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A Leader from a Foreign Newspaper: the New Russian Manifesto 463
The Launch of the "Prince Royal" in 1610 464
"Notes and Queries on the Ormulum, by Dr. Monicke" 465
The Legend of the Seven Sisters 465
MINOR NOTES:--Coincidences--The English Liturgy--
"To jump for joy"--"What is Truth?"--Abolition of Government
Patronage 466
MINOR QUERIES:--"One New Year's Day"--Greek denounced by the
Monks--Pliny's Dentistry--J. Farrington, R.A.--Henry
Crewkerne of Exeter--Dr. Johnson--Latin "Dante"--Ralph
Bosvill, of Bradbourn, Kent--Major-General Wolfe--Custom at
University College, Oxford--"Old Dominion"--"Wise men
labour," &c. 467
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Dame Hester Temple--Samuel
White--Heralds' College--Pope 468
REPLIES:--
Blanco White's Sonnet, by S. W. Singer 469
Goloshes 470
Consonants in Welsh, by Thomas O'Coffey, &c. 471
Songs of Degrees (Ascents), by T. J. Buckton 473
The Screw Propeller 473
Amontillado Sherry 474
Recent Curiosities of Literature 475
Roland the Brave, by F. M. Middleton, &c. 475
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--
Recovery of Silver 476
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Ashes of "Lignites"--Old Rowley--
"Bachelors of every Station"--Mousehunt--Value of Money in
the Seventeenth Century--Grammars for Public Schools--Classic
Authors and the Jews--Hand-bells at Funerals--"Warple-way"--
Medal of Chevalier St. George--Shakspeare's Inheritance--
Cassock--Tailless Cats--Names of Slaves--Heraldic--Solar
Annual Eclipse of 1263--Brissot de Warville--"Le Compere
Mathieu"--Etymology of "Awkward"--Life and Death--Shelley's
"Prometheus Unbound"--"Three Crowns and a Sugar-loaf"--
Stanza in "Childe Harold"--Errors in Punctuation--Waugh
of Cumberland--"Could we with ink," &c. 477
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Books and Old Volumes Wanted 482
Notices to Correspondents 483
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