CONTENTS.
Reading edition
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Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century:—No. 1. "Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. "The Trojan Horse" 485
Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 488
Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant Cooper 488
Rev. Josiah Pullen 489
Folk Lore:—Ancient Custom in Warwickshire—Nottinghamshire Customs 490
Minor Notes:—A Centenarian Couple—"Veni, vidi, vici"—Autumnal Tints—Variety is pleasing—Rome and the Number Six—Zend Grammar—The Duke's First Victory—Straw Paper—American Epitaph 490
Queries:—
Laurie (?) on Currency, &c. 491
"Donatus Redivivus" 492
Minor Queries:—Henry Scobell—The Court House—Ash-trees attract Lightning—Symbol of Sow, &c.—Passage in Blackwood—Rathband Family—Encaustic Tiles from Caen—Artificial Drainage—Storms at the Death of Great Men—Motto on Wylcotes' Brass—"Trail through the leaden sky," &c.—Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers—Roman Catholic Bible Society 493
Minor Queries with Answers—"Vox Populi Vox Dei"—"Lanquettes Cronicles"—"Our English Milo"—"Delights for Ladies"—Burton's Death—Joannes Audoënus—Hampden's Death 494
Replies:-
Pinece with a Stink," by W. Pinkerton, &c. 496
Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato 497
Milton's "Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby 497
School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley Acworth 498
Cawdray's "Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c. 499
"Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas 500
Photographic Correspondence:—Clouds in Photographs—Albumenized Paper—Stereoscopic Angles—Photographic Copies of MSS. 501
Replies to Minor Queries:—Lord Cecil's "Memorials"—Foreign Medical Education—Encyclopædias—Pepys's Grammar—"Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi"—Napoleon's Spelling—Black as a mourning Colour—Chanting of Jurors—Aldress—Huggins and Muggins—Camera Lucida—"When Orpheus went down"—The Arms of De Sissone—Oaths of Pregnant Women—Lepel's Regiment—Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1662—Creole—Daughter pronounced "Dafter"—Richard Geering—Island 502
Miscellaneous:-
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 505
Notices to Correspondents 505
Advertisements 505