| No. 174. | Saturday, February 26. 1853. | Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. |
| Notes:— | Page |
| Mary Stuart's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. | 197 |
| Inedited Letter of Warren Hastings | 198 |
| Mediæval Emblems of the Passion, by Norris Deck | 199 |
| Bookselling in Calcutta | 199 |
| Folk Lore:—Subterranean Bells—Old Weather Proverb—Primrosen—Harvest Home Song | 200 |
| Inedited Poem on Chaucer | 201 |
| Minor Notes:—"Le Balafré"—Macpherson's "Ossian"—Epitaph from Tichfield—"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"—Weight of American Revolutionary Officers—The Patronymic "Mac"—Erroneous Forms of Speech—Hexameters from Udimore Register—Dr. Johnson—Borrowed Thoughts—Suggested Reprints | 201 |
| Queries:— | |
| Rigby Correspondence | 203 |
| Heraldic Queries | 203 |
| On a Passage in Acts xv. 23., by J. Sansom | 204 |
| Minor Queries:—Belatucadrus—Surname of Allan—Arms of Owen Glendower—Tenent and Tenet—"I hear a lion," &c.—"The Exercist Day" at Leicester—Ecclus. xlvi. 20.—Etymology of Burrow—Alexander Adamson—Psalmanazar—Coleridge's "Christabel"—Beaten to a Mummy—Hanover Rats—Pallant—Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy—Drying up of the Red Sea—Joan d'Arc—Diary of Thomas Earl, &c. | 205 |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—Game of the Whetstone—Meals—Haughmond Abbey, Salop—"As flies to wanton boys"—Quotation wanted—Thomas Stanley, Bishop of Man | 208 |
| Replies:— | |
| Old Satchels | 209 |
| Statue of St. Peter | 210 |
| Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman | 211 |
| Discovery of Planets, by Henry Walter | 211 |
| Story of Genoveva | 212 |