of Bagshot--Marcarnes--The
Claymore--Sir William Chester, Kt.--Canning on
the Treaty of 1824 between the Netherlands and
Great Britain--Ireland a bastinadoed Elephant--Memorial
Lines by Thomas Aquinas--"Johnson's
turgid style"--Meaning of "Lane," &c.--Theobald
le Botiller--William, fifth Lord Harrington--Singular
Discovery of a Cannon-ball--Scottish Castles--Sneezing--
Spenser's "Fairy Queen"--Poema del Cid--The Brazen Head 364

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"The Basilics"--Fire
at Houlton--Michaelmas Goose 367

REPLIES:--

Portraits of Hobbes and Letters of Hollar, by S. W.
Singer 368
Parochial Libraries, by the Rev. Thos. Corser 369
Battle of Villers en Couche, by H. L. Mansel, B.D., &c. 370
Attainment of Majority, by Russell Gole and Professor
De Morgan 371
Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal 372

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Sisson's developing
Fluid--Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized
Paper--Mr. Lyte's New Process 373

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Derivation of the Word
"Island"--"Paetus and Arria"--"That Swinney"--The
Six Gates of Troy--Milton's Widow--Boom--"Nugget"
not an American Term--Soke Mill--Binometrical
Verse--Watch-paper Inscription--Dotinchem--Reversible
Names and Words--Detached Church Towers--Bishop
Ferrar--"They shot him by the nine stone rig"--Punning
Devices--Ashman's Park--"Crowns have their compass,"
&c.--Ampers and--Throwing Old Shoes for Luck--Ennui 374

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 377
Notices to Correspondents 377
Advertisements 378

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Notes.

Notes on Midland County Minstrelsy.

It has often occurred to me that the old country folk-songs are as worthy
of a niche in your mausoleum as the more prosy lore to which you allot a
separate division. Why does not some one write a Minstrelsy of the Midland
Counties? There is ample material to work upon, and not yet spoiled by
dry-as-dust-ism. It would be vain, perhaps, to emulate the achievements of
the Scottish antiquary; but surely something might be done better than the
county