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No. 221.Saturday, January 21. 1854.With Index, price 10d.
Stamped Edition 11d.

CONTENTS.

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A Plea for the City Churches, by theRev. R. Hooper[51]
Echo Poetry[51]
Ambiguity in Public Writing[52]
A Carol of the Kings[53]
Sir W. Scott and Sir W. Napier[53]
Minor Notes:—Sign of Rain—Communicationswith Iceland—Starvation, anAmericanism—Strange Epitaphs[53]
Queries:—
Buonaparte's Abdication[54]
Death Warnings in Ancient Families[55]
The Scarlet Regimentals of the EnglishArmy[55]
Minor Queries:—Berkhampstead Records—"Thesecunde personne of theTrinetee"—St. John's, Oxford, andEmmanuel, Cambridge—"Malbroughs'en va-t-en guerre"—Prelate quotedin Procopius—The Alibenistic Orderof Freemasons—Saying respecting AncientHistory—An Apology for notspeaking the Truth—Sir John Morant—Portraitof Plowden—Temperatureof Cathedrals—Dr. Eleazar Duncon—TheDuke of Buckingham—CharlesWatson—Early (German) colouredEngravings[56]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Historyof M. Oufle—Lysons' MSS.—"Luke'sIron Crown"—"Horamcoram Dago"[57]
Replies:—
Hoby Family, by Lord Braybrooke[58]
Poetical Tavern Signs[58]
Translation from Sheridan, &c.[59]
Florins and the Royal Arms[59]
Chronograms, by the Rev. W. SparrowSimpson[60]
Oaths, by James F. Ferguson[61]
Photographic Correspondence:—SplittingPaper for Photographic Purposes—Curlingof Iodized Paper—How theGlass Rod is used[61]
Replies to Minor Queries:—WoodenTombs and Effigies—Epitaph On Politician—Defoe'sQuotation from Baxteron Apparitions—Barrels Regiment—Sneezing—Does"Wurm," in modernGerman, ever mean Serpent?—Longfellow'sReaper and the Flowers—Chargeof Plagiarism against Paley—Tin—JohnWaugh—Rev. JoshuaBrooks—Hour-glass Stand—TeethSuperstition—Dog-whipping Day inHull—Mousehunt—St. Paul's SchoolLibrary—German Tree—Derivationof the Word "Cash"[62]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[66]
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted[66]
Notices to Correspondents[67]