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

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

Vol. IX.—No. 219.

Saturday, January 7. 1854

Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

	Page
Our Ninth Volume	[3]
Notes:—
A Strawberry-Hill Gem, by Bolton Corney	[3]
The "Ancren Riwle," by Sir F. Madden	[5]
Order for the Suppression of Vagrancy, A.D. 1650-51, by John Bruce	[6]
Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis	[7]
Burial-place of Archbishop Leighton, by Albert Way	[8]
Minor Notes:—Grammars, &c. for Public Schools—"To captivate"—Bohn's Edition of Matthew of Westminster—French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes—Curious Epitaph in Tillingham Church, Essex	[8]
Queries:—
Domestic Letters of Edmund Burke	[9]
Minor Queries:—Farrant's Anthem—Ascension Day Custom—Sawbridge and Knight's Numismatic Collections—"The spire whose silent finger points to heaven."—Lord Fairfax—Tailless Cats—Saltcellar—Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos—Naval Atrocities—Turlehydes—Foreign Orders: Queen of Bohemia—Pickard Family—Irish Chieftains—General Braddock	[9]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Lawless Court, Rochford, Essex—Motto on old Damask—Explanation of the Word "Miser"—"Acis and Galatea"—Birm-bank—General Thomas Gage	[11]
Replies:—
Rapping no Novelty, by Rev. Dr. Maitland	[12]
Occasional Forms of Prayer, by John Macray	[13]
Celtic and Latin Languages	[14]
Geometrical Curiosity, by Professor De Morgan	[14]
The Black-guard, by P. Cunningham	[15]
The Calves' Head Club, by Edward Peacock	[15]
Photographic Correspondence:— The Calotype Process—Hockin's Short Sketch—Photographic Society's Exhibition	[16]
Replies to Minor Queries:—"Firm was their faith," &c.—Vellum-cleaning—Wooden Tombs—Solar Eclipse in the Year 1263—Lines on Woman—Satin—"Quid facies," &c.—Sotades—The Third Part of "Christabel"—Attainment of Majority—Lord Halifax and Mrs. C. Barton—The fifth Lord Byron—Burton Family—Provost Hodgson's Translation of the Atys of Catullus, &c.	[17]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on books, &c.	[21]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted	[21]
Notices to Correspondents	[22]