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NOTES:-- Page Kennington Common, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson 295 Life and Death 296 Battle of Trafalgar and Death of Nelson 297 Heraldic Anomaly 298 FOLK LORE:--Three Maids--Mother Russel's Post--Shrove Tuesday Custom 299 Stornello 299

MINOR NOTES:--Perspective--"That"--Corporation Enactments--Jacobite Club--Dean Nowell's first Wife-- "Oxoniana"--An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert--Ingulph: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library" 300

QUERIES:-- Quotations wanted 301 Sir Edmund Plowden, by S. F. Streeter 301 Ancient Clock, and Odevaere's History of it, by Octavius Morgan 302

MINOR QUERIES:--Spielberg, when built?--"Ded. Pavli"-- Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantleboard: Mantell and Brace--Passage in Job--Provincial Glossaries-- Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster--A marvellous Combat of Birds--Battle of the Gnats--Sandford of Thorpe Salvine, co. York--"Outlines of the History of Theology"--"Mawkin"--"Plain Dealer"--Hymn attributed to Handel--Degrees in Arts--"Goloshes:" "Kutchin-kutchu"--Cornwalls of London--Flasks for Wine-bottles--Froxhalmi, Prolectricus, Phytacus, Tuleus, Candos, Gracianus, and Tounu or Tonnu 302

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Postmaster at Merton College--"Lyra Apostolica"--East Dereham Manor-- Quakers executed in North America--Inscription in Fulham Church--Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"-- "Bothy"--"Children in the Wood" 304

REPLIES:-- Brydone the Tourist, by John Macray 305 "The Red Cow"--Cromwell's Carriages, &c. 306 Fox-hunting, by F. M. Middleton 307 Weather Rules, by E. MacCulloch, &c. 307 Bingham's Antiquities 308 Ancient Tenure of Lands 309

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Spots on Collodion Pictures, &c.--The Double Iodide Solution--Mounting Photographs 310 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Books on Bells--Medal in Honour of Chevalier St. George--Dean Swift's Suspension--"Vanitatem observare"--Ballina Castle, Mayo--Dorset--Judicial Rank hereditary--Tolling the Bell on leaving Church--Archpriest in the Diocese of Exeter--Dogs in Monumental Brasses--The Last of the Palaeologi--Long Names, &c. 310

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 313 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 314 Notices to Correspondents 314

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