CONTENTS.

Notes:— Page

The Eye: its primary Idea 25

Gossiping History—De Quincey's Account of Hatfield 26

Notes upon the Names of some of the Early Inhabitants of Hellas 27

Shakspeare Readings, No. IX. 28

Göthe's Author-Remuneration 29

Minor Notes:—Parallel Passages—Unpublished Epitaphs—The Colour of Ink in Writings—Literary Parallels—Latin Verses prefixed to Parish Registers—Napoleon's Bees 30

Queries:—

Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's Letters? by Sir F. Madden 31

Minor Queries:—Lord Chatham—Slow-worm Superstition—Tangiers—Snail Gardens—Naples and the Campagna Felice—"The Land of Green Ginger"—Mugger—Snail-eating—Mysterious Personage—George Wood of Chester—A Scale of Vowel Sounds—Seven Oaks and Nine Elms—Murder of Monaldeschi—Governor Dameram—Ancient Arms of the See of York—Hupfeld—Inscription on a Tomb in Finland—Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Railway Travelling—Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby, Lincolnshire—Mr. Payne Collier's Monovolume Shakspeare 33

Replies:—

Wild Plants and their Names 35

Jacob Bobart, by H. T. Bobart 37

Heraldic Queries 37

Door-head Inscriptions 38

Consecrated Roses 38

Notes on Serpents 39

Photographic Correspondence:—Early Notice of the Camera Obscura—Queries on Dr. Diamond's Collodion Process—Baths for the Collodion Process 41

Replies to Minor Queries:—Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger—Chronograms and Anagrams—Abigail—Burial in unconsecrated Ground—"Cob" and "Conners"—Coleridge's Unpublished MSS.—Selling a Wife—Life—Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions—Archbishop King—Devonianisms—Perseverant, Perseverance—"The Good Old Cause"—Saying of Pascal—Paint taken off of old Oak—Passage in the "Tempest" 42

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, &c. 45

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 45

Notices to Correspondents 46

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