| Notes:— | Page |
| Jacob Grimm on the Genius and Vocation of the English Language | 125 |
| Preservation of valuable Papers from Damp; Drying Closets | 126 |
| Position of the Clergy in the Seventeenth Century, by J. Lewelyn Curtis | 126 |
| General Wolfe | 127 |
| Inscriptions in Books | 127 |
| Folk Lore:—Baptismal Custom—Subterranean Bells—Leicestershire Custom—Hooping Cough: Hedera Helix | 128 |
| Minor Notes:—The Aught And Forty Daugh—Alliterative Pasquinade—The Names "Bonaparte" and "Napoleon"—A Parish Kettle—Pepys's Diary; Battle of St. Gothard—First Folio Shakspeare—An ancient Tombstone | 128 |
| Queries:— |
| Excessive Rainfall, by Robert Rawlinson | 130 |
| Baptist Vincent Lavall, by William Duane | 130 |
| Graves of Mickleton, co. Gloucester, by James Graves | 130 |
| Searson's Poems | 131 |
| Minor Queries:—Haberdon or Habyrdon—Holles Family—"To lie at the Catch"—Names of Planets: Spade—Arms in painted Glass—The sign of "The Two Chances"—Consecrators of English Bishops—A nunting Table—John Pictones—Gospel Place—York Mint—Chipchase of Chipchase—Newspapers—On alleged historical Facts—Costume of Spanish Physicians—Genoveva—Quotation—"God and the World"—"Solid Men of Boston"—Lost MS. by Alexander Pennecuik—"The Percy Anecdotes"—Norman Song—God's Marks—The Bronze Statue of Charles I., Charing Cross | 132 |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Hutter's Polyglott—Ethnology of England—Pitt of Pimperne—"The Bottle Department" of the Beer-trade | 134 |
| Replies:— |
| Bishop Pursglove (Suffragan) of Hull, by John I. Dredge, &c. | 135 |
| The Gregorian Tones by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | 136 |
| Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2., by Thos. Keightley | 136 |
| NiÁgara or NiagÁra, by Robert Wright | 137 |
| Drengage, by Wm. Sidney Gibson | 137 |
| Chatterton | 138 |
| Literary Frauds of Modern Times | 139 |
| Sir H. Wotton's Letter to Milton | 140 |
| Photographic Notes and Queries:—Sir W. Newton's Process—Collodion Film on Copper Plates—Treatment of the Paper Positive after fixing | 140 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Essay for a New Translation of the Bible—Touchstone—Early Edition of Solinus—Straw Bail—Doctor Young—Scarfs worn by Clergymen—Cibber's Lives of the Poets—"Letters on Prejudice"—Statue of St. Peter, &c. | 142 |
| Miscellaneous:— |
| Books and Odd Volumes wanted | 146 |
| Notices to Correspondents | 146 |
| Advertisements | 146 |
