worn by Ecclesiastics--Butler's "Lives of
the Saints"--Marriage of Cousins--Castle Thorpe,
Bucks--Where was Edward II. killed?--Encore--
Amcotts' Pedigree--Blue Bell: Blue Anchor--
"We've parted for the longest time"--Matthew
Lewis--Paradise Lost--Colonel Hyde Seymour--
Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire--Poems published at
Manchester--Handel's Dettingen Te Deum--
Edmund Spenser and Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. 386

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--The Ligurian Sage
--Gresebrok in Yorkshire--Stillingfleet's Library--
The whole System of Law--Saint Malachy on the
Popes--Work on the Human Figure 389

REPLIES:--

"Namby Pamby," and other Words of the same Form 390
Earl of Oxford 392
Picts' Houses 392
Pronunciation of "Humble" 393
School Libraries 395

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Albumenized Paper
--Cement for Glass Baths--New Process for Positive
Proofs 395

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Groaning Elmplank
in Dublin--Passage in Whiston--"When
Orpheus went down"--Foreign Medical Education
--"Short red, good red"--Collar of SS.--Who first
thought of Table-turning--Passage of Thucydides on
the Greek Factions--Origin of "Clipper" as applied
to Vessels--Passage in Tennyson--Huet's Navigations
of Solomon--Sincere--The Saltpetre Man--
Major Andre--Longevity--Passage in Virgil--Love
Charm from a Foal's Forehead--Wardhouse, where
was?--Divining Rod--Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle--
Pagoda 397

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 401
Notices to Correspondents 401
Advertisements 402

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Notes.

A PROPHET.

What a curious book would be "Our Prophets and Enthusiasts!" The literary
and biographical records of the vaticinators, and the heated spirits who,
after working upon the fears of the timid, and exciting the imaginations of
the weak, have flitted into oblivion! As a specimen of the odd characters
such a work would embrace, allow me to introduce to your readers Thomas
Newans, a Shropshire farmer, w