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_Errata._--In No. 60. Vol. ii., p. 492, for [Gothic: "Sant Valantinus"]
read [Gothic: "sant Valentinus"]. (The reference of Heinecken is _Idee
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.--The First Number of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
for 1851 is embellished by a Portrait of the late THOMAS AMYOT,
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written by two of his most intimate friends. A second Plate represents a
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