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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                    Page
  Cowper and Tobacco Smoking, by William Bates, &c.            229

  "Shakspeare in the Shades:" a Ballad, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault  230

  Swedish Words current in England, by Charles Watkins         231

  Sir David Lindsay's Viridarium, by Sir W. C. Trevelyan       231

  MINOR NOTES:--Unlucky Days--The Pancake Bell--Quoits--The
    Family of Townerawe--"History of Formosa"--Notes on
    Newspapers                                                 232

  QUERIES:--

  Wild Plants and their Names                                  233

  Popular Sayings, by M. Aislabie Denham                       233

  MINOR QUERIES:--Hermit Queries--Derivation of "Cobb"--
    Play-bills--Sir Edward Grymes, Bart.--Smollett's
    "Strap"--The Iron Mask--Bland Family--Thomas Watson,
    Bishop of St. David's, 1687-99, &