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SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 1854.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Palindrome Verses 343
Children crying at their Birth 343
Unpublished Letter of Lord Nelson, by E. G. Bass 344
FOLK LORE:--Devonshire Superstitions--Quacks--Burning a
Tooth with Salt 344
Parallel Passages, by H. L. Temple, Cuthbert Bede, &c. 345
MINOR NOTES:--Vallancey's Green Book--Herrings--Byron and
Rochefoucauld--"Abscond"--Garlands, Broadsheets, &c.--
Life-belts--Turkey and Russia--"Verbatim et literatim" 347
QUERIES:--
Prints of London before the Great Fire 348
Battle of Otterburn, by J. S. Warden 348
De Beauvoir Pedigree, by T. R. Potter 349
MINOR QUERIES:--Dog-whippers: Frankincense--Atchievement in
Yorkshire: Lipyeatt Family--"Waestart"--Rebellion of 1715--
"Athenian Sport"--Gutta Percha made soluble--Arms of Anthony
Kitchen--Griesbach Arms--Postage System of the Romans--Three
Crowns and Sugar-loaf--Helen MacGregor--Francis Grose the
Antiquary--"King of Kings:" Bishop Andrews' Sermons--Scroope
Family--Harrison the Regicide: Lowle--"Chair" or "Char"--
Aches--Leeming Hall--Caricature; a Canterbury Tale--Perpetual
Curates not represented in Convocation--Dr. Whichcote and
Dorothy Jordan--Moral Philosophy--Shelley's "Prometheus
Unbound"--Turkish Language 349
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Illustrated Bible of 1527--
Heraldic Query--Richard de Sancto Victorie--St. Blase 352
REPLIES:--
Leicester as Ranger of Snowdon 353
Inman Family, by T. Hughes 353
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 354
Hardman's Account of Waterloo 355
Churches in "Domesday Book," by Wm. Dobson 355
Memoirs of Grammont, by W. H. Lammin 356
Celtic and Latin Languages 356
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Box Sawdust for Collodion--
Proportions of Chlorides and Silver--Photographic Copies of
Rembrandt--Coloured Photographs 358
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Dr. Eleazar Duncon--Christian
Names--Abigail--"Begging the question"--Russian Emperors--
Garble--Electric Telegraph--Butler's "Lives of the Saints"--
Anticipatory Use of the Cross--The Marquis of Granby, &c. 359
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 362
Notices to Correspondents 362
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