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[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED,
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Abbreviations in writing, scheme of, 429
Abraham's beard, a game, 29

Abrahams (Aleck) on Apsley House, 486
Beke (Dr.), his Diary, 74

Bibliography of London, 53, 191
Bishopsgate Street Without, 246
Book-covers: "Yellow-Backs," 458
Calonne (M. de), his house in Piccadilly, 9
Club Etranger at Hanover Square, 477
English sepulchral monuments 1300, 199
Harp Alley, 225

Haydon (B. R.) and Shelley, 53
Humphry (Ozias), his papers, 173
Islington historians, 187, 296, 334
Literary Gossip, 15

Moving pictures in Fleet Street, 456
Pedlar's Acre, Lambeth, 55

Railways and motor-cars in 1838, 284
Red Lion Square obelisk, 109

Registry Office: Register Office, 377
Royal tombs at St. Denis, 65
St. Austin's Gate, 38

'St. James's Chronicle,' 475

St. Pancras Church: engraving, 56
Smouch, a term for a Jew, 375
Somerset House, designs, 25
Speaker's Chair, 177

Stone in Pentonville Road, 156

Tygris, a London subterranean river, 209
Ackerley (F. G.) on initials on Russian ikon, 32
Addison (Gulston and Mary) at Madras, 101,
210, 256, 289, 338

Addleshaw (Percy) on scissors and jaws, 497
Addresses, loyal, offered for sale, 266, 378
Adling Street, Barnard's Castle, locality, 148, 197
Adrian IV. (Pope), his ring and the Emerald Isle,
208, 250, 396

Advertisements, early, from 'London Gazette,' 203
Affirmations by Jews, "Jehovah " in, 346, 433
Africa, South, slang in, 63, 138, 372
Airman, first use of the word, 265, 338
Airmen, deaths of pioneer, 385, 437

Aislabie (William), Westminster scholar, 429, 473
Alabaster boxes of love, 169

Aldermen of London, dates of death, 27

Aldgate, Thomas Percy, Prior of Holy Trinity, 85
Aldrich (Dean Henry), his parentage, 368
Aldworth (A.) on Geoffry Aldworth, 268

Aldworth (Geoffry), King's musician, 268

Alexander III. (Pope), and King Henry II.,
349, 396

Alexandrines in Shakespeare, 309, 417

Alfieri (Count Vittorio), visit to England, c. 1771,
421, 532

Alford (Dean Henry), edition of his poems, 108, 159
All Souls College, Oxford, and Duke of Wharton,
309, 355

Allen (Archdeacon Fifield), his marriage, 449, 517
Allerton, Lancs, and Hardman family, 249
Alleyn (Charles), c. 1606, his descendants, 88
Alleyn (Dame Etheldreda), recusant in 1587,
88, 257

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Alleyn (Sir John), d. 1545, his biography, 88,
176, 257

Allport on Falkland Islands: Capt. Durie, 288
Alnwick on Florence Nightingale, 165

Altham (James), Westminster scholar, 1713. 429
Alumni Cantabrigienses,' conjectural amend-
ments, 25

'Alumni Oxonienses,' conjectural amendments, 25
Amaneuus as a Christian name, 88, 152, 197
Ambassadors, Sir H. Wotton on, 425
American authors, allusions in, 307, 373
American words and phrases, 67, 132, 193
Ancholme on Christmas Bough, 507
Anderson (J. A.) on Durham boat, 207

Hunter (Governor) of New York, 447
Anderson (P. J.) on Cardonnel's

Antiquities,' 282

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Daniel Robert Mackenzie), novelist, 167
Early graduation: Gilbert Burnet, 427
'Gentleman's Magazine,' numbering of
volumes, 388

'Letters by an American Spy,' 427

Mathematical periodicals: C. and G. Hut-
ton, 347, 466

Municipal records printed, 530

Oatcake and whisky as Eucharistic element 3,
188, 396

Peters (Father) and Queen Mary, 107
Quérard, (J. M.), 87

Shaving Them,' by Titus A. Brick, 27
Angevin royal tombs, 184, 223, 278, 332, 356, 390,
410, 431

