Volume 4 — CONTENTS.
Reading edition
NOTES:—
Notes on Books, No. II.—Gabriel Harvey, by S. W. Singer 169
The Antiquity of Kilts, by T. Stephens 170
Notes on Julin, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 171
Minor Notes:—Anecdote of Curran—Difficulty of getting rid of a Name—House of Lord Edward Fitzgerald—Fairy Dances—Æsop—Nelson's Coat at Trafalgar 173
QUERIES:—
John Knox, by David Laing 174
Minor Queries:—"Fœda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis"—Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto—Gloucester saved from the King's Mines—Milesian—Horology—Laurentius Müller—Lines on a Bed—Pirog—Lists of Plants, with their Provincial Names—Print Cleaning—Italian Writer on Political Economy—Carli the Economist—Nightingale and Thorn—Coleridge's Essays on Beauty—Henryson and Kinaston—Oldys' Account of London Libraries—A Sword-blade Note—Abacot—Princesses of Wales 174
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:— A Kelso Convoy—Cardinal Wolsey—Brunswick Mum—Meaning of "Rasher" 176
REPLIES:—
Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Rotation 177
A Saxon Bell-house 178
The Whale of Jonah, by T. J. Buckton 178
St. Trunnian, by W. S. Hesleden 179
Replies to Minor Queries:—Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor—Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?—Lines on the Temple—Henry Headley, B. A.—Cycle of Cathay—Proof of Sword Blades—Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?—English Sapphics—The Tradescants—Monumental Inscription—Lady Petre's Monument 180
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 182
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 183
Notices to Correspondents 183
Advertisements 183