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No. 37.SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1850Price Threepence.
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CONTENTS

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The Author of the "Characteristics" by W.D. Christie[97]
Caxton's Printing office, by R.F. Rimbault[99]
Sanatory Laws in other Days[99]
Folk Lore:—Midsummer Fires[101]
Minor Notes:—Borrowed Thoughts—An Infant Prodigy in 1659—Allusion in Peter Martyr—Hogs not Pigs[101]
QUERIES:—
A Query and Replies, by H. Walter[102]
Letters of Queen Elizabeth and Philip II. of Spain[102]
Minor Queries:—The New Temple—"Junius Identified"—Mildew in Books—George Herbert's Burialplace—The Earl of Essex and "The Finding of the Rayned Deer"—The Lass of Richmond Hill—Curfew—Alumni of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester—St. Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh—Query put to a Pope—The Carpenter's Maggot—Lord Delamere—Henry and the Nutbrown Maid[103]
REPLIES:—
French Poem by Malherbe, by S.W. Singer[104]
"Dies Iræ, Dies Illa"[105]
Dr. Samuel Ogden, by J.H. Markland[105]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Porson's Imposition—The Three Dukes—Kant's Sämmtliche Werke—Becket's Mother—"Imprest" and "Debenture"—Derivation of "News"—Origin of Adur—Meaning of Steyne—Sarum and Barum—Epigrams on the Universities—Dulcarnon—Dr. Magian—America known to the Ancients—Collar of SS.—Martello Towers—"A Frog he would a-wooing go"—William of Wykeham—Execution of Charles I.—Swords—The Low Window—Brasichelli's Expurgatory Index—Discursus Modestus—Melancthon's Epigram[106]
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c.[111]
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted[111]
Notices to Correspondents[111]
Advertisements[112]