CONTENTS.
Reading edition
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Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy, by C. Clifton Barry 357
Comet Superstitions in 1853 358
The Old English Word "Belike" 358
Druses, by. T. J. Buckton 360
Folk Lore:—Legends of the County Clare 360
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Thomas Keightley, &c. 361
Death on the Fingers 362
Minor Notes:—On a "Custom of ye Englyshe"—Epitaph at Crayford—The Font at Islip—"As good as a Play" 363
Queries:—
Lovett of Astwell 363
Oaths 364
The Electric Telegraph 364
Minor Queries:—Queries relating to the Porter Family—Lord Ball of Bagshot—Marcarnes—The Claymore—Sir William Chester, Kt.—Canning on the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and Great Britain—Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant—Memorial Lines by Thomas Aquinas—"Johnson's turgid style"—Meaning of "Lane," &c.—Theobald le Botiller—William, fifth Lord Harrington—Singular Discovery of a Cannon-ball—Scottish Castles—Sneezing—Spenser's "Fairy Queen"—Poema del Cid—The Brazen Head 364
Minor Queries with Answers:—"The Basilics"—Fire at Houlton—Michaelmas Goose 367
Replies:—
Portraits of Hobbes and Letters of Hollar, by S. W. Singer 368
Parochial Libraries, by the Rev. Thos. Corser 369
Battle of Villers en Couché, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., &c. 370
Attainment of Majority, by Russell Gole and Professor De Morgan 371
Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal 372
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Sisson's developing Fluid—Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper—Mr. Lyte's New Process 373
Replies To Minor Queries:—Derivation of the Word "Island"—"Pætus and Arria"—"That Swinney"—The Six Gates of Troy—Milton's Widow—Boom—"Nugget" not an American Term—Soke Mill—Binometrical Verse—Watch-paper Inscription—Dotinchem—Reversible Names and Words—Detached Church Towers—Bishop Ferrar—"They shot him by the nine stone rig"—Punning Devices—Ashman's Park—"Crowns have their compass," &c.—Ampers and—Throwing Old Shoes for Luck—Ennui 374
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 377
Notices to Correspondents 377
Advertisements 378