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CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Italian English149
St. Nicholas Church, Brighton150
Key to Dibdin's Bibliomania151
Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple151
Antiquity of the Polka: a Note for the Ladies152
Seven Score Superstitious Sayings, by J. Westby Gibson152
Minor Notes:—Mormon Etymologies—Bandalore and Tommy Moore—Electric Clock—Desirable Reprints—The Earldom of Oxford—Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in the Seventeenth Century153
Queries:—
Queries as to Mr. Collier's "Notes and Emendations"153
Hone's "History of Parody," by James B. Murdoch154
The Countess of Pembroke's Letter to Sir Joseph Williamson154
Minor Queries:—Mediæval Parchment—"Mater ait natæ"—Fox of Whittlebury Forest—Names and Numbers of British Regiments—Daughters of St. Mark—Kentish Fire—Optical Phenomenon—Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of England—Remarkable Signs—Old Fable—Tide Tables—Passage in Ovid—Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness—Curtseys and Bows—Historical Proverb—Bishop Patrick's "Parable of a Pilgrim"—Dr. Parr's Dedications—"Königl. Schwedischer in Teutschland geführter Krieg"—"Officium Birgittinum Anglice"—Campbell's Hymn on the Nativity155
Minor Queries with Answers:—"When Our Lord falls in Our Lady's Lap"—Hobnail-counting in the Court of Exchequer—A Race for Canterbury—Nose of Wax—"Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley!"—Rosary157
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