Notes:— | Page |
Mary Stuart's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. | 197 |
Inedited Letter of Warren Hastings | 198 |
MediÆval Emblems of the Passion, by Norris Deck | 199 |
Bookselling in Calcutta | 199 |
Folk Lore:—Subterranean Bells—Old Weather Proverb—Primrosen—Harvest Home Song | 200 |
Inedited Poem on Chaucer | 201 |
Minor Notes:—"Le BalafrÉ"—Macpherson's "Ossian"—Epitaph from Tichfield—"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"—Weight of American Revolutionary Officers—The Patronymic "Mac"—Erroneous Forms of Speech—Hexameters from Udimore Register—Dr. Johnson—Borrowed Thoughts—Suggested Reprints | 201 |
Queries:— |
Rigby Correspondence | 203 |
Heraldic Queries | 203 |
On a Passage in Acts xv. 23., by J. Sansom | 204 |
Minor Queries:—Belatucadrus—Surname of Allan—Arms of Owen Glendower—Tenent and Tenet—"I hear a lion," &c.—"The Exercist Day" at Leicester—Ecclus. xlvi. 20.—Etymology of Burrow—Alexander Adamson—Psalmanazar—Coleridge's "Christabel"—Beaten to a Mummy—Hanover Rats—Pallant—Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy—Drying up of the Red Sea—Joan d'Arc—Diary of Thomas Earl, &c. | 205 |
Minor Queries with Answers:—Game of the Whetstone—Meals—Haughmond Abbey, Salop—"As flies to wanton boys"—Quotation wanted—Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Man | 208 |
Replies:— |
Old Satchels | 209 |
Statue of St. Peter | 210 |
Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman | 211 |
Discovery of Planets, by Henry Walter | 211 |
Story of Genoveva | 212 |
Ancient Dutch Allegorical Picture, by Dr. J. H. Todd | 213 |
The "Percy Anecdotes," by John Timbs | 214 |
Lady Nevill's Music-book: Mode of reading the ancient Virginal Music, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | 214 |
Scarfs worn by Clergymen, by Rev. John Jebb | 215 |
Unanswered Queries regarding Shakspeare, by J. Payne Collier | 216 |
The Passamezzo Galliard, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault | 216 |
Photographic Notes and Queries:—The Albumen Process—Queries on Mr. Weld Taylor's Process—Difficulties in the Wax-paper Process—Mr. Archer's Services to Photography—Mr. Weld Taylor's Iodizing Process—Sir J. Newton's Process | 217 |
Replies to Minor Queries:—A Race for Canterbury—"The Birch: a Poem"—Curtseys and Bows—Deodorising Peat—Jacobite Toasts—Consecrators of English Bishops—Chatham's Language, &c. | 219 |
Miscellaneous:— |
Notes on Books, &c. | 224 |
Books and Odd Volumes wanted | 224 |
Notices to Correspondents | 224 |
Advertisements | 225 |