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"When found, make a note of."—Captain Cuttle.


No. 175.Saturday, March 5. 1853.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Cowper and Tobacco Smoking, by William Bates, &c.[229]
"Shakspeare in the Shades:" a Ballad, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault[230]
Swedish Words current in England, by Charles Watkins[231]
Sir David Lindsay's Viridarium, by Sir W. C. Trevelyan[231]
Minor Notes:—Unlucky Days—The Pancake Bell—Quoits—The Family of Townerawe—"History of Formosa"—Notes on Newspapers[232]
Queries:—
Wild Plants and their Names[233]
Popular Sayings, by M. Aislabie Denham[233]
Minor Queries:—Hermit Queries—Derivation of "Cobb"—Play-bills—Sir Edward Grymes, Bart.—Smollett's "Strap"—The Iron Mask—Bland Family—Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, 1687-99, &c.—Crescent—"Quod fuit esse"—"Coming home to men's business"—Thomas Gibbes of Fenton—"The Whipping Toms" at Leicester—The Trial of our Lord—Olney—Album—The Lisle Family—Wards of the Crown—Tate, an Artist—Philip d'Auvergne—Somersetshire Ballad—Lady High Sheriff—Major-General Lambert—Hoyle, Meaning of; and Hoyle Family—Robert Dodsley—Mary Queen of Scots—Heuristisch: Evristic[234]
Minor Queries with Answers:—"Eugenia," by Hayes and Carr—Claret—"Strike, but hear me"—Fever at Croydon—"Gesmas et Desmas"—Satirical Medal[237]
Replies:—
The Gookins of Ireland[238]
"Stabat quocunque jeceris," by Dr. William Bell[239]
"Pic-nics"[240]
"Coninger" or "Coningry"[241]
Names and Numbers of British Regiments, by Arthur Hamilton[241]
Vicars-Apostolic in England[242]
Smock Marriages: Scotch Law of Marriage[243]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Mr. Weld Taylor's Process—Animal Charcoal in Photography—Sir W. Newton on Use of Common Soda and Alum—Difficulties in Photographic Practice[244]
Replies to Minor Queries:—The Countess of Pembroke's Letter—Ethnology of England—Drake the Artist—Sparse—Genoveva of Brabant—God's Marks—Segantiorum Portus—Rubrical Query—Rosa Mystica—Portrait of Charles I.—"Time and I"—The Word "Party"—"Mater ait natæ," &c.—Gospel Place—Passage in Thomson—"Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts"—Folger Family[245]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[248]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[249]
Notices to Correspondents[249]
Advertisements[250]