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Further Notes on the Hippopotamus

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Parallel Passages: Coleridge, Hooker, Butler, by J. E. B. Mayor

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Shakspeare and the old English Actors in Germany, by Albert Cohn

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Ten Children at a Birth

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George Herbert and Bemerton Church, by H. T. Ellacombe

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Minor Notes:—Lord Mayor's Show in 1701—Sir Thomas Phillipps's MSS.—Translation from Owen, &c.—Epigram on the late Bull—Bailie Nicol Jarvie—Hogs not Pigs—The Baptized Turk

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Queries:—

Gray—Dryden—Playing Cards

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Minor Queries:—Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry—The Jews' Spring Gardens—Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility—"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"—Whipping by Women—LÆrig—MS. History of Winchester School—Benedicite—The Church History Society—Pope Ganganelli—Sir George Downing—Solemnization of Matrimony—Passage in Bishop Butler—The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works—Titus Oates—Translations of Erasmus' Colloquies and Apuleius' Golden Ass, &c.

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Replies:—

Holme MSS.—The Cradocks

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Antiquity of Smoking

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Antiquitas SÆculi Juventus Mundi

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Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Braybrooke

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Replies to Minor Queries:—Cromwell Poisoned—"Never did Cardinal bring Good to England"—Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty—Nonjurors' Oratories in London—"Filthy Gingran"—Michael Scott—The Widow of the Wood—Modum Promissionis—End of Easter—First Earl of Roscommon—Dryden's "Absolom and Achitophel"—Cabalistic Author—Becket—AËrostation—Kilt—Bacon Family, &c.

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Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

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Books and Odd Volumes Wanted

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Notices to Correspondents

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