Notices to Correspondents.
J. D. (Cheltenham). The work you allude to is Wace's Roman de Brut, which was published under the editorship of M. Le Roux de Lincy in 1836.
B. O. The paginal references are omitted to the extracts from Mr. Buckley's translation of Æschylus; but probably the original text would solve the Query.
R. The print of a bishop burnt in Smithfield cannot be identified without a sight of the engraving.
G. D. For the origin of Plough Monday, see Brady's Clavis Calendaria, vol. i. pp. 160-162.; and Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. i. pp. 505-508. (Bohn's edition).
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Anonymous Photographic Correspondent. We have given in former Numbers admirable formulæ for printing positives. Mr. Pollock's mode on albumenised paper produces beautiful results, as does also the more simple one recommended by Dr. Diamond. In one of our earliest Photographic communications an iodized form was given which may be used by feeble or artificial light, and which is highly useful.
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