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Prophets: Francis Dobbs, by Henry H. Breen 71

Sir Walter Scott and his Quotations from Himself 72

Thomas Campbell 73

FOLK LORE:--Legends of the Co. Clare--Slow-worm Superstition 73

The Vellum-bound Junius, by Sir T. Metcalfe 74

MINOR NOTES:--The Scotch Grievance--Walpole and Macaulay--
Russian "Justice"--False Dates in Watermarks of Paper 74

QUERIES:--

Mr. P. Cunninghame, by J. Macray 75

Was Shakespeare descended from a Landed Proprietor?
by J. O. Halliwell 75

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St. Leger--Lord's Descents--Reverend Robert Hall--"Lydia,
or Conversion"--Personal Descriptions--"One while I
think," &c.--Lord Bacon--Society for burning the Dead--
Cui Bono--The Stock Horn--Lady Harington--Descendants
of Sir M. Hale--A Query for the City Commission--
Cross-legged Monumental Figures--Muffins and Crumpets 76

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Behemoth"--"Deus ex Machinâ"
--Wheelbarrows--Persons alluded to by Hooker 77

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Longfellow's Originality, by Wm. Matthews 77

Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne's Motto 78

Books burnt by the Common Hangman 78

Stone Pulpits 79

Antiquity of Fire-irons, by Wm. Matthews, &c. 80

Order of St. John of Jerusalem, by Wm. Winthrop 80

Grammars, &c. for Public Schools, by Mackenzie Walcott,
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Derivation of Mawmet--Came, by J. W. Thomas 82

The Gosling Family, by Honoré de Mareville 82

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Photographic Copies of Ancient Manuscripts--Fox Talbot's
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Attainment of Majority--Three Fleurs-de-Lis--Newspaper
Folk Lore--Nattochiis and Calchanti--Marriage Ceremony
in the Fourteenth Century--Clarence--"The spire whose
silent finger," &c.--Henry Earl of Wotton--Tenth (or the
Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, &c. 83

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on Books, &c. 90

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 90

Notices to Correspondents 91

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