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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 193.

Saturday, July 9. 1853.

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CONTENTS.

Notes:—	Page
The Eye: its primary Idea	[25]
Gossiping History—De Quincey's Account of Hatfield	[26]
Notes upon the Names of some of the Early Inhabitants of Hellas	[27]
Shakspeare Readings, No. IX.	[28]
Göthe's Author-Remuneration	[29]
Minor Notes:—Parallel Passages—Unpublished Epitaphs—The Colour of Ink in Writings—Literary Parallels—Latin Verses prefixed to Parish Registers—Napoleon's Bees	[30]
Queries:—
Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's Letters? by Sir F. Madden	[31]
Minor Queries:—Lord Chatham—Slow-worm Superstition—Tangiers—Snail Gardens—Naples and the Campagna Felice—"The Land of Green Ginger"—Mugger—Snail-eating—Mysterious Personage—George Wood of Chester—A Scale of Vowel Sounds—Seven Oaks and Nine Elms—Murder of Monaldeschi—Governor Dameram—Ancient Arms of the See of York—Hupfeld—Inscription on a Tomb in Finland—Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Railway Travelling—Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby, Lincolnshire—Mr. Payne Collier's Monovolume Shakspeare	[33]
Replies:—
Wild Plants and their Names	[35]
Jacob Bobart, by H. T. Bobart	[37]
Heraldic Queries	[37]
Door-head Inscriptions	[38]
Consecrated Roses	[38]
Notes on Serpents	[39]
Photographic Correspondence:—Early Notice of the Camera Obscura—Queries on Dr. Diamond's Collodion Process—Baths for the Collodion Process	[41]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger—Chronograms and Anagrams—Abigail—Burial in unconsecrated Ground—"Cob" and "Conners"—Coleridge's Unpublished MSS.—Selling a Wife—Life—Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions—Archbishop King—Devonianisms—Perseverant, Perseverance—"The Good Old Cause"—Saying of Pascal—Paint taken off of old Oak—Passage in the "Tempest"	[42]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.	[45]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted	[45]
Notices to Correspondents	[46]
Advertisements	[46]