Notices to Correspondents.
We are unavoidably compelled to postpone our usual Notes on Books, &c.
Mr. Ferguson, of the Exchequer Record Office, Dublin, returns his best thanks to J. O. for his most acceptable present of a book of poems.
Will An Old F.S.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., who writes to us that the "Eyre drawings are authentic," oblige us with his name? It is obvious that anonymous testimony can have little weight in such a case, when opposed to that of known and competent authorities.
Working Man will find the English equivalents for French weights and measures, and much of the information he desires, in Walich's Popular Tables.
Bb. (Bradford) will probably find in the Journal of a Naturalist, White's Selborne, and the valuable series of works illustrative of the Natural History of England, published by Van Voorst of Paternoster Row, the materials of which he stands in need, and references to other authorities.
C. R. will find scattered through our Volumes many modern instances of the mode of discovering the drowned, to which his communication refers.
Abhba. Our Correspondent should procure a valuable tract, entitled "An Argument for the Greek Origin of the Monogram IHS," published by the Cambridge Camden Society (Masters), which clearly shows that this symbol is formed out of the first two and the last letter of the Greek word ΙΗΣΟΥΣ.
P. H. F. The communication forwarded on "Lines attributed to Hudibras," will be found in our 1st Volume, p. 210.
F. T. The Weekly Pacquet and the Popish Courant is one and the same periodical, the latter being merely an appendix to the former, and printed continuously, as shown by the running paginal figures; so that when Chief Justice Scroggs prohibited the publication of the former, he at the same time suppressed the latter.
A Beginner. We again repeat that we cannot point out particular warehouses for the purchase of photographic materials. Our advertising columns will show where they are to be purchased at every variety of price.
C. K. P. (Newport). From the specimen forwarded, we doubt whether the paper is Turner's; if it is, it is not his desirable make. The negative it is evident, from its redness and want of gradation of tint throughout, has been far too long exposed. We have seen the brown spots complained of occur when the paper has been too long excited before use.
E. Y. (Rochester). It is probable that the spot of which you complain is from light reflected from the bottom of the camera, not from the interior of the lens. If so, the application of a piece of black velvet would remedy this. As the spot is always is one place, it must depend upon light reflected from some one spot.
M. De S. (Tendring). We trust to be able to send a very satisfactory reply in the course of a few days. We have delayed answering only from a desire to accomplish our Correspondent's object.
Our Eighth Volume is now bound and ready for delivery, price 10s. 6d., cloth, boards. A few sets of the whole Eight Volumes are being made up, price 4l. 4s.—For these early application is desirable.
"Notes and Queries" is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday.
VALUABLE PATRISTICAL WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED IN GERMANY.
IRENÆI OPERA OMNIA, Gr. et Lat., acc. apparatus continens ex iis, quæ ab aliis Editoribus aut de Irenæo ipso aut de Scriptis ejus sunt disputata, meliora et iteratione haud indigna, edid. A. STIEREN. 2 thick vols. 8vo. (2,100 pages). price 1l. 16s. in cloth boards: or 2l. 2s. full bound calf, antique style, red edges.
This is by far the most elaborate and complete edition of the Works of Irenæus, and is fruit of twenty-five years' labour and study on the part of the learned editor.
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THE LAW OF THE LOVE OF GOD, an Essay on the Commandments of the First Table of the Decalogue, by GEORGE MOBERLY, D.C.L., Head Master of Winchester College.
"This recently published Essay of Dr. Moberly, the Law of the Love of God, will not disappoint its readers, but will be found worthy of the author's reputation as a Divine, and his high position as a scholar."—Scottish Ecclesiastical Journal.
London: D. NUTT, 270. Strand.
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AUSTRIA. The present State of its Finances and Currency. By an IMPARTIAL OBSERVER. Translated from the German. This Work has excited a great sensation in Germany, and 3,600 copies have been sold in the last few weeks.
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For information, and Specimens of the Examination Papers, apply to the Secretaries of the Department of Science and Art, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London.
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W. H. HART, RECORD AGENT and LEGAL ANTIQUARIAN (who is in the possession of Indices to many of the early Public Records whereby his Inquiries are greatly facilitated) begs to inform Authors and Gentlemen engaged in Antiquarian or Literary Pursuits, that he is prepared to undertake searches among the Public Records, MSS. in the British Museum, Ancient Wills, or other Depositories of a similar Nature in any Branch of Literature, History, Topography, Genealogy, or the like, and in which he has had considerable experience.
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