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Italian English 149
St. Nicholas Church, Brighton 150
Key to Dibdin's Bibliomania 151
Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple 151
Antiquity of the Polka: a Note for the Ladies 152
Seven Score Superstitious Sayings, by J. Westby Gibson 152
Minor Notes:—Mormon Etymologies—Bandalore and Tommy Moore—Electric Clock—Desirable Reprints—The Earldom of Oxford—Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in the Seventeenth Century 153
Queries:—
Queries as to Mr. Collier's "Notes and Emendations" 153
Hone's "History of Parody," by James B. Murdoch 154
The Countess of Pembroke's Letter to Sir Joseph Williamson 154
Minor Queries:—MediÆval Parchment—"Mater ait natÆ"—Fox of Whittlebury Forest—Names and Numbers of British Regiments—Daughters of St. Mark—Kentish Fire—Optical Phenomenon—Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of England—Remarkable Signs—Old Fable—Tide Tables—Passage in Ovid—Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness—Curtseys and Bows—Historical Proverb—Bishop Patrick's "Parable of a Pilgrim"—Dr. Parr's Dedications—"KÖnigl. Schwedischer in Teutschland gefÜhrter Krieg"—"Officium Birgittinum Anglice"—Campbell's Hymn on the Nativity 155
Minor Queries with Answers:—"When Our Lord falls in Our Lady's Lap"—Hobnail-counting in the Court of Exchequer—A Race for Canterbury—Nose of Wax—"Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley!"—Rosary 157
Replies:—
The Rod: a Poem 158
The Dutch East-India Company 159
"Its," by Thomas Keightley 160
Commencement of the Year 161
"Penardo and Laissa" 161
Robin Hood, by John D'Alton and J. Lewelyn Curtis 162
Photographic Notes and Queries:—Originator of Collodion Process—The Soiling of the Fingers—Sir W. Newton's Process: Chloride of Bromium—The Collodion Process—Portable Camera 162
Replies to Minor Queries:—Chaplains to Noblemen—Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger—Brydone the Tourist—Yankee—Miniature Ring of Charles I.—Bishop of Ossory: Cardinal's Hat—Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter—"sic transit gloria mundi"—Wake—"Words given to Man to conceal his Thoughts"—Inscription on Penny of George III.—"Nine Tailors make a Man"—On Quotations—Rhymes on Places—Coins in Foundations—Fleshed, Meaning of—Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh—Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting—Furmety or Frumenty—Etymology of Pearl, &c. 163
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 168
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 168
Notices to Correspondents 169
Advertisements 169

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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