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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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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