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Owing to the length of Professor De Morgan's very interesting article and the number of our Advertisements, we have enlarged our present Number to Thirty-two pages.
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The letters for A. Z., Mr. Demayne, Mr. F. Crossley, &c., have been duly forwarded.
X. Y. Z. We have no doubt the early numbers of The Press may be procured on application to the publisher of that paper.
F. M. The passage in King John,
"My face so thin
That in my ear I dare not stick a rose,
Lest men should say, See where threefarthings goes!"
contains an allusion to the very thin silver threefarthing pieces, coined by Elizabeth, which bore a rose. In Boswell's Shakspeare (ed. 1821), vol. XV. p. 209., will be found nearly two pages of illustrative notes.
A Constant Reader is informed that the line
"Men are but children of a larger growth"
is from Dryden's All for Love.
J. L. (Islington). Dr. Diamond informs us that he procured his naphtha from Messrs. Simpson and Maule, of Kennington, but he would not advise the use of varnish so made. It is apt to dry up in round spots, and which sometimes print from the negative. He also adds, that one ounce of the collodio-amber varnish as recommended by him will, with care, from its great fluidity and ready-flowing qualities, effectually varnish upwards of thirty glass negatives of the quarter plate size: thus the real expense is very inconsiderable.
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER contains the following articles:—1. Sir Walter Raleigh at Sherborne. 2. The Parish Girl, a Poem: by the Rev. John Mitford. 3. Cotele, and the Edgcumbes of the Olden Time, by Mrs. Bray, Part II. 4. The Annals of Appetite: Soyer's Pantropheon. 5. Notes on Mediæval Art in France and Germany, by J. G. Waller: Mayence, Heidelberg, Basle, and Strasburg. 6. Remarks on the White Horse of Saxony and Brunswick, by Stephen Martin Leake, Esq., Garter. 7. The Campaigns of 1793-95 in Flanders and Holland. Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban: Counsels' Fees and Lawyers' Bills: Shops in Westminster Hall: The Family of Phipps: Mr. John Knill of St. Ive's: Antiquity of the Mysterious Word "Wheedle." With Notes of the Month: Historical and Miscellaneous Reviews; Reports of the Archæological Societies of Wales, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, and Essex; Historical Chronicle; and Obituary, including Memoirs of Earl Brownlow, Lord Anderson, Right Hon. Sir Frederick Adam, Adm. Sir Charles Adam, James Dodsley Cuff, Esq., Mr. Adolphus Asher, Leon Jablonski, &c. Price 2s. 6d.
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