CONTENTS.
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Latin Drinking Song by Richard Braithwait, by S. W. Singer 297
Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty 298
"After me the Deluge," by Douglas Jerrold 299
Bishop Thornborough's Monument 299
Minor Notes:—King Richard III.—Shakspeare a thorough Sailor—"A fellow-feeling." &c.—Early Instances of the Word "News"—Under the Rose 300
Queries:—
Portraits of Spenser 301
The Vendace 301
Minor Queries:—Ex Pede Herculem—"To-day we purpose"—"God takes those soonest whom He loves the best"—Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope —Whychcote of St. John's—Meaning of Rechibus—Family of Queen Katherine Parr—Skort—Religious Teaching in the German Universities—Epigram by Dunbar—Endymion Porter—Sathaniel—The Scoute Generall—Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 302
Minor Queries Answered:—Civil War Tract—Trisection of the Circle—Wolsey's Son—Cardinals and Abbots in the English Church 303
Replies:—
Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley 304
The Travels of Baron Munchausen 305
Replies to Minor Queries:—Tobacco in the East—Captain John Stevens—MS. Catalogue of Norman Nobility—Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III.—Comets—Pope Joan—Abbot Euctacius—The Vellum-bound Junius—Meaning of Waste-book—Cowdray—Solemnisation of Matrimony—Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke—Scandal against Queen Elizabeth—The Tanthony—The Hippopotamus —Tu autem—Places called purgatory—Swearing by Swans, &c.—Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office —Small Words and "Low" Words—Lord Howard of Effingham—Obeahism, &c. 306
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 310
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 311
Notices to Correspondents 311
Advertisements 311