Notes:—

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High Church and Low Church

117

Concluding Notes on several misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W.R. Arrowsmith

120

Sneezing an Omen and a Deity, by T. J. Buckton

121

Abuses of Hackney Coaches

122

Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, Thomas Falconer, &c.

123

Minor Notes:—Falsified Gravestone in Stratford Churchyard—Barnacles in the River Thames—Note for London Topographers—The Aliases and Initials of Authors—Pure—Darling's "CyclopÆdia Bibliographica"

124

Queries:—

Delft Manufacture, by O. Morgan

125

Minor Queries:—The Withered Hand and Motto "Utinam"—History of York—"Hauling over the coals"—Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury—Washington—Norman of Winster—Sir Arthur Aston—"Jamieson the Piper"—"Keiser Glomer"—Tieck's "Comoedia Divina"—Fossil Trees between Cairo and Suez: Stream like that in Bay of Argastoli—Presbyterian Titles—Mayors and Sheriffs—The Beauty of Buttermere—Sheer Hulk—The Lapwing or Peewitt (Vanellus cristatus)—"Could we with ink," &c.—Launching Query—Manliness

125

Minor Queries with Answers:—Pues or Pews—"Jerningham" and "Doveton"

127

Replies:—

Battle of Villers en CouchÉ, by T. C. Smith, &c.

127

Snail-eating, by John Timbs, &c.

128

Inscription near Cirencester, by P. H. Fisher, &c.

129

Curious Custom of ringing Bells for the Dead, by the Rev. H.T. Ellacombe and R.W. Elliot

130

Who first thought of Table-turning? by John Macray

131

Scotchmen in Poland

131

Anticipatory Use of the Cross, by Eden Warwick

132

Photographic Correspondence:—Glass Chambers for Photography—Dr. Diamond's Replies—Trial of Lenses—Is it dangerous to use the Ammonio-Nitrate of Silver?

133

Replies to Minor Queries:—Burke's Marriage—The House of Falahill—Descendants of Judas Iscariot—Milton's Widow—Whitaker's Ingenious Earl—Are White Cats deaf?—Consecrated Roses—The Reformed Faith—House-marks—Trash—Adamsoniana—Portrait of Cromwell—Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"—"Amentium haud Amantium"—Talleyrand's Maxim—English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth—Gloves at Fairs—St. Dominic—Names of Plants—Specimens of Foreign English, &c.

134

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c.

138

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

138

Notices to Correspondents

138

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