Anglo-Spanish author in Borrow's Bible in Spain,"
119, 171, 314

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Apsley House, date of its purchase, 486

Arabian horses in pre-Mohammedan days, 71
Arabis, flower-name, its derivation, 11, 279
Aram (Eugene), his trial, 105, 279, 319

Aravamuthan (T. G.) on 'Pride and Prejudice,' 147
Arcangelus (D. Camerino,) painter, 517

Archæology, excavations in the Sudan, 108, 235
Archdeacons of Hereford, c. 1567, 128, 255

Archer (H. G.) on Alfieri in England, 421

Archibald (R. C.) on Col. T. Condon: Capt. T.

Mellish, 127

Ladies and University degrees, 247
Architecture and eminent men, 342, 398

Ardea on battle of Dunbar, 301

Audley (Sir Henry). Sec Dudley.

Austen (Canon G.) on St. Hilda: St. John del
Pyke, 467

Austen (Jane), calendar mistake in ' Pride and
Prejudice,' 147, 434, 477; cause of her death,
348, 397, 438

Austin (H. D.) on Artephius, ' De Characteribus
Planetarum,' 407

Austin (Roland) on Sir Robert Atkyns, 474
Katherine Parr (Queen), 359

Municipal records printed, 451
Prinknash, 313

Windsor stationmaster, 114

Avenger, H.M.S., lost 1847, its crew, 130, 239, 294
Average, etymology of the word, 106, 235

Aviation, early attempts at, 166; deaths of
pioneer airmen, 385, 437

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Axon (W. E. A.) on Amulet against Sickness,' 521
Bookbinding, first English book on, 403

De Quincey and Coleridge, 228
Gutenberg's 42-line Bible, 355

Sare (Richard), bookseller, 84

Shorthand teacher in A.D. 155, 285

Shropshire newspaper printed in London, 20
Twin-Brothers,' 247

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B. on Sydney Smith and Spencer Perceval, 267
B. (A.) on A Sunday well spent," 388

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B. (C. C.) on Dean Alford's poems, 159
American words and phrases, 193
'Arden of Feversham': Gale," 417
Bael: Bhel: Bel, 426

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Clergy retiring from the dinner table, 136
Jew's eye, 277

Merluche, 92

Moses and Pharaoh's daughter, 152
Peony-royal, 308

Shakespeariana, 77

Staple in place-names, 192
Tennyson: oorali, 453

Traherne curious rimes to "joy," 426
Wordsworth: variant readings, 294

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B. (E. A.) on The Buccaneer,' 308

Arden of Feversham,' emendations in, 226, 337, B. (E. G.) on sparrow-blasted, 392

417

Aristophanes, music to, in Greek MS., 7, 76
Arkle (A. H.) on Egerton Leigh, 114, 236

Arlette and Robert, Duke of Normandy, 347,
396, 495

Armada, Sir A. Standen on its preparation, 33
Armour, parish, temp. Elizabeth, 130, 176, 258
Arms granted by Commonwealth, 8, 119
Arms of women on their marriage, 109, 175
Arms, royal, in churches, their history, 428, 513
Armstrong (E. A.) on Hyde Park monolith, 408
Arno Miscellany,' 1784, its author, 148, 234, 293
Arnold (Matthew) on 19th-century eloquence,
229, 318, 376, 438

Artephius, De Characteribus Planetarum,' 407
Artibeus, etymology of the word, 447

Arundel (Earl of), brother and uncle arrested,
1585, 208, 251

Ashton (James), Westminster scholar, 1739, 449
Asparagus-sparrowgrass, its etymology, 266
Astarte on corpse bleeding in presence of the

murderer, 328

"Storm in a teacup," 131

Astley (Sir Jacob), Royalist, his portrait, 307
Astrology and Queen Elizabeth, 107, 197, 359

Atkinson (E.) on Corio arms, 89

Atkyns (Sir Robert), K.B., his marriage, 429, 474
Attár on "Fern to make malt," 279

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B. (G. F. R.) on Godfreys at Westminster School, B. (W. C) on Queen Elizabeth and 17 November,
389.

