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No. 225.Saturday, February 18. 1854.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Remarkable Imprints[143]
Legends of the Co. Clare, by FrancisRobert Davies[145]
Canting Arms[146]
Minor Notes:—Selleridge—Tombsof Bishops—Lines on visiting thePortico of Beau Nash's Palace, Bath—Acrosticin Ash Church, Kent—AHint to Publishers—Uhland, theGerman Poet—Virgilian Inscriptionfor an Infant School[146]
Queries:—
The Shippen Family—John White, byThos. Balch[147]
Books issued in Parts and not completed[147]
Minor Queries:—"Hovd Maet ofLaet"—Hand in Church—EggerMoths—The Yorkshire Dales—Ciss,Cissle, &c.—Inn Signs, &c.—Smithsand Robinsons—Coin of Carausius—Verelstthe Painter—Latin Treatiseon whipping School-boys—Whitewashingin Churches—Surname"Kynoch"—Dates of publishedWorks—Saw-dust Recipe[148]
Minor Queries With Answers:—Branks,or Gossips' Bridles—Notcaring a Fig for anything—B. C. Y.—EarlNugent's Poems—HuntbachMSS.—Holy Loaf Money—St.Philip's, Bristol—Foreign Universities[149]
Replies:—
Death-warnings in Ancient Families,by C. Mansfield Ingleby[150]
Starvation, by N. L. Melville, &c.[151]
Osmotherley in Yorkshire, by T. Gill[152]
Echo Poetry, by Jas. J. Scott[153]
Blackguard[153]
"Wurm," in Modern German—Passagein Schiller's "Wallenstein"[154]
Was Shakspeare descended from aLanded Proprietor? by H. Gole, &c.[154]
Lord Fairfax[156]
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr.Lyte on Collodion—Dr. Diamond onSensitive Collodion[156]
Replies To Minor Queries:—Portraitof Alva—Lord Mayor of Londonnot a Privy Councillor—New Zealanderand Westminster Bridge—CuiBono—Barrels Regiment—SirMatthew Hale—Scotch Grievance—"MercifulJudgments of HighChurch," &c.—Robert Dudley, Earlof Leicester—Fleet Prison—TheCommons of Ireland previous to theUnion—"Les Lettres Juives"—SirPhilip Wentworth—General Fraser—Namby-Pamby—TheWord "Miser"—TheForlorn Hope—ThorntonAbbey—"Quid facies," &c.—Christ-Cross-Row—SirWalter Scott, and hisQuotations from himself, &c.[158]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[162]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[163]
Notices to Correspondents[163]