HISTORICAL MEMORANDA,—
Quaker malignants, Page 786.
Queen Elizabeth's ring, 822.
Robin Adair, 805.

Siguing Declaration of Inde-
pendence, 802.
Star-spangled banner, 787.
Tea-party and tea-burning, 783.
Time of Le Grand Monarque, 815
United States Navy, 784.
William Tell, 810.
HISTORICAL SIMILITUDES, 679.

Art stories, 689.

Ballads and legends, 690.
Battles, 697.

Bishop Hatto, 698.

Burial alive, 692.

Death prophecies, 696.
History repeating itself, 681.
Judgment of Solomon, 685.
Legend of Beth Gelert, 686.
Precedency, 685.

Refusal to separate from kin-
dred, 679.

Ring stories, 695.

Two statesmen, the, 683.
HUMORS OF VERSIFICATION, 230.
Bryant as a humorist, 235.
Curse of O'Kelly, 250.
Elegy on Buckland, 233.
Human ear, the, 238.
Lovers, the, 230.

Ologies, the, 244.

Receipt of a rare pipe, 236.
Reiterative vocal music, 248.
Reminiscence of Troy, 234.
Sir Tray, 240.

Song with variations, 231.
Stammering wife, 231.

Thoughts while rocking the
cradle, 232.

Variation humbug, 246.
I. H. S., 130.

Anticipatory use of the cross,135
Beautiful legend, 131.

I. H. S.-

Death-warrant of Jesus Christ,
Page 134.

De nomine Jesu, 130.

Description of the Saviour's

person, 133.

Double hexameter, 135.
Flower of Jesse, the, 131.
Persian apologue, 132.
IMPROMPTUS, 528.

INSCRIPTIONS, 615.

Beer-jug, inscription on, 621.
Bells, inscriptions on, 623.
Books, flyleaf inscriptions in,627
English inns in olden time, 622.
Eolian harp, inscription on, 633.
Francke's discovery, 636.
Golden mottoes, 636.

House inscriptions, 634.
Memorials, 635.

Motto on a clock, 631.

Posies from wedding-rings, 636.
Spring, inscription over, 633.
Sun-dial inscriptions, 632.
Tavern-signs, 615.

Watch-paper inscription, 631.
Wedding ring, Lady Grey's,

639.

Window-pane inscriptions, 622.
INTERRUPTED SENTENCES, 277.
LIFE AND DEATH, 826.
After, 850.

Beautiful thought, 848.
Bodies, preserved, $36.
Bone not described by modern
anatomists, 832.

Charter, rhyming, 830.

Common heritage, the, 851.

Corpses, folly of embalming, 839.
Death's final conquest, 851.
Definitions, rhyming, 830.
Destiny, 849.

Dying words of distinguished
persons, 833.

LIFE AND DEATH.-

Earth, Page 830.
Evening prayer, 848.
Fleur-de-lis, the, 843.
Futurity, 847.

Heart, the, 848.

Ill success in life, 847.
Imprecatory epitaph, 843.
Lawyers, nice questions for, 831.
Life,beautiful illustrations of 826
Life's parting, 849.

Living life over again, 829.
Mary, Queen of Scots, last
prayer of, 835.

Moral code, Dr. Franklin's, 828.
Plagues of Egypt, 843.
Questions for discussion, 836.
Remarkable trance, 835.
Round of life, the, 827.
Rules of living, 828.
Story of long ago, 844.
Sympathy, 850.

This is not our home, 846.
Time, employment of, 829.
Tripod, the, $43.

Whimsical will, 843.
LITERARIANA, 723.

Additional verses to Sweet
Home, 746.

Anachronisms of Shakspeare,
742.

Books and studies, 755.

Comfort for book lovers, 753.
Conflicting testimony of eye-
witnesses, 750.
Gray's elegy, 729.
Hamlet's age, 745.
Hamlet's insanity, 746.
Heraldry, Indian, 741.
Letters and their endings, 754.
Letters of Junius, 723.
Old paper, an, 753.
Parting interview of Hector

and Andromache, 734.
Pope's versification, 737.

LITERARIANA,—

Punctuation, importance of,
Page 738.

Shakspeare and typography, 744
Shakspeare's heroines, 744.

Shakspeare's sonnets, 715.

Stereotyped falsehoods of his-
tory, 747.

Wit and humor, 751.
LITERATI, 756.

Attainments of linguists, 756.
Culture and sacrifice, 761.
Dryden and his publisher, 762.
Literary oddities, 758.
Literary screw, 762.

LORD'S PRAYER, THE, 136.
Acrostical paraphrase, 139.
Echoed, 141.

Gothic version, 136.
Illustrated, 138.
In an acrostic, 142.
Metrical versions, 137.
Spirit of the prayer, 136.
Thy and us, 136.
MACARONIC VERSE, 78.
Am Rhein, 83.

Cat and rats, 82.

Contenti abeamus, 81.

Death of the sea serpent, 84.
Fly-leaf scribbling, 82.
Maginn's alternations, 80.
Parting address to a friend, 83.
Polyglot inscription, 83.
Suitor with nine tongues, 80.

reatise of wine, 78.

MEMORIA TECHNICA, 327.

Books of the old Testament, 327.

New Testament. 327.
Days in each month, 330.
Decalogue, the, 329.
English sovereigns, 328.
Metrical Grammar, 330.
Presidents of the United States,
Shakspeare's plays, 328

[328.

NAME OF GOD, THE, 127.

