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No. 222.Saturday, January 28. 1854.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Prophets: Francis Dobbs, by Henry H.Breen[71]
Sir Walter Scott and his Quotationsfrom Himself[72]
Thomas Campbell[73]
Folk Lore:—Legends of the Co. Clare—Slow-wormSuperstition[73]
The Vellum-bound Junius, by Sir T.Metcalfe[74]
Minor Notes:—The Scotch Grievance—Walpoleand Macaulay—Russian"Justice"—False Dates in Watermarksof Paper[74]
Queries:—
Mr. P. Cunninghame, by J. Macray[75]
Was Shakespeare descended from aLanded Proprietor? by J. O. Halliwell[75]
Minor Queries:—"To try and get"—FleetPrison—Colonel St. Leger—Lord'sDescents—Reverend RobertHall—"Lydia, or Conversion"—PersonalDescriptions—"One while Ithink," &c.—Lord Bacon—Society forburning the Dead—Cui Bono—TheStock Horn—Lady Harington—Descendantsof Sir M. Hale—A Queryfor the City Commission—Cross-leggedMonumental Figures—Muffins andCrumpets[76]
Minor Queries with Answers:—"Behemoth"—"Deusex Machinâ"—Wheelbarrows—Personsalluded to byHooker[77]
Replies:—
Longfellow's Originality, by Wm. Matthews[77]
Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne'sMotto[78]
Books burnt by the Common Hangman[78]
Stone Pulpits[79]
Antiquity of Fire-irons, by Wm. Matthews, &c.[80]
Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by Wm. Winthrop[80]
Grammars, &c. for Public Schools, byMackenzie Walcott, M.A., &c.[81]
Derivation of Mawmet—Came, by J. W.Thomas[82]
The Gosling Family, by Honoré de Mareville[82]
Photographic Correspondence:—Tentfor Collodion Purposes—MultiplyingNegatives and Collodion on Paper—PhotographicCopies of Ancient Manuscripts—FoxTalbot's Patents—AntiquarianPhotographic Society[83]
Replies to Minor Queries:—"Firm wastheir faith," &c.—Attainment ofMajority—Three Fleurs-de-Lis—NewspaperFolk Lore—Nattochiisand Calchanti—Marriage Ceremonyin the Fourteenth Century—Clarence—"Thespire whose silent finger," &c.—HenryEarl of Wotton—Tenth (orthe Prince of Wales's Own) Regimentof (Light) Dragoons, &c.[83]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[90]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[90]
Notices to Correspondents[91]