Notices to Correspondents.
Our Eighth Volume. We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the commencement of a new Volume, to state that our attention has been called to the sharp and somewhat personal tone of several of the recent contributions to "N. & Q.," and which, we are reminded, is the more striking from the marked absence of anything of that character in our earlier Volumes. We are perhaps ourselves somewhat to blame for this, from our strong indisposition to exercise our editorial privilege of omission. Our notice of the subject will, we are sure, be sufficient to satisfy our contributors of the inconvenience which must result to themselves as well as to us from the indulgence in too great license of the pen. We know that when men write currente calamo, words and phrases are apt to escape, the full application of which is not observed, until, as Charles Lamb said, "print proves it;" but being conscious that, when treating on the subjects with which we deal, no one would willingly write anything with design to give offence, we shall in future "play the tyrant" on all such occasions with more vigilance than we have done.
L. K. The lines—
"Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello."
are from Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. IV. 203. See some curious illustrations of them in our First Volume, pp. 246. 362. &c.
Blackamoor will find the Cyanogen Soap, manufactured by Thomas, excellent for removing Photographic stains. It is, however, to be used with care, being poisonous.
Albert. The history of the phrase—
"Quem Deus vult perdere,"
will be seen in our First Volume, pp. 347. 351. 421. 476.; and Second Volume, p. 317.
I. G. T. Gooseberry Fool is the same as pressed or crushed gooseberries, from the French fouler, to press, tread, &c.
Sir F. Madden's paper, Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's Letters? is unavoidably postponed until next week.
Replies to our numerous Photographic Querists in our next.
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