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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, &c.--Crescent--"Quod
    fuit esse"--"Coming home to men's business"--Thomas
    Gibbes of Fenton--"The Whipping Toms" at Leicester--
    The Trial of our Lord--Olney--Album--The Lisle Family--
    Wards of the Crown--Tate, an Artist--Philip d'Auvergne--
    Somersetshire Ballad--Lady High Sheriff--Major-General
    Lambert--Hoyle, Meaning of; and Hoyle Family--Robert
    Dodsley--Mary Queen of Scots--Heuristisch: Evristic        234

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--"Eugenia," by Hayes and
    Carr--Claret--"Strike, but hear me"--Fever at Croydon--
    "Gesmas et Desmas"--Satirical Medal                        237

  REPLIES:--

  The Gookins of Ireland                                       238

  "Stabat quocunque jeceris," by Dr. William Bell              239

  "Pic-nics"                                                   240

  "Coninger" or "Coningry"                                     241

  Names and Numbers of British Regiments, by Arthur Hamilton   241

  Vicars-Apostolic in England                                  242

  Smock Marriages: Scotch Law of Marriage                      243

  PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Mr. Weld Taylor's
    Process--Animal Charcoal in Photography--Sir W. Newton
    on Use of Common Soda and Alum--Difficulties in
    Photographic Practice                                      244

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Countess of Pembroke's
    Letter--Ethnology of England--Drake the Artist--
    Sparse--Genoveva of Brabant--God's Marks--Segantiorum
    Portus--Rubrical Query--Rosa Mystica--Portrait of
    Charles I.--"Time and I"--The Word "Party"--"Mater ait
    natae," &c.--Gospel Place--Passage in Thomson--"Words
    are given to man to conceal his thoughts"--Folger Family   245

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Notes on Books, &c.                                          248

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                 249

  Notices to Correspondents                                    249

  Advertisements                                               250

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Notes.

COWPER AND TOBACCO SMOKING.

The following genial and characteristic letter from the poet, having
escaped the research of the REV. T. S. GRIMSHAW, may be thought worthy of
transference from the scarce and ephemeral _brochure_ in which it has, as
far as I am aware, alone appeared, to your more permanent and attainable
repertory. The little work alluded to is entitled _Convivialia et
Saltatoria, or a few Thoughts upon Feasting and Dancing_, a poem in two
parts, &c., by G. Orchestikos: London, printed for the author, 1800, pp.
62. At page 39 will be found

    "Nicotiana: a Poetical Epistle in praise of Tobacco; intended as a
    refutation of the ill-founded remarks of William Cowper, Esq.
    respecting this plant, in his elegant poem on Conversation. By Phil.
    Nicot.

     "The man I pity who abhors the fume
      Of fine _Virginia_ floating in his room;
      For, truly may Tobacco be defined,
      A Plant preserving Health and Peace of mind.
                        1800."

Next follows the poem, dedicated "To the Tobacconists in general of England
and its colonies," and consisting of some 350 lines, concluding with the
following:

 "Now by way of a Postscript, for I cannot conclude
  Without _once more_ entreating, that you'll be so good
  As to favour me with an Epistle, and soon,
  Which in _my_ estimation will be such a boon
  That I'll _carefully_ keep it; and dying, take care
  To enjoin like Respect from my Son or my Heir;
 