CONTENTS.

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Books chained to Desks in Churches: Font Inscription:

Parochial Libraries, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 93

Real Signatures _versus_ Pseudo-names, by the Rev.

James Graves 94

Popular Stories of the English Peasantry, by Vincent

T. Sternberg 94

Shakspeare Correspondence, by Cecil Harbottle, &c. 95

Epitaph and Monuments in Wingfield Church, Suffolk 98

Original Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta 99

MINOR NOTES:--Meaning of "Clipper"--Anathema,

Maran-atha--Convocation and the Society for the

Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts--Pigs said

to see the Wind--Anecdote of the Duke of Gloucester 100

QUERIES:--

Lord William Russell 100

Ancient Furniture--Prie-Dieu 101

MINOR QUERIES:--Reynolds' Nephew--Sir Isaac

Newton--Limerick, Dublin, and Cork--Praying to the

West--Mulciber--Captain Booth of Stockport--"A saint

in crape"--French Abbes--What Day is it at our

Antipodes?--"Spendthrift"--Second Growth of Grass--

The Laird of Brodie--Mrs. Tighe, Author of "Psyche"--

Bishop Ferrar--Sir Thomas de Longueville--Quotations

wanted--Symon Patrick, Bishop of Ely: Durham: Weston:

Jephson--The Heveninghams of Suffolk and Norfolk--

Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund

Mortimer, Earl of March)--Shape of Coffins--St. George

Family Pictures--Caley (John), "Ecclesiastical Survey

of the Possessions, &c. of the Bishop of St. David's,"

&c.--Adamson's "Lusitania Illustrata"--Blotting-paper--

Poetical Versions of the Fragments in Athenaeus 102

REPLIES:--

Robert Drury 104

The Termination -by 105

The Rosicrucians, by William Bates 106

Inscriptions on Bells, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 108

Was Cook the Discoverer of the Sandwich Islands? by

C. E. Bagot 108

Megatherium Americanum, by W. Pinkerton 109

Photographic Correspondence:--Stereoscopic

Angles--Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals 109

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Earth upon Earth,

&c.--Picalyly--Mr. Justice Newton--Manners of the

Irish--Arms of the See of York--"Up, Guards, and at

'em!"--Coleridge's Christabel: the 3rd Part--Mitigation

of Capital Punishment--The Man with the Iron Mask--

Gentleman executed for Murder of a Slave--Jahn's

Jahrbuch--Character of the Song of the Nightingale,

&c. 110

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 114

Notices to Correspondents 114

Advertisements 115

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