God in Shakspeare, 128.
Jehovah, 128.

Orthography, 127.

Parsee, Jew, and Christian, 129.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, 375.
Aerial navigation, 382.
Anæsthesia, 383.

Attraction of gravitation, 390.
Auscultation and Percussion,
392.

Boomerang, the, 389.

Circulation of the blood, 382.
Discovery of America, predic-
tions of, 393.

Early invention of rifling, 390.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN,-
Magnetictelegraph,foreshadow-
ings of, Page 375.

Steam-power, first discoveries
of, 378.

Stereoscope, the, 393.

Table-moving and alphabet-
rapping, 391.

ORIGIN OF THINGS FAMILIAR, 331.
All Fools' day, 332.
American flag, 355.
Bottled ale, 343.
Blue stocking, 366.
Brother Jonathan, 356.
Bumper, 340.

Cards, 336.

Cock fighting, 364.

Dollar-mark, 357.

Drinking healths, 346.
Dun, 340.

Earliest newspapers, 372.
Feather in one's cap, 346.
First doctors, 368.

epigram, 371.

forged bank-note, 367.
piano-forte, 367.

prayer in Congress, 370.

printing by steam, 373.

reporters, 371.

telegraphic message, 373.

thanksgiving proclamation,

368.

Flag of England, 365.
Foolscap paper, 366.
Friction matches, 365.

Humbug, 340.
India-rubber, 364.

Kicking the bucket, 340.

La Marseillaise, 350.

Mind your P's and Q's, 331.
News, 372.

Nine tailors make a man, 346.
Old Hundred, 349.

Order of the garter, 345.

Over the left, 339.

ORIGIN OF THINGS FAMILIAR,-

Pasquinades, Page 341.
Postpaid envelopes, 349.
Potato, the, 343.
Royal saying, 340.

Signature of the cross, 348.
Skedaddle, 366.
Stockings, 344.

Sub rosa, 338.

Tarring and feathering, 344.
Turkish crescent, 348.
Turncoat, 364.

Uncle Sam, 357.

Various inventions and cus-

toms, 358.

Viz., 317.

Word Book, 346.

Yankee Doodle, 353.

O. S. AND N. S., 325.

Gregorian calendar, 325.

Results of change in style, 326.

PALINDROMES, 59.

PARALLEL PASSAGES, 640.

Historical similitudes, 679.
Shaksperean Resemblances, 677
Plagiarism of Charles Reade, 677
PARONOMASIA, 155.

Ben, the sailor, 162.
Book-larceny, 164.
Classical puns and mottoes, 172.
Court-fool's pun on Laud, 181.
Dr. Johnson's pun, 160.
Epitaph on an old horse, 165.
Erskine's toast, 160.
Holmes on Achilles, 162.
Grand scheme of emigration, 166
Marionettes, 168.

Miss-nomers, the, 180.
Mottoes of English peerage, 174.
Old joke versified, 161.
Perilous practice of punning, 167
Plaint of the old pauper, 163.
Printer's epitaph, 161.

Swift's Latin puns, 169.
Sydney Smith's pun, 160.
Tom Moore, 161.
To my nose, 163.
Top and bottom, 161.
Unconscious puns, 171.
Vegetable girl, the, 164.
Whiskers vs. razor, 162.
Winter, 160.

Women, 162.
Jeux de Mots, 175.
Anagrammatic, 175.
Iterative, 175.

Bees of the Bible, 179.
Catalectic monody, 177.
Crooked Coincidences, 181.
Fair letter, 176.
Franklin's Re's, 179.
November, 178.

On the death of Kildare, 177.
Schott and Willing, 177.

Swarm of Bees, 179.

Turn to the left, 177.

Write written right, 177.
Spiritual, 175.

PERSIAN POETRY EXCERPTA FROM,

511.

Beauty's prerogative, 511.

Broken hearts, 511.
Caliph and Satan, 513.
Double plot, 512.
Earth an illusion, 511.
Folly for one's self, 512.
Fortune and worth, 511.
From Mirtsa Schaffy, 512.
Generous man, to a, 511.
Heaven an echo of earth, 511.
Impossibility, the, 512.

PROTOTYPES,-

Original Shylock, Page 705.
Pilgrim's Progress, original of,

710.

Plagiarism, great literary, 715.
Pope's bull against the comet,703
Proverb misascribed to Defoe 713
Robinson Crusoe: who wrote it,
712.

Scandinavian skull-cups, 714.
Shakspeare said it first, 699.
Swapping horses, 703.
Trade-unions, 704.
Use of language, 714.
Wandering Jew, 716.
Wooden nutmegs, 703.
PURITAN PECULIARITIES, 150.
Baptismal names, 150.

Connecticut Blue Laws, extracts
from, 153.

Punishments, 151.

Similes, 151.

[152.

Virginia penalties in old times,

PUZZLES, 290.

Bonapartean cypher, 292.
Book of riddles, 299.
Canning's riddle, 294.
Case for the lawyers, 293
Chinese tea-song, 298.
Cowper's riddle, 294.
Curiosities of cipher, 301.
Death and life, 298.

Galileo's logograph, 297.

Newton's riddle, 294.

Number of the beast, 297.

Persian riddles, 298.

Prize enigma, 294.

Prophetic distich, 296.

Quincy's comparison, 295.
Rebus, the, 299.

Bacon motto, 299.
French, 291.

Singular intermarriages, 296.
What is it? 299.

Wilberforce's puzzle, 301.