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| No. 185. | Saturday, May 14, 1853. |
Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
CONTENTS.
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| English Books of Emblems, by the Rev. Thomas Corser | |
| Author of Tract on "Advantages of the East India Trade, 1720, 8vo.," by James Crossley | |
| "Ake" and "Ache," by Thomas Keightley | |
| Localities mentioned in Anglo-Saxon Charters, by B. Williams | |
| Inedited Letter | |
| A Shaksperian Book | |
| Minor Notes:—Shakspeare's Monument—Archbishop Leighton and Pope: Curious Coincidence Of Thought and Expression—Grant of Slaves—Sealing-wax | |
| Queries:— | |
| Walmer Castle, by C. Waymor | |
| Scotchmen in Poland, by Peter Cunningham | |
| Bishop Juxon and Walton's Polyglott Bible | |
| Minor Queries:—Was Andrew Marvell poisoned?—Anonymous Pamphlet by Dr. Wallis—Mrs. Cobb's Diary—Compass Flower—Nuns of the Hotel Dieu— Purlieu—Jennings Family—Latimer's Brothers-in-Law—Autobiographical Sketch—Schonbornerus—Symbol of Globe and Cross—Booth Family—Ennui—Bankruptcy Records—Golden Bees—The Grindstone Oak—Hogarth—Adamsons of Perth—Cursitor Barons of the Exchequer—Syriac Scriptures | |
| Replies:— | |
| Psalmanazar, by Rev. Dr. Maitland | |
| Consecrated Roses, &c., by William J. Thoms | |
| Campbell's Imitations | |
| "The Hanover Rat" | |
| Font Inscriptions | |
| Irish Rhymes: English Provincialisms: Lowland Scotch | |
| Pictures by Hogarth | |
| Photographic Correspondence:—Washing Collodion Process—Colouring Collodion Pictures—Wanted, a simple Test for a good Lens—Photographic Tent: Restoration of Faded NegativesLatimer's | |
| Replies To Minor Queries:—Gibbon's Library—Robert Drury—Grub Street Journal—Wives of Ecclesiastics—Blanco White—Captain Ayloff—General Monk and the University of Cambridge—The Ribston Pippin—Cross and Pile—Ellis Walker—Blackguard— Talleyrand—Lord King and Sclater—"Beware the Cat"—"Bis dat qui cito dat"—High Spirits a Presage of Evil—Colonel Thomas Walcott—Wood of the Cross: Mistletoe—Irish Office for Prisoners—Andries de Græff: Portraits at Brickwall House—"Qui facit per alium, facit per se"—Christian Names—Lamech's War-song—Traitor's Ford | |
| Miscellaneous:— | |
| Notes on Books, &c. | |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | |
| Notices to Correspondents | |
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