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"LEARNED, CHATTY, USEFUL."-Athenæum.

"THAT DELIGHTFUL REPOSITORY OF FORGOTTEN LORE, 'NOTES AND QUERIES.'"

Edinburgh Review, October, 1880,

Now ready, price 10s. 6d. each, cloth boards, with very Copious Index,

NOTES

AND QUERIES.

Vols. I. to X. SIXTH SERIES,

Volumes I. to X. of the Sixth Series of NOTES AND QUERIES contain, in addition to a great variety of similar Notes and Replies, Articles of Interest on the following subjects:

English, Irish, and Scottish History.

The Plagues of 1605 and 1625-Wolves in England-
Prices in the Middle Ages-Executions of 1745-The
"Meal Tub Plot"-Episcopacy in Scotland-English
Roman Catholic Martyrs-Hereward le Wake-Hiding-
Places of Charles II.-Where did Edward II. die?-
Battle between Armies of Suetonius and Boadicea-

Philology.

Tennis-Puzzle-Rickets-American Spelling-Snob

Jolly-Boycotting-Argosy-Jennet-Bedford-Maiden
in Place-names-Deck of Cards-Masher-Belfrey-Brag
-Bulrush-Tram - Hearse-Whittling-Beef-eator-
Boom-At bay.

William III at the Battle of the Boyne "The Green Genealogy and Heraldry.

Bag"-Confidential Letters to James II. about IrelandAnne Boleyn's Heart-Hubert de Burgh-Henry Martin the Regicide-Lord Hussey and the Lincolnshire Rebellion,

Biography.

Luis de Camoens-Thomas Bell-Cromwell-William
Penn-Nell Gwynne-Coleridge-Curll the Bookseller-
Sir John Cheke-Gibson, Bishop of London-Thorpe the
Architect-Sir Richard Whittington-Charles Wolfe.

Bibliography and Literary History.

Shakspeariana-Chap-Book Notes-"Adeste Fideles"____ "The Land of the Leal"-John Gilpin-"Reynard the Fox"-"Lead, kindly Light "-Rabelais-London Publishers of 18th Century-The Welsh Testament-The Libraries of Balliol, All Souls', Brasenose, and Queen's Colleges, Oxford-Key to "Endymion "-Early Roman Catholic Magazines-Stuart Literature-The Libraries of Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge-" Dame Europa" Bibliography-Unpublished Letters of Dr. Johnson-" Rock of Ages"-"Eikon Basilike Deutera" -William of Tyre-Bibliography of Skating-"The Book"-Notes on the "Religio Medici"-Authorship of the "Imitatio"-Tristram Shandy-Critical Notes of Charles Lamb.

Popular Antiquities and Folk-lore.

Slavonic Mythology-Folk-lore of Leprosy-Lycan-
thropy-North Italian Folk-lore-Friday unlucky for
Marriage-West Indian Superstitions-"Milky Way".
Folk-lore of Birds-Feather Superstition-Medical and
Funeral Folk-lore.

Poetry, Ballads, and Drama.

The Drama in Ireland-"Tom Jones" on the French Stage-"Auld Robin Gray' "Harpings of Lena" MS. of Gray's "Elegy"-The "Mystery" of S. Pantaleon -Rogers's "Pleasures of Memory "-"Blue Bonnets over the Border "-Swift's Verses on his own DeathTennyson's "Palace of Art"-Ballad of "William and 'Margaret"-The Australian Drama-Poem by J. M. Neale-Shelley's "Ode to Mont Blanc"-Hymns by Chas. Wesley-"Cross Purposes "-Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women' Logie o' Buchan."

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Popular and Proverbial Sayings.

"To rule the roast"-"Licked into shape "-"Bosh"-Joining the majority-Up to snuff-"To the bitter end"-Conspicuous by his absence-Play old Gooseberry-"The grey mare is the better horse "-Bred and born-Drunk as David's sow-Cut off with a shillingTin-money-Getting into a scrape.

The Arms of the Popes-Courtesy Titles-Rolls of Arms -Book-plates-Earldom of Mar-Arms of the See of York-Fitzhardinges of Berkeley-Heraldic Differences -Barony of Valoines Colonial Arms-Earldom of Ormonde-The Violet in Heraldry-Arms of Vasco da Gama-Seal of the Templars-Earldom of Suffolk. Fine Arts.

Hogarth's only Landscape-The "Hours" of Raphael-
Rubens's "Daniel and the Lions"-Early Gillrays-
Retzsch's Outlines-Portraits of Byron-Velasquez and
his Works-Tassie's Medallions-Copley's "Attack on
Jersey."

Ecclesiastical Matters.

The Revised Version-Pulpits-The Episcopal WigVestments-Temporal Power of Bishops-Easter Sepulchres-Canonization-The Basilican Rite-The Scottish Office-Tulchan Bishops-Seventeenth Century "Indulgence"-The "Month's Mind"-Clergy hunting in Scarlet-The Irish Hierarchy-Libraries in ChurchesLambeth Degrees-Fifteenth Century Rood-ScreensFranciscans in Scotland-Bishops of Dunkeld-Prayer. Book Rule for Easter-Fur Tippets -The Church in the Channel Isles-Metrical Psalms-Order of Adminis. tration.

Classical Subjects.

"Persii Satira"-Roman Arithmetic-The Alastor of Augustus-"Acervus Mercurii"-" Vescus" in Georgics iii. 175-Oppian-Juvenal's Satire ii.-Transliteration of Iliad i.-Aristophanes' " Rane"-Simplicius on Epictetus-Tablet of Cebes-Imitative Verse-"Felix quem faciunt," &c.

Topography.

Grub Street-Porto del Popolo-" Turk's Head" Bagnio -The Old Corner of St. Paul's Cathedral-Thames Embankments - Statue in Brasenose QuadrangleMiddle Temple Lane-Ormond Street Chapel-Roman Villa at Sandown-Ashburnham House-Carew Castle -Rushton Hall, Westenhaugh-Welton House,

Miscellaneous.

Christian Names--Election Colours-Buried Alive-O.K. -Ladies' Clubs-Zoedone-Berkeley Square MysteryWife Selling-The Telephone-Scrutin de Liste-Crocodile's Tears-Jingo-The Gipsies-Hell-Fire ClubTarots-Tobacco in England-Sea Sickness unknown to the Ancients-Names of American States-CarucateFemale Soldiers and Sailors - Mistletoe - Giants Jewesses and Wigs-Memories of Trafalgar-Green Eyes -Beaumontague-Secret Chambers in Ancient Houses -The Bonaparte-Patterson Marriage-Ace of SpadesWig Curlers-Female Churchwardens-The OpalHouse of Keys-Church Registers-Arm-in-arm-E, O. -Napoleon's Legacy to Cantillon,

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