Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853

1. Our National Gallery and its Prospects.

2. Wallachia and Moldavia.

3. The National Drama.

4. Kaiserswerth and the Protestant Deaconesses.

5. The Well of Clisson.

6. Proverbial Philosophy, or Old Saws with a New Edge.

7. The Interesting Pole—concluded.

8. Discovery of America in the Tenth Century.

9. Magazines.

10. Notices—Landmarks of History. Arnold's Poems.

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