Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853

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THE NATIONAL MISCELLANY.—No. II. JUNE

Contents

1. Public Picture Galleries.

2. Poems by Alexander Smith.

3. The Pawnbroker's Window.

4. Notes and Emendations of Shakspeare.

5. The Præraphaelites.

6. Social Life in Paris—continued.

7. The Rappists.

8. Colchester Castle.

9. Cabs and Cabmen.

10. The Lay of the Hero.