9. Pall Mall.
Minor Queries.
Spielberg, when built?—When and by whom was the prison of Spielberg, in Moravia, built? Has it been used exclusively as a state prison?
M. J. S.
"Ded. Pavli."—Can you give me any information respecting a tract entitled—
"Ded. Pavli Antiquarius, Theologia, et contra Perciocas Thologo Rvmætatis nostræ scholas Philippi Melanchthonis declamativncvla. Et quædam alia lectv dignissima."
F. Coleman.
16. Great St. Helens.
Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantelboard: Mantell and Brace.—What is the origin of this word, and whence came the thing? It must originally have had a use and a meaning, before it became a haven of rest for hyacinth-glasses, china monsters, Bohemian glass vases, and a thousand nick-nacks and odds and ends of drawing-room