Notes:—

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Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy, by C. Clifton Barry

357

Comet Superstitions in 1853

358

The Old English Word "Belike"

358

Druses, by. T. J. Buckton

360

Folk Lore:—Legends of the County Clare

360

Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thomas Keightley, &c.

361

Death on the Fingers

362

Minor Notes:—On a "Custom of y^e Englyshe"—Epitaph at Crayford—The Font at Islip—"As good as a Play"

363

Queries:—

Lovett of Astwell

363

Oaths

364

The Electric Telegraph

364

Minor Queries:—Queries relating to the Porter Family—Lord Ball of Bagshot—Marcarnes—The Claymore—Sir William Chester, Kt.—Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and Great Britain—Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant—Memorial Lines by Thomas Aquinas—"Johnson's turgid style"—Meaning of "Lane," &c.—Theobald le Botiller—William, fifth Lord Harrington—Singular Discovery of a Cannon-ball—Scottish Castles—Sneezing—Spenser's "Fairy Queen"—Poema del Cid—The Brazen Head

364

Minor Queries with Answers:—"The Basilics"—Fire at Houlton—Michaelmas Goose

367

Replies:—

Portraits of Hobbes and Letters of Hollar, by S. W. Singer

368

Parochial Libraries, by the Rev. Thos. Corser

369

Battle of Villers en CouchÉ, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., &c.

370

Attainment of Majority, by Russell Gole and Professor De Morgan

371

Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal

372

Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Sisson's developing Fluid—Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper—Mr. Lyte's New Process

373

Replies To Minor Queries:—Derivation of the Word "Island"—"PÆtus and Arria"—"That Swinney"—The Six Gates of Troy—Milton's Widow—Boom—"Nugget" not an American Term—Soke Mill—Binometrical Verse—Watch-paper Inscription—Dotinchem—Reversible Names and Words—Detached Church Towers—Bishop Ferrar—"They shot him by the nine stone rig"—Punning Devices—Ashman's Park—"Crowns have their compass," &c.—Ampers and—Throwing Old Shoes for Luck—Ennui

374

Miscellaneous:—

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

377

Notices to Correspondents

377

Advertisements

378