CONTENTS.
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Further Notes on the Hippopotamus 457
Parallel Passages: Coleridge, Hooker, Butler, by J. E. B. Mayor 458
Shakspeare and the old English Actors in Germany, by Albert Cohn 459
Ten Children at a Birth 459
George Herbert and Bemerton Church, by H. T. Ellacombe 460
Minor Notes:—Lord Mayor's Show in 1701—Sir Thomas Phillipps's MSS.—Translation from Owen, &c.—Epigram on the late Bull—Bailie Nicol Jarvie—Hogs not Pigs—The Baptized Turk 460
Queries:—
Gray—Dryden—Playing Cards 462
Minor Queries:—Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry—The Jews' Spring Gardens—Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility—"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"—Whipping by Women—Lærig—MS. History of Winchester School—Benedicite—The Church History Society—Pope Ganganelli—Sir George Downing—Solemnization of Matrimony—Passage in Bishop Butler—The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works—Titus Oates—Translations of Erasmus' Colloquies and Apuleius' Golden Ass, &c. 463
Replies:—
Holme MSS.—The Cradocks 465
Antiquity of Smoking 465
Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi 466
Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Braybrooke 466
Replies to Minor Queries:—Cromwell Poisoned—"Never did Cardinal bring Good to England"—Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty—Nonjurors' Oratories in London—"Filthy Gingran"—Michael Scott—The Widow of the Wood—Modum Promissionis—End of Easter—First Earl of Roscommon—Dryden's "Absolom and Achitophel"—Cabalistic Author—Becket—Aërostation—Kilt—Bacon Family, &c. 467
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 470
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 470
Notices to Correspondents 470