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Upon this subject also-and indeed upon every subject in which literature and literary men are interested—we shall be most happy to receive communications. SYLVANUS URBAN. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, 1st July, 1851. E PLURIBUS UNUM. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Archæological Papers at Worcester-Song of the 17th Cen- .... Memoir of Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. (with a Portrait) Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Vols. V. and VI.... Unpublished Diary of John first Earl of Egmont (concluded).. Farindon and Owen, Divines of the Cavalier and the Roundhead. The Story of Nell Gwyn, related by Peter Cunningham. Chapter I. Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland.. Notes from a Journal of an Antiquarian Tour on the Rhine: by Charles Roach ....... Effigy of a Notary at Ellesmere, co. Salop (with an Engraving).. NOTES OF THE MONTH.-Subscription for the Conolly Testimonial and Chaucer's Tomb-Architecture and Painted Glass of Lincoln's Inn Chapel-Church movement in the diocese of Llandaff-Proposed History of Lancaster-The Literary Gazette- Phonetic Alphabets-" Jerusalem, my happy Home."-The Bellman's Good Morrow -A. A. Watts's Lyrics of the Heart-Poetry and Theology of the Month-Prayer to the Most Holy Madonna-Oke's Magisterial Synopsis-Mr. Cottingham's Museum of Mediæval Art.................. MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Craik's Romance of the Peerage, 70; Freeman's Re- marks on the Architecture of Llandaff Cathedral-Archæologia Cambrensis, 73; Kelke's Notices of Sepulchral Monuments in English Churches, 75; Preston's trans- LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-University of Cambridge-Royal Society-Institution of Civil Engineers.... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 80; Archæological Institute, 82; Cambrian Archæological Association HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 84; Domestic Occurrences Promotions and Preferments, 87; Births and Marriages. OBITUARY: with Memoirs of The Marchioness Cornwallis; Lord Nugent; Rt. Hon. Sir W. H. Fremantle; Sir W. W. Becher, Bart.; Sir Donald Campbell, Bart.; Vice- Adm. Sir Charles Richardson; Rear-Adm. Sir John Marshall; Lieut.-Gen. Middle- more; Major-Gen. Slessors; Col. Constance; Sir William Whymper, M.D.; Samuel Dickson, Esq. M.P.; Alexander Raphael, Esq. M.P.; Charles Smith Forster, Esq.; George James Pennington, Esq.; Mrs. Bell Martin; Robert Abraham, Esq. F.S.A.; Embellished with a PORTRAIT of THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. late Treas. S.A.; Engravings |