CONTENTS.
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Could Shakespeare have designated Cleopatra "Yond ribald-rid Nag of Egypt?" by S. W. Singer 273
Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, by C. Forbes 274
Minor Notes:—"In the Sweat of thy Brow"—Anecdote of Old Times—Foreign English—Britannicus—Honeymoon—Fees at Westminster Abbey—Turning the Tables 275
Queries:
Authors of the Rolliad—Pursuits of Literature, by Dawson Turner 276
Account of a large ancient Wood-engraving 277
Minor Queries:—Viaggi di Enrico Wanton—Gloucester Alarm—Where is Criston, co. Somerset?—"There was a Maid of Westmoreland"—Anthony Bridges—Barlaam and Josaphat—"Stick At Nothing"—"Ejusdem Farinæ"—Batail—The Knights of Malta—General Pardons—"Too wise to err" 277
Replies:—
Thomas May 279
Duchess of Buckingham 280
San Grail 281
The Frozen Horn 282
Bab at the Bowster 282
Oliver Cromwell and his Dealings with the Devil 282
Replies to Minor Queries:—Gig Hill—Epigram against Burke—Engraved Portrait—Salgado's Slaughter-house—Mathew's Mediterranean Passage—The Mitre and the "Cloven Tongues"—Slums—"God's Acre"—Wages in the last Century—Tradesmen's Signs—Standfast's Cordial Comforts, &c.—St. Pancras—Lines on Woman's Will—Scandal against Queen Elizabeth—Coggeshall Job—Whale caught at Greenwich before the Death of Cromwell—Fronte Capillatâ, &c.—John Sanderson, or the Cushion-dance—George Steevens and William Stevens—Tradescant—Origin of Harlequins—"Predeceased" and "Designed"—"Quadrijugis invectus equis," &c.—St. John's Bridge Fair—Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe—Lord Howard of Effingham—Separation of the Sexes in Church—Vox Populi Vox Dei—Mazer Wood—Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands—Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli—"Harry Parry, when will you marry?"—Visions of Hell—"Laus tua non tua Fraus," &c.—Passage from Cymbeline—Engraved Warming-pans—Symbolism of the Fir-cone—Dr. Robert Thomlinson—Touching for the Evil—Drax Free School, &c. 283
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 293
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 293
Notices to Correspondents 294
Advertisements 294