REPLIES:-- The Passage in Troilus and Cressida, by John Taylor 62 Black Images of the Virgin, by J.B. Litchfield 63 Outline in Painting 63 Ten Children at a Birth 64 Shakspeare's Use of "Captious" 65 Sword of William the Conqueror 66 Meaning of Eisell 66 Altar Lights, &c. 68 Replies to Minor Queries:--Handbell before a Corpse --Sir George Downing--Hulls, the Inventor of Steamboats--"Clarum et venerabile Nomen"--Occult Transposition of Letters--Darby and Joan--Did Bunyan know Hobbes?--Mythology of the Stars--Dodo Queries--Holland Land--Swearing by Swans--The Frozen Horn--Cockade and True Blue--The Vavasours of Hazlewood--"Breeches" Bible--Histoire des Sevarambes--Verses attributed to Charles Yorke--Archbishop Bolton of Cashel--Erasmus and Farel--Early Culture of the Imagination--William Chilcot--By and bye--Mocker--Was Colonel Hewson a Cobbler?--Mole--Pillgarlick--A recent Novel --Tablet to Napoleon--North Sides of Churchyards --Wisby--Singing of Swans--Dacre Monument at Herstmoneux--Herstmoneux Castle--Suem; Ferling; Grasson--Portrait of Archbishop Williams --Swans hatched during Thunder--Etymology of Apricot --"Plurima gemma latet circa tellure sepulta"-- Time when Herodotus wrote--Lucy and Colin-- Translations of Apuleius, &c.--Etymology of "Grasson" --Lynch Law--"Talk not of Love"--The Butcher Duke--Curfew--Robertson Struan 68 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 78 Notices to Correspondents 78 Advertisements 78 * * * * * NOTES. TRADITIONAL ENGLISH BALLADS. The task of gathering old traditionary song is surely a pleasant and a lightsome one. Albeit the harvest has been plentiful and the gleaners many, still a stray sheaf may occasionally be found worth the having. But we must be careful not to "pick up a straw."