Notes:—

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The Eye: its primary Idea

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Gossiping History—De Quincey's Account of Hatfield

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Notes upon the Names of some of the Early Inhabitants of Hellas

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Shakspeare Readings, No. IX.

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GÖthe's Author-Remuneration

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Minor Notes:—Parallel Passages—Unpublished Epitaphs—The Colour of Ink in Writings—Literary Parallels—Latin Verses prefixed to Parish Registers—Napoleon's Bees

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Queries:—

Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's Letters? by Sir F. Madden

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Minor Queries:—Lord Chatham—Slow-worm Superstition—Tangiers—Snail Gardens—Naples and the Campagna Felice—"The Land of Green Ginger"—Mugger—Snail-eating—Mysterious Personage—George Wood of Chester—A Scale of Vowel Sounds—Seven Oaks and Nine Elms—Murder of Monaldeschi—Governor Dameram—Ancient Arms of the See of York—Hupfeld—Inscription on a Tomb in Finland—Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Railway Travelling—Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby, Lincolnshire—Mr. Payne Collier's Monovolume Shakspeare

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Replies:—

Wild Plants and their Names

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Jacob Bobart, by H. T. Bobart

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Heraldic Queries

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Door-head Inscriptions

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Consecrated Roses

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Notes on Serpents

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Photographic Correspondence:—Early Notice of the Camera Obscura—Queries on Dr. Diamond's Collodion Process—Baths for the Collodion Process

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Replies to Minor Queries:—Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger—Chronograms and Anagrams—Abigail—Burial in unconsecrated Ground—"Cob" and "Conners"—Coleridge's Unpublished MSS.—Selling a Wife—Life—Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions—Archbishop King—Devonianisms—Perseverant, Perseverance—"The Good Old Cause"—Saying of Pascal—Paint taken off of old Oak—Passage in the "Tempest"

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Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c.

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Books and Odd Volumes wanted

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Notices to Correspondents

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