Notices to Correspondents.
Owing to our being compelled to go to press this week ready for publication on Thursday, and to the great mass of Replies To Minor Queries waiting for insertion, we have been compelled to omit our usual Notes on Books, &c.
Quæstor, who calls our attention to the catalogue in which certain Hollar and Eyre drawings are inserted, attached to the Gentleman's Magazine, is thanked. We were, however, already aware of it. The subject is too important to be lost sight of.
A. Z. is thanked. We should of course be glad if "N. & Q." could be purchased at all Railway Stations, but have no means of securing it. If frequently asked for, we have no doubt that the supply will follow the demand.
Montrose's reply has been anticipated. Thanks.
A Querist. We wish our Correspondents would take the trouble of just referring to our volumes before forwarding Queries upon well-known subjects. We have repeatedly answered similar inquiries, and again only in our last Number, by referring, for the history and illustration of "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," to our First Volume.
H. Martin. Mr. Keble's edition of Hooker is more carefully edited than Hanbury's.
Abhba. The reference must certainly be to Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York, one of the supposed authors of the Whole Duty of Man: see our Sixth Volume, p. 537.
A. P. Hayes. We suspect the following is the title of the work required:—"Pedestrianism; or, an Account of the Performances of celebrated Pedestrians during the last and present Century: with a full Narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private Matches: and an Essay on Training. By Walter Thom. Aberdeen, 1813. 8vo."
Neison on Railway Accidents. A Correspondent wishes to know where this pamphlet may be seen, and whether it is on sale.
W. S. For the etymology of lampoon, see Todd's Johnson, and Richardson's Dictionary. Bailey derives it from Lampons, a drunken song. It imports Let us drink, from the old French lamper, and was repeated at the end of each couplet at carousals.
W. A. W. (Brighton). The specked appearance is entirely owing to your having the wrong paper for your negatives. When Turner's paper is really good it is invaluable, but the specks so abundant in it are a great drawback.
H. H. (Glasgow). We think a practical lesson from some experienced hand would put you right in all your little failures. It is evident from your perseverance that great success will ultimately attend you. It is very difficult to describe all the minutiæ by correspondence.
A Subscriber (Atherstone). 1. We think your failures appear to arise from defective iodized paper. If the least portion of iodide of potash remains, the browning will take place; or the acetic acid may not be pure: add a little more. 2. If the least portion of hypo. contaminates your silver solutions, they are useless; to reduce it to its metallic state again is the only remedy. 3. The views taken instantaneously are with collodion. It may be applied equally well upon paper as glass; and the advantage of paper negatives is very great over glass.
Photography.—We hope next week to lay before our readers the particulars of a new process, combining all the advantages of the waxed-paper, but without its difficulties and uncertainties.
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