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Robertson's "Index of Charters" 101
Cowper or Cooper, by George Daniel 102
Yankee, its Origin and Meaning, by Dr. William Bell 103
Shakspeare's Bedside, or the Doctors enumerated: a new Ballad, by James Cornish 104
Folk Lore:—Cures for the Hooping Cough: Rubus fruticosus, Gryphea incurva, Donkey 104
Minor Notes:—Epitaphs—Nostradamus on the Gold-diggings—Whimsical Bequest—The Orkneys in Pawn—Lord Duff's Toast 105
Queries:—
The Meteoric Stone of the Thracian Chersonesus, by W. S. Gibson 105
Banbury Cakes and Zeal 106
Minor Queries:—Richardson or Murphy—Legend attached to Creeper in the Samoan Isles—Shearman Family—American Fisheries—Grindle—A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death—Brydone—"Clear the Decks for Bognie's Carriage"—London Queries—Scarf worn by Clergyman—Life of Queen Anne—Erasmus Smith—Croxton or Crostin of Lancashire—Grub Street Journal—Chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth—"The Snow-flake" 107
Minor Queries with Answers:—Leamhuil or Lahoel—Orte's Maps, Edition of 1570—Prayer for the Recovery of George III. 108
Replies:—
Mrs. Mackey's Poems 109
Map of Ceylon, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 110
"Am, have, and will be:" Henry VIII., Act III. Sc. 2. 111
Sir Henry Wotton's Letter to Milton 111
Skull-caps versus Skull-cups, by Thomas Lawrence 112
Inedited Poem by Pope 113
Cibber's "Lives of the Poets," by W. L. Nichols 113
English Comedians in the Netherlands 114
La BruyÈre, by J. Sansom 114
Southey's Criticism upon St. Mathias' Day in Leap-year 115
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Portable Camera for Travellers—The Albumen Process—Black Tints of French Photographers—Originator of the Collodion Process—Developing Paper Pictures with Pyrogallic Acid 116
Replies to Minor Queries:—Waterloo—Irish Peerages—Martha Blount—Quotations wanted—Pepys's Morena—Goldsmiths' Year-marks—Turner's View of Lambeth Palace—"For God will be your King to-day"—Jennings Family—The Furze or Gorse in Scandinavia—Mistletoe—Inscription on a Dagger—Steevens—"Life is like a Game of Tables," &c. 117
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 120
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 120
Notices to Correspondents 121
Advertisements 121

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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