No. 198.] | Saturday, August 13. 1853. | [Price Fourpence. |
| Notes:— | Page |
| Bacon's Essays, by Markby | 141 |
| The Isthmus of Panama | 144 |
| Folk Lore:—Legends of the County Clare—Moon Superstitions—Warwickshire Folk Lore—Northamptonshire Folk Lore—Slow-worm Superstition—A Devonshire Charm for the Thrush | 145 |
| Old Jokes | 146 |
| An Interpolation of the Players: Tobacco, by W. Robson | 147 |
| Minor Notes:—Curious Epitaph—Enigmatical Epitaph— Books worthy to be reprinted—Napoleon's Thunderstorm—Istamboul: Constantinople | 147 |
| Queries:— | |
| Strut-stowers, and Yeathers or Yadders, by C. H. Cooper | 148 |
| Minor Queries:—Archbishop Parker's Correspondence—Amor Nummi—The Number Nine—Position of Font—Aix Ruochim or Romans Ioner—"Lessons for Lent," &c.—"La Branche des réaus Lignages"—Marriage Service—"Czar" or "Tsar"—Little Silver—On Æsop's (?) Fable of washing the Blackamoor—Wedding Proverb—German Phrase—German Heraldry—Leman Family—A Cob-wall—Inscription near Chalcedon—Domesday Book—Dotinchem—"Mirrour to all," &c.—Title wanted—Portrait of Charles I.: Countess Du Barry | 149 |
| Minor Queries with Answers:—"Preparation for Martyrdom"—Reference wanted—Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697 | 152 |
| Replies:— | |
| Inscriptions in Books | 153 |
| The Drummer's Letter, by Henry H. Breen | 153 |
| Old Fogies | 154 |
| Descendants of John of Gaunt, by William Hardy | 155 |