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A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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No. 178.Saturday, March 26. 1853.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Napoleon a Poet, by Henry H. Breen[301]
Smith's "Dictionary of Antiquities" and "Dictionary of Biography and Mythology," by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.[302]
St. Columba's Cross[302]
Minor Notes:—The "Ball at Brussels," June, 1815: Historical Parallel of April, 1605—Drawing an Inference—Edmund Spenser—The Mint, Southwark[303]
Queries:—
The Spectre Horsemen of Southerfell[304]
Minor Queries:—Passage in Bacon—Lamech killing Cain—Lord Chief Justice Popham—"Her face was like the milky way," &c.—Nelson Rings—Books wanted—Mr. Cromlin—Dr. Fletcher and Lady Baker—Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton—"Pylades and Corinna"—The Left Hand: its Etymology—The Parthenon[305]
Replies:—
Mediæval or Middle Ages[306]
Consecrators of English Bishops[306]
"Grindle"[307]
Mummies of Ecclesiastics, by William Bates[308]
Vicars-Apostolic in England[308]
Banbury Zeal, &c.[310]
Dr. South versus Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c., by Henry H. Breen[311]
Irish Rhymes, by Henry H. Breen and Cuthbert Bede, B.A.[312]
Count Gondomar[313]
Door-head Inscriptions[314]
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Photographic Gun-Cotton—Sealing-wax for Baths—Developing Chamber—The Black Tints on Photographic Positives[314]
Replies To Minor Queries:—Contested Elections—Suicide at Marseilles—Acts xv. 23.—Serpent's Tongue—Croxton or Crostin—Robert Dodsley—Lord Goring—Chaplains to Noblemen—The Duke of Wellington Maréchal de France—Lord North—Mediæval Parchment—"I hear a lion," &c.—Fercett—Old Satchells—Curtseys and Bows—The Rev. Joshua Marsden—Sidney as a Christian Name—The Whetstone—Surname of Allen—Belatucadrus—Pot-guns—Graves Family—Portrait Painters—Plum Pudding—Muffs worn by Gentlemen—The Burial Service by Heart—Burrow—"Coming home to men's business"—Heuristic—"Cob" and "Conners"—Lady High Sheriff—Death of Nelson—Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662—Passage in Juvenal—Tennyson—Capital Punishment[316]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[322]
Notices to Correspondents[322]
Advertisements[322]