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_Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies_.--Towards the end of 1840, Dr. Maginn
issued the prospectus of a work to be published weekly in numbers,
and to be entitled "_Magazine Miscellanies_, by Dr. Maginn," which was
intended to comprise a selection from his contributions to Blackwood,
Fraser, &c. Will any one of your multitudinous readers kindly inform
me whether this work was ever published, or any portion of it?

J.M.B.

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_Dr. Maginn's "Shakspeare Papers."_--The Doctor published several very
able critical dissertations under this, or some similar title, about
the year 1837, in one of the monthly magazines, for references to
which I shall feel obliged.

J.M.B.

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_Dr. Maginn's Homeric Ballads._--Between 1839 and 1842, the "Homeric
Ballads," from thirteen to sixteen, appeared in _Fraser's Magazine_.
Will any correspondent favour me with specific references to the
numbers or months in which they were published? I may add, that I
shall esteem it as a very great favour to receive authentic reference
to any articles contributed to Blackwood, Fraser, &c., &c., by
Dr. Maginn. The difficulty of determining authorship from internal
evidence alone is well-known, and is aptly illustrated by the fact,
that an article on Miss Austen's novels, by Archbishop Whately, was
included in the collection of Sir Walter Scott's prose works.

J.M.B.

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_Poor Robin's Almanack_.--Who was the author or originator of _Poor
Robin's Almanack_? Are any particulars known of its successive
editors? In what year did it cease to be published? The only one I
possess is for the year 1743,--"Written by Poor Robin, _Knight of the
Burnt Island_, a well-wisher to Mathematicks," who informs his readers
that this was his eighty-first year of writing. What is meant by
_Knight of the Burnt Island_?

I must not omit to add, that at Dean Prior, the former vicar, Robert
Herrick, has the reputation of being the author of _Poor Robin_.

J.M.B.

Totnes, April 18. 1850.

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_The Camp in Bulstrode Park_.--Is there any published account of
this camp having been opened? It is well worth the examination of
a competent antiquary.... It is not even alluded to in Mr. Jesse's
_Favourite Haunts_, nor does that gentleman appear to have visited the
interesting village of "Hedgerle