es?--"Spendthrift"--Second Growth of Grass--
The Laird of Brodie--Mrs. Tighe, Author of "Psyche"--
Bishop Ferrar--Sir Thomas de Longueville--Quotations
wanted--Symon Patrick, Bishop of Ely: Durham: Weston:
Jephson--The Heveninghams of Suffolk and Norfolk--
Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund
Mortimer, Earl of March)--Shape of Coffins--St. George
Family Pictures--Caley (John), "Ecclesiastical Survey
of the Possessions, &c. of the Bishop of St. David's,"
&c.--Adamson's "Lusitania Illustrata"--Blotting-paper--
Poetical Versions of the Fragments in Athenaeus 102

REPLIES:--
Robert Drury 104
The Termination -by 105
The Rosicrucians, by William Bates 106
Inscriptions on Bells, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 108
Was Cook the Discoverer of the Sandwich Islands? by
C. E. Bagot 108
Megatherium Americanum, by W. Pinkerton 109

Photographic Correspondence:--Stereoscopic
Angles--Yellow Bottles for Photographic Chemicals 109

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Earth upon Earth,
&c.--Picalyly--Mr. Justice Newton--Manners of the
Irish--Arms of the See of York--"Up, Guards, and at
'em!"--Coleridge's Christabel: the 3rd Part--Mitigation
of Capital Punishment--The Man with the Iron Mask--
Gentleman executed for Murder of a Slave--Jahn's
Jahrbuch--Character of the Song of the Nightingale,
&c. 110

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 114
Notices to Correspondents 114
Advertisements 115

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Notes.

BOOKS CHAINED TO DESKS IN CHURCHES: FONT INSCRIPTION: PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES.

It would be interesting to have a complete list of the various books still
to be found chained to desks in our ancient churches. The "Bible of the
largest volume," the "Books of Homilies allowed by authority," and the Book
of Common Prayer, are ordered by Canon 80. to be provided for every church.
In some places this regulation is still complied with: at Oakington,
Cambridgeshire, a copy of a recent (1825) edition of the Homilies lies on a
small desk in the nave. But besides these authoritative works, other books
are found _chained_ t