le of Vowel Sounds--Seven Oaks and Nine
Elms--Murder of Monaldeschi--Governor Dameram--Ancient
Arms of the See of York--Hupfeld--Inscription on a
Tomb in Finland--Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on
Railway Travelling--Tom Thumb's House at Gonerby,
Lincolnshire--Mr. Payne Collier's Monovolume
Shakspeare 33

REPLIES:--
Wild Plants and their Names 35
Jacob Bobart, by H. T. Bobart 37
Heraldic Queries 37
Door-head Inscriptions 38
Consecrated Roses 38
Notes on Serpents 39

Photographic Correspondence:--Early Notice of the
Camera Obscura--Queries on Dr. Diamond's Collodion
Process--Baths for the Collodion Process 41

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Mitigation of Capital
Punishment to a Forger--Chronograms and Anagrams--
Abigail--Burial in unconsecrated Ground--"Cob" and
"Conners"--Coleridge's Unpublished MSS.--Selling a
Wife--Life--Passage of Thucydides on the Greek
Factions--Archbishop King--Devonianisms--Perseverant,
Perseverance--"The Good Old Cause"--Saying of Pascal--
Paint taken off of old Oak--Passage in the "Tempest" 42

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 45
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 45
Notices to Correspondents 46
Advertisements 46

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Notes.

THE EYE: ITS PRIMARY IDEA.

I do not remember to have remarked that any writer notices how uniformly,
in almost all languages, the same primary idea has been attached to the
eye. This universal consent is the more remarkable, inasmuch as the
connexion in question, though of course most appropriate and significant in
itself, hardly seems to indicate the most prominent characteristic, or what
we should deem to be _par excellence_ the obvious qualities of the eye; in
a word, we should scarcely expect a term derived from a physical attribute
or property.

The eye is suggestive of life, of divinity, of intellect, piercing
acuteness (_acies_); and again, of truth, of joy, of love: but these seem
to have been disregarded, as being mere indistinctive accidents, and the
primary idea wh