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NOTES:—

The Pantheon at Paris 73

Churchill the Poet 74

English Medals: William III. and Grandval, by W. D. Haggard 75

Readings in Shakspeare, No. I. 75

Folk Lore:—Salting a New-born Infant—Lent Crocking—Devonshire Superstition respecting Still-born Children 76

Goldsmith's Pamphlet on the Cock Lane Ghost, by Jas. Crossley 77

Minor Notes:—Traditions of remote Periods through few Links—Preservation of Life at Sea—Epigram 77

QUERIES:—

Minor Queries—Count Konigsmark—"O Leoline! be absolutely just"—Lyte Family—Sir Walter Raleigh's Snuff-box—"Poets beware"—Guanahani, or Cat Island—Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford Student—Prayers for the Fire of London—Donkey—French and Italian Degrees—The Shadow of the Tree of Life—Sun-dials—Nouns always printed with Capital Initials—John of Padua—St. Kenelm—Church 78

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Hieroglyphics of Vagrants and Criminals—Muggleton and Reeve—Rev. T. Adams—The Archbishop of Spalatro—Bishop Bridgeman—Rouse, the Scottish Psalmist—"Count Cagliostro, or the Charlatan, a Tale of the Reign of Louis XVI."—Churchyard Well and Bath 79

REPLIES:—

Collars of SS. 81

On the First, Final, and Suppressed Volume of the only Expurgatory Index of Rome, by the Rev. J. Mendham 82

The First Paper-mill in England, and Paper-mill near Stevenage, by A. Grayan 83

The Pendulum Demonstration 84

The Cross and the Crucifix, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 85

Yankee Doodle, by C. H. Cooper 86

Perpetual Lamp 87

Kibroth Hattavah and Wady Mokatteb: Num. xi. 26. critically examined, by Moses Margoliouth 87

Replies to Minor Queries:—"Theophania"—Royal Library—Reichenbach's Ghosts—Marriage Tithe in Wales—Paul Hoste—John of Halifax—Age of Trees—"Mirabilis Liber"—CÆsarius, &c.—Tripos—"Please the Pigs"—Basnet Family—Serjeants' Rings—"Crowns have their Compass"—Hell paved with the Skulls of Priests—Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell—King Street Theatre—Groom, Meaning of—Schola Cordis, &c. 88

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 94

Notices to Correspondents 94

Advertisements 95

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