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NOTES:--
The Author of the "Characteristics" by W.D. Christie. 97
Caxton's Printing office, by R.F. Rimbault. 99
Sanatory Laws in other Days. 99
Folk Lore:--Midsummer Fires. 101
Minor Notes:--Borrowed Thoughts--An Infant Prodigy
in 1659--Allusion in Peter Martyr--Hogs not
Pigs. 101

QUERIES:--
A Query and Replies, by H. Walter. 102
Letters of Queen Elizabeth and Philip II. of Spain. 102