[177]
Minor Notes:—The Word "Party"—Epitaphs—Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope"—Palindromical Lines—"Derrick" and "Ship's Painter"—Lord Reay's Country[177]
Queries:—
Unanswered Queries[178]
Mr. John Munro, by Dan. Wilson[179]
Minor Queries:—Song in Praise of the Marquess of Granby—Venda—The Georgiad—R. S. Townshend of Manchester—"Mala malæ malo"—"Dimidium Scientiæ"—Portrait Painters—"An Impartial Inquiry," &c.—"As poor as Job's Turkey"—Fuss—Suicide encouraged in Marseilles—Fabulous Bird—Segantiorum Portus—Stamping on Current Coinage—Rhymes: Dryden—The Cadenham Oak—St. Mary's Church, Beverley—The Rev. Joshua Marsden—Bentley's Examination—Derivation of "Lowbell"—Meaning of Assassin—Punishment for exercising the Roman Catholic Religion—Hogarth's Pictures—Lines in a Snuff-box—Rosa Mystica—Old-Shoe throwing at Weddings—Herbé's Costumes Français[179]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Humphry Smith—Meaning and Etymology of "Conyngers" or "Connigries"—Letters U, V, W, and St. Ives[182]
Replies:—
The Orkney Islands in Pawn[183]
The Passage in King Henry VIII., Act. III. Sc. 2, by S. W. Singer[183]
Miniature Ring of Charles I., by C. Ley[184]
Chantry Chapels[185]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—The Collodion Process—Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process—Sir William Newton's Process: Further Explanations[185]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Lady Nevell's Music-book—Tuch—Eva, Princess of Leinster—Whipping Post—The Dodo—"Then comes the reckoning," &c.—Sir J. Covert, not Govett—Chatterton—Tennyson—Llandudno on the Great Orme's Head—Oldham, Bishop of Exeter—Arms of Bristol—The Cross and the Crucifix—Sir Kenelm Digby—Martin Drunk—The Church Catechism—Sham Epitaphs and Quotations—Door-head Inscription—Potguns—"Pompey the Little"—Eagles supporting Lecterns—Lady Day in Harvest—Inscriptions in Churches—Macaulay's Young Levite, &c.[187]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[194]
Notices to Correspondents[194]
Advertisements[195]