Notes:—	Page
Arabian Tales and their Sources, by J. W. Thomas	319
La Rochefoucauld, by J. Macray	320
Shropshire Ballad	320
"Of the Benefit of the Death of Christ," by Aonio Paleario, by the Rev. J. Ayre	321
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Minor Queries with Answers:—Roman Roads in England—Inscription on the Brass of Sir G. Felbridge—Skipwith—College Battel—Origin of Clubs—Royal Arms in Churches—Odd Fellows—Governor-General of India—Precedence	325
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Marmortinto, or Sand-painting, by John Mummery	327
O'Brien of Thosmond	328
Coronation Stone	328
Polygamy, by T. J. Buckton and the Rev. A. Gatty	329
Poetical Tavern Signs	330
"Behemoth," by C. H. Cooper	332
Photographic Correspondence:—Photographic Slides for the Magic Lantern—Albumenized Paper—Mounting Positives on Cardboard—Mr. Lyte's Collodion	332
Replies to Minor Queries:—Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"—Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta—Prince Charles' Attendants in Spain—Churchill's Grave—"Cissle"—Contributors to Knight's "Quarterly Magazine"—"La Langue Pandras"—Cranmer Bibles—Voisonier—Word-minting—Fair Rosamond—Death-warnings in ancient Families—Poets Laureate—Brissot de Warville—"Branks"—Theobald le Botiller—Lord Harington—Amontillado—"Mairdill"—Separation of the Sexes in Church—Costume of the Clergy not Enarean, &c.	333
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Notes on Books, &c.	338
Books and Odd Volumes wanted	339
Notices to Correspondents	339

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