R QUERIES:--Dimidiation--Early Christian
Mothers--The Lion at Northumberland House--The
Cross in Mexico and Alexandria--Passage in St. James
--"The Temple of Truth"--Santa Claus--Donnybrook
Fair--Saffron, when brought into England--
Isping Geil--Humbug--Franklyn Household Book--
James Thomson's Will--"Country Parson's Advice
to his Parishioners"--Shakspeare: Blackstone 548

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Turkey Cocks--
Bishop St. John--Ferdinand Mendez Pinto--Satin--
Carrier Pigeons 550

REPLIES:--

"Pylades and Corinna:" Psalmanazar and Defoe, by
James Crossley 551

Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh 552

Seal of William d'Albini, by E. G. Ballard, &c. 552

"Will" and "Shall," by William Bates, &c. 553

Inscriptions in Books, by Honore de Mareville, &c. 554

Bacon's "Advancement of Learning," by Thomas
Markby 554

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Test for a good
Lens--Photography and the Microscope--Cement for
Glass Baths--Mr. Lyte's Mode of Printing 555

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Eulenspiegel or Ulenspiegel
--Lawyers' Bags--"Nine Tailors make a man"
--"Time and I"--Carr Pedigree--Campvere, Privileges
of--Haulf-naked--Old Picture of the Spanish
Armada--Parochial Libraries--How to stain Deal--
Roger Outlawe--Tennyson--Old Fogie--Errata corrigenda
--Anecdote of Dutens--Gloves at Fairs--
Arms: Battle-axe--Enough--Feelings of Age--Optical
Query--Cross and Pile, &c. 557

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on Books, &c. 561

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 562

Notices to Correspondents 562

Advertisements 562

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Notes.

CORRECTIONS ADOPTED BY POPE FROM THE DUNCES.

In Pope's "Letter to the Honourable James Craggs," dated June 15, 1711,
after making some observations on Dennis's remarks on the _Essay on
Criticism_, he says--

"Yet, to give this man his due, he has objected to one or two lines
with reason; and I wi