Volume 4 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
Lady Hopton 97
Notes on Newspapers—The Times, by H. M. Bealby 98
Folk Lore: Devonshire Superstitions 98
Minor Notes:—Curious Inscription—Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture—D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith 99
QUERIES:—
On a Song in Scott's Pirate—"Fire on the Maintop" 99
Minor Queries:—Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?—Tale of a Tub—Cleopatra's Needle—Pair of Curols—Cowper Law—Order of Greenwich—House of Yvery—Entomological Query—Spenser's Portraits—Borrow's Bible in Spain—Dogmatism and Puppyism—A Saxon Bell-house 100
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Cycle of the Moon—Cocker's Arithmetic—Sanskrit Elementary Books—Townley MSS., &c.—"Man is born to trouble," &c. 102
REPLIES:—
Bellarmin's Monstrous Paradox 103
The Gookins of Kent, by Edward Armstrong 103
Curious Monumental Inscription, by S. W. Singer 105
The late Mr. William Hone, by Douglas Allport 105
Plaids and Tartans 107
The Caxton Memorial, by Bolton Corney 107
Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest, by the Marchioness of Bute 108
Replies to Minor Queries:—Inscription on an old Board—Churches decorated at Christmas—Royal Library—Proof a Sword—Dr. Young's "Narcissa"—Circulation of the Blood—Dr. Elrington's Edition of Ussher—Was Stella Swift's Sister?—The Mistletoe—Family of Kyme—The Leman Baronetcy—Cure for Ague 109
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 111
Notices to Correspondents 111
Advertisements 112