Notices to Correspondents.
We have this week omitted our Notes on Books to make room for the many Replies to Minor Queries waiting for insertion.
T. W. will find the line—
"Men are but children of a larger growth"
in Dryden's All for Love, Act IV. Sc. 1.
Δ. Has our Correspondent consulted the Rev. J. Blunt's Vestiges of Ancient Customs and Manners in Modern Italy and Sicily, 8vo. 1823?
H. Edwards. The epithet referred to is an obvious corruption of an extremely coarse one, formerly applied to all who refused to wear the oak-apple on the 29th of May.
Tom King. Monsieur Tonson was written by the late John Taylor, the well-known editor of The Sun, and will be found in the collection of his poems.
Loccan. Bâtman, from Fr. bât, hence corrupted into bawman, an officer's servant.
I. R. R. Valentine Schindler, a learned German, was born at Oedern, in Misnia, and became professor of the Oriental languages at Wittemberg, and at Helmstadt, where he died in 1611.—Rodrigo Sanchez de Arevalo, Lat. Rodericus Sanctius, a learned Spanish prelate, was born in 1404. He was successively promoted to the bishoprics of Zamora, Calahorra, and Palencia. He died in 1470.
W. S., A Topographer, and P. B. For a person to be eligible to the "Antiquarian Photographic Club," he must be a Fellow of the Royal or Antiquarian Societies, or a member of the Royal Institution, and be unanimously elected. This rule, after much consideration, was decided by its promoters. A few others than Photographers are admitted, who join the excursions, and are required to furnish the notes, historical and literary, of the spots visited.
H. H. (Glasgow) is thanked for the kind manner in which he speaks of our services to photography.
L. L. However imperfect the specimens of your skill, we shall be glad to receive them. If all who, like you, have benefited by the photographic articles which have appeared in our columns, would send us, in acknowledgment, some of their productions, our portfolio would be better filled than it is.
Erratum. Vol. ix., p. 474., col. 2, line 25, for "German sherry wines," read "Genuine sherry wines."
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