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No. 189. Saturday, June 11, 1853. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
CONTENTS.
Notes:— Page
Tom Moore's First! 565
Notes on several Misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 566
Verney Papers: the Capuchin Friars, &c., by Thompson Cooper 568
Early Satirical Poem 568
The Letters of Atticus, by William Cramp 569
Minor Notes:—Irish Bishops as English Suffragans—Pope and Buchanan—Scarce MSS. in the British Museum—The Royal Garden at Holyrood Palace—The Old Ship "Royal Escape" 569
Queries:—
"The Light of Brittaine" 570
Minor Queries:—Thirteen an unlucky Number—Quotations—"Other-some" and "Unneath"—Newx, &c.—"A Joabi Alloquio"—Illuminations—Heraldic Queries—John's Spoils from Peterborough and Crowland—"Elementa sex." &c.—Jack and Gill: Sir Hubbard de Hoy—Humphrey Hawarden—"Populus vult decipi"—Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire—Harris 571
Replies:—
Bishop Butler, by J. H. Markland, &c. 572
Mitigation of Capital Punishment to Forgers 573
Mythe versus Myth, by Charles Thiriold 575
"Inquiry into the State of the Union, by the Wednesday Club in Friday Street," by James Crossley 576
Unpublished Epigram by Sir Walter Scott, by William Williams, &c. 576
Church Catechism 577
Jacob Bobart, &c., by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 578
"Its," by W. B. Rye 578
Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by Henry T. Riley 579
Books of Emblems, by J. B. Yates, &c. 579
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Pollock's Directions for obtaining Positive Photographs upon albumenised Paper—Test for Lenses—Washing Collodion Pictures 581
Replies To Minor Queries:—Cremonas—James Chaloner—Irish Convocation—St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca—Captain Ayloff—Plan of London—Syriac Scriptures—Meaning of "Worth"—Khond Fable—Collar of SS.—Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian—Pic Nic—Canker or Brier Rose—Door-head Inscriptions—"Time and I"—Lowbell—Overseers of Wills—Detached Belfry Towers—Vincent Family, &c. 582
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 586
Notices to Correspondents 586
Advertisements 587