CONTENTS.
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Teaching a Dog French, by Arthur Paget 581
The Religion of the Russians 582
Leicestershire Epitaphs, by William Kelly 582
Longfellow's "Reaper and the Flowers" 583
Minor Notes:—"Receipt" or "Recipe"—Death of Philip III. of Spain—Churchwardens—Epigram—Oxford Commemoration Squib, 1849—Professor Macgillivray—Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas 583
Queries:—
William Cookworthy, the Inventor of British Porcelain, by J. Prideaux 585
Catholic Floral Directories, &c. 585
George Alsop 585
Minor Queries:—B. L. M.—Member of Parliament electing himself—"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re"—Jacobite Garters—Daughters taking their Mothers' Names—General Fraser—A Punning Divine—Contango—Pedigree to the Time of Alfred—"Service is no inheritance"—Antiquity of Fire-irons—General Wolfe at Nantwich—"Corporations have no Souls," &c.—Leeming Family—MS. Poems and Songs—Bishop Watson 585
Minor Queries with Answers:—Herbert's "Memoirs of the Last Years of Charles I."—"Liturgy of the Ancients"—"Ancient hallowed Dee"—Who was True Blue?—Charge of Plagiarism against Paley—Weber's "Cecilia"—Andrew Johnson—MS. by Glover—Gurney's Short-hand—Spurious Don Quixote 587
Replies:—
Pronunciation of Hebrew Names and Words in the Bible, by T. J. Buckton, &c. 590
Lord Halifax and Mrs. Catherine Barton, by Weld Taylor 590
Inscriptions in Books 591
Praying to the West 592
"Green Eyes," by C. Forbes, &c. 592
The Myrtle Bee, by W. R. D. Salmon 593
Tin 593
Milton's Widow 594
Books chained to Desks in Churches—Old Parochial Libraries 595
The Court-house, by P. H. Fisher 596
Photography.—On the Simplicity of the Calotype Process, by Dr. Diamond 596
Replies To Minor Queries:—Belike—Stage-coaches—Birthplace of King Edward V.—Ringing Church Bells at Death—What is the Origin of "Getting into a Scrape?"—High Dutch and Low Dutch—Discovery of Planets—Gloves at Fairs—Awk—Tenet—Lovett of Astwell—Irish Rhymes—Passage in Boerhaave—Unkid—To split Paper—La Fleur des Saints—Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury, &c. 600
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c. 606
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 607
Notices to Correspondents 607
Advertisements 608