Goodchild (J.), 409

Goodwin (John), 409

Gordons at Westminster School, 389

Goulands in Ben Jonson, 533

Guest (Sir Lyonell), 509

Hare (Thomas), 509

Jamineau (Isaac), 509
Leigh (Egerton), 68, 178
Liardet, 49

Man (George), 49
Neale (Erskine), 170
Nicholls (Frank), 190
Peck (Francis), 68
Pelling (Edward), 170
Pickering (Danby), 230
Potter (Charles), 230
Thacker (Gilbert), 49

Thames Water Company, 91

Thomson, R.A., 114

Trelawny (Sir William), 449

Vernon (Dorothy), her elopement, 497

Warmestry (Gervase), 109

Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 88
Wilson (Bernard or Barnard), 109
Wilson (Sir John), 88.

Worthen (John), 88

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B. (H.) on Erlkönigs Tochter,' 89

B. (H. A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 449
Colani and the Reformation, 488

B. (H. I.) on Edward = Iorwerth, 35
Holy crows, Lisbon, 155
Myddelton: Dref: Plas, 131
Traherne (Philip), 383

B. (J.) on saint's cloak on a sunbeam, 357

B. (J. B.) on St. Catharine's College, Cambridge,
308

B. (J. E. C.) on oatcake and whisky as Eucharistic
elements, 278

B. (M. W.) on Doge's hat, 8

B. (R.) on Amaneuus as a Christian name,

Anonymous works, 238

Bath and Henrietta Maria, 198

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B-r (R.) on American words and phrases, 132

Cowes family, 58

Teart, its meaning, 59

Tenement-house, 495

B. (R. S.) on John Latham, 209

Municipal records printed, 532
Pelf, its early meanings, 286
Prior's Salford Church, 9

Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 434

B. (R. W.) on Gulston Addison's death, 210, 289

B. (S.) on Bath and Henrietta Maria, 198

Limerick glove in a walnut shell, 297

401

Fea (James), Orkney author, 458
Friendless Wapentake in Craven, 89
George I. statues, 135

Goats and cows, 534
Hay, wet, 535

Heworth, its etymology, 75
Horses' names: ancient, 283
Horses' names: modern, 124

Kipling and the swastika, 338

Lecturage, use of the word, 266

Pitfield (Rev. Sebastian), his ghost, 510
Portygne, its meaning, 138

St. Leodegarius and St. Leger Stakes, 112
Sare (Richard), bookseller, 137

Scissors and jaws, 448

Shakespeare: chronological edition, 348

66

Sovereign " of Kinsale, 256

Staple in place-names, 192

Tailors, itinerant, 505

Turcopolerius, 337

Wasps, their pesent scarcity, 285

Westminster Cathedral, alphabet ceremony,

110

Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 434

B. (W. G.) on snuff-box inscription, 93

'Babe Christabel,' by Gerald Massey, 267, 312
Babies' health affected by kittens, 509

Babington (Anthony), the conspirator, deed of
1585, 205

Baddeley (St. Clair) on Prinknash, 313

Venice and its patron saint, 54
Badge worn by paupers, its history, 487
Bael, fruit of the Egle Marmelos, 426
Bagnall (J.) on Bath King of Arms, 32
Coats of arms, mock, 112

English sepulchral monuments, 1300-50, 199
Follies, 273

Teart, its meaning, 11

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Excelsior in Pigeon English, 357
Banks, telephones in, 169, 258, 297

Banks (Sir John Thomas), place of his birth, 467
Banks (M. J.) on Sir John Thomas Banks, 467

B. (W.) on Matthew Arnold on eloquence, 229, 318 Bar" sinister," early use of the term, 485
Follies, 273

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Barabbas, a publisher, the comparison, 29, 92
Barkley (R. W.) on General Wolfe's death, 37
Barm or Barn in place-names, 53, 216


Barnaby Rudge,' by Charles Dillon, comedian,
348,397

Barnes (Barnaby), his 'Parthenophil and Parthe-
nople,' 245

Barwell (Richard), 1741-1804, his parentage, 368
Basil the Great, translation of sentence in, 190, 454
Basle, Prince Bishop of, his biography, 68, 118
Bath, Queen Henrietta Maria at, 150, 197

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